In 2021, the spending intentions for mineral exploration expenditures in Canada are approximately 2.1 billion Canadian dollars. The total Canadian mineral exploration spending in 2020 amounted to 1.5 billion Canadian dollars.
Total mineral exploration expenditures in Canada from 2010 to 2020
(in million Canadian dollars)
Notes: includes on-mine-site plus off-mine-site activities. Includes field work, overhead, engineering, economic and pre- or production feasibility studies, environmental and land access expenditures.
* Preliminary estimated spending.
** Spending intentions. The distribution of spending intentions by commodity group is estimated using preliminary estimates data and publicly available
information.
This statistic was assembled using several editions of the report.
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