By 1AN DONALDEON

‘HALIFAX (CP) —
geologists are Lonvinced
there still is gold deep below
eastern Nova Scotia which
‘early genorations of miners

could net reach with pick and,
“Kes a constant source of.

ter

The province was picked
Sra of ‘ensily-
gold by miners in

the 19th and 20 centuries who

ty Nova gon,” ,

gunk hundreds of shafts — 40
-In one threekilometre-long
vein alone in the Waverley

That means the gold they
‘left behind when the last
-qrest of gold mining in the

Guysborough county -
woods subsided in the 19908
is deep in the

tat I would 3 say the catty

_minera left just as much gold

as they took out.”
Ironically, some of the beat

early gold-mining areas now
are the economically
weakest in the proviee, but
they knew beom tim
In 12 months between Best,
$0, 1998, and Sept 3, 1890,
borough and Halifax

Diamond drills could = Guysl

‘come up with an empty hole,
maybe missing the ore by a

“Accurate estimates are
impossible to come up with,

counties yielded — by of-

. ficlal tally — 22,280 ounces of

gold, And Dr. Nowlan: said
that for every ounce
reported to government

another ounce was spirited .

away from the mine sites,
Interest in gold mining has

feasibillty of t rentag the In-
dustry for the first Hime in

neatly 50 years, |
Barkhowwe sald he is “se-
riously - thinking about
promoting gold. mining’*
Helng

valve of gold: Te olny could
create jobs In areas of high

Scotia In the 1600s, and the

New revolution designed for

' LOS ANGELES (AP) —
There's a revolution afoot,
mac tape may

—_ Te Bp on
Thoels

"Roller skating, once the
domain of pigtailed. little

isco fever and many that

languishing near

pret lade for years t hired disc

ey ed flashlag

lighta ad suddenly were

reborn a3 roller "boogie
palaces,

structor from the YWCA in
Santa Monica, Calif.

“(One of the reasons iene ake
coming so popular it's
a combination of a lot of fads
that can meet in one way,”
she said. “One is disco

andexercise, The third is the

skating be in the wheel ~
became a pleasure

with these new soft wheels.”"

Many people say they Ike
skating because it's ap-
peeling exercies. But health
"t all the roller skating

reial

wave of
“fit ‘about

operations peaked

his - 1961, Dr, Nowlan said there ~

were three more crests

whether before 1900, and then it -
Sleckened off until a final de

preasion-spurred flurry in
the 1930s.

Dr. Nowlan said one factor
working against the early

‘mine operaters was the
“gmail sizo of legal claims.

Sections as small as 3
metres in length would be

staked in a promising vein,

sue
y side,

"You couldn't. {

ficiently that way,” he said,

wheels

enthusiasts are seeking —_

some are after status, -
Ever since Cher held a few

disco roller skating parties a

year or 50 gO, , disco skating

been among the most’

operate ef-

Saturday, August 1 1

at. the

Arena 3 pm - - 7 am

"girls wearing clip-on metal Both inside and out, roller dancing, another is fitness chic formi: of recreation,
skates, has burst out of its skating is at the peak of its
pee jon8 is at popularity. But ithe real ibe
iD. every revolution outdoors — L lk k
age. . where previously ear- ] era § see a way to
About .28 million thbound joggers are skating
grannies,” voller skate te rk, fo the store, to
, ate school or to get some b ak’ C l
regularly ‘at rini, say the “exerelag, 9S re onservative p ans
out 300,000 palrs o
Operators Association, while — gutdoor skatesare being sold "OTTAWA (CP) — A com- budget this ‘auiumn, would election spurred the
uncalculated millions of each month — at about $80 on mittee of Liberal MPs plans allow homeowners to deduct ‘to find an ured the Li <r
others roll around outdoors. up a pair — and rental to work throughout the portions of their morigage ease ‘affordability problems
In Hollywood, too, skating businesses arvapeonting ike summer seeking an alter- interest and property tax of housing.”
is the latest diversion, with native polley to the ‘from taxable income. Tha
the likes of Jon Volght, ae, all of a sudden, did Progressive Conservatives’ plan has been criticized by Gilles Lamontagne, the
Dustin Hoffman, Jack the whole world start rolling vote-winning proralse to in- the . Liberals and New other committee — co-
Nicholson, Linda Blair, afong? _ troduce tax breaks for hamne- ‘Democratic.: Party. aig - chairman, sald the Liberals,
LeVar Burton and Polly “The urethane wheels and owners, benefitting only middle-class while in power, believed ihe
Bergen spinning their precision bearings ara what - Lloyd Axworthy, ¢o- homeowners, Conservative scheme was
wheels, ~ got this whole outdoor thing chairman of the committee . The Conservatives un- too expensive,
. Somewhere along roller going,” saya Bob White, co- and MP for Winnipeg-Fort ° veiled their plan last fall
shating’s lee to the status of -owner ‘of Good Skates, a Garry, told reporters during a campaign for 15 But the Conservatives
national phenomenon folks ‘rental businéss in New his colleagues federal .byelections: and it might find the money to .
discovered its smooth York's Central Park. vant formulate a plan that gurfaced gs a major issue introduce the plan by
_ Manoeuvres could be But those technological would benefit renters and during the May 23 election out other a aren
Gressed up with adisco beat. advances — which actually homeowners of all income campaign, and the Liberals, in thei’,
Thousands of skaters now began with the skateboard brackets. , one of only capacity as official op-
boogieto the scundsofmusic boom — are just part of the The Conservative plan,. three Western Canadian , MUS promote: an
from on headphone transistors. explanation, says Maren which is to be introduced in Lijheralselecied May S2;said alternative, the former
also caught Talbot, ‘a roller skating in- the new government's first that reflections on the postmaster-general said,  nasae
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