Capital interests: A historical analysis of the transformation of small-scale gold mining in Compostela Valley province, Southern Philippines

Extractive Industries and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 86-95

  Verbrugge, Boris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Artisanal and small scale mining (ASM); Gold mining; Livelihood diversification; Mindanao; Philippines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898917921     PISSN: 2214790X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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