1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 NARRATOR: This time on Aussie Gold Hunters... 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,280 They busted the locks off, mate. 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:07,720 ..a break-in at the gold retrievers' camp... 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,440 Generator's gone. And my power tools? Hurry up. 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,240 ..heaps more pressure on Brad and Chris' strange partnership. 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,240 We're partners. You shouldn't be doing this crap. This is the future. 7 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,160 I'm not interested in signing over to a mining lease, Chris. 8 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:22,160 I'm over it, mate. 9 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:23,920 Halfway through their season, 10 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,440 Marcus and Linden finally hit a rich patch of nuggets... 11 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,640 (CHEERING AND LAUGHING) 12 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,360 ..until a bombshell drops that could end their operation. 13 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,280 We're gonna have to take the loader back. 14 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,000 Looks like this is all over, man. 15 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,640 Mate! The Gold Timers' operation steps up again... 16 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,840 Good to have you here. ..with the help of Rob's grandfather, Roy, 17 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:46,840 and a borrowed dry blower... 18 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,760 (LAUGHS) Oh, my God. We have got fines. 19 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,320 Roy! ..before the extreme heat takes its toll. 20 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,200 Pop! Pop! What's the matter, Pop? 21 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,560 It looks like, on the camera, they had a pod on the back, 22 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,240 so I'm hoping they didn't get to that fuel. 23 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:13,680 BRAD: This is the problem with being so remote. 24 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,200 There's nothing we can do about it. That's the frustrating part. 25 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,480 Brad McGhie and business partner, Chris Smith, 26 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,360 have raced over 500 km east 27 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,080 from their home city of Perth to their Devil's Cut lease... 28 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,800 after their security camera app was triggered by intruders. 29 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,920 You reckon that was that same youth? I don't know. 30 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,280 It's hard to tell. It's almost like it's someone 31 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,480 that knows that we weren't here. This is happening so often here. 32 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,720 At the start of the season, Brad and Chris chased off thieves 33 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,440 who were trying to steal their generator. 34 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,480 Oy! Stop! Block him in, Chris. He's getting away, mate! Hurry up! 35 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,560 Oy! Stop! 36 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,480 Get him, Chris! Chase him! Go! Go, go! 37 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,200 But this time they were at home hundreds of kilometres away. 38 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,680 It's a six-and-a-half-hour drive to get up here. 39 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:05,560 We can't afford to lose anything else, 40 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,800 so we had no choice but to jump in the cars, head on straight up. 41 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,120 And now we're pulling up. 42 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,280 Holy (BLEEP). The doors are open. 43 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:25,360 Everything's open, mate. 44 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,520 They busted the locks off, mate. They've been in the donga. 45 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,000 Oh, my God. I'm over this. I am really over it. 46 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:34,960 They've trashed it, mate. 47 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,160 Mate, they're in the container, too, eh? 48 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,400 Ah, this is crap. All the fuel's gone. 49 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,480 How much fuel did we have? We filled that just before we left. 50 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,960 Ah, you (BLEEP) kidding me. 51 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,840 Inverter's gone. That's a brand-new inverter. 52 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:51,520 And the chainsaw. 53 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,320 This pisses me off, eh. 54 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,440 Well, they cut this lock, too, mate. 55 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,440 Generator's gone. 56 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,080 And my power tools? Thousand bucks with the power tools. 57 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,440 You kidding me. 1,500 bucks with the genny. 58 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:08,880 All right, man. This is heartbreaking. 59 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:10,960 We sort of just started getting in front. 60 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,680 The worst thing is watching them on camera, there's nothing you can do about it. 61 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,160 This is so depressing, mate. 62 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,400 Pointless locking (BLEEP) around here. 63 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,200 Brad and Chris have had more than $5,000 64 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,800 of critical equipment and fuel stolen. 65 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,960 We can't just sit around. We're here now. We need to do something. 66 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,160 So I suggest that we start digging in the pit. 67 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,400 Well, you know my thoughts, Brad. What's that? 68 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,720 I wanna keep chasing that vein. I know it's gonna pop up somewhere. 69 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,160 Mate, I'm sick of hearing about that vein, man. 70 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,800 We're not set up for that sort of mining, Chris. Right. 71 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,560 We're set up for alluvial, man. 72 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,920 That is a whole different ball game. We don't have the gear for that. 73 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,240 Holy dooley. At their last weighing... That's a monster. 74 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,760 ..Brad and Chris almost doubled their tally 75 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,680 with a huge 11oz haul of nuggets 76 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,800 they believe had shed from quartz veins 77 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,480 running through their lease. 78 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:08,120 To find that much gold with a detector, we've been very lucky. 79 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,680 I think there's a lot more embedded in that rock that we can't get to. 80 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:14,400 Meet me halfway. 81 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,880 Continue on the pit, you can lay it out. All right. 82 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,360 I'm gonna keep searching for that vein. 83 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,360 As long as we're in that pit, I'll dig out a certain direction. 84 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,960 If you wanna find that vein, but we're laying that out. 85 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,800 We need to find gold. That's where the money is right now. 86 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,160 We've invested a lot of money 87 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,280 into getting equipment chasing alluvial gold. 88 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,840 To change now to hard rock mining is a massive venture. 89 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,200 Alluvial gold erodes from rock to form nuggets and fine gold 90 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:48,040 that spreads out over millions of years, 91 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,560 while hard rock mining recovers concentrated gold 92 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,000 still encased in rock usually deeper underground. 93 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,600 It's just a completely different way of mining. 94 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,960 We're not set up for it. It'd cost more money. 95 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,520 It's a huge risk. I'm not willing to take that risk. 96 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,880 The equipment they need to crush, mill and process the quartz 97 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,920 would greatly increase the size and cost of their operation. 98 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,640 We would firstly have to change from a prospecting lease to a mining lease. 99 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,120 That would be a minimum of $10,000. 100 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,920 We need to spend $25,000 per year on expenditure, 101 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,240 and then at least $120,000 to spend on retainer. 102 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,640 I really wanna step it up, 103 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,160 but Brad seems to be really pushing back. 104 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,200 We've been at it for two years now and it's just starting to pay some money back now, 105 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:39,520 so I can't afford to keep going. 