"Aussie Gold Hunters" Episode #10.4

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 2 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,280 WALKER: The hills and things, they're actually associated 3 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,800 with the story of a giant man, Ngar. 4 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,280 He was a greedy spirit, and he used to go around 5 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,600 from place to place, terrorising everybody. 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,920 So one day, all the mob from the Pilbara got together, 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,600 dug a great big pit. 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,960 The people then went out hunting and got kangaroo, emu, et cetera, 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,960 cooked it all up, placed it in and then they covered the hole. 10 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,960 Basically made a trap for him. Because he was a greedy monster, 11 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,560 he couldn't resist the smell of all that food. 12 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,520 So he went looking for it, got there, fell into the hole 13 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,760 and the elders said, "Burn him alive." 14 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,640 That blaze kept getting hotter and hotter and hotter. 15 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,360 And then he exploded. And when he exploded, 16 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,200 all his body parts... 17 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,720 landed all over the country, forming all the hills 18 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,360 and where his fat landed, white fat from his body, 19 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,040 that's the quartz hills 20 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,600 and the yellow fat from his body, that's the gold. 21 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,400 We call it... 22 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,120 Yeah, way to go. Yeah. 23 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:08,800 What a story. Amazing. 24 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,600 Yeah. So that... you can take things. 25 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,840 But don't take too much. Don't get greedy like those monsters. 26 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,680 Thank you so much for sharing that. 27 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,960 Happy to help. WOMAN: Thank you! 28 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,200 Cheers, mate. Really appreciate you coming out. 29 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,480 Thanks so much. No worries. 30 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:25,200 Coming out on country, 31 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,080 our job as a traditional owner/ cultural expert, 32 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,640 as a protocol, we've got to make sure that people are safe 33 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,080 and by delivering our welcome to the country 34 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,000 and calling out to the spirits of the land 35 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:39,320 saying, "We don't want any harm to come to you." 36 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:53,880 We're so blessed to be, you know, 37 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,680 being able to make a living in such a beautiful place. 38 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,000 Having that blessing to be able to be here working 39 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,360 makes me feel much better about what we're doing. 40 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,000 Yes, it just puts things into perspective a bit. 41 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,360 It just feels a bit more wholesome living out here, working out here. 42 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,720 And respecting the history and the culture 43 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,200 and the land that we're on. 44 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,080 It's pretty exciting. It's feeling pretty real right about now. 45 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,200 Yeah. I'm looking forward to breaking ground. 46 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,760 Yes.And seeing how much gold is actually there. 47 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,080 Okay, let's go get it. Let's get some of that fat. 48 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,720 This is it. 49 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:42,480 This is the big moment. 50 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,560 Daddy. Hey! 51 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:52,680 It's all happening. So good! 52 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:54,680 Yes! Yay, Sonny! 53 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,040 High fives for Dad! Big cuddles! 54 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,960 Big cuddles!I can't believe it. We're here. We get to dig. 55 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,200 Hopefully, this pays off. I know.Ready to go? 56 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,760 This is our own little patch of paradise. 57 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,400 This is the beginning of The Wanderers. 58 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,000 There's an opportunity to get this lease for 20 grand. 59 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,920 Work on it for a week and let's see if we can prove it up. 60 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,720 See what we've got. One point seven ounces. 61 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:22,400 So should we buy the lease? 62 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,320 Dodged a bullet. My vote's no. 63 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,920 NARRATOR: The Wanderers first attempts to buy their own gold lease proved a bust. 64 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,600 What's our options now? 65 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,280 There was ground you and I detected 66 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,280 when thinking about getting this digger. 67 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,960 Yep.It's coming up for surrender. 68 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,440 We make a plan to peg that ourselves and finally get our own ground. 69 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,600 I'm all for it. Yeah, I'm keen. 70 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,840 This is the spot. So they staked the 41 hectare Excalibur claim 71 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,600 deep in the Pilbara outback. 72 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,520 Well done, guys. Four pegs in the ground. 73 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,320 Now, with the blessing of the traditional owners, 74 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,760 they've returned with their new $70,000 excavator, 75 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,280 determined to get on the gold. 76 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,520 Just in the way of what we want to get for the season, 77 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,520 would be good to get maybe 120 ounces, 78 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,040 which is about $400,000-$450,000. 79 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,000 That means we all get paid at the end of this. 80 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,920 And the digger gets paid off. Yeah.Yeah, let's do it. 81 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,400 Are you happy with 120 ounces? Stoked with that! 82 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,000 All right, let's go. All right, let's do this. 83 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:28,440 Just moving this dirt out of the way. 84 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,000 I almost got a little section ready. 85 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,080 Just make a nice pad for Kyle to walk. 86 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,680 So this is the pad that Levi's just cleared. 87 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,200 Some nice looking gravel's coming through already. 88 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:46,040 In the Pilbara region, gold eroded from the ridgelines, 89 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,360 washing the heavy gold material down to the lowest points of the valley. 90 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,160 When the water dried up, 91 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,280 layers of dirt encased the gold below. 92 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,920 We've got about a foot or so of clay on top 93 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,000 before we get down to this gravel channel. 94 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,560 So I'm going to follow The lines the bucket has done, 95 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,960 and I'm going to walk backwards and forwards, so I don't miss anything. 