1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,120 This time on Aussie Gold Hunters... 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,200 Oi! What do you think you're doing, mate? 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:07,880 ..the Gold Timers catch a poacher in the act. 4 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,040 Hey! There's holes, man! He's got gold! 5 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:14,120 And Rob struggles to find the machinery they desperately need 6 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,800 to have any chance of hitting target. 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,120 This is an absolute nightmare. Everyone's using their dry blowers. 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,440 In the remote Pilbara, newlyweds Levi and Bridget 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,720 are all that's left of the Ferals. 10 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,880 We really need to find some more gold. 11 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:33,040 Kim's probably gonna move if we're not finding enough. 12 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:34,720 Bridge! Where are you? 13 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,800 This is not good. I gotta go for a drive. 14 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,880 And Bridget makes a rookie mistake that could end in disaster. 15 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,240 There's just so much that could go wrong. 16 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,000 We've got some of the most dangerous snakes in the world, dehydration... 17 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:48,880 Just... This is stupid. 18 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:54,360 With no lease of their own to work, the Poseidon Crew take a huge gamble 19 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,640 on gold ground they've already detected... 20 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,160 We've flogged these patches, a lot of 'em, mate. 21 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,040 So you go back to your old patches with new technology 22 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:04,920 and you can find new gold. 23 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,680 There you go. Look at that. Look at that chunk! 24 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,560 ..in the hope they'll finally land enough gold 25 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,680 to get their season back on track. (LAUGHS) 26 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,600 That's a nice, little chunk, that one. This is why you come back over your old spots. 27 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,680 Long trip to town. Yeah, half a day. 28 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,360 What have we got? 16oz to go. 29 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,440 Yeah. Halfway through the season. 30 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,320 Yeah. We're on a pretty rich spot - Oi! 31 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,400 There's a car! 32 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,600 We've got to record him. Yeah, man. I'm sick of these (BLEEP). 33 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,280 Oi! What do you think you're doing, mate? Oi, buddy! 34 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,560 No, serious. What are you doing? Get off me! 35 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,440 Oi! Get off me! Get his face. 36 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,520 Give it back. There we go. Yeah. 37 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,400 Oi! Get his rego! You got him, bro? 38 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,680 Oi, mate, get off me! 39 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,160 Come on, mate. Oi, settle down. 40 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,480 Hey! There's holes, man! He's got gold! 41 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,560 Settle down, mate. He's got gold. 42 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,440 Come on, mate. Oi! We've got you - 43 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:06,520 Where's the gold? ..on camera. 44 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,600 We've got your rego. We're gonna give you a chance. 45 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,680 (BLEEP) But we want our gold. 46 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,960 Got it, bro? Thank you. 47 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,440 Give it here. All right, I'm gonna let you up. 48 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,160 Give it here. Settle down. Oi! Get off me! 49 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:21,640 We're gonna give you a chance. 50 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,120 Yeah. Right. 51 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:25,880 Get off me. 52 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,960 Do we give him back his detector. 53 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,440 Give it back, it's stealing, otherwise. 54 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,320 Anyway, I'm sick of you (BLEEP). 55 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,520 Get out of here. Find your own ground. 56 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,680 There's plenty of ground out here, mate. 57 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,960 If he knows what's good for him, he'll leave. 58 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,640 One last smile for the camera, mate. You're done. 59 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,520 Off you go. Yeah. Pull your finger. 60 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,600 Get out of here. 61 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,360 (ENGINE STARTS) 62 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,680 What is it? Are we a magnet for these guys or what, man? 63 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,800 There's pending ground everywhere. Why's he gotta come here? 64 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,680 Have a look how much gold he got. 65 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,400 Oh, man. There's 500 bucks worth of gold, at least. 66 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,120 We're lucky we caught him. 67 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,280 There was $500 worth of gold in his hands. 68 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,760 That would've been devastating for us to lose that. 69 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,520 We're battling out here. 70 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,320 You know, that's 500 bucks out of our pockets, our families' pockets. 71 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,560 I'm sick of these blokes coming out here trying to pinch our gold. 72 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:25,520 It's been happening a lot more cos the gold price is up, 73 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,320 and, yeah, it's just... 74 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,120 Yeah, it's just a pain in the arse. 75 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,080 I hope that's the end of it for now and we can get back to work. 76 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,280 Oh, man. Unbelievable. 77 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,480 Yeah, these poachers, I'm sick of 'em. 78 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,760 They're not just stealing off us, they're stealing off our families. 79 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,440 Even though I would've liked to punch into him, 80 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,080 you can't go punching people in this day and age. 81 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,240 Even though he's a poacher, doing the wrong thing, they can sue you. 82 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,840 Gold thieves, or poachers, 83 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,600 have been a problem ever since the first Gold Rush in the 1800s. 84 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,600 Prospectors would dispense their own brand of justice 85 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,080 as the police weren't equipped to deal with the problem. 86 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,520 There are reports of poachers being tied to trees, 87 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,080 whipped, tarred and feathered. 88 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,880 Today, a conviction for poaching 89 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,280 can carry a fine of up to $150,000. 90 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,920 We got the gold off him, so that's good. 91 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Uh, it's all... It's all good. 92 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,080 Get back in the pusher now. 93 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:32,800 We really need a dry blower now. 94 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,880 It's a good drop, long ground. 95 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,680 Last week, Rob and Turbo spent all the gold they've found this season 96 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,120 on a magnetic drone survey of their lease. 97 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,320 500 metres to the southwest of where you're currently working, 98 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,400 might be really worth your while. And some early data 99 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,480 was enough to point them to a rich patch of small nuggets. 100 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,160 What an afternoon! 101 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,440 Looking at what's in this jar, we need to get a dry blower in here. 102 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,520 That's gotta be the next thing on our agenda. For sure. 103 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,080 Oh, this is quite pivotal for us now. 104 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,160 We're halfway through the season. We've got 16oz to come up with. 105 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,480 We can't have this season end like last season and the season before. 106 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,000 We've got families back home that are relying on us. 107 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,600 We need to find gold. We need to find a lot of it. 108 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,280 We don't have a lot of time. 109 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,800 Mobile phone networks barely cover a quarter of Australia. 