This time on Aussie Gold Hunters...
Nothing in that at all.
Nope, bust.
If we don't get onto something soon,
it's a waste of time and money being out here.
..the Gold Devils search for gold on new ground...
That's definitely gunshots.
You're not supposed to be here.
..but an armed man brings their exploration mission to a halt.
I'm not stopping now.
Let's just get in there.
Jacqui and Andrew continue to fight
the punishing terrain of the tropical Palmer river..
If the map's right, there's going to be a lot of gold around here.
..pushing themselves to exhaustion to produce a bumper haul of fine gold.
Oh, have a look at this.
Yes!
Pressure is really on.
A lot of money going into this.
You guys need to get me 10oz a week. Not negotiable.
..and the Ferals strike a new deal...
Whoa.
Let's go!
..but must fend off poachers
before they unearth the biggest gold nugget of their mining careers.
(LAUGHTER)
That is gold!
Unbelievable.
Alright, here we go.
I just picked a big load up.
So we are doing our first cut,
chomping at the bit to just push this top off.
We are on gold ground now so this is what you dream about.
This is what you want to be doing.
In Western Australia's scorching Pilbara region,
our guns for hire prospectors,
the Ferals - Levi North, Ryan Peters and Nathan Moncrieff.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Oh, yeah.
You know when you come across patches like this, it's insane, man.
It's so much fun.
(LAUGHS)
Yeah, look at that. That's a nice little spessy, that one.
I'm stoked. We are on it, mate. We are on it, baby. Ha ha!
At this point in time, we've got 7oz in our pockets.
That's not enough.
Levi's just out the back there now in the machine
and he's clearing some ground for us to detect
but, with the machine, comes conditions.
Kim is going to be coming out
and letting us know so just waiting to find out
what those conditions are.
Normally with Kim, you get the machine,
you need to find bigger gold.
Looks like Kim is coming in, fellas.
If you fellas want to keep going, I'll sort out the deal.
Yeah, Roger, mate. We'll just keep detecting, brother.
You let us know how you go.
Always super nervous when Kim comes over to the site,
he wants to talk to us.
Hopefully he'll come up with some sort of good deal for us.
Boys, I think your Christmases have come early. I'm really excited.
We've picked up a nice piece of ground for you to work.
This season, the Ferals struck a deal
with Levi's uncle, mining magnate Kim North.
Probably an equal share'd be OK
but no gear, no machinery until you guys find a patch.
Then when we get a digger involved,
if we get a digger involved, then re-negotiate?
Yeah, yeah. It all changes.
Kim hired the Ferals to locate rich pockets of gold
across his 60 plus leases which cover 30 square kilometres.
Oh, my goodness.
(LAUGHS)
I reckon that's 20g club for sure.
And after promising results at his Mount Shovel lease,
Kim decided to send bigger machinery to site.
But new machinery means the Ferals must strike a new deal.
How are you going, young fella?
Good, Kim.
Yeah.
What are you expecting gold wise?
The pressure is really on. A lot of money going into this.
You guys need to get me 10oz a week.
Whoa.
Alright, well, that's a bit of a task.
Not negotiable.
Are you happy with 70, 30?
OK, if you guys want 70, you're paying the cost on that.
We'll take the fuel and stuff out of your 70.
OK, if we cover the fuel, we get 70, 30?
Done.
Done. Alright, thanks mate.
Kim set us quite a high target with our first week out here.
It's a challenge.
So what's the deal, mate?
It's literally make or break right now.
He wants 10oz a week.
70, 30 split.
70 our way and we've got to cover the diesel though if we want 70%.
Wow.
You know, he set the bar high but that was to be expected.
Yeah, stakes are really high, fellas.
We are on amazing gold ground.
Probably some of the best gold ground we've been on.
We've got the loader.
We've got a really high gold target so pressure is really on.
No worries, buddy. I'll start heading your way no, mate.
Let's get into it, eh?
