This time, on Aussie Gold Hunters...
Don't back off. Keep going, keep going.
..forced from their flooded lease,
the Poseidon Crew head to the high country of Victoria
to keep their season alive...
I can't take my foot off the brake.
Otherwise we'll fly down the hill and have no car.
(MACHINE WAILS) Whoo-hoo!
Put that in your hand, Eth.
..but their perseverance pays off with a bounty of mountain gold.
This is what we came here for, mate.
Alan and Salty come head-to-head
with the dangers of the deadly Pilbara region...
Jesus.
There was a big snake.
I think that was a big king brown.
What is going on? I don't like this.
..and risk their safety on remote flooded tracks...
Look at that!
..to uncover the biggest nugget of their mining careers.
Yeah... (LAUGHS)
That's so epic.
Few nuggets. That's about it.
We need a hell of a lot more than that.
Halfway through their season, the Gold Devils face financial ruin.
Nope, bust.
We are not even a quarter of the way into our 1,000oz target.
(GASPS)
No way!
But a promising discovery could
deliver them a million-dollar payday.
There is 1,000oz in the ground if we can get it.
What are you still doing standing here?
So the plan is, we want to get back to these areas up here
we couldn't get to last season because the snow got us.
Why this spot because there's plenty of spots on this map, mate?
Well, because the history shows
they've found nuggety reef gold up there.
Right.
Nuggety specimens.
I just believe, mate,
this high country is holding some buried treasures
like you wouldn't believe.
Yep, there's a tree across the road.
What do you expect, mate?
We are up in the high country here.
That will be the first of many I think, buddy.
It sort of split there.
Maybe we cut her off here.
We cut it into small sections and just roll it out of the way.
I think so, mate.
Do you want to grab the saw?
It's definitely the long way round.
It just got longer.
The Poseidon Crew Brent Shannon and brother-in-law Ethan West have
been forced to venture 350km deep
into the remote high country of Victoria.
After torrential rain left their mining operation
at Catto's Paddock unworkable.
It's treacherous terrain, it's dangerous terrain.
You got to have your wits about you.
You got to have everything prepared.
It's not for the fainthearted up here in the high country.
Job done. Now we're back on the trail.
Let's go find some gold.
That's why you always need to bring a chainsaw.
Yeah.
Jeez, I love it up here, mate. It's bloody beautiful, mate.
Oh, mate. I know.
We just need to find some gold up here. That's the issue.
It's beautiful up here but I just, we've got the wedding.
I'm thinking about, I want some money for that.
Yeah, I know.
There's no consistency and it's frustrating me, mate.
It really is, to tell you the truth.
I know. The bills don't stop.
I get it. The gold's not coming in...
I understand it.
I feel it too.
This snow's starting to get really deep here, buddy.
You're right, Eth.
Last season, Brent and Ethan's first attempt
to reach historic gold ground was shut down by heavy snowfalls.
You're done, mate.
It's too thick for us.
We're going to try to avoid the snow this time, mate.
Stay below that snowline. There's a long way round it.
We tried to take the shortcut last time
but obviously got stuck in the snow.
The pair are taking the treacherous Kelly Creek track
but to avoid the snow-capped peaks will mean a four-hour detour.
Up here, mate, we'll have a river crossing coming up too.
Yeah, right.
I just hope, with all this rain we've had,
the rivers aren't swollen up too high.
Hopefully we can get across, Eth.
It's up a bit but doesn't look too bad.
Beautiful.
Virtually blue skies before and now we've got rain again.
We are in the high country in the winter, mate.
If we can get there, I'm telling you, the history's there, mate.
Nuggety specimen gold they found.
I just hope you're not chasing another fairytale.
After Victoria's gold rush of 1851,
the demand for virgin ground pushed prospectors
to hand over 1.5km high in these mountains.
Using basic tools,
they pulled out gold worth over $10 billion at today's prices.
Brent and Ethan hope to reach the more remote gold zones
and using modern detectors, find nuggets the old-timers missed.
Looks like it's getting a little bit more gnarly now, Eth.
Did you research on the tracks too?
Not really.
I know - I can tell.
That's getting nasty, mate.
Don't back off.
Keep going, keep going.
(ENGINE REVS)
Oh, mate.
(SIGHS)
Yeah, got no traction.
I think we're going to have to winch up to there, mate.
Mate, you're going to have to do everything here, buddy.
I know.
