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While Brian deals with the take-over and its implications for CCR, Megan, Max, Shane and Caz seek to avert a threat to the Hong Kong bank's opening of the gold mine. Meanwhile, Megan learns that she might have found a mineral deposit after all.

Brian is called back to Australia from London, amidst a hostile foreign take-over threat to the Albion group, after Caz becomes potentially trapped underground. As Megan - who has indicated a wish to leave CCR - supervises Max and Shane's efforts to resolve the seemingly routine problem, Caz finds herself increasingly drawn to Shane.

At a mining forum, attended by his wife and father-in-law, Brian finds himself called away to deal with the effect of a new gas-well on the local indigenous community.

A near accident at an ageing copper smelter highlights the need to find more ore to justify its refurbishment. Visiting her survey site, Megan and Brian are forced spend a night in the desert when their four-wheel-drive rolls.

With the nickel mine back on track, Brian finds that CCR's revived gold mine is threatened when concerns are raised about a local creek. With CCR's Hong Kong bank refusing to extend its credit, a solution devised by Caz and Max nearly collapses when bones are found in an old mineshaft.

Forming a crisis-team, including a female geologist, Megan, a cynical engineer, Max, a wary ex- union rep, Shane, and an environmentalist, Caz, Brian resolves a strike over a nickel-pit death after learning that his wife, Tess, will not join him and that someone is sabotaging his operation from within Albion's UK Board.