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.

Last year, the Nova Scotia government announced it would spend $48 million to clean up two of the most contaminated former mines — Montague Gold Mines and Goldenville on the Eastern Shore.

Burke is a senior environmental director with Build Nova Scotia, the provincial Crown corporation that's been tasked with remediating 60 abandoned mines. In an interview, he said he expects ...

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

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Decades after they were abandoned, some historical mines across Nova Scotia are set to be cleaned up starting next year. Gold, coal, gypsum and limestone are among the rocks and minerals that were ...