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Between the Plough and the Pick

  • First Page
  • Preliminary pages
  • List of figures and tables
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Notes on contributors
  • 1. Reframing the debate on informal mining
  • Section One: Historical antecedents and value‑making
  • 2. Artisanal gold-rush mining and frontier democracy: Juxtaposing experiences in America, Australia, Africa and Asia
  • 3. Tanzanite: Commodity fiction or commodity nightmare?
  • 4. Agrarian distress and gemstone mining in India: The political economy of survival
  • 5. The social ecology of artisanal mining: Between romanticisation and anathema
  • Section Two: Precarious and gendered labour
  • 6. Theorising transit labour in informal mineral extraction processes
  • 7. A good business or a risky business: Health, safety and quality of life for women small-scale miners in PNG
  • 8. Rice, sapphires and cattle: Work lives of women artisanal and small-scale miners in Madagascar
  • 9. Is it possible to integrate health and safety risk management into mechanised gold processing? A methodology for artisanal and small-scale mining communities in the Philippines
  • 10. Resources and resourcefulness: Gender, human rights and resilience in artisanal mining towns of eastern Congo
  • Section Three: Conflicts and governance
  • 11. Historical trajectory of gold-mining in the Nilgiri–Wayanad region of India
  • 12. Conflicts in marginal locations: Small-scale gold-mining in the Amazon
  • 13. Small-scale gold-mining: Opportunities and risks in post-conflict Colombia
  • 14. Muddy rivers and toxic flows: Risks and impacts of artisanal gold-mining in the riverine catchments of Bombana, Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia)
  • 15. Artisanal and small-scale mining governance: The ‘emerging issue’ of ‘unregulated mining’ in Lao PDR
  • 16. Reassembling informal gold‑mining for development and sustainability? Opportunities and limits to formalisation in India, Indonesia and Laos
  • Postscript
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Between the Plough and the Pick

List of figures and tables

Figure 2.1: Trends in the gold price since 1960

Figure 2.2: International gold prices, 1850–1960

Figure 9.1: The risk management process

Figure 11.1: Excludability and rivalry principles of property rights

Table 11.1: Multiple characteristics of ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ mining

Figure 11.2: The study region

Table 11.2: Institutions of gold-mining over the past two centuries

Figure 14.1: Location of study area and sampling sites

Table 14.1: Concentrations of airborne mercury in the Kasetahi and Langkowala catchments, Bombana District, South East Sulawesi

Figure 14.2: Concentrations of total mercury in stream waters of the Kasetahi and Langkowala rivers

Figure 14.3: Concentrations of total mercury in the bed sediments of the Kasetahi and Langkowala Rivers

Figure 14.4: Concentrations of suspended sediment in waters of the Kasetahi and Langkowala rivers


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