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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
Avon River
Moose River Disaster
Mooseland Scam
New York and Nova Scotia Gold Mining Company
Rosario Siroy and the South Uniacke Gold District
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
Lochaber Gold Mining Company
Rawdon Gold Mines
MacLean Brook
Gold in Clayton Park?!
Forest Hill
Meguma vs. Placer Gold
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
Paris Exhibition 1867
Nova Scotia’s geology was well-represented at the Paris Exhibition (World’s Fair) in 1867.
An impressive collection of Nova Scotia minerals and rocks was displayed, including coal, iron, manganese, building stone and gems to show off Nova Scotia’s resources.
Gold nuggets and gold-bearing quartz from eleven different gold districts were displayed.
So was a pyramid with gold gilt (plating) to illustrate the quantity of gold that had been mined in the province between January 1861 and September 1866: 85,000 ounces. The pyramid, shown below on the left, was about five feet high and 18 inches square at its base. It represented $1.6 million in gold production in 1867 dollars, about $140 million today (all figures in US dollars).
Nova Scotia gold at the time was worth about $19.50 per ounce, compared to over $2000 per ounce in 2024.
The value of the gold displayed at the Exhibition was estimated to be $1500.
Gold production figures for the first couple years of mining in Nova Scotia no doubt underreported what was actually produced. The Department of Mines was not established until 1862 and complete production reports were not done until 1863. Gold was discovered in Nova Scotia in 1858 in Mooseland and our first gold rush started in 1861.
After the Paris Exhibition, much of the mineral collection was displayed at the new Provincial Museum in Halifax. This includes the pyramid, however, we have never seen a reference to what ultimately became of it.
The Nova Scotia Museum, as it’s now called, was established in October 1868 as a general museum of science and history. Today it has 28 museum sites and is one of the oldest provincial museums in the country.