1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,480 She's tight through this area, mate, so just watch your rear-view mirrors. 2 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:08,240 Yep. All right. 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,480 So, you reckon going out here is going to be worth the gamble? 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,120 I really do. Our Fish Creek prospect was fantastic 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,960 but unfortunately, the gold doesn't grow back. 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,560 Right at the heart of the station is Mount Madden. 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,560 This spot just looks great. 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,800 And the history books point this way as well. 9 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,960 I think it's worth the push. 10 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,520 We really don't know how far Andy's taking us. 11 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,400 It's a really rough track. 12 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,120 Hang on. 13 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,840 Something doesn't feel right. 14 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,680 Just cut around this section and have a look. 15 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,040 The road's really bumpy. 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,800 (SIGHS) Oh, God. 17 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,840 Andy, you on channel? I got a flat. 18 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:06,120 Andy, are you getting a copy? 19 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,840 Got a flat tyre! 20 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,280 That's like four grams of gold right there. 21 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:19,080 Now I can't get Andy on radio. I can't even see him anymore. 22 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,600 I absolutely did not need this. (GROANS) 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:25,680 Far out! 24 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:39,560 I hate that we have to deal with these sort of problems out of here. 25 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,920 It's tough enough as it is, but I suppose it's just part of the job. 26 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,240 (CHUCKLING) Right on cue, just as the hard work's done. 27 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,160 Oh, man. Hello. 28 00:01:58,160 --> 00:01:59,760 Have you lost something? 29 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,560 It's all right. I found it again. 30 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,280 (GROANS) Look at what I've just done. 31 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,040 Another one? It's only been like a month. 32 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:09,720 This is my last spare. 33 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,480 Mmm.We can't keep doing this. 34 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,280 It's just costing so much money. 35 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,320 This stuff happens way too often. 36 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,760 Well how about I help you throw this on and then I've got an idea. What's that? 37 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,840 How about we just chuck this tyre on first, 38 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:28,880 then you follow me and we'll go and check it out?OK. 39 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,920 NARRATOR: Lease explorers Jacqui Buzetti and Andrew Leahy 40 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,080 spent the last two years hunting gold 41 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,280 on the Palmer River in far North Queensland. 42 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,520 (CACKLES) Ha-Ha, yes! Aw, Andy, look at that! That's a chunk. 43 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,280 The team has exclusive prospecting rights, 44 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:51,040 given by the cattle station owners who plan to mine the area. 45 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:55,520 As part of the deal, we have to report all our finds. We're allowed to keep them.Yep. Sweet. 46 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,520 But we have to tell them where we got it from. Yeah, all right. 47 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,480 Despite prospecting in such a challenging region... 48 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,120 Let's go, mate. Fire! 49 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,760 ..the pair have managed to find almost half of the gold 50 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,960 needed to hit their season target. 51 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,640 That's more than we've got all year. More than all year. 52 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,720 Yes, yes, yes. Finaly! You champion, mate, well done. 53 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,480 All right, let's do this. 54 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,720 Hey, Mitch. Hey, guys. How you going? 55 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,200 Good, mate, how you doing? Good to see you again. 56 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,160 Yeah, you too, mate. Jacqui. Hello. 57 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:35,080 So, er, is it still for sale, mate? Yeah, the bike. Yep. Excellent. Well. 58 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,920 Aah. He didn't tell me what we were doing here.(CHUCKLES) 59 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,240 Yeah, that's got to be better than flogging our cars through the bush, eh?OK. 60 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,560 Mm-hm. You want gold or cash? Gold will be good, Andy.Mm-hm. 61 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,280 All right, we can do that. How much is it? 62 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,840 Well, I'm chasing about ninety-five grams, mate. Yeah? How about sixty-five? 63 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:00,160 Oh, that's a little bit low, mate. If you can come up a bit closer to mine. 64 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,600 Somewhere in the middle? Will the bank let us come closer? 65 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,680 It's a good investment. If you can meet me at 80, we got a deal, mate. 66 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,360 What do you reckon? 67 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,400 I think that's fair. 68 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,840 Let's do it.Done. Let's make it happen. 69 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,000 All right, let's waste some gold up. Sweet.Sounds like a deal. 70 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,480 Eighty grams, or 2.6 ounces of gold 71 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,520 is worth $7,700. 72 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,600 But if the quad bike gets Jacqui and Andrew access to the gold, it could be priceless. 73 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,320 Whoohoo!Shotgun.(LAUGHS) 74 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,640 Check this out. New toy. Wicked. 75 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,480 Cheers, Mitch.See ya, Andy. 76 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,840 All right, we got this four-wheeler, where to first? 77 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,840 The turn-off is not too far away now, mate. It's just up here. 78 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,280 I'll be using the quad to skirt out in front, 79 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,480 and check for new tracks and the best way in. 80 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,560 I think it's a good idea getting that quad. 81 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,280 Being able to push into trucks and grounds 82 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,840 where there might not necessarily be tracks. 