Sure. There are hundreds of thousands of people already involved in the mining sector, in artisanal small-scale mining. It's generally not a family-run business, but rather large numbers of individual people often mining alluvial fields that are close to the surface. It's often in the diamond sector, but it's in a number of other sectors as well.
This is a largely ungoverned area. It's an area in which the infrastructure is not there for the mining to take place in socially or environmentally sustainable ways. It's an industry in which there's a high degree of exploitation. It's not well organized and, importantly, governments themselves, particularly in Africa, receive no revenue from it. There's no revenue gain that they get from the mining that people undertake, and there's no way to support and regulate the people who are actually involved in the industry.
It's about treating it like any other business sector that you would be involved in supporting. As a government, we are often supporting the development of various sectors of the economy. This is a sector that, if we think about it creatively, could impact upon large numbers of people who would benefit greatly in terms of income they would receive from mining practices.
I would suggest thinking about it in the governance context, not in terms of supporting the operations of small-scale miners, but for setting up the regulatory framework, the institutional arrangements through which artisanal mining is better governed.