This time on Aussie Gold Hunters...
I can't believe this.
A day and a half ago that pit was just about dry.
..it's the final week of the season
and the Poseidon Crew hit devastating setbacks...
This is an absolute (BLEEP) bloody disaster.
We might not even get a chance to get digging
before we call it quits for the season.
..threatening to end the season before they hit their target.
I'm thinking about me future right now.
He's got to find some other job that gives him the steady income,
which he can depend upon.
In Western Australia the Ferals face deadly heat...
Summer's kicking us out.
It's got to be 45 degrees plus.
Mate, you alright? Everything just went dark.
Heat stroke, mate. It will kill you in a minute.
..forcing them to work dangerous night shifts
in their desperate hunt for gold.
Operating in the darkness.
You could cop a bucket to the head.
That's game over. That's you dead.
Miles off their 1000 ounce,
2.6 million dollar season target...
Where are we at, Mel? We're just north of 330 ounces.
..the Gold Devils gamble big,
running their equipment to the point of destruction...
It's going to kill the mill, for sure.
This will be its last hurrah.
..but will it be enough to give them
a multi-million-dollar pay day?
If we don't go home with any profit,
then that will be the end of the Gold Devils.
We need to try and recover and salvage our season
and the only way to do that is with a heap leach
at this point in time.
I guess the easiest way to explain a leaching set up
is you've got a dam,
we then flood that dam with cyanide solution.
The cyanide filters down through all the material,
grabbing all those particles of gold.
You then pump it into a carbon column.
Gold is then attracted to the carbon.
You just keep circulating until the cyanide's all gone.
So it's basically safe to handle.
Once we've got the carbon loaded with gold,
we can take the carbon out and get that carbon stripped,
which will give us the gold left behind.
Paul will leave the heap leach running
to extract every ounce of gold.
The leach is operational now so that cake's in the oven.
She's backing away
and now headed back to Fair Lady to help the guys out down there.
One of the biggest hardships that we've got
is our projects are spread out across the great state
of Western Australia.
We're separated by about 500 kilometres
so, you know, that's half a day of driving.
It's just made everything that little bit more extra difficult,
uh, when you're trying to set up projects
and make the gold.
Seasoned prospectors Paul Mackie, Melanie Wood and Alex Stead
combined forces to form the Gold Devils.
We're going to need a lot of gold to make this partnership work.
Between them they own ten leases,
spread across the Western Australian goldfields.
So they set themselves an ambitious season target.
I want to chase a thousand ounces.
Their Phoenix Project delivered immediate results...
3.3 kilos. Wow!
So that's, like, 270,000 dollars.
..until disaster struck.
Something's on fire.
It's burnt out. We're dead in the water here, so.
Now, in the final week of their season,
the Gold Devils are focusing all efforts
on their promising Fair Lady lease...
It's so good to see this thing finally up and running.
Hopefully that dirt's got a lot of gold in it too.
..in a bid to stop
their 2.6 million dollar season target slipping away.
Hey, Paul. Hey, guys.
How are you guys going? Well, we're up and running.
But only just. Just Barnaby?
Just Barnaby.
I was hoping to rock up and the crusher would be set up,
ball mill would be set up.
Crushing plant is a no go at the moment.
So where are we sitting now, with our tally so far?
We're just north of 330 ounces.
So what does that exactly mean for us?
It means that we broke even. Well, that's something.
Just nothing for ourselves to take home.
That thousand ounce target,
I think that's just...that ship sailed.
She's gone.
So what do you think?
We lower our target?
As long as we've covered all the costs so far,
we get to go home with something.
Maybe just set it at 400.
That's another 70 ounces on top of what we've done.
We've got Barnaby running.
Got the leach happening.
Get another crushing circuit up and running.
I reckon we just give it a go.
So what's basically the next plan from here?
Now that I'm here to give you a hand?
It's the crushing plant.
We've got to get the ball mill working
and we've got another source of gold coming in.