83 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,360 Or at least get through areas where we can't get through with the cars. 84 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,600 There are old tracks, old haul roads, 85 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:21,120 and they haven't been used for a really long time. 86 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,120 Mount Madden lies at the heart 87 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,640 of the 1,300 square kilometre Palmerville Station. 88 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,680 This uninhabited and unforgiving environment, 89 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,000 was the site of a short-lived gold rush in the 1870s. 90 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,400 But the rugged terrain made maintaining supply lines, 91 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,280 and carrying heavy equipment, nearly impossible. 92 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,960 When the surface gold dried up, the area was abandoned. 93 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,320 Now seasoned prospectors Jacqui and Andrew, 94 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,800 are back to pick up where the gold rush miners left off. 95 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,320 (SIGHS) That whole creek's washed through there. 96 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:16,360 Oh, God.Yeah. That's a pretty serious washout, mate. 97 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,960 No. Erm, I'm not going through that. I don't even have a spare tyre. 98 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,280 Sorry, man, but as far as I'm concerned, that's the end of the line. 99 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,360 All right. I'm trying to get the dry blower up and running, 100 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,760 and then I can get that gold bearing dirt through it 101 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:41,440 and hopefully, pull out some nice colour at the other end. 102 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,760 Meanwhile, Shane and Amy are down trying to prove up that quartz reef 103 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:46,800 down near the old mine workings. 104 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,600 Er, but yeah, let's see how we go. That's ready to go. 105 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,560 Right let's load it up with dirt and in the words of Shane, let's get on the gold. 106 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,720 So I've come here. I've managed to get Shane out of retirement. 107 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,520 I called my best friend Amy up here. 108 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,000 We're both full-time working mothers, 109 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,760 but this has just been a long-time dream of ours. 110 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,480 I feel a bit bad that I've dragged Shane and Amy out here, 111 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,480 and we're not quite hitting our target. 112 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,120 We set 18 ounces at the beginning of the season. 113 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,400 But we're just not getting enough week to week. 114 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:29,400 This season, veteran prospector Shane Calegari and Kate Dundas 115 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,200 were joined by her friend and geologist, Amy Doherty. 116 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,040 This is the famous iron ore geologist, is that right? 117 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,680 Who wants to learn how to find gold. That's the one. 118 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,800 The team were relying on a revamped wet plant to process paydirt... 119 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:44,600 Uh-huh-huh.(ENGINE WHIRRING) 120 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:46,880 Have a listen to that purr. (BOTH WOMEN EXCLAIM) 121 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,480 ..but ran out of water, forcing them to switch to a dry blower. 122 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,800 This dirt is perfect for the dry blower. 123 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:58,200 It'll be perfect to go through this machine and we can get as much gold out of it as we can. 124 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,880 As Kate processes the finer material, 125 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,480 Shane and Amy hunt for the source of their gold. 126 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,960 OK, kill it, Amy. I'm going to go brush this course reef off 127 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,840 and see if there's any gold there. Right. OK. 128 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,200 I'd better put me glasses on cos plenty of people lost their eyes through this stuff. 129 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,360 How's it looking?It's got some nice colour about it. It's sharp. 130 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,120 Yeah, that's looking really good. It is really good. 131 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:31,200 I can see a bit of colour here. We've got a bit of iron moving through a few fissures. 132 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,520 Something's been left open and some other material is deposited 133 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,720 and it's been weathered out again. Correct? 134 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,680 Roughly right. Yeah.Yeah. OK. 135 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,960 We know that fluid that moves through the quartz vein is where it's depositing the gold. 136 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:47,240 I think we're in with a good chance of finding some gold in here. That's good. I like it. 137 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,400 Let's unload all this gear. 138 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,600 And then what I'll do is I'll start drilling some holes, 139 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:54,840 you can start going down and do metal detecting. 140 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,720 If you find anything, give me a radio I'll be right back. 141 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,360 I'll be ringing you up straight away. Don't you worry about that. Good luck. 142 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:10,320 Off the back of the 3.5 ounces that we found, and then the 1.7 ounces from the dry blower, 143 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,360 that's really good, but it's not enough. 144 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,000 We need to be finding where the gold is concentrated 145 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,360 to really make it worth our while being out here. 146 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,480 So now I'm just gonna test the dirt that Shane's pulled out. 147 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,120 Let's just see if we can find anything else here, 148 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,640 just to give us a bit more of an indication that we're onto a good thing. 149 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:29,760 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) That sounds good. 150 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,400 It's somewhere at the top. 151 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,080 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) (AMY SIGHS) 152 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,280 Hey, that's pretty good. 153 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,240 That's gold inside the quartz. 154 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,120 That means that we're definitely in the source of the gold. 155 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,560 That's a really good sign that we've got that vein. 156 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,240 Then as time goes on, the quartz will weather away, 157 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,920 that will release the gold into the ground. That's what Kate's picking up with the dry blower. 