"Aussie Gold Hunters" Episode #10.1

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,960 As you all know, the world lost a very special person 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,040 just before Christmas last year. 3 00:00:08,120 --> 00:00:11,400 Nev wanted this day here. 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,240 He said, "Brent, when I die, mate, just make sure it's not a funeral. 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:20,120 Try and make the day as fun as possible, more of a celebration." 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,000 You just want to leave a lasting impression, 7 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:26,640 a bit of a legacy, I suppose. 8 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,080 It's gold.That's a chunk, mate - that is a chunk! 9 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:36,400 I feel very blessed, I really do. 10 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:40,600 Our friends and family, they're the most important things in our lives. 11 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,280 My wife and my children and grandchildren 12 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,480 have been my heart and soul. 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,520 I don't believe there would be a prouder dad in the world, 14 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,200 just wouldn't be.We're proud of you, Dad. 15 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:59,160 When I envisage that future of my boys working with Brenton and Ethan, 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,560 I know I'm leaving my boys in safe hands. 17 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,240 I know my story is going to end, but theirs is just beginning. 18 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,400 A life cut short, 19 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:23,160 but the inspiration he provided for so many people was incredible. 20 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,000 Love you, mate. 21 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,560 There's so many people from different walks of life, 22 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,440 from across Australia, across the world. He brought us together. 23 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,600 This is what Neville did. 24 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:40,960 The last few months have not very easy for any of us, 25 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,880 but today makes it all a little bit less painful. 26 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:50,520 Dad would be extremely proud to see everyone here, like youse are today. 27 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,600 This season of Aussie Gold Hunters... 28 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:09,000 ..seven teams look to strike it rich. 29 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,280 In these hills, we're searching for monsters. 30 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,880 Look at that, eh? 31 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,520 Right, let's see what this beast can do.Let's fire it up. 32 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,240 It's alive! 33 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,680 We're willing to go to hell and back to get the gold. 34 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:38,680 With increasing global demand driving record-high gold prices... 35 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,680 This season, we have to try something new. 36 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,400 ..they'll push the limits of prospecting... 37 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,760 Deep here. Deep enough for a big croc. 38 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:51,480 Whoa, whoa, whoa! Snake - get out of there!Quick, in the car! Good job. 39 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,240 Shut it down! Oil everywhere. That's the last thing we needed. 40 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,600 ..in the pursuit of a life-changing fortune in gold. 41 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,640 That's a good week!Holy hell! 42 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,480 Look at that! 43 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,000 Oh, my God! 44 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,680 We found crystalline gold, woo! 45 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,000 Look at that!That! 46 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,760 Hey, boys. What a great day, eh? 47 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,200 I have something for you.Yep? 48 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,760 It was the old man's. I've seen that before. 49 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,160 So, you know what it is?His diary that he kept 50 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:42,400 close to his heart. He showed me glimpses. I never asked, but yeah. 51 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,440 Before the old man passed, 52 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,800 he asked if we could give this to you.Thanks, mate. 53 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,160 I'll just say thank you, and thank your dad up there, mate. 54 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,880 There will be a lot of secrets in here - good secrets, no doubt. 55 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,560 Give me a bloody hug. You should be so proud of your dad, he was a legend. 56 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:10,720 That is Nev's gold Bible, mate. There's maps, there's numbers. 57 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,240 The amount of information in this book... 58 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,640 A lot of information is stuff that I know he found, 59 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,320 stuff that was passed on to him. 60 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,000 "Access to Melville Caves". Melville Caves? 61 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:26,480 Quite a few musket balls and relics found in the caves. 62 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,400 That's a spot that Nevvy wanted to go back with me, 63 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,440 he wanted me to take him back there. We ran out of time. 64 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,920 Captain Melville was a bushranger. 65 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,880 He robbed his gold escort. 66 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,960 There was pounds and pounds of gold in tins, apparently. 67 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,560 The gold was never recovered.Yeah, potentially stashed around the area. 68 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,080 Right. Yeah, let's get this map out, mate. 69 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,120 He's got marks on this map. 70 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:56,200 Melville itself, then he's got some of the areas not far from it. 71 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:59,120 Where are you going?A bit of a detour. 72 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,520 To where? Heading to Melville Caves. 73 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,880 Are you for real?I've got a feeling, 74 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,600 after Nev's big day and you coming across that, 75 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:11,400 we need to go and just have a look before we start digging proper. 76 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,320 It does sound like a bit of a fairy tale. 77 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,960 This year, we really do have to concentrate on mining. 78 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,440 But when Nev looks you in the eye and says, 79 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,880 "I need to take you up there," he means it. 80 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,280 You've got to have dreams, that's what Nev was on.I'll give you that. 81 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,560 He'd be proud of you, mate. 82 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,880 We are in the business of hopes and dreams. 83 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,240 Brent was rushed to hospital last night, 84 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,120 he's got some bad neck injuries. 