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Yes and melted gold doesn't burn up/disentegrate. It just pools into a big gold blob.If I remember right, they send the gold ahead to King's Landing, since armies don't travel that quickly.
In the beginning they tried to be more accurate when it came to showing how long it takes to travel anywhere. Then, in season 7, because they're really trying to wrap this up, they stopped doing that. The attack on the Lannister column sort of makes sense, though because Daenerys' forces are coming from Dragonstone, which is located in Blackwater Bay and the attack took place at the mouth of the river which opens into that bay.
As I recall, they were in Blackwater Bay, but would have to sail south, around Dorne, and then back up a ways along the coast to get to the Reach where Highgarden is. The Blackwater doesn't run that far south or west. In other words, it'd be like getting an army from the coast of Norfolk down around the south coast of England, and then up to Cheltenham or thereabouts. (Westeros doesn't map out perfectly to England, but it's close-ish.)
When Daenerys attacked the Lannister column they weren't in the Reach, though. They were on the banks of the Blackwater.
This map shows where it happened. The real shortcut the show used here was transporting all the Dothraki. Apparently Daenerys still had enough ships to do it.
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What doesn't make sense is someone running a distance that took people several days to traverse in a matter of a few short hours, getting help, and having said help come back in a tiny fraction amount of time that it took to get their originally. Ok, granted that it was Danearys on dragonback but still, Jon & co. were out there for days and Gendry was able to run all the way back to find Danaerys, after which she was able to fly back before Jon has time to say, "What the F is taking Gendry so long?". Not to mention that our heroes our battling for their lives at this time while massively outnumbered, out in the open but they were able to hold on long enough to be rescued. Talk about time compression.