1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,920 NARRATOR: This time on Aussie Gold Hunters... 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,520 ANDREW: Have a listen to this. (METAL DETECTOR BEEPS) 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,760 Here's one. Here's one. (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) 4 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,720 Oh, my God. ..Jacqui and Andrew land a bounty of gold. 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,440 Nice work, mate. Yes. That's a ripper. Whoa! 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,280 But carrying a $35,000 nugget haul 7 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,080 could make them a target for gold thieves. 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,800 Oh, it's that car again. You hear stories about 9 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,400 prospectors being robbed. 10 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,680 Hey, how are you going? High roads. 11 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,320 Marcus, Linden, and Dale team up with a gold hunting mate to prospect ground, 12 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,840 where a multimillion dollar nugget is rumoured to have been found. 13 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,880 Yeah, mate, we got a pretty big target here. 14 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,320 This could be the big one. (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) (CHEERING) 15 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,280 JACQUI: Can you feel the weight? 16 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,280 We put too much money into this and we've got no return. 17 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,320 With a debt of $250,000 hanging over them... 18 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,440 If there's gold in those veins, it could set us up for life. 19 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,440 ..the gold retrievers move their operation to target a quartz reef... 20 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,920 (LAUGHS) Yes. Whoo! 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,640 ..that could hold a fortune in gold. (LAUGHS) 22 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,160 That's all in the space of about ten metres. I just wanna make it rain gold. 23 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:06,840 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 24 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,520 (WIND BLOWING) 25 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,200 JACQUI: We don't really have much time because 26 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,680 the musterers are coming in at the end of this week. 27 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,280 Yeah, yeah. Time's really short now. 28 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,560 Lease explorers Jacqui Buzetti and Andrew Leahy 29 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:26,280 have only two days left to search 30 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,280 the Palmer River Goldfields in northern Queensland 31 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,880 before a cattle muster halts their work. 32 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:35,960 ANDREW: It's a cattle station and the mustering takes precedent. 33 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,160 It's the most important thing on this station. 34 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,800 It's how they're making their money, and it won't be long and they'll be here. 35 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,920 So we're heading south from Cannibal Creek down to some country. 36 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,440 The geologists wanted us to look out on the APM. 37 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,120 The APM is an area earmarked by Palmerville station 38 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,200 for potential future mining, 39 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:58,080 as lease explorers Andrew and Jacqui have exclusive access 40 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,160 to hunt for gold in the area and report their findings. 41 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,240 Huh. Wonder who this is. 42 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,080 Oh, he must work for the station. Wow, he's going fast. 43 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,080 He's in a bit... Yeah. ..bit of a hurry. 44 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,280 MAN: How's it going? Good. How are you going? Good, mate. 45 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,520 Yeah. So what are you doing out this way? 46 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,800 Yeah, just getting out. All right. Yeah, mate. What about you guys? 47 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,680 Yeah. We're here under the permission of station owner, mate, 48 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,720 searching out APMs for gold. Yeah, you guys get any gold? 49 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,920 Oh, that doesn't really matter. 50 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,680 What are you doing out this way? Out here looking for gold. 51 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,240 Who gave you permission to come in? What's that to you? 52 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,760 Doesn't sound like you're supposed to be here. (BLEEP) 53 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,240 Yeah, all right. See you later. What's his number plate? 54 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,200 Right, I got his number plate. 55 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,200 Here. Just put it right down in there. 56 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,520 What the hell? 57 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,840 I'd say, we just ran into a poacher. 58 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:49,520 How strange. Let's just cruise on. 59 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,320 All right. We'll head down. Hopefully, he just keeps going. 60 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,240 Should we radio on or something? Actually, I don't think we should get on radio. No. 61 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,480 He might be able to scan. That was dodgy... That was weird. 62 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,480 Yeah, he was dodgy, yes. 63 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,000 You get plenty of shady characters that will follow you through the bush. 64 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,840 They'll scan the UHF stations just trying to pick up your chatter. 65 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:12,160 If they know you're on gold, they'll give it a go. 66 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,800 Let's just keep heading down to the south, do what we're gonna do. 67 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,440 We'll drop off his number plate to the rangers when we catch up with them. 68 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,400 The one thing that he did seem interested in is how much gold we're finding. 69 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,920 He did, yeah. And that's what concerns me. 70 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,040 After six weeks in Queensland, 71 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,480 hunting the rich Palmer River Goldfields... 72 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,760 (LAUGHING) 73 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,240 It's probably a 1000 bucks in my hand right there. 74 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,040 Whoo! Yes. 75 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:43,840 ..Jacqui and Andrew are now carrying nearly $35,000 worth of gold. 76 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,720 Oh, Jacqui. BOTH: Check that out. 77 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,320 Oh, my God! That's the biggest nugget I've ever found. 78 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,480 Oh, my God! (LAUGHS) Oh, mate. 79 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,200 ..including a massive 6-ounce nugget that nearly lifted them 80 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,720 to their 15-ounce season target. 81 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,640 We don't have much time left in Palmer, 82 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,560 so it's pretty ambitious, 83 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,640 but we're gonna go for an extra 15 ounces. 84 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,960 We've still got half a season ahead of us, so we're going to aim high. 85 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,520 With a new 30-ounce target, Jacqui and Andrew 86 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,720 now need to find more than 16 ounces before the season ends. 87 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,480 So we've actually had a lot more expenses on this trip 88 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,480 than we previously expected. 89 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,160 This remote country's just expensive to do everything in. 90 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,440 So we do actually need that extra gold. 91 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,200 15 ounces actually, probably wouldn't have been enough. 92 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,600 I might take the gold with me today, eh? Carry it with me. 93 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,560 Yeah. Let's lock the car and everything. 94 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,120 Yeah. We can't be too careful with this guy. (CAR WINDOW SQUEAKING) 95 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,640 Yeah, windows up. 96 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,200 So I think we should work both banks of this creek. 97 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:48,960 One on each side. Yeah. 98 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,760 We're still chasing ancient river beds a lot of the time 99 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:55,040 that used to run through these hills, and they carry a lot of gold. 100 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,360 If you want to hit big patches of gold, 101 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,720 you'll do that up on your ridges and your spurs. 102 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,400 As ancient rivers carrying gold from higher ground 103 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,000 change their course over thousands of years, 104 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:11,160 the heavier nuggets are left behind on the spurs. 105 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,440 Not much time left, so let's make it count. 