Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
Geoscience and Mines Branch
Report ME 2017-001

Edited by D. R. MacDonald and E. W. MacDonald

Table of Contents

• Cover and Front Matter
  
  
• Stream Sediment Sampling as part of the New Geoscience Initiative to Study Epithermal Gold in the Cobequid Highlands, Colchester and Cumberland Counties
  by G. J. Baldwin
  
• A New Look at Mineral Occurrences Associated with the South Mountain Batholith, Southwestern Nova Scotia
  by G. J. Baldwin
  
• Till-geochemistry Sampling and Surficial Mapping as a Part of the New Geoscience Initiative in Epithermal Gold in the Cobequid Highlands
  by D. M. Brushett
  
• Surficial Mapping and Sampling Activities in Southwest Nova Scotia
  by D. M. Brushett
  
• A Geoheritage Sites Map, Story Map and Online Database for Nova Scotia
  by J. H. Calder
  
• Progress on Establishing a Global Geopark on the Parrsboro Shore
  by J. H. Calder
  
• Geological Setting of Mineral Occurrences in the Second Gold Brook Area, Southwestern Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia
  by T. M. Chew and S. M. Barr
  
• Data Mining: an Important Component of the Cobequid Highlands Mapping Project
  by G. J. DeMont
  
• Geohazards in Nova Scotia - An Overview of Program Activities for January 2016 to March 2017
  by J. M. Drage and G. W. Kennedy
  
• Overview of Activities Undertaken as Part of the Coastal Geology Program in 2016-2017
  by P. W. Finck
  
• Remediation of Abandoned Mine Openings January 1, 2016, to March 31, 2017
  by E. W. Hennick
  
• An Overview of Hydrogeology Program Activities in 2016
  by G. W. Kennedy and J. M. Drage
  
• Geoscience Editing and Publishing in 2016-2017
  by D. R. MacDonald, E. W. MacDonald, L. K. MacDonald, T. L. Medynski and J. S. Saunders
  
• An Update on Bedrock Mapping and Exploration for Epithermal Gold in the Northeastern Cobequid Highlands
  by T. G. MacHattie
  
• Observations on a Veined Section of Core Drilled at Blockhouse, Lunenburg County
  by R. F. Mills and A. MacKay
  
• Overview of the Nova Scotia Mineral Incentive Program, 2012-2016
  by R. D. Naylor and M. J. O'Neill
  
• Drill Core Library Activities in 2016
  by M. J. O'Neill
  
• Information Services Activities in 2016 and early 2017by J. C. Poole, B. E. Fisher, J. S. Saunders, J. S. McKinnon, S. L. Cowper and A. L. Barras
  
• Preliminary Report on the Revised Paleontology of the Windsor Group and its Stratigraphic Implications
  by R. J. Ryan and P. S. Giles
  
• Acid Rock Drainage in the Indigo Shores Housing Development, McCabe Lake, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
  by C. J. Hirtle and C. E. White
  
• Progress Report on Geological and Geochronological Studies in the Cheticamp Area, Aspy Terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
  by C. E. White, J. Shute, G. Sombini dos Santos, S. M. Barr and D. van Rooyen