85 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,480 I reckon there's discs blown out. 86 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,240 The rain has washed us out, we can't work. 87 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,680 Things get to you. Give me a moment to think. 88 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,960 The Poseidon Crew faced crippling setbacks 89 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:54,800 and devastating gold returns. 90 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,720 The history of this... I don't want to hear it! 91 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,640 It doesn't mean a thing when we haven't got it. 92 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,760 In his final months, gold legend, Neville Perry, 93 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:05,600 was determined to lift them up 94 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,560 by passing on his four decades of gold-hunting experience. 95 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,840 You on channel, Brent?Yeah, man. 96 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,280 Approaching Kingower, the heart of big-nugget country. 97 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,880 Oi, hang on! There's a bit of gold there.Look at that! 98 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,040 For him to pass that on, that's gold in itself. 99 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:25,760 It's all good, mate. 100 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:30,040 These are the moments, they really are - they're the moments. 101 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:39,200 I know this might seem like a fairy tale, but you never know. 102 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,800 Nev was adamant, he wanted to take me up here. 103 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,320 He was passionate about everything he did, 104 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,960 so if he's written about it, it's for a reason. 105 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,600 After that big day, I felt it was fitting. 106 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,800 Let's go on one more Nevvy trip, eh? 107 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,120 He might be still with us somewhere. Yeah. 108 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:00,520 This is Melville's main hideout. 109 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,000 They named the whole caves after him. 110 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:07,640 Put your bushranger hat on - you've just robbed your gold escort 111 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,680 with armfuls of gold worth millions today. 112 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:12,760 Where would you put it? 113 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,000 During the gold rush, outlaws known as bushrangers, 114 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:23,080 including the infamous Ned Kelly gang, terrorised the outback, 115 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,880 robbing banks and ambushing stagecoaches full of gold 116 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,520 destined for the Melbourne Mint. 117 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,320 In 1852, Scottish-born Francis McCallum, 118 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,560 known by his pirate-inspired bushranger name, Captain Melville, 119 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,880 stole an estimate $10 million worth of gold 120 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:44,000 from a stagecoach leaving the Bendigo gold fields. 121 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:49,240 Melville and his gang were caught but the gold was nowhere to be found. 122 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,320 Legend has it that when Melville died in prison, 123 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,800 he took the location of the millions in gold with him to the grave. 124 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,160 Have a look at that in there, eh. 125 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,480 That looks pretty cool. 126 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,080 Looks like it curls around under that rock. 127 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,920 That goes into another cave system. You reckon we ought to have a look? 128 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,080 Me?You're younger and fitter than I am, I nominate you to go! 129 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,360 I'll go down there, mate, but... 130 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,160 Just be careful. 131 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:35,120 You all right? Hey, mate! 132 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,040 You all right? 133 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,200 Yeah, mate. 134 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,480 You all right or not?Yeah. 135 00:08:41,560 --> 00:08:44,480 You got down there, anyway.You won't believe it - 136 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:47,120 that stops right here.You're kidding? 137 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,640 It goes into a little point, and that's it, no further. 138 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,840 Well, that was a lot of effort for nothing. 139 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,120 There's an old tin here, mate. Really? 140 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:57,800 I'm serious.Don't kid me. 141 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,240 It's half-buried.You're kidding? 142 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,560 Well, we're back, mate. How good is this? Back on the Palmer, 143 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:18,200 ready for another year of ripping gold out.Mate, I tell you, it's so good to be back. 144 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:22,800 There's something about this place. You miss it, hey? It's awesome. 145 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:24,720 But the gold's not guaranteed. 146 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:29,240 2.5 metres of rain here this year just in 3 months. 147 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:33,640 Who even knows if we'll be able to cross rivers? 148 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,920 This crossing will be what makes us or breaks us. 149 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,840 If we don't get over there, we'll be stuck away from that big gold. 150 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,400 Coming down onto the river, Jacqui, let's see how it looks. 151 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,760 Oh, what?! 152 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,440 This is worse than I thought. 153 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:00,800 Well...We are not getting across there, mate. 154 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,360 That's not good. 155 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,760 That's way too deep, and there's too many big crocodiles in there, 156 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,760 so we're not swimming across. 157 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:14,560 All the gold's over there, we need to be on that side.Yeah. 158 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,400 All the crossings are going to look like this. 159 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,720 We've exhausted Plan A and Plan B. 160 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,200 We can't drive. BOTH: Can't walk. 161 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,680 I don't know what to do. 162 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,760 This sucks! 163 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,960 Woo, let's do it!Let's go! 164 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,040 How you going, mate?Hey, mate. 165 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,960 Exploration prospectors, Jacqui Buzetti and Andrew Leahy 166 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,800 have dedicated the past three years to hunting gold 167 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,960 on the extremely remote Palmer River in far north Queensland. 168 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,840 The Palmer River is not a place to muck around. 169 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:51,880 We're a long way from any help. 170 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,840 Watch out, there's a snake. If one of those gets us, it's all over. 171 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,000 Let's go, mate - fire! 172 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,360 Whoa! This is bad. 173 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,680 Oh, God! 174 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,440 Holy crap!Last season, despite their setbacks... 