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NARRATOR: On Outback Opal Hunters...

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ROD: Christ. Look at this.

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LES: Thinking we're gonna have some fun here.

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The Bushmen, down two members and an exploration drill...

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I'll just keep trying to rock it backwards and forwards, Les.

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..throw all their hopes... It'll do the right thing by us soon, mate.

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Bloody hope so. ..into a fourth mine this season.

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It's big and it's cheesy.

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MARK: She's an old one though. Does she run, Pete?

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PETE: Used to.The Blacklighters' new mine partnership... JOHN: Oh, no!

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..is derailed by a long-neglected noodler.There's a lot more dust than oxygen in here.

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MARK: Yeah, shut her down, man. Shut her down.

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ISABELLE: Ooh.ANGEL: Oops. Maybe have a look at that.

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The Misfits changed tactics to find opal...

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JOE: I've got blacklights. We can't have you missing pieces that big.

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..and face a dangerous night shift...

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ANGEL: Ooh! My heart is in my mouth right now.

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ISABELLE: You're teetering now. ..under opal exposing blacklights.

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Ooh, look at that. Awesome.

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JOE: That's a seam.

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ROD: If I can just get it running into that sump, mate.

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LES: Yeah. Drag that dirt back this way.

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Hang on. Yeah, well, we got a bit of a mess down here. We got all these holes leaking.

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Once that keeps flowing, it can just let go and the roof's going to come in on us.

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So, it is dangerous and it's a big worry.

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What do we do when that fills up?

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Get the pumps out.

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You know it's wet, Les, when you're getting snails underground.

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Well, you don't see them. I've never seen a snail around the place here at all.

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I've never seen a snail out here neither, let alone underground. So what's going on?

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As crippling, once-in-a-generation floods overwhelm the Australian outback,

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the Bushmen, Rod Manning and Les Walsh, are attempting to rescue their season.

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Can you just spot for me for a minute?There's a bit there, but...Where?

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Just there.Up there. But it's only... I'll just take this edge.

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We're blocked up, mate. Blower pipe blocked.

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The blower is a huge vacuum that extracts waste dirt

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from the mine, through 11-inch pipes

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and dumps it into a truck above ground.

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The blower pipe down there's blocked up on the elbow.

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Because we're constantly sucking mud, the elbows bog up.

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They mud up and they get... Hey, mate!

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They get thicker and thicker until it closes that gap up.

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It's a long way to be sucking dirt.

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This season's been one hell of a roller coaster. We spent all this money

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on the new machinery to go out on our own and everything.

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The crew, you know, we brought in Ty and Benny.

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Well Ty's off with some personal business that he has to take care of and Benny's hurt himself and

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it's just me and Les again, you know, like we started off. Yeah.

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The Bushmen have bought and abandoned three failed mines this season...

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Righto, mate. Put her down.

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..burning up precious time they should have committed to mining.

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I'm just not going to give up. If I have to move a dozen times in  season, I will.

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I've made it a mission to get the old fella a decent retirement.

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So, whatever it takes, I'm gonna do. Righto, bring it on, Ding Dong.

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You see it? Here we go.

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Our season target's 360.

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So long as I'm not pushing wheelchair round underneath

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trying to find it, it'll be all right.

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See, we got a chance of getting colour there so we can't move. I want to keep digging there.

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Yeah.And we can't keep sucking this distance. We're too far away from the blower.

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Yeah.We've got to put that hole down so we can move the blower. It's all there is to it, innit?Yep.

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Righto, come on. Let's get out of here.

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Where we are at the moment, it's too far for the big blower to suck the dirt, you know.

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We're sucking it all the way from here all the way down there, up the hole.

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So it's a long way so it's tending to block up solid.

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The Bushmen want to drill a hole for the blower pipes

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closer to the digger at the mine face.

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To do the job, they'll need their exploration drill,

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recently bogged in the mud after heavy rainfall.

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I don't know how badly bogged it is, but if we can get the thing

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out of the bog and over to Ding Dong's...Yeah.

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..get that hole drilled, move the blower, we can start digging pretty much straight away.Yep.

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Ah, Jesus, look at this. Oh, dear.

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I'm thinking we're gonna have some fun here.

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Christ, look at this.

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She's sitting on both diffs. Oh, yeah.The front one as well.

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Yep.We really don't need this at this stage, Les.

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If we don't make a sale, we got no diesel money to keep working.

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I know.Oh, this is ridiculous.

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JOHN: Where the hell are we? It seems to be like 12-14 mile. 12 miles, something like that.

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It's not far from there. We've just got to go see a man about something out here. Oh, yeah.

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As summer storms loom and extreme temperatures scorch

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to desolate Coober Pedy opal fields,

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the Blacklighters are investigating a lead for a new mine partnership.

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If this don't work, we're in strife, mate.Ah, well. Noodle times.Yes.

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What the hell are you getting us into, Mark?Here's Pete.

