"Outback Opal Hunters" Episode #4.12

1 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:05,640 Bloody oath we can. 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,680 ..the Young Guns risk it all in the last scorching days of the mining season... 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,160 It's less than a one in a million chance to find one of these things. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,560 ..searching for rare $500,000 pineapple opal. 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,000 Did you hit that? Erm... No, no, no, no! 6 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,480 It is so hard to find and you've just smashed the first one in two years. 7 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,160 Watch out, right, I'll rip the top off. Be careful. 8 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,840 The Boulder Boys take on deadly ground... 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,120 A bit of slab up here, mate. Don't come here. 10 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,880 ..desperate to find new opal before the season ends. 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,880 It's a sheer cliff, see. Too dangerous. 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:46,080 And the Bushmen... Major problem. ..face life-threatening injuries. 13 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:49,320 Forget the season, what we need, it don't matter. 14 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,000 A life's worth more than anything. 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 16 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:21,560 It's tough this late in the season and it's hard to keep going 17 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,240 when the temperature's up there all the time. 18 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,240 47 now. 19 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:31,000 47, bit more, and it's still climbing. 20 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,520 You know, at this time of year, you got to work to the elements. 21 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,240 In the searing summer heat, Bushmen Rod Manning and Les Walsh 22 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:43,160 are battling to start their 20-year-old blower, 23 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,200 vital for sucking opal dirt out of the mine. 24 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,080 The big blower and the big machinery, it just won't handle it. 25 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,720 It boils the oil in the sun. 26 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,920 We tend to work earlier and only short. 27 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,240 It's not really a decision that you have to make. 28 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,320 You know, the heat makes it for you. 29 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,600 Jesus, Les! 30 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,480 The Bushmen's season has been a tough one, 31 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,600 but the end of the road is near. 32 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,520 After eight months, they're just $1,500 short of their season target. 33 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,440 Always hungry, mate. Always looking for opal. 34 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,440 We went such a long time without any money. 35 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,600 You've got a finder. Oh, beautiful! 36 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,080 I wanna look at it. I wanna see how pretty it is. 37 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,680 We're still waiting to get enough money for another car. 38 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,400 You just take it day by day. 39 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,960 We'll probably have to buy a push bike instead. 40 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,280 For 74-year-old Les, the thrill of the hunt... 41 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,720 Some nice bloody colour there. ..is as strong as ever. 42 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,720 Oh, it feel really good if you get a real gem piece. 43 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,960 Oh! Oh! Your heart leaps. 44 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,400 Then you get in there, and you dig it out. 45 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,880 Old Les and his yelling. We're in diamonds. 46 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,640 He'll always yell out and you gotta stop and . 47 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,080 Hopefully, he's digging out colour, not just bloody colourless potch. 48 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,760 These spanners have been sitting in the tool box in the back of the Ute. 49 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,120 You can hardly hang onto them, they're that hot. 50 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,320 To get back on the job, first 51 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,440 the Bushmen need to get the blower engine started. 52 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,120 Yeah, we've run out of fuel on the last day that we worked, 53 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,920 so I'll have to bleed it. 54 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,680 Bleeding is manually pumping diesel through the fuel lines 55 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,440 to remove air that stops an engine starting. 56 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,880 This old girl, she can be a real . 57 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,640 I'm gonna start the motor, so... 58 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,280 Yes, she's going! 59 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,200 All right, we can go to work now. 60 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,840 Close as we are to the target, we're fast running out of time. 61 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:19,000 It's getting to the stage where the machinery is not going to work if it gets much hotter. 62 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,640 I love them all 63 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:42,560 No more ladies until we find the opal. 64 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,400 We've got a week left so, you know, hopefully we can. 65 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,760 Bloody oath we can. We're gonna smash it! 66 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:52,800 450 kilometres further inland, 67 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,720 extreme summer temperatures are hitting the Young Guns even harder. 68 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,160 They have only days before the mining season shuts down. 69 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,880 This week is all about you know, finding that opal 70 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,760 and to make this season target our number one priority. 71 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:09,080 We have to hit that. If we don't, it's going to be that much harder 72 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,040 for me to get the boys back out next season, which I want to do. 73 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,280 White Cliffs' ultimate prize is rare pineapple opal, 74 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,320 formed by a complex process where crystal becomes opalised, 75 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,640 the best fetching up to half a million dollars. 76 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,600 It's less than a one in a million chance to find one of these. 77 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,000 If you find one, that really just pays for all. 78 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,440 This week is the decider, 79 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,920 and what we find this week is going to determine 80 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 whether or not we come back next season. 81 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,640 These guys are moving out here with very little. 82 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,840 I've seen the struggle, I've done it myself, 83 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,520 so I know it's pretty tough. 