175 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,560 Yes!Have a look at that! 176 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,440 Yes! 177 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,560 It's a monster! 178 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,600 ..they smashed their 50oz season target, 179 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:19,880 earning themselves $160,000. 180 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,880 We can come back better next year, better setup. 181 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,560 That is amazing.Ready to go again. 182 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:29,640 Hey, Jacqui, you there? 183 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,040 Yeah, mate. Your setup's looking sweet, mate. 184 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,000 Honestly, it is a game-changer. 185 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,160 Better than being in a tent, mate. 186 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,080 There's no excuses for you to turn up at work all stinky any more. 187 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:47,600 Thank you.That road being washed out, we can't get near that gold, 188 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:50,480 so we might as well can it.No, no, no! 189 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,720 Have you got your maps on you?I have. 190 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:54,920 We should just try a different angle. 191 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,840 We get stuck here, yeah?Yeah. 192 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,240 That's where we're supposed to be going so we can get up here. 193 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,880 Under that gully? Yeah, on that system. 194 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:10,680 But look, the river could go straight there. 195 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,400 Yeah, it does! What are you talking about? 196 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,520 The river is the road, Andy. 197 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,000 We brought those to go fishing, mate. 198 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,520 But we could use them to go prospecting! 199 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,920 Isn't that a great idea?So, we've got to put all that gear 200 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,600 and detectors on these, chuck 'em in a creek full of crocodiles, 201 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:32,520 and paddle them all the way to where we've got to go?Yes. 202 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,840 Let's do it, let's kayak-prospect. 203 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,000 Think of all the places that we'll be able to get to on the river, 204 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,240 no roads or cars, no-one's been able to access it. 205 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,160 It's genius, I'm a genius. That is a pretty good plan. 206 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,880 You in?Yep. 207 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,080 See? Let's do it. 208 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:57,840 Do you reckon there could be any salties still kicking about? 209 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:01,080 We've just got to be croc-wise, be croc-safe, 210 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,840 and assume that there's salties here. 211 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,200 This river is home to two species of crocodiles - 212 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,320 the freshwater croc and the highly aggressive salty. 213 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,360 This ambush predator can submerge undetected for hours 214 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,160 before killing its victim 215 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,960 with a strike four times faster than a rattlesnake. 216 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,160 Probably going to take us about two hours on these kayaks 217 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:30,560 to get to where we need to go - two hours in, two hours back, detecting all day. 218 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:32,320 But if we hit gold out there, 219 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,440 this could be exactly what we need to hit that target this season. 220 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,880 Five years ago, working in the beauty salon, 221 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,560 I never, ever would have imagined that 222 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,520 I'd be out here on the Palmer River, digging for gold, hey? 223 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,880 It's turned out to be more than just prospecting - 224 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,960 every day is an adventure now, mate. 225 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,000 It's deep out here.Yeah, deep enough for a big croc. 226 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,040 I've seen a couple of croc slides on the banks. 227 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,480 I haven't noticed that, that's a bit of a worry. 228 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,680 So, what are we actually doing, target, this year? 229 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:13,800 I was thinking, 65oz - that's a kilo of gold each, eh? 230 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:19,480 65 is huge!$230,000 of gold, mate! We might as well go big. 231 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,160 Go big or go home, hey?That's the one, mate. 232 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,480 Yeah! 233 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,800 Doesn't look like we can get much further from here. 234 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,960 Yeah, this looks like the end of the line to me, mate. 235 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:36,480 Pull up in there, we'll just have to walk the rest of it.Yeah. 236 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:43,560 I'm ready to get out of this kayak and start looking for some gold. Yeah, me too. 237 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,920 Oh! 238 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,800 What was that?I don't know. 239 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:50,880 Is that a crocodile there? 240 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:58,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 241 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,440 This season, we're doing things a bit differently - 242 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:18,000 our focus is on the family and having fun. 243 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:22,080 Working with my wife, Shannon, and my daughter, Eboni. 244 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:23,800 Bring me that bucket of dirt. 245 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,080 I get to do my two favourite things - 246 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,640 find gold and spend time with my family. 247 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,640 There you go, honey. Thanks, baby. 248 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,160 The only catch is, to keep the dream alive, 249 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,040 I need to keep the gold coming in, 250 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,960 and today, I'll have to spend some of that gold to buy more dirt 251 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,760 to get some REAL money. 252 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,440 Ready?Hey! 253 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,080 What's happening?I had a call from a mate, 254 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,880 he's got a bit of dirt to look at, for sale. 255 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,560 It's a bit of mine waste, I might get it for a steal. 256 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:58,200 I've got to get it tested first. Hopefully, it's got a lot of gold. 257 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:00,840 What are you thinking of spending? About 5oz, 258 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,800 try and barter between 3 and 5. 