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As you all know, the world lost a very special person just before Christmas last year and

uh, Nev wanted this day here.

He says, hey Brent, when I die mate, just make sure it's not a funeral.

Try and make the day as fun as possible.

More of a celebration.

You just want to leave a lasting impression, a bit of a legacy, I suppose.

It's gold!

That's a track bike!

That is a jack!

I feel very blessed, I really do.

Our friends and our family, they're the most important things in our lives.

My wife and my children and grandchildren have been my heart and soul.

I don't believe there would be a prouder dad in the world.

There just wouldn't be.

We're proud of you dad.

I envisage that future of my boys working with Brenton and Ethan.

I know I'm leaving my boys in safe hands.

I know my story's going to end, but theirs is just beginning.

A life cut short, but the inspiration that he provided for so many people was incredible.

Love you mate.

There's so many people from different walks of life, from across Australia, from across

the world, and he has brought us all together and this is what Neville did.

The last few months have not been very easy for any of us, but today makes it all a little

bit less painful.

Dad would be extremely proud to see everyone here like he's are today.

This season of Aussie Gold Hunters.

Seven teams look to strike at Rich.

In these hills we're searching for monsters.

Ah, well look at that!

Hey!

Right, let's see what this beast can do.

Let's fire it up!

It's alive!

We're willing to go to hell and back to get the gold.

With increasing global demand, driving record high gold prices.

This season we have to try something new.

They'll push the limits of prospecting.

Deep out here.

Deep enough for a big crop.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Nate, get out of there!

Quick, in the car!

Good job, come here!

Shut it down, shut it down!

There's oil everywhere.

It's the last thing we needed.

In the pursuit of a life-changing fortune in gold.

That's a good week.

Oh my god!

Holy hell!

Look at that!

Oh my god!

It's a fair crystal like gold!

Look at that!

Look at that!

Look at that!

Look at that!

Hey boys.

What a great day, eh?

Yeah, mate.

I have something for you, mate.

It was the old man's.

I've seen that before.

So you know what it is?

It's his diary that he kept pretty close to his heart.

He showed me glimpses, but I've never asked, but yeah.

So before the old man passed, he asked if we could give this to you.

No, thanks, mate.

I don't know what to say, boys, but I'll just say thank you.

Thank your dad up there, mate.

If you've got a lot of secrets in here, mate.

Good secrets that I doubt.

Give me a bloody hug.

You should be so proud of your dad, mate.

He was just a legend.

That is Nev's gold Bible, mate.

There's maps, there's numbers, the amount of information that's in this book.

A lot of this information is diary, stuff not only he found, stuff that was passed on to him.

What's this?

Access to Malville Caves.

Malville Caves.

Quite a few musket balls and relics found near caves.

That's a spot that Nev wanted to go back with me.

He wanted me to take him back there.

Obviously we ran out of time.

Captain Malville was a bushranger.

He robbed this gold escort and it was pounds of gold in tins apparently.

And the gold was never recovered.

Potentially sashed around the area.

Yeah, right.

Let's get this map out, mate.

He's got marks on this map here, mate.

He's got Malville itself.

But then he's got some of the surrounding areas not too far from it.

What are you doing?

Bit of a detour, mate.

To where?

We're going to head to Malville Caves, mate.

Are you for real or what?

I've just got a feeling after Nev's big day and you coming across that,

I think we need to go and just have a look before we start digging proper, mate.

To be honest, it does sound like a bit of a fairy tale right now, mate.

This year we really do have to concentrate on mining.

I understand that.

But when Nev looks you in the eye and says I need to take you up there,

he means it.

You've got to have dreams and that's what Nev was on, mate.

He did have the dreams, mate, and I'll give you that.

And look, he'd be proud of you, mate.

We are in the business of hopes and dreams.

All I know is Brent was rushed to hospital last night.

He's got some pretty bad neck injuries.

I reckon there's just blown out.

The rain has washed us out.

We can't work out here.

Yeah, things get to you, mate.

Just give me a moment to think.

