She's tight through this area, mate, so just watch your rear-view mirrors.
Yep. All right.
So, you reckon going out here is going to be worth the gamble?
I really do. Our Fish Creek prospect was fantastic
but unfortunately, the gold doesn't grow back.
Right at the heart of the station is Mount Madden.
This spot just looks great.
And the history books point this way as well.
I think it's worth the push.
We really don't know how far Andy's taking us.
It's a really rough track.
Hang on.
Something doesn't feel right.
Just cut around this section and have a look.
The road's really bumpy.
(SIGHS) Oh, God.
Andy, you on channel? I got a flat.
Andy, are you getting a copy?
Got a flat tyre!
That's like four grams of gold right there.
Now I can't get Andy on radio. I can't even see him anymore.
I absolutely did not need this. (GROANS)
Far out!
I hate that we have to deal with these sort of problems out of here.
It's tough enough as it is, but I suppose it's just part of the job.
(CHUCKLING) Right on cue, just as the hard work's done.
Oh, man. Hello.
Have you lost something?
It's all right. I found it again.
(GROANS) Look at what I've just done.
Another one? It's only been like a month.
This is my last spare.
Mmm.We can't keep doing this.
It's just costing so much money.
This stuff happens way too often.
Well how about I help you throw this on and then I've got an idea. What's that?
How about we just chuck this tyre on first,
then you follow me and we'll go and check it out?OK.
NARRATOR: Lease explorers Jacqui Buzetti and Andrew Leahy
spent the last two years hunting gold
on the Palmer River in far North Queensland.
(CACKLES) Ha-Ha, yes! Aw, Andy, look at that! That's a chunk.
The team has exclusive prospecting rights,
given by the cattle station owners who plan to mine the area.
As part of the deal, we have to report all our finds. We're allowed to keep them.Yep. Sweet.
But we have to tell them where we got it from. Yeah, all right.
Despite prospecting in such a challenging region...
Let's go, mate. Fire!
..the pair have managed to find almost half of the gold
needed to hit their season target.
That's more than we've got all year. More than all year.
Yes, yes, yes. Finaly! You champion, mate, well done.
All right, let's do this.
Hey, Mitch. Hey, guys. How you going?
Good, mate, how you doing? Good to see you again.
Yeah, you too, mate. Jacqui. Hello.
So, er, is it still for sale, mate? Yeah, the bike. Yep. Excellent. Well.
Aah. He didn't tell me what we were doing here.(CHUCKLES)
Yeah, that's got to be better than flogging our cars through the bush, eh?OK.
Mm-hm. You want gold or cash? Gold will be good, Andy.Mm-hm.
All right, we can do that. How much is it?
Well, I'm chasing about ninety-five grams, mate. Yeah? How about sixty-five?
Oh, that's a little bit low, mate. If you can come up a bit closer to mine.
Somewhere in the middle? Will the bank let us come closer?
It's a good investment. If you can meet me at 80, we got a deal, mate.
What do you reckon?
I think that's fair.
Let's do it.Done. Let's make it happen.
All right, let's waste some gold up. Sweet.Sounds like a deal.
Eighty grams, or 2.6 ounces of gold
is worth $7,700.
But if the quad bike gets Jacqui and Andrew access to the gold, it could be priceless.
Whoohoo!Shotgun.(LAUGHS)
Check this out. New toy. Wicked.
Cheers, Mitch.See ya, Andy.
All right, we got this four-wheeler, where to first?
The turn-off is not too far away now, mate. It's just up here.
I'll be using the quad to skirt out in front,
and check for new tracks and the best way in.
I think it's a good idea getting that quad.
Being able to push into trucks and grounds
where there might not necessarily be tracks.
Or at least get through areas where we can't get through with the cars.
There are old tracks, old haul roads,
and they haven't been used for a really long time.
Mount Madden lies at the heart
of the 1,300 square kilometre Palmerville Station.
This uninhabited and unforgiving environment,
was the site of a short-lived gold rush in the 1870s.
But the rugged terrain made maintaining supply lines,
and carrying heavy equipment, nearly impossible.
