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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

NEVILLE: It's good to be
back out here.

It's been a while since
I've come out

because of the
health problems I've had.

It's been a bit over a year where
I was diagnosed

terminal with cancer.

I've got the triple whammy
unfortunately.

I've got lung,
lymphomic and bone, so

you know, like,
the outlook is not good,

but, you know, they give me
maybe another another 12 months.

But I'm aiming for more.

I'm at a point now where I've got
to start making a decision,

like I put my whole life into
researching this property,

more than 35 odd years
prospecting, sampling,

because this is my family's future.

We've got a lot of old history,

of nuggets that came out of
these holes in the ground.

We have in our palm right now,

the means to create new history.

This site could be
one of the richest sites

found in Victoria for
a long, long time.

This is make or break for me,

right here, right now.

NARRATOR: This season on
Aussie Gold Hunters...

BRENT: Hunting for monster nuggets
isn't just a job.

It's an obsession.

PAUL: Yes.

To get the gold, you've got to
go places that other people won't.

We're going to
have to drive towards the fire
to get out of the fire.

PAUL: For my family,

I'll do whatever it takes,

to bring home the gold.

That is huge!I could not have
done it without ya.

It's about the gold and the thrill
of the hunt.

For eight teams of prospectors
the hunt continues.

We're on the gold!
On the gold!

Gold prices
reach an all-time high.

BRENT: 3000 dollars an ounce.

Pushing teams deeper
into the Australian outback...

(CHEERING)
..with veteran miners...

Now that's a chunk!

..making drastic decisions...

(BEEPING)Mayday.

..and newcomers risking it all.

Not to be killed
is just sheer luck.

For the thrill of the hunt.

Now this is a treasure hunt.

And the chance...

Ooh!Oh, my God!

...of uncovering a life-changing
fortune in gold.

Wow, look what we found.
Well done!

That's insane.

(LAUGHING)
(ALL CHEERING)

That is what it's all about.

NEVILLE: I've given Brent a call,

as everybody knows we are good
mates we've known each other
for a long time,

um, so I've given him a call
to come over and talk to me.

Could have picked a better day,
Nev.Oh, oh, mate,

I don't have much choice
in it. I'm on limited time.

What is it, what do you need
a hand with, mate?

I want to offer you 50 percent
of this project.

Nev, I don't know what to say, mate.

I'd like you to be part of my
dream, mate.

And because I, I can't think of
anyone else that I would trust.

I need someone to work with my boys,

and secure my family's future.

My heart says yes. I mean,
but my mind says this is

a million plus worth of plant
equipment again.

This is water, this is dams, this is
infrastructure, this is power.

It's going to be a lot of time,
money, mate.

Money like you won't believe that's
got to be poured into this.

So how can we prove this ground
up a bit further?

Well, that we do have some tonnage
still sitting there.

All right, we'll go and have a look.
Let's go.

That's a chunk, mate.
That is a chunk.

Jesus Christ!Mate, that is what
we are here for, buddy.

After investing his life savings,
Neville Perry's dream of finding

gold at German Gully paid off.

MICK: 79.9. It's a $200,000 nugget.

But his life's work

was shut down overnight
when Heritage Victoria

accused him of mining in a
protected area.

When you've got a 25, 30 year dream,

you're going to fight tooth
and nail to keep it alive.

Nearly bankrupt,
facing a year in jail,

and a $100,000 fine, Neville chose
to defend himself in court,

winning the legal battle.

This wasn't just a fight for me,

and it's not just a fight
for prospectors rights,

it's a fight for landowners
and the rights

the landowners should have to go
to work on their own lands.

(CLAPPING)

Now Neville is looking to Brent to
breathe new life

into his German gully dream.

With a stockpile of the paydirt

that produced his $200,000
monster nugget.

The paydirt hasn't been
through a wash plant.

And if Neville's hunch is right,
this sample will prove

German Gully holds
millions in fine gold.

I reckon there is easily a thousand
tonne here, maybe even more,

so what I reckon is that, I know

I sold the big licence and the
wash plant, okay?Yeah.

But when I sold it, I done a deal
with them so I can get through

two and a half thousand ton a year

to do tests wherever it is.
I reckon we truck it over

get it washed, get whatever gold
is in it,

and if we can see at least
ten ounces on the scale,

I will happily shake your hand and
say, "Let's make it happen."