158 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,000 I'm a hard rock miner. This is me game. 159 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,840 And this is what I did 40 years ago with me father and me grandfather. 160 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,160 The only difference is, this gear works. 161 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,560 (CHUCKLING) Not much of my gear worked in them days. Hah. 162 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,400 Rightio. Here we go. 163 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,760 Right. In the old days, would have put dynamite in here and blown this out. 164 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,560 I'll just get this finds, stick it in this pan and I'll pan it off. 165 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,240 If I find the right part of the reef here, 166 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,520 I could get my whole season in one hit. The whole lot. 167 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,360 This isn't looking very good. This is disappointing. 168 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,680 There's good quartz here, but just not enough gold in it. 169 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,040 That's prospecting. It's tough going. 170 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,920 So these are the old Chicago workings. 171 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,720 Where we knocked the tree out the other day it's just down the hill from here. 172 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,200 All the gold from this reef has shed that way. 173 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,680 You can tell that because there's very little quartz on this side. 174 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,560 And there's a great deal of boulder quartz on that side. 175 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,520 We need to be digging up the stuff that's er, besides stumpy. 176 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,920 Under the stump. Under and around the stump, all that kind of stuff. 177 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,080 We need to be trucking it over to Dead Horse, and running there. 178 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,280 What is it we need to get through per day to make it worthwhile? 179 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:52,280 If we're running for a full week, erm, and we're doing about four trucks a day, 180 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,080 we should end up with about 80 grams 181 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,160 of gold by the end of the week. Yeah. 182 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,320 But we need that 80 grams of gold to break even. 183 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,440 That's a fair bit of pressure to keep everything moving. 184 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,160 That's a lot of dirt to go through. 185 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:10,760 Yep. So I'm gonna be really relying on you, dear, to run the to run the wash plant. 186 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:12,680 Do you think you can do that? 187 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,480 That makes me a bit nervous running the plant by myself. 188 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:18,520 Like I've got to learn to do it all, don't I?Yes, yeah. 189 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,160 You gotta get stuck in. This is what doing it full-time is all about. 190 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,920 So let's get this first truck filled and let's get into it. Yep, I'll load her up. 191 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,720 So we've got some pretty good results here last week. 192 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,440 So we just got to keep feeding the wet plant. 193 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,160 Four tonnes of load, four loads a day. 194 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:39,600 Just keep going. (SIGHS) 195 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,240 Kat's pretty new at driving the excavator and operating it. 196 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,080 She should be all right, but we haven't had it long enough 197 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,360 to actually train her up on it 100%. 198 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,880 So, treat this as a learning curve. 199 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:56,560 Moment of truth. 200 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:04,920 The one that we tested last week worked out at about four grams per tonne. 201 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,560 We're hoping to hit one gram per tonne in the surrounding area. 202 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,600 And that will equate to about just under three ounces for the week. 203 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:16,760 That's nearly nine grand. That's a pretty good week. 204 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:21,080 There is no other income, so it's just the income that we generate from the gold this year. 205 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:22,800 That's a little bit scary. 206 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,120 (LOUD CRASH) (BRETT YELPS) (BLEEP) 207 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,440 You've got to slow it down, dear. 208 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,160 I didn't mean to!It doesn't matter. You still got to slow it down. 209 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,480 I know we're pushing pretty hard, but we don't rush. 210 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:47,640 There's no rush in the gold rush. 211 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,200 All right. I'll be a bit slower. Right.I got a bit excited. 212 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,640 She doesn't appear to have done much damage. 213 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,120 Some things you just gotta take your time and do steady and gentle. 214 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:03,360 If we lose the truck or we lose the excavator, due to a breakdown, 215 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,160 that's it. Game over for the week. 216 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,600 Yep, she's loading it up pretty good. 217 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:15,280 Wind it up, wind it up, wind it up. 218 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:24,040 Awesome! I didn't break anything. That's not bad at all. 219 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:25,720 I reckon that's full, Kat. 220 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,400 How about you jump in with me and we get this across to the wash plant? 221 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,840 Yeah. Not a problem. I'll park her up and jump in. 222 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:34,880 Let's get this show on the road, shall we? 223 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,000 (CHUCKLING) Where's the water gone? 224 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,800 My guess is the cows have gotten in for a bit of a drink, 225 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,240 and they've made a bit of a mess. 226 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,480 The Brumbies season has been plagued with bad luck, 227 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,160 and failing equipment... 228 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,120 I'm pretty sure it's cooked the starter motor. 229 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,840 What does that mean? It means the truck's out of action for a couple of days. 230 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,840 It's just the biggest run of bad luck I've ever seen in me life. 231 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,720 ..putting their fifty-ounce season target further out of reach. 232 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,760 Everything just seems to be breaking down. 233 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,600 It's just one thing after another, after another, after another, 234 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:17,440 and I don't know how much I can take. 235 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:21,840 Come around this way a bit more. 236 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,560 So maybe I was being a bit ambitious, 237 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:29,960 going for 50 ounces, but that's sort of what we need. 238 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,880 Halfway through the season, we've got less than 10% of our target. 239 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,120 We can't afford anything else to go wrong. 240 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,360 What's the matter? 241 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,400 There's something going on that, erm, 242 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,520 it's not letting the tip truck go back down. 243 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,200 (ENGINE REVVING) 244 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,720 (ENGINE REVVING) 245 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:10,840 It's not what we need. 246 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:24,960 (SIGHS) That whole creek's washed through there. You're not getting across there. 247 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,640 Oh, God.Yeah. 248 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,960 As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of the line right there. 249 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:36,880 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. 250 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,600 Up there?Yeah. I just don't want to pull up yet. 251 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,440 We've worked really hard to get to this point. 252 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,360 If we can just get past this, we'll make it.All right. 253 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,720 But, I'll just hang down here on the radio. 254 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,120 I'll spot you up and let me know what you can see up there 255 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,400 if we're able to get out of this mess or not. 256 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,120 It's a long drive back with empty pockets if we don't. 257 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,200 Oh, get up. 258 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,600 Good work, mate. 259 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:42,080 Just go back about 200 metres, there's a little sneaky track that comes up on the left, 260 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,680 and that will put you up on this ridge.Yeah. OK, cool. 261 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:47,400 Erm, I'll just head back now. 262 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,600 That was a massive mission, mate. But we made it. 263 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,600 We did it. Well done. Let's gear up.Let's go. 264 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,400 Mount Madden's got a rich history. 265 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:07,000 This little gully gets a write up in the history books, and it's pretty remote. 266 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:11,760 It's actually got a couple of water races at the front and all these old-timers' stone pitching. 267 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,480 And you can see this is where they've basically taken the rocks out of the river 268 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:17,600 when they were digging for the paydirt. 269 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:19,640 And then they've stuck them along the edge, 270 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,960 kind of creating a column as you come through the whole gully. 271 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,920 So without even having to find gold ourselves, we know that there's gold here. 272 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,480 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) Oi, listen to that. That's loud. 273 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,920 It sounds a bit junkie, to be honest. 274 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,800 Only one way to find out. 275 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,640 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) Oh, it's still in there. 276 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,120 Down and down we go. 277 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:01,320 There's so many old-timers' workings. 278 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,400 This just could be junk. Could be half a horseshoe or something. 279 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:10,040 But you never know until you dig it out. So out it comes. 280 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:14,960 (SIGHS) 281 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:21,120 All right. Got it. Oi! 282 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,280 It's certainly not small, whatever it is. 283 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,200 (EXHALES) All right. 284 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,880 Oh! (CAKLES) Have a look at that. Oh, yes. 285 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,760 Whoa, you beauty! (CAKLES) What a chunk! 286 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:41,480 That's just testament to the fact 287 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,400 that there was a good reef of gold somewhere in these hills. 288 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:50,240 Hey, Jacqui, wherever you are, you need to come to where I am straight away. 289 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:51,920 OK. Coming. 290 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,400 Just really thought you should have a look at this. 291 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,400 Boom! Ha-haa!Ha-haa! (SCREAMING) Oh, my God! 292 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,320 That's ounces, mate.I don't know, there's two or three there. 293 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,040 That's huge!I know. 294 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:07,280 Mate, that doesn't even look that water worn. Look at that. 295 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:11,240 Look at those edges. You're right, actually. That hasn't travelled real far. 296 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,520 The source of this nugget is somewhere here. 297 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,080 I can feel it.I'm still shaking. Yeah? Have a drink of water. 298 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,840 Yeah.And then get back to work and do that again. 299 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,120 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) More tin. (GRUNTS) 300 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,200 It's good that we know the old-timers were here cos they were finding gold, but 301 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:42,000 when they left all their rubbish makes things a bit annoying. 302 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:46,240 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) It's probably another tin can. Just check it. 303 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,960 No, it sounds like there's still something here. 304 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,320 All right. The deeper we go, the more chance we have of it being gold. 305 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,160 Please.(DETECTOR CHIRPING) OK. All right. Got it out then. 306 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,800 Oh, gee, that's sounding really nice. 307 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:07,640 Oh, no, no way. Ha-hah. 308 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:12,560 I can't believe it. Sitting there right on top. Look at that. Now, that is a nugget. 