This has been one of the toughest mining seasons of my career,
and I have put every single penny
into building a custom dry blower and it's taken months to get it dialled in.
But we're finally producing gold.
But last night I got a phone call completely out of the blue
from a big mining company that neighbours our lease.
It turns out they want to expand.
They want to buy us out, lock, stock and barrel.
And if they're for real...
this deal could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
All right, this is the place. This could make or break our season.
Let's see what these guys have to say.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
Hey.Yo.
So what's going on?
Well, where to start?
We've got an offer on this lease.
It's a good offer, 200 ounces,
to come and take over.
Wow, that's a lot.It is.
I mean, that's over 600K right now.
There's a reason for that. They also want the crushing plant.
The crushing plant that we operate when
it's raining and we can't run the beast?Yeah.
That's a lot to take in.
But the fact that we're only halfway through our gold tally for this season,
and we're coming into the final part.
I don't see how we're going to get the ounces we need to hit target.
Okay. And how soon are we talking?
Literally they want to be in here in a week's time at the most. A week?
So, we've got to tidy up, pack and move the beast and us onto another project.
And, you know, we've had the Kraken lease in our back pocket for a while.
It's just... it's such a risk to leave this lease.Yeah.
Because we're finally on the gold and the Kraken... well, it's untested.
It's a gamble, but it's a huge opportunity, and it's a lot of money.
If we're going to do it. It's now or never.
Wow, God, things move fast out here, don't they?
All they can do.
All right, well, let's do it and start packing, I guess.
Certainly, keeping me on my toes, Alex.
That's great. Mel's agreed to the sale.
The problem is, we've now got to get packed up and moved out really quickly,
and this has been our toughest mining season yet.
But it looks like we're finally in with the wind.
Good job.Thanks.
NARRATOR: This season, the Desert Diggers, Melanie Wood
and Alex Stead invested 400,000 dollars building the Beast
a one of a kind dry blower that separates gold from pay dirt.
That's pretty much 50 grand on the table right now.
50 grand! Done!
Someone's stealing our (BEEP) loader.
But a thief in the night.
Oh, Alex. Jesus Christ, this is a ride off.
Pushed them further into debt when they were forced to buy a new loader.
It's a bit more than we were looking to spend. All right, 150.Legend.
There's a lot of money going out and not a lot coming in.
The trucks here. It's got a strap down, lift it all on and roll out of here.
Trading leases, buying and selling, just another facet of gold mining.
(SIGHS) It's a hot day for doing this.
Summer is definitely here.
The temperature has just gone from being bearable
to absolutely insane.
You just can't fight the heat out here in the desert.
Good job.Everything happened really fast,
packing everything up and moving on.
We've really only got a few days left in the season
before it just gets too hot to be out here.
We've had a run of bad luck, but hopefully that's about to change.
We're going to go to our backup lease. Hopefully, there's a lot of gold there.
I've got a lot to pack up and a really long drive ahead of us.
We've got to get moving.
Let's get this lift done.
It's vital this gets up there.
All in one piece. We've got a decent bit of profit.
Now, the last thing we want to do is have to re-spend it fixing something.
We don't have a belt.No.
That's a lot of weight suspended up there.
We just basically need to lift it now.
This is the most important part
where things could go wrong. Oh.
Stretching the arm out further than I would like for this lift.
Huge amount of weight.
(BLEEPING)
Watch yourself coming down.
Get it straight.
Pull it this way.
It's pretty much spot on.
Down we're going.
(SIGHS) That's it. Pretty much good to go.
Well, that's it.
Everything, including the kitchen sink.
Saying goodbye to the Fair Lady.
And it's... it's bittersweet.
Closing the book on another chapter.
It's a bit sad. It's been good to us. We've got a lot of gold here.
I'm excited for the next chapter, though.
Yeah. Very glad we've taken the offer.
It's been stressful getting this packed up together.
But let's hit the road. Let's get out of here.All right.
On to bigger, better things. Yeah...
We got up really early this morning, didn't we, Sunny?
Mm-hm.Do you want to see Dad and Kyle?
Hmm.Do you think they found a big one?
Yeah. Like that big.
That big? Whoa, that would be good.
(INDISTINCT)
Sunny's calling... You calling Dad on the radio?
Can I have a big one please?
Levi and Kyle have camped out last night.
They've gone 24 hours a day nonstop working.