I can't take my foot off the brake
because we'll slide back down the hill.
What I'm doing now is I'm hooking up the winch.
I'm just hoping this is the only part.
So am I, mate. You're the one sitting in the car.
Yeah, I can't do much about that
otherwise we'll slide down the hill and we'll have no car.
It's like it just doesn't want us to get there, mate.
All right, mate.
I'm pretty much ready to head off.
All right, no worries.
Nearly finished setting the heights on the conveyor belt.
Nearly ready to fire up now.
Keep making those adjustments that we talked about earlier.
Yeah, hang fire.
I'll be back in a day.
If they haven't found any gold up there,
I'll be dragging them back here, mate.
We've got gold here. We need to produce it.
We've got plenty of dirt here. All right.
The Phoenix Project's pretty much set up ready to run now.
I'm going to jump in the car.
I'm going to head to the Fair Lady lease,
see how Mel and Alex are going and if they're not having any luck,
then best to get all the troops back here
and start smashing the tons out.
So far this year, I think we are already
about halfway through the season
and to be honest, we literally only probably banked about 140oz.
It's just not good enough.
So we really do need to focus on where the gold is
and start stacking those ounces up.
If we don't do that pretty quickly,
We're probably gonna go broke.
In Western Australia, Paul Mackie has
left cousin Darren to run the Gold Devil's Phoenix Project operation.
While he makes a 5-hour drive to the 3 square kilometre Fair Lady lease.
We are just opening up the ground in between the shaft to see if we can
find any spessies in there.
We've got the local contractor Simmo
helping us as an excavator.
Alex is in the loader so it's good to have some help here
while Darren and Paul are back at the other lease.
It's kind of a treasure hunt.
The more ground we open,
the chance we could find something that the old boys missed.
Team members Melanie Wood and Alex Stead
with hired hand Simmo are excavating ground between old mine shafts.
They want to locate a gold rich quartz reef
that has produced over $8 million worth of gold in the past.
With a lot of machinery, we can move a lot of earth.
Hopefully, we'll uncover something really special
that will prove this lease
is basically going to turn our season around.
Hi, Paul.
Paul and Mel with partner Alex formed the Gold Devils.
With a combined 10 leases between them
and mining equipment worth $2 million.
After running costs every month which is $50,000,
we're going to need a lot of gold to make this partnership work.
They set themselves an ambitious goal to achieve
a massive 1,000oz, $2.6 million season target.
But after crippling delays and major damage to the Phoenix project,
the team are now on the verge of collapse.
There's a lot of pressure.
The longer we're not processing, the longer we're not making money.
We're just spending it.
Alex. What have you got?
I found a whole heap of blue quartz at the top of the mineshaft.
But last week, their first exploration at the Fair Lady lease
showed they could be close to finding the gold reef.
We got work to do.
OK.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Oh...
That's a signal.
That sounds good.
Quite hard ground.
That's a good sign.
It's still in the ground.
Chuck us a pick.
Let's just open this right up.
It had a really nice sound to it.
All right.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Oh, yeah. (LAUGHS)
Still in the ground.
Ooh.
That's what we want.
That's what we're here for.
All right.
Let's make this a proper hole.
No way.
No way?
(LAUGHS)
Oh, my God.
Whoa.
This too.
Two?
Oh, we've broken it in half.
That used to be one.
So that is gold holding that rock together?
Yeah. That's got a lot of gold in it.
Look at it.
It's just hanging off there.
That's really heavy for a bit of quartz, isn't it?
Feel the weight of both of those.
So you reckon there's more gold in there.
Shall we go break it open and just have a look?
Ready?
See...
I love this part.
It's got cracks in it.
I can't break it.
(GASPS)
No way.
That's absolutely unbelievable.
The Pilbara region, an arid tropical wilderness
twice the size of the United Kingdom.
Sparsely populated,
this vast mineral landscape produces
over half $1 billion of gold every year.
This is ridiculously murky.
I can't even see the front of the detector.
It's here that prospecting partners Alan Williams
and Caleb 'Salty' Davenport have mounted a six-week expedition
banking on Alan's mining experience
and Salty's outback knowledge,
the team are targeting undetected areas
of the Pilbara region in search of big gold.
We've both taken a big chance to go further
than anyone's gone before up here to find gold.
Always got to give the spot a really good nudge
to target every possible means of trying to find some gold.
Whether it be planning, underwater, big detector, little detector.
So we can walk away.
Bit disappointing.
15oz is our target.
We've got 12 more to get
and, it's a beautiful spot,
but we've wasted just over a day here
and no luck at all.
Got a copy, mate?
Yeah, gotcha.
Let's move on, eh?
Yeah, I'm in the same boat with you there.
I found nothing over here.
Let's just hope this next spot's better than this.
Well...
for gold anyway.
The pair want to search remote waterways
throughout the Pilbara region where gold shed millions
of years ago by shifts in the Earth's tectonics could have been deposited.
We kind of have to go out this way
because, if we go out the other way, it's literally a day and a half.
Yeah, OK.
A day and a half fuel, a day and a half in time
that we are not looking for gold.
Yeah, all the outgoing costs on both of our end too, you know.
The team are spending over $400 a week
just on fuel so they are counting on Salty's knowledge
of the area to shortcut their journey and save them time and money.
I've got this dream of getting
this block of land down south.
Every month, every year that that kind of eludes me,
it's going to be more and more expensive,
harder to reach that goal.
The sooner I find the gold, it'll be a dream come true.
Yup. Good goal to have.
Get a little veggie garden, mate. Some chooks roaming around.
Yeah, I'm imagining it.
Surf just down the road.
How about you, mate?
I want a nice mining operation going.
Myself and one or two other people.
I do want a warehouse as a base so I can have people working for me.
We'd just be out exploring, finding paydirt basically.
Living the dream in the desert, mate.
Living the dream.
Let's get to this spot.
Let's do it. Let's do it.
Man, this is epic.
Last week, the pair began their off-grid expedition
camping at an isolated gorge.
Fresh tucker.
And using their $3,500 dive unit,
Alan was able to reach never before detected ground.
(MACHINE WAILS) You beauty.
I got it.
Whoo-hoo!
Oh, my God.
You beautiful little thing.
And after scanning the riverbed...
Oh, I can see it!
Mate...
The team's first gold haul of the season delivered a healthy return.
2.8.
Mate... Whoo-hoo!
Oh (BLEEP)
Oh...
Oh, mate. Are you kidding?
Mate... Not expecting that.
That's not a crossing. That's a river.
That is a river.
Yeah, nah.
We can't get through that one.
Let's have a look.
Mate, I can't even see around that bend.
If that's the way we're meant to go.
Yeah.
I don't want to lose a day and a half.
(SIGHS)
Let's just do it. Let's just do it.
Yeah? Let's do it.
I'm keen.
Got to live on the edge on this one. Let's do it.
I got your back.
That's what I like.
All this for gold!
Mate, it will get us there.
It will get us to the gold.
Ready?
I guess. I'm taking your word.
All right, we are in. We're in.
Mate, that's pretty deep.
Man...
We should be in a boat right now.
I'm fricking holding the steering wheel so tight.
What is going on? What is that?
Why is it rocking?
I don't like this.
Mate, you've got to keep going.
I don't like this.
You've got to go.
No, no, no.
What is going on?
So what it now is slowly get this winch out as fast as we can.
Which is not very fast.
We've got to get it up as high as we can
and hopefully pull ourselves up.
Hopefully.
I strongly believe somewhere up here in the high country,
there is so many hidden treasures to be found,
it's hard to get to, its steep terrain, it's wet,
it's gnarly, it's dangerous.
We are trying to get to the spot that we couldn't get to last year
because the snow stopped us.
The Poseidon Crew are battling the remote high country of
Victoria after heavy rain left their Catto's Paddock mine site unworkable.
But the treacherous slopes have stopped them in their tracks.
I don't have high hopes for making much money.
To try to find gold, you've got to be swinging from the coil.
When you're not doing that, you're just wasting time up here.
Give it a pull, mate and hopefully the winch can get us out of here.
I'm good to go now, mate, when you are.
(ENGINE LABOURS)
You can see, he's got zero traction.
(ENGINE REVS)
No, he's got no traction.
He's going to give it another crack.
He'll get up onto this ledge.
Whoo-hoo!
There you go.
This is better than digging at Catto's isn't it, mate?
I just want to make money.
I know you want to make money. We'll make money. We'll be right.
It's the thrill of the hunt, mate.
Yeah.
Imagine when we start finding some gold.
That will be thrilling.
That's exactly why I want to come up here. It's hard to get to.
Mate, if it was easy, guess what,
every man and their dog would have been there.
It's not easy so that's why I want to get there.
I just hope we don't get another hill like this or even worse.
Yeah, fantastic.
Can't wait.
So this is the spot here, mate.
Where we're coming into right now.
All the mines start here. Beautiful.
They start here.
Let's just pray that we actually find something.
Yeah, after two attempts to get in here.
This is as good as anything.
I suppose, mate.
Might as well get going.
Might as well just start here and work our way along this reefline.
Sounds good, mate.
This is exactly what I'm looking for.
That's a reefline.
See here, the old boys have actually come in,
they found it on the surface and they've come down in here.
This is hard solid bedrock.
They were actually lying flat
with big massive upheavals and they actually stood on their ends.
The earth got crunched when the tectonic plates moved
and went bang.
It created a crack here between here
and here and it's been filled with quartz.
You can actually see a bit of the quartz through here.
That's what the old boys are finding.
They've tunnelled under there getting the ore body out.
They were doing this by pick and shovel.
There was no machinery here, mate.
(MACHINE WAILS)
I reckon this is gold.
Sounds like gold.
I don't think this is rubbish.
(MACHINE WAILS)
It's out.
(MACHINE WAILS)
The anticipation is killing me.
(MACHINE WAILS)
It's gold.
It's gold!
Whoo.
Rightio.
And that is a little rough nugget.
Not that heavy.
Probably round just over a gram.
It's been hard to get to the spot.
If we're winching up hills, getting across creek crossings,
tough tracks and terrain,
I think Ethan was starting to doubt
if it was worthwhile getting here
but, you know what,
it actually looks like it might start paying off.
We might pick up something special here.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Yeah, it's a target.
Definitely a target.
I'm a bit hesitant of what it could be.
I'm hoping this is a bit of gold.
Oh, it's out.
There it is.
Wow. That is a big bit of gold that's a ripper.
Wow, that's good.
That there, that's probably over an ounce. Ounce and a quarter maybe.
Ounce and a half bit.
That's...
Yeah, that's actually shocked me.
There's gold here.
I've never seen anything like this before.
Oh, my God.
That's just almost solid gold in there.
That's ludicrous. If we find the vein that this came from...
Oh, my God.
That's life-changing.
Maybe $5,000 in that rock, possibly $10,000.
It's somewhere in that ballpark.
That's a lot of gold.
At their Fair Lady lease, Gold Devils
Mel and Alex have found a gold spessie.
A quartz rock embedded with gold.
Strong evidence the host reef could be close by.
Well, now we know this is here, let's go and get some more.
OK. Come on.
Simple as that?
Yes. Let's go.
Yes, ooh, ooh, ooh.
While hired hand Simmo continues
to excavate the site, partner Paul Mackie has made a five-hour drive
from their main mining operation the Phoenix Project.
Hey, Paul.
Hey, Mel.
Glad that drive's over.
Yeah, I imagine.
I found a nice big spessie.
Oh, really? Yeah, you want to see it?
Yeah (BLEEP).
How's the wash plant going?
Good. Everything is pretty much ready to rock 'n' roll over there.
Oh, awesome.
Right, this is parts of it.
Beautiful.
So, yeah, full of gold.
Oh, is this all just from one rock?
Yeah. Look, it's all in there.
And nothing else?
Nope.
That's a shame.
Pretty much ready to wrap this one up or...
After finding that spessie, I think we are pretty close.
We do have the other project ready to rock 'n' roll.
It's just if we hit it here...
Oh, yeah. We could hit the mother load.
There's no doubt about it
but realistically,
we're not even a quarter of the way into our 1,000oz target
and we are already halfway through the season.
I don't know. I just think we are really close.
The clock's ticking, we're that far into the season already
and the gold tally
is still sitting very, very low
so hopefully they come up trumps with something.
If not, we're out of here.
Just hold up there for a second, mate.
There is actually a fair bit of blue quartz in here so...
He might have actually just cracked straight onto it.
Do you see some blue quartz through there?
Yeah. Yup.
Oxidised copper gives the blue quartz its unique colour.
Copper and gold are often found together
making blue quartz a good indicator that this ground is gold rich.
If it is, that's what we are looking for.
It's not very wide.
Oh, yeah. That looks like it. Absolutely.
First cut, you hit it right on the head.
Right on the head.
That's the blue quartz we're looking for.
That's in.