It's going to be a big day.

(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

How good mate? Woo-hoo!

JUSTIN: This is it,
the Gascoyne River Basin.

Over the week ahead Alan,
we've got some pretty tough
terrain to get across.

ALAN: Oh yeah,
that we definitely do.

Well there she is, boys,
Mount Augustus.
The world's biggest rock,

situated right here in outback W.A.

It is massive.

My God!

JUSTIN: There's a lot of old stories
about old timers bringing back
scores of gold so,

yeah, there is gold up there
to be found.

Can't believe we actually made it
out here, mate.

Now we just need to start
making some spots.

You've got a spot up here you reckon
might be worthy?

Righto, yep got him.

ALAN: Wow man, look at that river.
That looks epic.

That's the Lyons River down there.
There's plenty of drainage
channels here.

That could be full of gold.

Yeah, we'll mark this one
as well hey, Al.

Yep, got him.

I don't know, we might struggle to
get a car in there, mate.

Whatever it takes for us to get into
this area,

we should definitely
come here, mate.

JUSTIN: Hopefully you've got a few
spots now, mate,

that you will be
able to pull a bit of gold out.

Alan's marked them on the GPS, mate.

Yeah that was absolutely epic.
Much appreciated.

All we've got to do now is get in
the cars

and get to work
and find some gold.

Beautiful. Good luck.
Thank you.

SALTY: Mate, what to you reckon
about this season?

About our target?

Last season was fifteen ounces.

I was thinking like twenty-five.
What do you reckon?

That s quite the target compared to
last year but,

let's do twenty-five. Lock it in.

Righto mate, I think we pretty much

have to start heading east
around here.

We're gonna turn left.

Ah, there is a track here.

It's heading in the right direction
so that's good.

This area is starting to look
really good, Al.

We should be coming up on that
first spot that

Justin pointed out
from the helicopter.

First crack at this area.
Yeah, let's get it.

I reckon we are in for
a good chance.

Where I'm taking you, you wait to
see this landscape.Yeah.

It will blow your mind.

Exploration gold prospectors
Alan Williams and

Caleb "Salty" Davenport are
experts in

bush living and
underwater detecting.

Get out!
That is unreal! That is unreal!

They specialise in exploring the

most remote corners of the
Australian outback.

MAN: Look out, look out, rocks!

(SIGHS)

Willing to probe the depths
in their efforts

to find gold on untouched ground.

Last season their hunt for gold led
them to a undiscovered shipwreck...

ALAN: How good is that?

And big nuggets.

That's the biggest nugget
I've found.

(SALTY LAUGHING)

Smashing their season target,
bringing in $46,000 worth of gold.

Bring it here, mate.
Mate, we did it. We did it.

I hope you are ready for more
because we are going back.

Yeah. Yeah.We're going back.

SALTY: You ready mate?
ALAN: I am bloody ready.

Uh, up in the Gascoyne
gold fields today,

I've always wanted
to get up here.

It's known as the
forgotten gold fields.

So the reason Alan I wanted
to come out here is just

purely because the isolation
how remote it really is.

There's really good history here,
real old time history,

but it's not very well known because

a lot of the old timers
passed away out here.

There's lonely graves in the middle
of the bush,

prospectors find them all the time.

A bit of a little echo there.

(SIGHS)

Got him. First shot.

(BEEPING)

Oh, we're on!

Yes.

I reckon this probably weighs
about a gram and a half.

That's about 130 bucks.
That's a good little starter.

(BEEP)
Oh, there's something there.

Under a stump.

(GRUNTS)

Yeah, I can see it already.

It's a bit of old tin.
Sign of old timers.

(DETECTOR COOING)

That one sounds interesting.

I wonder if I got it.

(BEEPING)

I do. I got it. Okay.

Come on. Where are you?

(BEEPING)
Right, in that hand.

Ah! Don't do that to me.

(BEEPING)

Here we go.

A top of an old bullet. Bugger.

We had a little bit lucky early,

and it kind of seemed
to have dried up.

(BEEPING)

Mmm.

Sounds really nice.

Please be gold.

Sounded good but I just found it.

That's an old tobacco tin lid.

