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There's a secret war going on in the outback town of Claremont. 2 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:18,740 The gold here is so good and the value of gold now is so high. 3 00:00:19,460 --> 00:00:20,400 Look at that. 4 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:21,080 Dog eat dog. 5 00:00:21,460 --> 00:00:22,060 The wars are on. 6 00:00:22,660 --> 00:00:23,280 What are you doing? 7 00:00:23,660 --> 00:00:24,800 Yeah, maybe I'll be the guy then. 8 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,060 He said you were sniffing out. 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:27,980 Wish you the best of luck. 10 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:29,680 That was good. 11 00:00:30,460 --> 00:00:31,619 Three mining teams. 12 00:00:31,619 --> 00:00:35,800 We haven't put a load of money into the mine, so we have to make it work. 13 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:39,180 Fighting it out on the one patch of land. 14 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,820 This is just some of the stuff Donny's been walking over. 15 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:44,240 Guy's full of s***. 16 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:46,560 I'd be lucky if I don't walk over his big nose. 17 00:00:47,380 --> 00:00:51,200 This time, Lee's shocked 11th hour bid. 18 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:52,220 I need to concentrate. 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,060 To buy some gold rich land off Matt and Damon. 20 00:00:57,660 --> 00:00:59,180 11 excavator. 21 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:02,520 My preferred option. 22 00:01:02,860 --> 00:01:03,440 Best option. 23 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:04,900 Swap it for the least. 24 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:06,280 Swap it. 25 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,840 And destroy Donny and Dennis's counter offer. 26 00:01:10,740 --> 00:01:11,820 We've got to let this in team green. 27 00:01:17,060 --> 00:01:17,820 Kimberley. 28 00:01:18,820 --> 00:01:21,220 Kimberley's spectacular gold find. 29 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:21,980 There you go. 30 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:23,380 My first bull nugget. 31 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:26,360 Brings new hope for team 1870. 32 00:01:27,060 --> 00:01:28,140 That is awesome. 33 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:29,480 That's made my day. 34 00:01:32,340 --> 00:01:32,880 It's a poacher. 35 00:01:33,140 --> 00:01:34,520 We've got to bloke stick him in a pit. 36 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:41,240 And Donny and Dennis go after a poacher caught on camera stealing their gold. 37 00:01:41,420 --> 00:01:41,900 Here we go. 38 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:43,160 Oh, look at this. 39 00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:45,200 Oh, look at that. 40 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,560 Jump out, jump out. 41 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:49,840 Holy s***. 42 00:01:53,360 --> 00:02:08,229 It'd be a shame if there's not a few sounds on that. 43 00:02:09,650 --> 00:02:11,370 It's got to be a screamer here somewhere. 44 00:02:12,310 --> 00:02:13,670 The scratchy moo moo. 45 00:02:14,170 --> 00:02:15,570 Claremont, Queensland. 46 00:02:16,530 --> 00:02:19,770 And Matt and Damon are on the hunt for new gold. 47 00:02:20,290 --> 00:02:24,990 Where the gold really starts is where there's a little bit of slate starts to show through. 48 00:02:25,890 --> 00:02:30,170 Their mega pit is now 8 metres deep and 40 metres wide. 49 00:02:31,230 --> 00:02:35,850 It's helped deliver 61 ounces of gold for the season so far. 50 00:02:36,370 --> 00:02:39,770 This is starting to look pretty much to be on gold country now. 51 00:02:40,310 --> 00:02:43,090 I'd be surprised if there's not a few shouts coming out of this scrape. 52 00:02:43,650 --> 00:02:44,770 But they want more. 53 00:02:45,370 --> 00:02:46,230 Where's Lee at the moment? 54 00:02:46,930 --> 00:02:48,010 I don't know where Lee is. 55 00:02:48,710 --> 00:02:55,650 Their wannabe future partner Lee is away trying to raise capital to buy a small patch of land off Matt and Damon. 56 00:02:55,650 --> 00:03:03,490 An 11th hour counter offer by Dennis for the same chunk of land was unexpected and audacious. 57 00:03:03,830 --> 00:03:05,550 This is an any day deal. 58 00:03:05,750 --> 00:03:07,590 Like seriously, he's this close. 59 00:03:08,170 --> 00:03:10,350 Donnie and Dennis are trying to get this bit of land. 60 00:03:10,430 --> 00:03:12,290 He wants the same bit of ground to peg. 61 00:03:13,470 --> 00:03:17,010 And it's typical, Lee has to sort out all his stuff. 62 00:03:17,630 --> 00:03:21,030 I'd give him about a 30% chance of getting something done, I'd say. 63 00:03:21,770 --> 00:03:23,390 Lee's a hustler at heart. 64 00:03:23,390 --> 00:03:28,150 If history's anything to go by, he won't go down without a fight. 65 00:03:28,410 --> 00:03:30,210 So, Leroy, what do you think of the deal? 66 00:03:31,110 --> 00:03:34,010 I don't care which one of them comes on board. 67 00:03:34,510 --> 00:03:37,090 Could be all talk, but Australia's the first land investor. 68 00:03:47,750 --> 00:03:55,870 At Swiss Diggings, Dennis and Donnie's below average gold talent means they need to extend their cut into fresh ground. 69 00:03:56,650 --> 00:04:04,950 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. 