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This weather's incredible at the moment.

Looks like we're going to get smashed with a storm any second now.

Yeah, Caden's over on the pad there.

I've got it.

About 900 bucks.

Have a look at that.

Jeez, we're about to get smashed.

It's starting to hail. Caden, get back to the car. This is not good.

Get out. Seriously.

It's time to go.

This lightning is getting worse.

I've got to pack this up right now. There's nothing I can do. The last thing

I want is to get struck.

The lightning's so close, Caden. Hurry up.

You can't be out in weather like this.

Rain over here and not too bad right here.

Blue sky over here.

Incredible.

This is the weather in Victoria.

It's 50 seasons in one.

We've got to get some dirt out of that hole.

So we'll see how we go. We'll try and keep the gold rolling in.

The weather's finally cleared up and now we've got the operation going.

We're taking dirt to the pad.

Hopefully we can really kick into gear and get as much gold out of the ground

while we can.

Mate, we're going to be up against this week. We've got rain and hail at times.

At the end of the day, mate, we're after 200 ounces this season. We've got 114.5

ounces so far.

That is half a million dollars.

We might as well be half a million dollars in the red because we've got

half a million dollars to go.

We get 200 ounces this season. That'll allow us to supersize the operation.

And we can really get some gold in.

Where are you digging now? Are you pretty close to where we found that 38

-ouncer? That's what we're looking for, mate.

Something like that. In that case, stop chatting here and we'll get straight

into it. Keep going.

I can hear that all day there, mate, but I want to see it out.

Ha!

That's a $200,000 piece of gold!

The Poseidon Crew.

Mine boss Brent Shannon, his 18-year-old son Caden and mining partner Jaden Perry

have had a bumper start to their season.

We're trying to get through about 50 tonne a day. I hope the boys out there

are doing well.

Splitting their efforts between processing consistent fine gold at

German Gully and hunting for record-breaking nuggets at Caddo's

Paddock. Having the two operations running at once is going to really pay

off for us.

all in a push to hit their $1 million season target.

Well done, Caden.

We're already over halfway to our season target.

Hey, Jane.

How you feeling? Still battling it. I had to have my injection from the

Crohn's because I was just feeling worse and worse.

Mate, I feel bad I'm not out there helping you, you know.

Well, Caden, seriously, mate.

What you can do for us is get yourself feeling the best you can and then come

out once you're feeling right.

Yeah, beautiful, mate. We'll bring you any time.

100%. Will do, mate.

We haven't got Jaden here with us.

He battles an autoimmune condition called Crohn's.

He's got a dose of the flu.

The combination's really knocked him around.

He's ended up in hospital.

Could be a few days he might be down.

But right now, it's Caden and I with only the two of us.

We just can't run the wash plant at German Gully.

Here at Caddo's, we're digging down with the excavator to the ancient buried

river streams where the old-timers have done a lot of their mining.

And what we've already proven so far is that the old boys don't get it all.

Caddo's paddock sits along the path of an ancient buried river channel, first

worked by old-timers in the late 1800s.

Now, the team rely on modern machinery to rework the ground, hoping to recover

the gold those early miners left behind.

I'm starting to get some good gold out of the ground. The only problem is this

weather. Looks like it's starting to turn again.

You can go take that one away, mate.

This rain's starting to get heavier again.

It's starting to get slippery.

This weather's really making things tough. The ground's getting pretty soft.

The truck doesn't really want to gain traction.

Keep it going, Codes.

Keep it going, mate.

The truck's struggling.

All the dirt in there's too heavy for it.

You're going to get stuck there.

Voluntarily stuck.

Bloody hell.

I feel like a bit of a bloody idiot falling in a hole, but I just didn't see

it. And now I'm in it.

You have to have your wits about you when you're out here.

Could turn into a very bad day very quickly.

I was going to give Jackie a call on the radio, but I'm outside of radio comms.

So now that I've got that jacked up, I'm on the hunt for rocks.

Oh, the humility.

I'm gushing like a busted tap.

I'm so close.

to being able to drive out of this hole.