Yeah, we went looking for the blue quartz vein,
the one that's showing really good gold
and the first little cut there,
looks like we might have hit the vein
so just going to crash it up
and hopefully it gives us a good sample
and hopefully there's a good trail of gold in it.
Let's hope there's something in it.
If there is, we could be onto something.
So who's planning? You or me?
It's in your hands.
(LAUGHTER)
I already see gold.
Really?
Yeah.
Check that out.
Yes.
That's not bad.
That's loaded with gold.
It was only a half kilo rock.
We could have thousands of tonnes of that
so there is 1,000 ounces on the ground if we can get it.
What are you still doing standing here?
All right, go on.
This gold better be worth it, man.
What is going on?
Why is it rocking?
Whoa...
The water is way above the wheels, mate.
Whoa...
This is nuts.
There is a wave in front of us.
Whoa.
Oh, mate.
We got this (LAUGHS)
Oh, man.
Whoo-hoo!
Oh, my God. Take us to the gold.
Let's go.
What was that like? That was 300m of water.
Yeah, I reckon that was a big gamble.
Huge gamble, mate.
But we gambled for the gold.
Oh, yeah.
Over 100km from the nearest town,
deep in Western Australia's Pilbara region,
rookie team Alan and Salty are targeting remote gold ground
where they hope no detectors have been before.
Watch out for snakes, mate.
Gotcha.
That's their home, right there.
I like the look of this area
because of the breakaway and all the hills right at the back here.
Lots of shedding of all kinds of rocks, minerals.
Hopefully there's gold.
A gold-bearing breakaway is a sloping rock structure
containing a gold reef.
Prolonged weathering exposed gold nuggets before heavy rains
wash them down into waterways
like the ones Alan and Salty are detecting.
This place is definitely untouched by a metal detector.
I don't reckon there's one ever been through this creek.
Oh, ow.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Something there.
Have a look, shall we?
Please, please, please be gold.
Oi, I can see it.
I can see it.
You're kidding.
How, it's a little nugget.
Oh, look at that.
What a little ripper.
Look at that little grammer.
Mate, that is so exciting.
I'm so rapt about that.
I knew there would be something here.
80 bucks for this.
That's good.
Finally on the board here.
This isn't going to pay for the warehouse but it all adds up.
Definitely not easy leaving the missus
and the family back home for this kind of extended period.
We've got these big dreams
of finding this block of land down south.
I came up here and promised her that...
I'm going to find some gold and help that dream come true.
Jesus!
There was a big snake having a drink of water.
It's just taken off into the reeds.
I think that was a big king brown.
Mate, you do not want to be tagged by one of those out here.
You'd be dead in (BLEEP) 20 minutes.
Have you got a copy, mate?
Yeah, mate. Gotcha.
There was a big king brown here.
He's just wriggled off into the bush.
Man, are you kidding?
So I'm going to head back to the car, mate. I'm not having much luck.
Sounds a bit dangerous if you're seeing snakes.
Yeah. I'll meet you back at the car.
I'm out of here.
Yeah, it's a bit sketchy.
Not viable, not enough gold and too much danger.
It's very high risk what we're doing out here and where we are.
We got some of the most venomous snakes in the world out here.
They can send you into sickness,
into cardiac arrest and very high chance of dying.
Especially when you're out in the bush and so far from hospital.
I don't want to risk it.
No, fair enough. I'm with you on that.
So we'll let them have their space and we'll keep moving.
You just don't want to play games with snakes.
It's like every third, fourth step,
you're getting a target and more importantly, it's gold.
(MACHINE WAILS) Another one.
I got one just there on the last past.
Nice strong target.
Ha!
This is what you live for.
We are onto a patch now.
I can assure you that right now.
The Poseidon Crew's risky push
into the freezing 2 degree Celsius conditions
of high country Victoria is starting to pay off.
You've got to just love that sound, don't you?
This actually sounds all right, this place.
Look at that.
Have a look at that.
That's a heavy chunk.
Feel the weight.
That's the biggest by far.
That's a solo bit too.
This has got to be a couple of ounces, this piece.
That's a ripper.
Ha!
This is starting to add up.
We are not getting grams now.
We're getting ounces.
It's starting to actually excite me. We are onto some gold here.
We've got a few bits of gold now.
That's not bad at all.
That's paid its way plus a little bit more.
Risk versus reward, this has been rewarding.
Ripper.
There's pieces all over the slope here at the moment.
There's another one.
This is actually a nice, strong piece, this one.