96 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,000 We don't want to be missing any nuggets. 97 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,680 Sonny, have a go. 98 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,360 Have a little dig there. 99 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,240 Awesome, bud. What are you looking for? 100 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:22,640 For gold. For gold? 101 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,160 You're being a good helper, Sonny. 102 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,360 All right. We're just getting into it here. 103 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,280 What the hell? 104 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,320 No. God, where is he? 105 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,480 Andy's lost his detector off the side of the kayak, 106 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,320 straight into this deep water. 107 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,120 So now he's got to find it. 108 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,760 About time. 109 00:05:56,840 --> 00:05:58,440 No.Nothing? 110 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,120 No, I can't find it. 111 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,320 Oh, no! 112 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,160 Give me a breath and I'll go and have another look. 113 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:07,840 Are you sure? It's pretty deep. 114 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:09,520 I know. I can't see the bottom. 115 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,720 I'm getting nervous you just being in there. 116 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,720 We've got to find it. So I'm going again. 117 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,360 All right. 118 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,480 Oh, God! 119 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:31,520 Can you see anything? 120 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,080 Not very well but... If I was a croc, I would be here. 121 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,800 Come on, you can do it. 122 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:49,680 Yes! 123 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,240 I've got it! 124 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,600 Put it in the boat. Yes! 125 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,520 All righty. Let me out of this bloody croc infested pond. 126 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,640 Beautiful! 127 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,040 You're so lucky you found that detector. 128 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,720 I think camping out here is going to be the way to go, 129 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,160 then we can finally work that low ground at the bottom of the creek. 130 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,040 And these underwater detectors should allow us 131 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,120 to get out a lot more gold than we've got. 132 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,360 I'm hoping we punch out big numbers. Me, too. 133 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,000 We got 65 ounces to chase down this year. 134 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,880 So now 62.5, still a lot.Yeah. 135 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:33,760 Yeah, it's a huge target, mate, I know. 136 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,200 Where are all the crocodiles? Hiding. 137 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,040 We're not far now, Andy. 138 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,840 I don't think we're gonna get much further, but this is getting us pretty close. 139 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,720 There is no way we are going to cross that, mate. 140 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,760 All the gold's over there, like, we need to be on that side. 141 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,080 NARRATOR: Jacqui Buzetti and Andrew Leahy's season began 142 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:06,640 when their attempt to reach the 1300 square km Palmer River Goldfield 143 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,560 was blocked by a flooded river. 144 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,240 Andy, I've got an idea. 145 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:12,840 We've got to put all our gear and detectors on these, 146 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,800 chuck them in a creek full of crocodiles 147 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,040 and paddle them all the way to where we've got to go?Yes. 148 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,520 The pair braved crocodile infested waters to reach gold-rich ground. 149 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,240 Little oasis in the middle of the Palmer, full of beautiful gold. 150 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:34,200 Now they've kayaked 12 kilometres downstream from their main base, 151 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,840 loaded with camping gear to maximise time on the gold. 152 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,440 Get in there and set up a little camp spot. 153 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,360 This looks like us. This is great-looking ground, mate. 154 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,480 Look at all the bedrock everywhere. It's just bedrock, bedrock, bedrock. 155 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,040 All this bedrock everywhere. 156 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:51,920 It's a great spot for the gold to catch. 157 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,360 The gold will come tumbling down in the floods and it'll get stuck 158 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,400 in these bedrock cracks or behind these big rocks. 159 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,440 And because of the bedrock, it can't sink any deeper. 160 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,800 I really want to start to explore that lower section 161 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,960 because we've proved that it's all around on these bedrock bars. 162 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,040 So can you imagine, you know, when the gold's rushing through that deeper spot? 163 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,000 Yeah, we just need to sort this out 164 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:16,920 and camp and everything too, of course. 165 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,800 Well, this stuff's for camping, so that's fine. 166 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,560 This is first aid here. 167 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,600 We've got all the gear we need, so...Yeah. 168 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:26,640 We've got everything in there we need. 169 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,320 Just give me a sec. 170 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,240 Have you got the EPIRB in your bag? 171 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,960 The last place I saw the EPIRB was the front seat of my car. 172 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,720 No.Did you grab it from there? 173 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,400 Because I know I didn't. 174 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,240 No.I thought... 175 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:51,760 All right. Oh! 176 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,320 Well, it's a long way back, mate. 177 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,000 I mean... 178 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:58,440 Hey. Let's just wing it. 179 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,320 Mmm. But we're meant to be out here for the week without the EPIRB. 180 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,320 No one knows where to find us. 181 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:11,200 Eight hours travel from the nearest hospital, 182 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:15,400 the duo rely on an EPIRB, a satellite positioning beacon, 183 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,000 to call for help in case of an emergency. 184 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,600 Well, if I head off right now, I'll be back before dark. 185 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,640 I'll just smash it out. I'll just hike it out, paddle down, 186 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:33,320 get it, and come straight back. 187 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,200 All right, I'll try and track down a bit of gold for us. 188 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:37,880 Make sure you're back before dark. 189 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,800 I don't want you out there in the dark by yourself, 190 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,840 but I don't want to be out here by myself. 