NARRATOR: This time, on Aussie Gold Hunters...
It's 40, 42 degrees.
It's hot as hell out here. I'm not gonna get that to beat me.
..the Ferals face off against dangerous summer heat
that could shut them down before they hit target...
There's a lot of stress building on us,
because we need gold, we need it now.
..but a last minute run of nuggets
could transform their final two weeks. (DETECTOR BEEPS) Ah!
That's blinking out of control, eh.
Look at that. (EXCLAIMS) Oh, no way.
That's the biggest piece of gold I've found in days.
In their final week...
It'll be nice to finish off the season with a nice gold bar.
..The Gold Retrievers chase deep-lying paydirt.
If we don't make target, it's over.
Man, it is scorching, eh? I can see you're struggling.
..before they're rocked by a medical emergency. Ah! Geez!
If we don't get his EpiPen, he could die.
And it's Marcus, Linden, and Dale's last chance to save their season,
using high-tech equipment on a remote salt lake...
There's a fair bit of area to cover, try and push as much as I can.
..but car thieves could ruin their final push.
Your car's gone, Marcus.
I'm coming, I'm coming.
(MUSIC PLAYING)
MAN: Is it worth wasting time on this, man?
Yeah, give us 30 seconds.
All right, hit the... fire it up.
(CLICKING)
Oh, mate, that... No, stop it.
Man... There's no fuel coming through here anyway.
In Western Australia's wild Pilbara region,
The Ferals have run into mechanical trouble
as they race to find new ground
before their season ends in two weeks' time
due to dangerous summer heat.
When you turn that one, you can hear the fuel pump priming up.
Yeah, we got one working four-wheeler and one bloody yanker.
One of their two quad bikes won't fire,
holding up their plans to recce the area's harsh terrain.
The honey hole that we've been working the last few weeks
is starting to peter out. You got to know
when to pull up stumps on an area, so we've decided to move on
and try new ground.
I'm better off just getting the drone up.
You're better off hitting the ground.
I can't even hear it. No.
All right, well, I might saddle up, get all my gear ready,
we'll try something else.
It worked fine when we put it on the trailer,
so whether it was rattled loose on the way out, I don't know.
Levi is just going to get out on the ground,
I'll get the drone up in the air,
and see if we can locate some other spots,
because we need gold, we need it now.
When you have breakdowns, you really just got to think on your feet,
so we'll just make do with what we got at the moment.
We got the drone up in the air, that will pinpoint some nice areas.
We're still a long way away from reaching our target,
but, you know, we just got to put in a few extra hours,
and, yeah, just cross our fingers and hope that we hold up.
Let's go on in there, hit up a couple of spots.
The ground looks OK.
Yeah, there's a lot of area here, but so much of it is not gold-bearing ground.
This is the colour of the rock and the geology that's there.
Now we really need to hit that 40-oz target,
if we don't get it, I can't see The Ferals going on for much longer.
This area here looks interesting.
I've got two creeks running into one,
and then all the way down to where there's been some old workings.
The amount of workings that's been done there,
there's got to be gold there.
The extensive diggings mean gold must have been found here,
and there could be more lying along the dried up creek.
At this point of the season, we can't waste any more time.
We got to get out there, and we need to hit the ground,
and find as many nuggets as we can.
You got a copy there, Levi?
Yeah, Ryan, how are you going?
Yeah, really good. I have found a really interesting place.
There's creek systems that run through
down into some old workings,
they're digging up gold down the bottom.
There's got to be gold all the way through that creek system.
Yeah, mate, I'm keen to check it out.
All right, buddy. I can access from the top,
if you want to come in from the bottom,
we can meet in the middle. Yeah, sweet, Ryan.
All right, let's go get some nuggies.
Last week,
The Ferals welcomed a new team member, Nathan Moncrief.
Yeah, I believe we got a good layer of nuggies under there.
But the team's 20-tonne digger broke down,
forcing Nathan to take it to a workshop
100km away for repairs
before the crucial final push of the season.
Hopefully, get this repaired down on this ramp,
and hopefully get this back out onto the lease as soon as we can.
Hopefully, Nathan's got that digger up and running,
it'll make all the difference to get that here.
We'll be finding at least ten ounces a week to try and make our target.
At the moment, we're really pushing that uphill.
This place looks really good. Very nice.
Get out there and see how we go.
It's just imperative that we really finish our season off with a bang.
We've got hope in this creek up, and hopefully, find a lot of gold.
So anything, really, that's gonna make our season.
Without getting our 40oz target, I won't be able to see my kids.
I want to put some money towards my children's future, and that's my goal,
is to be able to help my kids along in life,
and that's why I need to find gold.
