"Outback Opal Hunters" Hit the Road

1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:03,480 Righthand down a little bit. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,040 Yep.Yeah, try that. 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,200 Righthand down. 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,400 Whoa. Good work. 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,360 What a day to do this. Just after it poured down with rain. 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,640 Yeah, it's not a real good scenario, 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,040 but the old fella wants it moved so that's what we're doing. 8 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,280 Confidence. I've got this. 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:29,360 Because it's so top heavy, it's gonna do this stuff.Okay. 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,200 So we just need to be nice and steady 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,200 without this sucking that dirt up 12 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,480 from all the way underground. We're 13 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:38,880 Here we go, Sam. 14 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,080 Slowly. Straighten your wheels. 15 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,360 Keep going. 16 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,280 LES: Whoa.Whoa.Little bit more. 17 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:58,520 Whoa. 18 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,080 That's not going anywhere. 19 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 20 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:16,880 ROD: Nah. Just let it sit for a minute. 21 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:20,840 How bad is it, Les? Solid ground on this side. 22 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,880 If we go back any further, that's not gonna go over the hole. Yep. Right where it is. 23 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,000 I'm surprised that we got that all in one go. 24 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,880 I was actually quite nervous about it all happening. 25 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,400 Now we gotta go move the digger and everything 26 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,480 and start digging in the ground where there's no opal, and we'll probably get killed. 27 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:43,280 Nothing wrong with that. 28 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,280 NARRATOR: Grawin, outback New South Wales. 29 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:53,120 A remote off-grid community of 200 people 30 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,880 living in camps scattered across the desolate opal fields. 31 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,840 Right, Les, are you ready to do this?Yep. 32 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:03,400 You all right with them?Yeah. You need help?No. 33 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,480 Are you sure?No. 34 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,480 So what we're about to do now is put some blocks under the wheels 35 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,600 and lower the pipes underground. 36 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,280 They run all the way up that shaft into the blower 37 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,720 sucking that dirt up from all the way underground. 38 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,080 At Robbie's Claim, the Bushmen, 39 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,720 Rod Manning, Les Walsh, and Sam Mehan, 40 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,880 have returned to the most dangerous mine they've ever worked. 41 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,160 For some strange reason, Les wants to go back up 42 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,320 to where we were before, and there's no talking sense to him. 43 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,560 We were working up there on the road and we were getting good opal, 44 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:40,000 but the roof collapsed on us and nearly killed us. 45 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,480 Hold that rope. Are you okay? 46 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,320 So there is opal here. 47 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,920 Are you joking? How good's this. 48 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,480 But how much is it gonna cost you to find it? 49 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,000 Rod wants to get out of this claim, 50 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:54,800 but we're staying a little bit longer 51 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,800 just to make sure that there's nothing just in front of us. 52 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,160 And if it don't work, that's it, we pull out. 53 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,080 I know it's under there somewhere. 54 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,760 That will do us. 55 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,680 So I guess we go downstairs and drag that elbow over, eh?Yeah. 56 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,240 I hope Robbie's has opal here. 57 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:14,920 It is a lot of work 58 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,280 to pull all your gear up and then start again. 59 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,560 It's gonna need to come up to there. Yeah. You go up and take it up. 60 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:26,320 End of last season, we agreed Les was gonna stay on the surface and do maintenance. 61 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,360 It is dangerous underground, 62 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,000 and he's done his years of hard work. 63 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,600 Doesn't seem like I'm gonna retire at the moment. 64 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,280 That will do. 65 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,160 We haven't found any money that would be useful enough 66 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,000 to retire on. 67 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,160 Down a bit more. 68 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,360 Unfortunately, opal is rare, and it's hard to find. 69 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,720 You've got to have that passion for it. 70 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,800 Sam's a good one. 71 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,440 She's addicted to opal like the rest of us. 72 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,480 That's it.Oh, nice. 73 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,400 I'm a third generation miner. 74 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,680 My grandfather was a miner and so is my Dad. 75 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,720 If we don't make money, we can't buy diesel to keep on digging. 76 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,880 We don't even have money to buy food to eat. 77 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,920 We got to get the digger out of here. 78 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,720 Just grab a hose each. 79 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,440 We wanna move the digger 60 or 80 feet, something like that. 80 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,080 It's a bit tippy tippy this there, Les. 81 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,640 It is a bit rocky.Mm. 82 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,160 The digger is extremely important. 83 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,200 It is amazing how much more dirt 84 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:26,680 you can move with a digger than with a jackhammer. 85 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:30,600 Very soft here. I don't know. Yeah, it's digging further in. 86 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,000 You get one side go into the soft ground, 87 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:35,960 and then it over balances, 88 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,000 and if you're on the wrong side, the arm will wipe you out. 89 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,200 Geez, I thought she was going then, Les. 90 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:47,120 Rod's trying to turn around the digger. 91 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,720 Problem is that there's not enough room 92 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,880 and we don't want the digger to tip. 93 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,200 Just give me a little bit more pipe. That's it. 94 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:02,720 Sam. 95 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,320 Just get out of there, mate, 'cause there is a chance I'm gonna tip this. 96 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,480 I reckon this claim's prospected. I've had enough of it. 97 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,840 RENEE: I know you wanna get out. Dust everywhere. 98 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,360 No level to follow. Just little blobs of stuff. 99 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,960 Yeah. But more importantly no colour. 100 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,600 Well, there's another cut over there, 101 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,640 and there's a road in between. 102 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,440 That hasn't been prospected yet. What do you wanna do about that? 103 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,960 Just sink hole a down. Sink a shaft down. 104 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,200 That's easy. You can use that logic everywhere. 