Framboise River is an estuarine river in
Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (french: link=no, île du Cap-Breton, formerly '; gd, Ceap Breatainn or '; mic, Unamaꞌki) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The island accounts for 18. ...
, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Course
The Framboise River (CAMVI) is an estuary that extends to the northwest from Seal Rocks and Framboise Cove on the coast to where Bagnells River (Bagnells Lake), Middle River Framboise and Northeast Framboise River converge.
Strachans Brook and Mary Anns Brook enter the estuary from the south.
The mouth of the river is at .
The community of
Framboise, Nova Scotia
Framboise (; ''Framboise'', French for "Raspberry") is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Richmond County.
It lies to the southwest of the Framboise River
Framboise River is an estuarine river in Cape Breton I ...
, lies to the southwest of the river.
"Framboise" means
raspberry
The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus ''Rubus'' of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus '' Idaeobatus''. The name also applies to these plants themselves. Raspberries are perennial with w ...
in French, and probably was given as a descriptive name by the early settlers.
Watershed
Lakes in the watershed include MacArthurs Lake and
MacMullin Lake
MacMullin Lake is a lake of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
MacMullin Lake (CAWZJ) is at .
MacMullin Lake is in the Framboise River watershed.
It is connected to MacArthurs Lake (CAWDS) by a channel.
Downstream it connec ...
, which are connected by a channel.
MacArthurs Lake has been described as "a beautiful pond".
It is at .
It is at an elevation of .
The Middle-River Framboise Wilderness Area is a relatively inaccessible protected area of wetlands, streams, lakes and well-defined and forested
drumlin
A drumlin, from the Irish word ''droimnín'' ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated ...
s.
A deposit of ore containing
zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. Zinc is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodi ...
(9.55%),
lead
Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cu ...
(2.28%) and
copper
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...
(0.94%) was discovered in Strachans Brook in the 1890s.
The Stirling base metal deposit, or Mindamar Mine, was purchased by British Metals Corporation, which operated the mine between 1935 and 1938, discharging waste and unrecovered metals directly into the brook.
The mine was reopened from 1952 to 1956, with the waste now impounded in a
tailings
In mining, tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore. Tailings are different to overburden, which is the waste rock or other material that overlie ...
pond.
The brook flows slowly eastward through low-gradient swampy reaches for to join the Framboise River estuary from the coast.
There is a small deltaic fan at the mouth of the brook.
It is not clear whether the quality of water and sediments in the Frambois River have been degraded by the dispersal of the tailings.
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Rivers of Nova Scotia