With this big machine out here, Kim obviously wants more gold.
10oz a week but we've got to produce the gold first.
(MACHINE WAILS)
We got a target here.
In the scoop.
Whoa, there she is.
There it is.
Look at that.
Nice little piece of reef gold.
That's only a small bit. Probably close to a gram.
It would be nice to find some bigger stuff but it all adds up.
The beautiful geology here.
Really good signs.
Starting to get into some gold down the bottom.
Millions of years ago collisions
in the Earth's tectonic plates forced gold deposits upwards.
Over time, weathering caused the gold
to be washed down and collect on the gullies below.
Right down the bottom here, could be quite full of gold.
Probably only been doing this for about 20 minutes, right.
Check this out already.
All gold, baby.
That's all about 20 minutes.
(BUZZING)
Check that out. Hey, boys.
Do you see that there? There's a drone up there, bro.
Yeah, man. That's definitely a drone.
What's it doing? Is it buzzing yous?
No, mate. They are checking us out.
Keep an eye on it.
Yeah, bro. I got him.
We haven't got time to be dealing with drones.
This drone coming out has put the willies up us.
We are going to be finding 10oz
a week and we've got people like this coming out, flying drones
and poaching our gold
but if they are stupid enough to fly the drone back
in the same direction as through they are,
then we are going to get them.
(BUZZING)
There you go, he's heading back that way.
Let's go get him.
That's not just a weekender, man.
They are here to steal our gold.
Yeah, they're not doing that on our watch.
Let's go. Let's get...
It's another big bit of tin.
The old-timers strike again.
It's all hands on deck at the moment.
Alex is digging up round the old shafts.
Paul is looking at the geology of and everything
and smashing some rocks to see what's in there.
I'm trying to look for some nuggets,
start getting some money in
and hitting that 1,000oz target.
On the outskirts of the historic mining town
of Yerilla Western Australia,
Gold Devils Paul Mackie, Melanie Wood
and partner Alex Stead are excavating a series of old mine shafts
they hope will lead to a gold reef
on their 3.1 square kilometre Fair Lady lease.
We're at Fair Lady and digging between the old workings.
Historically, the amount of gold
that came out of where we are now, it was tens and tens of kilos.
If we can dig between the old workings,
we got a chance that we could hit something that they never found.
The Gold Devils plan is to connect the dots
between dozens of old mine shafts on their lease.
Old-timers sunk vertical shafts down to the quartz reef below
where they extracted millions of dollars worth of gold.
The team are hoping the areas between the shafts
may hold gold the old-timers missed.
So for us to make our 1,000oz target this year,
going to need multiple projects on the go at the same time.
If we can prove up a good asset here,
we'll split the team in two and run both projects at the same time.
1,000oz target for the season, it's (BLEEP) huge.
To reach their ambitious 1,000oz
$2.6 million target, this season, the team cast their net wide.
Searching for the most profitable ground across their ten leases.
If we don't start seeing gold soon, pretty much finished.
And with the setup of their Phoenix project is still underway...
The samples that have come back from Fair Lady was 0.1oz per ton.
That's almost four times what we got from Eldorado.
The team decided to focus their efforts on their Fair Lady lease.
Lock it in.
Let's organise it then.
The bills are adding up.
Especially the diesel bills so if we don't get onto
something soon, it's a waste of time and money being out here.
(MACHINE WAILS)
That one seems a little bit different.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Oh, I can see it.
That's good news.
That looks like it's travelled off the reef.
Couple of grams there.
It's good to find these
but the real success out here is when we hit the reef.
I'm not looking for a couple of specs in the pan.
I'm looking for a decent tail.
Nothing in that at all.
Found no gold there.
We found no gold here.
We will just keep moving along.
Just keep trying.
That's what gold hunting is all about.
(DISTANT GUNSHOT)
Did you hear that?
I think that was a gunshot.
(GUNSHOT)
It's pretty close too.
