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(Transcrito por TurboScribe.ai. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) There's a secret war going on in the outback town of Claremont.

The gold here is so good and the value of gold now is so high.

Look at that.

Dog eat dog, the wars are on.

Boy, are you entertaining this idiot.

I was a bit pissed off when Donnie came in.

How do I turn?

Three mining teams.

He has a load of money into the mine so we have to make it work.

Fighting it out on the one patch of land.

This is just some of the stuff Donnie's been walking over.

Guys, be lucky if I don't walk over his big nose.

This time.

You ready Kimbo?

Learn how to drive this thing.

Dan throws Kimberley into the deep end with mixed results.

What am I doing?

That area there man, that's where I'm going.

Dennis and Donnie hatch an audacious plan to peg new ground.

If these guys cause up me, I'll be pissed.

And send Lee packing.

Sick of diving into my own pockets to pay for everything.

And Richie's bizarre Gold Coast gold digger.

We've scanned a lot of weird and wonderful things in our scanner but never a gold nugget.

To supercharge team 1870's operation.

The 24 grand ain't going to cut it.

That's my absolute last and final offer.

At 1870, Dan and wife Kira are prepping their dry blower for a day of processing work.

Put these on, we can fire it up.

So she's probably the best we've ever worked together.

A day still young.

The dry blower's already delivered four ounces of gold.

Conveyor's running true, so we should be kicking ass today.

Let's just get this up and running, get some dirt through it.

And at the end of the day, let's see the gold coming out.

Dan now needs to bring the wash plant online.

And then get the two machines working together in tandem.

Their $500,000 season target depends on it.

We're already weeks behind where we need to be.

So you girls and me are going to have to step up.

But upscaling a mine costs money.

And they now need a new generator.

Cue Richie.

So Richie's gone back to the Gold Coast to go sell some gold.

We need a generator, we need one for the wash plant.

Richie's on the hunt for $30,000 cash.

He's hoping one of his rich Gold Coast mates will step up and buy an 1870 nugget off him.

Richie's gone to sell some gold so we can keep going.

Buy some more generators to keep it going.

Yeah, so Ciara and I are going to burn the tools today.

I'm going to give yourself and Kimberley a crash course on how to use a loader.

That way Braden and myself can get back up and keep continuing with the wash plant.

It's been the slowest start to the season.

But seeing that gold come in, I think we're on the right track.

We can still do this, as long as there's no more breakdowns.

So now that we've got all the ground loosened up over here for the loader to pick up,

you girls are just going to dump the dirt up into the bin.

All the gold will get caught up in these riffles here.

All the lighter material will come off the end of the conveyor and go straight into our tailings.

So how much gold do you think Ciara and I are going to get today running all this?

Look, I'd like to see close to an ounce at the end of today.

We'll do two.

Dan and Richie sacked all their contractors.

1870 is now a full-on family affair.

So I've been thrown out here. Clearly my nails weren't built for mining.

I don't know how this is going to go.

Only time will tell if Dan's bunch of mining misfits can actually do the job and turn a profit.

You ready Kimberley?

Learn how to drive this thing.

So there is a seatbelt as well.

What do you think I'm going to do? Burnouts?

It's going to be a lot of new things on my resume.

Okay.

Go, run me over.

Is this scary?

I think the girls have got potential.

Oh my god.

It's a race. Go, go, go.

No?

Oh, I've got to put it in drive.

There we go.

At the end of the day, something is better than nothing.

Okay.

Okay.

Lower the whole bucket down.

Jesus.

Keep it going.

Okay, yep. Now drive forward.

Oh my gosh.

I feel a bit different to driving my car at home.

Keep it going.

Now start to curl the bucket so you control towards you.

Keep it going.

Keep it going.

Perfect.

That's pretty good for a person who's never operated a machine in her life,

other than a Mercedes-Benz.

Awesome.

The drive blower uses air and vibration to separate the gold from the dirt.

Kimberly needs to carefully feed the hopper bin

without overloading the riffle trays underneath,

or the whole thing will jam up and grind to a halt.

Okay, that's it.

There's a lot into it to get it running right.

