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Too much weight on that hopper.
Bit seized up. I really hope we
haven't broken the machine.

That could cost us a load of money.

The McGhie's dry blower strains
under the weight of wet dirt.

Shouldn't have used it.

But Brad's hunch on
where to dig pays off.

Oh, I thought it was a big rock.
Look at it?

It is a big...rock! Whoo-hoo!

That is so good.

In the wilds of far
North Queensland...

JACQUI: Snake!

..a deadly encounter halts Jacqui
in her tracks...

You get bitten by a snake
like that out here,
it's pretty much game over.

..before she and Andrew find
big gold on virgin ground.

Oh, yeah, that's a fantastic chunk
of gold.

Fish creek paying the bills.

But when they call in a favour to
build a road to the gold,

they're stopped in their tracks.

He can clear a road, yeah, but he
can't build a bridge. This is bad.

Got the crane here, now we are
burning six grand an hour.

And the gold Devils pay a high price
to move their

one hundred tonne crushing plant.

Really stressing me up.

Any damage, even dropping
a couple of feet,

the Gold Devils are out of the game
before we have even started.

Ugh!

Stay on them there, Jacqui.
Keep on the tail. Good work.

We're giving Adam,
the station manager, a hand

at the moment. Got a few cattle
to push around.

So Jacqui and I don't mind
helping out.

The station helps us all the time,

organise helicopters for us,
give us access.

Least we can do is help them
out in return.

Bit light-handed this year and it
certainly makes a difference

just to get a couple of
extra hands on the ground.

Good work, mate.

Grab the gate there, Tray.

Oh, here comes Jacqui now.

Very good.

You look like you were having way
too much fun out there, mate.

Oh, that was great.

Oh, if ever you need a hand with
that again, seriously let me know.

Mate, now I have to return
the favour if you need a hand.

It's funny you should mention that.
We've got an access problem.

We know where the gold is
but we just can't get to it.

It's just a little problem.

Well, we might have a look at that.
Yeah, righto, mate. Sounds good.

Last week Jacqui Buzetti
and Andrew Leahy

were forced to helicopter in

and trek ten kilometres
through crocodile country.

Hope you are keeping an eye out.

Yeah, two.

After severe wet season rains
destroyed all tracks

into the remote Fish Creek area
of far North Queensland...

Oh, yes!

..finding a potentially
rich deposit of gold

left them with a problem.

Fish Creek could change our season.
It could set us up for the
rest of the year.

Oh, yeah.All we've got to do is
find a way in there.

If we are going to hit
that fifty ounce target,

we need to have our boots
on the ground there every day.

If we don't find an easier way into
Fish Creek then it's pretty much
off the table.

Yeah. It's there.
We just need to get to it.

Well, we are going to catch up
with Adam and see what
he can come up with.

Hopefully there is some sort
of solution.

Now that he knows that
we have found gold out there

and it's worth continuing, not to
mention all the cattle we saw
our there.

I think these guys want to get
into Fish Creek as well.

Oh, yeah, here.
We'll just pull up here.

That is a bulldozer.

That looks like a good way
to make a road.

Hey, mate. How are you?

Good, here you go.
Yeah, good, thanks.
Good to see you again.

Thanks for meeting us out here.
Oh, no worries.

So what I was thinking was,
erm, if we just put a track

straight through here, then it's all
pretty good going and then we just

hit that bit of a rough gully
that I think is going to
be a bit of trouble.

That's the main bit I was worried
about. That crossing...

Yeah...might be a problem.

The wet season, it just
does havoc every year to these
crossings and that.

That should connect the roads
then and make life easier for us.

All right, let's go have a look.
Yeah. Very good.

Cheers. Thanks, mate.

Adam is gonna push a track in
and we are going to get through that
crossing. We're going to Fish Creek.

Yew!

A track that existed here
fifty years ago has long overgrown.

It crossed a creek and connected
to a road originally used

by horse carts during the Gold rush
of the 1870s.

How good is his dozer?