106 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,840 If we don't keep finding gold, then you're gonna get broke. 107 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,880 ROB: Plenty of soil movement, we don't want to damage this thing. 108 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:49,680 Yeah, we ought to steady, steady, man. 109 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,800 Just keep an eye on the back for us. 110 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,360 I wouldn't have cared if we pushed it by hand. 111 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,840 If that's what it takes to get it there in one piece, 112 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,800 I'll just keep an eye on things from the back. 113 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,280 160km north of Kalgoorlie, 114 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,080 Gold Timers, Rob Dale and Rob "Turbo" Linton, 115 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:12,520 are moving to another section of their 320 hectare Kookynie lease. 116 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,200 We've tracked over to another spot 117 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:16,960 that we've done some work in the past. 118 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,800 We've had some piles pushed out, ready to go. 119 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,120 Erm, yeah. We're hoping we'll get some good gold out of this spot. 120 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,480 Last week, they did a deal with their neighbour, Nathan, 121 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,320 to use his dry blower. 122 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,000 Twenty five percent. All right. 123 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,200 I'm happy with that. Yeah. One condition, boys, 124 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:33,880 you break it, you own it. 125 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,560 Yeah, OK. You owe me 40 grand. 126 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,960 It delivered their biggest tally of the season so far. 127 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,760 Oh, four ounces. That's pretty good, boys. 128 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:45,640 We don't have the machine that long. 129 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,280 We need to be on top of things for all of us in the deal 130 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:49,960 to make as much money as possible. 131 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,480 In just a few weeks, extreme outback heat 132 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,000 will bring an end to the Gold Timers' season. 133 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,360 And they're just 41% of the way to their target. 134 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,400 Yeah, right there. That looks nice and level. 135 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,280 They need this move to another area with stock piles of dirt 136 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,640 to finally deliver a bumper payday. 137 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,280 (SIGHS) It's here. Made it here in one piece. 138 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:13,960 Let's unstrap this thing in. Yeah. 139 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:15,640 Get into it. 140 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:21,000 It's a big dry blower that can process up to 35 tonne an hour. 141 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,360 It's got conveyors on the hopper, conveyors at the tailings. 142 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,520 This helps us just focus on feeding this machine. 143 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,720 Can you pull that up? Cheers, mate. OK. 144 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,120 And in turn, putting big tonnes in means big gold returns. 145 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,000 We're all set up, we're ready to go now. 146 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,320 We've been dying to get some dry blowing done here. On a large scale, 147 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,480 it's going to be quite impressive, I think. 148 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,000 Oh, here he is, the pop. 149 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:49,040 I thought I'd give Pop a call and see if he'd come out and give us a hand for the week. 150 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,560 Oh, look, he's excited already. Hey. (LAUGHTER) 151 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,000 Robbie. You made it, all right, Pop. Turbo, mate. 152 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,160 We love having Pop up, he's a good laugh. 153 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,720 He's very positive and he loves the gold, loves being in the bush. 154 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,400 Look what we got here. A bit bigger than the last one? 155 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,240 Yeah, the fat and little one. 156 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,360 Rob's grandfather, Roy, has returned to give the Gold Timers a hand. 157 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,520 We'll give you a rundown on the machine. Yeah. 158 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,120 A former coal miner from northern England, 159 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,480 Roy moved to Australia in the 1960s, 160 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,360 and has taken up metal detecting over the past few years. 161 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,280 So once she's up and running, I just basically need you to keep an eye on the feed. 162 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,960 We need to make sure we don't get too much flooding happening over the riffles, 163 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:31,640 and they start running dry. 164 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,800 Because if they start running dry, they'll blow all that gold out. 165 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,480 But it should run pretty smoothly, 166 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:38,800 and that has to be kept an eye on. Yeah. OK, mate. 167 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:43,000 Easy enough. We'll go and get this thing fired up. All right, mate. 168 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,440 I'll do anything I can to help these guys. 169 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,360 A little bit dusty. Stinking hot. 170 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,520 Somebody's got to do it, that's what we're here for. 171 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,680 Rain, snow, or blow, we got to get the gold. 172 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,600 Come on, mate, crank her up. 173 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:58,960 (ENGINE STARTING) 174 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,440 I'm gonna leave you guys to it. 175 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,440 I'm gonna get down in the crate and start doing some sampling. 176 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:13,680 Yeah, no worries, man. That'll be good. 177 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,880 We've had a lead of gold running right down to the edge of the creek. 178 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:20,560 The gold's washed down into here, 179 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,640 we could have a mega load of gold in this. 180 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,480 Light weight fine gold, 181 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:27,080 is often carried by ancient water courses. 182 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,400 And if Rob's samples contain fine gold, 183 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,400 it'll be worth bringing in the loader 184 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,200 to scrape off the top soil for processing. 185 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,760 But there are boundaries only 15 metres from me here, 186 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,840 so I'm really hoping that we can find something at this part, 187 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:42,760 because this is really all we can mine. 188 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,080 If I go through and take some samples all the way around the creek, 189 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,440 it will help me show where the fine gold stops, 190 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,520 and where it's its strongest. 191 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,240 Yeah, this will save us time, 192 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,400 I'm just pushing the hell out of everything. 193 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,800 The less work we do with the equipment, the less fuel we use, 194 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,680 which means we save more money. 195 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,640 This is the only income we have. 196 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,520 We've both got a family back home. Kids, wives, mortgages. 197 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,000 This season we've invested a lot of money back into our operation, 198 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,360 and we're really hoping that the deal we've done with this dry blower 199 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,840 is gonna cover all the costs and put us back ahead of the game and our target. 200 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,880 I haven't really found anything in this sample. 201 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,000 I might take one from the middle of the creek, 202 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,960 and then take one from the other side. 203 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,400 The dry blower's gone sneak. We've had no problems with it. 204 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,720 I mean, I can't wait to see what comes out of this dirt. 205 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,080 Fingers crossed, we get a good payday out of it. 206 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,640 They won't know how rich the pay dirt is 207 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,480 until they process all the concentrates. 