"If you find the right rocks, you'd better hang in there and find the orebody," serial minefinder Mike Muzylowski told an 800-plus audience as he was being inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame this year. "Mother Nature has had forever to create it, but we only have one lifetime to find it." Half a lifetime after Muzylowski discovered the Trout Lake copper-zinc mine in central Manitoba - one of many economic discoveries attributed to him - he and others are still hanging in there, finding orebodies. The main difference is that the "right rocks" are often hiding at depth, rather than outcropping at surface, and the infrastructure for mining and processing is well established.
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