191 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:44,840 Fair call. I'll be as quick as I can, mate. 192 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:47,040 All right, see you when I get back. 193 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,160 Be careful. I will. 194 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,720 Well, now I'm going to be alone for God knows how long. 195 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,720 It's at least a two-hour paddle back to the car 196 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,120 and then from the car, it's another six-hour drive back to town. 197 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,840 Without having an EPIRB out here, 198 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,320 I have no contact with the outside world. 199 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,120 This just is not good. 200 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,840 2 All righty. That should be good for another test. 201 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,120 Yo! Hey, how are you, boss man? 202 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,280 Good. John, how you doing? 203 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,080 Yeah, good to see ya. Yeah. Good man. 204 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,880 How's it going?Well, we're ready to test it again. 205 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,000 Okay.Yeah? 206 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,200 I think I found something that might help, 207 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,640 so it doesn't chew so much power off the generator. 208 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,320 Over 16 motors that run inside this thing.Wow. 209 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,680 Okay.And they all are power hungry. 210 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,880 So what I've done is reset the computers that start the motors 211 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:50,600 to start them up even slower. 212 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:53,120 Each motor will ramp up to speed one after another, 213 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,960 so hopefully it's less instant impact on the generator 214 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:57,640 so there's no sudden load. 215 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,080 Now, if this works, it should fire everything up. 216 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,040 If it doesn't, I'm going to have to order bits from overseas. 217 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,480 How long will that take? It could be down for weeks. 218 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:09,920 Let's just hope this works, all right? 219 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,800 All right?Yeah. Fingers crossed. 220 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,640 Let's do it. 221 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,200 All right, let's fire up the generator. Fire in the hole. 222 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,120 First one going on. 223 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:23,960 The second one's on. 224 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:25,680 Yeah, the conveyor's on. 225 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,840 Hey, it's firing up ready for vibration. 226 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,400 Go it. That's it all on. 227 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,480 There was no puff of smoke, so that's good. 228 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:37,840 We're up and running! 229 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:39,840 This is well done! 230 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:41,600 It's working.Yeah. 231 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:43,560 The whole thing. 232 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,640 The way these work: vibration and air. 233 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,040 The air blows up, the vibration helps the heavy settle, 234 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,360 and because gold's heavy, 235 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,960 with the help of gravity, that sinks to the bottom. 236 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,760 And we catch the gold. As simple as that, really. 237 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,120 All right. Go get some gold now. 238 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,120 Everything you build is big. 239 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,200 NARRATOR: Desert Diggers Melanie Wood and Alex Stead 240 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,720 spent all of last season's profits 241 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,600 building their one-of-a-kind dry blower. 242 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:17,520 As far as I'm aware, the biggest dry blower out there currently, 243 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,600 literally 350k before it's all finished, and that's just in parts. 244 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:24,240 Hey, Melanie, your dry blower's arrived. 245 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,160 With the help of mining veteran John Stevenson, 246 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,560 they spent three days assembling the 12-tonne machine. 247 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:34,040 All right, let's turn The Beast on. All right. 248 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,560 Are you ready? Let's get The Beast running. 249 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,240 Whoa! 250 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,120 Okay. That wasn't supposed to happen. 251 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,400 Smoke came out of there. It even shut the generator down. 252 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,080 That's the last thing we needed. 253 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,920 Everything seems to go wrong. 254 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:54,480 The overload issue fixed, The Desert Diggers now need to see 255 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:56,560 if their dry blower can catch the gold. 256 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,360 Know what? That's the first stage. All the motors work. 257 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,560 Yeah.We've got a little test that we can do. 258 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,960 Okay. We've got some lead balls here. 259 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,040 And the key thing with lead, it's a very similar weight to gold. 260 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,400 So if we mix these with dirt, put it through the machine, 261 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,360 the machine should catch these balls. 262 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:18,360 Now, if it doesn't, you know you're going to be throwing not only lead out, but gold. 263 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,560 And if it's working and we're catching gold, 264 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,400 we need to figure out how much gold we're going to aim for. 265 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,080 What are you thinking? 266 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,160 Uh, I don't know. I'd pencilled in about 200 ounces. 267 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,120 Is that all?I know you want a holiday in the Bahamas, 268 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,960 but gold price at the moment, that's over $600,000. 269 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:36,720 That's still a really good target. 270 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,400 I'm quite happy going for that this season.Yeah. 271 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,880 Me too.If you guys are. Sweet.We're in?We're in. 272 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,000 We're in. All right, let's do this test. 273 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,960 Spent pretty much every penny I have on this machine. 274 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,640 After labour, time and energy, 275 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,200 saying all our eggs are in one basket is a gross understatement. 276 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,400 All right. It all comes down to this. 277 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:06,440 All right. Firing it up. 278 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,080 If these little lead balls come out the back, it means we're gonna be losing gold. 279 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:16,760 And that's not what we want. 280 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:22,680 It's doing everything it's supposed to do. It's vibrating. It's blowing air. 281 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:26,720 How's it looking, John? Plenty of air.Yeah. 282 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:37,880 All right, shall we shut it down? 283 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,960 This is the waste that came out. See if we've got anything there. 284 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,200 Did you see any balls come out of there? 285 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,800 Yep. Not a good sign. 286 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,600 Yep, that's not a good sign. It's kicking out lead. 287 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,240 There's another one.There's more. There's a few in there. 288 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,640 Yeah.Well, that just shows it's not working. 289 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,680 Yeah.If that was gold, 290 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,520 in 10 bit of gold, we'd have lost half of them. 291 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,000 We've spent so many months building it and to get it to this point, 292 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,680 and think you're gonna be running 293 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,200 and to find out that you'd be losing gold... 294 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:19,720 400K in and we're still not working. 295 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,280 Ah, I've just lost the bucket. KYLE: Mate, what happened? 296 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,560 I do not know. I just had an alarm come on. 297 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:39,560 Whoa!And the bucket came off. 298 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,520 You're all good? Yeah. 299 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,800 Quick hitch has let go, has it? I don't know. 300 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,600 That was crazy! 301 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,920 Felt that shake through the ground over there. 302 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,640 It doesn't look like there's any damage or anything? 303 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,520 The bucket's all sweet? I don't know what's going on, mate. 304 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,880 Just let go.What happened? It just let go, the bucket let go. 305 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,720 I might just turn the digger on and see what this alarm says. 306 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,120 Yeah, see if it's still up. 307 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,760 Okay, out. This is why we always keep a distance 308 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:08,600 when machinery is operating, Sonny. 309 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,560 Dada. We stay nice and safe away. 310 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:14,640 Maybe the computer will tell me what's going on. 311 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,880 Let's see.That alarm's new. 312 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,760 I'm just going to go in and have a look and see what it says. 313 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,720 "Breaker attachment." That's the quick hitch for the bucket. 314 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,040 Let's have a look what that... 315 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:29,880 "Two way..." 316 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,360 Okay, it says "electrical fault". Well, that could be anywhere. 317 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,320 Uh, the first thing to do is check the fuses. 318 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,000 Dodgy. 319 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,080 Need some pliers. 320 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,960 I've got a set in the car if you want me to run and grab some. 321 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,640 Yeah.I've got some fuses as well. 322 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,480 I might grab my box of fuses, too. Yeah, do. 323 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,680 So we've just had the bucket fall off the excavator. 324 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,560 An alarm in the cab has come up with an electrical fault. 325 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,560 So we've shut the digger down. We've had a look at the fuse box, 326 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,440 so I'm just grabbing some spare fuses 327 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,840 and hopefully that's all it is and we can get back on the pad. 328 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:06,520 Got it. 329 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,200 Oh, she's toasted. 330 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,400 That's our problem right there. It's a simple fuse. 331 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,360 It can just shut operations down just like that. 332 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,400 Hey, Kyle, you got that spare fuse, mate? 333 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:18,640 I've got a spare box of fuses here, mate. 334 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,400 Yeah, saved the day. Cheers, buddy. 335 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:23,080 Excellent. 336 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:28,320 All right. That should be it. 337 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,160 Let's test the bucket and make sure the quick hitch works. 338 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:32,840 Stand back, everyone. 339 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,360 if the alarm goes off, well... 340 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,240 Let's hope that alarm is not making a noise. 341 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,600 Hey, hold on. That's a good sign. 342 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,200 Can you... Can you... 343 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,800 Can you let me know if that hydraulic ram comes in? 344 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,800 Yeah. 345 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,840 Okay. 346 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,760 Just want to bring that thing out. It looks good. 347 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,240 How are we?We're on! 348 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,000 Nice!Lovely! 349 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,080 Let's get back on the gold. 350 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,360 I'm so glad the quick hitch is working all good and proper now. 351 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,000 This lease is quite large. We've got 41 hectares. 352 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,400 So a lot of ground here. We've got to start somewhere. 353 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,040 So I'm just taking down about 150, 200 mil at the moment. 354 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,880 So we got some nice quartz coming up here in the clay. 355 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,520 They're like little pebbles, round and smooth. 356 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,640 They've been travelling along this channel, 357 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,320 and the gold seems to be getting carried along with it. 358 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,240 We don't want to miss any of the gold. 359 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:51,480 Yeah, got a copy, Levi.Yeah. This area is good for a walk, mate. 360 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,160 If you want to come over and see if we get on the nugs. 361 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,880 Excellent, man, I'll head over now. 362 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,680 The geology through this area is looking really good. 363 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,840 There's some good little run-off channels here, so we expect to find some gold. 364 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:07,880 Hey! There we go. 365 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,200 That's a signal. It's under a bit of spinifex, 366 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,480 a great place for snakes to hide during the day. 367 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,360 The last thing you want to do is stick your hand underneath 368 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,600 and cop a nip on the end of the finger. 369 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,320 That's up. That signal was just under there. 370 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,200 It sounds like it's right on the surface. Yeah, I thought so. 371 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,200 I knew it. A piece of trash. 372 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,440 Not what you want to find. We've got a big season target this year, 373 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,760 and metal isn't really counting to that target. 374 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,440 We've got to find some gold, 375 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,120 get some runs on the board and get those numbers up. 376 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,720 Are you gonna find lots of gold today? 377 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:44,360 Sometimes it's a bit of work and often it's a fair bit of play with Sonny. 