Just hold up there for a second, mate.
(GUNSHOT)
Jesus...
I don't know where that's coming from but that's definitely gunshots.
I just heard three consecutive gunshots
and they're pretty close too.
Hey, Mel. Are you on channel?
Mel, are you on Channel?
No, I've got to go find her.
OK.
I couldn't tell which way they were coming from, mate...
I can't see her so she must be a way off.
Let's get up to the higher ground, see if we can see her.
Melanie, got a copy?
Nothing.
There's a car behind us, mate.
You're joking.
What the hell is that out here?
Yeah, he's pulling up.
What the hell are you doing out here, mate?
Are you shooting?
Hey!
Hey, Andy.
I think I've just found where Mulligan's camp is.
It's on this old map
and I've just been comparing that to the satellite imagery.
I'm pretty sure we can get there.
Well, let's have a crack because he found these gold fields.
He wouldn't have camped there
unless there was some good gold there.
It's little clues like this
that could change our season and that could get us our 50oz.
I can't see any roads but I can see where it was
and it lines up perfectly with the satellite image.
Let's get in there. We'll pack the car, hit the road.
Yeah. Keen.
Prospectors Jacqui Besetti and Andrew Lane
are working one of Australia's most rugged and remote goldfields.
The Palmer River in far north Queensland.
Let's get out of here.
Find Mulligan's camp.
The bloke was a legend.
He found so much gold and he was such an amazing explorer.
Let's do everything we can to clear this path
and get ourselves in there.
Yeah, this could be the ground that changes our season.
Yeah, because we sure need that extra push
if we are going to get anywhere close to this 50oz.
The tracks are gonna be tough.
We are going of a sketch map from the 1800s.
Mulligan pushed in there 150 years ago with a horse.
Surely we can do it with this car.
Yeah. Fingers crossed.
Irish explorer James 'Venture' Mulligan
emigrated to Australia in 1860 and in 1973, discovered gold
in the Palmer River
drawing hundreds of gold hungry prospectors to the area.
Using basic tools and techniques,
old-timers extracted hundreds of thousands of ounces from its ground.
A figure worth billions of dollars in today's currency.
I really am so excited about this.
Mulligan's like a hero, you know.
I know. It's not just like you are going to explore another gully.
We are exploring history.
We are going to be walking in Mulligan's footsteps.
Jacqui and Andrew's plan is to use
their modern technology to uncover gold that Mulligan may have missed.
What's the map saying about this?
I think we go that way.
Let's try and push this ridge I reckon.
Let's just have a crack
because this cuts off a heap and we can push along that ridge.
It'll cut off a heap of ground.
Look at that.
How much does that weigh?
15oz. I will show you on the map where I got it.
The pair venture deep into the remote Palmer River
on the hunt for big gold.
Probably close to $1,000 worth of gold there.
That's why we do this game.
Oh, my god. Get out.
And uncovered a series of promising nuggets.
Nice.
That's a good way in.
Yeah, that's another $9,000.
It really is good but we need more.
We need to punch more weight if we're going to find 50oz.
But the pair still have over 40 ounces to find
to hit their 50oz season target.
This is pretty rough.
No one's driven this for a long, long time.
Whoa.
It's pretty tough looking country.
I think we need to go down that ridgeline there.
Down there? Are you serious?
That's a pretty serious drop.
Apparently Mulligan's camp is just ahead of us.
Let's go for it.
OK.
Whoa...
Barely see ahead of us.
It's just sliding.
Oh, gosh.
If this is where Mulligan's camp is,
we've pushed all this way, I'm not stopping now.
Let's just get in there.
Whoa.
There's got to be gold in here.
This should be where Mulligan camped.
This is as close as we're going to get in the car
so it's on foot from here.
Yep.
Righto, let's find some gold.
If the map's right and this is where Milligan camped,
there's going to be a lot of gold around here.
