Examples of non-metallic rocks and minerals of economic interest include coal, gemstones, construction aggregate (gravel or riprap), building stone, salt, gypsum and anhydrite, industrial-grade clays, fluorspar, phosphate, nitrate, and barite. Peat moss is included here because it is a fossil resource (i.e., it is mined faster than it is formed) similar in many respects to coal.
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- Goonvean Europe's largest independently owned kaolin producer, based in Goonvean Cornwall England UK.
- Scottish Agates Information and photographs of agates from a number of localities provided by David G. Anderson.
- Gypsum and Anhydrite in Nova Scotia Provincial government information circular on the Nova Scotia occurrence, mining history, and uses of these minerals.
- Geology and History of Coal in Nova Scotia Information circular from the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources.
- Peat Moss in Nova Scotia Peat is the partially decomposed remains of plants and animals which have accumulated in oxygen poor freshwater environments over the past 11 000-13 000 years. Peat is mined for horticultural purposes, and is also used in distillation, yeast cultivation, as an energy source, and in manufacture of ferrosilicons.