Men digging for gold in a pit in the Ituri forest of Congo.

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Security Guards are armed to watch over men digging for gold in a pit. Quarantesept and Cinqante are gold mining towns just outside the Ituri forest reserve in DR Congo

Copyright: RANDY OLSON
Image Size: 7008x4672 / 93.7MB
Keywords: africa, concepts (subject), congolese people, destruction of woodlands, disasters, environmental damage, gold industry and production, guns, industry and production, ituri forest, laborers, man and nature (concept), national peoples, peoples, rifles and shotguns, subject, weapons, zaire
Contained in galleries: Ituri Forest Pygmy_National Geographic Magazine 9/2005

Randy Olson, Melissa Farlow Photography