The Annual facts are in the process of being updated. Please check back at a later date. General Employment Canada's mining industry is committed to continuously improving its record of safe production. Statistics show that it is twice as safe to be working in an Ontario underground mine as being a government employee.
Mining now has an injury frequency rate lower than the average of all other industries in Ontario.
The principal minerals and metals produced in Ontario are gold, nickel, copper, cement, sand and gravel, and stone. The first electrical mining equipment used in Canada was installed in 1906 at the Creighton mine in the Sudbury district of Ontario. Production Canadian mica production was first recorded in 1886 in both Ontario and Quebec. In 1822, gypsum was first mined near Paris, Ontario. In 1858, the first producing oil well on the American continent opened in Lambton County, Ontario.