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PAUL VOICEOVER: Over the past decade

I've pulled millions of dollars worth of gold out of the ground...

but my last time around

I fell well, short of my 500-ounce season target.

It was the worst season I've ever had in the gold game.

I took a big hit.

I was down and out.

This season I'm back

with a new team, new ground, new equipment

and a new target and that target this year is gonna be 1,000 ounces.

That's over $2.6 million worth.

I'm pretty sure that the new business partners

are gonna be shocked that I wanna chase 1,000 ounces.

The way I see it, it's basically go big or go home.

The biggest risk this season is the new team itself.

prime the pump and hopefully that'll do it.

All the animals have been coming and drinking from this.

This is just fowl.

That stuff floating, is pretty much just cow crap.

Oh!

Just getting this hose a little bit deeper

and a few more hours of water,

that's all I need to get this test through.

This is a back up pump that tops this whole dam up.

I'm going to use it today to fill this up with water,

hopefully get enough suction going,

it'll suck its own water up the hill.

If Alex can displace the air with water,

the pump will regain its pressure.

(BLEEP).

Yeah.

At least we got the pump primed.

Oh, well, it's working.

That's all I needed.

Back to it.

No time for a shower.

Let's just get this job done.

Oh!

Right, well, I hope Paul and Mel appreciate this.

(CHEERFUL MUSIC)

I'm just going to lay down some material

and see if we can find some nuggets.

I've got to put us on the board

until Brad can get that generator sorted out.

On their lease outside of Coolgardie,

Chris has left team-mate Brad to build their wash plant

but until they secure a replacement generator,

their only hope of gold is to spread pay dirt

into 15cm thick pads ready for detecting.

So, it's not an ideal start to the season.

We always tell other people come prepared