NARRATOR: This time on Aussie Gold Hunters...
BRETT: We need to get this gold out now
because if you're trying to do this kind of job in the heat you'll die.
..soaring temperatures
come to The Brumbies' Dead Horse lease...
It will be 50 degrees next month.
..but they have to take on more than the heat
to stand a chance of reaching their 50-ounce target.
It's not sucking. Without this,
we may as well shut everything down.
The clock is ticking for the McGhies...
It's a bit of a worry if we are actually going to make target now.
Last week I was pretty confident but this week everything is drying up.
..and Brad's plan to move their $60,000 dry blower
hits a roadblock.
If I tip this thing it's game over.
DANNY: Whoa!
Last week of gold for us this season.
NARRATOR: Alan and Salty are on a final push
to reach their season target...
Problem is it's not gold and we've got a big season target to match.
..as they take on Australia's
most dangerous gold field.
If there's a croc here, he's going to be really angry now.
(WIND WHOOSHING)
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
This is it, mate. Here's the last week.
Last week of gold for us this season.
Yeah. Seven ounces to find in one week.
That's a big week.
I've been kicking myself all season
with that target we set ourselves.
All it's done is stress me out,
but I bet you not many people
have been through this rainforest with a coil.
I reckon they haven't. It's here.
We've just gotta get on the ground and find it.
Where we're going is just around the corner
from a World War Two war base.
Yeah. So I'm hoping for gold, but, mate,
I'm also kind of hoping for a little bit of, you know,
uncover some relics or something.
NARRATOR: Cape York is in the northernmost part of Australia,
close to Papua New Guinea.
During World War Two,
airstrips were built in the area for the US Air Force.
Legend has it that gold nuggets were discovered
when the base was constructed,
and now Alan Williams
and Caleb Salty Davenport
are back to prove those legends right.
Let's find some gold.
JUSTIN: Well, there she is, boys.
Mount Augustus, the world's biggest rock
situated right here in outback WA.
How good, mate. Yoo-hoo!
NARRATOR: This season, Alan and Salty trekked
to the furthest corners of the Australian continent...
My God!
..from the biggest monolith on Earth
to the top of Western Australia.
Mate, just outside these heads,
Karratha coastline.
(LAUGHS) Look at that beautiful nugget.
NARRATOR: After some early success...
Well done, well done.
..they hit a roadblock in Margaret River.
Oh, my gosh! I thought you had more than that.
NARRATOR: Now, after a 5,700-kilometre drive,
they're keen to get on the gold.
All righty, mate!
This looks like a pretty good spot to kick things off.
Yeah. Which way are you gonna go?
I'll go that way, if you want to go that way?
That's good, mate, cos the gold is this way, so...
One week, mate. Season target.
We'll get it! Hee-hew!
So we've come across this nice open area.
Looks like a potentially old World War Two camp.
It's all nice and cleared so I've got the bigger coil on
just to cover this area and then I'll stick the smaller one on later
and go into there. (METAL DETECTOR HUMMING)
There's actually live ammunition still out here
and the last thing you'd want to be doing is, uh,
putting a pick into one of those
because if you hit it in the wrong spot, it still could, um...
still could go off. So I've got to be very careful.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) All right, we've got a target here.
Jeez! Loud!
There was 7,000 people camped all up along this area
and you can imagine the rubbish and that they've left behind.
This could be rubbish, but we'll never know until we dig it up.
What was that?
I have no idea what that is.
That is definitely not gold.
What the hell is that?
Just got to see what other weird and wonderful things are out here.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) All right, whatever it is, it's out.
Oh what is that?
It's like rope in a tin. It's almost like a little ration pack.
Maybe all the, uh, all the soldiers were actually given a little,
little vessel with five metres of rope in there.
The problem is it's not gold
and we've got a big season target to match.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(SIGHS)
(METAL DETECTOR CHIRPING) Another signal.
That's a big one. Ooh.
Sounds really shallow, this one.
Oh, right on the surface.
That's a big bullet. This would be a 50 cal.
This would tear apart pretty much anything that is shot at.
There's probably many more around here.
Ooh! Ooh!
There's a massive one there and that's completely intact
and that means it's live.
Um...
I'm not going to leave it here.
I'm going to carefully dig this one out.
The last thing I want to do is have this act as the firing pin
and hit the bullet the wrong way.
We're a long way from any kind of help.