I'm working every day towards starting a family at the moment,
Bridget's about six months pregnant,
so I'm just trying to find as much gold as I can
before it gets too hot to be out here.
Quite of a little target here. Come on.
Don't be a bit of rubbish, be a bit of gold.
We need an indicator.
Bring that 20-tonner up here and start digging.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) It's still in there.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) It's in the scoop. In the scoop.
Oh, look at that! (LAUGHS)
I can see it there on top.
(LAUGHS) You little ripper!
Such a good indicator for us, there's got to be more gold here.
Whoo-hoo. Ah.
Got the monkey off the back.
Yeah, it's got to be 45 degrees out here at the moment,
so we're gonna make the best of the time that we've got left on the ground out here,
and try and fill our pockets full of gold.
BRAD: This season for us is make or break.
I mean, you know, the season target that we've set
is absolutely the bare minimum,
so, yeah, look, I mean, if we don't even hit season target,
then I don't really see any way we can continue.
NARRATOR: At their Devil's Cut lease in remote western Australia,
The Gold Retrievers are starting their crucial final week,
before rising temperatures force them to shut down.
Right now, here, er, we're in the peak of summer,
so the heat is absolutely unbearable.
You know, we can get temperatures up to around,
you know, 45, close to 50 degrees,
but look, you've got to do what you gotta do.
Looks like your truck's coming there, Chris.
Yeah, mate. Can you see us up here?
Yeah, I can see you there amongst some of the dust.
I've convinced Brad that we should send out a truckload,
about 25 tonne, and have the processing done.
At the end of the day, we need to pull a profit out of that.
I sort of caved a little bit with Chris,
well, it's been a bit of an ongoing argument.
The pair are loading up rock
excavated from the bottom of their pit.
Chris is gambling that after it's crushed
and processed at a nearby plant,
it will deliver enough gold to help them hit target.
I'm not 100% in on it, but let's just get it done,
and hopefully that'll shut Chris up a little bit.
For us to send up a box sample, it's a huge risk.
I don't think there's enough gold in there
to, er, make it viable.
It'll be nice to finish off the season with a nice gold bar
coming back from this processing, eh?
No guarantees, but, yeah, it will certainly be nice to have.
You're always the optimist, aren't you, mate? Always the optimist.
It's better to stay alive to get my hopes up.
Brad and Chris started this season under huge pressure.
We've got a lot riding on it, mate.
We don't have any other income coming in, so this is it.
They suffered break-ins... Stop!
Go get him, Chris. Chase him, go. Go, go! ..and disputes.
I've got the paperwork for you to sign over to a mining lease...
Get it out of your arse. I'm not interested in signing to a mining lease.
If you want to do hard rock mining, do it your (BLEEP) self, all right!
I'm over it, man.
But the discovery of a fault line on their lease...
I didn't think it would be that clear,
you've got a contact zone, which leaves a gap,
hopefully, we've got a bit of gold up here, and happy days.
..means they're still in with a chance of success. (DETECTOR BEEPING)
Can see it already, buddy. Is that it?
That's gotta be the biggest, eh?
That front sand here you can start loading,
I'll load the back.
Yeah, roger.
The box sample's gonna cost us about five grand,
so we really got to make that back just to pay for the processing,
so, we got another couple of ounces to hit,
and not a lot of time to do it.
Well, I think that's about it, eh, Chris?
Looks good, mate. Got a good 23 tonne on there, I reckon.
I'm not concerned about what the truck's taking out, we need to meet targets,
so I'm chasing what we need to chase.
If we're gonna hit this target, it's just gone up a little bit.
I'm going to build a ramp down into the pit for Brad
and see what we can find.
So the plan this week is to dig inside the pits.
We'll build a ramp, we'll try and get the digger in there,
and we'll try to get to a lot of material
that we haven't been able to get to previously.
There's gonna be two or three quarter ounces in here before we got home.
We're gonna have to do, mate, otherwise we won't be banging here next year, that's for sure.
Hey, I'm missing the kids, eh. Mate, I've only spent about
six days home in the last three months.
Hope the kids still recognise me.
It's gonna be nice to go home, but it's gonna be nicer to go home if we at least hit target.
It's bloody hard being up here, you know what I mean? But I realise,
the work that we do, you know,
12 hours a day (BLEEP) in this stinking heat.
This week, we got to watch each other and these machines,
and try not to cook the machines, and try not to cook us.
We've got some... some real hard base here.
Look, I'd say that's like a granite sort of bottom,
so I'm assuming that the gold's not going to go below that.
If there's any gold, your mine will be on top of it,
so keep following that down.
