1 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:11,240 This thing's going to be faster. He's very impatient, me old mate. 2 00:00:11,540 --> 00:00:13,920 All right, we'll push it a bit faster. 3 00:00:15,820 --> 00:00:19,100 Well, I better hurry up and get there. I've got deals that are going to be 4 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:21,160 done. And I beat him. 5 00:00:22,420 --> 00:00:24,220 Here we go. We're almost there. 6 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,240 There you go, Rusty. I'm going well. 7 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,020 I'll cut to the chase, Frosty. 8 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:39,640 This is my last season. 9 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,720 How are you going to give up gold? I've heard that before. 10 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,900 There's no way you can give that up. This is absolutely the final roll of the 11 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:49,980 dice. I'm 70-odd years of age, so for Shaney boy, it's finishing. 12 00:00:50,460 --> 00:00:51,760 But I need your help. 13 00:00:52,060 --> 00:00:56,420 I've got all these tenements that I've accumulated over 45 years, and I want to 14 00:00:56,420 --> 00:00:57,420 get rid of these tenements. 15 00:00:57,580 --> 00:00:59,680 Gold's over $5,000 an ounce. 16 00:01:00,020 --> 00:01:03,100 I've got to get up there, prove the tenements up, and get my money. 17 00:01:03,470 --> 00:01:07,210 Shane, I've got my own gold to find. You know I've got leases as well. I'll be 18 00:01:07,210 --> 00:01:10,550 doing it with you or without you, Russell. Even if I've got to crawl on my 19 00:01:10,550 --> 00:01:14,390 stomach to get there, Russell. If you go by yourself now, you'll end up dead. 20 00:01:14,590 --> 00:01:15,568 I'm going. 21 00:01:15,570 --> 00:01:17,350 It's my final hurrah. 22 00:01:24,070 --> 00:01:28,970 The first tournament's up at Nullargyne. I've got a buyer ready to go. All I've 23 00:01:28,970 --> 00:01:29,990 got to do is prove it up. 24 00:01:30,270 --> 00:01:33,350 I'll catch you up there, brother. I'll drive. It's only 18 hours for me. 25 00:01:34,470 --> 00:01:35,470 There, Rusty! 26 00:01:36,650 --> 00:01:37,650 Bloody shame. 27 00:01:51,270 --> 00:01:52,550 A new season again. 28 00:01:52,770 --> 00:01:54,830 I can't believe I'm doing it sometimes, but... 29 00:01:55,070 --> 00:01:57,230 You've got to help out a mate, and that's what I'm going to do. 30 00:01:57,470 --> 00:02:00,110 Shane's got to mould leases out here. He wants to sell... And we're heading out 31 00:02:00,110 --> 00:02:04,430 to a lease about 20km out from Fantasy, which is the lease I own. So I know the 32 00:02:04,430 --> 00:02:05,850 area, but I've never been to there. 33 00:02:06,590 --> 00:02:12,570 Russell Nash has driven more than 1,300km to the arid landscape of Western 34 00:02:12,570 --> 00:02:19,030 Australia's Pilbara region, this time to help lifelong mate Shane Caligari prove 35 00:02:19,030 --> 00:02:20,970 up his desperado lease. 36 00:02:21,610 --> 00:02:24,470 The thing about selling a lease is you need to prove that lease before you can 37 00:02:24,470 --> 00:02:27,070 sell it. So that's why I'm going to come up here, give Shane a hand, see what 38 00:02:27,070 --> 00:02:28,070 sort of gold we can find. 39 00:02:28,450 --> 00:02:32,090 I mean, the buyer's very interested and he's got some areas he'd like us to 40 00:02:32,090 --> 00:02:35,210 work. So we'll see if we can find some gold. And the more gold we find, the 41 00:02:35,210 --> 00:02:36,390 better price it's going to get for Shane. 42 00:02:37,050 --> 00:02:38,050 There's his car. 43 00:02:38,630 --> 00:02:39,830 All right, we're in the right spot. 44 00:02:41,130 --> 00:02:42,130 Shano! 45 00:02:48,270 --> 00:02:51,310 If he's going to go that fast, he might as well go down and walk. Come on, hurry 46 00:02:51,310 --> 00:02:52,310 up. 47 00:02:53,950 --> 00:02:55,630 I never thought I'd see the day. 48 00:02:55,910 --> 00:02:58,710 How are you going, Rusty? I'm in more of a hurry than what you are. 49 00:02:59,130 --> 00:03:01,670 I've never done anything too quick in my life, you should know that. 50 00:03:02,770 --> 00:03:06,890 So how far from here? Well, it's just up there, Russell, and I believe it's about 51 00:03:06,890 --> 00:03:10,230 a 400 square metre area or something like that. And the new buyer? 52 00:03:10,470 --> 00:03:13,450 The new buyer, well, that'll be depending on whether we can find some 53 00:03:13,450 --> 00:03:14,269 gold here. 54 00:03:14,270 --> 00:03:17,050 He wants five ounces, which is doable. 55 00:03:17,610 --> 00:03:18,850 But we'll have to push hard. 56 00:03:19,270 --> 00:03:21,910 I'll just go find some gold and prove it for him. Yeah, Rusty. 57 00:03:22,750 --> 00:03:23,750 Put that one on. 58 00:03:24,590 --> 00:03:26,350 Righty-o, we'll all jump on the front and drive. 59 00:03:26,890 --> 00:03:28,890 No, that's not how it works around here. 60 00:03:29,270 --> 00:03:30,890 No, come on, Rusty, I can drive. 61 00:03:31,170 --> 00:03:32,170 You're going to the back, mate. 62 00:03:32,430 --> 00:03:34,110 We want to get there today, not tomorrow. 63 00:03:34,330 --> 00:03:35,710 Just hang on, that's all you've got to do. 64 00:03:41,270 --> 00:03:42,850 What a place this is. 65 00:03:44,050 --> 00:03:45,290 Look at the courts there, Russell. 66 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,800 This here to me looks probably the best part of the tenement I could be on. And 67 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,140 I've been here nearly eight years, so I should know. 68 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,660 Okay, Rusty, let's get into it. 69 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,480 Gold has never been off the lips of my family. Right back to my grandfather and 70 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:05,480 great-grandfather. 71 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,060 You know, you get gold fever. 72 00:04:07,460 --> 00:04:09,720 I had it when I was in my early 30s. 73 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,080 I've had my journey. 74 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,920 I need to leave my grandchildren and my children a little bit better financially 75 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,160 off. Makes up for a little bit of guilt that I've had in my life for not being 76 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:24,120 there when my kids were there. I wasn't there for the Father's Day days. 77 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,080 I wasn't there at the Easter's. I only ever got home on Christmas before 78 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,320 Christmas. So it really hasn't been good enough. 79 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,800 It's great to have Russell come here to help me get the five ounces I need to be 80 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:37,840 able to get this sale over the line. 81 00:04:38,690 --> 00:04:42,590 He's been with me, I don't know how long. Well done, Russell. Good job. 82 00:04:43,570 --> 00:04:46,630 Plumbing first off, because that's what we are. We are both plumbers. 83 00:04:47,030 --> 00:04:51,010 And later on, when I introduced him to prospecting, he followed me all the way 84 00:04:51,010 --> 00:04:52,530 through this. That's a bloody good year. 85 00:04:53,290 --> 00:04:57,830 Well, my goal this year is to get around 25 ounces of gold. That's what I'd like 86 00:04:57,830 --> 00:05:01,630 to do. And also quit some of my tenement. I've got this buyer. People 87 00:05:01,630 --> 00:05:04,870 are only going to be interested if they can get a quit out of it. So if I find 88 00:05:04,870 --> 00:05:07,810 five ounces, I'll sell it for around 20-odd thousand. 89 00:05:09,810 --> 00:05:13,010 We just have to confirm that this is where we want to dig. I mean, I don't 90 00:05:13,010 --> 00:05:14,010 want to dig in the middle of nowhere. 91 00:05:14,230 --> 00:05:18,050 So we'll find a few nuggets, confirm that there's gold-bearing ore here, and 92 00:05:18,050 --> 00:05:20,650 then we'll bring the excavator over to get gold out of the dirt. I mean, look 93 00:05:20,650 --> 00:05:24,270 how much you lose with spinifex. You lose that 100mm depth straight away. I 94 00:05:24,270 --> 00:05:26,950 can't detect that at the top of the spinifex. There could be a lump of gold 95 00:05:26,950 --> 00:05:30,170 under that, and you'd never hear it. So we've got to remove it, and it'll grow 96 00:05:30,170 --> 00:05:32,710 back. And the spinifex is as tough as nails. 