208 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,080 Yeah, no, unfortunately, there's nothing in this pan either. 209 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,760 I'll move back closer to the edge of the creek. 210 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,960 We've only got a few weeks left of the season. 211 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,040 Still a bit of fair way to go. 212 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,920 We just need to capitalise on our time as much as possible. 213 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,560 I don't want to be away from my kids and my missus for no reason so, 214 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:10,880 it's all about making money. Rob. 215 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,000 Get down here, mate. Pop's down. 216 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,120 Roy! 217 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,480 Hey! Pop! What's the matter, Pop? 218 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,640 Are you all right? I think I'm losing, mate. 219 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,520 And when did you have a drink last? (SIGHS) 220 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,520 Half an hour ago. All right. 221 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,800 I think he might have gone down with heat stroke. 222 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,600 Pop, are you all right, buddy? Pop? Yeah. 223 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:37,160 Are you all right? Yeah. You've been dizzy or you... 224 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,960 Yeah, a bit wobbly. All right. Can we get him over to the car 225 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,040 and get him some water? Get him to the shade. 226 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,760 Come on, Pop. Come, mate. Yeah, yeah. 227 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:45,800 We got a little bit of shade. Take it easy. 228 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,560 You didn't trip over or nothing, did you? Oh, you all right? Yes. 229 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:51,720 (GROANS) Yeah. I'll go get you some water. 230 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,440 A bit wobbling... We need warm water. I've got some here. 231 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,680 When Papa peered through the dust on the floor, 232 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,600 I didn't know what to think. Could he have had a heart attack, 233 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:01,600 or a rock could have hit him in the head 234 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:03,400 coming off the conveyor or something? 235 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,600 I just didn't know at the time. 236 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:09,840 Here, I'll put a little bit on your head, Pop, try and bring the temperature down. (GROANS) 237 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,160 Oh, that's gonna be cold. Oh. (GROANS) 238 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,040 Have a drink, mate. Yeah, try to get some water in you. 239 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,760 Sorry, guys. No, no, that's all right, Pop. 240 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,000 Come on, Pop. Easy, man, let him get up. 241 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,680 He's a bit wobbly, Pop. All right. 242 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,480 Move it. Yeah. We'll keep you in the shade for ten minutes to see how it goes, 243 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:32,000 if you're not feeling any better, we're running you to hospital. 244 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,160 No, there's no need for that. 245 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,880 Heat stress kills over 500 people every year in Australia. 246 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,800 When the body temperature rises above 40 degrees Celsius, 247 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,560 cells begin to die and organs eventually fail. 248 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,240 I'll give you ten minutes. Oh, mate, you scared the absolute bejesus out of me. 249 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,840 Oh, I'm sorry, mate. No, no, no, don't. 250 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:58,160 Absolutely worried the hell out of me, you know. It's my pop, erm, 251 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:02,280 yeah, it's the last thing I want to see is anything bad happen to him. 252 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,600 We'll monitor him for another half an hour or so, erm, just in case, 253 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:09,040 cos I won't muck around if he's not getting any better, 254 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,800 we'll take him to hospital. 255 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,600 We'll get over it. I've been buried down the mines... 256 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:15,440 twice. 257 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:21,000 So, hit on the head with (BLEEP) roof supports. 258 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,120 I've got the scar to prove it. 259 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,320 Up there, man. See the scar there, man. 260 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,600 (GENERATOR STARTING) 261 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,120 That thing's got working. Thank Christ. 262 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,040 I wasn't too sure what was gonna happen when we shut this down quickly, 263 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,280 but it's got a safety switch anyway, so... 264 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,600 erm, you'll get back into it. 265 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,280 How you doing, Pop? A lot better right now. A lot better. 266 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,560 You know what you've earned yourself? What? The rest of the day off. 267 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,240 Really? Yeah. Still daylight, mate. I know. 268 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,920 But it doesn't matter. Nan will never forgive me. 269 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,880 Don't tell her for Christ's sake. If you have the rest of the afternoon off, 270 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,200 I'll keep my mouth shut. (LAUGHTER) 271 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:04,880 Come on, Pop. 272 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,560 The old fellow gave us a bit of a scare there. 273 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:09,240 I think the heat got to him. 274 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,840 He's a hard old fellow so, I think he'll be all right. 275 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,200 We're still a long way from target. 276 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,840 With or without Pop, we'll just keep going, 277 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,000 that means we both just focus on the machine's for now, and that's what we'll do. 278 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,560 We'll be down here until the sun goes down so, 279 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,360 let's finally get back into it. 280 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:31,250 2 00:14:36.200 -- 00:14:38.520 align:middle line:90% position:50% That's it. Keep on going, old boy. 281 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,640 The only way we're gonna get anything done 282 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,760 is if we just keep on hitting it hard. 283 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,160 Yeah, man, we're hitting it hard. This ground is hard, too. 284 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:51,520 53km northwest of the gold hub of Kalgoorlie, 285 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,040 Marcus McGuire and his brother Linden Brownley, 286 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,920 are working a two kilometre square lease near Ora Banda. 287 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,400 For this way we've got this loader here, 288 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,480 to push deep, push paths, 289 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,040 so we can start getting more of those nuggets, 290 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,200 We see everybody else doing this work and they're doing pretty well, 291 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,640 so we thought we'd might give that a bit of a crack. 292 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,440 The brothers have borrowed an eight tonne loader 293 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,760 to help break through the hardened natural cement known as calcrete 294 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,840 that's common in the area. 295 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,880 Yeah, man, the hardest thing about it is, 296 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:25,560 she's just bouncing off it. 297 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,520 That calcrete, she is hard, all right. 298 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,040 The pressure to find gold is huge. The machines cost daily, 299 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,200 so we can only push so much with the money we've got. 300 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,880 The 115 horsepower loader 301 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,640 has pushed the team's expenses up to $1,400 a week. 302 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,040 There's a lot at stake this year, 303 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,400 I have my six children that are here in town living with me, 304 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,440 five of them who's living at home. 305 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,680 And I also have a grandson coming on the way. 306 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:57,320 Spending that extra on diesel and expenditures to run the machine, 307 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,160 you know, it's definitely cutting it short for the rest of the family. 