| Ontario has been Canada's leading metals producer for almost a century, producing over $7 billion worth of minerals a year, from barite to zinc, most of which are exported. |
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| A world-ranked mineral producer: |
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| • | Among the top 10 for production of nickel, platinum goup metals and cobalt. It is among the top 20 for gold, copper, silver and zinc. |
| • | Ontario is among the top producers of platinum group metals in the world. It is produced at Lac des lles, Canada’s only platinum group metals mine, as a by-product of nickel-copper mining in the Sudbury area. |
| • | Canada's only producer of phosphate, nepheline syenite and indium The non-metallic mineral production of greatest value includes such minerals as salt, stone, lime, cement, sand and gravel. |
| • | Approximately 9 per cent of the world's nickel is produced in Ontario's Sudbury basin, as well as significant amounts of copper, silver and zinc. |
| • | Exploration expenditures are projected to rise to $300 million in 2006. |
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| A premier mining and exploration jurisdiction in the world: |
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| • | Ontario boasts top experts in technology, science, metallurgy and the environment. |
| • | More than 1000 Ontario companies supply everything from contract mining to custom equipment design to hundreds of exploration and development projects in dozens of countries around the world. |
| • | Toronto, Ontario, is the mine-financing capital of the world. More mining companies are listed on the TSX and TSX Venture Exchange than on any other exchange in the world. They have over 1100 mining companies valued at $143 billion. |
| • | Toronto Stock Exchange mining companies traded over 18 billion shares valued at CDN $140.7 billion in 2004 and an impressive $2 billion was raised by TSX Venture mining companies in 2004. |
| • | Ontario’s first diamond mine is being developed by De Beers in the James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario |
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| All figures in Can dollars |