We've got over 77 ounces to find.
We are giving it everything we can
to finish off the season with as much gold as we can.
7:00am. It's already hot.
As my car say 32 degrees.
It won't be long before it's too hot to be out here at all.
I mean, we go on and on about how hot it is out here,
but it really, really dictates everything that we do.
Are you excited to see Dad? Yeah.
Hello!Hi.Hi!
Hi, daddy.Hey, Sunny.
You look exhausted.That's okay. Good morning.How are you?
Did you sleep, Kyle?No.
You guys are going to need some kind of rest.
I'll get on the detector and have a go while I'm feeling fresh.
And it's not too hot yet.Yup. You'll look after Sunny. Hang out with Sunny for a bit.
Yeah, let's do it. We've only got a few more days to go,
so get as much gold as we can.Let's go.
Cool. All right team.
You should definitely dig up some nugs.
Yeah, and I can see how many holes you guys have dug last night.
Serious effort. Yeah, it was pretty hard to put the detector down,
but so glad that you're out here giving us a bit of a break.
I'm more than happy to help.
I really am feeling the pressures of being up all night and chasing the gold.
It's still producing. So we're just continuing to chase the gold along this channel.
Millions of years ago, as gold was thrust to the earth's surface,
it kind of fragmented and broke off.
It was kind of forced downhill and eventually fell into the river,
and that's basically deposited it through this channel.
But over time, you know, as that ancient river dried up
earth and dirt filled it all in.
So we're basically just digging that up right through here.
Levi and Kyle have been going hard.
It's good that Levi actually is getting to have a little break now with Sunny,
and spend a bit of time with him. Catch!
Oh! So close.
Sunny and I aren't spending too much time out here on the ground
because it's just too hot now already.
I'm going to do as much as I can safely with Sunny.
But the pressure is on for Levi and Kyle.
Gold is our income.
Being in the machine gives you a little bit of time away from the sun and the heat.
We've only got a couple of days left with us and the season is over.
So a couple of hard day's work to try and get that
little bit closer to our target is all worthed.
(BEEP) Oh, good signal there.
Good way to start the day.
Oh, straight in.
(LAUGHING) Wow.
This is a beautiful piece of gold.
That's four or five grammes right there.
How exciting. All right, let's see what else is out here.
All these little nuggets are adding up, but we really need to find more gold.
This is our own little patch of paradise.
Levi North, wife Bridget and business partner Kyle Wilson
invested their life saving to start their own gold mining operation
deep in the isolated Pilbara region of western Australia.
We've really taken a gamble here, going out independently.
This digger cost us about 70,000 dollars so the pressure's on.
We've got costs involved, there's insurances, there's diesel,
there's a whole other list of things that we've got to keep paying for.
(BOTH CHEERING)
Look at this!
It's a good amount of gold, but bring ourselves back down to reality here.
We're a long way from our target.
You know, we've got a week to go.
Let's make every hour of this count.
But now, with summer temperatures nearing a record breaking 50 degree Celsius,
the Pilbara is set to become one of the hottest places on Earth,
forcing the team to end their season in a matter of days.
(CHUCKLING) Car keys.
What are you doing?
I'm putting my socks on. Fair enough. Fair enough.
So good having Bridget and Sunny out here.
Bridget's down having a tech Sunny and I are hanging out and shooting the breeze.
Just gives you that little extra pep in your step.
And at the moment, Kyle and I definitely need that.
We've been working through the night, so we're a bit shattered.
It's been a long season and we're all a little bit spent.
We've got one week left, so Kyle and I are working around the clock
trying to get as much gold as we possibly can.
Here.What have you got?
Oh, you found some crystals.
Yeah.Yeah.
Oh. Hello.Hi, Sunny. Mom found some gold.
Awesome.Added a couple to the jar.
Got a nice rattle. Well done.Yep.
Added a few to it. Good stuff.
It's starting to warm up a little bit now.
Well, let's do this. Do you want me to take the dog home?
Yeah. It's probably a bit hot for Oki now.
Come on Sunny, in the car. Okay, up, up.
Dad's got to stay here and do some more gold digging, Sunny.
I want to stay here. I know you do, darling, but it's too hot for us.
We'll come back again, okay? All right, love you.
See you darling. All right, bye. Okay, be safe.
Will do. See you, Sunny. Bye, Daddy.