110 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,880 To even call around to find a dry blower for hire, 111 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,640 Rob has to drive one hour closer to town to get a signal. 112 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,160 Yeah, just getting some piles of dirt ready. 113 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,040 We've decided one of us will stay here and push up dirt, you know. 114 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,800 There's no point two of us going, it's just a waste of time. 115 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,280 Hi, mate. I was just wondering if you'd give us a call back. 116 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,800 I'm just trying to get hold of a dry blower. 117 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,440 The pair have no cash reserves 118 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,320 after paying for their recent drone survey, 119 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,280 leaving them no option but to try and hire a machine. 120 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,280 Oh, this is an absolute nightmare. 121 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,920 Everyone around here, everyone's using their dry blowers. 122 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,680 We're in perfect dry blowing weather. 123 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:08,760 Um, cold's up. 124 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:11,960 I've got one more number to try. The last bloke didn't answer. 125 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,760 I'll give this number a go. If we can't get this dry blower, 126 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:17,440 we're gonna be in a world of trouble. (RINGING TONE) 127 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,240 Yeah, that's it, Bridge. You keep running those lines, 128 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,680 you're doing a good job. I'm starting to get the hang of it. 129 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,360 Just keep cutting for another half an hour or so. 130 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,120 You gotta keep going down a touch more. Yeah. All right. 131 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,840 This is actually the first time I've driven the digger, 132 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,920 which is really good to learn. 133 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,160 And to actually be able to help Levi do this, 134 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,240 it's more hands on deck. 135 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,800 Over 1,000km northwest, 136 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,480 in the rugged Pilbara region of western Australia, 137 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,280 are newlyweds Levi and Bridget North. 138 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,360 Bridget's quite the detectorist 139 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,840 and she's taken quite well to the digger. 140 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,360 Now that Robbie's gone, Bridget's gonna fill his shoes a little bit. 141 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,760 Yeah, Bridget's smashing it at the moment. Doing a really good job. 142 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:04,760 I'm very lucky to have her by my side. It's very exciting. 143 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:06,440 Isn't it, Oakie? (BARKING) 144 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,200 Oaka's our dog, she's a dingo-cross-kelpie, 145 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:12,280 full of energy, and she brings a lot of joy to Bridge and I. 146 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:18,640 This season, the Ferals made a deal with mining magnate Kim North 147 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,120 to work a couple of his leases. 148 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,600 He asked us to come out here. Everything should be good, mate, 149 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,680 or we could be somewhere else. 150 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,800 But a series of machine failures... 151 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,720 Maybe, next time, we'll have a machine that goes! 152 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,120 ..and mounting frustrations... You can only take so much. 153 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,720 I'm gonna get out of Prospect. This is just not working out. 154 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,240 ..caused Rob Beeton to quit the team's two-year partnership. 155 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,520 I'm bloody shocked. Absolutely the last thing I expected, mate. 156 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,600 Every man has his breaking point. 157 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,680 Hey, people. Got a bit of bad news. 158 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:52,400 I've gotta shoot off to Perth. 159 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,960 My daughter's heading off overseas. The thing I'm gonna say is be safe, 160 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,040 and, youse two, pick it up. 161 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,520 With Ryan still saying goodbye to his daughter down south, 162 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,520 Levi and Bridget have to push on alone. 163 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,600 We really need to make today count and find some more gold. 164 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,680 Kim's probably gonna move if we're not finding enough 165 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,560 for it to be worth it for him. 166 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,960 The pressure's definitely on to find the gold on this bit of land. 167 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,720 This is our income and our lifestyle right now. 168 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,280 We wanna start a family so finding gold's getting us back on track, 169 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,560 you know, financially, and that is really important. 170 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:31,640 (BEEPING) All right. 171 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,400 (BEEPING) 172 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,120 All right, where are you? 173 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,680 There it is! It's a little nugget. 174 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,560 You know, every little bit of gold counts out here. 175 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,280 It's a lot of hard work walking around. A lot of digging. 176 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,840 We've got a long way to go to reach our target. 177 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,320 A 40 oz target is pretty big. 178 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,880 We're gonna need to find some bigger pieces 179 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:56,760 to really get towards this target. 180 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,760 And, if that doesn't happen, then it's not looking good. 181 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,560 Yeah, that'll do, Bridge. 182 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,440 Maybe park her up out of the way and switch her off. 183 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,120 Cool. Sounds good. Beautiful. I got another target here too. 184 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,200 (BEEPING) Hey, if this is gold, it's a good piece. 185 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,280 So it's about there. 186 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,360 (BEEPING) You got it. 187 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,440 You hear that, hey? Kinda hear it. 188 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,520 In the hand. In my hand? Yeah. 189 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,360 (BEEPING) 190 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,440 Scoop. 191 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,520 There it is. 192 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,600 Nice piece. Beautiful. Look how shiny they are. That is. 193 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:34,080 The small nugget is worth around $80. 194 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,560 I'm just detecting these lines that I've pushed in the digger. 195 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,560 Hopefully we're gonna be on to something. 196 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,920 (BEEPING) Whoa. A bit of a signal there. 197 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,040 (BEEPING) 198 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,720 I'm losing the signal a bit. I'm wondering if it's either 199 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,600 a thin piece of gold that I'm flipping from one side to the other. 200 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,160 When it gets really narrow, it's really hard to pick up. 201 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,720 See if I can find it in the scoop. 202 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,400 Hopefully, I'll be able to pick it up. 203 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,280 (BEEPING) 204 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,360 All right. In the scoop. 205 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:14,880 (BEEPING) 206 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,760 Hopefully it's a piece of gold, not a shard. 207 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:20,440 There it is. 208 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,520 Beautiful. 209 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,800 Little gold nugget. So... A little bit thin. 210 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,160 I must have been flipping it up on the side 211 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,520 for it to be going a little bit quieter and a little bit louder. 212 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,520 But that's a good, little nugget. 213 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:38,680 The 2g nugget adds another $160 to the tally, 214 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,160 but they'll need 30 more like it 215 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,040 to cover their weekly 2oz goal. 216 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,120 There's Uncle Kim. 217 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,320 The first person we've seen in a while. 