308 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,760 Two and half million dollars, bros. 309 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,120 Recently, the brothers and partner Dale Harring, 310 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,760 went chasing rumours of a massive nugget... Whoa! Whoa! 311 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:16,840 ..unearthed close to where the legendary Golden Eagle was found, in 1931. 312 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,360 Ah! Ah! You're kidding me. 313 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,080 So that would take it to 1.9 altogether, grammes. Nearly 1.9 grammes. 314 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,400 Looking for a 1,000 ounce nugget, and what? Nothing. 315 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:31,840 The disastrous week has left them with over $43,000 still to find, 316 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,480 well over halfway into their season. (DETECTOR BEEPING) 317 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:37,240 This is a real critical moment, 318 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,960 we're literally 18 ounces away from our target. 319 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:45,040 So I'm really hoping that this ped is gonna yield us some nuggets. It has to. 320 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,920 Otherwise, we're going to have to consider the future 321 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,920 of our prospecting days. 322 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,040 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 323 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,560 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Got a signal. Got a signal. Got a signal. 324 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,840 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Oh, that sounds good. 325 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,560 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) I'm hoping that it's not bucket from the loader. 326 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,560 Got a good little sound here, man. 327 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,400 Dig it up. 328 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:13,320 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) It's out. 329 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,760 Whoo. 330 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,920 Please don't be blade. 331 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,000 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Ooh! Hello. 332 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,480 Oh! Look at that. 333 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,960 Hey, mate, got one. 334 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,080 Solid, man. Big... 335 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,120 Maybe about 0.6 or 0.7 of a gramme, but she's colour. 336 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,640 Looks like you're finally finding some gold, old boy. 337 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,800 Yeah. It took me to get off the loader to come and help us get gold. 338 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,560 Yeah, right. (BOTH LAUGH) 339 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,880 I know, it all adds up but, 340 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,080 we need to come across some serious nuggets 341 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,160 to try and put a dent in that target. 342 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,480 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 343 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,360 So, Brad, what do you reckon we lost? 344 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,960 About four and a half, five grands worth of gear? 345 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,320 Yeah, and some, mate. 346 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,640 The gold retrievers are scrambling to find gold 347 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,760 to recoup the loss of thousands of dollars of equipment 348 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,440 stolen overnight. 349 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,200 And that's gonna equate to probably four or five ounces 350 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,600 we've got to find this trip, mate. 351 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,840 Chris believes there is a greater source of gold here 352 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,960 trapped in quartz veins deeper underground. 353 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:28,880 If we do find this vein, 354 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:33,400 and it's producing some good grammes per tonne, 355 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,600 with the price of gold the way it is, 356 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,040 that could put all the kids through private school and... 357 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,480 it'd be really nice to buy the daughter a brand new car, 358 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,440 and set her up in her own apartment, things like that. 359 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,200 You know, to go hard rock mining and change it to a mining lease, 360 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:50,880 it's a game changer. 361 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:55,440 The huge gamble involves spending over $150,000 362 00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:00,120 on expanding their operation to include a hard rock mining plant. 363 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,400 I'm up here to do this to support the family. 364 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,040 We've already taken a huge risk in putting money into the operation we've got. 365 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:11,480 I'm not willing to put money into changing the whole operation now. 366 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,280 It's too risky. 367 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,160 The investment that we've put in towards the operation here 368 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,280 has been around $250,000. 369 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:21,040 That's a lot of money to put in. 370 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:24,040 This is the product that I've asked Brad to pull out. 371 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:25,880 It's much closer to the source, 372 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:30,760 we're starting to see signs of broken dirty quartz. (DETECTOR STATIC) 373 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:34,400 What I want to see is more pieces of gold, 374 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,120 not necessarily bigger. 375 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:37,800 (DETECTOR BEEPS) There's a target. 376 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:40,640 It's not that big, but... 377 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:45,720 It's a very distinctive sound. 378 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,320 (DETECTOR BEEPS) Now that's in the scoop now. 379 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,360 Very small. 380 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,400 (LAUGHS) 381 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,880 Tiny little nugget embedded in rock. 382 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,520 That's exactly what I need to prove to Brad, 383 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,120 that we need to start crashing this stuff. 384 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,520 If there's lots of this stuff here, then there's got to be finer. 385 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,040 And to get that finer gold, we're not gonna get it with detectors, 386 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:15,640 and we're not gonna get it with a dry blower because it's embedded in rocks. 387 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,760 That will just flow out of a dry blower. 388 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,600 So I'm gonna go and show Brad this, 389 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:25,120 and see if I can start changing his mind. 390 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,680 You got a minute? Yeah, fixing oil leaks, mate. 391 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,360 What have you got? 392 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:33,360 Right, this is what I've been talking about the whole time. 393 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,040 Yeah, all right. How are we supposed to get that out? 394 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:38,960 There's a lot more fine stuff out there 395 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,000 that we're not finding with the detectors. 396 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,680 We need to switch it up into a mining lease. 397 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,080 You found one nugget. There's stuff all over there. 398 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,400 You've got to find a lot more than that. Pull your head out of the sand. 399 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:53,000 This is where we need to go. We need to crush this stuff. 400 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,200 I've got the paperwork there for you to sign. 401 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,440 What paperwork? All I need is your signature. To sign over to a mining lease. 402 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,360 Without telling me? We're partners. You shouldn't be doing this crap without me. 403 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,800 This is the future. Pull your head out of your arse. 404 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,040 I'm not interested in signing over to a mining lease, Chris. 405 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:11,760 You know what? I'm gonna do alluvial mining. 406 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,080 If you wanna do hard rock mining, do it your (BLEEP) self, all right? 