Mineral Resources Branch Report of Activities 2003
Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources
Mineral Resources Branch
Report ME 2004-1
Edited by D. R. MacDonald
Table of Contents
- Cover and Table of Contents
- Mineral Resources Branch Activities
- Digital Information Services - B. E. Fisher, J. C. Poole and J. S. Saunders
- Multi-element Distribution in Humus, Soil, Till, Rock and Tailings Associated with Historic Gold Districts of the Meguma Zone, Nova Scotia, Canada - T. A. Goodwin, P. K. Smith and M. B. Parsons
- Reclamation of the Irish Cove Limestone Quarry (NTS 11F/15), Richmond County - D. B. Hopper and F. J. Bonner
- Geological Report on the Early Stages of Development of the Mooseland Gold District (NTS 11D/15), Halifax County - R. J. Horne, G. Covey and C. Albert
- Geology of the Southern Lobe of the Brazil Lake LCT-type Pegmatite (NTS 21A/04), Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia - D. J. Kontak
- Geoscience Editing and Publishing - D. R. MacDonald, B. L. MacDonald and J. S. Saunders
- Mineral Exploration Activity in Nova Scotia, 2003 - P. D. McCulloch
- Assistance to Prospectors and Small Developers at the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources - R. F. Mills
- Progress Report on a New Mapping and Resource Evaluation Program for Central Nova Scotia - R. D. Naylor, B. E. Fisher, P. S. Giles, T. A. Goodwin, D. J. Kontak and P. J. Harvey
- Mineral Inventory Project Activities for 2003 - G. A. O'Reilly and G. J. DeMont
- Age and Petrochemistry of Mafic Sills in Rocks of the Northwestern Margin of the Meguma Terrane, Bear River - Yarmouth Area of Southwestern Nova Scotia - C. E. White and S. M. Barr
- External Abstracts and Conference Presentations
- Petrological Studies of Mafic Pegmatites in the Jurassic North Mountain Basalt, Nova Scotia: A Record of Extreme Fractionation in the Late-stage Evolution of Continental Tholeiites - C. Baldwin, D. J. Kontak and J. Dostal
- Significance of U-Pb Detrital Zircon Ages in Quartzite from peri-Gondwanan Terranes, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada - S. M. Barr, D. W. Davis, S. Kamo and C. E. White
- U-Pb Ages of Detrital Zircon in Quartzite from Avalon and Adjacent Terranes, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada - S. M. Barr, D. W. Davis and C. W. White
- U/Pb, Re/Os and Ar/Ar dating of the South Mountain Batholith and its Mineral Deposits - S. Carruzzo, D. J. Kontak, P. H. Reynolds, D. B. Clarke, G. R. Dunning, D. Selby and R. A. Creaser
- Communicating the Relevance of Earth Science with a Geological Highway Map - H. V. Donohoe, Jr., B. E. Fisher, R. Raeside, K. Silverstein, D. Skilliter and C. E. White
- Chemical and Isotopic (Pb, Sr) Zonation in a Peraluminous Granite Pluton: Origin by Crystal-fluid Fractionation - J. Dostal, A. K. Chatterjee and D. J. Kontak
- 40Ar/39Ar Age of the Jurassic North Mountain Basalt, Southwestern Nova Scotia - D. J. Kontak and D. A. Archibald
- Re/Os Analysis of Arsenopyrite from Meguma Lode Gold Deposits: Implications for Timing of Gold Metallogeny and Age of Acadian Deformation in the Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia - D. J. Kontak, R. J. Horne, R. Morelli and R. Creaser
- The Brazil Lake Pegmatite, Southwestern Nova Scotia: Role of Sodium Metasomatism in an LCT-type Pegmatite of Magmatic Parentage - D. J. Kontak and T. K. Kyser
- Gold in the Meguma Terrane, Southern Nova Scotia: Is There a Continuum between Mesothermal Lode Gold and Intrusion-related Gold Systems? - D. J. Kontak, G. A. O'Reilly, M. A. MacDonald, R. J. Horne and P. K. Smith
- Petrology and Tectontic Setting of the Carboniferous Wedgeport Pluton, Southwestern Nova Scotia - N. J. MacLean, S. M. Barr and C. E. White
- Re-OS Arsenopyrite Geochronology of Quartz Veining and Au Mineralization, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada - R. Morelli, R. Creaser, D. Selby, D. J. Kontak and R. J. Horne
- Acadian Metamorphism with an Alleghanian Overprint: White Rock Formation, Yarmouth Area, Southwestern, Nova Scotia - D. P. Moynihan, R. A. Jamieson, N. G. Culshaw and C. W. White
- The Appalachian Glacier Complex - R. R. Stea
- Ice Stream Tills, Ice Divide Tills, and Reworked Tills in Nova Scotia, Canada - R. R. Stea and P. W. Finck
- Younger Dryas Glacierization in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada - R. R. Stea, R. J. Mott, D. I. Godfrey-Smith and J. L. Fastook
- Late-glacial Ice Advances in Maritime Canada - R. R. Stea, R. J. Mott, J. Gosse and J. Fastook
- Stratigraphy, Structure, and40Ar/39Ar Geochronology in the Lochaber-Mulgrave area, Nova Scotia - P. J. Ténière, S. M. Barr, C. E. White and P. H. Reynolds
- Basement Blocks in Southwestern Cape Breton Island and Adjacent Mainland Nova Scotia, Canada, and their Relationship to the Avalon Terrane - C. E. White, S. M. Barr, J. W. F. Ketchum and P. H. Reynolds
- A New Perspective on Stratigraphy, Deformation, and Metamorphism in the Southwestern Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia - C. E. White and R. J. Horne
- Appendices