378 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,560 Look, I'm doing what I can to help the boys out and be a part of it. 379 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,440 A little bit nerve racking, having Sonny out here sometimes. 380 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,000 Yeah, it was only last week we had that snake scare. 381 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,680 Definitely in the back of my mind. 382 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:01,040 Seeing that snake is a reminder of how dangerous snakes are out here. 383 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:04,760 With Sonny and Bridget, safety is my number one priority. 384 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,640 Thank you so much, Sonny. 385 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,800 I can dig it out. You're gonna help me dig it out? 386 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,320 Yeah.Okay. Let's just have a little listen 387 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,440 with the detector first, bud. 388 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,200 Oh, thank you for helping. 389 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,200 So cool for Sonny that he gets to experience all this 390 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,760 and grow up with this kind of lifestyle and... 391 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,600 be out here seeing what his dad does and being a part of it. 392 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,480 How special is that for a two year old? 393 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,160 Right, Sonny, time to step back and let's have a listen. 394 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,120 Well, I think Mommy got it out. 395 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,480 All right, let's have a look here. 396 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,200 It's in the scoop, Sonny. Do you want to help me wave it over? 397 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,920 Can you hear it? Okay, let's put some into Mummy's hand. 398 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,640 Just a little bit. 399 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,320 Yeah. See if it's in the scoop. 400 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,320 A little bit more in Mum's hands. 401 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,800 Still in there. 402 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,560 Can you see it? 403 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,640 Can you see there, Sonny? 404 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,040 What is it? Gold. 405 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:08,480 Well done, Sonny. We got a nugget! 406 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,160 Hey, buddy. High five! 407 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,720 You got it in there tight? Awesome work. 408 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,360 Absolutely stoked that we're out here on our own ground now. 409 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,240 We could be in for some serious gold on this lease of ours. 410 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,520 2 This has just gone bad. 411 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,960 Andy's got to go back and get this EPIRB. 412 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,200 But we have to have it out here, so all I can hope is 413 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,080 he gets back before it gets dark. 414 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,760 Because now we're split up. 415 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,360 I'm just checking around the bedrock edges and things here 416 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,680 because these are the types of places we would generally find gold. 417 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,400 These underwater detectors are a new thing for us. 418 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:01,400 The coil is much smaller, so we can get into all the nooks and cracks underwater. 419 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,680 Definitely a big change for us. 420 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,960 They're really different to what we usually use. 421 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,760 But gold's heavy, and it does like to collect 422 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,440 in the low points of the creek, 423 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,960 so anywhere that's still underwater at this point is pretty inaccessible 424 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,600 for any of the other detectors we would normally use. 425 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,400 I'm convinced that the best of this gold 426 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,720 is gonna be down in these deep... deeper zones of the creek. 427 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,080 That's definitely a target. 428 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,480 Let's see if I can get a better look at it. 429 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,160 I can see something shiny. 430 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,520 Come on. That's gold. 431 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,840 Nice! Look at how much that sticks out under there. 432 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,280 That is just unreal. 433 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:57,680 Definitely go two or three grams. That piece too, that's awesome. 434 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:02,000 Look at that nice chunk, just straight out of the water like that. 435 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:03,760 Awesome. 436 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:08,960 It's getting pretty late now. 437 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,360 I'm just waiting for Andy to get back. 438 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,280 Hopefully, he doesn't take much longer 439 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:15,680 because that sun's going down pretty quick. 440 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,640 I'm just a bit worried because it's not where you want to be, 441 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,280 alone all the way out here, 442 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:23,160 especially when the night comes. 443 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,560 Oi! 444 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,880 Andy, is that you? 445 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,320 Andy? 446 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,760 ALEX: That just shows it's not working.JOHN: Yeah. 447 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,360 So if it's not catching gold, we can change the settings on this machine. 448 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,360 Okay.That was the whole point of having it computer driven. 449 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,160 Yeah.And we'll go again with another bucket of dirt. 450 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,640 Another 10 lead shots, please. 451 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,280 It's vibrating. It's blowing air. 452 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:00,560 It's just, have we got the levels right? 453 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,280 All right. This is test 2. 454 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:07,480 So we're running quite a lot of air at the moment. 455 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,400 We're going to reduce this down and take some of the speed 456 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,040 out of the motors and reduce the amount of vibration. 457 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,480 We want those heavies to sink, not to be bounced out. 458 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,360 It's a fine balance. 459 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,440 And hopefully his taking the edge off the machine will help him. 460 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,400 All right. Let's see if we've caught any balls. 461 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,640 I don't feel anything. Nothing obvious. 462 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,760 Looking good. 463 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,560 I can't see any. I think we're clear. 464 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,920 You're a legend, Alex.Brilliant. 465 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,440 We caught all the lead. Get the hopper on. 466 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,560 Drag it out to the paddock. Yep.Give it a proper run. 467 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,480 Yeah! Let's get some gold. 468 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,560 All right, we're on. 469 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:14,840 Good job, guys. That's the hopper on. 470 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,720 I reckon we drag it out to the paddock 471 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,080 and we throw some dirt at it. 472 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,760 The good thing about this design, it's mobile. 