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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.

Why are you entertaining the city?

I was a bit pissed off when Donnie came in.

That's what I'm talking about.

Remarkable.

We have a boat running 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 Donnie's been walking over.

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

This time...

I don't want someone coming back saying that we have accepted stolen goods.

No, but you haven't.

Lee's excavator trade deal turns sour for Matt and Damo.

It's just typical crap that, you know, just sneaks up on you when you're dealing with Lee sometimes.

Richie suffers a serious injury.

On a scale of 1 to 10, it's around about an 8 or 9.

I'm positive.

I've broken something.

If that's broken, you're out of action for a while.

Three steps forward, two steps back.

And Dennis offers Donnie the land deal of the year.

I think I'll sell you the lease.

But it comes with a catch.

So what I need you to do, mate, is get yourself 37 and a half grand by the end of the season.

I'm not about to let anything stand in my road.

Scratchy Moo, Claremont, Queensland.

Can't believe how lame the last couple of scrapes have been.

And Matt and Damo's blistering start to the season is slowing down.

It's a bit deflating, but we've had a couple of, you know, pretty solid weeks.

Give us some sounds here. What's going on?

I would like to think that it would continue, but you've got to go with your ups and downs.

Their tally stands at 70 ounces of gold.

That's about $150,000 short of their $500,000 season target.

But they're still the frontrunners on the Claremont gold fields.

All we want is a nice, deep, inverted one.

Can you pay that up for me?

Damo and Matt are hoping to pound their way out of the slump.

You got some deposit money the other day?

Finally, hit the bank yesterday.

That's good.

But we need to work out this title for the JBC.

Yeah, clear that.

Meanwhile, Lee's running through the numbers on the land deal

with Matt's wife, Cherie, who manages the finances at Scratchy Moon.

Lee's paid the $15,000 cash component of the deal.

But Cherie's discovered there's finance still owing on the excavator

Lee threw in as part of the exchange.

So I just got the paperwork back from DES.

So I just shot that through.

So everything's cleared.

I've got access.

So give me access.

Obviously, we need that.

So I'm clear to pay.

And that's great you got access, but you're not getting access

until the title's done.

Correct.

And then we also need to sort out this bucket issue.

So we've got a bit of an issue with buckets.

So we've bought the excavator, or we've done an exchange

for that excavator as is.

And then next thing you know, someone's coming out of the woodwork

saying that they're his buckets, you know, this other guy's buckets.

And it's like there was a little bit of conjecture about how many buckets

the machine come with.

As far as I'm concerned, the machine came with two buckets.

This whole bucket issue has been a schmozzle.

Hasn't that finished with you?

Well, I told you, you need to sort it.

It's not our issue.

I've got the paperwork for that.

Yeah, but you haven't provided it to me.

I've asked you a couple of times.

I don't want someone coming back saying that we have accepted

stolen goods.

No, but you haven't.

One of the things we said to him is, look, we just don't want any dramas.

We want a smooth transaction.

And, of course, it's just typical crap that, you know,

just sneaks up on you when you're dealing with Lee sometimes.

But until we're satisfied that the machine is rightfully ours,

no pegs are going in the ground.

Hey, mate.

Hey, mate.

How you going?

Oh, yeah.

Hot.

If the land deal falls through with Lee,

Matt and Damo might be forced to renegotiate terms with Dennis

and Donny over at Swiss Diggings.

We lost it, mate.

We lost the deal.

Mate.

I got a phone call from Damo letting us know that,

well, Lee McGrath got the lease.

So he sort of gazumped us on it.

But, you know, I have no doubt in my mind

that there'll be some swindling thing going on there

that'll be underhanded in some way, shape or form.

But Dennis is not waiting round to see how Lee's antics play out.

He's already come up with a plan B to keep Donny on side.

Look, mate, so it's a setback, but it's not a big setback.

I've got another plan.

I've got another idea.

I want to run past you.

I reckon we've got an 80 hectare area up there on that western boundary.

Yeah.

You can peg a lease in there.

I don't understand Dennis' motivation to put me on ground.