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How are ya, Mark? Pete's a friend of mine.

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He's got a great opportunity he's been talking about us having a go at.

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Is this the old machine?Yeah. Does she run, Pete? Used to. A year ago.

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Ooh. She's an old one, though.

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PETE: This is, ah, dad's noodler.

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He hasn't used it for...well, since he got crook and then stroke really.

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So that's about a year ago.

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XAVIER: Oh, yeah. A bit squishy.

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Saw that machine. It didn't look great. It looked like a piece of junk.

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JOHN: There's a few holes in it but...

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I don't know, we'll see how we go.

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It's sliding.Too steep, man. I don't know if we can get that dirt out.

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After one year and $50,000 spent digging,

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the Blacklighters, Mark I'Anson, stepson Xavier,

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Paul Coon, and John Nassar, have been forced to down tools at their vast open-cut mine.

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It's just got too dangerous.

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We're going to have to, erm, change the ramp. No more mining, no more digging.

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Otherwise, I can see Xavier keep going all the way down

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and taking out the excavator and yeah, all hell could break loose. No one wants that.

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What it means for this week is there's definitely no opal coming out of the cut

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because we can't get it out of there so...

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Definitely affects the families when we don't find opal.

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Straight away, everyone starts stressing out, the mood changes,

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the money's not coming in. Cracks start appearing.

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We got the total set at ah 350 this year so we're round about 276

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which is, you know, no laughing matter but, erm, yeah,

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we've ran out of time and we've still got that little bit to go. So,

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yeah, I think we just have to push harder and try and get there.

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Paul will stay behind and during the course of the week,

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will need to remove thousands of tonnes of dirt

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to reduce the steepness of the ramp.

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I'm here by myself, fixing the ramp up.

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We need some opal cos we ain't got much at the moment.

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So hopefully, the other boys can pick some up while I'm getting this ready.

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Mark needs to negotiate a deal, working Pete's claim, using his ancient noodler.

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So, erm, yeah what sort of deal... What are we talking, Pete?

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Cos this is the old boy's, dad's... Yeah, right.

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..and that so, I'd say 60:40.

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What, we get 60? Nah. The old fella gets 60.Oh.

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I'll tell you what, Pete, I don't know. I feel 60:40 is probably a bit too hard for us.

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But why don't we just split it down the middle, 50:50?

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We'll supply the generator and the loader.

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You've got the noodling machine and the claim. All right, then. 50:50.

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All right, mate. Let's do it. Done deal, yeah.Good luck. Let's find some opal together, ay?

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Pete's claim is 50x50m in size on the proven 12-mile opal field.

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He has tonnes of mine dirt lying in dumps across the claim

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that need processing with his battered noodler.

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Let's see what happens.Oh!

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Ah! Oh! Ah! She's working!

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The darkroom belt's going. Fine's belt's going. Lights are working.

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Oh-ho! She's a goer.

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She's a goer, mate! Beauty!

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Here we go. First load for the day going in.

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Fire her up.

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The opal bearing dirt is loaded into the hopper.

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The trommel, a rotating mesh drum, separates the host rock from dirt and dust

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and belts transport it into a black room,

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where ultraviolet light causes the opal to fluoresce.

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The dirt that's coming through in the material is awesome.

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So far, so good. By the looks of things.

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Hey, John, I might need a hand in here. It's getting pretty crazy, and I'm a bit worried.

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I'm gonna miss something. Make sure you don't miss any in there, all right?

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Holy crap, it's heavy! That looks like she's lighting up all right.

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And if I really don't see it coming through... I'll shut this door. Righto.

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Whoa, look at that. It's very good.

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Definitely starting to glow. Worse than a cheap hotel room.

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Hey, erm, I know there's holes in the trommel but they're starting to get bigger, man.

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There's rocks coming out, ay.

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I can actually see a piece of opal from the cab that's come out of that trommel.

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Look, another.

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Oi, shut it down, man. Look what's coming through the bloody trommel.

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Doh!We got to fix that hole, ay.

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It's coming straight off, landing on the lip.

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We're just wasting opal, man. I've probably been putting it out in the dump.

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Yeah, shut her down, man.

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Just digging up the floor of our bulldozer cut.

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I've bulldozed down to the level. So now I'm going through it with a fine tooth comb with the excavator.

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Issy is watching as I go through the dirt.

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Hey, Issy.Yeah.How about you hop in and give it a crack, eh?

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Huh-ha. Really? You trust me? Yeah, I trust ya.

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Just I'm falling asleep in there at the moment, so I am...

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Yeah, well, you've been at it for a while so...Cool. Hop in.Great!

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I'm glad you've got faith. Yep.Okey dokey.

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Learning to operate the 25-tonne excavator

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is one of the most important skills you need to be an opal miner.

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All right, so this is your handbrake.Handbrake there. Hand down.

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So this one forward, left arm forward.Ooh, wrong way.

