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Oh, this is a good target.

Ha-ha!

I got to record this.

I'm borrowing a GoPro, boys.

I got a good target here.

It's a bloody screamer.

I just hope it's not an old time as mine has picked.

If it's not, it's gonna be a good bloody nugget.

I have a listen to this.

Ha-ha-ha!

This could be a chunk that I've been looking for!

Whoa!

If this is gold,

I don't want to hit it with a bloody pick.

I didn't dig around it.

This could be the chunk.

Gold!

It's gold!

It's gold!

Whoa!

Whoa!

It's gold, all right!

But he told you can't I panic!

Nugget's chucks!

Whoa!

And we have a big chunk starting to show through here.

Look at that. The coil's past it and it's still getting it.

So that's how big it is.

This could be a thousand ounce chuck.

A history-changing moment right here, right now.

On this season of Aussie Gold Hunters.

The gold race is absolutely on.

Gold prices hit the highest ever in recorded history.

We're at $5,000 an ounce.

$6,000 an ounce.

$7,000 an ounce.

And it's probably gonna keep going.

Igniting a 21st century gold rush.

Let's go!

As global demand pushes six teams of prospectors deeper than ever before.

This could be our biggest adventure yet into Australia's wild frontier.

Really?

I'm in uncharted territory now.

This one's gonna be the ultimate test.

This is it. We're past the point of no return.

What happens this season?

It could change everything.

It's all about blood!

Mal.

Yeah.

It's just too much.

Sweat!

Bye, Christ, I'm hurting.

Tease!

And then...

Bang!

That's why we do it!

They'll take bigger risks.

Something's going wrong.

Take it!

Oh!

Take!

Chain!

You!

I feel horrible.

Damn it!

For even bigger rewards.

Yes!

That's a look!

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

In a gold hunt.

That's a chunk.

Like no other.

That's what it's all about.

Whoa!

You can see it there.

That's just the top of it.

This could be the chunk that I've been looking for.

Oh!

Come on, boys.

It's just waiting for Jayden Cade and the film crew in a year from German galley.

It's only 15 minutes away, but I wish I'd hurry up.

Just over in there.

That's the precious, which was a 700-800 answer.

The come towers at a 795.

There was big nuggets all the way through here.

And now we might have a lifetime chunk of gold.

There they come.

He's on the pad.

He's got his detector within.

It might be a chunk, Jayden.

It might be a chunk.

Come on, boys.

What is it?

Ah, not for much.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

I'm listening to that!

Hey!

Whoa!

It's going to be a good chunk, this one.

I just wanted you boys to be here for this moment.

All right, let's get it here.

Oh, what is this?

Oh, God, it's totally packed in me.

Man, I got me scooping.

Yeah.

Come on, Jayden.

Yeah!

Go on, Jayden.

It's getting bigger.

Look at that!

How about look at that?

Oh!

Oh!

Get in there, look at that!

It's a chunk, all right?

I can't get there.

That's a good sign.

Oh, my God.

Come on, Jayden.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

It's a chunk!

Oh, my God!

That's not a chunk!

Whoo!

Can you believe this?

That did that good!

Yuck!

Gotta get this on the scales, boys.

Great work, mate.

Mate, you know how emotional that is?

This is the hardest fought chunk of gold I've ever found, mate.

All right, we'll whack her on and let's see what it is.

Oh, it's like a 40!

Yeah, it is.

That's a $200,000 plus piece of gold right there, boys.

I was hoping for it to be a bit bigger than that.

I ain't throwing it back!

This will be the paddock that might lend us

the world's largest nugget.

Mine boss, Brent Shannon, has spent four agonising years

trying to land record-breaking gold at the legendary

five-hectare Caddos paddock, a site that once produced

some of Australia's largest nuggets,

deep in victorious golden triangle.

Time's getting shorter and shorter every day.

But when close friend Neville Perry passed away,

he left behind a lifeline at German Gully,

a 164-hectare lease, rich in fine gold,

along with his mini wash plant.

