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(Transcrito por TurboScribe.ai. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) There's a secret war going on in the outback town of Claremont.

The gold here is so good and the value of gold now is so high.

Look at that.

Dog eat dog.

The wars are on.

What are you doing?

Yeah, maybe I'll be the guy then.

He said you were sniffing out.

Wish you the best of luck.

That was good.

Three mining teams.

We haven't put a load of money into the mine, so we have to make it work.

Fighting it out on the one patch of land.

This is just some of the stuff Donny's been walking over.

Guy's full of s***.

I'd be lucky if I don't walk over his big nose.

This time, Lee's shocked 11th hour bid.

I need to concentrate.

To buy some gold rich land off Matt and Damon.

11 excavator.

My preferred option.

Best option.

Swap it for the least.

Swap it.

And destroy Donny and Dennis's counter offer.

We've got to let this in team green.

Kimberley.

Kimberley's spectacular gold find.

There you go.

My first bull nugget.

Brings new hope for team 1870.

That is awesome.

That's made my day.

It's a poacher.

We've got to bloke stick him in a pit.

And Donny and Dennis go after a poacher caught on camera stealing their gold.

Here we go.

Oh, look at this.

Oh, look at that.

Jump out, jump out.

Holy s***.

It'd be a shame if there's not a few sounds on that.

It's got to be a screamer here somewhere.

The scratchy moo moo.

Claremont, Queensland.

And Matt and Damon are on the hunt for new gold.

Where the gold really starts is where there's a little bit of slate starts to show through.

Their mega pit is now 8 metres deep and 40 metres wide.

It's helped deliver 61 ounces of gold for the season so far.

This is starting to look pretty much to be on gold country now.

I'd be surprised if there's not a few shouts coming out of this scrape.

But they want more.

Where's Lee at the moment?

I don't know where Lee is.

Their wannabe future partner Lee is away trying to raise capital to buy a small patch of land off Matt and Damon.

An 11th hour counter offer by Dennis for the same chunk of land was unexpected and audacious.

This is an any day deal.

Like seriously, he's this close.

Donnie and Dennis are trying to get this bit of land.

He wants the same bit of ground to peg.

And it's typical, Lee has to sort out all his stuff.

I'd give him about a 30% chance of getting something done, I'd say.

Lee's a hustler at heart.

If history's anything to go by, he won't go down without a fight.

So, Leroy, what do you think of the deal?

I don't care which one of them comes on board.

Could be all talk, but Australia's the first land investor.

At Swiss Diggings, Dennis and Donnie's below average gold talent means they need to extend their cut into fresh ground.

So, the plan of attack here this morning is we are going to clear some timber so that we can push through to the north-west.

But first, there's some urgent business Dennis needs to discuss with Donnie regarding their bid to buy a piece of Matt and Damon's land.

We're deadlocked. They're stuck on 100%. 100% up front.

And at the moment, we're apart.

I really don't want to do the 100% up front.

Matt and Damon want 100% of the payment up front, whereas Dennis only feels comfortable paying 50% on signing.

I sort of rely on trying to get something going with them.

Surely we can just come up with something with them to lose it to them.

If the deal comes off, it'll be great for Donnie. He'll have a patch of land to call his own.

We're all trying to work angles, mate. So, at the end of the day, this is how this business works.

It's a bit of... Yeah, I can't see Damon and Matt going for the 50%.

I can't see Dennis going for 100%. So, I'm pretty worried the deal's just going to fall over.

Just, you know, this sucks.

We'll just keep turning dirt here. Concentrate on what we're doing.

Leave it with me. Let me come up with a plan of attack.

Yeah, OK.

If we can't get this deal across the line, it's going to somebody else who's going to get it.

In order to clear a new mining path, Donnie needs to push a few trees over with his excavator.

I'll just go back in here and we will do that dead tree first.

And there she goes.

I'm going to use the loader just to help the whole process out, make it a bit quicker.

Dennis will use the grabber attachment on his loader to remove the fallen trees.

One of the biggest concerns that we've got on when we're mining is taking trees out.

I mean, if we've got to take a tree out, we have to be very, very careful at how we do it.

