1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,360 This time on Aussie Gold Hunters... 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:04,040 Oh, my god! Something's on fire. 3 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,360 ..disaster strikes the Gold Devils 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,640 with just weeks left in their season. 5 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:10,040 Oh, my god. Alex! 6 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:11,280 The motor's caught on fire. 7 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:12,560 Where do we go from here? 8 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:14,400 We're dead in the water here so... 9 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,280 The Gold Retrievers set themselves an ultimatum... 10 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,400 We need a ten-ounce target for this trip 11 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,000 otherwise we're going home. 12 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:24,480 What happened? I don't know. 13 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:25,720 It just stopped, eh? 14 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:27,080 We've got it half fixed, 15 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,000 we just got to keep an eye on it and hopefully it keeps going. 16 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,240 ..before facing the most important weigh in of their mining careers. 17 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:35,800 So that's it. 18 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,960 All that hard work and effort has come down to that. 19 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,360 How are you going? What the hell have you got? 20 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,320 I may have picked up a little wash plant. 21 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,080 In Victoria, Vince makes a risky investment... 22 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:49,040 What? How much did you pay for that? 23 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,440 ..as the team double their efforts to find gold. 24 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,080 What's that? 25 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:57,520 Hydraulic oil. 26 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,720 But a potentially catastrophic leak 27 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:01,800 threatens to end their season. 28 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,120 I've got to shut her down. 29 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,640 To lose the excavator would be devastating. 30 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,960 And, for one team, gold from an unexpected source 31 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,160 keeps their season hopes alive. 32 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,440 Yeah, this season has not been nice to us. 33 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,040 It's, uh, just been hell. 34 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,560 Everything that can go wrong did go wrong 35 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,600 and it's still going wrong. 36 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,960 Yeah, so it's been a money pit for us. 37 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,480 Um, I've sunk a lot of money into this 38 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,560 and Brad has as well. 39 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,520 But, um, it's not paying dividends how it should be 40 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,800 so this is sort of do or die for us. 41 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,680 We really need to get, get onto the gold. 42 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,080 This has been the absolutely hardest season 43 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,240 I've ever spent up here. 44 00:01:58,320 --> 00:01:59,680 It really has. Yeah. 45 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,440 I'm trying so hard to make this viable 46 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,000 'cause I absolutely love doing what we're doing up here, 47 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:06,080 you know? 48 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,480 Well, this is your dream, babe. I want you to succeed. 49 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,320 I want it to work, I mean... Yeah. 50 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,320 I'm not ready to give it up but, look, 51 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,520 we can't keep going the way we're going.Yep. 52 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,800 Gold Retrievers Brad McGhie, wife Wendy 53 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,640 and partner Chris Smith 54 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,200 have invested the last of their savings 55 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,240 into a 75,000 dollar wash plant, 56 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,800 at their Devil's Cut lease in Western Australia. 57 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,720 But after multiple setbacks 58 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,120 the team's goal 59 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,560 of hitting their 50 ounce target is in tatters. 60 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,800 How's it going? How did you go, mate? 61 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,200 Well, a bit of tweaking. 62 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,120 We're just about up and running. 63 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,080 Just get that last piece of the puzzle on. 64 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,840 Did you get it all repaired? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 65 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:50,040 I picked up the motor, um, 66 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,800 so he's pressed that cupping on so we should be all good to go. 67 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:54,000 Yep. Sounds good. 68 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:55,520 Look I think that, um, you know, 69 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,000 Wendy and I have sort of been talking and I'd think you'd agree 70 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,480 that we really need to get 50 tonne through. 71 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,040 And, out of that fifty tonne, 72 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,880 we're gonna need at least ten ounces this week. 73 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:05,000 Absolutely. Minimum. 74 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:06,160 Yep. 75 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,720 If we don't get ten ounces, 76 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:09,480 yeah, it's just not gonna be worth doing. 77 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,200 Pointless, uh, not finding gold. 78 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:12,280 No. 79 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,000 Look, mate, we've given it a red-hot go. 80 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,720 Maybe there's not enough gold here 81 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,560 to make it viable, you know what I mean? 82 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,440 We've worked our bloody arses off all year 83 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,000 and, um, we've been struggling, we really have. 84 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,280 The weather. Everything's been working against us but... 85 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,760 Yep. Well, we can only try. Exactly. 86 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,120 Let's get it up and running and see how we go.Alright. 87 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,200 I'll get it on and get it up and running. 88 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,120 So we've basically changed the drive 89 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,600 from a chain drive to a direct drive. 90 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:39,640 The chain just wasn't designed for this sort of work. 91 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,320 So what was happening was rocks were getting bound up in it 92 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,840 and it was just sort of throwing the chain off all the time 93 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:45,920 and snapping it, so... 94 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,720 Fingers crossed, this is the way to go. 95 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,120 Well, I reckon that looks pretty good, hey? 96 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,240 Yep. 97 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,520 We probably should come up with a name for this thing, mate. 98 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:55,920 What do you reckon? Mad Max. 99 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,920 Or how about Mad Maxine 'cause she's a girl? 100 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 (THEY LAUGH) 101 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,960 That makes sense, the way she's been treating us. 102 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,160 (LAUGHS) Mad Maxine? 103 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,280 Yep. That it is. 104 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,600 Sounds good. Let's get some tonnes through the old girl. 105 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,880 This is Brad's dream so, you know, 106 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,160 he's going to be gutted if this doesn't work out. 107 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,280 Um, you know, I'm just all fingers crossed 108 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,480 that it does for his sake, um, you know, for our family's sake. 109 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:18,120 Right, fire in the hole, Bard, Wendy. 110 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:19,960 Righto, mate. Yep, righto! 111 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,120 Fire her up. 112 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,920 OK, conveyor coming on. 113 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:26,960 Copy that. 114 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,880 I don't believe it. Yeah, it's looking good. 115 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,920 Ball mill. Yes! 116 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:37,480 Beautiful. 117 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,640 Running nice and true, isn't it? It is, man. 118 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:41,640 It's running really good. You know what that means? 119 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,280 Get some dirt. Some dirt through. Yeah! 120 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:44,840 Get some dirt through, hey? Yep. 121 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:46,040 Woo-hoo! Yay! 122 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,440 It's time now for Mad Maxine to pay the bills. 123 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,800 Here's the first bucket coming in now. 124 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,640 Pay dirt. 125 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,880 If we don't hit that ten ounces, um, this trip then, uh, 126 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,760 we're going home and I don't know if we're coming back. 127 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,400 So the look ahead so far 128 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,560 is we've got another massive week coming up. 129 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,600 I'm just arriving back now at the Phoenix Project 130 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,480 but we really need to get on some good gold. 131 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,080 Yeah, the gold we're producing 132 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,440 it's pretty constant but it's just not enough - 133 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,480 not for what we're chasing this season. 134 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,320 A thousand ounces, it's over 2.6 million dollars. 135 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,160 It's not cheese and crackers. 136 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,440 I do have a few ideas. 137 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:34,480 That's going to come at a cost as well, unfortunately, 138 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,080 but you've got to spend money to make money in this game. 139 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:42,480 Hey, Darren, 140 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:43,800 how's everything going on your end? 141 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:45,680 It's ready for another bucket. Awesome. 142 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,440 I'll bring one up now. OK. 143 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,560 Yeah, so at the moment we've got Alex running Lloyd 144 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,040 and I'm just dropping off some dirt for Darren 145 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:54,160 to put through Barnaby. 146 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:55,760 So, yeah, it's all systems go. 147 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,560 250 ounces banked. 148 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,000 It's not enough. 149 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,240 For us to have any chance of hitting targets... 150 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:06,680 ..we can't have down time. 151 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,400 We've got to be running and running daily, long days, 152 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,520 and hopefully the Phoenix can deliver for the next few weeks 153 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,000 before the end of the season. 154 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,120 This season Paul Mackie joined forces 155 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,880 with Melanie Wood and partner Alex Stead 156 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:22,880 to form the Gold Devils. 157 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,400 And, with a combined ten leases, 158 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:30,640 they're chasing a 1,000 ounce, 2.6 million-dollar pay day. 159 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,480 Two wet plants running. 160 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,560 We're crushing dirt from the main source down there. 161 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,800 It's producing gold but it's just not enough. 162 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:41,280 I do know for a fact that we are losing fine gold 163 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,960 and, at this stage of the season, 164 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:45,360 we can't afford to be losing any. 165 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,280 But with only a few weeks left in the season, 166 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,800 they are still a mammoth 740 ounces short 167 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,640 of their target. 168 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:55,640 Hey, guys. Hey, Paul. 169 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:56,800 How are you going? Yeah. 170 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:57,880 Hey, Paul. 171 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,200 How's the drive? Yeah, long. 172 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:01,400 Yeah. Yeah, sounds it. 173 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,560 Yeah. But anyway, on that drive, a lot of time to think. 174 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:06,640 We're only a quarter of the way to the gold production 175 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:07,880 that we want this year. 176 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,880 How do we, basically, boost the production. 177 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,640 And I kept going back to the original leach, you know, 178 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,200 we pulled three kilos out of that. 179 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:17,280 Yeah. 180 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,360 And the majority of that would have been fine gold 181 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,600 and we do know for a fact we're not getting 182 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:22,840 all the fine gold here. 183 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:24,720 We're basically just sluicing the nuggets out 184 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:25,800 and the coarser material. 185 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,880 So I want to do a test on the tailings that we've got. 186 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,000 I wouldn't mind kick-starting the old wet plant 187 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,480 'cause that thing was built to capture the fine gold. 188 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,480 I wouldn't mind running a hundred tonne through it, 189 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:41,320 seeing what actual gold we get out of that in ounces or grams. 190 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,080 If it is good then we build another leach 191 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,520 and try and leach that fine gold out. 192 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,280 I'm guessing that's going to come with a bit of a price tag. 193 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,880 Yeah. How much? 194 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,320 For the amount of dirt we've have got stockpiled, 195 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,240 probably about 25 grand. Ooh. 196 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,400 Yeah, I mean, 25,000 is a lot to put into something 197 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,160 that we don't know if we're going to get it back. 198 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,440 But, I guess, that's why we run tests and... 199 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:08,720 Yeah. 200 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,480 Will we be able to do the leach 201 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,520 and pull the carbon before the end of the season? 202 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:13,600 I think so. 203 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,880 I mean, if it's only the fine gold we're trying to leach 204 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,400 then it should happen straight away, you know, 205 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,360 probably three to four weeks and it'll be done. 206 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,200 If we can do the test and it proves 207 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:23,760 that it's worth justifying, you know, 208 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,040 spending the money then, I guess... 209 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:28,520 We're running out of time. We are. 210 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,280 Time's not on our side at the moment. 211 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,320 Hopefully - after the hundred tonnes gone through - 212 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,680 have some good news for you. 213 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,240 Well, as usual, Paul's got another crazy plan. 214 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,040 The downside is it pulls him away from the operation. 215 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,000 The upside is - if he's right - 216 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:47,720 could be a valuable source of gold. 217 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,560 This is the one. 218 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,000 Earlier this season, 219 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,840 Paul recovered a healthy 3.3 kilograms of gold 220 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,880 by heap leaching the tailings, or waste dirt, 221 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,800 from their two plants. 222 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,680 Heap leaching uses an alkaline cyanide solution, 223 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,080 which drains through the stockpile of processed dirt, 224 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,320 binding with the super fine gold particles. 225 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,600 The gold rich solution then passes through dense carbon columns, 226 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,600 where the gold is trapped in a solid state. 227 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,200 This is my first wet plant that I ever bought 228 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,400 so it's got a lot of history. 229 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,960 It's actually produced a hell of a lot of gold. 230 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:37,720 I've got to fire this girl up, 231 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,760 prove that there is good, viable gold in the tailings. 232 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:44,320 And - if so - move forward with the leach. 233 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:45,760 There's no other option. 234 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,360 With the screen that this one's got 235 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,320 it basically silts out all the fine gold. 236 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,160 It's not a nugget recovery unit at all. 237 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,800 All the fine gold goes through the screen. 238 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,320 From there it goes straight down into the two concentrators 239 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,560 and from the concentrators straight into the sluice. 240 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:02,280 If I can get this hundred tonne test done 241 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,200 I'm definitely going to catch gold here. 242 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,720 And whatever this centrifuge doesn't catch, 243 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,080 I'm going to catch in the sluice. 244 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,400 You know, we're three quarters of the way through our season. 245 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:12,800 We've got 250 ounces. 246 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:14,920 That's a long way away off our thousand-ounce target. 247 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,320 You know, it's a big gamble that Paul's taking. 248 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,120 You know, I just really hope it pays off. 249 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,200 To keep the gold coming in, 250 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,840 Mel and Darren run wet plant Barnaby, 251 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,040 while Alex processes the gold-rich hard rock 252 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,280 through their crushing plant, Lloyd. 253 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,680 The key now is push the tonnes through Lloyd. 254 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,400 Pushing the machinery harder than it really likes to go 255 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,280 but we've just gotta get every tonne we can 256 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:42,760 into this machine. 257 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:53,240 Oh, my god! 258 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,280 (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS) 259 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:08,800 Caught on fire. 260 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:26,360 In Victoria, Vince Malacria, Bibbi Gerali 261 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,000 and mentor Murray Cox have weathered 262 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,680 one of Australia's worst flood events. 263 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,960 The disaster caused 264 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,080 over one billion dollars in damage, 265 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,040 claiming multiple lives. 266 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,360 Hey, guys. G'day Murray. 267 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:40,560 How are you? Hey, Murray. 268 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:41,720 Not bad. 269 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,800 Doesn't look like you're faring too well, though. 270 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:48,320 Mate, uh, these Victorian floods have been absolutely devastating. 271 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,120 30,000 people are homeless. 272 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,560 We've lost lives. 273 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,960 Mate, this is where we need to be. 274 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,280 This is where we need to dig. Look at this. Look. 275 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,640 Exactly.You can't walk machinery over the top of that. 276 00:11:58,720 --> 00:11:59,840 No way. 277 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:02,040 I don't think we're going to get on here this season. 278 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,240 It'll be sheer luck if we get to dig here, mate. 279 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,680 Yeah, I know. I know. We gotta dig somewhere. 280 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,840 Yeah, well, let's go up between the two shallow leads. 281 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:11,680 Let's get into it while we can. Yeah. 282 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,040 Well, I've gotta nip off into town. 283 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,320 I've got to get some stuff to fix those fences and that. 284 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:16,680 You guys alright to get going? Yep. 285 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:17,760 Yep. Alright. 286 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,480 We'll start stripping, mate. See youse later. 287 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,360 With the expenses piling up, 288 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,760 the pressure is on to find a consistent gold lead. 289 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,520 Oh, God, this season's been ridiculous. 290 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:34,240 From the rain to the mud, the not enough gold, 291 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,560 just everything. 292 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:37,440 It's just been a bit against us this year. 293 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,960 And just anywhere where you see gravel sitting in that clay... 294 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,280 Yep. ..give it a good detect, please. 295 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:44,600 OK. 296 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,440 We're only half way to our target - 297 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:47,720 40-ounce target - 298 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,000 and we're nearly finishing the season. 299 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,560 So we really got to get a push on and get some gold. 300 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,120 We're definitely losing more than what we can find at the moment 301 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,840 and chewing up in diesel all the money there. 302 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:02,720 Costing 400 dollars in fuel per day to run, 303 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,880 the excavator is crucial to their operation, 304 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,920 allowing them to dig up to five metres down 305 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 to potential nugget rich pay dirt. 306 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,880 It'd be nice to get a little bit out of this. 307 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:19,080 I know. 308 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,440 Even the smallest bit would be encouraging. 309 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:22,760 Oh, god, I know. 310 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:24,880 But, after two hours of working, 311 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,200 Murray and Bibbi are empty handed. 312 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:29,720 How you going? 313 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,040 What have you got there, mate? 314 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,040 I may have picked up a little wash plant. 315 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:36,560 That's not a bad little trommel. 316 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,040 What the hell have you got? 317 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:42,280 One of me mates had this sitting in the backyard there.Yeah? 318 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,040 Well, I might have found a little bit of gold on it. 319 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,160 What? How much did you pay for that? 320 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,400 Well, maybe just about two ounces. 321 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:52,240 You paid five grand for it! 322 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,160 And the only thing bad about it is it does have no engine, so... 323 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:56,760 (LAUGHS) Got an idea for that, though. 324 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,720 I know how to get it going. Oh, my god. 325 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,800 Murray, what are we going to do with him? I swear... 326 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,640 But it does one and a half tonne an hour so, you know, like... 327 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,000 We haven't found enough gold to pay for that thing! 328 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,480 No, well this might find it. And diesel and everything else. 329 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:11,560 Think about it. 330 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,240 Earlier in the season, 331 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,200 Vince and Bibbi found fine gold 332 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:16,880 in samples of pay dirt 333 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:18,200 on their lease... 334 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,600 Half a gram per tonne there. 335 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,760 So definitely be able to make some money out of that. 336 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:24,600 ..but after uncovering some big gold, 337 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,120 their attention focused on finding nuggets. 338 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,320 Look at that! Oh, look at it. 339 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,080 Oh, yes! Ripper! Woo-hoo! 340 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,560 Since then, the nuggets have run dry. 341 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:38,760 We're not finding any big gold. 342 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,680 We've got to look for the fine gold, darling. 343 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:42,680 There'd better be something there - I'm telling you - 344 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,000 or you're taking that back. 345 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:45,560 Yeah, righto. Well, you come with me. 346 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:46,960 We'll head over to the other side, 347 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,760 we'll set it up and you'll see that it will produce gold. 348 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,880 What are we getting at the moment? Nothing. 349 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,880 I want at least two ounces 350 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:55,640 from that thing to cover it, I'm telling you. 351 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:03,440 Alright, honey, 352 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,200 let's get this thing set up and get some gold running through it. 353 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,520 Honestly, honey, 354 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,960 you've spent two ounces on this thing. 355 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:11,400 Yeah, so? So? 356 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,240 I'm really worried. Don't worry about it. 357 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,080 No! Let's get this thing set up. 358 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,960 I want to see this thing at least bringing back 359 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:19,800 what you spent on it, hon. 360 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,040 Plus. It will. Easy. 361 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:22,560 We're at the end of our season 362 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,400 and, um, we haven't really reached our target. 363 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:27,640 So I don't know how this is going to go 364 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,440 but I'm really not happy about it. 365 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:33,760 Pretty much all we need to do 366 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,800 is hook up some water, turn her on, turn the pump on 367 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,440 and wash some dirt, so... 368 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,560 Because we had no engine - I've got an idea. 369 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,200 I've got a drill and the drill will be able to turn the barrel 370 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:46,600 and we should be alright, so... 371 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,120 And all we do is we're gonna use a little cable tie here 372 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,160 and just gently put it on until...Gosh. 373 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:53,480 God. 374 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,680 The right gravel - we'll see some gold. 375 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,040 Alright, well, let's go get some gravel from Murray, then. 376 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:03,400 Come on. Let's do it. 377 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,880 That'll do, mate. Perfect. 378 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,240 Alright, mate. Good luck with that. 379 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:13,400 Yeah. Thanks, mate. Cheers! 380 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,960 Alright. Jump in, babe. Let's go wash. 381 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,240 All good, babe. 382 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,760 Start shovelling her in. 383 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:32,560 Looking good, darling. 384 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:35,440 Yeah, mate. 385 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:44,360 I reckon she will be. 386 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,520 Babe, are you happy to stay here? Yeah, yeah. 387 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,160 I can keep this moving. Yeah? 388 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,440 I understand why everyone's concerned. 389 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:53,760 And Bibbi, you know, we're so far away from target 390 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,080 the only way we're going to get to a target this season 391 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:57,880 is if we've got multiple plants running. 392 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,360 You know, two operations up there and down here. 393 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,240 So that was my only option and I took it. 394 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:07,080 (BLEEP), what's that? 395 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,720 Hydraulic oil. 396 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,200 Where's that coming from? 397 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,000 Ah, geez! 398 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:23,800 I gotta shut it down. 399 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,000 It's too much of a chance of catching on fire. 400 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,520 Got about 50 of these to take down. 401 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,480 We really need 10 ounces out of this. 402 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,680 If we can do that - happy days. 403 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:47,240 But if we don't, we've got some serious decisions to make. 404 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:48,440 Righto, Chris. 405 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,400 Just dump it in here so Brad can pick it up with the digger. 406 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,440 Rogey. Yep. 407 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,400 The Gold Retrievers must produce ten ounces of gold 408 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,840 from 50 tonnes of pay dirt this week. 409 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:01,560 If they fail 410 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,080 they'll walk away from their Devil's Cut lease for good. 411 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,240 Righto, Brad, are you ready? 412 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:08,760 Yeah, I'm good to go. 413 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,080 I'm just going to take it easy to start with. 414 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,120 We don't know how everything is going to go. 415 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:18,840 Just want to feather it very gently. 416 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:20,720 We don't wanna sort of overload it straight away. 417 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,080 We just wanna make sure everything 418 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:23,240 is going to work alright 419 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,560 and hopefully everything goes alright and we can ramp it up. 420 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,520 But everything is looking pretty good at the moment. 421 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,160 Pay dirt moves along a conveyor 422 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:31,360 and into a crusher 423 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:32,680 that reduces it to gravel 424 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,680 before entering the mill, 425 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:36,240 where heavy iron balls 426 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:37,880 pulverise the material 427 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:39,520 into fine powder. 428 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:42,000 The concentrator 429 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,160 then uses centrifugal force 430 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:45,520 to separate the gold 431 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:46,840 from the lighter material. 432 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:54,880 Ah, (BLEEP). Hang on. 433 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,760 Chris, shut it down, mate. Shut it down. 434 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:58,280 That conveyor's stopped. 435 00:18:58,360 --> 00:18:59,440 Rogey. 436 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,880 There's always something. 437 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:03,520 Jesus! 438 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,000 What happened? I don't know. 439 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,560 It just stopped, hey? Serious? 440 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,160 Oh, it's jammed up with rocks, mate. 441 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:12,600 Eugh! 442 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:14,360 Alright, I'll go get some tools. 443 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,440 I'll loosen the belt off and we'll sort it out. 444 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:17,520 Far out! 445 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,880 Everything was running sweet until then. 446 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,760 Conveyor belt strikes again. 447 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,480 I think it's conveyor three, us nil. 448 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,200 We definitely don't need these sort of hold ups. 449 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,680 Not after, you know, all the dramas that we've had. 450 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,360 Yeah, if we don't find at least ten ounces 451 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:33,840 then that's the end of Devil's Cut 452 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:35,960 and the end of this whole operation. 453 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,360 OK. Conveyor coming on. 454 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:39,560 Righto, mate. 455 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,000 I think what we're going to have to do is, with the blower, 456 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,360 we're just gonna have to blow it out every now and then - 457 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,600 just to keep the dirt from getting caught 458 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:52,760 around the roller. 459 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,120 So that's looking pretty good now. 460 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,880 Well, it's running central now. 461 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,360 It's running good so, alright, let's fire it up, man. 462 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,240 All these problems, never ending. 463 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,280 Yeah, look, we've got it half fixed. 464 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:12,680 We need to get back into it. 465 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,760 We're just going to have to keep an eye on it 466 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,000 and hopefully it keeps going. 467 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,200 We're just gonna have to baby it 468 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:20,840 and try and just keep this plant running. 469 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:21,920 We really do. 470 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,640 It doesn't matter how much we put through, 471 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,040 we need to get ten ounces. 472 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:27,120 For us to continue we need to see gold. 473 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,200 If we don't see gold, that's it - it's over. 474 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,040 Fire! 475 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:40,360 What the hell! 476 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,040 What's happened? 477 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,520 Motor's caught on fire. 478 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,640 It's out. 479 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,600 Yeah, you can see it's all burnt. 480 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:02,840 Burnt out. 481 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,160 Oh, god, I just can't deal with this at the moment. 482 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,160 Yeah. 483 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,920 Alright, well, not much we can do here. 484 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,640 Everything's off. Yeah. 485 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,720 OK? Yeah. 486 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:16,880 OK. 487 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,200 Just for the motor it's 8,000 dollars. 488 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,520 Then we've got to go and get the motor in Kalgoorlie, 489 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,680 that's a six hour one-way, twelve hours round trip. 490 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,440 This isn't what we need and couldn't come at a worse time... 491 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,120 ..and we're not going to produce now. 492 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,520 This is really going to kill us and it's more money out the door, 493 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,240 which we can't really be affording to do. 494 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,680 Where do we go from here? 495 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,440 Well, Lloyd's out of action so it's all down to Barnabee. 496 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,080 See how much tonnage that can take but, um... 497 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:49,200 And Paul's sampling. 498 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,120 It's literally all going to come down to that test 499 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,320 and whether we get leaching. 500 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:53,400 Yeah. 501 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,800 We need a good result on that test, otherwise... 502 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:57,440 That's all we've got at the moment. 503 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,120 Well, we're dead in the water here, so... 504 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,720 I don't know what this means for us right now. 505 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,040 It's, um...you know, 506 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,600 everything's stacking up against us. 507 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,720 So, yeah, I'm not too sure. 508 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,960 A lot of time building that plant and designing it, 509 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,400 getting the parts. 510 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,240 And to see it go up in flames... 511 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,320 Oh, it's a bit heartbreaking. 512 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,080 I guess the test sample has to come, has to prove, 513 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,560 you know, provide some goods. 514 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,040 Otherwise the season could be well and truly over. 515 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,560 So the plan is I'll run about a hundred tonne. 516 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,160 It'll be a good...a good test. 517 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,200 It'll tell us how much gold per tonne that's running. 518 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,600 I really need this to pay off. 519 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,360 I'd like to see at least a couple of ounces. 520 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,360 If Paul can extract two ounces of gold from the test, 521 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,840 then heap leaching the remaining 2,000 tonne stockpile of tailings 522 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,960 could earn the team over 100,000 dollars' worth of gold. 523 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,560 Paul, got a copy? Yeah, mate. Go ahead. 524 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,520 Well, seeing as I set fire to my processing plant, 525 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,080 do you want a hand with your one? 526 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:20,200 Yeah. Yeah, mate. 527 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,080 Do you wanna come and jump in the excavator? 528 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,920 I'll get out and, um, make sure everything is running alright. 529 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,040 Cool. Sounds like a plan. 530 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,320 Seeing the crushing plant catch on fire, 531 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,680 I was pretty devastated to see that go up. 532 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,480 I felt like it was game over but, you know, 533 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,000 that's the rollercoaster of gold mining. 534 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,240 You get the knocks but you pick yourself up, 535 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,200 you dust yourself off and you go feed another bucket 536 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,560 into another machine and you keep rolling. 537 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,640 How's the feed rate, Paul? Any faster, any slower? 538 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,720 Nah. The feed's perfect. It's fine. 539 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,960 Just try not to set it on fire, hey? 540 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,720 (LAUGHS) Oh, I'm never living this down. 541 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,200 I'm literally only getting 542 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,840 maybe two, three tonnes in an hour through. 543 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,240 This machine can handle more 544 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,760 but we've really got to catch every bit of fine gold. 545 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,040 And to achieve that we've got to feed it slow, 546 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:18,600 got to be very gentle and consistent. 547 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,720 Now if there is fine gold - and this test comes out good - 548 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,520 then we could be on for a massive leach 549 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:24,880 for the end of the season. 550 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,200 So this test...I can't emphasise enough 551 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,040 how important this is right now. 552 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,680 Oh, I tell you what... What's going on here? 553 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,120 This doesn't look good. Nah. 554 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,360 We've done a hose. 555 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,160 Oil leaking everywhere and I had to shut her down. 556 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,920 And she's this one and, look, see here? 557 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,160 Where it's been rubbing on here. Yeah, yeah. 558 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,640 We'd have been gone and would have went there as well. 559 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,600 So, lucky we haven't started a fire, mate. 560 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,560 One of our friends, our mining friends, 561 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,800 his excavator burnt down not long ago. 562 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,720 There would have been leaking oil getting on hot parts of the motor 563 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,720 so I just don't want to be a repeat of that situation. 564 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,760 For Vince, Bibbi and Murray, 565 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,000 losing the most vital piece of equipment 566 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,240 would signal the end of their gold mining dream. 567 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,360 I think I've got one of these up there. 568 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,120 I don't know if it's the same fittings but... 569 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,760 OK, why don't you go and get it and we'll see if it fits? 570 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,840 Anyway, I'll take it with me, I'll head up there now. 571 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:21,960 Alright, mate. 572 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,360 To lose the excavator - that would be devastating. 573 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,320 That means you're going back to the bank to buy a new one. 574 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,120 I'm not doing that at this stage. 575 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:32,920 Replacing the excavator 576 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,120 would cost upwards of 50,000 dollars - 577 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,920 a career ending expense for the team. 578 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:44,120 Hey, mate, give this baby a try. 579 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,560 It looks almost the same, doesn't it? 580 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,480 I reckon she's going to do the job, mate. 581 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,360 Do you want to... I'll hold that end and... 582 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,040 No, do you want to grab this end 583 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:57,120 and feed it through here so no dirt gets into it? 584 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:58,720 Yep. 585 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,360 Yep. The same thread, mate. Unreal. Beautiful. 586 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:05,760 Mate, we've got to get this fixed. 587 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,440 We've got to get onto some gold. 588 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,000 Well... 589 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,000 Let's just see if it leaks first. 590 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,600 Yeah, you beauty! 591 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,000 Might be back in action here. 592 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,040 Just got a few more scoops to go and we'll see how we go. 593 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,840 Alright. That's pretty good. 594 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,520 OK, this is the moment of truth. 595 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:55,800 Let's have a little look here. 596 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,240 Oh, my god! 597 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,560 These are amazing. 