The New Gold Rush: Why Australia’s Miners Say This Time Is Different

Allen: In the Australian outback, scrub and red dust stretches as far as the eye can see. It's desolate out here, and it's dry, but beneath the dust, there's a bounty that miners are willing to dig a long way for. How many ounces of gold would be in a typical truck? -So there'd be around 500 grams of gold in a truck. Allen: So we've got a line of trucks slowly making their way out of the pit here. How long does it take to get from the bottom to the top? -Yeah, it's well over an hour. The Kalgoorlie Super Pi ...