1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,960 This time on Aussie Gold Hunters... 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,600 Oh, what the hell? What now? 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,920 ..the Ferals' season is on the brink of collapse... 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,880 Every time everything's running sweet, things are going good, 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:13,640 always something goes wrong. 6 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,040 ..forcing them to call in some urgently needed help. 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,120 Man, this is not good. 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,560 This is your time to prove yourself. All right, leave me with it. 9 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,760 And new recruit Nathan... (LAUGHS) ..could transform their fortunes. 10 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,640 (LAUGHS) You've got to be joking. 11 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,320 Woo! I'm on, man. 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,640 You little beauty! Woo! 13 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,240 In Queensland, Jacqui and Andrew broker a deal 14 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,360 with a prospector desperate for their expertise. 15 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,840 I need a bit of a hand to find some new spots. 16 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:47,720 I need them to find gold for me. 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,280 But back-breaking ground... This is nuts. 18 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,320 ..could ruin their plans. 19 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,320 Well, that's just great (!) 20 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,480 Shane and Russell search a long abandoned mine... 21 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,720 There's absolutely got to be gold in the wall. 22 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,680 They just don't dig holes like this for love, I'm telling you. 23 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,800 ..and hit the richest gold patch of their careers. (BEEPING) 24 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:12,720 Yeah, another one. 25 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,560 That's about 18 now. OK, keep going. (BEEPING) 26 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,880 You might have a decent one there. Oh, look, I can see it from here. 27 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,760 Oh! Oh, what a beauty, Russell. 28 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,240 We got a really hot week ahead. 29 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:37,240 It's supposed to be around 42, 44 degrees, and not too much breeze. 30 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:40,440 Yeah, it's getting too hot out here for Bridget now, 31 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,720 so it's just me and Ryan out here at the moment. 32 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,960 So we still have a lot of gold to find. 33 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,600 It'd be pretty good to get someone out here to help us out. 34 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,720 Ryan's just headed into town to pick up his mate Nathan. 35 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,960 He's going to give us a hand, so I'm hoping this fella works out. 36 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,800 We need to find a lot of gold and not much time left in the season 37 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,920 before it's too hot to be out here. 38 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,400 In Western Australia's wild Pilbara region, 39 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:07,960 Levi North of the Ferals is putting in a punishing solo shift 40 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,440 on the remote Honey Hole lease. 41 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,440 We've got about a month left in the season 42 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,520 and we need to find about 27 ounces. 43 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,440 So we need to find about an ounce a day to get there, 44 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,400 so we're really hoping that we can just stay on top of this gold 45 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,280 and hopefully there's a few big nuggets in the mix just to take the pressure off. 46 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:32,480 This season, the Ferals have seldom operated at full strength... 47 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,800 I'm going to get out of prospecting. This is just not working out. 48 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,920 ..after team-mate, Rob Beeton, shockingly quit the gold business. 49 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,960 Absolutely the last thing I ever expected with him, mate. 50 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,040 And last week... Hey, Levi, Bridget's just gone down, mate. 51 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,880 Bridget's gone down. ..new team member, Levi's pregnant wife Bridget, 52 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,480 was sidelined by heat exhaustion. 53 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,440 Yeah, I don't feel good though. I just feel really nauseous. 54 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,440 Let's get you back up to the bus, OK, and you can just rest. 55 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:04,320 With intense heat due to shut down their operation in a matter of weeks, 56 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,960 Ryan's asked life-long friend, Nathan Moncrieff, to step up. 57 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,160 It's good to be back up here, bro. 58 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,440 So how you guys going out there anyway, man? 59 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,440 The heat's coming in, we're at the pointy end of the season 60 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,680 and we've only got about 12½ oz, mate, 61 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,040 so we've got 27½ oz to go. Wow. 62 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,840 Yeah, you've come into a pressure cooker. Yeah. 63 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:26,760 Literally, mate. Pressure's on and it's getting hot. 64 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,320 Yeah. 65 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,520 Here comes the boys. 66 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,640 Hey, Ryan. Hey, Nath. 67 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,320 Hey. G'day, mate, Nathan. 68 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,400 How are you, man? Levi, is it? That's it. 69 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,400 Mate, nice to meet you. You too. Awesome. 70 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,680 Welcome to site. Thanks for having us out here. 71 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,600 Have a look at the size of this thing. 72 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,920 Ryan's given you a bit of a lowdown on what's happening out here? Yeah. 73 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,680 We need to find a lot more gold than what we're finding now. 74 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:51,480 Point me where you want me to do, and what you want me to do, 75 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,600 I'll do it to the best of my ability, man. Grab the digger, mate, 76 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,800 and walk it over and start moving some of that dirt. Not a drama, man. 77 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,480 All right. I'm going to saddle up and go and find some nugs. 78 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,000 Beautiful. Go get some gold, lads. Good luck. Let's go. Cheers, boys. 79 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,480 Woo. 80 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,360 I have mechanical knowledge. 81 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,000 Fitter turner by trade. 82 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:10,680 I can fix anything mechanically. 83 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,960 The feeling of getting gold is pretty amazing. 84 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,680 The old man's put it into my blood to be quite honest. 85 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,560 Just so much fun just coming out and finding some treasure. 86 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,560 Yeah, hopefully we get a good layer of nuggies under there. 87 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,040 These guys need it and so do I. 88 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,640 Tell you what, this heat's getting in already. 89 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,040 I took leave without pay to come up here 90 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,360 so this hopefully will give me something 91 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,360 so I can keep paying off my mortgage, and keep the wife happy. 92 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,320 But Ryan's like a brother to me, man. 93 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,480 I've known him since primary school and he's always there for me 94 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,720 so there's no reason why I can't be here for him. 95 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,200 He's my best mate. 96 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,480 We need a hand here on the ground. He still needs to prove himself. 97 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,760 Just because he's my mate doesn't mean he's straight in the door. 98 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:53,760 And you know we'll bring him into the team if all works well 99 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:56,640 and hopefully together we can all find lots of gold. 100 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,960 Having a baby in January, so really need to find as much gold as we can at the moment. 101 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,240 I want to be able to take a couple of months off 102 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,600 while we're having the baby down south and just be there for Bridget 103 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,760 and the only way I can do that is if I find gold. 104 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:17,640 Well, they've got us on the good dirt so, I tell you what, hopefully we'll be able to make this happen. 105 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,320 What's happened? Hang on. 106 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,280 Oh, no, no, no. 107 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:30,080 What the (BLEEP)? 