The riffle trays, if they're not on the right angle, you lose gold.

The feed rate, if it's not right, you lose gold.

I'm just trying to get Kira to keep an eye on how much dirt's going through

to make sure that the hopper bin's aren't getting overpulled.

Dan needs Kira and Kimberly to operate independently,

without his supervision.

Oh, my God.

He needs to get back to assembling the wash plate.

I'll let you take the reins.

You give her a full guide now on how to get the dirt and dumping.

Good luck, guys.

I'm fairly confident these girls can figure the machines out.

I'm going to shoot off and get my day underway.

At Scratchy Moon, Damo and Lee are making progress mining the megapit.

This big pile here is the pile of spoil,

which is everything that's come out of the top six metres.

As much as you want to get all the gold out with the detector,

obviously, when you're moving so much ground,

peel up nuggets in the slate and we spread it out, redetect it,

you get a lot more gold out of that.

Mine owners Damo and Matt have quietly been raking in the gold.

They're at $275,000 for the season.

I think we'll get 100 ounces pretty easy.

I want to say pretty easy.

It's bloody hard work.

But I don't see anything stopping us from getting there

based on our trajectory now.

Show us what you're made of.

And then there's Lee, hovering in the winds

with big promises to buy some land off them.

So, working with the boys here and seeing the gold,

there's good volumes of gold.

I'm confident enough to want to do a deal.

You see, we don't even have to have our picks with us in this stuff.

This is where scratching truly comes to life

because I can just scratch my heart's content like a chicken.

Oh, here we go.

But Lee's in the middle of a divorce.

Getting hold of funds to pay for the land

is proving more difficult than he imagined.

So, for me to get this coin together,

I need to settle with X, get that money through,

free my cash up to pay these boys, get it done.

Gold!

Oh, yeah, that'll be a good one.

It's pretty robust. See, it's got some chunk to it.

So, that'll be... It's probably a .4 there.

And there'll be plenty...

You can do that all afternoon on this.

Got a bit of a wobble there, look.

At Swiss Diggings, Lee's ex-business partner, Donnie,

and his new boss, Dennis, are on fire.

They're well over a third of the way towards their season target.

We've got a good colour here.

Yeah, I reckon she's going to drop off through here.

It was a masterstroke by Dennis to take on Donnie

at a time when no-one wanted anything to do with him.

Me and Donnie have been working all right.

We've been going well together.

Donnie's provided enough evidence that he can do what he can do.

Donnie's the secret sauce Dennis has been waiting for

to take his operation to the next level.

Dennis needs to keep him onside.

I've pulled up a GRS here.

I'm having a look round at different grounds

to see where we can actually pop a new leasing for us.

Serious? Yeah. Definitely serious.

Well, definitely serious. Thanks, mate. Thanks.

I honestly think he needs to be on his own lease,

so I've thrown the option out there to peg a lease together.

With a bit of luck, he'll end up owning it,

and that's the ultimate goal.

Dennis giving me a chance

has really given me the go-ahead to set up for myself.

That's what I've always wanted.

What do you reckon is good ground?

I know there's good ground behind 1870 there.

So we've got good gold coming through this valley system

and running into 1870 there.

Right through.

Yeah, that is good, rich ground.

And who owns this EPM around Scratchymoot?

That's Matten Damage. That is Matten Damage.

That area there, man, that's where I'll be going.

The land they're looking to peg

is the exact same parcel of land that Lee,

Donnie's old business partner, is trying to buy.

Dennis's audacious plan

will put Donnie and Lee

on a direct collision course with each other.

There's not much ground left out there, mate,

so this is an opportunity I think

that we probably need to start capitalising on.

I'm here on the Gold Coast,

so I can sell one of these nuggets we've got.

Richie's back in his hometown,

hoping to sell a showpiece nugget

to one of his cashed-up socialite mates.

I've got a mate who's a doctor here on the coast.

He owns one of the biggest radiology companies,

one of the latest and greatest bells and whistles,

who has expressed interest in buying some gold.

If he does, then I can afford to buy this generator I'm eyeing off.

Selling gold before the season's end

was never meant to be part of the plan.