259 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,920 Maybe maximum 4? That's nearly 15 grand. 260 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,080 Don't go spending it on pub money. Damn straight! 261 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:11,760 Pub money?! 262 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,440 I'll make some cornflake gold, take a bit with me to spend. 263 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,440 The dirt I'm going to look at, no-one else can touch it 264 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:28,480 cos it's at the mill down the road, it's full of steel and rubbish. 265 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:32,680 But processing mine waste has been our No.1 money-spinner 266 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:35,840 over the years, so if it works, keep doing it. 267 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,480 Turning it into cornflakes, I can pull out what I need. 268 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,880 He didn't want cash, he just wants gold, so I'll take 5oz with me. 269 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,400 That's, like, 17.5 grand in today's gold. 270 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:52,480 I'll start at 3, and hopefully, he doesn't want to take the whole 5. 271 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:56,320 Between us, we've got millions of dollars of machinery. 272 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,160 After running costs every month, which is $50,000, 273 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,560 we'll need a lot of gold to make this work. 274 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,080 I want to chase 1,000oz - I want to chase that dream. 275 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:10,760 Two years ago, Paul Mackie joined forces with mine boss, Melanie Wood 276 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:15,120 and veteran prospector, Alex Stead, to form The Gold Devils. 277 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,560 Whoa, no way!What the hell? 278 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,880 Far out.That's crazy! You kidding me? 279 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,040 Their initial efforts were a big success, 280 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:26,600 but last season, the gold ran dry, 281 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:31,280 and the cost of running multiple operations reached crisis point. 282 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:35,560 I've got to provide for my family. I've got kids in uni, 283 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,480 I've got bills coming out of my head, I'm nearly drowning. 284 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,480 Basically, that's the end of The Gold Devils. 285 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,360 Yeah.Our friendship is the most important thing. 286 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,680 It was not an easy decision. 287 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,600 Sorry, guys.Good luck, Paul. 288 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,080 No worries, mate. 289 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:57,400 Now Paul is back to find gold with the help of his family. 290 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,320 The best part about working with the family is, 291 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,280 all the money we make, we keep. 292 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:12,440 The last few seasons, I've tried to go for that massive, 1,000oz target, 293 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,800 and I'm not interested in that any more. 294 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,240 The most important thing for me is to enjoy it, 295 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,520 that's what I'm really looking forward to this season. 296 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,560 I like the fact that Paul can go away, go and get some dirt, 297 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:33,800 but in the meantime, Eb and I can still be working. 298 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,160 Is that good, Eb? Yeah, that's good. 299 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,680 You going to make a bit of money while you're up here?Yeah. 300 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,840 Pay off uni and have a bit of extra cash.Yeah. 301 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,920 Eboni's always been a hard worker. 302 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,280 I know, when I come here with her, she'll work beside me. 303 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:55,640 It'll be good, having a fit, young person up here with me. 304 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,440 She can be all the muscle. 305 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,000 That's most of the water pipe set up. 306 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,920 How about you have a look over the power board, 307 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,720 and I'll jump up to the top, 308 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,600 make sure the excavator's in the right spot, 309 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,480 then we can turn the water on? 310 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,880 Sounds sweet.All right, cool. 311 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,840 We'll be here for a whole season. 312 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,960 It's more rewarding, cos we put the effort in the whole season long 313 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:23,000 rather than coming in at the end and seeing what's made. So, keen for that. 314 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,080 Just switch this. 315 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,120 Oh, sweet - now that's up and running. 316 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,680 Oh, why's that going out? 317 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:38,000 Not good. Something must be wrong. 318 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,080 What do we do now? 319 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,480 There's an old tin here, mate. 320 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,240 What, just sitting there? 321 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,120 It's half-buried, mate.Really? 322 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,760 Nothing in it, obviously.Nah. It's full of sand, mate. 323 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,760 What sort of tin is it? Give me a look. 324 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,880 How old is it, you reckon, eh? 325 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,840 It's old - it's rusted, mate. It's old, old. 326 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,960 I don't know if it's a billy can. 327 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,840 It was buried?Yeah, buried in this corner. 328 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:16,800 Could have been a gold tin, mate! That was a bit of a let-down. 329 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,400 You going to be able to get out of there or not? 330 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,080 Struggling here. Here. 331 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,520 Reach. Get your hand, eh? 332 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,840 Here we go. 333 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,520 OK, I'll grab you, mate. 334 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,600 Hang on, hang on - that's not good for my neck, mate. 335 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,920 You for real?I'll go back to the car 336 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,800 and see if I've got something to get you out. 337 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:47,440 Just take five."Just take five " I'm not going anywhere, am I? 338 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,000 I'll be back in a minute, mate. 339 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,280 We were on our way to Catto's, 340 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:55,040 and a few hours later, here I am, down a hole. 341 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:58,800 Really, we should probably be digging Catto's paddock 342 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,960 to really start our season off, but after Nevvy's big day, 343 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:09,120 just being here, you could call it healing for me, in a way, you know? 344 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,600 It's something Nevvy wanted to get up here and show me, 345 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,680 things like this. 346 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:20,000 Take the opportunity to do it, otherwise I might run out of time. 347 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:21,920 Hey-hey! 348 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,880 Here, take that! 349 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:25,760 You'll be right. 350 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:30,560 You grab hold of that, and you pull yourself up against the wall. 351 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,400 I'll stand on this, I don't want to slip. All right? 352 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,480 You all right, mate? 353 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,440 I'll be right to grab you now.I don't trust you! 354 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,520 Give me your arm. 355 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,920 I've gotcha. You all right? Yep. 356 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,200 Come on.I'm trying, my head was stuck in your crotch! 357 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,480 Told you I'd get you out! 358 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,480 Where are we off to next, then? 359 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:03,720 He's got, "700 metres north of caves, detect." 360 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:09,880 That's our location?Why don't we go 700 metres north of where we are? Let's do it. 361 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:17,880 We're trying to walk towards one of the Xs on Nevvy's map, where we think it is. 362 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,240 It's a bit of a needle in the haystack, 363 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,880 but we've got a rough vicinity. 364 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,680 Hopefully, you know, we might stumble across something. 365 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,240 All through here, it's not gold ground, it's granite country. 366 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:35,760 There's no gold up here, but there could be bushranger gold up here. 367 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,520 This is buried just a little bit. 368 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,560 This is actually an old horse bit, that's pretty cool! 369 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:53,640 The reason why I'm excited about this is because back in the 1850s, 370 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,000 only the really affluent people, the wealthy, 371 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:02,480 miners that had done really well, had horses, and bushrangers. 372 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,280 They would steal 'em off the wealthy, that's their getaway car. 373 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,040 That's pretty bloody exciting. 374 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:11,640 This is starting to look promising. 375 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,640 It's not quite the start of the season I thought we'd be having. 376 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,640 It blows my mind to think that 377 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,600 Catto's is just over that mountain range, 378 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,440 literally less than a couple of Ks away. 379 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,640 That's where I'd rather be. 380 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,760 But Brent needs this, the whole deal with the passing of Neville. 381 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,600 There's a bigger picture. If this is what he needs, let's go for it. 382 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:41,200 Got a target here, obviously in the rock or under the rock. 383 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,240 It's got me excited. 384 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:48,600 What have you got, mate?There's something under this slab, mate. 385 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,080 The only thing I can think of is maybe those straps. 386 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:57,200 We might be able to shimmy it out of the way.Right, OK. 387 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,440 1, 2, 3, go. 388 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,000 Ready?Yep. 389 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,360 We might need something else. 390 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,840 Yeah.All good? 391 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,800 All right. Woo-hoo! Yeah, that's it. 392 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,880 Now you'll be right to get in there. 393 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,680 What's in there, Ethan? 394 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,920 It's still there, eh? It's something, mate. 395 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,080 It ain't a waste of time, whatever this is. 396 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,680 If I put my hand on the top of a jar, mate, I tell you what... 397 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,160 Mm-hm.I can't feel anything. 398 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,560 Hey-hey - coins! 399 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,280 Huh?Coins! 400 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:50,880 They're coins! Woo! 401 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,480 This stuff out of a mill, it's high-quality. 402 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,200 What are you chasing for it? 5, mate - 5oz. 403 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,640 First things first - let's pan it off. 404 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,560 Yep.From what I can see in the pan, I'll take it from that. 405 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,240 You'll be happy. 406 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,200 Starting to see a few colours showing. 407 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:19,960 A lot of steel in there.Yeah. 408 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,640 I can see a fair bit of gold in there. 409 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,160 Fair bit, actually.Yeah. 410 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,840 All there and...in the back there. 411 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:35,360 You wanted 5, I was realistically only hoping to pay around 3, 3.5. 412 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,640 I'm hard on 5, mate, I'm not willing to go any lower. 413 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,960 Oh, well, I don't even think there's any point in haggling. 414 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,720 If every pan is like that, we've got ourselves a deal.No worries. 415 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,040 5 it is. 416 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:54,240 With this dirt, it's a gamble. 417 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,680 I did spend more than what I wanted to. 418 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,440 I want to make at least 50% on my profit. 419 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:05,600 Whatever it costs me, I double that, otherwise it's just not viable. 420 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,880 It's great when you've got a family behind you. 421 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,000 I'm happy with the way the girls are running the operation. 422 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,120 When I get back, everything should be smooth sailing. 423 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:21,000 It's flicked out on here before, so I flicked it back on, 424 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,200 now it's flicked off again. 425 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,360 I didn't know what I was looking at. Yeah. 426 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,760 I don't want to open that board up. 427 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:33,840 If there's power leaking, I don't want to get myself zapped, I don't want you zapped. 428 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,840 I might call the sparky, see where he is.OK. 429 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,800 Yeah, Shannon at the Phoenix project. 