1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,160 This time on Aussie Gold Hunters. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,800 The Gold Devils fire up a new rock breaker 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,080 to find a fresh supply of gold rich pay dirt. 4 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:11,440 We really need to hit something really good here. 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:12,680 But bad weather... 6 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:14,920 If it rains, the whole thing stops. 7 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:16,440 It seems like everything's against us. 8 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,079 Alex, stop, turn it down. 9 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,239 ..and breakdowns threaten to end their season. 10 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,760 I don't think this season wants us to produce any gold. 11 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,400 In tropical Queensland, 12 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,560 Jacqui and Andrew prospect on a remote mountain 13 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,440 with a rich history... 14 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,880 Whoa! Ow! Jacqui! 15 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,440 We're too far out for a broken leg or something. 16 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,440 ..and treacherous terrain. 17 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,680 Gold seriously makes you do some crazy things. 18 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,240 Come on, mate. We need to be moving. 19 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:44,600 You're getting up me, right? 20 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,320 Ain't gonna make it go any faster, mate. 21 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,880 Tensions flare as a new deal... 22 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:50,560 He wants 15 ounces a week now. 23 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,840 Mate, that's another 50% on top of what we're getting. 24 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:54,640 ..and machinery breakdowns... 25 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,800 Come on. Hey, this digger's not starting. 26 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:59,760 ..leave the Ferals divided. 27 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:00,840 Get back in there, mate... I'm doing it. 28 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:01,920 ..and sort it out. 29 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,440 But one team's change of fortune leads to a massive haul of gold. 30 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:16,880 So, Levi's in the loader at the moment 31 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,000 and he's just clearing this ground out for us 32 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,160 and getting us down to some virgin ground. 33 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:22,760 And what's beautiful about that loader is 34 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:24,280 it pushes nice flat areas 35 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,959 so we get the maximum out of this detector that we're using. 36 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,240 We know that there's a lot of gold in the ground here, 37 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:31,760 there's a lot of little gold that we're picking up 38 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,959 but we need to get deeper and get to that big gold. 39 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,200 This is pretty hard with the loader at the moment. 40 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,120 This ground's super hard. 41 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,600 It's really struggling to push through this hard layer, 42 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,680 hard to get down to where the gold's sitting. 43 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:48,240 How you going over there, buddy? 44 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:49,880 Finding any nuggets, Nath? 45 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,720 Yeah, mate, got a couple of little nuggies here, 46 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,880 but it's pretty hard ground, eh. 47 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:56,720 Well, keep swinging, bro. Keep looking. 48 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,680 That's it, mate. It's all we can do. 49 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,400 More gold we find, the better it is for everybody. 50 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,760 In Western Australia's wild Pilbara region, 51 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,840 The Ferals, prospectors Levi North, 52 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,800 Ryan Peters and Nathan Moncrieff 53 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:13,800 are working boss Kim North's 54 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,760 200-hectare Mount Shovel mining lease. 55 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,440 So, we're working for Levi's uncle, Kim North 56 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:21,720 and he's the biggest private lease owner 57 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,160 in Western Australia. 58 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,000 And the deal we've got with Kim at the moment is a 70/30 split. 59 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:27,760 So, that's 70% our way, 60 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,680 so Kim wants ten ounces a week at the moment 61 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,480 to cover machinery and the fuel 62 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,760 and if we don't provide that, we're off the lease 63 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,600 and someone else will come in after us. 64 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,280 We met our ten-ounce target 65 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:38,480 last week, doesn't mean 66 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,360 we can take the foot off the pedal. 67 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,080 Gotta keep pushing hard, see how many nuggies we can get. 68 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,280 Try and get as much gold as we can. 69 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,160 Send the money home to the families, you know. 70 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:50,840 Just had a missed call. 71 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,520 Hey, fellas, just had a missed call from Kim. 72 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:54,639 Yeah, righty-o, mate. 73 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,360 You never know with Kim what you're going to get. 74 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,800 He's like a box of chocolates, that dude. 75 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:00,880 Normally it's not good news 76 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,560 when we hear from Kim out of the blue. 77 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,280 I'm going to go up to the hill 78 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:09,720 and give him a call 79 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:11,120 and hopefully we're not getting 80 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,200 kicked off the lease or anything silly like that. 81 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,800 You fellas just keep detecting. I'll be back. 82 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,560 A hill over a kilometre away is the only place 83 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,160 where Levi can get a mobile phone signal 84 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,240 for the vital call. 85 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:28,960 The pressure's always on out here. 86 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:30,360 Kim expects a lot of us 87 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,639 and if we don't provide that he's quite happy to move us on. 88 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,440 You know, there's no friends in the gold game, 89 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:36,760 it's all business. 90 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,760 I'm just going to give him a call. 91 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,280 (LINE RINGS) 92 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:45,400 Hey, how are you going? 93 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,320 Hey, Kim, you happy with the gold we found? 94 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:49,800 Yeah, very happy. Always happy. 95 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:51,680 I just want to lift the weights up a bit. 96 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,320 Oh, you want more, don't you? 97 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,120 Well, of course, that's gold. That's what gold does. 98 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,360 That's gold fever. 99 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,720 OK, what do you want now? 100 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:01,120 I'd like 15 ounces. 101 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,040 A week? A week. 102 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,880 And 100 ounces before the season finishes. 103 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,000 You kidding right? No. 104 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,800 The mob next door with the excavator are pulling out. 105 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,480 I won't go into details but you can have that excavator. 106 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,800 15 ounces gets me a little bit nervous, mate, 107 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,839 but if we can use that excavator, 108 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:19,760 we've got a good chance of getting it. 109 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:21,040 Yeah, you can grab that, mate. 110 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,600 Alright, mate. 111 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:24,839 We'll have a crack at getting you gold. 112 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,480 Good on you, buddy. Appreciate it. 113 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,279 15 ounces a week. 114 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,040 I'm not sure how the boys are gonna take this. 115 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,480 15 ounces a week and a hundred for the season 116 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,600 is a pretty massive task, 117 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:35,960 but we've got the excavator. 118 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,240 So, not all is lost. 119 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,040 Ah, just picked up the digger. 120 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,640 Pretty stoked. 121 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,640 We've got a 30-tonne excavator. 122 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,600 Hey Ryan, do you hear that noise? 123 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,920 Yeah man. That sounds like a machine coming. 124 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,279 Hey, fellas, guess what? 125 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,560 We've got a digger. 126 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,160 Oh, yeah. 127 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:14,240 Yeah, baby. 128 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,279 Wow. Oh, you legend, Levi. 129 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,880 Whoo-hoo! Got a digger. 