Building a balanced workforce.

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David Foot, author of Boom Bust & Echo provided miners with insights on how they can build their workforce for the future at the annual Ontario Mining Association conference held in Windsor, Ontario. Mr. Foot is a professor of economics at the University of Toronto. He has helped audiences better understand the impact change and population growth will have on their industry.

With demographic profiles on mining communities including Sudbury, Timmins, North Bay, Windsor, Red Lake, Marathon, Foot shared his research on employment positions such as mining...