84 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,280 It's pretty hot in their camp 85 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:50,960 and down there in the mine. 86 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:55,480 I got a proposition for you, you know, might help youse out a bit. 87 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,480 What say you bring your loader and that fancy drill down 88 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,160 and drill a few holes in my floor? 89 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,280 I wanna check out a bit of the deeper level. 90 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,480 Your machine would be the way to do it. 91 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:11,040 Say hello to my little friend. Yeah, there we go. 92 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,800 Two weeks ago, the Young Guns gambled $700 93 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,520 on a 1.5-metre drill to connect their two mines. 94 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,400 Another! 95 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,920 Mentor Graeme now wants to use it 96 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,080 to drill into the floor of his own mine. 97 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,640 This is a chance for 'em to get down into deeper, cooler ground. 98 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,520 Hopefully find a bit of opal for 'em. 99 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,840 I could swing a bit your way, if that makes it sweeter for you. 100 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,920 Anything that gets us a little bit closer to our season target 101 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 is definitely appreciated. We all like the chances at your mine. 102 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,280 That's definitely paid off for you in the past. 103 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:48,240 It's been a good bit of ground. How about I see my way clear to 20%, 104 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,120 you know, of what we find for the day? 105 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,400 Cool. Sounds good. Definitely. 20%. See you down there. 106 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,560 We'll bring it straight over. All right. 107 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,600 That mine is probably the best mine in White Cliffs. 108 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,960 It's produced everything from pineapples to fossils 109 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,840 and some really good seam opal. 110 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,200 So I feel if we can get in there, have a bit of a dig 111 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:09,320 and see if we can't make our season target. 112 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,520 We've got this one last chance to find a bit of opal, 113 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,120 make everything all right, and go home with a bit of money in our pockets. 114 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,960 This looks like a weapon, boys. A lot of good potential with this. 115 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,280 Sure. I've got a few good spots for you to look at. 116 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,000 Right here, 117 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,520 there's actually a fault line running through the ground. 118 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,600 There was actually traces just here 119 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,440 running down into the ground, just here into the floor. 120 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,880 Just drill out this little patch anyway. Yeah. 121 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,880 Be worthwhile having a bit of a look at straight up. Cool. 122 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:47,840 See you. 123 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:53,800 On a 20% cut, the Young Guns will need to find a total of $50,000, 124 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,800 more than they've found in their entire season, 125 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,680 just to hit their target. 126 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,160 The drill's actually chewing through the floor with no worries. 127 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,360 And hopefully, you know, that's the way we hit some money. 128 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:10,160 Can probably bust out ten holes probably every hour. 129 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,400 So, keep cutting through the ground 130 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,560 and see if we can't pick ourselves up a nice little bit of opal. 131 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,840 Come on, boy. Where is it? Mate, you're drilling . 132 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,320 Oh, there you go. Damn. 133 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,160 Nothing in it. So, I've heard people say 134 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,520 you have to drop a thousand holes just to find one with colour in it. 135 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,920 900 kilometres to the north in tropical Queensland... 136 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,120 Yeah, it's starting to warm up now all right. 137 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:48,520 Well, sun is coming. Yeah. 138 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,040 Aaron Grotjahn and Ron Selig are facing 139 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,080 both soaring temperatures and monsoon rains, 140 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,320 signs the end of the mining season is just days away. 141 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:02,040 She's over 40 today, Ron, put it that way. You reckon? Yeah. 142 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,920 Their valuable Dragonfly claim has already been hit hard. 143 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,320 Why don't we run away and leave it? No, pump it out. Pump her out. 144 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,960 Despite this, the Boulder Boys have had a good season. 145 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,840 Shangri-La! We got a car! 146 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,320 Whoa. Now, that is a nice colour, Ron. 147 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,000 We reached our target, I'll get enough money to do the maintenance, 148 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,240 just do all the jobs that need to be done. 149 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,960 I'm not gonna leave opal until I find a million dollars. 150 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,680 But 95% of Dragonfly has been mined out. 151 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,480 Let's eliminate some things, Ron. 152 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:40,600 All that middle bit we've dug out here. 153 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,120 We've only got that little corner down here to have a look at. 154 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:51,760 This real hard yellow band there, 155 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,040 we couldn't get through last year, me and Greg. 156 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,000 Depth? I'd say about 15'. 157 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,480 All right, I'll give it a go. 158 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:02,360 We can only try. That's just really our only option. 159 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:08,200 The last corner of the claim was abandoned for being too tough to dig. 160 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,720 With few options left, it's the final place this season 161 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,720 Aaron and Ron have a chance of finding opal. 162 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:25,880 I'm a little bit excited about this spot 163 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,040 cos this part of the Dragonfly produced the best opal. 164 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,160 I wanna put a test hole in here. 165 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,160 If we don't have a look, we won't know. 166 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,480 After first clearing loose topsoil, 167 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:42,560 their 35-tonne excavator must dig through concrete-like sandstone 168 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,440 4.5 metres below the surface, to reach the opal level. 