105 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:45,960 There's lots of roads all over the place.I still think we should give it a go. 106 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:47,760 I'll show you. I'll go pick a spot. 107 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:51,000 All right. They left it all in the middle.Yeah. 108 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,440 All right, where do you want this bloody shaft? 109 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,240 I reckon how about here. 110 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,280 We'll get David with his drill. 111 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:08,760 Yeah. If you want. 112 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,040 I'm sorry I'm negative. I'll support ya. You gotta go with your gut. 113 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,200 Yeah. Just one last shot. Yeah, okay.Come on. 114 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:17,920 Okay.Quick, hurry up.All right. 115 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,760 Coober Pedy, South Australia. 116 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,400 Scarred by over a century of mining. 117 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:30,600 It's where an estimated 85% of the world's opal has been found. 118 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:34,800 Here the Opal Lovers, Renee Everest... 119 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:36,880 I'll make a nice dusty pile of dirt. 120 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,280 ...and Dan Measey...You're getting in a ways too. Got to watch this. 121 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,680 ...are kicking off the new mining season 122 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,920 by drilling a 12-metre shaft 123 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,880 under the road on their Black Flag claim. 124 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,680 That spot is the only spot that hasn't been mined yet. 125 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,560 It still has virgin ground. 126 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,960 Got a really strong gut feeling about this one, 127 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,320 and hopefully I'm right in this occasion. 128 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,720 Black Flag's an old field. It's somewhere a lot of opal's been found. 129 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,440 Digging virgin ground, we could hit money at any time. 130 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,840 We've worked it pretty hard. We're doing trenches 131 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,400 and looking around, and it's not looking too great. 132 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,560 It's ugly, dusty, soft stuff. 133 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,680 You wouldn't even think there's opal in that.Yeah, I know. 134 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,800 Well, that's why I wanna go up on the road and try up there. 135 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,880 Dan and I, we've got a bet on at the moment. 136 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,160 If we find opal, Dan pays for dinner. 137 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,440 If we don't find opal, I pay for dinner. 138 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,840 It's not easy just to say let's drill a shaft. 139 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,680 The worse problem is it's more time and money spent doing it, 140 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,960 but maybe there could be opal. 141 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,680 So sometimes you gotta follow through with gut feelings. 142 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,360 Got the potatoes.Yeah, I'll peel them. Yep, I'm good at that. 143 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,760 You are a much better cook than me though.Nah, I just like food. 144 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,240 Life's been really good since I moved to Coober Pedy. 145 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,760 But we have to meet our target 146 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:58,040 otherwise I won't be able to stay and I have to go back to Adelaide. 147 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,280 I do quite a lot of horse riding dressage, horse riding coaching. 148 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,800 So it's a huge lifestyle change for me. 149 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:11,240 To escape Coober Pedy's scorching 45-degree Celsius temperatures, 150 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:16,120 Dan and Renee live in a dugout home carved into the earth. 151 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,200 Living underground, it's a lot darker, 152 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,520 and we're really remote. So it's a lot harder to get fresh food, 153 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,360 and it's really expensive. 154 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,320 Costs a lot with transporting the food up here. 155 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,320 Last season wasn't good for us at all. 156 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,440 We were nowhere near target. 157 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:35,120 I can hear a knock in the diff. So how much is that gonna cost? 158 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,480 Twenty, thirty.Thirty grand?Yeah. 159 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:39,800 We have to find opal. That's how we make money. 160 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,720 To maintain Renee and I both living and working together, 161 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,280 our target again this season is $300,000. 162 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,840 Really, that's minimum with two of us on board. 163 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,920 Look at that monster. Oh, wow. How old is it? 164 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,400 Fifty or sixty years old at least, yeah. 165 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,080 What a weapon. 166 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,240 David's got a lot of experience operating drills. 167 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,960 He's a long-time opal miner, a great guy. 168 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,840 Mr David.Thanks for giving us a hand.Absolutely. 169 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,520 Hi, Cat. How you going?Good. How are you?Good.Hi, Cat. 170 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,360 DAVID: She's an old drill built from many pieces over the years. 171 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,000 We've just finished putting this drill back. It owes me quite a bit of money. 172 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,200 RENEE: I reckon this is the spot. Right in the middle of the road? 173 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,880 DANIEL: If there's a million dollars down there, I'll divert the road. 174 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,640 So I think we need to go 40. 35, 40 at least. 175 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,720 30 or 40 feet. Is percentage an option? 176 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,640 Look, if you reckon the signs are good, 177 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,240 I reckon we could do 15%. What do you reckon? 178 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,240 All right.Cheers, mate.Easy. 179 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,560 We're gonna pay David 15% on the opal that we find. 180 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:40,640 So it will be worth his time as long as we find opal. 181 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,240 David's prospecting drill has a corkscrew tip 182 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,240 that bores through layers of thick sandstone 183 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,680 and can lift the displaced rock and dirt to the surface. 184 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,920 We at least need this shaft 30, 35 ideally. 185 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,320 We're thinking the level's 30, 31, so we need to go past it. 186 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:03,240 How long's this gonna take? 'Cause it doesn't look like it's going down into the ground. 187 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,360 It will be couple of hours. A couple of hours? I thought it'd be 10 minutes.Nah. 188 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,920 Once he gets deeper and the dirt spins out, we've got to pull the dirt away. 189 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,480 This season I'm up here full-time. It's double the manpower. 190 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:18,040 But with me learning more and getting more experience 191 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,960 in the machinery really helps Dan out. 192 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,880 Hopefully David's gonna let me have a go in a minute. 193 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,360 We're probably deep enough now. If you wanted to have a try, you'd be more than welcome to. 194 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,640 Renee's come a long way from where she started. 195 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,720 Not knowing anything about mining to now 196 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,120 knowing a lot more about opal and getting on all the tools. 197 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,840 Hand on here.Yeah.Full pull. 198 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:43,880 And watch your head come out of the ground. 199 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,800 Oh, here we go.Bit of revs. 200 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,200 Yep.Yeah.And now off the clutch. 201 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,440 Yep.Beautiful. That's the fun part. 202 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:57,120 So...Full down. Yeah. Nice and steady off the clutch. 203 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,600 That's it. Yahoo. I did that that time. 204 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:03,480 You did well. You're going all right. 205 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,720 Oy.Oh. Down, down, down, down. 206 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,320 I didn't like the sound of that, David. We've just blown a hydraulic hose. 207 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,960 I haven't broken anything, have I? I don't know. 208 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:22,480 But we're gonna go have a look. 209 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,280 MATT: Look at that. COZZA: Reckon there's opal there? 210 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,560 Well, mate, these wires are crossing over. 211 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,160 I don't reckon you're finding opal. You're finding some water. 212 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,640 I don't know.Kangaroo pissed down there or something. 213 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,240 Normally points to where the ground fault's gonna be. 214 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:49,800 Generally we find the best opal in the deepest spot of the hill where all the water just drops. 215 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,640 We chuck a hole down here, eh? Have a look.Yeah. 216 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,560 X marks the spot. Let's get this season kicking. 217 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:57,240 Hell yeah. Yeah. 218 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,240 I got my tooth bucket sitting in the back of the truck right now. 219 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,480 We're gonna need that to break the ground. 220 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:05,320 Yeah, straight back, mate. Yeah, about there, mate. 221 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,120 Hey, man, what the hell! 222 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,040 You all right?Yeah. You had one job, mate. 223 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:19,840 Nah, this one's broken. 224 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,520 I'm gonna pull this switch apart. Give me a minute. 225 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,080 Andamooka, South Australia. 226 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,720 This hostile landscape was once a remote sheep station 227 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,600 until the 1930s when the discovery of opal 228 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:37,680 brought a rush of fortune hunters to the region. 229 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,720 Is that hitch on?No. 230 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:44,320 And now the Mooka Boys, brothers Matt... 231 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,560 How about now? ...and Colin "Cozza" Kathagen... 232 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,600 Nah.What the hell. 233 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:52,320 ...have begun their season with crippling machinery failure. 234 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,240 The quick hitch allows you to take the bucket on and off 235 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,200 and change your bucket to your ripper and things like that. 236 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,680 If I can't hold a bucket on that hitch, then we can't dig.Yeah. 237 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,200 This is the only machine we've got right now so. 238 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,520 Yeah, last year was a absolute disaster financially. 239 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,640 We only pulled in about $11,000 all year. 240 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,320 So we literally walked away with nothing in our pocket. 241 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,040 All right, bruv, I'm just gonna go whack a few things around the hydraulic pump. 242 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,080 Get some solenoids. Just tell me if that opens up again, eh? 243 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,040 Our dreams are slipping away from us. 244 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,320 We don't even have enough money to keep a whole team here at the moment. 245 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:32,320 Last season left the Mooka Boys a man down, 246 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,640 team leader and chief mechanic Leif Tanzer. 247 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,680 Leif's moved down south for his business. 248 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,440 He's got another contract down there so we're both trying to be the mechanic. 249 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,360 Lot easier when he was around. He'd just jump in and fix it. 250 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,720 Is that good? Nah, nothing's happening. 251 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,080 Leif with his business has a lot of bills to pay. 252 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,680 So unfortunately unless we have a really big win, 253 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,280 we're not gonna have him here for most of the season. 254 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,120 Season target's $200,000 this year. Bit optimistic. 255 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,360 We've been out here for a few seasons now and haven't made any money. 256 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,560 Got me missus and two kids there at home, 257 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,480 so really down in the dumps. 258 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:09,200 Last year gave us a big scare with having to rush my daughter out of here. 259 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,440 Aria's virus turned into bronchitis in her lungs, 260 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,600 so I had to leave Cozzie all by himself. 261 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:17,920 We ended up about 800km away in Adelaide Hospital. 262 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,800 The Royal Flying Doctors definitely saved my daughter's life. 263 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:23,840 I just found the fuse box. 264 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,760 I'm just checking the solenoid fuse which is blown.Righto. 265 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:31,000 We've got another 15 amp fuse in there.Yeah. 266 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,920 Big problem like this, it's hard to know what it is. 267 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,240 We don't know where to start looking, but a fuse? A fuse I can do. 268 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:38,920 Thanks, mate. 269 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,800 If we get this quick hitch working, 270 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,800 then we're back digging and I'm happy. 271 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:44,520 Looks good.All right. 272 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,040 Yeah, it's working now, mate. You beauty. 273 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,960 This whole hill is untouched. The other three quarters 274 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,240 had a lot of opal, fossils, all sorts of stuff. 275 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,080 We're hoping this untouched ground is holding something really special. 276 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:10,920 The Mooka Boys are open-cut mining a 50-by-100 metre claim, 277 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,440 one of the last remaining patches of virgin ground 278 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,920 surrounded by heavily worked mines. 279 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. 280 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,120 Way back in the day, a lot of people 281 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,520 started camping underground when it gets too hot. 282 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,480 The main level we're looking for is... 283 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,040 ...this one down here that's got the round rocks. 284 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,840 They're from when the big glacial ice sheets pushed over the top of it. 285 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,480 That's why they're all rounded. Some of them, 286 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,960 they'll go underneath the glacier and they'll crack. 287 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:47,200 The opal deposit form a line of opal straight through the crack in that rock. 288 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,080 Ao as soon as you start hitting some of them rounded rocks, 289 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,040 that's a level that could produce opal. 290 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,840 Just looking for material that they might have left behind. 291 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,000 There's a couple of pieces here. 292 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,560 No colour in it, but they've got some weird looking holes in them. 293 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:11,960 I'm wondering if they're fossil. 294 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,240 There's been a lot found around this area. It's got me fascinated. 295 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,680 A hundred million years ago, 296 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,640 the Eromanga Sea covered 297 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,200 one million sq km of Central Australia. 298 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,520 This was the domain of giant marine reptiles. 299 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,960 Over millennia, silica rich water filled the voids 300 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,000 left behind by their decayed skeletons 301 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,000 and eventually hardened to form opalised fossils. 