The island has many hiking trails that lead into the old-growth forest that is a mix of large white and red pine trees.
It was considered to be the largest deposit of nearly pure chalcopyrite ever discovered in Canada.
Temagami Island lies within n'Daki Menan, the homeland of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai, which covers almost 4,000 square miles (10,000 km2).
A bright white palladium mercury telluride mineral was discovered on Temagami Island in 1973 called temagamite,[2] named after its discovery locality in Copperfields Mine, originally known as Temagami Mine.
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