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Global Gold Production Touching Ground: Expansion, Informalization, and Technological Innovation (in English)
Verbrugge, Boris ; Geenen, Sara (Author)
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Palgrave MacMillan
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Global Gold Production Touching Ground: Expansion, Informalization, and Technological Innovation (in English) - Verbrugge, Boris ; Geenen, Sara
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Synopsis "Global Gold Production Touching Ground: Expansion, Informalization, and Technological Innovation (in English)"
In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe. Aside from the expansion of industrial gold mining, many countries have simultaneously witnessed an expansion of labor-intensive and predominantly informal artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Both trends are usually studied in isolation, which contributes to a dominant image of a dual gold mining economy. Counteracting this dominant view, this volume adopts a global perspective, and demonstrates that both industrial gold mining and artisanal and small-scale gold mining are functionally integrated into a global gold production system. It couples an analysis of structural trends in global gold production (expansion, informalization, and technological innovation) to twelve country case studies that detail how global gold production becomes embedded in institutional and ecological structures.