106 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,200 Yeah, work it as quick as we can... 107 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:18,600 Yeah. ..and then move on and try and cover as much ground as possible. 108 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,800 Righto. I will grab all this gold and lock the car up. Yeah, yeah. 109 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,800 So, I put all my gold in my pocket and locked up the vehicle, 110 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,040 which isn't something I normally do out here, 111 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,160 but we're just going to play it safe. 112 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,120 We'll stay pretty close to the car. 113 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:37,200 I'll keep an eye out on Jacqui and keeping an ear out for any vehicles getting around. 114 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:39,600 Yeah, this is the one they call, "Murder Gully." 115 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,560 Serious? Yeah. Around 2012, a guy was shot here, 116 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,160 out by the old owners for trespassing. 117 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,400 Even though the prospector's body was never found, 118 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,520 a Queensland couple who owned the lease 119 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:57,080 to Palmerville Station at the time, were convicted of his murder. 120 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,440 Just Palmer all over, really, it's why 121 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,120 it hasn't been searched well, 122 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,520 that's why it's one of Australia's last, really unsearched goldfields. 123 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,560 It's probably a good spot for us to start. 124 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,920 I mean, we do have the edge of using these modern-day detectors, 125 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,720 and we don't have to worry about getting shot. 126 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,400 Hopefully. 127 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,400 You get a bit nervous when you're carrying around that much gold. 128 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,560 Er, yeah. It's 15 ounces. 129 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,760 It definitely makes you feel like you could be a potential target 130 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:25,440 for someone up to no good. 131 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,840 2,800km from Jacqui and Andrew in Queensland, 132 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,920 on the outskirts of Kalgoorlie, 133 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,680 are brothers, Marcus McGuire, and Linden Brownley. 134 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,920 Yeah, we gotta take this lighter back scheduled for maintenance, 135 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 This is gonna be down for about a week. 136 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:48,240 Work at Marcus and Linden's 200 hectare lease near Ora Banda has come to a halt. 137 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,640 We're halfway through the season, haven't really put a dent in that 20-ounce target. 138 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,040 Yeah, season's not going too well for us so far. 139 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,400 Er, we're at two and a half ounces. We're not breaking even, we're not making a profit. 140 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,160 We're actually operating at a loss, and that's not good. 141 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,400 One week is a long time. So what does that mean for us, bro? 142 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,080 We're gonna have to meet up with Dale, sort out a plan. 143 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,160 Probably go back and start walking again for a bit. 144 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,080 Three seasons ago, Marcus and Linden set out as rookies 145 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,840 with a plan to become professional prospectors. 146 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,040 All right, man. This is it. Prime, croc country right here. Yeah. 147 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,200 They travelled thousands of kilometres to dangerous environments... 148 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,920 MAN: What are you guys doing here? This is my property. 149 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,320 Calm down, wolf creek. Calm down, man. 150 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,840 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPS) Bottle top. (SIGHS) 151 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,280 ..but went weeks without finding gold. 152 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,720 A flattened battery. It's not gold, that's for sure. 153 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,120 But they persevered... How you going, guys? 154 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:45,240 ..and enlisted help and training from good friend and prospecting guru, Dale Harring. 155 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,480 You're tuning each other out so you can work closer together. 156 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,600 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! 157 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,080 Soon their fortunes began to turn. 158 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,400 She showed us some really, really good tips along the way. 159 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,040 Oh! Look at that. Unreal. 160 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,480 (BOTH LAUGHING) 161 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:03,520 No quitting here today. No, not now, bro. 162 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,120 That's it. Amen! (LAUGHING) Listen to that. 163 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,880 But this year the gold has deserted them. 164 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,840 So in a bid to save their failing season, 165 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,160 Marcus, Linden, and Dale are back on the road with their detectors. 166 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,720 There's talk going around social media that 167 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,640 a 1000-ounce nugget has been found. 168 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,720 You know, if that is a true story, it would be worth about $2.5 million. 169 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,360 Two and a half million dollars, bros. 170 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,160 And it's in an area where, 171 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,920 historically, they made some big, big gold finds. 172 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,840 Er, it does get the community buzzing. 173 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,680 The team are heading to pending grounds near Widgiemooltha, 174 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:46,760 an old gold rush town where the largest nugget in Western Australia was found. 175 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,160 The 1135-ounce Golden Eagle, 176 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,440 was dug up in 1931, 177 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,160 and today would be worth nearly three million Aussie dollars. 178 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,880 When you look at it now, it's not far. Just down the road I got that seven-ouncer. 179 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,720 Let's see. That ground is notorious for good gold. 180 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,440 Oh, my God. 181 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,920 (EXCLAIMS, LAUGHS) Look at that. 182 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,520 Last year, Marcus pulled the biggest nugget of the season 183 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,440 close to where they're heading. Gonna need a hand, mate. 184 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,600 There's something weighing me down at the moment. Oh! (BOTH LAUGHING) 185 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:22,680 (LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY) 186 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,120 Here we go. At over seven ounces, 187 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,360 it skyrocketed them $18,000 dollars closer to their target. 188 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:31,080 (LAUGHING) Well done. 189 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,600 It's somewhere near just on our left I think. Yeah. OK. 190 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,880 Prospectors will rarely give away exact locations 191 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,960 where they find big gold. 192 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,120 That way. So the trio are heading to pending ground, 193 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:44,960 which anyone can prospect, 194 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,480 near where the rumoured mega nugget was dug up. 195 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:51,480 Here, this looks good up here with all this quartz and that running through. 196 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:55,080 Definitely got all those indications of good gold country. 197 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,000 Quartz rock often contains veins of gold 198 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,120 formed deep underground. 199 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:05,120 Seismic activity has pushed the gold-rich quartz fluid to the surface. 200 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,120 As the quartz veins decompose over time, 201 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,800 they shed gold in the form of nuggets. 202 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,960 This looks like a good spot to pull up. 203 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,320 Yeah, this will do it. Let's get into it. 204 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,160 Yes, we are taking a bit of a gamble coming out here on the whim of a rumour, 205 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,320 but we are so far away from our target, and it's not funny. 206 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:27,240 I mean, imagine finding, like, a footy-sized nugget in the ground here somewhere. 207 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,800 That's a big game-changer. It changes lives. 208 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,760 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING LOUDLY) No way. 209 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,480 (DETECTOR BEEPS LOUDER) All right. 