Illegal Mining

Chapter 1 The New Eldorado: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Global Scarcity of Metals and Minerals

Chapter 2 Why Organized Crime Seeks New Criminal Markets

Chapter 3 The Queer Ladder of Social Mobility: Illegal Enterprise in the Anthracite Mining Region of Pennsylvania in the Interwar Decades (1917–1945)

Chapter 4 Links Between Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Organized Crime in Latin America and Africa

Chapter 5 The Diversification of Organized Crime into Gold Mining: Domination, Crime Convergence, and Ecocide in Darién, Colombia

Chapter 6 Where the Metal Meets the Flesh: Organized Crime, Violence, and the Illicit Iron Ore Economy in Mexico’s Michoacán State

Chapter 7 Diamond Mining, Organized Crime, and Corruption

Chapter 9 Shadowy Deals with “Sunny Stone”: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Illicit Trade of Amber in Ukraine

Chapter 10 Between Informality and Organized Crime: Criminalization of Small-Scale Mining in the Peruvian Rainforest

Chapter 11 When Gold Speaks, Every Tongue Is Silent: The Thin Line Between Legal, Illegal, and Informal in Peru’s Gold Supply Chain

Chapter 12 Migrant Workers, Artisanal Gold Mining, and “More-Than-Human” Sousveillance in South Africa’s Closed Gold Mines

Chapter 13 Digging into the Mining Subculture: The Dynamics of Trafficking in Persons in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining of Peru’s Madre de Dios

Chapter 14 Crude Oil’s Ugly Sister: The Political-Criminal Nexus and Corruption Inside Nigeria’s Solid Minerals and Mining Sector

Chapter 15 Min(d)ing Corruption in International Investment Arbitration

Chapter 16 All that Glitters: Money Laundering Through Precious Metals and Minerals

Chapter 17 The Prevention of Green Crimes in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Peru: Translating Laws into Practice

Chapter 18 Mining as Ecocide: The Case of Adani and the Carmichael Mine in Australia

Chapter 19 Eco-Justice and Destructive Mining in Australia: Lessons from the New South Wales Land and Environmental Court