Yeah, might even detect this ramp as well.
Yeah, it sounds good, mate. In the pit, there's a fall of granite,
it's nice and shallow at the top, then it sort of drops right off.
We found gold sitting just on top, if we can follow that down,
then see if the gold is sitting on top of it.
All right, Brad, it's all up to you now. Got your ramp down for you,
so you go and dig some gold up for us, mate.
All right, mate. It's what I do best.
So every little bit that comes out of there, I'm laying it all out,
just gonna through every inch of it.
It'll be tough. We're gonna have to work our bloody arses off now,
so we need to get cracking,
so hopefully, we spot the gold down here somewhere.
2 00:11:01.720 -- 00:11:04.360 align:middle line:58% position:50% LINDEN: You know, the season's end is almost upon us,
so, you know, I'm looking forward to getting out on this lake.
I've never detected on a salt lake,
so it's all new, and likely we find some gold on it.
NARRATOR: In the Western Australian gold fields,
brothers Marcus McGuire and Linden Brownley,
alongside prospecting partner, Dale Harring,
are spending the final week of their season
detecting a harsh five-kilometre long salt lake
called Red Lake.
The gold runs off from the landscape down into the lake,
so the likelihood of finding gold on lakes is very high.
No-one's really doing this sort of stuff this time of the year,
you know, it'll just be us out here,
so we just need to get in there, hit it hard,
and hopefully, come up with some good colour.
The trio are gambling that the extreme temperatures on the lake
have deterred other prospectors,
leaving them more gold.
The temperature's are getting way up into the 40s,
it's gonna be a lot of hard work.
Right now, I'm determined more than ever
to try and find gold out on this lake.
We'll be definitely working
and building up a bit of a sweat at the same time.
Tens of millions of years ago,
this area was dominated by powerful river systems.
This lake was part of the drainage system,
water flowed through here from higher ground,
potentially carrying gold now buried under layers of sediment.
We thought walking ped was tough, this will be harder.
Look at the ground that we've got to cover.
It's exciting, mate. Yeah, but we're gonna have to put the work in
because we're at the end of the season.
My brother and Aunty Dale are what's keeping me in this,
and, you know, supporting them.
This season, Marcus and Linden stepped up their operation...
Hey! How the heck did he get that?
..investing in machinery and a new lease,
alongside mentor, Dale... This puts us back in the game,
it's going to be able to clear a much bigger area
in a shorter amount of time.
..but their plans were left in ruins
when they were forced to return critical equipment.
I'm gonna have to take the loader back, I'm sorry to say.
This could definitely spell the end of our season.
The setback has left them with only four oz,
a long way off their 20-oz target.
MARCUS: It's devastating, you know, being this far into the actual season.
What's keeping me in this is my family,
and I still have that sort of drive to keep pushing forward.
I don't like giving up on things too easily.
Let's hope we pull up some gold from this lake, eh?
Let's get into it. DALE: Yeah. Come on.
Marcus, you have to help, we'll get down all the coil,
the drag coil, and all that out first.
To maximise the time left,
the team have borrowed specialised prospecting equipment.
This is what they call the big UFO.
Well, this is some high-tech equipment here.
That will still pick up small stuff, OK?
Just like you would a normal machine, but we're on a trolley.
The metre-long UFO coil will generate
a larger magnetic field than a standard-sized one,
detecting gold over a wider area and at a greater depth,
perfect for working open ground like a salt lake.
All right, I'm going. So just go out in a straight line.
The more coils we got running on the ground, the better.
There we go. Bring it back.
But you can help me and set the coil up. Yeah.
A drag coil, usually dragging behind a bike. That's tight.
And it just covers more ground, er, to find the targets.
You just have someone come up behind
with the smaller detector and dig it up,
so you're saving a lot of time.
Go get 'em, Aunty. Bring that gold back.
I better get hooked up with the detector.
We're basically ready to roll.
We need to do everything we have to do
to try and find gold to reach our target.
BRAD: This is the defining season, if we don't make target, then we're out.
There's no ifs or buts about it, it's over.
Oh, there's a target already.
That sounds like gold.
There we go. A little nuggie.
Literally, the first bucket of dirt that I put down,
I've picked up a nugget within not even three metres,
so that's a really good sign. See if there's more.
Push down on with this thing, I'm losing a bit of power here.
Hey, er, Chris, you got a copy there?
Yeah, go for Chris.
Mate, this digger seems to be dying.
Would you be able to bring me some tools down please?
Roger, on my away.
The last thing we need is another machine breaking down.
We need these machines running full time.
What seems to be the problem, Bradley?
