Working underground at Hudbay Minerals' 777 copper-zinc-gold-silver mine in Flin Flon, Manitoba. Credit: Hudbay Minerals.
Manitoba has ranked in the top 20 of the Fraser Institute’s annual list of the most attractive mining jurisdictions for 21 of the last 23 years, and has an exceptional mineral profile across an entire suite of metals—from copper, nickel, zinc and gold to diamonds, graphite and strategic minerals. The province produces 18 of the 31 minerals that Canada placed on its new list of critical minerals released at the PDAC Convention in March.
“We know that the pre-Cambrian Shield is well-endowed with world-class deposits that have been mined for decades, however as we’ve talked about often, there’s large areas that were under-explored and these are areas that have a huge amount of potential for Tier-One discoveries,” Shastri Ramnath, the founding president and CEO of privately held Exiro Minerals Corp., told participants in The Northern Miner’s second-quarter Global Mining Symposium this week.