130 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:19,360 Yeah, good work, bro. 131 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,839 (LAUGHTER) Whoo! 132 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,600 How good's this? Oh, well done, bro. 133 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,600 You little ripper. Yeah. 134 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,920 Oh, it looks like the meeting went alright, bro. 135 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,400 Yeah, 30 tonner. 136 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:31,640 What a unit. I know. 137 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:36,200 Kim's pretty happy with the result so far. 138 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:38,560 He's given us the digger for now, 139 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,680 you know, so he wants a little bit more. 140 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,520 He wants 15 ounces a week now. 141 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,839 Yeah, rightio. That's a fair bit of gold. 142 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,920 Mate, that's another 50% on top of what we're getting. 143 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I know. 144 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:49,760 But hey, we'd be able to get to the bottom. 145 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,880 Bro, we need it, you know, those big nuggies are down there 146 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:53,360 hiding in along those rock bars 147 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,440 and without this, we're not going to get to them. 148 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,720 Well, I'm pretty keen to rip in. Yeah, absolutely. 149 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:00,440 Mate, 15 ounces we gotta get, 150 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,839 so we might as well keep hitting the ground over here, man, 151 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,240 if you wanna open that up a bit. 152 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,560 Yeah, I'll open up this area and see what comes up, hey? 153 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,000 Yeah. Sounds like a plan. 154 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,040 Alright, fellas. We're rolling. 155 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:12,279 Go cash some, mate. 156 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:14,480 Yeah. Thank you, Uncle Kim. 157 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:18,560 Come on. 158 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,400 Too good to be (BLEEP) true, isn't it? 159 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,560 The digger's not even starting. 160 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,040 Alright. How's it looking? 161 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,120 Not really too happy with it, 162 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:34,880 but it's the last four days of operating. 163 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,880 And only one tube of gold. That's not where we need to be. 164 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,839 No. Anyway, let's see what's there. 165 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,680 15.785. 166 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:49,960 40g worth, I guess. 167 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,720 Not enough. No. 168 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:52,960 Half of what we should be getting. 169 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:54,320 We can't keep running like this. 170 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,040 At the moment we're just clawing away 171 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,600 at that 1,000-ounce target. 172 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:58,720 We're not gonna get there this season. 173 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,160 No. We need solutions. 174 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:02,760 Halfway through the season, 175 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,440 dwindling returns have left the Gold Devils, 176 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,880 Paul Mackie, Melanie Wood and Alex Stead 177 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,760 struggling to even cover their $50,000 a month running costs 178 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,000 at their Phoenix Project lease in remote Western Australia. 179 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,160 We've still got that dirt over the back there, near the pit. 180 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:21,280 It's real hard ground. 181 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,880 We haven't got anything that can get into that. 182 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,000 To do it, we're gonna need a rock breaker. 183 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,200 Well, do you reckon 184 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,560 what we've got here will cover a rock breaker? 185 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,560 I think it will. Uh, a second hand one. 186 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:33,400 If we could start chipping away at that hard rock 187 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:34,920 and pulling some fresh stuff out, 188 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,520 it might give us what we're looking for. 189 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,920 Alright. I'll pack up and jump in the truck 190 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,320 and head to Perth and see what I can find. 191 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:41,880 Alright... I'll leave yous with it. 192 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:43,960 Bye. 193 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:45,520 Not good. No. 194 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,600 So, yeah, at the moment, I'm doing a mercy dash. 195 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,160 You know, a 16-hour round trip 196 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,120 to Perth, pick up a rock breaker. 197 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,000 We've got to try anything and everything that we can 198 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,200 to put more gold on the table 199 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,040 because the season's just fading away from us 200 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,080 and we're a long way from our 1,000-ounce target. 201 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,000 Got good gold in the ground 202 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:09,200 and we can't dig it out 203 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,360 with the current set up of the excavator with the bucket. 204 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,040 We really need a rock breaker 205 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,960 to penetrate that top hard cap-rock seal 206 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,720 and get into the gold goodness underneath. 207 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:24,600 While Paul makes 208 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:29,440 the arduous 1,400km round trip to Perth, 209 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,640 back at their Phoenix Project site, 210 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:32,840 Mel and Alex, 211 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,000 along with Paul's cousin Darren, 212 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,080 are running both 213 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,160 their crushing circuit, Lloyd, 214 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,320 and their wash plant, Barnaby, in a bid to boost production. 215 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:46,000 Hit those 1,000 ounces, 216 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,040 we need both plants running at full speed. 217 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,200 Not only do we have 218 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,320 a huge 1,000-ounce target, 219 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,120 you know, our running costs every month are like $50,000, 220 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,800 so this has to keep running and it has to run smoothly. 221 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,280 We really need to be getting the gold, 222 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,600 so I'm basically up here keeping an eye on everything 223 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:11,200 to make sure it runs as fast and as smoothly as possible. 224 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:12,920 We're trying to put as much through as we can. 225 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,600 The crushing circuit is amazing at what it does. 226 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:17,679 It crushes rocks, 227 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,520 turns them from big rocks to little rocks to sand 228 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,480 and then we pull out the gold. 229 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:24,760 Large rocks fed into the hopper 230 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,200 are smashed by a cast steel jaw crusher. 231 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,360 A conveyor then transports the material to the impact crusher, 232 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:37,160 which uses 24 rotating hammers inside a cylindrical drum 233 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,480 to pulverise the smaller rocks into a fine dust 234 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,280 before the gold is then captured in the sluice. 235 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,320 How's that plant running, Mel? OK? 236 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:47,400 All good. 237 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:48,840 Just getting some of the big rocks off. 238 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,280 We get a lot of big rocks there. 239 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,160 It stops all the other dirt from going through. 240 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,720 That's when you need to grab one of these and smash them up. 241 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:58,960 Good job. 242 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:04,720 Get your teeth into that stuff. 243 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,240 This weather's getting quite bad. 244 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,480 Yeah, at the moment it is really windy. 245 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:13,960 Not liking the look of these clouds coming either. 246 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:15,080 If we get any wet weather, 247 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,679 we're not going to be able to run the crushing plant, 248 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:17,760 which means that we're gonna be down 249 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:19,240 and we won't be processing any gold. 250 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,920 So, it's a bit concerning at the moment. 251 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,360 The one thing it can't handle is bad weather. 252 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:26,720 If it rains, 253 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,559 the jaw crusher just gets clogged up 254 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,800 with clay and the whole thing stops. 