108 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,960 (VEHICLE BEEPS) 109 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,040 (ENGINE STRUGGLES) 110 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,400 (CRUNCHING) 111 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,280 Yeah, righto. You gotta be kidding me. 112 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,080 Ah, man, this is not good. 113 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,040 (EXHALES SHARPLY) 114 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:56,440 It's too (BLEEP) hot anyway, to get my hands in there. 115 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:00,680 I only just, started man, I can't believe this has happened. 116 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,760 Six more ounces, that's all we need. 117 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:11,560 Six more ounces. 118 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:15,240 Plus we wanna keep this reputation going as lease explorers. 119 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,320 What we can achieve in Clermont 120 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,560 is gonna dictate where we end up next year. 121 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,720 We do have to really make this count. 122 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,360 In Clermont, central Queensland, 123 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,920 Jacqui and Andrew have just two weeks 124 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,920 before the fierce summer heat ends their season. 125 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,880 We're not going to have too much time. 126 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,680 Weather's pretty well already here. 127 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,440 Coming up to the end of the season now. 128 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,200 You can just feel that heat. 129 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:43,960 Jacqui and Andrew have made a marathon 1,000 kilometre trip 130 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,080 after spending the season in far North Queensland, 131 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,520 exploring Australia's wildest goldfield, the Palmer River... 132 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,280 This is our first gig as lease explorers and it's pretty exciting 133 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,760 because we've worked hard to get to this point. 134 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:01,560 ..where they made the biggest gold find of their careers. 135 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,720 Oh, Jacqui, check that out! 136 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,960 Oh, my God! Look at that! Oh, my God! 137 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,040 That's the biggest nugget I've ever found. 138 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,400 We've already hit our 15 oz target. 139 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,080 It's pretty ambitious, but we're going to go for an extra 15 oz. 140 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,200 With their contract in the Palmer finished, 141 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,760 they've had to secure a new exploration job elsewhere 142 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,480 to try and hit their challenging new target. 143 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,680 The main reason to come to Clermont this year is to help out Dan. 144 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,920 He's my good friend and he's had a pretty rough trot lately. 145 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,120 The gold community's fairly small and tight 146 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,720 so we try and help each other out wherever we can. 147 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,400 Hey, mate. Hey, what's up? 148 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:41,720 Jacqui and Andrew will work Dan's 25 hectare Swiss Workings lease 149 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,600 for the next two weeks. 150 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,840 I need a bit of a hand to find some new spots for, you know, 151 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,040 if I can get a bit more gold before the end of the season. Yeah, OK. 152 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,120 And the season's almost done, it's getting too hot. All right. 153 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,440 Is there any particular area you want us to sort of start searching? 154 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,920 Look, I haven't done a full walk of the lease since I've had it. OK. 155 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,080 If you guys can go out, find gold on the surface out here, 156 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,280 cos when I have found gold on the surface, 157 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,520 I've found it the whole way down to the bedrock. 158 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,120 So we'll see if we can find that surface gold and then you take over from there. 159 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,760 Anything we find, we'll track, plot those GPS co-ordinates for you. 160 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:16,920 Hopefully we can get onto it straight away. 161 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,200 Now, look, whatever gold you guys find to help me out, yous can keep it. 162 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,200 All right, excellent. No worries. Cheers guys, thanks. 163 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,920 Thank you. Thanks, Jacqui. Talk to you soon. Righteo. 164 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,280 So, we mark down any finds we make and he can work the ground 165 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,680 at a better depth and get a heap more gold out of it. 166 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,360 Having them out here to help me is just...it's awesome. 167 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,280 It means I can stay focussed on an area 168 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:42,440 where I am pulling some gold out so I can be assured that my bills are getting paid each week. 169 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,400 We had a lemon and lime orchard. We suffered a drought, 170 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,840 we suffered a few hail storms that wiped us out 171 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,720 and it was devastating for us. 172 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:54,280 We've had to sell the farm and this is what I do to support my family. 173 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,440 I've got my wife and we've got four kids. 174 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,520 This is the only income I have. 175 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,800 I need them to find gold for me, I need it ASAP. 176 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,000 There's that reef just down there. 177 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,440 That's awesome. And look at how long it runs for. 178 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,920 So this is as good a spot as any to kick off. I think we'll find some. 179 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,680 Righto. Let's get into it. 180 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,960 So I'm just doing a little bit of a swing 181 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,040 where I can see this quartz is starting to break out of the ground 182 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:25,480 in this reef, as Dan was saying there's a lot of gold around these quartz reefs. 183 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:29,160 So if we can get onto a payable reef, that would be amazing. 184 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:32,560 (BEEPING) 185 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,040 That sounds all right. 186 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,400 The ground down here is exceptionally hard. 187 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,520 It's a clay that's full of gravel 188 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,520 but it seems to be baked and it's definitely hardened. 189 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,760 Barely even making a dent there. 190 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,880 I've dug rock that's softer than this. 191 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,160 This is proper hard work. 192 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,640 Oh, well, that's just great (!) 193 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:10,280 (SIGHS) 194 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,040 (BLEEP) 195 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,600 Awesome, just what I needed (!) 196 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,680 Favourite pick too. 197 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:27,120 So I just snapped my pick trying to get through that rock hard ground. 198 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,080 It's a pretty old pick. 199 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,120 It's paid for itself a million times over, this thing, 200 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,960 but that's really disappointing, mostly cause I don't have a backup. 201 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:39,680 You got a copy, Jacqui? 202 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,040 Yeah, I got a copy. 203 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,200 I just snapped my pick, mate, 204 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,400 um digging something out of that conglomerate down in the creek. 205 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,600 That ground's just so hard. 206 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:53,000 It's a bit hard to dig gold out with the pick, let alone without it. 207 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:54,250 2 00:10:59.480 -- 00:11:03.000 align:middle line:90% position:50% What do you reckon this was? I think it's an old mining magazine. 208 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,800 Magazine? Yeah. 209 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:06,920 This is where they stored the explosives. 210 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,040 I'd say it'd be around the 40 years old age. 211 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,720 Well, that means there must be a mine somewhere close by 212 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,160 or an open cut. There'd have had to be a mine here. 213 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,080 This is substantial, so there had to be something decent here. Let's go have a look. 214 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,240 That means there's a hole here somewhere. 