Let's get stuck into it, I reckon.
Yeah, that's it.
Well, we made it.
It was a hard push in but we got here.
What's the attack plan then you reckon?
We can start detecting to see if we can get onto something.
Right, I might push across onto that flat ground
and I'll check that little side gully at the same time.
Alright, well I'll stay down here, just leave I can pick anything up.
Excellent.
Alright, good luck.
So I've just headed further down the creek bend now to see
if I can find any good detectable stocks while Andy is searching.
This part of the world has made a lot of people rich.
The old-timers got a lot of big gold in here.
I hope it's our turn next.
These hill patches can seriously pay off.
There could be kilos here.
(MACHINE WAILS)
That's pretty loud.
Righto. I got it out.
She's loud.
Oh, look at that!
You beauty. Mulligan's put us onto some.
That's a good chunk of gold.
Probably half an ounce there.
$1,200 morning.
That's awesome.
Thanks, Mulligan.
That one's for you, mate.
Let's go. Let's get...
It's turned back that way.
Let's go!
Which way did it go, man?
It's that way, bro. You can see the dust heading off that way.
Just keep an eye on him, man, eh? Let's go, mate.
Not on our watch.
Not taking our gold.
In remote Western Australia,
the Ferals have given chase to potential poachers
flying a drone over their dig site.
Are you kidding me?
They're gone, mate.
They are off the lease. There's nothing we can do.
If we caught them on the lease, we could get them.
We better get back.
Let Levi know what's going on.
Righto.
I don't know what I'd do if we caught them,
man, but I tell you what.
It would get messy.
At least now they know we're on to them, mate.
Got a copy there, Levi?
Yeah, mate. How did you guys go?
Mate, they took off.
They went off the lease so we stopped chasing them.
Well, good effort anyway.
I think crew want to come out and get gold themselves.
Yeah, we can't spend all our time out there
chasing these fellas around.
No, we're better off on the ground finding the gold.
Time for us to go, get out on that ground again
and get some gold in our pockets.
Kim wants 10oz a week.
The split he's going to give us is 70, 30 and that 70% our way.
That's unheard of up here.
He's given us the machine...
(MACHINE WAILS)
I'm on target here, boys.
Not 100% sure yet but I'll have a bit of a dig.
See if we can take 50 mil off and we'll have a look.
We really need a lot of gold.
We need 10oz a week.
We need to get out here, picking up nuggets.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Oh, yeah.
Wow, that sounds deep.
Hey, Levi, I reckon I've got a good run over here in the ground, buddy.
You little ripper.
I will open this hole up a little bit more.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, Levi!
We are on the gold, brother.
Nathan, we're on a good target, mate.
Come over and have a look, bro.
Got it, mate.
Yeah, boys.
(LAUGHTER)
Oh, look at that. Bit of Pilbara gold.
Far out.
On the gold.
We are really on it.
Oh, yeah baby.
You're not supposed to be here.
Don't worry about them, mate.
Are you shooting?
Hey.
Can you see the (BLEEP) mining operation over here?
We've got signs up. We are active mining in this area.
When I was in the (BLEEP) hole,
I could hear gunshots over the excavator.
Paul and Alex have confronted an armed man on
their Fair Lady lease while searching for missing team member Mel.
This is a registered mining operation, mate.
You can't be here.
It just can't happen.
Well, they're going to have to stop.
No.
Get them on the radio straight off.
We've got other people out here
and make sure no one is firing anything in this area.
You need to get on the blower, find out where the other guys are...
Mel, are you OK?
I heard gunshots.
I don't know what's going on.
Get in your car, (BLEEP) off
and find the other blokes and tell them to stop shooting.
Otherwise I'll be running straight back into town
and dragging the cops out here
and having you arrested for trespass.
Get his number plate.
Yeah.
Sorry about that.
(BLEEP) attitude, there's no doubt about that.
Anyway, let's go and get Mel.
Make sure she's alright.