70 00:04:07,430 --> 00:04:16,630 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. 71 00:04:17,110 --> 00:04:21,110 We're deadlocked. They're stuck on 100%. 100% up front. 72 00:04:21,470 --> 00:04:24,030 And at the moment, we're apart. 73 00:04:24,030 --> 00:04:27,870 I really don't want to do the 100% up front. 74 00:04:28,290 --> 00:04:36,590 Matt and Damon want 100% of the payment up front, whereas Dennis only feels comfortable paying 50% on signing. 75 00:04:37,510 --> 00:04:40,230 I sort of rely on trying to get something going with them. 76 00:04:40,650 --> 00:04:45,370 Surely we can just come up with something with them to lose it to them. 77 00:04:46,390 --> 00:04:52,490 If the deal comes off, it'll be great for Donnie. He'll have a patch of land to call his own. 78 00:04:53,070 --> 00:04:57,110 We're all trying to work angles, mate. So, at the end of the day, this is how this business works. 79 00:04:57,810 --> 00:05:03,250 It's a bit of... Yeah, I can't see Damon and Matt going for the 50%. 80 00:05:03,250 --> 00:05:09,350 I can't see Dennis going for 100%. So, I'm pretty worried the deal's just going to fall over. 81 00:05:09,750 --> 00:05:12,550 Just, you know, this sucks. 82 00:05:12,750 --> 00:05:15,190 We'll just keep turning dirt here. Concentrate on what we're doing. 83 00:05:15,730 --> 00:05:17,750 Leave it with me. Let me come up with a plan of attack. 84 00:05:18,110 --> 00:05:18,530 Yeah, OK. 85 00:05:18,530 --> 00:05:22,130 If we can't get this deal across the line, it's going to somebody else who's going to get it. 86 00:05:24,350 --> 00:05:30,470 In order to clear a new mining path, Donnie needs to push a few trees over with his excavator. 87 00:05:31,710 --> 00:05:36,470 I'll just go back in here and we will do that dead tree first. 88 00:05:37,990 --> 00:05:39,550 And there she goes. 89 00:05:40,450 --> 00:05:44,130 I'm going to use the loader just to help the whole process out, make it a bit quicker. 90 00:05:45,870 --> 00:05:50,650 Dennis will use the grabber attachment on his loader to remove the fallen trees. 91 00:05:51,270 --> 00:05:55,230 One of the biggest concerns that we've got on when we're mining is taking trees out. 92 00:05:55,350 --> 00:05:59,070 I mean, if we've got to take a tree out, we have to be very, very careful at how we do it. 93 00:05:59,310 --> 00:06:03,490 And sometimes they get hung up in other trees, but you've got to make sure you actually drop them to deck. 94 00:06:04,070 --> 00:06:08,370 Their mining lease allows them to clear certain types of trees from the area. 95 00:06:09,430 --> 00:06:10,970 So I'm waiting to take it down. 96 00:06:11,690 --> 00:06:17,470 On the flip side, they're required to regenerate the land after they've finished their mining operations. 97 00:06:18,270 --> 00:06:22,250 So when you knock a tree over, they reckon that it drops like 400 seeds into the ground. 98 00:06:22,470 --> 00:06:26,770 Then when we replace it back onto the ground on a 45, it's actually stop erosion. 99 00:06:27,170 --> 00:06:30,930 So it actually stops the erosion of the dirt moving and holds the ground in place. 100 00:06:31,210 --> 00:06:33,410 And also just, you know, everything gets replanted. 101 00:06:33,710 --> 00:06:35,470 All right, so knock this one? 102 00:06:35,730 --> 00:06:35,910 Yeah. 103 00:06:35,910 --> 00:06:37,750 Righto, stand back, please. 104 00:06:38,910 --> 00:06:41,090 Removing trees is a risky business. 105 00:06:42,410 --> 00:06:44,050 A little bit too close to it. 106 00:06:44,330 --> 00:06:45,250 I want to get back a bit. 107 00:06:45,610 --> 00:06:47,250 Not the nicest thing to push. 108 00:06:47,410 --> 00:06:49,430 They can do some weird and wonderful things. 109 00:06:49,470 --> 00:06:50,570 They can bounce back that year. 110 00:06:51,130 --> 00:06:53,510 Well, they're sitting above the gold and we need them out, so. 111 00:06:54,230 --> 00:06:54,910 Here we go. 112 00:06:57,270 --> 00:06:57,850 Oh, dear. 113 00:06:58,550 --> 00:07:00,090 And she's going to get hung up. 114 00:07:02,390 --> 00:07:03,850 It's what we call the widow maker. 115 00:07:03,850 --> 00:07:06,510 So we've got to make sure that that widow maker comes down as well 116 00:07:06,510 --> 00:07:08,810 because we don't want to be walking underneath that 117 00:07:09,670 --> 00:07:13,350 and that limb that's just hanging about in the other tree stays there. 118 00:07:13,470 --> 00:07:14,770 So it has to come down as well. 119 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,640 We might have to see if we can find a big bit of bar we can tack on here. 120 00:07:32,060 --> 00:07:34,800 1870 has turned into a family affair. 121 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,820 But it's not a happy household right now. 122 00:07:38,660 --> 00:07:42,440 Owners Ritchie and Kimberley are a million dollars plus in the red. 123 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:47,620 So we're going to cut this and weld this to the trommel. 124 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:51,560 Machinery issues and schedule delays are mounting up. 125 00:07:52,140 --> 00:07:54,240 The pressure is firmly on Dan. 126 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:00,180 He's the mine manager and the one responsible for 1870's PandL. 127 00:08:00,380 --> 00:08:05,520 All the dirt, as it's going up, will actually roll back to the centre of the belt. 128 00:08:06,180 --> 00:08:10,680 Lack of progress getting the wash plant up and running is the main issue. 129 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:15,680 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. 