Val d’Or, Quebec-Hinterland Metals Inc. said June 18 that it has submitted an application for a 17,783 hectare special exploration license for salt and potash in the Malagawatch area of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The special license is underlain primarily by rocks belonging to the Windsor Group. PotashCorp is currently mining potash salts from the lower Winsor Group near Sussex, New Brunswick. Previous exploration has identified the Malagawatch and Orangedale salt deposits within the area of the special license. The Malagawatch deposit is the more important of the two for potash and was discovered in an oil well drilled by Chevron Standard Ltd. and Irving Oil Company Ltd. in 1978. Hinterland noted that special exploration licenses are granted in Nova Scotia according to ministerial discretion.
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