430 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,320 We've had an issue with our wet plant, 431 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,400 I'm hoping you can check it out. 432 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,200 What's happening is, every time we turn it on, 433 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,000 the fuse keeps tripping. 434 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,040 A day and a half. 435 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:57,000 Oh, yeah, you think that might be the problem? 436 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,200 Yeah, all right, I'll try that. Thanks, Rick. 437 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,720 Rick said that they've previously had that same issue. 438 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,200 Hm!So, what we're going to do is unplug the three-phase 439 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:12,360 from the RCD side, plug it into the non-RCD side, and give it a go. 440 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,760 Hopefully, it works.Hopefully! 441 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:20,320 Head up to the plant, I'll give you a call when I'm ready for you to turn it over.All right. 442 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,760 It's good that Rick could trouble-shoot it over the phone. 443 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,560 Hopefully, we can move on. 444 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,640 All right, Ebs, give it a whirl. 445 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,240 Turning it on now. 446 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,080 Power on.BOTH: Woo! 447 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,040 Awesome, Ebs!That's good news. 448 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:38,320 At least we fixed it.Yeah. 449 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,320 We're like sparkies!Jeez! 450 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,600 How's that for timing? Here he is already. 451 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,760 Hello!Hello. How'd you go? 452 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,800 Well, I got the first two.OK. 453 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,960 The pans look really good.Do they? How much did you pay? 454 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,600 A little bit more than you wanted me to - I paid 5.All right. 455 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,840 Well, you know I trust you. 456 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,840 We had a problem with the power. Righto. 457 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,040 Sorted it out with the sparky. Yep. 458 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:07,240 And we fixed it.We did fix it. 459 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,960 Ready to go! Look at you two, going! 460 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,160 We felt bad.Being proactive. 461 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,640 If that's ready, I'll get the truck over there, and we'll get stuck in. 462 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,360 Let's do it, we'll meet you over there.Awesome. 463 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:27,080 What was that, did you see what that was over there? 464 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,360 Let's ah... Let's just get our kayaks out of the water, eh? 465 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,840 Could have been a croc jumping off the bank back into the water. 466 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,640 Yeah, I reckon so. 467 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:43,200 Probably a good time to be back on dry ground. 468 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,720 All right, let's go and do what we do best.All right. 469 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,960 We're going to split up here, cover some ground. 470 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,360 Yeah, I will see you soon. 471 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,960 First prospect this year, mate! Bring back a chunky piece! 472 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,080 Don't do a doughnut! 473 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,880 Nothing comes easy on the Palmer this time of year. 474 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,600 Just so limited in where I can detect - 475 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,640 I've got grass that side of me, water that side of me. 476 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,280 I'm stuck in this one little strip on the edge of the creek. 477 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,600 It's still super hot, really humid. 478 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,560 It's sapping me a bit of confidence that 479 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,160 we're going to do well in this area. It's rubbish! 480 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:30,560 After the wet season, there's always long, thick grass around. 481 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,280 You swing your detector, and it just gets all tangled up. 482 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,440 It's pretty difficult. 483 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,920 I'm just trying to search around these bedrock bars 484 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,120 sort of on the edge of the creek. 485 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,040 Can't afford to miss a single one when we've got a target 486 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,840 of 65oz this year, and we're just getting started. 487 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,480 This is a good-looking area in here. 488 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:01,320 All this bedrock everywhere, it's a great spot for the gold to catch. 489 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,560 Gold will tumble down in the floods. 490 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:08,440 It'll get stuck in these bedrock cracks or behind these big rocks 491 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,080 because in the bedrock, it can't sink any deeper. 492 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,640 There we go, first target of the year. 493 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:28,640 All right, it's out. Sounds nice. Hopefully, it's gold. Could be a nice solid if it is. 494 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,040 Oh, yeah, you little ripper! 495 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,920 That's a nice chunk! There's 3 or 4 grams there, I think. 496 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,040 If we keep getting gold up like that, it adds up really quick. 497 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,320 Picking out $400 at a time 498 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,360 keeps you pretty enthusiastic as well, of course. 499 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,520 That's what we came here for. 500 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,440 Palmer nuggets. How bloody good is that? 501 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,880 The prospector's favourite noise... 502 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,840 ..money in the jar. 503 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,600 That's definitely a target. 504 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,320 Ah, there it is! 505 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:27,600 Yes! Check that out, that is absolutely unreal. 506 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,280 That is awesome, look at that! 507 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:37,320 Nice, chunky piece - probably about 3 grams of gold there, a good $300. 508 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,120 I found that right here in this bedrock. 509 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,280 Gold is definitely settling in these bedrock cracks, that is brilliant. 510 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:49,760 We are on the gold, the season has officially begun. 511 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,480 There you are!How you going? 512 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,040 Yeah, good! It's been good. Yeah, it has. 513 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,520 Yeah?I've gone pretty well. I put a few away, nothing crazy. 514 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,040 Got a nice rattle in the jar? So do I. 515 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,920 Yours sounds better than mine. 516 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,800 We should get back to the kayaks - 517 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,720 I don't want to paddle down that river in the dark. 518 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,200 That sun is getting low, it's time to go. 519 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,040 I don't want to be croc bait. 520 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,040 We'll come back tomorrow, eh?Yeah, let's go. 521 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:34,960 It's pretty fun, working with Paul, we make a really good team together. 522 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,320 I pick him up when he's down, he picks me up when I'm down, you know? 523 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,920 What we're doing up here, it's for the family. 524 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,680 It's nice to be able to work together and achieve something. 525 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,240 I put one of the bags into the little bore mill here. 526 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,480 It's full of steel balls up to about a quarter of the way. 527 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,760 I've crushed it down into, hopefully, a fine paste. 528 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:05,160 The mill uses water and heavy steel balls to pulverise the mine waste. 529 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,160 The gold is then removed from the slurry 530 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,680 during the refinement process. 531 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,200 Yeah, that's super fine. 532 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,320 A couple hours in there, and it's all crushed up beautifully. 533 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,800 Once I've got enough, I'll take it over where the girls are, 534 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,600 they'll get the concentrators going. 535 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,520 OK, water?Yeah. 536 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,680 Pumps?Yeah. 537 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,320 We'll feed it slowly into the concentrators. 538 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,560 We want to use centrifugal force to separate the waste products 539 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,600 and retain the gold and heavies, 540 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,840 and recover enough gold to pay for what I've spent. 541 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,080 So keen to see some gold. 542 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,080 That! What?I tripped on it! 543 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,400 Well, watch where you're going! 544 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,600 There you go, Ebi will sort it for you. 545 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,240 It's heavy!There you go. 546 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,040 You're the only one that trips on it. 547 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,000 Squirted my face! 548 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,160 It's definitely fun, having the family around. 549 00:34:11,240 --> 00:34:13,360 When they're not, I miss them. 550 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,760 I tell them how my day was, when I'm covered in mud 551 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,240 and covered in grease, and with all the flies. 552 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,760 They just laugh at me. When they're up here, they live it as well. 553 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:28,040 It's a family-bonding experience. 554 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,760 This material I'm playing with, I can see a lot of gold in it, 555 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:36,600 but I can see a thousand times more particles of steel. 556 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:41,320 It's just insane, trying to separate the steel from the gold. 557 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:46,080 It is a mission, so I'll try and get as much as I can with a magnet. 558 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,720 You can feel it coming up.OK, stop that. 559 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,240 It's like someone's hairy head. 560 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,040 I knew there was going to be a lot of steel in it, 561 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:03,240 but at the end of the day, when it's got that much gold in it, 562 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,240 I really don't give a damn. 563 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,560 This is what this season is all about - having fun.And hard work, 564 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,280 turning mud into gold. 565 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,360 Look at this. 566 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,040 The amount of dirt we've put through, like, a tub and a half... 567 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,320 Whoa, that's so good! 568 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,160 That's heaps!That's amazing. 569 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:27,680 I was not expecting that much gold, no way. 570 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,600 We haven't even finished washing this one off, and we see that much, 571 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,560 so hopefully, this one doubles. 572 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,000 I can't take more steel out of that, so I'll melt it as it is. 573 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,200 It's going to melt off the steel? 574 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,280 It should pull some of it out, yeah. 575 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,880 Get it in the furnace, smelt it off, 576 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,880 and hopefully, have a good-looking bar.Let's do it. 577 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,480 All right - 65oz, mate. 578 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,560 Time to start digging some holes. 579 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,200 You've really got to be careful out here. 580 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,000 I mean, we've kayaked in, we've been walking. 581 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,200 We're already remote here on the Palmer. 582 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,520 You've got to be really cautious - 583 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,680 you don't want to be having accidents out here. 584 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:33,320 Town, from camp, is a good four-hour drive away, 585 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,680 let alone trying to get help when you're this far out. 586 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:44,040 All right, got a target in there. 587 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,800 There's a fair bit of rubble. 588 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,880 Ooh, there's a scorpion! 589 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,280 That's pretty cool. 590 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,400 I do know to stay away from them. 591 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,160 Apparently, if they get you, it will really, really hurt. 592 00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:03,200 If they've got small nippers like that, then they pack a punch 593 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,000 with their stinger. 594 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,440 All right, he's going to chill there, my target is here. 595 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:13,400 I'm safe. That's the type of thing - like, if I need medical help 596 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,200 cos I get stung by a scorpion, I've got to walk to the kayaks, 597 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,880 kayak back to the river, drive four hours to the hospital. 598 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:25,000 By the time I get there, I may as well just suck it up. 599 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,000 It's in this rubble pile somewhere here. 600 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,920 In my hand. 601 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,640 Woo-hoo! Yes! 602 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:41,080 That's awesome! That's a nice, chunky piece there, look at that. 603 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,360 Good - nice piece of gold. 604 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:48,400 Probably, like 7 grams of gold at least. That's like, 700 bucks. 