130 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,660 Despite Ritchie and Kimberley's massive investment, 131 00:08:24,140 --> 00:08:29,180 they're only a quarter of the way towards hitting their $500,000 season target. 132 00:08:29,780 --> 00:08:34,559 The dry blower is doing its thing, pumping out an ounce of gold a day. 133 00:08:34,900 --> 00:08:37,740 But it can only work in dry conditions. 134 00:08:39,220 --> 00:08:42,220 The wash plant can run all season long 135 00:08:42,220 --> 00:08:46,600 and does a better job at processing the super fine gold particles. 136 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:47,780 It's looking pretty straight. 137 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,240 If they can get it running reliably, 138 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:55,020 it's the key to turning 1870 into a multi-million dollar operation. 139 00:08:56,220 --> 00:09:01,000 Literally there's 20, 30 different parts, moving parts to make it work. 140 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:02,400 It's going to sit roughly here. 141 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,800 I mean, I can unbolt it and rip that part off. 142 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,460 How do I start it? 143 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:10,960 Seatbelt, seatbelt. 144 00:09:11,180 --> 00:09:12,780 Safety belt. 145 00:09:13,260 --> 00:09:17,380 At the end of the day, it's just about trying to utilise who we have. 146 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:23,240 So it's better for us just to get in and do what we can to bring the gold on. 147 00:09:23,860 --> 00:09:28,520 Kimberley and Kira have been taking turns feeding pay dirt into the dry blower. 148 00:09:29,220 --> 00:09:31,240 A lot more touchier than I expected. 149 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:32,840 With mixed results. 150 00:09:34,180 --> 00:09:39,620 The ripple trays on the dry blower catch all of the smaller nuggets and fine gold. 151 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,600 But anything bigger than 8mm is filtered out by the screen on top 152 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,980 and flows into a tailings pile. 153 00:09:47,660 --> 00:09:51,540 A big pile of dirt stops us from getting the loader to the thing, OK? 154 00:09:55,340 --> 00:09:59,040 Kimberley and Kira will run a metal detector over the tailings 155 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,180 and scan for larger sized nuggets. 156 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,220 We don't know what gold we're missing. 157 00:10:05,380 --> 00:10:07,840 There might have been some decent gold in there 158 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,320 that can't get through the screen on the hopper. 159 00:10:10,820 --> 00:10:13,060 So that's why we need to run a detector over it. 160 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,120 The gold price is at an all-time high. 161 00:10:17,420 --> 00:10:19,420 Nearly $6,000 an ounce. 162 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,740 That's great news for all three teams. 163 00:10:22,980 --> 00:10:25,720 If they can hit their 100-ounce target, 164 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,380 they'll each collect an extra $100,000. 165 00:10:31,260 --> 00:10:34,720 We're here to get all the gold, so I don't want to lose it. 166 00:10:35,220 --> 00:10:36,440 So I'm hoping the girls, 167 00:10:37,220 --> 00:10:40,060 you know, using the metal detectors, detecting an oversize, 168 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:41,280 can get some gold. 169 00:10:42,860 --> 00:10:44,320 Yeah, that's going to be a challenge. 170 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,120 You can take the girl out of the Gold Coast, 171 00:10:47,660 --> 00:10:49,960 but you can't take the Gold Coast out of the girl. 172 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,280 Kimberley's fashion sense is going to have to take a hit. 173 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:57,900 We're going to have to do something here. 174 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:01,260 Anything that's going to ping on you has to come off. 175 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,320 It's called a metal detector. 176 00:11:04,340 --> 00:11:06,080 It's going to detect metal. 177 00:11:06,860 --> 00:11:08,000 So get that off you. 178 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:13,220 Your belt's off, your chains are off, your watch, rings. 179 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,280 The fashion out here for gold miners isn't really my taste, 180 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:19,120 and I'm just making up my own outfits. 181 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,900 You know, everyone's just covered in dirt and, yeah, 182 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:24,060 dirty and gross and dusty. 183 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:25,620 You've got your zippers on. 184 00:11:25,620 --> 00:11:26,960 That's going to interfere. 185 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:29,740 Yeah, we'll have to sort that out. 186 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:37,400 At the end of the day, I've got a funny feeling that he won't. 187 00:11:37,580 --> 00:11:38,420 You know, he's all talk. 188 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:43,340 At Scratchy Moo, Matt and Damo have two prospective buyers 189 00:11:43,340 --> 00:11:45,960 for the 60 hectares of land they want to sell. 190 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:50,060 But both offers come with complications. 191 00:11:51,460 --> 00:11:53,220 Lee desperately wants the land, 192 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:55,280 but is struggling to raise the cash. 193 00:11:55,940 --> 00:11:58,180 I've just got a feeling he's not in a position to do it. 194 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:00,280 Dennis has the cash, 195 00:12:00,460 --> 00:12:03,120 but only wants to pay half the money up front. 196 00:12:03,660 --> 00:12:06,960 Dennis will probably just muscle up 197 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,340 and pay the full amount up front, and it'll be a done deal. 198 00:12:11,340 --> 00:12:14,680 In the meantime, Matt and Damo are grinding it out. 199 00:12:16,180 --> 00:12:17,680 We were tracking on good, 200 00:12:17,820 --> 00:12:20,300 and over the last week, it's leaned off a bit. 201 00:12:20,860 --> 00:12:22,480 We had a tough little period. 202 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,140 We were on a little creamy run there for a while. 203 00:12:26,460 --> 00:12:28,880 That's Donny's show picking up swarf all day. 204 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,520 You reckon he's rubbed off on us? 205 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:32,860 Poor Donny. 206 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,480 That sounds a little bit better. 207 00:12:40,180 --> 00:12:41,480 Right, and that'll be... 208 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:44,380 Just a little one. 209 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:46,480 Got to start somewhere. 210 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,080 Little .2. 211 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:48,180 .2. 212 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:53,840 That's all right. This is the level that we should be on. 213 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,200 Oh, there it is. Yeah, look at that. 214 00:12:57,340 --> 00:13:00,080 Oh, that'll be probably a .3. 215 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:01,820 It's pretty skinny. 216 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:05,540 Even though they're in a lean spell, 217 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,560 Matt and Damo are the seasoned leaders in Claremore. 218 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,720 That gives them enough comfort 219 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,440 to hold out for the right offer for their land. 220 00:13:14,260 --> 00:13:16,260 Whatever comes through on the terms that we're requesting 221 00:13:17,180 --> 00:13:18,180 comes out trumps. 222 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:20,160 There it is. 223 00:13:24,930 --> 00:13:27,050 So I think you'll be best on the detector. 224 00:13:27,490 --> 00:13:27,730 OK. 225 00:13:28,030 --> 00:13:31,930 Kimberly has just about removed all the metal from her outfit 226 00:13:31,930 --> 00:13:34,210 and can now get on with the job. 227 00:13:35,350 --> 00:13:38,350 She and Kira are getting a crash course in metal detecting. 228 00:13:38,810 --> 00:13:41,510 Just try your hardest to keep it right at the low. 229 00:13:41,830 --> 00:13:44,270 And that's all you're doing, just exactly how it is now. 230 00:13:44,630 --> 00:13:46,330 And if there's a target, 231 00:13:46,330 --> 00:13:49,350 it's going to make an absolute racket. 232 00:13:49,870 --> 00:13:50,050 OK. 233 00:13:50,170 --> 00:13:53,390 These detectors can find the tiniest pieces of gold 234 00:13:53,390 --> 00:13:55,130 and absolutely scream. 235 00:13:55,690 --> 00:13:57,970 They'll do a run over the tailing spread 236 00:13:57,970 --> 00:14:01,330 to see if they can find any oversized nuggets. 237 00:14:01,790 --> 00:14:04,470 Hopefully the gold in here is all over 8 million. 238 00:14:04,950 --> 00:14:07,870 Meanwhile, Richie and Dan's son Braden 239 00:14:07,870 --> 00:14:10,310 are getting on with assembling the wash plant. 240 00:14:10,790 --> 00:14:15,640 They need to get the $500,000 processing plant up and running ASAP. 241 00:14:17,110 --> 00:14:20,030 I'll hold this arm out a bit cos that's your guide stick. 242 00:14:20,270 --> 00:14:20,690 Oh, OK. 243 00:14:20,890 --> 00:14:23,850 And try keep that as close to the ground as possible. 244 00:14:24,110 --> 00:14:24,450 OK. 245 00:14:24,590 --> 00:14:25,530 So you can scrape the ground. 246 00:14:25,870 --> 00:14:26,630 Scrape the ground. 247 00:14:27,010 --> 00:14:27,910 Cool, I'm out. 248 00:14:28,030 --> 00:14:28,770 See yous later, guys. 249 00:14:28,970 --> 00:14:29,070 Bye. 250 00:14:30,390 --> 00:14:31,850 I've not found a nugget yet. 251 00:14:33,130 --> 00:14:34,010 Come on. 252 00:14:37,670 --> 00:14:38,670 Is that noise? 253 00:14:39,870 --> 00:14:40,310 Ooh. 254 00:14:40,810 --> 00:14:42,030 Come on, gold digger. 255 00:14:42,450 --> 00:14:43,230 Ooh, right there. 256 00:14:44,370 --> 00:14:46,450 Very soon it's going to go ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. 257 00:14:47,670 --> 00:14:48,890 We got something. 258 00:14:49,890 --> 00:14:51,030 There you go. 259 00:14:51,930 --> 00:14:54,050 This one might be a shaving, actually. 260 00:14:55,710 --> 00:14:56,470 What is it? 261 00:14:56,610 --> 00:14:57,330 It's a shaving. 262 00:14:58,050 --> 00:14:59,230 Well, that was... 263 00:15:06,780 --> 00:15:07,940 She's going to be difficult. 264 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:12,000 At Swiss Diggies, Donny is wrestling with a tree 265 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,740 that's blocking access to their new dig site. 266 00:15:15,060 --> 00:15:17,520 When they get caught up in each other, it's not a good thing. 267 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:21,660 Should move back a bit out of the way. 268 00:15:22,140 --> 00:15:23,800 Got to be so careful doing this, too. 269 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,100 Should be enough there. 270 00:15:28,780 --> 00:15:30,140 Yeah, that'll move me. 271 00:15:30,460 --> 00:15:31,720 Will you be able to get that, Dennis? 272 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:32,760 Yep. 273 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:35,540 Got to make sure I don't hit a tree. 274 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:37,240 Dodge them cars. 275 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,540 Our strategy today is to literally take out this side of this bank 276 00:15:41,540 --> 00:15:45,120 and head back up towards where we were against a really good gold. 277 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,660 But this is an interesting little project 278 00:15:47,660 --> 00:15:50,740 because now I'm on the loader and Donny on the digger. 279 00:15:51,860 --> 00:15:52,740 We'll see how this goes 280 00:15:52,740 --> 00:15:55,280 because we think there's actually some pretty good gold in underneath here. 281 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,320 Their strategy remains unchanged. 282 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:04,040 Scrape and detect the shallow ground along the old creek and riverbeds. 283 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,440 If there's decent gold to be found on Dennis' lease, 284 00:16:07,820 --> 00:16:08,960 that's where it'll be. 285 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,640 Old creek systems, they never go straight, 286 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,340 so they'll only go straight for a certain period of time, 287 00:16:14,340 --> 00:16:16,320 but what we actually do want them to do is bend, 288 00:16:16,940 --> 00:16:19,480 because when they bend is where we get the big dropout zones. 289 00:16:20,060 --> 00:16:22,080 Get into that deeper ground there, 290 00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:26,040 there'll be some good gold in that country, good gold. 291 00:16:29,860 --> 00:16:30,820 Oh, no. 292 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:33,460 One step forward, two steps back. 293 00:16:34,140 --> 00:16:37,520 In all the excitement, the fuel gauge has broken off. 294 00:16:38,420 --> 00:16:40,640 Oh, yeah, it broke the side glass. 295 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:42,600 Oh, no, it did, too. 296 00:16:50,870 --> 00:16:54,270 Another 0.2, joint 0.2, 0.3. 297 00:16:54,930 --> 00:16:58,830 At scratchy move, Matt and Damo are slowly getting back on track 298 00:16:58,830 --> 00:17:00,350 with tiny nugget finds. 299 00:17:01,770 --> 00:17:03,010 SIREN BLARES 300 00:17:03,010 --> 00:17:09,950 It's big. It's probably a 0.4. 301 00:17:11,089 --> 00:17:12,589 It's got a little bit of a tail on it. 302 00:17:13,510 --> 00:17:14,609 SIREN BLARES 303 00:17:14,609 --> 00:17:15,390 That's loud. 304 00:17:15,390 --> 00:17:16,369 SIREN BLARES 305 00:17:16,369 --> 00:17:17,950 A bit like the other bit there. 306 00:17:18,210 --> 00:17:21,650 Oh, that one's still probably just a good solid 0.3. 307 00:17:22,210 --> 00:17:25,030 We've had to be really patient in here. There's a lot of gold. 308 00:17:26,569 --> 00:17:28,830 Finally, we've got a grammar out of this cut. 309 00:17:29,210 --> 00:17:30,450 It's a nice-looking nugget. 310 00:17:31,090 --> 00:17:35,090 If they can sell off some of their land to Lee or to Donny and Dennis, 311 00:17:35,530 --> 00:17:38,350 they'll use the money to expand their operations 312 00:17:38,350 --> 00:17:40,150 and push for more gold. 313 00:17:40,750 --> 00:17:41,650 Another 0.3. 314 00:17:42,430 --> 00:17:43,530 That's our destiny. 315 00:17:43,530 --> 00:17:49,990 All this stuff that's happened with Donny and other people, 316 00:17:50,390 --> 00:17:52,850 I think Lee's probably got money floating around as well, 317 00:17:52,910 --> 00:17:55,490 but it's somehow, like, tangled up in things. 318 00:17:56,270 --> 00:17:58,370 Cash is king in Claremont, 319 00:17:58,570 --> 00:18:01,790 and whoever comes up with the money will get the land. 320 00:18:02,310 --> 00:18:04,190 And it's getting close to crunch time. 321 00:18:04,930 --> 00:18:06,010 That's bloody clunking away. 322 00:18:07,050 --> 00:18:08,790 We should go and check out what that's all about. 323 00:18:09,270 --> 00:18:10,790 Lee has returned, 324 00:18:10,790 --> 00:18:13,750 but not in a way anyone expected. 325 00:18:14,630 --> 00:18:17,290 This goes here. Oh, I might be poaching. 326 00:18:19,290 --> 00:18:24,250 The mining investor is at the helm of a 32-tonne excavator. 327 00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:26,790 It's a bizarre turn of events. 328 00:18:27,510 --> 00:18:29,270 I actually thought it'd be way higher than this. 329 00:18:29,910 --> 00:18:31,910 What exactly is he up to? 330 00:18:33,550 --> 00:18:34,190 MUSIC 331 00:18:44,620 --> 00:18:48,360 At 1870, Dan and Richie are all focus, 332 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,180 getting their precious wash plant prepped 333 00:18:51,180 --> 00:18:53,220 for its imminent journey to site. 334 00:18:53,660 --> 00:18:56,100 Everything now comes to the wash plant. 335 00:18:57,060 --> 00:19:00,100 We needed this up and running, you know, several weeks ago. 336 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,880 I'm about to tie this trommel down. 337 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:07,160 The wash plant, that's a big-ticket item, right? 