All right.

Come on.

Yes.

We're back on the road, baby.

Well, that would be sweat.

I drove into a hole, Jackie. What?

I was driving. I drove into a hole.

And then I had to get the car out of the hole. How big was this hole? Big. You

just sprayed me with your sweat.

I suppose I better keep you a bit more supervised in future.

It's hot up here. It's humid. And I've seen him sweat before. But he looks like

he just came out of a storm.

Well, he shook off like a golden retriever getting out of the beach.

That was something else.

The bloke needs to drink water, get some salts back into him because I don't want

him to drop like a fly out here. He's too big for me to pick up.

It's crazy.

All right, good luck. Get yourself a nuggy, mate.

Let's get it.

Right in the middle of the boiler out here.

We're three and a half ounces in to our 10 ounce target.

The heat's definitely on.

We've really got to try and make the most out of the time that we have left

here. And with the wet season fast approaching, our time's running out.

There's a lot of pressure to try and search as many places as possible

because we've got to find the ones that have all the gold in them.

The whole point of what we're doing at the moment is exploration.

The more ground we cover, the better for the leaseholder.

Welcome to the Territory.

Jackie Bazzetti and Kyle Wilson have travelled from their homes in Queensland

and Western Australia over 2,000 kilometres deep into the Northern

Territory in search of a new opportunity.

Woohoo! Need a hand to do some exploration work? Whatever you find is

yours to keep. The pair have been tasked by leaseholder Grant Farris to track

down new gold deposits.

Across his vast 450 square kilometres of leases. You ripper!

Keeping what gold they find in exchange for the GPS locations of their

discoveries. Us getting to keep all the gold is just amazing.

Now with the wet season closing in, the pair are battling 90% humidity in a race

to locate as much gold ground as possible before heavy rains and tropical

cyclones force them out.

Tell you what, that humidity is an absolute killer.

This would be awesome if this is the target.

The nuggies here have two meanings for us at the moment. One, it's gold.

But two, it's another spot for Grant.

I'm starting to get excited.

It's gold. Great news for Grant.

Just going to grab a quick photo and a GPS location for the nug.

All right, one in a jar. Time to get another one. Let's go.

That's a pretty booming signal there.

Oh, where is it?

Oh, yeah.

That's a big boy.

This is like $3,000, $4,000.

That's why we're doing this.

No way.

Whoa.

I just saw this pile of rocks.

And I thought that looked like something interesting.

But look at this.

This is like an old oven or an old kiln.

Definitely gold rush here. A little bit of history right there.

Once upon a time, that would have come all the way around here. You can see the

edges of it.

I'd say this was fully domed in and enclosed.

This is so, so cool.

And there's something else down there too.

I know it doesn't look like much.

But we are right in the thick of an old-timers mining town. If only you

could see what it looked like back then.

In 1871, the discovery of gold drew hundreds of hopeful Chinese and European

arrivals into the remote Northern Territory.

But the brutal heat and unforgiving isolation quickly took its toll, forcing

miners to abandon gold-rich ground and their dreams to strike it rich.

The only reason that they're setting up camp is because they're getting gold

here. And they weren't detecting gold like I am.

So it's very, very likely that they left something behind.

There literally could be millions of dollars of gold around here.

All we've got to do is find it.

Oh, it looks like a rickety old windmill.

An old man and an old girl and an old windmill. Everything's old.

Tell you what, this is a rough old road, isn't it?

I've got somebody very interested in my lease here. They said to me, buy me

three and a half ounces of gold in one week and we'll buy it off you. You want

me to give you a hand to get out?

Yep.

Okay, D, grab the excavator and start pushing some dirt up.

I'm going over with me old mate Rusty to start feeding dirt into the slush and we

can get some gold so I can sell this bloody tenement.

Right-o, boss.

See you later.

Hooray. And no bludgeon.

Better get on and do a bit of stockpiling.

I met Shane up at Nullargyne. I was selling some equipment.

We became pretty good mates.

I'll come and help Shane any time he wants.