605 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,880 The Scorpion Nugget! 606 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,480 Something down in there. 607 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:08,080 Playing in the mud like a kid. 608 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,240 All righty! 609 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,160 Can't see anything there, just mud. 610 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:26,240 Get a bit of water in, see if that helps. 611 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:31,040 Oh, here's gold in there - excellent. 612 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,200 Look at that, another nice little bit. 613 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,600 There's another $50 or $80 worth of gold there. 614 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,120 Happy days - we're onto a great little run. 615 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,960 This is just such a good way to start the year. 616 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,400 An oasis in the middle of the Palmer, 617 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,840 full of beautiful water and water holes and gold. 618 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:56,040 I'm just going to keep working now, put as much in the jar as I can. 619 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,360 Look at that! 620 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,040 They're coins, woo! 621 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,760 There's more there. 622 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,840 Hey, there's another one - look, look, look, look! 623 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,280 Eh? 624 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,760 Are they significant or what, what are they? 625 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,720 1832, 1830-something. 626 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:30,360 More there! Now this is something, Ethan! 627 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,320 This is a stash, mate. 628 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,400 Another one, Eth. 629 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,600 It's like a silver one. 630 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,480 Silver, is it? 631 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,200 1817. 632 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,120 I think that's it, eh. 633 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,120 All right, mate, we've got five coins.Yeah, mate. 634 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:54,240 Melville died 1857, so it's in the right time period.OK. 635 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,840 Look at them. Yeah, that is silver, isn't it? 636 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:02,560 Tell you what, could have been a jar of gold under there, mate. 637 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:10,120 We didn't find any treasure of value, value, mate 638 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,720 but we definitely found something of historical value, mate. 639 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:19,440 They literally could be relics of bushrangers, dead set. 640 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,240 It was a good start, I'm happy to go on, 641 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,040 but we have to be about the gold. I know. 642 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,440 Thanks for coming on this journey, mate, 643 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,880 it's something that Nevvy wanted me to do. 644 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,960 He's up there, proud, mate, hopefully. 645 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,240 That's not a bad idea. 646 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,000 I thought I might as well weigh in on the kayak, 647 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,240 since it's the reason we've got gold. 648 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,880 I like it, I like it! 649 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,840 Not the start we thought we'd get though. 650 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,760 We lost the road in the wet season, 651 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:03,720 but hey, these came up good, it worked out to be a brilliant plan. 652 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,640 It fell into place. 653 00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:09,560 There's a lot of ground we couldn't touch cos the grass was long 654 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,840 and the water's still really high 655 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,320 but at least we've discovered good gold ground.Absolutely. 656 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:21,040 We've got a 65oz target, so we're punching for a kilo of gold each. 657 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,720 We've got to make it work, and you know 658 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:28,120 the Palmer's going to throw everything at us to stop that. 659 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,720 What do you reckon we got? Time to find out, let's go. 660 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:40,040 Just shy of $9,000 for the week. 661 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,680 That's more than I thought. 662 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,520 I'll take it.Not bad. 663 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,840 Considering what we had to battle this week just to get in 664 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,600 to gold country, I'll take it as well.Yeah. 665 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,240 We've only got 62.5oz to go! 666 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,520 You know what? It's a massive target 667 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,240 but I think we're going to have a great season.Same. 668 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,640 Let's pack this stuff up and get out of here.On the kayaks, 669 00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:07,720 or do you want to drive this time? 670 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,640 Load these up, or should we row home?I've had enough paddling, 671 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:16,360 let's put them on the car and drive. 672 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,760 Ooh, look at that!So pretty. 673 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,400 Keep going, keep going, keep going! 674 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:32,480 Well, 5oz investment, let's see what we get out of it. Ooh! 675 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,040 The moment of truth. 676 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,680 Oh!Look at the colour! 677 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,200 That's a beautiful colour.Shiny! 678 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,360 Look at that! 679 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,320 It's a pretty bar.That's really nice. 680 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,640 Before we do weigh, I do want to set the target for us as a family. 681 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:57,360 I'm thinking, 200oz. 682 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,800 That sounds good to me, at least we can aim high. 683 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,400 This is our very first start of that, 684 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,040 so how much can we knock off of that target already? 685 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,360 Not a bad start!Look at that! 686 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,760 Is that great?Yeah, if that's not a good start, I don't know what is. 687 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:22,400 That investment at the start, we've turned that into $115,000. 688 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,960 Nice.High five. 689 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,280 Let's go celebrate. I'm in for that. 690 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,040 Your shout!Your shout. 691 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,480 subtitles by Deluxe 691 00:44:03,305 --> 00:45:03,874 Do you want subtitles for any video? -=[ ai.OpenSubtitles.com ]=-