When the surface gold dried up, the area was abandoned.
Now seasoned prospectors Jacqui and Andrew,
are back to pick up where the gold rush miners left off.
(SIGHS) That whole creek's washed through there.
Oh, God.Yeah. That's a pretty serious washout, mate.
No. Erm, I'm not going through that. I don't even have a spare tyre.
Sorry, man, but as far as I'm concerned, that's the end of the line.
All right. I'm trying to get the dry blower up and running,
and then I can get that gold bearing dirt through it
and hopefully, pull out some nice colour at the other end.
Meanwhile, Shane and Amy are down trying to prove up that quartz reef
down near the old mine workings.
Er, but yeah, let's see how we go. That's ready to go.
Right let's load it up with dirt and in the words of Shane, let's get on the gold.
So I've come here. I've managed to get Shane out of retirement.
I called my best friend Amy up here.
We're both full-time working mothers,
but this has just been a long-time dream of ours.
I feel a bit bad that I've dragged Shane and Amy out here,
and we're not quite hitting our target.
We set 18 ounces at the beginning of the season.
But we're just not getting enough week to week.
This season, veteran prospector Shane Calegari and Kate Dundas
were joined by her friend and geologist, Amy Doherty.
This is the famous iron ore geologist, is that right?
Who wants to learn how to find gold. That's the one.
The team were relying on a revamped wet plant to process paydirt...
Uh-huh-huh.(ENGINE WHIRRING)
Have a listen to that purr. (BOTH WOMEN EXCLAIM)
..but ran out of water, forcing them to switch to a dry blower.
This dirt is perfect for the dry blower.
It'll be perfect to go through this machine and we can get as much gold out of it as we can.
As Kate processes the finer material,
Shane and Amy hunt for the source of their gold.
OK, kill it, Amy. I'm going to go brush this course reef off
and see if there's any gold there. Right. OK.
I'd better put me glasses on cos plenty of people lost their eyes through this stuff.
How's it looking?It's got some nice colour about it. It's sharp.
Yeah, that's looking really good. It is really good.
I can see a bit of colour here. We've got a bit of iron moving through a few fissures.
Something's been left open and some other material is deposited
and it's been weathered out again. Correct?
Roughly right. Yeah.Yeah. OK.
We know that fluid that moves through the quartz vein is where it's depositing the gold.
I think we're in with a good chance of finding some gold in here. That's good. I like it.
Let's unload all this gear.
And then what I'll do is I'll start drilling some holes,
you can start going down and do metal detecting.
If you find anything, give me a radio I'll be right back.
I'll be ringing you up straight away. Don't you worry about that. Good luck.
Off the back of the 3.5 ounces that we found, and then the 1.7 ounces from the dry blower,
that's really good, but it's not enough.
We need to be finding where the gold is concentrated
to really make it worth our while being out here.
So now I'm just gonna test the dirt that Shane's pulled out.
Let's just see if we can find anything else here,
just to give us a bit more of an indication that we're onto a good thing.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING) That sounds good.
It's somewhere at the top.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING) (AMY SIGHS)
Hey, that's pretty good.
That's gold inside the quartz.
That means that we're definitely in the source of the gold.
That's a really good sign that we've got that vein.
Then as time goes on, the quartz will weather away,
that will release the gold into the ground. That's what Kate's picking up with the dry blower.
I'm a hard rock miner. This is me game.
And this is what I did 40 years ago with me father and me grandfather.
The only difference is, this gear works.
(CHUCKLING) Not much of my gear worked in them days. Hah.
Rightio. Here we go.
Right. In the old days, would have put dynamite in here and blown this out.
I'll just get this finds, stick it in this pan and I'll pan it off.
If I find the right part of the reef here,
I could get my whole season in one hit. The whole lot.
This isn't looking very good. This is disappointing.
There's good quartz here, but just not enough gold in it.
That's prospecting. It's tough going.
So these are the old Chicago workings.
Where we knocked the tree out the other day it's just down the hill from here.
All the gold from this reef has shed that way.
You can tell that because there's very little quartz on this side.
And there's a great deal of boulder quartz on that side.
We need to be digging up the stuff that's er, besides stumpy.
Under the stump. Under and around the stump, all that kind of stuff.
We need to be trucking it over to Dead Horse, and running there.
What is it we need to get through per day to make it worthwhile?
If we're running for a full week, erm, and we're doing about four trucks a day,
we should end up with about 80 grams
of gold by the end of the week. Yeah.
But we need that 80 grams of gold to break even.
That's a fair bit of pressure to keep everything moving.
That's a lot of dirt to go through.
Yep. So I'm gonna be really relying on you, dear, to run the to run the wash plant.
Do you think you can do that?
That makes me a bit nervous running the plant by myself.
Like I've got to learn to do it all, don't I?Yes, yeah.
You gotta get stuck in. This is what doing it full-time is all about.
So let's get this first truck filled and let's get into it. Yep, I'll load her up.
So we've got some pretty good results here last week.
So we just got to keep feeding the wet plant.
Four tonnes of load, four loads a day.
Just keep going. (SIGHS)
Kat's pretty new at driving the excavator and operating it.
She should be all right, but we haven't had it long enough
to actually train her up on it 100%.
So, treat this as a learning curve.
Moment of truth.
The one that we tested last week worked out at about four grams per tonne.
We're hoping to hit one gram per tonne in the surrounding area.
And that will equate to about just under three ounces for the week.
That's nearly nine grand. That's a pretty good week.
There is no other income, so it's just the income that we generate from the gold this year.
That's a little bit scary.
(LOUD CRASH) (BRETT YELPS) (BLEEP)
You've got to slow it down, dear.
I didn't mean to!It doesn't matter. You still got to slow it down.
I know we're pushing pretty hard, but we don't rush.
There's no rush in the gold rush.
All right. I'll be a bit slower. Right.I got a bit excited.
She doesn't appear to have done much damage.
Some things you just gotta take your time and do steady and gentle.
If we lose the truck or we lose the excavator, due to a breakdown,
that's it. Game over for the week.
Yep, she's loading it up pretty good.
Wind it up, wind it up, wind it up.
Awesome! I didn't break anything. That's not bad at all.
I reckon that's full, Kat.
How about you jump in with me and we get this across to the wash plant?
Yeah. Not a problem. I'll park her up and jump in.
Let's get this show on the road, shall we?
(CHUCKLING) Where's the water gone?
My guess is the cows have gotten in for a bit of a drink,
and they've made a bit of a mess.
The Brumbies season has been plagued with bad luck,
and failing equipment...
I'm pretty sure it's cooked the starter motor.
What does that mean? It means the truck's out of action for a couple of days.
It's just the biggest run of bad luck I've ever seen in me life.
..putting their fifty-ounce season target further out of reach.
Everything just seems to be breaking down.
It's just one thing after another, after another, after another,
and I don't know how much I can take.
Come around this way a bit more.
So maybe I was being a bit ambitious,
going for 50 ounces, but that's sort of what we need.
Halfway through the season, we've got less than 10% of our target.
We can't afford anything else to go wrong.
What's the matter?
There's something going on that, erm,
it's not letting the tip truck go back down.
(ENGINE REVVING)
It's not what we need.
(SIGHS) That whole creek's washed through there. You're not getting across there.
Oh, God.Yeah.
As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of the line right there.
We've still got a fair way to go. If I get on top of the ridge, I should be able to find a way for you.
Up there?Yeah. I just don't want to pull up yet.
We've worked really hard to get to this point.
If we can just get past this, we'll make it.All right.
But, I'll just hang down here on the radio.
I'll spot you up and let me know what you can see up there
if we're able to get out of this mess or not.
It's a long drive back with empty pockets if we don't.
Oh, get up.
Good work, mate.
Just go back about 200 metres, there's a little sneaky track that comes up on the left,
and that will put you up on this ridge.Yeah. OK, cool.
Erm, I'll just head back now.
That was a massive mission, mate. But we made it.
We did it. Well done. Let's gear up.Let's go.
Mount Madden's got a rich history.