I genuinely love it out here, but it's come to an end.

These tenements have got to go, and I've got to go back and have a normal life.

Everything's getting a bit old around here.

It's been a hard, hard year.

I'm getting old. The bones aren't good.

I just can't do what I used to do.

Dee will be loading the truck.

I'll be driving the backwards and forwards.

Russell is the key to this now.

That's rough.

Things I'll do for this bloke.

Spent a long time with Shane now.

Some of the things we've done.

The road for him is nearly over.

He can't keep going on like this.

I'll come out of here one day and he'll be dead on the ground.

That's what we don't want.

If we can prove the lease, Shane can make a good dollar.

And he can be happy.

There he is.

Let's go see what he's got in store.

Shano, how are we?

Great to see you again, Russell. Go and get the cattle. What have we got?

I've really gone to some effort here, Russell.

So what have you done to Mr Fragile?

Well, have a look and then you'll know, won't you?

Well, Mr Fragile, I decided to rebuild it.

What do you think?

How are they?

You've been busy. Well, Russell, you know I'm trying to sell this lease.

What I really need, Russell, I need to get about three and a half ounces of

gold.

How long have we got?

We've got one week.

I've got Dee over there getting the dirt sorted out and I've already lost a third

of my time because I've got to cart the dirt 20 kilometres.

10 kilometres there, 10 kilometres back.

You give me the water, give me the dirt, I'll get you the gold. How's that sound?

Okay, that's all right. That's all I want to hear, Russell.

All right, you get the water. I'll look after the machine.

Gee whiz, he's throwing the pressure on me.

Come on, sink!

Sink! Sink!

Well, this is Mr. Fragile Mark II.

Mr. Fragile, we pulled out of the scrap about seven years ago.

It's been great.

It's found a lot of gold.

Shane's done a lot of work to this thing. He's been attached to it. So now

he's given it a new lease of life.

Well the principle behind it is that we introduce all our material into the bin

and it gets washed down through the bin into the trommel.

There's different size grate in the trommel so anything smaller than that

will drop through the bottom into the base of the tray, run through and into

our catch mats.

Anything bigger goes out the back end. Just for my sake I hope it starts.

Bloody fuck that thing. It looks pretty good.

Backyard Barney sometimes, but he has a go.

Russell, want any water?

Yeah, we've got water.

Sounds a bit squeaky there, Russell.

Are you putting grease in it?

Get out of the way, I operate.

Are you happy about the speed?

I reckon we're going to need a bit more water flow through here, but we'll put

some dirt in first and see how we go.

So what you're telling me, Russell, surprised me. Are you reasonably happy

with it?

Well, we've got water.

And it spins.

Yeah.

You've done all right. You've done well.

What about the goal?

Well, that's up for next time, isn't it?

Keep coming, keep coming, keep coming. Right, left hand down, left hand down.

Yeah, that'll do you. Now there, just drop the signs for me.

Come on.

Bloody hell.

All right, all right, all right, I'm coming.

There's no way to treat a 70 year old.

There's no time here.

Let's do it.

We got it going.

Hopefully this is going to work.

Don't block up.

Bloody hell.

What's happened, Russell?

It's blocking up already.

It's all wrong.

All wrong, Shino.

The whole bottom's blocked.

We're not stopping the rocks is the problem.

Oh, hang on.

I've got to get in there and dig it out.

I'll get him, I'll get him, I'll get him.

I'll get him.

I got out here this week and I thought things were going to be looking good and

there's a few things that are worn out here. They've all had a hard life and

the same as Shane. I mean, I've come up here to help the guy out and he's about

to put it together.

I need to have a serious look at this.

It's not just one thing, it's the whole picture.

Ah!

We've got to get this out of here, mate. I do not want to dump this dirt here.

Could have good gold in it.

I'll come over and I'll give you a push.

Bloody blue skies now, all that rain before.

At Caddo's paddock... Heavy rain has stranded the Poseidon crew's 30-ton dump

truck, preventing them from getting vital pay dirt to the pad for detecting.

