page_title: Orex Exploration
section_title: Faribault
hierarchical_section_title: Orex Exploration / Geological interpretation / Faribault
caption_attribution_description: English: Faribault, E.R. (1899). "Plan and Sections, Upper Seal Harbour, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia". Government of Canada.
context_page_description: Orex Exploration is a former Canadian gold mining company that conducted exploration work on mining properties it owned in the Goldboro and Guysborough County areas of Nova Scotia. The properties owned by Orex were the sites of the former Boston Richardson Mine, Dolliver Mountain Mine, West Goldbrook Mine, and East Goldbrook Mine which operated between 1892 and 1912. Headquartered in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, the company was founded in 1987 and raised funds for exploration work, in part, by issuing stocks traded on the Montreal Stock Exchange and then the TSX Venture Exchange. It became a subsidiary of Anaconda Mining Inc. after Anaconda acquired the company in a stock swap deal in 2017.
context_section_description: In 1885, E.R. Faribault mapped Nova Scotia's gold fields for the Geological Survey Department (Government of Canada). He focused on the intricate folds in the gold-bearing formations along the southeast coast of Nova Scotia known as the Meguma Group. He recognized that the gold occurred like saddles along the crests of small anticlines and he discovered many large and small ore bodies. His discoveries were critical to the present knowledge of the location of gold in Nova Scotia.
  In 1893, Map #27 by the Geological Survey Department was produced by E.R. Faribault to illustrate a report commissioned by the Department from Hugh Fletcher and E.R. Faribault in 1886.  This map (below) illustrates the extensive known gold fields in the areas around Goldboro.  Many of these properties are currently claimed by Orex Exploration, while some others are held by other mineral claim holders.  In addition detailed cross sections of the Isaac's Harbour gold district and also of the Boston Richardson mine were produced by Faribault (below).
caption: Plan and Sections, Upper Seal Harbour, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia [23]
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