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| | Flin Flon - Destination Guide - Hotel Near (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | At the northern end of Hwy 10, about 60km from Cranberry Portage, the mining township of FLIN FLON, on the Saskatchewan border, gouges copper, gold, lead and zinc from a massive seam that was discovered in 1914. |
 | | A stark, rough-looking town, full of precipitously steep streets, where the houses are built on sheer rock in a barren landscape, Flin Flon takes its unusual name from the hero of an obscure dime-novel entitled The Sunless City, which one of the first prospectors was reading at the time of the discovery. |
 | | The mine was due to shut down in 2004, a move that would have meant the end of Flin Flon, but in the summer of 2000 the biggest industrial investment in Manitoba, some $400 million from mining companies, ensured the mine's and the town's future. |
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