That doesn't mean I'm not going to take it.

It just doesn't get much better than that.

Buying and selling ground is all part of making money in the gold fields.

Dennis owns 3,000 hectares of unpegged ground

surrounding Swiss diggings that he can sell the mining rights to

to make a bit of money on the side.

OK, so how do you reckon that would work?

Well, look, I've been put a little bit of thought into that too,

and I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to...

I think I'll sell you the lease at a fixed rate today at 75K.

75K?

Yep.

Serious?

Well, we're looking after you, mate.

We're trying to get you into your own ground, mate, onto your own dirt,

and I think this is the way to do it.

So I reckon that's the plan, mate,

and I've come up with a name for it as well.

Yeah?

1880.

1880 gold.

1880 is the sequel to 1870,

and what makes us better is I think it's the people.

And everyone knows they're going to get a good product.

It's a win-win for both miners.

Donnie finally gets on his own gold ground,

and Dennis gets a much-needed cash injection.

But Dennis' offer comes with a huge catch.

How do you like that one?

What I'd like you to do, or aim for, mate,

is to put a bit of carrot in front of your nose here.

So what I need you to do, mate, is to get yourself 37.5 grand,

at least buy yourself in by 50% of the lease cost

by the end of the season.

How are you much fairer than that, man?

No, you come out here and help me out,

so I'll come and help you out.

Wow.

Donnie has five weeks to come up with 37.5 grand,

or the deal is off.

Honestly, Donnie really needs to be on his own lease,

and that's why I've decided to, you know,

throw the option out there to peg a lease.

He will put the best foot forward,

but he needs it to be on his own lease.

Cool, cool.

Ronnie!

Come on!

Over at 187, it's relocation day.

Today is the big day.

12 months in the making.

We're finally getting all the downs in the mine,

so it's going to be convoy after convoy.

But Richie and Kimberley's $1 million mining gamble

all rests on the outcome of today's wash plant move.

The wash plant set up,

this cost me around about half a million dollars,

so taking it down to site,

I want to make sure we don't blow up.

Alright, last couple of days,

I've created a pad down the bottom

where all this gear's going.

Tried making the roads as wide as I could get

with what we've got at the moment.

The half-a-million-dollar wash plant

is made up of three big components.

The conveyor,

the hopper

and the trommel.

If a single piece is damaged in the move,

1870's season will be over.

We're just starting to get a little stressed

with the bank balance going down, down.

So, yeah, everyone's coming together to try and get it done

because we're just so behind

and, you know, we need to get on the gold fast.

Adding to the stress and lack of cash flow,

1870's dry-blowing operation

will go on hold until the wash plant is delivered to site.

Their modest gold tally remains unchanged at 32 ounces.

I'm more nervous about the length of it

than taking stuff out,

so I'll sit behind in the buggy with Kira

and we'll just monitor what's going

and we'll just keep talking.

Let's get all the gear down.

Done, let's go.

Alright.

Kimberly's been given the job of towing the conveyor.

Yeah, I've never towed anything this long before.

I've towed boats and it wasn't very successful.

I've jackknifed the trailer,

so it's nice that they've let me, you know, be in charge of this.

Let's see how we go.

Richie will ride shotgun and keep an eye on the tow.

OK.

Dan and Kira will follow behind and provide an extra set of eyes.

The Kimbo Express is ready to go.

It's a 2km drive along a treacherous bush track

to the processing site,

but it's not their first rodeo.

I've got to be careful of the trees.

I don't want to hit any trees.

There's tight corners.

There's a few gullies I've got to go through.

There's a lot of obstacles,

so we've just got to take our time,

get it down in one piece.

The last time Team 1870 drove along the track,

they nearly rode off the dry blower completely.

The whole team is on edge.

Can't be going too fast.

Go wider at that one.

See how...

Yeah, yeah.

Get closer.

Yeah, wide.

Hold up for a second, go on.

Just go slowly down here

because we know we'll have to last off the dry blower.

Yeah, but we've got a good driver this time.

We've got a good driver this time, OK.

