Birth of Britain 3of3 Gold Rush

[@edwardlulofs444]

As a physicist with a degree in dendritic structures my opinion is it isn't speed of formation. The ice forms tree shapes by diffusion limited aggregation. As the fluid allows solidification of the silicates and a small amount of gold, there is plenty of silicates but not enough gold to form 3 dimensional shapes. The dendritic gold forms with a dimension of between one and three. The surrounding rock fills in the spaces where there's not enough gold to make chunks of gold. These processes are compounded with the dendritic structure of fractures in the rocks.

[@andrewshields5322]

Well now that I know that I'll just go and knock some up in my shed

[@cowboygeologist7772]

Retired Geologist here. This series was so fascinating to watch. Thank you for taking us on this journey.

[@luluadapa5222]

Can I ask for your professional opinion please? Early in the documentary, Tony said that the gold was ejected into our solar system as a result of a star similar to our Sun "dying". Does this mean that our sun contains a lot of gold? Was it our sun having a change of output? Or was he alluding to the big bang "theory"? Many thanks in anticipation.

[@cdfdesantis699]

Watched all 3 episodes - fascinating! Sir Tony Robinson is such a terrific presenter.

[@edwardashton7502]

that is until he starts to spout his left wing views, that's when I turn over to another channel. I can never understand why the majority of Stage, Film and TV presenters and actors support the left wing elements of our society, yet live the life of a capatilist, Sean Connery was a perfect example, he stated that if Scotland became independant he would return Scotland, why wait until then, did he not like paying taxes like the rest of us.

[@cdfdesantis699]

@@edwardashton7502 Well, friend, I'm not interested in his politics, just his presentation.

[@jbelme1]

The “squeeze box” demonstration was great.

[@falconfeathers9454]

Bull doze 60 tons of rock for a gold wedding ring? As far as I am concerned, that is pointless destruction of land. I absolutely agree with you, Dhindara. I have loved stone, minerals, and collecting my entire life and belong to 3 different Gem and Mineral clubs. But I was also a science teacher and abhor the destruction especially when 60 tons of rock and massive destruction of the landscape results in enough gold for one wedding ring. Insane pointless greed.

[@steveburton5825]

I'm glad you aren't a teacher anymore. You don't understand the very basics of an economy which creates wealth, jobs, and feeds people. The very house you live in, the computer you type on and the roads you drive on are all created by smashing up tons of rock and transforming it into useful items. In your fairy world, we'd all be gathering nuts and berries but as the planet couldn't support the 7 Billion people we have today in that fashion, more than 7/8ths of us would die of starvation. Grow a brain.

[@richardpope3063]

That's right there is no end to exploitation.

[@panzerabwerkanone]

Gold is a mineral. You've been collecting all your life and don't realize the very methods for retrieving gold are the very same ones that brought you the other minerals in your collection, and built your house, and the city you live in, and the car you drive, and the electricity you use?

[@eviehanlon1445]

Totally agree. There's more easily accessible gold elsewhere, but 60 tons of rock for one piddly little ring? I thought the British were slightly brighter than that. I thought they only did that to the countries they colonised.

[@Headwind-1]

@@eviehanlon1445 yea we is all stupid now . .

[@annoyed707]

He should do a tour across Canada. The series could be twenty episodes long.

[@stewcountrysongsstew4980]

Lol..20 episodes per each episode he has finished in Britain

[@fenian_bastard]

It's not about Canada not every thing is haha

[@juliaperry2812]

Its what UK did with all that geology history, ie the industrial revolution started in the UK

[@axiom666]

Wonderful, watched all three, hats off to Tony Robinson. Thank you.

[@erikmardiste]

Thanks Tony you managed to answer one major question ove always had about heavy minerals

[@longrider42]

Great series. I've watched all three parts. Very enjoyable. Thank you Baldrick :) Such a Cunning Plan!

[@readmycomment3157]

Watching these Tony Robinson documentaries is like listening to your dad tell you a story

[@jimdille6015]

Excellent series ... thanks for posting. Love Sir Tony and his red 'Rover!

[@RWBHere]

Death-rattling stinky diesel.

[@bretnielsen5502]

Thank you for posting from the far side of the pond!!!!