This sounds like a good bit, this one.
Considering we are getting gold all over here, 2oz bit there.
Another little bit there.
This is promising.
(MACHINE WAILS)
I'll call Ethan.
Hey, Eth. Come up here, bud. I got a decent target here, mate.
It's still in the ground, mate.
Amongst tree roots and bedrock.
Yeah, I'm coming, mate. I'm coming.
(MACHINE WAILS)
I got a decent target here.
There's some good gold here, Eth.
Don't stand there.
Down there. Dig.
Oh, watch your wrists, mate. Don't break your wrist.
Last thing we need.
Look at that. Chunks of sandstone.
Bedrock.
Pinpoint it now, mate, for me?
Pinpointed.
It's still in there.
It's not a bad target.
Do you want me to do it now?
Yeah, have a crack, mate.
It's out, Eth.
Where are you, you beauty, where are you?
I got a decent target here.
Here.
Feel the weight.
(LAUGHS)
Whoo! Put that in your hand, Eth.
Have a look at that.
That's a ripper, mate. That's a chunk.
Give me a look at it.
Sorry, mate.
That's probably a $10,000 nugget right there, my friend.
That is what we are talking about, Ethan.
This is what we came here for, mate. Have a look at that.
That has made the trip worthwhile. I can assure you.
Mwah!
Get out of here.
We are making money now, mate.
How did you go, guys?
Well, Paul just showed me a decent amount of gold
in the pan from one rock.
Good trail like that.
Oh, well.
Looking at the pan, that could be a couple of ounces to the ton.
I'm going to take more rocks over
and crush them up to make sure it wasn't a one-off.
Couple of kilos of rock, I'll let you know.
Good stuff.
First cut through this new area
and we've hit blue quartz and it's got gold in it.
That's what we're chasing.
We were after the reefs that were loaded with gold
and it's only narrow but it's right here.
All right, show me this gold.
Need to see... I can see gold in the panel ready.
Oh my God, yeah. I can see it from here.
Look at the chunk there.
It's a nice little nugget.
You'd be ecstatic if you stumbled
across that out in the middle of the bush.
Yeah.
The question is do we have the time to put
into trying to find a substantial quantity of that to make it viable?
I'm excited to get back out here
but, 1,000oz target, we really need to be getting gold now.
Yup.
A lot more of it.
Agreed.
The Gold Devils have struck a vein
of gold-rich blue quartz on their Fair Lady lease.
But recovering it would mean moving in crushing equipment
costing the team over $60,000 and taking four weeks to set up.
We can't waste any more time, really can we?
We've got hundreds of ounces already proven up the other projects,
sitting on the deck.
We've got to get through that.
I would like to have someone here just to keep the exploration going.
What do you think about hitting up Simmo? He's a local.
He is using his gear here already.
See if he wants to work out a deal with us
and keep looking for pockets like this.
We can get back and actually start producing gold and make some money.
And we've got someone else doing this for us up here.
The process is a little bit faster.
Yeah, I like that.
Let's go find Alex and have a chat with him.
It is kind of like a chess game.
You got to move your pawns into position
ready for the battlefield.
When you're ready, just strike each location
and keep moving for that big win.
That's what we are aiming to do.
It's been a very slow start.
Been to a few spots this trip so far.
The first couple, wasn't paying off that well.
Alan and Salty have just one 80 dollar nugget
in their kitty for the week.
After trekking over 600km
through Western Australia's rugged Pilbara region.
(MACHINE WAILS) That sounds like something.
There's definitely something here.
Definitely...
there's something here but this ground is pretty hard.
Just gonna see if I have already got it out.
Because I really don't want to dig too deep under this tree.
Now, here we go.
Yes.
Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, get out.
That's awesome.
Four or five grammer.
So you're looking at about $400.
That's our food and fuel for the next three, four days at least.
Which is awesome.
Getting costs covered finally.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Oh, mate.
Look at that.
That is absolutely awesome.
That'd be a five grammar. I'd say.
This is bringing us closer to our goals.
Every find.
Oh, that's definitely it.
It's in here.
Oh, yes.
Oh, my God.
This place is incredible.
I can't believe we are finding gold down here.
It's all coming together.
A few rough days but it's happening now.
(MACHINE WAILS)
Jesus.
Wowee.
What is...
That is a big signal.
Ooh.
Oh, she's screaming.
That's got to be a big nugget.
