This time, on Aussie Gold Hunters...
Look for Ryan, man. I haven't seen him since he left.
..the Ferrells launch a desperate search...
What are we going to do?
We are going to find Ryan is what we're going to do.
..in the depths of the wild Pilbara region...
You just want to be finding gold.
You don't want to be your dead mate.
Let's get the gold!
Shane and Russell hit a rich patch of gold.
(LAUGHS)
You beauty. Look at that.
But a surprise offer...
Yes, what can I do for you?
..could end their partnership.
I've got a tough decision to make.
This is a disaster.
In Victoria,
Vince, Bibby and Murray...
Look how much water is in the hole.
..face record rainfall that could wreck their lease
and hopes of hitting target...
This rain doesn't look like it's gonna stop
and it is costing us too much money, too much time.
..before Bibby unearths a nugget that could keep their season afloat.
What's that there?
No way! No way!
The Ferrells are back on the road, mate.
Heading out Bush again.
Yeah, pretty excited. It's good to have another opportunity.
Just got to find some nice big chunks of gold,
mate, to keep your uncle happy.
There's some serious potential out here for it, mate.
I'm really glad we are on the ground.
In the searing heat of Western Australia's Pilbara region,
the Ferrells face another week of prospecting without any machinery.
We know this ground is good.
We found the seam of gold and now we just need to put up some numbers.
I spoke to Kim and he was stoked that we found 2.5oz.
But he's given us till the end of the week to find another 3oz.
And fellas, if we can pull that off,
they'll give us some big equipment so we can get to the big gold.
Fellas, it's game on.
This way, mate, we'd better have three ounces or more.
There is no machine out here.
I reckon your uncle will move us on from this lease.
Yeah, mate. It's a fair chance.
No machine, eventually that surface gold is going to run out.
We put a hell of a lot of effort into this
and we put ourselves in the red financially
so if he moves on from here, I'm done, mate.
I'm going back to 9 to 5.
I've had enough of this.
Last week, the Ferrells signed up
to work as lease explorers for mining magnate Kim North.
Boys, I think your Christmases have come early.
We think there's a gold seam running along that fault on the lease.
But no gear and no machinery until you guys find a patch.
And along with fresh ground to search,
a new team member Zane Mettna. Zane, nice to meet you.
Yeah, Ryan. Nice to meet you, Ryan.
The newly expanded Ferrells managed to recover 2.5 ounces of gold.
Looks like you guys found the gold seam, mate.
They're are taking off down that way a bit.
Chasing that fault line,
hoping to find another patch so we can get one up here,
we'll join them up and hopefully it's gold all the way between them.
Yeah, man.
We need to raise our bar a bit
and start putting some money in the bank.
Because I'm in the red.
Yeah, I'm the same, man. I've got next to (BLEEP) left with.
We put everything on the line.
Absolutely everything.
There's so much ground out here like literally walk for days.
Four people on the ground. Good going.
Get the three ounce target and get the digger out here.
Yeah. We got a fair chance of finding something big.
I reckon we should pull up about here, bro.
Yeah, rightio.
Mate, right.
Let's get out. Get into this.
She looks good, bro.
It would be sick if we could find a patch
because these young fellas have been finding heaps of gold.
You get the good days and you get the bad days.
Hopefully we'll get our three ounces
and get our digger out here, start smashing this ground.
I got a target here.
That noise doesn't get old.
Oh, man.
So good.
Come on, where is this nugget at?
Here we go.
I see it already.
Right there.
It's a good bit of gold.
Being away from the kids and family, this makes it all worth it.
This is what we're here for.
This is what's paying our bills
Hopefully, get our digger out here on the gold, boy.
Keep going.
We are starting to get onto some gold now.
Hopefully we can get a few more.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Got a little signal here.
Sounds pretty big.
Yeah, first scoop.
In the hand.
I thought it was going to be a nice piece.
Look at that. Three grammer.
Whoo, bingo.
Here we go.
For the young and old.
Hopefully the old boys have got some.
Oh, man.
Put a lot on the line.
Got to find more gold hopefully.
Keep us out on the leases.
It's really stressful at the moment.
Looks like good ground but we haven't been getting much.
Have you a copy, mate?
Yeah, copy, mate.
Yeah, mister. I'm having no luck here at all.
No gold.
Yeah, man. Let's move on.
OK, you know, it's really not worth spending our time here
and just covering ground when we know were not picking up any gold.
Nothing, mate.
Not a cracker.
I get pretty frustrated at this, eh.
Two hours wasted, mate.
Not happy about that.
Yeah, Levi, Zane, we had no luck down there.
Hopefully you boys have had some better luck than we did.
No worries, mate.
The young fellas have already picked up half an ounce out here.
But it's not enough.
We need at least another 2.5 ounces
to justify getting the machine out here.
(MACHINES WHIR)
I've not done very well myself.
But this sounds like a good signal.
Oh, actually, in that sidewall.
That's annoying me.
Come here, you little nuggets.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, man.
That's eight, nine grammer.
Maybe ten.
It's so hard to be away from home
but I tell you what, this makes it all...
This makes it all worthwhile.
What was that, brah?
Ooh, no way.
Don't get too close.
You know how quick they strike.
I was just walking through here, found a piece of gold
and then almost walked on this death adder in here.
You're dead pretty much if you get bitten by that.
Yeah, this is a part of the deal of coming out and finding gold.
Sometimes you risk your life for it.
I'm going to get out of the bush and have a break because that was scary.
Whoo.
Good morning, boys how are you?
Good morning, Shane. How did you sleep?
Not bad.
What have you got there, Rusty?
The pay pot, Shane.
We can't find enough gold just what we are doing.
So I want to run the pay pipe
and see how much fine gold is in that dirt.
There will be fine gold there.
If there is larger gold there, there is fine gold.
We've been around the tracks long enough to know that.
Is there enough though?
Is there enough? That's the question.
On their remote Yalgoo lease, Shane
and Russell are desperate to locate rich deposits of fine gold,
with the help of Ross's father Dennis.
I've turned back a heap of work this week.
It's cost me big bucks.
Especially, they've got long-term contracts and that's what I need.
So you want to lift the ante?
I'm not making enough money. I need to make a dollar.
Otherwise, Shane, I'm going home.
I understand that. I wouldn't blame you.
I've got a young family and I can't...
I can't be costing them money, can I?
So the programme is run the pay pot, apply the alluvial, we'll be setting
a sluice up and I can detect. Yeah.
OK, let's get on with it.
Let's get the show on the road.
Last week, Shane called in a favour from lifelong friend Bruce Crossley
whose 25 ton grader made light work of clearing
a new cut on the Yalgoo lease.
To do this would have taken us three days.
He just clicked his fingers, it's done.
That produced a haul worth over $6,000.
We know where the gold is now
but there is not enough big gold so maybe it's all in the finds.
Well, we'd better find some fine gold.
The pressure's on here now.
I need to keep Rusty happy.
He's turned down a lot of work here so I've got to make it happen.
About here should be the spot
because you look at the plan
and all the nuggets have been down here
so the lighter material's going to come down
so this is where it should be.
This might turn the tables for us.
If there's gold in the pay pot, there'll be gold in the sluice.
Excellent.
We'll check that out first and see how we go.
I'll just move your vehicle.
I'll jump on the machine.
Designed and built by qualified plumber
Russell, the pay pipe screens larger stone,
washing smaller material down the funnel into the pot,
trapping any heavier fine gold
and washing lighter sands out of the top.
I thought I could make more money
out of gold than I can work so we'll see how we go.
Maybe the fine gold is going to do it for us.
We found a fair bit of gold up there, a lot of nuggets.
I think it's washed this way so this is where the smaller gold should be.
Using this method, the team can
process half a trailer of dirt in minutes.
All the heavies, the gold and the ironstone will stay down the bottom
and all the light material will come out of the top and flush out.
So all we've got to pan off is just that
and that will only be about half full, about there.
This is absolutely going well.
Got to keep up with this, Rusty.
We've got enough water there to run four or five days.
No worries at all.
But have we got the gold to run four or five days?
That's what worries me.
This might change the game so you can see how we go.
If not, I'm out.
Hopefully full of gold.
We'll plan it off and see how we go.
Give it a good shake, mix it all up,
all the heavy gold will flow to the bottom.
I'm sitting here feeling a bit nervous.
Here we go.
Just two or three specs is all I want to see.
How does six or seven sound?
Have a look at this.
Have a look at that.
Oh, Russell. That's good.
Gee whiz, and a couple of larger pieces there.
There's money in the finds.
Unbelievable.
You know what that means, don'tcha?
What's does that mean, Russell? You tell me.
Tell them to set up the sluice and make some money.
We can make a dollar out of that.
I'd better get on with it quickly before you change your mind.
Let's do it. It's sluicing time.
It's sluice time.
00:11:21.440 -- 00:11:23.760 Oh, mate. Let's go have a look at what we've got.
Let's go.
Oh...
Mate, it's not good.
Oh, this is a disaster.
Well, we won't been working on the ground
that we've already disturbed, mate.
We are going to have to open up some new ground.
We have to move some topsoil.
Look how much water is in the hole.
Look at that. This is not good, guys. Look.
Oh, geez. (BLEEP)
It's a (BLEEP) swimming pool.
That's about 5m of water there.
That holds close to 5m you know.
What do we do?
We've got to get the water out of there.
That's going to have to be a priority.
Gonna have to get that out otherwise it's going to get worse.
Doesn't look like we'll get any gold today.
We have to do something, mate. We have to try and get a bit of gold.
We have to.
But what do you say we strip some of this?
I'll get the excavator in here first.
Detect the surface gravels?
Or is it going to be too wet for that?
No, you have to have a go at it, mate.
We got to try to do something as we go.
These are our only two dry days this week.
They're expecting more rain at the end of this week.
I'll have to detect as well.
If you guys are going to do that, I might go up there.
This is going to get so bad, we'll never be able to rehabilitate this.
You'll never get a machine over the top of it.
No, I know.
I'll strip the surface gravel first
and I'll keep alternating between working on repairing this
and keeping you guys going over here on the gold.
This is the priority
but let's try and get a bit of gold at the same time.
All right, we've got a plan.
Right, let's get stuck in.
Let's get into it.
OK.
In Victoria's golden triangle, once in a generation storms
have unleashed the highest recorded rainfall in over five decades.
Rookie miners Vince Malacria and Bibby Gerali
have joined forces with 40-year mining veteran Murray Cox.
This area is unworkable until this water is removed
and the hole is filled with a solid material.
It's a major priority to get this water out of this hole.
The simplest way to get it out
is with the excavator and bucket it out.
We could put a pump in there but I want this out today.
Any rain that comes tonight, I do not want any more water in there.
I want to fill this hole in tonight. It's an absolute priority.
First Murray must create a barrier of
sand or windrow to stop more water pouring into their work pit.
Then he'll bucket out the water with the excavator
so it runs downhill and away from their worksite.
Lastly, they'll fill the hole with sand to stop further flooding.
But he also needs to clear a new patch
so Vince can keep detecting for gold.
I can't believe it's still raining, darling.
I know, this is real, real bad actually.
Quarter of a million invested
in this project and I can't even get a go at it.
Tell me about it. Yup.
Joke.
A decade of working on remote solar farms kept Vince from his partner
Bibby until the pair quit their jobs and risked their life savings...
Our first day. First hole.
..to gamble on a life together as gold miners.
Geez, I love that sound though.
Yeah.
And along with partner Murray...
Please tell me it feels heavy.
Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.
I can see it from here. That's more than a bloody ounce.
..they made a flying start.
Oh, my goodness.
What a mess.
At least if I get this opened up,
it'll give the guys something to detect
and allow me to go and rehabilitate
some of the water out of those holes.
How is it looking, Murray?
Looks wet.
I'm glad I'm not the one that has to detect it.
Doesn't look too flash, does it?
But there could be some good gold under there though.
Yeah, OK.
Good luck, guys. Thanks, babe.
Thanks, Bib. Good luck.
Go and get some gold on that hill.
OK, and I'll start working on the water problem.
All right, mate.
While the boys are getting that mess cleaned up,
I'm going to find some gold. I just have to.
Everything costs money. Every day costs money
So it's got to be done.
It's really important to make this 40 ounce target
despite the weather, despite anything,
we're going to make it work.
Get that gold in.
I really want the season to be life changing for me and Vince.
I'm kind of sick of living almost separate lives.
So the first thing I'm going to have to do
is stop any new water coming into the hole.
I'm going to have to build a wall in front of the hole
at the same time keeping Vince working with the detector.
Because without the detector working,
there is no gold coming out
and the gold has to come out.
Walking through all this mud,
it's not the most ideal way to be detecting.
We are desperate at the moment to get some gold.
Bibby's on the hill.
Hopefully she can pluck one or two pieces
'cause it's not looking too promising down here.
The pay pipe found some gold.
Shows there's gold there so I can probably make some money out of this
So we'll give it a sluicing.
If it doesn't work out, I'm going home.
If it works out, I can stay.
After paydirt samples produced promising results,
Shane and Russell are setting up
their wash plant Mrs G-Force on their remote Yalgoo lease.
Made it here safe.
Now I've just got to set up, get it level
and get the right angle on the bowl.
That's the main thing.
Because it's a reverse helix,
it actually casts the gold up the topside.
Paydirt loaded into the hopper feeds the wash plant.
The heavy gold gets caught in a spiral groove inside the rotating
trommel that acts like a corkscrew trapping gold with centrifugal force.
The lighter, non-gold bearing material
washes over the grooves and out the bottom.
Any fine gold that escapes the trommel
is caught below in the sluice tray.
Let's get on with it.
Righto.
See me rolling.
I'll head over now.
Get two ton of dirt on that track and come back here,
load it into the hopper and hopefully start panning some gold.
We'll also detect at the same time as we're digging it out.
Shane can be detecting.
Well, Bruce did a nice job of the grading.
He's left it nice and even.
It's easy to detect and I'll spend time detecting this
while Russell's loading up Mrs G-Force.
(MOBILE RINGS)
Wonder who this is bothering me.
Hello, Shane Caligari.
William.
Yes, William.
What can I do for you?
You're the mining company
surrounding me at the Galah, is that correct?
Yeah.
OK, not a problem.
At the moment, I'm out prospecting
and I'll give you a hoy when I get to the big smoke.
I just got off the phone.
Somebody wants to buy my ground the Galah tenement.
I got a tough decision to make.
It's not just a matter of selling a tenement.
You've got all sorts of things.
You've got land rights to deal with.
You've got to see if there's any incumbents on them.
There's expenditure. There's all these things. It's not that easy.
If I go ahead with it,
that means going back there and doing it in person.
I'm not sure what Russell will say.
He's already talking about calling it quits
but at the end of the day,
I have responsibility to my grandkids and my family.
I need to give my grandkids a leg up.
There's three of them now.
I will probably sleep on it tonight
and in the morning, I'll make the decision.
Are you there, Murray?
Yeah, copy?
Yeah, mate, I've just finished doing this mosh pit
down here and there's two junk targets and that's it, mate.
So get that hole open so we can get some gold, eh?
Yeah, mate.
On their waterlogged lease,
Vince, Bibby and Murray are struggling to stop more water
flooding the dig site while also keeping up their gold hunt.
He's detected more off the topsoil
so the next step is to start digging a hole for him.
Ahh...
Change of colour.
That might be the gravel just down there.
That's where the gold should be.
Hey, Vinnie.
I reckon we're down on the gravel now.
There they are just there.
Yeah, yeah.
I've been chasing gold since about 1976.
I have never seen a year as wet as this.
Really need to get some gold out of the ground though.
All this water diversion, it's OK to say you're doing it
but you've got to pay for it somehow.
The way we are going at the moment, we're not paying for it.
It costs money to run every day
and if gold doesn't come out of here,
I could be struck down financially as well.
We are still 35 ounces off our 40 ounce target.
We got to find something to cover the costs.
It's really do or die at the moment.
It's not looking good.
(MACHINE WAILS)
This sounds pretty promising.
Uh...
What?
Oh, my God. Awesome.
This is what we need.
Just sitting in the corner here, in the clay.
Amongst the clay.
Fingers crossed there might be more.
Clunk.
Love that sound.
Best sound in the world.
Just check the hole some more.
(MACHINE WAILS)
See that sounds like there's more there.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Wow.
Oh, look.
Look at that.
That little piece there. Oh, my God. Another piece.
Oh, this is going to help a lot.
Even if it's just for diesel. Another piece.
00:21:41.680 -- 00:21:43.840 At least we've got enough tucker in that, man.
Yeah, heaps of food. Yeah.
Plenty of water. We should be good to go for another couple of weeks.
Would be nice to get a bit more gold though, eh?
I want more gold.
I certainly know Kim does.
In Western Australia's wild Pilbara region, Levi and Nathan are back
from a supply run after leaving Ryan and Zane to detect through the night.
Still a bit of pressure, you know.
I've got next to nothing.
Hopefully they found some gold while we've been in town.
We've just got to get back there,
get on the ground and bloody get on the nuggets.
Yeah, yeah.
It's all we can do.
There's Zane there.
Hey, Zane. Mate, slow down, brother.
What's going on here?
What's the matter?
Looking for Ryan, man. I haven't seen him since he's left.
I've seen him take off down the hill. Haven't seen him since.
He won't answer his radio.
Are you for real?
Nothing, man. How long?
He left last night. I haven't seen him since then.
Which way did he go?
Went down the hill Snakewood there.
Go down the hill, start beeping your horn, making a ruckus.
I'm going uphill to have a look and try to call him.
Might get more range up the hill.
All right. Be in contact.
No worries. Make sure you have your radio on.
Yeah, mate.
I hope he's not down, man.
I hope he hasn't been bitten, eh.
Come on, Ryan.
Where are you, mate?
Gold is good but we need to know he is safe.
That's the most important thing.
He said he went this way.
Ryan!
Keep your eye out for any fresh dig holes as well.
Yeah, man.
Jump up and have a look, mate.
Just hop out of the car.
Yeah, man.
See if you can spot him.
Ryan!
Zane, have you found anything?
No, mate.
Having a look around now.
On the radio, nothing.
Not even a chatter, not even a blip.
Yeah, we've got nothing down here yet.
Jump in, mate.
Jump in!
What are we going to do?
We're going to find Ryan is what we're going to do, mate.
Don't stress.
Stay cool because we will find him.
Come on. Where is this bloke?
Couple of ounces in.
Not enough for this.
Yeah, stop here, bro. I want to go for a walk through this bit here.
All right.
That little creek. That's all covered up.
I can't see nothing from here.
I'm going to look up some numbers.
Who to call.
Ryan!
Just trying to get hold of the authorities.
Of course there is no reception.
Just trying to stay cool and hope for the best.
Listen, mate, we...
We are no good just running around out here.
Yeah, man.
What we'll do is we'll head back up, get some reception.
And I'm gonna make a phone call.
Let's do this, eh?
You need to have a drink and just (BLEEP)
Give it a second, dude, because we're going to find him.
He is going to be all right.
My best mate, as you know, bro.
Yeah, we'll find him, dude. We'll find him.
This is not how this ends.
Nothing, boys?
Nothing.
We were looking through Snakewood down there.
All the thick bits, can't see nothing, bro.
He'll be all right. He'll be somewhere.
Have faith, brother.
Have faith.
(SNIFFS)
Cool heads, man.
You know what it's like out here.
We can't be off our game.
We've got to be all right, bro.
Hi, it's all right.
Had your moment. We've got to get through it and find him.
I can't get any reception.
I'm going to try and get some reception.
(BLEEP)
With Murray coming out of retirement to help us out with this lease,
it's not just me and Bibby that I want to make it work for,
Murray's gone out of his way,
spending a lot of time up here teaching us, training us
so I want him to retire happy
with a good chunk of gold in his pocket as well.
Hey, hon.
How are you going there?
Hey, babe. How are you?
Yeah, just a couple of bits of junk down here
but how are you going up there?
Pretty good actually.
I found two bits of gold in one hole.
Oh, that's fantastic news, darling.
Can you mark that spot?
I'm going to really need you to get down here
before this weather comes in
and give us a bit of a help down here, please.
Copy that. I will be there soon.
It's a real race against the weather at the moment.
The sky's looking absolute crap I reckon.
We just have to get Bibby down
to help us out while we're working on the holes.
She can detect the pad.
In Talbot, in Victoria's golden triangle,
approaching rainstorms could force Vince, Bibby
and Murray to shut down their mining operation.
I'm getting quite nervous here because this rain
doesn't look like it's going to stop and we can't keep going like this.
This is just not feasible.
Costing us too much money, too much time
and, yeah, it's putting a lot of pressure on me and Bibby.
We've got a lot invested in this lease
so we've got to make it happen.
We've got to find some gold and it's got to happen soon.
It was devastating rocking up
and finding all the work site flooded out
but hopefully Murray does his little magic and makes it happen.
He's a good gold miner
and we really rely on him for his knowledge and everything.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Righto, we've got a bit of a signal down here.
Sounds not too bad.