309 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,400 I don't think I've seen one that big before. That's my biggest to date. 310 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,240 This nugget is really promising. It's nice and rounded, so it's travelled through 311 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,960 a channel over millions of years, and I think potentially 312 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,840 there could be a paleo channel sitting right under our feet. 313 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:27,800 I need to go and tell Shane about this. 314 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,840 Paleo channels are the gutters of old waterways 315 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,480 that have been buried over time by new sediments. 316 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,040 These hidden channels can be a rich source of gold. 317 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,800 Just I'll push that out of the road. 318 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:57,120 That's the one, yeah. Jeez, it's gritty. It's gritty. 319 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,240 Ha! You mongrel thing! 320 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,160 Come on! Push! Pull! 321 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,560 What's going on here? The grounds not that bloody hard. 322 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,880 This is no good. Something's wrong here. Look. 323 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:18,800 What's wrong with it, Shane? The motor's got no power. The power goes with the hydraulics, 324 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,040 means the hydraulics haven't got any strength. I ain't going nowhere. 325 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:26,160 We gotta get her fixed, Shane. Without it we're stuck.I don't need additional pressure. 326 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,960 Finding gold and repairing this and everything else. This is getting on top of me. 327 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,600 I've got to head back to the camp, see if I can find something to rectify this. 328 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,280 So we can get the show on the road. 329 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:38,600 This is really frustrating, if we can't get this backhoe up and running, 330 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,960 then we can't get down into this paleo channel. 331 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,640 We're not gonna be able to find the source of the alluvial gold. 332 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,080 I'll go see how Kate's doing with the dry blower. 333 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,720 That's looking pretty nice, actually. 334 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,960 Hey, Kate. How you going? Good. How are you?Good. 335 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,560 We're doing well but guess what happened to the backhoe. 336 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,120 Let me guess it's broken, isn't it? Again, yep. 337 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,840 So yeah, he's back at the camp fixing it now but I've been finding nuggets. 338 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,280 Really? Yeah. I even found one, it's like a third of an ounce. Whoa, that's brilliant. 339 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:13,640 Perfect timing cos I'm just about to clean out those ripples and see what's in there.Great. 340 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,200 This is looking pretty good. So if we've got any gold, 341 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,080 it should be in these top two or three tiers. 342 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,880 We just have a bit of a scratch around before we pan it off. We might be able to see something. 343 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:28,760 Hey Kate, I got one already. (EXCLAIMS)Gee, look at that. That's not bad.No, not bad at all. 344 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:33,320 I mean, they're not massive, but a few of these put together, actually add up to quite a bit. 345 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,400 If you put the trays back, I'll get some more dirt and we can start putting it through. 346 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,160 All right, let's do this. I wonder how Shane's going with this backhoe. 347 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:46,720 Yeah, I don't know why I come out of retirement (BLEEP) 348 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:51,000 70-year-old man climbing under dirty, filthy, greasy machines. 349 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,360 Let's pull this cable through. 350 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,360 Oh, that's a problem. That peace has snapped off. Look at that. 351 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,760 This is the bit here. It's broken off. 352 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,680 And that would control the accelerator 353 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,840 which controls the motor, which controls the hydraulics, and away we go. 354 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:11,640 Well, that's the name of the game. 355 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,040 It's just one thing after another. 356 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,560 I'll just go back to me camp and get me gear and see what I've got there. 357 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:37,440 So the idea was to pump through as much dirt as we possibly could and this is our first load. 358 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,200 It looks like another holdup. 359 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,000 We're gonna have to go back and get Beau and you're gonna have to pull me out 360 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,720 (CHUCKLING) I'm gonna have to pull you out? You're gonna have to pull me out. 361 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,560 (BLEEP) 362 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,800 We're not having the best run. Oh, well... (SIGHS) 363 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,360 The first time you learn to walk, you fall on your ass. 364 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,440 So you know, you just got to get to pick yourself up and keep going. 365 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,440 I wouldn't say I'm the worst driver, 366 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,200 but I don't have the skills that Brett has. 367 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,880 You let me know. 368 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:22,760 All right, let's do this. 369 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,040 Yep. Gun it! Gun it! 370 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,520 Oops. 371 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,240 Oh, yeah. Are we out?That'll do. 372 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,480 Whoa!Ah-ha!Whoo!(LAUGHS) 373 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,160 Look at me go! I pulled the truck out. 374 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,600 I'm like a four-wheel drive expert now. 375 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:52,200 Well, if you wanna go and grab another load, 376 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,880 I'll head over to the wash plant and get into it. 377 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,640 That sounds like a bit of a plan. I'll be back as quick as I can. 378 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,440 Yeah, have fun.Have fun, she says. 379 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,320 I'm loading the wash plant up. 380 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:15,640 Brett's got to, er, track dirt from Chicago, which is a fair hike. 381 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,520 About four tonnes per truck, 382 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,200 and hopefully, we can get four grams per truck. 