215 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,600 If there was no gold here, they wouldn't have went to all this trouble. 216 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:28,560 Shane Calegari and Russell Nash are on the hunt 217 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,600 near the old gold rush outpost of Nullagine. 218 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:34,400 We've got an old friend Dusty and he's got a few tenements 219 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,520 around the place and he's given Shane and I 220 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,400 a chance at finding some gold there. 221 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,160 The pair have left their truck to explore the rugged terrain. 222 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:48,560 Last week, Shane and Russell's season-long expedition 223 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,360 brought them to Nullagine's legendary goldfields 224 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:58,280 where local mines once dug up over 100,000 oz of gold every year. 225 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,600 We've got a great chance of finding gold out here. 226 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:02,360 Yeah, I know we want big gold. 227 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,760 And Nullagine lived up to its reputation... 228 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,240 Oh, that's a nugget. 229 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,120 That's my biggest bit for a long time. 230 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,720 ..as the pair found over $5,000 worth of gold. 231 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,480 It's unbelievable. 232 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:17,400 But, with the end of season closing in, 233 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,600 Shane and Russell need another productive week 234 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:24,480 to have any hope of reaching their 20 oz target. 235 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:27,880 We've got to find this target, otherwise it's just game over. 236 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,760 We set the season's target at 20 oz for a reason. 237 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,320 That's because it costs a lot of money to come up here, 238 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,120 the fuel, the cars, the wear and tear, it all adds up. 239 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,520 It's a big trip and it can't be for nothing. 240 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,320 Look at that. So what do you reckon they were doing here? 241 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,520 They got an open cut going here. 242 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,080 This is obviously what the explosive magazine for, 243 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,480 was to blast this particular open cut out. 244 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:50,160 The ground here's very hard. 245 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,920 They wouldn't have been able to dig this with a machine, 246 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,640 so it all would've had to have been drilled and blasted. 247 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,800 Open cut mining involves blasting and drilling 248 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,920 and is one of the cheapest and most effective ways 249 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,760 of recovering shallow gold deposits from hard rock. 250 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,160 But, what's happened, it's hit water. Yep. 251 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,240 And I'd say the water from that river is gushing in to here 252 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:13,920 and it's all at the same level. 253 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,520 These guys haven't walked away because there was no gold here. 254 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,080 They've walked away because the water's beat them. 255 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,000 The water is your friend and your enemy. 256 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,360 You need the water to be able to process your gold, 257 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,360 but it's your enemy cos you've got to get it out of your gold mine. 258 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:31,760 If I spent seven days here I would find a very, very rich ore body. 259 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,400 How are you going to find out? I'm gonna chisel away and pan 'em off. 260 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,200 So what I'm going to do is just work my way along here 261 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:39,880 and see if I can find us some gold. 262 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:41,760 Russell's going to go look at the dumps. 263 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,760 He's going to pan it off and see if he can get a colour out of that. 264 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:49,040 The unprocessed piles of dirt were excavated from the bottom of the pit. 265 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,880 It looks like they've left in a hurry, they've left piles of dirt all over the place. 266 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:54,600 I'll go through those, sample those 267 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:56,800 and hopefully they've left something for me. 268 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,880 Many mining operations in Nullagine were abandoned 269 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:04,000 at the start of the 1980s, when the gold price crashed. 270 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,400 Today it's eight times higher 271 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:11,680 and ground that was unprofitable then could now deliver a big payday. 272 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,040 I've got a tiny, tiny bit of gold. 273 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,720 I mean there's a colour there, so is it enough? 274 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,600 I'll do the rest and see how I go. 275 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,920 There's absolutely gotta be gold in the wall but a matter of finding it. 276 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,800 They just don't dig holes like this for love, I'm telling you. 277 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:29,000 This is nice-looking material. I hope there's a bit of gold in it. 278 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,280 I'm hoping to see two or three specks, that's what I'm hoping to see. 279 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,200 If I don't... I should get a colour in this now, but I'm not looking good. 280 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,400 If I've got some gold here, it is very, very fine. 281 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,360 I've got nothing here that's really worthwhile. 282 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,440 I reckon I've got a superfine bit of gold here, but not worth it. 283 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,360 Just not good enough. Yeah, I'm just disappointed with that. 284 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,520 That should have been better. We'll see how we go with this one. 285 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,520 It's a bit different material again so this might have a lot more gold in it. 286 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,800 There's plenty of quartz and that here so we'll see how we go. 287 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,480 Another dud one. 288 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,680 I dunno where Shane reckons all this gold is but it's not here yet. 289 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,560 It's gotta be better than this, otherwise we're in trouble. 290 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:16,640 Jacqui and Andrew are exploring their friend Dan's lease 291 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,440 in the historic goldfields of Clermont, 292 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,360 but the tough ground is too hard to work by hand. 293 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,520 Hey, mate. Hey, bud, what's happening? 294 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,520 Oh, not too much. I just broke my pick trying to dig a signal 295 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,400 out of that stuff down in the gully there. Yeah, right. 296 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,200 You haven't got anything to help us out? I do. 297 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,000 Yeah, righto. Just take the jackhammer and the generator. 298 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,080 Yeah, sweet as. That sounds awesome. 299 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:40,760 Last year I met Andy. 300 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:42,440 He actually rocked up out here. 301 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,520 His brush plate was dragging along the ground on his car 302 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,400 and he popped in to see if we could give him a hand to rip it off. 303 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,840 We just sort of stayed in contact ever since. 304 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,760 I'm hoping that they do find some gold out here, 305 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:58,120 to help me finish off this season, and get me ready for a new season. 306 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,880 It's so important that we keep pushing towards our target. 307 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,520 We've laid so much money into this trip, 308 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:06,600 so many out-of-pocket expenses. 309 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:08,680 Barely making a dent. 310 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,360 Can see why he broke his pick here. 311 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,120 Here, look what I found. Where'd you get that? 312 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,400 Found it in Dan's shed. Nice. 313 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,640 It's gonna make it a lot easier because that ground's way too hard. 314 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,400 Oh, yeah, it's crazy. 315 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,120 (RUMBLING) 316 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:27,800 Ready? Yeah. 317 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,680 Well, that's easier. Yeah, that is way easier. 