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A year and a half after asking for feedback on a proposed wilderness area that could kibosh a potential gold mine, Nova Scotia’s environment minister cannot say when a decision will be made or why it’s taking so long.
Two-thirds of eligible employees at Atlantic Gold's Touquoy mine in Moose River, N.S., voted last month to join the United Steelworkers Union. Employees are hoping to begin bargaining for their first collective agreement next month.
Province is enjoying a resurgence of gold mining
Well financed to expand the resource potential
What MegumaGold Corp does:
MegumaGold Corp (CSE:NSAU) is pursuing a new approach to gold exploration in Nova Scotia, Canada, which already has a rich history of mining. Between 1862 and 1927 almost a million ounces of the precious metal were extracted from the province.
The company has put together a land package of over 127,000 hectares consisting of nearly 8,000 claims and is one of Nova Scotia’s single largest mineral claim holders.
Previously, mining and exploration was focused on high-grade nuggety style quartz-hosted gold, which is comparatively expensive to extract but the firm is interested in exploiting the disseminated, widespread, mineralization which also characterizes the area.
Posted: Apr 27, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 27
Archibald Lake in Guysborough County is one of the areas the government is considering for legal protection.(Nova Scotia Environment)
While environmentalists heralded the news last week that Nova Scotia would afford legal protection to 61 new properties, it was a name not on that list that caught Scott Beaver s attention.
Beaver, president of the St. Marys River Association, said he s troubled by the fact that yet again, the proposed Archibald Lake wilderness area was not included among the properties destined for protection. I m starting to get frustrated, he said in an interview. Our group is starting to get frustrated with this.