See you later. See you Sunny.
Bye.Bye.Bye.
Bye...
Oh, no. The freaking key in there.
(GROANS)
Kyle, you locked the key in the digger.
What?Actually locked it in the digger, mate.
We only got one key. It's no good in the digger.
Oh, no.Apologies, buddy.
Probably should've gone to sleep and had a rest.
Stupid things happen when you've been...
I am sleep deprived. Yeah, man.
Dude, this isn't good.
Spending money to get someone to come all the way out her to open the digger for a couple of days?
We're gonna have to smash the glass.
2 All right, Jayden. She's form.
You want to take that up to the wash plant, mate?
Try out a stockpile up there.
Roger that, mate. We'll get it going.
The pressure's on a little bit.
I want to try and get as much of this ground done before our season ends.
We've set the target of 300 ounces,
we've only got a couple of weeks left in the season and
we've still got about 270 ounces to get to reach target.
Now, we've got the wash plant set up to capture all this fine gold
that I believe we were losing last week.
I'll get this dumped.
Go back and load up and just keep going.
Not massively easy and getting all this done.
You know, one man down, me brother, he had to... He got cold in.
And he had to go back to work until this place is completely profitable.
He's got to work, but we'll just pick up the slack.
It's going to take a bit longer, now that it's just the two of us.
Well, it's not the right time of the season to be a man down.
We've only got a couple of weeks left and bugger of gold on the scales.
We've just got to get that gold.
The only way we can do that is just dig the ground, get it out.
But it's going to take us twice as long.
That's it there, mate.
Hey, friend. Someone's just come in. I just seen a car.
You expecting anybody, mate?
Yeah, I think I know who it is.
Oh, well hello. How're we doing? How are you?
Good there, mate. I wasn't expecting you out here.
Well, here I am. I thought you had exams all day.
It was just the one this morning. And I'm all done now.
So you've finished school completely?
I'm done.What are you doing out here? You should be out with your mates celebrating
after finishing your school. That's what I'd be doing.
There's nothing I'd be rather doing at the moment.
I want to do this my whole life. I know that.
I know that I finished school, and now I'm out here.
What do you reckon, Jayden? Do you reckon he can join the team or not?
Course there, mate?
Yeah, always a pleasure.
You know, the old man would have loved it, eh?
Mate its...Come here.
So let's get stuck in there. Let's work out a plan.
So as we saw in the last dig, we did in the last way in.
There's more fine gold here than we expected.
You and me stay down here, mate.
We're just going to keep digging and detecting and get this buried up to that wash plant.
Cayden, we're going to need you to run the plant.
It's sort of kept you away from the big wash plants in the past.
But you're older now, and I reckon you'll be able to handle this little plant.
All right, let's get back into it. All right.
Welcome to the team, mate. It's going happen... Get into it.
Right, Cayden.
Here she is, mate. The determinator.
She looks good.It's all set up. Ready to go, mate.
All I'm going to need you to do is jump in the little mini excavator,
and once we get it up and running, grab that pay dirt
wash dirt here, throw in the hopper, okay?
When it goes in, we've got the water pumping in the back of the trommel.
Obviously, it'll wash the rocks when we spin her around like a washing machine.
She'll come out, and once that material comes out, all that concentrates
goes across the sluice box. And there's a lot of things going on here.
You have to keep the pumps going, make sure they're going.
Go and grab it. That's a bloody chunk, mate, ey?
Yeah.So, you're right to handle all this?
That's why I'm here. Let's get it fired up.
You got this?All good.All right.
I finished my exams this morning. I've come out here.
I wasn't quite expecting to be thrown into the deep end quite so much.
But I'm absolutely over the moon to be able to be out here.
Right after I've finished high school, I have a job that I love
and I've been dreaming to do since I was a little kid.
I'm so determined to help the boys out here.
We've got Nev's plant and we're going to run it to make sure
that we get every bit of gold that we can
and fulfilling a lifelong dream of Nev.
Here's the hope that everything runs smoothly.
We're here.
Five years ago, Neville Perry and former mining partner Mick Clark
scaled up their operation at the legendary German Gully lease,
a site that produced over half a billion dollars of gold during the 1860s.
We just need to sort this.
But when Heritage Victoria, the state body overseeing historical sites,
falsely accused them of mining in a protected area...
We've now been told to stop working.
Their operation was shut down, forcing Neville
into a five year legal battle to regain mining rights.
This doesn't allow me back to work on me lands.
That's another fight.
A life cut short.
I love you, mate.
Tragically, Neville passed away before seeing his dream realised.
Finally here, eh? Good feeling, huh?
But last week, Brent Shannon... We'll get into it, eh!
...and Neville's sons, Nick and Jayden,
finally secured approvals
to return and mind the ground.
Dad's watching. Don't worry about that.
He wouldn't miss it for anything.
It's exciting to work something that the old man's left us.
We're trying to make something of it.
Disappointing he's not here, you know.
But he's left us a legacy.
We're just going to fulfil it.
The history of this place here at German Gully
shows that's got some of the richest ground in Victoria.
And not just in nuggets, but in fine gold.
And, you know, we're working right where the old timers were 170 years ago,
and we're trying to find the gold that they missed.
We've just got to keep persevering.
So when Cayden is washing ground, we'll be down here digging more out.
Jayden and me will be down here digging it out, detecting.
I'm so proud that Cayden, he is up there
running the wash plant all by himself.
He's a mature young man now, he's 18.
It's going to be a challenge. But, I'm sure he's up for it.
Dad trusted me to run this plant.
Just put a lot of responsibility on my shoulders.
I look at it as a great opportunity
to test myself and prove myself as a real miner to my dad once again.
(BURSTING)
(BLEEP) No!
Last thing you bloody needed.
Well, it's been a crazy long drive.
14 hours on the road.
Just still happened so fast.
But you know what? That's why we have backup leases up our sleeve.
I'm just hoping that that's what's going to get us across the line this season.
Well, I've had this lease for a number of years.
Kraken is a great bit of ground, and now we've got the beast.
That thing can churn through thousands of tonnes of dirt.
That makes this ground potentially so, so profitable.
Yeah, true. We haven't had the beast before, have we?
Trust me good things are coming.
All right. Here we are.
Come on, let's get this unloaded.
The Beast has arrived at the Kraken.
Here in one piece.
Okay.We're putting out some really good numbers
at the Fair Lady lease when we got the offer to sell.
But, you know, it was sad to leave there, but I'm really excited.
And I'm just really hoping there's a lot of gold here.
When I come down, Melanie, you just straighten it up, please.
That's it. That's it. Nice and straight.
There you go. Beautiful.
Look at all the muscles on you, girl. (LAUGHING)
Let's do it again.
All right. Just lower it down square.
Cheers.
Perfect.
Well, we made it. Yeah.Job done.
Oh, gosh.We made it.
Now we've sold the Fair Lady.
Seven hundred thousand into the bank.
Yeah.So that equates to about 200 ounces.
Yeah.That's our season target in one hit.
And we need to prove that this project has got gold.
Okay, I think I know where you're going with this.
So you want to set a new target, don't you? I do.
I think for the final week, let's try to get to 300 ounces.
And with the sale, we only need seven ounces.
So what do you reckon? Yeah, I'm excited.
The history of this lease is that they found over 200 kilos of gold.
On the surface, yeah. A bit over 26 million dollars' worth of gold.
They might have got the easy stuff, but we've got a big monster dry blower.
It's modern technology that the old timers didn't have.
That can run through all this dirt and hopefully get another feed out of it.
Let's get cracking. I like it.
Let's dig some crack and pay dirt and get back on the gold.
So at the moment, I'm in the excavator
and I'm just stockpiling dirt from areas we can see
the old timers already worked.
So Alex can come and grab it and run it through the beast.
This is the first time that we'll be operating the Beast on this new lease.
All very exciting.
I can see Mel's making a nice stockpile of materials.
Hopefully dig below all the old workings.
Pull up some fresh dirt to run.
Reckon there's enough of a stockpile to put through the Beast.
Yeah, that's the first pile that's running through.
We've never put anything like this before through the Beast.
At the Fair Lady lease the dirt was red, thick and heavy.
This stuff's white, fluffy and light.
I'm not sure how well this dirt will run.
It's a real suck it and see moment.
I'm going to head over now, fire up the Beast and start putting dirt through.
So I'm really excited.
(RUMBLING)
All right. Looks like we're all on and good to go.
Okay, first bucket. Here we go.
You know, it's a bit of a gamble coming here.
So, I'm really hoping that this all works out.
That doesn't look right. Alex, do you copy?
