Not Your Grandfathers Mining Industry, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Inside Asphalt * The Concrete House * Canso Causeway * Shubie Park * Sambro Lighthouse * Titanic Headstones * Why are some roads red? * Marshdale Gabbro * New Britain Quartz Mine * Mica Hill * King Quarry * Terence Bay * Queensport * Quarry Lake * Miners in War * The Pit * Oxford Tripoli Company * Sibley Mountain Slate Quarry * Terence Bay * East Gore Slate Quarry * Governor Lake Pegmatite * Spryfield Quarries * The Hydrostones * Bricks and the Halifax Explosion * Armdale Roundabout * South River Lake Quarry * Shelburne Granite Boulders * Belmont Pit * Whetstone Lake * Shelburne Island Park Quarry * Millstone Island * Beaverbank Slate Quarry * St. Margaret's Bay * Agate * Soapstone Mine * Kennington Cove Talc * Lapis Lazuli * Amethyst * Dowsing * Spryfield’s Rocking Stone * Nictaux * Standard Clay Products * Erinville * HIghway 104 * Factory Bog * Where does gravel come from?