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You're good. It takes a lot of concentration, and one slip-up,

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and I could be hitting just about anything and everything around me. Which is quite scary.

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Right, so if you go to your right and I'll hop down and have a bit of a look. But don't crush me.

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I will try not to.

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Oh!

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I've got to look for opal and also be aware of where Issy is with the bucket.

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She's been in the machine not even an hour,

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but you know someone's got to come down here and look for opal.

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Whoa! Oops!Hang on, Issy. Let me have a look at that.

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The Misfits, rookie miner Angel Dempsey,

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new recruit Issy Glen, and financier and mentor 'Opal' Joe Kalmar,

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have spent the last month and $20,000 open cut mining dangerous old timers' tunnels.

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Whoa! Angel!

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That was not good. That was not good at all.

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We have to excavate. We'll get it all from above, these

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Yeah, we'll get it all from above. Safest possible.

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The open cut is now at a depth of eight meters.

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Uh-oh!

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Angel and Issy must rely on their 25-tonne excavator,

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to mine out the ceilings, walls, and floors of the tunnels, that still hold crystal opal.

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The opal season's almost over and we're still heaps way off of our opal goal for the season.

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So hopefully, we'll find some opal soon.

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I want to become an independent miner financially stable enough

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to get machinery and go out on my own.

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I need to prove myself to Joe and Angel, that I can actually do this job.

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What did I just do wrong?

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Got your handbrake on?Yep. I just stuffed up. I think I hit the...You hit the track.

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I'll just go there and have a look.

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The track seems all right, but I'm just hoping she hasn't damaged a tooth at all.

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Seems all right.

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Yeah, no, that's OK. It's good. Just a close call. Nothing too bad.

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Oh, thank God for that. I am shaking.

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That's what happens when you're learning. So just continue to work.

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Are you sure? Cos I'm not really confident at the moment. That really scared me.

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Yeah, but if you get off now, it's not gonna help your confidence at all. We'll just continue on,

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hopefully, find some opal then you'll forget about that. No worries. Well,

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Let's keep going then. Let's get back to it.

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ROD: Hey, Les!Yeah?

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Cut some short ones to put under the front legs.

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At least we'll be able to get it up a bit.Yep.

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After weeks of heavy rain,

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the Bushmen are attempting to free their 30-tonne,

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eight-metre-long exploration drill from a bog using cypress pine.

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Just trying to get some blocks under all the tyres.

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They need the rig to drill a hole for dirt extraction pipes at their mine, Ding Dong.

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That's probably given the front enough to chew on.

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Now, if we can get the same sort of logs under the back,

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we might have a chance at getting this out of here.

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What do you reckon, Les? Give it a try?

224
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You got enough under there, you reckon?Probably not.

225
00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:36,280
Nearly went out then. I just keep trying to rock it backwards and forwards, Les.

226
00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:58,440
I think it's a waste of time cos that it's not gonna climb out. The clutch isn't good enough.

227
00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,880
Yeah.So, I think we just go and get the loader.Yep, righto.

228
00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:09,760
I've got a good mate of mine, Mark, he's about 5K away on his claim.

229
00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,680
So, you know, he's a good bloke. He's agreed to come over and pull me out.

230
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I'm gonna get myself one of these, Les.Yeah, one day.

231
00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,800
We'd have some fun in that. Couldn't we.

232
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To rescue the rig, Mark's 40-tonne, 350 horsepower

233
00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,880
turbocharged, four-wheel drive loader... That's the way to do it.

234
00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:37,720
..needs to traverse the last ten metres of a narrow, rain-sodden track.

235
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He might not get down here, Les. He may not. We may not.

236
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Gone down deep there. Look at that.

237
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I don't think he's gonna get down to us. I think he's gonna bog himself.

238
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It's just going down.

239
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He's well and truly bogged there.

240
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Nah, he's gonna get... Oh, no!

241
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MARK: Look at the size of that. That's come out of the hole in the trommel.

242
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We're just gonna have to fix it or we're losing too much opal.

243
00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,040
JOHN: Yeah, let's do this.

244
00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:19,360
I've got some zip ties over here in the car, man. All right?

245
00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,080
That'll work a trick, mate. Come on, it's gonna rain and we won't get more opal.

246
00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,520
We need some more opal today. Come on.

247
00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,600
That does look like rain out there, though.

248
00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,760
Threatening storms, a battered 20-year-old noodler,

249
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and the absence of team member Paul

250
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has put the Blacklighters' new partnership in jeopardy.

251
00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,400
Nah, it's gonna spin. Oh. It's gonna go, John. Oh, no!

252
00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:54,200
You all right, mate?Yeah. Oh, watch your foot.Don't put your foot through the thing, please.

253
00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:57,040
What are you doing, man? Grab that bar, Mark.

254
00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,720
Oi! You got it?Hope so.

255
00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,640
Righto. Is that in? Come through?

256
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:15,480
Righto.This is the dodgiest fix but it's gonna rain

257
00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,760
and we're not getting any opal unless we do it.

