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This photo shows the burnt power house that had also housed the Busch Selzer diesel engine, the second diesel built in America.35
The new power house was built in 19421942
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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The new Power House was built in 1942.37
A group of workers1945
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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This photo from 1945 shows a group of workers standing outside the Malagash Pilot Plant, that was set up by the Federal government to produce a high purity fishery salt.39
An inside view1940's
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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PILOT PLANT BUILT IN MALAGASH IN 1945A pilot plant was built under the direction of Smedley and Turrell, with the co-operation of Federal and Provincial governments and Nova Scotia Technical College and Canadian Industries, at Malagash. It produced a high quality fused salt in small (10 tons per 24 hour day) commercial quantities in 1945, the first such production in North America.
The pilot plant continued until mid 1947. It made a beautiful product from variable purity rock salt but the fuel for fusing made the process expensive.
The rock salt was ground to minus 65 mesh and then put through floatation cells. The salt was depressed and the impurities floated. Then the salt was dried on a filter from which it went to a reververatory furnace where it melted at 801 C degress, or 1473 F but the furnace was run at 1525 F.
The molten salt ran into a conveyor of laddles where it cooled into blocks, before crushing to sizes for the fishery trade.
In 1947 The Diamond Crystal Salt Co. sent a car of table salt (bagged) which was fused at Malagash and the product returned to Michigan. The process was discontinued in autumn 1947.
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With the blacksmith1950
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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FIRST FUSED SALT IN NORTH AMERICAProbably the first salt fused in North America was when James Chambers, Malagash Salt Company blacksmith, melted rock salt over the forge in a babbit laddle at Malagash Mine in 1940.
A specimen of Malagash rock salt was fused in the Federal Mines Department laboratories, Ottawa, in 1943, and this event is recorded as the first fusion of salt in North America.
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The Malagash Salt Plant1950
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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The Malagash Salt Mine in 1950, with the new Power House in the background. In the foreground are the warehouse and shaft mill, and box cars can be seen loading the salt.45
The Malagash Salt Mine1957
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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The Malagash Salt Mine as it looked in 1957, two years before it closed and mining operations were moved to Pugwash.47
An extract from an interview with Kenny Wilson1950's
Malagash, Nova Scotia, Canada
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