#Mining is part of the fabric of #NovaScotia in ways we don’t always appreciate. For example, this image of a prospector panning for #gold is in the floor of the #Mineville Medical Centre. Many people probably walk over it without being aware of the area’s mining history.
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Indications of #gold in #Mineville were first found by William Crooks. Young William’s father ridiculed him for thinking he had found gold so William threw the rock away.
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A few years later in 1861, amid the excitement of the discovery of #gold in #Tangier, William went back to where he had found the rock and found several nuggets of gold. We now consider this the discovery of gold in #Mineville.
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The #Lawrencetown Gold District, as it came to be known, was surveyed into lots that year and 40 distinct veins were opened in 1861-62. Placer #mining (panning for #gold) also took place starting in 1862.
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A number of companies sought #gold in #Mineville but production was modest: 488 ounces in total, almost half it from the Shanghai Diggings.
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William Crooks scraped together enough money in 1876 to do some #mining but it didn't make him rich - he only found a small amount of #gold.
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