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NARRATOR: This time
on Aussie Gold Hunters...
DANNY: That's wicked. That's huge.

..the McGhies take their operation
to the next level.

Might as well go big or go home,
I reckon.

But a malfunction
costs them thousands.

Argh! We've potentially lost
a heap of gold.

That's about as beautiful
as it gets.
There's got to be gold here.

Alan and Salty's journey takes them

deep into the Pilbara region
of Western Australia,

searching high and low
for undiscovered gold.

Look at the size of that thing!
Oh-ho-ho-ho!

This here is what prospectors
dream of.

I've found gold nuggets
in this area.

Those gold nuggets
have come from somewhere.

So there's every chance there's
a reef running through.

Down a team member,
the Gold Devils search frantically

for a new source of gold...

Nothing. That was the best-looking
quartz, not one spec!

..before their wash plant
comes to a grinding halt.

Shut it down! Kill the power!
Kill the power!

Thanks for having us
on your country, boys.

That's all good, it's our pleasure.

It's important that we educate
people when we come out here

to show them the risks of them
destroying heritage sites.

It's a privilege to be here
with you guys.

We're here to show you
what to look out for,
when you guys are digging around.

It's like you're the gatekeepers
to a very, very old museum.

All of us mob are actually obligated
to look after our country, you know?

So this is one of the sites
I was talking about.

It's a bit of a collection
that we've made over a few trips
at a time.

This is the grinding patch.
They would have used them

to grind up seeds. So basically,
a mortar and pestle, you know?

This represents everything
right here in one circle, you know?

So, here we've got some spearheads
here.SALTY: Really?

It's unreal to know that,
you know... It's good to see
that it's still here.

We could be touching 3,000-year-old
artefacts here.

If you think it's something,
possible artefact, put it down

and just head in
the other direction, basically.

Julius Hunter and Mark Clifton
are Mardudhuni rangers

working for the Wirrawandi
Aboriginal Corporation

a non-profit responsible for
managing local native title rights

and preserving country
and cultural identity.

Majority of time they'd have
slept here.
They'd be camped up around here.

When you got all these trees
to slow down the wind.

This whole big place here is just
riddled with 150-plus
grinding patches.

There's one right here, look.
Can you feel it's smooth?

I would not have picked that
until you pointed that out.
They're everywhere along here, man.

Biggest indication of multiple
families out here, you know.
So, down here

is the creek. That's where the main
water source was for them mob.

So this here, even though
it hasn't rained in months,

it's still always going to have
fresh water.

Last time we came out here,
the water was over this rock.
Really?Yeah.

You've always got water underneath,
so it's always gonna have
a bit of water, no matter what.

We brought you guys out here so
you know what to look out for.

Ask for you guys to respect our
country and leave it as it is

while you work,
and we wish you all the best.
Pretty special day, boys.

It's good to know what to look for.
We'll be careful.

A good yarn for you: look after
the country and the country
will look after you.

From what you showed me,
it's been beautiful.

That's all I can say. Thank you.
My man.

Good to have you guys out here,
you know.

We'll take care of the land
as you guys have.
No worries, boys. Take it easy.

Mate, what an experience that was
hanging with Mark and Julius.

Giving us a rundown of country
and the land

and what to look out for.
Yeah, I was a sponge
for all of that.

Knowledge is free.
Now we know a little more,

they're happy to give us permission
to prospect on their country. Kicked
things off on the right foot.

But now it's time
to make some money, mate.

We need to be getting three
and a half, four ounces a week

to hit that target, mate.

Uh... And I think this is a good
place for us to make that happen.

Oh, how is this spot on the left?

This is definitely the place
we want to be.

It's about as beautiful as it gets.

There's got to be gold here.

There has to be. The amount of
history and the age of this place.

What's washed down here over
the years come off those clips.

I'm actually thinking I want to jump
in the water.

There's got to be gold in there.
Look at the colour of that.

What are you gonna do?
Um,

I want to get down the other side
there. It's such a vast area.

Beautiful breakaway country
that looks very promising.

What are we waiting for, mate?
Yeah, let's do it.Get to it.

I have the fortunate job of jumping
in the water this time.

I've got this hookah diver,
so it's gonna allow me

to not just rely on my breath hold.

I can stay under for as long as
I want, really.

It's like scuba diving,
but without the tanks.

Under that water is icy.

Fingers crossed,
we find some gold in here.

WENDY: It's huge.
DANNY: Yeah, it's wicked.

It's awesome.
It's gonna move some dirt,
definitely.

BRAD: Yeah, it's a beast, eh?

It's gonna be a big day.
Yep.Hope we're ready.

Yeah, that's great. So how much
is this gonna cost us?

With the crusher here for a day,
and transport here and back,

it's about ten grand.
Ten grand? That's a lot of money.

That's just over there ounces,

about half of what we've found
this season already.

We can't run the dry blower
without crushing the material.
All the gold's trapped in rock,

so we have to crush it
to run it through the blower
and capture that gold.

Yeah, I hope it works.
There's only one way to find out,
eh?

Yep.
We're gonna have to take a risk.

Yous can get all that going, and me
and Bailey are gonna go detecting.

All right, we'll give them a hand.
Come on, are you ready?

Let's do it.
Let's go.

Yeah, righto.

This is pretty exciting.

I've always wanted to crush
a lot of this dirt

and now's the perfect opportunity.
I've got this massive crusher

so I should be able to get
either of these stockpiles
crushed down

and through the dry blower.

May as well go big or go home,
I reckon.

We can run it through a crusher
and just basically break
all the gold out of it,

then run it through the dry blower.
How small do you want to get it?

Five millimetres or less
would be great.

We'll break all that up.
Yeah.

What a lot of the prospectors do
around here is

they hit this calcrete level
and they stop.

I always believed there was gold
under the calcrete
and in the calcrete itself.

Oh, my God!
Yeah, baby!

That's what dreams are made of
right there.

With a new source
of gold-rich ground,

the McGhies called in
Wendy's son, Danny,

and brad's father, Max,
to lend a hand.

But they hit a roadblock -

the pay dirt was too coarse
for the dry blower.

That stuff's pretty thick
and it won't go through the screen,
it just sits on top of it.

Unfortunately, to get the gold
out of the calcrete

you need some sort of
crushing plant.

Throw that first bucket in
and we'll kick her off.

Righto, mate. Coming in now.

At the heart of the 1.4 million
dollar crushing machine

is a cone that spins off-centre
against a fixed bowl,

crushing the material as it falls
into a narrowing gap.

The upper frame can be lifted

to vary the size of the end product.

(ALARM WAILS)

Just hold up. It's just choking up
straight away.

Oh, really?

That's a problem.

There's a bit too much moisture
in it

so it's patty-caking
all the fines together.

So that's why we're getting
all these slabby bits here. As I
tighten up and get it choked,

that's just slamming it together
and doing that.Yep.

I can open it up more...

But then it's gonna
come out bigger anyway.
It's gonna come out bigger,

but you're gonna end up better off.
You're still gonna break up
some of that bigger stuff.

There's no point closing it up
too tight and patty-caking
all your fines.Yep.

Just trying to find a sweet spot.

Try to get it as tight as I can
without it doing that

and then we'll just have to
leave it at that.

We're probably not gonna get it
down to the five mil we wanted,

but we'll get it close to it.

Brad's been wanting to crush
the dirt under the calcrete

for so long.
It's definitely a risk.

Nothing's guaranteed up here.

We're about a third of the way
through the season

and we've found
just over seven ounces.

So, um, you know, our target
is 25 ounces

so we've got a fair bit to find
before then.

Can I have a turn on that?
Yeah.

Do you want to have a go
on this side?

Put your arm through
and you can detect this bit here.

Yep, perfect.
Just go slowly along the ground.

OK, so what am I looking for
here?

When it makes a real loud sound,
a big, deep sound,

that's what you want to hear.

You're doing good.
(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

Ooh!
That's the sound we want to hear.

All right, see if it's still there.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
All right, it's out.It's here.
So get the scoop.

Put the detector down where you're
gonna...and then scoop a bit

where you think it is.

Go right over the thing
so we can hear.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
It's in there.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
Still in there.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
Still in there.

I think I see it. Oh, there it is!

Show me.
It's gold!

Awesome! Well done!
That's a great little bit!

That's amazing.
So proud of you, Bailey,

that is so good.
First time detecting,

and digging it out, and getting
the gold all by yourself.

That's so good.
Let's see if we can find some more.

I can't wait to tell Dad
what you just did.

He's gonna be so proud of you.

All right, boys, time's up.
Let's shut it down for the day.

All done, mate.
How do you think we went?

Yeah, I think we went good, mate.
Probably five hours running.

We got a few stockpiles put away,
so that's really good.
Happy with that.

Appreciate it, man.
Thank you for your help.

I'll pack this up and get out of
here.Thank you very much, eh?

I reckon we pan a bit of this stuff
off, Danny,

and have a bit of a look
what's it in, eh?
Yeah, no worries.

I'll grab some of this stuff.

All right, let's go and check it,
just out of curiosity, eh?
Hopefully something good.Yeah.

So essentially, what you're doing
is you're shaking it

and all the heavy gold should sit
to the bottom and you're washing out
all the lighter material.

So this will tell us good enough.

Huh. You've got to be joking!

Hey.
Hey!

What's happening?
Well, Lloyd's back together.

And I've got to say, I've pretty
much done it all on my own,
cos Paul, he's been a no-show.

Yeah, where is he?
He's gone off
on a little side quest,

looking for, I think,
another project.

We really need to start processing.
Yep.

I've been going through
all the finances

and, you know, the move was
over $105,000.

So we really need to bring in,
you know...Yeah.

We're behind. We're well behind. So
what do we need to actually get,

well, balance the books again?
We need another ten ounces.

So, about 30 grand.

Well, it's doable. I think I'd like
to put a few more trenches in
with the excavator.

OK.
Sample, make sure we've got

a few areas with some rich pockets
we can pull in and process.

All right,
let's get stuck into it and...

Yeah.
..try to be positive.

Got the crane here,
got the trucks here,

now we're burning
six grand an hour.

It makes me feel sick
to my stomach.

Last time, the Gold Devils

shipped their 20-tonne
processing plant, Lloyd,

360 kilometres
from the Phoenix Project

to their new base of operations,
the Fair Lady lease.

Now they need the gold
to get them back in the black.

I don't think we're gonna
make it tonight.
It's cost a fortune today.

The only way we're gonna dig
ourselves out is literally

by digging, finding the gold,
get it processed,

get a pay day,
get back in the black.

All right, this looks pretty good.

I found gold nuggets in this area.

Those gold nuggets have come
from somewhere.

And there's old workings,
so there's every chance

there's a reef running
through here.

All the gold in this area has pretty
much been held up in the quartz.

So there's narrow quartz reefs
running all over the place.

Through the bedrock and, er,
see if there's anything there.

Alex and Mel are chasing
the old-timers' diggings,

looking for gold
they've left behind.

During the gold rush,
miners used hand tools

to dig shafts
into gold-bearing quartz,

extracting millions of dollars
of gold.

With the 380-horsepower,

46-tonne excavator,

Mel and Alex hope to capitalise

on what the old-timers missed.

Mel, got a copy? Do you want to come
over and have a look at this trench,

see if there's anything of interest?

Oh, you've been busy.
If you wouldn't mind doing
some sampling,

and let's just see if we've got
some gold. If we have,

then we'll start digging it
straight away. If we haven't,
onto the next one.

All right, time to tell if we're
on the gold or not.

So I'm just gonna pan this off

and, um, just see if we're left
with, er, any gold in here.

All right.

I mean, I'd be happy with
one to two specs.

Fingers crossed
there's something in here.

(SIGHS)

Alex, you got a copy?
Yeah, copy.

No gold in this one.

That was the one spot I really
thought was gonna work out.

It hasn't.

It would be good if we had
the whole team here.

Unfortunately, Paul's not here.
We haven't heard from him, so...

i don't know what's going on.
But we just have to get on with it.

I guess this is
the character-building part
of gold mining.

If you just gave up
at the first hurdle,

then you'd have to be very lucky
to ever find gold.

I know there are good
quartz veins around here,

but the old-timers,
they've done a really good job
of digging them out.

Came in a hundred years ago,
they got the easy stuff,

and now we've got to dig
in between where they found it

and try and find something that was
either missed or they never found,

which I've got to say is turning out
to be quite a mission.

Let's try this one.
Okay.

All right. What we're looking for
is a nice quartz vein

running through. You can see
the quartz there.Mm-hm.

Nice juicy stuff.

All right, let's get some gold.

That looks like the goodies.

Nothing.

It's a lot of digging
for nothing!

Absolutely nothing!

(GROANS)
It's disappointing, isn't it?

Oh, it's getting beyond
disappointing.

Everything left behind is useless.
That's why they left it.

That was the best looking quartz.
Not one spec!

Yeah.

You know, Alex has been
slaving away,

building the processing plant,
and, you know, digging,

and we can't even get
a spec of gold.

It's just really disheartening.

ALAN: Wow. Look at this country.

This is beautiful.
Can't get any better than this.

Nice flat area,
all this drainage channel.

I might start here.

Alan and Salty
have been given permission

by the traditional owners
to prospect for gold

here in Mardudhunera country,

a land that Mardudhuni people
have looked after

for over 50,000 years.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
Oi!

Ooh, what's that?

It's got a bit of an echo to it.

Jeez. Yeah, so I've got a magnet
on here

to basically attract rubbish

and hot rocks,
and for this all to be

attached to it like so

kind of makes me think
that's a hot rock.

So a hot rock is basically just, um,
a very high iron content rock

which gives you a signal.

Let's just see.
I think it's this big rock here.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
Yeah, it is.

If it comes up to the magnet,
we know it's a hot rock.

Just like that.

There you go.

One hot rock.

Not a good start, but anyway, at
least I know the detector's working.

This valley better be the one
that changes things for us

cos we're very, very far behind
on our season target.

I hope Salty's doing well.

(EXHALES AND GROANS)

It's, er, it's pretty tricky
navigating

this water system.
As soon as you start moving,

everything behind you clouds up
and I was finding it difficult

to kind of get my buoyancy right

so I wasn't dragging on the ground
and I wasn't floating up too much.

So I've had to, um, custom make
a few rocks...

(CHUCKLES)
..a few rocks in the wetsuit

to get my buoyancy right,
so when I'm cruising along

it's just my tippy-toes
touching the bottom.

Over millions of years
of erosion and flooding,

gold travels from its source
to the lowest point in the valley,

making this creek the ideal location
to look for gold.

(METAL DETECTOR HUMS)

(DETECTOR CONTINUES HUMMING)

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

Whoo!

(MUFFLED) We're on the gold!

Whoo!

Look at the size of that thing!

Hey, Al, you got a copy, mate?
Yeah, man, got you.

(LAUGHS) Mate, get down here.
Get down to the water right now.

Oh, mate, we're on.
We're on the gold.

This sounds good, mate.
I'm on my way.

I'm running. I'm running.

Faster!
(LAUGHS)

Mate, come and have a look at this.

What have you got? That call
has got me excited.

(INDISTINCT)

Holy...!

I was underwater, mate, just...
got a big signal,

and then all I saw was like
that little spec on the top,

and I was just trying to wave it
cos it's so silty.
I could see when you walked out.

Wow!
Then I turned it over,
I was like, "Oh, my God!"

That is beautiful.
I was shouting underwater.

That's an awesome find, man.
Well done. Well done.Yeah.

Back to it, mate.
Good luck.Whoo-hoo!

ALEX: Well, so far, digging between
the old workings is not working.

The old-timers, they were good

and they pretty much
dug it all out.

But my plan now is go to either end
of the old workings,

where they haven't dug,
and basically take the next step

and see if we can get onto the stuff
that's never been touched.

Oh, I think I heard a bit of quartz
then on the bucket.

Sounds like scraping glass,
so a good sign.

Oh, yeah, there it is!

There's that quartz vein.

If this is carrying gold,
well, that's a game changer.

I'll picks some of the best rocks
and I'll come up

and we'll see if, er,
see if we've got the yellow stuff.

Right.

(CLANGING)

There you go.
Oh, yeah, I can see it.

A couple of specs on the end
right there.

That ticks a few boxes. There's tons
and tons of that material
down there.

If we can run 50 tons through, that
should give us at least five ounces.

Well, if you're happy to stockpile
more dirt to put through Lloyd,

I'm gonna go detecting and see
if I can find some nuggets
to add to the tally.

But this is exciting.
We're on the gold.Good luck.

Working as a team can be tough,
especially when

you've got a team member
that's not around.

Looks like Paul's found a project
and he's decided he wants that
all for himself

and not part of the team.
Makes it a bit harder for us.

