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Righthand down a little bit.

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Yep.Yeah, try that.

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Righthand down.

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Whoa. Good work.

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What a day to do this.
Just after it poured down with rain.

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Yeah, it's not a real good scenario,

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but the old fella wants it moved
so that's what we're doing.

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Confidence. I've got this.(LAUGHS)

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Because it's so top heavy,
it's gonna do this stuff.Okay.

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So we just need to be
nice and steady

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without this sucking that dirt up

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from all the way underground.
We're (BLEEP)

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Here we go, Sam.

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Slowly. Straighten your wheels.

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Keep going.

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LES: Whoa.Whoa.Little bit more.

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Whoa.

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That's not going anywhere.

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ROD: Nah.
Just let it sit for a minute.

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How bad is it, Les?
Solid ground on this side.

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If we go back any further,
that's not gonna go over the hole.
Yep. Right where it is.

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I'm surprised that
we got that all in one go.

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I was actually quite nervous
about it all happening.

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Now we gotta go
move the digger and everything

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and start digging in the ground
where there's no opal,
and we'll probably get killed.

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Nothing wrong with that.

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NARRATOR: Grawin,
outback New South Wales.

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A remote off-grid community
of 200 people

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living in camps scattered
across the desolate opal fields.

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Right, Les, are you ready
to do this?Yep.

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You all right with them?Yeah.
You need help?No.

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Are you sure?No.

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So what we're about to do now
is put some blocks under the wheels

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and lower the pipes underground.

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They run all the way
up that shaft into the blower

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sucking that dirt up
from all the way underground.

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At Robbie's Claim, the Bushmen,

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Rod Manning, Les Walsh,
and Sam Mehan,

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have returned to the most
dangerous mine they've ever worked.

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For some strange reason,
Les wants to go back up

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to where we were before,
and there's no talking sense to him.

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We were working up there on the road
and we were getting good opal,

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but the roof collapsed on us
and nearly killed us.

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(COUGHS)Hold that rope.
Are you okay?

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So there is opal here.

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(LAUGHS) Are you joking?
How good's this.

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But how much is it
gonna cost you to find it?

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Rod wants to get out of this claim,

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but we're staying
a little bit longer

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just to make sure that
there's nothing just in front of us.

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And if it don't work,
that's it, we pull out.

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I know it's under there somewhere.

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That will do us.

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So I guess we go downstairs
and drag that elbow over, eh?Yeah.

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I hope Robbie's has opal here.

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It is a lot of work

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to pull all your gear up
and then start again.

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It's gonna need to come up to there.
Yeah. You go up and take it up.

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End of last season, we agreed
Les was gonna stay on the surface
and do maintenance.

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It is dangerous underground,

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and he's done
his years of hard work.

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Doesn't seem like
I'm gonna retire at the moment.

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That will do.

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We haven't found any money
that would be useful enough

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to retire on.

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Down a bit more.

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Unfortunately, opal is rare,
and it's hard to find.

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You've got to have
that passion for it.

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Sam's a good one.

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She's addicted to opal
like the rest of us.

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That's it.Oh, nice.

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I'm a third generation miner.

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My grandfather was a miner
and so is my Dad.

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If we don't make money, we can't buy
diesel to keep on digging.

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We don't even have money
to buy food to eat.

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We got to get the digger
out of here.

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Just grab a hose each.

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We wanna move the digger
60 or 80 feet, something like that.

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It's a bit tippy tippy this there,
Les.

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It is a bit rocky.Mm.

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The digger is extremely important.

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It is amazing how much more dirt

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you can move with a digger
than with a jackhammer.

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Very soft here. I don't know.
Yeah, it's digging further in.

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You get one side
go into the soft ground,

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and then it over balances,

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and if you're on the wrong side,
the arm will wipe you out.

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(GASPS)

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Geez, I thought
she was going then, Les.

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Rod's trying
to turn around the digger.

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Problem is that
there's not enough room

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and we don't want the digger to tip.

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Just give me a little bit more pipe.
That's it.

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Sam.

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Just get out of there, mate,
'cause there is a chance
I'm gonna tip this.

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I reckon this claim's prospected.
I've had enough of it.

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RENEE: I know you wanna get out.
Dust everywhere.

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No level to follow.
Just little blobs of stuff.

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Yeah.
But more importantly no colour.

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Well, there's another cut
over there,

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and there's a road in between.

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That hasn't been prospected yet.
What do you wanna do about that?

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Just sink hole a down.
Sink a shaft down.

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That's easy.
You can use that logic everywhere.

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There's lots of roads
all over the place.I still think
we should give it a go.

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I'll show you. I'll go pick a spot.

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All right. They left it
all in the middle.Yeah.

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(SIGHS) All right, where do you want
this bloody shaft?

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I reckon how about here.

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We'll get David with his drill.

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Yeah. If you want.

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I'm sorry I'm negative.
I'll support ya.
You gotta go with your gut.

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Yeah. Just one last shot.
Yeah, okay.Come on.

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Okay.Quick, hurry up.All right.

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Coober Pedy, South Australia.

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Scarred by over a century of mining.

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It's where an estimated 85%
of the world's opal has been found.

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Here the Opal Lovers,
Renee Everest...

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I'll make a nice dusty pile of dirt.

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...and Dan Measey...You're getting
in a ways too. Got to watch this.

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...are kicking off
the new mining season

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by drilling a 12-metre shaft

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under the road
on their Black Flag claim.

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That spot is the only spot
that hasn't been mined yet.

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It still has virgin ground.

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Got a really strong gut feeling
about this one,

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and hopefully I'm right
in this occasion.

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Black Flag's an old field.
It's somewhere
a lot of opal's been found.

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Digging virgin ground,
we could hit money at any time.

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We've worked it pretty hard.
We're doing trenches

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and looking around,
and it's not looking too great.

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It's ugly, dusty, soft stuff.

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You wouldn't even think
there's opal in that.Yeah, I know.

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Well, that's why I wanna go up
on the road and try up there.