473 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,080 And if you're not catching gold, we can drag it off, 474 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,480 and move it to another spot and start again. 475 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,440 Okay, John, connect her up. Ready?Yep. 476 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,400 Mel, mind getting right out of the way? 477 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,000 I'll go over here. Even over the tree line? 478 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,680 Because this is dangerous, eh? Yeah. 479 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,200 All right. Good to go?Yep. 480 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,840 All right. Got the slack. 481 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,520 If it moves... 482 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,320 As you can see, it's doing it. I can't believe it. 483 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,560 Whoa! 484 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,400 Andy, is that you? 485 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,960 Andy? 486 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,680 Don't do that to me! 487 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,240 What a mission!Could you please announce yourself next time? 488 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,960 Sorry, mate. My heart is beating out of my chest. 489 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,640 Seriously. 490 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,160 We've got it now.Thank you. 491 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:34,920 I'm going to put this in your bag, 492 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,720 so it's not my fault if it gets lost again. 493 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,000 I was worried you weren't going to make it before the sun went down. 494 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,680 I was starting to feel that way. I was motoring along, 495 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,800 but two, you know, big paddles today, massive walks. 496 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,160 I feel like I've done a marathon. 497 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,720 Do you feel better that we have the EPIRB with us, though?A bit.Yeah. 498 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,160 I'll feel better when I've had a feed and a sleep, I think. 499 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,280 We've got a big day's work ahead of us tomorrow, 500 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:04,120 and I think for the rest of the week. 501 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,200 I'm pretty excited about the prospect. 502 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,880 I reckon it'll be good. 503 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,280 How good does this look? Yeah, this is perfect, mate. 504 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:25,280 Look at all the bedrock everywhere. 505 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:26,960 This is gonna be sweet. 506 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,360 On a massive inside bend on this creek. 507 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,280 This is just such a prime spot for gold to settle. 508 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:35,560 It's like the oasis in the middle of the Palmer. 509 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,560 Did you remember your snuffer bottle?Yeah.Excellent. 510 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,160 Right, we've got everything we need. Let's get into it. 511 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,080 Definitely. I might start off just working around this edge. 512 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:45,760 I'll go down that left side. 513 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,040 You go the right side and we'll make our fortune. 514 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,800 Yes. Mate, good luck. Get it. 515 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,960 Thank you. You too. 516 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,320 Having these underwater detectors just gives us the ability to work on 517 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,920 the deepest parts on these bedrock bars. 518 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,680 Which is awesome, because the gold tends to get trapped 519 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,240 in sections like this as it's coming through 520 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,320 when lots of water's coming through the creek 521 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,000 and kind of just getting caught 522 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,800 as the water travels over it and it hits those deeper points. 523 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,840 So these sort of areas here 524 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,360 are exactly where we should expect to find gold. 525 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,840 Now, I do have a target. 526 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,640 Yeah, that's definitely a target just there. 527 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,040 There it is. It's pretty small stuff but they're all hanging out here. 528 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,800 So just using this for these smaller pieces is great. 529 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,000 All you've got to do is squeeze it. 530 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,120 And then it pulls that up into the bottle for you, 531 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,600 instead of mucking around, trying to grab these tiny little pieces. 532 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,280 So it's just grabbing it there. That's awesome. 533 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,360 Picking those ones up for me. 534 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,280 I'll keep working along in these deeper sections of the hole 535 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,000 and hopefully come across a good section sooner or later. 536 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,960 That sounds like something down in there. 537 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,920 That'd be just my luck in the deepest part of the creek of course. 538 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,640 Yeah. That's a signal. 539 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,200 That sounds good down in there. 540 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,800 Righty-o. 541 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,800 You got it? No, I didn't get it. 542 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,760 Well, get it. 543 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,840 Let me get my breath back. I've already got one down here. 544 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,520 Have you?Yeah. So I reckon it's another one. 545 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,200 Keep them coming. 546 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,920 Got it!Yeah! Oh! 547 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,120 Look at that.No way! How good is that? 548 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,400 Awesome. Mate, that's gorgeous. 549 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,080 There's gold in the river. 550 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,000 2 Whoa! 551 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:30,880 That chain's no good. 552 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,000 Oh, for goodness sake! 553 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,040 You there, Alex? Yeah, copy, John. 554 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,080 Well, this is our last chain. Hopefully this one doesn't snap. 555 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,640 All right, John? Is that going through there? 556 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,280 Yeah, you want that one. And that should be all right. 557 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,240 Once I got the pressure under it. Yeah. 558 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,000 It's going to be lots of little moves, John.Yeah, all right. 559 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,360 All right. Stand clear. Bring her up. 560 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,480 I hope this doesn't snap, John. 561 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,280 Yeah. It's doing better than last time. 562 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:17,840 Oh. 563 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,120 And we're away. 564 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,640 All right. We've arrived. 565 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,480 It really comes down to this. Got power working. Last touches. 566 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,840 This is the moment of truth. Are we going to get gold or not? 567 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,400 All right. First load it is. 568 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,720 Yee-haw!This is awesome! 