[@jaymac7203]

Ive loved Tony Robinsons presenting style ever since Time Team 😊 I used to watch that show religiously 😍 lol

[@LadyDewinter]

Thank you from the USA for this fascinating series!

[@wp5302]

Great series. Amazing that the Freelander kept going fault free

[@billgrey8790]

my thanks once again to Reijer Zaaijer for uploading another of tonys briiliant series..

[@SunbeaMike]

So good that Tony can offer factual information on an nonpolitical scientific subject. Pity about some of the comments that are only interested in making every issue political.

[@blobrana8515]

The collision of two neutron stars is now thought to produce most of the gold. That elemtal gold contaminated the dust cloud that went on to form the solar system.

[@johncooper4637]

I had no idea that the British Isles had volcanoes or gold. Thanks for a very informative series.

[@Galaxyofbrian]

It only ends up buried again at around the same level it was dug from, only in a vault.

[@primus7776]

Fabulous documentary. Thank You, Mr Robinson.

[@bevanpope7924]

Primus 777 Sir Robinson. 😉

[@kiwi6037]

Terrific series, many thanks from New Zealand.

[@H4WK6969]

Gold Always believe in your soul You've got the power to know You're indestructible

[@reneeverlaan3056]

sing it!!!!

[@Tishers]

Britain's true treasures are in its people and the culture that spread across the world to Australia and North America. While we may sometimes disagree with our older cousins back on the island we still recognize the origins of our heritage. Greetings from the United States.

[@ScoriacTears]

And You Tisha Hayes, are a diamond for saying so x.

[@acehighjohn1759]

Cash Converters wont pay for people or culture. Gold wins.

[@richardwalkden6349]

Well said. As we get older and maybe wiser it’s our people that are the real value in our lives.

[@kivie13]

I believe the correct modern term for saying "greetings" in British to British peoples is "Allah Akbar".

[@kivie13]

@Des M. Its 2019 for crying out loud. What are ya, a racist Islamophobe or something? Get with the times and a very very Allah Ackbar to you.

[@brianfreeman8290]

I did find some in a West Wales river some years ago. In was insubstantial, just flecks, but thrilling.

[@5dinsdale]

Thanks once again for posting these series!!!!!!!! Tony is BRILLIANT!

[@curtisclary9911]

No he's not, nor are the researchers that write his lines. They have gotten a lot wrong.

[@andrewmunz1639]

@@curtisclary9911 i must agree

[@balalaika7088]

ok as a maintance guy that works in a rock pit seeing that demo was super cool with the layers and how they form

[@lordthomastravis1617]

Its humbling really one could say!, provided a perspective of "TIME" ! Which reminds us of just how short a time a humans lifetime is in the measure of actual time!! Our 'earth!' , our world!, our planet! Ever fluid! Moving faster than a bullet from a gun, many times over!!!! Being held by invisible forces so great yet unfelt by its " passenger's!" Is itself only seen through strata's laid down over eon's of years!! Like fluid it moves silently on! Until tectonic plates slip and disapation of pressure!, creating variety of different pressure variable's thus the level of heavy elements traveling through strata's which eroded by hydrology ! Then quartz veins form trapping heavier deposits

[@PibrochPonder]

@@lordthomastravis1617 yea it’s pretty crazy

[@chiggsytube]

Tony knew all about how gold was mined. He did it in Worst Jobs- The Romans.

[@PibrochPonder]

Good episode that 😉

[@clairekos9197]

Great show, thank you. 🙂

[@mikewilliams4438]

A pity I couldn't download the previous two episodes coz I enjoyed that effort of Sir Tony.

[@GenerationJonesi]

Really enjoyed this series. Thank you for posting! :)

[@corinneyoung4932]

This has been extremely interesting ,I didn’t want to turn it off, right from the beginning of the volcanos to the forming of glaciers and now about England being joined with other continents and to fools gold which I had some for me when I was a very young girl.

[@lyndajordan6479]

Thank you once again for this very interesting and informative video about our country.

[@JohnBrown-cz7ww]

Love the show, I can tell he dont fish much he he.

[@stanlindert6332]

Gold is an awesome conductor, makes great guitar cables.

[@MrBoreray]

Silver is better and cheaper and more abundant.

