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This time, on Aussie Gold Hunters...

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Don't back off.
Keep going, keep going.

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..forced from their flooded lease,

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the Poseidon Crew head to the high
country of Victoria

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to keep their season alive...

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I can't take my foot off the brake.

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Otherwise we'll fly down the hill
and have no car.

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(MACHINE WAILS)
Whoo-hoo!

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Put that in your hand, Eth.

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..but their perseverance pays off
with a bounty of mountain gold.

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This is what we came here for, mate.

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Alan and Salty come head-to-head

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with the dangers of the deadly
Pilbara region...

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Jesus.

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There was a big snake.

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I think that was a big king brown.

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What is going on? I don't like this.

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..and risk their safety on remote
flooded tracks...

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Look at that!

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..to uncover the biggest nugget
of their mining careers.

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Yeah...
(LAUGHS)

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That's so epic.

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Few nuggets. That's about it.

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We need a hell of a lot more
than that.

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Halfway through their season,
the Gold Devils face financial ruin.

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Nope, bust.

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We are not even a quarter of the way
into our 1,000oz target.

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(GASPS)

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No way!

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But a promising discovery could

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deliver them
a million-dollar payday.

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There is 1,000oz in the ground
if we can get it.

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What are you still doing
standing here?

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So the plan is, we want to get
back to these areas up here

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we couldn't get to last
season because the snow got us.

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Why this spot because there's plenty
of spots on this map, mate?

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Well, because the history shows

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they've found nuggety reef
gold up there.

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Right.

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Nuggety specimens.

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I just believe, mate,

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this high country is holding some
buried treasures

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like you wouldn't believe.

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Yep, there's a tree across the road.

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What do you expect, mate?

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We are up in the high country here.

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That will be the first of many
I think, buddy.

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It sort of split there.

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Maybe we cut her off here.

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We cut it into small sections
and just roll it out of the way.

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I think so, mate.

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Do you want to grab the saw?

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It's definitely the long way round.

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It just got longer.

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The Poseidon Crew Brent Shannon and
brother-in-law Ethan West have

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been forced to venture 350km deep

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into the remote high country
of Victoria.

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After torrential rain left
their mining operation

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at Catto's Paddock unworkable.

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It's treacherous terrain,
it's dangerous terrain.

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You got to have your wits about you.

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You got to have everything prepared.

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It's not for the fainthearted
up here in the high country.

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Job done.
Now we're back on the trail.

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Let's go find some gold.

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That's why you always need to
bring a chainsaw.

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Yeah.

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Jeez, I love it up here, mate.
It's bloody beautiful, mate.

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Oh, mate. I know.

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We just need to find some gold
up here. That's the issue.

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It's beautiful up here but I
just, we've got the wedding.

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I'm thinking about, I want some
money for that.

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Yeah, I know.

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There's no consistency
and it's frustrating me, mate.

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It really is, to tell you the truth.

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I know. The bills don't stop.

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I get it.
The gold's not coming in...

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I understand it.

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I feel it too.

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This snow's starting to get really
deep here, buddy.

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You're right, Eth.

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Last season, Brent and Ethan's
first attempt

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to reach historic gold ground
was shut down by heavy snowfalls.

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You're done, mate.

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It's too thick for us.

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We're going to try to avoid the snow
this time, mate.

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Stay below that snowline.
There's a long way round it.

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We tried to take the shortcut
last time

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but obviously got stuck
in the snow.

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The pair are taking the treacherous
Kelly Creek track

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but to avoid the snow-capped
peaks will mean a four-hour detour.

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Up here, mate, we'll have a river
crossing coming up too.

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Yeah, right.

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I just hope, with all this rain
we've had,

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the rivers aren't
swollen up too high.

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Hopefully we can get across, Eth.

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It's up a bit but doesn't
look too bad.

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Beautiful.

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Virtually blue skies before
and now we've got rain again.

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We are in the high country
in the winter, mate.

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If we can get there, I'm telling
you, the history's there, mate.

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Nuggety specimen gold they found.

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I just hope you're not chasing
another fairytale.

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After Victoria's gold rush of 1851,

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the demand for virgin ground
pushed prospectors

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to hand over 1.5km high
in these mountains.

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Using basic tools,

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they pulled out gold worth over
$10 billion at today's prices.

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Brent and Ethan hope to reach the
more remote gold zones

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and using modern detectors, find
nuggets the old-timers missed.

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Looks like it's getting a little bit
more gnarly now, Eth.

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Did you research on the tracks too?

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Not really.

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I know - I can tell.

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That's getting nasty, mate.

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Don't back off.

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Keep going, keep going.

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(ENGINE REVS)

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Oh, mate.

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(SIGHS)

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Yeah, got no traction.

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I think we're going to have to winch
up to there, mate.

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Mate, you're going to have to do
everything here, buddy.

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I know.

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I can't take my foot off the brake

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because we'll slide back down
the hill.

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What I'm doing now is I'm hooking
up the winch.

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I'm just hoping this is the
only part.

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So am I, mate.
You're the one sitting in the car.

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Yeah, I can't do much about that

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otherwise we'll slide down the hill
and we'll have no car.

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It's like it just doesn't want us
to get there, mate.

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All right, mate.

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I'm pretty much ready to head off.

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All right, no worries.

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Nearly finished setting the heights
on the conveyor belt.

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Nearly ready to fire up now.

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Keep making those adjustments
that we talked about earlier.

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Yeah, hang fire.

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I'll be back in a day.

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If they haven't found any gold
up there,

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I'll be dragging them back
here, mate.

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We've got gold here.
We need to produce it.

