I wouldn't speak to any one single deposit in terms of what its capacity and capability is, but there is most certainly hard rock potential across virtually every province and territory in Canada. I think there are known showings or prospects for lithium of various species all across those regions as well, whether we're looking at northern Quebec, Newfoundland, Ontario or all the way through the territories.
The central point we're trying to convey to this committee is that the potential is vast. Our industry has, by and large, been focused on other things for over a century, if you think of copper and nickel, certainly as components in batteries and electric vehicles and technology. In terms of those peripheral things we've been speaking about, very little attention has been wrought from Canadian industry or from provincial and federal government programs in terms of public geoscience. It is a bit of a nuance, but it's really refocusing strategies we've had in the past in terms of their intensity and in terms of their intent to understand where critical mineral potential lies in Canada.
You'll see our members active all across the country in various forms in terms of exploration for critical minerals, but, as I mentioned at the start, we understand that less than 3% of domestic activity last year went towards things like rare earths, lithium or cobalt. We see a need to incentivize that end of our industry to try to draw more attention.
Back to the question that was asked earlier, apologies about our capacity: there are over 950 companies listed on the venture exchange today that operate in the mineral exploration industry. That represents over 50% of the venture exchange companies that are listed in Canada. When we think of the TSX overall, 35% of all listings are in the mineral industry, so the capacity we have as an industry to be able to ramp up, whether it's exploration or extractive capacity, is truly there in terms of knowledge. It's really adding in some of those little pieces that can help us accelerate the pace that we can take on.