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Dan and I, we've got a bet on
at the moment.

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If we find opal,
Dan pays for dinner.

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If we don't find opal,
I pay for dinner.

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It's not easy just to say
let's drill a shaft.

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The worse problem is it's more
time and money spent doing it,

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but maybe there could be opal.

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So sometimes you gotta
follow through with gut feelings.

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Got the potatoes.Yeah,
I'll peel them.
Yep, I'm good at that.

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You are a much better cook than me
though.Nah, I just like food.

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Life's been really good
since I moved to Coober Pedy.

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But we have to meet our target

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otherwise I won't be able to stay
and I have to go back to Adelaide.

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I do quite a lot of horse riding
dressage, horse riding coaching.

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So it's a huge
lifestyle change for me.

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To escape Coober Pedy's scorching
45-degree Celsius temperatures,

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Dan and Renee live in a dugout home
carved into the earth.

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Living underground,
it's a lot darker,

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and we're really remote. So it's
a lot harder to get fresh food,

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and it's really expensive.

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Costs a lot
with transporting the food up here.

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Last season wasn't good
for us at all.

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We were nowhere near target.

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I can hear a knock in the diff.
So how much is that gonna cost?

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Twenty, thirty.Thirty grand?Yeah.

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We have to find opal.
That's how we make money.

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To maintain Renee and I
both living and working together,

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our target again
this season is $300,000.

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Really, that's minimum
with two of us on board.

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Look at that monster.
Oh, wow. How old is it?

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Fifty or sixty years old
at least, yeah.

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What a weapon.

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David's got a lot of experience
operating drills.

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He's a long-time opal miner,
a great guy.

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Mr David.Thanks for giving us
a hand.Absolutely.

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Hi, Cat. How you going?Good.
How are you?Good.Hi, Cat.

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DAVID: She's an old drill built
from many pieces over the years.

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We've just finished
putting this drill back.
It owes me quite a bit of money.

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RENEE: I reckon this is the spot.
Right in the middle of the road?

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DANIEL: If there's a million dollars
down there, I'll divert the road.

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So I think we need to go 40.
35, 40 at least.

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30 or 40 feet.
Is percentage an option?

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Look, if you reckon
the signs are good,

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I reckon we could do 15%.
What do you reckon?

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All right.Cheers, mate.Easy.

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We're gonna pay David
15% on the opal that we find.

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So it will be worth his time
as long as we find opal.

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David's prospecting drill
has a corkscrew tip

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that bores through layers
of thick sandstone

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and can lift the displaced rock
and dirt to the surface.

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We at least need this shaft
30, 35 ideally.

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We're thinking the level's 30, 31,
so we need to go past it.

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How long's this gonna take?
'Cause it doesn't look like
it's going down into the ground.

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It will be couple of hours.
A couple of hours?
I thought it'd be 10 minutes.Nah.

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Once he gets deeper
and the dirt spins out,
we've got to pull the dirt away.

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This season I'm up here full-time.
It's double the manpower.

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But with me learning more
and getting more experience

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in the machinery
really helps Dan out.

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Hopefully David's gonna
let me have a go in a minute.

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We're probably deep enough now.
If you wanted to have a try,
you'd be more than welcome to.

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Renee's come a long way
from where she started.

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Not knowing anything
about mining to now

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knowing a lot more about opal
and getting on all the tools.

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Hand on here.Yeah.Full pull.

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And watch your head
come out of the ground.

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Oh, here we go.Bit of revs.

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Yep.Yeah.And now off the clutch.

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Yep.Beautiful.
(LAUGHS) That's the fun part.

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So...Full down. Yeah.
Nice and steady off the clutch.

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That's it.
Yahoo. I did that that time.

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You did well.
You're going all right.

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(BANG)Oy.Oh.
Down, down, down, down.

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I didn't like
the sound of that, David.
We've just blown a hydraulic hose.

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I haven't broken anything, have I?
I don't know.

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But we're gonna go have a look.

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MATT: Look at that.
COZZA: Reckon there's opal there?

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00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,560
Well, mate,
these wires are crossing over.

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I don't reckon you're finding opal.
You're finding some water.

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I don't know.Kangaroo pissed
down there or something.(LAUGHS)

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Normally points to where
the ground fault's gonna be.

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Generally we find the best opal
in the deepest spot of the hill
where all the water just drops.

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We chuck a hole down here, eh?
Have a look.Yeah.

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X marks the spot.
Let's get this season kicking.

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Hell yeah.(LAUGHS) Yeah.

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I got my tooth bucket sitting
in the back of the truck right now.

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We're gonna need that
to break the ground.

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Yeah, straight back, mate.
Yeah, about there, mate.

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Hey, man, what the hell!(BLEEP)

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You all right?Yeah.
You had one job, mate.

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Nah, this one's broken.

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I'm gonna pull this switch apart.
Give me a minute.

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Andamooka, South Australia.

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This hostile landscape
was once a remote sheep station

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until the 1930s
when the discovery of opal

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brought a rush of fortune hunters
to the region.

231
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Is that hitch on?No.

232
00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:44,320
And now the Mooka Boys,
brothers Matt...

233
00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,560
How about now?
...and Colin "Cozza" Kathagen...

234
00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,600
Nah.What the hell.

235
00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:52,320
...have begun their season
with crippling machinery failure.

236
00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,240
The quick hitch allows you
to take the bucket on and off

237
00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,200
and change your bucket to
your ripper and things like that.

238
00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,680
If I can't hold a bucket on that
hitch, then we can't dig.Yeah.

239
00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,200
This is the only machine
we've got right now so.

240
00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,520
Yeah, last year
was a absolute disaster financially.

241
00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,640
We only pulled in
about $11,000 all year.

242
00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,320
So we literally walked away
with nothing in our pocket.

243
00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,040
All right, bruv, I'm just gonna go
whack a few things
around the hydraulic pump.

244
00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,080
Get some solenoids. Just tell me
if that opens up again, eh?

245
00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,040
Our dreams are
slipping away from us.

246
00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,320
We don't even have enough money
to keep a whole team here
at the moment.

247
00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:32,320
Last season left the Mooka Boys
a man down,

248
00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,640
team leader and chief mechanic
Leif Tanzer.

249
00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,680
Leif's moved down south
for his business.

250
00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,440
He's got another contract down there
so we're both trying
to be the mechanic.

251
00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,360
Lot easier when he was around.
He'd just jump in and fix it.

252
00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,720
Is that good?
Nah, nothing's happening.

253
00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,080
Leif with his business
has a lot of bills to pay.

254
00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,680
So unfortunately
unless we have a really big win,

255
00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,280
we're not gonna have him here
for most of the season.

256
00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,120
Season target's $200,000 this year.
Bit optimistic.

257
00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,360
We've been out here
for a few seasons now
and haven't made any money.

258
00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,560
Got me missus
and two kids there at home,

259
00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,480
so really down in the dumps.

260
00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:09,200
Last year gave us a big scare
with having to rush my daughter
out of here.

261
00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,440
Aria's virus turned
into bronchitis in her lungs,

262
00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,600
so I had to leave Cozzie
all by himself.

263
00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:17,920
We ended up about 800km away
in Adelaide Hospital.

264
00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,800
The Royal Flying Doctors definitely
saved my daughter's life.

265
00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:23,840
I just found the fuse box.

266
00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,760
I'm just checking the solenoid fuse
which is blown.Righto.

267
00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:31,000
We've got another 15 amp fuse
in there.Yeah.

268
00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,920
Big problem like this,
it's hard to know what it is.

269
00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,240
We don't know
where to start looking,
but a fuse? A fuse I can do.

270
00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:38,920
Thanks, mate.

271
00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,800
If we get this quick hitch working,

272
00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,800
then we're back digging
and I'm happy.

273
00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:44,520
Looks good.All right.

274
00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,040
Yeah, it's working now, mate.
You beauty.

275
00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,960
This whole hill is untouched.
The other three quarters

276
00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,240
had a lot of opal, fossils,
all sorts of stuff.

277
00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,080
We're hoping this untouched ground
is holding something really special.

278
00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:10,920
The Mooka Boys are open-cut mining
a 50-by-100 metre claim,

279
00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,440
one of the last remaining patches
of virgin ground

280
00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,920
surrounded by heavily worked mines.

281
00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,720
There's a cut on the other side
of this hill with a bit of a tunnel.
It's on the border of our claim.

282
00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,120
Way back in the day, a lot of people

283
00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,520
started camping underground
when it gets too hot.

284
00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,480
The main level
we're looking for is...

285
00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,040
...this one down here
that's got the round rocks.

286
00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,840
They're from
when the big glacial ice sheets
pushed over the top of it.

287
00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,480
That's why they're all rounded.
Some of them,

288
00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,960
they'll go underneath the glacier
and they'll crack.

289
00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:47,200
The opal deposit form a line of opal
straight through the crack
in that rock.

290
00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,080
Ao as soon as you start hitting
some of them rounded rocks,

291
00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,040
that's a level
that could produce opal.

292
00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,840
Just looking for material
that they might have left behind.

293
00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,000
There's a couple of pieces here.

294
00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,560
No colour in it, but they've got
some weird looking holes in them.

295
00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:11,960
I'm wondering if they're fossil.

296
00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,240
There's been a lot found around
this area. It's got me fascinated.

297
00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,680
A hundred million years ago,

298
00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,640
the Eromanga Sea covered

299
00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,200
one million sq km
of Central Australia.

300
00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,520
This was the domain
of giant marine reptiles.

301
00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,960
Over millennia,
silica rich water filled the voids

302
00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,000
left behind
by their decayed skeletons

303
00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,000
and eventually hardened
to form opalised fossils.

304
00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:45,200
How'd it go?Found some material
pretty much sitting
on top of the mud level.

305
00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,400
What have you got?
It's got some holes in it.

306
00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,840
I don't really know what it is.
Oh, mate.

307
00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,080
Little bit of colour to that too.
Is there?

308
00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,600
Bit of greeny bluey. I just can't
quite tell if it's a bone or not.

309
00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,760
Yeah, that's why
I'm thinking coral reef or?

310
00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,480
We need to go find someone smarter
to have a look at this.

311
00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,040
Yeah.Oh, good job though, bro.

312
00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:07,280
This year we are starting with
absolutely nothing in the kitty.

313
00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:11,600
We need some sort of win,
otherwise I don't even know if we'll
make it through this season.

314
00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,960
ROD: Sam.
Just get out of there, mate.

315
00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,160
Ooh. This dirt here in the floor
is so soft.

316
00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,080
I'm digging over this side.
It wants to tip over on us.

317
00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,800
SAM: If the digger tipped,
we'd be in a bit of trouble.

318
00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,960
It's going straight on its side,
and we have to get it back up.

319
00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,480
This is about nearly 2 tonne.

320
00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,720
These are horrible
to put back on their feet.

321
00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,800
We tipped one over 20 years ago.

322
00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,200
We actually had to get a drill
and drill a hole down to lift it up.

323
00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,040
So what Les is actually doing is
swinging off this side of the digger

324
00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:52,040
to put a little bit of weight
on that side.

325
00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:55,280
Every little bit counts.
It doesn't need to be much at times

326
00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:57,840
to stop it from over balancing.

327
00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,760
Ah, now she's right.

328
00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,840
Ho-ho, we're around the corner.
We sure are.

329
00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,600
See, it knows just like I do,
there's no bloody opal up here.

330
00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,200
The Bushmen's Les Walsh
is refusing to give up

331
00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,440
on the dangerous and crumbling
Robbie's Claim.

332
00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:22,360
Righto.What do you reckon about
from here and sort of go straight?

333
00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,360
Yeah, well, you've got us up here,

334
00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,960
so you may as well tell us
where to dig.

335
00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,160
Mine partners
Rod Manning and Sam Mehan

336
00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,320
are giving him one last chance
to find opal.

