This time on Aussie Gold Hunters...
The gold's running thin, hey?
How hard this ground is.
Rock solid ground...
I ain't gonna waste me time doing this.
This ain't working.
..forces The Ferals to come up with a unique solution...
Whoo, look at that.
..that gets them back on the gold.
No way!
ALL: Whoo!
In the extreme Western Australian heat...
I just got to check on her.
..The Gold Devils feel the strain...
Let's get you inside. Whoo.
We're a team member down
but we've just got to keep persevering.
Geez, that's not good. The temperature's going right up.
..as they push their operation to its limits.
Temperature on this machine has just gone through the roof.
We've got engine failure.
It's got to be around here somewhere.
Jacqui and Andrew face a night-time search
for lost gold...
She won't rest until she finds that gold.
..where they make a grisly discovery.
This is really strange.
I think somebody might have died here
and this is all their remains.
And one team takes a huge step towards their season total.
Most of...half of that pile is gone.
They've taken a heap off the side over there.
Most of that pile over there's gone now too.
Smashin' it.
Yeah, it's all going pretty good.
We've got the crushing circuit running now.
We've got the wet plant,
Barnabee running over there as well.
We've got a lot of work to do.
We've got a lot of tonnes to move
so we need to have all hands on deck
and everything running.
So we can actually make a dent
in that thousand-ounce target this year.
In the remote goldfields of Western Australia,
the Gold Devils are processing
over 200 tonnes of pay dirt a day
through their crushing plant, Lloyd,
and wash plant, Barnaby,
as they push for a massive 1000 ounce,
2.6 million dollar season target.
I think we're only gonna get there
if every single thing we've got is ticking along.
Did you see that big rock, Paul?
Yeah, it's gone through. OK. Awesome.
We can't afford to have any down time.
If a big rock comes down here
we've just got to smash it up to make sure it runs smoothly.
We need everything running here at the Phoenix Project.
We've got the other, you know, leases that are warming up
but until we can process there,
it's our only option at the moment and we need this.
Last week, after disappointing gold returns...Not enough.
We're not going to get there this season.
We need solutions.
..the Gold Devils bought a 40,000 dollar
hard rock breaker...
Let's stop mucking around
and put some decent gold weigh-ins on the board.
..and tried to run their sluice and crushing circuit
to maximise production.
Plant's full.
Yep, she's pretty full.
And the team's new strategy delivered promising early results.
And with this particular rock
we should be able to increase the production -
once we crush it, melt it down and pour some gold bars.
Oh, for goodness sake, the water's going.
Totally losing pressure.
Paul, can you come up to the wet plant?
I think I've got a bit of an issue.
What's up?
Losing a bit of water pressure on the spray bars.
Oh, yeah, they're not even working.
There's no water coming out at all.
Barnaby uses 200,000 litres of water
to process up to 50 tonnes of pay dirt an hour.
Spray bars wash the material on the screen deck,
separating gold from the pay dirt.
If it's not washed thoroughly
gold can be lost in the tailings.
That's pumping water but...
..from the water there's lots of bits, twigs and roots.
Yeah, we're sucking it all up. We're sucking it all up.
It's going from this big pipe to this little pipe
and just getting clogged up.
Alright, so we've got to take these off and flush it out, eh?
Yeah.
The pumps are sucking up a lot of rubbish.
Everything is getting blocked up and it's stopping the water
so we suspect it's right at the end of these hoses.
Yeah, like that.
It's still not very free, though.
It might be blocked down the other end as well.
Because you'd expect more pressure
to be coming out of that. Yeah.
Where's the hose for this one because this one's...
(THEY LAUGH)
"Be a miner", they said.
"It'll be fun", they said.
There we go.
Oh, yeah, that went right in my face.
That's better.
Touch...
Got enough water? Yeah.
Get this fixed and then it's up and running.
What's going on with Mel?
Looks like she's stopped feeding the plant.
That's weird.
Mel, got a copy?
Mel, copy?
Mel, are you OK?
Just got to check on her.
How are you going down there, Nath?
Haven't seen you digging too many holes.
Yeah. Nah, mate. It's, um, it's definitely drying up.
It's not looking real flash, that's for sure.
Yeah, it looks like Levi's opening it up
a little bit more up there.
