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Ontario Mining Association’s educator tour aims to draw teachers, and students, to the sector
The Ontario Mining Association (OMA) is enlisting the help of a new ally in the ongoing quest to recruit workers to the mining industry: teachers. In April, the organization, in co-operation with Mining Matters and the Canadian Ecology Centre, hosted a group of high school educators at Agnico Eagle’s Detour Lake Mine to get a first-hand look at what it’s like to work there.
It’s part of the OMA’s greater marketing campaign, This is Mine Life, that’s geared toward creating awareness among youth about the benefits of careers in the sector, including stable work and good pay. “We came to the conclusion that we do have to get to educators, and what’s the best way to immerse educators into the sector?
Bring them to mines and take them around so that they understand what mining is all about and what it means to be a young person working in a mine,” said Priya Tandon, the OMA’s president. “So, really, interacting with some of those haul truck drivers and mechanics and operators and mining engineers.” Mining labour shortages and workforce planning have been top of mind for the OMA for some time, Tandon said, and the organization’s recently released report, State of the Ontario Mining Sector, indicates it has good reason to be concerned.
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