169 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,120 There's a hard bit in there, Ron. 170 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:58,760 It's the teeth ripping through the really hard sandstone. 171 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,720 And what's really hard is all the silica's gone down 172 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:13,560 and it's crystallised into a concrete silica sandstone. 173 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:17,400 Once we get through that then we can get to the level below 174 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,080 where the rocks would be. 175 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,360 How's it going? 176 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:30,880 No? 177 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,840 Hard concrete, isn't it? 178 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,080 Got no chance of going through that. 179 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,760 Still good potch. 180 00:11:58,160 --> 00:11:59,960 At their Bondi mine, 181 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,920 the Bushmen are grinding through hard sandstone walls 182 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,800 before extreme summer heat shuts them down for three months. 183 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,440 See if I can pull a bit out of the bottom. 184 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:12,240 I might have to move forward, mate. 185 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,080 I still think there's dollars there. 186 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:23,040 I still reckon we're gonna get a good patch in here somewhere. 187 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,320 The floor looks good. What I was thinking, 188 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,360 we'll take out the roof, then we'll come back and dig the floor up. 189 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,520 I'm not gonna be able to make a real wide drive 190 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,840 just coming in here. Well, if we can get in... 191 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:41,000 Getting the digger closer to the mine face 192 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,080 means first clearing mined rock 193 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,360 via their massive vacuum pipe, the blower. 194 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,680 Just having some troubles with the blower. 195 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,920 Outside, there's a rock somewhere up the shaft. 196 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:10,080 The task of unblocking is left to 74-year-old Les. 197 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:13,680 I'm gonna check the bends up there. 198 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:19,040 Yeah, old Les, you know, he's a bit of a bloody marvel. 199 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,520 He is slowing down a little bit 200 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,560 but, you know, he can fly up that ladder quicker than I can. 201 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,480 He's an ex-regular, and he's used to work in heights and climbing 202 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:33,680 and he's got three-parts monkey in him, I reckon. 203 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,440 You gotta go and do something, you get up there and do it. 204 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:41,600 Climb a ladder, don't waste any time. 205 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,360 Give it a flogging around with a hammer to shake it loose. 206 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,680 You can hear it when she lets go. She goes down that tube at 100 mph. 207 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,560 Yeah? 208 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,760 Eh? 209 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,640 Right-o. 210 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,160 Just black...black and grey. 211 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:24,440 Down below, Ron has discovered some promising opal trace, or potch. 212 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,520 I'd sooner be digging potch than not digging potch. 213 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,400 Potch is opal. It's just missing the colour, that's all. 214 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,480 Yeah, it's the right formation. 215 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:36,200 Yeah, but there's... Right there in the light there. 216 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,640 See the way it comes down here and the red stuff? Yeah. 217 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,160 And I've got seams here, big seam there. 218 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,400 One coming down here and intersecting twice there. 219 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,040 Yeah. And more coming down from up here. 220 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,320 This looks really, really good. 221 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,680 Well, if we don't get something out of that... 222 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,360 We'll get something here. It may not be in this spot. 223 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,960 No. But this drive, we're gonna do all right. This ground's brilliant. 224 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:06,720 We ought to have a jackhammer up there in the morning and just see what it's bloody doing. 225 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,240 Yeah. Couple more days digging will tell the tale. 226 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,880 We've got to get through that hard band and have a look what's underneath it. 227 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:32,760 With monsoon rains that will end their mining season potentially days away, 228 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:37,120 the Boulder Boys are struggling to break through a hard layer of sandstone. 229 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,760 It's time for a new weapon. 230 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,240 We can't get through that hard stuff with the excavator. 231 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,920 So we're gonna try and drill a series of holes. 232 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,640 It might help the excavator break it up. 233 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,400 By the look of it, it's gonna be about a foot-and-a-half thick. 234 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,480 Bit of luck, we get some opal under it. 235 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,720 The 35-kilo jackhammer is powered by compressed air 236 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,320 from the 26-kilowatt compressor. 237 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,840 Its force to a single point is more effective at penetrating the rock 238 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,040 than the 35-tonne excavator. 239 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,520 We've just drilled about 50 holes, it might just help it. 240 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:33,040 We're going to give it a go because every time we scratch them we're only getting about an inch, 241 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,600 but doing these holes, might be a little bit more. 242 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,640 We've punched through just the clay level. 243 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,880 Not what I was expecting. 244 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,120 See, how it's got all that yellow in it? 245 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,000 There's no rocks. No good. 246 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,640 That's it, Ron. 247 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,400 OK. 248 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:14,240 This final corner of Dragonfly claim has proven worthless. 249 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:18,480 I haven't got many ideas left where to go. I just wanted to try and get a bit of a buck. 250 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,320 Aaron has just one choice left. 251 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,640 Dangerous old workings near the flooded pit, 252 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,720 scattered with loose rocks and landslides. 253 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,600 It's too unsafe. We can't do that bit. 254 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,720 But we can take this little area. I'll build myself a bed there. 255 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,720 We can take that last little bit into the wall. 256 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:43,840 For the end of the season, this is our last chance to make a bit of money. 257 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:53,080 Drop another one there. First hole was unsuccessful. 258 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,200 But, you know, the drill's actually chewing through the floor 259 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:58,960 no worries, so that's something. 260 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,920 With just days left of the mining season, in mentor Graeme's mind, 261 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,680 the Young Guns are hoping their 1.5-metre drill can make them rich. 262 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,400 All right, boys. 263 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,960 Again, another hole, nothing in it at this stage. 264 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,440 I reckon we go back and just do the rest of this, 265 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,400 and just cover all this stuff. 266 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,040 The ground looks all right but I don't know. 267 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:30,200 I reckon maybe we could go straight ahead. 268 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,840 Well, hey, guys. I don't know, dude. 269 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,440 Did you notice? I just hit something. 270 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,520 Look at that. What's that there? 271 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,400 Ooh! Look at that. Ooh! 272 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,680 We got some seam, baby. Not even in the bloody hole. 273 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,400 Hold on a sec. Holy... That looks a bit interesting. What is... 274 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,520 What's going on? Dude, look at that. 275 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,000 That is a big ol' bit of opal. There's little bits all over it. 276 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,920 It's colour, isn't it? But it looks like, you know, some... 277 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,800 What's with the middle? Potchy stuff. It's like colour all around the outside. 278 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,800 Dude, look at this. Look at this. What the hell? Oh! 279 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,520 Did you hit that? I think so. I don't know. 280 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,800 Tell me you've not broken a pineapple. 281 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:24,920 Intact, opal pineapples can be worth $500,000. 282 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,640 Broken, they're worth a fraction of that. 283 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,640 Oh, my God. Yeah, I think we're gonna... 284 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,800 I think we are gonna have to... To me, it looks like 285 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,400 it's a pineapple. I can't see it being anything else. 286 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,720 That looks like a point coming straight off the side there. 287 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,960 I've never seen seam like that. 288 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,400 We need to go get your dad. Yeah, we need to go get him. 289 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,560 Let's not do anything else. Bloody hell. 290 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,000 How'd it go? I was hoping you'd check in. 291 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,120 Yeah, we broke it with the shovel. 292 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,560 Yeah. You're a bit further up than I wanted. 293 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,280 Jesus. 294 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,520 Hell, Jay. 295 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,680 That's not seam, is it? It's not seam at all. 296 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,680 No? No, you've just struck a pineapple. 297 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:26,320 You've struck a good pineapple. 298 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,720 Oh, Graeme, I'm so sorry. 299 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,760 Yeah, we didn't mean to. We were just clearing away some dirt 300 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,280 and we just... 301 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,320 You know, I've dug two years down here 302 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,480 without finding anything like this. 303 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,600 These are so hard to find 304 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,160 and you've just smashed the first one in two years. 305 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,960 If the rocks run into that sandstone piece there, 306 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,120 we should be able to get some colour. 307 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:10,120 Now we can see the rocks that side. We're just hoping to run into it. 308 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,720 With monsoon rains ready to hit, 309 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,240 Aaron and Ron are making a last-ditch effort to find opal 310 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,440 on the dangerous edge of the flooded Dragonfly Pit. 311 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,200 The ground is changing a little bit as we go. We got a bend of rocks 312 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,880 and we got the sandstone dropping hard. 313 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,440 We're hoping they meet as we go in. 314 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,520 That's what you need to find opal, 315 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,720 you need sandstone on top of the boulders. 316 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,800 The big one, haven't found yet. 317 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,320 Is it the one, Ron? 318 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,560 There you go, it's got potch in it. 319 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,640 It's a potch. 320 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,360 It was originally a tree root. 321 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,400 Some of these we get, 322 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,160 basically full of opal about that size or bigger. 323 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,920 So we're looking for the ones that have got opal in them. 324 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,360 This one hasn't. 325 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,680 Not quite there yet, Ron, we're getting close. 326 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,880 Pipe opal can form when cavities left behind 327 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,600 by tree roots and branches are filled with silica-rich water 328 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,560 that, over millions of years, becomes opal. 329 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,640 Here, we've got green here. Look at this. 330 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:34,360 In their best form, they can be worth up to $25,000 a gram. 331 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,960 That's pipe opal. Must've been old bits of debris, 332 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,880 all sticks and that, they fill up with opal. 333 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,520 There's some nice colours in them pipes. Yeah. 334 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 We're hoping to get some bigger ones. 335 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,480 I can't see anything right. I'm gonna wait till... 336 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,160 Well, I can see, but it makes it hard. 337 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,080 If them pipes come on, we need the sun on our backs anyway. We do. 338 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,160 The setting sun has put the mine face in shadow, 339 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,360 making the pipes hard to spot. 340 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,920 Well, we've got one, two, three, four little pipes. 