It's on the clay which is what we're after.
I don't think it's going to be big.
It doesn't matter.
You don't know what you are going to get out of it.
Can you see it in there? Yeah, I can, mate.
Right in that little corner there.
OK. Unfortunately it's a littley but it is gold.
I had some luck up the hill before but this is a bit more important.
We'll leave that until later.
The weather's been coming in and out and has been soaking the soil
so we really want to get on and do this now
while it's a little bit drier.
(MACHINE BEEPS)
Got to have a scratch at that, don't we?
I reckon you would and seeing
that it's you that's got to expend your energy on the pick,
I don't mind.
That sounds good.
What's going on down there, hon?
I don't know if it's ground noise or a signal in this pocket
of gravel down here but it's enough to make me stop and have a look.
OK.
Oh...
Yeah, I can see it. It's gold. OK.
Another little point something.
We might have made five bucks in diesel out of this hole yet.
Well, you don't know what comes out of the top of it.
The top of it is up here on the beach.
That's right, mate. Glad we came back over the side, mate.
I'm glad.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Whoa.
That sounds pretty good.
That's a big chip of steel.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Geez, that sounds right up there, darling.
What have you got?
I could hear that from down the hole.
It's not even a bad signal but it's not inverted.
If it was inverted I'd be very confident but I'm not confident yet.
It's quite muddy.
It's very muddy, yeah.
Could be a bit of old fence wire
like we found earlier in the day stuck in that mud.
What's that there?
Hello.
Yeah, look. Hey.
Oh. No way!
(LAUGHTER)
No way.
Well done, babe.
Oh, my God. Look at it. Look at the size of this thing.
Can't believe...
Digging all that and that's sitting there in the clay.
There is our expenses for the week, mate.
Maybe a little bit of profit in that.
Yes, darling.
Beautiful.
Congratulations. Look at that.
Well done. Well done.
Good on you, babe.
Whoo.
Whoo-hoo.
You beauty.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Geez, that's a nice sound.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Still there.
That's a huge sound.
That is massive!
Oh, look at that.
Flat piece of gold.
That's why it's so noisy.
Run it flat like that, it goes off like that, a little bit less.
That's a great piece of gold.
I'm just going to keep going now.
It's working out well.
I'm manning the sluice by myself
and Shane's over there detecting so I hope he's finding the bigger gold.
Team effort but the old man's gone and Bruce is going with the grader.
That made it so much easier to clear the dirt
and find the big nuggets.
Now it's just us.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Oh, I've got a good sound here.
A very, very good sound.
Still there.
This is getting exciting now.
Listen to that. That's a big piece of gold.
It's probably the same as the other.
Oh, there it is there.
I think I saw it.
Look at that.
Look at that piece of gold there.
I reckon it might weigh about 15g. That's worth about 1,300.
It's a great piece of gold.
I'll have to scream out to Russell in a minute.
I've got a great little business at home.
It works out well for me.
So to come and find gold, I've got to make that or equivalent
because, yeah, I enjoy it but I've still got to make a dollar.
That's the biggest problem I've got.
If I can't make a dollar, I don't want to be here.
But this weigh in could change everything.
So few more loads today, at least 10 or 12 tons through,
that could add up really well.
I've found two.
I need one more for the trifecta.
Gee whiz. That's made me stop.
Not there.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Something in here.
Not in there.
Look at that.
Oh, this is unbelievably good.
16 or 17g.
Probably about $1,500 worth.
What a beautiful piece of gold.
How are you going, Rusty?
Going well. Going well.
Going well?
Well, I'm going extremely well.
That little patch you put over there has really given me some gold.
You got some gold?
One.
(LAUGHS)
That's got to be at least 10g, at least.
There's more to come. Two.
No way in the world.
They were together, where they?
And one to top it off, Rusty.
That's a honey hole. You beauty.
Yalgoo's paying off. Look at that.
You might stay, Rusty. You never know.
2,000 bucks here all day long.
If that's what we are picking up over there by hand,
imagine what's in there.
Gee, whiz.
Just a bit of water. Tip the water out.
Whatever's on here will seal the deal.
Yeah this is all the heavies from Mrs G.
Panel this off and this is where the gold should be.
Come on, gold.
Oh, Russell. Look at my colour.
That's just from one.
We've got plenty more to go through.
It looks great and it's larger pieces too.