407 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:16,960 I'm over it, man. 408 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:18,250 2 00:21:24.800 -- 00:21:27.640 align:middle line:90% position:50% Marcus and Linden, have you got ears on? 409 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,360 Hi! What you doing? 410 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,760 Well, just come through to the peds, I've got some news to tell you. 411 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,480 Yeah, all right then. 412 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,920 Dale is not only a team member, 413 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,200 but also a mentor to Marcus and Linden. Hey. How'd it go? 414 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,320 It's going awesome. Hey, look here. 415 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:48,000 They rely heavily on her 25 years of experience. (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) 416 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:49,800 Hey. Well, you got some ground moved. 417 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,800 This bloke here has been acting like as if he's cracking a whip. 418 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,720 (LAUGHS) Look, guys, I've actually come out to tell you, 419 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,520 I've got some bad news for you. 420 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,400 You know how I was coming out for the couple of weeks? Well, I won't be now, 421 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,840 cos my boss has had to go away, and I've got to manage the shop. (CLICKS TONGUE) 422 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:11,320 True. Yeah. So that's basically leaving you two here, 423 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,640 er, to working for yourself. 424 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,520 Look, you know enough. You've done it with me. 425 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,040 I trust you fully, so... Mm. 426 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:22,600 Our other alternative, we pack up and go home, what... 427 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,720 you know, it's up to you guys. 428 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,760 We'll be all right. You are. 429 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,720 We'll be all right. We'll be good. You taught us a lot, 430 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,520 it's not like we're amateurs any more. 431 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,320 That's right. All you got to remember, 432 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,160 just keep following that south hastily. 433 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,960 You're just gonna try to follow those old paleo channels all down that way. Yeah. 434 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,280 I will miss you, but that's your job, you know... 435 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,560 Yeah. Livelihood, you gotta do what you gotta do. 436 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,440 I'll leave yous to it. Yeah. All right. 437 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,320 I'll catch up with you. Keep in touch, eh? Yeah. Yeah. 438 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,120 I'm big disappointed, they're a bit disappointed. 439 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,240 But look, I've taught them enough. They know what to do now, 440 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,600 er, so I'll leave it in their good hands. 441 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,200 It's over, mate. We can't just sit around and mope, 442 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,120 let's get back into it. Yeah. 443 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,680 (ENGINE STARTS) 444 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:12,520 No, I understand what Dale could do, but we gotta push harder now. 445 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,840 We've got mouths to feed. 446 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,480 What we're trying to do right here, 447 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,880 is find some of those old paleo channels 448 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,120 that Dale has been telling us about. 449 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,360 Paleo channels are the beds of old waterways 450 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,680 that have changed direction or run dry, 451 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,800 and then being buried over time by new sediments. 452 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,560 These hidden channels can be a rich source of gold. 453 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,960 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 454 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,000 Whoo-hoo. (LAUGHS) 455 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,920 I've got a good signal. I'm going to dig it, all right. 456 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,160 All right, man, I'll pack up. I'll be over. 457 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,720 Hey. Hey. Come over here and have a listen. 458 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,480 There's something in there. I don't think it's blade 459 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,280 because it's not in the rock. 460 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,360 All right, mate, what do you reckon? 461 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,680 Look. I wanna see it. Look there, there's a tree root. 462 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,320 Ah, she's out. 463 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,880 Come on, come on, plum, come on, come on. (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 464 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,440 Hey! A nugget. (BOTH LAUGHING) 465 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,280 (LAUGHING) Look at that. Oh, look at that shine. 466 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:28,360 I think Dale's gonna be upset she left now. 467 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,280 I'll hop in the loader and start pushing. 468 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:34,520 I'm also gonna head down the hill. And do a bit more, man. Keep going, old boy. All right. 469 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,280 You're doing a good job there, man. 470 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:38,960 Must be, mate, we're getting the gold. We're on the gold. 471 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,640 This is roughly about two grammes. 472 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,600 Still it doesn't put a dent in our target, 473 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,080 but it's a good sign that we are on good gold ground. 474 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,480 Marcus just needs to keep pushing, and I'll just keep twigging. Let's go. 475 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,760 The nugget is worth $160, 476 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,280 but they'll need eight more like this 477 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,280 just to cover their weekly expenses. 478 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:02,600 Hey, I'm back, man. Solid. 479 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,000 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) That's that sweet sound. 480 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,640 Sweet music to my ears. 481 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,920 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 482 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,480 This better be gold, I'd totally stuff her in. 483 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,360 Hey, hey! (LAUGHING) Well... 484 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,800 How much you reckon? Well, it's not big, man. 485 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,080 Hopefully, there's bigger ones like this. 486 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,360 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) Oh, that's nice. 487 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,880 Because it's calcrete it's probably going to be bucket. 488 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:32,720 But I've got to dig it anyway. 489 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,840 It's right on top of the rocks now. 490 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,000 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Finally got it. 491 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,160 All right, there. It's gold. 492 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,680 Look at that. Might be a gramme. 493 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,480 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) Whoo-hoo! (LAUGHING) 494 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,600 And there she is. Hey, hey! 495 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,720 (LAUGHING) 496 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,560 That's a nice little piece of gold there. 497 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,240 Promising, but we're still a long way off, man. 498 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,520 You don't know. But, hey, it's colour. 499 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,080 Here they are. 500 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,200 Hello. (LAUGHS) 501 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,520 Where have you been? Oh, I had to go get beers for Pop. 502 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,520 How you feeling? All right? Top of the world. Yeah. 100 percent. 503 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,200 Gave us a bit of a scare yesterday. 504 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,960 As long as you don't let the family know. Or else they'll ban me from this place. 505 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,040 What happens in Kookynie stays in Kookynie. 506 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,840 Come on. Enough talking. All right, all right. Sorry, mate. 507 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,480 Let's get into it. Come on, mate. Come on. 508 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,120 It's high enough. So I'll just put the drum up here. 509 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,280 Fair bit of work to do today, erm, I'm gonna keep feeding this dry blower. 510 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:42,440 Rob's going to go down the creek and do some more sampling. 