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We've got plenty of dirt here.
All right.

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The Phoenix Project's pretty much
set up ready to run now.

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I'm going to jump in the car.

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I'm going to head to
the Fair Lady lease,

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see how Mel and Alex are going
and if they're not having any luck,

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then best to get all the troops
back here

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and start smashing the tons out.

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So far this year, I think we are
already

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about halfway through the season

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and to be honest, we literally
only probably banked about 140oz.

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It's just not good enough.

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So we really do need to focus on
where the gold is

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and start stacking those ounces up.

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If we don't do that pretty quickly,

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We're probably gonna go broke.

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In Western Australia, Paul Mackie has

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left cousin Darren to run the Gold
Devil's Phoenix Project operation.

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While he makes a 5-hour drive to the
3 square kilometre Fair Lady lease.

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We are just opening up the ground in
between the shaft to see if we can

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find any spessies in there.

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We've got the local contractor Simmo

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helping us as an excavator.

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Alex is in the loader
so it's good to have some help here

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while Darren and
Paul are back at the other lease.

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It's kind of a treasure hunt.

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The more ground we open,

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the chance we could find something
that the old boys missed.

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Team members Melanie Wood
and Alex Stead

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with hired hand Simmo are excavating
ground between old mine shafts.

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They want to locate a gold rich
quartz reef

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that has produced over $8 million
worth of gold in the past.

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With a lot of machinery,
we can move a lot of earth.

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Hopefully, we'll uncover something
really special

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that will prove this lease

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is basically going to turn our
season around.

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Hi, Paul.

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Paul and Mel with partner Alex formed
the Gold Devils.

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With a combined 10 leases
between them

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and mining equipment
worth $2 million.

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After running costs every month
which is $50,000,

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we're going to need a lot of gold
to make this partnership work.

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They set themselves an ambitious goal
to achieve

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a massive 1,000oz,
$2.6 million season target.

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But after crippling delays and major
damage to the Phoenix project,

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the team are
now on the verge of collapse.

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There's a lot of pressure.

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The longer we're not processing,
the longer we're not making money.

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We're just spending it.

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Alex. What have you got?

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I found a whole heap of blue quartz
at the top of the mineshaft.

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But last week, their first
exploration at the Fair Lady lease

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showed they could
be close to finding the gold reef.

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We got work to do.

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OK.

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(MACHINE WAILS)

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Oh...

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That's a signal.

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That sounds good.

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Quite hard ground.

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That's a good sign.

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It's still in the ground.

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Chuck us a pick.

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Let's just open this right up.

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It had a really nice sound to it.

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All right.

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(MACHINE WAILS)

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Oh, yeah.
(LAUGHS)

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Still in the ground.

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Ooh.

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That's what we want.

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That's what we're here for.

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All right.

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Let's make this a proper hole.

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No way.

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No way?

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(LAUGHS)

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Oh, my God.

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Whoa.

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This too.

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Two?

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Oh, we've broken it in half.

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That used to be one.

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So that is gold holding
that rock together?

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Yeah.
That's got a lot of gold in it.

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Look at it.

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It's just hanging off there.

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That's really heavy for a bit
of quartz, isn't it?

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Feel the weight of both of those.

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So you reckon there's more gold
in there.

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Shall we go break it open
and just have a look?

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Ready?

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See...

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I love this part.

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It's got cracks in it.

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I can't break it.

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(GASPS)

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No way.

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That's absolutely unbelievable.

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The Pilbara region,
an arid tropical wilderness

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twice the size
of the United Kingdom.

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Sparsely populated,

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this vast mineral landscape produces

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over half $1 billion of gold
every year.

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This is ridiculously murky.

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I can't even see
the front of the detector.

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It's here that prospecting
partners Alan Williams

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and Caleb 'Salty' Davenport have
mounted a six-week expedition

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banking on Alan's mining experience

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and Salty's outback knowledge,

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the team are targeting
undetected areas

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of the Pilbara
region in search of big gold.

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We've both taken a big chance
to go further

256
00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,800
than anyone's gone before
up here to find gold.

257
00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,400
Always got to give the spot
a really good nudge

258
00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:15,480
to target every possible
means of trying to find some gold.

259
00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:19,440
Whether it be planning, underwater,
big detector, little detector.

260
00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:20,680
So we can walk away.

261
00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,520
Bit disappointing.

262
00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,200
15oz is our target.

263
00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,120
We've got 12 more to get

264
00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,400
and, it's a beautiful spot,

265
00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,920
but we've wasted
just over a day here

266
00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,400
and no luck at all.

267
00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,600
Got a copy, mate?

268
00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:41,200
Yeah, gotcha.

269
00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:42,480
Let's move on, eh?

270
00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:44,640
Yeah, I'm in the same boat
with you there.

271
00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,080
I found nothing over here.

272
00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,040
Let's just hope this next spot's
better than this.

273
00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,160
Well...

274
00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:54,480
for gold anyway.

275
00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,880
The pair want to search
remote waterways

276
00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,160
throughout the Pilbara
region where gold shed millions

277
00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,480
of years ago by shifts in the Earth's
tectonics could have been deposited.

278
00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,040
We kind of have to go out this way

279
00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,760
because, if we go out the other way,
it's literally a day and a half.

280
00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:13,920
Yeah, OK.

281
00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,400
A day and a half fuel, a day
and a half in time

282
00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,560
that we are not looking for gold.

283
00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,760
Yeah, all the outgoing costs on both
of our end too, you know.

284
00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,280
The team are spending over $400
a week

285
00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,440
just on fuel so they are
counting on Salty's knowledge

286
00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:32,360
of the area to shortcut their journey
and save them time and money.

287
00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,600
I've got this dream of getting

288
00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,120
this block of land down south.

289
00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,640
Every month, every year that that
kind of eludes me,

290
00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,600
it's going to be more and more
expensive,

291
00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:43,840
harder to reach that goal.

292
00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,280
The sooner I find the gold, it'll
be a dream come true.

293
00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,680
Yup. Good goal to have.

294
00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,200
Get a little veggie garden, mate.
Some chooks roaming around.

295
00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,600
Yeah, I'm imagining it.

296
00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:57,680
Surf just down the road.

297
00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,360
How about you, mate?

298
00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,760
I want a nice mining
operation going.

299
00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,680
Myself and one or two other people.

300
00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:13,040
I do want a warehouse as a base
so I can have people working for me.

301
00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,600
We'd just be out exploring,
finding paydirt basically.

302
00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:18,440
Living the dream
in the desert, mate.

303
00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:19,720
Living the dream.

304
00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:20,960
Let's get to this spot.

305
00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:22,200
Let's do it.
Let's do it.

306
00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,440
Man, this is epic.

307
00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,000
Last week, the pair began
their off-grid expedition

308
00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,840
camping at an isolated gorge.

309
00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:31,080
Fresh tucker.

310
00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,240
And using their $3,500 dive unit,

311
00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,080
Alan was able to reach never before
detected ground.

312
00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,080
(MACHINE WAILS)
You beauty.

313
00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:40,600
I got it.

314
00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,040
Whoo-hoo!

315
00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:43,560
Oh, my God.

316
00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,320
You beautiful little thing.

317
00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,080
And after scanning the riverbed...

318
00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:48,400
Oh, I can see it!

319
00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:49,840
Mate...

320
00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,800
The team's first gold haul of the
season delivered a healthy return.

321
00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:54,920
2.8.

322
00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,640
Mate... Whoo-hoo!

323
00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,400
Oh (BLEEP)

324
00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:03,840
Oh...

325
00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,400
Oh, mate. Are you kidding?

326
00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,560
Mate... Not expecting that.

327
00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:10,240
That's not a crossing.
That's a river.

328
00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,320
That is a river.

329
00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:12,640
Yeah, nah.

330
00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:14,200
We can't get through that one.

331
00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,760
Let's have a look.

332
00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,680
Mate, I can't even see around
that bend.

333
00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,520
If that's the way we're meant to go.

334
00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:25,600
Yeah.

335
00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,200
I don't want to lose a day and
a half.

336
00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:28,800
(SIGHS)

337
00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,200
Let's just do it. Let's just do it.

338
00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:31,520
Yeah?
Let's do it.

339
00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:32,600
I'm keen.

340
00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:34,840
Got to live on the edge on this one.
Let's do it.

341
00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:35,920
I got your back.

342
00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000
That's what I like.

343
00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:39,320
All this for gold!

344
00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,600
Mate, it will get us there.

345
00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,040
It will get us to the gold.

346
00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:46,440
Ready?

347
00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,480
I guess. I'm taking your word.

348
00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:51,920
All right, we are in. We're in.

349
00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,040
Mate, that's pretty deep.

350
00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:03,120
Man...

351
00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:04,800
We should be in a boat right now.

352
00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,360
I'm fricking holding the steering
wheel so tight.

353
00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:12,400
What is going on?
What is that?

354
00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,280
Why is it rocking?

355
00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:17,440
I don't like this.

356
00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,120
Mate, you've got to keep going.

357
00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:20,320
I don't like this.

358
00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:21,720
You've got to go.

359
00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,080
No, no, no.

360
00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:24,320
What is going on?

361
00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,320
So what it now is slowly get this
winch out as fast as we can.

362
00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:36,880
Which is not very fast.

363
00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,000
We've got to get it up as high
as we can

364
00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,720
and hopefully pull ourselves up.

365
00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,600
Hopefully.

366
00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,480
I strongly believe somewhere up here
in the high country,

367
00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,640
there is so many
hidden treasures to be found,

368
00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,960
it's hard to get to, its steep
terrain, it's wet,

369
00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,040
it's gnarly, it's dangerous.

370
00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,200
We are trying to get to the spot
that we couldn't get to last year

371
00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,080
because the snow stopped us.

372
00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:05,040
The Poseidon Crew are battling
the remote high country of

373
00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:10,320
Victoria after heavy rain left their
Catto's Paddock mine site unworkable.

374
00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,320
But the treacherous slopes have
stopped them in their tracks.

375
00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,520
I don't have high hopes for making
much money.

376
00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,000
To try to find gold, you've got to
be swinging from the coil.

377
00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,640
When you're not doing that, you're
just wasting time up here.

378
00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:27,120
Give it a pull, mate and hopefully
the winch can get us out of here.

379
00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,680
I'm good to go now, mate,
when you are.

380
00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,720
(ENGINE LABOURS)

381
00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,520
You can see, he's got zero traction.

382
00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,560
(ENGINE REVS)

383
00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,400
No, he's got no traction.

384
00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,560
He's going to give it another crack.

385
00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,560
He'll get up onto this ledge.

386
00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,120
Whoo-hoo!

387
00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,360
There you go.

388
00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,600
This is better than digging
at Catto's isn't it, mate?

389
00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:07,680
I just want to make money.

390
00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,240
I know you want to make money.
We'll make money. We'll be right.

391
00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:11,640
It's the thrill of the hunt, mate.

392
00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:12,720
Yeah.

393
00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,960
Imagine when we start finding
some gold.

394
00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:16,040
That will be thrilling.

395
00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:19,320
That's exactly why I want to
come up here. It's hard to get to.

396
00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,800
Mate, if it was easy, guess what,

397
00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:22,680
every man and their dog would have
been there.

398
00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,400
It's not easy so that's why I want
to get there.

399
00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,360
I just hope we don't get another
hill like this or even worse.

400
00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:31,800
Yeah, fantastic.

401
00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:33,360
Can't wait.

402
00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,200
So this is the spot here, mate.

403
00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:41,800
Where we're coming into right now.

404
00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,920
All the mines start here. Beautiful.

405
00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,200
They start here.

406
00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,200
Let's just pray that we actually
find something.

407
00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,720
Yeah, after two attempts
to get in here.

408
00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:56,480
This is as good as anything.

409
00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:57,960
I suppose, mate.

410
00:18:58,040 --> 00:18:59,160
Might as well get going.

411
00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,120
Might as well just start here and
work our way along this reefline.

412
00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:03,240
Sounds good, mate.

413
00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,760
This is exactly what
I'm looking for.

414
00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,720
That's a reefline.

415
00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,920
See here, the old boys have
actually come in,

416
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,640
they found it on the surface
and they've come down in here.

417
00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,880
This is hard solid bedrock.

418
00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:20,560
They were actually lying flat

419
00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,920
with big massive upheavals and they
actually stood on their ends.

420
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,160
The earth got crunched when the
tectonic plates moved

421
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:27,480
and went bang.

422
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,080
It created a crack here between here

423
00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,640
and here and it's been filled
with quartz.

424
00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,960
You can actually see a bit of the
quartz through here.

425
00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,920
That's what the old boys
are finding.

426
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,160
They've tunnelled under there
getting the ore body out.

427
00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,040
They were doing this by pick
and shovel.

428
00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:43,720
There was no machinery here, mate.

429
00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,040
(MACHINE WAILS)

430
00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:49,520
I reckon this is gold.

431
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,280
Sounds like gold.

432
00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,960
I don't think this is rubbish.

433
00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,080
(MACHINE WAILS)

434
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:01,440
It's out.

435
00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,880
(MACHINE WAILS)

436
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,680
The anticipation is killing me.

437
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,760
(MACHINE WAILS)

438
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:24,320
It's gold.

439
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,280
It's gold!

440
00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:28,040
Whoo.

441
00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:29,800
Rightio.

442
00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,960
And that is a little rough nugget.

443
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,360
Not that heavy.

444
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:34,800
Probably round just over a gram.

445
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,880
It's been hard to get to the spot.

446
00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,160
If we're winching up hills,
getting across creek crossings,

447
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:41,640
tough tracks and terrain,

448
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,720
I think Ethan was starting to doubt

449
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,200
if it was worthwhile
getting here

450
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:47,280
but, you know what,

451
00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:49,360
it actually looks like it might
start paying off.

452
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,560
We might pick up something
special here.

453
00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,000
(MACHINE WAILS)

454
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:00,440
Yeah, it's a target.

455
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,160
Definitely a target.

456
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:04,840
I'm a bit hesitant of what
it could be.

457
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,640
I'm hoping this is a bit of gold.

458
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:13,680
Oh, it's out.

459
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,480
There it is.

460
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,360
Wow. That is a big bit of gold
that's a ripper.

461
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,160
Wow, that's good.

462
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,080
That there, that's probably over an
ounce. Ounce and a quarter maybe.

463
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:28,480
Ounce and a half bit.

464
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:29,680
That's...

465
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,240
Yeah, that's actually shocked me.

466
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,480
There's gold here.

467
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:41,880
I've never seen anything like
this before.

468
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:43,320
Oh, my God.

469
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,120
That's just almost solid gold
in there.

470
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,240
That's ludicrous. If we find
the vein that this came from...

471
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,480
Oh, my God.

472
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,040
That's life-changing.

473
00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:55,240
Maybe $5,000 in that rock,
possibly $10,000.

474
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:56,760
It's somewhere in that ballpark.

475
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:58,200
That's a lot of gold.

476
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,760
At their Fair Lady lease, Gold Devils

477
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,840
Mel and Alex have found
a gold spessie.

478
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,120
A quartz rock embedded with gold.

479
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,000
Strong evidence the host reef
could be close by.

480
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,080
Well, now we know this is here,
let's go and get some more.

481
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:13,600
OK.
Come on.

482
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:14,720
Simple as that?

483
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,000
Yes. Let's go.

484
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,240
Yes, ooh, ooh, ooh.

485
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,760
While hired hand Simmo continues

486
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,480
to excavate the site, partner Paul
Mackie has made a five-hour drive

487
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,760
from their main
mining operation the Phoenix Project.

488
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:32,920
Hey, Paul.

489
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000
Hey, Mel.

490
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,280
Glad that drive's over.

491
00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:36,640
Yeah, I imagine.

492
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,160
I found a nice big spessie.

493
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,760
Oh, really?
Yeah, you want to see it?

494
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,080
Yeah (BLEEP).

495
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,360
How's the wash plant going?

496
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,080
Good. Everything is pretty much
ready to rock 'n' roll over there.

497
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:46,200
Oh, awesome.

498
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,640
Right, this is parts of it.

499
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:48,880
Beautiful.

500
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,200
So, yeah, full of gold.

501
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:51,600
Oh, is this all just from one rock?

502
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,920
Yeah. Look, it's all in there.

503
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,600
And nothing else?

504
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:56,680
Nope.

505
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:57,800
That's a shame.

506
00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,560
Pretty much ready to wrap
this one up or...

507
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,920
After finding that spessie,
I think we are pretty close.