97 00:05:33,170 --> 00:05:35,350 It feels like nails when it's gone through your skin. 98 00:05:39,630 --> 00:05:42,030 Gee, that's a great sound. It's on the top. 99 00:05:42,570 --> 00:05:44,690 This could be my first one of the season. 100 00:05:45,990 --> 00:05:48,390 Jesus, this is good, heavy, promising material here. 101 00:05:52,430 --> 00:05:54,370 There it is, a piece of gold. Look at that. 102 00:05:55,010 --> 00:05:58,210 It's a good gram and it's probably got a value of about 300 bucks. 103 00:05:58,770 --> 00:06:01,670 It's a really rugged piece of gold. 104 00:06:01,970 --> 00:06:05,190 That means there's plenty more around here because it hasn't travelled. 105 00:06:05,530 --> 00:06:07,150 If it's travelled, it'll be smooth. 106 00:06:07,790 --> 00:06:12,150 And this is exactly what the buyer will want too. A concentrated area of gold. 107 00:06:12,390 --> 00:06:13,390 Hey, Russell! 108 00:06:14,530 --> 00:06:16,270 Yep, I found a piece. 109 00:06:16,870 --> 00:06:17,870 I'm coming. 110 00:06:19,390 --> 00:06:20,390 Shano's found a piece. 111 00:06:21,170 --> 00:06:22,190 This could be the patch. 112 00:06:22,610 --> 00:06:23,610 Let's have a look. 113 00:06:23,650 --> 00:06:24,750 There it is there, Rusty. 114 00:06:25,770 --> 00:06:27,710 Have a look at that. 115 00:06:27,910 --> 00:06:29,050 Just here, right there. 116 00:06:29,290 --> 00:06:30,290 Right there, Russell. 117 00:06:30,370 --> 00:06:34,190 How about we just get a machine, open this up, take the top off. Make it 118 00:06:34,190 --> 00:06:34,929 happen, Russell. 119 00:06:34,930 --> 00:06:36,330 Move some dirt and make some money. 120 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:45,520 Just going to move this lower. 121 00:06:45,780 --> 00:06:49,440 We've been at this lease now for quite a while and we've had some really good 122 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,800 results, but the ground is slowly starting to peter off a little bit. So 123 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,480 I've got a bit of a new spot down here that I'm hoping to find. Gold's flowed 124 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:58,480 downhill a little bit. 125 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:02,000 Former midwife Cheryl Munro... Then I'll go do it, Simon. 126 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,060 ..and ex-butcher Simon Laws... I'm back at that. 127 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:11,600 ..have reinvested over $200,000 of last season's profits into expanding their 128 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:12,600 mining operation. 129 00:07:12,970 --> 00:07:15,950 deep in the remote goldfields of Western Australia. 130 00:07:18,670 --> 00:07:20,210 All right, Simon, that's it already. 131 00:07:25,850 --> 00:07:27,170 You know your hopper's full? 132 00:07:30,790 --> 00:07:32,470 Yeah, I can see it's completely full. 133 00:07:32,830 --> 00:07:35,550 Oh, the hopper's still got dirt in it, so it's too heavy to pull. 134 00:07:35,990 --> 00:07:39,570 It's got about four tonne of dirt in there, so I'll bury the axle, which 135 00:07:39,570 --> 00:07:41,370 always happens when we're loading the machine. 136 00:07:42,010 --> 00:07:44,990 So I'll just dig a bit of that out. It'll come out a bit easier. 137 00:07:48,010 --> 00:07:52,470 This year, we've brought a second dry blower, two extra loads to keep up with 138 00:07:52,470 --> 00:07:56,530 the dirt. We've also upped the ante massively. We've put on four full-time 139 00:07:56,530 --> 00:08:00,030 staff. Now that we've got the extra staff, we're trying to work on two 140 00:08:00,030 --> 00:08:03,410 ounces a day. So we've got a lot more pressure. We're going to keep payable 141 00:08:03,410 --> 00:08:07,210 dirt in front of us all the time. We'll be paying wages and keeping the machines 142 00:08:07,210 --> 00:08:09,350 running. Got a copy, Sam? 143 00:08:09,730 --> 00:08:10,559 Yeah, mate. 144 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,560 Better push up some dirt and push the track. Yeah, yeah, no worries, mate. 145 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,720 I'm a carpenter by trade. Not very good at it. 146 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,760 A couple of me mates were mucking around, doing a bit of detecting and got 147 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:22,220 me hooked. Now I'm stuffed for life. 148 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:27,760 Last year, we did really well. We actually made more than what we thought 149 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,880 we were going to make, but it's mainly hard work and determination. 150 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,120 I'm originally from Scotland, been in Australia for 19 years. 151 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,539 It was very scary when I first started. 152 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:40,559 I hadn't even driven a trailer. 153 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:44,840 First-time miners Cheryl and Simon... Choking too much dust. 154 00:08:45,060 --> 00:08:47,580 ...were tested by a brutal debut season. 155 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:57,100 That's amazing, isn't it? That means we can build on next year, maybe a second 156 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:58,100 blower, another machine. 157 00:08:59,060 --> 00:09:02,560 So this year we've made ourselves fully mobile so we can do a lot of tribute 158 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:07,570 work. They basically all work someone else's lease, do all the work, all the 159 00:09:07,570 --> 00:09:12,810 expense, all the rehabilitation, and they receive 20% of the gold that we 160 00:09:12,810 --> 00:09:16,870 find, so they can be sitting home on the couch watching the footy and earning 161 00:09:16,870 --> 00:09:19,350 really good money if we're finding really good gold. 162 00:09:19,810 --> 00:09:21,650 It's not like my gold's leaving. 163 00:09:22,090 --> 00:09:25,650 That'll always be there waiting for us. It's a little bit like our safety guard. 164 00:09:26,550 --> 00:09:32,230 To stay afloat, the team rely on two $80,000 dry blowers. 165 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:38,440 As pay dirt is fed into a hopper, a mesh grate filters out larger rocks, allowing 166 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,800 finer material to drop into riffle trays below. 167 00:09:43,060 --> 00:09:48,820 Air and vibration blow away lighter waste, leaving heavier material to be 168 00:09:48,820 --> 00:09:50,900 further processed through the sluice. 169 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:58,480 We've got four buckets of dirt in the dry blower for 12 hours work, and then 170 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,880 we put it through the sluice here, and there's a little mat here. 171 00:10:01,260 --> 00:10:04,920 and the fine gold can get caught in the mat and then what happens is at the end 172 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,660 once we wash all the dirt we empty out the mat and empty out the sluice tray 173 00:10:08,660 --> 00:10:12,440 here pan that off and we'll see what the result is and the globe was actually all 174 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:17,340 right to begin with but it's kind of thinned out quite a bit because you know 175 00:10:17,340 --> 00:10:22,660 we set that ambitious target of a hundred ounces which we need to trade to 176 00:10:22,660 --> 00:10:27,480 maintain the team that we have and the machinery we have so 177 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,240 It's exciting when we've got a bigger team, but nerve-wracking at the same 178 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:37,420 time that we have to get gold. The pressure's on us more than ever was. 179 00:10:38,980 --> 00:10:43,500 You'll see a little bit of gold. That's only two buckets, but you can see a 180 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:44,199 little bit here. 181 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,140 Could be better, but not too bad. 182 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,040 Just pushing up a bit of dirt, trying to keep up with these two blowers. 