(SIGHS)

I'm that angry I could probably
cry right now.

I've kicked off the start of
this season,

working up here on me own at the
Phoenix Project.

Mel and Alex are on their way
here now to,

you know, chat about what the plan
is for the full season.

I'm going great guns here
and producing gold.

I'm on a winning streak

so, we've got to hit this hard
until we get

all the gold out of the ground.

ALEX: Well,
we're heading back to Phoenix.

We've got to get our wash plant
Lloyd down to Fair Lady

otherwise I don't think this season
has got much hope.

Last season, the major,
major issue was

we were split in too many places,

trying to juggle two sites with
a small team.It's too much.

I mean, they are 600K apart.
I mean that's not

just a trip down the road.

Each day is just going
between the sites.

MEL: Right, so we both agree,

we need to shut
Phoenix Project down.

Yep.Move Lloyd up to Fair Lady,

whether Paul agrees with us or not.

Well if Paul doesn't agree with us

that could be the end
of the Gold Devils.

That sounds really good.
That's what we want.

With their combined ten leases

and millions of dollars in
equipment,

the Gold Devils, Paul, Mel and Alex

set themselves the biggest gold
target in Aussie Gold history.

I want to chase a
1000 ounces.I'm up for it.

You guys are absolutely crazy.

That's gold.No way.

Their initial efforts were a
big success...

3.3 kilos.

With consecutive massive weigh-ins.

We are going to need a bigger
set of scales, mate.

Busted!But the gold ran dry,
and they were forced

to split their operation between
Paul's Phoenix project

and the unproven ground at the
Fair Lady lease.

We are tens and tens of thousands
of dollars in moving costs so,

I need that gold to cover it.

A miracle gold pour from Fair Lady
saved their season.

That dirt up at Fair Lady is rich,
rich.A hundred and ten ounces.

Well done, Gold Devils.
You bloody beauty.

We all take home a
hundred thousand dollars each.

But with the Gold Devil's operation

now stretched across the two leases,
the team is at a crossroads.

Yo, Paul.Hey, hey.

Hello.Hey, Paul.

How are you going?Yeah, good.

Okay, I think I'm going to rip the
plaster off nice and quick.

That processing plant,
we need it at Fair Lady.

My feeling on this site is it's
coming to its end

before it does, let's jump ship and

go to a site that has
got a lot of potential.

Paul, I just think it's time to pull
the pin on Phoenix Project.

My thought was sell it and move
while we still can.

Well, at the moment I'm not ready to
sell this lease.

I've done more assays,
and the

lab work says
there is gold there still.

Think about this for a second.

We run it through the door into the
impactor, into the ball mill

and that's going to smash down all
the gold particles to a

microscopic level, yeah?Yeah.

Then I can whack in a five hundred
ton test leach then it should leach

pretty much instantaneously
because of its size.

Probably the quickest leach
we have ever done.

Well, you're starting to talk a lot
of sense to me right now.

Um, if this is a quick thing
and we can get amounts
is out of it and prove them.

How many ounces do you think that
you'll be able to get out of it?

If I don't have 10 ounces in my
hand to show you at the end of it,

then we'll pack up and move.

Well, if it's even
half an ounce short,

we do, we have to
pack up and leave.

All right, I'll agree with that.
Deal?Deal.

Where do we start then?
Put the ball mill up.

Let's go.Let's get to it.

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

Mel welds a chute to
connect their existing

crusher circuit to a ball mill.

All right, we are all done.

I reckon it's ready
to fire up.

This new configuration of machinery
will allow them to complete the

heap leach in record time by
crushing the paydirt

to a microscopic level.

The paydirt passes

through the impact crusher and
is then washed into

the newly added ball mill where
heavy steel balls

pulverise it into a fine slurry.

that will then pour into the
heap leach.

My job is to basically just
make sure

that there's no big rocks that will
get caught down here and if they do,

I usually put them down with this.

(BLEEP)

Alex, Alex, there is water
coming out of the old mill.

Let's kill it.

Shut it down! Kill it!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(GROANS)

ALAN: Yo Salty, you got a copy?

I seem to be finding
lots of rubbish.

What do you say we meet back at the
car and make a plan?

Yo-yo.
How did you go, mate?

Got me a one and a half grammer,

a bit of rubbish,
which is a bit disappointing.