And sometimes they get hung up in other trees, but you've got to make sure you actually drop them to deck.

Their mining lease allows them to clear certain types of trees from the area.

So I'm waiting to take it down.

On the flip side, they're required to regenerate the land after they've finished their mining operations.

So when you knock a tree over, they reckon that it drops like 400 seeds into the ground.

Then when we replace it back onto the ground on a 45, it's actually stop erosion.

So it actually stops the erosion of the dirt moving and holds the ground in place.

And also just, you know, everything gets replanted.

All right, so knock this one?

Yeah.

Righto, stand back, please.

Removing trees is a risky business.

A little bit too close to it.

I want to get back a bit.

Not the nicest thing to push.

They can do some weird and wonderful things.

They can bounce back that year.

Well, they're sitting above the gold and we need them out, so.

Here we go.

Oh, dear.

And she's going to get hung up.

It's what we call the widow maker.

So we've got to make sure that that widow maker comes down as well

because we don't want to be walking underneath that

and that limb that's just hanging about in the other tree stays there.

So it has to come down as well.

We might have to see if we can find a big bit of bar we can tack on here.

1870 has turned into a family affair.

But it's not a happy household right now.

Owners Ritchie and Kimberley are a million dollars plus in the red.

So we're going to cut this and weld this to the trommel.

Machinery issues and schedule delays are mounting up.

The pressure is firmly on Dan.

He's the mine manager and the one responsible for 1870's P&L.

All the dirt, as it's going up, will actually roll back to the centre of the belt.

Lack of progress getting the wash plant up and running is the main issue.

Look, I'm not going to hide the fact that I'm pissed off that it's taken so long to put this all together.

Despite Ritchie and Kimberley's massive investment,

they're only a quarter of the way towards hitting their $500,000 season target.

The dry blower is doing its thing, pumping out an ounce of gold a day.

But it can only work in dry conditions.

The wash plant can run all season long

and does a better job at processing the super fine gold particles.

It's looking pretty straight.

If they can get it running reliably,

it's the key to turning 1870 into a multi-million dollar operation.

Literally there's 20, 30 different parts, moving parts to make it work.

It's going to sit roughly here.

I mean, I can unbolt it and rip that part off.

How do I start it?

Seatbelt, seatbelt.

Safety belt.

At the end of the day, it's just about trying to utilise who we have.

So it's better for us just to get in and do what we can to bring the gold on.

Kimberley and Kira have been taking turns feeding pay dirt into the dry blower.

A lot more touchier than I expected.

With mixed results.

The ripple trays on the dry blower catch all of the smaller nuggets and fine gold.

But anything bigger than 8mm is filtered out by the screen on top

and flows into a tailings pile.

A big pile of dirt stops us from getting the loader to the thing, OK?

Kimberley and Kira will run a metal detector over the tailings

and scan for larger sized nuggets.

We don't know what gold we're missing.

There might have been some decent gold in there

that can't get through the screen on the hopper.

So that's why we need to run a detector over it.

The gold price is at an all-time high.

Nearly $6,000 an ounce.

That's great news for all three teams.

If they can hit their 100-ounce target,

they'll each collect an extra $100,000.

We're here to get all the gold, so I don't want to lose it.

So I'm hoping the girls,

you know, using the metal detectors, detecting an oversize,

can get some gold.

Yeah, that's going to be a challenge.

You can take the girl out of the Gold Coast,

but you can't take the Gold Coast out of the girl.

Kimberley's fashion sense is going to have to take a hit.

We're going to have to do something here.

Anything that's going to ping on you has to come off.

It's called a metal detector.

It's going to detect metal.

So get that off you.

Your belt's off, your chains are off, your watch, rings.

The fashion out here for gold miners isn't really my taste,

and I'm just making up my own outfits.

You know, everyone's just covered in dirt and, yeah,

dirty and gross and dusty.

You've got your zippers on.

That's going to interfere.

Yeah, we'll have to sort that out.

At the end of the day, I've got a funny feeling that he won't.

You know, he's all talk.

At Scratchy Moo, Matt and Damo have two prospective buyers

for the 60 hectares of land they want to sell.

But both offers come with complications.

