I have not done either of these jobs, but I agree. OH! The bridge is creaking when we drive over it! OH! When they tried to cross the river with ATV’s I changed channels and never went back. Drama Queens.
Check out the chart at the link below for gold value/prices for the past 210 years.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-historical-price-of-gold.htm
The thing that makes me laugh is the fact that no one posted the obvious: That they are mining Discovery Channel for gold. Does everyone think that the camneras are just there documenting this “great adventure”? Whether they actually find gold (and I have feeling they’ll hit a “planted” pocket of gold in some dramatic fashion right before they starve and die the night before the first snow falls and they can’t work again until next season), is immaterial, this is fiction....fantasy.
One more thing: this show is proof that the MSM thinks we are idiots.
All that said, I am a huge fan of placer gold mining. I wish they’d play “real” educational documentaries on that. Now THAT I’d watch.