But, I mean, that's a huge job on its own.
Alright, let's get into it. OK.
Their new target will earn each of them
60,000 dollars for the season -
just one tenth of what they originally hoped for.
So at the moment we've got all hands no deck.
Running Barnaby.
The guys are getting the crushing plant ready.
We've got the heap leach
so let's get on the gold.
OK.
Relining a mill, it's definitely not fun.
We stripped this mill and we haven't used it since.
So everything's pretty much rusted up
and just trying to remember where everything went.
Um, there's a specific order that these lifters and liners went in
and bolts are all different sizes.
It's just going to be a giant jigsaw puzzle.
As the drum of the ball mill rotates,
heavy steel balls crush gold rich dirt to a powder.
The mill should be lined with protective iron plates
to stop the balls destroying the drum.
But the plates will only fit one way.
There was a specific order these obviously went in.
I don't think you're going to get them back in easily.
No.
I mean, even most of these bolts I'm looking at,
they've been bolted with hammers and the threads are all screwed.
Yeah.
I mean, we either go and do a run
all the way back to Kalgoorlie
and grab a whole bunch of new brand new bolts,
brand new nuts, brand new rubbers...
That will take time and money and, I mean,
this is an old mill anyway.
We need this up and running. Yeah.
Without this, we can't mill
and we can't get the gold that we need.
That's 70 ounces.
At this stage it's just a daydream.
Unless we come up with a proper solution
to get this running as quick as possible...
..we can pretty much, well, kiss the season goodbye.
Cayden, mate, this has got beyond a joke.
I can't believe this.
A day and a half ago that pit was just about dry
and now it's all underwater again.
I just see the season absolutely slipping away.
What do you think we should do now?
What's the plan from here?
What we got to do, first and foremost,
is start getting this hole pumped out once again.
Righto.
This will be the third time in a month we've pumped this out.
Come on! Oh, mate, I tell you what.
It's getting to me now, I can assure you Cayds.
Your uncle, Eth, told me that
if we can't get to a hundred ounces,
he's got to find some other job that gives him a steady income,
which he can depend upon.
Mate, right now I just see that slipping away.
Go, you good thing! (MACHINE STARTS)
Catastrophe averted!
(MACHINE STOPS)
What just happened then?
This is an absolute (BLEEP) bloody disaster.
The Poseidon Crew -
Brent Shannon, Ethan West and Brent's son, Cayden -
have spent the season chasing Brent's dream
of finding a 1000 ounce nugget in the legendary Catto's Paddock...
Some of the biggest nuggets that have been found in the world
have been found right here in this paddock.
..but the monster nugget has failed to appear,
leaving Ethan with second thoughts.
I don't know how long I can continue with this rate
that we're on, of not finding gold.
Brent persuaded Ethan to stay on...
In or out? I need to know.
I'll be in, mate. I'll back that.
You sure? Yep, I'm in. Hurry up.
Come here, Eth.
..but Victoria's devastating floods sank their chances.
I don't know what we're going to do, I really don't.
The rain has washed us out.
We can't work out here.
Now they've returned for a final push to find the big one.
The last time we were here we found, you know,
46 ounces of gold or thereabouts.
That was right in here.
So we left good gold
and we haven't been able to get back to it,
because it just has not stopped raining since.
Eth's here, Dad.
How you going, Eth?
Yeah, great mate.
Look at this, mate. This is rubbish.
Is this the hole that you had pumped out?
We had all this pumped out the other day.
So this is the hole that was all prepared, ready to go for us?
It was all ready to go, mate.
It's just now we had the pump running and she's cut out.
This is our last push right now, mate, towards...
And we can't even get up and go right now.I know that.
Well, to be honest, mate, I don't need you here right now.
You can't do a lot, mate. You can't get on the T.
You can't do any digging. Cayden and I can handle it here.
We're going to try and get this pump sorted out
and up and running.
Yeah. Right, mate.
It's getting to him like it's getting to me.
