Earth Sciences: Geology: Rocks and Minerals: Non-Metallic Deposits

Photos of sand and gravel pits and stone quarrying.

Provincial government information circular on the Nova Scotia occurrence, mining history, and uses of these minerals.

Europe's largest independently owned kaolin producer, based in Goonvean Cornwall England UK.

Provincial government information circular.

Peat is the partially decomposed remains of plants and animals which have accumulated in oxygen poor freshwater environments over the past 11 000-13 000 years. Peat is mined for horticultural purposes, and is also used in distillation, yeast cultivation, as an energy source, and in manufacture of ferrosilicons.

Technical and commercial specialist, based in the United Kingdom, specializing in the exploration and evaluation of industrial minerals particularly kaolins and calcium carbonates.