But cost blowouts and machine breakdowns

have left Richie out of pocket.

The upsetting part for me is he's selling

one of the biggest nuggets I've ever found.

When I dug that nugget out of the ground,

it was just a special moment.

They're hard to come by, that size.

Still one of the biggest nuggets I've ever found.

So I'm hoping he gets what I've told him to get.

Dan's nugget weighs 144g,

just under 5oz.

At today's gold price, that's around $28,000.

But nuggets this size are extremely rare

and can command a premium.

Dan has instructed Richie not to sell the nugget

for anything less than $30,000.

I'm sick of diving into my own pockets to pay for everything.

Now the mine can start paying for itself.

Knock, knock.

Come on in.

Buddy.

How are you, mate?

How are you going?

I brought you a present.

Ka-ching.

Holy cow.

That is quite a nugget.

It's bloody heavy, isn't it?

That's the biggest one we've found so far.

Well, since I've taken over the mine anyway.

It's got a bit of weight to it.

It has.

144.35.

Wow.

So how pure is this rock?

Well, Claremont has got literally one of Australia's

most pure quality nuggets

at 97% to 99% pure gold.

The average in Australia is between 92% to 98%.

So Claremont gold's one of my sought-after golds,

especially the nuggets.

They're super rare.

It's clear that Gus really wants this nugget.

I've just got to get him across the line.

I need to get some cash flow going

so I can buy this generator.

How are you going, mate?

Yeah, good.

Pretty close?

Yeah, I'm just double-checking on the measurements.

Back at 1870,

Dan and son Braden are hard at it

trying to assemble the new wash plant.

So now the girls are up and running with the dry blower.

That frees me up.

I can be up here with Braden

putting together some machinery.

So this is going to be one of our feed conveyors.

We've just assembled it.

So now we just want to make sure it doesn't track to one side

because if it does do that and it starts hitting the framework,

well, we're going to destroy a belt fairly quick

and at this point in time, I don't want any more delays.

But Dan's decision to leave Kira and Kimberly unsupervised

might not have been a wise one.

All right, start tilting it back.

All right, sorry, not going back.

You've got to tilt the... Oh, yeah.

Oh, my God. OK.

Oh, my God.

Oh!

What am I doing?

Oh!

That wasn't meant to happen.

Definitely the front-end loader

doesn't compare to driving Mercedes.

A little bit bumpy.

A little rough.

Hey!

It's definitely not a Mercedes.

I don't judge a book by its cover,

but I genuinely did not think that that girl was going to do any good.

Whoa!

You all right?

A lot better bits.

But from the outset, I didn't think she was going to do well.

Slow and steady wins the race.

I'm trying to find myself driving.

She got in there, and I was very, very impressed.

That's perfect.

Don't tell her I said that, OK?

Yeah.

OK.

Throttle up.

Whoa!

What Team 1870 lacks in experience,

they more than make up for in have-a-go true grit.

I don't like getting too close to these things.

Is that good?

Everyone here has a lot to lose if they don't get it right.

We have put everything on the line.

So much work, so much effort.

Richie's pumped in so much money.

But we're finally there.

Like, we can actually give it a crack.

OK, that's it.

Loading the driveway is a delicate operation.

I think I'm getting the hang of this now.

Kimball is a fast learner.

The question is, does she know when to stop?

Go, go, go!

Stop.

Stop, stop!

It's not easy!

Stop!

What's happened?

Something's happened to the driveway.

Yeah, it's like the pot rivet or something there.

That's not good.

So I've had a little standstill, so this gets fixed, I guess.

The town of Claremont.

And Donnie's stocking up on supplies for Swiss diggings.

Hey, Dennis, what's going on?

Mate, I've had a bail.

You've had a bail?

Yeah, mate, yeah, yeah.

I've had to go back to the coast.

Oh, serious?

Yeah, this container's arrived with this excavator in it,

so I've had to come home and get that sorted out, mate.

So I've had to bail.

I had an excavator that I designed and had built in China.

A freight company told me it was coming in,

and so I had a 48-hour window to get it out of the box.

The time was just the worst that could ever possibly happen.

