In 2021, Canada developed a list of 31 minerals and metals deemed critical for developing  a low-carbon future. This poster explores these critical minerals, including how they can combat climate change, and highlights the ones that can be found in Canada.

Music from the Earth explores the use of minerals, metals and elements in the creation of musical instruments, performances and audio engineering. The poster features a range of instruments, including percussion, brass, woodwinds and strings, as well as electronic devices and the Earth materials that are used in their manufacture.
Mining Matters would like to thank SGS Canada, Canadian Heritage and the Québec Mining Association for their support of Music from the Earth.

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The Earth supplies us with the metals and minerals that contain the necessary components for dietary essentials, care regimes, surgical instruments, medical devices, diagnostic aids and life-saving treatments. Canada, as one the world's largest mining nations, produces more than 60 minerals and metals, many of them necessary to the world of medicine. 

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Canadians use a great deal of energy equivalent to nearly 7,500 kg of oil per person annually. We also produce a great deal of energy, adding alternative energy sources and new power storage methods more and more to the mix. What ever energy sources we use, the metals and minerals of the Earth, along with the people who find and process them, make them possible. Mining Makes It Happen.

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Ice, training, muscle, passion, determination...skaters need them all to get to the top of their sport. But there's more. The equipment, the venues...Mining makes it happen.

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From Northern Lights to Urban Trails highlights snowmobiles and the metals and minerals that go into them.

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