Absolutely. This is a game changer.

It's going to open our season up
just fantastically.

Wow.

Those bulldozers don't play games.

The fact that these roads haven't

been pushed for that many years is
exactly why we need to be in there,

Andy, because no one else has been
in there with metal detectors.
That's right.

Just coming onto that crossing now.
It's just up in front of me.

It looks a little bit worse
than I thought,

so we will just see how we go.

Bloody hell. It's just gone.

It's like five-metre banks
on each side.

How are we supposed to
get over there?

He can clear road yet,
but he can't build a bridge.

Yeah, well, we've definitely hit
a snag.

I thought maybe it would just be
a little bit of a crossing
to get through.

This is bad.

BRAD: This is not good.

Everything's wet.

The last 48 hours,
we've had a big storm come through.

Yeah, I mean,
it's even wet in here. I mean,
that's just turned to mud.

You cannot process that.
We're going to have to
clean this whole thing out now.

I got to pick up Danny.
Stepson's coming up.

I have to pick him up.
He was here to help.

I really wanted this running
because I wanted

to process a lot of dirt
quickly, you know.

I'm going to have to find something
for him to do.

Brad's stepson, Danny Sullivan, has
taken two weeks off

from his auto shop job in Perth
to help out.

Yep, here he comes.

Danny. How's the trip, mate?
Yeah, good, long.

Was it?Yeah.

How's things, mate?Good to see you.
All right, jump in and I'll
take you out to site.Let's go.

We all appreciate you coming out,
mate. You know the more hands
on deck, mate, it helps out heaps.

Yeah, I am glad to come up
and help out. It looks like
we've had a bit of a rain though.

Yeah, it's turned everything to mush
really. Man, look at this.

Not looking good at all.Yeah.

We've got a dry blower up here right
and you cannot run

wet dirt through it.

So look, I need to come up
with a new plan.

We need to keep momentum going and
try and keep us on target, man,

cos if we fall behind it's going
to be very hard to catch up.

What is your target this year?
What are you aiming for?

Because it's just us,
you know what I mean,

And I'm trying out a new machine
and bits and pieces,

going 25 ounces.
So I think 25 ounces
is a realistic target for this year.

G'day!Hello.

Hey, how's it going?
Good. How have you been?

Good. Good to see you.
Thanks for coming up.

No worries.Hi!
How are you, mate?

Yeah, good.
Good to see you too.

We really need your help.
So what's the plan?

We've had a fair bit of rain. That
dry blower's out of action really.

We can still do stuff.

I've always got a backup plan.
I want to get onto that calcrete.

I believe there's a lot of gold
under it and here's the opportunity
for us to do that.

I think what I do is I get Danny
to clean out the dry blower.

There's still a bit of
dirt in there.

I'll jump on the digger,
you jump on the loader.

Lay out some pads and, Darl,

if you want to and pick out
some nuggets, that'd be good.

Yeah, sure. Sounds good.
Let's do it.Let's get into it.

Brad's got me cleaning
all this mud out here

and we want to get it nice and clean
just in case we find some dry dirt.

So Brad's my stepfather. I've known
him pretty much my whole life.

Erm, we've always been close.
Myself, I'm a tyre fitter by trade.

Erm, I have a large mechanical
background, so Brad's always been
there to obviously help me

and guide me through
everything like that.

I'm happy to help Brad out.
That's what family's for.
We're all help to help each other.

I just want to help them
have a good season.

Most miners, as soon
as they hit the calcrete,
which they class as a hard bottom,

they don't believe that
any gold gets under that,
penetrates under it.

So, with all the information
that I've gathered from
other prospectors in the area,

a lot of people are saying
they're actually starting to go
under the calcrete now.

Calcrete is a solid layer
of calcium carbonate

mixed with sand and silt from
dried out lakes.

Brad is hoping that there was gold
here before it hardened
millions of years ago.

It's pretty rough and it's going
to be hard going gettin' under it.

It's going to be bloody hard work.

It's pretty much nature's concrete.