302 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:45,200 How'd it go?Found some material pretty much sitting on top of the mud level. 303 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,400 What have you got? It's got some holes in it. 304 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,840 I don't really know what it is. Oh, mate. 305 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,080 Little bit of colour to that too. Is there? 306 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. 307 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,760 Yeah, that's why I'm thinking coral reef or? 308 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,480 We need to go find someone smarter to have a look at this. 309 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,040 Yeah.Oh, good job though, bro. 310 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:07,280 This year we are starting with absolutely nothing in the kitty. 311 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. 312 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,960 ROD: Sam. Just get out of there, mate. 313 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,160 Ooh. This dirt here in the floor is so soft. 314 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,080 I'm digging over this side. It wants to tip over on us. 315 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,800 SAM: If the digger tipped, we'd be in a bit of trouble. 316 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,960 It's going straight on its side, and we have to get it back up. 317 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,480 This is about nearly 2 tonne. 318 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,720 These are horrible to put back on their feet. 319 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,800 We tipped one over 20 years ago. 320 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,200 We actually had to get a drill and drill a hole down to lift it up. 321 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,040 So what Les is actually doing is swinging off this side of the digger 322 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:52,040 to put a little bit of weight on that side. 323 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:55,280 Every little bit counts. It doesn't need to be much at times 324 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:57,840 to stop it from over balancing. 325 00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,760 Ah, now she's right. 326 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,840 Ho-ho, we're around the corner. We sure are. 327 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,600 See, it knows just like I do, there's no bloody opal up here. 328 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,200 The Bushmen's Les Walsh is refusing to give up 329 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,440 on the dangerous and crumbling Robbie's Claim. 330 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:22,360 Righto.What do you reckon about from here and sort of go straight? 331 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,360 Yeah, well, you've got us up here, 332 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,960 so you may as well tell us where to dig. 333 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,160 Mine partners Rod Manning and Sam Mehan 334 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,320 are giving him one last chance to find opal. 335 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,520 We've been here for so long. We haven't made money. 336 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,680 It's tried to kill us the whole bloody time. 337 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,880 I just wanna get out of here. I don't wanna work here any more. 338 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,560 Righto, no opal. Let's get out of here. 339 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,360 We will. 340 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,080 We'll go home. That's easy fixed. 341 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. 342 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,800 We do have a fault running through the roof 343 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,200 and starts to swing in this direction. 344 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. 345 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,840 Rod wants to get out of this claim. 346 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,120 But we've got to find some opal to pay for another claim. 347 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,480 And if that doesn't happen, 348 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,080 well, yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen after that. 349 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,840 At the end of the day, we gotta do something to keep digging. 350 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,120 I don't know how to do anything else at this stage. 351 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,000 Same with Les. 352 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:24,920 Really feel it with young Sam, 353 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,480 but she's tough. She's got the right ticker. 354 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,440 She knows what this lifestyle's like. 355 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,400 There's green, Rod. Eh?That's green. 356 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. 357 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,760 We'll see if it develops into anything else.Yeah, sounds good. 358 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,120 Opal mining isn't just about digging dirt to find opal. 359 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,360 Reality is you have to take out a lot of dirt off the blower pipes. 360 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,280 These pipes go all the way up that shaft into the blower. 361 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:56,600 So any rock that will fit in a 10-inch pipe, 362 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,160 this machine will suck it to the surface. 363 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,120 Just you're 20 times quicker. 364 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,680 I'll get you to get a bit of time in on the diggy. 365 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. 366 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. 367 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,040 You don't always get the opportunity to do this, so it's fantastic. 368 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:20,600 And it just shows me what I wanna work towards. 369 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,920 Got a jackhammer and a pelican pick at the moment, 370 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,480 and I'd much prefer a digger and blower eventually. 371 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,240 What's wrong with the truck, Les? 372 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,240 Just can't get it started. 373 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,240 It's winding over, but nothing's firing. 374 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,960 The hard part about all these breakdowns, 375 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,280 we're trying to start the truck, we're not getting any closer to opal. 376 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,800 We're just sitting around doing bugger all. 377 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,120 It's out of fuel. I put diesel in this the other day. 378 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,480 I think we've been milked. 379 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,480 Yeah.They come through of a night, 380 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,280 and they syphon all the diesel out of your tanks. 381 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,440 We've got three drums of diesel left, 382 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. 383 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,920 And we can't find a little bit opal in those next runs... 384 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,200 Let's go see the oracle, eh? If these are fossils, 385 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,760 it's gonna be worth thousands just them pieces, mate. 386 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,400 Yeah, we do need a pay check, so. 387 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,120 We've come down to see the oracle Peter Taubers. 388 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,560 He's got the best collection in town of fossils. 389 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,120 So it's definitely worth running them by him 390 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,200 just in case we've got something good here. 391 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,680 Pete, he owns the museum. 392 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,680 And, yeah, he's a miner, been here a long time mining. 393 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,280 So he's seen a lot of stuff come out of the ground. 394 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,720 What have we got in here? Oh, ho, 395 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,920 that's what we're looking for. Yeah, look at that.Wow. 396 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,600 Peter, how you going?Hey, guys. How you going?Yeah, good, thanks. How you going? 397 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,960 We noticed that new painting you've got in here. 398 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,040 It's a plesiosaur. It's a swimming dinosaur. 399 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:01,200 100 million to 120 million years old.Yeah, excellent. 400 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,360 When you find them, they're normally in a pile and all bunched up. 401 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,120 So it's not gonna look exactly like that in the ground. No, no. 402 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,760 We've had a little bit of a find in an old tunnel. 403 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,840 We thought we'd show you what we found. 