Cardio.

One poor decision now

and Richie and Kimberley's mining dream will come crashing down.

At Swiss Diggings,

Dennis is installing security cameras

around the perimeter of his lease

following a daring gold poacher raid

on his property a few nights ago.

Yeah, old poachers were here the other night

and we've amped it up, our security.

We've had enough of it, basically.

We're just completely done with it.

Dennis and Donnie were completely outrun

by a brazen gold thief

raiding their pit under the cover of darkness.

Oh, look at this thing!

Ew!

Holy!

Hold on, Donnie.

Hold on.

I can't see.

He's gone, man.

He's gone.

The recent spate of gold theft in Claremont

has all three mining teams on red alert.

The price of gold is driving this through the roof

but he says the poaching now is becoming crazy.

The thing is, is, you know,

we don't know how much if they did get any gold

or, you know, we can see that they've been digging in our piles

but whether they actually got gold

or whether they were actually getting steel.

I hope to frick they got steel and not gold,

but we just don't know.

Ramping up security around the lease is an unwanted distraction

but with a $500,000 season target on the line,

Dennis can't afford to lose any gold

and neither can Donnie.

We've got a good range of different cameras here at the moment

and these are just an added thing.

These are the old bush cameras that, you know,

for looking for animals and so forth,

but we're actually using them for, I suppose, looking for animals.

Dennis will need hard evidence

if he wants to catch the poachers out and report them to police.

The Claremont community, we know who the poachers are

but, you know, it's whether you can prove it or not.

You have to actually catch them

and then we need to make an internet sensation out of them.

At the mine site, a re-motivated Donnie

has responded with pace and vigour to Dennis's offer

to peg new ground at 1880.

Like, to have my own lease has been the end game

since I started out here

and I'm not about to let anything stand in my road.

He's brought in his mate Ronnie to help speed things up.

We've been on a good running so hopefully it'll keep up.

Ronnie is still learning.

But he's doing his best and...

..you know, he's never let me down.

He tells me he's going to be here at 6.30, he's here at 6 o'clock

and he works all day, he doesn't complain.

I've had to pull it up sometimes because I can tell he's buggered

and...and he won't say anything.

So, you know, you can't ask for better than that.

It's a big rock in this.

I'm not expecting him to get anything yet, mate.

All I did was take the loose off the top.

It'll be the next cut that'll reduce,

but you never know, one might pop up.

But Dennis isn't sold on Donnie's new upscaling strategy.

I thought I actually motivated him to, you know, to get going

and get more gold in his jar

and, well, now he's having to pay Ronnie and I...

Donnie needs to come up with the $37,500 deposit

to ink the new land in with Dennis.

Problem is, he's agreed to pay Ronnie

10% of his share of the proceeds from Swiss diggings.

I don't get the philosophy that you can be quicker

when you do the digging

and then sit in the cab and bark orders.

I can't remember what I did there,

so I think we're still detecting from about where that scrape is back.

Donnie, however, begs to differ.

But having both of us there, I can dig,

Ron detects and it just speeds it up a little bit

and gives us a little bit more labour time on the cuts.

Only time will tell

if the Donnie-Ronnie show will pay dividends or not.

So we need just... We need... We've got to get cracking, men.

He's just trying to get down to a pay layer.

He's still probably another 300 or 400 off.

He's also knocked a bit of this stuff off,

so I just want to go around and do a bit of a check through here.

At scratchy moon, Lee's jumped in to give Damo a hand in the megapit.

He's waiting on ownership documents to come through for his excavator

so he can sign off on the land deal.

So, yeah, we should find something here.

This was so rich, there's got to be something in these piles.

So far, the megapit has delivered 25 ounces of gold for Matt and Damo,

but the run has dried up in recent weeks.

I'm just being systematic.

I'm just digging through my area and I'm staying in that area.

Is it the only area that I can stink the bucket? No.

I'm being patient.

All right, let's do this.

We had two pretty mediocre cuts there and there,

and I know there's gold here under this tree, right,

because the old-timers have been finding it in the heaps.