Big chunk of calcrete there.

That's exactly what I am hoping
will happen.

Just take up a whole layer.

So I've got to pick up
this dirt here

and lay it out on another pad
so we can get it detected.

I know that Brad is struggling a bit
because he's a bit upset

about losing the use
of the dry blower,

but we can't do anything about that.

A lot of stress on him.

Mish, you're in my way. Thank you.

Yeah, well, it's good that Brad can
think on his feet

and change plans when
problems occur. Hopefully,
I can find some nuggets.

And eventually, we will get
some dry dirt to run
through the dry blower.

It's so good having Danny
up here helping.

You know, he's always wanted to
come up an help us find some gold.

So, yeah, I'm stoked
that he is here.

Right, so I've gotten
under the calcrete.

This is all the stuff that I want to
detect, so I can't wait any longer.

I'm going to have a quick swing
over it before we lay it out.

Hopefully there's some gold in it
and my gamble's paid off.

(DETECTOR TONE)

I don't know. Oh!

That actually sounds bloody good.

I reckon it's in that chunk.

It's in that.

Oh! (LAUGHS)

Look at that.

That's a bloody good bit of gold,
to tell you. That's unreal.

That tells me that we're on
the money. And that's what I said.

Under that calcrete,
that's exactly where it is.

There could be heaps through here.
So, that's unreal.

That is so good, man. That's
probably, I don't know,
maybe three grams.

Hopefully there's a heap more
gold in there. This is exciting.
Good stuff.

ALEX: Well, this is D-Day
for Fair Lady.

We've set a massive
1000 ounce target.

The only way
we're going to get there

is by producing good,
consistent gold.

And to do that, we are going
to need Lloyd.

That's a huge crushing plant.

It can crush a lot of dirt and it
needs to be down here

and up and running
as soon as possible.

It's a big move, and to do that
we have got to get this area

ready for trucks, cranes and a pad

nice and clean and level
for the plant to actually go on to.

The quicker they do that,
the more cash we save.

With any big move,
I'm always apprehensive.

Lloyd's costs a lot of money to
build, a lot of money to maintain.

If anything stuffs up,
this could cost us our season

before we've even got going.

Well, Paul's up
at the Phoenix Project getting
everything ready for the crane.

Alex is getting the pad ready
and my job is to get this all level,

so that when the cranes come,
they can set the crusher down,
and it's good to go.

So this is a laser level.

And that way, when we put
the crusher down,
it's going to be completely flat.

OK, well, this is a receiver,
and when we line it up with a laser,

it'll give us a perfect height.

(RECEIVER BEEPS)

Awesome.

Yeah, exciting times for us
at Fair Lady.

You know, we can't find
a huge amount of gold

until we crush a huge amount of dirt

and that's exactly what
Lloyd's going to do.

Perfect!

This Fair Lady lease has got
a huge amount of history.

There's been people out here for
over a hundred years finding gold.

All the big ones,
picked up long ago.

But what I am hoping, if I take
the surface off,

there might be a few nuggets
slightly deeper down

that the modern detectors haven't
quite been able to hear.

It's got to be worth a shot.

Oh, hello.

There is no way a detector
has been down here.

It's got to be down this. Oh, hello!

Thank you very much.

That's just popped right out.

Maybe two, two and a half grammer.
Maybe even three.

That's a nice bit of gold,
and there it is.

30 or 40 of those that
would add up real fast.

Hey, Mel, got a copy?

Yeah.

You won't believe what I just found.
Really?

Do you fancy giving us a hand?
Cos I reckon this pad

is going to have some potential.

Yeah, I'm already there.

Oh, my God. Guys, I gotta go.

Three hundred and
eighty kilometres north west,

fellow Gold Devil Paul Mackie preps
the crushing plant Lloyd

for the move to Fair Lady,

PAUL: This is the final farewell
for the Phoenix Project.

Got the cranes coming in tomorrow.

We've just got to clear the dirt
from around these containers.

The more prep work you do,
the less time the crane is here and
the more money we save.