404 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,120 I'll have a look for you. Thanks, mate. 405 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,960 If it's a bone, you'll see structure. 406 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,160 Proper bone structure that you can see. 407 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,840 You'll see the bone end. 408 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,600 A really good piece can go for 10,000, 20,000, 30,000. 409 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,360 Who's the excited one? I'm hoping. 410 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,440 I'm hoping.You're wrong. 411 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,080 Oh, man.I'm sorry to say it is potch and it's not a fossil. 412 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,040 So they're worth nothing. 413 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:41,000 Potch is what we call common opal, but it has absolutely no colour. 414 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,200 Bit disappointing this morning, but we've got a lot more to dig. 415 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,560 Okay, this is a bone. This a plesiosaur rib bone. 416 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. 417 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,160 Like a lamb chop, stuff like that. Right. 418 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,080 This is worth $5,000, maybe more. 419 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,400 Well, we really appreciate you sharing your wealth of knowledge. No worries. That's all right. 420 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,240 Thought we might have had a quick win. 421 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,200 We haven't got any big money, but it's still worth the hunt. 422 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,400 We're gonna keep looking and hope we can come across something. 423 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,840 Dig, dig, dig. Let's get into it. That's right, yeah. 424 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,800 Me and Matty have worked together for a long time. 425 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,200 I like working with my brother. So, yeah, 426 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,480 hopefully we can make something out of this and keep it going. 427 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,600 We've got about halfway down to where we wanna be, 428 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,800 about 17, 18 foot. But we still need to get to 30, 429 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,480 so we've got a fair way to go. 430 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,320 What's going on?Won't start. 431 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,640 You're kidding me. Don't see nothing. 432 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,840 Using this truck to pull the dirt out of the hole. 433 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,120 I can try and get everything out with the digger, 434 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,400 but every time I bring a load up, 435 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,320 I got to slowly drag it back out the hole again, 436 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,000 which means instead of taking 10 minutes, it's gonna take maybe an hour. 437 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,240 We just can't do that. This poor digger cannot handle that. 438 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? 439 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,880 Where you going?Nah, I'm going. 440 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,600 What are you doing? I'm trying to fix the truck. 441 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,000 You're not gonna go. I'm going down the hole. 442 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,560 We need to get this shaft down. DAVID: We need to get him down. 443 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,080 RENEE: We haven't made any money for the season yet. 444 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:34,760 It's opal mining, isn't it?Yeah. 445 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,880 Be couple of hours, maybe hour or two of fixing that. 446 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,720 We're not finding opal at the moment 447 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,040 'cause we've blown a hose on the drill. 448 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:44,320 So that means it's not looking good. 449 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,720 The issue we've got here is when you put these reusable ends on, 450 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,800 you've got to skive the rubber back to bare the steel braiding. 451 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. 452 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,280 I've got a roll of this hose at home. This is just gonna waste time. 453 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:01,200 Let's go back to your place. Let's do it. 454 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,000 In this environment, Coober Pedy's not friendly on anything. 455 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,000 So they dry out and get sort of perished and crispy. 456 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,800 We've cut a length of hose. We put the two ends on. 457 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,120 As long as that seats home pretty well, 458 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,920 we're back in action. 459 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,320 We've lost a bit of time today. 460 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,600 We've pretty much exhausted all of our finances from last year 461 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,520 because we didn't reach our target. 462 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. 463 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,160 Well then, we better keep drilling. 464 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,960 Yes, you should.Excellent. We better get stuck into it. 465 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,360 I understand where Dan and Renee are coming from. 466 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,480 It's tight always at the start of the season, 467 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,680 so hopefully we can get some opal in here 468 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,440 and make some money again. 469 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:41,840 That's in. Beautiful. 470 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,320 Opal is what I'm committed to. I have to keep going. 471 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,240 It's what I wanna be doing. 472 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,360 I wanna be successful for Renee and I, and Renee does as well, 473 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,840 so I'm always on the hunt for an amazing opal. 474 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,640 Hey, George. How you going? 475 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,560 Good. I just got a customer looking for some dark base material. 476 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,600 Wondering if you've come across anything. 477 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,840 I don't have anything right now, but I'm out working in Black Flag. 478 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,720 If we get something, we'll call you. 479 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,640 Excellent. All right. Cheers. Thanks. 480 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,480 George runs a shop in town. A good friend of mine. 481 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,880 It'd be a big win for us to find some dark material to offer. 482 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,520 Dark base opal is seriously valuable 483 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,360 so I'm hoping we can find some to offer George's customer. 484 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,600 RENEE: Dan.What's that? 485 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,040 That's opal.Is that from there? Yeah. I just picked it up then. 486 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:35,480 So that would have come up out of that last lot. 487 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,240 When you're drilling holes like this, it's not easy to see 488 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,720 any opal in what we bring up so. 489 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,960 I might know what I'm talking about after all. 490 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,680 You might have done all right. 491 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,120 It's only potch, but it's nice material.Yeah. 492 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,880 Oop. That just pulled out. 493 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,760 What did you do?Nothing. 494 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,600 That grabbed something. 495 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,040 Come over here. 496 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:03,720 Look what's happened. 497 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,360 See that.Oh. 498 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,200 There's bloody old drives under there.There's a big hole. 499 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,960 They've done underground workings. 500 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,360 Your so-called good spot is right on top of them. 501 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,120 So there might not be any opal? 502 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,480 If there was, it's likely they took it all out.It's already gone. 503 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,400 Just no money again. 504 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,200 LES: It's out of fuel. 505 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,400 I put diesel in this the other day. Yeah. 506 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,160 So we've been milked. 