Finished school, and now I'm out of here.

Wanted to do this my whole life.

Come here.

And with Brent's 18-year-old son, Caden.

You got this?

Oh, good.

And Neville's son, Jaden, now in the team full-time.

You're doing a great job, mate.

Thanks, Emma.

You'd better be proud of ya.

They've split their efforts between the two legendary sites.

So what I'm thinking, this is going to be glory nuggets like that.

Yeah.

But over at German, Gully's the fine gold.

You got wash planks working for us?

We can upscale that.

Geez.

We should be doing 50 to 100 ants' wines, mate.

Oregon, we need every part of a million dollars.

And at $5,000 an ounce, the way the gold price is going.

And I'm nearly 40% from last season.

We need a 200-ounce target.

Money in the ground sitting there, mate.

Ready to be grabbed.

We've just got to dig it out.

Just like that.

Just like that.

Just like that.

So what I'm reckon, it could be that thousand-answer out there,

it could be stolen the next hole, we're about to dig out.

I love the nuggets, but if we're serious about finding 200 answers,

we're going to need as much gold as we can get.

German, Gully, it's not going at all if no one's there.

Big nuggets are here, Caden.

Look.

We're here.

If we can find more nuggets out here on top of fine gold.

Makes sense.

It does make sense.

Look at the progress we can make.

As long as you're going to be safe by yourself there.

All right, let's get back into our day.

All right, let's do it, eh?

There's a lot of doubters out there.

I thought the old boys got them all, but clearly they didn't.

And I believe that there's going to be bigger ones here.

Something that's going to shock the world.

Sometimes you just have to say yes.

I'm nervous.

It looks familiar, but it's completely different.

This is the biggest risk I've ever taken.

I've left Queensland.

I'm meeting up with a new mining partner.

He's travelled for thousands of kilometers and so have I.

I have put everything on the line.

I have to remind myself that once upon a time I was terrified of going to the Palmer River

by myself.

So, yeah, why not?

The only territory, let's do it.

This is a spot.

Hang on, that's not a car.

Go!

Hey, what is this?

Yeah!

How are you?

Wow!

Cool!

How are you?

Oh my gosh, what is this made?

Welcome to the territory.

It is absolutely wild.

Oh, I don't know where to look.

Oh my gosh, it's stunning.

We're obviously here to find gold, right?

Let's have a look at the country and prepare for the adventure I had.

It's the end of the dry season now, so it works.

You're going to see it.

There's all water crocodiles throughout all this company now.

They're pushing out into the more inland areas.

You're probably suggesting that it's not a good idea to dip your toes in the water.

No!

Absolutely.

A couple of bulk lot.

But below?

Yep.

What?

Oh, well, I look very, very lethal, and I'm off.

Oh my gosh, if we make this out of it alive with a bunch of gold, it'll be a great story to tell.

Actually, that looks like sandstone.

Like, that's ocean floor.

That's reef.

That's come back up.

And we're hundreds of kilometres away from the coast.

I'm definitely getting a bit of comfort out of you starting to see some stuff reminiscent of gold country.

I'm really excited to sort of share what I know.

But at the same time, if I might find the gold here, I feel like I'm really going to let you down.

Alright, let's get some boots on the ground.

Let's get some gold.

People think it's easy to find gold.

I will tell you right now.

This is crazy.

For the past four years, Jackie Bazzetti has made a name for herself as a lease explorer.

Now we're treasure hunting.

Locating new gold deposits for large mining companies.

Ah, ouch.

Deep in the harsh tropics of far north Queensland's Palmer River gold fields.

Oh my God, it's huge.

Yes, yes.

Mate, the chopper was unreal. That was sick.

All I have never seen country like that before.

Now, Jackie has travelled over 2,000 kilometres to the isolated northern territory.

Called in by mining entrepreneur Kyle Wilson.

Where I'm from in the Pilbara, it's just so different.

It's flat, barren and we kind of use big excavators to dig up the gold.