Are you seeing what I'm seeing? The dirt is not moving.
Yeah, that's just mounting up on the screen.
It's not one thing. It's a bloody another.
2 Kyle, you locked the key in the digger.
Oh, no.(SIGHS)
Take the glass out. Or smash it.
There is a bit of a hole in the window there.It is a hole.
There is a hole.
We might be able to make a hook up. And hook it on.
We'll lock it where the key sits.
You've really got to pull it up. Then we need to pull it out.
Let's go with it, eh? Let's have a crack, eh.
All right. Far out.
It's definitely a sign that we need some sleep.
There's only a few days left in the season,
and we can't afford to be making silly mistakes like this.
Just have a quick look in the back and make sure I haven't got
a roll of wire or something hanging around.
It's an old timers rubbish dump.
And there's some wire.
Okay, maybe this is what's going to get us out of our little pickle.
Oh, beauty.This should do it.
Love to see you pull this one off. Let's try.
All righty. Let's do it.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Getting close.
Oh, no way. You're right there.
Oh you're on. You're on! Oh!
No way! (LAUGHING)
There you go, mate.
We're back in business.
We can get back to digging now.
Maybe after a nap. You want to take five?
I think we should for that epic effort.
We got it.
Yeah. That's crazy. That's it.
All right, Let's go.I'm feeling good for a night shift, eh.
Nice and dry. It's perfect.
Yeah, the mosquitoes are really bad.
Just like karate chopping them at the moment.
Hopefully the smoke will keep them away because these things are ridiculous.
Look at that. Straight down the hill.
Smoke them out. Good bye mosquitoes.
That's bloody nice, mate. That's working.
All right, I'm going digging. All right, get into the digger.
All right, here we go.
Just getting stuck into another cut.
All right, after a much deserved rest, Levi and I are back on.
We've got a huge amount of gold that we've still got to find to meet our target.
We've got to do the hours if we want to get the gold,
and that's why we're out here working at night,
trying to make the most of the time we have left,
but also trying to escape the searing heat.
Oh yeah, it is a nuggie.
Yeah, it's out. There we go.
(LAUGHING)
Oh, look at the shine on it. Right here. Look at this thing.
(LAUGHING)
That is a chunk.
That thing's got to be... There's got to be an ounce there.
Three and a half grand.
Levi, I reckon we've got an ounce here.
This thing is a slug.
Bloody good, mate.
What a wicked find.
We're coming to the end of the season here, mate. How are you feeling about it?
This has quietly truly been a dream.
This started as an idea for us, and now we're out here doing it.
I know we've got a long way to go to get to the target, but...
It's been a good season. Yeah, look at the Wanderers go.
The Wanderers... (LAUGHING)
We're down to the final days now.
The nuggets are not stopping, and neither are we.
Oh, look, there's another target right there.
So it's all systems go and we are working,
with every bit of energy that we have left.
Yeah, bloody pipe burst.
One of the pipes had a little bit of a puncture as the pressure
built up as water headed to the plant and the pressure built, it just burst.
Hey, Dad. Yeah, mate.
I've had to shut the plant down. One of the pipes burst.
One of the ones carrying water to the plant burst.
I'll come up there now, mate.
You're all right, you don't need me up there?No, mate. No.
Keep loading this stuff up, all right?Too easy, mate.
Cayden is not very experienced at the wash plant,
and Jayden not very experienced down here. We're going...
We're bound to have problems and dramas. Because we're so close
to the end of the season, we've only got less than a couple of weeks left now.
This is the sort of stuff that will hold us up and we won't get enough gold on the scales.
What happened, mate? One of the blue pipes split.
Where did it burst? Just here.
Split right there. That's a good size hole, mate.
We're going to cut the bad section of pipe out.
All right.Rejoin it on the good part and we'll get it back up and running.
I'll grab some tools. I'll get this one done.
Dad's the experienced one here. He's the boss, so...
He's got his work cut out for him, guiding us and training us.
Jayden's back there self-loading so he can bring another load to us.
And I want to be back there because we're actually running
out of dirt more quickly than I thought.
Well, let's get to it, eh?
Really, we don't need these kind of setbacks,
but this is why the old man brought Brenton in.
You know, the experience. We need the experience there to be able to run this stuff.
The last bucket I'm going to put in.
So we're ready to rock and roll.