255 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,360 Whoa! (BLEEP) Alex. Stop. 256 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:44,600 Shut it down. 257 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:54,360 That didn't sound good at all. 258 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,720 Hey, Adam, how's it going? 259 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,360 G'day, how are ya? Hey, mate. 260 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:04,480 Thought we'd find you here. 261 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:05,960 Yeah, yeah, always doing something around the yards. 262 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,920 Good to see you again, big fella. Yeah, how's your season been? 263 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,679 We haven't been punching massive numbers, 264 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:12,320 but we've been going pretty well. 265 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,440 Yeah, OK. We've got a lot of ground to search. 266 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,360 Like we're so grateful to be on the station. 267 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,160 There's heaps of areas here, 268 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,760 but I think we need to push into some new country. 269 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,640 We're going to go out into Mount Madden. 270 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,360 It's 360,000 acres, 271 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,440 so hopefully you can find something out there. 272 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:27,679 You'd think so. 273 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:29,120 (LAUGHTER) 274 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:30,640 No, well, that would be good if you're going up there. 275 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,120 We got a (INAUDIBLE) 276 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,200 A bull went over it 277 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:34,440 and it just need to fix it up. 278 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:35,559 I was wondering if there was any chance 279 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:36,640 while you're up there 280 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:37,720 if you could pull it up for us. 281 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,000 Too easy, mate. Yep. Absolutely. Yeah. 282 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:41,200 Alright. I'll get that sorted for you. 283 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:42,640 Not a problem. Thanks, mate. Yep, thanks. All good. 284 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:43,960 We'll catch up with you soon, alright? 285 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:45,200 See you later. Have a good arvo. 286 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:46,400 See ya. 287 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,440 In Far North Queensland, 288 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,280 exploration prospectors Jacqui Buzetti and Andrew Leahy 289 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,520 have secured access 290 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,880 to the 1,400 square kilometre Palmerville cattle station 291 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:00,240 this season. 292 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,000 The pair keep any gold 293 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,280 and provide the owner with location data 294 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:05,960 for future mining ventures. 295 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,160 So, here on the Palmerville Station, 296 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,880 we've got an agreement with the manager, Adam. 297 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,640 If he needs a hand around the station, 298 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,280 we'll jump in and help him out wherever we can 299 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,240 and in exchange we get access to ground 300 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,240 that other people don't. 301 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,160 Righto, that should do the fence. That will keep the cows in. 302 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,080 Come on, let's go. This is all good now. 303 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,320 Wicked. Now, we can actually get to work. 304 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:29,520 Yep. 305 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:34,760 Whoa, that's Mount Madden just up there now. 306 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:35,840 Oh, god. 307 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,840 There's gotta be good gold left in Mount Madden. 308 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,440 Everyone in the history books knows Mount Madden had the gold 309 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,920 and no-one's been able to get in here for years. 310 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,840 Mount Madden, at the heart of the Palmerville Station, 311 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:54,120 was the location of a huge gold rush in the 1870s 312 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,800 when over $3.3 billion was unearthed. 313 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:00,360 But the treacherous terrain 314 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:04,000 and suffocating tropical heat cost many lives, 315 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,000 forcing prospectors to abandon the area 316 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,679 and deterring anyone else from searching here... 317 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:11,960 until now. 318 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:16,880 I've got high hopes for this spot. 319 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,120 OK, sweet, 320 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:19,760 because I've been stressing heaps, mate. 321 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:21,400 We've only got 13 ounces 322 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:23,840 and we're over halfway through our season 323 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,440 with a 50-ounce target waiting for us at the end. 324 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,080 That means we've got 37 ounces to go 325 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,080 and find before the end of the year. 326 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,320 Yeah, that's a lot. 327 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,600 We're way behind where we need to be. 328 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:36,640 We need to find some decent gold soon. 329 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,280 Some of that chunky gold. 330 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,480 We need something big to put us up real quick 331 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,240 because our time's running out. 332 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,080 Well, let's just go to this spot and hope our luck holds out, eh? 333 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,960 Yeah. We need it. 334 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:51,640 This looks bad. 335 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,440 Hang on, just be careful with that. Yeah, just watch hard core. 336 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,360 This is the only way into Mount Madden, Andy. 337 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,400 This is a big wash out though. Yeah, this looks rough down here. 338 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,480 This is completely washed out. 339 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:07,400 I reckon we just fill this hole up, 340 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,440 chip that bank away and we'll get through, mate. 341 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:10,520 I'll grab the picks. 342 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,000 Let's try and fix this up a little bit. 343 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:15,440 Just grabbing the picks. 344 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,480 We're gonna try and clean up this wash out 345 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,520 so we can get through the haul road and cross the creek. 346 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,720 I reckon we'll get through there now, mate. 347 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:34,600 Alright, well, let's just see what happens. 348 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:37,080 Let's do this. 349 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:38,280 Alright. 350 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,080 Yeah, good on my side, 351 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,400 but it's more on your side that's the worry. 352 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,360 They're holding? They're holding. 353 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:51,840 Whoo! 354 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:53,200 Too easy, mate. 355 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,040 Good here. Good here. Nice one. 356 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,160 No road, we'll just build a road. 357 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:58,640 No road, no problem. 358 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:02,560 Alex, stop! Shut it down! 359 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:04,000 That can't be good. 360 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,200 Whoa! What was that? 361 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,240 Alex, there's a really loud noise coming up here 362 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:12,600 from the impact crusher. 363 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:14,480 If it's noise from there, 364 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,960 good chance something's gone through the impactor. 365 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,200 Could be in the sluice. 366 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,560 Uh, yeah, there's your problem straight away. 367 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:24,800 Mel! 368 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:28,720 Look at that. Oh, wow! 369 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:29,880 So, these have come through. 370 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:31,120 Oh, check that out. 371 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:32,880 Which is not a good sign. 372 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:34,680 The only place these bolts could have come from is 373 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:35,880 this impact crusher. 374 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,200 Something's let go and it's spat out a couple of bolts. 375 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,520 Best thing that we can do is open it up and get in there. 376 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,240 And the weather's not on our side either. 377 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,200 It's due to rain, so let's get into it. 378 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:47,280 Alright. 379 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:48,520 The sooner we find the problem, 380 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,560 the sooner we can fix it and get back running again. 