338 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,760 That'll put this mine on the map. 339 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:11,760 I'll go that way. 340 00:19:12,580 --> 00:19:13,320 I'll go this way. 341 00:19:13,580 --> 00:19:17,240 So we want to try and get this down to site a bit later on today. 342 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:19,880 It's going to be a bit scary cos it's a bit top-heavy as well. 343 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,080 I'm going to try and see if I can tow it with our truck. 344 00:19:22,820 --> 00:19:25,720 The wash plant has thousands of moving parts, 345 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:28,580 and some of those parts weigh several tonnes. 346 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,160 Just getting it ready to move is a monumental task. 347 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,620 You seem able to drive while getting that down. 348 00:19:36,860 --> 00:19:38,180 Hang on. Whoa! 349 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:42,980 Hang on, mate. Hang on. Whoa, whoa! 350 00:19:43,660 --> 00:19:44,980 Mate, you're well stamped. 351 00:19:47,740 --> 00:19:49,760 I can't have that happen again. 352 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:57,640 Having been stung by Dennis' 2.5 grand repair bill last time, 353 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,260 Dan needs to make sure that this time 354 00:20:01,260 --> 00:20:03,520 the frame on the trommel is secure. 355 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,480 Oh, I'm just trying to tuck these pins on 356 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,760 because when they've made these, it was terrible. 357 00:20:13,380 --> 00:20:17,180 Let's face it, it was cheaper than hiring Dennis 358 00:20:17,620 --> 00:20:19,260 because I've brought a welder 359 00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:22,000 for almost half the price of what I paid him to do. 360 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,260 I'm bloody over it. This is something I hate. 361 00:20:26,420 --> 00:20:28,340 You know, just got to figure out what we're going to do. 362 00:20:38,380 --> 00:20:40,500 Oh! Yeah, it broke the side glass. 363 00:20:40,940 --> 00:20:41,540 Oh, no! 364 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,040 Lucky I only had half a tank of fuel in it. 365 00:20:46,340 --> 00:20:50,280 A stray branch has broken the fuel gauge on Dennis' loader. 366 00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:52,420 What I'll do is I'll change the top to the bottom 367 00:20:52,420 --> 00:20:54,080 and then that'll keep us going. 368 00:20:54,180 --> 00:20:56,060 Then we'll be able to at least keep operating. 369 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,060 It's about the only way I'm going to get round it. 370 00:20:58,480 --> 00:20:58,880 Argh! 371 00:21:00,940 --> 00:21:02,420 Machinery. Men and machinery. 372 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:03,660 See what happens. 373 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:06,060 It hasn't actually punched the tank, it just broke the side glass. 374 00:21:06,060 --> 00:21:08,440 Have a go at it, eh? Broken, boom. 375 00:21:09,020 --> 00:21:12,500 I'll keep digging while you do the operation on that. 376 00:21:15,940 --> 00:21:19,620 At the new dig site, Donnie's down through the topside 377 00:21:19,620 --> 00:21:22,080 and into what he hopes will be pay dirt. 378 00:21:23,140 --> 00:21:24,840 Definitely a gravel run in there. 379 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,740 Dennis doesn't want to lose momentum, 380 00:21:28,180 --> 00:21:32,300 so it's a quick bush fix on the fuel gauge... 381 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:32,940 Fixed. 382 00:21:34,220 --> 00:21:36,320 ..before rejoining Donnie in the cut. 383 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:39,140 Oh, no. 384 00:21:39,260 --> 00:21:40,800 It took about 100 mil off the top, 385 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,080 so maybe a bit more than 100 mil. 386 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:45,800 Bit of swarf, I can see it. 387 00:21:50,930 --> 00:21:51,810 How's it going, that, brother? 388 00:21:51,970 --> 00:21:53,610 I'm liking the sound of that. 389 00:21:54,210 --> 00:21:55,110 Sounds all right, eh? 390 00:21:55,350 --> 00:21:57,570 Might have to sharpen your pitch, eh? 391 00:21:57,890 --> 00:21:58,390 You can say. 392 00:22:01,970 --> 00:22:02,370 Oh! 393 00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:14,650 At Scratchy Moon, Lee has returned to site 394 00:22:14,650 --> 00:22:17,670 with what he hopes will be his secret weapon 395 00:22:17,670 --> 00:22:21,030 in the race to secure a landing with Matt and Damo. 396 00:22:21,170 --> 00:22:22,070 I need to concentrate. 397 00:22:23,110 --> 00:22:24,170 I don't like machines. 398 00:22:24,910 --> 00:22:27,210 I'm not a huge fan of machines. 399 00:22:27,870 --> 00:22:30,790 Lee can't free up enough money in time 400 00:22:30,790 --> 00:22:34,310 to do a cash-only offer ahead of Donnie and Dennis, 401 00:22:34,730 --> 00:22:38,750 but he does own this, a highly valuable excavator, 402 00:22:38,750 --> 00:22:40,950 which he can throw in as part of the deal. 403 00:22:41,310 --> 00:22:42,930 It's a creative manoeuvre. 404 00:22:43,430 --> 00:22:44,470 So if I can do that deal, 405 00:22:45,070 --> 00:22:48,170 gets me out of the machine, gets me in a lease, I'm sorted. 406 00:22:48,610 --> 00:22:50,810 I'm not even watching you two. I'm concentrating. 