From The Mineral Inventory Files

The articles below about interesting mineral properties in Nova Scotia were all written by Mineral Resources Branch mineral deposits geologist George O'Reilly, and published in the Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter (http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/meb/pdf/mu.asp) under the title From the Mineral Inventory Files.

• Granite- and Metasediment-hosted W-Sn-Mo-Cu-Zn-Ag-Au at Westfield, Queens County (Spring 2013, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 30, No. 2)
• The Cowan Mill Pond Tungsten Occurrences (Winter 2013, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 30, No. 1)

• The East Kemptville Tin Deposit: Jewel of the Southwest Nova Scotia Tin Domain (Autumn 2012, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 29, No. 4)
• Antimony and Gold at West Gore (Spring 2012, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 29, No. 2)
• Meandering Thoughts (Winter 2012, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 29, No. 1)

• Mooseland - Where and 'Howe' it all Began (Autumn 2011, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 28, No. 4)
• Manganese, and Possibly More, at Nicholsville (Summer 2011, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 28, No. 3)
• The Long Lake Mo-W-Cu Greisens: a Classic Example of Greisen Development (Spring 2011, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 28, No. 2)
• The Northeast Extension Deserves A Look (Winter 2011, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 28, No. 1)

• The Oxford Tripoli Company Diatomite Mine at East New Annan (Autumn 2010, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 27, No. 4)
• Kells Copper (Summer 2010, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 27, No. 3)
• Eastern Promises (Spring 2010, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 27, No. 2)
• Cumberland County's Historic (but Little-known) Grindstone Industry (Winter 2010, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 27, No. 1)

• Greenfield Placer Gold: an Orphan Looking for a Home (Autumn 2009, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 26, No. 4)
• Nova Scotia's 1540 Year Old Mine (Summer 2009, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 26, No. 3)
• Turning Silica into Rare Metals (Spring 2009, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 26, No. 2)
• Three Graves in Margaree (Winter 2009, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 26, No. 1)

• Serendipity and a Bit of Sleuthing at Canfield Creek (Autumn 2008, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 25, No. 4)
• Meadowville Deserves Another Chance (Summer 2008, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 25, No. 3)
• Volcanogenic Massive Sulphides at the Stirling Zn-Pb-Cu Deposit (Spring 2008, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 25, No. 2)
• The Smithfield Pb-Zn-Ag-Ba Deposit: Small but First (Winter 2008, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 25, No. 1)

• At Cap d'Or, All That Glitters is not Gold - it's Copper! (Autumn 2007, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 24, No. 4)
• Walton's Link to the White House (Summer 2007, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 24, No. 3)
• More Barite at Middle Stewiacke? (Spring 2007, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 24, No. 2)
• Fraternal Twins in Brookfield (Winter 2007, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 24, No. 1)

• Castle Frederick: A New Style of Pb-Zn-Ag Mineralization in the South Mountain (Summer 2006, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 23, No. 2)
• Duelling Banjos on the Stewiacke (Spring 2006, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 23, No. 1)

• The New Ross Manganese Mines: Square Peg in a Round Hole (Summer 2005, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 22, No. 3)
• If Dominique Boudreau Had Only Known What He Actually Found (Spring 2005, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 22, No. 2)
• Black Greisens at Kempt Snare Lake (Winter 2005, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 22, No. 1)

• Specular Iron Mines (Autumn 2004, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 21, No. 4)
• The Dunbrack Pb-Cu-Zn-Ag Mine: A Must Stop for Mineral and Rock Collectors (Summer 2004, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 21, No. 3)
• The Elusive North Ogden Gold Prospect (Spring 2004, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 21, No. 2)
• Are the Bridgeville Iron Mines and New Lairg Copper Mine Siblings? (Winter 2004, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 21, No. 1)

• The Kemptville Gold Mine: Meguma-hosted Gold with a Difference (Summer 2003, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 20, No. 3)
• Too Coy with Touquoy? (Spring 2003, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 20, No. 2)
• Coxheath Mountain Pyrophyllite: Economic Possibilities (Winter 2003, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 20, No. 1)

• Gold in the Cape Breton Highlands: Inco Gold or Inca Gold? (Fall 2002, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 4)
• Let's Play TAG (Summer 2002, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 3)
• The Brazil Lake Albite-Spodumene Pegmatite (Spring 2002, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 2)
• The Cobalt-bearing Bass River Magnetite Deposits (Winter 2002, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 1)

• Does the Mt. Thom Cu-Co-Au Prospect Have an Igneous Parent? (Fall 2001, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 18, No. 4)
• Titanium Sands of the Shubenacadie River (Summer 2001, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 18, No. 3)
• The Lake Peter Gold Prospect: Is There a Granite Connection? (Spring 2001, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 18, No. 2)
• Flintstone Rock is not Alone (Winter 2001, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 18, No. 1)

• The Lower Caledonia Beryl Pegmatite: Could there be Others? (Fall 2000, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 17, No. 4)
• Fault-controlled Zinc Mineralization at Kirkmount and Georgeville (Summer 2000, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 17, No. 3)
• The Hirschfield Pb Prospect: Is There an Eastville Connection? (Spring 2000, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 17, No. 2)

• Londonderry: Nova Scotia's Giant from the Past May Still Have A Future (Winter 1996, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 7)
• A Little-Known Ni-Co-Bi-Sb-Pb-Ag-Au Association in the Annapolis Valley (Fall 1995, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 6)
• Copper Associated With Mafic Plutonism, Antigonish County (Summer 1995, Nova Scotia Minerals Update Newsletter, Volume 5)