341 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,760 That's all right. Look, it's a start. It's a lot. 342 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,440 All right. Well, we might as well call it quits today. 343 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,880 Yeah, OK. A bit more light we need. 344 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,240 This morning, Les didn't turn up to go to work. 345 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,840 Said he'd burned himself. 346 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,240 In remote outback, New South Wales, 347 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,000 Rod's just received news: Les has been injured in an accident. 348 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,320 What's happened is probably serious. 349 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,200 If it weren't serious, he'd have been at work this morning. 350 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,520 You good, mate? Yeah. Good. 351 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,120 So you got a few burns on your face, ol' fella? 352 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,960 Yeah, a bit on the lip there and a bit on the side. 353 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,240 Where else are you burnt, mate? On the arm. 354 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:11,920 Just on the arm. Yeah. 355 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,640 Just that one arm? A little bit on this one, not much. 356 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,720 Legs are all right? Couple of spots on the legs. 357 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,800 Give us a look at your arm. 358 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,320 Pull your shirt off actually, if you can. 359 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,400 It doesn't look too good to me, mate. 360 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,760 Your bloody hand's all swollen up. Your face is all swollen up. 361 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,680 You all right? Yeah. 362 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,520 Well, that's not a little burn, Les. 363 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,040 Les has suffered third-degree burns. 364 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:46,880 The accident happened over 24 hours ago. 365 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,040 He's received no treatment. 366 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,160 That's not good, mate. 367 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,480 Your legs like that? No. 368 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,880 Well, your legs are like that. 369 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,400 Look, that's not just a little burn on your leg. 370 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,360 That's not too bad. It's not too good neither. 371 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,360 See, that's all burned skin, Les. Here you're blistering. 372 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,600 So how exactly did you do it, mate? 373 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,240 Well, I was using the grinder. 374 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,880 And there was a drum with a couple of gallons of petrol in it. 375 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,960 And the lid wasn't on it. 376 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,640 Yeah, and it just went woof in a spark. 377 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,240 Yeah, now come on, jump in the car. 378 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,040 Major problem. This isn't just a little burn. 379 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:31,520 This is good, mate, that we go to the doctor. You need to. 380 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,240 The nearest hospital's in Lightning Ridge, 381 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,320 70 kilometres away. 382 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,400 Jump in the back. 383 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,240 After picking up Rod's wife, Amanda, 384 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,240 it's over an hour's drive on rough dirt tracks. 385 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,160 You feeling all right yourself? 386 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,480 You don't feel different? Don't feel funny? 387 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,560 No, I feel good. 388 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,800 He's a stubborn old . He won't go to hospital 389 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:03,240 or do anything like that unless he's dying. 390 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,880 G'day. G'day, how are you? Good, how are you? 391 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,160 We've got a bloke with some burns. 392 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,520 OK, what time did this happen? 393 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,600 Yesterday. Couple of days ago. 394 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,040 Les is 74-years-old. He's had a few heart problems. 395 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:23,320 Come through this way, thank you. 396 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,880 I'm definitely worried about him. 397 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,640 Burns are a serious bloody thing. 398 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,080 They can lead to all sorts of complications. 399 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,120 And that's, I think, what they're worrying about cos of his age 400 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,360 and lot of other things, the complications that they bring. 401 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,600 You know, I worry about infection 402 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,720 and I worry about him not looking after his wounds. 403 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,800 I worry a lot about him. 404 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,480 They're gonna fly him to Sydney. You're joking. 405 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,160 I just spoke to the nurse in private in the room. 406 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,960 I told you it was bad. Yeah. She said that, er... 407 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,240 She said at best, he'll be staying here. 408 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,680 But more likely, they're gonna fly him straight to Sydney. 409 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,800 All right. Graeme, I am so sorry. 410 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,880 It is what it is. 411 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,200 We'll see what can be salvaged from this. OK. 412 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,520 In their first-ever mining season, 413 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,080 the Young Guns have just smashed a rare pineapple opal 414 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,400 worth potentially half-a-million dollars. 415 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,160 Stop digging around here. If you hear any clinking sounds, 416 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,440 for God's sake, stop, you know. Yeah. 417 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,920 I left the boys down the mine for five minutes unattended 418 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,200 and they've just gone and smashed the first piece 419 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,360 that I've seen in two years. 