[@superjeffstanton]

@@MrBoreray not better

[@davecrowley4168]

@@superjeffstanton Yep, better, in fact Silver is the best conductor. But it also corrodes, which Gold doesn't, so is used for electronic circuits.

[@Headwind-1]

@@davecrowley4168 is gold magnetic?

[@nickychimes4719]

He really did have a devilishly cunning plan...

[@jeffreykroll1170]

So in the UK. If you have anything valuable on your property the government takes it or finds a reason to steal it from you???

[@suecastillo4056]

Jeffrey Kroll same in the USA... they take your property to put freeways through. If they want it? They take it...

[@steveamsden5250]

Welcome to salvery 2020

[@Kid_Kootenay]

Teach a man to fish and, teach a man to fish, teach a man to, Ahhh hell just make him a knight so he doesn't have to fish. 😂 😂 😂 Poor Tony I've watched him for years and his fishing never got any better 😂

[@emiliosantini9644]

Jewelry made with pure rare IRISH gold and not british gold. You should correct it Tony.

[@radioguy1620]

would be nice if they brought some real good lighting with them under ground

[@jesikebiking]

Thank you Tony for a great 3 part series,I really enjoyed it 🙂

[@louisgandy4139]

Used to go climbing around the Hope's nose area in my late teens, guess I pulled up on some million dollar pockets and never knew! Saw the the dendritic gold at the Natural History Museum a couple of years ago, beautiful. Great show, thanks

[@philhellene100]

And, if humans could get at most of the gold, it's value would fall so much so that sand would probably be worth more.

[@robertevans8010]

The Celts were Mining gold in Dolcauthi and the surrounding area for at least a thousand years before the Romans arrived, there is Gold from this area found afar as the Caucasus and is now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg in the forms of Greek Jewelry from 800 BC . That is why the Romans knew where the Gold was! The Greeks and Etruscans had already been to West Wales.

[@gaz8891]

Interesting. I knew that Britain was at the end of some long-distance inter-continental trade routes during the Bronze Ages. Gold and tin from these isles supplied the European Bronze Ages. The Thames would have been very busy.

[@gaz8891]

But I'm not sure about saying that the Greeks and Etruscans had been to West Wales. From what I've read, it seems that the celtic culture of Bronze Age northern Europe was much more advanced, widespread and inter-connected than we think. So evidence of ancient 'Greek' culture in Britain is simply evidence of the western wing of this advanced pan-European celtic culture, which is called the 'Wessex Culture' in southern Britain and in the rest of Europe is called the 'Beaker People' or else the Indo-Europeans or the 'ancient Greeks.' (See the book "Baltic Origins of Homers Epic Tales).

[@timothyconover9805]

Never mind the gold; let's talk about that diamond-tooth chainsaw! 🤣

[@calvinhobbes5686]

More Tony, please! We love him! - Howdy from the crumbling USA!

[@areyouavinalaff]

42:41 Blackadder reference. Percy playing alchemist informs Blackadder that he's succeeded in making gold. Blackadder sees that it's green, informs Percy that it's green. Percy now amazed that he's created a nugget of purest green. " bag of purest... grey?"

[@richardpope3063]

Grey matter stimulated hopefully?

[@areyouavinalaff]

what you mean?

[@dr.johnpaladinshow9747]

"No... what you have is ... gray." - Black Adder

[@Captain.Crispy]

“A brooch fashioned in the purest green ” :loved Lord Percy.

[@Arsopu]

That's 300 of those carriages full of rock a day. Mind boggles.

[@patriciatreslove4449]

Thank you for bringing these to us.

[@johankotze42]

A lump of purest Green, Baldrick? :-)

[@thekpowe1]

Come on, pet! Ahhh! I LOVE him!!

[@Janettemay64]

I thought I was the only one that heard that, I thought it was endearing, this obviously is too educational for the women's libbers to be watching or the triggered snowflakes and the moronic would be freaking out... yes gotta love him.