337
00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,520
We've been here for so long.
We haven't made money.

338
00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,680
It's tried to kill us
the whole bloody time.

339
00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,880
I just wanna get out of here.
I don't wanna work here any more.

340
00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,560
Righto, no opal.
Let's get out of here.

341
00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,360
(LAUGHS)We will.

342
00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,080
We'll go home. That's easy fixed.

343
00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,720
I will admit the roof does look
a little bit better here
than what it does down there.

344
00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,800
We do have a fault
running through the roof

345
00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,200
and starts to swing
in this direction.

346
00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,840
But I'd way prefer to see it here
in the wall than up in the roof.

347
00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,840
Rod wants to get out of this claim.

348
00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,120
But we've got to find some opal
to pay for another claim.

349
00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,480
And if that doesn't happen,

350
00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,080
well, yeah, I don't know
what's gonna happen after that.

351
00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,840
At the end of the day, we gotta do
something to keep digging.

352
00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,120
I don't know how to do anything else
at this stage.

353
00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,000
Same with Les.

354
00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:24,920
Really feel it with young Sam,

355
00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,480
but she's tough.
She's got the right ticker.

356
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,440
She knows
what this lifestyle's like.

357
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,400
There's green, Rod.
Eh?That's green.

358
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,720
You never know what's behind it,
and that's the best colour
we've seen so far.Really it is.

359
00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,760
We'll see if it develops into
anything else.Yeah, sounds good.

360
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,120
Opal mining isn't just about
digging dirt to find opal.

361
00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,360
Reality is you have to take out
a lot of dirt off the blower pipes.

362
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,280
These pipes go all the way
up that shaft into the blower.

363
00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:56,600
So any rock that will fit
in a 10-inch pipe,

364
00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,160
this machine will suck it
to the surface.

365
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,120
Just you're 20 times quicker.

366
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,680
I'll get you to get a bit of time in
on the diggy.

367
00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:09,280
I'm gonna fly up and check
whether that truck's getting close
to being full.Yeah, no worries.

368
00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:14,800
It's super exciting being able
to jump on the digger
and learn this side of it.

369
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,040
You don't always get the opportunity
to do this, so it's fantastic.

370
00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:20,600
And it just shows me
what I wanna work towards.

371
00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,920
Got a jackhammer
and a pelican pick at the moment,

372
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,480
and I'd much prefer
a digger and blower eventually.

373
00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,240
What's wrong with the truck, Les?

374
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,240
Just can't get it started.

375
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,240
It's winding over,
but nothing's firing.

376
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,960
The hard part about
all these breakdowns,

377
00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,280
we're trying to start the truck,
we're not getting
any closer to opal.

378
00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,800
We're just sitting around
doing bugger all.

379
00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,120
It's out of fuel.
I put diesel in this the other day.

380
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,480
I think we've been milked.

381
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,480
Yeah.They come through of a night,

382
00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,280
and they syphon all the diesel
out of your tanks.

383
00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,440
We've got three drums
of diesel left,

384
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,600
and then some lowlife comes along
and steals the little tiny bit
of diesel we've got.

385
00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,920
And we can't find a little bit opal
in those next runs...

386
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,200
Let's go see the oracle, eh?
If these are fossils,

387
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,760
it's gonna be worth thousands
just them pieces, mate.

388
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,400
Yeah, we do need a pay check, so.

389
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,120
We've come down to see the oracle
Peter Taubers.

390
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,560
He's got the best collection
in town of fossils.

391
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,120
So it's definitely worth
running them by him

392
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,200
just in case we've got
something good here.

393
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,680
Pete, he owns the museum.

394
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,680
And, yeah, he's a miner,
been here a long time mining.

395
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,280
So he's seen a lot of stuff
come out of the ground.

396
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,720
What have we got in here? Oh, ho,

397
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,920
that's what we're looking for.
Yeah, look at that.Wow.

398
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,600
Peter, how you going?Hey, guys.
How you going?Yeah, good, thanks.
How you going?

399
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,960
We noticed that new painting
you've got in here.

400
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,040
It's a plesiosaur.
It's a swimming dinosaur.

401
00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:01,200
100 million to 120 million
years old.Yeah, excellent.

402
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,360
When you find them, they're normally
in a pile and all bunched up.

403
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,120
So it's not gonna look exactly like
that in the ground. (LAUGHS) No, no.

404
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,760
We've had a little bit of a find
in an old tunnel.

405
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,840
We thought we'd show you
what we found.

406
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,120
I'll have a look for you.
Thanks, mate.

407
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,960
If it's a bone,
you'll see structure.

408
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,160
Proper bone structure
that you can see.

409
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,840
You'll see the bone end.

410
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,600
A really good piece can go
for 10,000, 20,000, 30,000.

411
00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,360
Who's the excited one?
I'm hoping. (LAUGHS)

412
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,440
I'm hoping.You're wrong.

413
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,080
Oh, man.I'm sorry to say
it is potch and it's not a fossil.

414
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,040
So they're worth nothing.

415
00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:41,000
Potch is what we call common opal,
but it has absolutely no colour.

416
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,200
Bit disappointing this morning,
but we've got a lot more to dig.

417
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,560
Okay, this is a bone.
This a plesiosaur rib bone.

418
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,560
It's been broken,
but you can see the bone structure
when you look directly on the end.

419
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,160
Like a lamb chop, stuff like that.
Right.

420
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,080
This is worth $5,000, maybe more.

421
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,400
Well, we really appreciate you
sharing your wealth of knowledge.
No worries. That's all right.

422
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,240
Thought we might have had
a quick win.

423
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,200
We haven't got any big money,
but it's still worth the hunt.

424
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,400
We're gonna keep looking and hope
we can come across something.

425
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,840
Dig, dig, dig. Let's get into it.
That's right, yeah.

426
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,800
Me and Matty have worked together
for a long time.

427
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,200
I like working with my brother.
So, yeah,

428
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,480
hopefully we can make something
out of this and keep it going.