As part of land management in remote areas,
exterminators are hired by local shires for pest control.
What the hell happened?
Are you alright?
Yeah, we're OK.
Some bloke out here reckons he's got a contract to shoot feral animals.
Making out we are in the wrong
for being here working on our mining lease.
That was a bit of excitement.
Pretty intense.
It's not the excitement we're here for.
No.
I'll come with you guys I think.
Back to work. Yes.
Alright.
Back to digging.
Mel's hit a few little nugs.
It's a great sign but it's not really what we need.
We are going to need a lot of nuggets or need to find a reef.
It's definitely different ground.
Worthwhile chasing.
As an old shaft, Paul. Yeah.
We just dug right through it.
That's definitely timbers from a shaft.
Definitely.
We broke through an old shaft that is literally right here
and it's just hit this iron-rich layer full of quartz.
This is obviously what they were chasing.
The old-timers, they knew exactly what they were doing
and if it crushes up and has gold in it, then we can sample it,
hone in on if there is actually gold coming out of this stuff.
Do a bit of crushing.
Hopefully we can find some colour.
If not, we're just going to have to fill that hole in and keep moving.
(SWITCH CLICKS)
She's dead.
Without this crusher...
..we are dead in the water.
Down in this gully, I've seen a lot more rock
and now that I'm getting closer,
I can actually see this as all river rock which means
there was an ancient river flowing over these hills at one stage
and that is just one of the best signs you can see
as a prospector on the Palmer.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Well, that one is loud.
Have a look.
There it is, scraped out of the surface.
Look at that.
That's the old matches tins they used to carry here.
Normally it would be annoying but when you think
it might be Mulligan's match tin, I'm actually going to keep this one.
On the Palmer River goldfields in northern Queensland,
Jacqui and Andrew are targeting an area
they believe was once worked by pioneering explorer James Mulligan.
So I'm just going to have a little look around this bedrock here.
It's a good place for gold to get trapped
when it's flowing through the creek.
Heavy water flow carries fine gold
downstream where it slows on the river beds allowing it to drop down
and settle into the layer of gravel between the riverbed and the bedrock.
(MACHINE WAILS)
There's a target already.
Just sitting here in this bedrock.
We are on already.
Come on.
Huh...
Yep, sweet.
So I got a piece of gold right there.
That's exactly what we are looking for.
Hopefully that means there will be more.
There's junk here everywhere.
Old parts of a chisel or something here.
Here we go.
One of their old boot heels.
So that was what they would put on the bottom of their boots
out here otherwise their shoes would wear out too quick
so they actually had like a little horseshoe
straight on the back of their boot.
So I'm off to a good start.
Got one already in this bedrock which is exactly what it should be.
I'm just going to go low and slow now and listen out for any more.
(MACHINE WAILS)
I've got another target here.
This one sounds alright too.
I haven't had any junk yet so fingers crossed.
Yeah, this path just keeps going.
There's heaps here.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Yeah, awesome.
Check that one out.
That's a nice decent piece.
Problem one of the biggest ones I've got along here so far.
They've all been quite small but they're everywhere.
If we could just get into that bedrock
and take it all apart, we might actually find a fair amount of gold.
Hey, check this out.
I'm onto the golden run.
That's a heap of little nuggets, there.
They just keep coming.
How did you go?
Think I found Mulligan's camp.
You found Mulligan's camp?!
Look at that.
Oh, that's 1800s.
One of those matches tins.
There's his boot heel.
No way.
His horseshoe.
But it gets better because he didn't just leave junk behind.
Check these out.
Oh, my God.
I'm having so much fun today.
There's three grand there I reckon.
I picked them up almost as soon as I got there
and ever since then, the rest of the day, nothing but junk.
Well, I know this spot's really rich.
We've got really good paydirt.
We'll just bring in buckets, collect as much as we can,
go and process that then we can find out
how much gold is in there as well.