598 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,400 There's one, two, three, four. 599 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,680 Oh, my god! 600 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,760 Oh, yeah. They're going to be rapt. 601 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,440 Oh, that is brilliant. 602 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,760 This machine is going to pay itself off, 603 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,280 a hundred per cent. 604 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:14,880 The one tonne trailer load 605 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,280 has produced three grams of small nuggets 606 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:20,000 worth up to 250 dollars. 607 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,520 I'm going to have to go up 608 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,280 and get some more of that dirt through because this is great. 609 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:25,680 This is what we want to see. 610 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:37,720 Help. 611 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,960 Paul, hopper's blocked. Paul, hopper's blocked. 612 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,520 Eugh! 613 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,400 Ah, this doesn't look fun. 614 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,160 Hopefully we can figure this blockage out 615 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,920 and get back and running but this is no good. 616 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,440 No good at all. 617 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,880 Time is definitely our biggest killer. 618 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,400 Every minute we're burning diesel 619 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,360 and if we're not producing something 620 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:10,840 we're just costing. 621 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:15,160 After a fire shut down their crushing circuit, Lloyd, 622 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,840 the Gold Devils are hoping high concentrations of fine gold 623 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,800 will prove that a heap leach can turn their season around. 624 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:29,840 Yeah, there's a bit rock in here. Alright. 625 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,200 It's wedged across the whole thing. 626 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,560 Yeah, I've pushed it all the way through. 627 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,800 Yeah, all clear now. 628 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,320 Yeah, mate, good to go again. 629 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,360 Alright. All back on. 630 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,560 Alright, did that fix it? Got it going? 631 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,480 Yeah, there is a big rock in there 632 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,120 but it will come through at some point. 633 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,160 Alright, up and running again. 634 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,640 You know, we really need to see some results 635 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:07,960 at the end of the week, 636 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,440 because it's not going to be cheap 637 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,120 getting this heap leach up and running. 638 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,120 You know, Paul's told me how much it's going to cost 639 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,680 and, you know, 640 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,600 we actually can't afford it at the moment. 641 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,320 But we can't afford not to as well, so... 642 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,120 (PHONE RINGS) 643 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,240 Hello. 644 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,040 Yeah. 645 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:39,760 Alex, Paul, got a copy? 646 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,080 Copy. Yeah, copy. 647 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,800 I just had a phone call from the guy at Fair Lady 648 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,280 and I really need to get up there now. 649 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,760 So I'm going to jump in the car and head off. 650 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,240 Well, hopefully it's good news and he's got some gold for ya. 651 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,920 It sounded quite promising. 652 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,760 So I know it's a bit of a drive 653 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,560 but I'm just gonna hop in the car 654 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,360 and get up there and hopefully he's got some good news for me. 655 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,000 The Fair Lady lease, 380 kilometres southeast, 656 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:06,080 is one of 657 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,840 the Gold Devils' ten leases. 658 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,080 There, a small hired crew 659 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,760 have spent the past few weeks chasing a gold rich vein 660 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,120 of blue quartz. 661 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,040 We've got a chap down at Fair Lady 662 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,800 keeping things ticking along, 663 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,560 'cause we need to prove that ground up. 664 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,920 Mel's dashed off, which could be an encouraging sign. 665 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,720 Is that the last bucket? 666 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,200 Yeah, that's the last bit of the last bucket. 667 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,720 Basically, we're just running about a hundred tonne. 668 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,440 It's just an estimate 669 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,520 and, at the end of that, I'd like to see 670 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,800 at least a couple of ounces, you know. 671 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,200 Um, and then that'll justify putting a leach in. 672 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,720 Hopefully it'll be enough gold to pay for it as well. 673 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,360 It's definitely what we need. 674 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,480 We all have to be finding the gold, 675 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,120 because we really need it at the moment. 676 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,320 Even with the fine gold it all adds up 677 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,720 and it's making money - money we need. 678 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,040 We're going to make it. 679 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,160 We're gonna make sure we're gonna make it. 680 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,280 Somehow. 681 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:02,960 In Victoria, 682 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,360 Bibbi runs the new mini wash plant 683 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,160 while Vince and Murray dig for big nuggets, 684 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,280 doubling their efforts to reach their 40 ounce season target. 685 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:14,840 (LOUD BEEPING) 686 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,600 Ooh, that is a nice sweet signal. 687 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,000 (LOUD BEEPING) 688 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:29,560 Ooh, yeah. 689 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,560 I'm coming over for a look. 690 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,480 Ooh! Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo! 691 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,440 That's got a nice sound to it, Vinny. 692 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,920 I don't see you dig big, wide holes like that very often. 693 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,760 (LOUD BEEPING) 694 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,200 Still down there. 695 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,280 Give us your pick. 696 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,920 (LAUGHS) This has gotta be gold, mate. 697 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,760 Nothing's ever gotta be gold, Vinny. 698 00:31:58,840 --> 00:31:59,840 Gotta be gold, mate. 699 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:01,680 This is the best signal we've had in weeks. 700 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,080 It could be a decent nut falling off the (BLEEP) excavator, mate. 701 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,360 Come on. Come on, come on. 702 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,040 Be the gold, Murray. Hey! 703 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,600 Look, do you see that? No. 704 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,320 Oh, hello. It's gold, mate. 705 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,760 Oh, yeah. Unreal. 706 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,040 Beauty, buddy. 707 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,760 Mate, it's solid. 708 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:27,920 It's a chunk. 709 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,040 You got a bottle big enough to fill him? 710 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,280 I do. Put him in? 711 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:32,880 Oh, yeah, you've got your big one. 712 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,640 Just. 713 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,520 Unreal, buddy. 714 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,480 That's four or five ounces, that. Yes. 715 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:39,600 Twelve grand. 716 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,680 We needed it. That's saving the day, mate. 717 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:43,760 That's saving the day. 718 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,800 So, hey, got the detector out, mate. 719 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,440 Having a swing? Yeah, mate. 720 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,480 All hands on deck. Beauty, mate. 721 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:56,880 Are you going down the hole? 722 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,960 Yeah, mate, I'll go down. You take it easy. 723 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,120 Alright, mate. 724 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,040 There's some beautiful gravels there. 