258
00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,320
That's about all I can do from here.That's it, man.

259
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,040
It's the stupidest fix I've ever seen in my life. Well, that was fun.

260
00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:27,440
That was fun. Well done. Now let's find some opal.

261
00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,160
Yeah, John it looks like that trommel's holding but I don't know for how long.

262
00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,680
I reckon we got to keep going as quick as we can, get as much opal out of here before it stops,

263
00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:38,720
and it starts to rain too, mate.

264
00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:47,440
Oh, nice chunk there Xavi. Yeah, you're right, X-Man, it's coming through pretty thick and fast.

265
00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:51,360
Yeah, any one of these could be worth thousands. Crazy amounts.

266
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:56,320
But it's just weird cos we can't really tell until you get them under the sunlight.

267
00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:01,000
Yeah, and this dust doesn't help. Yeah, the dust is pretty bad in here.

268
00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,960
Yeah, it's not good. I can taste the dust.

269
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,040
Yeah.Feel it.

270
00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:09,080
You copy there, Mark? Yeah, mate? What's going on?

271
00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,200
Oh, this dust in this darkroom is just out of control, mate.

272
00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,040
Me and Xavi feel like... ..there's a lot more dust than oxygen in here.

273
00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:19,240
That's no good, mate. We're gonna have to do something about that.

274
00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,640
We've got a problem here.

275
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:29,520
This fan's gone which is basically what pressurises the darkroom,

276
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so it stops the dust from getting in because the air's going out.

277
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,640
It's not working and, ah, we're probably going to have to rig something else up there.

278
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:43,000
I don't know what yet but we'll try and work something out.

279
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,000
Yeah, mate, she's nearly done. I won't put anymore in.

280
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,680
Righto.

281
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,000
Oi! Yo, yoi!

282
00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,920
Yeah, we just cancel the kid in that, so...Nah.

283
00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,080
That was a bit...No way I'm staying there. Pain in the butt, X-Man?

284
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:06,040
That's shocking.How'd it go? Well, there's a bit in the buckets, man.

285
00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:10,240
So, job's done all right but there's just too much dust.

286
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,320
Way too much dust so.Blimey, man.

287
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,720
That's full of chunks, man. A fair bit of weight in there.

288
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,360
Oi, look at the bars. Look at that chunk.

289
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,400
Let's just go sort this opal, get ourselves a new fan

290
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,680
before we do any more. Leave it at that. It's not worth... Tumble this.

291
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,560
Tumble this. See what we got.

292
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,440
All right. Well, let's get the hell out of here.Yeah. I want to have a shower.

293
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:51,160
ISSY: Do you want me to get closer to that wall?Yeah, if you can.

294
00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:53,440
But that might be your last scoop, I reckon,

295
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,840
cos your arm's fully extended almost.Yep.

296
00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:03,200
In Andamooka, Angel is teaching rookie miner, Issy,

297
00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:06,520
how to operate the 25-tonne excavator,

298
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,000
so the mammoth workload can be shared.

299
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,040
It's only just able to reach as well.

300
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,200
I reckon that'll do that, Issy, with the excavator. We'll get the bulldozer in.

301
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:21,880
Okey dokey.

302
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,600
I'm just going to get Betsy running, get her down the hole, push all that dirt out.

303
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:34,160
Betsy is a 50-year-old, 320 horsepower bulldozer

304
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,520
that Angel will use to clear tonnes of mined dirt

305
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,160
which will need to be checked for opal.

306
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,360
Yeah, this cut, every time I take Betsy now, it's getting steeper and steeper.

307
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,440
The steeper it is, the more scary it is.

308
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,840
Angel's a good operator and I'm sure she'll get Betsy to do what she needs to do.

309
00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:01,160
Come on, Betsy. Come on, old girl. You can do it.

310
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,160
Now that was close.

311
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,480
I didn't think Betsy was going to make it then.

312
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,800
See anything, Issy? Oh, it's pretty dusty.

313
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,120
Whoa-ho-ho! I've just uncovered some blue.

314
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,800
Oh my God, look at it!

315
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,880
And jelly.Jelly opal. Wow.

316
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,960
Look how big it is. We've done it.

317
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:35,760
Jelly opal, named for its translucent, gelatinous appearance,

318
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,440
is valued by cutters for its even spread of colour

319
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:43,920
and the ease, in which impurities can be seen and polished away.

320
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,800
How much more is in here?

321
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,400
Could be thousands of dollars' worth of opal that we can't see.

322
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:54,560
Finding that stone was great, you know, like, it's the first opal we've seen in quite a long time.

323
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:59,280
But it's also equally as scary cos I know if there's one stone, there's got to be more.

324
00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:02,120
I think blacklighting it later might be worth doing.

325
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,600
I reckon so. Definitely.

326
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,640
They picked up some big stones.

327
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,920
But the stones are a little bit too big to be missing from the face.