Bring in some buckets, process some of this dirt, get some more gold.
So let's do it.
With the amount of small gold Jacqui is getting,
I reckon there's a lot of fine gold in there as well.
Without this crusher, we are dead in the water.
(SWITCH CLICKS)
At their remote Fair Lady lease,
the battery that powers the Gold Devils' portable crusher is flat,
preventing them from testing the quartz reef for traces of fine gold.
I'm gonna try and give it a quick jumpstart.
Manually.
Paul is hoping that a bush fix pull cord
wound around the spring-loaded hub will create enough rotation
to the flywheel and cause the spark plug to fire starting the engine.
This is not ideal way to start a motor.
The rope can get caught up and cause more damage
but, at the moment, it's the only option I've got.
(ENGINE STARTS)
Yes!
I did not think that was gonna start.
Alright, do a test on it.
Not saying much at all.
Well...
There wasn't even a speck down there.
No.
Alright, move along.
So the boys aren't having much luck taking over there
so I thought I'd come back to some old mine shafts I saw earlier.
There's a lot of blue quartz sitting around the old diggings there.
I'm going to take some samples of this blue quartz.
My experience with blue quartz is
that it either has no gold in it or it can have a lot of gold in it.
You just don't know until you put it through the rock crusher.
Blue quartz is a crystalline mineral
high in manganese and copper which gives the rock its signature colour.
Yeah, I want to get these back
to the boys and crush them up, see if there's any gold.
Maybe we can come and dig your next.
Nope. Bust.
Alex.
What have you got?
I found a whole heap of blue quartz at the top of the mineshaft.
Paul?
Don't make me walk over there for nothing.
Check that out. Blue quartz.
Top of the mine shafts so I just thought I'd grab some
and if you guys can run it through the rock crusher.
We can crush it up. OK.
(CRUSHER CHUGS)
How did that stuff crushed up?
Pretty good.
It'd be nice to know if there is gold in that one
because maybe we can move onto that one next.
Yep, there's gold.
Oh.
That's the most we've seen all day.
Yeah.
Once we crushed it up,
to see that massive trail of gold at the end of it
from such a small sample,
your spirits just get an extra lift and it's like, we're on.
We are finding absolutely jack here.
We'll fill this hole in, go and focus on this area.
Awesome.
We've got work to do.
Grab a sample bag.
Now the real work begins.
Yeah, it's gonna be a hard slog taking them back up here but...
It is.
If we want the gold, it's what we've got to do.
I want the gold.
So we got everything we need now to collect this dirt.
Now we've just got to pick it out of the ground
and cart it back to the car.
We want to find out how much gold is in that dirt
and there's only one way to do that.
Collect it and process it.
I'll pick out if you want to shovel it in.
Sure.
So this is the bedrock here.
This is the hard rock bottom of the creek.
The gold will come down and get trapped between
the different layers of bedrock.
You can see there's dirt in between the bedrock
and it's that dirt we're after, that's what holds the gold.
We'll just take everything and process the whole lot.
That should nearly be enough, eh?
Yeah.
Oh, good.
Whoo.
We've got a good sample here.
Lots of buckets full of this nice, crumbly bedrock
with all of this clay attached to it so we're gonna take it back
to the car and then track down some water where we can process it.
I just don't want to be processing this where all the crocodiles are.
There's a bit of water down here.
At least we know there isn't any crocs in here.
Yeah, we can see the bottom so at least we're safe here.
Let's grab that high banker and get into it.
Yep, sweet.
We just found where the creek runs into the lagoon
and the water is nice and shallow there.
We can see what's going on
so nothing's gonna sneak up on us and eat us now.
Alright, just grab all this high banking gear out now
and go and set it up.
Get the pump set up and get the water going
and then we can process some of this dirt.
This is our high banker.
This will bring our water into the system
then we'll drop the dirt in here.
We'll clean the dirt and it will run down across this mat.