381 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:51,640 Alright. OK. 382 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:52,920 Game on. 383 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:57,840 Alright, let's check inside this one. 384 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,200 Well, I think I can see the problem. 385 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,160 It's broken off the end of the bolts. 386 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:08,400 I can see wear plate in there. 387 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:10,280 I can see daylight right the way through. 388 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:11,800 So, we've got to replace the wear plate 389 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:13,200 and replace the bolts. 390 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:14,480 Pretty sure we've got those in stock, 391 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:15,880 so I'll go and grab them. 392 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,520 The wear plates line the impact crusher 393 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,760 and absorb the huge force of rocks being flung at high speed 394 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:27,200 against the walls of the crushing chamber 395 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:28,760 as they are broken down 396 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,880 by 24 rotating impact hammers. 397 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:32,960 The wear plates, 398 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:34,720 made from cast steel, 399 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:36,680 each weighing 20 kilos 400 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,320 are crucial to preventing damage to the rest of the plant. 401 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:44,840 It looks loose. 402 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,680 Getting there. 403 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,160 Alright, I got them. 404 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,760 Completely worn out. Whoo, it's a heavy one, isn't it? 405 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:58,040 So, that's the good one and that's the dead one. 406 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,560 It's one thing getting a plate out, 407 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,840 it's another thing to get it back in place 408 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,720 and they're not light. 409 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:06,040 OK, go for it. 410 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,800 There you go. I'll push the bolt through. 411 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:12,200 Alright. 412 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:15,880 It's in. It's good. Yes! 413 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:18,400 Good as a new one. 414 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,480 Well, that's what I like to hear. 415 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,000 Oh, that should do it. 416 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,680 OK. Ah, here comes Paul. 417 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,440 Oh, great, it's starting to rain. Hey, Paul. 418 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:29,560 Hello. G'day, Paul. 419 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:30,880 You brought the weather with you. 420 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:32,040 It's only just started? 421 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:33,119 Yeah, only just started. Yeah. 422 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:34,600 Well, this is nothing. Really? 423 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,840 Yeah, it's pouring down about 100Ks out. 424 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,359 I've been driving through it for the last three hours. 425 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:39,480 Heading this way. It's gonna come this way? 426 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:40,880 It's heading this way. Oh. 427 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:42,080 So, we're gonna be raining 428 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,000 probably for the next two days I'd say. 429 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,040 I don't think this season wants us to produce any gold. 430 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:48,840 Keep getting hit after hit after hit 431 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:50,359 and I'm (BLEEP) over it. 432 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:51,440 (THUNDER RUMBLES) 433 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:52,880 We're up against the time crunch then. 434 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:54,520 We've got a few hours to run 435 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,160 and then the weather's gonna slam us. 436 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,359 Well, that's Mount Madden just up there now. 437 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,640 We're within walking distance now, mate. 438 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,640 That's the end of the road. It's on foot from here. 439 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,040 Right at the heart of the station is Mount Madden. 440 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,240 Mount Madden's got a rich history. 441 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,720 The old timers found a lot of gold there. 442 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,640 There's been millions of dollars come off that mountain. 443 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,040 So, hopefully there's some left there 444 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:27,480 for Jacqui and I as well. 445 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,480 Mount Madden is 573m high, 446 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:36,680 created by huge shifts in tectonic plates. 447 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,880 It's believed that quartz veins rich in gold 448 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:44,040 were also thrust upwards creating gold reefs. 449 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:45,880 Over millions of years, 450 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,400 weathering caused the reef to fragment, 451 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,040 depositing gold nuggets 452 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:53,880 in ancient river systems and the surrounding soil. 453 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,280 We're right on the heart of the station now. 454 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,240 This is about as deep as we can go, 455 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,480 so if we're ever gonna get those 37 ounces of gold, 456 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,960 it will be right here I reckon. 457 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:10,560 And we have to get that 50 ounces. And we set that target for a reason. 458 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,880 It's because we want to do this full time, all the time, 459 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,520 and we need that 50 ounces to help us achieve that goal. 460 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,240 There's no falling back on other jobs or anything anymore. 461 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:22,880 They're gone. 462 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,359 It's either make money on the gold or go hungry. 463 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,440 Time isn't on our side. The heat's creeping in. 464 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,880 I can just feel it every day getting hotter. 465 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,840 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 466 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:35,000 Got a target there. 467 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,680 No matter what it is if that detector goes woo, 468 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,040 it's my job to dig it out. 469 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:48,320 Yeah, right... 470 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,400 it's a bit tricky doing this on the side of a hill, 471 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:53,680 but there it is. 472 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,080 That's gold, that's gold. 473 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:11,760 Awesome. 474 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,400 You can see that gold sticking out all around the edges. 475 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:15,960 That's a nice specimen there 476 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,040 and anyone who knows gold knows that 477 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,960 finding specimens on the side of a hill like this 478 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,119 is a really, really good sign. 479 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,480 That's a wicked piece. 480 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,000 What's going on, man? 481 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,480 No power. None at all? 482 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,480 No power whatsoever. She's dead. 483 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,560 Oh, man, this is not what we need, eh? 484 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,960 I know, this is the worst. 485 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,960 From hero to zero. 486 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,040 Do you mind having a look? 487 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:47,280 No, not at all, man. 488 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,359 Absolutely. I might carry on. 489 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:50,880 Leave me with it, bro. Alright. 490 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,359 Jump in the loader, go catch some gold 491 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,240 and yeah, I'll go over this thing and see what the hell's going on. 492 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,040 Alright, sounds good, mate. Alright, brother. 493 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,320 On their Mount Shovel lease in the remote Pilbara region, 494 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,880 the Ferals plan to locate bigger, deeper lying gold 495 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:14,400 with a 30-tonne excavator has come to a standstill. 496 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,320 We really need the excavator back up and running. 497 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,359 I hope Nathan and Ryan can fix it. 498 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:19,760 The loader's struggling to push 499 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,359 through this hard rock at the moment. 500 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,600 We're hoping we get this excavator back up and running 501 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,320 and we can get down to the bottom where the big gold's sitting. 502 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,080 What do you reckon, mate? How's she looking up there? 503 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,200 Yeah, look mechanically, she's good, mate, eh. 504 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:35,880 I'm just finishing off all the harnesses here. 505 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,040 They all look good. 506 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,200 Dude, we gotta get this going. Yeah, I know, right. 