I can assure you that right now. No doubt about it.
He knows, like I know,
getting the target now is looking pretty far away.
In this industry
it's a lot about hope but hope doesn't pay the bills.
It doesn't get you any further ahead in life
and it ain't going to put money in the bank
for the next ten years.
It's the pressure of it all getting to me.
I've got the wedding I've got to try and fund.
The wedding is at the end of the week.
The clock is ticking.
So I can't continue on this path right now, the way we're going.
I really can't.
And if that's what it comes down to, well,
unfortunately I'm done.
The Pilbara, north-western Australia.
As night falls on Australia's hottest region...
..it brings a drop in temperature
but not in pressure for the Ferals.
It's just really too hot to be working during the day now.
It's been over 40
the last two or three days and it's...
The heat here is a killer
and can really knock you around
if you don't keep on top of it day in, day out.
Zane and I will push on through the night
and we'll just go until we get too tired to go anymore.
(BEEPING)
I reckon I might have a little target here.
The ground's like concrete.
Come on, silly boy.
Target's out of the hole.
Let's have a look.
I'd rather find gold all night, you know.
It's just an easier slug.
You don't have to work so hard.
You're not getting overheated by the sun all the time.
Look at that.
A beautiful little specimen.
Probably a three grammer? That's 250 bucks there.
Very nice.
The Ferals -
Levi North, Ryan Peters, Nathan Moncrieff
and new recruit Zane Mettner.
This season they made a deal with Pilbara mining magnate, Kim North.
We get 70/30.
Done.Thanks, mate.
After a flying start...
The biggest weigh in in Ferals history.
(THEY LAUGH, CELEBRATE)
..Kim backed their big gold with big machinery...
And, normally with Kim,
the bigger the machine, we need to find bigger gold.
..but their luck ran out.
We were having such a good run before.
Now it's just sort of drying up.
Now, in the final week of their season,
the Ferals are facing record daytime temperatures.
I'm pretty much done.
Desperate to hit their 100 ounce target
and prove to Kim that they're legitimate miners,
the Ferals are pushing themselves
to work every possible hour they can.
It's good working with the Ferals, you know.
They're a good bunch.
We can all work together as a team.
We can smash this target of 100 ounces and, you know,
go home with a bit of cheese to show the missus.
It's been a long season and we're all a little bit spent.
You know, every day I'm out here is another day
away from my family.
And, you know, my son's ten-months-old now
and I miss him every day and I miss my wife every day.
So it's really hard being away from home.
But, you know, the gold is still in the ground
and I know that what I'm doing now
is setting my family up for the future.
I've got a missus and two young children at home -
a boy and a girl.
We've lived here.
We've been here in the Pilbara our whole lives.
We're third generation.
My kids are fourth generation so we call this place home.
It is definitely not for everyone.
It's a really hard slog.
But, you know, I enjoy being out in the country
and it's one of the most magical places on earth.
(BEEPING) Oh, yeah.
That sounds like a good one.
Come on, still be in the ground.
Oh, she's out.
Yeah, boy.
Have a look at that.
That there is a nice 600 bucks, maybe?
Yeah, if we keep picking these up all night, you know,
we're going to smash our 10 ounce target.
Operating in the darkness,
you've got a spotlight in front of your headlight
and the digger wave around the background
and that's all you can see.
If you cop a bucket to the head, that's game over.
You're dead.
Hey, mate, you want to turn your lights back on?
I don't want you waving the bucket around.
I can't see what you're doing.
It smells like something is on fire up here.
You want to check the back of the digger?
I'm going to shut it down.
It smells like burning plastic in the cab.
Yeah, there's no engine fire here, mate.
You're all good here.
Yeah, I think it's coming from in here, mate.
Feeling pretty hot. Ooh, yeah.
Maybe it's a good job for Nathan.
I got no idea, I'm not putting my hand up for this.
Oh, that shuts us down for the evening.
It's a bit of a shame,
because we're starting to get onto some good gold.
