Researchers from three Maritime universities are hoping microbes collected from the bottom of a lake near an abandoned gold mine in Dartmouth, N.S., will provide a model for how to clean up ...

The Nova Scotia government says it’s moving forward with a prioritized, risk-based approach to tackling the financial liability of abandoned mine sites.

An idle Cape Breton underground coal mine that has been plagued by rockfalls is reportedly up for sale. Nova Scotia-based ...

HALIFAX—Nova Scotia will spend $48 million to clean up contamination from two former gold mines and will evaluate another 69 abandoned mine sites to see if they need remediation too.

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Decades after they were abandoned, some historical mines across Nova Scotia are set to be cleaned up starting next year.

In a recent clash over the cleanup of the shuttered Touquoy gold mine in Moose River, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia, a subsidiary of Australia’s St Barbara, has failed to overturn the ...

Kameron Colleries’s Donkin mine, the first underground coal operation in the province of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton in 15 years, has closed its doors, putting about 150 people out of work.

* The principal mine-operating subsidiary of Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd. (“Dosco”), which controls 90% of Nova Scotia’s coal pro duction, besides the steel plant at Sydney, where iron ...

A poor old gold mine in Nova Scotia, abandoned 25 years ago and reopened last winter, collapsed on its owners last week, thus entombing one of Canada’s most distinguished surgeons and a rising ...

HALIFAX—A nature conservancy organization is expressing concerns about a proposed gold mining operation near what it calls a “biodiversity hot spot” in Nova Scotia’s Guysborough County ...

Decades after they were abandoned, some historical mines across Nova Scotia are set to be cleaned up starting next year.