210 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:39,440 Yeah, man. Only got... Only taken ten steps from the car, 211 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:41,720 (CHUCKLES) and I've already got a target. 212 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,000 We might have the first nugget for the day. 213 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:45,680 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 214 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,520 Target is in my hand. Oh, it's a little lead bullet. 215 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:51,240 (SIGHS) 216 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,640 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING FAINTLY) 217 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:55,520 I've got a bit of a target here. 218 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:58,800 (DETECTOR BEEPING LOUDER) 219 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,640 I just saw it. Little bit of bullet. 220 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,840 It's lead, and it sounds very much like gold when it's in the ground. 221 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:07,840 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 222 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,160 Er... 223 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,800 It's a little bit of tinfoil. 224 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:17,680 It's quite depressing. 225 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,640 Well, there's a lot of rubbish today. Been around everywhere. 226 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,320 Might have to regroup with them, see what they've got. 227 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,760 If they've got rubbish, I think it's time to move on. 228 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,280 Man, I walked everywhere. Nothing but bullets, bullets, bullets. 229 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,400 I reckon we move on to the next spot? 230 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,960 Yeah. Let's pack up and head down to where you reckon 231 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,160 that other pending is. OK. 232 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,960 We do have a lot of ground to cover. and very little time, 233 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,040 so we're gonna have to try and pull this off somehow. 234 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:49,040 There's that first track that we passed. We'll try that area. 235 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,000 How about picking somewhere where there's no rubbish? We haven't got time to waste. 236 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,240 The more time we spend out here, I mean, we're not working, and we're not with family. 237 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,280 We need to make it all worth it. It needs to be worth it. Yeah. 238 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,560 If we don't find gold, we may have to consider calling quits 239 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,320 at the end of the season. 240 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:07,250 2 00:12:08.560 -- 00:12:10.800 align:middle line:65% position:50% There's, yeah, a couple of trees up here, Mark, 241 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,240 that might be a bit of a tight squeeze for your bucket to get through. 242 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,640 Yeah, no worries, guys. I can see them. 243 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,400 I reckon she's gonna be a pretty tight ship looking at it. We'll see how we go. 244 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,720 Near Coolgardie, Western Australia, 245 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,200 the gold retrievers, Chris Smith and Brad McGhie, 246 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,240 work their 200-hectare lease, Devil's Cut. 247 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,000 She said it's gonna be tough. 248 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,680 BRAD: This operation, I mean, between Chris and myself, 249 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,880 we probably spent about $250,000. 250 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,720 All right, not a problem. You know, we've only found 12 ounces so far, 251 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,720 so we really need to pick up the pace. 252 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:44,720 Erm, we need earn a lot more money 253 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,480 than what we're making at the moment to make this viable. 254 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:50,440 CHRIS: Recently, we came across a quartz reef 255 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,480 that we've been looking for for a long time. 256 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:54,400 The goal is to be a millionaire. 257 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,800 You know, if there's gold in those veins, and it's continuous, 258 00:12:57,880 --> 00:12:59,960 then it could set us up for life. 259 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,640 Now that we're on that vein, we're gonna, er, 260 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:04,960 try and open up along the vein. 261 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,880 That big loader of yours, it's gonna be of great help, mate. 262 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,560 This is pretty much where we want you to push down about two metres. 263 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,480 We've asked a good mate of ours, Mark, to come in and, er, 264 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:20,120 and help remove the topsoil, and get down to the paydirt. 265 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:25,240 Geological surveys revealed a 1.5km gold-bearing fault line 266 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,880 running through Brad and Chris' lease. 267 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,760 They've dug narrow trenches 268 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,360 known as Costeans across the fault line 269 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,640 to pinpoint the exact direction it travels. 270 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:40,120 So what I'm looking at here is you got your greenstone here, and you've got your granite here. 271 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,520 And then a contact zone here, which leaves a gap. 272 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,160 Hopefully, that's where the quartz has oozed up and brought gold with it. 273 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,640 Around 2.5 billion years ago, 274 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,120 fault lines formed when layers of greenstone, rock, 275 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,800 and granite collided. 276 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,560 Then hot, pressurised fluid 277 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,200 carrying golden quartz from the earth's mantle 278 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,080 travelled towards the surface, 279 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,400 cooling to become hardened quartz veins. 280 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,080 Say it already, buddy, is that it? (LAUGHTER) 281 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,240 That's got to be the biggest, eh? 282 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,000 A test patch confirmed they had hit 283 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,480 a potentially rich vein of gold. Holy dooley. Whoo. 284 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:14,200 That's awesome, man. (LAUGHTER) That's wicked, eh? 285 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:17,080 Basically, all we want to do is push this whole section out 286 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,520 down to that quartz vein and really have a good look at it. We'll do a three bucket wide cut... 287 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,480 About 25 metres long. Yeah, sounds good. 288 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,560 You'll do it ten times quicker, that's going to help us out heaps. 289 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,720 So, we'll get these bikes out of the way. Let's get into it. 290 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,600 I was packing up to head back to Vic, the machine was free, 291 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,120 so I offered myself a couple of days work for him. 292 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,400 Our goal this week is really to get to the end 293 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,240 of that quartz vein and prove it up. 294 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:44,640 If Mark can clear it and get us right down, and we can do a lot of tests. 295 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,080 What I'm gonna be doing is pushing the dirt aside. 296 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,320 It's like removing our slices of toast or Kraft cheese off the packet. 297 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,920 It can push about 40 tonnes. So, yeah, she moves a lot of ground. 298 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,120 The 30 tonne loader weighs as much as 15 standard cars. 299 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,560 And with a 14.7 litre turbo diesel engine, 300 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,080 its pushing power can strip two metres 301 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:08,960 from a 250-square metre area in just a few hours. 302 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,720 We almost finished this side of the half. 303 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,640 So, get Chris over here with his detector 304 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,480 and he can have a bit of a wander. 305 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,840 We've found some very good pieces on top, and hopefully, 306 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,040 from the top down to the vein which is probably two metres, 307 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,640 we should be able to find a few more nuggets. 308 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:28,760 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) 309 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:30,520 There's a signal. 