The bills continue to pile up
and we don't find any gold

or there's not enough of us here
to be able to process,

then we're gonna have to
pack everything up

and...and go home.

I always like to come down here
after heavy rain

and just have a look.
Sometimes it washes

a lot of stuff down here
and the side of the wall collapses

and it breaks away gold.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

Whoa! Hear that?

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
I'm just gently gonna scrape

some of the dirt away.

I think it was around here
somewhere.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
That's got
a really good sound to it.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

Still in there.

Oh, my God. Yep.

Gold.

You know, we really need
to be on the gold

and to find that first piece,
sometimes, you know,

everything starts to flow
after that. Especially
in places like this.

(DETECTOR HUMMING)

Ooh, I could have another one here.

Oh, God, I love doing this.
Let's have a look.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
Wow, that's got a really good sound
to it.

(DETECTOR WAILING)

Okay.

I can see it. Another one.

This is actually really exciting.

ALEX: All right, that's enough dirt
out of the hole.

Start moving it over to Lloyd.
All right, I'll be right there.

All right,
let's see what else we can get.

All right, we're all running.

So, I have to just make sure
everything's running smoothly.

Um, a lot can go wrong
with this machinery,

so got to stay on top of it.

There's water! Alex! Alex!

Water everywhere!
Shut it down!

Kill the power! Kill the power!

Get the water all through it.

All right, so this will tell us
good enough.

Hah. you've got to be joking.

There's gold everywhere there.
Look at it all.

Good sign, definitely.That shows
there's gold in there.

How much do you reckon
we've got crushed, mate?
Think about 200 ton crushed.

How much do you reckon we can
run through the blower?

If we can get 100 ton through
and get four ounces,
we're doing well.Sweet.

Let's get this dry blower
up and running.No worries.

All right, time to get some gold.

This is exciting. Looking forward to
seeing how much gold's in there.

Hopefully there's a ton,
but until we run it through
you just don't know.

The McGhies' dry blower,
Mad Maxine,

slowly feeds the riffle trays
with pay dirt and processes it

by forcing air between the riffles,

blowing the lighter material away,

leaving the heavier gold-rich
material in the grooves.

Everything's running smooth.

We're just trying to get
the belt feed right so we can
just pump out some dirt.

Hey, Danny, you got a copy?
Yep.

Do you just want to pan
a bit of those tailings, mate?

Make sure we're not losing
and gold, please.

So I'm looking through this
to, um,

find if there's any gold that's gone
through the tailings.

This is where we don't want to find
any gold.

So I'm just checking it
just to make sure that

the dry blower's doing its job
properly and we're picking up
everything.

Oh, no!

Brad, get down here.
There's gold in the tailings.

Argh!

You're kidding me!

I just did that pan and there's gold
getting through.

You're kidding me. How much?
It's a decent sized little rock.

We've potentially lost
a heap of gold.

All right, let's just start
from the beginning,
try and work out what to do.

You know,
I've just the crusher here

and that's cost me
an absolute fortune. So,

the next process
is to get it through this

and capture the gold.
So if I can't do that,

then that was an absolute
waste of time, waste of money.

Oh, look at that.

See there's gaps under here?
Yeah, you can see them coming down.

So the gold is going underneath.

All the fine gold's just going
underneath the riffles and just
coming straight out.Yeah.

What are we going to do to fix that?
We need to take all the riffles off

and seal it so it can't come out
the bottom.

It's a sticky one side
and it's just a bit of foam, so

what we'll do is,
we'll squeeze that down

in between this
and the screen itself

and hopefully that seals that gap.
It's a bit of downtime

that we certainly don't need,
but I'd rather have the downtime

and fix it properly
than lose gold.

All right. Put this one back on.

All right, you're right, Danny?
Yep.

We'll fire it up, mate.
Go for it.

See if we've, er,
solved the problem.

(ENGINE STARTS)

What I'll do is put a bit of dirt
in there.

Just simulates the dirt coming down.

Yeah, that's perfect.

You can see there's nothing
coming out from this gap now.

That's completely sealed
to this mesh.

That's working good, man.
I think we've
solved the problem, eh?

I hope Wendy and Bailey are having
some luck detecting.

We need to make up for
the downtime with this dry blower.