It's making me nervous.
(SOFT MUSIC)
DANNY: How are you going, Bailey? I'm almost done this bucket now.
Yeah, it's close to the end.
Hopefully we can find something soon.
About a 20-kilo bucket of dirt from Bailey's patch
and I'm just running it through the sluice now.
Those big nuggets are starting to die off
so all the small little specks of gold that's potentially there,
um, I'm hoping there's heaps of fines, as well.
Danny, there's a couple of specks here.
Is there? Yeah.
What have you got?
Oh, my God, let me see. Look at that one.
There's a good few pieces through there, eh?
Yeah. That's showing good ground.
We gotta show Mum and Dad, eh? Yeah.Show them what we've found.
So we're still on Bailey's patch.
It's a bit of a worry if we're going to make target now.
Last week I was pretty confident, but this week
everything's drying up. So we're going to open up new ground.
We've got Bailey's patch here and we've got Max's patch over there.
So what I'm going to try and do is close them in and join them up.
So eventually it'll just be one big open area.
Unfortunately this season's coming to a close.
It's getting into summer now. The temperatures out here
can get up to, you know, 45, 50 degrees so we need
to get this job done and get the season over and done with,
make target and go home with a heap of gold in our pockets and be happy.
NARRATOR: This season, the McGhies,
Brad, Wendy and their son Bailey,
took on the 200 hectare Devil's Cut lease
in search of big gold.
I support Brad in what he's doing
so hopefully we can make it work.
And with the addition of new equipment...
With more machinery we need more hands.
..the team added Brad's stepson, Danny Sullivan...
Danny! (METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
Are you serious? (LAUGHS)
..and a patch of big nuggets gave them early success...
That's what dreams are made of right there. I love you so much.(LAUGHS)
..but with the nuggets now gone,
they need a new plan.
How did you go?Yeah, good. Some good news. Promising news.
What have you got? I need good news. Yeah, so, um, I took a...
20-kilo bucket of the pay dirt from up here,
processed it...Ah-ha-ha. ..and that's what we got from it.
And that's out of 20 kilos?
That's out of a 20-kilo bucket. Yeah.Good job.Mm.
These are good results. So that might be another resource
for us, you know. Look, the nuggets are slowing down...Yeah.
..so we need something. It's definitely promising.
It's probably worth bringing the dry blower up here
and running a good parcel through. Maybe 100 tonnes through it.
We're only half an ounce off target. I reckon we should up it a bit.
Up the target? Yeah, to about 30 ounces.
You're pushing it.
Just think we're close, so...
Look, I agree. I agree. Got a bit more time to go.
Gives us something to work towards, I suppose, doesn't it?
Gives us a bit of incentive to keep going. I say we do it.
What have we got to lose?Yeah. We'll get the dry blower organised
and we'll start getting it up here. Yeah.Sounds good. Good luck.
See yous later. Find some more gold.Yeah, will do.
All right, mate. If you want to grab the chain, hook it up to the hitch,
I'll go grab the excavator.Yeah, easy done.We'll get it over there.
We're just going to, um, hook up the dry blower
and the plan is to take it to Bailey's patch.
So that that way we can, um, you know, bring the dry blower
to the dirt instead of having to truck the dirt all the way
to the dry blower.
We'll see how we go. You know, I've got to be very careful.
It's about a $60,000 dry blower.
It's a mate of mine's dry blower and, um, I can't afford to damage it
and I can't afford to buy it. How's she looking there, Danny?
Yeah, that looks good there. Yeah, look, it's gonna be
a bit sketchy coming down through this track so, yeah,
just keep a close eye on it. Yeah, easy. I'll just follow behind.
If we can move this out the back and that product moves through
the dry blower properly, the way it should do,
then this could be a massive win for us.
I can't even see behind me, to be honest, so I don't even know
where I'm going here. I'm just pretty much winging it.
Man, if I tip this thing, it's game over.
(SLOW MUSIC)
(HANDBRAKE CLICKS)
Here we go. Another truck full of pay dirt.
Brilliant. I'm pumping it through
like there's no tomorrow.
No worries. I'll go and get another one.
Awesome. Thank you.
The heat's not doing the old machinery any favours.
It'll be 40 degrees this month.
50 degrees next month.
NARRATOR: The Dead Horse lease lies in the most extreme area
of the Great Victorian Desert.
Soon dangerous temperatures
will bring The Brumbies' season to an end.