Lee desperately wants the land,

but is struggling to raise the cash.

I've just got a feeling he's not in a position to do it.

Dennis has the cash,

but only wants to pay half the money up front.

Dennis will probably just muscle up

and pay the full amount up front, and it'll be a done deal.

In the meantime, Matt and Damo are grinding it out.

We were tracking on good,

and over the last week, it's leaned off a bit.

We had a tough little period.

We were on a little creamy run there for a while.

That's Donny's show picking up swarf all day.

You reckon he's rubbed off on us?

Poor Donny.

That sounds a little bit better.

Right, and that'll be...

Just a little one.

Got to start somewhere.

Little .2.

.2.

That's all right. This is the level that we should be on.

Oh, there it is. Yeah, look at that.

Oh, that'll be probably a .3.

It's pretty skinny.

Even though they're in a lean spell,

Matt and Damo are the seasoned leaders in Claremore.

That gives them enough comfort

to hold out for the right offer for their land.

Whatever comes through on the terms that we're requesting

comes out trumps.

There it is.

So I think you'll be best on the detector.

OK.

Kimberly has just about removed all the metal from her outfit

and can now get on with the job.

She and Kira are getting a crash course in metal detecting.

Just try your hardest to keep it right at the low.

And that's all you're doing, just exactly how it is now.

And if there's a target,

it's going to make an absolute racket.

OK.

These detectors can find the tiniest pieces of gold

and absolutely scream.

They'll do a run over the tailing spread

to see if they can find any oversized nuggets.

Hopefully the gold in here is all over 8 million.

Meanwhile, Richie and Dan's son Braden

are getting on with assembling the wash plant.

They need to get the $500,000 processing plant up and running ASAP.

I'll hold this arm out a bit cos that's your guide stick.

Oh, OK.

And try keep that as close to the ground as possible.

OK.

So you can scrape the ground.

Scrape the ground.

Cool, I'm out.

See yous later, guys.

Bye.

I've not found a nugget yet.

Come on.

Is that noise?

Ooh.

Come on, gold digger.

Ooh, right there.

Very soon it's going to go ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

We got something.

There you go.

This one might be a shaving, actually.

What is it?

It's a shaving.

Well, that was...

She's going to be difficult.

At Swiss Diggies, Donny is wrestling with a tree

that's blocking access to their new dig site.

When they get caught up in each other, it's not a good thing.

Should move back a bit out of the way.

Got to be so careful doing this, too.

Should be enough there.

Yeah, that'll move me.

Will you be able to get that, Dennis?

Yep.

Got to make sure I don't hit a tree.

Dodge them cars.

Our strategy today is to literally take out this side of this bank

and head back up towards where we were against a really good gold.

But this is an interesting little project

because now I'm on the loader and Donny on the digger.

We'll see how this goes

because we think there's actually some pretty good gold in underneath here.

Their strategy remains unchanged.

Scrape and detect the shallow ground along the old creek and riverbeds.

If there's decent gold to be found on Dennis' lease,

that's where it'll be.

Old creek systems, they never go straight,

so they'll only go straight for a certain period of time,

but what we actually do want them to do is bend,

because when they bend is where we get the big dropout zones.

Get into that deeper ground there,

there'll be some good gold in that country, good gold.

Oh, no.

One step forward, two steps back.

In all the excitement, the fuel gauge has broken off.

Oh, yeah, it broke the side glass.

Oh, no, it did, too.

Another 0.2, joint 0.2, 0.3.

At scratchy move, Matt and Damo are slowly getting back on track

with tiny nugget finds.

SIREN BLARES

It's big. It's probably a 0.4.

It's got a little bit of a tail on it.

SIREN BLARES

That's loud.

SIREN BLARES

A bit like the other bit there.

Oh, that one's still probably just a good solid 0.3.

We've had to be really patient in here. There's a lot of gold.

Finally, we've got a grammar out of this cut.

It's a nice-looking nugget.

If they can sell off some of their land to Lee or to Donny and Dennis,

they'll use the money to expand their operations

and push for more gold.

Another 0.3.

That's our destiny.

All this stuff that's happened with Donny and other people,

I think Lee's probably got money floating around as well,

but it's somehow, like, tangled up in things.

