Outback Opal Hunters

I like the premise of this show. Are the opal finds staged...? I think probably. I have a hard enough time understanding Australian English. The most horrible music overplays the dialog...thus I give 5* out of 10. Lose the music and this would improve the show. However that will never happen with immature direction. This is what happens when you let children run the show.....

Interesting subject, but way too americanized and overdramatic show. Ridiculous narrator and music, who tries to make everything sound dramatic as F.

Sad to see all these people spend their life doing ...nothing.

Although they produce quite a lot of blood (sometimes), sweat (buckets) and tears (at the end of the day) most of them never get any richer, either physically, metaphorically, intellectually or morally.

Unfortunately an image of scurrying rodents comes to mind when I see them digging in the dirt, breaking every Little Rock into even smaller pieces. Makes you wonder how many of these people commit suicide, become alcoholics or get addicted to drugs.

Like with all similar setups, the real money is made by the dealers and buyers of the Opal, who pay the diggers a pittance and sell the stuff for a fortune. Having lived in Sierra Leone almost thirty years ago and having seen what so-called 'blood diamond' does to a society I am truly appalled by this series.

This programe is a small clipse into the lives of people effected by the bug of opal-fever of colour and the potential to get rich quick, as the episodes suggest! But in-the-end, when these people are doing is very dangerous, not too mention the posibility of being robbed for their opal. Note that individual miners will invent there own terminologies to desbribe what they are doing in the process of opal mining. And yes it would appear that the producers are trying to create an atmosphere of dangerous urgency or desperate need to survive either from the mining or life-style. Though Its shows people what takes to mine and in this case aussie opal and practicality of what is needed and science uised but little geologist help not used in the episodes I watched in season 1. Still a great watch if you are like me ans wish you could mine for opal but know that will never happen! DJ

Cool to see real life treasure hunters doing there thing love the young guys giving it a go.