We're trying to finish off the season on a good note,
so we need to get this gold out
and we need to get everything processed now
because if you're trying to do this kind of job in the heat,
you'll die.
It's running pretty good.
I just got a couple of big rocks.
Better to unblock it now than when it's completely blocked.
Can't have anything else go wrong now.
Not whilst we're on the gold and, um...
you know, we've worked so hard to get here.
This is what we've got, dear. Bloody hell.
NARRATOR: After losing her job and the home that came with it,
Kat Dubberley took up mining with her partner Brett Brumby.
Hey!After pushing themselves to breaking point...
I am beyond stressed. I'm beyond everything.
..the pair found gold rich pay dirt.
Ohh!
But despite finding the source of the gold...
Watch the truck! Watch the truck!
..they've been thwarted by accidents
and mechanical failures.
Have a bit of a treasure hunt.
Now, with just a few days left in the season,
they're willing to do whatever it takes
to hit their ambitious 50-ounce season target.
Seems heavy. Oh, goodness gracious.
What have we got?
Yes! There's some nuggets in here.
Hey, that's bloody exciting stuff.
It's really good to see these nuggets sitting on top.
What else is in this mat?
We've had a very slow start to the year.
Only about 12, 13 ounces of our 50-ounce target.
So it's so good to see something actually finally coming out
of this sluice.
We can pay bills and do a bit more renos on the house.
Oh, it's so good.
I can't wait to tell Brett.
SALTY: So I'm trying to be careful because bullets work
by the firing pin of a rifle hitting the end circle.
Last thing I want to do is hit the bullet the wrong way.
Oh. (CHUCKLES)
Oh, that's corroded through.
Jesus. (CHUCKLES)
Had me worried for a minute.
There must be so much more around here.
As good as this is finding these army relics,
that's not what we're here for.
It's not going to hit our season target.
Our only option is to head into the jungle,
and in Salty goes.
The goal for the past two years
has been to basically get enough gold
so I can start up my own operation.
And if we hit this season target,
I reckon that's a big possibility.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING, HUMMING)
Something here.
Honestly, get off!
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) Something there.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
This... that's not gold.
This is rubbish. (METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
I'm done. I... (EXHALES)
I'm out of here.
It's wasting our time.
Oh, yes!
This is what we're here for.
Nice little creek.
This will act like a bit of a natural run-off
so we might have a chance if there is gold here.
Oh. A big skull.
Oh, my God, it's a croc skull.
Wow! Look at the size of that thing.
Probably be two-and-a-half, three metres.
Doesn't take much, though.
Two-and-a-half, three-metre croc will still have you for dinner.
But this tells me there's another croc in here
that's much bigger than this one.
NARRATOR: Salt water crocodiles
are highly aggressive apex predators,
able to lie completely undetected
in less than one metre of water.
They ambush prey with a bite that strikes four times faster
than a rattlesnake.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) Oh, that'd be right.
Target right next to a deep hole
where the croc could be sitting.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
I don't want to get any closer to that water.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
Oh, little speccy.
Oh, you've got quartz running all through it.
Oh, my God, Alan's going to be over the moon.
Had high hopes for Cape York,
but after today I'm a bit frustrated.
No gold. Lots to find.
I kind of just want to go home where I know there is gold.
I hope Salty's on it.
Yo!
Mate, where have you been? It's been hours.
You've been worried about me. Yeah, I have been worried.
We're a long way from home.
This might change your attitude.
No way.
Nice finds, mate.
We're on the gold, mate, but we definitely have to watch our backs
because I reckon there's something in that water.
I'm knackered and you look hungry.
Here's your dinner. Pumpkin soup, mate.
Well, I'm going to bed. Don't you go giving up just yet.
Well, I'll hang in there. See you in the morning.
Thanks, mate.
Man, this is making me heart stop.
It looks like we've got a bit of a flat tyre on this front one.
Keeps sort of jarring around and bouncing, man. Just bounces off.
I'm going to roll it right back. I'll hook this back up again, then.
All right, I'll just have to be bloody careful.
So, I mean, it's a bit of a sketchy path at the moment
so we just got to...
do what we can do here.
Try again.
We've got a flat front tyre,
but we're dragging it by the two rear tyres
so that's still good at the moment.
WENDY: So we'll start up the end here.
I'll have a go first and you can scrape out anything
if I get any targets, OK? BAILEY: OK.
