In 1849, in that Gold Rush, they took over 700 million worth of gold out of California.

So what do we do? We call up the doctor of dust, and there is such a person.

Your diamond you've all heard, probably seen the movie Blood Diamond.

The first tunnels date back to 60 B.C.

Digging Hassle

There are regulations that it's prohibited to do logging, mining and poaching, specifically.

But he got great terms on it.

Near one of the stalled harvesters...

You also have a buffer zone that's 17 square kilometers.

Gerty, what is the status on Harvester 3?

We found out that we could go to the source rock, which were the carboniferous shales in the basins.

Because you've got to include the man who grew the coffee, which was brewed for the man who was on the oil rig, who was drilling for oil, which was going to be made into the plastic, etc.

All harvesters running smoothly.

Harvesters are fine.

In my time, where I come from, this is a simple mining vessel.

Construction is the most hazardous job.

But, what if there was some antimatter in outer space and we could dig it out one day from an antiplanet somewhere.

There was no one in the mine when it blew up.

That's what the property was originally built around it was a set of mining claims.

Well, the wintering ground is also critical and it also is not protected, and is potentially, could be potentially, exploited for gas and mineral rights.

Great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls.

You had an accident out by one of the harvesters.

Tungsten carbide drills! What the bloody hell's tungsten carbide drills?

Energy Return on Energy Invested.

Shipwrecks are perfectly preserved.

Bitcoins are generated all over the Internet by anybody running a free application called a Bitcoin miner.

They locked all the exits. Who's looking after the harvesters?

And as we sit, exchanging free ideas with each other, there are still people mining coal in order to power the servers, extracting the minerals to make all of those things.

I'm just passing the last of the harvesters. Looks like John.

I know about the dig.

After a few minutes the transaction is verified by a miner and permanently and anonymously stored in the network.

This is incredible!

Video That's what we call the seven minutes of terror. So the plan is to dig in the soil and take samples that we put them in an oven and actually heat them and look what gases will come from it.

Separation technologies are going to be extremely important.

And what we're going to do is send a rescue unit... to tend to the stalled harvester and get the base back on its feet.

The energy of the sun, trapped in rock, harvested by machine from the far side of the moon.

So these in situ developments are at least as ecologically damaging as the mines.

But we only have two working harvesters now.

The objective here was to explore abandoned mines.

Came from a box Ben dug up out of the ground.

Did you mark the papers?

Did you grade the tests?

Global demand for wind has really increased desire to find neodymium.

This is how you farm oil.

And that makes sense, right, because we had 1,000 gold pieces to begin with.