Minerals and Energy Branch Report of Activities 1997
Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
Mineral Resources Branch
Report ME 1998-1
Edited by D. R. MacDonald
Table of Contents
- Cover and Table of Contents
- Mineral and Energy Branch Activities
- Public Awareness and Education - R. G. Grantham
- Musquodoboit Batholith Project and the Geology of the Tangier Grand Lake Area - L. J. Ham
- Mineral Resource Land-use Information and Policy - D. B. Hopper and F. J. Boner
- Preliminary Bedrock Geology of the Lucasville-Lake Major Area, Central Meguma Mapping Project, Central Nova Scotia - R. J. Horne, L. MacDonald, P. Bhatnagar and P. J. Ténière
- Observations on Field Relationships, Petrology and Metallogeny of Southeast Cape Breton Island - D. J. Kontak
- Preliminary Results of Geological and Geochemical Studies at the Stirling Deposit with Emphasis on Quartz-talc-carbonate (QTC) Rock Associated with Massive Sulphide Ore - D. J. Kontak
- Geoscience Editing and Publishing - D. R. MacDonald, B. L. MacDonald, K. A. Mills and J. S. Saunders
- Overview of Regional Geochemical and Geophysical Data for the South Mountain Batholith: Implications for Future Mineral Exploration - M. A. MacDonald
- Mineral Exploration Monitoring - P. D. McCulloch
- Drill Core Library Programs 1997 - J. M. McMullin, W. Palmer, D. Weir, J. Horton, J. Hayes and J. DeWolfe
- Preliminary Investigation of Abandoned Mill Tailings at the Montague Gold District, Nova Scotia: Implications for Development Potential - R. F. Mills
- Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Late Carboniferous Parrsboro Formation - R. D. Naylor and C. M. Kennedy
- Mineral Inventory Activities in Mainland Nova Scotia for 1997 - G. A. O'Reilly
- Aggregate Program Activities - G. Prime and C. Jessome
- Post-Early Cretaceous Faulting in the Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia - R. R. Stea and S. E. Pullan
- Digital Information Services - J. M. Vavra
- External Abstracts and Conference Presentations
- Syn-Acadian Emplacement Model for the South Mountain Batholith, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia: Magnetic Fabric and Structural Analyses - K. Benn, R. J. Horne, D. J. Kontak, G. S. Pignotta and N. G. Evans
- The Use of Geological Information in Nova Scotia′s Rural Areas -F. J. Boner
- The Carboniferous Evolution of Nova Scotia - J. H. Calder
- Trackways of Gregarious Tetrapods in a Fossil Walchian Forest from the Permo-Carboniferous of Nova Scotia -J. H. Calder, A. P. Hunt and H. E. K. Van Allen
- The Opaque Mineralogy of Metasedimentary Rocks of the Meguma Group, Beaverbank-Rawdon Area, Nova Scotia - S. J Haysom, R. J. Horne and G. Pe-Piper
- Flexural-Slip Folding in the Meguma Group, Southern Nova Scotia - R. J. Horne and N. Culshaw
- Geological and Geophysical Interpretation of the Rawdon Fault, Rawdon Area, Nova Scotia: Implications for Carboniferous Age Tectonics and Basin Development - R. J. Horne, R. C. Boehner, M. S. King and P. Harvey
- Maceral/Microlithotype Analysis of the Hardgrove Grindability of Lithotypes from the Phalen Coal Bed, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - J. C. Hower and J. H. Calder
- A 40Ar/39Ar Study of Whole Rock Slate Samples from Meguma Gold Deposits, Nova Scotia: Implications for the Timing and Duration of Auriferous Quartz Vein Formation - D. J. Kontak, R. J. Horne, H. A. Sandeman and D. A. Archibald
- A Geochemical Isotopic and Fluid Inclusion Study of Pegmatite Formation in a Fluorine-rich Environment: the East Kemptville Sn Deposit, Nova Scotia, Canada - D. J. Kontak, W. Halter, A. E. Williams-Jones, R. F. Martin, K. Ansdell and J. Dostal
- Hydrothermal Characterization of the West Gore Sb-Au Deposit, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada - D. J. Kontak, R. J. Horne and P. K. Smith
- The Origin of Crack-seal - Textured Quartz in Auriferous Quartz Veins of the Meguma Group, Nova Scotia: A Combined Hydraulic Fracture - Replacement Model - D. J. Kontak and A. J. Anderson
- Overview of the Regional Geological Setting of the Stirling VMS Deposit, SE Cape Breton: A Shear-Zone Hosted Massive Sulphide Deposit with Associated Quartz-Carbonate-Talc Alteration - D. J. Kontak
- Composition and Maturity of Appalachian Coals from Nova Scotia: Their Relationship to Methane Generation and Adsorption, Development of Micropores and Permeability - P. K. Mukhopadhyay, D. J. MacDonald, J. H. Calder, D. J. Hughes, A. Simoun and P. G. Hatcher
- Appendices