Manitoba's Mineral Industry

Manitoba Mineral Sector Profile

Manitoba Operating Mines

Mine	Company	Location	Date Opened	Major Metals/Minerals Mined
777 Mine	Hudbay Minerals Inc.	Flin Flon	2000	copper, zinc
Birchtree Mine NOTE: Currently under care and maintenance	Vale	Thompson	1968	nickel, copper
Bucko Lake Mine NOTE: Currently under care and maintenance	CaNickel Mining Limited	Wabowden	2009	nickel
Lalor Mine	Hudbay Minerals Inc.	Snow Lake	2014	copper, zinc, gold
True North Gold Mine NOTE: Currently under care and maintenance	1911 Gold Corporation	Bissett	2006	gold
Tanco Mine	Sinomine Rare Metals Resources Co. Ltd.	Bernic Lake	1969	cesium
Thompson mine T1, T3 & 1-D	Vale	Thompson	1958	nickel, copper

In 2019, Manitoba produced^a:

• 37.0% of Canada's zinc
• 7.1% of Canada's nickel
• 4.6% of Canada's copper
• 1.9% of Canada's gold
• 10.5% of Canada's silver

Silver, cobalt and platinum group metals are by-products of other mined metals or minerals; values are not available for cobalt and platinum group metals.

^a Source: Statistics Canada, Annual Statistics of Mineral Production; preliminary estimates current as of February 2020

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