We've been up here a while now
so the plan is just to keep laying out pads and detecting
until it runs out.
The nuggets were a lot bigger,
but now they're getting smaller and few and far in between.
When they get the dry blower up here we can run some of this dirt through
and this dirt here actually looks perfect for it.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) Oh, yeah.
Oh, that does sound good. Scrape in there, darl.
Get down, yep. (MUMBLING)
Let me have a go.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) Ooh, it's still in there.
Sounds great. All right, keep going.
Stop.
Oh, it's out. (METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
All right, it's about here. (METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
Oh, I think I can see it.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) Yep.
Oh, wow! Look at that!
We are getting nuggets. They are small,
but our hopes lie in the dry blower.
All right. Let's keep going. Yeah, let's go.
It's hard to track with a digger because you've got so many
moving parts, you know, and I'm sort of worried
this chain's going to drop off.
DANNY: Oh, OK. That's rocking around bad there.
Yeah, it's hard because I've sort of turned in the tracks
and then you try and straighten it with the boom
and it's just going everywhere, man. Now this thing moves around so much,
the chain bounces off the little hooks.
Mate, my heart can't take much more of this crap.
Wait, hold up a second. Hold up.
Oi! We've got a leak in this tyre.
Man, that's all we need. Yeah, it's going down.
(AIR HISSING) Looks like this is, uh...
this is where it's staying, eh? Yeah.
All right, well that's no good. No, it's two tyres that need
to be replaced. 250, 300 per tyre.
All right. Well, there's six grams of gold down the gurgler, isn't it?
BRETT: There we go. Another truck full of pay dirt.
Yes, she's...
we're finding a bit of gold in the sluice.
Yeah? Yeah. Pretty happy about that.
This is what everything's led up to. We've had bad times.
We're into a good time at the moment.
We're on the gold.We're on the gold.It's pretty good gold.
We've just got to keep pushing this week...Yeah.
..and-and see how we go. This is exciting!
This is very good. Yes!
All right.Awesome.Keep up the good work.Thank you. Well done.
Ripper gold coming through this wet plant.
There's a wet load in the dump truck
and bringing me some dirt. Some good pay dirt.
We're kicking goals, man. We're kicking goals.
Self high five.
These results are fantastic.
If only the whole year had have been this good.
Are you there, my love? Yes, dear.
Yes, something's not quite right.
The water seems to have disappeared.
It might be the pump. I have no idea what's going on.
On me way.
Thank you.
The water all of a sudden is not pumping as much as it should be.
Um, it keeps on cutting in and out.
It's not good.
This is a pain in the backside.
The red dust's out to kill everything.
It's particularly rough on the machinery.
It's not great. It's not great at all.
I don't know what happened.
It just stopped running. All right.
What's going on?
It's not sucking.
Not sucking.
Without this, we may as well shut everything down.
(BLEEP)!
I've got a spare one in town, but that's a two-hour round trip.
I hate it when, you know, you've got to run back into town.
Go on, grab a side. Oh, God damn!
We've got the pay dirt just sitting there.
All it needs to do is get washed.
There we go.Jeez. All right.
Drive safe.
Nup. Doing wheelies the whole way.
All righty.
Yes. This is it, mate. Looks nice.
The problem is, mate, like, right there is where I found
the croc skull.Yep. Big water hole here,
deep, big one that side and this is where I found the gold.
So...Right. ..we need somehow,
if there is a croc in there, get it out.
Nice.
So the plan is poke this into the waterhole,
see if we can basically not hurt the crocodile,
just make the croc show itself so we know it's there.
If there is a croc in there we want to get him out of the waterhole
so then we don't become the prey.
It's deeper than I thought.
Yeah, wow, it's fairly deep, isn't it?
Mate, a very big crocodile could hang out in there.
If there's a croc here he's going to be really angry now.
I think there's nothing here.
Check these banks and find the source of this gold.
So my plan remains the same.
It's trying to get enough money for a good deposit
on a big beautiful block of land down south.
We know there's gold here.
It's just a matter of trying to pinpoint where it's coming from.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) That's a signal.
That sounds good.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) Yep. There's gold.
There's something here.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
Yes! Look at that!
Beautiful rough bit of gold right there.
Al, you got a copy, mate?
Yeah, man. Gotcha. Just got a bit then.