310 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,000 I think we're down to where it should start happening, 311 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,400 and this is a definite signal, so... 312 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,840 I mean, where I'd say we're halfway to the roof, 313 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,160 and, you know, if you start finding bits and pieces here, 314 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:44,960 I don't care how big they are, 315 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,560 it's a good sign that it's shedding off that reef. 316 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,360 But, erm, we'll soon find out. 317 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,960 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) It's there. 318 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,040 It's a definite target. 319 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,480 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) Here we go. 320 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,920 All right. Here we go. 321 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:17,840 What a little nuggie. 322 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,960 That's a good couple of grammes. 323 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,680 Nice and sparky. 324 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,640 That's what we want. It's our first one off the reef. 325 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,560 Hopefully, we're going to find a lot more of these. 326 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,680 So, we've gone full-time this year because we put so much money into this operation, 327 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,400 we need to get it back. 328 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,560 We need to make this property pay off, 329 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,240 otherwise we got to pack up shop, sell off, and go back to Perth. 330 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:45,560 Is it a nugget? 331 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,240 Oh, yeah, it is. 332 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,000 That's another little fella. 333 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,040 It's a bit lighter than the last one, but it's still a nugget. 334 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,240 And that's number two on this patch. 335 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,720 It's probably just over a gram on it, that one, 336 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:58,440 so it's a bit smaller. 337 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,440 That's awesome whilst we're finding them. 338 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,480 And the other one was just up there, so, 339 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,920 almost dead in line with that, er, quartz line. 340 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,000 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) (CHUCKLES) There's another one in there. 341 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,040 That sounds bigger, too. 342 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,280 Oh, yeah, she's in the scoop now. 343 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:20,960 Well, this will be nice if it's two. 344 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,280 Oh, yeah, here she comes. 345 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:26,680 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) Whoa! That's a big bear. 346 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,920 Ugly-looking nuggets, but probably two, two and a half grammes, 347 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,760 maybe even three. Wow. 348 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:33,600 If this is a sign of things to come, 349 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:35,960 I think we're in for ounces, not grammes. 350 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,920 JACQUI: Yeah, seeing that guy in here earlier today, 351 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,560 really... I don't know, it got me a little bit worried 352 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:47,840 cos he's definitely not supposed to be in here. 353 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,880 I just got a really weird feeling off him. 354 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,720 Jacqui and Andrew have exclusive permission 355 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,320 to hunt gold on Palmerville Station in far north Queensland. 356 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,960 But an encounter with a potential poacher 357 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,320 has the duo on high alert. 358 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,680 ANDREW: So this is basically our last day before the mustering begins. 359 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,240 We haven't got time to be muffing around 360 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,400 or chasing up rangers or anything right now. 361 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,680 We've just got to concentrate on getting this gold out of the ground. 362 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:14,920 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) Huh, finally. 363 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,920 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) 364 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:21,920 Oh, yeah. 365 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,640 It's a little nail, and it was causing a hell of a racket. 366 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,840 We underestimated our expenses for the trip, 367 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:33,000 so, if we don't really achieve that higher target, 368 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,360 we're probably gonna have a bit of issues 369 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,480 pushing forward in the rest of the season, 370 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,960 but we're gonna push ourselves and, yeah, see if we can get there. 371 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,680 Jacqui and Andrew have doubled 372 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,680 their original season target to 30 ounces, 373 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,720 and need to make the most of their final hours in Palmer River. 374 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,080 Perseverance is definitely key when looking for gold. 375 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:58,040 I know that Kitty Pluto definitely wouldn't have found a gold field 376 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:00,640 if she wasn't pushing on and working hard. 377 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,640 Yeah, back in 1915, in the gold rush days, 378 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,600 a female prospector called Kitty Pluto 379 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,040 discovered a gold field in Queensland on the Wenlock River. 380 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:15,640 She found this 95-ounce nugget, like, it's seriously insane. 381 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:20,400 Kitty's Nugget would be worth a quarter of a million Australian dollars 382 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,440 in today's money. 383 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,040 I would love to put my name on something like that one day. 384 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:28,720 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) 385 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:31,720 All right. Come on. 386 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,840 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) 387 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,400 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 388 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,720 Oh, look at that. 389 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,840 All right. That's a nice, chunky little nug, too. 390 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,640 That's got some weight. You got a copy, Jacq? 391 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,080 Yeah, mate. Yeah, I just got a nice little nug. 392 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,040 Probably two or three grammes, something like that. Awesome. 393 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:55,880 Whereabouts are you? I am on that little ridge, heading west from the vehicle. 394 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,480 I might come down there cos I'm not getting anything over here. 395 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,840 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) 396 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,320 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZES) 397 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,680 It's always good when they stay in the scoop. 398 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,720 (SIGHS) Ooh. 399 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,640 Perfect. 400 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,080 How'd you go? This is the spot. 401 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,680 Hey, that's a nice one. I got an all right one, too. 402 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,960 Wicked. Yeah, that's a good nug. 403 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,240 Exactly what we needed. Absolutely. (VEHICLE APPROACHING) 404 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,040 Oi, it's that car again. 405 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,000 He's stopping. It's the last thing we need when we just found gold. 406 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,920 I'm putting this away. Yeah, do that. 407 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,000 You hear stories about prospectors being robbed out here, 408 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,320 even being killed. 409 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,240 No. Great. Now he's getting out. 410 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:55,920 Oh, for God's sake. 411 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,680 You just can never be too careful 412 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,920 cos sometimes things can go really bad. 413 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,440 Hey, boys, we got someone up behind me. 414 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,480 Since it's, er, not the best... 415 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,840 but then a lot of people down this way. 416 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,800 Er, let's pull up, we're letting them pass. Roger. 417 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,560 In western Australia, 418 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,960 Marcus, Linden, and Dale, have heard on social media 419 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,920 about a 1000-ounce nugget find near Widgiemooltha. 420 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,240 He's slowing down. All right, there. Hold on. 421 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,480 I know that car. Oh, my! Hey! Hey! 422 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,240 Hey! Hey, it's Trotty. 423 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,040 Hey! How are you going? Marcus. 424 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:36,120 Hey, bro. Marcus. What are you doing here? 425 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,320 Hey, good to see you, bro. What's happenin'? 426 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,720 Hey, young Trotty, good to see you. (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 427 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,120 We'd heard a rumour that a big one's been out here. 428 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,240 Oh, I heard the same thing about a rumour. 429 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,480 Big 1,000-ounce nugget, I heard. Three times on the radio. This is where it's been found. 430 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,520 All right. Might as well tag along with us. 431 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,600 Might as well, eh? Yeah, four on the ground, even better chances. 432 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,400 Let's get down, eh? I've known Trotty for years. Yeah, we used to work together. 433 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,280 We go prospecting every now and then when he's in town. 434 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,960 Let's get stuck into it. Let's get into it. 435 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,040 Let's all spread out, check in an hour. Yeah. 436 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:11,880 (INDISTINCT) LINDEN: No worries, let's go. 437 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,920 The biggest nugget I found was a 10.7 ounce nugget, 438 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,440 on a pending lease out towards, erm, Broad arrow. 439 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:23,080 Yeah, now, when I hit mud and I thought that it was rubbish until I held it in my hand, 440 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,600 but the machine just went off, eh. 441 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,040 I'm originally from Kalgoorlie, I've moved to Perth, 442 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:32,000 about 30-40 years ago... 443 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,720 but always come back. 444 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,640 Oh, mate, I love it, eh. More open spaces. 445 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,040 A lot quieter. Back out in the nature again. 446 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,080 DALE: We've got a lot at risk if we don't make target. 447 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,560 With the running cost of the machinery, 448 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,440 with the fuel and servicing that has to be done... (SIGHS) Rubbish. 449 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,600 ..you know, if you're not finding that gold, 450 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,800 we basically could be out of pocket at the end of the season. 451 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:01,480 With the season half over, and a gold tally of only two ounces, 452 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,760 the trio are way off their 20-ounce target. 453 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,640 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 454 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,920 Oh, there it is. A nice little flat one. 455 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,720 I reckon it's about 0.5 a gramme or just under. 456 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,960 That's a good sign. One for the jar. 457 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,320 All you men, you got a copy? 458 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,000 Yeah, go on, boy. 459 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,160 Yeah, man, I've got a bit of a sound here. 460 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:25,840 I've dug down a bit, 461 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,800 but the sound's getting bigger the deeper I go. Oh. 462 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,040 I'll head over there right now. All right, see you when you get here. 463 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:34,760 Now we're in big gold country. I've dug a hole. 464 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,320 I've gone around the edges, still nothing's here. 465 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,280 Check this out here, eh? (SIGHS) 466 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:42,960 I've dug down that far, still nothing on the sides, but listen to this. 467 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,400 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) 468 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,760 (BOTH LAUGHING) 469 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,680 Oh, man. Get it out. Get it out. Move, move, move. 470 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,280 I'm gonna call those other two, what do you reckon? Yeah, get them over here. 471 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:56,120 Dale, Daryl, you got a copy? 472 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,880 Yeah, receiving. What's up? 473 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,680 Yeah, we got a pretty big target here. 474 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,760 We've been digging quite a fair bit. Yeah, we'll head up there. 475 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,960 Tell them to hurry up. This could be the big one. 476 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:08,250 2 00:24:09.080 -- 00:24:11.760 align:middle line:90% position:50% MARK: Hey, Chris, Brad, come in, let's have a quick chat. 477 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:16,280 Just a bit concerned about the amount of clouds in the bottom of this floor. 478 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:19,840 Yeah, we seemed to have a bit of a holdup at the moment 479 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,880 with why the machine's not pushing as well as what we were hoping. 480 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,760 The bucket itself tends to want to skid across the clay rather than bite in. 481 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,880 Fingers crossed, we haven't got 6ft of it, 482 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,880 but the machine's working pretty hard. 483 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,920 At the Devil's Cut lease in Western Australia, 484 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,280 the gold retrievers have enlisted fellow prospector Mark, 485 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:41,560 and his 30 tonne loader, to dig down to a quartz vein 486 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,320 that may hold rich quantities of gold. 487 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,200 Mark's heading off this afternoon, 488 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,200 he's going back to see his family in Vic. 489 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,520 Yeah, we really need him to get down to the level we need to be at. 490 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,560 So, he's only got a couple of hours to go. It's a bit stressful. 491 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,920 Er, we got to get in to put a bit of a costean 492 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,840 in the bottom of the floor of the haul. 493 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,080 It's got to be a lot quicker to have a look at the depths of the clay, 494 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,000 rather than trying to open up a three metre or nine metre cut with the loader. 495 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,000 Mark's got to head off, so we've only got the use of his loader for today, 496 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,440 so if we don't get this done, then we are gonna be in a bit of trouble. 497 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,720 Yeah, that's levelling out there, mate. That's good. 498 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,520 Yeah, that doesn't seem too bad, eh. 499 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,360 So obviously, there's another...what? 500 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,920 What do you reckon it'll be? A foot and a half of clay. 501 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,160 Yeah, we should be able to get down to that. 502 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,960 Should breach it by about 3:00 today, I hope. 503 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:36,640 I'm actually heading home, 504 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,960 er, to see the family, haven't seen 'em for ten weeks. 505 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,680 So, yeah, let's get digging. 506 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,560 It's hard being away from family. 507 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,800 You know, we're out here doing something 508 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,360 to try and shore up the future for us as well, 509 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,520 so there's a reason we're here. 510 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,360 This is my investment, I'm doing this for the family. 511 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,760 Brad is digging another costean 512 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,600 to see if the fault line continues through their lease. 513 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,560 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) 514 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,800 Oh. That's a good signal. 515 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,480 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING RAPIDLY) That's a really good signal now, eh. 516 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,600 That's right where that quartz is, too. 517 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,560 That's exactly where that quartz vein's running. 518 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,560 So, I'll chip that out of the wall, we'll have a look. 519 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,320 It's right over here where this quartz is. 520 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,520 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 521 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,640 That signal's gone, so I've dropped it somewhere. 522 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,400 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Oh. That's huge. 523 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,400 That's a big signal. 524 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,240 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Ooh. 525 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,320 That's in the scoop. That's a massive signal. 