The Poseidon crew faced crippling setbacks and devastating gold returns.

The history of this place is mad.

I don't want to hear it anymore.

600!

It doesn't mean a thing when we haven't got it here.

But in his final months, gold legend Neville Perry was determined to lift them up

by passing on his four decades of gold hunting experience.

You're on channel there, Brent.

Yeah, Liv.

Approaching King Gower, the heart of Big Nugger country.

Oi, oi, oi, oi. Hang on, hang on.

There's a bit of gold there.

Look at that!

For him to pass that information on, that's gold in itself.

All over.

Hey.

I can hold it.

It's all good, mate.

These are the moments.

They really are.

They're the moments.

I know this might seem like a fairy tale, but you just never know.

And Nev was adamant that he wanted to take me up here and show me a few spots.

He seemed pretty passionate.

Look, he was passionate about everything he did.

So if he's written about it, it was for a reason.

Mate, just after that big day, I just felt it was fitting.

Let's go on one more Nevvy trip, eh?

You know, he might be still with us.

So, yeah.

And this is Melville's main hideout.

They've named the whole cave sift and after him, you know.

Now, once you put your Bush Ranger hat on, you've just robbed a gold escort.

Of armfuls of gold worth millions of dollars today.

Where would you put it?

During the gold rush, outlaws known as Bush Rangers, including the infamous Ned Kelly gang,

terrorised the outback, robbing banks and ambushing stagecoaches full of gold

destined for the Melbourne Mint.

In 1852, Scottish-born Francis McCollum, known by his pirate-inspired Bush Ranger name Captain Melville,

stole an estimated $10 million worth of gold from a stagecoach leaving the Bendigo gold fields.

Melville and his gang were caught, but the gold was nowhere to be found.

Legend has it that when Melville died in prison,

he took the secret location of the millions in gold with him to the grave.

Oh, I haven't got that in here, eh?

That looks pretty cool.

It looks like it curls around under that rock.

Mate, that might go into another cave system, yeah?

You reckon you'd be able to get down there and have a look?

Mate?

You're younger than Fiddler than I am, so I reckon you'd nominate you to go down there.

I'll get down there, mate, but yeah, all right.

Just be careful.

You all right?

Hey, mate, you all right?

Yeah, mate.

You all right or not?

Yeah.

Well, you got down there, mate, anyway.

You won't believe it, Brent.

That stops right here, mate.

Oh, you're kidding.

It goes there into a little point, and that's it.

It does not go any further, so...

Well, that was a lot of effort for nothing.

Hey, there's an old tin here, mate.

No, really?

No, I'm serious.

Don't kid me.

It's half buried, mate.

Oh, you're kidding.

Well, we're back, mate.

How good's this?

Back on the Palmer, ready for another year of ripping that gold out.

Mate, I tell you, it's so good to be back.

There's something about this place, you just miss it.

Hey, it's just awesome.

But the gold's not guaranteed.

Two and a half metres of rain here this year, just in three months.

So who even knows if we're going to be able to cross rivers or anything yet.

This crossing up here is going to be what makes us or breaks us.

If we don't get over them, we're going to be stuck away from that big gold.

Oh, we're coming down onto the river, Jackie.

Let's see how it looks.

Oh, what?

This is worse than I thought.

Well...

We are not getting across there, mate.

That's not good.

That's way too deep and there's too many big crocodiles in there.

So we're definitely going to have to get across.

All the gold's over there, like, we need to be on that side.

Yeah.

All the crossings are going to look like they're sandy.

Well, we've already exhausted plan A and plan B, mate.

We can't drive.

Can't walk.

Can't walk.

I don't know what to do.

Ah, this sucks.

Woo!

Let's do it!

Hey, mate, how you going, mate?

Exploration is a challenge.

Let's do it!

Hey, mate, how you going, mate?

Exploration prospectors Jackie Bezzetti and Andrew Lay

have dedicated the past three years to hunting gold

on the extremely remote Palmer River in far north Queensland.

