Minodahmun Development is training Indigenous workers for future mining jobs in Ontario's Ring of Fire region. Courtesy of Minodahmun Development

The mining industry is notoriously in need of workers. Indigenous communities, especially those in the more remote regions of Canada, have suffered the effects of low employment rates for decades. Given those two realities, it seems natural that partnerships have begun to form to train members of Indigenous communities to fulfill roles in the mining sector, even if, historically, relationships between those who want to explore and mine the land and those who are the traditional inhabitants of the land have been tenuous at best.