429
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,600
We've got about halfway down
to where we wanna be,

430
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,800
about 17, 18 foot.
But we still need to get to 30,

431
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,480
so we've got a fair way to go.

432
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:34,720
(ENGINE SPUTTERING)

433
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,320
What's going on?Won't start.

434
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,640
You're kidding me.
Don't see nothing.

435
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,840
Using this truck
to pull the dirt out of the hole.

436
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,120
I can try and get everything
out with the digger,

437
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,400
but every time I bring a load up,

438
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,320
I got to slowly drag it back out
the hole again,

439
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,000
which means
instead of taking 10 minutes,
it's gonna take maybe an hour.

440
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,240
We just can't do that.
This poor digger cannot handle that.

441
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,360
How hard is it to move dirt?
Can you just grab me
the spanner roll or something?

442
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,880
Where you going?Nah, I'm going.

443
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,600
(BLEEP) What are you doing?
I'm trying to fix the truck.

444
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,000
You're not gonna go.
I'm going down the hole.

445
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,560
We need to get this shaft down.
DAVID: We need to get him down.

446
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,080
RENEE: We haven't made
any money for the season yet.

447
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:34,760
It's opal mining, isn't it?Yeah.

448
00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,880
Be couple of hours,
maybe hour or two of fixing that.

449
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,720
We're not finding opal at the moment

450
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,040
'cause we've blown a hose
on the drill.

451
00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:44,320
So that means it's not looking good.

452
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,720
The issue we've got here is
when you put these reusable ends on,

453
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,800
you've got to skive the rubber back
to bare the steel braiding.

454
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,960
But when we do that,
the steel braiding's spreading apart
'cause it's so old and tired.

455
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,280
I've got a roll
of this hose at home.
This is just gonna waste time.

456
00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:01,200
Let's go back to your place.
Let's do it.

457
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,000
In this environment, Coober Pedy's
not friendly on anything.

458
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,000
So they dry out and get
sort of perished and crispy.

459
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,800
We've cut a length of hose.
We put the two ends on.

460
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,120
As long as that seats home
pretty well,

461
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,920
we're back in action.

462
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,320
We've lost a bit of time today.

463
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,600
We've pretty much exhausted
all of our finances from last year

464
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,520
because we didn't reach our target.

465
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,520
So hopefully this season
we have a much better season
and be not in the red so much.

466
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,160
Well then, we better keep drilling.

467
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,960
Yes, you should.Excellent.
We better get stuck into it.

468
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,360
I understand where
Dan and Renee are coming from.

469
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,480
It's tight always
at the start of the season,

470
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,680
so hopefully we can get
some opal in here

471
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,440
and make some money again.

472
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:41,840
That's in. Beautiful.

473
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,320
Opal is what I'm committed to.
I have to keep going.

474
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,240
It's what I wanna be doing.

475
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,360
I wanna be successful for Renee
and I, and Renee does as well,

476
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,840
so I'm always on the hunt
for an amazing opal.

477
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,640
(MOBILE RINGING)
Hey, George. How you going?

478
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,560
Good. I just got a customer
looking for some dark base material.

479
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,600
Wondering if you've
come across anything.

480
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,840
I don't have anything right now,
but I'm out working in Black Flag.

481
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,720
If we get something, we'll call you.

482
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,640
Excellent. All right. Cheers.
Thanks.

483
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,480
George runs a shop in town.
A good friend of mine.

484
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,880
It'd be a big win for us to find
some dark material to offer.

485
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,520
Dark base opal is seriously valuable

486
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,360
so I'm hoping we can find some
to offer George's customer.

487
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,600
RENEE: Dan.What's that?

488
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,040
That's opal.Is that from there?
Yeah. I just picked it up then.

489
00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:35,480
So that would have come up
out of that last lot.

490
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,240
When you're drilling holes
like this, it's not easy to see

491
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,720
any opal in what we bring up so.

492
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,960
I might know
what I'm talking about after all.

493
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,680
You might have done all right.

494
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,120
It's only potch,
but it's nice material.Yeah.

495
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,880
Oop. That just pulled out.

496
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,760
What did you do?Nothing.

497
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,600
That grabbed something.

498
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,040
Come over here.

499
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:03,720
Look what's happened.

500
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,360
See that.Oh.

501
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,200
There's bloody old drives
under there.There's a big hole.

502
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,960
They've done underground workings.

503
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,360
Your so-called good spot
is right on top of them.

504
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,120
So there might not be any opal?

505
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,480
If there was, it's likely they took
it all out.It's already gone.

506
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,400
Just no money again.

507
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,200
LES: It's out of fuel.

508
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,400
I put diesel in this the other day.
Yeah.

509
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,160
So we've been milked.

510
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,520
Someone's syphoned the diesel
out of the tank.

511
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,400
There's always lowlife around
who'll come around and do it.

512
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,200
'Cause we're right on the main road,
they get a bit desperate

513
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,240
so they go around
and start stealing diesel off ya.

514
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,800
And I think the (BLEEP)
have done me too.

515
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,120
Right, we'll give that
another try, Les.

516
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,840
Without funds
to replace their stolen diesel...

517
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,200
She's going now.
...the Bushmen have to find opal

518
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,400
before their remaining supply
runs dry.

519
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,080
We've got to have the truck going
to shift dirt.

520
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,760
If we don't shift the dirt,
we're not gonna find any opal.

521
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,520
A very simple chain of events.

522
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,600
All right. I guess we gotta find
Les's load.SAM: Yeah.

523
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,400
Les is still very confident
there's something in here.

524
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,400
This claim isn't particularly
producing very much.

525
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,600
But the reality is
even to go get a new claim

526
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,720
and move our machinery,
we need to find opal

527
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,800
to get money to be able
to make that move.

528
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,080
Oh.We're hitting
steel band up there.Yeah.

529
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,320
Steel band is highly compressed
clay and silica,

530
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,960
and it's supposed to be about
50 times harder than concrete.

