Ontario Is Sitting On Something Nobody Talks About

Ontario was pumping oil 56 years before Alberta's Turner Valley discovery. It has a mine deeper than five CN Towers, a city built inside an ancient impact crater, and a swamp near James Bay holding large deposits of nickel and chromite that have been pulled into a trade fight. In this video we count down ten things Ontario is sitting on, from a lost sea buried beneath Lake Huron, to a reactor on the shore that helps sterilize medical supplies around the world, to the Ring of Fire, where nearly twenty years after the first discovery there is still no operating mine. Which of these places would you want to see up close? Tell me in the comments. Subscribe for more stories about the ground beneath familiar places. Sources include: Compass Minerals, Canadian Roadstories, the Oil Museum of Canada, Parks Canada, Alberta Energy Heritage, Discovery Silver, Bruce Power, Nordion, World Nuclear News, Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator, Global News, CBS News, The Globe and Mail, the Government of Ontario, S&P Global and the Associated Press. #Ontario #Canada #RingOfFire #CanadianGeography #CriticalMinerals #Documentary #CanadaUncovered 0:00 Introduction to Ontario 0:22 The salt beneath Lake Huron 2:35 Canada's first oil industry 4:50 The deep Kidd Creek mine 7:03 Sudbury's impact crater 9:26 Nuclear medicine production 11:56 Cross-border power disputes 14:11 The Ring of Fire 16:31 Estimating mining value 18:44 Infrastructure challenges 21:12 International trade and ore