The Stellarton Surface Coal Mine was an

open pit Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or ...

reclamation

coal mine Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...

located in

Stellarton Stellarton is a town in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is adjacent and to the south of the larger town of New Glasgow. In pioneer times the area was called Coal Mines Station, and from 1833 until 1889, it was known as Albion Mines. The ...

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, located on its east coast. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and Population of Canada by province and territory, most populous province in Atlan ...

. It was operated by

Pioneer Coal Limited Pioneer Coal Limited is a Canadian mining company based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. It was founded in 1980 by John Chisholm, owner of Nova Construction Company Limited. The company currently operates one open pit coal mine: * Point Aconi Surfac ...

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The mine began operations in 1996 and coal was extracted using truck and shovel mining. Coal mining has taken place in this area of

Pictou County Pictou County is a county in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was established in 1835, and was formerly a part of Halifax County from 1759 to 1835. It had a population of 43,657 people in 2021, a decline of 0.2 percent from 2016. Further ...

for more than 400 years, and until the Donkin Mine reopened in 2017, the pit was the only operating coal mine in Nova Scotia.

Underground mining Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a la ...

previously took place in the area where the Stellarton pit was located and occasionally remnants of the abandoned tunnels from underground mining could be seen on the pit walls while the mine was still in operation. In 2022 Pioneer Coal ceased actively mining in Stellarton and began reclamation work on the now former mine.

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