That's just one thing after another out here.
Not the end of the season that we were looking for or hoping for.
Most of these bolts that I'm looking at,
they've been belted with hammers and the threads are all screwed.
I don't think you're going to get them back in easily.
No.
This might be it.
The season might be over.
While Paul and Alex try to get the ball mill going,
Mel's been running their wash plant, Barnaby,
at full capacity -
trying to reach their new 400 ounce season target.
Just want to go up and check the sluice mats,
see if there's any gold in there.
Just make sure everything's running properly, basically.
Alex, Paul, you got a copy?
Yeah, copy.
You need to come over to Barnaby now.
You gotta see this.
Sounds interesting.
Boss has spoken.
Is everything alright?
Yeah. Have a look.
Whoa!
Holy crap! You see it?
There's some chunks in there. Yeah.
And some of those chunks are huge.
Yeah, I know. Look at the size of that.
That's loaded with gold. Yeah.
That's the morale boost I think we all needed.
Yeah.
Alright, enough yakking, let's get processing.
Good job, Mel. Back to it.
Yeah.
It's been tough this season and we're so close to the end
and moving to Fair Lady was a gamble.
But I think it's really going to pay off.
Hey. Paul? Yo.
I reckon I've got a bush fix for this ball mill.
I'll be right over, mate.
Well, they're the problems, having these holes.
We just need to stop material coming out of these.
What I'm thinking of -
basically plugging the holes with the bolts.
Yep.
Run a bead of weld all the way around.
Then it's watertight.
Yeah, well, if you... Job done.
The only problem with this whole solution -
it's going to kill the mill, for sure.
It's an old mill already.
Putting liners in this old mill, I mean,
that's basically putting lipstick on a pig.
It would have saved it for a little bit
but this is an old mill.
How long is it going to last, anyway?Yeah, true.
Sacrificing the ball mill
will add a third processing plant to the operation,
maximising their chances
of getting the 70 ounces of gold needed to hit the new target.
I'm gonna fill this up.
About a tonne and a half of solid steel balls.
I'll get up there and give you a hand.
I'm looking forward to putting some dirt through this.
A bit more sweat, blood and tears and we'll be onto it.
If we don't get this pump up and running
we're not going to get to target.
It's getting beyond a joke.
What I think we've got to do, mate...
Yeah.
..is make sure that that's clear down there,
'cause that was sitting in the mud the other day.
We'll flush out this pump housing.
We ain't got no mud and crud.
There was a reason why the pump stopped.
Yeah.Look at the sludge coming out of here.
Look at that. Eugh! Geez.
No wonder it was soft.
Smells great.
Yeah, doesn't smell the best.
Righto. Moment of truth.
Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay!
I got sheer relief right now.
We're back in the game.
Pump's going well, we're getting the water pumped out.
We're going to stay here all night if we have to,
to make sure we get that hole empty by the morning.
We've decided to, you know, work around the clock.
So the second we show up again tomorrow morning, we're ahead.
We've got to babysit the pump, basically,
because if we don't get that hole pumped out
we can't get the start of our pit happening.
And that means we got probably Buckley's chance
of getting to our target this week.
What I'm trying to do here is just level out this pad area.
It's got ruts all over it, which are holes like that.
And when we try and dump our pad material on it with the gold,
basically, those ruts will make it too deep for us
to detect the gold.
So we're just levelling all this out.
That'll give us some fresh ground to start with
first thing in the morning.
So right now I'm just shining the light for Dad
so he can actually see where he's going.
The bulldozer does have lights on it
but they aren't that strong.
You're coming close to that edge there, Dad.
Hey, Dad! Stop!
Dad!
I can hardly see anything with these lights
are pretty ordinary on the old bulldozer.
You can see how close he got then.
See the track right there.
Basically, right off the edge.
You know, if it was over, you know, a half a foot,
he could have gone in then.
I can promise you something, boy.
We wouldn't be where we are right now
if it weren't for your help.
