The Curse of Oak Island: STRIKING GOLD in the Money Pit (Season 9)

Hey guys,
Hey Craig, hey all right.
As another exciting day dawns on Oak Island, rumor is you guys tested that, uh, the metal we found in D2. Is this true?
And we’re about to tell you, brothers.
Rick and Marty Lagina, their partner Craig Tester, and members of their team are conducting a strategic drilling operation in the Moneypit area that they hope will help them solve a 226-year-old mystery.

We used XRF in two samples, and the XRF came up with gold.
Oh, not just gold, yeah. The percentage is extremely high—700 parts per million.
Oh, wow.

One week ago, after discovering wood from a depth of 88 feet in borehole D2, which was then carbon-dated to as early as 1488, the team unearthed a mysterious piece of metal.
Yeah, it’s a big chunk of metal right there.
I’m just gonna throw it on and see what we get.

When geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner performed elemental analysis on it using an X-ray fluorescence device, Rick and members of the team were astonished by what they had found.
Hey, you.
There it is, hey!
We got gold again.
Well, it’s a piece of metal that may have been either in close contact with gold, or it could be even more interesting, i.e., that the metals themselves contain gold.

To me, if it’s part of the metal, that’s far more interesting. That means that it’s a valuable item.

Based in an area known as the C1 cluster, where recent water tests in existing boreholes have revealed high levels of silver and gold, the team has designed a strategic drilling grid in the hopes of pinpointing the fabled Money Pit treasure vault.

Now, the next target on that grid is borehole B4, which sits just 14 feet from D2.
The C1 cluster just sounds like the right spot. Gold on the steel, that’s very encouraging.
If it’s accurate that the gold is on the metal and that there are just no natural sources, then I’d say we’re closing in on the treasure.

Terry, you have the grid as I…
I’d like to get brought up to speed here.
We are here on B4, but this hole in particular is at the northern perimeter or edge of the C1 cluster of tunnels.
Yeah, if we find evidence of tunnels…
There we go. Now we have something more to chase.

It is also in this area that the team has previously drilled into a believed tunnel at a depth of approximately 90 feet.
If the team is unsuccessful finding treasure in B4, then they hope to hit a tunnel that will lead them to it.
And we have to concentrate on the areas where we do know there are possible tunnels and kind of zero in on that.

Yeah, look, I’m not going to disagree. This information is too exciting. It’s certainly worth chasing.
It’s kind of like Christmas morning, right?
It’s not always about Christmas morning, it’s what leads up to Christmas morning.
And we’re not there yet, but we certainly know there’s packages under the tree.

Anyway, keep us abreast.
See you guys. Thanks for the news.
You gotta hope that we might be very close to something.
All right.