Palmer River's not a place to muck around.

We're a long way from any sort of help.

Watch out, there's a snake there.

One of those gets us all over.

Let's go, mate! Fire!

Whoa!

This is bad. Oh, God.

Holy crap!

Last season, despite their setbacks...

Yes!

Have a look at that!

Yes! It's a monster!

They smashed their 50-ounce season target,

earning themselves $160,000.

We can come back better next year, better set up.

That is amazing.

Ready to go again.

Hey, Jackie, you there?

Yeah, mate.

Your set-up's looking sweet, mate.

Honestly, it is a game changer.

Better than being in a tent, mate.

Yeah.

So there's no excuses for you to turn up to work all stinky this year anymore.

Thank you.

With that road being washed out, we can't get anywhere near that gold,

so we might as well just can it.

No, no, no. Have you got your maps on you?

I have.

I reckon we should just try a different angle.

OK, so we get stuck here, yeah?

Yeah.

But that's where we're supposed to be going, so we can get up here.

Under that gully, yeah?

Yeah, on that system.

But look, the river, it goes straight there.

Yeah, it does. What are you talking about?

The river is the road, Andy.

We brought those to go fishing, mate.

But we can use them to go prospecting.

It's a great idea!

We've got to put all our gear and detectors on these,

chuck them in a creek full of crocodiles

and paddle them all the way to where we've got to go.

Yes. Let's do it. Let's kayak prospect.

Think of all the places that we'll be able to get to on the river

where no roads or cars, no-one's been able to access it.

It's genius. I'm a genius.

That is a pretty good plan.

You in?

Yep.

See? Let's do it.

Do you reckon that could be any salties still left kicking about?

Well, we've just got to be croc-wise, be croc-safe

and just assume that there's salties here.

This river is home to two species of crocodiles,

the freshwater croc and the highly aggressive salty.

This ambush predator can submerge undetected for hours

before killing its victim with a strike four times faster

than a rattlesnake.

Probably going to take us about two hours on these kayaks

to get to where we need to go.

Two hours in, two hours back, detecting all day.

But if we hit gold out there,

this could be exactly what we need to hit that target this season.

Five years ago, working in the beauty salon,

I never, ever would have imagined

that I'd be out here on the Palmer River digging for gold, hey.

It's turned out to be more than just prospecting, you know.

It's like every day is an adventure now, mate.

It's deep out here.

Yeah, it is, deep enough for a big croc.

I've seen a couple of croc slides on the banks.

I haven't noticed that. That's a bit of a worry.

So what are we actually doing target this year?

I was thinking 65 ounces.

That's a kilo of gold each, hey.

65 is huge.

$230,000 of gold, mate.

We might as well go big.

Go big or go home, hey.

That's the one, mate. Yeah.

Doesn't look like we can get much further from here.

Yeah, this looks like the end of the line to me, mate.

I'll just pull up in there,

and we'll just have to walk the rest of it.

Yeah.

I'm ready to get out of this kayak now

and start looking for some gold.

Yeah, me too. Oh!

What was that? I don't know.

Is that a crocodile there?

Yeah, this season we're doing things a bit differently.

My focus is on family and, you know, having fun,

working with my wife Shannon and my daughter Ebony.

Oh, bring me that bucket of dirt.

And I get to do my two favourite things,

find gold and spend time with my family.

There you go, honey.

Thank you, baby.

The only catch is to keep the stream alive.

I need to keep the gold coming in.

And today I think I'm going to have to spend some of that gold

to buy more dirt to get some real money.

Getting all ready? Hey.

What's happening?

I got a call from a mate.

He's got a bit of dirt he wants me to look at.

It's for sale. So it's a bit of mind waste.

Might get it for a steal. I don't know.

But I've got to go test it first.

Hopefully it's got a lot of gold.

What are you thinking of spending?

I'm thinking about five ounces. Right.

And try and barter between three and five.

Maybe maximum four.

Yeah, that's like nearly 15 grand.

Don't go spending on my pub money.