383 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,440 That's what I'm hoping for. 384 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:35,800 It's vital that I keep this running, because anytime I've got delays 385 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,840 in this, it sets everything back. 386 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,080 We've had a 50-ounce target. 387 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,960 And I thought we should have gone for 30, I don't even think we're gonna make that. 388 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,680 Like, it's been bloody hard work. And there's little reward. 389 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,080 That's another load done. (GRUNTS) 390 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,640 We've got to truck the dirt from the stump patch to Dead Horse 391 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,680 because Dead Horse is the only spot for er, 392 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,800 about 30 or 40 Ks, where we can access water. 393 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:18,920 The water is very, very scarce out here, so it's a precious commodity. 394 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,280 And it works out cheaper to take the dirt to the water 395 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:24,920 than it does to take the water to the dirt. 396 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,840 I've got a very uncomfortable bit of road up here. 397 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:34,160 It's got some gnarly-looking green stone sticking up. 398 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,840 It's gonna get interesting. 399 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,840 (RATTLE) 400 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,440 Wooh, that doesn't sound good. 401 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,120 Oh, two! 402 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,240 Not one. Two. Blew two. 403 00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:57,760 (GROANS) 404 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:03,320 Well, we're not gonna get anything done just standing there, 405 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,800 looking at it. I'd better get changing it. 406 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,520 Hold-ups like these, it's not just the money 407 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,200 for the new tyres, it's the hold-ups. 408 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,000 That's just a pain in the arse. 409 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,960 Just jacking the truck up, its heavy cos it's a full load. 410 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,120 Er, Kat's over there processing at the moment, 411 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,000 (LOUD GROAN) and I'm holding up the process. 412 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,240 so I just gotta get me arse into gear and get moving. 413 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,200 (GROANING) Yeah, it's, er, it's all it's gonna lift. 414 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,720 So I'm gonna have to do a bit of a bush trick here. 415 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,600 and that's, you dig out under the tyre so that you can put the new tyres on. 416 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,360 Right at the moment everything has come to a bit of a standstill. 417 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,080 Watch the truck! Watch the truck! (LOUD METALIC RATTLE) 418 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,720 (EXHALES) Whoo! I'm searching all the spurs. 419 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,120 Anywhere we can above the old-timers working to see what they've missed. 420 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,120 Hopefully, we can stay on this trail. 421 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,240 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) First scoop. 422 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,160 Oh, yeah! Ah-ha-ha! Another big chunk. 423 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,040 A fair bit of quartz in this one. 424 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,760 That's good. That's a sign that that source is probably up this way. 425 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,720 So, when you find a piece of gold that's still got the quartz on it, then we know 426 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,800 that it's actually quite close to the original source, 427 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,960 where it weathered out from. So you've got a gold reef. 428 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,840 That's a massive system. 429 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,760 It's a massive quartz vein that's carrying gold. 430 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,760 And there will be smaller veins of quartz 431 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,200 that come off that, and we like to call them "leaders." 432 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,240 Finding a leader as a prospector is one of those things 433 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,800 that you always hope will happen, like, it's really hard for us to do. 434 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,080 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) Got a target there. 435 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,840 First scoop. 436 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,320 Oh, no way. Another specie. Probably only a small bit of gold, 437 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,440 but it's not actually about the wait at this stage. 438 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,920 It's more about the trail that we're following, 439 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,800 and this tells me that we're still on the gold trail. 440 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,800 (PANTING) This is steep. 441 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,960 It, er, it's not ideal, but I am finding them 442 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,920 along the edge of this, so I've got to keep going. 443 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,440 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) 444 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,440 OK. This is gonna be interesting. 445 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,840 (PANTING) Still in there. Crap. 446 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,520 There's so much quartz coming out of this hole. 447 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,360 There's two. 448 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,440 There's one out and another, another target's still in there. 449 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,120 Come on. 450 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,560 Hang on a minute. 451 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,400 Holy crap. I can see gold in this. 452 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,840 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) 453 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:02,400 If this next one turns out to be gold as well, 454 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,000 this is a really good sign. 455 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:11,440 Because there's a quartz vein right through this hole. 456 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,680 (DETECTOR CHIRPING) Oh, and they're loud too. 457 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,200 Ho-ho-ho-oh. 458 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,400 Oh, God, this one's got gold in it as well. 459 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,040 Oh, no way. 460 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,560 So I've just, like, broken up this quartz vein 461 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,160 as I've dug this out, in these rocks. 462 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:33,840 They're coming out. 463 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,360 Just in chunks. 