This little gully gets a write up in the history books, and it's pretty remote.
It's actually got a couple of water races at the front and all these old-timers' stone pitching.
And you can see this is where they've basically taken the rocks out of the river
when they were digging for the paydirt.
And then they've stuck them along the edge,
kind of creating a column as you come through the whole gully.
So without even having to find gold ourselves, we know that there's gold here.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING) Oi, listen to that. That's loud.
It sounds a bit junkie, to be honest.
Only one way to find out.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING) Oh, it's still in there.
Down and down we go.
There's so many old-timers' workings.
This just could be junk. Could be half a horseshoe or something.
But you never know until you dig it out. So out it comes.
(SIGHS)
All right. Got it. Oi!
It's certainly not small, whatever it is.
(EXHALES) All right.
Oh! (CAKLES) Have a look at that. Oh, yes.
Whoa, you beauty! (CAKLES) What a chunk!
That's just testament to the fact
that there was a good reef of gold somewhere in these hills.
Hey, Jacqui, wherever you are, you need to come to where I am straight away.
OK. Coming.
Just really thought you should have a look at this.
Boom! Ha-haa!Ha-haa! (SCREAMING) Oh, my God!
That's ounces, mate.I don't know, there's two or three there.
That's huge!I know.
Mate, that doesn't even look that water worn. Look at that.
Look at those edges. You're right, actually. That hasn't travelled real far.
The source of this nugget is somewhere here.
I can feel it.I'm still shaking. Yeah? Have a drink of water.
Yeah.And then get back to work and do that again.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING) More tin. (GRUNTS)
It's good that we know the old-timers were here cos they were finding gold, but
when they left all their rubbish makes things a bit annoying.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING) It's probably another tin can. Just check it.
No, it sounds like there's still something here.
All right. The deeper we go, the more chance we have of it being gold.
Please.(DETECTOR CHIRPING) OK. All right. Got it out then.
Oh, gee, that's sounding really nice.
Oh, no, no way. Ha-hah.
I can't believe it. Sitting there right on top. Look at that. Now, that is a nugget.
I don't think I've seen one that big before. That's my biggest to date.
This nugget is really promising. It's nice and rounded, so it's travelled through
a channel over millions of years, and I think potentially
there could be a paleo channel sitting right under our feet.
I need to go and tell Shane about this.
Paleo channels are the gutters of old waterways
that have been buried over time by new sediments.
These hidden channels can be a rich source of gold.
Just I'll push that out of the road.
That's the one, yeah. Jeez, it's gritty. It's gritty.
Ha! You mongrel thing!
Come on! Push! Pull!
What's going on here? The grounds not that bloody hard.
This is no good. Something's wrong here. Look.
What's wrong with it, Shane? The motor's got no power. The power goes with the hydraulics,
means the hydraulics haven't got any strength. I ain't going nowhere.
We gotta get her fixed, Shane. Without it we're stuck.I don't need additional pressure.
Finding gold and repairing this and everything else. This is getting on top of me.
I've got to head back to the camp, see if I can find something to rectify this.
So we can get the show on the road.
This is really frustrating, if we can't get this backhoe up and running,
then we can't get down into this paleo channel.
We're not gonna be able to find the source of the alluvial gold.
I'll go see how Kate's doing with the dry blower.
That's looking pretty nice, actually.
Hey, Kate. How you going? Good. How are you?Good.
We're doing well but guess what happened to the backhoe.
Let me guess it's broken, isn't it? Again, yep.
So yeah, he's back at the camp fixing it now but I've been finding nuggets.
Really? Yeah. I even found one, it's like a third of an ounce. Whoa, that's brilliant.
Perfect timing cos I'm just about to clean out those ripples and see what's in there.Great.
This is looking pretty good. So if we've got any gold,
it should be in these top two or three tiers.
We just have a bit of a scratch around before we pan it off. We might be able to see something.
Hey Kate, I got one already. (EXCLAIMS)Gee, look at that. That's not bad.No, not bad at all.
I mean, they're not massive, but a few of these put together, actually add up to quite a bit.
If you put the trays back, I'll get some more dirt and we can start putting it through.
All right, let's do this. I wonder how Shane's going with this backhoe.
Yeah, I don't know why I come out of retirement (BLEEP)
70-year-old man climbing under dirty, filthy, greasy machines.
Let's pull this cable through.
Oh, that's a problem. That peace has snapped off. Look at that.
This is the bit here. It's broken off.
And that would control the accelerator
which controls the motor, which controls the hydraulics, and away we go.
Well, that's the name of the game.
It's just one thing after another.
I'll just go back to me camp and get me gear and see what I've got there.
So the idea was to pump through as much dirt as we possibly could and this is our first load.
It looks like another holdup.
We're gonna have to go back and get Beau and you're gonna have to pull me out
(CHUCKLING) I'm gonna have to pull you out? You're gonna have to pull me out.
(BLEEP)
We're not having the best run. Oh, well... (SIGHS)
The first time you learn to walk, you fall on your ass.
So you know, you just got to get to pick yourself up and keep going.
I wouldn't say I'm the worst driver,
but I don't have the skills that Brett has.
You let me know.
All right, let's do this.
Yep. Gun it! Gun it!
Oops.
Oh, yeah. Are we out?That'll do.
Whoa!Ah-ha!Whoo!(LAUGHS)
Look at me go! I pulled the truck out.
I'm like a four-wheel drive expert now.
Well, if you wanna go and grab another load,
I'll head over to the wash plant and get into it.
That sounds like a bit of a plan. I'll be back as quick as I can.
Yeah, have fun.Have fun, she says.
I'm loading the wash plant up.
Brett's got to, er, track dirt from Chicago, which is a fair hike.
About four tonnes per truck,
and hopefully, we can get four grams per truck.
That's what I'm hoping for.
It's vital that I keep this running, because anytime I've got delays
in this, it sets everything back.
We've had a 50-ounce target.
And I thought we should have gone for 30, I don't even think we're gonna make that.
Like, it's been bloody hard work. And there's little reward.
That's another load done. (GRUNTS)
We've got to truck the dirt from the stump patch to Dead Horse
because Dead Horse is the only spot for er,
about 30 or 40 Ks, where we can access water.
The water is very, very scarce out here, so it's a precious commodity.
And it works out cheaper to take the dirt to the water
than it does to take the water to the dirt.
I've got a very uncomfortable bit of road up here.
It's got some gnarly-looking green stone sticking up.
It's gonna get interesting.
(RATTLE)
Wooh, that doesn't sound good.
Oh, two!
Not one. Two. Blew two.
(GROANS)
Well, we're not gonna get anything done just standing there,
looking at it. I'd better get changing it.
Hold-ups like these, it's not just the money
for the new tyres, it's the hold-ups.
That's just a pain in the arse.
Just jacking the truck up, its heavy cos it's a full load.
Er, Kat's over there processing at the moment,
(LOUD GROAN) and I'm holding up the process.
so I just gotta get me arse into gear and get moving.
(GROANING) Yeah, it's, er, it's all it's gonna lift.
So I'm gonna have to do a bit of a bush trick here.
and that's, you dig out under the tyre so that you can put the new tyres on.
Right at the moment everything has come to a bit of a standstill.
Watch the truck! Watch the truck! (LOUD METALIC RATTLE)
(EXHALES) Whoo! I'm searching all the spurs.
Anywhere we can above the old-timers working to see what they've missed.
Hopefully, we can stay on this trail.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING) First scoop.
Oh, yeah! Ah-ha-ha! Another big chunk.
A fair bit of quartz in this one.
That's good. That's a sign that that source is probably up this way.
So, when you find a piece of gold that's still got the quartz on it, then we know
that it's actually quite close to the original source,
where it weathered out from. So you've got a gold reef.
That's a massive system.
It's a massive quartz vein that's carrying gold.
And there will be smaller veins of quartz
that come off that, and we like to call them "leaders."
Finding a leader as a prospector is one of those things
that you always hope will happen, like, it's really hard for us to do.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING) Got a target there.
First scoop.
Oh, no way. Another specie. Probably only a small bit of gold,
but it's not actually about the wait at this stage.
It's more about the trail that we're following,
and this tells me that we're still on the gold trail.
(PANTING) This is steep.
It, er, it's not ideal, but I am finding them
along the edge of this, so I've got to keep going.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING)
OK. This is gonna be interesting.
(PANTING) Still in there. Crap.
There's so much quartz coming out of this hole.
There's two.
There's one out and another, another target's still in there.
Come on.
Hang on a minute.
Holy crap. I can see gold in this.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING)
If this next one turns out to be gold as well,
this is a really good sign.
Because there's a quartz vein right through this hole.
(DETECTOR CHIRPING) Oh, and they're loud too.
Ho-ho-ho-oh.
Oh, God, this one's got gold in it as well.
Oh, no way.
So I've just, like, broken up this quartz vein
as I've dug this out, in these rocks.
They're coming out.
Just in chunks.
Holy crap! I'm gonna radio Andy.
Mate, I followed these species all the way up the hill.
I think you should see this.
That sounds pretty exciting. I'm on my way.
Yep. Head straight on up, mate. I'm right at the tippy top.
Look at you go. (PANTING) Mate, look.
Oh, yeah. Wow! These both have gold in them.
Seriously, they have not moved an inch, mate.
Let me look at that. Yep.(LAUGHS)
Gold in this one, too.Yep.
Look, that fits straight onto the same thickness.
(GASPS)That's exactly the same reef the whole way.
Holy crap, that vein carrying across here,
it's been shedding all this gold out into this gully.
Even my big nugget probably started in the same quartz vein as this.
Can you imagine how much gold we're standing on top of?
It could be a kilometre of that gold underneath us.
Holy crap!Going straight down.
With our detectors, that's probably all we can do.
And right now it's up to the GEOs
and the mining companies to come and work it from here.
This is the sort of discovery that will make them bring in the drilling rigs, mate.
We did it, mate. We actually found the source.
Watch the truck! Watch the truck!
And that's made this heaps harder.
So, yeah, that was pretty close.
If I, er, if I had been in the wrong spot there, I'd be squished.
And you know, it's quite a long flight
to any hospital where you can get help.
I'm just lucky I was doing this the safe way, and I was taking me time.
Same plan as the tyres, really, from here.
You dig a trench under the jack, I'll stick one of those blocks
under the jack to help spread the weight out and get it back up. (GROANS)
So the more time I spend sorting out mechanical issues,
the less time we have to find the gold
or move the dirt that holds the gold.
And it's sending us backwards. I hope Kat's having a bit of a win.
(SIGHS) I hope she's doing better than me.
God, I hope she's doing better than me.
Brett should be here by now.
It's not like him, to take this long.
I'm gonna see if he's on channel.
Hey, Bret! Bret, you there?
Hey my love, you got a copy?
He's about eight Ks away and it's a pretty fair hike.
And he gets out of the radio signal a fair bit, so...
But it shouldn't take him this long.
Good to go.
(SIGHS)
So they were the only two spares that I've got.
Can't afford it to pop another one. Well, not today, anyway.
Just got to tick along gentle, and hopefully, nothing else goes wrong.
We were doing all right, and then this happened,
and it's not just the cost of the tyres,
it's the cost of not getting your goals achieved for your day.
Gee, that took you a while. Where have you been?
Yeah, I had a couple of blowouts. That's two, not one.
You got two flat tyres? That's right. Not one, but two.
Well, you look like you've processed a bit.
All right, that's the last load. I'll give you a hand.
Awesome. Thank you.Don't worry.
I'm ready when you are.
Kat's got a hell of a lot better shot with, er, with the excavator
and just everything in general.
She's been kicking this plant along quite well.
We're sort of hoping for around 80 grams of gold at the end of the week.
I'm not sure if we're gonna do it yet, but that's the heart.
Shane, got a copy?
Copy, Amy.How are you going with the backhoe?
Well, how do you think I'm going? I'm not going that well. But I'll get it done.
