AMAZON OBSERVATORY

Barbara Fraser

Beneath The Surface of Illegal Gold Mining in the Amazon

Javier Lizcano
Maria Fernanda Ramirez

Brazilian illegal gold miners resilience in French Guiana: The garimpo as an economic and social system

François-Michel Le Tourneau

Can Amazon Countries Save the Rain Forest?

Diana Roy, Council on Foreign Relations

China in South America. Development consequences for Argentina and Brazil

Leandro Marcelo Bona, Université de Genève
Sergio Martín Páez, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Chinese Mining and Indigenous Resistance in Ecuador

Cintia Quiliconi
Pablo Rodriguez Vasco

Criminal Governance and Productive Enclaves of Illegal Mining in Ecuador

Renato Andres Rivera-Rhon, University of Salamanca
Carlos Emilio Bravo-Grijalva

Digging Into a Toxic Trade: Illegal Mining in Amazon Tri-Border Regions

Juan Diego Cardenas

Digging into the Mining Arc

Bram Ebus

Follow the money: how environmental crime is handled by anti-money laundering systems in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru

Igarape Institute, Igarape Institute

Global mining footprint mapped from high-resolution satellite imagery

Liang Tang
Tim T. Werner

Gold Flows from Venezuela: Supporting due diligence on the production and trade of gold in Venezuela

David Soud Dr
Ian Ralby Dr
Rohini Ralby

Guardians at risk: Confronting corporate abuse in Latin America and the Caribbean

Viviana Krsticevic, Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Human Rights Impacts of Gold Mining in Haiti

OHCHR, OHCHR

Illegal gold miners in French Guinea: a neglected population with poor health

Maylis Douine

Illegal Gold Mining in Peru: A Push Toward Formalization?

Matthew Kleinhenz, Lehigh University

Illegal Mining and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from the Colombian Gold Rush (Spanish Article)

Abadia Luz Karime, Banco de la Republica Colombia

ILLEGAL MINING AND TRAFFICKING IN METALS AND MINERALS

United Nations, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Inventory of data on economic activity and deforestation in the Amazon Basin

Igarape Institute, Igarape Institute

Investigating Rainforest Destruction: Finding Illegal Airstrips With the Help of Machine Learning

Jelter Meers
Kuek Ser Kuang Keng
Hyury Potter

Lessons learned on managing the interface between large-scale and artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Edward Bickham, World Gold Council

Operation mercury: Impacts of national-level armed forces intervention and anticorruption strategy on artisanal gold mining and water quality in the Peruvian Amazon

Evan N. Dethier
Miles R. Silman
Luis E. Fernandez
Jorge Caballero Espejo

Peace and Environmental Protection in Colombia Proposals for Sustainable Rural Development

Lorenzo Morales

Reduced Environmental Enforcement Fueled a Vast Network of Crime in the Amazon

Hyury Potter

Regulación jurídica de la actividad minera y los conflictos sociales en la Comunidad Campesina Virgen del Rosario de Pampania, 2022

Luis Alexander TORRES MENDOZA

Responding to illegal mining and trafficking in metals and minerals : A good guide to good legislative practices

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime

Stolen Amazon: the roots of environmental crime in five countries

Igarape Institute, Igarape Institute

Stolen Amazon: The Roots of Environmental Crime in the Tri-Border Regions

Igarape Institute, InSight Crime

Stolen Amzon: The roots of enviromental crime in the tri-border region

Insight Crime, Igarape institute

Technology and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Illegal Mining in Colombia

Santiago Saavedra, Faculty of Economics

The Companies Accused of Buying Latin America's Gold

Oscar Castilla

“The Situation Will Most Likely Turn Ugly”: Corporate Counter-Insurgency and Sexual Violence at a Canadian-Owned Mine in Guatemala

Simon Granovsky-Larsen

The United States Needs a Shift in Perspective on Mining

Morgan Bazilian, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Simon Lomax, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Tracking Amazon Gold

Charlie Espinosa
Kelsey Beyeler