507 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,520 Someone's syphoned the diesel out of the tank. 508 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,400 There's always lowlife around who'll come around and do it. 509 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,200 'Cause we're right on the main road, they get a bit desperate 510 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,240 so they go around and start stealing diesel off ya. 511 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,800 And I think the have done me too. 512 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,120 Right, we'll give that another try, Les. 513 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,840 Without funds to replace their stolen diesel... 514 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,200 She's going now. ...the Bushmen have to find opal 515 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,400 before their remaining supply runs dry. 516 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,080 We've got to have the truck going to shift dirt. 517 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,760 If we don't shift the dirt, we're not gonna find any opal. 518 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,520 A very simple chain of events. 519 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,600 All right. I guess we gotta find Les's load.SAM: Yeah. 520 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,400 Les is still very confident there's something in here. 521 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,400 This claim isn't particularly producing very much. 522 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,600 But the reality is even to go get a new claim 523 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,720 and move our machinery, we need to find opal 524 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,800 to get money to be able to make that move. 525 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,080 Oh.We're hitting steel band up there.Yeah. 526 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,320 Steel band is highly compressed clay and silica, 527 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,960 and it's supposed to be about 50 times harder than concrete. 528 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,280 Where the natural fractures in that steel band are, 529 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,160 they're filling up with common opal with no colour in it. 530 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,160 Hold up there for a moment. 531 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,160 Ooh, there's a bit of purple there, Rod. 532 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,840 Bit of colour.There is, too, Sam. 533 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,720 Give it a bit of a scrape, but I think it's just gonna be... Oh. 534 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,280 Here it is.Oh, there, Sam. What's going on here? 535 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,400 I'm gonna get the jackhammer. Hang on. 536 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,040 There. 537 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,920 I got it. Ooh.Have you got it? 538 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,360 Oh.One piece. 539 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,240 One good piece.It would have been in that little pocket there. 540 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,840 You can see where it's right underneath that feeder so that should be here. 541 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,920 Theoretically.Theoretically, it should be here somewhere. 542 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,760 Found anything yet? 543 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,160 Well, can you smell it? Can you, Les? 544 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,040 Yeah.What you doing down here? 545 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,160 Sam just found a really nice little bit. 546 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,160 Good. I told you it was here. We got one piece. 547 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,520 One piece is better than no piece.Oh. 548 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,560 We've nearly got enough to buy a drum of diesel, Les. 549 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,440 Well, that's good.Oh, ho. 550 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,800 We've got two drums of diesel now. Yes. 551 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,480 I'm absolutely cheering. 552 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,120 We'll go down here. Not much going on up the top of the hill today. 553 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,720 Nah, I'm sick of that truck. I don't know what I'm doing there. 554 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,520 I found those pieces in here in the level. 555 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,600 Well, I'd really love to see some opal, mate, so I'm keen. 556 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,040 We were hoping to get a good run out of the truck. 557 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,680 It sort of let us down today. 558 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,000 It was always a bit easier with Leif around. 559 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. 560 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,200 It's a really old tunnel here, but it's really nice ground. 561 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,960 Obviously the guys have got something out of here before. 562 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,480 So let's just hope they left something behind. 563 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,400 Yeah, I'll show you exactly where I pulled those pieces out. 564 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,120 Cozzie found some opal here earlier. 565 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,160 Best thing we can do is grab some picks and come down for a dig. 566 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,040 See if we can find some more down here. 567 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,600 A lot of fossils found around here, so that's what we're coming for. 568 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,280 They can be worth a lot more money even if they are potch. 569 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,440 If they are a fossil, somebody will buy the fossil off us. 570 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,280 See that little pocket there?Yeah. 571 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,280 Here's your pick, mate. Thanks, mate. You're a legend. 572 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,920 I just stand back and look for any bit of shaking from the pick. 573 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,120 2 foot, 3 foot above what he's digging there. 574 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,040 You worry everything's had time to dry out, 575 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,360 and it can drop that whole section down. 576 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,040 It's not the easiest ground, is it? 577 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,200 You want the blacklight to have a run over it. 578 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,800 The blacklight's a UV light. Anything white shows up. 579 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,400 So with opal, because it's silica, it will shine that silica up. 580 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,240 There's little bits of trace. Oh. 581 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,120 I just seen something. Oh, yeah, look at that.Yeah, right. 582 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,120 Look at that, bro. That's a decent size piece. 583 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,720 Let me lever it out. With the light, look at it. 584 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,280 See if it's got colour. There's got to be more. 585 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,120 Might have a little bit of colour in it. 586 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,000 Not too sure. Oh, it's gone vertical. 587 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,920 Yeah, look at that. Standing right up there. 588 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,800 There's got to be colour. Come on. 589 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,760 Hey, bro, remember how Pete was showing us those bones. 590 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,880 Oh, what? Yeah? Does that have the lines on it? 591 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,520 Feels like a bone. Yeah, is it clam or something? 592 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,680 That's the other bit you handed to me first. 593 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,640 Oh, look at that. 594 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,920 That looks like a bone. Yeah. 595 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000 Oh, man. If that's a bone, what did he say? Five, six grand? 596 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,120 It looks like this has got the lines on it. 597 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,760 Oh, let me check the rest of the wall, bro. Hold that. 598 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. 599 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,560 I'm not sure exactly what it is, but... 600 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,400 ...we might have actually had a bit of luck and got what we're looking for. 601 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,040 DAVID: Not the outcome we were hoping for. 602 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,600 DANIEL: Give us a bit of time. No worries.Thanks. 603 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,200 Thank you very much. Thanks heaps, David. Thanks, Cat. 604 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,640 Thanks, Cat.Until next time.Yeah. 605 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,280 RENEE: Pretty deflating that we've hit these underground workings. 