So you are not just paying
for the crane hire,

you're paying for all the people,
the riggers they've
got coming with them,

and it can be costly.
For us, at the moment,

we're looking at around
60 and 70,000.

It's all well, and good
when you're making gold

and you're bringing in the money
but, at the moment,

we're not producing anything, so,
it's a bit frustrating,
it's a bit scary,

but, you know, hopefully
we can get this plant set up

and get back on track
and bring in the gold.

I can see it. (CHUCKLES)

Check that out.

Hey, Alex
Yeah?Got another little one.

Awesome.
Oh, Mel, I've got another signal.

What?This ground is full of them.

Tiny little baby one.
That might be small,

but that starts to add up.

I mean, this place is just littered
with little bits of gold.

I think I've got another one.
Get some of this out of the way.

ALEX: Oh, I've got another signal.

OK, not a competition.

Well, it kind of is.

Yep.

Oh, mine is only a small one.
About half a gram.

Oh, my God! Alex, listen!

(DETECTOR TONE)

Oh, my God! That's probably like,
I don't know, half an ounce.

What have you got?
Check that out.

Whoa!

I did not expect anything to be left
that is that size.

I'd have thought that would have
been picked up from the surface.
So that's awesome.

Guess I'm winning then.

I'd like to get another one
like Mel's

cos she's in the lead at
the moment with that whopper.

Oh. That's a nice deep signal.

Can you hear that?
Yeah. That sounds good.

I am coming over.
Yeah, it's still in there.

Yeah, it sounds good, that one.

It's out in the pile.
It's out. Oh, my God, Alex!

Oh, that's awesome.

That's a chunk.Oh, my God!
That's a chunky nugget.

Gosh, that's heavy. That's awesome.

That's another 1,000 bucks
right there. We've really
got to hit the road now.

Yep.We've burnt way too much time
doing this. It was worth it.

Oh, absolutely.But we gotta
get out of here cos that crane
is on its way to Phoenix.

Well, done.All right let's go.OK.

JACQUI: This doesn't
look good at all.

Hey, definitely
a bit of a challenge.

That is a serious drop off.

Yeah, my concerns are if we get
the dozer stuck in the middle...

Don't get the dozer stuck.No.

Gonna take a bit of work.
Fill it in.

Batter it out. Track roll it for you
so you can get across,

make it nice and smooth.
Let's just do this safely, eh?

No drama on the Palmer.
Legend. Let's get into it.

No drama on the Palmer today.
All right, I like it.

We've just followed
the dozer through the bush here
and got a bit of a road in.

Fish Creek's over there,

but we've got to pass this.

If this all goes to plan,
we're going to be able

to get our car across to
the other side.

But if this goes bad, we might have
a 30 tonne dozer

stuck in the middle of a massive
Palmer River wash out.

And in the middle of nowhere,
that is not good.

In the tropical far
North of Queensland,

between December and April,
the wet season dumps
an average of 1,600 mm of rain.

Hundreds of rivers and creeks swell,
making crossings impassable.

This creek will eventually dry out

until the next wet season
when the cycle continues.

Careful, mate. It's getting real
soft down on this left hand side.
Yeah, copy that.

We don't want the machine
to tip over or drop into the creek,
so I'm just spottin' him,

making sure the edges are solid and
everything is safe and good to go.

This much to go!

It's going to be great.
We can get in and get the gold.

They can get in and
get the cattle.Yeah.

It opens this part of the station
up for everyone.

Like just check this out.

This is crazy.

It's pretty hard there so you should
be able to get across fine.

Great job. This is fantastic.

No worries. Glad to help.

You're sweet.

Looking good. Too easy.
Fish Creek Here we come.

Whoo!

All right, let's do this.

This is fantastic.Yeah.

I'm going to pull up here.
Let's go check these gullies out.

Yeah. This is as good a spot as any
to start, I reckon, mate.
Yeah. Yeah, definitely.

Wicked. How good is this?
No more walking in.

