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Amateur home movie 1930's
West Africa. Mining. New homes for workers. Mine machinery. Possibly Sierra Leone. What is probably a diamond mine without people in the shot. Internal machinery at a standstill. Men excavating a very wide and deep hole, or excavation. Men pushing wheelbarrows up duckboards. Emptying wheelbarrows into small railway wagons. Wagons pushed by men. White man wearing pith helmet supervises trucks travelling along rope-laid railway. Emptying wagon.

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