Miners today are swamped with disclosure requests. "You could literally spend all your time just responding to questionnaires,” said Newmont Corp's Omar Jabara.

At Agnico Eagle’s Nunavut operations, the company has a lofty goal of hiring 50 per cent of its employees from local Inuit communities, but that has not been easy. For many of Agnico’s Inuit hires, the mine is their first formal job and their first time in an industrial setting – meaning they need extra training and more time to adjust to the work.