Every great mining discovery begins with a question. Sometimes science provides the answer. Sometimes luck lends a helping hand. But first, someone has to be curious enough to look.
Before there was Flin Flon, before there was Snow Lake, before giant ore bodies produced billions of dollars in copper, zinc, gold and silver, there were simply curious prospectors following rivers, paddling lakes and chasing stories across one of Canada’s last great wildernesses. Surprisingly to many, those early explorers weren’t traversing the northern reaches of the province, in the areas that would one day yield Manitoba’s most famous mines. No, they began just east of Winnipeg.
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