569 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,200 That is going through it. 570 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,840 So good to see that. 571 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,000 NARRATOR: The one-of-a-kind dry block 572 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,400 uses a pneumatic shaker deck to sift gold-bearing dirt 573 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,240 across 16 riffle tracks. 574 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,960 Compressed air is delivered to each tray through a manifold 575 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,040 that blows lighter material onto the waste conveyor 576 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,000 while the heavier gold is collected in the riffles. 577 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,960 It can process 100 tonnes of paydirt an hour 578 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,600 into 20 kilos of gold-bearing concentrate. 579 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,240 Alex, do you copy? Yeah. Copy. 580 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,960 I'm just gonna go and detect that road 581 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,360 where you dragged that in and can you keep feeding The Beast? 582 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,640 Will do, boss, will do. 583 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,240 Yes, any time that a top layer of the dirt is taken off, 584 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,080 it's a good time to come and detect 585 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,200 because Alex cleared the way a little bit 586 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,120 when he moved The Beast over there. 587 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,000 So I'm just gonna go over it. 588 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,360 And hopefully I can find some nuggets. 589 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,120 That actually sounds okay. 590 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,840 Okay, whatever it is, it's out. 591 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,000 Oh, wow. 592 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,680 Yes! 593 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,320 Found it! Our first nugget for the season. 594 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,960 Oh, my God, I'm so glad it was me that found it, too. 595 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,960 It's a really nice feeling getting that first bit of gold. 596 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,320 You know, that's just over $200 worth, and that all adds up 597 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,640 and it's definitely what we need at this point of the game. 598 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,680 We've got 30 or 40 tonnes through. 599 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,600 And I think we should check this machine, 600 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,920 see if we're actually catching the good stuff. 601 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,360 Hopefully, there's going to be gold. 602 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,080 The way this machine works, 603 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,280 the big gold gets trapped in the main part of the machine 604 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,600 and the small gold gets pumped out into this. 605 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,360 Thank you very much, John. 606 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,320 Moment of truth. That's the concentrate. 607 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,320 I mean, it's really heavy, so... Yeah. 608 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,000 That's a really good sign. I like that. 609 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,040 I just hope we see some colour in it. Pan it up. 610 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,520 It's enough dirt that we've run that we should see gold. 611 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,760 Beautiful!Heaven! 612 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,360 Yes!That's a good result for that tonnage. 613 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,040 That is a good result. 614 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,960 Beautiful. Look at the colours. 615 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,640 Little rays of sunshine all over the pan. I love it. 616 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:43,320 I think that's a winner. 617 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,360 We're on the gold. To see it, actually kicking out gold... 618 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,440 I mean, that's a win right there. 619 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:51,600 Well, we've got more dirt to put through. 620 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,880 Let's fire it up and keep going. Let's hit it. 621 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,440 But there's a motivation. Definitely.Let's do it, man. 622 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:00,880 All right, let's fire it up. 623 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,560 Ready? 624 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,200 There's no power here. 625 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,600 Hey, we've got a problem here, Alex. 626 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,440 All right. What is it? 627 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,120 My button's not responding to what it's supposed to. 628 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:29,000 That switch has given up. 629 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,000 Has it?Yeah. 630 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,760 Do we have another? 631 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,240 I just can't believe it. I've never had one of those break, 632 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:44,120 and that's just frustrating because it's brand bloody new. 633 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,240 It's only done 30 hours. 634 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,440 That's all this thing's done, and that's gone. 635 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,760 What? What's happened? 636 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,520 I don't want to know, do I? No. 637 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,120 One of the breakers is broken and it won't reset. 638 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,480 How? It's a brand new genset. I know. 639 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,800 All right, show me. 640 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,200 These are our main circuit breakers. 641 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,040 This little white button's become disconnected, 642 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,720 and it's just not wanting to reset. 643 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:16,680 It's a run to town. It's another day down and then we get to go again. 644 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,840 I don't know. I mean, we've got a $350,000 machine, 645 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,560 and it's a $100 plastic button that's broken or faulty. 646 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,080 You know, you just... 647 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,880 I don't get it. I don't know. 648 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,040 It is what it is, but gee! 649 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,200 LEVI: We've got on some really nice gold so far. 650 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,520 We're all pretty excited about our way up. 651 00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,640 I think it's going to be a bit of a beauty. 652 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,160 KYLE: Whoa! 653 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:09,160 That's blooming! 654 00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,200 I'm pumped to see what this is like. 655 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,920 That sound... 656 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,840 That is a beautiful sound. 657 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,520 Whoo! 658 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,600 What a beautiful nugget! 659 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,400 Pushing over four with that bad boy. 660 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,720 Yo, Bridge! Got a little ripper over here! 661 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,160 Amazing. Reckon it'd be about four grams. 662 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,120 At today's price, you're looking at about 400 bucks. 663 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,360 Well done! 664 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:41,960 I never get sick of seeing things like this. 665 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,360 Ker-ching! 666 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,440 Come on, Kyle. Doing well. 667 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,800 Here we go. Let's see how many we went for the first week.Yeah. 668 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,000 Moment of truth. Have you got the gold, Sonny? 