She's a bit deeper than I thought, but rough as guts
so there's a good chance that this has come from this area.
You might be on the source there. Mate, so...
quick run down.Yep. Found one here.Yep.
Just got another signal almost straight up that bank.
Do you reckon you could kinda clear some of this rubble out?
Ooh, it's not the easiest ground to work.
Oi, oi, oi, oi! Look, look, look!
Look.Get out! (LAUGHS)
Holy, that's an ounce piece.
That is a beautiful piece of gold, mate.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
That's another target. Right there?Yep.
Oh, hang on. Yep. Yep.Where?Right on the pick. Right under there.
Is that it? Is that a nugget?
(LAUGHS)
Oh, what a chunk!
Wow! Oh, get that under the sunlight.
Man, that is at least half an ounce.
We're on the gold. Get in there, mate.
I need a breather. All right, mate.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) Hang on. Another one.
Really? Right next to it.
There it is. I can see it.
Mate!
What's with the chunks?
That'd be three grand, maybe more, right there.
Going to keep chasing it until it runs dry.
Cape York gold. This is what it's all about.
DANNY: One of the rear tyres is now leaking air.
(AIR HISSING) We can't run it with two flat tyres.
It's about a half hour round trip for Brad to go to Bailey's patch,
pick up dirt, come here, drop it off.
So that's half an hour every single time
that we could have saved by having it right there.
So the pressure's really on at the moment.
I mean, we've upped our target to 30 ounces
and now we've had this setback.
Throw a bucket of dirt here
and I'll take it back
and we'll start running it through the dry blower.
I thought it was going to be reasonably easy,
but now we got these sort of dramas,
I'm having to cart this dirt all the way back
so it's going to be a hell of a mission.
You took your sweet time. Not easy.
Got a six tonne of dirt here.
Not many of us can do what I do,
but anyway, here's your dirt, all right?
I'll grab another six tonne or whatever and bring it back.
Yeah, sounds good. I'll start running through this.
The fine gold that I pulled out of the bucket from Bailey's Patch,
it wasn't a lot, but it is a good indication
that there is fine gold there.
We haven't ran dirt from Bailey's Patch through this dry blower yet
so I'm not sure how the dirt's gonna act, if it's, you know,
fine enough to go through. All of this is costing us, as well.
The diesel from Brad having to run back and forth.
Hopefully what we find
is gonna make this viable for us.
Pretty keen to see what's in that dry blower.
It's a gamble, but then again, you know, everything's a gamble
in the gold game so we're about to find out
whether we've made a huge mistake.
Hey, Danny, got a copy there? Yeah, Brad.
Got another bucket load for you, mate. How's it going?
Yeah, sweet, yeah. I've just started to finish off that pile there
so another load would be perfect.
Rogie, mate. I'll just keep going and get more.
Thank you very much.
So this is bucket number 13. So I'm just going to keep going backwards
and forwards until we've got the 100 tonne.
(ENGINE SWITCHES OFF)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
I've got no gears.
It's not driving. I've lost forward and reverse gear.
Um, it's always the way.
This is the last thing we needed so, um...
this is going to take some time. I'm going to have to fault find
and work out what's going on with the transmission.
This could cost us big time. We were really hoping for 100 tonne,
but look, in reality we've probably got about 60 to 70 tonnes through.
So, look, we're just going to have to see what gold we got
and that's it. That's all we can do.
That's shut us down. It's staying where it is.
How'd you go? Oh, I've got the spare.
All right, give us a hand. We'll get this out.Yep.
All right, we've got to get it hooked up as quick as we can.
Oh, shivers. All right, let's go.
It's a little pump.
Actually, it's pretty vital.
It's just as important as the trommel.
It's just as important as the dirt itself.
If you can't harvest the gold out of the dirt,
you've got nothing.
It's never been so urgent to fix stuff right as it is right now.
We're coming up to the end of the season.
We've got gold in the dirt.
Brett's having a little bit of trouble with the spare pump.
So the on-off switch is a little dicky
by the feel of this.
It definitely makes the blood pump a bit faster when you're...
you're watching him struggle.
(MOTOR RUNNING)
We're back up! Whoo!
We got water!
We just got to get back up and properly run,
otherwise we're never going to get anything done.
All right! Let's get processing.
We're time critical right here at the moment.
You know, we've got to get this stuff done.
Everything's only as strong as the weakest link in the chain.