464 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,360 Holy crap! I'm gonna radio Andy. 465 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,400 Mate, I followed these species all the way up the hill. 466 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,080 I think you should see this. 467 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,160 That sounds pretty exciting. I'm on my way. 468 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,520 Yep. Head straight on up, mate. I'm right at the tippy top. 469 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:59,320 Look at you go. (PANTING) Mate, look. 470 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,280 Oh, yeah. Wow! These both have gold in them. 471 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,160 Seriously, they have not moved an inch, mate. 472 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,080 Let me look at that. Yep.(LAUGHS) 473 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,800 Gold in this one, too.Yep. 474 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,360 Look, that fits straight onto the same thickness. 475 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,800 (GASPS)That's exactly the same reef the whole way. 476 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,960 Holy crap, that vein carrying across here, 477 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,200 it's been shedding all this gold out into this gully. 478 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,960 Even my big nugget probably started in the same quartz vein as this. 479 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,600 Can you imagine how much gold we're standing on top of? 480 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,640 It could be a kilometre of that gold underneath us. 481 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,440 Holy crap!Going straight down. 482 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,040 With our detectors, that's probably all we can do. 483 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,560 And right now it's up to the GEOs 484 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,360 and the mining companies to come and work it from here. 485 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:45,320 This is the sort of discovery that will make them bring in the drilling rigs, mate. 486 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,040 We did it, mate. We actually found the source. 487 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,680 Watch the truck! Watch the truck! 488 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,600 And that's made this heaps harder. 489 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,760 So, yeah, that was pretty close. 490 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,160 If I, er, if I had been in the wrong spot there, I'd be squished. 491 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,280 And you know, it's quite a long flight 492 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,560 to any hospital where you can get help. 493 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,440 I'm just lucky I was doing this the safe way, and I was taking me time. 494 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,000 Same plan as the tyres, really, from here. 495 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,000 You dig a trench under the jack, I'll stick one of those blocks 496 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:42,600 under the jack to help spread the weight out and get it back up. (GROANS) 497 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,240 So the more time I spend sorting out mechanical issues, 498 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,680 the less time we have to find the gold 499 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,680 or move the dirt that holds the gold. 500 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,880 And it's sending us backwards. I hope Kat's having a bit of a win. 501 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,800 (SIGHS) I hope she's doing better than me. 502 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,400 God, I hope she's doing better than me. 503 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,560 Brett should be here by now. 504 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,080 It's not like him, to take this long. 505 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,120 I'm gonna see if he's on channel. 506 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,880 Hey, Bret! Bret, you there? 507 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,320 Hey my love, you got a copy? 508 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,320 He's about eight Ks away and it's a pretty fair hike. 509 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,400 And he gets out of the radio signal a fair bit, so... 510 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,840 But it shouldn't take him this long. 511 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:02,760 Good to go. 512 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,360 (SIGHS) 513 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,520 So they were the only two spares that I've got. 514 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,960 Can't afford it to pop another one. Well, not today, anyway. 515 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:26,120 Just got to tick along gentle, and hopefully, nothing else goes wrong. 516 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,880 We were doing all right, and then this happened, 517 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,320 and it's not just the cost of the tyres, 518 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,280 it's the cost of not getting your goals achieved for your day. 519 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,680 Gee, that took you a while. Where have you been? 520 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,600 Yeah, I had a couple of blowouts. That's two, not one. 521 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:49,040 You got two flat tyres? That's right. Not one, but two. 522 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,240 Well, you look like you've processed a bit. 523 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,640 All right, that's the last load. I'll give you a hand. 524 00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:58,000 Awesome. Thank you.Don't worry. 525 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,680 I'm ready when you are. 526 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:13,040 Kat's got a hell of a lot better shot with, er, with the excavator 527 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,960 and just everything in general. 528 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,960 She's been kicking this plant along quite well. 529 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,760 We're sort of hoping for around 80 grams of gold at the end of the week. 530 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:27,440 I'm not sure if we're gonna do it yet, but that's the heart. 531 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,280 Shane, got a copy? 532 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,000 Copy, Amy.How are you going with the backhoe? 533 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,200 Well, how do you think I'm going? I'm not going that well. But I'll get it done. 534 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,320 Shane, time is money. Let's get it up and running, shall we? 535 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,680 I'm on the move. 536 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,320 I hope this (BLEEP) cable fits. 537 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,920 I'm going real well. I'm stuck out here with dust and diesel 538 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,680 and disappointments and God knows what else. 539 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,040 God, strike me drunk! 540 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,880 Oh, that works. 541 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,920 That moves that way. That moves that way. 542 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:13,840 (ENGINE STARTS)Right. 