318 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,640 To penetrate the ground, 319 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,960 the jackhammer can deliver 1,000 blows a minute 320 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,240 with 30 foot pounds of force. 321 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,680 There we go, now she's coming out. 322 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:44,400 Yeah, that's much easier. 323 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,160 Look at that, we're out now. 324 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:47,920 Out. 325 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,920 All right, let's find out what we got, 'ey. 326 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,280 All right, let's make sure it's gold. (BEEPING) 327 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,400 I hope so, because it sounds all right. 328 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,200 Oh, look at that. 329 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:57,880 There it is, my new scoop. 330 00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,640 You beauty. (LAUGHS) 331 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,560 Finally. Well done. Oh, that's a nice nug. 332 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,840 That looks like about three grams. Yeah. 333 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:06,640 That was worth breaking a pick for. 334 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:08,600 Finally, a bit of Clermont gold. 335 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,080 We're probably 5½ oz or so shy of our target now, 336 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,800 and this one's got us a little bit closer. 337 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,400 Hopefully it's just the beginning of a good run 338 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,760 and then we can knock over that 30 oz. (BEEPING) 339 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,080 Ooh! Your time to shine, jackhammer. 340 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:25,960 (LAUGHS) 341 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,480 (BEEPING) Yeah, you're out. 342 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:36,320 We're out. 343 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,120 (BEEPING) 344 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:41,960 Come on. Look. 345 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,080 Hey. Check that one out. 346 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:48,920 The second nugget of the day will add around $300 to their tally. 347 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,600 That's a nice nug too. 348 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,320 That's a ripper. Good job. 349 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,360 Got to be done. 350 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,720 Uh, Levi, Ryan, you got a copy, boys? 351 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,800 Yeah, mate, what's up? 352 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,880 I've got a bit of a problem with this digger. 353 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,120 It was going fine and then it just stopped, mate. 354 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,560 I can't get it to start again. I've had a bit of a look, 355 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,560 but it's too damn hot. I'll have a squiz, see if we can fix it up. 356 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,840 No worries. I'm going to crack on. Good luck. 357 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:16,840 Righto, mate, cheers. 358 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:21,240 Oh, man, I've just got into this digger and she's just stopped on me. 359 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:26,160 So, to me, it sounds like fuel, but it could be electrics and fuel. 360 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,920 I've gotta let it cool down because it's just way too hot. 361 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,400 I can't even get my hands in. I burnt myself already. 362 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,360 I I really hope it's nothing too serious with this digger. 363 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:36,520 We seriously need this digger going. 364 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,680 Hey, bro. 365 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,560 What's going on, buddy? Not good? 366 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,240 Nah, man, it's, well, not really, cos it's stopped. 367 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,960 So... Yeah, well, mate, we need, we need this working. 368 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,120 Oh, yeah. It's going to make it pretty hard. 369 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,320 I'm spinning out already. I've only just got in and done three cuts. 370 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,480 Do you want to see if you can start her again? 371 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,520 We'll just see if that... Yeah, mate, have a go. Have a click. 372 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,680 Yeah, mate, got nothing. So, nothing at all? 373 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,320 What about any lights or anything? Yeah, I got lights. 374 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,680 I've just got no clicky. You got power? Yeah. Got no starter, mate. 375 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,720 I'm going to give it at least ten or 15 though, mate, let it cool. 376 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,440 I can't get my hands in there, bro. I've tried and I burnt myself so... 377 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,200 Yeah, oh, well, mate, this is your time to prove yourself. 378 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,880 I don't want to put the pressure on you. I know you're - 379 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,960 Nah, mate, I'll put the pressure on myself. 380 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,400 But I really need to be over there on the ground detecting. Righto. 381 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,240 I need to be picking up nuggets, mate, 382 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,120 but I've just got to leave it with you and say best of luck, bro. 383 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,160 All right, leave me with it, go swing. I gotta keep going, mate. 384 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,920 Let us know, let us know, mate, how you go, give us a call. 385 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,200 Best of luck. No worries, thanks, mate. 386 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,920 I know that Nathan's capable. 387 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,080 He's been around machines all his life. 388 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,640 No, I didn't want to be rude to him and run away, 389 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,880 but I need to be on the ground here detecting. 390 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:54,880 We've got to get an ounce a day at least. 391 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:56,560 Righto. 392 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,400 In the suffocating heat of Western Australia's Pilbara region, 393 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,160 mechanic Nathan's week-long trial 394 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,440 with the Ferals is off to a bad start. 395 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,360 Loose. There's a busted wire on this solenoid, 'ey. 396 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,120 A solenoid is a valve controlled by an electrical current 397 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,720 which allows diesel from the digger's tank 398 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,440 to flow into the engine. 399 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:22,360 If it detects abnormal temperatures or mechanical malfunctions, 400 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:27,160 it stops the flow of fuel to prevent catastrophic engine damage. 401 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,760 The rugged terrain could have dislodged the wire, 402 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,640 cutting off the fuel supply. 403 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,680 Reattaching it could solve the issue. 404 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,520 I reckon that'll be the one, I reckon. 405 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,400 I'm gonna give this a go. 406 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,680 (EXHALES SHARPLY) Hopefully this works. 407 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,560 Come on. (ENGINE STARTS) 408 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,040 (LAUGHS) Yeah, boy. 409 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,200 Oh, thank goodness for that. 410 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,680 Thank goodness for that. 411 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,880 Hey, boys, she's going again. 412 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,400 It lives! Hey, well done, mate. 413 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,080 Oh, man, I'm stoked. That's why I called you up here. 414 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,520 Oh, mate, well, I'm up and going again, man. 415 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,880 I'm going to keep pushing lines so we can keep finding some nuggies. 416 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,400 (BEEPING) Ooh! 417 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,680 That one's screaming. Screaming at me. 418 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,200 (LAUGHS) First scoop. 419 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,160 You ripper. 420 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:23,880 Ooh, in the hand. 421 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:25,720 You little beauty. 422 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,440 Nice little chunk. 423 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,200 It's about 3½ grams. 424 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:30,880 (BEEPING) 425 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,640 Come on, where are you? 426 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,480 Oh, oh, it's in the scoop. 427 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,280 That's a loud one. 428 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,200 Ooh, in the hand. 429 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,000 (BEEPING) Ooh, in the scoop. 