I changed the fuel field yesterday, so just, uh, I reckon,
it might have air in the fuel system.
So I wanna crack the injectors out... Yeah. We need to get that air out.
I'm gonna undo all these injector lines to the injectors,
turn the motor over, and that will push that air out.
All right.
You all right to go, Chris? Fire in the hole.
(ENGINE CRANKING)
Shut it down! Eh!
What? I've just got a face full of diesel, mate.
Ah, right in the eyeballs, mate.
You all right? I've got to go and wash it up.
And I should be able to keep going, but, er,
yeah, hopefully he's all right.
Stinging like hell. Just get me back to the van, I'll wash it up.
It was a good shot. Short term, having some diesel in your eye,
it won't really hurt you. You've just got to wash it out quickly.
If you leave any diesel in your eye, it can seriously burn you.
Oh, that's better. Ah! Geez!
Ah! MAN: What's wrong?
Ah, I just got stung by something.
Is it a bee? Yeah, that's a bee sting.
Can you guys go and get my EpiPen? You're allergic to bees? Yeah. Yeah.
Just sit down. Brad, Myers, you got a copy?
Yeah, go ahead, mate. Can you come over?
Grab Chris's EpiPen, he's been stung by a bee.
Yeah, all right. All right, I'll do it.
I'll be there in a second.
In Australia, bee stings kill around two people every year,
the same number as snake bites,
and put twice as many people in hospital.
All right, do we need to get to a hospital?
Or do you... No, I need just stab it.
I'll just stab myself and see if it calms down, it should calm it straight down.
He gets stung by a bee, he goes into an anaphylactic shock
very, very quickly so,
we'll have to go back and get his EpiPen.
If we don't get this thing to him quick,
yeah, he could die.
Now one thing about the Pilbara heat,
it's just relentless, it doesn't give up.
You know, once it starts, you know it's coming.
The last thing we want to be doing is spending all day walking around this sun.
We're better off concentrating, targeting where the gold is, and digging it up.
The only way that's going to happen is if Nathan gets those excavators going.
In the wild goldfields of Western Australia's Pilbara region,
The Ferals' digger is still out for repairs,
leaving them no option but to detect for surface gold
over Spinifex-heavy ground.
LEVI: Hopefully, Nathan can fix the diggers.
It's all fun and games walking around,
but it's just gonna be so good being able to rip some of the spinning out of the way,
and get down to that gold layer.
Yeah, you can imagine how much ground that I can't detect.
The Spinifex is all overgrown.
Spinifex is a species of grass
that covers the arid Australian outback,
making detecting difficult if it's not cleared.
If we're gonna make our 40oz target this year,
you'd have the 20-tonner in the hole digging up,
chasing the creek line, clearing the Spinifex.
We're getting towards the end of the season,
it's getting hot, and a lot of hard work now.
Bridget and I are starting a family, so we need as much gold as we can
so that we can provide for the future of our kids.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) Speaking of gold,
we want to be able to find a few areas that's got gold in the ground,
so that we can just get straight in there and start moving dirt.
Oh, no way. It's gold.
There it is right there, sitting on top.
(CHUCKLES) That's... Hey, Ryan, I got a piece of gold, mate.
Probably about a gram, two grams.
(LAUGHS) You little ripper! Whoo!
That tells me we definitely got to dig that creek up.
Finally.
This creek's going to be a really good place to start.
We'll hopefully have the diggers out here,
and we can start ripping it up.
NATHAN: You two boys down there, got a copy?
Code man's back.
Come on over.
All right, guys, see you soon.
Hopefully, he's got good news about the digger.
Otherwise, I don't really want to hear about it.
All right, boys. How's it going? Good, mate. Good, mate, how'd you go?
Oh, man. Yeah, man.
I got some news. I got... he 20-tonner's good.
Is it? Yeah, bro. Good stuff, man. Well done.
Awesome. So when's it coming out? Hey, that's coming out tomorrow morning.
Is it? Yeah. Beautiful. Yeah. I'm excited about that 20-tonner.
We got a little spot down there,
we picked up a couple little nuggets, so...
Yeah. Nothing to brag about, but that is the right colour.
I don't know. What do we got? Whoo! Oh, yeah.
Let's get all the... we'll run you through the plan,
we're going to dig it out once the excavator gets here.
Let's get into it. All right.
That's my boy. We got to go find it.
(EXCLAIMS) Let's go, boys. Get some nuggies.
(EXCLAIMS)
There's a fair bit of area to cover, we're back on both sides,
but try and push as much as I can.
It's getting hot under the collar, she's warm out here.
Everybody else is starting to get warm together.
