Flin Flon is a town on the border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Most of it is in Manitoba. Flin Flon has a population of 5,099—with 4,940 in Manitoba and 159 in Saskatchewan. Flin Flon is an important mining center. The town sprawls over bare, rocky hills around Ross Lake.
Flin Flon was founded in 1914. Copper and zinc deposits and deposits of gold and other precious metals were discovered there in 1915, but they were not fully developed until 1930. In the older part of Flin Flon, water mains and sewers lie aboveground because digging through the rock terrain is too expensive.