So we're going to need a bit more labour to help us
get through this last little bit.
I reckon I might put in a call.
Hey, guys. Hey, Luke. What's happening?
NARRATOR: Retired head chef turned prospector, Chris Van Zweden,
is one of Brett and Kat's few neighbours
in the ghost town of Gwalia,
38 kilometres from their Dead Horse claim.
Been busy? Bloody busy.Yeah?
Good to see you.What's happening? Yeah.
On the gold, are we? Yeah.Yeah?
Yeah, so we're doing pretty good at the moment.
We're coming up on the end of the season.
We're going to need upwards of 30 ounces...Ooh!
..to even get close to our goal.
Work cut out for us, then, eh? Yeah.We'll get there.
See how we go. All right, let's get moving.
There's that spot that I got off the old map
where they'd done some soil sampling.Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Right.
Might have hit up some good results or... ?Yeah.
I've just never come across a patch like that out here.
Yeah, right, OK. It's normally fairly nuggetty stuff.
So this is it, eh?
Yeah.
So easiest way to process everything is just dig it out, truck it over.
But you still got to detect the bedrock.Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, pick those nuggies out of it all.Yep. No worries at all.
Cool as.I'll crack into it and get the detector.
Yeah, so Kat and Brett have been really good to us over the years
and sort of want to just return the favour.
Like, they're hitting some all right gold now and...
want to help them reach their target before summer.
So we've got Kat over working the wash plant.
We've got Chris going to be doing a bit of detecting,
and I'll be running some dirt. It's a full production line and...
..it's not the nicest of conditions,
but with the third person
I think it'll make it a lot easier on everyone.
I'll clean you up a fresh spot.
Yeah, ripper, man. Let's get into it, eh?
Chris, 100% I trust him around the gold,
but I also trust him
to keep his mouth shut.
All it takes is one person to tell another prospector
and then you got other people out here trying to poach.
Hey, maybe I stand a bit clear while you're dumping that, eh?
It's a bit of a dust storm coming through.
Sounds like a plan, Jan.
I hope to get down to this bedrock.
We'll pick some little nuggies out of that.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
Yeah, ripper. Awesome.
Doesn't sound too deep, either. Let's have a...
scratch around.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) Beauty!
I heard it. There she is.
Fantastic.
This is absolutely amazing ground.
They're really lucky to have found this.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) That's a bit of a sound.
Ooh.
There's something there.
It's just sitting on the bedrock there somewhere, I reckon.
Brett, have you got a copy, man?
Yeah. Have you got a jackhammer, man?
This is tough ground and got a bit of a signal in it, eh.
Too easy. I'll come down.
Ah, she's just in... just in the centre. I'll give you a listen.
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING)
Oh, yeah.Yeah? Not bad, eh? Yeah.
Much easier with that thing.
(DRILLING)
(METAL DETECTOR WHOOPING) Oi!Oi! There she is.
There she is. She's out.
That's looking a bit of a size.
Speccy! Yeah, nice.
A couple grams of gold or what? I don't know how much is in that.
Little bit through it there. But it's right the way through it.
Good stuff. That's a really good sign
that we're still getting gold even down this deep.
So how full that jar's looking?
(RATTLING)Not looking bad. That's a happy sound.
Back to it then, eh? Back to it.
Hopefully this gold just keeps on coming.
It's been absolutely sensational.
Hell. (LAUGHS)
Oh, look at it all.
Oh, my goodness!
One, two, three. Oh, I love the little ones.
They're so cute. Adorable.
We've set this 50-ounce target and it might seem pretty high,
but I lost my job and this is our only income.
You know, when you're seeing the little stuff,
the sluice is doing good. You know, like...
she's doing her job pretty well.
This is the stuff people dream of.
WENDY: So how did you end up going with the loader?
Look, it's going to take some time. Yeah.
They just need to go through it and work it out.
Got the scales, boy? All right.
Oh, here's Danny. Yeah.
Hopefully he's got the last of the dry blowing stuff.
Are you ready for a weigh-in? Yeah. Is that what we're doing now?
Yeah.Ran it all through the sluice. Yeah, I did, actually,
and that pushes to quite a bit. (RATTLING)Look at that.
Oh, sounds good. Out of the... what?
60, 70-tonne that we went through?
Yeah, look, I was hoping to run a lot more through,
but obviously we had problems so we'll deal with what we've got.