328
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,480
It doesn't take long to lose a $100,000 or $200,000 in opal.

329
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,840
So that gives me concern. So what's your thoughts?

330
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,240
What do you wanna do to solve the problem? Issy said this morning about

331
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,480
potentially working at night with the excavator. That can be done.

332
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,280
And some black lights. I got blacklights.

333
00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:29,200
Well, we can't have you missing pieces that big. No.No.

334
00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:33,440
Working at night is high risk,

335
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:38,240
as unstable ground and deep shafts become difficult to spot.

336
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,880
The biggest danger we've got, the excavator itself is not rigged up with any lighting.

337
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,160
Angel's experience is not a lot at night time.

338
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:50,520
Issy's is even less. So, that's gonna be extremely dangerous.

339
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,480
ROD: It's just going down. He's well and truly bogged here.

340
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,760
I don't think he's getting out of this.

341
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,120
In Grawin, the rescue loader attempting to pull

342
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,760
the Bushmen's drill out of a bog is trapped in the deep mud.

343
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,720
Sorry, Mark.It's all right. I had no idea it'd be like this.

344
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,120
Look at it here. Look. Oh, yeah, mate. It's like quicksand.

345
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,160
Oh, look at that, that's mud! Oh, no.Wow.

346
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,800
You're gonna get out?Erm... I thought it would be bloody all right.

347
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,920
Can only try, Rod. Yeah . Sorry, mate.

348
00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:31,920
Always something going wrong you don't expect, ay.

349
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,040
We're gonna have to leave here for probably three days to dry out a little bit before...

350
00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:40,440
If we get.....we can get her out.As long as it doesn't rain, we should be pretty good.

351
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,200
Let's go underground.

352
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,600
It's so late in the season and everything's going wrong for us.

353
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,720
So, you know, it's looking like the old bloke's not going to Shady Acres this year.

354
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,480
Ooh! There's a bit of water about here.

355
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,880
Look at that, Nigel. He's got to get us wet, hasn't he?

356
00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:08,320
Well, Nigel's looking very interested in the trip this morning, isn't he?Yeah.

357
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,520
Before when we had Titch, Titch used to have this spot

358
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,000
and he was always in the back. Now he's upgraded.Yeah, that's it.

359
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,880
Titch is Les' old dog that died, I don't know six seven months ago, something like that.

360
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:27,160
Les and the dog were very close, you know. Les lives on his own, and...

361
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:32,360
Go on, up you get...his companion, I guess, has always been Titch.

362
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,600
I had to put me dog down about eight or nine months ago.

363
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,800
He had cancer and a big lump under his wing.

364
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,040
I missed him a lot and... Oh, well I still miss him anyway.

365
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,320
Oh, the  hoses! We're sucking from too far away.

366
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,640
It's  blocking up all the time.

367
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,920
Our hydraulic hoses are too short.

368
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,360
We need to move everything up to where we are.

369
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,600
But really not much we can do about it.

370
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,080
It'll do the right thing by us soon, mate.

371
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,120
Whoa-ho-oh! What are you bellowing about?

372
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,800
Just let me have a look in that.

373
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:27,400
Ooh! Pickle me grandmother, Les. That's a good little bit.

374
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,720
That's big and cheesy mate! Oh, yeah!

375
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,880
Was there any more of it? I'm looking.

376
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,880
You better have a good look through the ground I suppose cos there's more of it somewhere.

377
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,160
Millions of years ago,

378
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,720
silica-rich water from an ancient inland sea,

379
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:50,800
drained into the earth filling voids in the porous bedrock, and hardening to form opal.

380
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,560
There's the other side, mate.

381
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,600
Good work. It's right on the bloody edge. Wish we'd got that out whole.

382
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,400
I think I'll dig a bit more, Les, what do you reckon?Yeah.

383
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,600
We just had a little change in luck. We just started to get a little bit of nice colour.

384
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:15,040
Oh, whoa! Wait! Wait! Stop! Oh, what? We got colour up here, mate.

385
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,480
Whereabouts?Up here.

386
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,840
What are you doing down there, then? Well, that's where you scraped it from. I'm...

387
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,360
Well, have a look. See what you find. That's what I was gonna do.

388
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,200
Hey, this looks all right, Les. Yeah.

389
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,360
I have put the digger tooth through it up there but...

390
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,200
What have we got here?Hey? Oh, that's not bad piece of rock.

391
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,760
Look at that, Les.

392
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,280
See if I can find some more. You beauty.

393
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,520
Oh, here's another piece. There's another bit. That's the same red.

394
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,960
Red opal is extremely rare, the most valuable,

395
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,240
and highly desired by buyers.

396
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,920
Gees that nice colour, Les. You beauty.

397
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,840
And there's more of it up there. Well, that's good.

398
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:07,960
We got a little bit of money here, mate.Yeah.Les! Look at that!