I don't know what time it is
but I reckon it would be well after midnight.
Hey, Dad, do you reckon I should go check on that pump?
Yeah, mate, go check on the pump, bud.
Yeah, righto. I'll be right back.
Yeah, Dad, water's really coming down now.
The pump's nearly done, I reckon.
Do you want to come and have a look?Oh, beauty.
Alright. I'll come over, mate.
What do you reckon?
Oh, yeah, it's starting to look pretty good, Cayden.
Yeah, I reckon probably shut it down, mate.
Righto.
Righto. Beautiful.
Good job, Cayden.
All good.
Hey!
Morning. Morning, morning.
How did you go last night, fellas?
We had to shut down. You're kidding?
Yeah, I just smelled burning plastic in the cab
and maybe if you were keen to have a look at it today?
No worries, hey.
Yeah, I'll definitely have a look at that today.
So what do you reckon the plan is then, mate?
Should we make up for lost time and just crack on?
Swing these pads while it's cool and get the machine fixed
and hopefully get cracking with night shift.Yeah.
Yeah it's going to be nasty today, mate.
Yeah, they reckon 45 degrees plus, you know.
And once this wind dies down,
that temperature is going to shoot through the roof.
It's as hot as hell out here.
You know,
we got to smash the water to keep our fluids up.
You're getting cooked, your brain's getting cooked,
that dehydration, the heat stress can kill you.
You know, it will kill you just as quick as a snakebite out here.
Time is of the essence, you know.
We really don't have much time left,
'til the season finishes up
and we've got to get off this lease.
I got a signal there but it's right in amongst the rocks.
Look at that, right there.
It's a nugget.
That five, six grams there
and I just about walked straight past it.
This heat is starting to slow me down.
Far out I'm dry.
Oh, man.
I'll just grab this out and give it a check, eh?
That fuse has blown for sure.
Oh, god!
Now it's getting to the mid 40 degree range
over in this hole.
There's absolutely no airflow at all.
Just cooking me.
Bloody hard work, I will tell you that.
You got a good target? Yeah, it's a good one.
It's like trying to dig through a concrete slab.
I'll grab my little jackhammer. Yeah.
Do you need a drink? Thank you very much.
That's good now. Yeah.
Have a listen to that, eh? Yep.
That's him. There she is, mate.
Little on there. Look at that.
That's ten grams plus. Ten grams - not bad.
Yeah. Have a look.
Well done, son.
It's too hot to work now.
We really need to get those lights fixed in the digger
so that we can just stick to nights.
Yeah, there's a few wires down here, man,
that are coming out of this loom onto the body.
Ah, look here.
Yeah, I think I might have found it.
So, yeah, that's just been left out onto the body,
which has blown the fuse and, yeah,
we're just going to chop it and re-join it.
Levi will be stoked, mate, if we can get this fixed.
Man, I can't get over this heat, bro.
It's just sapping the energy out of me, man.
Yeah, you're not wrong.
Oh, mate, are you right? Yeah, bro.
You alright? Yeah, bro.
Come on, mate. Just...
Get up.
You OK?
What's going on?
Just went black, man.
Let's go to the car, bro.
You need to sit down and drink some water.
I'll get that (BLEEP) air con on, mate.Phew.
Just get you settled in, alright?
Jump in there and I'll get the car started.
You alright? Yeah.
Yeah. Just slowly, man, eh?
Just went a little, uh...
You alright?
I'll get this air con on, bro.
Oh...
Good? No, you're not good.
I'm not really, man. No.
No, mate.
Look, you know how quickly heat stroke, mate.
It will kill you in a minute.
You got a copy there, Levi?
Mate, how are you going?
Yeah, mate, Nathan's gone down with heat stroke, mate.
I've got to head back to town.
Mate, he went down like a tonne of bricks.
Oh!
This is the conveyor.
Feeds the dirt up into the ball mill.
Without this bit of kit, we can't feed the ball mill
and we can't get the gold out.