The last thing I wanted was something like this to happen and we finally got a

break from the weather.

Even though the sun's out now, it's saturated the ground.

Do you know that's sloppy?

The truck's struggling.

Keep it going, keep it going.

Swing right, swing right.

Keep it going, keep it going, keep it going.

We've lost a lot of time out here, but now we've got a pad ready to be pushed

out. All we've got to do is jump up in the dozer, spread it out in a nice thin

layer, ready to detect.

One minute we've got blue skies, the next minute it's bloody raining, the

next minute it's bloody hailing.

50 seasons in one day, typical Victorian weather.

Pretty wet and muddy.

It's going to really hold us up.

This is definitely not ideal.

They're wet and muddy paddies.

There's a lot of material getting stuck in the track.

This whole area is just absolute slop.

This is unreal.

I've got to take these literally one swing at a time.

Because I've got to spend half my time pulling my feet out of the ground.

So the gold's here, but it's just pretty hard to get it out.

Okay.

There you go.

Good target.

How's that?

It's on my boot.

It's that muddy.

I've gone to swipe the ground to get the target and it's just stuck to my boot.

God, this is slop.

Can you believe that?

There it is. It's hard to actually see it because it's that sloppy. Probably

about two and a half grams. So it's about $400 sitting right here.

I'm getting gold stuck in my boots.

We've got to be getting gold stuck in the tracks, the does for sure.

Hey, Dad, you're not going to believe it, but it is that wet and sloppy on

this pad, I was picked off a bit of gold from a boot.

Well, don't walk off the pad until you detect your boots, mate.

I can only imagine how much gold might be getting stuck to the tracks if it's

getting stuck to my boot. We can't keep doing this.

Look at this. This is ridiculous.

Dad, I don't reckon we can keep going here.

It's not looking the best, mate, is it?

It's just all slop.

The pad, you can't tell where it starts and where it ends.

I don't know what we're going to do.

We'll be losing gold.

Can't level it with the dozer.

We've got to find out another way.

It's just beautiful out here.

So here we are in the Northern Territory.

Where else would you rather be?

This place. It's unreal.

It's like Jurassic Park in here.

Listen to that.

Hopefully, this is a bit of the good stuff.

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed for this one, because that's a booming

signal.

Look at that thing.

Did you hear that, son?

I cannot get over... the size of the nuggets that are getting thrown out of

this place. This is insane.

What a ripper.

Almost half an ounce of gold in that thing.

This could be almost $5,000 here.

Grandson, a gold mine here, he just doesn't even know it yet.

What a bloody good day to be a gold hunter.

I got the best job ever.

Covered in sweat and flies.

Awesome.

In the Northern Territory, Jackie and Kyle are working through punishing heat.

to track down new gold deposits across lease owner Grant Farris' 450 square

kilometre claim.

We've put in a pretty solid effort out here, Grant.

Found him some good prospects.

While the gold's great, there's the other part of what we're here for, and

that's building relationships, you know. If we do this right, making friends with

someone like Grant, who's very successful in the industry, may bring

things for us in the future. If they can prove this area has value.

Grant will send in heavy machinery to expose the ground and give the pair a

chance to work on a larger mining operation.

Grant's definitely going to want to check this area out.

This is what I found just walking around here in the last few hours.

If it wasn't for all this gold, I tell you what, this heat would be absolutely

unbearable.

Hey, mate, have you got a copy?

Copy. It's hot. I was just checking you were all right. It's definitely sticky.

A bit wetter up here in the north than what I'm used to down in the west. Well,

I think Grant's going to be pretty happy with what we've got. I mean, this could

be our biggest weigh-in of the season.

Bloody oath. You sound like you're killing it over there.

Better get digging or I might beat you.

Slow and steady wins the race, girlie. Slow and steady.

Or so he thinks.

Copy that. All right. Good luck. Get some.

Slow and steady might win the race in the west, but that's not how us

Queenslanders work.

I'm up for a challenge.

We've been going really, really hard this week.

Keeps getting hotter every day.

Check out all these workings. The old timers were here and they were mining

this place.

There must be some massive gold down here.

These guys didn't do all this work for nothing.

When the wet season kicks in, all these gullies are going to be absolutely

flowing with water.

Water flowing through here is what's pushed that gold down this system.

So if I follow the path of the water, I'll stay on the path of the gold.

Whoa.

The gully just disappears.

If I need to follow the gold, I need to follow it down here.

Gosh, it's so steep.

I've got to be really cautious.

A bit too remote out here.

You don't want to be having any accidents.

This ground has all these loose rocks in it.

Oh, God.

It's not helpful.

Um... Whoa!

It's just the rocks, Shane. It's the rocks.

It's just killing us.

That's your big rock in there, Russell.

At the Dusty Winds lease on the outskirts of Yalgoo.

How are we going to make any money doing this?

This is not helping our relationship, I can tell you.

Shane and Russell need to get their wash plant, Mr Fragile, back online if

they're to hit the three and a half ounces of gold needed to secure the sale

of the lease by week's end.

Keep doing that because that broom handle's through the bottom.

Hands on.

Just touch a hole and at least get rid of the water.

Yep, just got it.

Hey Rusty, this is no good.

How am I going to get any gold wasting all this time?

Russell, just tell me what you want.

We need to sieve the dirt.

Okay, Russell, I've got a sieve over there. We'll just get on with it.

It's not going to fall apart when I pick it up, is it?

Oh, it'll probably fall apart before that.

Slowly, Russell.

Slowly, slowly.

Oh, no.

Oh, there it goes.

What are you doing?

You've got to be careful around here.

I don't want to fall too hard.

Just let it go, Shane. If it's going to break, it's going to break. We can't

break you.

Oh, these flies.

The heat.

Me bloody knees have had it.

This is not for blokes at my age.

These are for younger blokes who bounce back better.

You just don't bounce back as you get older.

Try again.

Sorry.

Oh, OK.

Right, let's go.

You've got to be careful.

Come on Rusty!

Now let's put some dirt through it.

And to the bit I like, the dust.

Before we've had all these big rocks caught in the machine, now we've only

got these size.

Goes through easy.

And what I'll do is, I'll run the detector over the oversized rocks a

little bit later, in case we can get some more gold.

It's going well Shano!

Well come on Rusty, let's get on the gold!

Yeah, we've lost time, but we've just got to get on with it, that's all.

I'd better get this truck up to where Dee is and start getting stuck into this

dirt for real.

To keep the operation going, Shane must make 20km round trips between the wash

plant and the dig site, relying on his mate Dee to keep the pay dirt stockpiled

and ready to load.

Don't run over me.

Woo! Is that it? Woo!

Bloody useless. Get on the bed.

That'll do.

It's getting hot out here for an old bloke.

Don't be you sitting on the machine eating flies.

Too bad.

I've got a white thing that'll make my life miserable.

Oh, well, I'm filling in for her, aren't I? Hurry up. Just start loading up.

Oh, that's a good scoop. Piss off, Shane.

You're putting me off my work.

Hurry up.

See, now look what you've done.

There's plenty of gold in that, Dee. I hope so.

Okay, Dee, that's enough. I'm off. All right.

Now, let's go.

Woo-hoo!

Let's get on the gold.

Come on, you old mole. Start going.

You know, we give each other shit all the time. It's good fun. It's a good

bloke. It's a genuine bloke. They don't tell you things like that.

When I first started doing this, I was out here with me dad.

Me and me daddy was my prospecting partner for more than 45 years.

I think as soon as I see that red dust, I know I'm home.

But enough's enough.

This is really the end of the road.

You know, I've got other obligations now. I've got grandchildren.

I've missed out on too much of not being at the grandfather do's or walking my

kids to school like other grandfathers do.

It's time to go home.

I know I'm going to miss it.

I miss the dust.

That's ridiculous.

It's incredible weather patterns right now.

Raining right here.

There's blue sky just there. No rain.

It sort of shut us down doing the pad method, so we're down in the pit.

Dad got me and the excavator stripping the layers off about six inches at a

time. Taking the ground layer by layer. It can take a little bit longer.

But look, it's a last resort. Just too wet to be able to get the dirt in the

pad.

So we've got to basically strip layers down.

Some of that layers have been turned over by the old-timers. Here is all dug

ground. This is bedrock they haven't touched.

That's the areas where we could get some really good gold.

Caden's doing a great job. First time that he's done this method.

Just taking like a duck to water.

Detectors only got a limited range.

And if you dig past that, we might be literally throwing gold away.

You know, a 10 grammer and a very big bit of gold.

If the excavator operator strips too much out of there, these detectors are

good, but...

The optimal range is around about four to six inches.

If you take any more than that, you start losing gold.

I feel pretty happy that Dad's got that trust in me to not dig too deep, to not

throw out any gold.

And he's also trusting me not to hit him with the excavator while he's down there

detecting.

You got a target there, do you?

Have a listen to this. Sounds nice.

It's not too bad. It's all right. Through here, you can actually see like

a line going up here.

So that's virgin ground. This is dug ground.

And we've got a target right on the edge where they stopped.

Sounds like it could be more than a few grams, I reckon.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, this is not bad target.

Cater, mate, this is going to be more than a few grams. This is going to be

ounces, I reckon, mate.

Oh, listen to that.

They have missed that by inches. Get it out. Come on. I want to see what it is.

Yeah, don't worry about that.

We need to open this hole up a bit.

You might want to have a dig.

I'll just have a listen.

Oh, it's right in that wall, mate. Right in there.

This virgin ground is the key to it all, bud.

And this is more than an ounce, I can tell you that right now.

It's gold.

I can see gold.

Look at it.

Gold.

Gold!

Come on!

All right.

Look at that virgin ground, mate.

I'm going to get you to grab it. Hey, listen.

Listen. Just dig around it.

Yeah. Right, but don't scrape hard. You've got to dig under it. Yeah.

That's it. That's it.

Right.

Now, just be careful. Now, just expose a little bit with your hand now, with your

fingers. You grab hold of the nugget.

Oh!

Wriggle it, wriggle it. Just wriggle, wriggle, wriggle, wriggle.

Wriggle.

Oh!

Mate,

these moments you'll remember forever.

Tell you what, mate, that's got some weight in it. How do you feel that?

I reckon that's got at least seven or eight ounces. That's 35 to 40 grand

worth of gold right there, mate.

Start of the week with dating down. Then we've had rain, hailstorms.

Everything this week's been worth it. Look at this.

I love these moments and I love having them with you, my boy.

You're doing a great job. Seriously.

Hey, look at the rewards that we're getting.

Look at that.

Wow!

Go mountain climbing, they said.

It'll be fun.

In the remote tropics of the Northern Territory, Jackie and Kyle are battling

suffocating humidity to track down as much gold ground as possible before the

wet season forces them out.

OK.

You've got to be careful when you're in places like this.

Everything's beautiful here, but we're a long way from the nearest medical post.

You can end up with a broken bone pretty easily.

If you haven't got any comms out here and you're a long way away from the car,

I don't reckon you're going to last too long on the ground.

While this place is incredibly beautiful, it can be very unforgiving.

I'm struggling a bit, I'll be honest.

It's got to be at least 45 degrees down here.

oh it feels really good to be close to the ground again that got really hairy i

reckon if i had a potato in my backpack

i could unwrap it and eat it after this and it would be cooked with

the wet season coming in up cracks the humidity it just smacks you

You sweat like you'd never sweat before. It's pretty dangerous.

You can pull into dehydration pretty quickly and we're at serious risk of

dropping like flies.

When the wet season kicks in, places like this get flooded out, roads get

blocked, we won't be able to leave.

As warm ocean waters evaporate, moisture in the atmosphere drives up humidity,

forming towering storm clouds.

When they break...

Torrential rain can dump hundreds of millimeters in just hours, cutting off

access to roads and leaving prospectors stranded.

That's a screamer of a target.

Getting a bit of a head spin.

Still in the wall.

Just take this out a bit.

Oh, man.

Can we all just be relieved that that is out?

I really hope it's cold.

Yes. That's not junk.

That's a nice nugget.

Look at that.

Definitely a few grams of gold there.

Oh, that's good.

Gorgeous. Jeez, I'm even struggling to talk. It's that hot right now.

We're doing it for the gold.

It's good.

It's real, real good.

It looks like we've got a bit of a storm rolling in. If this thing dumps a whole

heap of rain, we could be stuck here.

Oh, here she comes.

Once these storms kick in, where I'm standing is going to be underwater.

Good idea for us to get out of the rain.

Right, I do. Let's go weigh this up.

See if we made the grade this week.

That's what we need to find out.

Russell, take it. It's that light. Don't drop it. What do you need?

I needed three and a half ounces.

If I've even got an ounce, I'll be surprised, Russell.

We'll see what we got.

It's only 1.38.

It's still good money.

Good money?

Russell, I've got steam coming out of my ears.

Now I've got to ring up the buyers, see if I can get an extension on time.

Then I've got to beg to you guys, who you've helped me out a lot, for a bit

more extension of time.

Well, I can't give you a hand, Shane. You might need to walk away from this

one. A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

But you've got to be safe doing it, Shane. That's what I'm worried about

you. What about you, Deadly?

I could give you another week.

So you're in?

Yeah.

You hold his hand as well, Dee. I'm gone. I'm out of here.

Oh, well.

Oh, there's enough to make me vomit.

Thanks, Shane. It's been a great journey again.

Yep. You're nearly there, but maybe it's time.

I'm just about ready to retire. I'm calling it a day.

All I've got to do is get it over the line.

But, Shane, you've got to start looking after yourself.

Otherwise, you need to walk away.

I feel like the territory has been really kicking us this week.

Every day it's just been getting a little bit hotter. It's nuts.

Then you went and stuck your car in a hole.

Hey, I thought we weren't going to talk about that. No, we will never stop

talking about that. You did it. It happened and it's up here.

The storm we had coming over as well, that was just a sign that the wet

season's brewing.

Well, let's see what we got in that jar.

Mate, it's so chunky it's stuck.

Look, look, look.

No way.

Look at that.

4.75.

So that's just over eight ounces for the season so far.

And in dollars?

Over 40K.

Mate, we've just doubled everything we've found for the entire trip. Oh, how

good.

With leaseholder Grant Farris away on business.

Here's Carl.

G'day, mate.

How are you?

He's sent in his right-hand man, Carl Skyring, to check in on the pair's

progress.

How was your week?

Not bad.

Exhausting. You make it sound all right.

It was brutal. But look, you guys are sitting on a gold mine out there.

You have done well.

I just got a phone to Grant, and he said he's pretty happy with his. Oh, yeah.

As I said, the wet season, they just ran a corner.

We're going to probably need a hand. It's in the wet plant.

If you want to hang around for another week. Loving the sound of that. What

about you, Jackie?

All right.

You got yourself a deal, mate.

Mate, that sounds awesome.

Well, on that note, I reckon we go grab a coldie and a feed, eh?

It's been a tough battle this week. Knew it was going to be a challenge as soon

as Jayden called in sick.

Nearly everything that could go wrong did go wrong, but we found a way around

it. I tell you what, it was well-earned gold this week, mate.

So, season targets 200 ounces, Caden.

Righto. We're at 140 and a half of thereabouts right now. Let's see what we

add to it with this.

3.76 ounces.

For the big one? The chunk.

Moment of truth, Dad.

11.24 ounces.

That's roughly around $56,000 worth of gold right there.

Mate, some people say I'm a dreamer, but you've got to have dreams, mate, because

if you don't have dreams, what have you got? If you keep believing it, it will

happen someday. It will happen. Well, you can count me in as a dreamer too

because after this week, I've been dreaming of a nice hot steak, so pack

this up.

Fair enough too.

My shout, you deserve it.