Oh, mate, the amount of rubbish.

It's not really worth hanging
around, is it?

Mate, we could go find camp.

It's starting to get to that time.

Yeah, there's not enough gold.

Have a couple of cold ones
and make a new plan.

Sounds good. Got me at cold ones.
(CHUCKLING)

Sunrise at Mount Augustus.

Life here has carried on almost
completely undisturbed

for billions of years.

Now with just three people for every
1000 square kms of red dirt,

the upper Gascoyne region
is one of the most

remote gold fields in the world.

ALAN: What do you reckon, Salty?

Didn't exactly have a great day
yesterday.

How much money have we
spent getting here?

Two grams just isn't going
to cut it.Yeah.

Ah look, I've come up with a new
plan. It's not going to be easy

but that sport we marked on the
East Lyons river with the chopper,

we need to get there somehow.

Well, last night I was doing a
lot of reading.

A lot of history on the
East Lyons river

and all the old timers out
there were pulling about

fifteen ounces a week out of there,
which is huge.

Well mate, that seals the deal.

Let's um, let's pack up
and get out there.

SALTY: There's no roads leading
where we're going.

We are in the middle of
absolute nowhere.

Definitely some of the most remote
country in Australia.

No tracks but our own, mate.

Oh geez, thanks for leading me
through that bush, mate.

Just get us there safely, mate.

Yeah, there is a sharp rock
in there as well.

I don't really feel like
doing a tyre.

Don't want to get stuck out here.
No phone, no people.

We're getting close
to the Lyons river, mate.

I can see the tree line.

Thankfully, Justin flew us
all over these parts.

We can see where the best spots are.

This is definitely one of them,
mate. How's this for a spot? My God!

ALAN: Yeah this is bloody beautiful.

Let's go, eh?
Yeah, let's do it, mate.

We'd better get to it.
Yeah, we might as well.

What's your plan?Mate,
if they found it in the river,
I've got to try it.

Fifteen ounces in here a week

so surely there's more in there
to be found.

We need to actually find something

otherwise, yeah we're going home
empty handed

and it's not, it's not the
season start we want.

Oh, that's colder than expected.

There's no movement in this water,

which means it's a perfect place for
kind of waterborne diseases.

Meningitis, tuberculosis,
E Coli.

They've all been found
in these water holes.

With meningitis being
the most dangerous

because once that
settles on your brain,

it's generally deadly.

I don't know if this is a very smart
decision coming in here.

I can't see anything.
Can't see where I'm stepping.

Got a signal here,

but the problem is it's just
getting so cloudy.

So now I'm just...

Just trying to feel around in
the dark.

Ah.

Yeah, that's it.

Oh jeez, yeah see that's
the reason I don't really

want to be walking around
through here.

That could go right through
your foot.

MEL: Alex, Alex, there's water
coming out of the ball mill.

ALEX: Shut it down! Kill it!

(GRUNTS)

What happened?

Well, there's a problem.

Big rocks making their way down,

like this, and that's not going to
go through the ball mill.

But at least it's a quick fix.

There's a few big rocks
that just jammed up the feed chute.
That's all it is.

All right, let's fire it back up.

All right.

PAUL: Pressure's on now.
Mel and Alex.

I wasn't actually expecting what
they said when they got here

but I know we've got a lot of
gold left here

and to walk away and leave it
behind is just stupid.

At the end of the day, if the
ten ounces minimum isn't in there,

it's going to be a horrible start to
the season for the Gold Devils.

Well, this is the stuff
coming out of the ball mill.

I mean it's basically
turning solid rocks

into slurry. There's no lumps.

I mean this is the size we were
crushing and leaching.

This is going to be the new size.

That's a game changer.

Now the chemicals,
they're going to eat that gold

straight out of that stuff.

This dirt should go all right.
It's super fine

and hopefully, it's released all
those ultrafine

gold particles that we're chasing.

Leaching dates back to the founder
of geology, Georgius Agricola

who shared this process
with the world,

in his 1556 book titled

"On The Nature Of Metals".
Modern day heap leaching works

by pumping cyanide solution
through gold-bearing dirt.

The cyanide drains down through the
heap and binds to gold particles

before it's pumped through columns
of black carbon that traps the gold.

The cycle is repeated until all the
gold is trapped in the carbon.

All right.
MEL: Hey, Paul.

The leach is pretty much ready now.

Just gotta keep transferring dirt

from the plant here and put it in as
we're milling it.

Um, so I'll take over here if you
like, if you wanted to go detecting?

Yeah, well, you don't have to
ask me twice.

Paul's giving me some intel
on a reef that's about 5k away.

Apparently, they gouged out like
three kilos of gold before,

you know, could be promising.

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

Okay there's a lot of quartz here.

So I'm going to put my detecting
gear on and see what I can find.

At the moment we need to
find a lot of gold.

I think Paul is wrong, and I just
don't think,

we're going to find a lot of gold
here at Phoenix Project.

I really believe that we should be
back at Fair Lady.

Hmm.
There's a lot of bedrock here.

Bedrock can act as a natural sluice
and trap gold coming down the hill.

(GASPS)
Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

I have just found a sun baker.

I have never found
a sun baker before.

Look at that. It's just sitting
there. You know sun bakers are

when they're just sitting there
like that in the sun.

every prospector dreams
of finding one of these.

I'm just like, I'm shaking.
I'm in shock.

And to find like a half an ouncer.

This isn't a little nugget
just sitting here.

I mean this is, what,
1500 dollars' worth?

I might have been wrong
about this place.

Well, that's it for the test leach.

You reckon it's going to be
ten ounces in there?

Bloody hope so.
Let's go.Ready?

The dam's been flooded with cyanide,

that should have eaten all the gold
literally at a molecular level.

Now that gold has been pumped
through this carbon column

and that's pulled
every bit of that gold

onto the carbon.
We're almost at the final step.

PAUL: We've got the
carbon out of the pod.

It's in an old bulk bag.

Time to get the tarp down
and get it to the strip plant.

Let's get it on the road.

Pretty much everything
hangs in the balance

on what kind of gold
is held in the carbon.

So I think it's trust it's enough
for us to keep staying

and keep mining
at the Phoenix project.

I really want Brent
to come in on this project,

and if the results are bad,

then I don't know where
my family's future lies.

It's all hinging on this one bulk
sample right now.

Right, so this is the start.
We've got four trucks,

so we are moving about 120 tonne
over to Brent's in every round trip.

Neville's gamble to find fine gold
at German Gully comes at a price.

Trucking, fuel and running the big
licence to process the paydirt

will cost Neville over
20000 dollars.

BRENT: Look at that, boys.

All these trucks rolling in.
I know.

Hey Nick, your future might be
rolling in right now, mate,

seriously.Let's hope so, mate.
Let's hope so.

Neville's son Nick has joined has
joined the Poseidon Crew

to help with the test.

So at the moment I do refrigeration
and air conditioning in the city.

This is definitely a bit
of a change in scenery.

Hopefully we get this dirt out
and uh I can be

seeing a lot more of this scenery in
the future to come.

If I do this deal with Nev, not just
a deal for my family,

it's a deal for Nev's
family as well.

Right now, any gold is good gold,
but for the matter of the deal,

I'll need to see at least ten ounces

come out of all this stuff.
You've got to be

pretty confident
you're going to invest,

you know, it might be well, ever
million dollars to make this happen.

ETHAN: Firing up this plant
and get her turning.

Everything under control, mate?

Yeah, we got there and
we got water,

so everything else
should follow suit.

All right.

Hey Cades, can you start throwing
some dirt in it, mate?

All right, sounds good.

Well, I got a little bit of time
off school

just to help the boys out.

Um, I love this more than I do
school. A hundred per cent.

This stuff here is a little bit
claggy, right?

Yeah.A little bit wet in places.

so I probably need you on the
hopper, feeding it through.

I might get you up there for most of
the day, mate.

I would almost have to say that this
is the most important

or crucial part of the job.

Yeah. We can't afford to have
this thing walk up

and no productivity.
The size of the pole,

allows me to get down
to the bottom of the hopper,

and ensure that we've always
got movement.

It's a simple thing,
but it's really effective.

BRENT: The dirt's pretty tacky and
when you load it in the back

of the trucks it sort of sticks to
the metal bodies.

If it keeps getting hung up
in the back like that,

it's gonna slow it down.

Every little setback
is costly.