218 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,640 Kim has come out to his lease 219 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,160 to check if the team are finally on the gold. 220 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,320 Hi, Kim. How you going, mate? Good. 221 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,400 Good to see you. Levi. 222 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,480 I really need to make sure I'm producing the gold out here. 223 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:03,360 You know, Kim's my uncle, he's family 224 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,520 but, at the same time, he is a businessman and I respect that, 225 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,600 so he could move us on at any time. 226 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:11,680 Yeah, what's going on? Got some nice nuggets to show you. 227 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,760 Show you what we've got. 228 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,800 Since you've been out here? Yeah. 229 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,120 Got little bits there with rock and all. 230 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,200 Yeah. Yes. 231 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,520 I'll have a look at that a bit more closely when you come back. Yeah. 232 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,600 I'll get back to it. 233 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:32,680 Little bit surprised with the small stuff, it's here somewhere. 234 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,440 They've just gotta put the time in to look for it. 235 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,200 If I'm not finding gold, then I'm not worth being out here 236 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,880 and I should probably go back to my nine-to-five job. 237 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:43,250 2 00:11:45.040 -- 00:11:46.640 align:middle line:68% position:50% So what are we doing now, mate? 238 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,120 We're gonna keep going back to old patches where we've found good gold. 239 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,200 We've got new technology. 240 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,920 We've flogged these patches, a lot of 'em, mate. Yeah. 241 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,800 Been flogged with older technology. 242 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,040 So you go back to your old patches with new technology 243 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,120 and you can find new gold. 244 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,360 In the eastern state of Victoria, the Poseidon Crew, 245 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:11,040 Brent Shannon and Ethan West are taking a risk, 246 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,680 revisiting once-rich gold ground they've already worked. 247 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:18,960 You might have ten old patches. You might go back to seven of 'em 248 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,840 and find nothing or (BLEEP) 249 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,640 than the last three, or three of 'em out of the ten. 250 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,920 You'll go back there, there'll be gold jumping out the ground. 251 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,680 Recently, Brent made the biggest decision of his career... 252 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,320 You know the guys that said they're interested in the big licence? Yeah. 253 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,400 They've just came back and made us an offer. 254 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,920 I never thought I'd probably say this, Eth, but I'll accept the deal. 255 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 We won't be here digging here next week. 256 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,120 ..he sold his lucrative big-licence lease 257 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,120 to buy into the legendary Catto's Paddock. 258 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,840 I had to sell one dream to try and chase another. 259 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,520 That's some of the richest nugget-producing ground anywhere on the planet. 260 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:00,240 We ain't got much choice until we get these Catto's licences approved. 261 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,560 Got to get back in the Bush and hopefully find some gold. 262 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,680 Brings back memories, this spot. Oh, well, good memories. 263 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,320 Hopefully no-one's raided the patch since we've been here last. 264 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,400 I know, mate. I know. I'm hoping. 265 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,200 I'm getting my head round the detector now, mate. 266 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,800 I'm getting a few signals that are a bit iffy, sounding different. 267 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:24,000 What it is, is because this coil is a Double-D coil and a mono in one. 268 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,400 Yeah. So you got Double-D there. Yeah. And there. 269 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,600 So, there's the two Double-D's. Yeah. And then your mono. Yeah. 270 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:35,200 This new design is almost like using two small Double-D coils 271 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:36,920 to hunt surface nuggets, 272 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,120 combined with a bigger mono coil for deeper nuggets. 273 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,600 So this is gonna be detecting sensitivity. 274 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:45,680 And it's gonna be detecting depth 275 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,960 and working better on highly-mineralised ground. Yeah. 276 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,280 That's the reason why, if we're hitting these patches, 277 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,760 we still might be able to pull more gold out. 278 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,520 This is completely different technology. 279 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,720 Looks like no-one's been here, mate. 280 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,520 I haven't told anyone. All right. 281 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,560 So the aim of the game is you go over the old patches with that one. 282 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,920 Yeah. I'll jump on the bike and hopefully 283 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,840 try and find us a new patch. Yeah. Hopefully. Hopefully. 284 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,200 Well, you don't look, you're not gonna find. 285 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,280 Sounds good, mate. All right. 286 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,400 Ethan's patch produced 287 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,680 an incredible 43oz of gold in one week. 288 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,240 (LAUGHS) It's what I call a good day. 289 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,720 But the Poseidon Crew are banking on the new technology, 290 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,360 unearthing even more. That's a ripper! 291 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,120 Let's put it as a collective. 292 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,200 That's nearly 100 grand. 293 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,280 We're a business, we're in business to find gold 294 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,560 and the reality is, to keep in business, 295 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:42,440 we need to find gold consistently. 296 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,240 Right now, we need to get some gold back in the kitty 297 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,800 so I'm hoping we can go back to a number of old patches that I've had 298 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:50,880 and land some more gold. 299 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,760 The pair need at least $2,000 of gold each week 300 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,280 just to cover fuel and wages 301 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,920 while they go out Bush prospecting. 302 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,640 This is exactly the sort of spot that I've been looking for. 303 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,720 Sort of hard to get to. 304 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,280 Coarse scattering. There's some old timers' workings here. 305 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,560 The easiest way to get most gold in is mining 306 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,600 but, when we can't mine, we've gotta get out prospecting. 307 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:17,680 Prospecting is so hit-and-miss, 308 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,160 you can go weeks before finding any sort of payable gold. 309 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:22,880 So, basically, what I wanna do now, 310 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,080 spend, ten, 15 minutes here, maybe 20 minutes tops. 311 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,960 If I don't find a bit of gold, I'll move on to the next spot. 312 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,240 We're hunting a patch here. This is not about detecting thoroughly. 313 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:33,920 It's about detecting quickly, 314 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,800 trying to find one single bit of gold. 315 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,560 Then you slow down and do it properly. 316 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,480 But, right now, I just wanna cover as much ground as possible 317 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,920 as quickly as possible to give me an idea if there's anything here. 318 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,760 It's one of the main reasons why I hate detecting out in the Bush. 319 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,240 Especially with these patches that we've been over. 320 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,120 Just going so slow, trying to keep the coil down. 321 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,840 Then to chuck in the mix this is a new machine 322 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:01,600 and just trying to keep it slow and steady. 323 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,080 It's frustrating. 324 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,560 There's always pressure about not finding gold. 325 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,920 I've got two kids, one coming on the way. 326 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,840 When you're relying on Bush gold to try and make a living, 327 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:13,520 it is hard work. 328 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,480 Part of me definitely says we would've been better on the big licence. 329 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,320 We gave up consistency and we gave up 16 years 330 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,000 of potential gold coming. 331 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,600 You could never guarantee it, but it was better than what we're doing now. 332 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,680 It takes a lot of concentration 333 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,160 and this is what doing it professionally looks like. 334 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,160 If you're not detecting it right, you're not getting it all. 335 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,920 You often wonder did we make the right decision? 336 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,080 I'm sure when we get on Catto's and we get gold rolling in again 337 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,360 it'll be fine but, until that happens, 338 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,440 this is the point we're at. 339 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,760 (BEEPING) OK, hear that, that's a nice little signal. 340 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,840 That's a really faint signal. 341 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,440 We've been over this ground so many times now 342 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,040 that all the rubbish has gone and basically all that will be left 343 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,120 is gold that hasn't been reached. 344 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,520 (BEEPING) There you go. I'll be shocked if it ain't gold. 345 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,640 (BEEPING) 346 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:08,760 There it is. (BEEPING) 347 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,040 That's gold. That is gold from my own patch. 348 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:15,560 An area that I flogged hard and there's still gold to be found. 349 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,080 That is unreal. That is a good piece. That is a ripper piece. 350 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,960 As much as I hate to admit Brent might be right, 351 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,040 maybe we're not wasting our time after all being out here. 352 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:30,080 I suppose it's what Brent's learned over time, it's what he's trying to teach me now. 353 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,640 When you think it's all gone, it's never fully gone. 354 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,200 So I'm just going into town for a couple of hours. 355 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,960 I've got some supplies. Bridget's stayed out. 356 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,040 Yeah, just heading back out. 357 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:46,720 You know, the summers up here are really long and hot. 358 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,120 So we wanna make the most of this good weather, 359 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,040 get on some really good ground and keep chasing the nuggets. 360 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:55,120 Just about 36oz left to reach our target. 361 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,520 It's a long way to go, and a lot of hard work. 362 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,800 Bridge must be having a little rest. 363 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:03,160 I don't blame her, it's been a bit of a horrible, hot day. 364 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:07,080 Honey, I'm home. What's this? 365 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:08,800 (GRUNTS) 366 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,280 "Oaka's run off, chased a roo. Gone to find her. Call me on the radio." 367 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,840 Bridge! Where are you? 368 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,000 Oi-oi! 369 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,280 (WHISTLING) They could be anywhere. 370 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:23,360 I gotta get my radio. 371 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,080 There it is. 372 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,440 Bridge, you got a copy? 373 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,720 Bridge? Bridge, you got a copy? 374 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,800 Bridge? 375 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:35,880 Ah! I'm gonna go for a drive. 376 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,640 You know, this lease is absolutely massive. They could be anywhere. 377 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,320 Bridgey, Bridgey, are you on channel? 378 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,280 Bridge? 379 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,680 I absolutely have no idea where they are. 380 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:52,960 I could be on the wrong side of the lease. 381 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,280 They could've wandered off onto another lease. 382 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:57,480 I could be looking in totally the wrong spot. 383 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:02,200 The range of the two-way radio should cover the 200-hectare lease, 384 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,800 as long as Bridget hasn't gone much further than the boundary. 385 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,000 Bridgey! Bridgey! Have you got a copy? 386 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:10,760 Are you on channel? 387 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,080 (WHISTLING) 388 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,160 (INDISTINCT SHOUT) 389 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,640 Bridge, are you on channel? 390 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,120 (GROANS) 391 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,200 I can't get hold of them. 392 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,680 I'm starting to get a bit worried about the situation at the moment. 393 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,240 I haven't seen Bridge yet. The dog's missing. 394 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,920 Yeah, this is not good. 'Babe, are you there?' 395 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,120 Bridge! Bridge! Are you on channel? 396 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,320 I'm down at the creek near the big tree. 397 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,400 I think, uh, northwest of the bus. 398 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,480 I'm on my way. 399 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,720 I'm coming. The track's crap, but I'm coming. 400 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,800 'All right. I can see your car.' 401 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,880 Where are you? Oh, there you are. 402 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:54,560 You OK? 403 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,560 Come here. Oh, wow. 404 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,040 It's all right. We'll find her. She's a smart dog. 405 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,000 Yeah, I know, but she's been gone so long. Get in the car. 406 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,520 Let's go. 407 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,600 (WHISTLING) Oaka! 408 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,480 It's just not like her, not to come back. 409 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,560 She's actually got into a fight with the roo. 410 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,240 You know, they can gut dogs. You hear quite a few stories about it. 411 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,920 Otherwise there's that many snakes and baits out here, 412 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,800 it's just not good at all. 413 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,560 Oaka! Come on! 414 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,440 Where are you? I'll drive to the end of this track 415 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,520 cos she might have run down this way. 416 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,200 Poor babes. 417 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,080 (BARKING) 418 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:37,800 Babe, I can hear her. 419 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:39,560 (BARKING) 420 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,840 Oaka! Oaka! 421 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:44,560 (BARKING) What are you doing? 422 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,760 Oh, you're all tangled up! 423 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,600 Oh, Oak! 424 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,440 It's all right, girl. 425 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,120 You OK? Oakie! 426 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,000 Oakie. Oh, hello! 427 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,560 Oh, yeah. Is she OK? 428 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,640 She's great. 429 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,720 How the hell did she manage this? 430 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,360 Dogs can become attracted to the strong scent from venomous snakes 431 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:11,080 and the cold-blooded reptiles are more active in the higher temperatures of the Pilbara. 432 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,880 Good girl, Oakie. Ah-ah, stay! Stay on the lead. Good girl. Let's go. 433 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,560 That was a stressful couple of hours. 434 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,840 It was a big relief to actually find her and to see she was OK. 435 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:23,250 2 00:21:25.200 -- 00:21:28.080 align:middle line:90% position:50% While Rob's trying to get us a deal with a dry blower, 436 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,160 I'm digging down to the hard ground where we can't dig any more, 437 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,760 just piling it all up for the dry blower. 438 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:38,360 Hopefully there's someone out there who's not using it at the moment. 439 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,520 Hopefully we get a good deal on it too. 440 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,600 On their Kookynie lease, 441 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,960 the Gold Timers are desperate to find a dry blower 442 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,440 to process their mounting piles of potentially rich paydirt. 443 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,200 Hey, man, what's the go? 444 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,120 Mate, um, I haven't got a dry blower, no. 445 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,320 Plans have changed a little bit. 446 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,320 I think I'll pop out. I've got something to show you. 447 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,320 I hope it's some good news. 448 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,720 Well, we don't have a dry blower right now, 449 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,800 but what we do have is a photo of, in a week - Yeah. 450 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,080 ..where you're gonna have - Is there one available? There is. 451 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,640 Oh! 452 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,960 30 ton an hour, bro. (LAUGHS) 453 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,360 Look at the size of that. Oh, wicked, man. 454 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,800 Man, we are gonna blow some dirt. Awesome. 455 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,080 The Gold Timers still need to negotiate a deal 456 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,280 to hire the $40,000 dry blower. 457 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:36,160 Usually, a percentage of the gold they find. 458 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,840 That's good news. That's turned out to be a pretty good thing. 459 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,720 So - I mean, we got some good dirt to go through. We do, man. 460 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,000 All right. I'll keep pushing. I'll get a detector on, eh? 461 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,000 I've gotta detect these piles we've been pushing up for a dry blower. 462 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,240 So there's a couple of layers here that haven't been detected. 463 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,040 It's a shame we didn't get the dry blower now. 464 00:22:57,120 --> 00:23:00,320 We still pick up gold when there's gold in these piles, 465 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,480 so gonna keep detecting and pushing. 466 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,960 Hopefully we'll get a good payday. 467 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,040 There's gonna be gold in the piles. 468 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:09,920 That's the point of a dry blower. (BEEPING) Whoa! 469 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,800 Oh, there's a good signal here. 470 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,320 (BEEPING) 471 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,920 Whoa-ho-ho! That sounds like quite a nice target, to be honest. 472 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 (BEEPING) 473 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,880 Yeah, look, this is something a poacher would've picked up. 474 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,840 You'll always go over someone's piles. 475 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,720 And this sounds like it's a good nugget. I'd hate to have lost this. 476 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,800 Ah! There it is. 477 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,880 Ah! Look at that! 478 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,960 That's gotta be about 3g. 479 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,640 (BEEPING) You know, that's nearly a $200 nugget. 480 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,320 We cannot afford to be throwing $200 nuggets away to poachers, 481 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,400 so, um, yeah. 482 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,560 I'd better go through the rest and see if I have any more luck. 483 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,320 Mate, you wouldn't believe it. I just picked a three-grammer up. 484 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,760 You've only just started on the piles too. 485 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,880 Yeah. I'll make my way through this, man. 486 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,960 Yeah. Who knows what else I'm gonna find? 487 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,240 I've spent half an hour here. 488 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,560 Ten minutes longer than I said I was going to. 489 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,400 I don't think there's gold here. I ain't finding nothing. 490 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,200 Onto the next spot, cos this is our business, finding gold. 491 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,720 It ain't a hobby, so we've gotta do everything we can 492 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,800 to keep gold rolling in. 493 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,960 Being out in the Bush prospecting, 494 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,840 it's actually hard to make a living. 495 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,920 The gold is out there, I know it is, 496 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,880 but it ain't gonna jump in your pockets. 497 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,840 You've gotta get out there, use all your experience 498 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,200 and all the perseverance you've got to land yourself good Bush gold. 499 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,680 At least if you're on a bike, you can scout quickly, 500 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,240 find some ground that looks good and this will give us a chance 501 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,000 to actually find more gold, or find another good patch. 502 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,480 In central Victoria, the Poseidon Crew are back in the Bush, 503 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,040 while they wait for mining approvals. 504 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,240 I've got the target here. 505 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,520 Could be anything at this stage. Give it a bit of a scrape. 506 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,240 It's out. 507 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,320 (BEEPING) 508 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,480 Oh, have a look at that. 509 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,560 It's gold! 510 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,640 It is tiny. 511 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,320 Absolutely tiny. 512 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,400 But, more importantly, it's gold. 513 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,160 Now it's time to detect this area properly. 514 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,400 (BEEPING) 515 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,480 I'll just check this. 516 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,480 Oh, it's good. That was sitting on the surface, that one. 517 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,200 That's two bits here. Now I'm starting to get excited. 518 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,000 I've got a target here again. 519 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,720 It's... I think it's a target. I'm not too sure. It's... 520 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,480 (WARPING) It's a weird-sounding signal. 521 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,760 It's not what I'm used to at all. 522 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,280 Especially from these machines. It's throwing something different. 523 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:50,360 Just gonna get all this out of the way, get the top off, 524 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,680 so I can get that coil down nice and close. 525 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,760 It's almost like a ground noise, 526 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,360 but it's got a wobble to it, it's repeatable. 527 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,920 I'm gonna dig it cos I'm not too sure exactly. 528 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,280 I know we've cleaned a lot of the junk out, 529 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:04,360 so anything now, basically, 530 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,440 I'm just digging. 531 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,200 (WARPING) 532 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,400 This is definitely a target now. (BEEPING) 533 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,600 Again, I'm gonna call it. This is gold. We've flogged this area. 534 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,040 That is why new technology's starting to pay off. 535 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:18,280 Now it's just trying to see how far away it is. 536 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:21,160 That's one thing I haven't learned with these machines. 537 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,040 Digging deep holes. 538 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,240 But, when it comes to gold, 539 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,000 generally, the deeper it is, the bigger it gets. 540 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,040 It's out. (BLEEPING) 541 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,320 If I can find it. 542 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,280 (BLEEPING) 543 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,640 There you go. 544 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,400 (LAUGHS) Look at that. 545 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,080 Look at that chunk. 546 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,280 This has got to be a couple of ounces here. 547 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:55,560 That's blown my mind. That ain't just a bit, this is a bloody chunk. 548 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:01,000 The oversized coil has uncovered a deep lying nugget worth $5,000. 