507 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,880 Mate, we are off this lease otherwise. 508 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,680 If we can't get down to that deeper gold, mate, 509 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,080 there's no way we are gonna find this 15 ounces a week. 510 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:46,880 Yeah, I know, man. I'm going as quick as I can, eh. 511 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:48,840 All the engine's sorted. It's sweet. 512 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,800 You know, we've been nearly two hours on this. 513 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,200 I'm just going through all the wires and harnesses now, 514 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,040 so I just need a bit of time to go through that. 515 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:56,720 We got to be as quick as we can, mate. 516 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,560 Nathan trained as a mechanic 517 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,960 spending decades working for mining companies in the area 518 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,840 before joining The Ferals. 519 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,440 Mate, we gotta find this fault. 520 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,760 We gotta get this thing going, mate. That's what I'm trying to do. 521 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,440 Come on, mate. We need to be moving. 522 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:13,800 Yeah, well, getting up me, right, 523 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:15,280 ain't gonna make it go any faster, mate. 524 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:16,400 I'm doing my best. 525 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,280 I know, mate, but it's not worth checking stuff 526 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:19,600 that isn't gonna be the issue. 527 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,520 I'm not checking nothing that's not gonna be the issue. 528 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,640 I'm doing all the wiring harnesses because that's where it is. 529 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,000 We gotta be finding gold and this ain't happening. 530 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,480 Right. I know that. Yep. 531 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,119 Far out. 532 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,520 Waste of time in there, you know. He's checking stupid stuff. 533 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,280 He's going through fuses that are for lights 534 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:35,520 and little harnesses 535 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,640 that ain't gonna shut this machine down. 536 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,200 Mate, there's no point just checking the lights. 537 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,840 You know, Kim's gonna kick us off this lease. 538 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:42,960 I'm not checking the lights. 539 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,080 I'm checking the (BLEEP) wiring harness, aren't I? 540 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:46,160 I'm checking the whole engine unit. 541 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,520 Well, you went through all the fuses, mate. 542 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,000 You didn't have to go through all of them. 543 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,720 You could check the main ones, that's it. 544 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:51,840 I didn't go through them all. 545 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,320 Have a look at what I actually went through. 546 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:54,880 I was down here watching, mate. 547 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,800 Wiggling (BLEEP) down here is not working. 548 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,840 Right, how about you get back in there? 549 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,080 How about you go and have a look and try and fix this thing. 550 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,280 That's not my job, mate. That's why we got you out here. 551 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:05,880 Yeah, and I'm doing it. 552 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:06,960 Get back in there, mate... 553 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:08,040 I'm doing it. ..and sort it out. 554 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:09,200 This is your chance to prove yourself. 555 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,040 That's right. And I'm doing it correctly. 556 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,680 So, get back in there. Oh, far out, mate. 557 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,440 Reckons, this is wasting time. 558 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,119 Alright, well, what's that? 559 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,480 Eh? A loose (BLEEP) harness. 560 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,160 The lock's not even on it. 561 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,720 And that's on one of our main wiring leads 562 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,680 and this is why you go through it methodically. 563 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,040 (ENGINE STARTS) 564 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,800 There you go. Your precious machine's working. 565 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,280 Hey, bro. Look. Nath, come here, mate. 566 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:49,880 The machine's going again. 567 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,520 You know, it's no good us getting cranky at each other. 568 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,880 Look, pressure's on. Kim wants more gold. 569 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:56,640 I'm sorry that I got annoyed, mate. 570 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:57,880 I know there's pressure and I know 571 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,520 there's (BLEEP) loads of pressure, man, on us. 572 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:00,600 Right. 573 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,080 But I mean, mate, 574 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,800 there is no need to talk to me like that. 575 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,240 I'm sorry, brother. I'm truly sorry. 576 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,119 You know, there's just a lot of pressure on. 577 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,640 We got the digger going. 578 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,240 Nathan's done a really, really good job 579 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,800 at getting it fixed. 580 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,520 So, we're back full mining now. 581 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,040 Ryan and myself are just in the machines 582 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:26,160 getting some pads ready for the next lot of detecting 583 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,440 and Nathan's just up the top detecting down 584 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:30,840 towards where we're working. 585 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,520 Hey, Levi, this loader's struggling a little bit, mate. 586 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:36,720 It seems to be breathing heavy, 587 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,600 but I've still got some dirt here to move, mate, 588 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,200 so I'm just gonna keep pushing and, yeah, see how it goes. 589 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:43,480 Nah, shut her off bro. 590 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:44,560 If she's pushing hard, 591 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,640 we really don't want another machine going down, man, 592 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,240 so shut her down, bro. 593 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,320 I'll come up and have a look at them. 594 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,400 Just trust me on this. 595 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,560 We don't want another one going down. 596 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,080 If it's pushing hard and breathing heavy, 597 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,480 she'll overheat, mate. 598 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:55,760 We don't want to boil it out here. 599 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,720 If filters don't get changed, motor's start to overheat, 600 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,720 you pop a radiator. 601 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,119 Oh, yeah. So much dust. 602 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,880 See how fine that dust is? 603 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:10,440 It blocks them up. 604 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,680 It's like your lungs if you can't breathe, 605 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,280 well, you're going to go down, aren't ya? 606 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,560 And as you can see... 607 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,160 it's a pretty simple fix. 608 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,359 All good, brother? 609 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,680 Yeah, bro, ready to go. Oh, you legend, mate. 610 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,000 Alright. Back in the big girl. 611 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,640 This is what we're out here for. 612 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,480 Keep moving the dirt. Keep finding the nuggies. 613 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,119 (DETECTOR BEEPING) Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. 614 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,800 Yeah, that's a big target. 615 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,359 Lighting me up, baby. 616 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:44,640 I love that sound. 617 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,280 Yeah, I know gold when I see it. 618 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,160 (LAUGHS) Yoo-hoo-hoo! 619 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,359 I love finding these. 620 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,160 Oh, boys I found another one. Probably a good 10 grammar. 621 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,080 Oh-ho-ho-ho. You little ripper! 622 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,119 Ah, just picked up a lazy 800 bucks. 623 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,280 (LAUGHS) 624 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,680 Mate, how good is it having two machines going? 625 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,800 The (BLEEP) A-team. 626 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,320 This is mining, baby! 627 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,200 In the Pilbara region, 628 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,080 The Ferals are using a 30-tonne excavator 629 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,920 to break through hard ground 630 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,400 before spreading it into 10cm thick pads for detecting. 