Hunting for Emeralds | Mine Hunters

next morning the team starts early on
their first day’s work at fire Verdi is
all the timbers first up Fred and Zak do
an inventory of equipment at the site
hey what’s this it’s a blower we can use
this to ventilate the mine assuming it
works well I’m assuming it doesn’t work
where’s would it be step behind it
well that’s keep looking a gold miner
John and Ozzie miner Jimmy heads
straight to the face
Timmy’s the team’s most experienced
underground miner having spent ten years
drilling and blasting the copper mines
of Western Australia I’m not a
gemologist you know I understand okay
I can lift heavy things and I can lift
them all day long you know so just point
me in the right direction and I’ll have
a go that way many mines in Columbia are
mechanized
but at Playa Verde there’s a lack of
power so the locals are currently
limited to hand tools literally just
picking at the wall with a knife you
know I mean if we can get some
mechanical power in here we better just
power through this you know to have any
chance of finding an emerald inside five
days the team decide they must invest in
machinery or risk going home
empty-handed
I want an emerald mine but I don’t think
I’ll be able to say I produced anything
at this rate like beating a dead horse
right now