549 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,600 To think that we've been over this time and time again, 550 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,800 this is what I've missed and I've picked it up with new technology. 551 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,000 Brent will be pretty happy to see this. 552 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,560 (BEEPING) I've got another target here. 553 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,640 This is a good target, this one. 554 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,200 (BEEPING) 555 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,280 Yeah, got it. 556 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:28,360 I feel weight. 557 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,040 There it is. Look at that. 558 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:33,720 That's a good piece. It's about an ounce, I'd say, close to it. 559 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,080 Now we're starting to get quite a few bits through here. 560 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,800 This is the biggest bit by far. 561 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,080 Really, I want the big coil over this area, 562 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,080 now the bigger pieces of gold are starting to turn up. 563 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,600 This could end up another 20, 30, 40, 50 or 100 oz patch here. 564 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,680 Who knows? 565 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,560 Oh, I got another target. 566 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,480 You got another one? (LAUGHS) You beauty. 567 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,760 (BLEEPING) 568 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,360 Oh, we're on some rich ground here, I tell you. 569 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,560 Got another one, bro? 570 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,280 It's all coming up gold, bro. A little half-a-grammer. 571 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:11,880 This is what the dry blower would just eat up. 572 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,760 (BLEEPING) Oh, there's a... That's a little target. 573 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,160 I tell you what, you never got sick of digging gold up. 574 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,560 (BLEEPING) Oh, that sounded better. 575 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,800 Oh, there it is. Another nice, little blonde bit of gold. 576 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,680 That's beautiful. Yeah, it's been... (BEEPING) 577 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,760 Oh! There's another one. 578 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,240 (BEEPING) Here we go. 579 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,080 That's why it's so loud, it's a nice chunk, that. 580 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,440 I've probably pulled out 600 bucks out of this little run here. 581 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,720 Come to see the gold, have you, mate? 582 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,640 Yeah? Show me the gold. 583 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,560 Have a little looksy. (RATTLING) 584 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,640 I love that sound. Look at that! 585 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,520 Oh, yeah. Gold Timers are on the gold, mate. 586 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,120 Beaut. I'm gonna get my detector. Yeah, mate. 587 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,600 I'm sick of hogging all the glory. (LAUGHS) 588 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,640 Back on the detector. 589 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,400 Hopefully I can pick up some nuggets. (BEEPING) 590 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,880 Another target, bro. I think we're onto a winner. 591 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,960 Yeah, Turbo's back on. 592 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,280 (BEEPING) I dropped that bit. 593 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,160 (LAUGHS) Every two to three minutes, we're picking up nuggets. 594 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:16,480 These small nuggets are each worth between $50 and $200. 595 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,240 (BEEPING) That sounds like a... 596 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,320 That sounds like a good target. 597 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,480 (BEEPING) There it is. 598 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,400 Look at that. They're all pretty good-sized nuggets. 599 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,360 We've had some small ones but we're getting some really nice pieces. 600 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,160 Obviously, there's no certainty... (BEEPING) 601 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,040 Another one! Another one? Yeah. 602 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,920 (BEEPING) Oh, bring on this dry blower. 603 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,960 How good's this ground been, bro? Man, it's good. 604 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,800 (BEEPING) It's been a long three years. 605 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,160 We've worked so hard to get to this point. 606 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,440 We're finally here, finding really good gold. 607 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,360 We're not pulling notes out the ground, 608 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,360 we're pulling $100 bills, this is good. 609 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,880 Oh, the wind's coming in now. 610 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,600 There's definitely a storm coming in. 611 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,000 When there's a bit of lightning in the air, 612 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,720 yeah, um, yeah, the detector goes off, as you can see. (WARPING) 613 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,080 You know, it's... 614 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:17,840 It makes a prospector go nuts. 615 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,400 Detectors work by transmitting and receiving magnetic fields. 616 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,080 Spikes. 617 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,080 Electromagnetic interference from thunderstorms 618 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,960 usually triggers the machine's sensitive electronics. 619 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,960 Yeah, look to the west of us, beautiful, clear skies. 620 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,560 To the east, it's starting to build. 621 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,680 The wind's started picking up. Gotten that little bit colder. 622 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,680 You can feel it in the air. We're about to get some rain. 623 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,880 I think that's gonna be us for the day. 624 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,160 This storm may not hit us. We've seen them roll round us, 625 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,520 but I'm not taking the risk. I think we've had a good crack. 626 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,600 (BEEPING) Oh! 627 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,280 Listen to that. 628 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,360 Ho-ho-ho! 629 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,440 That sounds like a good nugget. 630 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,600 You might wanna come over for this one. 631 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,280 Listen to the size of that. 632 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,000 (LAUGHS) 633 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,560 (BEEPING) Oh, listen to it. 634 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,240 That sounds like a nice bit of gold. I hope so. 635 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,320 Oh! (LAUGHS) 636 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,040 Oh, check it out, man! 637 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,920 (BEEPING) Oh, man! 638 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,800 That's gotta be 5g, 6g, do you reckon? 639 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,880 Got about 500 bucks there. 640 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,560 (LAUGHS) What a good little bonus for the end, eh, man? 641 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,640 Yeah, boy! That's what we're here for, man. 642 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,880 That's a cracker, man. Oh, what a way to end the day. 643 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,600 Yeah. (LAUGHS) 644 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:35,250 2 00:31:35.960 -- 00:31:37.640 align:middle line:90% position:50% Levi's back on the digger. 645 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,720 I'm back on the detector. 646 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,080 Everything's back to a bit of normality. 647 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,720 Hopefully we can make up that lost bit of time today. 648 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,800 Time to really hammer it, 649 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,280 move some dirt, get onto some more nuggets. 650 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,360 Don't need any more problems. 651 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,440 Levi and Bridget are fighting to make up lost time, 652 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:00,520 after wasting half a day searching for their day Oaka 653 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,000 in the Pilbara's extreme wilderness. 654 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,360 Got a little target here. It's a pretty good sound. 655 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,800 (BEEPING) Bridge has got a target. 656 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,880 Hey. There we go. 657 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,200 Ah! It's not a bad piece, actually. 658 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,280 Good piece of gold? Yeah. Nice, little piece. 659 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,440 Really good finding these little pieces. 