Oh, damn straight.

Pub money!

I need to make some cornflake gold.

Take a bit of money with me to spend.

The dirt that I'm going to look at,

no-one else can really touch it

because it's some dirt down a mill down the road.

It's full of steel and all sorts of rubbish.

But processing mind waste,

it's been our number one money spinner over the years.

So if it works, keep doing it.

Turning it into cornflakes, I can pull out what I need.

He didn't want cash, he just wants gold.

So I'll take five ounces with me

and that's like 17 and a half grand in today's gold.

Start at three and hopefully he doesn't want to take the whole five.

Between us, we've got millions of dollars worth of machinery

and after running costs every month,

which is $50,000,

we're going to need a lot of gold to make this partnership work.

I want to chase a thousand ounces.

I want to chase it. I want to chase that dream.

Two years ago, Paul Mackey joined forces

with mine boss Melanie Wood

and veteran prospector Alex Stead

to form the Goldmine.

Whoa, no way!

What the hell?

That's crazy.

Are you kidding me?

Their initial efforts were a big success,

but last season, the gold ran dry

and the cost of running multiple operations

reached crisis point.

I've got to provide for my family.

I've got kids in uni,

I've got bills coming out of my head

and I'm nearly drowning.

So basically, that's the end of the goldmine.

I'm going to be a goldmine director.

So basically, that's the end of the gold devils.

Yeah.

Well, our friendship's the most important thing, so...

As far as I understand, it was not an easy decision.

Sorry, guys.

Good luck, Paul.

No worries, mate.

Now, Paul is back to find gold

with the help of his family.

The best part about working with the family

is all the money we make, we're cheap.

In the last few seasons, I've tried to go

for that massive thousand-ounce target

and I'm not really that interested in that anymore.

The most important thing for me

is to enjoy it

and that's what I'm really looking forward to this season.

I like the fact that Paul can just go away,

go and get some dirt,

but in the meantime, Ebs can still be working.

Is that good, Em?

That's good.

You're gonna make a bit of money way up here?

Yeah. Yeah?

Pay off your union, have a bit of extra cash?

Yeah.

Oh, Ebony's always been a hard worker.

I know when I come up here with her,

she's gonna work right beside me.

It'd be good having a fit young person

up here with me.

She can be all the muscle.

All right, well, that's most of the water pipe set up.

How about you have a look over the power board

and I'm gonna jump up at the top,

make sure the excavator's in the right spot

and then we can turn the water on

and go from there. Sounds sweet.

All right, cool.

We're gonna be here for a whole season.

It's a lot more rewarding, I guess,

because we put the effort in the whole season long

rather than just coming in at the ending

and seeing what's made, so I'm keen for that.

I'll just switch this.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, sweet. Yeah, that's off and running.

Why's that going up?

It's not good.

Something must be wrong.

Oh, what do we do now?

Hey, it's an old tin here, mate.

What? What, just sitting there?

It's half buried, mate.

Really?

Nothing in it, obviously.

No, it's full of sand, mate. Full of sand.

What sort of tin is it? Give me a look.

How old is it, you reckon, eh?

Oh, it's old. It's rusted, mate.

It's old, old, but it's not...

I don't know if it's an old Billy Carid or...

Yeah, it's down here, mate, in the sand, buried in this corner.

Could have been a gold tin, mate.

That was a bit of a letdown, wasn't it?

You gonna be able to get out of there or not?

Oh, mate, I'm actually struggling here.

Hang on.

You gotta reach.

You gotta get your hand, mate.

Hang on. I can't grab you, mate.

Hang on, hang on, hang on.

That's not good for me, Nick, mate.

You for real?

I'll go back to the car, yeah, and I'll see

if I can get something to get you out.

Just take five.

Just take five? Yeah, don't worry, mate.

I'm not going anywhere.

I'll be back in a minute, mate.

We're on our way to Caddo's, and,

you know, look, a few hours later, here I am, down a hole.