Everything's going
pretty well at the moment.

Running smoothly.
NICK: Yeah Brent,
you got a copy there, mate?

What was that, mate?

Yeah, I got this pogo stick that
I use to get the dirt

down under the barrel
and it's broken, mate.

Bloody hell! Shut it down!

Shut it down.

A broken 10 dollar bloody pole
has stopped the whole operation.

Nev's just not gonna believe it.

Have a look in there.
Have a look in there right now.

See how it gets hung up.

We need something to poke it down
and break it so it can fall down.

This looks like the most
simplest of things, which it is,

but without it, it's going to cause
us all sorts of dramas today.

That's the reason I don't really
want to be walking around

through here.

You cut your foot in this kind
of water,

you get an infection for sure.

Yeah,
I'm going to get out of here.

It's not, it's just not worth it.

I'm just hoping Alan
is having better luck than I am.

(BEEPING)
Ooh, that sounds nice.

(CHEERING) I got him.

Ooh! Oh!

(CHUCKLING)

Look at that beautiful nugget.

That's a six grammer for sure.
Maybe seven. Easily 650 bucks.

You know, we come out
all this way to find

exactly this and
when these come out,

just, it's an awesome feeling.

(BEEPING)
Got something here.

Oh, you beauty!

(WHOOPING) Get out!

That is a ripper.

We're on the gold.
We're on the gold.

Ooh, what was that?

Wow! That's nearly blown my speaker.

Use the pick first up for this one.

Right there.

Wow!

That's huge!
That's a half ouncer.

That's 1500 bucks
right there.

Hey, a little bit of
gold down there.

Uh, I think I might
get hold of Alan.

Then it's about time for a weigh in.

You wouldn't bloody believe it,

a simple 10 dollar pole
stopped the whole operation.

I know this looks the most simplest

basic thing, Nick, but we can't have
something to help feed it through

and we ain't got no other pipe here.
We got a problem.

I know it's only something little
but you know,

something like Brent said, it could

cause a fair bit of drama later on.

Like if we don't get it going now
or fix it now,

that hopper is going to stuff up,

you know block up, cause the
material's a little bit wet.

Like it could set us back
two hours or three hours.

It could be anything.

All right, well what I'll do,
Take that end and then I'll squeeze

this end and it'll straighten
her up a bit.

We can splint it up like a
broken leg.

Bush fix it, and that will get us
through the day.

It's good to know these
kind of things because

I might be doing this,

you know, could be full time.

Your Dad asked me the other day,
mate. It was one of the toughest

conversations I've had in my life.

Because mate,
the amount of money

and time and effort
we've got to put in

to make it viable, it's going to be
probably, you know,

probably close
to two million bucks.

Your Dad, all the stuff he's been
through, mate.

I don't want to break his heart.

I just pray there's gold in there.
Yeah. And hopefully this dirt,

comes back a real good,
positive outcome.

Mate, I'll be glad to be
working with you.

So anyway, we gotta get back
to work.Done.

I reckon she'll be right.

Are you there, Bruce?

What do you reckon we got left
there, mate?

How many,
how many tonne?

Oh, well, there'd be at least three
trucks so, 90 tonne, I suppose.

Another round each,
that should see us done.

This is just what it's about.

These are me boys.

Like Jayden, me middle son.

There's three generations
of Perry's here.

Love finding gold,
don't we, Bentley?Yeah.

Would you like to do this when
you're older?Yeah.

Yeah. You know how long this dream's
been for me, mate.

It's more than half me life.

Yeah. Bloody oath.
You know?

I know that my old man,

a lot of people would say
that he's an inspiration.

Hopefully, hopefully he's,
with his health,

he is around long enough
for us to continue

and work alongside,

alongside him.

Yeah.

He's my hero.

ALAN: Are you there, Salty?
Let's come do this weigh up.

SALTY: Been waiting
for this, mate.Yeah.

It's been an interesting week,
hasn't it?

Pretty epic start.Very.

There was a lot of doubt in the
middle though.

I was pretty worried that we'd made
the wrong decision.

I even dreamed about the rubbish
that we were finding.

All right, are you ready?
Let's do it. Go for it.

1.27.

The gold price is at a record high
of 3000 dollars per ounce.

Alan and Salty's 1.27
ounces of gold

comes to a total of $3,810.