So there's gold on the bottom that brought it up.

So we're right in the zone.

Like, where we're standing here should start to make some sounds.

Damo's instincts are telling him

they're only a few scrapes away from hitting the next pay layer.

But there's a hiccup.

Had a good run.

The starter motor on the excavator has died.

Exactly what I didn't need,

because I just need to be digging every day.

You know, we've got a lot of ground to dig.

It takes a lot of time to get down to the gold

and when you get onto that pay layer...

Hey, Mooka, are you on channel?

Damo's business partner, Matt,

has a replacement starter motor in his truck.

But he's on the other side of the lease

and he's not answering Damo's SOS call.

I'm just going straight on for that, mate.

Don't see that big pile of dirt there.

Which one? Don't say that.

Kimberley has successfully made it through Dan's ditch

and onto site with the first piece of the new wash plant.

You made it. You made it. You're in one piece.

But there's much more to be done.

They still need to move the hopper and the trommel.

Any damage to either piece of equipment

and it's game over for the season.

Dan's a bit scared about taking this one down,

so we've just made a new tow hitch on it

and all that type of stuff and it's not that long,

so let's see how it goes.

But, yeah, it'll be interesting.

That's pretty bloody big. That's huge.

The hopper's short drawbar

gives Dan less manoeuvrability and less visibility on the load.

You're only about six inches from hitting that, Dan.

It's going to be hard to see if you're going to hit it from behind.

It is fitting in by like an inch that side and two inches that side.

If he goes any further, he's going to take out the farmer's fences.

I ain't sticking around to fix those fences.

It's clear in this situation we're the best supervisors.

I've got fairly steep walls on either side of me here,

so let's see if it fits.

Yeah, can you see the left-hand side all right?

I'm actually really loving it right now.

I can just see it's all coming together.

Dan has nailed it.

One more machine down. That's... We're getting closer.

The team needs to quickly put the stabilisation legs in place

before unhooking the hopper.

Wind that left-hand side one up a little bit.

Is it going up or down? Down.

Oh, good. OK.

Is that enough?

She heard it, pal!

The kickback on the drill has twisted Richie's hand.

Oh! Oh, that hurt.

I could sort of see he was in some pain.

He was trying to hide it, but he was in some wicked pain, eh?

If Richie has broken his hand,

he won't be able to do any heavy lifting,

and that'll leave Dan a man down until the end of the season.

It feels like I've broken all that.

Yeah, so, no-one likes being a wuss,

but it played a guilt.

It really hurt. I knew instantly I'd broken my hand.

Well, this machine, the starter's finally...

..finally finished. ..finally packed it in.

So, that's it. If we want to finish this cut,

we need to get this starter going.

At Scratchy Moon, the replacement starter motor

Damo needs for his excavator

is sitting in the back of Matt's truck.

Murk, how are you on channel?

But Matt's been out of range

and hasn't been able to answer Damo's calls.

Murk, how are you on channel?

I guess that's yes.

This machine's started.

Man, I'm going to have to get something going on here

because I've got to finish this cut.

Wheels or tracks, there's always drama.

It appears so.

Can you get your ass over here and get this cracking?

I'll be there in five.

There's no doubt that, um, out here,

you want to be able to be handy,

particularly mechanically handy.

Mechanics truck.

And so there's no doubt Murk is incredibly valuable

when it comes to all that because, you know,

he just gets in a dozen, he's done it for years, that's his skill.

What's happened to our machine?

Well, it needs a bit of glue.

You brought the lemon and now it's broken down the way I die.

Yeah, but you're going to fix it, see, because of your skill.

The excavator Lee's hoping to sell to Matt and Damo

as part of the land deal

can't be used until the question of who owns the buckets is resolved.

And that just puts pressure on Matt and Damo

to get their digger back up and running.

No, don't!

You all right?

Lee, what do you think you're doing up there?

I'm just going to open the cover and do some preparation.

You might pull a fingernail or...

Get some dirt under those nails of yours.

He can't even lift the lid!

Oh, yeah, I'm just a punching bag sometimes.