430 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,680 Oh, there it is. 431 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,440 It's another nice chunk of gold. 432 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,960 3½ to four grams. We need as much of this as we can get. 433 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,840 We're heading towards 50 degrees in the next couple of weeks 434 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,880 so we really need to get moving and pick up as much gold as we can. 435 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:54,250 2 00:21:56.760 -- 00:21:58.760 align:middle line:90% position:50% I've done about 15 samples now. 436 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,120 Just not... It's just not what I'm looking for. 437 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,840 It's just... 438 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,080 It looks the part but really it's just rubbish. 439 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,280 I hope Russell's doing better than what I am. 440 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,000 I'm getting sick of this already. 441 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,360 I set this up, throw the dirt through there 442 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,600 and anything that's too big rolls off. 443 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,760 The smaller stuff that I can pan goes straight through there. Let's try another one. 444 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:29,280 Shane and Russell are searching for gold in an abandoned open-cut mine 445 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:32,120 near the outback settlement of Nullagine. 446 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,720 Hey. (LAUGHS) 447 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,080 That's what we want. Look at that. 448 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,080 That's with the pan, bottom of the pan and that's where it was. 449 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,160 Shane, look at this. I got colour. 450 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,160 All right, I'm coming there, Rusty. 451 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,320 Have a look at this. What have you got there, Russell? Colour. 452 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,880 Oh, gee whiz. I mean, that was the size of the pan I had. Yeah. 453 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,080 So what do you reckon tonnage that would go? 454 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,920 Probably five grams, six grams. To the tonne? Yeah. 455 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,400 How about we just make a sluice up? Up to you, Russell. 456 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,760 We'll throw a tonne in that, we'll see how we go. OK, well let's go build a sluice. Let's go. 457 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,560 To the tip. 458 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,680 You can find a very good lot of material at an old rubbish tip 459 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,040 in a remote town because it's not worth transporting back to the city. 460 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:14,360 So they just take it to the tip and it just sits here and rots. 461 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,040 So this is very good for us. 462 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:19,240 The fine gold in Russell's sample indicates there could be 463 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:24,160 over $500 of recoverable gold in every bucket of paydirt, 464 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,400 if they can build a sluice to process it with. 465 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,120 We've got some metal, some trays. 466 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,200 And enough gear that I think we can make a sluice out of this. 467 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,720 The bills add up, the mortgage doesn't get any better. 468 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,800 I need to change that, that's why I'm here. 469 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,240 I assured my wife I could come here and make a dollar 470 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,360 and make this work and, if I don't, well, I've gone backwards 471 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,360 and then we're going to be in trouble. 472 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,320 So there's a lot at stake. We've got all the things we need. 473 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,640 Just some gold, eh? Yep, except gold. 474 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,440 The pair need the nearby dirt Russell has sampled 475 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,480 to deliver on the promising early signs. 476 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,880 With this amount of dirt, 477 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:04,200 hopefully I can get around four, five, six grams, around that figure. 478 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,560 If I get that figure, it would make it all worthwhile. 479 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,760 I'm going to make a sluice tray up so we can pump water 480 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,280 into the top of the trailer and, as it flows down, 481 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:15,720 that'll bring all that dirt and sand with it. 482 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,000 Instead of Shane shovelling it all, the water will pull the solids 483 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,160 and the gold by itself and it'll actually flow through like a river. 484 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,800 Yeah, a lot of time involved. So we just want to make sure 485 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,280 it's worthwhile, otherwise we're wasting time, time we haven't got. 486 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,200 Here she comes. Is it gonna be enough? 487 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,440 It'll be enough all right and you know... 488 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,560 We've just built a bit of a sluice tray. 489 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,800 We're going to pump water into the trailer. 490 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,120 As the water flows through, it's going to bring material with it. 491 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,200 The gold, because it's so heavy, gets caught in the mat just here 492 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,680 and everything else should just flow off the top. 493 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,680 Like Niagara Falls, here we go. Here we go. 494 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,880 We could do with a bit more water. It's heading down. 495 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,000 At least it's bringing the solids with it. 496 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,280 Probably water flow's the issue at the moment. 497 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:08,880 Because of the low water flow, only a small amount of dirt 498 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,040 can run through the makeshift sluice at a time. 499 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:16,120 And with their only pump already running flat out, 500 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,760 it could take hours to process the tonne of paydirt. 501 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,840 Well it's just going to take you ages to get this done now. 502 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,880 So I'm going to leave you to it and I'm gonna go find some gold. 503 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,800 That's the way it is. I'll just work here quietly, that's all. 504 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,560 It's not looking good. Nullagine was meant to be the be all and at the moment it's going to end all. 505 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,840 It's not even going to pay for fuel to get back. 506 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,120 (BEEPING) 507 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,560 That almost sounded like something there. 508 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,600 We definitely have to work hard for it. 509 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,240 It's hard ground and it's really hot out here. 510 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,440 Jacqui and Andrew are battling tough conditions 511 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,680 as they detect a quartz reef in 40-degree heat. 512 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,120 (BEEPING) Yeah, that just sounds like hot rocks. 513 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,520 The detectors love that. Ironstone. 514 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,040 Ironstone rocks, or hot rocks, 515 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:05,520 contain iron-bearing minerals, 516 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,720 that trigger detectors and sound identical to a gold target. 517 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,720 Nah, see that's gone now. 518 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,440 Getting a lot of ground noise or false signals. 519 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,960 It also happens more when you get the hot weather 520 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,520 and the ground heats up so with weather like this, 521 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,920 where we're punching out sort of, you know, 36 or 38 already, 522 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,680 then the ground heats up and the hot rocks seem just to become even noisier and noisier. 523 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,880 It's pretty important that we get onto some gold quickly. 524 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,160 We haven't got long left out here so every day counts. 525 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,960 The bills don't stop coming in 526 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,120 so the gold can't stop coming in either. 527 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,200 (BEEPING) 528 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,280 It sounds like a target, 529 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:47,160 but so's a lot of this ironstone in this creek. 530 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,000 This is nuts. 531 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,360 No, it's this ironstone that's setting it off. 532 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,480 Targets are everywhere. 533 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,640 All right, I'm going to have to move off this ground which sucks. 534 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,720 It does look really good here, but it just sounds like there's targets all around me. 535 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,320 The more the day heats up, the more this ironstone heats up 536 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,240 and it's just becoming quite impossible to detect. 