183 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:56,520 Hopefully, if the ground is really good, we can work towards building a wet plant 184 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,440 so the weather doesn't stop us as much. 185 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:02,700 Mark, how are you going? 186 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:05,320 Yep, yep. 187 00:11:06,020 --> 00:11:07,420 Yep, yeah, righto, understandable. 188 00:11:09,620 --> 00:11:12,300 I'll speak to Cheryl tonight and I'll get back to you. 189 00:11:19,609 --> 00:11:20,509 How's it looking? 190 00:11:20,510 --> 00:11:24,430 Yeah, it's cold there, Simon, but definitely thinned out a bit. 191 00:11:24,670 --> 00:11:26,890 Yeah. We're really starting to run out of options here. 192 00:11:27,270 --> 00:11:30,510 Well, just had a bit of an interesting phone call. 193 00:11:30,710 --> 00:11:35,130 Mark, he's got a lease he wants us to work. It's had hundreds of ounces found, 194 00:11:35,370 --> 00:11:36,370 just detecting. 195 00:11:36,550 --> 00:11:39,810 Oh, great. It's never been dry blowed. Where is it? I'll show you. 196 00:11:40,190 --> 00:11:45,210 We're way up here, and where he wants us to work is there. 197 00:11:46,750 --> 00:11:47,970 Koguli. Yeah. 198 00:11:48,689 --> 00:11:49,870 Yeah, that's not around the corner. 199 00:11:50,090 --> 00:11:53,110 So it's about 800Ks if you go the shortcut through the bush. 200 00:11:53,490 --> 00:11:57,830 That's a massive commitment financially for him. Yeah, 30, 40 grand without 201 00:11:57,830 --> 00:12:01,330 considering the wages of, you know, the guys towing stuff backwards and 202 00:12:01,330 --> 00:12:04,490 forwards. Yeah. We've got to take everything there. And we've only got to 203 00:12:04,490 --> 00:12:07,070 the end of the week to let him know whether we're interested or not. We need 204 00:12:07,070 --> 00:12:10,390 an answer by the end of the week. Yeah. It's the biggest decision we've had to 205 00:12:10,390 --> 00:12:11,390 make moving-wise. 206 00:12:11,570 --> 00:12:12,489 Yeah, absolutely. 207 00:12:12,490 --> 00:12:15,350 If we stay here, we could go bankrupt in a matter of weeks. Yeah. 208 00:12:16,290 --> 00:12:17,290 Big decisions. 209 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,420 What do you mean you sold it? I sold it. Our first one-ounce nugget. 210 00:12:28,660 --> 00:12:30,780 Why would you sell it to somebody else? 211 00:12:31,020 --> 00:12:34,560 I gave you first dibs. No, you didn't. I came to you. You didn't have the money. 212 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,300 I sold it. How much did you get for it? 213 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:37,900 I sold it for like $5,000. 214 00:12:38,340 --> 00:12:40,560 That means you've got a sentimental bone in your body. 215 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,520 Gold is money, and I needed the money. 216 00:12:45,020 --> 00:12:47,860 Man, these roads have really gone gnarly. 217 00:12:48,330 --> 00:12:51,290 Are you taking it easy through here, if I were you? I was the first one to 218 00:12:51,290 --> 00:12:53,390 handle that. I gave birth to that thing. 219 00:12:53,590 --> 00:12:57,710 I stuck my hand down into the earth, pulled it out. 220 00:12:58,670 --> 00:12:59,670 Oh, look at this. 221 00:13:00,030 --> 00:13:01,610 Why don't you hop out and have a look? 222 00:13:01,910 --> 00:13:03,390 You want me to drive? Hell no. 223 00:13:07,610 --> 00:13:10,530 I reckon it's doable, but I'd be looking for another way round. 224 00:13:10,970 --> 00:13:12,710 Nah, nah, I'm just going to send it. 225 00:13:13,010 --> 00:13:14,330 You just watch this, mate. 226 00:13:15,210 --> 00:13:16,210 Don't get stuck. 227 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:24,280 All right, Bart, let's go. 228 00:13:24,740 --> 00:13:26,000 Let's find some gold. 229 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:34,640 Lifelong mates, 51-year-old Darren Bray and 55-year-old Anthony Stein are 230 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:39,820 starting their season over 3,500 kilometres from their homes in Tasmania 231 00:13:39,820 --> 00:13:43,060 in the remote gold fields of far north Queensland. 232 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:49,840 We've basically set up a fly-in, fly-out operation where we travel up every few 233 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,160 months for a few months at a time. So I'm leaving three young kids and my wife 234 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,340 at home back in Tasmania. 235 00:13:55,580 --> 00:13:58,140 Pretty hard being so far away from them for so long. 236 00:13:59,260 --> 00:14:03,980 We've traded our life in Tasmania to come up here in Ruffet. Up here, you've 237 00:14:03,980 --> 00:14:08,240 got a chance of striking it. One big patch can change your life. 238 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:14,120 Alright mate, we are officially on open ground in gold country. With gold prices 239 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:18,840 soaring. The pair are determined to stake their own lease on newly available 240 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:23,000 ground, close to an area they mined five years ago. 241 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,960 It's been under licence for 20 years, mate, so we've got to prove this ground, 242 00:14:27,180 --> 00:14:31,220 prove it carries gold. We're going to be the first to hammer in those pegs, get 243 00:14:31,220 --> 00:14:32,480 the application sent off. 244 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,020 You know the drill, once these things come up, they go pretty quick. 245 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,320 If we set ourselves a 20-ounce target this season, this could be the ground 246 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:41,860 that gets us there. Yeah, yeah. 247 00:14:42,140 --> 00:14:45,160 So we just pull in, set up camp, and let's go for a walk. 248 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,860 Let's do some detecting, go find some gold. 249 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,980 You going to give me a hand? Hand with that. Little Hilson on wheels. 250 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:01,160 I've just got a pop-top camper, which is pretty comfy, and it's going to be 251 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:02,380 sleeping in his swag. 252 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,640 It snores like a freight train, so I'm going to be a little bit of distance 253 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:07,640 between us. 254 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,220 We run off grid out here, so we run our fridge off solar power. 255 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:13,780 How about a second bedroom? 256 00:15:14,340 --> 00:15:16,700 We've got a pretty comfortable kitchen here. 257 00:15:17,060 --> 00:15:18,060 It's just a mattress. 258 00:15:18,740 --> 00:15:20,720 It's got a midget screen. 259 00:15:21,140 --> 00:15:24,020 Keep all the bugs and snakes out. 260 00:15:24,380 --> 00:15:25,660 This is the en suite. 261 00:15:26,460 --> 00:15:27,480 Queen-size bed. 262 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:29,280 I've got windows. 263 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:30,780 Let the breeze in. 264 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:32,040 It's still going. 265 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,260 You've only got three poles, mate. 266 00:15:34,460 --> 00:15:36,320 Mate, this is all you need out in the bush. 267 00:15:36,540 --> 00:15:38,000 It's what the old-timers used. 268 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,540 It might be all you need, but it's not all you want. 269 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:43,260 There you have it. 270 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:45,300 The North Queensland Hilton. 271 00:15:51,020 --> 00:15:54,000 I've always been interested in gold ever since a young fella. 272 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,080 It's like finding treasure. 273 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:01,300 Didn't think much of it for quite a few years until I met Darren. He started 274 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:03,100 talking about it. He was very interested. 