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A table setting with glasses, silverware, white coffee mugs, and salt and pepper shakers. The centrepiece on the table shows a placemat map to look like an open pit mine with layers of rock. On top there are three yellow toy trucks and bulldozers, plus a small container of colouful rock candy.
Posted inEnvironment, Mining

As Touquoy mine operation closes, company celebrates

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 14, 2023February 21, 2023

St Barbara hosted a banquet for team members, suppliers, consultants and their partners to celebrate the completion of mining in the Touquoy pit. As the company leaves behind unfinished business and environmental concerns, it doesn’t seem to be the ideal time to celebrate.

Aerial view of a deep open pit at the Moose River gold mine with gravel roads spiralling down to the depths that are filled with turquoise coloured liquid, treed landscape in the foreground, and the grey waste rock hill in the upper right.
Posted inMining

St Barbara is shedding its Nova Scotia gold mine, leaving a litany of environmental concerns

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 4, 2023January 30, 2023
An aerial shot of the open pit of the St Barbara Ltd Touquoy gold mine in Moose River, the pit has dark green water in its base and trucks have been taking waste rock into the deep pit.
Posted inMorning File

Atlantic Gold is abandoning Tangier

by Tim Bousquet December 19, 2022December 19, 2022
This aerial photo of Atlantic Gold's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the giant crater where the gold is mined, and the large tailings pond on the edge of Scraggy Lake. Photo is contributed.
Posted inBusiness and Development, Commentary

Nova Scotia is St Barbara’s ‘black cat’

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter September 1, 2022January 9, 2023
This aerial photo of Atlantic Gold's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the giant crater where the gold is mined, and the large tailings pond on the edge of Scraggy Lake. Photo is contributed.
Posted inCommentary

Nova Scotia Environment minister approved Signal Gold’s open pit mine at Goldboro despite concerns and criticisms from scientists in his own department

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter August 10, 2022November 6, 2022
An aerial view of an open pit mine
Posted inMining, Province House

Nova Scotia has a draft list of ‘critical minerals’ and gold is not on it

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 1, 2022January 9, 2023
A shea tree growing in a arid landscape under a bright blue sky.
Posted inMining

Anaconda Mining joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 13, 2022November 22, 2022
This aerial shot shows the vast tailings facility at the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Nova Scotia. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge
Posted inMining

Anaconda Mining joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 10, 2022January 29, 2023
A sign reading "No goldmine in our watershed, please"
Posted inCommentary, Environment

“Yacobo O’Hanley” and some other old boys have hurt fee-fees about protecting Tatamagouche’s water supply

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 27, 2022October 20, 2022
A blue and white sign surrounded by trees on Highway 256, which reads "Now Entering French River Watershed, Supply area for the Tatamagouche Water Utility."
Posted inEnvironment

New protected status for Tatamagouche water supply means an end to mineral exploration, mining in the watershed

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 25, 2022November 22, 2022

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