[@bevanpope7924]

Kristin Rivera Tony is Gold isn’t he?😬

[@freefromthematrix7323]

i got my spot :) i honestly thought it was bull and there would be no gold, how wrong i was and there is other places not just wales and scotland in the UK where Gold can be found, i gave panning a go and after alot of patience and scouting spots i actually started finding little bits like he shows in his hand, i not found a chunk just tiny bits and it can be sold too if you get enough and i wish i lived in Austrailia as those KZbin Video's are amazing as they find onzes and gram chunks!! i am also going to start metal detecting to find the gold rings and jewellery people lose too!! might even find a roman hoard? who know's and sitting around not trying will get you nowhere!

[@alihouse2712]

gold in England??? was thinking if it was in west midlands but fat chance! seems either Devon, wales, Scotland or Ireland by the looks of it :( , I like you would love to go gold prospecting/panning but its worthless here as there is more than likely nothing :( was also thinking of metal detecting but apparently you cant on public land as council don't like it aaarrrrhhhh. no precious stones, no gold and now cant metal detect freely :(

[@RWBHere]

Gold has been found in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and in the Humber, the Wash and the North Sea. It's not _that_ scarce, but it's difficult to find enough in one place for it to become s profitable business.

[@alynicholls3230]

alot of the gold found in yorkshire is in the form of electrum(white gold), it has silver and platinum mixed in it, but its there if you pan it, what you want really is a sluice so you can process a lot of silt.

[@gladheateher4now]

Facinating,,,and great show

[@paulusieqamuraaluk7984]

DOUG FERGUSON

[@richardpope3063]

I'm rockin.

[@Pohleece222]

I have enjoyed every show. I only wish they had run on American TV.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

First, the people of 4000 years ago weren't Celts. But the Bell Beaker people did move into Britain 4000+ years ago, and they did work gold. So I'm surprised they started with the Romans 2000 years later.

[@gaz8891]

The Beaker People WERE the celtic people. They were the blue-eyed, blond haired people of northern Europe, that we also understand as the Indo-Europeans. They spoke a proto-indo-celtic language. What we think of as the British 'celts', are the mixed 'gaelic' people, who seem to have resulted from the local celtic people being over-ruled by people who were partially of Mediterranean origin, such as the Ancient British who invaded about 1800BC. That's where the darker skin & hair of some of the Welsh & Irish, as well as the French (Gaul) comes from.

[@jonathanrussell4116]

People have found many beautiful gold torcs and bracelets in Norfolk ,Suffolk .The Iceni tribe etc, etc

[@cozo1]

One things for sure, Tony is no fisherman!

[@cozo1]

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[@hankdenhartigh1465]

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[@richardpope3063]

Is he good at bobbing?

[@ruthmaxwell60]

I’ve thought the same, his sea legs are wobbly. Great series, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching the three videos. 🐢

[@MrMoriarty100]

He's an anti I believe.

[@johnDukemaster]

He gets in the car on its right side, but filming whilst driving, it looks like he's sitting on the lefthand side of the car! ...strange...

[@caahacky]

Driving on the rhs of the road too near the start. Hmm

[@LindaTCornwall]

Because who ever was editing didn't realise the film was flipped. So kind of sucking at their job lol...

[@raylovelace8588]

All done with mirrors!

[@tobiashodson944]

'just as the ancient celts are thought to have done' - I'm with Falcon Feathers

[@mealex303]

He was close to haVing an unfortunate shmelting accident!! LOL

[@1topskyrocket]

This was an interesting video, I think it's more interesting that in all of the British isles that they haven't already discovered all the resources for Gold by now. I guess it just goes to show you, gold is where you find it LOL here on the west coast of the United States we haven't even found but less than 100 of it. Because most of it that was found was the easy stuff in the rivers and creeks. Yet there's still tons of it in the ground if you're willing to take the time to look around. We have laws in place so when you do start digging you're required to repair the ground within reason. If you have to harvest it from someplace in a third world country they don't care how they leave the ground from what I've seen. I'm amazed at how many people don't realize that gold is in their life every single day when they use their cell phones computers regular telephones etc.

[@1topskyrocket]

That's interesting that your statement is almost word for word for when I made a statement on another posting. How interesting

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

Destruction of habitats and landscaping for enough gold for one small wedding ring. Is it worth it?

[@GhostWestern777]

Baldrick knows his gold.

[@annoyed707]

'Filming a documentary' was the cover story part of his cunning plan.

[@richardpope3063]

The 'corncob' we shall return, dripping wet and egad a foreigner! Better get on back to the farm?