You know, really, we should have

been properly digging, you know, at Caddo's

paddock, you know, to really start our season

off, but after Nevy's big day,

and just being here

is, you could call it,

healing for me, in a way,

you know? It's something that

Nevy wanted to get up here and show me.

Things like this,

take the opportunity to do it, otherwise

you might run out of time.

Hey, Yves.

Here, take that.

No, it'll be right. If you grab hold of that,

if you pull yourself

up and against the wall,

I'll stand on this so it doesn't slip.

All right?

You all right, mate?

I'll be right to grab your knee, all right?

Oh, I don't trust you.

Give me your arm. Yep.

I've got you.

Yep. Yep.

Get the eye out of your crutch. I'm trying, but my head was stuck

in your crutch.

Told you to ditch out.

Where are we off to next, then?

What do we...? Well, he's got

700 metres north

of caves.

Detect.

So that's our location. But why don't we go 700 metres north

of where we roughly are.

Let's do it.

Like, we're trying to walk towards where

one of the Xs on Nevy's map,

where we think it is,

it's sort of a bit of a needle in the haystack, but

we've got a, you know, a rough

vicinity. Hopefully, you know,

we might stumble across something.

All through here, it's just not

gold ground. It's all granite country.

There's no gold up here, but

it could be

Bush Ranger gold up here.

Well, this is buried just a little bit.

This is actually

an old horse bite. That's

pretty cool. The reason why I'm excited

about this is because

back in the day in the 1850s,

only the, you know, the really affluent people,

the wealthy, you know,

miners that done really well had horses

and Bush Rangers.

They'd steal them off the wealthy.

That's like their getaway car.

That's pretty bloody exciting.

This is

starting to look promising.

It's not quite the start

of the season I thought we'd be having.

It kind of blows me mind to think the Caddo's

is just over that mountain range, just over there,

literally, you know, less than a couple

of k's away. That's where I'd rather

be. But I think that right

now Brent really needs this to hold deal

with the passing of Neville. There's a bigger

picture here at play. If this is what he needs,

let's go for it.

Got a target here.

It's either obviously in the rock or under

the rock. It's just got me

excited.

What do you got, mate? There's something

under this big slab, mate.

Maybe the only thing I can think of,

Heath, maybe those

straps. We might be able to shimmy

it out the way.

Ready? Two, three.

Ready? Yep.

All good? Yep.

All right.

Woohoo. Yep.

That's it. Now you'll be right to get

in there. What's in there, Heath?

It's still there, Heath.

It's something, mate.

It ain't a waste of time, whatever this is.

Mate, if I put my hand on the top of a jar,

mate, I'd tell you what.

I can't feel it,

I think.

Hey, hey, coins.

Ha! Hey, coins.

Woo!

This stuff, it's come out of a mill.

It's pretty high quality. What are you chasing for it?

Five, mate. Five ounces.

Well, first things first,

let's pan it off and

what I can see in the pan,

we'll check it out after that. You'll be happy, mate.

You'll be happy. All right.

No worries.

I can start to see a few colours showing now.

A lot of steel in there. Yep.

I can see a fair bit of gold in there.

Fair bit, actually.

Yep.

Like all there and in the back there.

You wanted five.

I was realistically only hoping to pay around

three, three and a half.

I'm hard on five, mate.

You want to go any lower?

All right.

I don't even think there's any point in haggling, to be honest with you.

If every pan's like that, well then, yeah,

we've got ourselves a deal, mate.

No worries. Five it is.

You know, with this dirt, it's a gamble.

I did spend a little bit more than I wanted to.

I want to make at least 50%

on my profit.

So, whatever it costs me, I need to double that again.

Otherwise, it's just not viable.

It's great when you've got a family behind you.

You know, I'm happy with the way the girls

are running the operation. They know what they're doing.

So, when I get back, everything should have been smooth sailing.

Yeah, so it flicked out on here before.

So, I flicked it back on.

And now it's flicked off again. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I didn't really know what I was looking at.

Yeah.

I don't actually want to open that board up.

