Manitoba Mining Facts

Mining is the second largest primary resource industry in Manitoba averaging over $1 billion in annual production. Manitoba's mining industry employs approximately 3,700 people directly and another 13,000 in indirect spin-off business.

What do Manitoba mines produce?

• Base and precious metals, such as nickel, copper, zinc and gold. Find out more about Manitoba's metals industry.
• Specialty minerals like tantalum, lithium and cesium.
• Plus industrial minerals such as dolomite, spodumene, silver, gypsum, salt, granite, limestone, peat, lime, sand and gravel.
  Find out more about Manitoba's aggregate industry.
• 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.

Operating Mines

Manitoba's Rich History

• Manitoba Mining: A Rich History (pdf)
• Minerals: A Fundamental Part of Life (pdf)

Manitoba's Mining Communities

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.

Stake Your Future in Mining

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

• Geologist (pdf)
• Mining Engineer (pdf)
• GIS Specialist (pdf)

More Mining Facts

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

• The Rock Cycle (pdf)
• How to Turn "A" Nickel into a Dollar (pdf)