Photography credits
The photographs on this site are used under Creative Commons and public-domain licences via Wikimedia Commons, colour-graded to our house style. We are grateful to every photographer listed below. Images will progressively be replaced by our own field photography.
| Source file (Wikimedia Commons) | Photographer | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Gold nugget (Australia) 4 (16848647509).jpg | James St. John | CC BY 2.0 |
| Diamonds - cubic & octahedral - Africa (8457822945).jpg | James St. John | CC BY 2.0 |
| Gold panning on Jack Wade Creek (24785190007).jpg | BLM Alaska | Public domain |
| Freetown-aerialview.jpg | David Hond | CC BY 2.0 |
| Gold bullion bars.jpg | Stevebidmead | CC0 |
| Beach in Freetown, Sierra Leone (14176784751).jpg | Erik Cleves Kristensen | CC BY 2.0 |
| HANDSHAKE 2016-07-18 (28351919246).jpg | EU2016 SK | CC0 |
| Legal Contract & Signature - Warm Tones.jpg | Blogtrepreneur | CC BY 2.0 |
| Cascades de Banfora.jpg | Carrara Guido - And family | CC BY 2.0 |
| Monument aux héros nationaux - Ouagadougou - 2024 (2).jpg | The black photographer | CC0 |
| Plateau Abidjan de nuit.jpg | abdallahh | CC BY 2.0 |
| Basilique notre Dame de la Paix de Yamoussoukro 9.jpg | Didierwiki | CC0 |
| Shipping Container Sangar (51071215507).jpg | Nick / from United Kingdom | CC BY 2.0 |
| Warehouse filled with stacked pallets showcasing efficient space usage during daytime operations.jpg | Shixart1985 | CC BY 2.0 |
| Africa from low orbiting satellite Suomi NPP.jpg | NASA/NOAA | Public domain |
| Niger River.jpg | Robin Taylor from Bamako, Mali | CC BY 2.0 |
| Toll 737 aircraft (11201124624).jpg | Toll Group | CC BY 2.0 |
| Container Crane Mainz Port III.jpg | Ingolfson | Public domain |
| Freetownstreet.jpg | No machine-readable author provided. Aranae assu | Public domain |
| Clock at Zhengzhou East Railway Station.jpg | Henrysz | CC BY 4.0 |
| Orapa Diamond Mine, Botswana (ASTER).jpg | NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Jap | Public domain |
| Safe deposit boxes in Japan 2024-12-19.jpg | Asanagi | CC0 |
| Bank vault at a Goodwill - February 2022 - Sarah Stierch.jpg | Missvain | CC BY 4.0 |
| Close-up of a test tube rack in front of a chemistry book with microscope in a blurry background.jpg | Shixart1985 | CC BY 2.0 |
| Gold vein stockwork in limonite (Gold Flake Vein, Farncomb Hill, near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA) 7 (17079533955).jpg | James St. John | CC BY 2.0 |
| Wooden gold sluice in California between 1890 and 1915..jpg | The original uploader was Lordkinbote at English | Public domain |
| Camp Chesterfield general account ledger, 1910-1916 - DPLA - 206e8c73ecb9419118717c75562a2497 (page 173).jpg | unknown | Public domain |
| Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building - Entrance (48126532156).jpg | Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA | CC BY 2.0 |
| Independence arch at sunset 2.jpg | Kwameghana(Bright Kwame Ayisi) | CC0 |
| Brooklyn Museum 74.218.23 Gold Weight.jpg | Unknown authorUnknown author | CC BY 3.0 |
| Conakry-Sur le débarcadère.jpg | Unknown authorUnknown author | Public domain |
| Village Foulah-Fouta-Djallon (Guinée) (cropped).jpg | Unknown authorUnknown author | Public domain |
| Lifting a gold bar Bank of England Museum 2024-08-30.jpg | Matt Brown | CC BY 2.0 |
| Front View of Melting Furnace, Showing Crucible, Dipping Cup, Stirrer, Tongs, Ingot Molds, Metal Bars, Etc. - NARA - 296574.jpg | Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided | Public domain |
| Scales, chemists (AM 1966.212-9).jpg | unknown | CC BY 4.0 |
| Monrovia, Liberia - panoramio (91).jpg | blk24ga | CC BY 3.0 |
| Monrovia, Liberia - panoramio (17).jpg | blk24ga | CC BY 3.0 |
| Bamako 037.jpg | Arensond | Public domain |
| Grand Mosque and Market, Djenne (6863488).jpg | upyernoz from Haverford, USA | CC BY 2.0 |
| Stacks of Coins.jpg | Kevin Schneider | CC0 |
| Sundstrand Adding Machine - Northeast States Civilian Conservation Corps Museum - Shenipsit State Forest - Stafford Springs, Connecticut - DSC04298.jpg | Daderot | Public domain |
| Eid al-Adha counterfeit money detection machines at haats 2023-06-27 (PID-0015160).jpg | Press Information Department | Public domain |
| Pyrite (Fools Gold).jpg | pnjunction2007 from SENDAY/MIYAGI/JAPAN, Japan | CC BY 2.0 |
| Bunce Island tree.jpg | Pierre Chrzanowski | CC0 |
| Alluvial diamond miner Sierra Leone 2005.jpg | Laura Lartigue | Public domain |
| African Renaissance Monument Dakar 2025.jpg | Gromane | CC0 |
| Gorée 2024 - coucher de soleil sur Dakar - 25.jpg | Fawaz.tairou | CC BY 4.0 |
| Key-182922.jpg | Hans | CC0 |
| Reval 1855-02-09 church letter wax seal (cropped).jpg | Postal authorities of the Russian Empire (Estoni | Public domain |
CC BY licence texts: 2.0 · 3.0 · 4.0. Files can be located on commons.wikimedia.org by the names above. Modifications: crop, resize and colour grading.