Marcus, Linden, and Dale are prospecting on a huge salt lake
using mobile drag coils.
LINDEN: To be out there in the 40s,
a salt lake is the last place to be,
but it's critical that we work together,
and, er, that we find some gold.
Our whole season is resting on
this last effort out here on the salt lake.
If we don't find any gold, then I'm best to just go back to my nine-to-five job,
because this just isn't cutting it out here.
With under a week left of their season,
the trio are hoping the extreme 45-degree summer heat
on the exposed salt lake has deterred other prospectors.
DALE: It beats walking for miles and miles,
at least the quad can cover so much ground within minutes.
Their new high-tech equipment
can also detect gold at greater depths,
while Linden backs them up with a smaller detector.
When you're running a coil that's so big,
and you're dragging one behind a quad bike,
you'll get the sound, you'll get the signal,
but what we need to do is pinpoint where that signal is.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) Ooh.
A bit of a signal there.
Hey, Linden, you got ears on?
Go, Aunty Dale. I've picked up a little target,
we need your machine to actually pinpoint it for us.
Obviously, my name's not Usain Bolt,
but I'll make my way over there as quickly as I can.
Come in, and hurry up.
Oh, give me a break, Aunty.
I know, I've got some water here for you to have.
Oh, it's not like a walk in the park. Have a drink.
Here, push the button. Yeah, push the button.
It's been pushing my button, I reckon. (CHUCKLES)
Did we get any gold? That sounded really good.
OK, let's check this out, eh. Got the size of that.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) (CHUCKLES) Hear that? That's metal.
(EXCLAIMS) Something's here. It's good here.
Something right in here, I think. (DETECTOR BEEPING)
Now, you've got it. You've got it in the scoop.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) Yes. Yes.
Wow! That's... Yay! (LAUGHS)
You beauty. Look at that.
Our first salt lake gold. You beauty.
I'm gonna have a break.
Can you pass that water to me, Aunty? OK.
Just meet us back at the car.
You need to be mindful, you know, when you're out in the bush,
particularly in this sort of weather.
The weather's hot, we don't have much time,
so, you know, we could push it hard,
but in this sort of weather, in these conditions,
you need to be careful.
Oh, hell, no.
Hey, you two, both got a copy?
We're receiving, mate, what's up?
Marcus' car... is gone.
I can only see your car where we packed.
You know, I'm coming there right now.
Something's seriously gone wrong.
2 00:24:09.360 -- 00:24:11.200 align:middle line:90% position:50% LEVI: Finally, you got the digger.
So we've just come out to the spot that we banged the bull horn,
It's gonna take me a little while to open it up,
so Ryan and Nathan are just having a swing around the area.
RYAN: Nathan's got that digger up and running,
that will make all the difference out here.
NARRATOR: In the scorching Pilbara region,
The Ferals are racing to clear ground
before it gets too hot to hunt for the $60,000 of gold they need
to make target.
It's gonna be hard. There's a lot of stress building up on all of us,
but, er, we just got to put our heads down
and keep it together.
It's getting pretty hot now, it's, er, probably around 40, 42 degrees.
There's not much breeze out there at the moment, so I'm feeling for the fellas.
It was hot as hell out here, man. I'm not gonna get that to beat me.
Phew! All right.
Whoa. See what we got then.
Come on, baby. (DETECTOR BEEPING)
Ah, you're kidding. (LAUGHS)
Oh, no way.
I don't even know what that weighs, that's pretty heavy.
Well, I'm gonna keep going.
Oh, that's about it.
We're only just getting into it,
so, really hoping, you know, there's a few kilos here.
You know, that's a big dream, but you've got to dream big.
With the recently returned digger,
Levi is exposing large sections of virgin ground
for the rest of the team to detect.
We got two creeks coming in here,
so I'll do this one, then walk over and do that one,
and hopefully, we get on the gold soon.
You know when it's getting hot when you're machine really starts to play up.
The heat affects them, makes them really noisy,
especially with the small gold, makes it really hard to find.
The Pilbara has highly-mineralized ground
with lots of ironstone.
High temperatures increase ironstone's conductivity,
causing detectors to pick up false signals.
You just gotta go low and slow,
concentrate, try not to leave anything behind.
(DETECTOR STATIC) Whoa.
(CHUCKLES) That...
That's blinking out of control, eh.
Whoo-hoo! Oh, that's out.
This is so much fun.
(CHUCKLES) Far out, man.
Oh, this is really good.
Man, that weighs, like, I don't know, man.
That would have to be close on half-an-ounce.
Oh, you beauty.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) Whoa!
Oh, mate, that is screaming.
Oh, look at that. You know, it's in these beautiful river sands.
Nice gravels.
Oh, look at that. (LAUGHS)
It's right there. Look at that!
(EXCLAIMS)
Mate, that's pushing us up.
This is the biggest piece of gold I've found in days, weeks.
All that effort that we've put in, Levi's digging like a madman,
and we're out swinging, picking up gold.
We're chipping away at that 40-oz target.
That's beautiful. That is a beautiful piece of Pilbara gold.
BRAD: Yeah, I've got it.
Are you all right? CHRIS: Yeah. Yeah.
It's definitely a bee sting, mate. I'm rashing up straight away.
Here you go, mate. You all right?
Were you were washing your face down there? Yeah.
In remote western Australia... (GROANS) That's a thick needle.
..Gold Retriever, Chris Smith, has suffered an allergic reaction
to a bee sting. (GROANS)
That's working a treat. You all right? Yeah.
The adrenaline's just making me tremble. Do you wanna get to a hospital?
The adrenaline from an EpiPen can stop an allergic reaction
by quickly decreasing inflammation.
It was lucky we're all here, mate, could have died.
You gotta sit down and relax, eh.
It takes a while for it to...
for the adrenaline to wear off as well.
Don't fall over... No, I'll be all right. ..and bust a hip.
(LAUGHS) All right, let's go relax, man.
There's no snakes here to worry about.
For the rest of the day, I could keep working.
We still need to make target, so I'm chasing what we need to chase.
The afternoon shift's arrived, has it?
Yeah, still not feeling the best,
but I can't let you hit target without me.
We need both of us to get this done.
After a three-hour break, Chris has recovered,
and The Gold Retrievers are back at full strength.
I'm glad you're up and about anyway, mate,
so, let's get stuck into it, eh. Yeah.
I'll jump in the loader and just go as hard as I can,
it's just getting roasting hot.
We promised our families we'd hit target this year,
so I'm gonna be very, very upset
if we don't get that target before we go home.
We wanted to get down to the bottom of the pit,
we've got granite level coming down,
so, I think I've just hit that,
I don't think I can get through it.
Yeah, that's starting to get really hard now.
This is pretty much the end of the rope.
Damn, why pull out there? There's no point going in.
So, I think we're gonna...
We got a heap of dirt to get through, lay out in the side.
I'll park up, and I'll come up top and grab the detector.
Chris spreads the paydirt into 15cm pads
for The Gold Retrievers to detect,
their last chance to find gold this season.
All right, so this is it. I'll go at this, hopefully, we can find a bit of gold.
We've gotta try and keep hydrated as well,
that's probably the biggest danger out here, the temperature, so...
you know, that's something we need to be aware of.
(DETECTOR BEEPING)
That's a good signal.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) It's in the scoop.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) Oh, yes.
Whoo-hoo! A bit of gold.
Ah, I'll tell you what. That's so good...
That'll be at least two grams there, two or three grams.
These are the sort of finds we need. Let's hope there's a heap more.
This heat's really knocking us around at the moment,
but we got a season target to hit,
so, I'm going to push the machines to the limit,
push us to the limit, and get this job done.
So it's nice to find gold, for sure,
but I certainly don't want to die doing it.
When it gets to these sort of temperatures,
you need to watch what you're doing.
But we need to make season target,
so this is what's going to either make us or break us.
Come on, you people, get over here. Your car's gone, Marcus.
Four people, this just had to happen to us.
In the last place they'd expect thieves,
Marcus and Linden's car has been stolen
while the team was searching for gold 500m away.
DALE: I could hardly hear cos I had the headphones on.
Your car's gone. Yeah... I'm gonna need this.
Yeah, yeah, no problem.
MAN: Keep that camera going. Take that way.
Hang on.
You can see the tracks is going that way.
Hopefully, we'll catch them.
If we can't find them, that's gonna be the end of us.
That's it.
Is that one or two tracks?
That's two tracks, man. Two.
Keep your eyes out there. I am, I am.
Marcus, it's cutting back around over here. Yeah.
Take it easy, man. Yeah, I will, Linden.
What's out there?
Hey, that looks like it there.
Can you see anyone over there, or is it just your car?
No. Nobody around.
What the heck is going on?
Like they've just been having fun,
that's all they've been doing around here.
(SIGHS) Hurry up.
Your detector is still here.
Oh, damn. Stupid kids.
People come out here, get a joy riding around.
You do get some young punks out here
who come out and think they can touch other people's stuff.
(ENGINE CRANKS) All right.
Get in there, man. Get in there, give it a bit of juice... stuff.