526 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,760 Oh. (LAUGHS) Yes! 527 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,680 Whoo! Oh, that's unbelievable. 528 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,440 Mate, that's gotta be... Man, that's probably an ounce. 529 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,120 That's like a week's wages there. That's, erm... 530 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,520 I'm speechless. I'm shaking. I'm over the moon with that, so. 531 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,440 Hey, Chris, got a copy? Yeah, go ahead. 532 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,560 Hey, mate, get over here, man. I've got something to show you. 533 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,360 Hope you didn't make me run for nothing. Check this out. 534 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,840 Holy dooley! Man, that's a monster. 535 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,600 It was right in that wall where that quartz is coming down. 536 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,720 Wow. That's unreal, isn't it? 537 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,280 I reckon that's good. What have you got? I've got something to show you, pal. 538 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:32,840 Here comes, son. Eat your heart out. Boy, you're kidding me. 539 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,760 Out of where, where you push it? Yeah. (LAUGHING) 540 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,080 (LAUGHING) 541 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,680 Holy crap! That's all in the space of about ten metres. 542 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,160 You're kidding me. No. (BOTH LAUGHING) 543 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,040 Mate, that is awesome. On the money. 544 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:50,640 That is so good. Fistfuls of gold. 545 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,760 I've never seen anything like it. And let's hope it continues, 546 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,920 because we definitely need it. 547 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,120 Er, I just want to make it rain gold. 548 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,080 Woo-hoo! Yeah, boy! 549 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,160 (MAN SPEAKING) 550 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,480 ANDREW: No, mate. Just junk here, eh. 551 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,560 In far north Queensland, 552 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,720 a potential poacher has turned up on gold ground 553 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,600 that only Jacqui and Andrew have access to explore. 554 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,840 I think it's about time you moved on, mate. 555 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,120 (MAN SPEAKING) 556 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,160 Yeah, I'm gonna give the Rangers a call, see what they reckon. 557 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,840 I'll send them your way. 558 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,360 We're not leaving here until we get this gold out of the ground either. 559 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,800 He's creeping me out big time. 560 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,600 We'll just stick together, er, keep the gold on us, 561 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,080 keep the car locked. There's not much else we can do. 562 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,360 I think he must have been listening to our radio conversation as well, 563 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,400 cos he knew we were pretty excited about what we're doing. 564 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:54,080 (DETECTOR STATIC) We're already under the pump because the muster is starting soon. 565 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,600 But now this just adds a whole new level of pressure 566 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,440 to get this gold out of the ground as soon as possible. 567 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,120 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 568 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,280 Here it is. Here's another little nugget, too. 569 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,480 Excellent. 570 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,480 It's probably around 20 bucks worth of gold, but we're on a patch. 571 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,520 This is fantastic, great for our report. 572 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,840 In their new role as lease explorers, 573 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,920 Andrew and Jacqui are reporting the GPS marks of any gold found 574 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,440 to the Palmerville Station owners. 575 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,360 It's gonna look great for us. Plus, it's going to put some gold in our pockets. 576 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,400 This is undetected ground, and there's gold all through it. 577 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,960 I mean, this is every prospector's dream. 578 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,960 Yes! Another one. 579 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,840 Whew. 580 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,800 Andy, got another one! 581 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,440 Going to need a bigger bottle, mate. Listen to this. 582 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:54,160 (EXCLAIMS) Yes! You reckon that's good? Have a listen to this. 583 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,000 (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) Here's one. Here's one. 584 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,720 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) Here's one. Hold on. Oh, my God. 585 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,280 They are all through it. Mate, give me your kick, let's get these out. 586 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,920 Yeah, pretty exciting run to a hell of a patch here. 587 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,240 There's just gold coming off this little ridge, left, right and centre. 588 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,320 Hey, have a listen. (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 589 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,440 That sounds like a good target. 590 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,360 Get into it. Get it out. (LAUGHS) 591 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,440 That's a good sign getting that deep. 592 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,080 This could be a good nugget, this one. (SIGHS) 593 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,560 (PANTING) 594 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,200 (BOTH CHUCKLE) 595 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,680 She's there. Awesome. 596 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,440 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) Listen to it. It's screaming its head off. 597 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,120 (LAUGHING) Oh, yeah, look at that one. Yes! 598 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,640 Nice work, mate. Yes! That's a ripper. Whoo! 599 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,920 Yes! That's a good nugget. Yes! 600 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,840 Feel the weight of that. 601 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,360 Yeah. That's a good 20 grammes or so, I reckon. Yes! 602 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,880 That's the biggest nugget of the pack, for sure. Whoo! 603 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,000 Mate, that's the biggest nugget of my trip, by the looks of it. 604 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:02,160 Yeah. Nice work, mate. (LAUGHING) What a top off to a good patch. 605 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,360 Oh, that's gorgeous, isn't it? 606 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,680 It's a $1,600 nugget, 607 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,520 adding to an already rich haul of gold. 608 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,680 Look at that jar! Hey. My God, you're on fire. 609 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,160 This is the best. It's so good. (LAUGHS) 610 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,360 This has been a hell of a patch, isn't it? 611 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,600 Every prospector dreams of this sort of thing, 612 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,080 and we're right in the middle of it. 613 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,280 Despite everything that went on with this bloke stalking us on this patch, 614 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,320 it's just been our biggest haul yet. 615 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,200 It's absolutely incredible. 616 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,840 But with this guy hanging around, it's a lot of added pressure 617 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,840 to get all this gold out of the ground. 618 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,720 I think we're just gonna have to push on into the night, get the head torches out, 619 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,640 cos I'll be damned if he's coming in here and taking it. 620 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,760 If need be, get out at first light tomorrow morning and start again. 621 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,520 Andy, got another one. 622 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,440 Nearly 3,000km west on the other side of Australia... 623 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,120 Listen to that. (METAL DETECTOR BUZZING) That's a big one. 624 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,880 Your heart starts racing thinking maybe we hit something. 625 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,760 It's like it's just straight underneath. 626 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,120 These thoughts running through your mind, thinking, 627 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,360 "What am I gonna do if it is?" 628 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:19,120 ..a deep target has Marcus, Linden, Dale and prospecting mate, Trott, 629 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,720 hoping they've found a massive nugget. 630 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,640 TROTTY: More digging. Oh, listen in. Hey! DALE: Oh, listen to that. 631 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,920 LINDEN: If I found a 1000 ounce nugget, I'd support my family. 