The Government will submit to Parliament three draft amendments seeking to coordinate issues related to extraction work in small and unorganized mines. They pertain to the law on mineral resources, the law on income tax covering persons whose business income is impossible to determine, and the law on land.

The expected total effect of the proposed amendments is to improve conditions in the small mining sector. Stricter labor safety requirements will be imposed, and miners will have to form some organization such as a cooperative.

Figures collected in August 2009 found 35,100 people, or ninjas as they are informally known, work in their individual capacity in 101 territories of 57 soums of 18 provinces, extracting gold, coal, fluorspar, tungsten and other mineral resources.