I've got colour.
I've got plenty of it too.
This is looking very, very good and we are only just started.
We are getting some gold, aren't we?
That's going to be ounces, not grams. That's ounces.
We've got a bit of work to do, Rusty.
I don't mind when it's gold, Shane.
00:33:04.720 -- 00:33:08.880 In the Pilbara region, Ferrell team member Ryan is still missing.
My best mate's gone, man.
Zane hasn't seen him, hasn't heard from him.
Nothing.
I just got reception and I called it up
and then I'm going to drive out to the main track.
That way, they know where to turn in.
No worries.
It's not what we want.
Just time is of the essence now. We need to find him.
You really don't want this to happen
when you're out here with your mates.
You just want to be finding gold.
You don't want to be finding your dead mate.
Holy (BLEEP). There's Ryan.
Ryan!
Oh, my gosh. I'm so glad to see you.
Oh, man. You got water?
Yeah. I got to grab the radio.
Yeah.
Zane, you got a copy, mate?
I got him.
I've got Ryan.
He seems OK.
I meet you up at camp.
Yeah, mate...
Roger. You all good?
Yeah, mate. I'm all good, bro.
I'm so sorry. I just got turned around last night
and I didn't want to fall in a mine shaft.
My bloody head torch went down and I've lost my radio too.
We got to go because I called up the authorities
because they were pretty worried about you, mate.
Just starting to warm up too, mate.
I'm so glad we found you.
Mate, it's cold out there.
Just got lost and my head torch went down.
I thought the safest option was just to stay still.
Didn't want to fall down a mine shaft.
No, sounds like you made the right call.
Yeah, man. Let's go.
Let's go.
I shouldn't put you boys through this.
Especially Nathan, mate.
How's he going?
You better go over and check that for yourself.
Yeah.
I'm just gonna wait here and let you guys...
Yeah, go see him.
He is a bit under the weather.
All right, mate.
Sorry, man, eh?
(SOBBING)
I'm pretty glad Ryan's back.
Did you give him some water on the way back?
Yeah, he's all right now.
Just let him be for a bit?
Yeah.
Just freaked me out when you haven't called in
when we know we call every so often, you know.
I lost my radio out there.
I doubled back to try and look for it.
I'm here. All right, it's all good.
Yeah, bro.
It's all good.
You guys all good?
Yeah. I'm all good.
I've had a good reset, man.
I've calmed the farm.
We really need to get back onto the ground.
Get some of these nuggies.
All right, fellas.
Let's go. Let's do it.
So glad you're back, bro.
All good, brother.
Yeah, really glad we found Ryan and he's OK.
We had a bit of a moment there
but we're all back on the ground now.
We're on a bit of a time-limit at the moment.
We really need to find some gold so we can get a digger out here
and start moving some dirt, start to make some serious money.
I come over to these historical diggings
and hopefully the old timers have left us something behind.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Ooh.
That's definitely a target in the ground here.
Undoubtedly, it will be old-timer rubbish.
We'll see how we go.
You've got to have a look.
Still got to know.
Might still be rubbish but take some more off and see how we go.
In the scoop.
(LAUGHS)
Sounds good too.
There it is.
Ha ha!
Nice little bit of Pilbury yellow.
It's the first piece I've picked up. It's a nice piece.
Looks like about 3 to 4g.
Need a lot more of this to justify
that digger coming out so keep moving.
Yeah, boy.
It's not out yet.
Definitely going to be a deep one.
That's a decent hole.
OK, she's out of the hole.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Jesus, I don't need these anymore.
I can hear it.
Oh...
Hey, boys.
I reckon I got a 10 to 13g piece here.
Hee hee hee!
Oh, yeah boy. This is it, man.
This is what is going to pay our bills.
This is what is going to keep us on the lease and keep us in the job.
Let's get on the gold, boys!
Whoo!
Bit of a maybe signal here.
If it is gold, I think it's probably going to be a bit deeper.
Have a bit of a listen there.
Whoa, it's out.
(MACHINE WAILS)
My hand.
Oh, I can feel the weight.
Oh, my goodness.
(LAUGHS)
That's my biggest one of the season.
I reckon that's 20g club for sure.
Home state, let's go.
We might have a digger out here tomorrow.
It has been a hell of a week with this weather.
What are your thoughts?
My thoughts are...
something is better than nothing.