399
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,600
Bloody hell, that's a ripper, that one, mate. It's big and it's cheesy.

400
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,320
Oh, yeah we need a few more of them. Look at it.

401
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,440
Oh, yeah.Look at the red in the thing, Les.Oh, yeah the red's popping out good.

402
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,480
You beauty! Look at it. Look how much we got!

403
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,040
Two, two red bars that one got.

404
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,240
Ha-ha! Les! Mate. We got money. Yeah.

405
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,480
We got good money too.Yeah.

406
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,880
It's been a while since the old pocket's been full of colour, Les.

407
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,120
Yes, that's a good start.

408
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,720
Hey, that's just in time for that buyer, mate.

409
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:45,080
That's scraping through on the skin of our  teeth, innit?Yeah.

410
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,640
Yeah, big bucket of noodling stuff here. Looks pretty crappy now.

411
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,080
It's all coated and rubbish like that but, erm, throw her in

412
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,400
That's gonna wash it beautifully cos as it is in the bucket,

413
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,960
it just looks like dirt, you know, until you clean it up.

414
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,440
At their home base in Coober Pedy,

415
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,000
Mark is using a cement mixer to clean the opal haul

416
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,160
from their new partnership with Pete Geisler.

417
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,360
Once you wash it, it'll look a lot better.

418
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,440
But as it is at the moment, she's gonna need a couple of hours.

419
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,120
Should be pretty nice.

420
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:30,480
How you doing, Mark? You there? Hey.Lads, how you doing?

421
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,320
Just in time, mate. Just got it all clean.

422
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:38,120
How you doing, sir? Nice to see you again, man.I'm feeling pretty happy about this.Yeah.

423
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,040
Like, man, have a look at this. That's a nice pile of opal, ay. Yeah.

424
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,440
That little noodling machine does wonders, mate.

425
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,800
The Blacklighters have classic Coober Pedy white seam opal,

426
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,320
featuring the full spectrum of colours.

427
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,840
It's been tumbled and there's 1.6 kilograms.

428
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,680
Which they need to negotiate a split with Pete.

429
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,480
PETE: You must have just picked the right dump there. I should have made it 60:40.

430
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,800
No. No!

431
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:13,080
Nah, I'm glad we shook it on 50:50.

432
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,600
I don't know, what are your estimates there?

433
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:21,480
I reckon... Oh, gees. I reckon 40 grand. I wouldn't want to sell it under that.

434
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:27,640
So, I'd be looking at 55-60? Yeah, right.On that personally, you know.Yep.

435
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:34,000
The whole parcel as a whole?Yeah. So we can either sell it as a whole,

436
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,680
or we could split it. You take your share, we take our share.

437
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,200
Oh, I'd rather split it, to be honest. To see how I go.

438
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,680
Well, we got the scales out, if you want to have a look. Ooh!

439
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:49,360
You got to play by the right rules when you're splitting opal and you got a new partner. Erm...

440
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,680
Not rush. Don't split the opal till everyone's happy with the split.

441
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,640
It's a pretty hard thing to do.

442
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,480
But it can be done right.

443
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,560
So we've got two separate grades.

444
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,520
This is a really good grade. I'm really happy with this

445
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,920
and it's all clean good yielding pieces.

446
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,960
But I've also got a lower-grade pile.

447
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,000
Just the ones that didn't quite make the top team.Righto.

448
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,080
Shall we split, well let's weigh this and split this in half first.

449
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,440
And then we've got room to sort this out.Yeah.

450
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:22,000
The lower-grade opal small stones, showing less colour and vibrancy,

451
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,600
are usually split by weight alone.

452
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,080
PETE: I'm very impressed with what you boys have done. No, we were too Pete.

453
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,720
We're just thankful so much for the opportunity like,

454
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,200
you've got to hang onto that claim, mate, like really, since your dad's retired,

455
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:39,160
it's made it hard for you to get more done but...1.02 kilos

456
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,120
1,024 grams.

457
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,920
That's all right, that's 512.Yeah.

458
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,400
Close enough. Yeah, that's close enough.Right? Cause there's a bit of wet.

459
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,280
That's all good.

460
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,160
There you go, so that's grade done. We didn't drop any. That's ours there

461
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,240
Now, Pete wants these two chunks in his grade.

462
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:11,240
Top grade stones are larger with more saturated colour and vibrancy

463
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,560
and they are split depending on size, value and weight.

464
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,760
Yeah, just... Weigh that, weigh that and split that little bit.

465
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:23,680
Yeah, then you got those couple of big bits your customers will like.

466
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,160
There we go, 76.Close enough's, good enough.And you picked, you want that one or that one?

467
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,760
You choose, Pete.Or the little one? Your choice.I'll take that one.

468
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,920
All right, well done, Pete. Thanks. Thanks so much, mate. Well done, mate.Beautiful.

469
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,800
We're happy with that.

470
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,440
We've got some beautiful opal. Thanks, mate.You went all right.

