Northern Miner staff reporter Colin McClelland recently spoke with Jonathan Lafontaine, mining exploration activity monitor with Quebec's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources at PDAC 2023 in Toronto. Quebec has one of the most diverse commodity bases in the world, from precious metals, including gold, to bulks like high-grade iron ore and critical metals such as nickel, copper, and lithium. The province, which used to be a lithium producer, is now regaining that role amid a boom in exploration for the battery metal.