All right.

This looks pretty good here.
There's a lot of quartz
on the ground.

Looks like there could be some gold.
Should we give this a go?Yeah.

Having finished detecting
the scraped ground,

Wendy and her 11-year-old son,
Bailey,

venture into the wilderness to
continue their search for nuggets.

I absolutely love having the boys
up here and it's so good to have
that family time.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
Ooh.

Ooh, Bailey, I think we've got
something here.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
Yup. Sounds good.

Yeah.
All right, you found the last one,

so I'm gonna find this one,
hopefully.

I hope you get one
as good as mine, Mum.

So do I.

All right.

See if it's still in there.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
It's here somewhere.

All right.

It's down here somewhere.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
Got it in here.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

Oh, my God, Bailey, look!

Look at that!
That's so good!

That's a bit bigger than your one,
I think.

Oh, it's good to see that
there's gold here.

Yeah.
You want to go find some more?

Yeah, let's go!

MEL: Water everywhere!
Shut it down! Kill the power!

Kill the power!

ALEX: The impactor has shut down
and I don't quite know why.

(GROANS)
There's the problem.

That should all be clear. Hopefully
it hasn't burnt the motor out.

Just turned into mud
and it's just cemented in there.

How will we know if the motor's
burnt out?

Clear it out and see if the motor
is responsive. If it isn't,

we know it's burnt out.
It's the last thing we need
right now.

The plan is to wash
the impact crusher out,

but there's not enough water
getting through.

What I'm putting together here,
just another hose.

Connect on, feed into the top,

hopefully just wash more water in...

..and get that dirt loosened out
of there as quick as possible.

Waiting for the material,
for the water to wash through

and clear itself.
It's just taking a long time.

Starting to move, but very slowly.

That's really nasty clay.

That's just jammed up
inside the impact crusher.

How's it going?

It's clear. I'm just pushing more
water through it this time.

This dirt's got so much clay in it.
I don't want it to happen again.

Okay. The motor's okay?
The motor's okay.

Thank God.
Reset, started up fine.

Well, this little unit
controls the speed of the belt.

Basically, the ball mill
isn't doing a good crush...

..and oversized stuff is just
passing all the way through.

If we just take it down a bit,
that'll slow down

how much food goes through
the whole system.

That's taking about a third
of the speed off the conveyor,

less food going through the machine.

We'll do less tons per hour,
but we'll get the finer grind.

We need to grind it real fine
to release the gold.

All righty. Oh, that's much better.

There's no big stuff
getting caught up.

A little bit of fine tuning
and we're back on the gold.

We've just got to push the dirt
through now.

Ideally, 40 or 50 tons through
in a day.

And if that's loaded with gold,

even a couple of grams to the ton,

that's 50 to 100 grams of gold
every day

we can pull out of this machine,
no hassle.

I cannot believe that speccy
that Salty's found. Like,

that's put a massive dent
in the target,

which is only just down the bottom
of this little wash here.

So I'm gonna follow this up
and hopefully find the source.

When you're finding
specimen stones,

which means the gold's still
in the quartz,

and there should be a source here
still in the rock

or it's already weathered out
down here

and that's what I am now finding.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

Whoa.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

Well, I've got it.

It feels heavy, but it's just cos
of all the iron in it.

Normally you can feel the gold's
heavy in this,

but look at all the...
Oh, no.

No way!

That's similar... That's the exact
same speccy that Salty's found,

just a bit smaller. Oh, wow,
that's gonna clean up real nice.

That'd be close to an ounce of gold
there, so, at this point in time,
it's $3,000

Which... We need this.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)
Whoa!

Singing again. Jesus.
It must be another big one.

Maybe bigger.

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

Oh... Oh, there it is, there.

Wow. That is double the size
of the last one.

I reckon this is probably
an ounce and a half,

so, um, what, 4500 dollars?
That's, that's a good...

Well, that's a good dent
into our target.

Yeah, four and a half grand
in one swing

is what dreams are made of.

(DETECTOR HUMMING)

(HIGH-PITCHED TONE)

Got a little nug. This one's
been here for a while.

Probably only a gram and a half.

Al, you got a copy, mate?
Yeah, Salty, I got you, man.

I've had an awesome session
here. I don't know how
you're going,

but do you want to meet
back at the car?