420 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,560 In the last days of the season, hitting their $60,000 target 421 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,760 rests on digging what's left of the opal pineapple in one piece. 422 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,880 Disappointing that they found it with the end of a shovel 423 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:02,600 instead of the end of the screwdriver that I like to use 424 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,880 and just take them out without breaking them. 425 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,960 Obviously, as you deep, just keep listening for that sound. 426 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,200 This is it. It's about ready to pop up. All right. 427 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,320 OK. You wanna see what we got? 428 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,080 All right. Here it comes. 429 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,440 Oh, look at that. Holy crap. 430 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,840 Oh, here we go. 431 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,240 Oh. No, no, no, no, no, nah, nah. 432 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,440 That is really... Disappointing. 433 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,680 Disappointing. Oh, geez. 434 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,600 Look at the colour that is in there. 435 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,880 Look at that, he's just come apart. God dammit. 436 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,360 Still, in my experience, 437 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,640 I do know where you can get pieces like this. 438 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,720 Then you can find a better piece. 439 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,320 It's now just a really go-slow process through this ground. 440 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,400 And hopefully, we can pluck out some better, fuller pieces. 441 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,480 Let's get a big pineapple, eh? 442 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,560 Let's do it. Let's get a proper one. Cool. 443 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,680 We're gonna bring the digger in. 444 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,280 Basically, I can only just take the top off 445 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,280 and the whole rest of the level gets dug with the screwdriver. 446 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,800 So it's the only way that I've managed to find these 447 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,880 without smashing them to bits. 448 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,440 All right. You can jump up there and start digging the level. 449 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,960 Slow process now. Just simply screwdrivering at it, 450 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,040 and trying to uncover it. 451 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,960 Is this the top here? Yep. All right. Yeah. 452 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,520 Any piece will be sitting on that. Yeah. 453 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,480 So that's the... It will be in there. 454 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,760 Starting to get a blister in the centre of my hand there. 455 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,560 But some of it's really hard trying to get through. 456 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,800 So I'm going for the easy stuff at the moment 457 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,040 and I'll use that little pick to kind of chip through the last bit. 458 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,120 That's a really hard bit. 459 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,280 Oh! 460 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,280 What have you got? Look, there's a little tiny bit of maybe blue. 461 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,680 Whoa. Is that a point? 462 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,680 It is. Is that a point? Is that a point? 463 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,560 Well done, buddy. Woo! Is that really one? 464 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,960 Holy... Dude. 465 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,520 Way to go, Jay. All right. You know what to do, so... 466 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,800 I found a pineapple! 467 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,120 Ding-dong! Ding-dong! 468 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,400 That's so hectic, dude. That's so hectic. 469 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,520 Don't smash it now. Just take it out the back 470 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,880 and then we'll just lever it up. 471 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,200 Just put your hand over that spot there. 472 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,440 This spot? Yeah, good. I would rather 473 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,640 hit your hand and foot than the pineapple. 474 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,560 What do you reckon now? Yeah, just go in underneath. 475 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,640 Is that enough underneath? 476 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,200 Yeah. Just go in, see how the whole area is moving. 477 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,520 And until eventually, 478 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,160 the idea is to get it up without any pressure. 479 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,040 It's up. That's it. 480 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,720 It's up. Here we go. Here we are. 481 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,000 Millions of years. Carefully. 482 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,080 Look at that. Holy-moly. 483 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,760 Pineapple, baby, pineapple. 484 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,760 There we go. That's it. That's it. 485 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,360 Pineapple. Way to go! Woo! 486 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,640 Well done, Jay. You smashed it. 487 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,880 No worries. Found a pineapple. 488 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,200 Whoa! Look at this! What? 489 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,120 Hey, that's a nice colour. 490 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,320 That's a nice colour. Eh? 491 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,600 Bit of green. Looks like a pipe. 492 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,360 In the soaring heat of the final days of the mining season, 493 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,720 Aaron and Ron have struck rare pipe opal. 494 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,160 A pipe to me is worth big money if you get it. 495 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,080 That's a good chunk, Ron. It is. 496 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,320 Watch out, Ron. I'll rip the top off. Be careful. 497 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,200 The ground they're on is highly dangerous 498 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,880 and the further they dig into the side of the pit... 499 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,040 Don't go down there, Ron. 500 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,720 ..the more deadly it becomes. 501 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,040 I can't go any further, I'll hit that big wall. 502 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,120 It's too unsafe. 503 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,280 We're on a rock edge, Ron. 504 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,480 It's a sheer cliff, see. Too dangerous. 505 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,200 15 metres above them: tons of loose earth and stone. 506 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,360 Just be careful there, mate. I am. 507 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,960 I'm just trying to get this little bit out. All right, mate. 508 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,720 Oh, look at that. 509 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,200 Electric blue, Aaron. Yeah. Nice colour, innit? 