631 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,080 So, it's a pretty simple little plan. 632 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,400 Get to the gold, dig up, put it in a pile for the boys. 633 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:40,920 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 634 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,320 Mate, these things are everywhere. 635 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,080 Whoo! 636 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:50,600 There it is. 637 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,960 Oh, that's a bit better. 638 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,200 A nice little one. 639 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,920 Yeah, guys, I'm digging up so many nuggets down here, eh, 640 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,600 you're going to have to come down and give me a hand soon, eh? 641 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,119 I'll chuck a detector on and go and dig up some nuggies. 642 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,440 I can't let him have all the fun. 643 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,160 I get shaking with the excitement. I love this. 644 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,560 I'd have to be over an ounce this morning already. 645 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,520 So, we've still got probably just over 5 ounces to find 646 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,119 and not much time to do it, 647 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,640 so the more detectors we've got on the ground 648 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,240 at the moment the better. 649 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,880 (DETECTOR BEEPING) Sounds like a bit of a warbler. 650 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,320 So, it's either close or it's big. 651 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,280 I think it's in that bug chunk of clay there. 652 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,000 Break it up. 653 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:45,480 There it is. Look at that. 654 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,320 Another nice little piece. 655 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,119 You know, and we've still easily got probably 0.5m to go 656 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:54,680 to get down the bottom. 657 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,600 That's a little ripper. 658 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,760 Another gram there. Aha! 659 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,080 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 660 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,520 Another target! 661 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,080 These sorts of runs of gold, 662 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,280 you lay there at night dreaming about them. 663 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:06,440 Nice. 664 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,600 Oh, actually, it's a nice little chunk. 665 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,320 Wow, man. That's gotta be... That's gotta be a gram. 666 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,440 Looks like our dreams are coming true at the moment 667 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,600 because there is so much gold in the ground here. 668 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,000 That's a big breaker. 669 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,880 Yeah, I'm glad it fits. 670 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,600 Well, we're finally ready to rock and roll. 671 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,720 Now, we've got the equipment to get stuck into this hole here. 672 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,000 It's a nice little patch of ore sitting right there 673 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,080 and I want to tunnel into that 674 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,320 and hopefully expose 675 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:42,840 the rich gold bearing dirt underneath. 676 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,000 At the Phoenix Project, 677 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,040 The Gold Devils have gambled $40,000 678 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,120 on a rock breaker attachment for their excavator 679 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,720 in a bid to break through hard ground, 680 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,440 but the looming weather is threatening to shut them down. 681 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,360 Let's get stuck into it, stop mucking around 682 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,640 and actually put some decent gold weigh-ins on the board. 683 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,640 Hopefully, you know, I can get this rock out of the hole, 684 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,680 get over to the jaw and get Lloyd fired back up 685 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,720 and get the gold. 686 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,440 Powered by the digger's hydraulic system, 687 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:16,640 the new rock breaker 688 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,520 can deliver over eight blows every second. 689 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,200 Basically, to turn our season around 690 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,560 we really need to hit something really good here. 691 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:33,400 Start pulling some dirt out and get some food for Lloyd. 692 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,920 We need some good quality rocks to get crushed, 693 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,640 loaded with gold 694 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,600 and we need them straight away. 695 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,400 Well, this is what we like to see. 696 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,000 This is the decomposed rock, 697 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,920 rich in iron and full of minerals and it's really heavy. 698 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,360 It's got a lot of weight to it. 699 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,000 You know what else has got a lot of weight to it? 700 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,880 Gold. 701 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,920 With this particular rock, we're digging out 702 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,880 we should be able to increase the production. 703 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,240 Once we crush it, process it, 704 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,880 melt it down and pour some gold bars, happy days. 705 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,080 Well, no time to mess around. The weather's coming. 706 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,280 Got to get fired up, crush those rocks... 707 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:14,640 get producing. 708 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,120 I'm hoping this weather stays back and we can keep processing. 709 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,960 We can't afford the down time. 710 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,800 It's full team effort right now. 711 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,040 We're all a bit stretched, but at the moment, it's working 712 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,560 because everyone's role is vital. 713 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,240 As Alex and Mel load fresh rock 714 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,680 from the pit into their crushing circuit, 715 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,520 Darren feeds the crushed pay dirt through their wash plant, Barnaby. 716 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,320 The weather looks like it's coming in pretty bad. 717 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,240 (THUNDER RUMBLES) 718 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:03,440 Plant's full? 719 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,360 Yep, she's pretty full. 720 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,320 So, fingers crossed it will run smoothly 721 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,120 'cause, yeah, it looks like it's gonna rain. 722 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,120 This is not what we need right now. 723 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,480 It seems like everything's against us all at once. 724 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:23,840 Working in these gullies 725 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,880 in this heat's just the worst. 726 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,080 There's no breeze. 727 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,880 It is so hot and so humid, 728 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,880 but this is where the gold is, so I don't really have a choice. 729 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,320 This is where I've got to work. 730 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,080 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 731 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:38,320 Alright... 732 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,040 let's see what this one is. 733 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,360 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 734 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,600 It's a nice sound. I hope this one's gold. 735 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,440 (DETECTOR BEEPING) That sounds good. 736 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,880 There it is too. 737 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,160 Not a bad little nugget either. 738 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,200 There's a good gram of gold in that one. 739 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,800 Another one for the jar. 740 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,640 It's gonna take a lot of those to knock off 37 ounces, 741 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,800 but perhaps it will lead us to something better 742 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,800 and that's what we need right now, a decent run of gold. 743 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,600 In tropical far North Queensland, 744 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,760 Jacqui and Andrew are tackling the tough terrain 745 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,640 of historic Mount Madden 746 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,080 in punishing 40 degree Celsius conditions. 747 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:36,960 So, normally I wouldn't really detect 748 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,520 over these ridges like this, 749 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,880 but Mount Madden is actually super famous 750 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,440 for its high gold. 751 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,160 It came off the side of the mountain. 752 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,400 There were reefs all around this area 753 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:47,520 that they mined. 754 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,960 You can see the quartz just all shedding away here 755 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,200 and if one of those quartz reefs contain gold, then we're on. 756 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,280 Whoa! 757 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:02,600 Oh, ow! 758 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,960 I underestimated my footing there. This hill is really steep. 