>>11522744Oil and strategic metals
>Key facts>In 2018, Canada produced over 60 minerals and metals worth nearly $47 billion. >Metals represented over 50% of total production>Canada is a leading global producer of many minerals including those used in advanced battery technologies, such as cobalt (6th), graphite (3rd) and nickel (6th)>The minerals sector, which includes mining, primary processing and metal product manufacturing, directly employed 409,000 individuals in 2018>Indigenous people accounted for 12% of the labour force in the mining industry in 2016, up from 8% in 2011, and which ranks mining in second place for Indigenous representation>Canada's domestic exports of mineral and metal products reached $105 billion in 2018, accounting for 19% of total merchandise exportsIn 2018, mineral exploration expenditures in Canada increased 6% to 2.3 billion
Canada has real money. Canada (and Australia) will never be poor.