531
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,280
Where the natural fractures
in that steel band are,

532
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,160
they're filling up with common opal
with no colour in it.

533
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,160
Hold up there for a moment.

534
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,160
Ooh, there's a bit
of purple there, Rod.

535
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,840
Bit of colour.There is, too, Sam.

536
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,720
Give it a bit of a scrape,
but I think it's just gonna be...
(LAUGHS)Oh.

537
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,280
Here it is.Oh, there, Sam.
What's going on here?

538
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,400
I'm gonna get the jackhammer.
Hang on.

539
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,040
There.

540
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,920
I got it. Ooh.Have you got it?

541
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,680
(LAUGHS)

542
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,360
Oh.One piece.

543
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,240
One good piece.It would have been
in that little pocket there.

544
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,840
You can see where
it's right underneath that feeder
so that should be here.

545
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,920
Theoretically.Theoretically,
it should be here somewhere.

546
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,760
Found anything yet?

547
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,160
Well, can you smell it?
Can you, Les?

548
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,040
Yeah.What you doing down here?

549
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,160
Sam just found
a really nice little bit.

550
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,160
Good. I told you it was here.
We got one piece.

551
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,520
One piece is better
than no piece.Oh.

552
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,480
(LAUGHS)

553
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,560
We've nearly got enough
to buy a drum of diesel, Les.

554
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,440
Well, that's good.Oh, ho.

555
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,280
(LAUGHS)

556
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,800
We've got two drums of diesel now.
Yes.(LAUGHS)

557
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,480
I'm absolutely cheering.

558
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,120
We'll go down here.
Not much going on
up the top of the hill today.

559
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,720
Nah, I'm sick of that truck.
I don't know what I'm doing there.

560
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,520
I found those pieces
in here in the level.

561
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,600
Well, I'd really love to see
some opal, mate, so I'm keen.

562
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,040
We were hoping to get
a good run out of the truck.

563
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,680
It sort of let us down today.

564
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,000
It was always a bit easier
with Leif around.

565
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:27,080
He'd be able to tweak a few things
and getting it running,
but that's just how it is.

566
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,200
It's a really old tunnel here,
but it's really nice ground.

567
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,960
Obviously the guys have got
something out of here before.

568
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,480
So let's just hope
they left something behind.

569
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,400
Yeah, I'll show you exactly where
I pulled those pieces out.

570
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,120
Cozzie found some opal here earlier.

571
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,160
Best thing we can do is grab
some picks and come down for a dig.

572
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,040
See if we can find some more
down here.

573
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,600
A lot of fossils found around here,
so that's what we're coming for.

574
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,280
They can be worth a lot more money
even if they are potch.

575
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,440
If they are a fossil,
somebody will buy the fossil off us.

576
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,280
See that little pocket there?Yeah.

577
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,280
Here's your pick, mate.
Thanks, mate. You're a legend.

578
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,920
I just stand back and look for
any bit of shaking from the pick.

579
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,120
2 foot, 3 foot above
what he's digging there.

580
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,040
You worry everything's had time
to dry out,

581
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,360
and it can drop
that whole section down.(SIGHS)

582
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,040
It's not the easiest ground, is it?

583
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,200
You want the blacklight
to have a run over it.

584
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,800
The blacklight's a UV light.
Anything white shows up.

585
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,400
So with opal, because it's silica,
it will shine that silica up.

586
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,240
There's little bits of trace. Oh.

587
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,120
I just seen something. Oh, yeah,
look at that.Yeah, right.

588
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,120
Look at that, bro. (LAUGHS)
That's a decent size piece.

589
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,720
Let me lever it out.
With the light, look at it.

590
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,280
See if it's got colour.
There's got to be more.

591
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,120
Might have a little bit
of colour in it.(SIGHS)

592
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,000
Not too sure.
Oh, it's gone vertical.

593
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,920
Yeah, look at that.
Standing right up there.

594
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,800
There's got to be colour. Come on.

595
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,760
Hey, bro, remember how Pete
was showing us those bones.

596
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,880
Oh, what? Yeah?
Does that have the lines on it?

597
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,520
Feels like a bone.
Yeah, is it clam or something?

598
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,680
That's the other bit
you handed to me first.

599
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,640
Oh, look at that.

600
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,920
That looks like a bone.
(LAUGHS)Yeah.

601
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000
Oh, man. If that's a bone,
what did he say? Five, six grand?

602
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,120
It looks like this has got
the lines on it.

603
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,760
Oh, let me check the rest
of the wall, bro. Hold that.

604
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,720
We just found a little parcel.
Pretty sure we've got
one little fossil bone in there.

605
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,560
I'm not sure exactly what it is,
but...

606
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,400
...we might have
actually had a bit of luck
and got what we're looking for.

607
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,040
DAVID: Not the outcome
we were hoping for.

608
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,600
DANIEL: Give us a bit of time.
No worries.Thanks.

609
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,200
Thank you very much.
Thanks heaps, David. Thanks, Cat.

610
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,640
Thanks, Cat.Until next time.Yeah.

611
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,280
RENEE: Pretty deflating
that we've hit
these underground workings.

612
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,800
Possibly all the opal's gone now.

613
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,680
We've been out here all day as well.

614
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,880
So, yeah, might be
just another waste of time.

615
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,520
I'll have to explain how this works
'cause you haven't put
ladders down before.

616
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,400
When we lower one down,
we then clip the other ones to it.

617
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,120
Now get the pipe ready.

618
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,440
That steel pipe
is what holds the ladder.

619
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,160
I'm pretty nervous
about going down there.

620
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,400
I'm not sure whether
I'm gonna do it or not yet.

621
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,280
It's a big deal for someone
their first time going down ladders.

622
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,240
The worse is she loses her footing,

623
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,960
and she goes down, and it's not
just the hit at the bottom.

624
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,920
It's all the stuff you bounce off
going down the shaft.

625
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,880
All right. I'm just gonna go for it.

626
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,320
The more I think about it,
the worse it's gonna be.

627
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,640
Just do what you're doing.
They'll be a bit of dust of falling.