Let's get this up there and hopefully we've got it up and running
and we can get back into washing some dirt.
Let's go.
I'm just sinking. I'll try one more.
Damn it! Yeah, I'm stuck... Christ.
You got a copy there, Brent? Yeah, mate.
Yeah, I'm kind of in a bit of a jam here, mate.
The dump is kind of in a bog.
You've got the dump truck bog? Yeah, mate.
Are you seeing what I'm seeing?
Yeah, the dirt is just mounting up on the screen.
It's not moving. Yeah, something's not right.
It's not one thing. It's a bloody another.
Yeah, it's not moving.
Ah! That's not good. It's just set up there.
Yeah.(GROANS)
This dirt is completely different from the Fair Lady lease.
It's just blocking it up and packing down.
Have we got a solution? We've brought this Beast out here to this new lease,
and if we can't use it, what's the point?I have got a fix.
We pulled that screen off we put a new one on.
With a bigger mesh size so that dirt can just fall straight through and not hold up.
The downside is going to eat a few hours of work.
Yeah.Let's shut it down, change the mesh and start again.
I'll climb up there and do the bolts.Yep.
Ready?
Going.
Awesome.
It's the end of the season. It's just getting so hot.
It doesn't look it, but it's pushing at least 40 degrees.
And we haven't reached our target yet, so...
I'm hoping everything goes okay, But you just never know out here.
The holes on this screen are a little bit bigger.
It should just let the material through a little bit faster.
When the material starts building up on the screen,
the vibration motors, they can't keep ahead of it.
Once you lose vibration no material is going through at all.
Okay, lifting.Here we go.
All in all this should be the fix.
All right, we're down. Well done.We're in.
All right, Well, let's start getting some gold.
Fire up the beast. Let's see if it works.
Action stations.
Time to get some dirt through.
The screen is fixed. This dirt should now fly through.
We just need gold in this dirt. And we're well away.
Yep. It's not backing up.
All right, the screen is doing exactly what it should now. We're finally running.
All right, that's the first bucket down. So far, so good.
Now it's just about running the tonnes. Next bucket.
You know, we're kind of running out of time to get those seven ounces.
It'd be a shame not to reach our target when we're so close.
And if we do reach our targets, a million dollars.
We've had a lot of highs and lows this season.
It hasn't been easy, but you know, it's been exciting as well.
You take the good with the bad, and we've had both of that this season.
I'm absolutely exhausted,
literally in the off-season we've built the Beast.
So there's been no downtime now for two seasons.
And I'm feeling it. I need some rest, relaxation, a proper holiday.
I'd like to get a good few hundred tonnes of crack and dirt through the machine.
Hopefully, that's going to prove if this is next season's project
or if we're pulling the pin and finding something else.
After all the effort to move here pretty much all our eggs are in one basket.
But we've got to finish strong, so that means running right until the very end.
2 Hey, man, I've just got a couple of more scrapes to do,
and I'm going to come and join you on the pad.
Yeah, No worries, mate. Let's just play it smart, man. It's pretty hot today.
Let's make the most of it so we can chill out.
We've been at it all night.
We're just going hot because we've only got a few days left of the season now.
We're working around the clock to get as much gold as we possibly can.
Levi is out there. He's on the Nuggets. It's sick at the moment.
You know, it's nuggets everywhere.
Getting the most out of what we've got on this ground
before the summer really kicks in and shuts down is super important.
Kyle and I have been battling on
for well over 24 hours now, maybe 30 hours.
I don't know the gold's still here, so we're still going for some reason.
I feel a little bit delirious. Back little bit in this department.
The gold's not stopping, but that also means that we're not stopping
and it's definitely starting to take a toll.
This place is absolutely loaded with gold.
It's such a shame that we're calling it the end of the season.
Just want to keep going. But we're sort of finding it hard to locate nuggets now.
A bit tired. Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah, baby. Another piece of gold.
The wanderers are killing it. Kyle's on one now.
It's just non-stop out here. We're going nugget for nugget.
It's been an awesome season.
You know, we've learned so much.
We've worked really well together.
We started off with a new team and we just didn't know how we're going to go.
But trying out this new team is awesome.
We worked super well together, and this is just, it's been a dream come true, you know?
(BLEEP)Good.
There it is. Another little nugget. That's a hundred bucks right there.
You know, they're only little, but every one of these counts at the moment.
