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

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  • @lordcezar5072
    @lordcezar5072 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

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

    • @VoxWasHere
      @VoxWasHere 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      A true hero

    • @Mighty_Maihi
      @Mighty_Maihi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Lol Issa chicken my high brother

    • @christianscottsuzuki
      @christianscottsuzuki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Mighty_Maihi yup it’s a chicken lol

    • @blam007
      @blam007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The comment I was looking for

    • @dubbzzzzino4189
      @dubbzzzzino4189 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

  • @chadlimestall9201
    @chadlimestall9201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

  • @CTW1-u3h
    @CTW1-u3h 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

  • @samjames1253
    @samjames1253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

  • @VPCh.
    @VPCh. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I remember Smart Every Day reviewing those mines.

  • @Papi--jb1yo
    @Papi--jb1yo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @maxbancroft5790
    @maxbancroft5790 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @ok-iu3vf
    @ok-iu3vf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @australianlife3491
    @australianlife3491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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

  • @ElisPalace
    @ElisPalace 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @Surfman374
    @Surfman374 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Epic work

  • @randomrangoon5476
    @randomrangoon5476 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    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
      @prone1548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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

  • @symonrocks9847
    @symonrocks9847 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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.

  • @SkypowerwithKarl
    @SkypowerwithKarl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Opal prices went up.

  • @jamesmclaughlinprimitivele4587
    @jamesmclaughlinprimitivele4587 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @neekees1730
    @neekees1730 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    thats a lot of record breaking

  • @bourbonfan1
    @bourbonfan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    water is worth more than dehydration

  • @safetyfirstintexas
    @safetyfirstintexas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @petergrundy8081
    @petergrundy8081 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is this NSW

  • @MichaelResznekiTrolling4Truth
    @MichaelResznekiTrolling4Truth 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's GeoEngineering for you

  • @flamingoproductions214
    @flamingoproductions214 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gotta be first to the discovery channel

  • @nathandean1687
    @nathandean1687 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @northerners2828
    @northerners2828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ohh noo 😬

  • @kefka1911
    @kefka1911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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
      @gumelini1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mitchell Dalitz we just saw something completely different

    • @cheekygirlferret
      @cheekygirlferret 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @kooeoo3968
    @kooeoo3968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @BurtW546
    @BurtW546 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stay safe

  • @thomaskrawczynski921
    @thomaskrawczynski921 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could of collar around the entrance saved it?

    • @bnetolldnataman
      @bnetolldnataman 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @tylerfreitas1453 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @CjJohnWynn
    @CjJohnWynn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sump pump heaven

  • @bourbonfan1
    @bourbonfan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    it's caved throw big rock in

  • @rosewhite---
    @rosewhite--- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @keatoncreates
    @keatoncreates 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @webwater8
    @webwater8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    no point talking fix it

    • @billmaxlow8179
      @billmaxlow8179 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @CindysGems
    @CindysGems ปีที่แล้ว

    On noooo

  • @acidrunner
    @acidrunner 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Clima is wrong^^....😝😝😝

  • @pekoplants4073
    @pekoplants4073 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the sound effects in this are so cheesy

  • @perryschmidhalterward8749
    @perryschmidhalterward8749 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im high

  • @donaldkeal1161
    @donaldkeal1161 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    no

  • @littleblitz8239
    @littleblitz8239 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @cheyennereynoso4116
    @cheyennereynoso4116 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Climate change?