Big dreams, big dreams need gold to get these dreams to come true.
She's out.
Look at that!
(LAUGHS)
No!
Oh, my God.
That's the biggest nugget I've found.
Mate, that's an ouncer.
Knew it.
Man, that's an ounce.
Yo, Salty. Got a copy, man?
Yeah, go ahead, mate.
Listen to this. You're gonna love this.
(MACHINE WAILS)
(DISTANT WHOOPING)
Listen.
Whoo-hoo!
(LAUGHS)
I'm so pumped.
Mate...
You're not having me on, are you?
What do you reckon?
(LAUGHTER)
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, mate.
That's so epic.
I know. I'm rapt.
The nugget adds a much-needed $2,600 to their tally.
Mate, keep that somewhere very, very safe.
It's going to be very safe. That's for sure.
Shall we, um...
Keep going? Yeah.
Let's do it. Let's go.
Whoo-hoo! Whoo!
On the gold. Oh, yeah.
The week's over.
I guess, what have we got to show for it at the end of it?
Really. Bit of gold.
Yeah. Nice gold.
This was all from that big, chunky specimen.
It's just loaded with gold.
The Gold Devils with the help of hired hand Simmo have discovered
a potentially lucrative reef on their Fair Lady lease.
Imagine how the old boys felt back in the day
when they grab a rock, covered in dust
and they come up to the surface and crack it open and see that.
I know. Incredible.
It's 16.33 ounces.
Knock off 6oz for the quartz so it would take it down to 10oz.
So that's about $25,000.
Yeah.
We need a hell of a lot more than that.
We can't afford to stay out here exploring.
No, we've got to head back to the other project
and get the wheels rolling on that one and start producing some gold
because we're halfway into the season already
and we've got (BLEEP) all to show for it.
Mm-hmm.
But the gold here is ridiculous.
How many more reefs like that sitting under the ground
are ready to be opened up?
There's so much to do here.
Definitely.
We had a bit of a chat between us and, Simmo, if you're up for a deal,
we can offer you a percentage but we need more exploration down here.
If we could get onto where that's coming from, this could be huge.
This could make our season
but we don't have the time at this late stage to explore the lease.
We think you're the guy for the job and we trust you.
The old fellas did a good job but there's plenty more reef out here.
Absolutely.
And, yeah, I'm willing to give it a go.
Cool.
Just give us a ring when you hit another reef like that.
Yep.
And don't ring if you haven't.
So it's time to shut up shop
and head back to where we can process and recover a viable payday.
What a week, eh?
It's been a good one.
Get the billy on, mate, and we'll make a nice, sweet tea.
I know you like sweet things, mate.
It's been a massive week.
The fact that we got in through that water.
That was definitely a bonus, getting through there. Let's do it.
Let's weigh it up.
You call it out.
1.23.
All right, what does that make it for the big one?
Shall we?
Yup. Go on.
2.4.
That's mint.
Thanks to their search of the Pilbara's most remote waterways,
Alan and Salty are over $6,000 closer to their 15oz target.
9.5 left to go, mate.
We've still got time and we got plenty of spots to go.
You know what we don't got?
What?
A couple of coldies.
That would go really well right now, wouldn't it?
Here's to the next few weeks.
Bigger and better.
Definitely.
How did you go?
Clean up all right?
That's all right.
After getting rained out at their Catto's paddock site,
the Poseidon Crews tackled
Victoria's high country instead to try and keep the gold coming in.
Alrighty.
Get all these now.
There's a lot of gold there, Brent.
So we've got 9.89.
Throw this one on.
The next biggest.
That brings it to 12.05.
And throw the bigger one on.
That brings it to...
(LAUGHS)
That brings it to an error, Ethan.
What's that?
That means it's overweight, mate.
The scales are overweight.
Put that to the side and weigh that up, mate, separately.
Tear that up.
All right, that comes to 4.62.
Yep.
So what's that? 16...
16.67.
16 ounces of gold, Ethan.
$43,000, Ethan.
We are back, mate.
We had a good weigh at Catto's last time.
Things are turning, Eth.
43,000 with no machines used, a bit of fuel.
That's good going.
You said 100 ounces.
We'll get to it.
100oz, that's my goal.
We're nearly two thirds of the way there.
Mike, if we get back to Catto's and it dries out,
then we can land a good nugget, we could smash 100oz, mate.
Eth, give me another kiss, mate.
(LAUGHS)
Let's go.
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