This one sounds good.
It'll be a really nice one.
Yeah. This thing's nice.
Going off.
All right, we got it in the streak.
Where are you little sucker?
Oh, there it is.
It's a nice piece.
We're on here. That's bloody awesome.
Half an ounce. That's about 700-800 bucks right there.
We can have some fun now. That's good.
How're you going, mate? Definitely feeling the stress of not sleeping all night.
How about you? It's getting warm, mate?
I'm cooking. Still on the nuggs though.
Just got another one. Yeah, that's the problem, right?
The nuggs are still coming in, freaking fast.
If the nuggets are still on, then so are we.Right.
I couldn't say it better myself.
Just keep going until we fall over I guess.
Couple more cuts, a couple more ounces. Let's go.
(CHEERING)
Keep swinging till we drop.
Yeah, she's a little bit stuck, eh? I think so.
Have you got it in six wheel drive? I don't know that, mate.
Jump up here, mate. I suppose the best way to learn is in situations like this.
All right, mate, if you want to take a seat.
That's your engagements of your diff-locks right there.
Yeah.If I flip this one in. That's your centre diff-lock.
Okay.Right. So you've got all wheels driving no matter what?
Yep.Okay, so we've got a complete six wheel drive now.
So, this should crawl out of here now.
Look at that.
Woo-hoo! Let's go. (LAUGHING)All right.
You're gonna take it from here? I should be able to from here.
All right.Sorry to be a pain.
You're only learning, mate. You're only learning.
That's what your dad wanted me here for.
Yeah, all right.
And this is exactly the reasons why Nevi wanted us to be involved in this.
To help his sons become fully fledged miners.
And this is the part of the process, you know, you live and learn.
And this is the part of learning for Jayden.
So, just got to make a nice clean cut here.
Here we go.
Just got to get this clamp off here.
Put it on the freshly cut bit. Dad had to run off to Jayden so...
Trying to get this hose fixed as quick as I can
because I don't want Dad to have to come back here and help me.
Here we go. We're both still relatively new.
Just sort of feels like we don't really have enough hands on deck.
But I'm pretty lucky that this is a pretty quick fix.
All right, beautiful. Get this reconnected.
All right.
Let's get this plant fired up.
We're back.
Here we go.
Jayden's coming back now, which is great.
We can start getting a nice smooth roll on again.
Sorry I'm late there, Cayden.
No, I just got meself in a bit of a sticky situation.
But I've got some dirt for you, mate.
Beautiful, mate. Perfect timing.
I'll get it dropped in and I'll get going.
Thanks, Jayden. That should do me for a while.
No worries there, mate. I'll go get into detecting and hopefully get you some more dirt.
Sounds good. Go find some gold.
How's it going, Brent? Ready to go, buddy.
Ready to rock and roll.Yeah. Let's get some gold.Done deal.
Right now, we've got enough dirt there on the wash plant for Cayden to keep him busy
for a while. Jayden and I are going to be what we call excavating, detecting.
So we're just going to scrape off, say six inches at a time.
Detect that all the way down to bedrock.
(BLEEP)
That's not a bad target. Hey, Brent.
Yeah, mate? That's screaming.
(BLEEP)That sounds like a good bit. I'm coming down for that one, mate.
What would the old man say, "Hopefully, that's a chunk?"
I bet that's a chunk.
That's screaming its head off.
All right she's out.
You do the honours, mate.
There it is. There it is, right there, mate.
Go and grab it. That's a bloody chunk, mate, ey?
Twenty grammes?
About 2600 bucks worth of there. Bloody oath.
It's pretty bloody good there, mate. You picked a few of them up a day.
It ain't going too bad, is it? We're making money.
Good job, mate. We're looking up.
You know, Dad left us this place. It's his legacy.
Now we're starting to get chunked, and his dream is really coming to life.
It is actually so good to be back on the coast.
Beautiful, cool day. Nice sea breeze.
What a beautiful season, guys.
It's all a bit surreal, isn't it? I can't believe this moment has finally come along, you know.
If we didn't call it a day because of the heat, we'd still be out there mining gold every day.
But it's just too hot now. You've got to pull the pin at some point.
You can't just keep going all year round.
I reckon we've deserved a break and that gold's going to be there for us to slay next season.
Are you ready to weigh up some gold, Sunny?
Put the scales on? I want to weigh up here.
