Manitoba Mining Facts

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Base and precious metals, such as nickel, copper, zinc and gold.
Specialty minerals like tantalum, lithium and cesium.
Plus industrial minerals such as dolomite, spodumene, silver, gypsum, salt, granite, limestone, peat, lime, sand and gravel.
Manitoba mineral resources with potential for future economic development include diamonds, platinum-group metals (PGM), rare earth elements (REE), titanium, vanadium, chromite, silica and potash.

Company	Mine	Location	Date Opened	Metals Mined
Vale Inco Limited	Thompson mine T1 & T3	Thompson	1958	nickel, copper
Vale Inco Limited	Birchtree Mine	Thompson	1968	nickel, copper
HudBay Minerals Inc.	Trout Lake Mine	Flin Flon	1982	copper, zinc
HudBay Minerals Inc.	777 Mine	Flin Flon	2000	copper, zinc
HudBay Minerals Inc.	Chisel North Mine	Snow Lake	1998	copper, zinc
San Gold Corporation	Rice Lake Gold Mine	Bissett	2006	gold
San Gold Corporation	San Gold #1 Mine	Bissett	2006	gold
Tantalum Mining Corporation of Canada, Ltd.	Tanco Mine	Lac du Bonnet	1969	spodumene, tantalum, pollucite

Mining is the reason for communities such as Thompson, Flin Flon, Snow Lake, Lynn Lake and Leaf Rapids in the north and Bissett in the south.

Click on the job profiles listed below to explore some of the career opportunities in the mining industry.

Click on the fact sheets below to discover even more facts about the world of minerals

Manitoba's Mineral Resources