407 00:22:51,530 --> 00:22:53,290 Just have it rattling down the driveway. 408 00:22:54,530 --> 00:22:55,970 Lee, Jesus. 409 00:22:56,510 --> 00:22:57,750 The Lemon Excavator. 410 00:22:59,810 --> 00:23:05,110 A 32-tonne excavator can be worth as much as 250 grand. 411 00:23:05,730 --> 00:23:08,130 I don't even know how much this weighs, but it's heavy. 412 00:23:08,130 --> 00:23:09,530 Don't get bogged down. 413 00:23:10,150 --> 00:23:13,690 Who says you need skills to drive this piece of piss? 414 00:23:15,270 --> 00:23:15,790 Look at that. 415 00:23:17,450 --> 00:23:21,390 The problem with Lee's excavator is that it's seen better days. 416 00:23:22,090 --> 00:23:26,150 It's in need of repair work, and that will cost money. 417 00:23:26,490 --> 00:23:30,330 It's yellow, it looks like a lemon, and it is a bit of a lemon. 418 00:23:30,670 --> 00:23:32,770 The Lemon Excavator! 419 00:23:34,510 --> 00:23:36,550 Yeah, you need to spend a lot of money. 420 00:23:36,550 --> 00:23:38,530 So it's got a couple of issues. 421 00:23:38,530 --> 00:23:39,670 It's got some character anyway. 422 00:23:40,010 --> 00:23:41,530 How much did you find wrong with it? 423 00:23:41,530 --> 00:23:42,990 I'll show you the first one here. 424 00:23:43,510 --> 00:23:45,190 Look at this beauty, Leroy. 425 00:23:45,550 --> 00:23:46,810 Check the fuel on that. 426 00:23:48,210 --> 00:23:48,690 So... 427 00:23:48,690 --> 00:23:51,910 The door's been just about to fall off. 428 00:23:53,790 --> 00:23:54,690 Don't pull it! 429 00:23:59,930 --> 00:24:01,770 Wiring inside's been smashed out. 430 00:24:02,890 --> 00:24:03,370 Broken. 431 00:24:03,370 --> 00:24:05,010 Hold everything in there. 432 00:24:05,690 --> 00:24:06,710 So it needs a bit of work. 433 00:24:07,230 --> 00:24:08,730 I don't know what we're going to do with you, Lee. 434 00:24:09,750 --> 00:24:11,550 You want to do a bit of a swap, do you? 435 00:24:11,850 --> 00:24:12,090 Yeah. 436 00:24:12,950 --> 00:24:15,710 To secure the 60 hectares of land, 437 00:24:16,130 --> 00:24:20,310 Lee needs Matt and Damo to value his beaten-up old excavator 438 00:24:20,310 --> 00:24:22,210 at a whopping 90 grand. 439 00:24:23,110 --> 00:24:24,810 Lee's in for a bit of a shock. 440 00:24:25,250 --> 00:24:27,670 I think the excavator's worth about 40,000. 441 00:24:27,930 --> 00:24:29,050 Yeah, she's a bit of a lemon. 442 00:24:29,050 --> 00:24:31,350 Right, so my option is... 443 00:24:31,730 --> 00:24:33,910 Well, my preferred option, best option, 444 00:24:34,650 --> 00:24:35,990 swap it for the lease. 445 00:24:36,630 --> 00:24:37,270 Swap it. 446 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:49,540 I want to say it's still in the ground. 447 00:24:50,140 --> 00:24:51,880 At the new Swiss digging site, 448 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,040 Donny and Dennis are focusing on the job at hand. 449 00:24:56,580 --> 00:24:58,780 They're off to a promising start. 450 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:02,780 Oh-ho-ho! 451 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,120 There it is. 452 00:25:05,780 --> 00:25:07,800 That'll be four or five grimmer, four grimmer. 453 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:08,880 What, three, four grimmer? 454 00:25:09,380 --> 00:25:11,080 Beautiful. Heard it. No problem at all. 455 00:25:11,220 --> 00:25:11,500 Easy. 456 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,520 Right up, sitting up at the top of the ironstone. 457 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:17,040 It's an $800 nugget. 458 00:25:17,620 --> 00:25:18,760 A welcome find. 459 00:25:19,260 --> 00:25:21,180 But they're still a long way off 460 00:25:21,180 --> 00:25:24,260 reaching their $500,000 season target. 461 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:25,720 I need to be earning the money now. 462 00:25:26,060 --> 00:25:28,780 So the target of 100 ounces has got to be now. 463 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,200 It cannot be anything different. It has to be now. 464 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,540 That'll go close. Three and a half, four grams. 465 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,060 Yeah, easy. Definitely. 466 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:38,020 And there it is. 467 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:38,720 Good stuff. 468 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:40,940 The going is slow 469 00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:43,500 because the soil is full of contaminants 470 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:45,020 that set the machines off. 471 00:25:45,540 --> 00:25:47,620 False positives can be heartbreaking. 472 00:25:49,340 --> 00:25:52,920 This white clay just plays up when you detect it so much. 473 00:25:52,940 --> 00:25:53,780 It's so hot. 474 00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:02,020 Well, the machine's just playing a bit up. 475 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,680 Oh, here we go, Donnie. Got him? 476 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:06,700 I've got one. 477 00:26:07,580 --> 00:26:08,200 Have a go at that. 478 00:26:08,780 --> 00:26:10,460 We've got moldables, by the way. Have a go at that. 479 00:26:10,620 --> 00:26:11,000 Oh, God. 480 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,620 Oh, we're a patch, man. 481 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:16,280 Right there. 482 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,640 Gram? Oh, I don't know. 483 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:20,240 I can only see half of it, I think. 