If this drops now,
this crushing plant is not happening.
Gently, gently does it.
Woo-hoo!
It's up there.
That looks pretty good.
We've done it.
Let's plug it in and get running.
Ready? Yeah.
Nothing.
Something's not... Are we fully connected there?
Tool number one fixed it.
Wow, this means that we've got two machines operational
and we can start getting the gold.
I'm so excited.
We're crushing rocks now
so we're going to be seeing gold very, very shortly.
The crusher ball mill pulverizes the course pay dirt,
sending the fine material into the concentrator
where the heavier gold is separated out.
Hey, Alex,
do you reckon we'll be able to get a lot of gold or not?
Now that everything's up and running,
I think it's looking great.
There is going to be a lot of gold on those scales.
Now that everything's up and running at Fair Lady,
I've got to get back to the Phoenix Project.
I've got the heap leach there that's been running.
Basically, I've got to pull the carbon,
get it into the stripping plant,
uh, find out exactly how much gold is in it.
And hopefully, fingers crossed,
we can reach our 400 ounce target.
Now it's up to the gold gods.
Let's hope this black charcoal is liquid gold.
How are you going there, Ethy?
Good, buddy. Good.
Been busy by the looks of it.
Yeah, mate. We got out here bright and early, mate.
If you want to jump on the pad with Caydes...
Yep, get that fixed up. Get that done.
'Cause we really wanna push another one out.
We got a chance now, mate.
We do. We do. We're back in it.
That's it, mate. Alright, I'll get on the pad.
Hey!
I've said from day one that, essentially,
if we don't get over 100 ounces I'm out of here.
That's what I'm sticking to.
The boys have done absolutely an amazing job.
They're making it happen and for that I'm thankful.
If we can keep this dirt coming out of this ground at this pace,
at least I know that we're giving it a red-hot crack.
You know D-day is today.
This is our last push,
this is our last day for the season.
We've been trying to move heaven and earth, literally,
trying to keep the team together, you know?
And without Ethan, yeah, I'll survive...
..but it just won't be the same.
I understand the pressure he's under.
He's got, you know, a wedding coming up.
He's got a young family that he's trying to, you know,
keep building onto the new house
and he's trying to provide the best he can.
And, unfortunately, this year just hasn't delivered for us.
Alright, Paulie, take that one away.
No worries, buddy.
To help with the final push of the season,
Brent has called in Ethan's dad -
retired construction worker, Paul West.
We're down to the pay dirt, the layer where the gold sits.
So we're pulling that out,
we're taking it up to the pad area
that we got prepared last night.
And then we'll put the detectors over it
and hopefully we pull out whatever gold's there.
(BEEPING)
A positive signal, ah...
I've got that now.
Is it in here?
There's a little bit of gold.
It's a nice little bit of gold too.
10, 15 grams.
Half an ounce.
Oh, that's really great that is.
The way everyone's pulling their weight right now
is...I suppose just a real reflection
of how we are as a team.
Everyone's pushing real hard to all reach the same goal,
to reach that hundred ounces.
(BEEPING) That's not bad, Eth.
Hey, Brent, you got a copy mate?
Yeah, buddy.
Hey, I've got a decent target here, mate.
So you want to come over and look or not?
It's up to you. Yeah, mate. Yeah, absolutely.
(BEEPING)
Oh, yeah. Well, that's not too bad.
Obviously, you want the pick. Yeah.
This could be something decent, boys.
More than a few grams, anyway.
On the edge so... Yep.
Oh, there it is! There it is.
I saw it. There it is. (THEY LAUGH)
That's not bad!
That will put a dint in the target.
It'd have to be a couple of ounces.
Maybe two and half or three, Eth. Yeah.
Let's get back into it, eh? Alright.
Come on, Paulie. Alright, let's go.
Well done, Eth.
Mate, it's been tough - I can assure you -
and that just might get us a way to the target, mate.
It might get us there.