So maybe you can get back onto that line
and hopefully we can get back onto some bigger nuggets, mate.
Yeah, I'm gonna find what I can.
Nathan's out there on the ground
and he's only just chasing little bits at the moment.
Levi's doing a secondary cut down there.
Hopefully there's some bigger nuggets down lower
but we're really just not sure at the moment.
The start of summer, it's definitely hotter.
You know, we're all feeling the pressure out here.
Kim wants his fifteen ounces.
Yeah, I don't even think we're getting close to that.
In Western Australia's scorching Pilbara region,
The Ferals are working a lease for local mining boss, Kim North.
But the gold has dried up in the ancient creek bed
they've been digging.
I've got another target here
but we haven't been getting much so...I hope it's worth the dig.
This gold runs out, it'll be devastating.
Yeah, another little bit.
We're out here busting our ass for...for this.
Yeah, we can't stay out here and keep running machines,
digging all this dirt
and breaking ourselves for the tiny bit of gold
that we're getting.
Yeah, we've been on the gold for a few weeks now
so, at some point, you expect it to dry up.
We're hoping that it wasn't going to be this soon.
We really want to finish strong
and hopefully get another 15 ounces for us and for Kim.
KIM: I just want to lift the weights up a little bit.
OK, what do you want now?
I would like 15 ounces.
You're kidding, right?
Last week, The Ferals' boss raised their weekly target
to 15 ounces.
Dude, we got to get this going. Yeah, I know, man.
I'm going as quick as I can, eh.
And the threat of losing their contract
caused tempers to flare.
How about you go and have a look and try and fix this thing.
That's not my job, mate. That's why we got you out here.
Yeah, you got a copy there, Levi?
Yeah, mate. How's it going?
Uh, crap, mate.
There's really nothing here.
Gold's running thin, eh?
We've got to come up with a different plan
because we're just burning fuel at the moment.
Well, maybe we dig a costine down the bottom there
and see if we can catch it.
But it's got to be heading that way somewhere mate, so...
No worries, mate.
Digging a costine sounds like our best bet.
The gold is running from north to south down this valley.
So I'm going to dig this costine now
or a trench from east to west,
maybe ten metres long.
Then we try and get back on top of this gold.
Oh, mate, I'll have a quick swing over it
and I'll let you know if I find anything.
I really hope there's something down here.
Oh, oh! (LOUD BEEPING)
Wow, I've got a coil blanket here.
(LAUGHS)
Come on, baby. Come on, where are you?
Oh. Oh, man.
It's in the scoop.
It's still in there.
(LAUGHS) I can see it!
Woo-hoo! Yee-hoo!
Is it a speccy or is it gold?
Oh, bro, it's a big speccy.
Loads of gold in it, though.
Yeah, give us a look. Woo-hoo-hoo!
Chunky monkey, mate.
Back on it. Ooh!
Dude, that's got an ounce in it easy.
That's so good.
Alright, well, looks like we got ourselves
a new dig zone.
Levi sort of thinks that we've got this rock bar
that's sort of running across here, north-south,
sort of parallel to our gold line that we've been picking up.
So hopefully the old creek's hit that
and all the gold's washed this side.
When water flowed through the creek millions of years ago,
the rock bar slowed it down -
causing any gold to fall to the bottom and collect there.
But it also trapped layers of silt,
which encased the gold and became compacted
before hardening into silcrete when the river dried up.
Another target.
(LOUD BEEPING) Man, that is still in the ground.
Getting lots of targets.
Exhausting, I'll tell you that.
I ain't going to waste me time doing this.
I need to work smarter with this (BLEEP).
Now I've had a gut full, this ain't working.
Not working for me.
So we're prospecting Cannibal Creek at the moment.
So we're right in the centre of the Palmerville station now.
We've pushed in about as far as you can go.
This is the area that's just got to pay off for us.
We need some big chunky gold to put some weight away.
So, yeah, big days at the moment.
This heat is just out of control.
We have been working through the heat of the day
and it's just been insane.
We just gotta keep going as much as we can handle, though,
'cause we need every bit of gold we can get.
On Queensland's sweltering Palmer River Gold Fields,
exploration prospectors Jacqui Buzetti and Andrew Leahy
have taken their hunt into the heart of the rainforest
to the historic Cannibal Creek,
with its 40 degree heat and extreme humidity.
Today's been alright, we've picked up a few.
Oh, sweet!
Probably one of the bigger ones I've picked up today.
Nice waterworn pieces
we're getting out of this area too.
Definitely a couple of grams. It might even push three.
Just really on the hunt for that fresh ground now.
We'll push on before it gets dark.
Try and get as much as we can.
Jacqui's on a great little run down there.
She's, you know, getting some good gold.
But we've only got 20 ounces and we really need to walk out
with that 50 ounces in our pocket this year.
We've got no back up plan anymore.
We've walked away from our trades and this is what we do now.
(LOUD BEEPING)
That's a loud signal.
I've been getting a few so, here's hoping,
this one might...might be the end of me for today.
Pretty well broken.
Barely swing me pick, I've been at it that much.
(LOUD BEEPING)
Still in there.
(LOUD BEEPING)
Alright.
Thank god for that.
There it is.
That's not a bad piece of gold.
There's five or six grams in that one.
Oh, a bit closer to the 50 ounces.
I'm done for today.
I'm going to set up camp before it gets dark.
How did you go today?
Oh, yeah. Pretty good day, actually.
Oh, sweet. Check this out.
Oh! Hit a good run up there, eh?
They were just coming out thick. Oh, my god!
How did you go?
Oh, I actually did pretty well.
Hang on a sec.
Come on, where is it?
I want to see what you got.
I don't know where it is.
Where is it? I don't know.
How do you not know where your gold is?
I don't know, Andy!
Have you lost it?
I don't know where it is.
We've got to go back. Not now, it's nearly dark.
There's a lot of gold in that jar.
I need to go back and have a look.
I'll come with you.
Two sets of eyes are better than one, aren't they?
It was just up this way.
Alright, well, I might check that flat ground.
Well, I'll start detecting along this creek as well.
Alright, well, good luck.
Let me know on radio if you find it.
Righto.
I really don't feel like doing this
but I know Jacqui
and she won't rest until she finds that gold.
So we might as well just try and find it.
Yeah, I just don't like the idea of that gold lying around
God knows where.
Hopefully the detector will pick it up.
It's got to be around here somewhere.
I'm just so worn out right now.
It's been such a long day and it's so hot.
Really should have been in bed already.
This grass is driving me crazy.
Sometimes you got to ask yourself why you do this.
There could be over a couple of thousand dollars worth of gold
in that jar.
I'm not going to be able to sleep until I get it back.
Hey, what's going on?
Uh, I just don't feel so good.
I feel a bit dizzy. OK.
Put your foot down and just hold onto me, OK?
In the blistering heat of remote Western Australia,
the Gold Devils have suffered a setback...
Here you go. Let go.
..just as the team were stepping up production
on the Phoenix Project lease.
Let's get you inside.
Come on.
Oh, I just couldn't breathe.
I'm just going to lay down for a few moments
and then I will come back out.
No, don't worry we've got that out there.
Oh!
Oh, gosh.
I'll come and check on you in 20 minutes, alright?OK.
Do you need anything now? No, I'm good. Thanks.
You just take it easy, alright? OK.
How is she?
She wanted to get straight back out
but there's no way.
If she's not feeling 100 percent,
it's hot out here and we need everyone on their game.
I agree with you.
I don't really want her out here if she's not feeling well.
Just get her to park up for the next couple of days
until she's feeling better.
That puts us one woman down and we were short handed anyway.
Yeah, well, let's just make sure we're all on radio contact.
Yep.I'll go and have a chat with Darren now.
I'll let him know what's going on.No worries.
Um, I've just got to be really careful.
I get run down easy and um...yeah, I have...
I don't have a spleen
so I have a weakened immune system.
I've got a blood disorder called ITP.
Years ago my body decided to start attacking itself
and it was destroying my platelets.
And they're what kind of make you heal
so you don't bleed to death.
Um, I wasn't feeling very well so I went to the doctors
and he took some blood tests
and I was told that my platelet count was one -
and that they didn't know if they could help me
and that I might haemorrhage.
Um, yeah.
So they asked if I wanted to talk to a priest or um...
..sorry.
If I had to say goodbye to people and, um...
Yeah.
Spent two years in ICU
and they eventually took my spleen out,
hoping that that would help and luckily it did.
So I've been in remission for 18 years.
I still have to make sure that I don't get sick or hurt myself,
um, without, you know,
holding me back from life and all these adventures.
So I'm feeling a little bit better.
I'm going to sit down for a while
and then hope that the boys are out there getting some gold.
We're a team member down
but we've just got to keep persevering.
You know, we've got so much work ahead of us we can't,
we can't afford to stop.
So she's just resting up at the moment.
Hopefully she gets better in a day or so
and we can have all hands back on deck.
(BEEPING) Hold on a second.
I'll just go and get this parked up.
Jeez, that's not good.
The temperature's going right up.
(BEEPING)
Paul? Paul, got a copy?
Yeah. Go ahead, Alex.
Temperature on this machine has just gone through the roof.
We've got an engine failure.
Alright, mate.
I'll just park this up and be over there in a sec.
What did you do to it?
Let's have a look.
There's no oil dripping anywhere.
I reckon it's that belt.
The one at the back of that motor.
Have a look at that. Oh, yeah.
That goes to your water pump.
Uh, right. That'll be why it's overheating, then.
If that water pump's not turning
it's not circulating the water, so...Yep.
OK.
We're lucky you caught that in time
because...if you didn't we could have blown a motor.
Yeah, as soon as I saw that temperature shooting up,
I turned it straight off.
Have a look from the other side.
Might be able to see it better.
The front-end loader
can lift up to seven tonnes of pay dirt with every bucket -
vital for keeping the team's plants running at capacity.
Oh, yeah, she's cactus. Oh, there's your problem.
We're going to be out of action for a couple of hours
while we fix this. Yeah.
Ah, without this machine we can't move any dirt.
We can't bring any more coarser material over to run Lloyd,
uh, and we can't stockpile more dirt to run Barnabee.
We need this plant to keep producing gold
and if it fails then so have we.
Well, mate,
I'm glad that we left before the sun was up this morning.
We can't waste any time, mate.
This is going to make us up time,
having this jack hammer and the generator.
It'll make all the difference. Oh, absolutely.
Instead of trying to picket
through that hard concrete ground.
In the wild Pilbara region,
The Ferals' Ryan Peters and Nathan Moncrieff
have made a five-hour round trip -
to get a tool that can tackle a hard silcrete layer
of creek bed.
Ha-ha! Check this baby out.
Whoo! Ha-ha! Yeah!
Wow, look at that. Hey, Levi!
I can see you've got a couple of targets on the ground
there ready to go.
Yeah, there's a few there. Too easy, man.
We'll rig up and start jack- hammering.
He's a purrer. (LAUGHTER)
This jackhammer is a perfect tool for the job.
We come in here with the excavator
and rip it all up.
We're actually going to lose nuggets
and we'll lose the line of the gold.
Alright, where to start?
Right here, I guess, is the best point.
See how this goes.
Ho, ho, ho, ho!
Whoo! Look at that!
Oh, straight through it!
You know that takes ten seconds rather than ten minutes.
The jackhammer can deliver 1,900 blows a minute,
quickly penetrating the creek bed's compacted silt layer.
Look at that - smashed it out.
That's a ripper.
They're slowly getting bigger,
the further we're getting down here where Levi's cut.
I'm picking up a lot of this.
These are some bigger ones
but there's so many little bits in there.
In the hand.
Still in the hand.
(LOUD BEEPING)
Oh, there it is.
A nice chunk.
Ah-ha-ha-ha, another good speccy.
Have to widen it up.
They reckon it's gonna be a deep one.
(LOUD BEEPING)
That sounds way deep to me.
Let's get this big nuggie.
Oh, yeah. Hard.
That's hard as hell, bro.
That a go, mate.
Geez, picking away at that.
That's crazy.
We sorely need some bigger gold, man.
Nah, definitely not there.
(LAUGHS)
(LOUD BEEPING) That still sounds about the same.
Alright, bro, we're gonna need the excavator for this.
Sounds like we're on a nice piece here.
The boys are getting excited.
This is a deep target we've got here.
We're definitely going to need the excavator to get down to it
and I really hope that this is a big chunk -
'cause at this point in time we seriously need some big gold.
I just feel like I'm wasting time
trying to find gold that I've already found.
And all this leafy stuff - it could've fallen down.
Maybe I've kicked some leaves over it as I've walked out.
(LOUD BEEPING)
What the hell's going... Oh, look!
There's an old Chinese coin just laying on the ground.
That's pretty sweet.
It's not gold but I'm going to keep it.
In the Palmer River's historic Cannibal Creek,
Jacqui and Andrew are on a detecting mission
to find Jacqui's missing gold jar.
(LOUD BEEPING)
There's stuff everywhere here.
Can't even put the detector down.
Let's have a look around, see what I can scratch up.
Oh, look. Sweet.
That's actually the top of one of their old purses.
So this would be from the original rush.
This is, like, 1870s stuff.
Right.
There's one of his old buttons too.
There's another coin.
Oh, yeah, here's his old pocket knife.
This is really strange.
It's like everything that a person would carry on them
in the gold fields.
I think somebody might have died here
and this is all their remains just left on the ground.
In 1873, a nugget find on the Palmer River
sparked a rush that lured over 20,000 gold hunters -
mostly from China.
But life in the tropical heat was hard.
Some died of starvation and disease.
A few even fell victim to cannibalism
and others were killed for their gold.
Foreboding names like Cannibal Creek
are a reminder of those brutal times.
I found all this laying on the surface right here.
Everything an old timer would have had on him,
from their shirt buttons to their boot heels,
pocketknife, magnifying glass, matches.
It's not the normal stuff they throw away.
It just feels more like somebody passed away here.
That must makes you think of all these people
who came to the goldfields and some of them just never left.
These guys come all the way over from China on a boat
and sort of worked here for 10 years or so
to take back enough gold for their family.
And it's quite possible this guy never returned home.
It's quite confronting, hey?
It makes you really think of what happened here
150 years ago.
I'm going to leave all this right here.
I think it's the best spot for it.
We'll just have to look for the gold in the morning.
Sorry, but... We need sleep.
Yeah.
Come on, let's get out of here.
So it's already starting to get hot
and I still haven't found my gold jar from yesterday.
And this grass - driving me crazy.
As soon as we find this gold we're outta here.
This long grass, it's just a nightmare to work in.
It's so hard to keep the coil flowing
and you're always getting tangled up.
(LOUD BEEPING)
Oh, found my gold!
Time to get out of here.
So where to now?
Well, the station was saying
they burnt some ground off around here
so maybe we should go and have a look at that.
I think that sounds good.
Well, this looks good.
Yeah. Definitely. Fire went through all this area.
Ooh, yeah!
Plenty of room to swing the coil here.
Let's grab the detectors
and see if we can track some down, eh?Yeah.
Perfect.
Controlled burns are carried out in the Palmer River
to stop the build up of foliage that could cause wildfires
during the peak summer months.
The only thing about this burnt ground
is it's a lot hotter in here.
There's a lot of radiant heat coming off the ground.
Anyway, it's easier to swing the coil
and hopefully easier to find gold.
(LOUD BEEPING)
Alright, what's that down in there?
Straight into bed rock there so that's a good sign.
Sort of place gold hangs out.
(LOUD BEEPING) That's the noise that we want.
(LOUD BEEPING)
Oh, look I can see that one.
Nice!
Palmer River gold.
You got to love how chunky the gold is up here.
It's a good, I dunno, ten or 15 grams in that one.
Might even be 1,500 dollars there.
It is insanely hot out here but we'll push on.
Try and get as much as we can.
(COUGHS) Andy!
(COUGHS) Are you alright, mate?
Eugh.
Well, at the moment, the loader's out of action.
Um, seems to be just a belt
but the...it's overheating so we can't even operate.
We can't even turn it on at the moment so...
Hey, Paul. That looks better.
It's the main belt that drives the water pump.
It's completely given up.
My worry is if we do that belt and it's something else
it could be a bigger problem.
On their Phoenix Project lease,
an overheating loader has brought The Gold Devils' operation
to a halt.
Whenever I'm here, the crushing circuit is down.
It means that while we're doing this
we're not actually producing anything.
Alright, now I've got to get this alternator back in line.
Belt's back on. Everything's tight again.
Cross both sets of fingers, please.
Hopefully this works 'cause that'll be the obvious fix.
If it's not, something major.
Ready, Paul? Yeah. Ready when you are, mate.
Whoa, she works! (LAUGHS) You beauty!
No warnings.
I think she's a goer.
Thank god for that.
Job done.
Sorry, old girl. No rest for the wicked.
We are behind the eight-ball at the moment.
Hopefully we can get back on track.
You know, we've got a massive target
of a thousand ounces this year.
So we're basically running around everywhere
trying to get this work done as quick as possible.
Gently does it.
I don't want to rip up too much ground.
If this is a big nugget
I don't want to damage it with the bucket.
This could be the big chunk we've been looking for
for the last few days.
This could bump us up, get us over this tally.
The Ferals are hoping a deep-lying signal
will produce the nugget they need
to hit their 15 ounce weekly target.
I reckon one more grab, brother.
You just pulled up a bit of quartz,
a bit of rock there with it.
So I reckon you're at the bottom there now.
No worries, fellas.
Well, it's either in the hole or in the pile.
Ooh! Big nuggies!
Come on!
She gone?
It's disappeared, bro. It's up here.
Could be up here, bro.
I'll move the digger out of the way.
Come on, nuggie. Where are ya?
(LOUD BEEPING) You got it?
Yeah. (LAUGHS)
Right there, bro!
That's in there, somewhere.
Hey, is that it?
I can see a little bit of yellow.
No way!
ALL: Woo-hoo!
Oh, boys, look at this chunk!
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho! We got it!
That's got to be at least four or five ounces there, fellas.
We've only got one day left, fellas.
So we'd better get all these nuggies out
while the day's still young.
Roger, mate.
Well, let's just go hard then and get as much gold as we can.
We've got to get that fifteen-ounce target.
So we're going pretty hard trying to finish off this area.
Boys will go over the ground, thoroughly...
..make sure we haven't missed anything.
Time's running out.
We need about 15 ounces and, ah, I reckon we're short of that.
I really don't know what we're gonna do
if Kim moves us on from this lease.
If we don't get that fifteen-ounce target this week
we'll be gone for sure.
Andy!
(SIGHS) Are you OK?
I think I'm done, mate. (BLEEP) cooked.
Eugh.
Have you got any water left in there?
Hardly any. There's water in the car.
Alright.
Oh, my god. Are you OK?
Aw, you're cooked, mate.
It's not good.
The tropical humidity
makes it impossible for sweat to evaporate properly -
making it difficult for the body to cool itself.
This increases the risk of heat stroke,
which can be fatal without water and shelter from the sun.
Right. Air. Cold.
You sit. Windows up.
I'll go grab all your gear. You just stay here, OK?
Alright, honk if you need anything.
He's talking, he could walk back up.
He's still responding so I don't think it's critical.
(LOUD BEEPING)
That sounds like a large target.
Oh!
(LOUD BEEPING)
Oh, my god!
Oh, oh, oh! It's huge!
That's over an ounce worth of gold.
Oh, my god!
This makes all my other nuggets look so small.
I've got to get Andy's stuff.
It's hot but I've got energy again.
Oh, wow.
How are you going over here?
I'm alright. Just got a smashing headache now.
I'm feeling alright.
Check this out. Open your hand.
Aw, nice one, mate.
Well done. (LAUGHS)
There's well over an ounce there. I know!
That's the biggest one all year.
I had to get it out.
After your nugget, I just had to get it out.
Well done, mate.
Alright, I'll load the gear up in the car
and we'll head off, OK?
Yep.
I'd love to keep going down the valley more
but just gonna finish off this area.
Hopefully there's a few more
and, yeah, we're going to have to knock off.
(LOUD BEEPING)
(LAUGHS) (LOUD BEEPING)
(LAUGHS)
Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. Yeah, baby.
It's got to be close on an ounce.
It's just a roller coaster ride when you're out here.
Oh, can't take this off.
Hands are so sore.
I'm getting all these...
All these little ones, as well.
Absolute roller coaster ride.
After battling all week to get back on the gold,
The Ferals are about to find out
if they did enough to hit their fifteen-ounce target.
Come on, Levi.
It's that time of the week again, bro.
Favourite time of the week.
There's some nice chunks in there.Yeah.
So we've got the two scales again.
Yeah.
Oh, you know this one maxes out at 15 ounces.
Yep.And we've been hitting that lately, so...
Well, there's one way to find out, fellas.
Let's drop him on.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, 10.9.
Ooh.
Well, we got the big chunky one here, mate.
There's a lot of ironstone and that in it
but there's also a lot of gold.
Come on, baby. What have we got?
Oh. A bit shy, fellas.
14.9.
Take the quartz and iron out,
we've probably got 14 ounces.
Oh, well.
It's close. It's so close, boys.
Well, fellas, we worked hard this week
and we've fallen a little bit short.
So I don't know what that means for the rest of our season.
Yeah, mate.
Well, I really hope Kim will give us another chance.
You know, I think, once he gets his cut.
Well, we're onto a good patch. He might let us stay.
Well, I'm the one who's gonna have to break the news to him
that we haven't made target
and I don't think he's gonna be happy.
Well, man...
Look, hopefully you can persuade him, mate,
to give us another chance.
I dunno, boys. We'll have to see.
Yeah, well,
if he gets rid of us this could be the end of our season, eh?
Well, I'll see what the boss has to say.
Crack on. Let's do it.
Let's get into it. Yeah.
Nice gold. Righto.
Alright, Darren, kill the water.
Rogie, onto it.
Well, clean this out and see if we've got some treasure.
After a punishing week,
The Gold Devils have managed to process
over 1000 tonnes of pay dirt,
despite machinery breakdowns and reduced man power.
How's it all going?
Well, what do you think? Yeah, good.
Oh, wow! Yeah, really good.
That's the final clean up from today.
Just from today?
It just goes to show that we can actually do it...
Yeah. ..with three people.
You don't need me now. (LAUGHS)
Don't say that. It wasn't easy.
Let's finish cleaning this up,
then we'll get the furnace out and start melting some bars, eh?
To remove impurities - and make it easier to sell on -
the team will use their own electric furnace
to smelt the gold into bars.
Moment of truth.
The material must be heated to a temperature
of 1150 degrees Celsius,
to separate the gold from the impurities -
known as slag - before pouring the gold bars.
(SIZZLING)
Sizzle, sizzle.
Water? Oh, thank you.
Right, are you guys ready?
Yeah, always. Yeah.
Just taken off the acid. Looks good.
Should we see what we've got? Yeah, I reckon.
Let's do it. Alright.
6.4 ounces.
20.685.
54.56.
Wow! Not a bad total.
That's awesome. Yes!
Well done. Well done, team.
Wow!
The Gold Devils' perseverance this week
has delivered over 140,000 dollars' worth of gold.
Well, do you reckon that's enough to pay some bills, Mel?
It is and, uh...
Yeah, nice. I'm off to do some shopping.
Back to work? Back to work for us then, yeah.
How's that for a crazy week?
It was pretty nuts.
Dead man's patch and burn out gully.
It burnt me out, let me tell you.
No. Great job getting that out, mate.
I wasn't much use, so...
Are you ready? Yeah, I am.
Ooh! Ooh!
1.3 ounces of goodness, right there.Yes!
And what about yours?
I reckon that's going to go half an ounce.
Chuck it on. Find out.
1.8 between those two.
That's brilliant.
Nearly two ounces with just two nuggets.
Yep. Alright, well, we got all this as well.
So dead man's patch.
6.2 ounces, mate.
That's way more than I thought it was gonna be.
Yes!That's a little mountain of gold by itself.
That's beautiful.
That small gold - it all adds up.
That's 29 ounces, mate. We're getting closer.
With just two weeks left of their season,
the haul leaves Jacqui and Andrew just over 20 ounces short
of their 50 ounce target.
Now we're tracking down that 50 ounces, mate.
We're not out of this yet. You're right.
Now I'm really starting to feel like it's actually within reach.
I'm jumping in there for a swim.
I'll leave you to pack that up, hey?
(LAUGHS) I'm out.
That's alright. Keep yourself nice and cool.
Yew!
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