Interestingly enough,

I've had an email from Damien over at Scratchies.

Yeah?

Apparently, Leach McGrub is looking at the same ground

that we were sort of thinking about digging out.

Leach McGrub.

From that email, what he's saying is

Leach McGrub is there, mate, to make a deal.

It's just like a bad déjà vu with that bloke Ferdinand.

I just can't seem to get away from this one.

Whatever Donnie's feelings towards his old business partner are,

Leach was the first one in to make an offer.

But he's struggling to get hold of enough cash to ink a deal,

and that could give Dennis and Donnie the opening they need.

I'd rather do this myself,

but I don't think we've actually got any other option, mate.

I'm going to need you to hop foot over there, over to Scratchies.

Today? This morning?

Yeah, this morning, mate.

I don't think we've got any time to waste.

We've only chance to put the cat amongst the pigeons,

with McGrub, right now.

Donnie, he is not the person that I would normally send in to do this,

especially with his baggage relief.

But we had no other choice.

You've got to be cool, calm and collective, mate.

You know me, I'm always cool, calm and collective.

I don't have an awful lot of time.

They're probably getting offers at 100 to 1.

So I'm coming after him.

So what do you want me to talk to Damo and Matty about?

How do you want me to approach this?

So Matt and Damo, they want 100% up front,

and that's before the lease even goes through.

It just doesn't make any business sense to me.

I'd rather be 50% up front,

50% on completion or signing for the lease.

Yeah, right.

Mining leases can take up to three years

to get approved by the mines department,

and there's no guarantees they will even go through.

Paying 100% up front

puts the financial risk squarely on the buyer.

And I think probably because of the grubs in there,

they could probably start playing hardball with us as well.

So let's go and see what they've got in the terms

and we go from there, eh?

I ain't going anywhere seeing that.

Well, look, at the end of the day,

I think you've got to put your business head on your shoulders, mate,

and you've just got to do what you've got to do.

Talking business is not my forte.

All I can really do is go out there and tell them that we want it

and we're interested, and I would suggest to Lee

he really stay out of my way.

Took you long enough.

Been having a beer.

I wish.

At 1870, production has stalled.

One of the ripple trays on the dry blower has come loose.

It's not one thing, it's another, eh?

It's always something.

The machine's vibration has caused a rivet to pop and break.

You can see how violent the vibrator on this is working, you know,

and anything that moves is always going to wear.

Something so basic, a 5-cent pop rivet,

snapped, stops operation.

I'm hoping this is the last time this breaks.

I've just got too much to do, you know.

One step forward, three steps back.

So you girls are right to go, you know?

Yep. Good.

And that's been kicking our ass since the beginning of the season.

On the Gold Coast,

Richie's idea to sell some gold to an old mate,

who happens to be a doctor, has taken a bizarre twist.

We've scanned a lot of weird and wonderful things in our scanner,

but never a gold nugget.

So Gus has got the technology for me to prove to him

how pure this nugget is.

So why not?

So basically just taking some pictures of that nugget and...

There you go.

Look at that.

There's method to Gus's madness.

The CT scan has put a spotlight on the nugget's impurities,

and that plays into his hands.

What are these little spots here?

I admit, they look like little bits of quartz,

but there's one, two, three, four little bits of quartz,

and they'd be not even the size of a match head.

Yeah, that's typical Gus.

He's trying to get a good deal, but he's not going to get mates' rates.

So it's not exactly pure if there's bits of quartz in there.

Yeah, I can already tell where this is heading.

That'd be at least 97%, 98% pure.

You're a doctor that's trying to stitch me up.

We'll disagree on 96% and move on.

Donnie is heading to Scratchy Moon

to begin negotiations with Matt and Damon for their parcel of land.

Oh, I hate doing this.

This is Dennis' job, man.

The last thing I want to do is come anywhere near this leech of a person.

The land Dennis and Donnie want is the same land Lee wants to buy.

Lee thinks he has the deal in the bag.

But he doesn't have the cash.

Donnie needs to keep a cool head.

The last time he came face-to-face with Lee

is a lesson in what not to do.

You've ripped me off since day dot.

This is meant to be a partnership.

