Apathy towards exploiting our mineral wealth baffling

Engineers at Australian firm Base Titanium's mining fields in Kwale County. The capital intensive nature of the industry has locked out many local firms. [File, Standard]

Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics shows that mineral and quarrying contributed only 0.7 per cent to our Gross Domestic Product last year. 

It seems the country has given up on mineral exploration and exploitation. Do you know anyone whose job description is a miner, beyond bitcoins?