[@jonathansturm4163]

Not to mention turnips!

[@arborist35]

When tony gets in his land rover he is sat in a right hand drive but then when he’s driving down road he’s driving a left hand drive!

[@terrymoore861]

Gold... you cannot eat it, drink it or keep warm with it. At an average $247 to extract it, paying $1300 an ounce is insanity. Owners pay vaults to store it back underground... double insanity.

[@TheSuzberry]

You left out the destruction of the environment visually and ecologically.

[@terrymoore861]

@@TheSuzberry And the use of poisons which affect local folk, wildlife and plants!

[@1topskyrocket]

And you can't use your cell phone without it LOL or your television or most of the things that you use that are electronic communications. But I don't see you throwing down your phones or anything else because you're worried about all the plants and animals LOL you guys are n...

[@henarebaker]

Actually you can eat it 🤣

[@QPRTokyo]

I have eaten it.

[@kaynef6637]

There’s still gold in that rock 😂

[@rambler241]

"...it's only when the calcite's dissolved away with strong acid...." Calcite is calcium carbonate - weak acid will dissolve it - vinegar would work fine.

[@Ubique2927]

Gold is almost everywhere. It is just the price to get it that decides when it is mined. There is gold in our soil on our land here in the Philippines. (Black sand about 2 feet below the surface.) But it would cost about $5000 to get $1000 dollars worth out of it even on a big scale.

[@williamarmstrong7199]

The only question is will Tony and the makers of this fantastic series get paid? Someone is making a lot of money out of this.

[@paulhoskin3286]

I loved watching time team especially the romans

[@rockytalkndawoods3057]

I thought the empires gold came from around the empire? 😅 Seems like Britain hasn't really had great mining of actual minerals.

[@yahulwagoni4571]

'Hazel Pritchard' is such a Britty name.

[@suesmith9202]

Amazing. Right, time to get my paning gear out.

[@jamescoughlan8193]

breaks my heart to see beautiful Irish landscape torn to pieces like that. it's wrong to destroy the land like that.

[@angelitabecerra]

I'm glad we can't coat the earth in gold, I'm allergic to the stuff!

[@bremnersghost948]

Learned to pan at Wanlochead, great fun, have a week panning each summer, had our best results around Loch Awe

[@Bonesiethecat]

60 tons of rock to extract enough gold for one wedding band. Surely, they would not do it if it were not profitable, but I struggle to grasp how any profit can be made at all if that statement is accurate.

[@RWBHere]

Most of that sixty tons can be separated, sold for other purposes, and the real waste disposed of quite cheaply, as landfill. The gold, silver, lead, copper, tin, arsenic, iron, maybe even platinum, rhodium, osmium, etc. are what make the remainder of the profit.

[@balalaika7088]

exactly i work in an open pit mine we make more money on lead, silver, copper and other trace metals then we do on gold. we also sell the rock for gravel to a local paving company for super cheap so we dont have to dispose of it or pile the waste rock up. hell we sold 50 tons of rock to a local farm to re gravel there road and equipment yard

[@sharperprospecting6980]

Id dissagree . I fully believe i could (if the royal estate would allow) make a living in the uk prospecting aluvial gold alone.

[@d71mau]

Great Documentary, but spoilt a little by only having head torches in the mines and caves

[@Britonbear]

Kaolin ( China Clay ) is mined in Cornwall using high pressure water jets (monitors I think they call them).

[@HLBear]

While it's great to have that income from a new mine, it's got to be scarring the land in ways you can't repair (including water pollution). I understand it in an economic sense. I hate it in a social and health sense.

[@PibrochPonder]

@16:50 1.5 tons of gold is 53,760 ounces. Currently one ounce of gold is £1,512. So that’s £81,297,216 that the Romans took (stole) from the indigenous population.

[@benediktmorak4409]

nice that the computer remembered everything.and i ahd part 1,2 and 3 one after the other.

[@amrekamara9028]

I absolutely love Tony !

[@sabejreid2072]

Great episode

[@160rpm]

Now I need to eat a layer cake

[@samsmythe937]

Tony, awesome series, thank you! One small criticism...gold is an element, not a mineral. Cheers from Aus, and keep up the good work.