543 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,480 Oh, look at that. OK. 544 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,800 look at you go up and down, around we go. Woo hoo! 545 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,840 Like being at the Royal Show, isn't it? 546 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,680 OK, I think I've had enough of all this dust and digging. 547 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,680 I think I might go see how Shane's going. 548 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,920 Good plan. I think I'm doing pretty well here, 549 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,080 I might clean these riffles and see what I've got while you're away. 550 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,960 All right. Good plan. Catch you later. 551 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,080 It's looking pretty nice, actually. 552 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,200 All right. I've got another bucket of concentrate. 553 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,720 I'm gonna take this back to camp and see what colour I can get out of it. 554 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,360 What's the story, girls?You guys have done well down at the old mine workings? 555 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,600 We got colour out of those holes Shane drilled, and I've been finding nuggets down there. 556 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,040 It's been really good.And I got a lot of gold out of that dry plant, 557 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,440 reworking that small area that we had to try and get more tonnes through. 558 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,280 I've got a lot of finds out of it now. 559 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,280 Let's just weigh it up. Come on, let's not get married to it. 560 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,080 So we've got a bit over an ounce there. 1.07. 561 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,160 These are the nuggets that I picked up.Wow. Wow. 562 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,600 That's up to 2.66. 563 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,080 Yeah.What's that?Over 2.5 ounces. 564 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,880 The $8,000 of gold, the team found this week, 565 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,800 pushes their tally past the halfway mark for the season. 566 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,680 Well, we're hanging in there. It's not the greatest, but it's OK. 567 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,840 It's payable.I think we might be struggling to hit our target. 568 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,880 We've got big bonuses. You know, we'll have the wet plant going. 569 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,800 When the rains come, we'll have the dry blower going. 570 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:11,320 Yeah, and I think we've got a much better geological understanding of the area as well. So... 571 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,920 That's a win in my books. Onto next week. Let's go.OK. 572 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,680 Big week.Yeah, huge week. 573 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,560 You've done really well keeping up with all the trucks. 574 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,240 Yeah, a few little hiccups. But you know what? We got through it. 575 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,120 You didn't do too bad running the plant there as well. 576 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,080 Thank you. Let's see what we got. All right. 577 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,840 That's not bad.That's pretty good. It's not bad.Yeah. 578 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:52,080 2.2.Two point two?Yeah. That's pretty good. 579 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,920 Now I made the real fine, dusty stuff into a button. 580 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,160 Oh, yes.Yep.Oh, that's nice. 581 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:04,040 Look at that, 2.6...2.69. 582 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:08,760 That's pretty good. If my math is correct here, it's an eight grand week. 583 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,520 Although they hit their target for the week, 584 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,920 it still leaves them with a massive $130,000 585 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,320 of their $150,000 target to find. 586 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,920 Bloody hard work. It is hard work but for, you know, 587 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,240 not a lot out there that can say they're eight grand weeks. 588 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:32,360 It is an eight grand week. It's still got a long way to go. 589 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,600 Yeah, but you know what? 590 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,800 Every journey begins with a single step. 591 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,120 Yeah, we'll see what happens. 592 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,360 You got here quicker than me. New toys paying off, mate. 593 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,160 You're enjoying it so much, I can tell. 594 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:51,240 No, not just that, but, mate, you're tracking down that 595 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,720 you know, reef of gold on that hill basically helped me tick off 596 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,640 one of my prospectors bucket lists of actually finding a source. 597 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:01,960 But it's a team effort, though. Like you got onto that big slug 598 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,680 and we just... you got onto that big system. The research paid off. 599 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,800 Let's find out what we got then. All right, let's do this. 600 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:13,440 On average, we're looking at 50 gold, 50% quartz.Yeah, OK. 601 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,240 8.2! 602 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,480 Awesome. So that's 4.1 ounces of gold in there, mate. 603 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,760 Brilliant!Great stuff. That is so, so good. 604 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,480 That is a lot.All right, time to do some free gold, eh? 605 00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,160 Really cool stuff. 606 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,600 Woohooo.3.62. 607 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,560 That's a pretty good start. That's not including the big one. 608 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,560 It came up nice with the clean, hey? 609 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,320 5.98!Oh, yes! Awesome. So what, that's 610 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,840 2.3 ounce nugget.So 4.1 in species. 611 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:55,760 5.98 free gold. 612 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,880 10.1 ounces of gold, mate. We got it. The 10 ounces we need. (LAUGHS) 613 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,760 Just, just.(LAUGHS) 614 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,920 The huge haul, worth $30,000. 615 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,280 Has left Jacqui and Andrew with only third of their target to find. 616 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,640 I'd have said there was no hope we were gonna reach 50 ounces this year, 617 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:16,240 and now we're already chasing it down. 618 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,840 Oh, my God!Two massive weigh-ins back to back, mate. 619 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,760 Yes!Well done.(LAUGHS) 620 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,280 You don't want to go detecting later? No, no, I'm done for today. 621 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,960 Have fun! 622 00:43:55,720 --> 00:43:57,320 Subtitles by Deluxe