You know, if there's any power leaking,

I don't want to get myself zapped.

I don't want to get you zapped.

I don't want to get you zapped.

You might just call the sparky, see whereabouts he is.

Okay.

Yeah, Shannon at the Phoenix Project.

We've had a bit of an issue with our wet plan.

I'm hoping you can come and check it out.

Yeah, so what's happening

is every time we turn it on, the fuse keeps tripping.

Oh, day and a half.

Oh, yeah, you think that might be the problem?

Yeah, all right, I'll try that.

Thanks, Rick.

Rick said that they've previously had that same issue.

Hmm.

So what we're going to do is unplug the three-phase

from the RCD side,

plug it into the non-RCD side

and give it a go.

Hopefully it works. Hopefully.

Why don't you head up to the plant

and I'll give you a call when I'm ready

for you to turn it over. All right.

It's good that Rick can troubleshoot it over the phone with me.

Hopefully it's a quick fix

and we can move on.

All right, Ebs, give it a whirl.

Turning it on now.

Power on.

Whoo!

Awesome, Ebs. Such good news.

At least we fixed it. Yeah.

And we're like sparkies. Oh, jeez.

Beep, beep, beep, beep.

Oh, good that's the timing. Jesus, here he is already.

Hello. Hello.

How'd you go? Well, I got the first two.

OK.

My hands look really good. Do they?

Yeah. So how much did you pay?

I might have paid a little bit more than you ought to be, too.

I paid five. All right.

Well, you know I trust you.

We had a problem with the power.

Yeah, righto. Yeah. Ended up sorting it out

with Rick the Sparky. Yep.

And we fixed it. We did fix it.

Ready to go. Oh, look at you two going.

We felt bad. Being proactive.

Yeah. Right. Well, if that's ready,

then I'll get the truck over there and we'll get stuck into it.

All right. Let's do it. We'll meet you over there.

Awesome.

What was that?

Did you see what that was over there?

Let's just get our

collars out of the water, eh?

Could have been a croc jumping off the bank

back into the water.

Yeah, I reckon so.

Well, probably a good time to be

back on dry ground.

All right. Let's go and do what we do best.

All right.

We're going to split up in here, cover some ground.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Yeah.

We'll split up in here, cover some ground.

Yeah, I will see you soon.

First prospect this year, mate.

Bring back a chunky piece.

Don't do a doughnut.

Nothing comes easy on the Palmer this time of year.

Just so limited in where I can detect.

I've got grass that side of me,

water that side of me.

I'm stuck in this one little strip along the edge

of the creek.

It's still super hot, really humid.

It's sort of a sack of me,

a bit of confidence that we're going to do well

in this area.

It's rubbish.

After the wet season,

there's always long, thick grass around.

You swing your detector

and it just gets all tangled up and stuff.

Like, it's pretty difficult.

So I'm just trying

to search around these bad

rock bars, sort of on the edge

of the creek a bit. Can't afford

to miss a single one when we've got a target

at 65 ounces

this year.

And we're just getting started.

This is a good looking area

in here. All this bedrock

everywhere. It's a great spot

for the gold to catch. The gold

will come tumbling down in the floods and it'll

get stuck in these bedrock

cracks or behind these big rocks.

And because of the bedrock, it can't sink

any deeper.

There we go. First target of the year.

Alright, it's out.

Sounds nice. Hopefully

it's gold because it'll be nice solids if it is.

Oh yeah!

You little ripper!

That's a nice chuck.

That's three or four grams there I think.

But keep getting gold out like that. It adds up

really quick, you know, like

picking out $400 at a time

keeps you pretty enthusiastic

as well, of course.

Yeah, that's what we came here

for. Palmer Nuggets.

Our bloody good zat.

And Prospector's favourite noise.

Money in the jar.

That's definitely a target.

Ah, there it is.

Yes!

Check that out. That is

absolutely unreal.

That is awesome.

Look at that. Nice chunky

piece. Probably about three grams

of gold there. Good $300.

So I found that right here in this bedrock.