537 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,120 So ironstone's a great sign to see when you're chasing gold 538 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,200 but, you know, while it's good to see, 539 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,360 it's no good if you can't work the ground. 540 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,600 We're heading up onto the higher ground 541 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,120 where it's not covered in ironstone, much easier for us to detect. 542 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,400 Here, out of the creek now, 543 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,200 machine's running much smoother already. 544 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,800 That creek was doing our heads in. Too much noise. 545 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,720 (BEEPING) 546 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,480 Yeah, it sounds like I've got a target here. 547 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,480 Time to go a little bit deeper. 548 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,960 Just all full of this rock. 549 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,960 (BEEPING) Sweet. It's out. 550 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,840 (BEEPING) 551 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,960 Oh, ha ha. 552 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,520 Nice. 553 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,280 Perfect. 554 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:02,640 Got myself a nice piece here. Happy days. 555 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,720 (BEEPING) 556 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,400 That sounds pretty good. 557 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,480 Righto, time to find out. 558 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,920 There it is, look at that. That's a nice nug too. 559 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,680 That's great. It's probably three or four grams. 560 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,240 Up here in this untouched ground, that's a great little bit of gold. 561 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,800 There is a target here, but I'm barely scraping the surface. 562 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,520 (GROANS) Andy, are you on radio? 563 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,200 Yeah, mate, I'm here. 564 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,800 Any chance we could get that jackhammer back out? 565 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,640 Yeah, yeah, it's still about. 566 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,840 I can, uh, bring it over for you if you want? 567 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,520 Here we go, now it's moving. 568 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,360 Yeah, that's better. 569 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,800 Yeah, you're out now. 570 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,360 (BEEPING) 571 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:14,160 And now it's time for the grand reveal. 572 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,840 Oh, yeah. Look at that. 573 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,400 Beauty. 574 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:20,800 Nice. 575 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,600 Check that out. 576 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,640 Hey, that's a nice slug, that. 577 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,560 That's gotta be five or six grams there. 578 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,400 That's pretty good, hey. Well done. 579 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,400 That's why it was so deep and so loud. 580 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,520 (BEEPING) 581 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,680 (BEEPING) 582 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,840 Sounds like another job for the jackhammer. 583 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,520 Jacqui? 584 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,560 Yeah? Got a job for you. 585 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,880 Woo-hoo. Whereabouts? 586 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,960 Oh, yep. Yep, right here. 587 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,760 It's crumbling apart now. 588 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,360 All right. Righto, let's see what we got. 589 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,160 (BEEPING) 590 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,360 Oh, there we go, there's another one. 591 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,200 Woo. You beauty. Awesome. Yeah, this is great. 592 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,320 This is fantastic for all of us. Dan's gonna be stoked. Yeah. 593 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,760 This whole area has just been producing now, hey. 594 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,880 Yeah, I think he's really going to like this. 595 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,120 This is definitely a scrape and detect zone for him. This is great. 596 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,440 Good for him, good for us. Everyone's winning. 597 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:24,250 2 00:30:25.360 -- 00:30:27.960 align:middle line:90% position:50% Yeah, it's good to have both the machines going again. 598 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,440 I just cleared a nice area for Ryan. 599 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,160 Been picking up a few nuggets there and he's going to swing over that. 600 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,520 In Western Australia's rugged Pilbara region, 601 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,440 the Ferals are running flat out 602 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,600 trying to hit their ounce per day target. 603 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,720 Oh, what the hell? What now? 604 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,720 Hey, hey, fellas, I got a leak. 605 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,440 The digger's got a leak somewhere. 606 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,720 It's throwing out hydraulic oil everywhere. 607 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,560 I'm coming over now to have a look. 608 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,640 And we just got this digger going. 609 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,640 Every time everything's running sweet, things are going good, 610 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,520 always, something goes (BLEEP) wrong. 611 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,400 Far out. 612 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,840 Dude, we've got a proper leak. 613 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,800 Oh, mate. It's out of your main... One of your main rams, bro. 614 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,680 There goes our season target. 615 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,440 What's going on, man? 616 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:18,200 Oh, (BLEEP). You're kidding me, man. Nah, mate, she's done. 617 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,040 Do you think it's fixable out here? 618 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:25,760 Oh, dude, unfortunately, man, no. Cos you gotta pull that out, man. 619 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,040 That whole... Yeah. ..rod's got to come out. 620 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,120 There's no way we can do this here. We don't have the equipment. 621 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,000 Can't fix it with a metal detector. 622 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,000 No, that's for sure. 623 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,120 Looks like we're pushing spinny with the eight tonner. Yeah. 624 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,680 Hopefully there's some nugs down there to cover the cost of this debacle. 625 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,480 All right, bro. OK, mate. 626 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,640 So much gold here in the ground to find but, without this machine, 627 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,400 we're not going to be able to get down deep enough to find it. 628 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,720 I don't know. We've just gotta get on the ground, 629 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,280 keep swinging and, yeah, keep our fingers crossed 630 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,360 that we'll find some big nuggets. 631 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,360 I need to find some gold. 632 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,880 I need to find some big gold, or a nice patch. 633 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,840 So I've come out here. I'm just going to scout the area 634 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,160 and see how we go because we're a mile behind. 635 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,360 Nullagine is big gold country, so that's why we came here 636 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,240 but, at the moment, we can't find it. 637 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,800 It's not worth spending time out here for nothing. 638 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,080 We've only got a few days left, so we need to really hit it hard. 639 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:24,280 Near the gold rush settlement of Nullagine in Western Australia, 640 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,640 Russell is hunting for nuggets 641 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:31,120 while Shane is running a makeshift sluice to recover fine gold. 642 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:35,440 We haven't found a great deal of gold so we need to get our tally up. 643 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,120 We certainly won't make our tally doing this 644 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,480 so hopefully Russell's finding gold there. 645 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,000 I want to be able to go home and walk through the door 646 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,080 and show the kids that I found some gold and make 'em proud. 