Do you remember the famous scene from the film with Charlie Chaplin? He there "danced" on the table with a couple of rolls? These are the frames of the comedy Gold Rush. Attacks spontaneous and amassing gold mining covered America more than once. Klondike and Alaska, California were places of pilgrimage for thousands of miners eager for easy prey. It was not at all funny and not funny: people died from hunger and disease, from hard work, from the hands of greedy rivals. But in the series "Gold Rush. Alaska gold is mined already by modern methods and civilized way. This documentary project of Discovery Channel is interesting already because viewers from within observe the process of gold mining, see all the difficulties faced by the characters of the project, empathize with them. And, of course, they are happy if the seekers succeed in their plans.
When the technique fails
Our miners have enough zamorochek. Here, for example, "Gold rush. Alaska ", season 3. The Todd Hoffman team, working on the Klondike, set itself the goal of obtaining 30 kg of gold over the summer (the cost of this amount is estimated, by the way, at 1 million 600 thousand dollars). In winter, he ordered a new washing installation. But the deal broke down, and the miners had to work on the old one. When the cost of mining is 4 thousand dollars a day, you need to protect every grain, but the trap does not hold up gold, and the losses are enormous. In the third season of the series "Gold Rush. Alaska "series tells the story of Todd's new problem: it turns out that the site on the Indian River does not belong to them, but to a completely different person, but it was on this land that a gold-bearing vein was found. Without it, it's no use to 10 rented cars and hired personnel. To the great relief of Hoffman, the owner makes concessions. The head of this site - Todd's assistant Dave Tyurin - is in a hurry to collect new equipment worth 50 thousand dollars. And here are all 50 sections in their places. It remains to try out an expensive car. Something goes wrong, the flushing unit vibrates and is about to collapse. The brigade strengthens the strapping of the structure. "The beast is tamed," Dave states. You can move on.
Another participant of the documentary project "Gold Rush. Alaska "- Fredu - because of the flood had to temporarily leave the old site. In a new place it is necessary tight, and more workers are needed. One of the candidates is a woman, a rider at the rodeo of Melody. Despite her fragility, she deftly manages the mechanisms. When the installation shaft breaks down, everyone rushes to eliminate the accident. Once again, the engine starts, and if they made at least one mistake, then 4 tons of steel will crush the fruits of their labor. But it turned out. Fears are in vain. "One more small step to the goal is accomplished," smiles the gray-haired Fred.
Not so terrible devil ...
The youngest hero of the program "Gold Rush. Alaska "(he is not even 18) - Patrick Schneibel. He borrowed from his grandfather 150 thousand dollars for the development of the mine. For the season, its production should be 9 kg of gold with a weekly rate of 620 g. However, things go wrong: the breed is empty. What was the joy of Patrick and his team when, at the end of the week, they discovered that the trap was all yellow from the grains of washed gold! As much as 778 grams (in monetary terms it is 40 thousand dollars). Then, as for the whole second season, his "catch" was 1 kg and 100 g. So I want to say: "It's not so terrible devil as he is painted"! Difficult conditions of the north, frozen ground, deep snowdrifts, heavy equipment, lack of human resources - through all this pass the participants of the series "Gold Rush. Alaska, "but they do not drop their hands. They are wrestlers, no worse than the courageous heroes of Jack London, on whom they are separated for more than a hundred years.