I'm really banking on Jackie's expertise to track down the gold out here.

I've been hustling my arth off and I have managed to get on to this awesome guy.

They're pretty new to the mining game and they need some help exploring.

If we can pick up potential new areas for them to mine, epic opportunity for us

to make some new connections.

That sounds perfect.

This is the camp.

Wow.

Hey, we're here.

Hey, guys, how are we?

Hey, Jackie, nice to meet you.

Great spot.

So we were digging down there when you went in.

Certainly did.

This is our little ones.

What's that?

Three ounces, bigger?

This is you, just last night.

Yeah, better.

Now enough.

Wow.

I'm pretty bloody excited looking at what I've seen on the table.

Yeah.

This is our work done.

Not even two square kilometres.

To another 450 square kilometres we've got to do.

Whoa.

Grant Farris and Offside are Carl Skiring, a fast running out of gold bearing ground.

So they're relying on Jackie and Kyle's expertise to pinpoint fresh deposit across their vast 450 square kilometre lease.

What do you find is yours to keep for exchange for just the data?

Yeah, right.

That's along with where you found the gold.

And we're still good to camp out here?

Yeah, any good you can start.

Sounds like a plan.

If you're not, well, back here you go.

What do we need to really look out for?

Crocodiles are definitely here.

If there's water there, just expect one.

There's four metre crop of height in a puddle smaller than this table.

And you won't know it's there.

Don't tell us too late, right?

Yeah.

OK.

There's two cards there for you.

Thanks, guys.

That's amazing.

It's your time to show and vote.

Let's load up.

Need anything to see you all?

All right.

Water, check, start throwing, check.

Yeah.

GPS, check.

Yep.

Who do you get upon the first nogut?

Oh, Rachel.

Mission starts right now.

If we do well, there's a lot of opportunities out here.

Everything was kind of riding on us to actually be able to find some gold.

This season, I've pretty much got to make the biggest decision in my life.

It's a great offer that they've made.

If I take the deal, we're going to pack up and leave.

This place has become my home.

It's the only place I know up here, and I've found a lot of gold here.

Big decision to make, and it's going to not only affect me,

it's going to affect the family for the rest of our lives.

[MUSIC]

Hello.

Hey.

Hey.

Good.

All right, what's going on?

All right.

I found some gravel.

Are you okay?

Did he hit his head on?

I've had a company offer me $5 a ton for that.

I've got a million tons of it.

So that's like $5 million.

Okay, that's pretty good.

That's a good payday.

It is, yeah.

But look, that's over time.

It's a royalty per ton.

Still might be a couple of years for you to pay day.

It is, it is, exactly.

But they want the whole lease.

The top five meters pretty much I've got to pack up and go.

This is like our home away from home, you know.

How many years have you been up there?

Seven years.

So, you know, it's going to be a big decision.

That's a pretty good deal over it.

I found a lot of gold here, and I do believe there's still a lot of gold to find.

There's mines opening up around you all the time.

They're finding way more than $5 million.

So you could be giving $5 million away for something that's worth a hundred times more?

Exactly right.

How long have you got to make the decision?

Yeah, look, they've given me till the end of the week.

Wow.

I'm thinking one more last cracker.

Get as much gold as we can, and then I'll make a decision.

You've helped us out in the past before, Brad.

And it's about time we repaid the favour.

We're more than happy to hold.

It'd be great, you know.

Appreciate it.

And ease your mind, and you can make the right decision.

And I mean, I'm thinking if we can find maybe ten ounces this week.

That's 50 grand.

Yeah, and if we find enough gold, then, yeah, the deal's off.

We've hired in a digger, so Alex, if you want to help me,

and we'll just rip this pit right open, mate.

If you girls can jump in the loader and just lay it out in pads,

detect it, and just see if there's any gold there.

Yeah.

We'll get into it, eh?

I've got to find more gold on there.

Oh, my God, it's in here.

Over the past three years, Brad McGee and wife Wendy.

Look at that!

