The Canadian mining sector produces diverse minerals ranging by region and including precious and base metals, nuclear materials, fertilizers, aggregates, coal and petroleum, and critical minerals used in the energy transition and the deployment of clean energy technologies.
The Canadian government has designated as critical minerals a list (“Canada’s Critical Mineral List”) that includes 31 minerals and metals, with 21 of them currently being produced in industrial quantities (such minerals or metals designated with *): aluminum*, antimony*, bismuth*, cesium*, chromium, cobalt*, copper*, fluorspar, gallium, germanium, graphite*, helium*, indium*, lithium*, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum*, nickel*, niobium*, platinum group metals*, potash*, eare earth elements, scandium*, tantalum*, tellurium*, tin, titanium*, tungsten, uranium*, vanadium, and zinc*.