Includes an overgrown gypsum quarry, an anhydrite outcrop on the shore (White Head) and nearby limestone that contains some manganese mineralization. A couple of the richer manganese concentrations were worked in the late 1800s.
References
Goodman, N.R., "Gypsum in Nova Scotia and its Associated Minerals", The Geology of Canadian Industrial Mineral Deposits, Canadian Institute of Mining and Met., pp. 110-114, 1957.
Sabina, A.P., "Rocks and Minerals for the Collector : Bay of Fundy Area", Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 64-10, 1964.
Boyle, R.W., "The Geology, Geochemistry, and Origin of the Barite, Manganese, and Lead-Zinc-Copper-Silver Deposits of the Walton-Cheverie Area, Nova Scotia", Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 166, 1972.
Calder, J.H., Boehner, R.C., Brown, D.E., Gibling, M.R., Mukhopadhyay, P.K., Ryan, R.J., Skilliter, D.M., "Classic Carboniferous Sections of the Minas and Cumberland Basins in Nova Scotia With Special Reference to Organic Deposits", The Society for Organic Petrology Annual Meeting Field Trip, 29-30 July, 1998, NS Dept. of Nat. Res., Open File Report ME 1998-5.
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