That is a big lane mark!

Have recovered more than half a million dollars in gold

from their devil's cut lease near Koolgadi.

That's what dreams are made of right there.

But when desert diggers Melanie Wood and Alex Stead

needed support last season.

Getting some really nice chunks of quartz out now.

Brad stepped in to help get their operation back on track.

Whoa, check with that.

Oh, my God, wow, look at that.

It's nice to see how it went, pay off.

There we go.

[GUNSHOTS]

That survey's been done, and it's come up to a really high-grade gravel,

so they can actually use it for the main road,

and there's gravel on about, probably about 75% of this lease,

which in campers have hit everything as well.

So that does me out of the gold game if I sell up.

Brad, I'm going to need you to come through and scoop some of this.

Yeah, no worries.

Gold price has absolutely skyrocketed.

Over $5,000 an ounce.

It's really set a fire under the whole mining industry.

With all the mining going on in the area,

all the roads are getting destroyed by the old truck,

things like that, they need gravel.

For a road-building company, they've got no interest in the gold

in the dirt.

That gold's lost.

It's basically made into the roads.

In the early days, Cal Ghouli was actually paved with gold.

The roads were made with the material.

It was that rich, they ended up going back,

ripping the roads up to process it for the gold.

In the 1890s, Cal Ghouli's gold rush turned a dusty town into a thriving city.

Using local materials laced with traces of gold,

the race to build was far more valuable than extracting it at the time.

I'm just going to start laying a pad outside of this direction a little bit.

The gravel of all things could actually end up paying him more than the gold.

We've just got to prove that the road's not walking away from an even bigger fortune in the gold mine.

With gold prices soaring up more than 40% in the last year,

holding onto gold-rich ground could prove a strong long-term investment.

If you're ever going to be a gold miner, now's the time.

And that's what I want to do, I want to look for gold.

I did consider moving the gravel myself, but it costs an absolute fortune.

A big morning company obviously has nothing for them.

They've got billions of dollars.

This deal that's on the table, they're not going to wait forever,

so I really do need to make a decision.

If I take the deal, I'm going to pack up and leave.

I don't know what to do, I really don't.

It's a bloody ripper there, mate. I'm excited.

Just like me, mate. You're a nugget hunter.

There's a lot of danners out there they bought.

All the old time has it got everything.

And we've just proven that they haven't.

What a chunk!

That's a $200,000 piece of gold.

You've offered me the key coming back there, mate.

Yeah, bring her back, Jayden.

But here at Kudos, we're looking for something much, much bigger than that.

We dig down to an ancient, buried river system,

just like the old time is dead, no different.

But we're doing it with heavy escalators and earth moving equipment.

We pull our pay dirt, put it in the back of the dump truck.

Take our way, Jayden.

We take the dump truck around to what we call the pad area,

and then we push them out into a pad six inches deep.

We come in with a detector and recover any gold nuggets that are there.

What we're really looking for is some virgin ground ground.

That the old timers have missed, and in that virgin ground,

anything can be laying in white there for us, anything.

We'll get on the pads and get this gold out.

Well, there's one, hopefully there's many.

Hopefully, Kayden's born and some colour up German gully as well.

I'd love to be out there finding the big nuggets,

but we're going to need as much gold as possible if we're serious.

We're upgrading its operation.

With monster nuggets at Caddo's paddock far from guaranteed,

15 minutes south at German gully,

the team are dependent on 18-year-old Kayden to deliver steady fine gold

through their six-ton-an-hour mini wash plant.

We've got a hopper who is what I'm filling up with dirt,

simple conveyor belt, feeds the dirt into the trommel barrel,

which breaks up all the clays as the water washes over it,

brought a smaller, finer gold-bearing gravel,

then gets blocked down over a sluice through the gold gets caught,

clean it up and get the gold out.

Oh, I'm absolutely over the moon.

I have a job that I love and I've been dreaming to do

since I was a little kid, because I want to show Dad

a nice gold bar at the end of the week.