All the fine stuff will drop through this grid
and into the bottom sluice.
That will pick up all our gold as we go
so it's a pretty basic system
but it allows us to wash paydirt fairly quickly
and gets us a good idea of how much is in the ground.
This is going great.
The machine is running really well.
Now it's just a matter of getting all the dirt through
and seeing how we went.
I mean the amount of hard work we do sometimes to find gold,
we could do with some good luck right now.
The number one priority for us is to find Kim 10oz a week.
That's gonna keep us on this lease.
The more gold we find for him,
the more gold that comes into our pocket.
There's a target there.
Let's go.
That's a nice little piece of Pilbara gold I reckon.
It's in the scoop.
In the hand.
Hey.
Look at that one.
Nice little shiny bit.
There you go.
That's gonna go towards me helping my kids out with their future.
Look at that.
And that is just from today.
I've got close to an ounce there in my hand.
Sooner or later, we're going to come across some big ones.
Right now, just trying to take off maybe 50 mil.
Every push, we are finding 50 or 60 nuggets.
Some of them starting to get a little bit bigger
so that's a really good indicator
that there's gold running from the top to the bottom.
The Ferals are onto a run of small nuggets on boss
Kim's Mount Shovel mining lease.
But with a huge 10oz weekly target, they are relying
on their 28 ton loader to get them to bigger gold
that may lie deeper down.
That's so good.
Loaded with gold.
Come back down in here where Levi's been pushing up
and finding quite a bit.
I know Kim wants 10oz a week
but right here finding gold for Kim, I can't believe it.
You know, we find more than 10oz a week, extra money in our pockets.
I've got you, baby.
Check this out.
I'm not saying it's huge but so much gold in them.
Whoo!
Yeah, probably about 1.5g but they're all adding up.
Hey, Ronno.
We got another little nuggy.
Yeah, sweet, bro.
Picking up lots of small ones.
Hopefully we'll get some big one soon.
This ground is just alive.
There's so much gold in here.
You can't put your detector down, it just starts screaming at you.
Mate, all this hard work, it will pay off in a second
when you find that big chunk of gold.
So exciting. It just drives you on.
Whoa.
There it is.
(LAUGHS)
First scoop.
Oh, in the hand.
Oh, my goodness.
You little ripper.
Whoo.
Check that one out.
(LAUGHS)
Mate, we are on the gold.
That is a nice chunk of gold so this is what we are looking for.
All those little crumbs we found out here
are leading to this bigger stuff.
So the deeper we go, fingers crossed,
we'll get a ton more of these.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Wow.
If that's a bit of gold, it is down deep.
There's a certain noise that you hear with deep gold
and it's like a big growl.
Just draws you in.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Wow.
Hey, Levi.
Mate, I think I got something big in the ground here, bro.
She is a growler.
What, deep?
Bro, deep.
Deep, deep and she's a big growler.
No worries, mate. We are due for a big one.
Come on, baby, we need this.
We know there's big gold here.
There's been such big stuff found.
(MACHINE WAILS) Whoa.
This is gold.
Should I do a cut or do you want to hand dig it?
If you come in and do a little cut. Maybe 300 mil.
Oh, mate. You're getting me excited.
I reckon we might be onto something here.
Alright, let's do this.
The moment of truth.
Yep.
The Gold Devils have spent the week scouting their Fair Lady lease hoping
to prove profitable ground to expand their mining operation.
Check out the pan.
Pretty impressive.
Oh, wow. That's a really long tail.
All from your blue quartz.
Oh, there's nice chunks in there too.
It looks like a couple of ounces to the ton at least.
That's good.
How many holes to dig over there and get nothing?
The blue quartz that you found, boom.
Every single piece is loaded with gold.
Wow.
What have you got?
I've got some diesel tokens here. Shall we have a look?
Yeah.
Alright. 1.496.
Mostly spessies though.
Yeah.
Bit of rock in them.