That's it. Give it a bit of herbs.
She's sweet, mate.
Oh, good thing it's running.
All right, you're gonna drive her back?
You know, you get idiots that run amok all day, and pin something off you.
(GROANS) Stupid kids.
But I never thought that this would happen to us.
If this car had rolled, that would have been done.
That would have been game over.
BRAD: It's starting to get a bit too hot for this.
I'll go as long as I can, but I don't want to get dehydrated, that's for sure, so...
OK, yeah, for a bit longer, but...
It's the final day of The Gold Retrievers' season.
The pair are battling to uncover the nuggets they need
to hit their 30-oz target.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) That's a hell of a signal. (EXCLAIMS)
Let's see what it is. (LAUGHS)
I can see it. Holy crap!
I reckon that'll be pushing half-an-ounce, easy.
I'll tell you, I'm pissing out sweat,
but, mate, that makes it all worthwhile.
Hey, Chris, pull up for a second.
I've got something to show you.
Check that one out.
That's a good-size nugget.
Do you want to have a break? Jump in the cabin? Yeah, I'll tell you,
I'm bugging. A bit warm. Absolutely bugging.
It is scorching. I can see you're struggling.
See if you can find a few of these. Yeah. We need them.
I've only been out of the cab for a couple of minutes,
and I'm already roasting. This sun is a killer.
Each day is just getting hotter and hotter. It's all for the gold.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) That's a target.
It's at the bottom of the scoop somewhere.
There we go. That's a good three, four grams, that one.
That'll look nice when it's cleaned up.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) (LAUGHS)
Hey, Brad, I just hit another target.
Dig it up, dig it up.
(LAUGHS) Oh, there she is.
A bit smaller, but it's still gold.
You know, it's tough out here. Everything out here,
with the environment and all that is working against you.
When you stop sweating, you know you've got a serious problem,
that's going into heat stroke.
I don't know how much more I can do of this. Little bit to go.
I'll smash this out, and go and have a break, I think.
It's warm again, mate? Mate, I'm cooking.
(DETECTOR BEEPS) Are you kidding me?
This is all yours, mate. I can't even bend down. (LAUGHS)
I reckon I can. All right, mate.
You might have to help me back up. (LAUGHS)
Is it about here? Yeah, about there somewhere.
(BEEPING) Yeah, you got it in the scoop, for sure. Thank Christ for that.
It's a nice sound. There it is. There, look at that.
Mate. That's a good one.
Holy crap. Look, mate, in all honesty,
it's extreme heat, it'll only get hotter,
so I'll say we call it before one of us gets hurt.
Yeah, it would cook the loader... Yeah. ..it would cook us,
Now the heat has shut down Brad and Chris' operation...
Well, it's a wrap. All right. Let's call it? Yeah.
..the last chance of adding to their tally,
is at a plant 40km away,
where 23 tonnes of rocky paydirt they couldn't process
is being crushed to see if it contains gold.
It's a huge risk, but let's hope that we make a profit out of it.
Let's go and have a weigh up, and I'll finish it off... Yeah. ..find out. Yeah.
I just need a big, tall drink of water.
2 00:35:59.080 -- 00:36:01.480 align:middle line:90% position:50% LINDEN: No-one wants to see their stuff taken away,
so we're just happy that everything is back,
you know, we've got the detectors, you know, our season isn't over.
I want to get back on this, start hitting this quartz,
I'm just a bit inquisitive to see what's in here.
NARRATOR: After recovering their car,
it's the last few hours of Marcus and Linden's season.
We're back on the salt lake now,
I'd probably not walk as far as we were.
It's definitely a lesson that's been learned pretty quick.
So far, they've failed to get much closer to their 20oz season target.
(DETECTOR BEEPING) I think I'm onto something right here. Oh, that sounds good.
I've got family that are relying on me,
er, my kids, partner.
This will be nice if there's something here,
I don't like giving up on looking for gold.
I'll never stop looking for it.
Oh, look at that, sitting right up on top.
That's definitely lifted my spirits
after the drama that I had today,
and that's what we're out here, eh.
It definitely is a mood changer
when you see a shiny thing like that.
Whoo-hoo.
Well, I'm onto some good colour.
Who knows what else might be here.
Oi, yo, bring it in, guys.
Oh, she's been a warm one. Sure has.
It's good to have a bit of shade. Aye.
How are you feeling, mate? Ah.
Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
After a punishing final week on the salt lake,
Marcus, Linden, and Dale are about to find out
if their efforts rocketed them to their 20oz target or not.
Talk about tough season, man. Well, it is what it is, mate.
Let's weigh it up. Yeah. OK, let's put them on there.