471
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,680
We were having a shocking week.

472
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,880
We weren't getting any opal and then and then, pow, look at this. That's a few days.

473
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:51,560
Magnificent result.

474
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,880
I reckon these boys have picked the right dump, and done very good.

475
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:02,280
You know, I hope it just keeps going like that for them and for me. You know.

476
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:07,200
To tell you the truth guys, from what we were looking at this week to what we've ended up with,

477
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,320
got to be bloody happy, ay. Give it here, man. All of you, ay?

478
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,520
You've done well, boys!ALL: Yes! You beauty!

479
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,760
What an awesome, awesome result. Couldn't ask for more than that.

480
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,000
So, yeah, we're way happy with our half.

481
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,280
Got ourselves 20K. Away we go. Like that is brilliant.

482
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,640
Yeah.

483
00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:28,440
I'd be happy to do that every week.

484
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:34,040
Yes!

485
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:42,040
Starting the old machine up. Hopefully, she won't cause us grief.

486
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,680
Oh, yes.

487
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,400
In Andamooka, the Misfits are putting all their faith

488
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:56,000
in ultraviolet blacklights to find opal at the eight-metre-deep, open cut mine.

489
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,440
Everything does look more daunting at night. My heart is in my mouth right now.

490
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,480
I'm watching, you are coming up to your speed hump here.Yeah.

491
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,920
I can see it in your light. So slow and steady.

492
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,880
First, Angel needs to get the excavator into the open cut,

493
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,600
to clear mined dirt and expose the opal-bearing wall.

494
00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:22,800
You're teetering now.

495
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Whoa! Whoa!Slide east. She is unstable.

496
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,520
I'm like, oh, my, I can't even sit on the chair, hey!

497
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,200
I tell you, we're pretty close there, Angel.

498
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,520
All right, I'll take my first bite and see what happens.Yep.

499
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:46,480
Mind that wall. Slowly. Slowly. Yeah, I'm watching it.

500
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,440
Do you guys want to check that wall at all? JOE: Yeah, we'll have a look.

501
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,680
I like it when Joe looks cos I know we're not going to miss anything cos he's got the eye for opal.

502
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,840
See that glow in there?Oh, there's some in there as well?Yeah.

503
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,960
That's it, Angel. That's opal there as well.

504
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,360
Yeah, so, Joe was just pointing out some trace

505
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,320
and I've just picked up a piece there.

506
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,120
That's a nice trace.Yeah. That one there.

507
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,760
I've just shone the white light on it and it's just potch

508
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,600
but this other stuff has got a different turquoise-y colour

509
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,800
which means it's got a different body to it.

510
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,840
So it's like that might have colour that piece, but so far this is just potch.

511
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,520
Potch is colourless opal and low in value,

512
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:41,080
but a good indicator of ground with the potential to produce colour.

513
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,800
In this situation it's opal in the walls,

514
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:48,080
so what's really critical is take your time, start digging it out.

515
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,200
I've got some kind of opal.

516
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,520
I don't know what grade it is yet. I'm just pulling out the seam.

517
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,360
Picking out all the glowy pieces and chucking them in my bucket.

518
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,360
Ooh look at that.Awesome!

519
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,840
That's a seam. That's bloody awesome, Issy.

520
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,400
Once you see opal, you can't unsee it.

521
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,880
And this is awesome.

522
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,240
This literally could be a $100,000 pocket, $200,000 pocket.

523
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,920
Might be a few hours to dig it all out but it'll be worth it.

524
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,840
You know good for our spirits.

525
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,520
We've done well.Good job, mate. Cool.

526
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:33,680
Joe's looking busy. He is looking busy.Heya!

527
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,000
Morning, Joe.Morning.

528
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:40,640
Come to show you...From last night, yeah.Last night's efforts. Hey, cool bananas.

529
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:43,760
After an exhausting 4am-finish,

530
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,960
the Misfits are ready to appraise the opal from their nightshift.

531
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,840
I chucked it in the tumbler last night, I mean for a laugh.

532
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,040
So, oh, that's pretty.It is.

533
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,320
Hey, that's not bad. Not bad for a night shift.

534
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,000
Awesome.That's a nice one. Look at the sparkles on that.

535
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:06,240
There's one really good one in there. You'll see it in a minute.

536
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,520
Oh, this is crystal. Could be the Kingstone. You know, crystal opal.

537
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,000
It's definitely the Kingstone of this three ounces

538
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,160
Very nice.It's very electric, ay.

539
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,920
The misfits have jelly and crystal opal

540
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,800
with an intense rainbow spread of colour.

541
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,320
It's been tumbled and there's 85 grams.

542
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,120
So how much you reckon it's worth?

543
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:31,840
Er, from what I'm looking at here,

544
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,840
yeah, say 3,000 an ounce, say nine grand.

545
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,040
Yeah?Awesome.Yeah, nine grand. Wow.

