Ice Cold Gold | show | 2013 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

Re-join the hardy American prospectors as they go for gold as the massive ice sheet melts on Greenland, revealing immens | dHNfUlZEaGM2aVNlLUE

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00:00Here we have the planet, here's the globe, and right up top here is Greenland.

00:07And you can see how high it is in latitude. It's almost like the North Pole there.

00:11My mapping in the off-season is quite a process.

00:14First I do as much research as I can.

00:16I look for as many papers that have been written, geologic maps that have been written.

00:22That's the way science kind of works.

00:24You don't try to reinvent the wheel.

00:26You have a target. You have an idea of an area that maybe has rubies or sapphires or diamonds.

00:32You do the research. You look at existing maps.

00:35And then what I do is I take that information and I interpret it.

00:38I continually focus in tighter and tighter on an area.

00:42And I eventually prepare my own geologic map of the area and go from that.

00:48This is the map of Storo from last year.

00:51I put this together before last season.

00:53And I basically did the same process that I described.

00:57I've got the different rock types plotted on here.

01:00I had specific areas that we went and looked at.

01:03We weren't just throwing darts at a map when we were out there in Storo.

01:07And we found gold in four places on there.

01:10And we were looking at specific geologic locations that showed progress.

01:14Being out in the field and confirming that this formation is actually where I thought it was.

01:19And more than that, you know, it's like a treasure map.

01:22Is the treasure where I put the X on the map?

01:25And if it is, it's fantastic.

01:28All right, Josh, I want to do a quick check of the map and GPS to see where we're at.

01:32You know, we're right in this zone, but we're going to have to determine the exact location ourselves.

01:38They don't give you a specific Latin launch where gold has been found.

01:42You have to interpret a map, and then you have to decide, I think this is the location.

01:47It may be that zone right in there is what we want to look at.

01:50Let's get on a move.

01:51Yeah, let's move it.

01:52Let's go.

01:53All right.

01:54You know, I could be off a decimal point in my calculations, and that could throw us off by a half mile.

01:58That half mile could mean the difference between getting to our location and not.

02:02Yeah, I mean, being out here is sort of the, for me, it's the culmination of what I've done over the off season, the whole off season.

02:09My research, my planning, putting X's on maps.

02:13Being out here is the culmination of all that work.

02:16I'm not by any means ready to give up.

02:18I'm just getting started.