PHOTO: Gold Mine In North-East Congo

Organised gold trackers form a chain to make their job easier, passing containers full of mud, which are then washed out.

There is a gold mine near the village of Kobu, 100 km (62 miles) from Bunia in North-Eastern Congo- hard-working men create so-called human chains, to make their job easier as they dig out kilos of mud and gold. They pass shallow containers to one another, and if they are lucky, they will find a nugget of gold.

They pass the containers to one another all the way to the top of the hill, where the mud is washed out, in order to see if anything valuable is hiding in the mud. As the mud is washed out, the container is thrown down, so that it can be filled once again, and sent up, to the top of the African gold mine.