Claire Priest
@cpriest.bsky.social
Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of History at Yale University. Interested in property, slavery, credit, capitalism, and financial history.
During Peru research, I learned that illegal gold mining in river beds is an existential threat to indigenous communities throughout the entire Amazon Basin. Seed money is given by narcotraffickers who launder the gold and have upper hand over state officials. Scary. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/w...
The Amazon’s Largest Isolated Tribe Is Dying (Published 2023)
Illegal mines have fueled a humanitarian crisis for the Yanomami Indigenous group. Brazil’s new president is trying to fight back.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
During Peru research, I learned that illegal gold mining in river beds is an existential threat to indigenous communities throughout the entire Amazon Basin. Seed money is given by narcotraffickers who launder the gold and have upper hand over state officials. Scary. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/w...
The soaring price of gold ($2700 an ounce) has led to a global illegal gold rush with massive human and environmental impacts. Here: a mind-boggling rescue of 200+ illegal gold miners who the S. African government put under siege to evict them from an inactive mine. www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months—Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was horrific.
www.wsj.com
January 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The soaring price of gold ($2700 an ounce) has led to a global illegal gold rush with massive human and environmental impacts. Here: a mind-boggling rescue of 200+ illegal gold miners who the S. African government put under siege to evict them from an inactive mine. www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...