This is brilliant.

I am stoked.
All right. Ready?

Let's go.Let's go prospecting.

We've got a big target this year

so two and a half ounces last week
didn't knock much off it.

It was a solid start but we need to
get better numbers than that.

So when we're prospecting,
we always search the gullies.

The veins carrying gold, they've all
come out, eroded off the surface,

and then they have been moved
mostly by water

and the changes in the landscape
around us.

Think of it this way. Gold's heavy.
So, the gold is going to find

its way down to the lowest possible
point it can

and that's why we search for gold
in these spots.

Snake! Snake!

Oh!

Man, OK,

That looked like a brown snake.

We get 'em out here
and they are seriously deadly.

Oh, man. That's

a the closest I've probably come
to stepping on snake.

That's just really dangerous stuff.

I mean, you look at a snake bite
out here,

you've got a six hour drive
back to the nearest hospital.

The only way, the only hope of
getting out of here is radio
sat-phone helicopter

immediately wrapped, immobilised,

and even then you're still playing
with fire. Your chances
are real slim.

You get bitten by a snake like that
out here, it's pretty much
game over.

Hey, mate, just letting you know,
I'm moving onto the next gully,

and keep your eyes peeled
cos I'm pretty sure

I just nearly stood
on a brown snake.

BRAD: So I've got piles of product
that I've pulled out

from under the calcrete
and starting to look at it now.

This stuff is pretty dry.

so I'm starting to think that we
might be able to run this through
the dry blower.

Hey, Dad and Danny, you got a copy?
I'm starting to get a bit of dry
material here,

probably run this through
the dry blower, eh?

Yeah, if you like,
we'll give it a go.

Sweet. That's great news then.
So I'll take the tarp off and I'll
get the dry blower going.

Hey, Danny?

What's that?
You know how to operate the feed?

If it starts going through too quick
it'll jam up and shut it down.

Yeah, yep.

Danny, nothing's going out
on that belt.

Is there anything coming off
the belt?

No, I think it's a bit clogged up in
the actual hopper. I'll open it up
a bit more.

It's starting to get clogged up,
so I open it up a bit

and let some more come through.

Just have to watch it doesn't get
overloaded, Danny.

There's nothing on that belt, Danny.
Is it getting overloaded?

Too much weight on that hopper so
I think it's a bit seized up.

All right I'll shut it off now.
I really hope we haven't broken
the machine.

That could cost us a lot of money.

There's nothing feeding through
the hopper. The dirt's just too wet.

I think that feed is stuck.
It's not opening up anymore.

The hopper's chock-a-block.

And it's jammed because we've got
so much weight on it now.

It's all bent and everything.

What's going on down there?

The feed is jammed shut. We're just
going to try and open it.

Can't even see the feed.

Shouldn't have (BLEEP) used it.

(BLEEP)

ALEX: Got the crane here.
Got the trucks here.

Now we're burning six grand an hour.
This stuff has to move.

Move safely and get on the road.

Due to the dimensions
of the loads, the height and the
width, we can't travel after dark.

So yeah, really got to
get everything

done and dusted and hit the road
before sundown.

One down.

Having exhausted the gold
at the Phoenix Project,
the Gold Devils are

moving their half a million
dollar crushing operation to their
Fair Lady lease

for a better chance at reaching
their 1,000 ounce season target.

ALEX: This is the biggest container.
Forty tonnes

and it's got some really valuable
crushing equipment.

This part of Lloyd costs
over 100 grand. Any damage,

even dropping a couple of feet,
well, the Gold Devils are out

of the game
before we've even started.

When I built this thing to be solid,
and I filled it up with concrete,

and it's not designed to move.
I can't even look.

It makes me feel sick
to my stomach.

Oh, it's creaking.
I don't like that.

That's not good.

Here we go.Here we go.

It's up. It didn't break
straight off the bat.

It's holding together,
that's the most important thing.

PAUL: Yeah, well, they finally
got it off the ground.

They've just got to now get it on
the truck and we can
get the hell out of here.

We're going to shoot off
to Fair Lady now?

Yeah, if you can make sure they
get down today, that'd be
absolutely amazing.

As soon as they strap this load on,
we're out of here.

It's costing a lot of money, so,
It's cost a fortune today
but anyway,

See what you can do.
Chase them out the gate.

All right, mate.
Thanks, Paul. See ya.

It's mid afternoon

and the convoy still faces
a four and a half hour road trip
to Fair Lady.

Probably took an extra three hours
than what it should have taken.

Best case scenario, we do make it
there tonight before nightfall.

Now these trucks can't drive
after dark due to the size and
dimensions

of the loads that are carrying.
So yeah, fingers crossed

we can make it but if we don't,
we'll have to pull up

at the nearest town and yeah,
fork out for everyone's
accommodation.

It's going to be a very costly
exercise if we don't make good time.

Hopefully we can get there
and nothing goes wrong.

Yeah, a big woof of smoke and then
the old shrapnel goes flying out.

It looks like we've done a couple of
tyres on the back of the back

of the dolly, so I don't think
we'll make it tonight.

We're not going to get
to Fair Lady at all.

We're gonna have to camp up here on
the side of the road.

All right.

She's out. It's hot
digging out here.

Oh, first scoop too.
Love that.

Whoo-hoo.

Check that out.

Ooh, that one's got
a bit of weight to it too.

I'll give that five grams at least.

About five hundred bucks of
gold there.

That's unreal.

First gold nugget of the day award
goes to Jacqui.

Ooh, that's a nice broad signal,
that one.

So this is a perfect spot
for gold to stop in this creek.

When this creek's in flood and
even though it's only a really

small gully, during the wet season,
this would be powering.

It'd probably be over my head

and it'd come powering down through
there and hit that bank

and when it does a bit of a turn
through here,

the water would get a big eddy,
like a big slow section right here

and that's where your gold
will drop in these areas on
what we call inside bends.

It's all about water hydraulics.

And when that water gets slack,
the gold will drop out and

yeah, hopefully this is a bit that's
dropped out for me right here.

Time to find out.

Straight onto a good clay bed there.

Hopefully I've got it out. Phew!

(BLEEP) hot out in this sun.

(DETECTOR TONE)

Oh, yeah! That sounds great.

This is a really loud target.

So hopefully, when you get
a screamer, as we call them,

you're always hoping it's gold, but

majority of the time, it's not so.

That one (BLEEP) is. You can hear
that noise when she hits it.

Look at that.

Excellent bit of water worn gold.

Oh, yeah, that's
a fantastic chunk of gold.

Look at that one! There's a good
half-ounce there, I reckon.

That's a $1,500 nugget
every day of the week.

And that, that's water worn gold.

Like that's been down
a massive river.

It's been kickin' around for a long,
long time, this piece.

Fish Creek paying the bills.

This is absolutely brilliant.

I've hit a patch.

There's just gold
everywhere, seriously,

I can't stop pulling
them out of the ground.

Unreal. It takes it
out of you but, oh,

it's such a good feeling.

It's such a rush.

Whoo! All right.

Sounds big this one.

First scoop. Love that.

Still in there.

Whoo-hoo!

Nice.

That's awesome.

They just keep coming.

Hey, like seriously, I can barely
take one step, and then I get
another target.

It's unreal. I love being
on a patch.

They just keep adding up.

Like check this out.

Nugget, nugget, nugget, nugget.

I'm getting sick of digging out
nuggets today. This is unreal.

Such a rush though, hey!
This is gold fever.

Can you try and wind
that maybe as I...

Oh, yeah, it's starting to come
through now.

Problem is, we've got two ton of
dirt in there that
we need to get out.

Still blocked?
Just wondering if we fire it up.

Get a bit of vibration. It might
actually... because we've opened it

a little bit now it might start
feeding through, you know.

Yeah.Maybe jump out. We'll just
give it a quick go anyway.

Just see if it'll sort of feed
through a bit.