511 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,920 Well, basically, to get samples all around the area but, 512 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,080 we've gotten gold all the way down here, 513 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,040 so I just want to do a couple more pans. 514 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:53,800 I'd really like to get the machine in here, but I want to justify doing it. 515 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,000 We do need to make a profit here. 516 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,160 You know, it's been all this time away from family and kids and that sort of stuff. 517 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,680 We really need this to work, and we need to find ten grammes or more a day. 518 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,320 That adds up to $4,000 of gold in a five-day week. 519 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,120 Not at the end of the tails now. 520 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,760 Ah! (EXCLAIMS) 521 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,440 Look at this. 522 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,840 First pan of the morning. You beauty! 523 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,440 All right. We are gonna have to get the loader in here. 524 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,760 Turbo, good luck. 525 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,080 Yeah, bro. Check this out. 526 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:32,920 Finally got some? I knew I'd get something in the creek, man. 527 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,840 Look at this. Oh, yeah. Wicked, man. 528 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,320 I think we know what we're doing now, eh? Hope so. 529 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,120 (LAUGHS) Yeah. All right. 530 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,440 This much fine gold in a one kilo sample pan, 531 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,600 shows the pay dirt is worth pushing, 532 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,080 detecting and processing through their dry blower. 533 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,800 We're finally getting somewhere. 534 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,000 I think we're onto winning here. I really do. 535 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:05,520 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) Oh, that's our target. 536 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,800 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Oh, he's out the ground. 537 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,160 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) What's in my hand? 538 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,000 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Oh, there it is. 539 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,680 (EXCLAIMS) 540 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,920 What a beautiful little bit. That's over a gramme. 541 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,680 That's a lovely piece of gold. (LAUGHING) 542 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,840 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 543 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,920 Oh, that's lovely sound. 544 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,280 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 545 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,080 Pop. I can even see it. There you go. 546 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,360 Whoo-hoo! Look at that! 547 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,160 That's enough to be a gramme. 548 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,440 Whoo-hoo! 549 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,920 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) Oh, I got a noise here. 550 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,440 (EXCLAIMING) 551 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,360 Check that out for a specie. Wow! 552 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,640 There's probably ten grammes of gold in this. 553 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,480 It's just loaded with veins of gold all through this one piece of quartz. 554 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,560 A specimen like this is highly sought after, 555 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,400 and could be worth well over $1,000 to a collector. 556 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,680 This is probably the best one we've found. 557 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,760 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) 558 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,360 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) Oh, you're kidding. 559 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,760 This is where it gets real exciting. 560 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,240 Hey! Look at that. 561 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,760 Nothing can compare. 562 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,600 It's in my hand. 563 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,400 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) It's still in my hand. 564 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,200 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) (EXCLAIMS, LAUGHS) 565 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,080 Another piece of gold. 566 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,400 My pops found a few, I found a few now. 567 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,600 Mate, this cut's been great. 568 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,400 Yeah, I reckon we call it for the week, mate. 569 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,440 I'm just gonna finish this bucket off. 570 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,560 Yep, yep. No, I feel the same, mate. 571 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,640 She's really heating up and we've got a lot of sluicing to do. 572 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,760 I think we should go up and start this clean-up. 573 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,280 See what we got. Hopefully, on a good vein, hopefully, get a couple ounces. 574 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,960 All right, we'll get these trays off, 575 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,160 and we'll get up and start this. 576 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,520 Yeah. The clean-up process, eh? Yep. 577 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,360 All the hard work we've done is come down to this bucket. 578 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,520 Have concentrates, and there better be some (BLEEP) gold in here. 579 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,240 To find out that Chris has already got the paperwork to change into a mining lease, 580 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,920 pissed me off because we're supposed to talk about this. 581 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,160 We're supposed to be partners and discuss these sort of things. 582 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,320 If we can't work together, then there is no point in us being here. 583 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,480 Hey, mate, you wanna have a chat about this. 584 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,800 Yeah, I think we probably should. 585 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,760 I just want you to know that everything that I did, 586 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,560 I had both of our interests at heart. 587 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,360 Yeah. Look, I get that. But, you know, we're supposed to be a team. 588 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,400 So, we'd already discussed it, 589 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,560 and for you to go off and sort of start the process or even get the paperwork on that 590 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,320 is pretty much going behind my back. 591 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,960 Nothing's been done yet, so... 592 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,960 we're all good. As you know, I'm just passionate about 593 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,240 what we're doing here and what our potential is. 594 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,120 Yeah, I get that, mate. I get that. 595 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,400 And I know that you're trying to do what's best for us, mate, 596 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,440 but I'm scared that we're gonna go broke, 597 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,120 with what we're doing now, 598 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,480 let alone taking on a whole new process, mate. You know what I mean? 599 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,520 I have no problem, maybe next year, 600 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,520 looking at that side of the mining thing. 601 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,480 But let's try and make some money first 602 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,960 that we can invest into it, if we are gonna do it. 603 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,040 But I just feel like we're both sort of on different paths here 604 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,280 right now, mate, and it's just not gonna work. 605 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,040 No, we're on the same path. 606 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,080 I won't make any decisions without you. We need to find some gold. 607 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,680 We need to make target this season at least to pay some money back. 608 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,120 All right. So are we good? Yeah, we're good, man. We're good. 609 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,880 We just need to get back into it. All right, mate. All right. Too easy, buddy. 