Yeah, sounds good.
A weigh-in sounds good.

Yee-hee-hoo! Legend.
All right, mate,
catch you in a minute.

How are we?
Good. How did you guys go?

I reckon we did all right.
Well, you know, the whole reason
we're out here

is cos you thought there's gonna be
gold under that calcrete,

so I hope there is.
That's the reason you got ME
up here.

My little golden child,
you can go first.

Do you want to put yours on?
Let's see what you've got, boy.

.01.
Well done, Bailey,

I'm so proud of you.
Well done, mate.

Starting to pull your weight
around here. (LAUGHS)

What have YOU got?
All right, I'll put mine on.

Ooh, another one.

Oh, very nice.
Have a look.

.377.
Good job, guys. Wicked, eh?.

Bloody awesome, man.
Good nuggets. You done well.
Done really well, you two.

Awesome. Let's see what YOU'VE got.
Let's see what we get, eh?
Can't wait.

It was hard work getting it,
but, er...

..the numbers will tell us.
Good gold in there.

4.4.
Oh, my God! You did it!
(LAUGHS)

Their 4.4 ounce total for the week

brings them up to 11.5 ounces
of gold,

putting them on track
to hit their 25-ounce season target.

So that pays for the crusher,
and we made a bit of money on top.
Yep. That's awesome.

And now we know there's gold there
so, um,

as long as we can continue
getting it, we're gonna do
bloody well.Yep.

I'm stoked. Awesome.
Well done, guys.

All right, let's go and kick back
and relax.

Get over here, Salty.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This might be one of our best weeks,
mate.I reckon so.

Got off on the right foot
hanging with the boys,

with Julius and Mark.
And you could see

they were so excited to
explain their country there.

We were on gold right there.
Yeah, we were.

We know we've had a good week,
but how good have we had?

Well, how about we find out?

Two point zero.
Four point eight!

That's not bad.
Not bad, mate?

Minus some of the quartz, roughly...
What do you reckon?
..four three.

Five. Six.

Seven. What have we got?
Seven five?

(LAUGHS)

Seven five minus some of the quartz,
that's seven.

Seven whole ounces.
Is that our best week?

That's... Wow, that's epic.
That's...

Twenty-one grand?
Twenty-one?

Their biggest ever gold haul
puts them well on their way

to hitting their 25-ounce
season target.

This is as good a cause
for a celebration as ever.

I thought you'd never say that.

All right, it's time
to get this poured.

How do you think we're gonna go?
Uh...

I think it's gonna be disappointing,
but...

we're gonna see some gold.
How much, I don't know.

Oh, look who it is.
Hm.

Better late than never, but trust
him to turn up when we're doing
a gold weigh.Yeah.

Turn up AFTER the work's done.
Got a name for those.
They're called blisters.

Hey, hey.
Mr Mackey.Look who's here.

Long time no see.
Where have you been?

I should have been here
a while ago but, um,

before I was due to come up here,
got a call,

had to shoot out and do
some sampling at a mill site.

Is that something that's coming
into the Gold Devils as a team?

Or is this a side project for you?

If the samples we've taken
prove viable,

then it could be a big operation.
But not only that.

The guy that's set it all up, he's
got a whole heap of more mills

that he wants sampled as well.
So, we could have little pockets

of operations
all over the country.
Hopes and dreams at this point.

At this point it is, yeah.
All right.

Well, we could have definitely done
with you here this week.
I can see the work you've done.

It's been an absolute nightmare.
But we have got some gold.

But for the work that went in,
I was hoping for a bit more.

Right.

Better than I thought it would be.
8.2 ounces!

That's not bad!
That's over 24 grand?

Yeah, that's over 24 grand.
All right, well, it's time to
weigh this up.

What have you got?
Okay.

Well, that's just over three ounces.
So that brings it to 11.4.

A man down, the Gold Devils
managed to pull 11.5 ounces of gold

from Fair Lady.

But with a mammoth
three-million-dollar,

thousand-ounce target,
they face an uphill battle.

(SIGHS)

It is what it is.
Well, we had that bill

hanging over our head,
so that's out of the way.

We can focus on Lloyd
and start processing
and getting some gold coming in.

So, are the Gold Devils
back together for next week?
We're here.

Go on, then.
Let's get back into it, yeah?

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