546
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,960
I mean that one on its own is 1,500, 2,000

547
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,840
We're slowly getting to our target. Yes, slowly but surely.

548
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,640
Yeah, no, er, bottom dollar would be nine grand on it.

549
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:54,080
That was our first night dig. Good plan, Issy. Thinking outside the box.

550
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,600
Angel, you've done well. So it's been an awesome night.

551
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,200
Good day. Have the rest of the afternoon off. Cheers. Cheers.

552
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,080
Cheers.Yeah, I might even have a nanna nap, ay.

553
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,040
There's a plan. I need to rest my back.

554
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,280
It's a nice parcel, Les. Doesn't look too bad.

555
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,520
A lot of red in it.Yeah.

556
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,840
In Rod's Camp in Grawin,

557
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:26,840
the Bushmen are meeting a buyer

558
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,000
to sell a parcel of grey-based seam opal,

559
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:34,360
featuring fiery streaks of rare and highly sought after red.

560
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,480
In the rough, there's 45 grams.

561
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,360
Well, we've had a good look at it.

562
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,680
18 grand, asked for?Yeah.

563
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,720
I reckon we're gonna do all right with this.

564
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,080
He got rocks in his head, if he don't buy this.

565
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:55,920
Yeah. The opal buyer that we've got coming, erm, Steve Rival.

566
00:39:57,240 --> 00:40:00,680
Here he comes. Oi, wake up, he's here.Mm-hm.

567
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,920
He's not been around for all that long, but he is a good buyer.

568
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,480
How are we, gents? How you going, mate? Good, mate. How are things?

569
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,160
He's not a bad bloke.

570
00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:11,840
He seems to be pretty honest and pretty fair dinkum.

571
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,440
Warming up a bit. Oh, not wrong.Summer's coming.

572
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,120
How are you, mate? I'm good, mate.

573
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,240
My main market's international.

574
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,600
I buy opal pretty frequently.

575
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,480
In this game, it's hard not to.

576
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,960
A matter of survival in a lot of senses.

577
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,200
Les. Where'd you get the pup?

578
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,200
Oh, got him a few days ago.Yeah? Yeah, he's pretty cool.

579
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:38,040
Where you going? I'm looking at the dog.Oh.

580
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,840
What have you got here?Mate, I've got an absolute bald hair of a parcel for you.

581
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,520
Looks pretty bloody nice.

582
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,560
Make sure the glare don't blind you coming off that colour there, Steve.

583
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,640
Might have to get my sunnies out of the car.

584
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:56,800
Here, little boy. Come on. Oh, you got that!

585
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,920
Yeah. It's a nice parcel that one, mate.

586
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,120
My word it is.What sort of numbers are you looking at?

587
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,760
I reckon 18's probably a fair price.

588
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:09,760
Eighteen?

589
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,480
I'd love to be able to say 18 all day long, but...

590
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,440
All right, you've got that. Come on.

591
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,280
Tell you what, 15. That's all I got on me.

592
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,560
Oh, I don't know, Steve. I think it's worth more than 15, mate.

593
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,120
I mean, look at the reds, look at the colours in it. Oh, plenty of colour.

594
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:34,560
Look at that.That'd be the dead-set top of the line.

595
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,600
All right. I tell you what I'll do.

596
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,600
I'll go for 15 if you chuck your pup in for the old fella.

597
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,040
I only just got it the other day. I can't do that.

598
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,960
You've had the dog a couple of days, couldn't fall in love with it that much.

599
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,480
I'll give it to the old fella. He hasn't shown any interest in a dog since his old fella died.

600
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,760
I know he lost him. Mm, sad.

601
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,160
Yeah, righto.Really? For the old boy.

602
00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:07,400
Good on you, Steve.

603
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,880
Hey, Les, get the dog out of the car.Oh, righto.

604
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,040
He's got a pretty good run on him.Come on.

605
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,240
Pick him up.I am.

606
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,920
Carry him over here, mate.

607
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:25,240
You useless old goat. Sorry about that, little pup. He's a good pup, isn't he?

608
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,240
Ooh, yeah.Guess what?

609
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,520
He's yours.Oh, thanks for that.

610
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:38,200
So we come to the agreement, 15 grand for the opal and the pup. Yeah, that sounds all right.

611
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,480
What I'm gonna cop this afternoon when I get home is worth more than 15 grand.

612
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,120
I saw an opportunity there and I took it you know.

613
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:52,280
Old Les is missing his dog. It's been dead for about six months now and they were so close.

614
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:57,240
That's the first time I've ever seen the old bloke actually take an interest in another dog

615
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:01,960
and he walked straight over to the dog, so I think it's going to be a good thing for the old bloke.

616
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,160
Yeah, we miss out on a bit of money but it's only money.

617
00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:08,960
Thanks, mate.No worries, Les. Enjoy. He's a beautiful boy.

618
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:10,880
That was really good.

619
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,280
And the best part of the sale is when we got this as well.

620
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,040
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