508
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,680
We do have the other project ready
to rock 'n' roll.

509
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,320
It's just if we hit it here...

510
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,920
Oh, yeah.
We could hit the mother load.

511
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000
There's no doubt about it

512
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,480
but realistically,

513
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,880
we're not even a quarter of the way
into our 1,000oz target

514
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,240
and we are
already halfway through the season.

515
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,360
I don't know.
I just think we are really close.

516
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,200
The clock's ticking, we're that far
into the season already

517
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,320
and the gold tally

518
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:25,800
is still sitting very, very low

519
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,440
so hopefully they come up trumps
with something.

520
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:29,760
If not, we're out of here.

521
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,760
Just hold up there for a
second, mate.

522
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,120
There is actually a fair bit of blue
quartz in here so...

523
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,640
He might have actually just cracked
straight onto it.

524
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,400
Do you see some blue quartz
through there?

525
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:47,880
Yeah.
Yup.

526
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,280
Oxidised copper gives the blue quartz
its unique colour.

527
00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:55,160
Copper and gold are
often found together

528
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,520
making blue quartz a good indicator
that this ground is gold rich.

529
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,760
If it is, that's what we are
looking for.

530
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,440
It's not very wide.

531
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,040
Oh, yeah. That looks like it.
Absolutely.

532
00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:07,640
First cut, you hit it right
on the head.

533
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,040
Right on the head.

534
00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:10,800
That's the blue quartz
we're looking for.

535
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:11,880
That's in.

536
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,080
Yeah, we went looking
for the blue quartz vein,

537
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,000
the one that's showing
really good gold

538
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,280
and the first little cut there,

539
00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:21,160
looks like we might
have hit the vein

540
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,360
so just going to crash it up

541
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,640
and hopefully it gives
us a good sample

542
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,480
and hopefully there's a good
trail of gold in it.

543
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,240
Let's hope there's something in it.

544
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,520
If there is,
we could be onto something.

545
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,520
So who's planning? You or me?

546
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:54,720
It's in your hands.

547
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,640
(LAUGHTER)

548
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:03,600
I already see gold.

549
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,800
Really?

550
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:05,920
Yeah.

551
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,160
Check that out.

552
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:08,280
Yes.

553
00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:09,800
That's not bad.

554
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,320
That's loaded with gold.

555
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,840
It was only a half kilo rock.

556
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,760
We could have thousands of tonnes
of that

557
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,080
so there is 1,000 ounces on
the ground if we can get it.

558
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,720
What are you still doing
standing here?

559
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,000
All right, go on.

560
00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:32,560
This gold better be worth it, man.

561
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:35,800
What is going on?

562
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,280
Why is it rocking?

563
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,280
Whoa...

564
00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:43,120
The water is way above
the wheels, mate.

565
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:44,560
Whoa...

566
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,200
This is nuts.

567
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,840
There is a wave in front of us.

568
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,120
Whoa.

569
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,480
Oh, mate.

570
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,760
We got this
(LAUGHS)

571
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,440
Oh, man.

572
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,040
Whoo-hoo!

573
00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:00,760
Oh, my God. Take us to the gold.

574
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:01,880
Let's go.

575
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,800
What was that like?
That was 300m of water.

576
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,400
Yeah, I reckon that was
a big gamble.

577
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,800
Huge gamble, mate.

578
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,400
But we gambled for the gold.

579
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:12,680
Oh, yeah.

580
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,320
Over 100km from the nearest town,

581
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,760
deep in Western Australia's
Pilbara region,

582
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,040
rookie team Alan and Salty
are targeting remote gold ground

583
00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:24,720
where they hope no detectors have
been before.

584
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,480
Watch out for snakes, mate.

585
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:27,720
Gotcha.

586
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,680
That's their home, right there.

587
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,880
I like the look of this area

588
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,040
because of the breakaway and all
the hills right at the back here.

589
00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:38,760
Lots of shedding of all kinds
of rocks, minerals.

590
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,960
Hopefully there's gold.

591
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,280
A gold-bearing breakaway is a sloping
rock structure

592
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,120
containing a gold reef.

593
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:51,160
Prolonged weathering exposed gold
nuggets before heavy rains

594
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,280
wash them down into waterways

595
00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:56,200
like the ones Alan
and Salty are detecting.

596
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,200
This place is definitely untouched
by a metal detector.

597
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,840
I don't reckon there's one ever been
through this creek.

598
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,200
Oh, ow.

599
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:04,840
(MACHINE WAILS)

600
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,000
Something there.

601
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,160
Have a look, shall we?

602
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,840
Please, please, please be gold.

603
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,920
Oi, I can see it.

604
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,080
I can see it.

605
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,680
You're kidding.

606
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,320
How, it's a little nugget.

607
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,560
Oh, look at that.

608
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:24,680
What a little ripper.

609
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,240
Look at that little grammer.

610
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,240
Mate, that is so exciting.

611
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,080
I'm so rapt about that.

612
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,000
I knew there would be
something here.

613
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,800
80 bucks for this.

614
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,560
That's good.

615
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,240
Finally on the board here.

616
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,920
This isn't going to pay for the
warehouse but it all adds up.

617
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,320
Definitely not easy leaving
the missus

618
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,200
and the family back home for this
kind of extended period.

619
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:49,600
We've got these big dreams

620
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,720
of finding this block of land
down south.

621
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,400
I came up here and promised her
that...

622
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,400
I'm going to find some gold
and help that dream come true.

623
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,120
Jesus!

624
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,000
There was a big snake having
a drink of water.

625
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,520
It's just taken off into the reeds.

626
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,280
I think that was a big king brown.

627
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,760
Mate, you do not want to be tagged
by one of those out here.

628
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,840
You'd be dead in (BLEEP) 20 minutes.

629
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,080
Have you got a copy, mate?

630
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,280
Yeah, mate. Gotcha.

631
00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:27,760
There was a big king brown here.

632
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,400
He's just wriggled off into
the bush.

633
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,280
Man, are you kidding?

634
00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:34,240
So I'm going to head back to the
car, mate. I'm not having much luck.

635
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,680
Sounds a bit dangerous
if you're seeing snakes.

636
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,280
Yeah. I'll meet you back at the car.

637
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,720
I'm out of here.

638
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,320
Yeah, it's a bit sketchy.

639
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,400
Not viable, not enough gold
and too much danger.

640
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,320
It's very high risk what we're doing
out here and where we are.

641
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,920
We got some of the most venomous
snakes in the world out here.

642
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,360
They can send you into sickness,

643
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,080
into cardiac arrest
and very high chance of dying.

644
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,680
Especially when you're out in
the bush and so far from hospital.

645
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,040
I don't want to risk it.

646
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,040
No, fair enough.
I'm with you on that.

647
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,280
So we'll let them have their space
and we'll keep moving.

648
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,840
You just don't want to play games
with snakes.

649
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,080
It's like every third, fourth step,

650
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,120
you're getting a target and more
importantly, it's gold.

651
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,480
(MACHINE WAILS)
Another one.

652
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,600
I got one just there on the
last past.

653
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,080
Nice strong target.

654
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,680
Ha!

655
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,480
This is what you live for.

656
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,640
We are onto a patch now.

657
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,280
I can assure you that right now.

658
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,360
The Poseidon Crew's risky push

659
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,800
into the freezing 2 degree Celsius
conditions

660
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,480
of high country Victoria
is starting to pay off.

661
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,040
You've got to just love that
sound, don't you?

662
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,520
This actually sounds all right,
this place.

663
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:54,400
Look at that.

664
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:55,520
Have a look at that.

665
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:56,680
That's a heavy chunk.

666
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,440
Feel the weight.

667
00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:59,760
That's the biggest by far.

668
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,960
That's a solo bit too.

669
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,960
This has got to be a couple of
ounces, this piece.

670
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:05,560
That's a ripper.

671
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:06,800
Ha!

672
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,240
This is starting to add up.

673
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,560
We are not getting grams now.

674
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:10,640
We're getting ounces.

675
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,280
It's starting to actually excite me.
We are onto some gold here.

676
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:15,920
We've got a few bits of gold now.

677
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,400
That's not bad at all.

678
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,720
That's paid its way
plus a little bit more.

679
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,040
Risk versus reward,
this has been rewarding.

680
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,520
Ripper.

681
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,840
There's pieces all over the slope
here at the moment.

682
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,040
There's another one.

683
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,480
This is actually a nice, strong
piece, this one.

684
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,080
This sounds like a good bit,
this one.

685
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,520
Considering we are getting gold all
over here, 2oz bit there.

686
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:43,960
Another little bit there.

687
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,880
This is promising.

688
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,160
(MACHINE WAILS)

689
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,640
I'll call Ethan.

690
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,680
Hey, Eth. Come up here, bud. I got
a decent target here, mate.

691
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,200
It's still in the ground, mate.

692
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,920
Amongst tree roots and bedrock.

693
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,840
Yeah, I'm coming, mate. I'm coming.

694
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,680
(MACHINE WAILS)

695
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,960
I got a decent target here.

696
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,680
There's some good gold here, Eth.

697
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:16,960
Don't stand there.

698
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,440
Down there. Dig.

699
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,880
Oh, watch your wrists, mate.
Don't break your wrist.

700
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,040
Last thing we need.

701
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,920
Look at that. Chunks of sandstone.

702
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,240
Bedrock.

703
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:29,960
Pinpoint it now, mate, for me?

704
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,520
Pinpointed.

705
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,000
It's still in there.

706
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,440
It's not a bad target.

707
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:40,680
Do you want me to do it now?

708
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:41,960
Yeah, have a crack, mate.

709
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,080
It's out, Eth.

710
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,200
Where are you, you beauty,
where are you?

711
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,280
I got a decent target here.

712
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:03,520
Here.

713
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,440
Feel the weight.

714
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,440
(LAUGHS)

715
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,920
Whoo! Put that in your hand, Eth.

716
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,480
Have a look at that.

717
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,960
That's a ripper, mate.
That's a chunk.

718
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:15,240
Give me a look at it.

719
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:16,680
Sorry, mate.

720
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,600
That's probably a $10,000 nugget
right there, my friend.

721
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,280
That is what we are talking
about, Ethan.

722
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,040
This is what we came here for, mate.
Have a look at that.

723
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,520
That has made the trip worthwhile.
I can assure you.

724
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,280
Mwah!

725
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,280
Get out of here.

726
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,000
We are making money now, mate.

727
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,200
How did you go, guys?

728
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,200
Well, Paul just showed me a decent
amount of gold

729
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:44,280
in the pan from one rock.

730
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:45,360
Good trail like that.

731
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:46,440
Oh, well.

732
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,160
Looking at the pan, that could be a
couple of ounces to the ton.

733
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:50,560
I'm going to take more rocks over

734
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,600
and crush them up to make sure
it wasn't a one-off.

735
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,360
Couple of kilos of rock,
I'll let you know.

736
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:55,480
Good stuff.

737
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,040
First cut through this new area

738
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,720
and we've hit blue quartz
and it's got gold in it.

739
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,120
That's what we're chasing.

