Discovery's Jungle Gold series to premier in India on 7 Jan

MUMBAI: Jungle Gold, a new reality series, is all set to make its debut on Discovery Channel beginning 7 January.

The series, which will air every night at 10 pm, is about rookie American gold miners George Wright and Scott Lomu who go bankrupt during the US real estate crash in 2008 that spiralled the world into a recession. 

With their houses and families? futures suddenly on the line, the duo head to the jungles of Ghana hoping to turn around their fortune by mining gold, which is available in abundance in the West African country.

After securing $150,000 from an investor, the two buy an 80 acre gold rich claim deep in the Ghanaian Jungle. The pressure is on from the very start to find gold to pay back this loan, as well as their other debts. 

But getting the gold out of the ground is only the first part. The real danger comes once they find it. Facing hostile, gun toting competitors, illegal roadblocks and underground mining operations, the pair learn that in Ghana, gold mining can be deadly.