606 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,800 Possibly all the opal's gone now. 607 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,680 We've been out here all day as well. 608 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,880 So, yeah, might be just another waste of time. 609 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,520 I'll have to explain how this works 'cause you haven't put ladders down before. 610 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,400 When we lower one down, we then clip the other ones to it. 611 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,120 Now get the pipe ready. 612 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,440 That steel pipe is what holds the ladder. 613 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,160 I'm pretty nervous about going down there. 614 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,400 I'm not sure whether I'm gonna do it or not yet. 615 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,280 It's a big deal for someone their first time going down ladders. 616 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,240 The worse is she loses her footing, 617 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,960 and she goes down, and it's not just the hit at the bottom. 618 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,920 It's all the stuff you bounce off going down the shaft. 619 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,880 All right. I'm just gonna go for it. 620 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,320 The more I think about it, the worse it's gonna be. 621 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,640 Just do what you're doing. They'll be a bit of dust of falling. 622 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,920 Oh, dear me. It's pretty scary, Dan. I don't know how you do this. 623 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,120 When you get into the open area, your ladder doesn't push against the wall. 624 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,480 Just be aware it's gonna be a bit more wobbly. 625 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,520 Oh, wow, it is opening up, isn't it? 626 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,200 Today was about getting the shaft down for Renee. 627 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,000 I didn't really have much faith in it, but opal's got no rules. 628 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,280 If she gets a feeling, we've got to follow it 629 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,160 because you don't wanna have if, buts and maybes. 630 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,640 So what type of equipment would they use? 631 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,760 Some tunnelling machines are made to fit down the small shafts. 632 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,920 Maybe they dropped it down one of those, and it's been covered up. 633 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,800 All right. So which way first? I reckon go down this way. 634 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,360 They've done some blasting. 635 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,680 So that's old fuse from the explosives.Oh. 636 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,960 That fuse would've been when the shots went off and pushed the dirt out. 637 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. 638 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,400 I'll do the bulk of it, then you can clean him out, eh?Yeah. 639 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,760 Rather than hand-digging, they'll put a couple of shots. 640 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,760 But looks like they put the bombs in and haven't dug around. 641 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,280 Hopefully that works well for us. I'm gonna have jack-pick in there. 642 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,120 Most important thing is that we're actually finding opal 643 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. 644 00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:47,880 You want the blacklight? 645 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,800 Okay.Oh, wow. Look at that. 646 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,200 Hey.Oh, my God, Dan. 647 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,640 Look, that's got greens in it, I reckon.Oh.You found more. 648 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,280 I'm gonna hand them back, then we'll have a look, eh?Yeah. 649 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,800 That's good colour.Oh, my God. 650 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,280 All right, do you want to sit up and have a look? 651 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,560 Oh. Look at that. 652 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,960 That's a huge piece.Oh. Look at that. 653 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,000 Oh, my God. Look at the size of that. 654 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,800 That is sparkling. Dark base. Good colour. 655 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,760 That is excellent. All right. Well done. 656 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,040 Your spot was all right. High five.Good job. 657 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,680 High five, whatever. You did well. 658 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:30,480 Go get the bucket. I'll keep digging. 659 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,080 Let's hope we got something for Pete. 660 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,600 It looks like a bone. It's exactly what he says. 661 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,080 Let's just hope this is gonna be a pay day, bruv. 662 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:45,760 What are you reckoning? 663 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,600 I don't know, mate. 664 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. 665 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,440 All the value's gonna be in this bad boy, man. 666 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,080 I'm thinking like six and a half grand. 667 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,200 Yeah, we'll go six and a half, and 668 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,880 I don't know, the lowest three and half, eh? 669 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,480 Anything in the middle's gonna be a damn good bonus. 670 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. 671 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,600 How you going, Pete? Hey, how you going?Good, mate. 672 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,960 We went and dug out more of that level we first found stuff.Yep. 673 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,040 Found all of this. We're hoping maybe there's something there. 674 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. 675 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,080 It's just pieces of potch. 676 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,520 Well, we did find one more thing as it turned vertical.Okay. 677 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,840 We found this sitting right up top. 678 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:43,000 Yeah, well, I can tell you straight away... 679 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,760 it's the humerus of a plesiosaur. It's off a plesiosaur. 680 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,600 No worries, so, yep. 681 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. 682 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,640 The Mooka Boys have an opalised fossil of a plesiosaur flipper, 683 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,640 weighing 42.5 grams. 684 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:03,840 Do you know what sort of price are you after? 685 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,720 Well, we're hoping we can maybe get six and a half grand.Yeah. 686 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,840 We will be pouring all the money back into digging. 687 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,800 If it had a bit more opal and stuff like that, 688 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,040 yeah, I think it could be worth that much. 689 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,320 Look, I'll do four and half. 690 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,440 Four and half.That's it. 691 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,160 That's money, man. We need money right now. 692 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:27,960 We'll be happy with four and a half. 693 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,240 Thanks for helping us out, mate. Thank you. 694 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,400 This puts us back in action. We'll go and fill the diesel tanks up. 695 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,480 We'll get out there and start digging again. 696 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,600 Who wants a sausage? 697 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,520 One sausage, thanks, sir. Thanks a lot. 698 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,080 Start of the season's always hard. It's always sausages and no steaks. 699 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,600 But we found our fossil so I'm pretty happy. 700 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,040 Good vibes for the start of this season. 701 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:55,920 Now we've just got to find some more. 702 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,080 Hopefully enough money to bring Leif home. 703 00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,960 That's what we're aiming for. 704 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,960 It sucks that the truck broke down, but we made it happen anyway 705 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,440 by going down that hole and having a scratch around. 706 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,400 So it's a real chance game. 707 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,640 But you've got to keep pushing through even when things go bad. 708 00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:12,320 Cheers, bruv.Cheers, bruv. 709 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,480 ROD: Hey, Sam, Les.LES: What? 710 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,600 Herman's on his way.Okay. 711 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,840 Bring the bucket down here and we'll clean it up a bit, eh? Righto. 