That's um, wow!
I'm happy with that.

Considering we don't know this land,
this is ah, I'm happy.Yeah.

It's not cheap getting up here
but that covers

all our expenses well and truly,

And some profit.And profit.

I am really proud of what
we've been able to accomplish.

We need to take what
we've learned here

and apply it
to the next leg of our journey.

Don't worry, mate.
We're going to smash it.

So I've just picked up the quick
500-ton leach.

That's what it comes down to.
Just one bag of black sludge.

Good timing. We're pretty much
good to -Go.

That's the carbon that's stripped.

Oh, yeah.Ready to
put in the pot and melt up.

The stripped carbon
is put into a crucible

in a furnace and heated
to 1064 degrees Celsius,

the melting point of gold.

The molten metal is then
put into a mould

where the gold sinks to the bottom

and any impurities known as slag,
rise to the top.

There's no knowing the proportion of
gold to slag until the bar is cooled

and the gold and slag can be
separated.

PAUL: Hopefully it's not all slag.

We did have a deal.
I did say anything sure

of ten ounces,
we'll rip that plant down.

ALEX: There you go.

There's a lot of slag.

Oh, I don't think there's
ten ounces there.

It's going to be close.

Well, here we are.

It's time to find out.
It comes down to this.

Yo!How are you going?

Yeah. Good.
We've got a result.

Okay.We melted it.

Oh, wow.

The question is now, is it enough?

Ready?Yeah.

I don't want to look.

Be 10. Be 10.

Well, it's not 10.
It's eleven and a half ounces.Yes!

It just shows there's more
gold here.

Let's just do one big leach and
finish this project off properly.
Yeah.

Yep.And if we can put through
hopefully up to 5000 tonne,

I'm still thinking there's at least
a couple of hundred ounces here.

Well based on that, a quarter of a
mill gold could be up to
half a million.

We just don't know.I can fully get
behind it, seeing that.

So let's do it.
Yeah, I'm on board.

I've actually had a really good day.

So I've always wanted to find

a sun baker and today was
my lucky day.

Wow.What?

That's a chunk.
It was just sitting there.

Have you got more there?
Just a few other little pieces.

But you know, it shows
that there's gold there.

1.4. Yeah.Not bad.

Not too bad.

That should be over
37000 dollars right there.

Not a bad start.Yeah.

I guess that leads to the question
as to where to from here.

Well, last year we wanted
a 1000 ounces.

If you really think
Phoenix Project is going

to bring in quite a bit more gold,

why don't we stick to another
1000 ounce target?

That's a big one.

I'm in. I'm game.

Of course, you are.Let's do it.
All right.

Are you agreeing?
Yes. I mean.All right.

All right, Gold Devils.
Gold Devils.

No sleeping for the next.
Forever.

(ALL LAUGHING)

This is our future.

This is, this is my legacy.

Can't get any better than that.

I'm going to miss this.
I'm going to miss them

growing up. I'm gonna miss
teaching them

a lot of things that Pops do.

I just hope that I can get it
all to happen

so their future is secured.

The moment of truth, Brent.

But for Nev to secure that legacy
for his three children

and eight grandchildren,
there needs to be at least

ten ounces of gold.

I know this moment means a lot
to you.It does.

We got one ounce, two, three,
four, five,

six, seven, eight,

nine, ten, eleven.
It's going quicker.

BRENT: It's still going.

Thirty-one.Thirty-one.

Four seven. (LAUGHING)

I can't believe it.

That is something special.

It's amazing. It's unbelievable.
Seriously.

So you're over 95 grand right there.

Yeah, mate.
Ninety, ninety-five grand.

BRENT: Mate,
I was hoping for 10 ounces

to try and do a deal on that,
and make it worthwhile.

I've never seen gold like it for the
amount of ground we've run.

This is not millions, this is tens
of millions across that.

I already have it worked out.

(ALL LAUGHING)

The land is made up of 37
separate allotments, right?

Broken down into the hectares of
what's diggable.

All the square meterage,
everything is there,

and it comes up to about
180 odd million dollars

worth of fine gold.
I find that hard to believe.

Now you can sort of understand
that dream of mine

that's sitting out there.

Mate, I'm in.

This could be
something big, really big.

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