647 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,840 I mean, as a father, that's our goal. 648 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,520 We should be teaching our kids and providing for our kids. 649 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,160 So if they can be proud of their dad, I've done my job. 650 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,160 (BEEPING) 651 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,240 (LAUGHS) 652 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,400 That's a bit of quartz but nothing in it, but, um... 653 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,480 (BEEPING) 654 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,800 I'll give it a hit. This might have a bit of gold in it maybe. 655 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,560 Oh, she's shattered. 656 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,400 Hey, that's gold. 657 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,200 You little beauty, look at that. 658 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,240 Where there's one, there's always more. 659 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,080 That means it's shed from here, that means there's probably a reef here. 660 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,560 (BEEPING) 661 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,640 (LAUGHS) You little beauty, come on, gold. 662 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,760 (LAUGHS) Another one. 663 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,600 Awesome, beautiful bit of gold. 664 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,240 That's a metre and a half from the specimen, so this could be a patch. 665 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,040 It's what we need. 666 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,080 OK, I'll just let this last bit run out 667 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,760 and then it'll clean it up nicely. 668 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,480 Hopefully I can see a couple of little bits of gold in here, 669 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,360 then I'll clean the mats out and see what I've actually got. 670 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:59,520 Shane's run all 1,000 kilos of dirt through the improvised sluice tray. 671 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,800 Here's the moment of truth for me. 672 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,800 Ooh, there's a couple of little pieces there. 673 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,280 Look at that there. OK, well, I'll pan this off. 674 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,040 I'm quite excited about this. 675 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,120 I'm very excited, actually. 676 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,840 Yeah, gold when it comes out of the ground, it comes out of the ground 677 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,720 in one spot and just spreads out into just a nice little area. 678 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,560 It's called a patch. Once you get onto a patch, your world changes. 679 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,760 It's great. Come on. 680 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,760 What I'm doing now is I'm just going to rinse this out, 681 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,320 pan this off and just see if I can get a colour out of this first mat. 682 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,000 Most of the gold should be in the second mat. 683 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,920 If I get a good colour out of this, or a reasonable colour, 684 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,960 it's a good indication there'll be really good gold at the top 685 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,640 cos this was the bottom mat. 686 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,040 (BEEPING) 687 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,760 Oh, there it is. 688 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,440 It's not big but it's gold. It's another piece. 689 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,760 Within a couple of metres of those two, so it's a patch. 690 00:34:57,720 --> 00:34:59,720 I can see gold. 691 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,400 Great indicator. 692 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,560 We're gonna get a lot of gold out of that second mat too. 693 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,400 How you going there, Russell? 694 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,520 Yeah, looking good, Shane, looking good. What about you? 695 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,640 Well, I've done the first mat, but put it this way, 696 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:15,000 I'm on the colour. I've got some gold. 697 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,160 Hey, so am I. I think I've found a patch. 698 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:20,520 OK, Rusty, well as soon as I finish washing up the second mat, 699 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,240 I'll whip over there with my detector and give you a hand. 700 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,520 Righto, see you in a bit. Nullagine, love the place now. 701 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,800 Been, ah, pretty average after the big digger broke down. 702 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,320 So I'm back on the little eight tonner 703 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,400 but beggars can't be choosers 704 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,840 and we'll take whatever we can get at the moment. 705 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,640 The Ferals are battling to recover an ounce of gold a day 706 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:46,320 after losing their main digger on the Honey Hole lease. 707 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,640 We've just been pushing off a bit of spinifex. 708 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:52,080 Ryan's just jumped up the end here to have a detect 709 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,720 and looks like he's onto a pretty good target. 710 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,240 I've just come up to, you know, have a bit of a look around up here. 711 00:35:58,320 --> 00:35:59,960 I've got onto a decent target. 712 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,920 You got a copy there, Nathan? Yeah, copy. 713 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,600 Might get you to pop over here and give us a hand for a sec. 714 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,120 Sweet as, on my way. Hear you found something? 715 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,600 Yeah, I've got a target in the ground bro. Sick, man. 716 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,760 Just thought you might want to have a listen. (BEEPING) I got that now. 717 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,680 Yeah, but see at the surface, this is what it sounded like. 718 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,480 (SOFT HUMMING) 719 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,600 That's it. Wow, is that it? Yeah, righto. 720 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,520 Got a bit of a target? 721 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,160 Yeah, bro, bit of spinifex pushing pays off. 722 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,480 Wow, you're nice and deep aren't yous? Yeah. 723 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,960 Come on, Nath. Come on, Nath. This is your initiation. 724 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,320 Let's get this thing out of the ground, boys. 725 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,800 (BEEPING) 726 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,520 In the scoop. Come on. 727 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,560 Come on, nuggy. 728 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,640 (LAUGHTER) Check this out, man! 729 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:46,840 Oh, yeah. That's gotta be a good four or five grams, easy. 730 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,080 Get out of that hole. Woo! 731 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,200 Well done, lads. 732 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,880 Yeah, man. 733 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,640 You guys stink. Right. They don't call us Feral for nothing. 734 00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:59,520 (LAUGHTER) You beauty. That's fantastic, man. 735 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,920 Oh, well, the boys are out there on the ground. 736 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Hopefully they're going to pick up a few. 737 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,680 We really need a kick in the bum. 738 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,480 We're close to the end of the week. 739 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,280 I might have a bit of a target here. 740 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,400 This is good, it's my first actual real target. 741 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:17,040 Hey, Nathan, are you on the nuggets over there too, mate? 742 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,920 Yeah, mate, looks like it. I'm digging pretty deep. 743 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,840 I just picked one up about 200 down and I got it in the scoop 744 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,440 so we call this a double hook up, brother. 745 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,040 Ah, that's a bit of music to my ears, boys. 746 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,200 Woo! (LAUGHS) Keep on going. 747 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,560 Yes, sir. Woo. 748 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,800 Ooh, I can feel it. 749 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,800 Ha-ha! 750 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,800 We've got a big bit, lads! 751 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,480 We got a massive chunk. 752 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,320 Ooh! 753 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,160 Look at that. 754 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,680 No way. 755 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,760 (GIGGLES) You're bloody kidding me. 756 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,840 You gotta be joking. 757 00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,000 Hey, Levi, boys, woo, I'm on, man. 758 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,240 I've got a stoinker. 759 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,960 You little beauty! 760 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,840 Woo! 761 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,000 On the nuggies. Yeah, pushing spinny and picking up nuggets. 762 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,160 Yeah, lads. (LAUGHS) 763 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:19,040 What have you got there, Russell? 