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==Natural resources: wood, fish, gypsum, barite, oil and gold== The wood in the county was both used to build the many wooden ships, but it was also used as an export resource on the wooden ships. For this purpose, the [[Midland Railway (Canada)|Midland Railway]] was also built through the County (1901), connecting Windsor and Truro. The county is noted for very large deposits of [[gypsum]], some of which was at one time shipped from [[Walton, Nova Scotia|Walton]]. The world's largest open pit gypsum mine is located in Milford, East Hants and currently produces approximately 8,000 tons of gypsum daily. George Elliot Clarke's poem, "West Hants County", tells of the difficult condition of black workers in the gypsum mines. [[Baryte|Barite]] was also an extremely important ore to Hants County. The largest barite mine in the world was in Walton and that; combined with the gypsum and lumbering, made Walton the second busiest port in Nova Scotia in the 1950s. The mine produced in total 4.5 million tonnes of barite, between 1941 and 1978. Silver, lead, zinc and copper were also found in the same mine and over 360,000 tonnes were mined. It is estimated that there are still about 1 million tonnes of barite left in the deposit. Gold was mined at [[Renfrew, Nova Scotia|Renfrew]], near [[Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia|Nine Mile River]], The village was the home of one of the largest gold mines in the province. There were other gold mines in the community of [[Rawdon Gold Mines, Nova Scotia|Rawdon Gold Mines]]. There is currently oil exploration in and around [[Kennetcook]].
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