The Dirt Dogs Quest For A Million Dollar Gold Target! | Aussie Gold Hunters

in the west Australian goldfields 120 km outside Southern Cross dirt dogs Vern strange and Jake Larson are attempting to pull over a million dollar out of the ground this season might just give this grizzly a bit of a shake for us a million dollar Target I know it's achievable it's a tall order so far so good we're on track but it's going to have its moments those moments include Vern's best mate Leon walking out at the start of the season that's it ending a 10-year Business Partnership it's quite sad to walk away from it yeah so I don't know what the future holds now last week the dog's hopes of reaching Target were restored following a huge gold pour from their Heap Leach project that's a cracking score isn't it oh yeah that's huge we've got some copper in there looks like 15% to me that's still what 200 o of gold the dogs could be looking at a $320,000 Payday which takes them to the halfway mark of their million dollar Target couple hundred ounces has gone into the Perth Mint should get that feedback any day now while they wait for the results Vern is desperate to maintain momentum check another bucket in uh just about June I need to have Godzilla ticking over for several hours a day at least preferably 10 it's important that it it doesn't stop and start too much but we might be able to set up camp around there for a while yep that'll do [Music] it what about we head on the radio the short range two-way radio has picked up some unwelcome guests we've got most of this ground tied up got the two-way scanning if a new vehicle comes on the road we know bit L and clear it must be close let's go yeah shut it down y shut it down quick let gu another July for us we've had to shut the plant down we're going to stop what we're doing and try summon up PES now the FL supposed to getting any work done spend all day chasing thieves off your ground Vern spends a third of his working time patrolling over 60 of his leases here look you kidding right over the top of ours that's as fresh as anything very fresh it's about an hour old he's only gone in hasn't come out yet there where BL car on the hill there have a look the dogs need evidence of poaches in the ACT to have any chance of Prosecuting oh let's stir him up keep filming we'll go up here and get his attention here right hey what the are you doing oh look at him he's doing the rabbit he can't get out of here unless he goes around the hill and if he goes back on the road he's going to come straight past our camp hold your horses R track goes about 2ks along the back of this Ridge rough as hell so we'll catch him pull him up he knows he in the wrong didn't he yeah definitely he didn't hesitate either he bolted here he is back at Jackson Vern devises a plan to intercept a prospector after catching him red-handed detecting illegally on one of his leases how is this runs like a little rabbit we're losing about 500 bucks an hour while we're Chase these St all over the neighborhood and get him off our tenament get him on film as much detail as you can cut him up here pull up here expect the worst right be careful [Music] yeah all right let's get this come on he's out of control W this like w end up in the bush yeah n it's too dangerous he may have escaped but Vern is confident they have enough evidence to press charges he mate you remember Brad yeah yeah Jake see you yeah likewise good trip yeah great new dirt dog for you perfect Phantom hitch Ion on the highway right cheap labor that shirt's a bit cleaner in it very better put him straight to work right yeah Brad's done a lot of work in the mining industry working with planting machinery and driving loaders and that sort of stuff so yeah he's got valuable experience that he'll slot in here pretty well and he's used to the harsh conditions he's used to the FES and the Heat and the dust ah look I have no CLS with getting dirty so uh let's get into it Brad's induction begins with pushing and scraping I want to make a really good go of this out here and do the best job I can for Uncle ver hopefully we can pick up some nice nuggets today it's not long before they have a promising Target there he is just there okay cool get into him mate go give it to him give it to him it's out well J in on the action mate I can see it the two G $100 nugget is a good sign a it's a nice one yeah that's the way to go that's not a bad start at all nice sh that's one for the jar eh in cost us the whole day which is you know probably 3 to 5 O of production we don't get here they come mate who's going to tell this story this doesn't look like work ah come on you bl's doing it hard what's going on oh we've been up to hearing today what's happened truth can be Stranger Than Fiction as Vern and Jake discover how many beers have you BLS had yeah now with question marks over the purity of the 7 kilo gold por load of copper in there always stressful to the very end isn't it and with ver forking out more than $200,000 in expenses there's a lot riding on the results from the mint well our official lodgment weight was 234. N8 o after refining it's come back at 53.4 5% gold so there goes all the profit um it gives us a purchase price of $23,280 which sounds like a lot of money but not when you've spent $210,000 getting to this point not even juke's contribution is enough to salvage their result 5.47 o not enough that's not going to cover wages or diesel even just shy of $99,000 the weekly Hall combined with the $120,000 gold bar loss leaves the dogs a long way short of their million dooll Target we need to crank up again get all hands on deck and push a bit harder I think we're done here with with Drive BL that's not enough so we've got to get this plant moved and onto another site yeah we need to get three times that much to make it viable We're Here for a Good Time not a long time so there's no point being here anymore we're going to have to shift Godzilla get onto another site and try and get production up

Channel: Aussie Gold & Opal Hunters+

Views: 37,132

Keywords: Discovery Australia, Aussie Gold and Opal Hunters, Gold Rush, Outback Opal Hunters, Aussie Gold Hunters, aussie gold hunters 2022

Id: eK5AOI4mBYk

Length: 8min 9sec (489 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 14 2023