Shane, time is money. Let's get it up and running, shall we?
I'm on the move.
I hope this (BLEEP) cable fits.
I'm going real well. I'm stuck out here with dust and diesel
and disappointments and God knows what else.
God, strike me drunk!
Oh, that works.
That moves that way. That moves that way.
(ENGINE STARTS)Right.
Oh, look at that. OK.
look at you go up and down, around we go. Woo hoo!
Like being at the Royal Show, isn't it?
OK, I think I've had enough of all this dust and digging.
I think I might go see how Shane's going.
Good plan. I think I'm doing pretty well here,
I might clean these riffles and see what I've got while you're away.
All right. Good plan. Catch you later.
It's looking pretty nice, actually.
All right. I've got another bucket of concentrate.
I'm gonna take this back to camp and see what colour I can get out of it.
What's the story, girls?You guys have done well down at the old mine workings?
We got colour out of those holes Shane drilled, and I've been finding nuggets down there.
It's been really good.And I got a lot of gold out of that dry plant,
reworking that small area that we had to try and get more tonnes through.
I've got a lot of finds out of it now.
Let's just weigh it up. Come on, let's not get married to it.
So we've got a bit over an ounce there. 1.07.
These are the nuggets that I picked up.Wow. Wow.
That's up to 2.66.
Yeah.What's that?Over 2.5 ounces.
The $8,000 of gold, the team found this week,
pushes their tally past the halfway mark for the season.
Well, we're hanging in there. It's not the greatest, but it's OK.
It's payable.I think we might be struggling to hit our target.
We've got big bonuses. You know, we'll have the wet plant going.
When the rains come, we'll have the dry blower going.
Yeah, and I think we've got a much better geological understanding of the area as well. So...
That's a win in my books. Onto next week. Let's go.OK.
Big week.Yeah, huge week.
You've done really well keeping up with all the trucks.
Yeah, a few little hiccups. But you know what? We got through it.
You didn't do too bad running the plant there as well.
Thank you. Let's see what we got. All right.
That's not bad.That's pretty good. It's not bad.Yeah.
2.2.Two point two?Yeah. That's pretty good.
Now I made the real fine, dusty stuff into a button.
Oh, yes.Yep.Oh, that's nice.
Look at that, 2.6...2.69.
That's pretty good. If my math is correct here, it's an eight grand week.
Although they hit their target for the week,
it still leaves them with a massive $130,000
of their $150,000 target to find.
Bloody hard work. It is hard work but for, you know,
not a lot out there that can say they're eight grand weeks.
It is an eight grand week. It's still got a long way to go.
Yeah, but you know what?
Every journey begins with a single step.
Yeah, we'll see what happens.
You got here quicker than me. New toys paying off, mate.
You're enjoying it so much, I can tell.
No, not just that, but, mate, you're tracking down that
you know, reef of gold on that hill basically helped me tick off
one of my prospectors bucket lists of actually finding a source.
But it's a team effort, though. Like you got onto that big slug
and we just... you got onto that big system. The research paid off.
Let's find out what we got then. All right, let's do this.
On average, we're looking at 50 gold, 50% quartz.Yeah, OK.
8.2!
Awesome. So that's 4.1 ounces of gold in there, mate.
Brilliant!Great stuff. That is so, so good.
That is a lot.All right, time to do some free gold, eh?
Really cool stuff.
Woohooo.3.62.
That's a pretty good start. That's not including the big one.
It came up nice with the clean, hey?
5.98!Oh, yes! Awesome. So what, that's
2.3 ounce nugget.So 4.1 in species.
5.98 free gold.
10.1 ounces of gold, mate. We got it. The 10 ounces we need. (LAUGHS)
Just, just.(LAUGHS)
The huge haul, worth $30,000.
Has left Jacqui and Andrew with only third of their target to find.
I'd have said there was no hope we were gonna reach 50 ounces this year,
and now we're already chasing it down.
Oh, my God!Two massive weigh-ins back to back, mate.
Yes!Well done.(LAUGHS)
You don't want to go detecting later? No, no, I'm done for today.
Have fun!
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