Oskisko Mining has started looking at the impacts its proposed open-pit gold mine near Atikokan might have on existing services in the district.
The company projects up to two-thousand employees in the construction phase and five hundred in the mill.
Mark Boller, a senior advisory, says a socio-economic impact study will identify challenges that workforce brings.
Boller says one of the early challenges might be trying secure enought trained personal to work at the site.