So call it an ounce for the week.
Yeah, I reckon.
What does that bring us to?
135oz.
BOTH: Long way off.
Yeah. What's that?
350,000?
Yeah.
Roughly, yeah.
If we hadn't found that blue quartz and you hadn't put us onto that,
I'd be saying it's time to pack up and go.
But we can't leave that behind.
Don't stress about the 1,000oz target.
(LAUGHS)
Yeah, Paul, thanks for that!
It'll come. It'll come.
The last one.
Yeah, power it.
In Far North Queensland, Jacqui and Andrew
have spent the last two hours using their high banker
to extract fine gold from buckets of paydirt
they gathered from a nearby river bed.
Alright.
That's it?
It's done.
Oh, have a look at this.
Whoa.
You're right. There was a lot of little nuggets in that dirt.
Oh, there's heaps.
And if that's what we can see,
there's going to be a fair bit in there when we pan off.
Yes!
Alright well, let's strip it all down.
Clean it out see how we went.
Perfect. I enjoyed that.
That was great.
Me too. Good time.
It made whole and all those buckets worthwhile.
I'm excited for this.
Alright, time to find out how we went.
Yeah, well, this is all fine gold
so all the high banking, all those little guys.
Check this out.
Oh, just under an ounce.
0.99 of an ounce.
That's still pretty good.
That's 2.5 grand there.
Time to pour the chunky ones on.
Yes.
Alright, Mulligan, what did you leave us?
4oz.
10.5 grand right there.
Smashed it.
Seriously, that's a wicked weigh-in.
If we pick punching numbers like that,
we really could get this target done.
I think we owe Mulligan a beer.
Alright, on to the next mission.
Let's go get some more of this.
I think I got something big in the ground here, bro.
She's a growler.
Ryan's charmed up a big one
he reckons so I'm going to head down there and have a push.
Right, mate keep coming. Keep coming.
Yep, drive her down now, bro.
Drive her down deep.
Keep pushing.
Scoop her up now, bro.
I'll leave the dirt in the bucket if you want to check the hole?
(MACHINE WAILS)
(LAUGHS)
Yes!
This is it, man.
This will make our dreams come true.
Yeah, one big nugget can change your life pretty quickly.
In the middle?
Yeah.
Oh...
I can feel it.
She is heavy. Oh, man.
What in the world...
Look at that!
(LAUGHTER)
Unbelievable.
You little ripper.
Look what we just found.
That's 10oz easy.
Bro, that is gold!
That's the biggest nuggy, man, I've ever been involved in.
That's probably the 20, 30 grams worth of gold there, fellas.
That takes a bit of pressure off.
Oh, bro.
I've got tears of happiness.
That is the biggest piece of gold that the Ferals have found.
Let's put that on the scales and do a weigh up.
Here we go, baby.
Well, I think this is probably going to be our best weigh-in yet.
Look at that.
(LAUGHTER)
We might have to weigh it separately.
A lot of blood, sweat and tears,
mate, getting that stuff out of the ground.
Our biggest weigh-in in Feral history.
Here we go.
Ooh.
Oh, my goodness.
So let's call that 8.5 ounces.
We'll take half ounce for the quartz.
That's 8.5 ounces, fellas, of small gold.
(LAUGHTER)
Now for the big chunk.
The chunk.
Have a feel, mate.
That is our week's worth right there.
Alright, let's chuck it on.
OK, let's go.
12.1oz.
(LAUGHS)
Wow.
20.5oz.
That's 50 grand.
There's more waiting to be found.
Well, Kim is going to be absolutely rapt, fellas.
This takes a lot of pressure off us and
it takes a lot of pressure off him because he knows we're finding gold.
Yeah, it's really working out.
This takes us to the next level.
Good week, fellas.
Brilliant week.
Good stuff.
(LAUGHS) Let's roll.
Blew the scales out, brother.
Go, the Ferals.
Whoo.
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