You want to weigh up here? We're going to do our last weigh up.
Did you find lots of gold this year? Yeah.
All right, let's do this. Final weigh up.
Let's see what the scale says.
Wow look at that. 7.1 ounces.
That's probably 20-30 grand worth of gold there.
Wow... Wow what an effort.
That's crazy. That's so good. That's epic.
Seven point one ounces, cracked, 50 ounces for the season.
That's crazy. It's like 170 thousand dollars.That's unreal.
Even though we haven't hit our target, I think we've done pretty bloody well,
considering we've managed to pay our digger off.
We've got our own ground and we're viable.
We've set ourselves up to move into another season.
Yeah, I guess the main target is to find gold every day.
And we've achieved that. Absolutely. And we've only just started on this lease.
This is the beginning. We've picked an area to work.
You know, who knows what else this lease has to offer?
We wandered. We found. We conquered. We conquered.
(ALL LAUGHING)
Good job. I want to go down to the beach down there.
That sounds like a great idea, Sunny.You ready for a swim?
Yeah.All right.Yay.
Let's wrap it up, guys. Thanks, hon. Thank you for an amazing season.
So good.Kyle?
(CHEERING)
Cheers, buddy.Cheers, man. Good stuff.Been a pleasure.
And I cannot wait for the next one.
All right, to the beach. To the beach.
All right, boys.
Time to get some gold on the scales.
It's been a hard week. It has, but
considering we've got all the machinery here now,
we've got a wash plant all set up and firing.
We've got a dump truck, cut and dirt.
It's starting to produce gold. And this man comes along and saves the day.
I can tell you what, both of you boys, I couldn't be prouder than you, right?
We had a few little hiccups here and there, but we've still got something done, and made a start.
What's in here, boys? We're starting to see the results.
Okay.We'll see the results of your hard work up there, eh? And yours.
How about we actually get the gold in the scales and actually see what we've got?
That's not too bad. A few bits there.
4.25 there, mate. That's pr
Right Cayden. This is your effort here, mate.
1.62 ounces.
Between the two of them there, that's 8.87 ounces, mate.
That's about 31 thousand dollars, sitting right there.
Nearly four times as much gold
as the entire last week.
Pretty good.You've done great. That's a fair bit of find out there.
You are the one who brought it up to me.
We started the season with a 300-ounce target.
We've still got nearly 268 ounces to go.
We should be able to get a lot more than that on next week.
Okay, but we're going to be up against it.
Your dad spoke of many places around here where there was
1000 ounces coming out of a single hole.
That's all we need, boys.
And it's possible.We've got a hard week ahead of us.
Seven days to run as smooth as possible.
Cayden is doing a fantastic job by himself, but honestly, mate,
we really do need that other person.
Yeah, mate, I've got someone in mind.
Just leave that with me.
Come, boys. Let's go get ready for next week.All right.
Good job, boys. Get going and get ready for that last push.
All righty, then.
Well, here we are, the end of the season.
Yeah. And what a season that's been.
We didn't really get an off season we just built the Beast,
put a whole lot of cash into that.
We got it ready to run. And then it rained, and then it kept raining.
Yeah.But we finally got it dialled in, got it working.
And that sale of Fair Lady.
I mean, that came in at the perfect time.
We've flipped that lease. We've made money on it.
Well, let's just hope that we've made our target.
We've definitely got gold from the Kraken, but how much?
Yeah. Let's see if we've got enough.
7.91.
We're over 300 ounces. So, all up.
We're well over one million dollars for the season.
So we've done it.We have. Season finished.
We've got a future here.Yeah. We just get out and get producing next season.
If this is the gold that we're finding out here.
I'm really excited to get stuck into it again.
Although I'm going to take a bit of time off. I've got a few ideas for next season.
Okay.Ready?Yeah. Let's learn from our mistakes.
When the rain came in and it literally rained and rained,
for those times we need a wet plant.
Absolutely. I mean, that could have been the end of us.
And if that happens next season, we don't want as much downtime.
I'd like to put some of our gold back into building a big, wet plant. Yup.
So next season, whatever weather we can be running. Yup, it sounds like a plan.
Next season, we're going to be cracking?Yeah.
But for now, I think we just... Kick back and relax?Yeah.
Where are we going, Bahamas?
Yeah, I think the Bahamas to start off with.(LAUGHING)
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