Most research on illicit financial flows (IFFs) has focused on illicit outflows from developing countries and the role of non-state actors in generating IFFs. Less attention has been paid to processes and interfaces through which IFFs enter formal value chains-in effect being 'legalized' before...

Bergbau, soziale Konflikte und Umweltkatastrophen - seit den 1990er Jahren erlebt Lateinamerika einen historischen Rohstoffboom. Welche Rolle spielen die Betreiber der Minen in den Abbauregionen? Wie schaffen sie Akzeptanz unter der lokalen Bevölkerung? Und welche politischen Auswirkungen zieht...

In this paper, we study the return on investments in mining for a whole century, starting in the "Golden Age" of resource exploitation in the late nineteenth century. We use a sample of more than 1,000 mining companies, registered on the London Stock Exchange 1869- 1969, but operating on all...

Solidification/stabilization (S/S) is a low-cost and efficient method to enhance the mechanical properties of gold ore tailings (GOTs) and to decontaminate contaminated tailings. However, the traditional cement-based stabilization method has problems of environmental pollution and questionable...

We examine the extent to which two of Africa’s leading gold mining economies, Ghana and Tanzania, have adopted transformative local procurement policies to enhance backward linkages from the minerals sector. We assess the impact that evolving legislation in the gold industry has had on...

We study the origins of entrepreneurship (culture) in the United States. For the analysis we make use of a quasi-natural experiment - the gold rush in the second part of the 19th century. We argue that the presence of gold attracted individuals with entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a...

Even though the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been applauded for several decades, the concept of stakeholder engagement is relatively new to the Ghanaian mining sector. This study investigates the CSR process of an extractive company and examines how stakeholders are...

The California Gold Rush was an unexpected shock of tremendous size that prompted the costly re-allocation of labor to a frontier region. Using newly-collected archival data, this paper presents estimates of nominal and real wages in Gold Rush California. Consistent with a simple dynamic model...

The strategic case for gold revolves around its long history as a store of value. Humans have been drawn to the yellow metal despite its inability to pay a dividend or provide productive output ownership since somebody first discovered it. From an investment perspective, gold has demonstrated an...

While the development of the mining sector continues to be a strategic priority for Kyrgyzstan, local resistance against gold mining exploitation has been on the rise. Since 2010 there has been an upsurge in social protests related to mining activities from local residents who typically have...

Phytoremediation uses green plants for in-situ removal, degradation, and containment of contaminants in soils, surface waters and groundwaters. However, little research has been conducted on the phytoremediation potential of plant species in removing heavy metals in the contaminated soils within...

The paper is a study of the price level and relative price effects of a policy to monetize gold and fix its price at a given future time and at the then prevailing nominal price. Price movements are analyzed both during the transition to the gold standard and during the post-monetization period....

Gold is a long-lasting, durable and thus sustainable metal and asset. However, mining for gold often adversely affects the environment. This study proposes an alternative to mitigate these negative externalities and costs of gold mining. Instead of digging out gold for investment purposes we...

Burkina Faso erlebt seit den 2000er Jahren einen regelrechten Boom im industriellen ebenso wie handwerklichen Bergbausektor. Handwerkliche Goldförderung hat eine lange Tradition in Burkina Faso und bildet die Lebensgrundlage für mindestens eine Million Menschen. Trotz der negativen...

Mongolia’s mining sector, along with its environmental and social costs, have been the subject of prolonged and heated debate. This debate has often cast the country as either a victim of the ‘resource curse’ or guilty of ‘resource nationalism’. In The State, Popular Mobilisation and...

This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom...