This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory, green criminology, anti-corruption studies, and victimology. It includes contributions that focus on organized crime-related offences, such as drug trafficking and trafficking in persons, extortion, corruption and money laundering and sheds light on the serious environmental harms caused by illegal mining. Based on a wide range of case studies from the Amazon rainforest through the Ukrainian flatlands to the desert-like savanna of Central African Republic and Australia's elevated plateaus, this book offers a unique insight into the illegal mining business and the complex relationship between organized crime, corruption, and ecocide. This is the first book-length publication on illegal extraction, trafficking in mined commodities, and ecocide associated with mining. It will appeal to scholars working on organized crime and green crime, including criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and legal scholars. Practitioners and the general public may welcome this comprehensive and timely publication to contemplate on resource-scarcity, security, and crime in a rapidly changing world. 

1. The New Eldorado: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Global Scarcity of Metals and Minerals, Yuliya Zabyelina and Daan van Uhm

 2. Why Organized Crime Seeks New Criminal Marnests, Jay S. Albanese
3. The Queer Ladder of Social Mobility: Illegal Enterprise in the Anthracite Mining Region of Pennsylvania in the Interwar Decades (1917-1945), Robert Schmidt
4. Links Between Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Organized Crime in Latin America and Africa, Livia Wagner and Marcena Hunter
5.  The Diversification of Organized Crime into Gold Mining: Domination, Crime Convergence, and Ecocide in Darién, Colombia, Daan van Uhm
6. Where the Metal Meets the Flesh: Organized Crime, Violence, and the Illicit Iron Ore Economy in Mexico's Michoacán State, Fausto Carbajal-Glass
7. Diamond Mining, Organized Crime and Corruption, Dina Siegel
 8. Warlords and Their Black Holes: The Plunder of Mining Regions in Afghanistan and the Central African Republicby Organized Crime, Kimberley L. Thachuk
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
10. Between Informality and Organized Crime: Criminalization of Small-Scale Mining in the Peruvian Rainforest, Eva Bernet Kempers
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
12. Migrant Workers, Artisanal Gold Mining, and "More-Than-Human" Sousveillance in South Africa's Closed Gold Mines, Matthew Nesvet
  13. Digging into the Mining Subculture: The Dynamics of Trafficking in Persons in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining of Peru's Madre de Dios, Dolores Corte s-McPherson
14. Crude Oil's Ugly Sister: The Political-Criminal Nexus and Corruption inside Nigeria's Solid Minerals and Mining Sector, Sheelagh Brady
15.Min(d)ing Corruption in International Investment Arbitration, Vasilka Sancin and Domen Tursic
16. All That Glitters: Money Laundering Through Precious Metals and Minerals, Yuliya Zabyelina and Lilla Heins
17. Prevention of Green Crimes in Informal Gold Mining in Peru: Challenges of Translation of Laws into Practice, Johanna Espin
18. Mining as Ecocide: The Case of Adani and the Carmichael Mine in Australia, Olivia Hasler
19. Environment Does Count: Legal Action against Destructive Mining in Australia, Rob White.