That's right. Exactly right.
You've got to consider the conditions, mate.
Look at the conditions we're working under.
Absolutely.
Trying to get the water out of holes
and diversion channels and everything else.
Yes. Sure. Sure.
That's a lot of time we could have been digging.
All right, guys. Let's weigh it up and see what we've got.
0.298.
OK.
Mine. 0.484.
These are the couple you got up the hill?
Yeah.
I haven't seen them yet. Take a look at this one though.
This little beauty.
5.428.
(LAUGHTER)
Quick, multiply it into dollars.
It's got to be $12,500.
Bibby's bumper nugget find means
the team is back on track to hit their 40 ounce season target.
That's not bad
but you think about it, if we didn't get that big one,
where would we stand?
Broke.
That's right.
Each week, we are working for one of those big ones.
That just seems to be the case.
It stands to be nugget or nothing out here at the moment, doesn't it?
Yup.
If we go a week without one big one, we are in serious trouble, guys.
We have to start re-evaluating.
First thing you have to do is
we have to set this up so the next lot of rain doesn't do the damage
to our site that the last lot did.
I understand.
But all in all, weatherwise, I think we've done all right this week.
I reckon too.
I do, yeah.
Looks like it's going to pour.
Let's get into it before the rain gets here.
Let's do it.
Put some gold on the scales.
Well, mate, your uncle promised us some machinery
if we found 3 ounces so I hope we did Kim proud.
Let's weigh it up, eh?
Have you got the scales?
Yeah, you got the scales.
How about we make this short and sweet.
See what we've got and we'll get back out on the gold?
Sounds a good plan to me.
Yeah, man. I'm with you. Let's rip this Band-Aid off.
3 ounces, boys or what?
I think we've got 3 ounces.
There could be a digger in here.
Three ounces and we get a digger.
That's it.
Let's find out.
Let's do it. Ready?
One, two, three point two ounces.
Whoo.
That's a digger on.
That's a digger.
Whoo-hoo-hoo.
Hitting this week's 3 ounce target means the Ferrells will get a digger
which should help them recover bigger gold lying deep in the ground.
Ah well, better let your uncle know,
and we'll get back out there and get us some more nuggies.
Perfect. Let's do it.
(WHOOPING)
Team Ferrells.
Yeah, boy.
What a week that was.
If I can find gold with the old man, I'll do it any day of the week.
Let's have a look at how much gold we've got.
That's what it's all about.
Feels good to me, Shane.
Let's have a look, Rusty.
Look at that. 3.2 ounces.
That's big money, that is.
Well, Rusty, I'll just top it up with this here for you.
(LAUGHTER)
What's that, Russell?
5.4. That's unbelievable. That's our biggest yet.
That's a big week.
That's a huge week. It's about $14,000.
Unbelievable.
The almost 5.5 ounce haul is the pair's best of the season.
And one of the biggest they've ever recovered.
That's an awesome haul.
That's worthwhile staying for.
Any day of the week.
Well, Rusty, that was a great haul.
But I've got to let you know something.
I'm intending on going back to the Galah.
Why would you go back to the Galah?
That's not at the Galah, is it?
Somebody wants to buy my tenement
and possibly the deal could be worth up to 400 ounces to me.
Deals like this have to be done face-to-face so I must return there.
Mostly through responsibilities to my family.
Well, I can't help you with that, Shane.
That's your deal.
That's it.
I'm not going back to the Galah, Shane. I can't.
I don't blame you, Russell.
I just made great money.
I can go home pretty happy now. Thanks very much.
Great journey, Rusty.
It's been special.
This is the beginning of a new era.
We are on the gold!
We're on the gold!
Shane and Russell have found over $150,000 worth of gold...
(LAUGHS)
..in four seasons, prospecting together...
Are you kidding me?
I'm on the gold!
I'm going to buy a new car.
..and have travelled over 10,000km.
Absolutely stunning.
Look at that.
That's beautiful, isn't it?
..across the state of Western Australia...
(LAUGHS)
I can see it. I can see it.
..to chase their dream.
(LAUGHS)
We did it!
This is what you dreamed about, son.
Look at the size of that.
Give me a hug.
Settle down. Next thing, you'll want a kiss.
Give me a hug.
A big hug.
Come on Rusty. Let's go. Good job. Thanks for that Shane.
Let's go. I learned a lot.
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