632 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,680 And not only family you could look after, but definitely your community. 633 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,840 That would be something right in my heart. 634 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,240 Another check, dig her a little out, scrape her out. 635 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:39,920 Whew. 636 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,000 MARCUS: She's there. And she's there. Yeah. 637 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,040 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Yeah, she's there. DALE: Move your picks. 638 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,400 There you go. Just in... Over here. 639 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,080 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 640 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,880 Ah, I found it. Be careful. 641 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,040 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Whoa! (ALL EXCLAIM) 642 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,960 Can you feel the weight? 643 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,000 (EXHALES) 644 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,080 Aw, man! You're kidding me. Aw! 645 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,880 Serious? 646 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,120 Ends up being an old bolt. 647 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,280 TROTTY: All I know, it was a good, big target. Big noise, eh. 648 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,720 Yeah, just a pity it wasn't gold. 649 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,600 Come on, mate. You've done well. That's just something 650 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,960 you just got to roll with in the prospecting game. 651 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,000 You know, you've got to pick yourself up, 652 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,320 dust the crap off, and keep going again. 653 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,600 (DETECTOR STATIC) Ooh. Yeah, that's a target. That's a target. 654 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,720 This could be gold, man. Right in the middle of all this quartz. 655 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,480 Oh. 656 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,160 It's in my hand. 657 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,480 Well, it could be in... 658 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,440 Look at that! It's in the quartz. 659 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,280 Specie, old specimen. 660 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,000 Gold caught up in the quartz. 661 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,040 Oh, that will probably be a little 0.5 of a gramme. 662 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,360 A good indication gold's around. TROTTY: Hey, Marcus. 663 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,480 Listen, I've got to go back into town, eh. 664 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,280 Yeah? Yeah. Safe trip back. 665 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:13,040 Push on, brother. Yeah. Keep it low. Look after yourself. Yep. I will. See you. All right. 666 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,440 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) Definitely got it this time. 667 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,520 And there she is. 668 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,120 Maybe just under half a gramme. 30, 40 bucks. 669 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:29,520 It's not the monster nugget, but, you know, it adds to the tally. 670 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,480 But $40 nuggets aren't going to get the trio 671 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,480 much closer to their 20-ounce season target. 672 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,600 LINDEN: We are at a critical point, 673 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,960 if we don't find gold, then, you know, 674 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,640 what's the use of being out here? 675 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:46,040 We're gonna have to really question whether or not we're gonna continue. 676 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:48,250 2 00:34:50.000 -- 00:34:53.760 align:middle line:90% position:50% CHRIS: If there's a lot of gold in this quartz, what are your thoughts on, er, 677 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,680 this turning into a hard rock operation, mate? 678 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,400 Mate, we are so far behind the 8-ball still, 679 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,080 we're chasing nuggets, man. 680 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,400 That's all I'm concerning at the moment. 681 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,760 The gold retrievers have hit a rich patch of nuggets 682 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,680 along the quartz vein on their Devil's Cut lease. 683 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,800 The gold that's bound up in this quartz, 684 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,360 we're starting to find some good signs in there, 685 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,840 and it might be worth kilos instead of ounces, mate. 686 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,320 Hard rock mining, man, there's huge amounts of money involved in that. 687 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,240 You've got to get all the equipment, you got to process it, 688 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,760 the whole lot matters. It's a huge operation. 689 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,520 Hard rock mining involves crushing the quartz down 690 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,400 to material small enough 691 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,840 to process through wet plant machinery 692 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,240 to extract the fine gold embedded in it. 693 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,040 It'd be nice to be able to afford to do something like that. 694 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,640 We just can't, mate. We put so much money into this, 695 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:44,600 erm, and we've got no return so far, 696 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,400 only just starting to get returns now. 697 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,720 If you can't afford to do it, you can't afford to do it, simple as that. 698 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,600 Chris is a bit of a dreamer, he likes to look into the future 699 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,560 and think that everything will be perfect. I'm more of a realist. 700 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,840 If you start over capitalising, you're gonna go backwards very quickly, and you'll go broke. 701 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:01,680 And it's not just me that it affects, 702 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,120 it affects the whole family and my kids' futures. 703 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:05,920 I understand where he's coming from. 704 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,160 It's a lot of expenditure to take away from the families. 705 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:14,880 You know, we still got bills to pay, but I'm more of an optimist. 706 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,520 You know, I can see the pie in the sky, 707 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,880 Here's Marco. I reckon we're done, mate. 708 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,680 That's about level, innit? Yeah. That's where we want to go. 709 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,840 That's two weeks work for us. Yeah, exactly. 710 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,600 Hey, buddy, thank you very much for your time. 711 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,520 And, er, we'll catch you next time, eh. 712 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,560 I'm happy you're happy. If you got the ground exposed as you want, 713 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,320 erm, I'm done. 714 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,200 We'll probably have to do a little bit more digging ourselves, 715 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,360 but it's easy digging now, 716 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,560 and we'll go down and see if we can chase this quartz vein. 717 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,600 What we're gonna do is take out some samples, 718 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,280 do a bit of testing and see if there's any gold in it. 719 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,360 Crush a bit of this stuff up. 720 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,000 The quartz vein that we found, we're hoping for ten grammes per tonne. 721 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,000 To process the thousands of tonnes of potential gold-rich quartz, 722 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,480 Brad and Chris will have to pay for the crushing and extraction 723 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,680 to be done at a processing plant. 724 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,720 CHRIS: We need to make at least six to eight grammes per tonne, 725 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,400 to make it viable for us. 726 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,560 So I haven't dollied it up enough to get through the crusher. 727 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,960 The expenses of processing is gonna cost us, 728 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,720 maybe four-five grammes per tonne. 729 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,000 What we want to do is we want to crush the ore. 730 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,440 So, a lot of these rocks are too big to get in the crusher, 731 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,840 so I'm gonna dolly pot them up, which is, er, just a big smashing hammer. 732 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,840 I'm gonna break 'em up small enough to get 'em into the crusher, 733 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,160 which will crush them down to, like, talcum powder. (CRUSHER GRINDING) 734 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,920 We're doing approximately ten kilos of crushing. 735 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,360 If we find gold in there, 736 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,560 we're hoping two times that by 100, 737 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,640 to see how many grammes per tonne. 