Some nice, shiny little pieces there.
Look at that. Oh.
Beautiful. That's all? But we still found something.
Well, you know, I went out for a walk up in the hill,
Did you now? Yeah. I was wondering where you disappeared to.
Then chuck that one down on, and weigh that up.
That's beautiful. Yeah. (LAUGHS)
There's someone here to pick up the game. Thanks.
Chuck her on all, too. Beautiful.
Beautiful crystalline gold.
Look at that mix-up. A beautiful specimen, man.
It's pretty solid there,
so possibly, I reckon about ten grams of gold in that.
Beautiful, rigging out the money. Now this one's pretty light,
you do have a few little chunks in there. Yeah.
Maybe guessing three or four grams. Yeah.
The specimens, gold veins encased in quartz,
will add an estimated $1,000 to their tally.
So you're saying it will mean... This is a beauty.
we've got... About 14 grams. Maybe half-an-ounce...
That's what I'm saying. ..when you look at it that way.
Across the season, the trio have uncovered under five oz,
worth less than $12,000,
well-short of their 20oz target.
We've thrown what we've got on the scales,
we're just short a quarter of our target,
and... But, look, at the end of the day,
we definitely had an eventful, but enjoyable experience out here.
You know, any way I can help my brother,
and, you know, Aunty Dale out,
is a time well spent.
No reason to hang up the detectors yet,
next season will be bigger and better,
we start heading out a bit further,
places that we hear of that's got good gold everywhere.
Hopefully, next year we get the mother lode,
and when you start putting the numbers up on the table
to show everybody it's there, we just need to walk on it.
OK. All righty. All right. Ride off into the sunset.
Time to weigh the gold in.
I've been looking forward to this, eh.
Mate, that's been epic. Yeah.
Hey, man! It our favourite time of the week, buddy. Come on.
After a tough start, The Ferals turned their week around,
and opened up promising new gold ground,
Here we go, mate. Have a listen to that.
Wow. (LAUGHS) Hey, you guys have been hard at it.
Put your hand out fellow. (LAUGHS)
Oh, look at that. You're right.
Plenty of gold in that one, too.
But I'm pretty keen to weigh this up.
Ha-ha! Look at that, baby. Pour it out.
Chunks? Yes. Go on.
(EXCLAIMS)
Seven point one ounces, fellas. (LAUGHS)
Oh, yeah.
I didn't think we were gonna make it that far there. Good job.
Good stuff, man.
The Ferals have put their biggest haul of the season on the scales,
worth nearly $18,000.
With one week left,
they need over 18oz to make target.
We haven't got much time to go, so we just got to crack on, mate,
if we've got any hope of getting that 40oz target,
we need to work day and night. Yeah, man.
I'm pretty keen to get into it after a big, old drink of water.
Oh, yeah. How about you boys?
I'm keen as, like... Have a look at that nugget I found,
I know there's one down there waiting.
Got a little brother or a big sister... It's got a big sister.
I'll be happy with the cousin, mate.
To be quite honest, I want the whole family, mate.
Yeah, I want the whole family. (EXCLAIMS)
All right, let's pack it up, and let's get into it.
Ha-ha! Good weigh in, boys.
Good weigh. (LAUGHS)
CHRIS: This will look good. All right.
Final weigh-in of the season. I'm excited.
This is gonna be unreal. What do we need to make target?
We need 2.7oz to hit target. To hit target.
Let's find out. Man, I'm not waiting any longer.
It's stinking hot here. Proof's in the jar. Come on.
If Brad and Chris don't make target,
they will sell up and end their mining operation.
What a hard work there, is that real? But it's paying off.
That is so good. And, and...
What else you got? I picked up our bar.
Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah, look at that. So that's from the truckload.
That really paid off, getting that processing done.
Yeah, now that's good. It's still profit. Eh, it's money.
Chuck it on, bro. Chuck it on. Let's see what we've got.
Holy dole-y! We have smashed it.
Yeah, baby! Whoo-hoo! (LAUGHTER)
Brad and Chris have rocketed past their season target,
with a huge 7.3oz haul,
worth over $18,000.
We're proper miners. We're officially miners.
We are, mate. We know how to find gold.
Worthwhile sending that truck in there. That was, that was 100...
I can't wait to go home and see the family,
they're gonna love this, let's have a beer to celebrate.
That deserves a beer. Absolutely.
That deserves a beer. A few beers.
Well done, mate. Well done.
That tastes even sweeter, doesn't it? Yeah.
We had problems along the way,
but we come out stronger in the end, that's the main thing,
we'll be back next year, bigger and better than ever, I reckon.
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