660 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,160 That one's nearly a gram. 661 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,240 We probably need to find about 3oz this week. 662 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:29,120 Levi and Bridget will need to find over 90 nuggets like this 663 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,000 to reach 3oz. 664 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,080 We've got quite a bit to go. 665 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,400 It's really important to check these wind rows, 666 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,880 which are made by the edge of the digger 667 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:41,960 as it's scraping along. (BEEPING) 668 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,840 There we go. I've got a little target down here. 669 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,480 There it is. It's quite a nice, little round chunk, this one. 670 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,600 If we keep picking these up, that's really gonna help us a lot. 671 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,720 I've got three targets in the ground over here, Bridge. 672 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,800 Woo-hoo Non-stop. 673 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,720 (BEEPING) There it is, little nugget. 674 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,400 Every little bit of gold counts at the moment. 675 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,760 (BEEPING) Bit of a signal there. Hopefully... 676 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,840 (BEEPING) 677 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,720 There it is. Beautiful. 678 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,280 It's tiring work, cos you don't get a break. 679 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,080 (BEEPING) This one doesn't sound too bad at all. 680 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,920 (BEEPING) All right. 681 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 (BEEPING) 682 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,680 There it is. Nice chunk. 683 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,960 It's really good going. We're making money at the moment. 684 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,240 (BEEPING) That's a really good sound. 685 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,320 (BEEPING) 686 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,400 Amazing. That's a really, nice, loud signal. 687 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,680 (BEEPING) Ha-ha-ha! 688 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,360 Oh, my goodness. That's so loud. 689 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,440 It's blaring in my ears. 690 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,520 (BEEPING) 691 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,320 In the scoop. 692 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,480 (BEEPING) 693 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,000 (BEEPING) This sounds so good. 694 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,080 (BEEPING) 695 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,160 Ah! That is a chunk! 696 00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:18,040 Oh, my goodness. That is a good piece of gold. 697 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,400 Gotta be over 5g. 698 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,680 Look at that chunk of gold, honey. 699 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,760 Really? Give us a look. 700 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,840 (LAUGHS) Well done, Bridge. 701 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,120 That's so exciting. Well done. Yay! 702 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,200 Yeah! We're on the nuggies. 703 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,600 Every target I've found today 704 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,680 has all been gold. 705 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,760 It's that hammered this area that there is zero shrapnel around. 706 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,920 Especially around this little area. 707 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,800 There we go. It's out now. (BEEPING) 708 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,880 (BEEPING) 709 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,120 There it is. That's gold. 710 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,200 That is gold. 711 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,600 That is a ripper little piece. It's not deep under the surface. 712 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,360 I would've thought I'd get that with the other detector. 713 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,720 I don't know how the technology does it, 714 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,520 but this is why you come back over your old spots. 715 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,400 It's probably a couple of grams, but that's gold. 716 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,520 Hi, Eth. How you going, mate? 717 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,600 Guess what I've got? 718 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,280 I've got some gold, mate. 719 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,040 I think we're onto another patch, bud. Look at that. 720 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,120 Hey, that's good. Hey! (LAUGHS) 721 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,800 So you've got nothing here? 722 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,640 Nothing here, but just there, where we got that good gold. 723 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:36,840 What did you get? It's in the jar. Oh, mate! Oh, look at that. 724 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,920 That's the one, mate. That's a ripper. 725 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,600 Have you got much more to go? 726 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,480 Have you done this section? I'm just filling in some time. 727 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,160 I came back to get that. I want that detector. 728 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:48,640 I wanna go away with the big coil. All right? 729 00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:53,240 The new coil has uncovered nearly 3oz gold 730 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,520 on ground Ethan first detected over 12 months ago. 731 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,880 Brent's banking on this new technology 732 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,560 to pick up nuggets his older coil couldn't find. 733 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,360 I've just jumped across onto Brent's patch now, 734 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,520 He's starting to find a bit of gold here. 735 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,000 So he's brought me over with this detector. 736 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,680 It's gonna punch a little deeper in the ground. 737 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,320 Hopefully going over ground he's already gone over, 738 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,760 see if we can get anything that he's missed. 739 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,840 (BEEPING) 740 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,920 Another target. 741 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,680 Eth, another target, mate. 742 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,840 Beautiful. Getting a few. 743 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,520 Nothing up here yet. 744 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,960 (BEEPING) 745 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,840 Yeah. Here's another bit, Eth. 746 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,240 Found another maybe gram and a half, this one. 747 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,920 That's not bad, is it? Not bad, no, mate. 748 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000 You know what I found strange? 749 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,440 What? We can actually work really close together. 750 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,800 Are these different technology from each other? 751 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,920 They must be slightly different because 752 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,120 normally you couldn't get this close without them interfering. 753 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,200 No, you can't normally. 754 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,360 We're learning something every day. 755 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,720 (BEEPING) It's the first target I've had. 756 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,960 Hey, Brett! I've got a target here, mate. 757 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,680 You've detected all here, haven't you? Absolutely. 758 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,640 It's only soft, mate. You wanna listen with your machine? 759 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:13,720 Yeah, I'll have a listen, mate. 760 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,440 Absolutely nothing. 761 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,120 Your machine can't pick it up. Absolutely nothing. 762 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,000 I can believe it. That's why you're getting me to go over it. 763 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,000 (BEEPING) Actually, that sounds all right, Ethan. 764 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,080 This might be a good bit, mate. 765 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,400 Might get a nice big chunk here, Ethan. Mate, we might. 766 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,880 (BEEPING) It's still in there. 767 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,800 (BEEPING) Still in there. 768 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,200 That's good news. This is gonna be gold, Ethan. 769 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,680 Doesn't matter how big it's gonna be, my boy. 770 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,600 You've gotta love this, hey? 771 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,400 Watch as you dig. Oh, I don't care about that. 772 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,680 (CHUCKLES) I'll dig to China for gold. 773 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,760 (THUNDER RUMBLES) I can't believe this weather, Ethan. 774 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,840 It was beautiful this morning. 775 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,640 (BEEPING) It's out. Got it out. 776 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:08,720 (BEEPING) 777 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,160 You got it. Got it all right. 