725 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,480 (LOUD BEEPING) Ooh! 726 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,600 What, are you having a bit of a scratch down there, mate? 727 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,280 I tell you what, I got a nice signal in the wall here, mate - 728 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,400 like the one you got off the pad. Ooh! 729 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:28,520 What? That big? 730 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:32,800 Oh, it's out. Out. 731 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,280 Come on, be gold. 732 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,960 Can't see anything yet. (LOUD BEEPING) 733 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,120 Oh, hang on! 734 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,200 Feel the weight now, Vinnie. Hey! 735 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,840 It's gold. 736 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,320 Ooh, it's a nice bit, mate. 737 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,720 Ooh, yeah. 738 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,200 Could be an ounce in this. 739 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,520 Hey, mate, look at that. 740 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,640 It's even got a pyramid shape to it, almost. 741 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,400 Might be your crystal you've been looking for, finally. 742 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,560 We'll have to get it cleaned up and have a geezer. 743 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,160 Just full of pipe, OK, mate. 744 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,280 I can't clean it up here. I can't suck it out. 745 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,720 It's got to come out with a brush.Yep, yep. 746 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,000 The rarest form of gold - crystal gold - 747 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,520 is formed when crystals rapidly grow 748 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,760 in a mineral rich gold vein. 749 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,440 Its value is determined by the uniqueness of its shape 750 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:21,840 and configuration, 751 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,600 rather than weight alone. 752 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,000 Ooh, yeah! 753 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,840 You know, since we've been doing this lease 754 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,120 we haven't found two good bits in one day yet. 755 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:32,640 Yeah, in the one day, nuh. Nuh. 756 00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:33,920 This is the first time. 757 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000 I think we're on. 758 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,240 We might have found that patch we've been looking for. 759 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,600 What are you seeing in your pan? 760 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,320 Well, I'm seeing gold. 761 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,080 Hey, guys. How's it going? 762 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,240 Oh, your home at last. Hey, Mel. You made it. 763 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:49,920 Oh, that was such a long drive. 764 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,440 Hey, Mel. Hey. 765 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,840 What was the...what was the drama? 766 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,720 Well, let's just do a weigh in and we'll find out, hey? 767 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,120 Oh, you're smiling. I like that. 768 00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,240 Looks positive. 769 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,000 You went and picked up gold, didn't you? 770 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,960 Maybe. Well, the whole team's here. 771 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,120 Shall we do it? 772 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,000 The Gold Devils' crushing circuit, Lloyd, 773 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,720 was shut down after the motor caught fire, 774 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,960 leaving their wash plant, Barnabee, 775 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,840 and their fine gold tests as their main source 776 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,200 of gold this week. 777 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,480 Start with Lloyd. Lloyd, yep. 778 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:19,720 After you burnt it down. 779 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,960 Am I ever going to hear the end of this? 780 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,000 No, probably not. 781 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,960 Fire slowed us down but still produced something. 782 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,920 Wow. Nice colour. 783 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,040 It is. It is. 784 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,480 7.1 ounces. Well, that's not bad. 785 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,120 This one here is from Barnabee for the week. 786 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:36,480 Just been slowly ticking away. 787 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:41,520 6.35. 788 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,080 Not bad for the week. Well done, Darren. 789 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:44,200 That's big, Darren. 790 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,280 Well, with my test with that hundred tonne, 791 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:48,760 I found a lot of fine gold. 792 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,600 The team needs at least two ounces of gold from the test sample 793 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,200 to justify building a 25,000 dollar heap leach. 794 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,440 So let's see what it is. 795 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,640 Wow! 796 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:05,480 2.78, 2.8. Wow! 797 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,720 2.8 ounces out of a hundred tonne test. 798 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,080 Well, do you know what? 799 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,240 I was sceptical but you were right. 800 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,560 What have we got up there, nearly 2,000 tonne? 801 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,400 2,000 and that's going to come close to two kilos of gold. 802 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,360 If we leach that, that's an extra two kilos. 803 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:19,600 That's amazing. 804 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,120 I'm really impressed with that. 805 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:22,440 I reckon it's worth it. 806 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:23,720 It's worth the investment. Yeah. 807 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,640 Can we spend the money now, Mel? Yeah, you can. 808 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:26,920 (THEY LAUGH) 809 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,920 More importantly, you've got this big smirk on your face. 810 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,040 Yeah. 811 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,120 So the guy's been ticking away up there at Fair Lady 812 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,880 and um, yes, he's given me something to... 813 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,680 Whoa, no way! What the hell? 814 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,080 Far out! 815 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,480 That's crazy! 816 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,160 Are you kidding me? Pretty good, hey? 817 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:49,280 (LAUGHS) 818 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,640 I so wanted to tell you. 819 00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:54,120 Yeah, it's over a kilo. That's over a kilo on its own. 820 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:55,320 I know. 821 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:56,560 Nice surprise. 822 00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,360 So that brings us up to 48.5 ounces for the week. 823 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,120 That's not too bad. 824 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,600 That pushes the current tally over 300. 825 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,160 With that extra kilo, that's a game changer. 826 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:09,480 Yeah. 827 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,600 Let's chase that. That's what we're here for. 828 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,120 Like that, that is what we're looking for. 829 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,520 If we can just keep one person back here 830 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,080 to run the heap leach, set it up, have it running 831 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,880 and everyone else just goes to Fair Lady 832 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,760 and tries to produce that. Yeah. 833 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:28,960 We've got a plan. 834 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:30,680 Fair Lady and leaching. 835 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,480 Yep. Alright, are we doing it? 836 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:33,800 Gold Devils! 837 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:43,160 Seen any gold in there? 838 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:44,440 Yeah, I've got a few bits. 839 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:45,680 Good. Yeah. 840 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,760 And how did you guys go? Well, I don't know. 841 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,200 We're gonna have to put it on the scales and have a look. 842 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,080 In Victoria's Golden Triangle, 843 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,240 Bibbi, Vance and Murray added a mini wash plant 844 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,440 to their operation, 845 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,600 in an effort to boost their gold haul. 846 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,000 It was one of those weeks. 