Hopefully, the gold I find out here is just the cherry on top.

This could be a good week.

The plant's blocked.

Go turn the water off.

You can see all these waters cascading out of the barrel.

They're losing a hell of a lot of gold.

That's a big problem.

We are out in the wilds.

We certainly are.

Prospecting safari is a northern territory.

What a way to get around.

Deep in the isolated northern territory,

prospecting duo Jackie Besetti and Kyle Wilson

are tracking down new gold ground for a growing mining company.

They say to treat everybody in water like there's a crock in it.

Pretty crazy.

If they succeed, it could open the door to further lease exploration

across the region.

Kyle, you sound looking good.

A big dolly system.

You're looking good.

I hope we're starting in the wrong place.

That was cool getting around on the quads way better access.

We'll just head out.

One of us to go down that way and one sort of head in down that way

and it looks like it gets down into a good gully down there.

It could be a luvial gold.

It could be hard rock gold.

We don't know.

It's all new.

All new.

Remember to pinpoint everything you find out here.

Every piece of gold.

Gold in locations.

Check.

Good luck.

If we do this right, prove ourselves proficient in exploration.

There's every chance that we could get into a bit of a business deal

which really sees us move forward.

That's another reason that I've onboarded Jackie.

She's an exploration detector and she spends a lot of time walking

around in undisturbed country like this.

I've put in a lot of trust in her.

We're lucky.

Us getting to keep all the gold in exchange for all the coordinates

is just amazing.

I love exploring out in the bush.

It's just beautiful.

Great office despite the fact that I'm in this totally different place

to what I'm used to.

I just want to work along this creek here just below this area

where Kyle's working.

It's really good to search the lowest point of the creek.

Any of that gold that's come down from the surrounding hills

is eventually going to end up here.

Millions of years ago, shifting tectonic plates

pushed gold-rich cords towards the surface,

where it hardened into rock.

As erosion set the gold free,

gravity forced it into ancient river systems

where it became trapped in bedrock crevices.

This is a little bit of exposed bedrock

that's coming up through the top.

This probably runs along under the ground

and it's just come to the point where it's exposed here.

It's definitely got all the right ingredients for gold.

I'm worried.

I feel like the pressure's really on me.

So you get your head around a gold field and understand it

and then all of a sudden it's like you've got to start all over again

and hope that there's a really good reward at the end of it.

That's definitely a target.

Okay, okay.

It is good-looking ground.

We're getting right into those clays and I can still see

the shales, the bedrock, like running across.

Okay, let's see what this is.

The thing is, if this is gold,

then I think Kyle's going to be pretty happy to hear that.

Oh, I just saw it.

It's gold.

We're on.

Nice and shiny.

Beautiful.

It's not a gigantic nugget,

but it's a sort of rough, slightly water-worn piece there

and it's come literally just below where Kyle's working

above those outcrops.

So little piece there, probably like 20, 30 bucks, price of gold.

They're small and expensive nowadays.

We can now mark this location and drop a pin as a definite prospect.

That's worth more exploration.

Perfect.

Kyle's going to be stoked.

Let's see what's in these walls.

Oh, right on cue.

That's a definite signal.

That has a hammer soon as I go.

From pinpoint.

That sounds bloody enormous.

In there.

In there somewhere.

Take that.

Bashing my gear.

Out there.

Yeah.

I won't go too much.

Oh, wait.

Oh, what's that?

That's gold.

That is gold, all right.

Very shiny.

Don't damage it.

She's in it, wouldn't it?

Yeah, you get ready.

That's a bloody nice bit of gold, Alex.

Check that out.

That's a really nice place to go.

Well, that could easily be seven or eight grams.

So that's a thousand dollars of gold.

Well, look, that's about 200 ton of gravel as well.

We're on the go!

At Devil's Cut, Brad and Wendy have just one week to decide

whether to accept a multi-million dollar deal

for the gravel on their lease.

A move that would mean walking away from their only gold operation.

We've been up here for, you know, seven, eight years.