484 00:26:20,820 --> 00:26:23,340 Oh, that'll be nearly two grams, I reckon. 485 00:26:23,420 --> 00:26:24,460 A couple of grams. Easy. 486 00:26:24,940 --> 00:26:27,560 Solid nuggets within striking distance of each other 487 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:31,640 means Dennis and Donnie may have found a brand-new gold patch. 488 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,060 It's the outcome they've been hoping for. 489 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,180 It just might be enough to give Dennis the confidence 490 00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:41,200 to go in hard for Matt and Damo's land. 491 00:26:42,340 --> 00:26:45,380 You've still got the problem of how much gold's going to be there, 492 00:26:45,820 --> 00:26:47,800 but you're on it. You've found it. 493 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:51,220 There's another one. 494 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,080 Oh, it's... Oh, yeah, right-o. 495 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,380 So it's a decent piece. That'll be two grams. 496 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:02,920 We're going to keep digging, but this is another good little piece. 497 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,040 I reckon we're probably pretty close to about eight grams today already, 498 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:07,780 if not a little bit more. 499 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,100 Just got to check all that loose dirt, because there could be multiple. 500 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,200 Still in there, bro. 501 00:27:23,350 --> 00:27:23,890 Piece of metal. 502 00:27:25,290 --> 00:27:25,650 Ah! 503 00:27:27,150 --> 00:27:30,970 At 1870, Kimberly and Kira's nugget hunt 504 00:27:30,970 --> 00:27:33,330 has been plagued by false positives 505 00:27:33,950 --> 00:27:37,350 as they strive to master the art of metal detecting. 506 00:27:38,370 --> 00:27:39,970 There we go. So go slower. 507 00:27:42,290 --> 00:27:44,230 This is another metal shaving, I'm afraid. 508 00:27:44,230 --> 00:27:45,050 It better not be. 509 00:27:47,110 --> 00:27:48,950 You've got to be kidding me. Another piece of metal. 510 00:27:49,090 --> 00:27:50,050 Yeah. No! 511 00:27:50,990 --> 00:27:51,930 Oh, hang on. 512 00:27:53,510 --> 00:27:54,410 That noise? 513 00:27:54,970 --> 00:27:59,530 If I find a fricking piece of nail or something, I'll be mad. 514 00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:02,850 That's over here. 515 00:28:03,970 --> 00:28:05,310 Beginner's luck. Here we go. Come on. 516 00:28:07,310 --> 00:28:08,910 Oh, I can see it. Oh, my God. 517 00:28:09,010 --> 00:28:09,690 I found a nugget. 518 00:28:11,130 --> 00:28:11,490 Kimberly! 519 00:28:12,430 --> 00:28:15,250 Told you, beginner's luck. That's a decent-sized one, too. 520 00:28:15,790 --> 00:28:18,770 I didn't really know what to expect, and at the same time, 521 00:28:18,810 --> 00:28:20,870 I was like... I still thought it was going to be... 522 00:28:20,870 --> 00:28:22,870 I'd find something bigger, so I wasn't that excited. 523 00:28:24,410 --> 00:28:25,790 Top pocket find. 524 00:28:27,630 --> 00:28:30,150 There you go. My first little nugget. 525 00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:32,750 I'd probably go... 526 00:28:33,770 --> 00:28:34,450 maybe... 527 00:28:34,450 --> 00:28:35,430 four grams? 528 00:28:36,110 --> 00:28:37,550 How much is that worth? I don't know. 529 00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:39,530 Money. 530 00:28:40,150 --> 00:28:42,190 Good money. I'll ask the boys later. 531 00:28:42,590 --> 00:28:45,330 Kira's gold weight guesstimate is way off. 532 00:28:45,870 --> 00:28:49,190 The nine-gram nugget should be worth around $1,600. 533 00:28:50,350 --> 00:28:51,870 If the weight's verified, 534 00:28:51,870 --> 00:28:54,650 it'll be the biggest gold find of the week 535 00:28:54,650 --> 00:28:56,950 across all three mining teams. 536 00:28:57,550 --> 00:28:59,570 I just hope this is big enough for today, all right? 537 00:28:59,890 --> 00:29:01,130 If you can just chuck it in there. 538 00:29:01,590 --> 00:29:03,250 There we go. We'll fill it up. Thank you. 539 00:29:03,690 --> 00:29:06,090 They've got, like, a vision of, like, filling up, you know, 540 00:29:06,310 --> 00:29:08,590 a little jar, but I have a vision of filling up a handbag. 541 00:29:09,330 --> 00:29:11,590 Kimberly and Kira have struck gold 542 00:29:11,590 --> 00:29:14,590 at a time when the unhappy family affair 543 00:29:14,590 --> 00:29:17,190 is in desperate need of some good news. 544 00:29:17,570 --> 00:29:19,970 Oh, is that my bed? Is that it? Literally. 545 00:29:21,310 --> 00:29:22,110 That's awesome. 546 00:29:22,990 --> 00:29:25,110 And the big nuggets keep on coming. 547 00:29:25,650 --> 00:29:26,870 Is it? Is it? I think it is. 548 00:29:27,130 --> 00:29:28,530 It looks like gold. It looks like gold. 549 00:29:28,770 --> 00:29:30,070 Oh, piss off. That's mine, remember? 550 00:29:30,370 --> 00:29:31,570 I think that's bigger than mine. 551 00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:46,940 At Swiss Diggings, Donnie and Dennis are also on the gold. 552 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,920 This was the original small gold detector 553 00:29:50,780 --> 00:29:52,980 for creeks and gullies and things like that. 554 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,620 There's more in there. Yeah. 555 00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:57,020 There's another one in there. 556 00:29:57,020 --> 00:29:58,660 The nuggets are small.