Yeah.So let's hope it all adds up. Yeah, exactly. What about yous?
Did you do well, boy?Yeah. He did.Find some good gold?
Yeah, I did the best. Did ya?
All right, shall we do it? Yeah.
Put yours in first and then... Let's see what you got.
This is for me and Bailey.
All righty.
Point nine. Yeah, you guys did well, eh?
Yeah, no, I'm proud of that. That area produced
some really good nuggets for us, but they're sort of dying off now
so we need to look at a new source of gold. All right, let's see
what we got, eh? See what we got from the dry blower.
Wow! Oh, look at that mountain of gold.
Three point five, so just over three-and-a-half.That's awesome.
NARRATOR: This week smashes the McGhie's previous season target
of 25 ounces,
and with an extra $15,000 on the table,
the family are within striking distance
of their new goal.
Realistically we're only two ounces short of our,
you know, our new target. Good job, boy.Awesome.
I think I did the best. You probably did.
I think you did too, mate. Some bloody good nuggets there.
Look, we've got a week left, and it's starting to get hotter.
Soon it's going to be too hot to even do anything.
So I think we smash out the dry blower,
try and get that sorted and I'll bust me arse
trying to get that loader sorted. And we're just going to have to go
bloody hard.Yeah.With the weather getting hotter, too. Yep, I agree.
We've got a lot of work ahead of us. All right, let's pack up
and go and have a beer. Good week.Yeah.Yes.Again.
(BIRD SQUAWKING)
What a year! Going from going out on the weekends to full time.
Yeah, it's a bit different, isn't it?
Gone from losing my job to...
losing the house to renovating our new house,
so it's been... it's been huge, hasn't it?
It's not normally this bad, but... It has been bad, eh?
But I think you've done pretty good.
So season target, you chose 50.
We could have done it. You never know, but let's find out.
Let's see if we've got enough to hopefully fix up the love shack
a little. I've melted the fines into a slug...
Yeah...and you've got the nuggets. Yep, moment of truth to see...
Moment of truth. So let's...
let's see how we did. (EXHALES)
(RATTLING)
Ooh!
Look at that! What have we got?
Five point eight seven.
That's pretty good!
Let's add the fines in.
Ohh.
Six point seven nine!
So that totals up to about 19-and-a-half ounces.
NARRATOR: With their season over,
Kat and Brett have fallen well short
of their 50-ounce target.
But with almost 20 ounces in the bank,
they've found over $58,000 worth of gold.
We've run fairly smooth this week. Yeah.
So if we didn't have the breakdowns the whole year,
we would have exceeded our target.
Next year we're hoping for this every week, really.Absolutely.
So, yeah, you're back out with me next year
or are you going to be handing in job applications?
Um...
You're stuck with me. Really?Yeah.
All right, darl, well done.
Mwah!Yeah. (LAUGHS)
Ahh, bloody ripper.
Time for holidays. Holidays? We've got a house to fix.
Time for holidays.
SALTY: The final weigh up.
ALAN: Yeah, the final weigh up of the season.
I am absolutely wrecked. (LAUGHS) Same.
Oh, I got the scales here. Yeah. Beauty.
Bit of a bittersweet moment,
but let's see what the gold comes in at.
We need six point one three... Mm-hm...to hit target.
Ready to go? (RATTLING)
Ready to go.All right, let's go. Come on, Al, mate.
Ooh. Two.
Three.
Come on, get out.
Oh, six point five. That's it!
There's more!
How much have we got in there? (LAUGHS)
Eight point five.
Oh, mate.
NARRATOR: Alan and Salty smashed
their 25-ounce season target,
bringing in just under $80,000 worth of gold
for this season.
That's one for the record books for us.Definitely.
That there is going to get me my next project to upscale.
I've smashed the dream. You made it, mate.
That's what we came here for.Yeah, it's been a fun two years with you.
Been one hell of a two years. Oh.
The adventures we've gone on, the things we've seen.
Yeah, I think it's time for...
me to kind of, yeah, move on from...
going hard out prospecting. Mm.
Gonna use this to try and get me that block of land...Mm-hm.
..but, you know, I'll definitely, uh...
I'll definitely answer the call, mate.
But I knew this would be the end of our journey together, so...
I brought a couple of little West Australian eggs over.
Cheers.It's been one hell of a journey with you.
Cheers, mate. Cheers.
Jeez, we don't have this back home. No. Definitely not.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
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