You know, we've brought our kids up here.

Whoa!

It's a look.

Look at yourself.

Who's somebody?

If we sell the lease,

there's still potentially a lot of gold here.

And to walk away from that,

it's a huge decision that we're going to have to make.

Ooh!

That sounds bloody great.

Let's see.

Sounds amazing.

And it's the first good sound I've heard all day.

Oh, my God, it's still in there.

All right.

It's in the scope.

Oh, my goodness.

Look at that.

Look at the size of it!

Oh, fire out!

About six grand, eight, nine hundred dollars worth.

So that's friggin' awesome.

No, I have to go down.

I'll go down another half foot.

I'll jump a load, or I'll push all this out again.

Shit, mate.

Got a copy.

There you go, out.

There's a sneak in here.

What's that?

There's a bloody sneak right by my feet.

Just don't move at all.

No, I'm not, mate.

It's literally right by my bloody feet.

All right, all right, hang on.

It's fucking huge.

Oh, shit.

That's friggin' huge, man.

Is it a venomous one?

Nice and round your ass, so just don't move, eh?

I'm going to go call someone.

Hurry up.

It'll be as quick as I can, man.

How the hell did that get in here?

Oh, don't get bitten by bloody snake.

Not out of here.

It's getting bloody over.

[music playing]

It's lucky I noticed it when I did, because if you let these blockages go on for too long,

you're at a risk of losing a lot of gold.

I'm hoping there's just some sludge and slurry blocked in that bend of that pipe there.

It's the blockages in this hopper.

That's a big problem.

That can be an absolute nightmare to clean up.

The only way to find out is to take that off.

I told Dad that I'd be able to handle this watch plant myself, so that's what I'm going to do.

I don't want to lose that washer.

Second bolt.

All right.

Last one.

[grunting]

This is ready to come off.

[grunting]

I have to shift.

[grunting]

There you go.

There's your blockage all contained in the bend of this pipe like I was hoping.

I don't have to ring that.

That's the wind.

All right.

That's going to get this wire.

And then I reckon that's going to create enough room for water to force the rest of it down and out the loose.

Usually when I'm out here working, I've got someone telling me what to do.

Right now.

I am your own boss.

All right.

And that's back on.

Whoo!

Whoo!

All right.

We've got water.

Let's get this going.

Target here, right here.

Yeah, Jalen.

It's like music to my ears.

[laughing]

We're getting close to it now.

This doesn't sound like a bad bit.

All right, here we go.

That's it.

Oh, look at that.

That's close to Oregon three-quarters of an ounce, at least $3,800 worth of gold right there.

That's not bad, mate.

It's incredible, isn't it?

You got another bit here, mate.

What do you want, eh?

I tell you what, mate, if it keeps coming out like this...

Well, this is out.

Sounds pretty bloody good.

Got it, mate.

How big is that one?

Half ounce, Oregon.

Maybe a bit more.

Two and a half thousand, you know, bucks sitting right there.

That's incredible to me.

People go years, years trying to find a piece like that.

Run the gold.

Just keep at it.

Run the gold!

Brad, got a copy?

I think he's behind the seat now fully.

I reckon I can get out.

Jesus Christ, that was big, that thing.

Thanks, Pete, for getting up here so quick.

Everyone's all right.

Yeah, yeah.

Can you tell me anything about it?

What would it look like?

How big was it?

In my mind, it's that way.

But it's only probably that wide and...

That's still big.

It's long.

The big snow.

Yeah, yeah.

It's got a black head on it.

Okay.

That does sound like a very dangerous snake.

It's literally tucked itself right behind the seat.

I never know where they are.

That would be extra careful.

Usually gonna find the darkest, deepest crevice to tuck away under.

Yeah, actually, guys, I think I see him.

Hang on.

This is actually a black-headed python.

This might be the best way for now.

Alex.

You all right, mate?

He said he was a monster.

Ugh, what a beauty.

So he's not a body one.

He may be a body one, but he's not a venomous one.