Gold's definitely settling in these

bedrock cracks and that's just brilliant.

We are on the gold.

The season has officially

begun.

There you are. How you going?

Yeah, good. It's been good.

Yeah, it has. Yeah, yeah.

I've gone pretty well. I put a few

away. Nothing crazy.

Got a nice rattle in the jar. So do I.

Yours sounds better

than mine. I think we should get back to

those kayaks for a good start. So I don't want to paddle down

that river in the dark. Yeah, mate.

That sun's getting low. It's time to go.

I don't want to be croc bait.

So, we'll come back tomorrow, eh? Yep, let's go.

Yeah, it's pretty fun working with Paul.

We actually make a really good team together.

I guess I pick him up when he's down.

He picks me up when I'm down.

You know, what we're doing up here

is for the family.

So it's nice to

be able to work together

and achieve something.

Put one of the bags

into the little ball mill here.

It's just full of steel balls

up to about a quarter of the way. I've just crushed

it all down until hopefully a fine paste.

The mill

uses water and heavy steel

balls to pulverise the mine

waste. The gold

is then removed from the slurry

during the refinement process.

Yeah, that's super fine.

A couple of hours in there and it's

all crushed up beautifully.

Once I've got enough in this tub,

I'll take it over where the girls are.

They'll get the concentrators going.

OK, water. Yep.

Pumps.

Yep.

And we'll just start feeding it slowly into the concentrators.

Basically, we want to use some

centrifugal force to separate all the

waste products and retain the gold

and all the heavies and hopefully recover enough

gold to pay for what I've already spent.

So keen to see some gold.

That's...what?

I tripped on it.

Watch where you're going.

There you go.

Have the new assortment for you.

There you go. You're the only one that trips on it.

Squirted my face.

It's definitely fun having the

family around. When I'm not around,

I miss them all the time and tell them

about how my day was when I'm

covered in mud and covered in

grease and with all the flies and

they just laugh at me. So

when they're up here, they get to live it as well.

It's a family bonding experience.

I mean, this material that I'm playing with right now,

I can see a lot of gold in it, but I can see

a thousand times

more particles of steel.

It's just insane.

It's trying to separate the two, the steel

from the gold. It is a

mission, so I'm just going to try and get as much as I can

with a magnet.

You can feel it coming up.

I'm going to stop that.

It's like a little

someone's hairy head.

I knew there was going to be a lot of steel in it,

but at the end of the day,

when it's got that much gold in it, I really don't give a damn.

This is what this season's all about,

isn't it? Having fun,

getting dirty.

Turning mud into gold.

Guys, come have a look at this.

The amount of dirt we've just put through, like

a tub and a half.

That's so good. That's heaps.

That's amazing. That, I was not expecting

to see that much gold. No way.

I mean, we haven't even finished washing this one off yet

and we've seen that much, so

hopefully this one doubles.

I'm not going to be able to take any more steel out of that, so

I'm going to just melt it as it is. It's going to melt off

the steel, is that what you're saying? It should pull some

of it out, yeah. Yeah, alright.

Get it in the furnace, melt it off, and hopefully have a good

looking bar. Let's do it.

Alright.

Alright. 65 ounces, mate.

Time to start digging some holes.

You really got to be careful

out here. I mean, we've

kayaked in, we've

been walking, we're already

remote here on the Palmer,

but you've just got to be really cautious.

I mean, you don't want to be having any accidents

out here.

Town from camp is

a good four hour drive away,

let alone trying to get help

when you're this far out.

Alright, got a target

in there. There is a fair

bit of rubble.

Oh, there's a scorpion.

That's pretty cool.

I do know to stay away from

them. Apparently,

if they get you, it will really,

really hurt. If they've got

small nippers like that, then

they pack a punch with their stinger.

Alright, he's going to

chill there. My target's here.

I'm safe. And that's the type

of thing. Like, if I need medical

help, because I get stung by a scorpion,

I've got to walk all the way back to the kayak,

kayak all the way back down to the

river, drive four hours to the hospital.

