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?"
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you add up the weight of Celtic gold in artefacts thus far found - it had to come from somewhere - has anybody ever worked out the answer to that question - is there a lot more in plain sight? One has to wonder
Sadly the authorities seem very keen to 'forget', 'lose' or 'overlook' our native Celtic artifacts. 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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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!
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 RU-vid 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!
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 :(
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
So many self righteous comments about mining gold sent by people on their plastic computers derived from oil that are run by computer chips that require gold to work.
"...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.
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.
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.
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
@@borisjohnson1944 Unitied Kingdom is short for Unitied Kingdom of Great Britiain and Northern Ireland. Look.....I've better things to be doing with my day than arguing with some idiot that quotes wiki the fake encyclopedia and who's named they're youtube profile after the greatest buffoon ever to hold the office of British PM. Goodbye
+theskip1 Blame something else. Very grown up. Don't you check what you're going to post? Sensible people do because spell checks have this annoying habit of being wrong, frequently. Just saying.
William Shakespeare spelt his surname in about fourteen different ways, because English spelling had not been standardised at that time. So the first comment is technically correct, although not necessarily today’s standard spelling. Even 'Shakspere' would have been acceptable. You could have focused on the lack of punctuation and capital letters, but bear in mind the fact that the poster might not be a native speaker of English. Criticism is out-of-order in that context.
Dig a giant fucking hole in Ireland and somehow what comes out is "British" gold. Great series, however. Now, give back the gold, and the land you took it from.
The field's south of Dublin and in the Sperrins, are becoming commercially viable, and the "City" has quietly been acquiring the land, as and when they can. !!!
So for a bit of gold, a substance that's lying around uselessly in many vaults all over the planet, people actually want to completely destroy a landscape that has grown over thousands of years, with trees and meadows and hillsides? It's a bloody shame.
+IMAKE The value of gold and diamonds are what people think it should be. Who cares how many circuit boards one can make when we have starving people on the planet? Bread and water, those should be valued. Farmers don't get enough credit for feeding the planet, yet it is the gold and diamond companies rolling in the cash just to make sure someone gets that jewelry.
Discovering minerals and all the other things humans have discovered, is how we have advanced as a species. Without all these discoveries we would still be living in caves. Everything around you, all the things you use in your daily life, are all due to the discoveries and advancements of humans. The next time you put your heating on in winter, or turn your tap on for a nice warm bath, or the next time you type away on your device, complaining, just think that they are all thanks to the discoveries humans have made. You can't have it both ways, we either use the things we have discovered, to make our lives easier, or we go back to living in caves.
Lol, if you want to find a lot of gold, follow the trail the islands made. According to the theory presented, there should be enough on the ocean floor between America and Great Brittain.