Ryan's back and Nathan's OK
and he's just going to recover for a bit.
Before Nathan dropped, he had it pretty much all done.
With the daytime temperatures proving too dangerous,
the Ferals are relying on one final night time push
to find the ten ounces they need to hit their season target.
Well, if we don't get this fixed,
we're not going to be able to do nightshift.
This has to work, man.
This has to work and, if it doesn't, well, we're gone.
There's that fuse up on the seat
so, if you want to pop that back in,
fingers crossed it's all good.
I just put the fuse back in, Ryan.
Just give it a try, mate. Fire her up and...
Alright. (MOTOR STARTS)
One, two, three.
Yeah!
You beauty! Well done!
We've got lights, baby. Yeah.
Those 45 plus degree days
just knock it out of you, you know?
And Nathan going down is a prime example of that.
So we're going to crack on through the night
and we've still got a lot of gold to find to hit
this hundred ounce target for our season.
The best thing for us is that that excavator's going.
We can move some dirt and we can hit this ground hard.
(BEEPING)
Got a target here.
Whoa! That's blowing my ears off.
Yeah, so right along this hard rock.
Alright, give that a go.
Hopefully, this is a nice nugget.
Ooh, it's out of the hole.
Oh, ho, ho. Look at that.
It's a huge chunk.
Wow, that's got to be...
That's got to be half an ounce, easy.
Look, once that's cleaned up, that is a nice chunk of gold.
I've got to find a few more of them.
(BEEPING) Hey, what is this?
Come and have a look at this, boys.
Whoo! Hey, hey!
What have you got there, big fella? You got a stoinker?
Nah, she's still in there but have a listen.
(BEEPING)
Whoo!
That's a chunk.
Alright, scoop it out.
Stuck right down in the crevice.
We're due for a big chunk, mate. Right in there.
It's out. It's out.
Whoo! Whoo!
That sounds nice. Where has that gone?
Oh, it's in my hand.
Ha, ha, you can feel it? Yeah.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, mate.
You little beauty! Look at that thing!
Mate, that's easy over an ounce.
Well done.
That is special.
That's a little ripper, mate, or a big ripper, I should say.
I've got to get back in my digger.
Let's get going.
If we find some more of these ones we'll be alright.
I am super stoked with that.
Let's just hope it's up around the three...two, three kilo mark.
We set a huge target at the start of the season -
a thousand ounces.
I mean, that...that's massive.
That's a crazy target but...
It was a little bit disappointing to have to bring it back down
but it made sense.
Well, we've already broken even so that's the cost covered
but we now need to make something.
We need to walk away from this season with money in our pockets.
If we don't make money,
we've got some hard choices and might be the end.
Well, I've got a knot in my stomach.
Hey, Paul. Hey.
Hey! I was trying to clean it up before you got here
but check that out. No way!
That's...I don't believe it.
Well, that's the final leach.
Oh, my god. Feel how heavy that is.
Oh, my god! That's eight weeks worth of...
I think that's actually the biggest bar
I've ever poured.
I don't know what it weighs yet. Should we find out?Yes.
Right. 66. 66.8.
Just over two kilos.
That's not going to get us to our target, though.
So our target was 400 ounces and we needed over 70.
But...
What the hell?
Well, you've got Barnaby, kept running.
Didn't break down and we bush fixed the ball mill
and that dirt up at Fair Lady is rich, rich, rich.
110 ounces. Go Gold Devils.
You bloody beauty!
We've done it. We've done it.
That's over 400.
The 440 ounces brings the season total
to 1.1 million dollars' worth of gold.
Have we got a pay day?
So we all take home 100,000 dollars each.
Get that money and put it all back into gold mining.
I'm ready to do it all again
and then hit that thousand ounce target.
So you're saying you want to go for round two?
Yeah. Another thousand ounces?
Absolutely.
You guys are absolutely crazy.
Yeah. Yep.
Got to be in this game. Absolutely.
Well done. Gold Devils.
