Albert Mines, New Brunswick

Albert Mines is a community in the southeastern corner (Map) of the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

It is due south of the Village of Hillsborough and bordered by the communities of Demoiselle Creek (site of Hopewell Rocks) and Edgetts Landing.

The locale is notable in the history of the petroleum industry as being the source of the first ore used to distill kerosene.

[a] In 1820, a deposit of Albertite, variously described as "solid petroleum" or "asphalt" was discovered by Abraham Gesner, who understood its potential as an alternative to whale oil as a source of light.

[3] A section of the Albert Railway ran through the area beginning 1877 until the track was dismantled in 1955[4] A century-old[4] gypsum quarry supplied a National Gypsum mill in nearby Hillsborough and ceased production in the 1980s when the mill closed.