Cash is king in Claremont,

and whoever comes up with the money will get the land.

And it's getting close to crunch time.

That's bloody clunking away.

We should go and check out what that's all about.

Lee has returned,

but not in a way anyone expected.

This goes here. Oh, I might be poaching.

The mining investor is at the helm of a 32-tonne excavator.

It's a bizarre turn of events.

I actually thought it'd be way higher than this.

What exactly is he up to?

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At 1870, Dan and Richie are all focus,

getting their precious wash plant prepped

for its imminent journey to site.

Everything now comes to the wash plant.

We needed this up and running, you know, several weeks ago.

I'm about to tie this trommel down.

The wash plant, that's a big-ticket item, right?

That'll put this mine on the map.

I'll go that way.

I'll go this way.

So we want to try and get this down to site a bit later on today.

It's going to be a bit scary cos it's a bit top-heavy as well.

I'm going to try and see if I can tow it with our truck.

The wash plant has thousands of moving parts,

and some of those parts weigh several tonnes.

Just getting it ready to move is a monumental task.

You seem able to drive while getting that down.

Hang on. Whoa!

Hang on, mate. Hang on. Whoa, whoa!

Mate, you're well stamped.

I can't have that happen again.

Having been stung by Dennis' 2.5 grand repair bill last time,

Dan needs to make sure that this time

the frame on the trommel is secure.

Oh, I'm just trying to tuck these pins on

because when they've made these, it was terrible.

Let's face it, it was cheaper than hiring Dennis

because I've brought a welder

for almost half the price of what I paid him to do.

I'm bloody over it. This is something I hate.

You know, just got to figure out what we're going to do.

Oh! Yeah, it broke the side glass.

Oh, no!

Lucky I only had half a tank of fuel in it.

A stray branch has broken the fuel gauge on Dennis' loader.

What I'll do is I'll change the top to the bottom

and then that'll keep us going.

Then we'll be able to at least keep operating.

It's about the only way I'm going to get round it.

Argh!

Machinery. Men and machinery.

See what happens.

It hasn't actually punched the tank, it just broke the side glass.

Have a go at it, eh? Broken, boom.

I'll keep digging while you do the operation on that.

At the new dig site, Donnie's down through the topside

and into what he hopes will be pay dirt.

Definitely a gravel run in there.

Dennis doesn't want to lose momentum,

so it's a quick bush fix on the fuel gauge...

Fixed.

..before rejoining Donnie in the cut.

Oh, no.

It took about 100 mil off the top,

so maybe a bit more than 100 mil.

Bit of swarf, I can see it.

How's it going, that, brother?

I'm liking the sound of that.

Sounds all right, eh?

Might have to sharpen your pitch, eh?

You can say.

Oh!

At Scratchy Moon, Lee has returned to site

with what he hopes will be his secret weapon

in the race to secure a landing with Matt and Damo.

I need to concentrate.

I don't like machines.

I'm not a huge fan of machines.

Lee can't free up enough money in time

to do a cash-only offer ahead of Donnie and Dennis,

but he does own this, a highly valuable excavator,

which he can throw in as part of the deal.

It's a creative manoeuvre.

So if I can do that deal,

gets me out of the machine, gets me in a lease, I'm sorted.

I'm not even watching you two. I'm concentrating.

Just have it rattling down the driveway.

Lee, Jesus.

The Lemon Excavator.

A 32-tonne excavator can be worth as much as 250 grand.

I don't even know how much this weighs, but it's heavy.

Don't get bogged down.

Who says you need skills to drive this piece of piss?

Look at that.

The problem with Lee's excavator is that it's seen better days.

It's in need of repair work, and that will cost money.

It's yellow, it looks like a lemon, and it is a bit of a lemon.

The Lemon Excavator!

Yeah, you need to spend a lot of money.

So it's got a couple of issues.

It's got some character anyway.

How much did you find wrong with it?

I'll show you the first one here.

Look at this beauty, Leroy.

Check the fuel on that.

So...

The door's been just about to fall off.

Don't pull it!

Wiring inside's been smashed out.

Broken.

Hold everything in there.

So it needs a bit of work.