847 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,320 We've been moving around everywhere. 848 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,400 Oh, yeah. Spent a lot of money on diesel. 849 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:04,520 Yep. 850 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,840 But let's chuck some gold on the scales and see how we went. 851 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,040 Yeah, definitely. 852 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:12,720 Alright. Oh. 853 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,920 1.072. 854 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,320 Is that it? 855 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:17,880 No, that's not it actually. 856 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,240 Ready?I mean, you guys spent money on that thing. 857 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,680 Hang on. We've got a bit of a surprise for you.Yeah. 858 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:23,880 Yeah, show me. 859 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,280 Oh! What? (LAUGHS) 860 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,200 That is magic! 861 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,880 5.12 ounces there. 862 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,320 Whoa, that is fantastic, guys. Not a bad week. 863 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,880 Guess what? What? 864 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,560 This one here is a gold crystal 865 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,120 and it's probably worth more than all that gold together. 866 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,320 Based on its shape, 867 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,080 Murray's crystal gold nugget 868 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,840 could be worth over 1,600 dollars - 869 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,240 five times the current gold value. 870 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,440 But that's the biggest one I've seen yet. 871 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:55,680 Oh, that's stunning. 872 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,360 Yeah, that is beautiful. That's a ripper. 873 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,720 6.4 ounces. Unreal. 874 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,080 Eh? Not bad. That's really good. 875 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,200 Oh, look that's awesome. 876 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,200 Awesome work. Good work. Well done. 877 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,560 Little trammel girl. Alright. 878 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,000 Let's have a look. 879 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,200 Here we go. 880 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,760 Take that off and we'll just do this?Yep. 881 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,840 11.36 grams... That's not too bad. 882 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:21,040 ..minus three grams for the jar, gives us 8.36 grams. 883 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,360 You've actually picked eight grams of small pieces 884 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:26,800 out of the machine already? 885 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,200 Yep. Yep. 886 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,520 The 700 dollar return from 20 tonnes of pay dirt 887 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,240 means they could pay off the wash plant in just two weeks. 888 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,640 Brings us to roughly 6.65 ounces. 889 00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:44,240 Just under 27 ounces total for the season so far. 890 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,160 OK. 13 to go, guys. 891 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:47,240 13 to go. 892 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,840 Let's go get in some more gold. 893 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,240 Let's go! Come on! Woo-hoo! 894 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,160 Hey, Murray, looks like we're in with a fighting chance 895 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:53,320 to hit this target, eh? 896 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:54,640 Well, we are, mate. Yeah. 897 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:57,840 And that lifts the spirits a hell of a lot, mate.Yep. 898 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:17,600 Hey, Chris! 899 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,040 I reckon that's it. 900 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,040 Shut it down and we'll do a clean up.Yeah. 901 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:23,880 Sounds good. Alright. Shut it down, eh. 902 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,360 Good job, darl. 903 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,920 I think we've nailed our 50 tonne. 904 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,440 If there's nothing in the concentrates 905 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,400 then there's nothing more for us to do. 906 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,840 Yeah, well, this is the scary part. 907 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,120 This determines whether we're staying or going. 908 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,440 That's right. This could be the end of us. 909 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,520 The Gold Retrievers set themselves an ultimatum - 910 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,840 to produce ten ounces of gold this week 911 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,560 or they'll walk away from the operation. 912 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,280 You know, the nerves are sort of up now. 913 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,040 I really just don't know whether we're going 914 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,560 to get ten ounces out of it. 915 00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,200 Alright, so there's our gold bar. 916 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:02,760 Cool it down. 917 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,520 So that's it. 918 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,600 All that hard work and effort, 919 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,880 60 tonnes of dirt has come down to that. 920 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,080 Howdy, team. 921 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,680 Here's the man with the gold. 922 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:17,920 How did you go? 923 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,520 Well, we got a gold bar. 924 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:24,600 Oh, wow! 925 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,640 An absolute beautiful gold bar. Oh, it looks great. 926 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:29,760 We've put in a lot of effort this week just to get that. 927 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,080 So I mean, you know, I think well done to us.Yep. 928 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,400 Even achieving what we've achieved 929 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:36,800 with the problems that we've had. 930 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,080 So many problems. 931 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,880 It's just been absolutely ridiculous, mate. 932 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,240 So to come out the end 933 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,600 with a gold bar, at least, is fantastic. 934 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,320 But if it's not ten ounces 935 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,360 then the Devil's Cut is not viable. 936 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,920 It's not worth us being here. 937 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,320 Yeah. Yeah. 938 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,080 Alright, here we go. 939 00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,480 Nah. Nowhere near. Not even close. 940 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,800 What have we got? 5.4. 941 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:04,320 (SIGHS) 942 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,600 Mate, it's...yeah. 943 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,480 (BLEEP) heart breaking. 944 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:10,640 It is. 945 00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:13,000 It's been a hell of a ride, though. 946 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:14,800 It has. Um... 947 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,480 But, uh, I think this is the end 948 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:17,880 of the Gold Retrievers, unfortunately. 949 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:19,120 I think so, mate. 950 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:20,880 You know, this venture that we're doing 951 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,320 is not working, mate. 952 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,640 So I think we need to go our separate ways and follow, 953 00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:29,040 follow other ventures, you know? Yep. 954 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,040 Well, it's been a pleasure. It has, mate. 955 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,280 It's been (BLEEP) great ride. 956 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,280 Mate, we found a heap of gold along the way. 957 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,080 I'm proud of the work that we've all done. 958 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,720 I think we've achieved some great things, you know?Yeah. 959 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,000 So what do you reckon, we go and have a beer? 960 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,640 Yep, for sure. Let's do it. Alright. Come on, guys. 961 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,800 That really wasn't the outcome we were after. 962 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:51,800 At least we can sleep easy at night 963 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,600 knowing that we gave it our best. 964 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,920 So for me, now, it's onto the next adventure. 965 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:02,960 That's the end of the Devil's Cut. 966 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,240 Whatever we decide to do, 967 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,200 just know I'm gonna be right there with you. 968 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,520 Yeah, fantastic, exactly where I want you to be, darl. 969 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,640 I love you. Love you too, darl. 970 00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:14,720 Captioned by Ai-Media ai-media.tv