Reassembling informal goldmining for development and
in informal goldmining (Insouvanh 2015). Despite a centrally issued moratorium on new mining concessions, in Laos southern Xekong Province, fieldwork documented mediumscale dredging and sluicing by crossborder Vietnamese (and Lao) backhoe miners on former streamside rice paddy fields. Here, as well, a more mechanised, mediumscale range