I like taking the piss out of me.

It's just... It's one of those days, it's just...

It's so annoying.

I'm fairly used to getting quite good gold,

so to be on a cut that's just not really paying,

it's giving me the... actually.

I'll get rid of the rubbish.

Probably at least four hours of mucking around in that cut.

Found half a gram, and now that new starter, $650.

We haven't made enough to cover the diesel.

We're getting down to the pay layer

and haven't covered the starter motor.

You'd better get in that excavator.

Come on, start it. It's slowing me down now.

Hey!

Hey!

We're back in action.

Only $650 and ten minutes later.

Crisis averted.

For the moment.

We don't want to f*** around anymore.

We don't need any more downtime.

I'm starting to get a bit antsy

because we're getting into the week and the tallies are down.

This is the big one.

At 1870, Richie's crushed his hand

and thinks he may have broken it.

But there's much work still to be done,

so he's going to tough it out.

This has got a swivel steering system on it,

so it's like sort of backing a trailer when you're driving.

It's more complicated than it looks, so figure it out.

The final piece of the wash plan still has to be moved to site

if they're to get back on schedule.

I'm tired, I'm stuffed, and this is going to go to plain.

But we haven't towed this before, so...

Um...

..everything at the moment's a bit of a challenge.

You're coming straight back.

Back a tiny bit more.

Yep. Let's go, Richie.

I'll just go forward and tell me when to turn once I pass this bucket.

Richie's in serious pain,

but he's going to tow the $200,000 trommel to site if he can.

Well, this is going to be a long trip and scary,

and I can barely use my hand.

Team 1870's success depends on the wash plan

making it safely to site and working to capacity.

On a scale of 1 to 10, it's around about an 8 or 9.

It's, um...

I'm positive I've broken something.

What's really going through my mind at the moment

is how am I going to keep moving forward?

I don't want to hold up the team,

and I know Dan was the one giving him a hand,

and literally I've got no hand to give him now.

I don't know whether I should go to...

..a hospital or a doctor or something like that,

but I don't know what they can do.

I don't even know where I could go, which is a bit silly.

All right, mate, we're coming up to Dan's ditch.

I'm going to take it real slow.

There's a lot of weight to it, and it's swaying.

It's obviously very top-heavy, so...

Just stay back a bit just in case it comes up.

Might have to get Kimberley to drive the car back

cos I can't even hold the steering wheel.

It's a bittersweet outcome.

Richie has managed to get the wash plant to site

without damaging it.

The same can't be said for his injured hand.

He's now facing a spell on the sidelines.

Yeah-ha!

LAUGHTER

Pretty happy about getting the wash plant down there.

It went fairly smooth.

Normally when something's going to go wrong, it goes wrong,

and it goes wrong in a big, big way.

But that went way better than I was expecting.

It's done.

That only took a bloody year.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, it's not happening.

How's the hand, man?

Not going to lie to you, I think I broke it.

Yeah, it's starting to change colour, man.

I'm shaking. Can't even close it.

I think you need to get some ice on it, man.

If that's broken, you're out of action for a while, eh?

Lee's still waiting for the excavator ownership documents

to come through.

But Damo and Matt have given him an early entry pass

to do some detecting on his new lease next door to Scratchy Moo.

If he's going to peg there, we want him to be successful.

Yeah, get out there and have a go,

and he might be able to find a few spots

where he can start digging once the lease is through.

So this is a gully system here.

So we've got a big gully system coming off the hill

that pushes all the way through here.

I know there's shallow ground back up here

because I can see bedrock.

I can see, yeah, large, large, heavy shifts

just across the road here.

So I'm saying that this is going to push back through here.

I should find more shallow ground.

So the ground's going to be shallow.

Gold will sit in our low points.

To have the ground just behind 1870,

it just gives me a massive advantage

of where to dig straight away.

Lee's planning on running gold-detecting lessons on the land

to help recoup some of his start-up costs.

It's the same thing he did on his old lease, 1870, back in the day.

Due to some regulation changes only in the last week,

it has changed a great deal.