275 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,380 He bought himself a detector and he started finding gold. 276 00:16:07,050 --> 00:16:10,550 We decided to give the different type of gold mining another shot. I got burnt 277 00:16:10,550 --> 00:16:13,910 pretty bad the last time we decided to do something. I think we ran a little 278 00:16:13,910 --> 00:16:15,130 bit too big, too fast. 279 00:16:15,530 --> 00:16:19,490 Back in 2020, we ran a wash plant, which was a bit of a disaster. 280 00:16:19,970 --> 00:16:25,990 We ran three trucks. We had a 30-tonne excavator, a 15-tonne loader. We were 281 00:16:25,990 --> 00:16:30,230 making about 10 ounces a week, but it didn't end well. Machinery breaks down, 282 00:16:30,390 --> 00:16:32,370 fuel costs. We had a lot of problems. 283 00:16:33,130 --> 00:16:36,870 this season we'd just like to improve some ground peg a lease and then use 284 00:16:36,870 --> 00:16:40,570 some small equipment to scrape the top get the nuggets that we can't pick up 285 00:16:40,570 --> 00:16:44,470 with a detector in a pick i don't want to get burned like last time i can't 286 00:16:44,470 --> 00:16:50,290 afford it it just about sank me oh look at this detector hole 287 00:16:50,290 --> 00:16:55,270 seeing that detector hole tells me that other people are out here chasing gold 288 00:16:55,270 --> 00:16:57,250 we need to beat them to it 289 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,200 It's not a cheap process securing ground. 290 00:17:01,660 --> 00:17:04,819 There's all sorts of fees, so we want to detect the ground first and make sure it 291 00:17:04,819 --> 00:17:06,420 carries and make sure this ground is the one. 292 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,000 Yes, we've got to find that patch first. 293 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:13,040 Oh, there you have it. 294 00:17:13,579 --> 00:17:14,859 This is the sign he needed. 295 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:21,319 Let's see if it's come out of the ground. 296 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:26,079 Oh, it's out. 297 00:17:32,780 --> 00:17:34,480 There it is, our first nuggy. 298 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:36,280 Woo-hoo! 299 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:37,879 Look out! 300 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:38,880 Hey, Daz, are you copy? 301 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:40,759 Copy, Ant. 302 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,120 You really need to get over here, mate. Copy that. 303 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:44,700 Maybe he's found something. 304 00:17:45,020 --> 00:17:46,020 Maybe. 305 00:17:46,980 --> 00:17:47,980 What have you got? 306 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:49,680 Guess who's buying the beers tonight. 307 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:51,560 You're joking. Check it out. 308 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,500 A little maybe half gram. 309 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,780 Here's 100 bucks for you, mate. It's a start, mate. Good stuff. Well done. 310 00:17:57,100 --> 00:17:58,100 Woo! 311 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:11,119 How'd you go? 312 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:18,020 I had a very nice siesta under the tree, in the shade, and I got up and I found 313 00:18:18,020 --> 00:18:20,080 two nice little nuggets. 314 00:18:20,380 --> 00:18:22,760 Can you imagine how many you would have found if you weren't sleeping under the 315 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,900 tree? I found them just on the other side of that creek there, so I'd be 316 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:27,980 probably on the edge of that. 317 00:18:28,220 --> 00:18:31,020 What do you think? All right, we'll see how we go. We'll run down the edge right 318 00:18:31,020 --> 00:18:32,020 now. 319 00:18:33,340 --> 00:18:34,520 This could be the roof, Shane. 320 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:37,960 As long as we've got some depth, here's what we want, some depth. 321 00:18:39,110 --> 00:18:44,390 In the remote Pilbara region, Rusty has brought in his mini excavator from his 322 00:18:44,390 --> 00:18:49,710 fantasy gully lease 20 kilometres away, hoping it will break through the tough 323 00:18:49,710 --> 00:18:52,890 ground around a newly discovered gold patch. 324 00:18:54,330 --> 00:18:57,930 The good thing about the excavator is just we can clean the spin effects away. 325 00:18:58,150 --> 00:19:02,390 And then if we start digging down, down to that deeper gold, because the 326 00:19:02,390 --> 00:19:03,710 detector will only work so deep. 327 00:19:08,710 --> 00:19:10,270 There's a nice sound there. 328 00:19:10,810 --> 00:19:11,810 Oh! 329 00:19:14,130 --> 00:19:15,130 Shane's on the one. 330 00:19:17,050 --> 00:19:19,910 It's just a nice sound. I don't know yet how big it is. 331 00:19:22,150 --> 00:19:23,470 See, it's just there somewhere. 332 00:19:25,510 --> 00:19:26,670 Yeah, that sounds better. 333 00:19:31,550 --> 00:19:32,550 There it is there. 334 00:19:33,250 --> 00:19:34,810 Nice bit of gold, Rusty! 335 00:19:35,230 --> 00:19:36,230 You got one? 336 00:19:36,250 --> 00:19:37,710 Yeah, it is rough as guts, Russell. 337 00:19:38,510 --> 00:19:42,550 It's small, maybe 0.3 grams, so $50 at best, but it's great colour. 338 00:19:43,370 --> 00:19:45,370 Okay, we're on. Let's just keep going. 339 00:19:46,530 --> 00:19:49,550 The good thing about the price of gold is it's made all the values of the 340 00:19:49,550 --> 00:19:51,670 leases increase quite substantially too. 341 00:19:52,210 --> 00:19:54,750 That's why we're here, to prove the lease so Shane can sell it. 342 00:19:55,230 --> 00:19:56,230 This is hard. 343 00:19:58,270 --> 00:20:00,450 What the hell is that? 344 00:20:13,740 --> 00:20:14,740 Oh, no. 345 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,280 Shane? Yes, Rusty? 346 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,160 Oh, look at this. Look. 347 00:20:20,780 --> 00:20:22,280 Look, it's sticking out through the edge. 348 00:20:22,780 --> 00:20:23,780 It's done track pads. 349 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:26,220 Well, we need this like a hole in the head, Russell. 350 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:28,400 We're dead in the water now. 351 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,560 Oh, it's broken the pads out of the tracks. 352 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:35,440 Those four of them are gone. 353 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:36,920 They must be here somewhere. 354 00:20:37,940 --> 00:20:39,180 Oh, they're broken off in here. 355 00:20:40,420 --> 00:20:42,760 That's a drive sprocket, and these are your drive teeth. 356 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,780 And so they sit in there, and they're stuck to the track normally, and that 357 00:20:45,780 --> 00:20:50,060 turns around and grabs it and drives it again. And without these, I've got no 358 00:20:50,060 --> 00:20:52,520 drive, and it's going to break the track clean in half. 359 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,960 Unbelievable. So what are we going to do, Russell? 360 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,100 I'll have to go back to Fantasy and see if we've got another one there. It's not 361 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:00,020 a big job, but still, I've got to go back and get it. 362 00:21:00,260 --> 00:21:03,680 Well, Rusty, let's not waste any time. Just move on. 363 00:21:04,260 --> 00:21:06,580 I'll go and detect and see if I can pick up a little bit. 364 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,240 I'll just battle on here on my own, Russell. 365 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,640 I better have the spare one, otherwise that's the end of this trip. 366 00:21:26,020 --> 00:21:27,300 Here we are in Kalgoorlie. 367 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,040 Well, here's hoping they're going good Simon, hey, because it's a big risk to 368 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,740 me. Yeah, it's probably going to run into the 40 grand mark just to get 369 00:21:34,740 --> 00:21:35,740 everything here. 370 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:40,640 before you actually make a gram of gold. And we're leaving gold to perhaps find 371 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,960 more gold, but, you know, it could be a million-dollar payday. 372 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:49,120 Cheryl and Simon have just weeks of reliable pay dirt left at their main 373 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:55,040 operation, so they've travelled more than 800km south, over half the length 374 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,720 of Britain, in search of a lifeline. 375 00:21:57,980 --> 00:22:01,000 You're not going to travel 800km away fully set up camp. 376 00:22:01,390 --> 00:22:04,570 and everything like that if it's the same gold it's got to be better yeah it 377 00:22:04,570 --> 00:22:10,590 all comes down to what we can see in these samples high risk they've been 378 00:22:10,590 --> 00:22:16,570 given the opportunity to relocate their entire operation here but doing so means 379 00:22:16,570 --> 00:22:22,070 paying a percentage of any gold produced to the leaseholder yeah i'll get you to 380 00:22:22,070 --> 00:22:25,190 bring up your maps because it's in here somewhere yeah it's probably up here 381 00:22:25,190 --> 00:22:29,060 about 400 meters and then to your left oh yeah i can see the old workings in 382 00:22:29,060 --> 00:22:36,040 here now so someone's got a scratch around in here oh that was a big drive 383 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:41,940 it was we made it a lot of old working so grab just some random samples just 384 00:22:41,940 --> 00:22:45,880 here and there and then we can you know see if we can see a speck so we've got 385 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:50,900 something to back up our decision really all right what's a half a million dollar 386 00:22:50,900 --> 00:22:54,900 target we've set for ourselves yeah it's a big one let's go and scratch up some 387 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:56,180 dirt and get some gold 388 00:22:58,580 --> 00:23:02,600 It's a really big lease, probably over a thousand hectares. We've started here 389 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,400 because there's a lot of old-timer pushings here. You don't do that many 390 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,620 pushings if you're not finding any gold. This whole lease has only ever been 391 00:23:09,620 --> 00:23:10,620 scraped and detected. 392 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:14,440 There's never been a dry blower on here, so hopefully we can mop up and get that 393 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,620 really fine gold that they couldn't detect. 394 00:23:16,820 --> 00:23:17,820 That's our bread and butter. 395 00:23:19,740 --> 00:23:22,840 I'll just go up a little bit from here and a little bit from there, so we get a 396 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,020 bit of an average then maybe. 397 00:23:27,780 --> 00:23:31,760 The best bit is that while we're out here searching for new ground, we've got 398 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,360 the team back at Mika working. 399 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,580 You know, the wheels are still turning. Normally, you know, down tools, you're 400 00:23:36,580 --> 00:23:38,600 not making any money while you're looking for new ground. 401 00:23:39,340 --> 00:23:42,760 We actually go back and there's going to be dirt in the buckets ready for us to 402 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:43,760 pan off. 403 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:49,720 The thing is, with the move, yes, money is a massive, massive factor in it, but 404 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:50,880 we've also got... 405 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,260 A lovely team of people that we've got to look after and feed and make sure 406 00:23:55,260 --> 00:23:56,520 that we get gold on the other side. 407 00:23:56,820 --> 00:23:58,760 They're all willing to make the move for us. 408 00:23:59,140 --> 00:24:03,100 We want to make it worth the while. It could cost their jobs if we don't get 409 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:03,979 enough gold. 410 00:24:03,980 --> 00:24:06,220 It's a big decision. It's a really big decision. 411 00:24:09,380 --> 00:24:10,380 What's your thoughts, then? 412 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:11,720 It looks good. 413 00:24:11,860 --> 00:24:15,600 Like, it's got all the signs to it. And if this is where they found the least 414 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,160 amount of nuggets, the other areas should be really good. 415 00:24:18,420 --> 00:24:22,320 And the thing is, if we don't take this deal... He's going to give it to someone 416 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,040 else. Yeah. And are we missing out on a massive payday? 417 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,140 Yeah, and I guess we've only got to the end of the week to make that decision. 418 00:24:28,460 --> 00:24:31,940 It's just got to prove itself, really. Yeah. We just want that nice little tail 419 00:24:31,940 --> 00:24:35,800 in the pan. So you only think, well, two specks for the two buckets, but you 420 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,520 times that by thousands, that's going to be a lot of gold. 421 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:40,320 Let's hope there's some speckies in there. 422 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,500 Yeah. All right, let's go, lads. 423 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,960 That tail in the pan determines our future, really. 424 00:25:00,650 --> 00:25:01,650 Keep going mate. 425 00:25:02,470 --> 00:25:05,650 There you go. That's mechanical leverage people. 426 00:25:11,030 --> 00:25:13,130 There you go, look out! 427 00:25:15,670 --> 00:25:16,810 Still in there mate? 428 00:25:24,110 --> 00:25:25,610 That sounds better. 429 00:25:27,070 --> 00:25:28,390 There it is. 430 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,080 Look at that. Now we're talking. 431 00:25:35,340 --> 00:25:36,340 Much better. 432 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,800 Oh, that's like, that might be a four or five gram amount. 433 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:42,440 At 5,000 bucks an ounce, mate. 434 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,160 It's adding up. 435 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:46,920 We need a few more of those. 436 00:25:47,220 --> 00:25:48,400 That'll start paying wages. 437 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,040 Let's find some more. 438 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:55,780 Where you find gold, there's usually its friends with it. So nice and, oh, here 439 00:25:55,780 --> 00:25:56,780 we go. 440 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,180 Another target, Ant. Another target. 441 00:26:01,650 --> 00:26:03,050 It's almost coming too easy. 442 00:26:03,510 --> 00:26:04,890 Right at the base of the tree too. 443 00:26:05,670 --> 00:26:06,670 That's a great spot. 444 00:26:08,110 --> 00:26:09,110 There we go. 445 00:26:11,750 --> 00:26:14,030 We've got two targets right next to each other. We have. 446 00:26:14,670 --> 00:26:16,890 Well, how about we get this one first? Okay. All right. 447 00:26:18,610 --> 00:26:20,050 Let's see. Oh, look at that. 448 00:26:20,310 --> 00:26:21,269 Oh, no way. 449 00:26:21,270 --> 00:26:22,310 Another five, six grams. 450 00:26:22,670 --> 00:26:23,690 Look at the size of that. 451 00:26:24,050 --> 00:26:25,650 Oh, my God. That's got some weight. 452 00:26:26,410 --> 00:26:27,410 Look at that. 453 00:26:27,530 --> 00:26:29,030 And we've got one here under your foot, you reckon? 454 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:32,300 It should be an easy one for you, mate. 455 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,280 Two in one hole, mate. I love when that happens. 456 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,140 Oh, there it is. 457 00:26:39,020 --> 00:26:40,020 Look at that. 458 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:42,800 That's another beauty, mate. 459 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:45,460 We're coming thick and fast. 460 00:26:45,740 --> 00:26:47,300 We're going to peg this. It's pain. 461 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:48,520 Let's get the GPS. 462 00:26:48,820 --> 00:26:49,820 Mark the spot. 463 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:51,399 Locked in. 464 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:52,399 All right, let's go. 465 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,400 Oh! 466 00:26:54,510 --> 00:26:59,070 So once we've got a lease peg, we can use small machines to scrape the top off 467 00:26:59,070 --> 00:27:01,970 the ground and get anything deeper down that we missed from the surface. 468 00:27:02,270 --> 00:27:05,450 I've plotted out a 75 hectare area around patch. 469 00:27:05,750 --> 00:27:08,870 We're going to make sure our coordinates are bang on too. If we make a mistake on 470 00:27:08,870 --> 00:27:11,610 those coordinates, the mines department won't even accept the lease. 471 00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:17,430 To secure their mining rights, they must first hammer in four metal pegs to mark 472 00:27:17,430 --> 00:27:19,230 out the boundaries of a new lease. 473 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,320 before lodging the coordinates with the mines department. 474 00:27:22,820 --> 00:27:25,640 Mate, just looking on this map, we're getting pretty close to where we're 475 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:26,640 going to put our first peg in. 476 00:27:27,020 --> 00:27:28,020 Excellent. 477 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:29,720 Hey, what's that? 478 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,840 That's new tracks. You've got to be joking. Let's get out and have a look. 479 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,400 We've just spotted some tracks, and this is right on the area that we want to 480 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,200 peg. Mate, these are fresh tracks. These aren't ours. 481 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,940 So this means that somebody else is out here. Got to be joking. 482 00:27:49,699 --> 00:27:50,699 Mate, is that a car? 483 00:27:51,860 --> 00:27:52,860 Mate, let's go. 484 00:27:52,940 --> 00:27:53,779 Let's go. 485 00:27:53,780 --> 00:27:55,680 How can someone be here before we get here? 486 00:27:58,900 --> 00:27:59,900 Let's go. 487 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,940 Mate, I can't believe someone beat us out here. 488 00:28:14,020 --> 00:28:15,300 We've got a spare at least. 489 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,740 Well, we're going to open this up. Got to crack the valve in here. 490 00:28:17,940 --> 00:28:21,060 Yep. And then let the idler gear come back. Oh, yeah. And that'll let the 491 00:28:21,060 --> 00:28:21,759 track down. 492 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,100 Okay. You watch this. It'll start to sag down in a second. 493 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,160 Rusty was able to get another track from his lease, so we've just got to change 494 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,300 it out and get back to it. 495 00:28:31,660 --> 00:28:32,740 It leads you around this side. 496 00:28:32,980 --> 00:28:37,160 Yep. All right. Now, what you want to do now is this bar here. Yep. I want you to 497 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:37,939 push it backwards. 498 00:28:37,940 --> 00:28:41,660 Okay. Okay? Yep. Only when I tell you. Okay. If I yell, I want you to stop. 499 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,160 Okay. All right. Start going. 500 00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:44,980 All right. Keep going. 501 00:28:46,090 --> 00:28:47,090 Keep going. 502 00:28:47,490 --> 00:28:48,490 Yep, yep, whoop, whoop. 503 00:28:50,610 --> 00:28:52,090 Righto, bit more. Bit more. 504 00:28:52,930 --> 00:28:53,930 Keep going. 505 00:28:54,810 --> 00:28:55,649 Righto, that's it. 506 00:28:55,650 --> 00:28:56,529 She's off. 507 00:28:56,530 --> 00:28:57,610 Stop, stop. Stop there. 508 00:28:58,030 --> 00:29:00,650 You know what? I had to do all the heavy work. Don't hurt yourself, though. 509 00:29:02,870 --> 00:29:05,370 You all right or what? 510 00:29:05,610 --> 00:29:07,610 Ah, spinifex up me arse. How do you feel? 511 00:29:08,490 --> 00:29:11,050 I told you to be careful. Now they're getting the new one back on. 512 00:29:11,310 --> 00:29:14,150 What can I do now, Russell? Oh, stay out of the way if you want. Don't want to 513 00:29:14,150 --> 00:29:14,969 get hurt. 514 00:29:14,970 --> 00:29:16,110 I should be able to take care of this. 515 00:29:17,870 --> 00:29:18,870 That's it. 516 00:29:19,010 --> 00:29:20,650 We got it, Shane. We got it. 517 00:29:21,030 --> 00:29:23,170 Okay, Rusty, let's get back on the gold. 518 00:29:30,690 --> 00:29:34,150 We've found some nice nuggets already, so just a few more, Shane, to be able to 519 00:29:34,150 --> 00:29:35,150 get a good dollar for this lease. 520 00:29:35,470 --> 00:29:38,990 I mean, for a lease that's not very good, you'll pay $5,000 or $6,000 for 521 00:29:38,990 --> 00:29:42,190 it. For one that's good, you'll pay $60,000 to $70,000. I've seen leases for 522 00:29:42,190 --> 00:29:43,270 $100,000 to $100,000. 523 00:29:44,409 --> 00:29:48,130 because they're good gold-proving leases. The gold price today doesn't pay 524 00:29:48,130 --> 00:29:49,130 long to recoup it. 525 00:29:49,330 --> 00:29:52,470 It's got to prove that it's here, that the gold is here. 526 00:29:55,210 --> 00:29:56,490 Jeez, that's a nice sound. 527 00:29:56,810 --> 00:30:00,550 It's either a very large piece, I don't know what it is, but let's dig it out 528 00:30:00,550 --> 00:30:01,550 and have a look. 529 00:30:03,550 --> 00:30:04,770 Come on, where are you? 530 00:30:05,070 --> 00:30:07,810 Come on, the gold gods are going to start looking after me. 531 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,700 I can't work this out. There seems to be there and not there. So obviously a 532 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:15,700 couple together here. 533 00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:19,580 Still there. 534 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,500 Oh, there it is there. 535 00:30:22,020 --> 00:30:25,260 That's a nice little bit of gold we found. Look at it. You know, always 536 00:30:25,260 --> 00:30:26,840 check. There you are. 537 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,660 There's another sound. That's why I had so much trouble. 538 00:30:30,380 --> 00:30:31,560 Right, I've got it in the scoop. 539 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:33,960 Look at that. 540 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,460 So, there you are. Two together. 541 00:30:39,070 --> 00:30:44,230 this is what you want to find really good size gold probably about four or 542 00:30:44,230 --> 00:30:50,030 five hundred bucks worth there radio silky eh oh 543 00:30:50,030 --> 00:30:56,790 listen to that brother let's have a look 544 00:30:56,790 --> 00:31:01,350 come on always separate your material as much as you can 545 00:31:01,350 --> 00:31:07,750 ah it's in here it's in here 546 00:31:12,110 --> 00:31:14,190 Look at this bit of blood. Look at this, a bit of quartz. 547 00:31:17,810 --> 00:31:21,990 Oh, there's gold attached to this. This is off a reef. That means it hasn't 548 00:31:21,990 --> 00:31:22,990 travelled very far. 549 00:31:23,230 --> 00:31:24,230 Russell! 550 00:31:25,010 --> 00:31:26,570 A thousand reef gold. 551 00:31:27,530 --> 00:31:28,610 Well done, Shano. 552 00:31:29,110 --> 00:31:31,170 We'd better take another scrape off this. 553 00:31:31,490 --> 00:31:33,790 Well, if you've done that bit now, I'll come and dig that deeper. 554 00:31:34,010 --> 00:31:35,050 There's probably more down deeper. 555 00:31:35,350 --> 00:31:36,350 Okay, Rusty. 556 00:31:38,330 --> 00:31:40,550 Well, we're doing a cha-cha, Russell. Swap around. 557 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,760 And when Shane's had a couple of really good bites, oh, geez, that's hard. What 558 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,660 I've caught here, Shane's found a specie and a few nuggets here. 559 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,780 So I'll go through now and I'll dig this out again and get down deeper. 560 00:31:51,140 --> 00:31:54,860 Because when the gold travels through, it travels on the bottom, on its deepest 561 00:31:54,860 --> 00:31:56,700 part. So that's where we need to get to. 562 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,520 He's found the floaters and a specie, so it needs to be fed by the source. 563 00:32:00,740 --> 00:32:02,240 So worth digging again. 564 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:06,280 It's cribbing up the temperature, believe me. 565 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,640 Whoa, there's a sound. 566 00:32:09,290 --> 00:32:14,470 Okay, let's have a look. Oh, this is the first sound of this new scrape. So let's 567 00:32:14,470 --> 00:32:15,470 have a look. 568 00:32:22,250 --> 00:32:24,930 Oh, nailed it first up. 569 00:32:25,550 --> 00:32:28,970 Well, no wonder I nailed it. Look at the size of that. 570 00:32:29,190 --> 00:32:33,130 This is a lovely piece of gold shaped like United Kingdom. 571 00:32:33,350 --> 00:32:37,750 Scotland up the top there and Wales in the corner. And that little bit there 572 00:32:37,750 --> 00:32:41,610 would be... what they called Swansea, and over the other side would be 573 00:32:41,610 --> 00:32:43,430 Cornwell, looking at each other. 574 00:32:43,930 --> 00:32:48,610 This piece of gold would be worth a lot more money than the value of the gold. I 575 00:32:48,610 --> 00:32:51,490 would say it would be worth $600 or $700. 576 00:32:52,590 --> 00:32:53,590 Rusty! 577 00:32:54,290 --> 00:32:55,290 You got another one? 578 00:32:55,490 --> 00:32:58,210 I'm not coming over there. My bones are too weary, Russell. 579 00:32:58,970 --> 00:33:01,150 Hey, you've been on your knees the whole time. 580 00:33:01,410 --> 00:33:03,250 I have been on my knees picking out nuggets. 581 00:33:04,390 --> 00:33:06,150 Yeah, Rusty, have a way of that. 582 00:33:08,090 --> 00:33:10,850 That's got to be at least an ounce. I think it's every part of that, Russell. 583 00:33:11,030 --> 00:33:12,950 It's not big, but it's gold. That's the main thing. 584 00:33:13,230 --> 00:33:14,230 And a specie too. 585 00:33:14,470 --> 00:33:15,550 You've done well for the day. 586 00:33:15,850 --> 00:33:17,990 70-year-old and digging nuggets like a champ. 587 00:33:18,190 --> 00:33:21,550 Now, I've got to get these five ounces of gold for this buyer. If we don't 588 00:33:21,550 --> 00:33:26,030 succeed, no deal. So when we weigh it up there, can we just think about a bit of 589 00:33:26,030 --> 00:33:30,070 rusty magic on the way out, okay? We can do that. Let's give him five ounces 590 00:33:30,070 --> 00:33:32,550 first. I don't care how we get it to him, but we're going to get it to him, 591 00:33:32,570 --> 00:33:33,970 Shane. The last hurrah. 592 00:33:34,310 --> 00:33:35,310 Make it happen. 593 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:48,940 I just can't believe someone's here. 594 00:33:49,180 --> 00:33:51,360 Yeah, and so close to our patch. 595 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,320 All right, mate, we are close now. This is it. This is the spot. The gold 596 00:33:55,320 --> 00:34:00,440 drifters, Darren and Anthony, are racing to hammer in four corner pegs. Just pull 597 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:00,939 in here. 598 00:34:00,940 --> 00:34:06,140 To carve out a new 75-hectare mining lease from newly available ground. 599 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:07,660 All right, let's pegs in. 600 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:10,238 Which way? 601 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:11,320 This way. Keep going. 602 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:17,440 But with a rival prospector in the area, a single overlapping claim... could cost 603 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,520 them the lease all right remember we're going to get this perfectly in line 604 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:26,580 right okay okay tell me where mate all right this is it this is the spot this 605 00:34:26,580 --> 00:34:31,080 is our northeast post this is the most important post this is the one the mines 606 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,560 department checked so we're going to get this in first we're going to put our 607 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:38,580 coordinates in name of the company date of peg we've already seen someone in 608 00:34:38,580 --> 00:34:41,679 here this morning we don't know whether they've pegged anything or not we're not 609 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:45,090 taking any chances so we're just going to peg right now Because if they peg an 610 00:34:45,090 --> 00:34:48,949 area which falls within where we want to peg, we miss out and we've got to go 611 00:34:48,949 --> 00:34:50,170 home. Okay. 612 00:34:51,590 --> 00:34:54,389 All right, mate, I'm taking a photo for evidence, all right? All right, here we 613 00:34:54,389 --> 00:34:55,389 go. Jeez. 614 00:34:56,050 --> 00:34:57,050 Beautiful, let's go. 615 00:34:59,170 --> 00:35:00,730 One down, three to go, mate. 616 00:35:04,130 --> 00:35:06,330 All right, mate, we're getting pretty close now to our next spot. 617 00:35:06,810 --> 00:35:09,170 Okay, tell me when to pull over. Mate, just hold on. 618 00:35:09,610 --> 00:35:10,610 What, here? 619 00:35:10,710 --> 00:35:11,930 No, a bit further? Keep going, keep going. 620 00:35:13,150 --> 00:35:15,570 Righto. All right, pull it in here. All right. 621 00:35:16,710 --> 00:35:17,730 Grab it and follow me. 622 00:35:18,830 --> 00:35:20,250 All right, just up here. 623 00:35:23,890 --> 00:35:25,310 Mate, this looks good right here. 624 00:35:25,590 --> 00:35:26,590 All right. 625 00:35:26,790 --> 00:35:28,590 This lines up perfectly with the northeast. 626 00:35:29,530 --> 00:35:32,890 Mate, I don't see anyone here. I think we're the first here. That's good news. 627 00:35:33,750 --> 00:35:34,649 We're good. 628 00:35:34,650 --> 00:35:35,569 Another photo. 629 00:35:35,570 --> 00:35:36,570 Two down. 630 00:35:36,970 --> 00:35:37,970 Let's go. 631 00:35:40,470 --> 00:35:41,470 It's just up here. 632 00:35:41,790 --> 00:35:43,500 Okay. Let's just get this done. 633 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:46,740 Mate, is that him? 634 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:48,400 Oh, what the? 635 00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:49,720 He's holding a peg. 636 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,360 I can't believe this. He's picking a lease. 637 00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:54,940 You've got to be joking. Let's just get this in. 638 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:56,160 Come on. 639 00:35:56,660 --> 00:35:57,660 Grab your stuff. 640 00:35:58,600 --> 00:35:59,600 Let's go, let's go. 641 00:36:00,460 --> 00:36:01,460 Mate, this is it. 642 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,040 We're on point here. 643 00:36:03,220 --> 00:36:04,220 All right, all right. 644 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,880 Oh, he's leaving. Got his peg down. 645 00:36:10,180 --> 00:36:11,180 Mate, he's got a peg in. 646 00:36:12,730 --> 00:36:13,750 All right, let's go. 647 00:36:14,810 --> 00:36:16,710 Come on, we've got to beat them for the last peg. 648 00:36:16,970 --> 00:36:17,970 Let's go. 649 00:36:21,370 --> 00:36:22,390 Go, go, go, go, go. 650 00:36:24,190 --> 00:36:25,190 Let's hammer it. 651 00:36:30,590 --> 00:36:32,430 We've got three pegs in. We've got one to go. 652 00:36:32,990 --> 00:36:35,410 We've got date stamps, time stamps and all of our posts. 653 00:36:36,050 --> 00:36:37,650 Mate, you better not beat us. 654 00:36:37,930 --> 00:36:39,210 Mate, we'll be good. 655 00:36:39,450 --> 00:36:40,450 All right, pull in here. 656 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:43,440 Let's go. 657 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,440 Come on, mate. 658 00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:48,700 It's the last peg. 659 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:54,880 New morale. 660 00:36:56,180 --> 00:36:57,700 All right, that'll do, that'll do. 661 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:00,360 Final peg in. 662 00:37:00,580 --> 00:37:01,860 All right, let's timestamp this. 663 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,860 Now we need to lodge the application and hopefully secure this lease. 664 00:37:20,490 --> 00:37:24,290 I'm so eager to find out what the samples are that Simon's doing from 665 00:37:24,290 --> 00:37:25,290 Calgary. 666 00:37:25,630 --> 00:37:27,150 Because it is a bit of a head mess. 667 00:37:28,010 --> 00:37:32,210 It's not just about moving the team and everything. It's a massive financial 668 00:37:32,210 --> 00:37:37,410 outlay to go there. Like, we're at least going to spend $40,000 to get there. 669 00:37:38,270 --> 00:37:42,370 And even if we do get a positive result with the sample, that could be the best 670 00:37:42,370 --> 00:37:43,370 it's going to get. 671 00:37:43,430 --> 00:37:44,490 You just don't know. 672 00:37:45,610 --> 00:37:46,750 Cheryl and Simon. 673 00:37:47,190 --> 00:37:52,190 have returned from a 1,600-kilometre round trip exploring new ground. 674 00:37:52,410 --> 00:37:57,830 If their 40-kilogram samples come back at a high enough grade, it could see 675 00:37:57,830 --> 00:38:00,290 them relocate their entire operation. 676 00:38:04,030 --> 00:38:09,770 This could be a great opportunity and a perfect timing as well because the gold 677 00:38:09,770 --> 00:38:13,870 has been dropping off on this lease, so we were thinking about moving on 678 00:38:13,870 --> 00:38:15,030 somewhere else, but... 679 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,140 Moving on somewhere else down the road, not 800 kilometres away. 680 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,860 It's a bit nerve-wracking, really. I've never really done any work around 681 00:38:22,860 --> 00:38:28,100 Kalgoorlie. It's all been up around sort of this top end of WA. 682 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:33,300 So I'm just panning off our Kalgoorlie samples now. I've put them all into the 683 00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:38,340 one batch, basically, so we can have a look at what we got out of all the 684 00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:43,040 samples altogether, and it can give us a bit of an indication on how we're going 685 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:44,040 to go. 686 00:38:44,350 --> 00:38:47,330 Nice little amount of fine gold there. 687 00:38:47,750 --> 00:38:51,950 Few specks for just a couple of hand buckets of dirt. 688 00:38:52,410 --> 00:38:57,950 Imagine how many specks you're going to get when you put through 900 tonne from 689 00:38:57,950 --> 00:38:58,950 loader buckets. 690 00:38:59,170 --> 00:39:05,510 And then you look at what we've got there for eight hours of the dry blower. 691 00:39:05,970 --> 00:39:07,950 That's a lot to think about. Do we go... 692 00:39:08,350 --> 00:39:12,330 take the gamble on this 800 k's away move all our gear stay here and continue 693 00:39:12,330 --> 00:39:17,750 to get that but then that could drop off any day so yeah a bit of a head scratch 694 00:39:17,750 --> 00:39:22,270 of what one we go with there yeah not a decision to be taken lightly 695 00:39:22,270 --> 00:39:29,110 got away with the gold Cheryl what 696 00:39:29,110 --> 00:39:33,370 a week hey yeah big decisions to be made it all comes down to this little jar and 697 00:39:33,370 --> 00:39:36,490 that little jar but it's not just down to that either it's down to you know 698 00:39:36,490 --> 00:39:41,650 we've got so much to think about the team financially the risk yeah we've set 699 00:39:41,650 --> 00:39:46,710 ourselves the target of two ounces a day yep so we've got to get 14 ounces for 700 00:39:46,710 --> 00:39:53,010 the week to see are we staying or are we moving on yeah okay there's 701 00:39:53,010 --> 00:39:59,450 three ounces 702 00:39:59,450 --> 00:40:06,430 four five six seven eight nine it's gonna be 703 00:40:06,430 --> 00:40:07,430 close 704 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,720 10, 12.36. 705 00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:13,940 It'd be close to about 62K for the week. 706 00:40:14,420 --> 00:40:16,460 That's just under then, isn't it? Just under. 707 00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:19,900 That makes it harder in a way because it's just under. 708 00:40:20,340 --> 00:40:21,019 I know. 709 00:40:21,020 --> 00:40:22,960 And our sampling, what have we got there? 710 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:28,160 That's probably about a gram in there. 711 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,740 Yeah. And then you try and imagine that's what we got out of our little 712 00:40:31,740 --> 00:40:34,960 sample buckets to do a 900 tonne a day. 713 00:40:35,340 --> 00:40:37,480 It could be pretty rich. It could be very rich. 714 00:40:38,010 --> 00:40:39,230 Or did we pick the best part? 715 00:40:39,510 --> 00:40:41,870 Or did we pick the worst part? Yeah, that's exactly right. 716 00:40:42,230 --> 00:40:45,110 Well, the thing is, it is thinning out here, but it has been good to us up 717 00:40:45,110 --> 00:40:48,570 until now. So do we stay and hope that it gets a bit better again? 718 00:40:49,210 --> 00:40:53,250 Well, I don't want Mark to ring me up in three months' time and say, you know, 719 00:40:53,350 --> 00:40:54,350 you're stuffed up there. 720 00:40:54,890 --> 00:40:57,570 Someone's doing it and they've pulled, you know, a million bucks' worth of gold 721 00:40:57,570 --> 00:40:58,269 out of there. 722 00:40:58,270 --> 00:41:00,030 Yeah. I reckon we go. 723 00:41:00,290 --> 00:41:01,550 Me too. Let's have a crack. 724 00:41:04,390 --> 00:41:05,390 Let's do it. Applause. 725 00:41:06,350 --> 00:41:07,350 Big move. 726 00:41:13,330 --> 00:41:17,070 First way up of your last season. It's been a big week, hasn't it? It has. We 727 00:41:17,070 --> 00:41:21,270 managed to get over a few issues. We had a breakdown. We got over that. And we 728 00:41:21,270 --> 00:41:24,710 managed to find gold still. So I think we're going all right, Russell. It's 729 00:41:24,710 --> 00:41:26,190 been a good week. Yep. It's been enjoyable. 730 00:41:26,430 --> 00:41:29,330 Come on, Rusty, weigh it up. How enjoyable has it been, though? I was 731 00:41:29,330 --> 00:41:30,330 about to see. 732 00:41:33,630 --> 00:41:35,290 Oh, it's 1.062. 733 00:41:35,710 --> 00:41:38,990 That's decent money. And then the specie, that'll crush up and give us a 734 00:41:38,990 --> 00:41:39,990 few more grams out of that. 735 00:41:42,399 --> 00:41:45,600 Okay, that's about 1.4, so I reckon about 1.3. So we're going to go all 736 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:46,800 right. That's about $6,500. 737 00:41:48,140 --> 00:41:51,720 Well, Russell, we need a total of five ounces to sell the tenement. At the 738 00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:54,840 moment, we've got probably an ounce and a half, so we've got to get three and a 739 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,240 half ounces to make it happen. 740 00:41:57,060 --> 00:41:59,540 And we're not going to get that detecting, are we? No way in the world, 741 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,300 Russell. We can either sluice or dry blow. 742 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,180 It looks like I've got a job to do, haven't I? I've got to find a dry 743 00:42:04,180 --> 00:42:07,340 blower. In the middle of nowhere, Shane, I'll just pick my fingers. 744 00:42:07,790 --> 00:42:11,050 And do a Miss Jeannie, shall I? Well, Russell, sometimes you have a little bit 745 00:42:11,050 --> 00:42:13,570 of luck and you might be able to just pull something out of your hat. There's 746 00:42:13,570 --> 00:42:15,330 a lot of people around here and you're well connected. 747 00:42:16,070 --> 00:42:17,470 Come on, Rusty, let's move on. 748 00:42:23,410 --> 00:42:26,890 It's been a pretty full-on week. Mate, that was a huge week. It was a mission 749 00:42:26,890 --> 00:42:28,110 just getting here. Oh, mate. 750 00:42:28,390 --> 00:42:30,650 How about that guy that nearly poached our patch? 751 00:42:30,890 --> 00:42:31,468 Oh, yeah. 752 00:42:31,470 --> 00:42:34,550 Thank God we got it all submitted, well, pegged and submitted. 753 00:42:35,410 --> 00:42:36,410 Paperwork in. 754 00:42:36,459 --> 00:42:39,840 Let's hope everything goes to plan. Yep. We can get our gear. We can go back out 755 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,060 and find some more gold. Yeah. In the meantime, should we see what we got for 756 00:42:43,060 --> 00:42:44,680 the week? Absolutely. That's what I'm here for. 757 00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:56,060 0.84 of an ounce. 0.84 of an ounce. 758 00:42:57,709 --> 00:43:01,030 $5,000 an ounce. Yeah. Mate, $4,200. 759 00:43:01,530 --> 00:43:06,090 Nice. It won't keep the bank managers off our back, but hey, it's a start. 760 00:43:06,290 --> 00:43:09,810 Well, it goes towards covering the cost of just getting here, which is good. 761 00:43:09,950 --> 00:43:12,770 It's just the beginning. I'm sure there's more there. Good start. 762 00:43:13,070 --> 00:43:16,590 Problem is, we're about 19 and a bit ounces short of our target. Yeah, we've 763 00:43:16,590 --> 00:43:19,430 got a lot of work to do. We've got a heap of work to do. Well, let's hope 764 00:43:19,430 --> 00:43:23,290 this approval comes through soon and we can start opening this whole area up. 765 00:43:24,650 --> 00:43:25,930 Let's find some more. All right. 766 00:43:28,140 --> 00:43:29,140 Bye.