628
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,920
Oh, dear me. It's pretty scary, Dan.
I don't know how you do this.

629
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,120
When you get into the open area,
your ladder doesn't push
against the wall.

630
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,480
Just be aware
it's gonna be a bit more wobbly.

631
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,520
Oh, wow, it is opening up, isn't it?

632
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,200
Today was about getting
the shaft down for Renee.

633
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,000
I didn't really have much faith
in it, but opal's got no rules.

634
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,280
If she gets a feeling,
we've got to follow it

635
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,160
because you don't wanna have
if, buts and maybes.

636
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,640
So what type of equipment
would they use?

637
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,760
Some tunnelling machines are made
to fit down the small shafts.

638
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,920
Maybe they dropped it
down one of those,
and it's been covered up.

639
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,800
All right. So which way first?
I reckon go down this way.

640
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,360
They've done some blasting.

641
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,680
So that's old fuse
from the explosives.Oh.

642
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,960
That fuse would've been
when the shots went off
and pushed the dirt out.

643
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,640
See here, look. Put a bomb in there
and then they've never cleaned it
out so we'll shovel it out.

644
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,400
I'll do the bulk of it, then you can
clean him out, eh?Yeah.

645
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,760
Rather than hand-digging,
they'll put a couple of shots.

646
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,760
But looks like they put the bombs in
and haven't dug around.

647
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,280
Hopefully that works well for us.
I'm gonna have jack-pick in there.

648
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,120
Most important thing is that
we're actually finding opal

649
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:46,160
and selling it to make a profit
and keep me here.
Just might get the black light.

650
00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:47,880
You want the blacklight?

651
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,800
Okay.Oh, wow. Look at that.

652
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,200
Hey.Oh, my God, Dan.

653
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,640
Look, that's got greens in it,
I reckon.Oh.You found more.

654
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,280
I'm gonna hand them back,
then we'll have a look, eh?Yeah.

655
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,800
That's good colour.Oh, my God.

656
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,280
All right, do you want to sit up
and have a look?

657
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,560
Oh.(LAUGHS) Look at that.

658
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,960
That's a huge piece.Oh.
Look at that.

659
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,000
Oh, my God.
Look at the size of that.

660
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,800
That is sparkling.
Dark base. Good colour.

661
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,760
That is excellent. All right.
Well done.

662
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,040
Your spot was all right.
High five.Good job.

663
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,680
(LAUGHS)High five, whatever.
You did well.

664
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:30,480
Go get the bucket.
I'll keep digging.

665
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,080
Let's hope we got something
for Pete.

666
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,600
It looks like a bone.
It's exactly what he says.

667
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,080
Let's just hope this is gonna be
a pay day, bruv.

668
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:45,760
What are you reckoning?

669
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,600
I don't know, mate.

670
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,760
I don't know what we're gonna ask,
but I don't think there's much money
in this stuff.No.

671
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,440
All the value's gonna be
in this bad boy, man.

672
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,080
I'm thinking like
six and a half grand.

673
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,200
Yeah, we'll go six and a half, and

674
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,880
(SIGHS) I don't know,
the lowest three and half, eh?

675
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,480
Anything in the middle's
gonna be a damn good bonus.

676
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,040
If it is what we're thinking.
I hope it is, mate.
Let's go make a deal.

677
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,600
How you going, Pete?
Hey, how you going?Good, mate.

678
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,960
We went and dug out more of that
level we first found stuff.Yep.

679
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,040
Found all of this. We're hoping
maybe there's something there.

680
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,200
Yep. I'll have a look at it,
but I can see from here,
it's not too much at the moment.

681
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,080
It's just pieces of potch.

682
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,520
Well, we did find one more thing
as it turned vertical.Okay.

683
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,840
We found this sitting right up top.

684
00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:43,000
Yeah, well,
I can tell you straight away...

685
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,760
it's the humerus of a plesiosaur.
It's off a plesiosaur.(LAUGHS)

686
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,600
No worries, so, yep.

687
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,120
If you can find the rest of it,
then you've just about got
your retirement fund.Yeah.

688
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,640
The Mooka Boys have an opalised
fossil of a plesiosaur flipper,

689
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,640
weighing 42.5 grams.

690
00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:03,840
Do you know what sort of price
are you after?

691
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,720
Well, we're hoping we can maybe
get six and a half grand.Yeah.

692
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,840
We will be pouring all the money
back into digging.

693
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,800
If it had a bit more opal
and stuff like that,

694
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,040
yeah, I think it could be worth
that much.

695
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,320
Look, I'll do four and half.

696
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,440
Four and half.That's it.

697
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,160
That's money, man.
We need money right now. (LAUGHS)

698
00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:27,960
We'll be happy with four and a half.

699
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,240
Thanks for helping us out, mate.
Thank you.

700
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,400
This puts us back in action. We'll
go and fill the diesel tanks up.

701
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,480
We'll get out there
and start digging again.

702
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,600
Who wants a sausage?

703
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,520
One sausage, thanks, sir.
Thanks a lot.

704
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,080
Start of the season's always hard.
It's always sausages and no steaks.

705
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,600
But we found our fossil
so I'm pretty happy.

706
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,040
Good vibes
for the start of this season.

707
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:55,920
Now we've just got to find
some more.

708
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,080
Hopefully enough money
to bring Leif home.

709
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,960
That's what we're aiming for.

710
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,960
It sucks that the truck broke down,
but we made it happen anyway

711
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,440
by going down that hole
and having a scratch around.

712
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,400
So it's a real chance game.

713
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,640
But you've got to keep pushing
through even when things go bad.

714
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:12,320
Cheers, bruv.Cheers, bruv.

715
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,480
ROD: Hey, Sam, Les.LES: What?

716
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,600
Herman's on his way.Okay.

717
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,840
Bring the bucket down here
and we'll clean it up a bit, eh?
Righto.

718
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,400
In need of a rapid sale
to stay in business,

719
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,560
the Bushmen have asked
local opal dealer Herman Kreller

720
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,640
to buy direct from the mine.