By the time I get there,

I may as well just suck it up.

It's in this rubble pile

somewhere here.

Woohoo!

Yes!

That's awesome!

That's a nice chunky piece there.

Look at that. Good, nice

piece of gold. Probably like seven

grams of gold or something at least

in that. That's like seven hundred bucks.

Oh, the scorpion nugget.

I'm down in there.

Ugh.

Playing in the mud like a kid.

Alrighty.

Can't see anything there,

just mud.

Get a bit of water

in, see if that helps.

Oh, there is gold in there.

Excellent. Look at that.

Another nice little bit.

There's another, you know, fifty or eighty dollars

worth of gold there. Happy

days. We're on to a great little run here.

This is just such

a good way to start the year.

Little oasis in the middle of the palmer.

Full of beautiful water and

water holes and gold.

So I'm just going to

keep working now, put as much

in the jar as I can.

I've got it!

Ha!

It coins! Woo!

Ha ha!

More there.

Hey, there's another one. Look, look, look, look.

Hey!

Are they significant or what?

What are they?

1832?

1830 something?

More there.

Now this is something, Nathan.

This is a stash, mate.

I don't know.

It's like a silver one.

Silver, is it?

1817.

I think that's it, Eve.

Alright, mate. So we've got

five coins. Yeah, mate.

Melville died in 1857,

so it's in the right time period. Yeah, okay.

Look at them.

Yeah, they're just like a silver, aren't they?

I'll tell you what, could have been a jar

of gold under there, mate.

We didn't find any

treasure of value, value, mate, but

we definitely found something of

historical value, that's for certain, mate.

They literally could be

you know, relics of

Bush Rangers and dead set.

It was a good start to the season. I'm happy to go on it, but

this season we have to be about

the gold. I know. But thanks for

coming on this journey, mate. It's something that

Neville wanted to do and he's up there proud,

mate, hopefully.

Hey, that's not a bad idea.

Well, I thought we might as well weigh in

on the kayak since it's the reason

we've got gold. I like it.

I like it. It was

not the start we thought we were going to

get, though. We lost the road

in the wet season, but

hey, these came up

good. It worked out to be a brilliant

plan. It did. It just all fell into place.

Yeah. There's a lot of ground that we

couldn't even touch because the grass was so long

and the water's still really high,

but at least we've discovered

some good gold ground now. Absolutely.

Well, we got a 65

ounce target, so we're

punctured for a kilo of gold each.

We've got to make it work and like

you know, the Palmer's going to throw everything

it can at us to try and stop that

from happening. What do you reckon we got?

Time to find out. Let's go.

2.47.

Just shy of

$9,000 for the week.

That's more than I thought. That's pretty good.

I'll take it. Yeah, not bad, mate. Considering

what we had to battle this week just to

get into gold country.

Yeah. I'll take it as well. We've

only got 62.5 ounces to go.

You know what? It's a massive target,

but I think we're going to have a great season.

Same. Yeah. Right, well, let's

pack this stuff up and get out of here.

All right. Back on the kayak, so you want to drive

this time. Load these

up or shall we row home?

I've had enough paddling for a while.

Let's put them on the kayak and drive.

Look at that. It's so pretty.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Well, five ounce investment.

Let's see what we get out of it.

Oh, moment of truth.

Whoa. Look at the colour.

It's a beautiful colour. Shiny.

Look at that.

It's a pretty bar. Beautiful.

That's really nice.

Before we do weigh it, I do want to set

the target for us as a family.

I'm thinking 200 ounces.

That sounds good to me.

Leading up to the end of the week.

I'm going to go and get some

fresh fish.

That sounds good to me.

At least we can aim high. Yeah.

And this is our very first start at that, so how much can we

knock off that target already?

It's not a bad start.

Look at that. It's a great start.

That's not a good start. I don't know what is.

So that investment at the start,

you know, we've turned that into

$115,000.

Nice. High five.

Let's go celebrate.

I'm in for that.

Your shout. Your shout.