That's always better to be safe than sorry.

Oh, 100%.

These should not occur here.

They'll just crawl up into a truck, especially if he gets cold.

Or an extirator.

Yeah, apparently.

Well, that's a higher excavator, so that's probably come from up north.

Is there a chance that that's been in there the whole time?

Yeah.

I thought my number was up.

I will make a couple of calls, and hopefully we can get him back to where he belongs.

All right, thank you, guys.

Thank you so much.

Have a great day.

I'm gonna go check my cab for snakes, and then I'll get back to work.

The desert diggers have just two days left to find their 10-ounce target this week.

If they fail, it'll mean walking away from their devil's cut lease for good.

Something's getting some noise through here.

Hear that?

Deep.

Definitely noise.

Stand back.

Check that.

It's gonna be a good nugget, man.

Oh, yeah.

That's sounding really bloody good.

Oh, hang on.

See something?

That's cold.

Do you want the pig?

Try and chip it here.

Gently does it.

Oh, don't pick it.

It's still going.

It's sticking right out.

Oh, it's still stuck in there.

We've got it.

We've got it.

That's a good girl.

That's a bloody chunk.

Get it.

Oh, yeah.

Look at that.

What do you reckon that way is?

20 grams, 30 grams.

All the way down there.

Mate, that is deep for a bit of go, though.

Around these spots.

Well, bloody done.

We needed it.

There's $5 million on the table right now.

Do I stay or do I go?

This week has been like a crash course in the Northern Territory,

and wrapping my head around the ground out here.

I'm still getting used to it.

Like, check this out.

It's like a footpath.

These are from the buffalo that get around.

They can weigh up to 1,200 kilos, can run 60 kilometers an hour,

and there's been fatalities in this area from out of all the things

I've contended with and the farmer.

Venomous snakes.

Oh, spiders.

These things have got me the most worried.

Hey, mate, have you got a copy?

Copy.

Well, just watch out for those buffalo.

There's quite a few game trails about.

Just keep an eye in the distance.

You!

Okay, cool.

Where's that sound coming from?

I think it's actually in this bedrock crevice.

We've found a fair bit now,

and we're getting all these different little locations scattered around,

which is fantastic.

Yeah, it's out.

Not even a meter away from where I've picked up a little nugget.

We could be on a little patch.

We're creating a bit of a mud map of where it is.

Come on.

What we want to be able to do is show Grant, the lease owners,

the value that we bring to that operation.

Oh, no way.

Guys, this is gold again.

Okay, cool.

It's actually a bit bigger this time.

Check that out.

That's nice.

Just got to drop a pen.

Beautiful.

Nice little yellow dot for that one.

And really, that's our job at the moment.

Let's see what we got hiding here.

This low-cate-new gold area is for Grant.

Mark them on the map, and keep on going.

In the end, what have we got? Come on.

You ripper!

I've got myself a nice little bit of quartz with clearly visible gold in it.

Did you see that?

Just over there.

That buffalo is huge.

Hey, I've got buffalo just down the gully in front of me.

They know we're here. He's looking at us.

Yep, he's just looking at us.

They're coming. I want to get out.

Yep, there it is. It's coming this way.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Let's just go back to the quad.

A bit of a lesson for us, folks.

Here goes the last bucket for I get to go.

Clean out these mats and hopefully show something really special to Dan and Jayden.

This is always the anxious part.

It's a good anxiety when you're dealing with gold.

So this here is a sluice.

The gold bearing gravels and slurry get washed over here.

And these little ripples in the mash cause little whirlpools.

Because the gold is heavy, it drops out while the rest of the lot of gravels wash over the top.

Right now, time to start washing it out.

It's a little bit left to splash out.

And once that's done, it drops to smelt it.

The last of the gold.

It's going to dry this off and then add it with the rest.

I really want to prove to Dad that I can do everything that comes along with being a miner.

I'm just going to add this to the rest of the gold that's in the crucible now.

Alright, beautiful.

18-year-old Caden has processed over 800 tonnes of pay dirt through their mini wash plant.

It's time to see this melt up and see how much gold is in there.

But to smelt the gold, it must first be heated to over 1,064 degrees Celsius.

Oh, this is always exciting this bit.

Make sure you line this up.

Take it straight up.

That's nearly able to float the miles. It's a pretty good sign.

Alright.

That's got some weight to it. I'm telling you now.

I hope this surprises the boys.

Thank you very much for your help, I really appreciate it.

I mean, there's a big deal on the table.

This would possibly affect me and Wendy for the rest of their lives.

What do you reckon we get away in done and then we'll have a bit of a chatter?

Okay.

Yes, let's see.

Bloody nice.

Oh, 1.2.

Is that all gold?

Yes, yes, it is.

Alright, come on.

I don't know if these scales are big enough.

Is there even gold in that?

Yes, that's loaded with gold.

Fair enough.

We're not over yet.

Check that one out.

What?

3.5 ounces.

Oh my God, that's so rip off.

17 grand?

Right there?

I don't take that every week.

But we're sort of working towards 10 ounces.

I don't really want to give up quite yet.

And I've spoken to the guy and he's agreed to give us another week.

Oh, great deal.

But the question is, are you guys able to stay another week?

This is a huge decision.

You've got to feel right about it.

Yeah, I'm good to stay another week.

Really appreciate it.

But in light of your experience...

Yep.

I think you deserve...

There you go.

Reach in there.

Everyone can have one.

Here we go.

This one won't buy you.

All right.

That's hilarious.

Yeah, it's a snake and you don't need to be scared of Alex.

All right, mate.

So I want to find out how we went first week.

What an epic week.

All right.

And just blown away by what I've seen.

We're on the mission to find gold in as many places as possible.

And I guess that's what Grant, the lease owner, is looking for.

Yeah, to him, points of interest are worth more than gold and scales.

Yep.

And for us, building that relationship in the long term, it's going to gain us so much more.

What do you reckon is in here? Feel it? Feel it?

Oh, I don't know, Kelly. I reckon you're going close to announcing that.

Ha ha ha.

So hold up.

We haven't even discussed a target.

I'd be really happy if we could aim for something around the 10-ounce mark at least.

It doesn't sound like a huge number.

But in today's prices, that's 50 grand.

It's a pretty nice place actually, if you ask me.

Yep.

All right, come on. Let's get it on there.

Oh, there's some nice bits in there, a bit of ironstone.

And the big one.

1.2-ounce.

Woohoo!

We just cracked six grand.

That's awesome.

The man, we've got some gold there.

Grant's got some points of interest.

Mission accomplished.

Mate, we're going to start looking at some marks because Grant's asked us to explore that other lease.

And it's not going to be easy to access.

We're going even deeper into the territory, mate.

I'm looking forward to it.

Bring it on.

Whew!

Ha ha ha.

A lot of people thought we were dreaming out of here, boys.

But that dream is becoming a reality.

This is the most satisfying gold nugget that I've ever, ever got.

That's a $200,000 nugget.

Caddo's paddock is delivering.

That's pretty good.

Well, on that note, let's get the rest on this.

What do you reckon?

51.2.

Caden, where are you going?

Yeah, he's drawing it out.

Come on.

What you've got, mate?

Oh, here it is.

Let's go far.

Wow!

Wow, wow, wow, wow, my boy.

You did it right there.

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, my boy.

You did it right there, mate.

That's about a 27-amp spit.

We've got 78.4.

That's about $200,000 worth of gold, boys.

That's a good first way in, mate.

Best start to a season ever, I reckon.

And just think about the gold price of $5,000 an ounce.

We had have weighed it in last year, $3,500 an ounce.

That's like $120,000 difference.

That's crazy.

We are making history.

There is no better time to be a gold miner than right now.

Let's see if we can double up the next weigh-in.

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

Proud of you, boys.

Well done.

Woo!

Ha-ha!

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