738 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:51,680 And if it comes out at over ten grammes per tonne, 739 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,360 that would be amazing. 740 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:58,720 When you're putting 100,000 tonnes of ore in to be processed, 741 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,600 you know, there's possibly millions of dollars. 742 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,280 So this is 10 kilos, is it? It is. All right. 743 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,440 I can see it already. You can see it already. That look pretty good. 744 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,680 Yeah. Oh, yeah. 745 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,520 That's sensational. That's amazing, man. 746 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,200 Look at that for a tail. Yeah. I honestly didn't believe that we're gonna get 747 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,040 that much gold there. That's incredible. That's at ten kilo. 748 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,280 We did ten kilo. Yeah. And at down to this, 749 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,360 and, I reckon we're over 0.1 of a gramme. 750 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,520 So, times that by 100, there's well over ten grammes. 751 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,640 Yeah, unbelievable. I really didn't... 752 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:35,040 That's just blowing me away. Sensational. 753 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,080 JACQUI: Let's do this. ANDREW: Yeah. Last weigh in on the Palmer. 754 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,160 It's gonna be a good one. By the feels of this jar. It's full. 755 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:44,160 Jacqui and Andrew's final days 756 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:46,560 on the legendary Palmer River Gold Fields 757 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,360 have seen them uncover a bumper patch of gold 758 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,480 that could get them to their new 30-ounce target. 759 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,680 Yep, chuck her on. 760 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,920 I've been waiting for this. Look at that haul. 761 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,920 That's over seven. Holy crap. 762 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,960 9.79 ounces of gold. 763 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,280 This is gonna take us over ten, mate... Yeah, that's wicked. ..for sure. 764 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:11,440 10.5. Whoo! BOTH: Ten and a half ounces. (LAUGHING) 765 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,400 Look at that. That's crazy, mate. 766 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,120 That's like 25 grands worth of gold sitting there. 767 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,680 Andy, this is seriously the best gold season, ever. I know. 768 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,560 Halfway through their season, 769 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,440 and the duo have tallied $60,000, 770 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:29,520 leaving them only six ounces short of their new 30-ounce target. 771 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,160 Can't stop looking at it now. That's just awesome. 772 00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:34,320 Me, too. I'm just smiling looking at it. 773 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,640 Far out, I'm gonna miss this place so much. Yeah, so am I. 774 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,080 The river of gold has been good to us. So good. 775 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,280 Put that report together and send it off. 776 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,520 And hopefully, we get an invite again next year. 777 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,920 I hope so. Yeah, me too. Fingers and toes crossed. This is unreal. 778 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:53,280 I'm actually really sad our time here at Palmerville has come to an end. 779 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,080 It's really surprised me. 780 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,840 This place has definitely taken a piece of my heart 781 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,440 that I probably won't be taking home with me. 782 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,680 It's a very special place. 783 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,640 Whoa. Hey, man. 784 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,480 Now that rumour, eh? Looking for a 1000-ounce nugget, 785 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,560 and what? Nothing. Yeah. (LAUGHS) 786 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,400 Serves us right coming out here. 787 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,840 Well, we tried. It's all we can do. 788 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,840 Dale, Marcus and Linden gambled and lost 789 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,640 on finding big nuggets in a desperate bid 790 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:25,920 to boost their lagging gold tally. 791 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,320 Chuck it on the old boy, see if we start pushing a few numbers on there. 792 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:33,600 I'm just gonna chuck these little nuggets in first. BOTH: "0.03." 793 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,960 That's about 0.9 of a gramme. Mm-hm. Yeah. 794 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,040 And what about those pessies? 795 00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:43,800 "0.046." 796 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,760 About a gramme of gold in the quartz alone. 797 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,880 So that would take it to 1.9 altogether, on a gramme. 798 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,000 Yeah, 1.9 grammes, all up. Yeah. 799 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,040 It's a mere $150 to their tally, 800 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:59,320 leaving the trio 17.5 ounces from their season target, 801 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,000 and further in the red. 802 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,840 We've just fallen short of two grammes of gold. 803 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,240 If we were to put that into dollars and cents, 804 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,560 that's just covering fuel... 805 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,440 for one of the vehicles, not even food. 806 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,320 Next week, we'll have that loader back. 807 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,240 We'll be back on our lease. 808 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,120 We need to start pushing pads again. 809 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,040 We just really need to get on some good gold ground. Yeah. 810 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,560 Let's get it stuck into it. All right, let's go. 811 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,240 Let's go. 812 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,200 (LAUGHS) 813 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,920 Whoo-hoo. 814 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,720 Happy days. Yeah, boy. 815 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,800 Gold retrievers Brad and Chris 816 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,440 are not even halfway to their target of 30 ounces. 817 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,840 They need the nuggets they found this week 818 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,000 to get them on track for the second half of the season. 819 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,360 Let's have a weigh-out, man. I'm excited. (LAUGHS) 820 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,440 This is gonna be awesome. You first, buddy. 821 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,520 All right. The big boy. 822 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,000 Whoo-hoo. Over an ounce, that's all right. (LAUGHS) 823 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,040 Yeah, boy. And that's only one. 824 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,200 All right. Are you ready? Yeah. 825 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,080 (CHUCKLES) Yeah, boy! 826 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,800 Eh? Eh? (LAUGHS) Eh. What do you got? 827 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,280 Yeah. (LAUGHS) Woo-hoo! 828 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:22,960 Yeah, boy! 829 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,520 Eleven ounces. Mate! That is awesome. That is unbelievable. 830 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:31,160 In one week, Brad and Chris have banked nearly $28,000, 831 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:33,080 and almost double their tally, 832 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,760 putting them in sight of their season target. 833 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,080 And I mean, we've still got so much more to go. 834 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,040 Who knows how much more is in there. 835 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,440 I really want to pump some money back into looking after my family, 836 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,160 and have something for the future for them. 837 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:50,600 I'm gonna get a haircut, a convertible, and... (WHISTLES) 838 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,880 Oh, love and light. (LAUGHS) 839 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,120 It's going to be nice to ring the wife and kids 840 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,120 and let them know what we found this week. 841 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,720 It's been a long time coming, and it's been a lot of hard work to get there. 842 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,960 So, yeah, I'm looking forward to let them know 843 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,880 that we're starting to pay some bills. 844 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,640 Oi, let's go and have a beer, mate. Yeah. Woo-hoo-hoo. 845 00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:09,520 Let's do it, man. Awesome, Brad. 846 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,240 Yeah, baby! 847 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,120 Subtitles by Deluxe