At the same time, the town was given a boost by a new road and ferry connecting it to the rich mineral belts in the nearby Colville Indian Reservation.

Stretching northwest to southeast, the mineral belt contains the Chuska, Gallup, Ambrosia Lake, and the Laguna uranium mining districts.

The belt shares tectonic or compositional features comparable with some well-known mineral belts of the western Cordillera, including the Juneau gold belt.

The mineral belt was traced in various directions, including north over the divide between the Skykomish and Sauk River drainages.

With proven deposits of gold, tin and diamonds, the park is part of the northern Amazon's mineral belt, an area described by geologists as one of the world's last great, unexploited mineral provinces.

The port will be used to export iron ore from a nearby mineral belt.

The Cripple Creek district, far from the mineral belt, was one of the last gold districts to be discovered.

The Chandrapur, Gondia, Gadchiroli, Bhandara and Nagpur Districts form the main mineral belt, with coal and manganese as the major minerals.

At his death in Adelaide on 22 January 1928 it was said that "he knew every mineral belt from Darwin to Mount Gambier".

The mineral belt includes the Slick Rock, Gypsum Valley, Uravan, and Gateway mining districts.