Gold Fever
Narrated by PATRICK ALLEN
A housewife making £500,000 in a year from sand and cyanide ... A ghost town with just one inhabitant making £300 a day from a hole in the ground ... Father and son making an unusual discovery with a metal detector ... It's all to do with gold fever and the new rush along Western Australia's Golden
Mile-once the richest few acres of gold-bearing country in the world.
The behind-the-headlines story of the effect that record world bullion prices are having 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 Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS and PETER JONES