Gold Fever
Narrated by Patrick Allen
The great Australian Gold Rush of 1980 ... A housewife making E500,000 in a year from sand and cyanide ... A ghost town with just one inhabitant making E300 a day ... A father and son making an unusual discovery with a metal detector ... It's all to do with gold fever and the rush along Western Australia's Golden Mile - once the richest few acres of gold-bearing country in the world. This is the behind-the-headlines story of the effect that record world bullion prices had on the old goldfields, mine-workings and prospectors in the Australian Outback.
Photography DAVID SOUTH
Film editor JANE VAL BAKER
Written and produced by BOB SAUNDERS Se ries editors
ANTHONY ISAACS and PETER JONES