759 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,560 Hey, there you are. 760 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,600 Are you alright? I heard you yell out. 761 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,920 Yeah, I'm fine. I just had a bit of a slip. 762 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,760 That's a pretty dangerous slope you're working on there. 763 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,360 I just found a big nugget up here, 764 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,080 so they must be coming down into this gully. 765 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,920 There could be big ones along here, Andy. 766 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,240 You got to be careful there, mate. 767 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,640 We're too far out for a broken leg or something. 768 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,800 How else am I supposed to get the gold? 769 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,160 I've got an idea. I reckon come back up. 770 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:33,720 I'll go back to the car 771 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,680 and we can do this a much better way. 772 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,520 Once she gets onto gold like that, she's unstoppable. 773 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,440 Like she is not going to rest until that hill is searched. 774 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,160 So, I've got to do something to make it safe 775 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,440 because we can't have like broken legs 776 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:46,960 or anything like that up here. 777 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,600 Well, I'm glad to see you're still alive. 778 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:55,680 What is that? 779 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,040 It's a snatch strap to give you a bit of guide rope down there. 780 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,880 So, I'm going to tie it off a tree and we'll throw it over the edge 781 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,960 and at least you've got something to hold onto to steady yourself. 782 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,400 OK, let's do it. 783 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,920 Righto. Not a bad idea. 784 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,160 I'll give you that. 785 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,400 Pretty steep, 786 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:13,920 but I reckon this should be long enough. 787 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:17,640 Cool. 788 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,160 Righto, that's good, mate. That'll keep you safe. 789 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,080 No excuses now. Get that gold. 790 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,600 (CHUCKLES) Perfect. 791 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,320 Alright, well, I'm gonna go back down into the gully 792 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,600 and keep working up towards you 793 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,360 because I'm still getting them down there too. 794 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,800 Mate, you're getting them down here and I'm getting them up here, 795 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:31,960 we could be onto something good. 796 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,160 Let's get it. I'm excited. Let's go. 797 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,200 Figure out how I'm going to do this. 798 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,239 Gold seriously makes you do some crazy things. 799 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,680 This is nuts. 800 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,040 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 801 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,719 It's working though. 802 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,440 Whoo! 803 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,000 This sounds loud whatever it is. 804 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,960 Get my little foot hole here. 805 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,960 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 806 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,360 Alright, she's in the scoop. 807 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,400 Yes! Whoo! 808 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:10,640 (LAUGHS) 809 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,800 Another big specimen. 810 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,120 This is awesome. 811 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:17,760 Whoo! 812 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,320 (DETECTOR BEEPING LOUDLY) 813 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,239 What the hell! 814 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,560 (LAUGHS) 815 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,520 That is so loud. 816 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:27,760 (LAUGHS) 817 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,600 Another good nuggie. 818 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,560 Found it in the side wall. 819 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,440 Whoo! (DETECTOR BEEPING) 820 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,760 Oh, yeah. Come on! 821 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:41,800 Oh, where'd it go? 822 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:44,239 Whoo-hoo! 823 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:46,960 Oh, she's in my hand! 824 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,200 Whoo-hoo-hoo! (LAUGHS) 825 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,040 Oi, Levi! Yo. 826 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,280 Bro, come and have a look at this one. 827 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,160 Whoo-hoo-hoo! Hey, Ryano! We got a corker. 828 00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:59,880 Whoo-hoo-hoo! 829 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:02,840 We're gonna smash that 15-ounce target, mate. 830 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,760 What did you get? Oh, baby, it's good! 831 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,600 Big specie. 832 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,440 Grab your scoop and put a bit of water in it. 833 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:09,680 Yeah, man. 834 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:12,719 Give it a polish, mate. 835 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,360 Oh, yeah. Oh! 836 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,360 (LAUGHTER) Oh, yeah. 837 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,000 Oh, mate, that's loaded. 838 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,320 That is an absolute stonka. 839 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,080 Look at that. A big sheet of gold on top. 840 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,840 Hundred ounces, look at, we're coming for ya. 841 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,040 Well done, mate. Whoo-hoo! 842 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,480 Yeah, brother. Alright. 843 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:31,840 Go The Ferals, eh! 844 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,080 Oh, yeah. 845 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:35,480 Go The Ferals. 846 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:36,719 Whoo! 847 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,680 Yeah, Ryan. Oh, yeah, Nath. 848 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,840 Oh, fellas. 849 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,120 That time of the week again. 850 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,680 It's my favourite time of the week, bro. 851 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,480 Weigh up, pay day. 852 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:47,880 Let's see how much we got eh? 853 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:49,719 Get this gold on the table. 854 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,320 Get that gold on the scales. 855 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,120 Fire up these little beauties. 856 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,080 Come on, baby. Alright, here we go. 857 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:05,600 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine... 858 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,360 15.5 ounces. 859 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:08,760 You little beauty! 860 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,840 (LAUGHTER) 861 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,520 What! 862 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,760 You little ripper, mate. There we go. 863 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,400 That's what Kim wants right there. 864 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,680 Yep, plus your specie. Plus this baby. 865 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:21,880 What do we got? 866 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,840 Oh, that's got a couple of ounces in it. 867 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,080 So, probably 17.5 ounces 868 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,480 for this week fellas. 869 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:29,560 Man, how good is that? 870 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,200 What a ripper week! 871 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:32,280 If you add that up, 872 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,640 we just made 45 grand in one week. 873 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,640 We get ten grand each for the week. 874 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,440 Ten grand in the pocket. 875 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:39,560 Whoo-hoo-hoo! 876 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,400 Whoo-hoo-hoo! 877 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:42,719 No way! 878 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,080 That's just next (BLEEP) level. 879 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,440 Whoo! 880 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:47,680 But hey, there's still plenty of gold down there. 881 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:48,760 Yep. 882 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:49,920 And it's not going to find itself, boys. 883 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000 That's it, mate. 884 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,600 Let's go and get our hands on it again. 885 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,560 Boo, boo, boo! Let's go and get dirty! 886 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,320 Whoo-hoo! Let's go get more gold. 887 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,600 Pack it up, you Ferals, and let's get down there. 888 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,840 The weather's completely knocked us for six. 889 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,560 Lloyd, the rusher circuit is out of action. 