GOLD RUSH20 Sep 2020 17:42
Has anyone been following this TV Series on the Discovery channel, there has been about 8 series so far, really good watch. The reason I raise it, it’s filmed in Alaska and their mining season is very short due to the weather, At the end of the last series, the main character, PARKER went off to Australia to try and find some land to enable him to mine all year around. This revealed the weather conditions over there, really really hot 40+ degrees, no water for the wash plant and mining by crushing big rocks to almost dust and then passing it all through a huge “shaker” resulting in the heavier gold dropping out. Never seen dust storms like it with flies all over the workers in all sorts of places inc the mouth and ears, not very pleasant. Wales should be like a holiday camp in comparison, thermals, wellies and an umbrella at worst.