610 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,080 Let's go back to work, eh. 611 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,840 The duo will concentrate on chasing alluvial gold for now. 612 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,400 (METAL DETECTOR STATIC) So I'm just detecting the pile at Chris' line here, 613 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,920 some of this stuff now, so I'm just going over it quickly just in case. 614 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,400 Some of the best pieces we found were just sort of still in the pile, we hadn't laid out yet. 615 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,200 (METAL DETECTOR BEEPING) There's a signal in here. 616 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,280 Let's hope it's a small piece of gold. 617 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,160 There it is. 618 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,000 A little piece of gold. Probably about a gramme. 619 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,160 It's still got the rock stuck to it as well. 620 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,440 We're finding little bits and pieces here and there, but nothing like last few weeks, 621 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,360 but it all adds up. 622 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,640 We haven't been finding very much this trip. 623 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,560 It's quite depressing, actually. 624 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,080 We really need to at least pay for the trip, 625 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,880 and pay for the gear that we've lost, 626 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,320 and try and get back on track. 627 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,000 With the stolen equipment worth $5000, 628 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,760 they'll need to find over two ounces of gold 629 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,080 to cover the costs. (DETECTOR BEEPING) 630 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:47,840 That's a target. 631 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,000 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 632 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,920 All right, sucker. 633 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,800 (DETECTOR BEEPING) 634 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,840 It's inside that. Somewhere in there. 635 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,760 What have you got, mate? 636 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,520 A bit of gold locked up in some quartz, mate. 637 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,200 Oh, yeah. Ugly-looking rock, 638 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,520 and there is a piece of gold in there somewhere. 639 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,520 Maybe grab the ten kilo bucket... sample... Yeah. Now that's really... 640 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,240 ..and see if you can find some more of that sort of stuff. 641 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,520 Go back and do some crushing? Yeah. 642 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,240 Chris is hoping that similar quartz rock 643 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,000 will contain fine gold 644 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,520 they can't pick up with the detector. 645 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,400 Yeah. But they'll need to crush it up and pan it to find out. 646 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,080 How is she looking, mate? No, that looks good. 647 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,960 Beautiful. All right, let's see what we got. 648 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,560 All right, so the way the bowl works is, 649 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,360 you have a jet of water coming in, 650 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,040 it'll use centrifugal force with the water. 651 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,880 So the light material will flow out of the centre, 652 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,320 and all the heavies will remain in the bowl itself. 653 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,520 That's hopefully where the gold will be trapped 654 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,560 and we'll be able to see it. It say's manual panning, doesn't it? 655 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,840 You can see a lot of the light stuff popping through the centre hole. 656 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,720 Oh, here we go, it's clearing up. 657 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,560 I reckon that's gold there. 658 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,960 See that gathering on the outside there. 659 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,040 That looks like a nugget, eh. It does, doesn't it? 660 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,760 Boom! Another one. 661 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,960 That came from a piece that I... 662 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,080 I had a bit of a signal on the detector. 663 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,560 But that's definitely nugget gold, it's not fine gold. 664 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,720 But we've still got some more to go, so let's not rule that out yet. 665 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,800 All right, we'll crush the rest up. 666 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,720 So I've just crushed up a sample, 667 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,800 and we're going to put it through the bowl, 668 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,640 and see if we can see any fine gold in there. 669 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:43,640 Tap's on. 670 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,480 See how that goes. I suppose it doesn't matter until this gets separated. 671 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,440 That's not what I wanted to see, mate. No, that's not good, eh. 672 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,520 I can't see anything in that one. Nah. 673 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,160 The bowl didn't really prove up too much for us. 674 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:03,040 It's not finding any fines, which is what I've been looking for. 675 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,720 Look, at this stage, we're just gonna chase the alluvial. 676 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,240 But look, if we come across the quartz vein, I mean, 677 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,600 we'll take some samples and put it through the blue bowl and see if there's anything in it. 678 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,440 You know, you'd be mad not to, but, er, 679 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,960 my main focus really is alluvial. 680 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:17,040 2 00:36:17.040 -- 00:36:19.320 align:middle line:65% position:50% MARCUS: Hey, look here. LINDEN: Is that Dave? 681 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,040 Yeah. 682 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,880 How you going, bud? Hey, fellas. 683 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,840 Marcus, see you later, buddy. Ain't too bad, eh? Yeah. Hey, you travelling all right? 684 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,280 You're getting some colour. What's happening, mate? 685 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,640 Oh, well, I got some bad news. 686 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:37,560 At the moment, I'm ready to start work, 687 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,320 start making a living again. 688 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,840 So we're, er, gonna have to take the loader back, 689 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,320 I'm sorry to say. Marcus and Lyndon 690 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,160 borrowed the loader from their friend Dave Askew, 691 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,000 in the second week of the season. 692 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,080 Yeah, I'm really sorry. Nothing much I can do about it, I've got to make a living, too. 693 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,760 Yeah. Yeah, that's right, mate. Yeah. You've got a bit of cleaning up to do, 694 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,520 so I'll give you a day and I'll come and grab it. Yeah, bro. 695 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,800 Again, really sorry I've got to take it off you. 696 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,840 Yeah, I understand, man. Good luck, eh. 697 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,560 I'll see yous tomorrow. We've got our own business to run. 698 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,080 I've got to eat, put food on the table for the family. 699 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,400 They understand that. 700 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,400 I will look at other options, mate. 701 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,520 Our options are pretty slim now. 702 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,160 We're 18 ounces away from our target, man. 703 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:25,200 Oh. I don't know about you, but that's pretty stuffed. 704 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:29,120 I know it's pretty stuffed, mate, but we can only do what we can do. 705 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,960 And I say, let's get back out and let's start walking. 706 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,120 We got some good gold when we were walking. 707 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,000 If anything, we might just start walking home. 708 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,960 This looks like this is all over, man. 709 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,640 Well, you sound like as if you've already given up. 710 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,920 You've got a family at home, I've got a business back home... Yeah. 711 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,040 Highly doubt us going back to work. 712 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,880 Where does that leave us? At square one. 713 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,280 We've gone ten steps forward... Well, square one... 714 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,280 ..and we've taken about 15 back. 715 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,880 Well, I'm not giving up, mate. 716 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:58,920 It ain't over till it's over. 717 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,520 (ENGINE STARTS) 718 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,640 The worst thing about it is, 719 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:14,840 we're starting to get some colour, but... 720 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,720 there is absolutely no point 721 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,720 in working this lease without the loader. 