What did I ever get out of it?

You got free labour for two years.

That's what you got.

The gold.

What gold?

With the gold we paid for it.

Essentially, we're pegging this lease for me.

This is my future.

So it's pretty important for me to get the ground.

If I can get onto my own lease and I can get 100% of the gold,

then all of a sudden I can start living and breathing

and, you know, my kids will benefit.

Who's this?

Looks like Mr. Patrick.

That's your mate.

Get away, Mr. Patrick.

Hey, mate, how are you?

Good.

Good, bud.

Hey, mate, how are you?

That's been a while, mate.

Yeah, absolutely.

What brings you around?

Dennis didn't contact you?

Yeah, I emailed him and he said he was interested

in having a look at some ground.

Yeah, maybe I'd better go then.

Talking about the lease, I'll get out of the road.

Yeah, he said you were sniffing around.

Wish you the best of luck.

I was a bit pissed off when Donny come in, actually.

These guys must know I'm chasing this.

Time I left.

Good luck with it.

If these guys come in and gazump me, I'll be pissed.

In the Claremont Gold Fields, cash is key.

That was a tad awkward.

The question is, does Donny have the negotiation skills required

to get Matt and Damo to agree to Dennis' terms?

Why are you entertaining this idiot?

See if I remember how to drive this thing.

OK.

OK.

At 18.7, the dry blower is fixed and it's all systems go.

I got to feed the spotter and make sure it was running.

Oh, yeah?

I'm standing there copping it,

covered in filth-eating dirt,

and, you know, Kimberley's worked hard too...

..in her air-conditioning cab.

I'll need a phone by the end of the day at this.

Mastering the loader is only half the challenge.

The dry blower's feedway also needs careful supervision.

Yeah?

Yep.

Running the machinery and stuff,

it's really hard cos Dan's really the only person

that's hands-on experience.

Oh!

OK, stop, stop, stop!

Oh!

Kimberley has overloaded the hopper

and the riffle trays are now completely blocked up,

bringing the operation to a standstill once again.

It's a disaster.

Can you get down here, please? It's an emergency.

Dan's hands-off approach is not working.

What's going on, Sarah?

So, all our tray things are completely filled up

and we've just had to completely stop.

I don't even know what's going on.

Let's let your bike down here now.

All right, buddy, time to get down to it.

Let's talk business. Let's talk turkey.

On the Gold Coast, Richie's trying to sell a giant nugget

to his rich doctor mate Gus for $30,000.

All right, 30 grand.

You do drive a hard bargain.

It's not a hard bargain.

The price of gold has doubled in the last two years.

That there is a great investment.

I think, based on everything we've seen and market value,

I think 24 is reasonable for that.

24 grand ain't going to cut it.

That's nature's retirement plan right there.

Yeah.

Look, it is a pretty extraordinary investment.

I'm definitely interested.

I haven't got an unlimited budget, though,

and I know there's some impurities in it.

If I can do 27, that's the best I can do.

That's my absolute last and final offer.

In the day, I could have dicked around for a couple of weeks

and found another buyer and all that type of stuff,

but I need the money then.

My time's more valuable to worry about 2.5 grand.

There's going to be people up there that's pissed off

at me settling for 27,

but I'm going to agree to that, all right?

27 grand. Deal.

I understand Dan would be pissed off

that I accepted less than 30,000 for the nugget,

but this is a business decision.

I wanted to free up some cash

so I didn't have to put my hand in my own pocket.

It's done.

So, Dennis gave me a ring this morning.

He says I had to get out here pronto

because Lee McGrath was here

sniffing around the land that we're looking at.

Yeah, he's been here looking.

At scratchy move, Donnie is doing his best to keep his cool

and snatch the parcel of land Matt and Damo are willing to sell

from right under Lee's nose.

I just wanted to come out and let you know

we are dead set keen on the land.

Yeah, well, it's 1,500 bucks a hectare.

1,500 bucks a hectare.

Yeah.

I don't think he's worried about the price.

It's just more the terms.

He wants to do 50% up front

and 50% on approval.

Yeah, we're not super keen on that.

Right.

I mean...