On mining

Pictured is the Moose River Gold Mine. Photo by the Ecology Action Centre

About 370 million years ago, when Nova Scotia was in the act of mountain building, our planet’s tumultuous crust permitted the escape of two elements which, to this day, are found concentrated together in our province’s bedrock. These were arsenic and gold which, eons later, would be respectively shunned and sought by a curious primate,…

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Zack Metcalfe