722 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,560 We're gonna need to regroup with Dale. 723 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,160 I know she's not gonna be happy about this. 724 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:31,200 This could definitely spell the end of our season. 725 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,240 This is going to be a bit of a sad weigh-in, mate. 726 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,520 On the outskirts of Coolgardie, 727 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,320 the gold retrievers need two ounces of gold 728 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,800 to cover the cost of their stolen equipment. 729 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,280 That's... I'm not even looking forward to this. No, let's have a look. 730 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,160 0.23. That's pretty sad, innit? That's very sad. 731 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:55,200 That hasn't paid for the trip. That doesn't pay for anything. 732 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,000 It's, er... It's pretty much a waste of time really. 733 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,200 This weigh-in's been the worst one ever. 734 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,000 To get robbed, have all our gear stolen 735 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,080 and have the worst weigh-in ever was just absolutely horrendous. 736 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,400 So, we need to work out where we're going wrong. 737 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,680 Something is not right, erm, and we need to make some changes. 738 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:17,040 So I think we now need to focus on the one way of mining that we're used to. 739 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,080 And I'll still look for this vein but, 740 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,400 we need to stick to the alluvials and do what we do best. 741 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,520 Hi, guys, how you going? LINDEN: Hey, how are you? MARCUS: Not bad. Good. 742 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,840 In the gold fields near Kalgoorlie, 743 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,920 Marcus and Linden have something to tell their partner, Dale. 744 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,120 Well... Well... How did things go? 745 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,400 Crap. Got a bit of bad news. 746 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,400 What's that? Dave needs the loader back. 747 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:48,440 Oh, really? Yeah. So that's pretty much left us... 748 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,120 We're stuffed. Basically, we're stuffed. 749 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:56,280 But we do have a little bit of gold to weigh up. Well, let's weigh it up. 750 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:01,480 The team need $1,400, more than half an ounce of gold, 751 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,080 just to cover their expenses for the week. 752 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:09,000 0.19 ounces. Which works out to be... 753 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,760 about 480 bucks. 754 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,960 Which works out to be stuff all, really. 755 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,880 They still need over 17 ounces, 756 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,600 and look likely to come up short of target 757 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,400 for the third season in a row. 758 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,520 I had reservations coming in this time around, 759 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,440 and I was thinking it's not going to work and... 760 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,960 it hasn't worked out. Look, we've given it a go with the loader, 761 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,640 that's what we want to do. 762 00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:36,680 And there's other people out there just go detecting, you know... 763 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,840 What about all the rumours we've heard about nuggets being found? 764 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,200 And it's not the end of the day. 765 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,000 We just got to learn to roll with it. 766 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:45,760 It's the three of us. Come on. 767 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,520 We're a team. I don't think it's gonna work, I'll tell you that now. 768 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,920 Linden seems to be taking this the hardest. 769 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,040 Marcus and I, we don't give up that easy, 770 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,600 so hopefully, we can, erm, change his mind. 771 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,960 All right, guys, I'm gonna head off. All right. 772 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,280 Keep the light up. No worries. See you. See you later, man. Yeah. 773 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,360 Take care, see yous. Cheer up, mate. 774 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,960 The Gold Timers have just a few weeks remaining 775 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,680 before the summer heat forces their operation to shut down. 776 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,080 If we take a scoop of their concentrates, 777 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,360 put it in the top of the screen up here, 778 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,600 the water washes all the fines through the holes in the screen. 779 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,280 It'll leave little pickets for us at the top that won't fit through the screen, 780 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,120 and the fines get caught in these little riffles down here. 781 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,920 With less than ten ounces so far, 782 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,120 they need the dry blower concentrates 783 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,840 to give them a fighting chance 784 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,840 of making their 20 ounce target this season. 785 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,360 Oh! There you go. 786 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,240 It's a nice one, mate. ROY: It's gold. 787 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,320 This is what we're here for. 788 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,400 There it is. Oh! 789 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,200 Look at this. Guys, there's another one. 790 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,880 Oh, man. How good is that? Just one scoop. 791 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,760 They may be small, but it all adds up. 792 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,800 We've done fantastic with the pickings out of this, so, but... 793 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,200 the moment of truth will be pulling that lid off the sluice 794 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,320 and seeing what kind of fines we've caught. 795 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,560 Lift. Big offer. 796 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,800 (LAUGHS) Oh, my God! 797 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,200 We have got fines. (LAUGHING) 798 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,680 Oh, check it out, man. That's what we're here for, bro. 799 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,040 Well, let's go all the way up, eh. Yeah, mate. 800 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,280 I'll start us off with the little nuggets. Yeah. Oh. 801 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,640 We're estimating to be at ten grammes of gold. Yeah? I reckon, yeah. 802 00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:34,400 Mate, there's half an ounce there. (LAUGHS) 803 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,560 Pop, do you want to do the honours, mate? Absolutely, mate. 804 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,800 It's so heavy. One... 805 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,800 One and a half, two... 806 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,600 Two and a half, three... 807 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,880 Four... 3.8 ounces, mate, just in the dry blower. 808 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:49,840 (LAUGHS) Oh, man. 809 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,920 Well, 3.8 plus a half ounce here. 810 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,800 Mate, that's 4.3! That our biggest ever weigh-in. 811 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,000 Well done, mate. (LAUGHS) 812 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:03,920 The Gold Timers have found $10,750 worth of gold, 813 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:09,160 but will need to pay Nathan nearly $2,400 for his dry blower. 814 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:11,760 Considering how this season started for us both, 815 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,320 I think we've taken it up another notch, 816 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,200 and it is... it's paying its dividends. 817 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,120 We're on a bit of a roll now, 818 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,480 and I hope we're gonna smash this target. 819 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:47,880 Subtitles by Deluxe