Foreword
Riikka Puttonnen
Notes on Contributors
Acronyms
List of Figures and Images
List of Tables
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. The New Eldorado: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Global Scarcity of Metals and Minerals
Yuliya Zabyelina and Daan van Uhm
Chapter 2. Why Organized Crime Seeks New Criminal Marnests
Jay S. Albanese
Chapter 3. The Queer Ladder of Social Mobility: Illegal Enterprise in the Anthracite Mining Region of Pennsylvania in the Interwar Decades (1917-1945)
Robert Schmidt
Part II. Organized Crime in the Mining Sector
Chapter 4. Links Between Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Organized Crime in Latin America and Africa
Livia Wagner and Marcena Hunter
Chapter 5. The Diversification of Organized Crime into Gold Mining: Domination, Crime Convergence, and Ecocide in Darién, Colombia
Daan van Uhm
Chapter 6. Where the Metal Meets the Flesh: Organized Crime, Violence, and the Illicit Iron Ore Economy in Mexico's Michoacán State
Fausto Carbajal-Glass
Chapter 7. Diamond Mining, Organized Crime and Corruption
Dina Siegel
Chapter 8. Warlords and Their Black Holes: The Plunder of Mining Regions in Afghanistan and the Central African Republic by Organized Crime
Kimberley L. Thachuk
Part III. Organized Crime and Informal Mining
Chapter 9. Shadow Deals in the "Sunny Stone" Organized Crime and Informality in the Illicit Extraction and Trade of Amber in Ukraine
Yuliya Zabyelina and Nicole Kalczynski
Chapter 10. Between Informality and Organized Crime: Criminalization of Small-Scale Mining in the Peruvian Rainforest
Eva Bernet Kempers
Chapter 11. When Gold Speaks, Every Tongue is Silent: The Thin Line between Legal, Illegal, and Informal in Peru's Gold Supply Chain
Naomi van der Valk, Lieselot Bisschop and René van Swaaningen
Chapter 12.