All right, I'm just going to
fire up, Dad.

All right I'm just going to try
again all right?.Yeah, go on.

Once it clears, that
should be all right.

Yeah.Look, I think it's
a combination of a few things.

Erm, I think the soil's probably
a little bit damp but,

erm, you know, you need to get
the feed right with what you're
feeding into the hopper itself.

Problem is, you know,
there's a lot of motors,

a lot of electrical parts here,
so if we stuff this up,

you know, we could really do
some damage.

It's moving now.

Hopefully there's
something in there.

Yeah, look, it seems to be feeding
nice now so,

I might leave the guys to it and
I'll head back to the pit.

MAX: Oh, Danny's earned
his wages today.

So I like to come down here and have
a bit of a look around.

You get a good view of the walls and
see what's going on in the ground.

So, I'll have a bit of a detect
around and see if I can
find anything.

It's worth checking. Oh!

(DETECTOR TONE)

Hang on. Hang on. Hang on.

What's going on?

Holy crap.

There's a target there,

and there's a target there.

They could be targets too.

Hey, Darl, you got a copy?

Yeah. Copy.

I'm down in the pit and I've got two
big targets in the wall here.

Erm, you might want to
come down and see this.

All right, coming right now.

She's gonna love this, I'll tell ya.

Hey, you got something?

You wait 'til you hear this.
Are you ready?Yeah.

Oh, I hope it is gold.

And look at this. There's one
in the wall as well.

Try that.

Couldn't say.Oh, yeah.

Oh, my God, babe!

Holy crap.

Look at that. Oh, far out!

That is unbelievable. (LAUGHS)

Let's see more.

I'm going to take the whole (BLEEP)
wall down if I have to.

Oh, oh, my God, it's in here.

Are you serious?

Oh, I thought that was a big
rock. Look at it!

That is a big (BLEEP) rock.
Whoo-hoo!Holy crap!

That is incredible, babe.
I think we're on it.

That's unreal.
Oh, my God, look at it.

That's huge.Holy crap.

That's probably an ounce. I reckon
that's an ounce right there.
How much do you reckon it is?

That's probably three grand.
Oh, my God!

And then with the other one, that's
probably half an ounce.
Oh, that's incredible.

There's about five grams
worth of gold we just found.

Quick, let's keep detecting.

Man, I'm shaking.
I can't believe this.

Ah, are you serious?

(GASPS)Holy crap.
Oh, my goodness.

Oh, you're kidding.
Are you serious?

Whoo-hoo!Yeah, baby!
That's unreal.That's incredible.

Look at the size of this one!
Three!

That's what dreams are made of,
right there.

You said to come back here, babe.
You came through. Oh, my God!

You know, I just believed that there
was gold under the calcrete and...

You were right.

You were right.
I had faith in you all along.

I love you so much.

Check that out. There you go.
Oh, goodness.

I don't know.

You never find this sort of stuff.
Not in a lifetime, you know?

Not that, that close together, this
whole lot could be full of that.

I've never experienced anything like
this in my life.Incredible.

Come on, let's sit you down.

Yeah. Sit me down before I pass out.

Here looks good. That was good.

We got a few more, just to add to
the jar before we weigh it all up.

Yeah, it was a good little run.
I know. I kinda didn't want to stop.

No, I know. It sounds like,
we went all right,

It sounds very all right.

You know, without Adam getting that
bulldozer out and fixing that track,

we would have none of this gold
in this jar.

Getting into Fish Creek and

being able to drive
in and out every day,

wow, what a difference that made.
I know. We owe him.

All right. I'm pretty keen to
find out what we done.Yep.

I reckon five. Let's go for five.

Five?Five.

This is going to be good.
Look at that.We got so much.

5.92 ounces of gold, mate.

Yes.

We smashed it.
Absolutely smashed it.

Killed it.That's fantastic.

Just under six ounces.

God, I thought if we get five,
that'd be good,

but just under six,
that's brilliant.

Oh, stoked! That's seventeen
and a half grand.