Alright, let's do it.
Seriously, man,
I hope that we hit that 100 ounce target, you know?
We're not going to know
the boys are over there melting it down so...
Yeah...it'll be interesting to see what we come up with.
Whoo, we'll melt up a bar.
In she goes. Now we wait.
Hey, did we get our targets, boys?
Ooh, champers.
'Cause we've got to know if we're going to crack this up or not.
Alright.
How did you go, mate, after the other day?
Like, you really worried me. You know, I thought that was it.
You'd dropped and you were gone so...
Yeah, I know, man. I didn't mean to do that.
I worried myself actually, eh.
Got me back here in a cold shower and just a cool room, man.
And, like, got some liquids in.
The pressure's off now, mate.
We've either made target or we haven't.
Alright, well, give us a look.
Alright.
Put it down there, mate.
There we go.
Nice little bar.
Smells good.
How are you, boys?
Alright, well, let's have a look at it.
Well, we may as well do the, um, the bar first.Yeah.
So we need 10.3 ounces to get 100 for the season.
Ooh, 4.15.
Well, we're getting closer to the 100 ounces, boys.
Not a bad bar. Ready, boys? Put the chunks on.
Come on, fellas.
12.31. We got it, fellas.
Woo-hoo! Yeah, baby!
Dude, we're two ounces over!
Got to be happy with that.
Yeah.
If you're happy, Kim, we're happy, mate.
After Kim takes his cut,
the Ferals' 70 percent share of the gold
comes to over 186,000 dollars.
Woo, hoo, hoo, hoo!
(THEY CELEBRATE)
Woo, hoo, hoo, hoo!
(THEY LAUGH)
Yeah, baby!
Oh, an amazing season.
You know, the boys all come together
and we found a lot of gold.
We didn't think we were going to break the ton but we did.
100 ounces. How amazing is that?
Whoo! Good team, fellas.
Cheers, boys. Cheers, boys.
To The Ferals. To The Ferals!
That's it. Whoo!
Right now, the boys are just finishing up
that last little bit on the pad - then we're done and dusted.
And then we go to probably the most critical weigh-in
of my life, really.
I'm just cleaning this gold up,
getting it ready for the weigh in.
If we don't get 7.04 ounces -
precisely - on the scales,
there's a very, very big chance that Ethan
might have to find some other employment,
where he feels comfortable
and where he can get that consistency that he's craving.
Hey, boys, we're done here.
Come in for the weigh in.
Alright, the moment of truth, boys.
Let's see what we've got.
Mate, I'm nervous.
This is the most nervous weigh in I've ever had.
Alright, put it on. I can't watch.Get it on.
Hurry up.
Dad, we're over!
We've got 9.19.
Ha, ha, ha!
There you go!
There you go, Eth!
You got more bits did yous? Yeah.
Throw that on, let's see what we got.
9.65, boys.
I'll tell you what - that's a sheer relief.
I can tell you that right now.
Just over 102 ounces for the season, Eth.
Looks like you're coming here next year, hey!
I'll keep my word, mate. We set the target.
I've passed it so I'll be back.
Mate, I want to thank you for sticking by me so far, mate.
I know it's been tough. Appreciate it, buddy.
I know you got your wedding coming up shortly
and I know they ain't cheap.
Yeah, well. Mate, now that this is over and done with
I can concentrate now on the wedding
and get me head back in the game there
and keep Chelsea happy.
We're here today to celebrate
the marriage of Chelsea and Ethan.
This ring I give you is not just saying I love you
but saying, you are my world, my best friend, my everything.
You are my forever, my best friend,
my dream come true.
My shoulder to lean on, my rock, my husband.
(THEY CHEER)
I love you.
You know, to see the joy on his face
and see the joy on Chelsea's face,
gold is definitely important but today is...days like today
just makes you realise family's more important.
Gold's great but number one - family.
And that is why we're doing this.
It's to support the family
and to support everything that we're doing.
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