778 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:15,240 You got it. (BEEPING) 779 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,880 Look at that, Eth! That's not bad, is it? That's a nice chunk that one. 780 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,960 Hey, that's a good piece. Have to be nearly an ounce-and-a-half. 781 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,520 That's nice. You can hang onto that piece, bud. 782 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,600 OK, mate. Well done, buddy. 783 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,080 You said you don't like prospecting. I don't. 784 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,800 You find good gold. I would rather be at Catto's. 785 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,960 I would rather be digging monster nuggets at Catto's, 786 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,840 but right now - Exactly. ..right now, these will do us. 787 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,920 We'll do it for now. 788 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,840 Lucky we caught that poacher in the act. Ain't that some crazy stuff. 789 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,240 We'll have to set some surveillance up and stuff. 790 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,760 I think that might be a pretty good idea. After a tough week, 791 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,280 that started with a poacher stealing gold on their lease, 792 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,760 the Gold Timers need at least half an ounce just to cover costs. 793 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,840 I had to be a bit hesitant not to... 794 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,520 Push justice. Yeah, yes. Further - You know, mate. 795 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,280 You can't do that, cos that can get you do for assault. 796 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,160 As much as I wanted to keep his detector, we let him - Yeah. 797 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,240 Anyway, we got the gold and we caught one. 798 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,920 He'd done a bit of hard work for us. Yeah, mate. 799 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,800 It all works out in the end. It's all contributed to this. 800 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,960 It's that time of day, I think. I think so. 801 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,160 Do you wanna do the honours, calling it out, mate? Yeah. 802 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:28,240 One. Two. 803 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,320 Three. Wait. 804 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,600 ..1.33. 805 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,680 (LAUGHS) Man! 806 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,360 We just - We're doing it, man. 807 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,760 We've had good weigh-ups every weigh-up, man. 808 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,400 Thanks, bro. We've worked bloody hard for this. We have. We have. 809 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,480 Halfway through their season, 810 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,280 the duo has just a quarter of their target, 811 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,600 but it's still the best start they've ever had. 812 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,360 We're over 5oz now. 813 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,080 This is the most we've had at this point in any season 814 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,400 and we've got some big things about to happen. 815 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,000 A bit of catch-up to do but - We've got some momentum. 816 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,160 I reckon that too. (LAUGHS) Good week. Mm. 817 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:07,600 We've got good weigh-ins every single week. 818 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,800 Calling home, it's a pleasure speaking to the wife and the kids. 819 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,880 They know Dad's making some money, so it's a good feeling. 820 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,640 It might be a turning point for us. 821 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:18,720 Fingers crossed the next couple of weeks 822 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,000 the dry blower brings us some real good gold. Bring on next week. Mm. 823 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,200 Hey! Ryan-o! 824 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,880 Hey! 825 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,560 Hello Oakie. There's Ryan. 826 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,040 Woo! Ryan-o. Hey, Ferals. 827 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,520 How we going? Welcome back to the Pilbara, buddy. 828 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,200 Good to see you. Likewise. 829 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,080 Over 1,000kms northwest, 830 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:43,320 Ryan has returned from visiting his daughter in Perth 831 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,800 just in time for the week's weigh-in. 832 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,520 Mate, it was really good to go down and see the kids. Yeah. 833 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,160 It's so good to get back up here. How's you been going? 834 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:53,840 We're smashing it, yeah. Cleaning up at the moment. 835 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,320 So good. And there's a little bit of gold there for you, mate. 836 00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,440 You know, it's all going into the kitty. 837 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,120 Youse don't have to do that. Nah, we do have to do that. 838 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,840 You'd do it for us. I would, but I've been off down south. 839 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,720 You know, youse have been up here grafting, working hard. 840 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,840 Part of the team. We might go on a holiday then you can come out here for a couple of weeks. 841 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,920 Beautiful, find lots of shard for you when get back. (LAUGHTER) 842 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,600 All right, let's put this on the scales. 843 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,200 (LAUGHS) 844 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:23,960 Two-and-a-half ounces. 845 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,360 Well done. That's crazy. Yeah. How good is that? 846 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,680 The Ferals' 70% cut 847 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,840 adds another 1.75oz to their tally. 848 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,240 The biggest weekly find for the team this season. 849 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,880 New member of the Ferals, bringing on the nuggies. 850 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,960 This is fun. Such an adventure. Everything's looking good. 851 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,280 We're finding a lot of gold. It's all happening. 852 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,640 That's incredible. They could've kept that gold. 853 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:50,920 That wouldn't have worried me but, out of the goodness of their heart, 854 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,280 they're gonna me a spit of it and, you know, it's amazing. 855 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,400 They're beautiful people. Yeah, it's been a really great week. 856 00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,280 It's good to have Ryan back 857 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,520 and, yeah, we're just looking forward to the next week ahead. 858 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,120 On the other side of the continent, 859 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,640 the Poseidon Crew have been prospecting ground 860 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:11,320 they found nuggets on a year ago, 861 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,640 while they wait for mining permits to come through. 862 00:42:14,720 --> 00:42:17,520 Let's see what we've got, mate. I think we did all right. 863 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,800 You beat me everywhere. Continually producing Ethan's patch. 864 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:25,040 They're trying to cover the $2,000 a week expenses 865 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:30,000 they need for Ethan's base wage, fuel, and permit costs. 866 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,120 For someone who doesn't like prospecting, you do really well. 867 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,920 I still don't like it. I don't wanna do that as my forever job. 868 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,320 Brent loves it, enjoys it, that's his passion, 869 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,120 but mining's where it's at for me, that's where I wanna be. 870 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,000 Come on, throw it on the scales, mate. 871 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,480 What have we got, mate? I can't see. 872 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,840 0.28. All right. Put your big one on, mate. 873 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,720 That brings it to 2.65, Eth. 874 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,480 That's pretty good. And the smalls off the bike patch, mate, 875 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,880 comes to 3.57. 876 00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,360 So that's 4.48. 877 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,080 Yeah, that's a good piece. And then the bit you got. 878 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,000 This comes to 5.80. 879 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:10,880 That's a not bad weigh-in, mate. 880 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,760 The $14,500 haul 881 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,920 is their first good result since selling the big licence, 882 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:22,400 covering their costs for up to seven weeks of Bush prospecting. 883 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,640 Well, that's pretty bloody damn good, mate. I'm happy with that. 884 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:27,720 All right. All right, let's go, eh? 885 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,720 Subtitles by Deluxe