Nova Scotia has a rich and interesting history of gold mining, which goes back a century and a half.

Here are some of our favourite stories!

James Mitchell * Hugh McAskill * Gold Grows Under Shrubs? * Unexploded Dynamite * Tangier’s John Murphy * Joe Howe Dimock * Chats with Pioneer Miners * Charles Annand * John Scott Williams * Nicholas Fitzgerald * Chief Lonecloud * Pistols and Gold Mines * James MacDonald’s Thefts * John Vaughn * Herbert Dixon and the Halifax Explosion * James Bishop * George Stuart’s Near-Misses * Neily's Scandals * Waverley in 1934 * Discovery of Gold at Dufferin * Hurricane Island * Fletcher and Faribault * Jack Munroe * Mine Apprentice Project * Small Gold Districts * 15 Mile Stream * Tributers * E. Percy Brown and the Brookfield Mine * Barachois * Nova Rich Mines * Shad Bay Treasure Hunt * Montague 1937 Accident * Father Lanigan’s “Prospect” * George V. Douglas * The Stewart Brothers * Goldboro * Moose River's Touquoy Mine * Camerons Mountain * Jim Campbells Barren * Stanburne's Puzzling Gold Mine * Pockwock * Beaverbank Lake * Banook Mining Company * Deep Gold Mining * Wellington * Arsenic and Gold * Dynamite * War of Words * King of the Klondike * Oliver Millett * Kempt Gold Mining Company * Carleton * The Memramcook Fiasco * Love and Gold in Oldham * Montague 1893 Disaster * Central Rawdon Consolidated Mines * Cochrane Hill * Amateurish Early Gold Mining * Sable Island Gold * The Sea Wolf * Trueman Hirschfield * Alexander Heatherington * Prospector Joe Cope * Killag Quicksand * George W. Stuart * Wellington * Billy Bell * Cooper Jim Mine * South Branch Stewiacke * Walter Prest * Lake Charlotte * Acadia Powder Mills Company * The Ovens Anticline * Moose River Anticline * Avon Mine Explosion * Montague * Waverley Claims Dispute * South Uniacke Claim Dispute * Gold and Hydro Power * Dowsing * Avon River * Moose River Disaster * Mooseland Scam * New York and Nova Scotia Gold Mining Company * Extraordinary Finds * The Ovens 1960 * Gold in Seawater * Rosario Siroy and the South Uniacke Gold District * Gold Lake * Fifteen Mile Brook * Mill Village * Panning for Gold * Gold in Kejimkujik * Gold Theft * Beaver Dam * Lower Seal Harbour * West Gore * Isaac's Harbour * Franey Gold Mine * Tangier * Dufferin * Clam Harbour * Ardoise * Prince’s Lodge * Shooting at the Ovens * Surprising Finds * Barrio Gold Mine * Ecum Secum Intrigue! * Leipsigate Gold * Blockhouse * Killag Gold District * Miller Lake * Baron Franz von Ellershausen * Mooseland: Nova Scotia’s first Gold Discovery * United Goldfields of Nova Scotia * Pleasant River Barrens Gold District * MacLean Brook * Gold in Clayton Park?! * Forest Hill * Meguma vs. Placer Gold * Jamestown Exhibition * The Ovens * Uniacke * Voglers Cove * Gold River * Moosehead * Goldenville * Westfield * Indian Path * Harrigan Cove * Centre Rawdon * Nova Scotia’s Gold Mining History * WWII Gold * Middle River Gold District * Early Gold Discoveries * Halifax 1867 * Paris Exhibition 1867 * Mining and Tourism * An Act relating to the Gold Fields * Molega Gold District * Brookfield Gold District * Gays River * Halifax Gold * Caribou Gold District * Renfrew Gold District * Oldham Gold District * Whiteburn Gold District * Country Harbour Mines * Waverley Gold District * Robert Henderson and Klondike Gold * George Mercer Dawson * Cow Bay Gold District * Lake Catcha Gold District * Wine Harbour Gold District