The Treasure Hunters

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Ellie Harrison

Dallas Campbell

Helen Thomas

Dick Taylor

Sophie Todd

The Treasure Hunters: Episode 1: Raw Treasure

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Episode 1

Episode 1: Raw Treasure

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Ellie Harrison ventures down one of the deepest gold mines in the world.

Ellie Harrison and Dallas Campbell journey around the globe on the ultimate treasure hunt. Ellie ventures down one of the deepest gold mines in the world.

From pirates' hoards and shipwrecked booty to dazzling gems to precious metals, we lust after treasure, fight over it and go to the ends of the earth to find it - our planet is a treasure chest just waiting to be opened. In this series, Ellie Harrison and Dallas Campbell journey around the globe on the ultimate treasure hunt.
  
They scratch the surface of our planet to uncover its most extraordinary riches - from mountains of gold to the most valuable gemstones in the world and the largest natural treasure ever found.

In this episode, Ellie ventures down one of the deepest gold mines in the world in search of the gleaming metal that was once thought to be the skin of the gods and the sweat of the sun. Dallas free-dives for lustrous pearls in the waters around north west Australia and, using one of the largest treasure-hunting machines, he seeks out diamonds from the bottom of the ocean. 

Dallas and Ellie reveal how you could make your fortune on the beach. Lumps of ambergris can wash up on almost any shoreline in the world. Although it starts life in a sperm whale's stomach, it ends up as a costly raw ingredient in the most expensive perfumes. 

And while Dallas tries his hand at opal mining in one of the most hostile places on earth, Ellie discovers how one of the largest and most unusual treasures ever uncovered has helped us solve a 67-million-year-old puzzle.

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Ellie Harrison and Dallas Campbell journey around the globe on the ultimate treasure hunt.

From pirates' hoards and shipwrecked booty to dazzling gems to precious metals, Ellie Harrison and Dallas Campbell journey around the globe on the ultimate treasure hunt.

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