510 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,480 Might even cut a little stone out of that, eh? Yeah. 511 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,760 That is nice. That's gem green. 512 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,200 That's not bad, that. 513 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,240 Hey! That's got red, everything in it, Ron. 514 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,320 Beautiful colour, boy. 515 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,120 Watch out here, there's a bit of slab up here. 516 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,440 Yeah, I know. Don't come here. 517 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,760 We've got to strip the top again, which might be an issue. 518 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,840 Need a dozer. 519 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,640 You can't mine a place like that. 520 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,440 It's too dangerous to work underneath it. 521 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,960 Can't do any more here. 522 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,560 End of the season for me and Ron. 523 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,800 We're gonna go home now and have a look at how much opal we've got. 524 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,560 Ooh. That's a nice colour, innit? 525 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,200 Look at that. I think it might be Kingstone. 526 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,880 Red, green, that's beautiful, that one. 527 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,120 You're gonna get more than 10 carat out of it. 528 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,200 The Boulder Boys have found pipe opal. 529 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,960 It's in the rough. There's 400 grams with bright greens, 530 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,440 blues and flashes of gold, and highly-valued red. 531 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,520 That's not bad, that. 532 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,680 You got to start at $5,000. Yeah. 533 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:44,120 Could've been a bit better, found a bit more in this season... 534 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,360 ..but beggars can't be choosers, mate. 535 00:34:51,240 --> 00:34:53,200 The season's over, 536 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,200 Ron's taking a well-earned break. 537 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,680 I'll go back to the coast and spend time with family. 538 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,440 I haven't seen them for a while. Got another little grandkid coming. 539 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,800 I don't know, boy or girl. So it'll be interesting. Gonna be sweet. 540 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,200 Make sure you come back. I'll come back. 541 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,360 I can't run the show by myself. 542 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,200 As soon as it cools down a bit, I'll be straight back. 543 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,560 Well, I think we've done very well this year. 544 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,800 We're starting to get a bit of a routine going 545 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,280 so let's just plod along and get it done. 546 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,920 Working well together, mate. All right. 547 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,560 I've got a little surprise for you. Have you? 548 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,120 While you've been doing other things... 549 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,440 Where'd you score that? Out of the run. 550 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:41,600 Ron's secretly been cutting up stones from Aaron's reject pile. 551 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,680 I thought that was all rubbish in there. 552 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,320 Look at the greens and everything here. 553 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,680 Electric greens that we can get a stone out of. 554 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,840 Here. That one, that one. 555 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,560 Now you get a stone out of him, what is he worth? 556 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:59,920 An additional two kilograms of rough blue-green boulder opal. 557 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,120 It's going to be about $10,000, Ron. 558 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,920 So you're happy with that? Bloody oath I am. 559 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000 There you go. You see, eh? 560 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,440 The value of the boulder and pipe opal is around... 561 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000 ..bringing their season total to... 562 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,000 That's a much better way to end the season, mate. 563 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,320 We set out to find opal this season and we found it. 564 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,400 That's a nice colour! 565 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,480 Bloody look, that's electric. 566 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,200 We got money to fix a few things up 567 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,440 and try and find some new ground and see what happens. 568 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,560 Done real well. No worries, mate. 569 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,960 Enjoy yourself. He's a good friend, it's good to have him in the camp. 570 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,760 It's harder to find good partners than find opal, really, sometimes. 571 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,240 Hasn't been a bad year. 572 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,800 So what have they told you, mate? What are they gonna do with you? 573 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,160 They're gonna fly me out. Fly you out? Yeah. 574 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:13,520 I would say they'll fly you down to burns unit, 575 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,080 which I'm pretty sure is at Concorde. 576 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,240 You'll be there down the big smoke. 577 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,680 An ignited petrol can 578 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,280 has left Les Walsh in a serious condition 579 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,360 with third-degree burns. 580 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,680 He's a lot worse than he thought he was. 581 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:33,440 The burns are very severe. 582 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,360 He was so badly dehydrated, his kidneys were packing in. 583 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,240 Forget the season and what we need, 584 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,320 you know, it doesn't matter. 585 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,640 A life's worth more than anything. 586 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,600 You got to stop doing those stupid bloody things, Les. 587 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,920 I know. But I guess, at your age, 588 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,400 if you haven't learned by now, you're never gonna. 589 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,560 Well, that's probably right. 590 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,520 That's just the way he is. He's just a tough old rooster 591 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,320 that doesn't like hospitals. 592 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,000 But that's silly. He should've come to a hospital with that. 593 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,440 No matter what, he's not coming home. 594 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,080 The season's ended for Les. 595 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,840 I would imagine he's going to be out of action for quite some time. 596 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,040 I'd say that's Les' plane up there coming in. 597 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,320 That'd be the flying doctors. 