Yes! Wow!Yeah.
We're goin' pretty good.

We are going good, but
it's hard work and we've gotta
cover our costs out here.

We've gotta cover living out here
and all the equipment and repairs
we're running.

So we need to be punching that sort
of gold to make it worth it.

If we can knock away these
sort of weigh-ins for
the rest of the year mate,

we're definitely going to get that
fifty ounces.

Oh, I know, right.

Put that road in.
Drive straight to the gold.

Hey, Danny, how did you go with that
concentrator, mate?

DANNY: Just finished
processing it then, so...

Dad, you ready to have
a weigh-in or what?

Yeah.I'll tell you what -
I am excited this weigh.

We found some good ones.

Can hardly contain ourselves, eh?
This is gonna be unbelievable.

So let's see what we've got.
I'll put this down now.

So this is out of the dry blower.
That is unreal.

Fifteen grams.All right but I'm
more excited about these.

These are some great big nuggets.

They're some of the best nuggets
I've ever seen. I'll tell you that.

They're so good.
Whoo! Here we go!

Let's see what we've got.
That is so good.

A hundred and thirty three.

So that is now 4.3 ounces.

That's nearly $13,000.
Oh, wow!That's unreal. Well, done.

Well done.That's awesome.
That's a good week,
I'll tell you that.

With the McGhies tally at over
seven ounces, they are well

on track to reach their
25-ounce season target.

I'm so proud of you guys.
You've done so well.

I always felt that there was good
gold down under the calcrete,
so, you know...

We've got heaps more to go through.
So, we'll start ripping it up.

All right. Fantastic.
What a (BLEEP) great week.

Let's go and have a beer.
Yeah, good. Sounds great.

PAUL: We got up pretty early
this morning, just before the sun,

try and get everything
on site and unloaded

so these trucks can get
off the payroll.

I can't wait to start running.

Well, it's nearly there really.

Another half a metre or so of beam
down please. Nice and easy.

Let's go, just a touch more
that way. That'll do it.

Right there.How's that?

Yeah, spot on.
Righto, mate, nice and easy.

All right, this is the final one.
The big lift.

All right. That's good.

WORKER: Are you happy there?
Yeah.

PAUL: She's done.

Oh, such a relief.

It's been a stressful couple
of days, that's for sure.

(SIGHS)Well, it's all here.
I know nice feeling isn't it?

Couldn't be happier.
What's going on here?

You called me over. I can see
you're about to weigh something.

Oh, yeah.But where, what, how?

We've been busy.

But before we get to that, Paul and
myself have got a surprise for you.

We know you lost your other hat.

Oh, you guys.

And it's got that worn-in look
that you like.

I've got a cowboy hat again.
There you go.

Awesome. Thank you, guys.

Welcome.I feel spoiled now.

What are we doing here?
What have we got?

All right.What did you find?

We've had some fun.
Have a look at this one.

It's a nice bit of weight to it.
Was that from where you were
clearing the pad?

Yeah, turned into a bit of
a competition but...

We ended up pooling all our gold so
who knows who won? I probably won.

Well, put it on there then.
What does it weigh?All right.

0.4 of an ounce.

Yes. Check that out.

That's beautiful.
It's nice, isn't it?

Go on, chuck it on. Let's see if
it's bigger than my one.
Let's see who won.

Point eight.It's the same weight.

I reckon we'll call it a draw.
OK.That's not the only thing.

Whoa!We've picked up.

That sounds good.Hundreds and
hundreds of little pieces.

Check this out.

A few pieces in there as well.

Yeah.Yup.

That's 8-2, so, 8.2 ounces.

Well, done.Yeah.

Even though they found gold to put
on the scales during the big move,

the Gold Devils still have a
mountain to climb to reach their
1,000 ounce target.

This has been a team effort.
We've all put blood, sweat,
and tears into it,

and we're now here.
And really, this season

is going to be make or break
for all of us,

but we've got every chance
now of doing it.

Gold Devils.Gold Devils.

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