890 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,520 At the Phoenix Project lease 891 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,840 heavy rain has forced the Gold Devils 892 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,080 to halt production 893 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,719 and switch to smelting their recovered ore 894 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,160 into gold bars. 895 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,080 A crucible will heat the material 896 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:23,480 to a temperature of 1,150 degrees Celsius. 897 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:28,000 High enough to separate unwanted metals and impurities. 898 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,080 Every time you're pouring gold, you want to make sure 899 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,239 that your mould that you're pouring into is warm. 900 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,080 This is at room temperature 901 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:36,960 and there's moisture coming out of the mould. 902 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,280 If I was to pour molten liquid into that, it'll explode 903 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,760 and you'll end up with gold all over the roof and all over me. 904 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:45,840 Ready whenever you are. 905 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:50,160 Once the 95% pure gold bars are poured, cooled, 906 00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:51,320 and put on the scale... 907 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:52,960 Oh, that looks actually pretty good. 908 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,360 ..the team will know exactly what the gold is worth. 909 00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:57,880 Crushing circuit bar. 910 00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,520 Let's see how that one goes. 911 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,200 That one's cleaned up OK. 912 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,440 Oh, yeah, nice. 913 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,200 A few ounces there. 914 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,239 Hey. Are you ready for a weigh in? 915 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:22,600 What have you got? 916 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,239 Wow, that's all your hard work there. 917 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:28,800 Nice. That's just Barnaby. 918 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:29,920 It's great to see that 919 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,680 being produced after the hell of a week we've just had. 920 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:32,760 Oh, my god! 921 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,520 Yeah, that week was definitely against us. 922 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:35,760 Whack it on! Yeah. 923 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,600 21.29. 21.29. 924 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:42,760 Nice. 925 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,320 Well, that's not everything. 926 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,120 The rock breaker actually made some gold too. 927 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:47,480 Yeah. 928 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,320 26.9. Wow! 929 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,320 The morale boosting haul 930 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,880 adds over $75,000 931 00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,600 to the Gold Devils' total. 932 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:01,880 That was a hell of a run 933 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:03,480 and I didn't think we would get anywhere near this, 934 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,880 so yeah, I think we've all pulled together 935 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:07,120 and made it happen. 936 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,840 This week has shown us that we can get through anything 937 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,000 if we work as a team and we work really well together. 938 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,680 1,000 ounces might just be around the corner. 939 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,360 Let's get this to the mint 940 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,360 and get it sold and pay some bills and keep going. 941 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:21,520 Do it all over again. 942 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,200 Good work, team. Alright. 943 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:24,560 The Gold Devils. 944 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,040 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 945 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,440 Alright, moment of truth. 946 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:35,400 Where are you? 947 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:39,440 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 948 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,440 That's another bit of gold and that's a better size too. 949 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,360 Now, we're talking. That's 3 to 4g that one. 950 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,960 Really sharp gold. Little bit of rock in it too. 951 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:52,719 This is just looking great. 952 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,280 The further I go up this gully, 953 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,200 the bigger these bits of gold are getting, 954 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,760 so I'll just keep putting them away in my pocket 955 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,800 and hopefully we can put some weight in the jar 956 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,520 at the end of the day, but yeah, that's great. 957 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,120 Happy days. 958 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,440 Mount Madden paying the bills. 959 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:07,880 Jacqui. Another one? 960 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,520 Yeah, they just keep coming, mate. 961 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,800 Yes! This is good. 962 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,600 That's great. 963 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,040 Now, we're starting to sound like a day's wages. 964 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,400 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 965 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,239 That could be another one. 966 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,480 Oh, yeah. 967 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:22,400 God, this is tricky, eh? 968 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,960 The things we do for gold. 969 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,600 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 970 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:29,800 Nice. 971 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,760 Oh, yes! 972 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,320 They're getting bigger! 973 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,120 Awesome, mate. Whoo! 974 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,120 We're tracking down that 50 ounces, mate, 975 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,920 one nugget at a time. 976 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,640 That's beautiful gold. 977 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,239 Righto, Jacqui, let's do this weigh in. 978 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,000 Alright, how are we doing this? 979 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,760 Well, we got the free gold in here, 980 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,680 so that's all 100% gold 981 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:52,880 and then we'll break the specimens 982 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,680 into a couple of groups and weigh them as well. 983 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:55,760 OK. 984 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:57,640 See how we went with this gold first. 985 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,840 That system had so much gold in it. 986 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,360 Mount Madden delivered. Whoa! 987 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,920 3.3 ounces, mate. 988 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,160 That's pretty good, eh? 989 00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:09,320 Wow. Yeah. 990 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,280 That's impressive numbers. They just kept coming, hey? 991 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,040 Well, time to find out what the specimens weigh now, eh? 992 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,480 So, we'll see how we went. 993 00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,760 So many. 994 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,840 Well, 3.79. 995 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:23,200 3.79. 996 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,280 That's about 2.6 ounces of gold there. 997 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:28,760 We needed this big time. 998 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:30,520 We did. We needed this pay. 999 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,800 Righto, let's see what the big ones go, hey? 1000 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,280 These are around 50% gold and 50% quartz, 1001 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,800 so about half of what the weight is. 1002 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,880 3.1 ounces there as well, 1003 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,040 so that's another 1.55 ounces of gold. 1004 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,360 All up that's about 7.4 ounces of gold, mate. 1005 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,960 Which means our total for the season so far's 1006 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,320 just gone up over 20. 1007 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,400 Yep. Yep. We finally got over 20. Yes, thank god! 1008 00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,200 This week's nugget spree 1009 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,640 adds almost $20,000 1010 00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,760 to Jacqui and Andrew's tally. 1011 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,200 We've still got a long way to go, 1012 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:06,960 but we just knocked a fair bit off it too. 1013 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,040 Yep. 1014 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:09,920 If we keep going the way we're going, 1015 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,680 that 50 ounces could actually be within reach. 1016 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,440 That's my favourite part of the week. 1017 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,440 Me too. Mount Madden paying the bills. 1018 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,200 Love it. We did it, mate. 1019 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:20,440 Well done. We got there. 1020 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:21,840 Good job. Phew! 1021 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,239 What a relief! 1022 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,239 (DRAMATIC MUSIC) 1023 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,320 Captioned by Ai-Media ai-media.tv