721
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,600
Rod wanted to get out of here,

722
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,400
but I talked him into staying
for another week.

723
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,000
So I keep on his wheel about that.

724
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,680
(KNOCK ON DOOR)

725
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,160
That sounds like a knock
on the door.Sure does.

726
00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:57,200
I know Herman the German loves blue.
He's always said,
If you get blue, give me a ring.

727
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,080
It's good to see ya.Mate.

728
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,080
I better put me hard hat on.
You better put your helmet on, mate.

729
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,600
I've been dealing with Herman
for a lot of years.

730
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,280
We've sold to him a fair bit.

731
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,960
So I reckon
he'll pay top dollar for it.

732
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,600
Okay, you phoned me, I'm here.
What you got?

733
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,560
Mate.What?

734
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,720
I've been up here 55 years.

735
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,240
I spent 30 years underground mining.

736
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,200
Six years gouging
with a candle and a pick.

737
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,800
Put a bit of light on that
for Herman.Oh.

738
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,080
Honestly, mate,
that's just come out of the wall.

739
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,200
My favourite colour plate,
would you know.I know.

740
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:39,080
The Bushmen have crystal seam opal
featuring blues and purples.

741
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,160
It's in the rough
and weighs one kilogram.

742
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,040
How good is it.Oh, mate.

743
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,400
What did you use,
explosive or bloody crowbar?

744
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,640
It's all broken up.
What did you do to it?

745
00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:53,640
He's right, that's grazed.
SAM: Really?

746
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,440
What's the lowest
you'll take for it, the lot?

747
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,200
How about five grand?

748
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,520
You're saying $5,000.

749
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,360
Now this is not $5,000.

750
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:09,120
If you'd like to take $2,500.

751
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,680
All you've got to do
is go back onto the digger

752
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,360
and dig out more
and then phone me again.

753
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,400
ROD: $2,500.

754
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,400
LES: $2,500 sounds better
than no two and a half grand.

755
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,360
If it's as grazed as bad as it is
and it's not worth it.

756
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,800
All right, you got a deal.

757
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,640
He didn't want the handshake.
He wanted the dough. (LAUGHS)

758
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,440
No dough, no go. Thank you.

759
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,400
A sale's a sale.

760
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,480
And $2,500 is gonna buy us
enough diesel to keep on mining.

761
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,800
For you, Sam.Thank you.
Here, old fella.Thanks, mate.

762
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,200
And there's even one for me.
Oh, good.Cheers.Cheers.Cheers.

763
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,320
Wow, look at that, Dan. Which one
do you think's the King Stone?

764
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,000
I think this dark red here.

765
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,040
Need to clean it back
and have a good look,

766
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,760
but that big red bar there.
I can't wait to get it home.

767
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,880
This is exactly
what George's customer wants.

768
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,080
How much do you reckon
we should ask for it?

769
00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:22,880
I wouldn't take less than 40.

770
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,760
40 grand.We'll start higher,

771
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,000
but I'm walking out
if he's not giving me 40.

772
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,080
It's the start of the season
so we really need to kick start it.

773
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,800
We did so poorly last year.

774
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,840
For me to stay and live and work
with Dan full-time,

775
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,800
we really need
to make this sale today.

776
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,520
Hey, George.Hey, man.
Good to see you.You too.

777
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,520
Nice to see you again.You too.

778
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,000
Something special to show you.
You had some luck?

779
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,080
Oh, a bit of luck.
See what you got.

780
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,600
I run a small family business
in Coober Pedy.

781
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,520
Mum and Dad have been mining
since 1973.

782
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,680
Mum decided to open shop in 1987.
She was sick of having no money.

783
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,560
That allowed us to keep mining.

784
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,080
Wow, that's nice.Yeah, look
at that.That's amazing.So good.

785
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,000
Dark base, too, like you said
your customer's wanting.Yeah.

786
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:12,720
The Opal Lovers have a parcel
of crystal opal on a dark base

787
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,000
including a high quality King Stone.

788
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,720
All feature
the full spectrum of colours,

789
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,040
are in the rough,
and weigh a total of 142 grams.

790
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,040
Now this is amazing,
this stone here.Yeah, yeah.

791
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,720
Is that your favourite stone?
That's a beautiful stone.

792
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,440
And I can see why.

793
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,520
What sort of money
are you asking for this?

794
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,160
Look, there's right dark material.

795
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,360
45.45.

796
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,080
Look, I don't wanna offend you,
but I don't quite see 45 there.

797
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:49,040
I think the lowest we'd come down
would be 40.40.Yeah.

798
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,320
I tell you what, how about 25?

799
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:53,920
Nah, 25 just isn't enough.

800
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,480
Yeah, look, sorry, guys.
It's nice stuff, but...

801
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,600
Look, 25.

802
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,040
What are you doing, Dan?
This comes out.

803
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,680
What, you gonna take a piece out?
Yeah, I'm not leaving.

804
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,600
Sorry, George,
but he's know what that'll cut.

805
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,720
All right, done.Deal.Done?
Thanks.Done.Thanks, George.

806
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,760
Appreciate it, mate.
You let us know how you go.

807
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,680
That stone, I'm really set on.

808
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,080
I can see 30 grand coming out
once we've cut it.

809
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,560
So that's an awesome kick start
to our season.

810
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,280
It's really good
to have money in the bank.

811
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,840
In theory, we should be able
to get about 55,000 in total.

812
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,320
So my gut feeling was right.
Time for a celebration.

813
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,160
Ah. There it goes.

814
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:39,040
Oh, look, Dan.Ooh, look at that.
Beautiful.

815
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,520
Lucky I won the bet.
You're paying tonight, isn't it?

816
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,640
I'll give it to you. I'll admit
you...Found lots of opal,

817
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:46,600
made a bit of cash,
made a bit of money.

818
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,480
That's just the start of it,
I'm sure.

819
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,440
To your spot.Cheers.
Cheers.Thank you.

820
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,520
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