Gold Mining in Congo (1920-1929)

Map, Atlantic Ocean, Africa, Congo coast.

Gold prospector with blacks moves in the jungle.

Washing gold-bearing sand in the river manually.

Installation of a mechanical dredge.

Blacks wash pieces of rock, break stones, sift through a sieve, pour into trays.

Mechanical process of washing sand.

Laboratory, sand is melted in a furnace, smelting gold bars.

Development of gold-bearing layers, blacks work, a white man watches them.

The rock is loaded into a trolley on a cable car.

Sand filtration.

Melting gold sand in a furnace, hot metal is poured into molds, gold bars.

Villa where the planter's family lives