740
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,480
We were after the reefs that were
loaded with gold

741
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,720
and it's only
narrow but it's right here.

742
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,480
All right, show me this gold.

743
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,640
Need to see...
I can see gold in the panel ready.

744
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,200
Oh my God, yeah.
I can see it from here.

745
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:16,760
Look at the chunk there.

746
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,280
It's a nice little nugget.

747
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,760
You'd be ecstatic if you stumbled

748
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,600
across that out in the middle
of the bush.

749
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:23,720
Yeah.

750
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,600
The question is do we have the
time to put

751
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,480
into trying to find a substantial
quantity of that to make it viable?

752
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,040
I'm excited to get back out here

753
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,720
but, 1,000oz target, we really need
to be getting gold now.

754
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:35,880
Yup.

755
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,040
A lot more of it.

756
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,400
Agreed.

757
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,360
The Gold Devils have struck a vein

758
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,520
of gold-rich blue quartz on their
Fair Lady lease.

759
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,800
But recovering it would mean moving
in crushing equipment

760
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:52,400
costing the team over $60,000
and taking four weeks to set up.

761
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,360
We can't waste any more time,
really can we?

762
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,640
We've got hundreds of ounces already
proven up the other projects,

763
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:58,720
sitting on the deck.

764
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,120
We've got to get through that.

765
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,920
I would like to have someone here
just to keep the exploration going.

766
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,840
What do you think about hitting up
Simmo? He's a local.

767
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,200
He is using his gear here already.

768
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,440
See if he wants to work out a deal
with us

769
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,920
and keep looking for pockets
like this.

770
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,240
We can get back and actually start
producing gold and make some money.

771
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,400
And we've got someone else doing
this for us up here.

772
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,200
The process is a little bit faster.

773
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:22,960
Yeah, I like that.

774
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,360
Let's go find Alex and have
a chat with him.

775
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,000
It is kind of like a chess game.

776
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,160
You got to move your pawns into
position

777
00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:30,360
ready for the battlefield.

778
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,560
When you're ready, just strike each
location

779
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,240
and keep moving for that big win.

780
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:35,720
That's what we are aiming to do.

781
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,160
It's been a very slow start.

782
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,000
Been to a few spots this trip
so far.

783
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,120
The first couple,
wasn't paying off that well.

784
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,560
Alan and Salty have just one
80 dollar nugget

785
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,280
in their kitty for the week.

786
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,600
After trekking over 600km

787
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,760
through Western Australia's
rugged Pilbara region.

788
00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:08,600
(MACHINE WAILS)
That sounds like something.

789
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,400
There's definitely something here.

790
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,880
Definitely...

791
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,440
there's something here
but this ground is pretty hard.

792
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,160
Just gonna see if I have
already got it out.

793
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:25,960
Because I really don't want to dig
too deep under this tree.

794
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,240
Now, here we go.

795
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:28,320
Yes.

796
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,200
Oh, you've got to be kidding me.

797
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,240
(LAUGHS)

798
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:33,800
Oh, get out.

799
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,360
That's awesome.

800
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,920
Four or five grammer.

801
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,840
So you're looking at about $400.

802
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,320
That's our food and fuel for the
next three, four days at least.

803
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,160
Which is awesome.

804
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:48,240
Getting costs covered finally.

805
00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:53,120
(MACHINE WAILS)

806
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,880
Oh, mate.

807
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,680
Look at that.

808
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,120
That is absolutely awesome.

809
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,640
That'd be a five grammar. I'd say.

810
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:09,400
This is bringing us closer to
our goals.

811
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:11,840
Every find.

812
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,560
Oh, that's definitely it.

813
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,000
It's in here.

814
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:18,880
Oh, yes.

815
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,280
Oh, my God.

816
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:21,680
This place is incredible.

817
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,280
I can't believe we are finding
gold down here.

818
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,560
It's all coming together.

819
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,080
A few rough days
but it's happening now.

820
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,240
(MACHINE WAILS)

821
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:37,520
Jesus.

822
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,480
Wowee.

823
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:40,800
What is...

824
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,080
That is a big signal.

825
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,080
Ooh.

826
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,360
Oh, she's screaming.

827
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,920
That's got to be a big nugget.

828
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,360
Big dreams, big dreams need gold to
get these dreams to come true.

829
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:04,360
She's out.

830
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:07,880
Look at that!

831
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,160
(LAUGHS)

832
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:16,680
No!

833
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:23,600
Oh, my God.

834
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,480
That's the biggest nugget
I've found.

835
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:32,800
Mate, that's an ouncer.

836
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,320
Knew it.

837
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,560
Man, that's an ounce.

838
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,440
Yo, Salty. Got a copy, man?

839
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,800
Yeah, go ahead, mate.

840
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,240
Listen to this.
You're gonna love this.

841
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,400
(MACHINE WAILS)

842
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,000
(DISTANT WHOOPING)

843
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:57,200
Listen.

844
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:58,600
Whoo-hoo!

845
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,040
(LAUGHS)

846
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,880
I'm so pumped.

847
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,280
Mate...

848
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,560
You're not having me on, are you?

849
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,280
What do you reckon?

850
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,760
(LAUGHTER)

851
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,440
Oh, my gosh.

852
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,360
Oh, mate.

853
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,840
That's so epic.

854
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:22,720
I know. I'm rapt.

855
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:27,120
The nugget adds a much-needed $2,600
to their tally.

856
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,000
Mate, keep that somewhere
very, very safe.

857
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,280
It's going to be very safe.
That's for sure.

858
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:33,520
Shall we, um...

859
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:34,880
Keep going?
Yeah.

860
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,280
Let's do it. Let's go.

861
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:37,480
Whoo-hoo!
Whoo!

862
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,080
On the gold.
Oh, yeah.

863
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,160
The week's over.

864
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:53,000
I guess, what have we got to show
for it at the end of it?

865
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:54,520
Really. Bit of gold.

866
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:56,360
Yeah. Nice gold.

867
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,440
This was all from that big,
chunky specimen.

868
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,480
It's just loaded with gold.

869
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:06,000
The Gold Devils with the help
of hired hand Simmo have discovered

870
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,840
a potentially lucrative
reef on their Fair Lady lease.

871
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,280
Imagine how the old boys felt
back in the day

872
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,080
when they grab a rock,
covered in dust

873
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,560
and they come up to the surface
and crack it open and see that.

874
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,720
I know. Incredible.

875
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:22,400
It's 16.33 ounces.

876
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:27,400
Knock off 6oz for the quartz
so it would take it down to 10oz.

877
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,040
So that's about $25,000.

878
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,240
Yeah.

879
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,600
We need a hell of a lot more
than that.

880
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,000
We can't afford
to stay out here exploring.

881
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,960
No, we've got to head back
to the other project

882
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,880
and get the wheels rolling on that
one and start producing some gold

883
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,360
because we're halfway into the
season already

884
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,000
and we've got (BLEEP) all
to show for it.

885
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,200
Mm-hmm.

886
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:47,720
But the gold here is ridiculous.

887
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,000
How many more reefs like that
sitting under the ground

888
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:51,080
are ready to be opened up?

889
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:52,400
There's so much to do here.

890
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,000
Definitely.

891
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:59,120
We had a bit of a chat between us
and, Simmo, if you're up for a deal,

892
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,400
we can offer you a percentage but we
need more exploration down here.

893
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,760
If we could get onto where that's
coming from, this could be huge.

894
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,040
This could make our season

895
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,960
but we don't have the time at this
late stage to explore the lease.

896
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,520
We think you're the guy for the job
and we trust you.

897
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,280
The old fellas did a good job but
there's plenty more reef out here.

898
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,520
Absolutely.

899
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,120
And, yeah, I'm willing to
give it a go.

900
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:24,520
Cool.

901
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,840
Just give us a ring when you hit
another reef like that.

902
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:28,920
Yep.

903
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,480
And don't ring if you haven't.

904
00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:33,760
So it's time to shut up shop

905
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:38,520
and head back to where we can
process and recover a viable payday.

906
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,680
What a week, eh?

907
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:49,920
It's been a good one.

908
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,920
Get the billy on, mate, and we'll
make a nice, sweet tea.

909
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,160
I know you like sweet things, mate.

910
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:57,800
It's been a massive week.

911
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,160
The fact that we got
in through that water.

912
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:03,640
That was definitely a bonus, getting
through there. Let's do it.

913
00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:05,480
Let's weigh it up.

914
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,080
You call it out.

915
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,480
1.23.

916
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,640
All right, what does that make it
for the big one?

917
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:14,720
Shall we?

918
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:15,800
Yup.
Go on.

919
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,840
2.4.

920
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,240
That's mint.

921
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,600
Thanks to their search of the
Pilbara's most remote waterways,

922
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:30,240
Alan and Salty are over $6,000
closer to their 15oz target.

923
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:31,960
9.5 left to go, mate.

924
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,760
We've still got time
and we got plenty of spots to go.

925
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,120
You know what we don't got?

926
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,320
What?

927
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:38,440
A couple of coldies.

928
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,480
That would go really well right
now, wouldn't it?

929
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,040
Here's to the next few weeks.

930
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,560
Bigger and better.

931
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:44,800
Definitely.

932
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:51,960
How did you go?

933
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,680
Clean up all right?

934
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:55,960
That's all right.

935
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,880
After getting rained out at their
Catto's paddock site,

936
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,640
the Poseidon Crews tackled

937
00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:04,960
Victoria's high country instead
to try and keep the gold coming in.

938
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,040
Alrighty.

939
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:07,640
Get all these now.

940
00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:09,680
There's a lot of gold there, Brent.

941
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,840
So we've got 9.89.

942
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,120
Throw this one on.

943
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:14,480
The next biggest.

944
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,280
That brings it to 12.05.

945
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,480
And throw the bigger one on.

946
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:22,960
That brings it to...

947
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,640
(LAUGHS)

948
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:26,120
That brings it to an error, Ethan.

949
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:27,200
What's that?

950
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,680
That means it's overweight, mate.

951
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,040
The scales are overweight.

952
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,400
Put that to the side and weigh
that up, mate, separately.

953
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:33,600
Tear that up.

954
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,800
All right, that comes to 4.62.

955
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,520
Yep.

956
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,600
So what's that? 16...

957
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,080
16.67.

958
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,680
16 ounces of gold, Ethan.

959
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,520
$43,000, Ethan.

960
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,920
We are back, mate.

961
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,040
We had a good weigh at Catto's
last time.

962
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:54,520
Things are turning, Eth.

963
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:58,000
43,000 with no machines used,
a bit of fuel.

964
00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:59,320
That's good going.

965
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:00,520
You said 100 ounces.

966
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:01,760
We'll get to it.

967
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:02,840
100oz, that's my goal.

968
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,000
We're nearly two thirds
of the way there.

969
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,680
Mike, if we get back to
Catto's and it dries out,

970
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,040
then we can land a good nugget,
we could smash 100oz, mate.

971
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,120
Eth, give me another kiss, mate.

972
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:14,840
(LAUGHS)

973
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,120
Let's go.

974
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,560
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