[@yoandrew4886]

Fly fisher, your not, but you can learn. Its fun.

[@getin3949]

I had to laugh, I'm not a fly fisher woman either but he wasn't a good example was he.

[@bevanpope7924]

YoAndrew Good at spelling “you’re” not... but you can learn. 😬

[@PaulBrown-uj5le]

We now know stars don't produce enough energy and pressure to make gold and other heavier metals, it's now thought that neutron stars and their counterparts magnetar's make it possible to reach the higher levels of energy needed to get to gold, platinum, and other heavier metal's.

[@luluadapa5222]

I was trawling comments and you're the first person to mention it! The usual presumptions and theories without any justification. BBC rubbish, just like the Building 7 and Jane Standley debacle. That's too much of my life I'll never get back!

[@mbaker335]

Strange maths here. 15000 troy ounces of gold is 15 million pounds not 150 million. The mine must be at the border of being uneconomic.

[@mrsillywalk]

Here in Ireland we are hoping that is true and they fuck off before they do too much damage! I curse the despoilers with the Banshees to take their souls down to hell!

[@isilder]

In some cases the gold panning is rigged.... and in this case, it WAS rigged.....deerrrrrr

[@ScotlandsGold]

Preach

[@corlyssd]

What I want to know is how did the Romans figure out what they had to do to get what they couldn't see.

[@judithhope8970]

I hope they aren't going to dig up that beautiful little brook, for greed and vanity. Gold isn't really essential for much else, is it? I have really enjoyed these films, thanks Tony.

[@FriedEgg101]

It's become essential in electronics. Of course this depends on your definition of 'essential'. You can't use gold to shelter or stave off hunger, but our way of life would be impossible without it. Its value is no longer wholly speculative.

[@Vancouverama]

Thanks for the upload!

[@anaryl]

Tony deserves Knighthood for historical work.

[@JulianneTure]

He was knighted in 2013.

[@anaryl]

@@JulianneTure Sir Tony deserves his knighthood for his historical work.

[@heenanyou]

Did he do the research, or does he do only the narration?

[@TracyD2]

@@heenanyouI don’t think he was knighted for being a television presenter. He was knighted for other reasons.

[@Cromwellbear333]

You misspelled ' hysterical ' .

[@heenanyou]

"The noble art of fishing" ?

[@prospectorjoe3326]

Many Americans, me being one. Has always thought that the gold rush only happened in California but there are numerous places starting around the 1840s and up that had has there gold rush, like Latin america and few other places I know. Know as far as destroying the land, its up to the mining company to reclaim land, if they don't normally theres a penalty at least in the states. In California there are big large mines that are in operation "Benched " landscapes. I always back fill where I dig however there are areas that are always reclaimed bye mother nature especially in river bed.

[@annoyed707]

Your balls may be big, but your punctuation is incomplete.

[@maracohen5930]

Not any more. Trump just lifted the monetery requirement for mining companies to clean up their messes.

[@SDeww]

"Many Americans, me being one. Has always thought that the gold rush only happened in California " cause americans ar enot well educated, anyoen can tell yopu the gold rush began in ancient times!. americans always think they are so important, they never seen to cover world history , only their own, small history!.

England is the same, the WASP countries prefer ridiculous propaganda to history.

[@Rockhounding-with-Bigfoot]

Colorado was one big, HUGE gold rush. A lot of our cities and towns all started from it.

[@gaz8891]

Great film, but A LOT happened in this country before the meddling Romans arrived. The north European Bronze Age Celtic culture was pretty advanced and had spread to Britain by 2000BC ('Wessex Culture'), followed a few hundred years later by the Ancient British people. Sadly the UK authorities seem very keen to 'forget' or 'lose' our native ancient artefacts. I remember reading about some amazing Ancient British metal shields and other things that had been found in Wales, which just 'happened to get lost' on the way to the museum ... We need to reclaim our pre-Roman past ourselves, if we want to get anywhere.

[@susanfleming2123]

Yes Canada is very varied in climate, geology

[@firewater9465]

But these ceiling scraping beings surely had rainbows that our spectrum could not possibly see.

[@panzerabwerkanone]

I learned so much from these videos. Especially that Tony is a terrible fly caster.