764 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,400 I've got some more gold. 765 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,600 Look at that. Another one. That's four. 766 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,440 I got some gold out of those mats. It was very, very good. 767 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,200 Hey, we're on the money now. 768 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,320 Things have turned. It's looking good. 769 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,760 This could be a 30 or 40 piece patch. Who knows? 770 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:34,920 I might have a sound now. 771 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,520 Hey, another one! 772 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,280 Oh, well done, Russell, I'm trying to find one myself here. 773 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,240 I think I've got a target. 774 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,320 It's not in there. 775 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,960 There it is, there. 776 00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,280 Hey, Rusty, I've found a piece of gold. 777 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,040 So have I. 778 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,840 I've got 12 already. 779 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,800 You've got some catching up to do. 780 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,760 In Nullagine, Shane and Russell are turning their week around, 781 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,800 with a quickfire series of nugget finds. 782 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,040 Yeah, I think I've got a wee sound here, just a little sound. 783 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,920 Hey, that's 15. 784 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,640 OK, keep going. 785 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:12,320 Is that still there? Yeah. 786 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,000 You might have a decent one there. 787 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:15,960 Yeah, I might have. It's a good sign. 788 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,120 I've been digging down here for a while. 789 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:19,960 But I've just got to get in there. 790 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,760 Yeah, another one. 791 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,320 He might be picking up a couple of fairy farts. 792 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,120 I might have something decent here, you don't know. 793 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,960 Right, that's out of the hole. 794 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,640 That must be a stonker. 795 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:35,000 You got it? I don't think it's in my scoop here. 796 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,760 (BEEPING) 797 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,640 Oh, look, I can see it from here. 798 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:43,560 What? What, are you blind? Oh, that?! 799 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,800 Oh, what a beauty, Russell. Well done. This is absolutely fantastic. 800 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,920 I'm still in a bit of shock about it all. 801 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,280 I should have brought a bigger jar, shouldn't I? Ah, put it in the jar! 802 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,880 Big day. Well done. The old timers still in the game. 803 00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,960 Biggest nugget of the day too. 804 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,680 Moment of truth, eh? 805 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,640 I'm looking forward to seeing what this weighs. Same. 806 00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:06,440 It's been a hard week. 807 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,720 Yeah, it's just getting hotter every day now. 808 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,200 Yeah. 809 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,680 0.9 of an ounce. That's less than I thought we were going to have. 810 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,920 Yeah, I kinda thought we were going to have a bit more than that too. 811 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,920 Anyway, it is what it is. 812 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,800 It is a pretty good wage really for the work we've done. 813 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,800 Oh, nothing to sneer at, that's for sure. 814 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,240 Didn't get us that much closer to the 30 oz though. 815 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,160 The modest haul leaves Jacqui and Andrew 816 00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:34,760 with nearly 5 oz still to find, with just one week left 817 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,480 on prospector Dan Herlaar's lease. 818 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,640 Have we set our target too high? 819 00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:43,840 We might have cos if that's all we got in the first run 820 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,200 then there's no guarantee we're going do any better in the next lot. 821 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,920 We're going to have to pull a rabbit out of the hat - Yeah. 822 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,040 ..if we're going to achieve this target in the time we've got left, 823 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,880 that's all I can say. 824 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,800 All we need is one big nugget though, or one rich patch. 825 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,440 Yeah, true. Go hard or go home, that's what we said. 826 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,760 Let's get back into it, I reckon. OK. 827 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,440 We got this. 828 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,440 Ahoy. Hey. 829 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,800 You know what I'm excited about? Having two containers full of gold. 830 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,680 (LAUGHTER) We smashed it, after all that, 831 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,720 you know, digger breaking down, 20 tonner going down 832 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,120 and we still managed to get on the nuggets. 833 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,040 Well, we may as well weigh this gold up and see how we went. 834 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,200 Oh, come on, let's see what we got. 835 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:26,920 (LAUGHS) 836 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,600 3½ oz. 837 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,480 Now for the big dogs. 838 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,800 Man, there's some colour there. So many specimens man, 'ey. 839 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,760 Hold on, there's one more. Boom. 840 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,920 (LAUGHS) 6½ oz. 841 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,840 Far out, so we'll call it probably six ounces. 842 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,000 Probably half an ounce of quartz and stuff in those. Yeah. 843 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,680 Six ounces, lads. We blew it out of the water. 844 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,520 The Ferals have managed to pull enough gold out of the ground 845 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,960 to keep their season alive. 846 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:54,640 What's that, about 15 grand? 847 00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:57,920 We wouldn't have this much unless there was three of us doing it. 848 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,160 Thank you very much - Yeah, thanks, Nathan. ..for helping us out. 849 00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:04,880 Nah, it's working out pretty well. It was a good trial week for you 850 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,760 and I think you passed with flying colours. Oh, thanks, man. 851 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,600 I really am appreciative of it. 852 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,400 Too easy. Fantastic. 853 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,080 Welcome to the Ferals. Oh, mate, thank you very much. 854 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,680 Thanks for having me here, man. Cheers, brother. 855 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,080 Thanks for having me up, bro. Thanks for calling me. No worries, mate. 856 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,240 It's either we go find gold or we drink beer. 857 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,080 Go find gold and drink beer at the same time? Done. 858 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:26,920 (LAUGHS) Yeah. 859 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,520 All right, Rusty, let's get there and have a weigh up. 860 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,160 See how we went. It's feeling pretty good though. 861 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:35,200 Well, I see gold there, that's a start. How was that patch, hey? 862 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,080 Patch was good, Russell. What a patch. 863 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,000 Just tip it out, let's see what we got. 864 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,440 I don't wanna hear about it. I wanna see it. 865 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,920 About 2.4 oz. 866 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,440 About $5,500 worth. That's what I like to hear, Russell. 867 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,120 I like to hear those numbers. 868 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,440 A successful final few days in Nullagine 869 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:56,080 have boosted Shane and Russell's tally to over 9 oz. 870 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,840 They'll need their run of luck to continue 871 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,080 to reach their 20 oz target. 872 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,360 Kitty's going all right. We're going well. 873 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,560 We're in the game. Nullagine was a success. 874 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,280 Not a roaring success, but it was successful. 875 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,680 We started shakily and we finished well. 876 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:14,920 Subtitles by Deluxe