Outback Opal Hunters

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

REPETITIVE to a degree that is ANNOYING even half-way through the first season and it gets worse every season. At the start of each episode ( which is 44 minutes long before all the garbage is added ), 5 minutes wasted on what we saw last episode....5 minutes wasted at the end telling us what we're going to see and ON AND ON throughout the endlessly boring episodes we hear the same stuff about how rare they are, how dangerous it is...., how they are made ...how the people who search for them are special ( hint...if you want to see THOUSANDS of people just like these go to Vegas....gamblers are a dime a dozen.) Occasionally they find something worthwhile but mostly there is a huge musical clue that something 'exciting' is going to happen and it isn't very exciting. This series would best be used as a university class on how to take an interesting subject and BEAT IT TO DEATH. Horrible waste of time.

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.

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

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