598 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,920 Les is a good mate. You know, we spend a lot of time together. 599 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,680 I spend more time with Les than I do with my missus. 600 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,080 I'm definitely worried about him. 601 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,120 The injuries he's got are very serious. 602 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,280 Keeps coming in... You've reached Les on... 603 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,600 He's not answering. 604 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,520 You know, everything was sort of going so well, 605 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,720 and then the old gone and hurt himself. 606 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,440 So I'm sort of wondering how he is, wondering what's going on. 607 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,240 I guess it's the unknown. 608 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:21,960 I wouldn't have a bloody clue 609 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,160 what's going on, or what the future holds. 610 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,000 It's been a hell of a ride this year. 611 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,520 It's sort of a bittersweet, I suppose. 612 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,440 Well done. Thanks for letting us in your mine, Graeme. 613 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,520 Yeah. Well done, brother. 614 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,960 Smashed it. Graeme, that's insane. 615 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,840 In the final dig of their rookie season, 616 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,400 the Young Guns have uncovered an elusive pineapple opal 617 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,040 that could save their entire year. 618 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,560 This one here held together quite well. 619 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:06,080 We've still got to see what we've actually got out of this piece. 620 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,720 But you know, I've got high hopes for this one here. 621 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,600 Let's clean it up. 622 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,520 The value is in the undamaged pieces, 623 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,560 so, you know, we have to work really hard to keep it intact. 624 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,880 Under Graeme's watchful eye, 625 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,680 Jaymin will attempt to clean the pineapple. 626 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,080 Highly fragile, the safest way is to sandblast it. 627 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,160 Just watch your head. 628 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:38,240 Can't really tell too much now if it's going to be fully together. 629 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,320 Keep it up nice and close. 630 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,520 It's definitely some really delicate work. 631 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,480 Very fine tools and a fair bit of concentration just to make sure 632 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,200 I don't pull off any points, 633 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,760 but there seems to be a little bit of a flash of colour. 634 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,840 We've got some really high hopes. 635 00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,360 Look at that crystal structure. That's amazing. 636 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,440 That is ridiculous. 637 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,520 Look at what you're holding. Dude, we've got a pineapple. 638 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,080 Oh, my God. We got one. That's insane. 639 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,720 Take it outside, and we'll just see - All right. ..what we've got. 640 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,040 Check this out, boys. This is a big bad boy. Check it out. 641 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,840 Look at that! Oh, man. That is looking good. Wow! 642 00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,760 A lot of people dig all their life and never find anything like that. 643 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,200 Meant to be, hey? Yeah. Way to go. I'm so happy for youse. 644 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,760 You know, so see youse along the way. 645 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,360 Woo. What do we reckon it's worth? 646 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,440 The deal with Graeme is the Young Guns get 20% of any opal found. 647 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,800 For them to hit their season target, they need this pineapple 648 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,000 to be worth at least $50,000. 649 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,760 This piece, you guys, is actually really special. 650 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,840 This piece, I think, just looking at it 651 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,240 could be as much as... 652 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,720 ..$70,000. Oh! 653 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,800 Yes, absolutely. 654 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,560 $70,000? Yeah, absolutely. 655 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,840 That is ridiculous. It makes it all worth it. 656 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,320 Makes treasure hunting come true. Absolutely. 657 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,720 It's exceeded expectations. One hit. In one hit. 658 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,480 Pineapple opal is unique to White Cliffs 659 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,920 and is highly prized by collectors. 660 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,000 This stone weighs 200 grams, 661 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,080 making it worth approximately... 662 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,920 That's our season target. That's our target. We've done it. 663 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,520 We've done it, boys. Woo-hoo! 664 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,120 No more working a dead-end job in summer. Young Guns! 665 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,800 Look at that, boys! Ooh, yeah! 666 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,320 Look at that. That's five figures in one go. 667 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,400 Yay! Yay! Season target. 668 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,720 It's been a crazy experience. You know, this whole thing has been 669 00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,400 really, really life-changing, I would say. 670 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,040 Definitely be back out bigger and better next season. 671 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,640 We did it. We did it! 672 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:07,040 We did it! We did it. 673 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,680 We have to go through hardships, with having no money at all. 674 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,600 Barely any food and things just going wrong left, right and centre. 675 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,080 But we stuck together and we pulled through. 676 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,880 Cheers, boys. Yes! 677 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,520 It's been absolutely awesome. Couldn't have asked for a better group of guys 678 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,560 to come out here and do it with. Young Guns! 679 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,200 Can't wait to get back, stuck into it, next season. 679 00:43:32,305 --> 00:44:32,483 -== [ www.OpenSubtitles.org ] ==-