Record-Breaking Floods Threaten to Collapse Opal Mines | Outback Opal Hunters

[@lordcezar5072]

Whys nobody talking about how he saved that duck Tom cruise style? Maybe I'm just too high

[@VoxWasHere]

A true hero

[@Mighty_Maihi]

Lol Issa chicken my high brother

[@christianscottsuzuki]

@@Mighty_Maihi yup it’s a chicken lol

[@blam007]

The comment I was looking for

[@dubbzzzzino4189]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@chadlimestall9201]

Drives a truck on top of the dug out mine filling with water than explains how it could collapse at any time.

[@CTW1-u3h]

2020 is a madness 😤 Hope y'all stay safe and well

[@samjames1253]

Love how he saved the chook (Chook means chicken in 'Strayan)

[@Papi--jb1yo]

Back in the 2011 floods the whole field was underwater for months and the town of Lightning Ridge was isolated for about 3 weeks. This flood was just a tiddler by comparison.

[@VPCh.]

I remember Smart Every Day reviewing those mines.

[@ok-iu3vf]

If it were me with that water and a hydraulic water pressure washer I labored the walls for more opal

[@maxbancroft5790]

Check out the weather forcast for this week, another flood is approaching. Miners who's mine was flooded in 2011 should become proactive and cover their shaft entrance with corrigated iron and dump a truck load of dirt on it to keep flood waters out of the mine. Do the same for adjacent mines and test holes to defend your claim.

[@ElisPalace]

I wonder if people who know nothing about mines think that this is what people do when they say they work Fifo or work on the mines. Mines owned by big companies are literally like mini towns. They have swimming pools,pubs,little shops, airstrips, fast food, private bedrooms with cleaners ect ect ect

[@symonrocks9847]

Did anyone else notice several nice colours just lying around after being washed off. My sympathy for all of you but keep your eyes open the rain can expose treasure.

[@australianlife3491]

Wow iv got a place and a mine up there I got to every easter but covid stop us going so haven't seen it for a year, my old man built it about 60 years ago

[@SkypowerwithKarl]

Opal prices went up.

[@randomrangoon5476]

Would sand bagging around the mine shaft have helped? Maybe 5-7 bags high all the way around. One would think it'd make the water divert around with very little run off into the mine. Right?

[@prone1548]

Probably would've, even making those heaps of dirt surround the holes would've helped a great deal, think the problem here was was lack of time

[@Surfman374]

Epic work

[@neekees1730]

thats a lot of record breaking

[@jamesmclaughlinprimitivele4587]

Well, isn't that how opal is formed? Milions of years of intermittent rain?

[@safetyfirstintexas]

Might want to collect that water for use later. Just saying.

[@bourbonfan1]

water is worth more than dehydration

[@MichaelResznekiTrolling4Truth]

That's GeoEngineering for you

[@kooeoo3968]

To bad there isnt any sand around to put up sand bags

[@nathandean1687]

should use some thing like a tanker to store that water. and sell it to those that will need it.

[@BurtW546]

Stay safe

[@kefka1911]

So apparently in Australia they don't require safety protocols like. Mine shafts protected from anything walking into them or structures to keep water out. A simple 3 foot wall would of done the job.

[@gumelini1]

@Mitchell Dalitz we just saw something completely different

[@cheekygirlferret]

Do you know how many thousands of mines there is in the put back? Hundreds of thousands.

[@CjJohnWynn]

Sump pump heaven

[@petergrundy8081]

Where is this NSW

[@byrontatum8161]

Western Australia

[@northerners2828]

Ohh noo 😬

[@bourbonfan1]

it's caved throw big rock in

[@thomaskrawczynski921]

Could of collar around the entrance saved it?

[@bnetolldnataman]

You could build collars but how high do you go?? I guess even a 600 mm collar would’ve saved a few of these mines??

[@tylerfreitas1453]

He said it was a drought all summer 50 degrees Celsius He would have never expected this much water

[@keatoncreates]

cant wait for the other people commenting on this series being like ' its staged, im unfollowing ' >.

[@CindysGems]

On noooo

[@flamingoproductions214]

Gotta be first to the discovery channel

[@rosewhite---]

Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

[@donaldkeal1161]

no

[@pekoplants4073]

the sound effects in this are so cheesy

[@webwater8]

no point talking fix it

[@billmaxlow8179]

You dont understand the nature of the ground. What comes out of mine goes to soup when you add water. To many shafts with interlinking drives to stop them filling up.

[@perryschmidhalterward8749]

Im high

[@littleblitz8239]

Should havwe taken the kinks mout of the hose, better water flow

[@acidrunner]

Clima is wrong^^....😝😝😝

[@cheyennereynoso4116]

Climate change?