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IN a recent series of broadcast addresses, the Minister of Mines at Ottawa emphasised that Canada's vast new mineral wealth is being derived from a line of mining camps extending for 2,400 miles from northern Quebec to Great Bear Lake. Ten years ago, gold production in this belt came from only two districts, whereas to-day mining developments are in progress in a score of separate localities in a region of the Pre-Cambrian shield which is quite unsuitable for agriculture. Thus a new metallic link has been forged between eastern and western Canada which is awakening a new community of interests. The mining camps look to the west for food supplies and to the east for machinery, chemicals, clothing and other factory products. At present the most important section of the new economic frontier is the area including eastern Manitoba, northern Ontario and northern Quebec. Excluding the famous Porcupine, Kirkland Lake and Cobalt centres, the Sudbury nickel-copper district, and the eastern Manitoba gold belt, the oldest of the new mines began production only eight years ago. Now there are twenty-eight new mines, and these have given Canada an additional yearly output of gold and copper worth £7,000,000, a production value more than the annual gold output of Kirkland Lake. The value of the metals produced from this narrow belt alone now exceeds £20,000,000, while that from Sudbury adds a further £12,000,000.
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Mineral Development in Canada. Nature 137, 980 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137980b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137980b0