I don't know what we're going to do with you, Lee.

You want to do a bit of a swap, do you?

Yeah.

To secure the 60 hectares of land,

Lee needs Matt and Damo to value his beaten-up old excavator

at a whopping 90 grand.

Lee's in for a bit of a shock.

I think the excavator's worth about 40,000.

Yeah, she's a bit of a lemon.

Right, so my option is...

Well, my preferred option, best option,

swap it for the lease.

Swap it.

I want to say it's still in the ground.

At the new Swiss digging site,

Donny and Dennis are focusing on the job at hand.

They're off to a promising start.

Oh-ho-ho!

There it is.

That'll be four or five grimmer, four grimmer.

What, three, four grimmer?

Beautiful. Heard it. No problem at all.

Easy.

Right up, sitting up at the top of the ironstone.

It's an $800 nugget.

A welcome find.

But they're still a long way off

reaching their $500,000 season target.

I need to be earning the money now.

So the target of 100 ounces has got to be now.

It cannot be anything different. It has to be now.

That'll go close. Three and a half, four grams.

Yeah, easy. Definitely.

And there it is.

Good stuff.

The going is slow

because the soil is full of contaminants

that set the machines off.

False positives can be heartbreaking.

This white clay just plays up when you detect it so much.

It's so hot.

Well, the machine's just playing a bit up.

Oh, here we go, Donnie. Got him?

I've got one.

Have a go at that.

We've got moldables, by the way. Have a go at that.

Oh, God.

Oh, we're a patch, man.

Right there.

Gram? Oh, I don't know.

I can only see half of it, I think.

Oh, that'll be nearly two grams, I reckon.

A couple of grams. Easy.

Solid nuggets within striking distance of each other

means Dennis and Donnie may have found a brand-new gold patch.

It's the outcome they've been hoping for.

It just might be enough to give Dennis the confidence

to go in hard for Matt and Damo's land.

You've still got the problem of how much gold's going to be there,

but you're on it. You've found it.

There's another one.

Oh, it's... Oh, yeah, right-o.

So it's a decent piece. That'll be two grams.

We're going to keep digging, but this is another good little piece.

I reckon we're probably pretty close to about eight grams today already,

if not a little bit more.

Just got to check all that loose dirt, because there could be multiple.

Still in there, bro.

Piece of metal.

Ah!

At 1870, Kimberly and Kira's nugget hunt

has been plagued by false positives

as they strive to master the art of metal detecting.

There we go. So go slower.

This is another metal shaving, I'm afraid.

It better not be.

You've got to be kidding me. Another piece of metal.

Yeah. No!

Oh, hang on.

That noise?

If I find a fricking piece of nail or something, I'll be mad.

That's over here.

Beginner's luck. Here we go. Come on.

Oh, I can see it. Oh, my God.

I found a nugget.

Kimberly!

Told you, beginner's luck. That's a decent-sized one, too.

I didn't really know what to expect, and at the same time,

I was like... I still thought it was going to be...

I'd find something bigger, so I wasn't that excited.

Top pocket find.

There you go. My first little nugget.

I'd probably go...

maybe...

four grams?

How much is that worth? I don't know.

Money.

Good money. I'll ask the boys later.

Kira's gold weight guesstimate is way off.

The nine-gram nugget should be worth around $1,600.

If the weight's verified,

it'll be the biggest gold find of the week

across all three mining teams.

I just hope this is big enough for today, all right?

If you can just chuck it in there.

There we go. We'll fill it up. Thank you.

They've got, like, a vision of, like, filling up, you know,

a little jar, but I have a vision of filling up a handbag.

Kimberly and Kira have struck gold

at a time when the unhappy family affair

is in desperate need of some good news.

Oh, is that my bed? Is that it? Literally.

That's awesome.

And the big nuggets keep on coming.

Is it? Is it? I think it is.

It looks like gold. It looks like gold.

Oh, piss off. That's mine, remember?

I think that's bigger than mine.

At Swiss Diggings, Donnie and Dennis are also on the gold.

This was the original small gold detector

for creeks and gullies and things like that.

There's more in there. Yeah.

There's another one in there.

The nuggets are small.