669 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,000 Is it stuck? Want some help to get it out? 670 00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,240 Yeah.First week done and dusted today. 671 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,520 Yeah, I think we've got some really nice gold. 672 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,560 Well, we pegged this ground, and this is the moment of truth. 673 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,920 I really hope we've found enough to make this lease feel worthy. 674 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,320 All right, let's weigh this gold up. Dad can do it. 675 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,720 You gonna watch Dad put it on the scales? 676 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,760 Oh, look at that. 677 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,160 3.2 ounces. Wow.That's awesome. 678 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:21,240 What a week!I know! 679 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,880 Well done, hon. How good. 680 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,000 Well done, Sonny.Let's go, bud. 681 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,640 That's about $11,200. 682 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,480 3.2 ounces. That takes us up to 4.9 ounces for the season. 683 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,760 That's pretty good going, man. Well, yes. 684 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,560 Keep rolling with that. We're gonna be laughing. We'll hit that total in no time. 685 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,280 Yeah, let's do this. Crack in and get some more happening. 686 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,960 We're off, then. 687 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,040 ALEX: All right, then, second week first weigh-in. 688 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,320 It's a makeshift table. 689 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,280 There we go. 690 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,160 Zero. Good. 691 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:07,960 I got the first dirt through. 692 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,000 We didn't get many tonnes through and we had our issues. 693 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:13,960 But you know what? We actually ran. 694 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,960 We proved it can catch gold. 695 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,360 Mm-hm. Yeah. And that's the first step. 696 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,680 And there's still going to be some fault finding 697 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,480 but we produced a little bit of gold. 698 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,000 Great.Well, unfortunately, John's gonna miss the first weigh in, 699 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,080 but he's doing a vital job running to town, 700 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,080 getting that replacement switch. Yeah. 701 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,560 Well, shall we see what we've got? Yep. 702 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,880 You go first, you do the honours. 703 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,240 Okay. These are the big nuggets from the dry blower. 704 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,480 Yep. Ooh, they look nice. 705 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,560 Shall we see what we've got? I think... Nice. 706 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,560 Okay, 0.1 an ounce. 707 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,640 This is the fine gold from the dry blower. 708 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,480 I've melted it all down.Yep. 709 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:54,320 0.9 of an ounce. 710 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,440 So just from the dry blower. 711 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,400 Yeah.Just under an ounce and about 100 tonnes. 712 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,800 And your detectable nugs, what did you get? 713 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,240 Yeah. See.Nice.Have a look. 714 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,560 If you've got the big ones. 715 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,960 Well, we're over the ounce. Just under 1.2 ounces. 716 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,720 That's... I think that's pretty good. 717 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,040 I think you should be so proud of yourself, Alex. 718 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,160 Honestly, what you've built. I know the hours you put into it, 719 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:22,480 and it would have been a lot of stress. 720 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,760 That's a huge accomplishment. Thank you. I'm proud of you as well. 721 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,720 So it might only be a small weigh-in this week, just over an ounce. 722 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,600 But it's monumentous for our future. 723 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,160 Yeah.As soon as John gets back with that switch, 724 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:36,640 we get it in, we get running, we push the tonnes. 725 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:39,800 Hit the ground running. That is awesome.Yeah, well done. 726 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,720 ANDREW: Camping on the gold was the best decision we ever made. 727 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,160 This jar feels nice and heavy, so I'm going to say 728 00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:00,840 it was definitely a good idea. 729 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,520 Just saved us so much time, 730 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,880 not going in and out every day, just waking up and being on the gold. 731 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:07,880 It was awesome. Absolutely. 732 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,880 A little bit of a swing whenever we want. 733 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,720 And those detectors worked so well. 734 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,480 I know.So sensitive for those underwater targets. 735 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,720 It was just unreal.And we'd never got to them any other way. 736 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,720 Feels like it's paid off. I hope so. 737 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,560 'Cause we didn't knock much off that 65 last week. 738 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,520 So...All right, I need to see. 739 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,720 I can't wait any longer. Right-o. 740 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,880 Chungy, chungy, chungy. Three. There's four. 741 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,880 Ooh!There's five. 742 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,240 5.68! 743 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,240 That's way more than I thought we'd make. 744 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,880 Those little detectors really did pay for themself, mate. 745 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,200 Vacuumed that creek up. That was unreal. 746 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,280 Twenty odd grand's worth of gold. 747 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,320 Considering all the things we're battling, 748 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,280 all the water and the grass everywhere. 749 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,600 You know, just the wet season tearing all the roads apart. 750 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,960 We're still putting that gold on the scales, mate. 751 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,280 So it's a bit over eight ounces now, all up. 752 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,400 Yes!Yeah, that's a great start. 753 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,480 The dry season's here now, mate, that river's gonna drop quick. 754 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,680 This water's going to disappear real fast now. 755 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,000 The grass is starting to dry on the hills. 756 00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,080 It's gonna get better from here on in.Yep. 757 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,720 And that means we'll be able to get across the river. 758 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,440 Back into that same area. Yeah.All right. 759 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,240 Let's get out of here. All right. Cool! Happy days. 760 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,400 Well after our big trip out there, I reckon we've definitely 761 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,520 earned ourselves a nice hot meal. 762 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,680 Subtitles by Deluxe 762 00:43:37,305 --> 00:44:37,704 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org