712 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,400 In need of a rapid sale to stay in business, 713 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,560 the Bushmen have asked local opal dealer Herman Kreller 714 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,640 to buy direct from the mine. 715 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,600 Rod wanted to get out of here, 716 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,400 but I talked him into staying for another week. 717 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,000 So I keep on his wheel about that. 718 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,160 That sounds like a knock on the door.Sure does. 719 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. 720 00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,080 It's good to see ya.Mate. 721 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,080 I better put me hard hat on. You better put your helmet on, mate. 722 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,600 I've been dealing with Herman for a lot of years. 723 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,280 We've sold to him a fair bit. 724 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,960 So I reckon he'll pay top dollar for it. 725 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,600 Okay, you phoned me, I'm here. What you got? 726 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,560 Mate.What? 727 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,720 I've been up here 55 years. 728 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,240 I spent 30 years underground mining. 729 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,200 Six years gouging with a candle and a pick. 730 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,800 Put a bit of light on that for Herman.Oh. 731 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,080 Honestly, mate, that's just come out of the wall. 732 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,200 My favourite colour plate, would you know.I know. 733 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:39,080 The Bushmen have crystal seam opal featuring blues and purples. 734 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,160 It's in the rough and weighs one kilogram. 735 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,040 How good is it.Oh, mate. 736 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,400 What did you use, explosive or bloody crowbar? 737 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,640 It's all broken up. What did you do to it? 738 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:53,640 He's right, that's grazed. SAM: Really? 739 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,440 What's the lowest you'll take for it, the lot? 740 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,200 How about five grand? 741 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,520 You're saying $5,000. 742 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,360 Now this is not $5,000. 743 00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:09,120 If you'd like to take $2,500. 744 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,680 All you've got to do is go back onto the digger 745 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,360 and dig out more and then phone me again. 746 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,400 ROD: $2,500. 747 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,400 LES: $2,500 sounds better than no two and a half grand. 748 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,360 If it's as grazed as bad as it is and it's not worth it. 749 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,800 All right, you got a deal. 750 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,640 He didn't want the handshake. He wanted the dough. 751 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,440 No dough, no go. Thank you. 752 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,400 A sale's a sale. 753 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,480 And $2,500 is gonna buy us enough diesel to keep on mining. 754 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,800 For you, Sam.Thank you. Here, old fella.Thanks, mate. 755 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,200 And there's even one for me. Oh, good.Cheers.Cheers.Cheers. 756 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,320 Wow, look at that, Dan. Which one do you think's the King Stone? 757 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,000 I think this dark red here. 758 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,040 Need to clean it back and have a good look, 759 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,760 but that big red bar there. I can't wait to get it home. 760 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,880 This is exactly what George's customer wants. 761 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,080 How much do you reckon we should ask for it? 762 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:22,880 I wouldn't take less than 40. 763 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,760 40 grand.We'll start higher, 764 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,000 but I'm walking out if he's not giving me 40. 765 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,080 It's the start of the season so we really need to kick start it. 766 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,800 We did so poorly last year. 767 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,840 For me to stay and live and work with Dan full-time, 768 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,800 we really need to make this sale today. 769 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,520 Hey, George.Hey, man. Good to see you.You too. 770 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,520 Nice to see you again.You too. 771 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,000 Something special to show you. You had some luck? 772 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,080 Oh, a bit of luck. See what you got. 773 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,600 I run a small family business in Coober Pedy. 774 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,520 Mum and Dad have been mining since 1973. 775 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,680 Mum decided to open shop in 1987. She was sick of having no money. 776 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,560 That allowed us to keep mining. 777 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,080 Wow, that's nice.Yeah, look at that.That's amazing.So good. 778 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,000 Dark base, too, like you said your customer's wanting.Yeah. 779 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:12,720 The Opal Lovers have a parcel of crystal opal on a dark base 780 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,000 including a high quality King Stone. 781 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,720 All feature the full spectrum of colours, 782 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,040 are in the rough, and weigh a total of 142 grams. 783 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,040 Now this is amazing, this stone here.Yeah, yeah. 784 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,720 Is that your favourite stone? That's a beautiful stone. 785 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,440 And I can see why. 786 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,520 What sort of money are you asking for this? 787 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,160 Look, there's right dark material. 788 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,360 45.45. 789 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,080 Look, I don't wanna offend you, but I don't quite see 45 there. 790 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:49,040 I think the lowest we'd come down would be 40.40.Yeah. 791 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,320 I tell you what, how about 25? 792 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:53,920 Nah, 25 just isn't enough. 793 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,480 Yeah, look, sorry, guys. It's nice stuff, but... 794 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,600 Look, 25. 795 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,040 What are you doing, Dan? This comes out. 796 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,680 What, you gonna take a piece out? Yeah, I'm not leaving. 797 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,600 Sorry, George, but he's know what that'll cut. 798 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,720 All right, done.Deal.Done? Thanks.Done.Thanks, George. 799 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,760 Appreciate it, mate. You let us know how you go. 800 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,680 That stone, I'm really set on. 801 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,080 I can see 30 grand coming out once we've cut it. 802 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,560 So that's an awesome kick start to our season. 803 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,280 It's really good to have money in the bank. 804 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,840 In theory, we should be able to get about 55,000 in total. 805 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,320 So my gut feeling was right. Time for a celebration. 806 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,160 Ah. There it goes. 807 00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:39,040 Oh, look, Dan.Ooh, look at that. Beautiful. 808 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,520 Lucky I won the bet. You're paying tonight, isn't it? 809 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,640 I'll give it to you. I'll admit you...Found lots of opal, 810 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:46,600 made a bit of cash, made a bit of money. 811 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,480 That's just the start of it, I'm sure. 812 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,440 To your spot.Cheers. Cheers.Thank you. 813 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,520 Subtitles by Deluxe 813 00:43:53,305 --> 00:44:53,208 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm