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This year's all about proving to myself and to my crew

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That we can be successful out here mining.

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on this gold rush...

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when the plant's down, it's never good, man.

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... Rick ness pays the price for a bad call.

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Shut the pump off, shut the pump off!

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Look, I'm done with this .

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What the  are we gonna do, though?

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tony beets is on the hunt...

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...For new ground.

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and parker schnabel aims for the top.

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here we go!

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We got a chance of breaking records this year.

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holy !

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well, look at how bad it's bleedin' there.

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This whole cut's gonna be underwater.

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get out of the way!

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at paradise hill,

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King of the klondike, tony beets,

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Is three quarters of the way

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Through the short yukon season.

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with winter fast approaching,

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Tony gathers the family to plan out

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The rest of the season.

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You know you look like my side of the family, right?

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She's the reason I look so funny.

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Oh, not too bad.

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We've been drawing quite a bit of pay

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Out of the mega cut there.

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oh, yeah.

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How many weeks you think you have left there?

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Give or take, three weeks.

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Three weeks? That's not that great.

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You know about your target.

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Yet, what are you gonna do about it?

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Okay.

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mike's run the trommel hard all season.

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Now he's down to the last two acres

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Of the 18-acre mega cut.

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With just three weeks' pay left to run,

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Tony's on the hunt for new ground

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To get him to his season goal.

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since the 1890s,

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Miners have left their mark across paradise hill.

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The remains of their mine works

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Could point to where the best gold was found.

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near one of the old-timers' mineshafts,

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Tony finds what could be a vital clue.

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where there's quartz, there's often gold.

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the old-timers dug these holes by hand,

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And tony believes they may not have reached the pay layer.

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To find out if he's right,

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He brings in a 220 excavator to punch a test hole.

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oh, that one doesn't look great.

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Well, can't reattach it because she  broke.

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Not just broke, but  broke.

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This piece here is supposed to be over here.

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while kevin fixes the excavator,

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Tony carries on exploring.

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in the 1890s, old-timers used

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Powerful hoses called monitors

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To blast pay dirt off the hill

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And into simple wooden sluice runs.

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Tony believes the parts of the hill that they missed

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Could still contain thousands of ounces in gold.

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one hundred twenty yards east

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Of the 50-foot shaft,

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Tony has discovered the exposed edge

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Of an old-timer's monitored cut.

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The gold-rich pay should be much closer

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To the surface here,

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If they left any behind.

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I think we're laughing

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And that should be that. Now, looks good to me.

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No leaks, I'm happy. Tony can take it

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And keep on digging.

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if tony can find enough

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Of the light-colored gravel that is rich in gold,

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This could be the ground to save his season.

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now, tony needs to know how far

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The pay streak continues into the hill.

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here we go.

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at indian river, 26-year-old parker schnabel

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Is racing to bank enough gold to buy new ground

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And expand his mining empire.

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- yeah. - yeah, buddy.

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after four years,

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Parker has finally finished mining

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Tony beets' ground, the last cut.

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Now he's firing up big red in the airstrip cut,

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Just 300 yards away from sluicifer.

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I really never would have thought that big red

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Would have gotten through that much ground in a season.

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Mitch and brennan did a really good job getting through it.

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We definitely made money on that cut.

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together for the first time this season,

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Sluicifer and big red are running over 10,000 yards

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Of dirt per day.

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They use 300,000 gallons of water every hour,

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Which flows back into two massive ponds.

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I'm out here, with jm and

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The stripping crew just trying to get some pay opened up.

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Hopefully, we shouldn't run into too many problems

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Because we've got a lot of dirt to move.

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there is almost two months' worth of pay

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In the airstrip cut.

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Parker is pushing his crew to mine it out

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In half that time, before winter hits.

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Co-foreman mitch blaschke is in charge of making sure

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Both plants keep running.

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parker just decided that they wanted to add

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A little bit more to our agenda for the year,

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And that's certainly a tough thing to do.

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He got into this cut very late this season,

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And there's so much ground water.

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We've got ponds on one side, the river on the other.

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On the other hand, well, it seems to have

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A lot of gold in it. The ground's good.

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There's gonna be a challenge,

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And there's certainly one down here at the airstrip.

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It's been a lot of grey, rainy days,

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And, I mean, that makes you tired

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And missing home a lot.

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I just hope everybody can stay positive,

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And we can finish off what parker's put in place.

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co-foreman brennan ruault

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Is responsible for managing the cut.

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It seems to look like a lot of  water

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Coming into the cut here in front of the feeder.

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Gonna take a peek at this.

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Take a look at that.

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This is a lake here.

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Gonna go grab mitch.

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Buddy, I just see a whole big lake back there of water.

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Dude, it's back here, too.

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Looks like it's coming out of the berm right over here.

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Holy !

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Holy !

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Well, look at how bad it's bleeding there.

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water from sluicifer's tailings pond

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Is leaking through the quickly-built berm.

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There's so much pressure in that pond

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Pushing back this way.

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This thing blows out,

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And that whole pond's gonna come this way.

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This whole cut's gonna be underwater.

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Holy !

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sluicifer's pond holds

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Two million gallons of water.

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The leaking berm could easily give way,

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Flooding parker's only cut.

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That isn't looking too good.

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So why don't you try and reinforce this thing?

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-Yeah. -I'm gonna go grab every pump we've got,

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And get 'em set up, you know, get some ditches in here.

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-Yeah, let's get after it. -Okay, buddy.

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mitch's plan,

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Dig ditches to drain the excess water into a sump,

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Install a pump to empty the cut

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And use a d10 dozer

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To reinforce the berm with coarse tailings.

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look at that. That's five feet back from the bank.

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Like, if I was to go on this bank slough, and tip me over,

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It could  be the end of that dozer.

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with sluicifer still running,

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3,300 gallons of water

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Are being added to the unstable pond every minute.

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The pressure is on rookie plant boss, tyson lee,

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To dig over 500 feet of ditches

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To drain the water away.

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It's definitely a fight trying to get

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This water under control.

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And right now, mitch, brennan and I are madly scrambling

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Trying to get it under control

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To the point where we can keep mining this ground.

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mitch installs a pump

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Capable of shifting over 4,000 gallons

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Of water a minute.

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I've been able to pull our dewatering pump.

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This is it right here.

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We're gonna get it put in, start sucking all this water.

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I'll get this dried out,

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So we can actually see what's going on here.

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Whoo!

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You can see already how much

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The water table's dropping.

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These ponds are starting to drain over here.

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You know what, you guys? I want you way back out of the way

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Because if this berm blows,

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It'll wipe every one of you out, and you guys can't around.

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brennan needs to widen the berm

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With coarse tailings.

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But he'll have to drive this 63-tonne d10 dozer

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Onto the unstable 30-foot berm.

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I know as good as anyone here

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That if this berm blows out, our season could be over.

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Between the three of us,

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I have the most dozer experience,

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But it still doesn't mean that this

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Can't go wrong in a second.

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As you can see, my tracks are right

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On the  edge of this.

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This does not feel good underneath of me at all.

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Whoa-oh-oh.

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get out of the way!

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Whoa-oh-oh.

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Right. I'm gonna enter this.

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in the airstrip cut,

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Brennan's 63-tonne d10 dozer

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Is hanging off the edge of an unstable 30-foot berm.

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Feel that for a dead drop, holy man.

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That could have been bad.

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Well, I'm finally to the point

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Where I'm starting to feel a little bit more comfortable.

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Bringing a bunch of this coarse tailings over.

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Starting to get a lot more width to it.

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And, uh, building the strength up to this thing.

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Whoo!

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Quite happy that's over with.

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I got this wider now, and I feel a lot safer about it.

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I'm glad this is over with.

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with the berm fixed,

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Mitch, brennan, and tyson, race to meet parker's goal,

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Mining out the airstrip cut before winter shuts them down.

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So we have no more worries about having that thing

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Blow out anymore,

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Which, uh, I think we're all a little bit

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More nervous of it than we were showing.

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So I'm happy that we're ready to roll,

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You know, it's just time to get back to digging pay.

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we're well over halfway through the season right now.

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Uh, we've had some bumps along the way.

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You know, we had a major late start,

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And, uh, don't even get me started on the deep cut.

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What a  disaster that was.

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with just over a month

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Until the end of the season,

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Rick ness' 1,000-ounce season goal is finally

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Within his grasp.

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I've got a great team behind me this year,

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And, uh, just gotta hope we don't hit any major snags

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And just gotta keep the momentum up.

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You don't stop, there's no lunch breaks,

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No coffee breaks.

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You literally just put your head down

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And get going to work every day.

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This year's strategy for as far as spending,

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Is just not spending.

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You know, I don't have the money to spend,

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So, you know, just keeping it simple.

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That's gonna be the key to getting back on track.

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You know, after a year like last year,

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We're getting what we need and what we need only,

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And anything else is, uh, you know,

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We're gonna have to do without.

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are you excited to have

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Another trucker on board?

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am I excited to have another trucker on board?

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Yeah, have you been lonely trucking by yourself?

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Yeah, it's nice to be able to honk at somebody

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Every once, uh, when you drive by.

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you're driving like a granny.

264
00:17:19,770 --> 00:17:20,770
Oh, !

265
00:17:23,170 --> 00:17:24,170
Hey, carl, you gotta get down here.

266
00:17:27,510 --> 00:17:29,810
the lay flat hose that feeds water

267
00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,740
To the wash plant has split.

268
00:17:35,980 --> 00:17:38,120
Shut the pump off. Shut the pump off!

269
00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,150
yeah, rick, we got a, uh,

270
00:17:41,190 --> 00:17:42,590
We got a hole on this lay flat, dude.

271
00:17:42,620 --> 00:17:44,460
It's, uh... She's toast.

272
00:17:44,490 --> 00:17:46,530
We're gonna have to do something different.

273
00:17:50,570 --> 00:17:52,530
until the hose is fixed,

274
00:17:52,570 --> 00:17:54,830
Rick's plant is shut down,

275
00:17:54,870 --> 00:17:58,400
Losing him almost $2,000 every hour.

276
00:17:58,440 --> 00:17:59,640
What's going on, carl?

277
00:17:59,670 --> 00:18:02,340
So this lay flat, obviously, isn't holding up, right? So...

278
00:18:02,380 --> 00:18:04,110
-Huh. -What're we gonna do about it?

279
00:18:05,650 --> 00:18:08,680
eleven weeks ago, the lay flat burst,

280
00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,450
Shutting down the plant.

281
00:18:10,490 --> 00:18:12,250
Holy  mud.

282
00:18:12,290 --> 00:18:13,050
Whoa!

283
00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,760
working with junk, man.

284
00:18:16,790 --> 00:18:18,890
rick ordered a quick fix.

285
00:18:18,930 --> 00:18:20,590
fire it up, see what it looks like.

286
00:18:21,530 --> 00:18:23,100
A two-dollar fix. That will get us through

287
00:18:23,130 --> 00:18:24,160
Another week probably.

288
00:18:26,570 --> 00:18:28,840
but now he's paying the price.

289
00:18:28,870 --> 00:18:31,000
yeah, I mean, that sucks.

290
00:18:32,010 --> 00:18:34,110
I mean, the rigid pipe that we have is ten-inch

291
00:18:34,140 --> 00:18:35,370
And that lay flat, six.

292
00:18:35,410 --> 00:18:37,610
I mean, we could put the lay flat through it.

293
00:18:37,650 --> 00:18:39,450
I mean, that should keep the rocks off it,

294
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,310
Keep it from getting punctured.

295
00:18:41,350 --> 00:18:43,880
rick's plan to feed the lay flat hose

296
00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:47,490
Through sections of ten-inch hard pipe is cheap

297
00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,990
And should take just a couple of hours.

298
00:18:50,020 --> 00:18:52,160
if this is just a band-aid, right, like, uh, you know,

299
00:18:52,190 --> 00:18:54,230
It's a good chance that it's gonna do the same thing it just did, right?

300
00:18:54,260 --> 00:18:55,290
-Yeah. - you know what I mean?

301
00:18:55,330 --> 00:18:57,160
-I don't want to be, uh... -I don't either.

302
00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,660
I don't want to be digging it up again.

303
00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:01,470
carl wants to replace the lay flat hose

304
00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:03,640
With all hard pipe,

305
00:19:03,670 --> 00:19:07,010
But rick will need to hire in a fusion machine,

306
00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,210
And it'll take at least a day to fuse the pipe,

307
00:19:10,250 --> 00:19:13,950
Costing over $20,000 in lost gold.

308
00:19:13,980 --> 00:19:16,520
Are you sure you don't want to fix this properly? Like, you know.

309
00:19:16,550 --> 00:19:17,980
The best scenario is what you want, right?

310
00:19:18,020 --> 00:19:19,790
We fuse the pipe, and we put a hard line

311
00:19:19,820 --> 00:19:21,390
From pump to plant.

312
00:19:21,420 --> 00:19:23,820
But, you know, we don't have a fusion machine.

313
00:19:23,860 --> 00:19:26,430
And I can't afford to shut the wash plant down for that long.

314
00:19:26,460 --> 00:19:29,300
So I guess we just take some of that hard pipe that we have

315
00:19:29,330 --> 00:19:32,630
And I'm gonna lay flat with it and hope for the best.

316
00:19:32,670 --> 00:19:33,830
let's get at her, then.

317
00:19:33,870 --> 00:19:34,800
Right.

318
00:19:54,420 --> 00:19:55,920
nice. Looks pretty clean.

319
00:19:58,090 --> 00:19:59,590
Oh, there's champ. He's gonna help.

320
00:20:03,970 --> 00:20:05,400
We need a better flashlight.

321
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,040
Can you see anything?

322
00:20:09,070 --> 00:20:11,640
No, you're nowhere near my end.

323
00:20:11,670 --> 00:20:13,410
Okay, . That ain't gonna work, then.

324
00:20:14,210 --> 00:20:16,540
what do you recommend?

325
00:20:16,580 --> 00:20:19,150
well, we're standing on it. Gravity should pull it down, right?

326
00:20:19,180 --> 00:20:23,450
Uh, maybe up on... I'll set the one end up on the plant maybe, huh?

327
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:24,920
yeah. I'll come up there, then. Yeah.

328
00:20:31,330 --> 00:20:32,590
Watch yourself.

329
00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,810
- yeah, look at that. - she got it.

330
00:20:46,740 --> 00:20:48,170
Don't let that go through.

331
00:20:48,210 --> 00:20:49,610
she keeps yanking on it.

332
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,040
- stop yanking on it.

333
00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:51,880
Okay.

334
00:20:59,250 --> 00:21:00,750
That's a , everybody.

335
00:21:00,790 --> 00:21:02,090
Okay, so, clamps?

336
00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:04,090
after three hours down,

337
00:21:04,130 --> 00:21:07,330
Rick connects the hose to the water supply.

338
00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:11,900
Now he just has to hope that this fix will last him

339
00:21:11,930 --> 00:21:14,970
The rest of the season.

340
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,040
Well, we shouldn't have any more problems with this lay flat.

341
00:21:17,070 --> 00:21:18,640
I mean, we've got it armored now.

342
00:21:18,670 --> 00:21:19,810
It's hard pipe over it all.

343
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,370
It will be buried under the road,

344
00:21:21,410 --> 00:21:22,380
So nothing can burst it.

345
00:21:22,410 --> 00:21:23,380
It should be good.

346
00:21:30,620 --> 00:21:32,180
coming up...

347
00:21:32,220 --> 00:21:33,820
we're barely keeping up.

348
00:21:33,860 --> 00:21:35,050
This cut will be flooded in no time.

349
00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:47,170
at paradise hill,

350
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,140
Tony beets is on the hunt for new ground.

351
00:21:59,710 --> 00:22:01,880
he's found pay dirt left behind

352
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,380
By the old-timers.

353
00:22:03,420 --> 00:22:05,250
All right.

354
00:22:05,290 --> 00:22:08,550
and called in drilling expert liam ferguson

355
00:22:08,590 --> 00:22:11,720
To find out how far the pay streak extends

356
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,130
Under the hill side.

357
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:16,200
yeah.

358
00:22:18,770 --> 00:22:19,570
okay.

359
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:21,830
Well, we're all set up, ready to go.

360
00:22:21,870 --> 00:22:23,500
So we'll put a few holes in and...

361
00:22:30,710 --> 00:22:31,540
For sure.

362
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,150
all right. See you, tony.

363
00:22:39,990 --> 00:22:42,790
drilling comes with a big price.

364
00:22:42,820 --> 00:22:46,090
$20,000 for just two test holes.

365
00:22:48,530 --> 00:22:51,700
Liam will drill the holes 300 feet apart

366
00:22:51,730 --> 00:22:55,030
To find out how far the pay streak extends.

367
00:22:58,940 --> 00:23:00,770
tony's just marked this spot for us.

368
00:23:00,810 --> 00:23:03,340
We're just getting set up here.

369
00:23:03,380 --> 00:23:05,010
Well, we'll drill this one down,

370
00:23:05,050 --> 00:23:07,010
Um, take the samples,

371
00:23:07,050 --> 00:23:08,580
And then head back to wash it off,

372
00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:10,750
And we should figure out from that

373
00:23:10,790 --> 00:23:12,390
If it's worth mining or not.

374
00:23:15,860 --> 00:23:17,890
Snow in September is a little bit strange,

375
00:23:17,930 --> 00:23:20,690
But we're just gonna have to suck it up

376
00:23:20,730 --> 00:23:21,560
And deal with it, I guess.

377
00:23:26,370 --> 00:23:30,570
the sonic drill vibrates 150 times a second,

378
00:23:30,610 --> 00:23:32,810
Allowing the hollow shaft

379
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,370
To collect a clean core sample.

380
00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:02,370
tony has high expectations for this ground.

381
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,800
He has a lot riding on it, so I really hope we can

382
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,010
Find him some good gold.

383
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,870
We're gonna get these samples

384
00:24:07,910 --> 00:24:09,070
Washed up here pretty soon,

385
00:24:09,110 --> 00:24:10,910
And then we'll know for sure.

386
00:24:21,390 --> 00:24:22,760
at indian river,

387
00:24:22,790 --> 00:24:25,520
Parker schnabel's running two wash plants

388
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,190
In the airstrip cut

389
00:24:27,230 --> 00:24:30,360
In a bid to sluice the entire 26 acres

390
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,800
Before winter.

391
00:24:37,770 --> 00:24:40,270
This year's been unseasonably wet.

392
00:24:40,310 --> 00:24:42,840
We just had a nasty rainstorm all night,

393
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,210
Half the morning, and,

394
00:24:45,250 --> 00:24:47,180
You know, we're just trying to keep this cut dried out,

395
00:24:47,220 --> 00:24:49,080
And it seems like every time you go check the pumps,

396
00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:50,120
The water table just keeps

397
00:24:50,150 --> 00:24:51,920
Coming up and up instead of dropping.

398
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:57,360
Look at that, tabarnak, it's

399
00:24:57,390 --> 00:24:58,990
Water everywhere, man.

400
00:24:59,030 --> 00:25:03,460
operator jm mercier is digging pay for sluicifer.

401
00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:06,230
We need to pump as soon as possible.

402
00:25:06,270 --> 00:25:08,570
I can't continue digging that stuff right now.

403
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,070
I can't even tell if I'm digging into pay.

404
00:25:12,740 --> 00:25:14,270
hey, mitch, can you hear me?

405
00:25:15,210 --> 00:25:17,440
yeah, go ahead, jm, what's up?

406
00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:21,250
I'm a little bit concerned about the water here.

407
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,550
It's kind of a mess right now.

408
00:25:22,580 --> 00:25:24,850
We can check the pump, I think it's not running.

409
00:25:24,890 --> 00:25:26,390
As soon as you can will be perfect.

410
00:25:26,420 --> 00:25:28,590
All right, man, I'll come over and take a look at it.

411
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:31,190
Thank you, my friend.

412
00:25:33,230 --> 00:25:34,960
We're barely keeping up. With this one down,

413
00:25:35,030 --> 00:25:36,600
This cut will be flooded in no time.

414
00:25:36,630 --> 00:25:38,100
So I got to figure something out here

415
00:25:38,130 --> 00:25:40,700
And get it back up and going.

416
00:25:40,740 --> 00:25:43,470
the pump mitch installed has failed,

417
00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:46,670
And the water level in the cut is rising.

418
00:25:46,710 --> 00:25:49,840
He needs to make a quick fix before the pay becomes

419
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,510
Too wet to dig,

420
00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:54,280
Forcing the wash plants to shut down.

421
00:25:58,750 --> 00:26:01,320
what's goin' on, mitch? That thing run out of fuel or what?

422
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:02,920
It's this alternator here,

423
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,160
And unfortunately, it's not charging.

424
00:26:06,190 --> 00:26:08,030
Without the alternator, the pump won't run

425
00:26:08,060 --> 00:26:09,730
'cause it won't stay charged, right?

426
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,260
We need this pump more than ever right now, too.

427
00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:14,300
let's just go back to the yard and see what we got.

428
00:26:25,050 --> 00:26:26,510
let's hope we have an alternator, buddy.

429
00:26:26,510 --> 00:26:27,510
you wanna look in there?

430
00:26:27,550 --> 00:26:28,810
-I'll look in here? -Okay.

431
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,120
Doesn't look too promising.

432
00:26:35,290 --> 00:26:37,120
I don't think there's anything in this sea can.

433
00:26:39,430 --> 00:26:41,330
-Looks like you found one. - not the right one.

434
00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:42,960
And that's everything we got, I mean...

435
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,060
so what are we gonna do?

436
00:26:49,270 --> 00:26:50,370
I think I got an idea.

437
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,070
yeah? All right. Well, let's hear it.

438
00:26:52,110 --> 00:26:54,210
I mean, what's an alternator do?

439
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:55,980
-Powers it up. -Charges the battery, right?

440
00:26:56,010 --> 00:26:58,680
-Yep. -What's a battery charger do?

441
00:26:58,710 --> 00:27:01,510
Charges a battery, right?

442
00:27:01,550 --> 00:27:04,120
man, this thing looks like a nightmare.

443
00:27:04,150 --> 00:27:05,550
using an old charger,

444
00:27:05,590 --> 00:27:08,390
Mitch is hoping he can bypass the alternator

445
00:27:08,420 --> 00:27:10,960
And charge the pump's battery directly.

446
00:27:10,990 --> 00:27:12,320
I don't know if it works,

447
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,730
But it's definitely been around a while.

448
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,200
Probably older than you and I combined.

449
00:27:16,230 --> 00:27:18,660
Yeah, it looks like it's been through a few wars.

450
00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:21,000
So we got half the puzzle here.

451
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,440
But the next thing is, we need a way to power this.

452
00:27:25,070 --> 00:27:27,310
a whole bunch of generators up here.

453
00:27:27,340 --> 00:27:29,740
that's why we don't ever throw anything away.

454
00:27:29,780 --> 00:27:32,310
Now, the next step, is this thing gonna run?

455
00:27:34,250 --> 00:27:35,710
See if it'll start, brennan.

456
00:27:36,620 --> 00:27:38,880
-try it out.

457
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,790
yeah!

458
00:27:55,870 --> 00:27:58,100
oh, man, easy.

459
00:27:59,910 --> 00:28:01,510
you good?

460
00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:04,040
yeah, I gotta get a little closer, I think.

461
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:05,680
So how is this all going to work, mitch?

462
00:28:05,710 --> 00:28:07,450
Like, what's your whole plan of attack here?

463
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,950
So this is creating power for this.

464
00:28:09,980 --> 00:28:12,020
And this is creating power for the pump.

465
00:28:12,050 --> 00:28:14,220
- right. - come on, baby.

466
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:17,360
- one pull only? - yeah.

467
00:28:17,390 --> 00:28:18,460
oh, yeah.

468
00:28:20,660 --> 00:28:23,030
Well, that's a good sign.

469
00:28:23,060 --> 00:28:25,100
-Try it out, see what we got?

470
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,140
we'll see if it comes on here.

471
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,650
-Yeah, buddy! -Whoo!  yeah!

472
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,750
Let's get this water table down.

473
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:52,420
It might not be pretty,

474
00:28:52,460 --> 00:28:54,530
It might not be the best way to do it,

475
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:55,630
But, hey, it's simple,

476
00:28:55,660 --> 00:28:58,100
It's what we had laying around here and it works.

477
00:28:58,130 --> 00:28:59,970
with the pump up and running

478
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,230
And operators digging pay,

479
00:29:02,270 --> 00:29:05,900
The crew still has a chance to mine out the airstrip

480
00:29:05,940 --> 00:29:07,570
In record time.

481
00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:26,990
We're on a really tight timeframe

482
00:29:27,030 --> 00:29:28,130
For the rest of the season,

483
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,430
And we've gotta scratch every last bit of pay

484
00:29:30,460 --> 00:29:31,260
Out of the cut.

485
00:29:33,030 --> 00:29:36,470
at lower duncan creek, the ness crew races

486
00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:38,240
To make up for downtime

487
00:29:38,270 --> 00:29:42,010
Caused by a burst lay-flat hose.

488
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,340
Honestly, you have to expect things to go wrong.

489
00:29:45,380 --> 00:29:48,380
So it's... It's how you act when things do go wrong

490
00:29:48,420 --> 00:29:51,750
And how quickly you can adapt to change them.

491
00:30:13,140 --> 00:30:15,240
this is absolute dog , man.

492
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,440
The lay-flat's leaking inside the case.

493
00:30:19,110 --> 00:30:21,480
-You gonna copy, rick?

494
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:22,750
Yeah, you better get down here.

495
00:30:22,780 --> 00:30:25,880
only three days after making the fix,

496
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,950
The lay-flat hose inside the hard pipe

497
00:30:28,990 --> 00:30:31,220
Has burst again.

498
00:30:31,260 --> 00:30:33,290
Look, I'm done with this , man. We gotta...

499
00:30:33,330 --> 00:30:35,660
-We gotta get it fixed properly, here, right? - I agree.

500
00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:37,160
What the are we gonna do, though?

501
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,900
I say we hardline it.

502
00:30:38,930 --> 00:30:41,000
-Yeah. -Well, I mean, how long is that gonna take, carl?

503
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:42,770
You know, you're looking at a day

504
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,170
To put this in, right?

505
00:30:47,110 --> 00:30:48,470
I don't think we have a choice.

506
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,080
Yeah,  it, I'm in.

507
00:30:52,110 --> 00:30:53,780
-You're in? Okay, I can do that. -All right.

508
00:30:53,810 --> 00:30:56,180
-Let's do it. All right. -All right.

509
00:30:56,220 --> 00:31:00,250
this time, rick agrees to carl's lasting fix,

510
00:31:00,290 --> 00:31:05,090
But the downtime will cost him over $20,000 in lost gold.

511
00:31:06,290 --> 00:31:07,830
We're doing really what we should

512
00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:08,990
Have done right off the bat,

513
00:31:09,030 --> 00:31:11,160
Is we're going to replace all this lay-flat hose

514
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,000
To our pump with hard hdpe pipe.

515
00:31:14,030 --> 00:31:15,470
We just got to get it done quick.

516
00:31:22,540 --> 00:31:24,380
oh, it's the real deal, man.

517
00:31:25,580 --> 00:31:28,750
to fuse together sections of hard pipe,

518
00:31:28,820 --> 00:31:32,750
New crew member ben bellai brings in the fusion machine.

519
00:31:32,790 --> 00:31:34,850
So this thing is a 618 fuser.

520
00:31:34,890 --> 00:31:37,390
So basically, what we're going to do is take this ten-inch pipe,

521
00:31:37,420 --> 00:31:39,760
Um, and basically slam them together,

522
00:31:39,790 --> 00:31:40,930
Fuse it all together,

523
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,360
Uh, face it, heat it up.

524
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,760
Put a ton of pressure to it

525
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,770
And then fuse a bunch of lengths of pipe.

526
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,470
with the wash plant shut down,

527
00:31:53,510 --> 00:31:57,810
Ben must now create 230 feet of hard line pipe

528
00:31:57,850 --> 00:31:59,980
In just one day.

529
00:32:00,010 --> 00:32:01,750
end of the day, we're gonna have more downtime

530
00:32:01,780 --> 00:32:03,820
If we do stuff not properly here, right?

531
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,650
This will... This is going to pay off in the end.

532
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,000
Yeah, this time of year, when the plant's down, it's never good, man.

533
00:32:17,030 --> 00:32:18,730
It's crunch time, so we got to get this done

534
00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:21,200
As quick as we can, get back up and running.

535
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,980
the fusion machine heats the two ends of the pipe

536
00:32:30,010 --> 00:32:32,310
At 400 degrees fahrenheit,

537
00:32:32,350 --> 00:32:34,510
Fusing them together with pressure.

538
00:32:42,020 --> 00:32:44,920
Nice. Here's the final piece of this guy.

539
00:32:48,930 --> 00:32:50,360
Let's take a look at it, everybody.

540
00:32:51,630 --> 00:32:52,560
Looks good, eh?

541
00:32:53,770 --> 00:32:55,600
oh-ho, yeah, real clean.

542
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,210
carl and ben must now transport

543
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,510
The fused sections of pipeline

544
00:33:02,540 --> 00:33:05,880
Across the claim and through the creek.

545
00:33:09,580 --> 00:33:12,080
Reason why we're going this slow is, I do not want

546
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,320
To damage any equipment.

547
00:33:13,350 --> 00:33:14,350
We're doing good right now,

548
00:33:14,390 --> 00:33:15,850
So let's not jinx it.

549
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,230
Coming up to the creek right now.

550
00:33:22,260 --> 00:33:23,800
at this time of year,

551
00:33:23,830 --> 00:33:26,630
The creek runs fast with rainwater.

552
00:33:26,670 --> 00:33:30,440
The force could be enough to drag the pipe downstream.

553
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:33,940
Well, we're in the river now.

554
00:33:36,910 --> 00:33:39,540
Holy...

555
00:33:39,580 --> 00:33:42,150
Now it's up to the doors. Oof!

556
00:33:44,990 --> 00:33:47,350
One good thing is, we got clean tires now.

557
00:33:59,170 --> 00:34:00,630
We gotta get this pipe in here right away,

558
00:34:00,670 --> 00:34:02,970
'cause every moment that we are not running water,

559
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,900
We're not getting gold.

560
00:34:04,940 --> 00:34:06,770
That's why we're hustling our ass right now.

561
00:34:09,110 --> 00:34:11,680
You guys get out of the way, I'm just gonna swing this .

562
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,790
-Right there, buddy. -Down, down, down!

563
00:34:24,830 --> 00:34:26,360
Perfect.

564
00:34:26,390 --> 00:34:29,590
carl clamps the sections of pipe together.

565
00:34:29,630 --> 00:34:31,830
-We are so close right now. -Yeah, we're so close.

566
00:34:31,870 --> 00:34:33,370
Uh, like, this is our last flange.

567
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,070
We get this tightened up. We're gonna run it.

568
00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:36,870
We'll see if we got any leaks.

569
00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:39,000
And then we'll bury this thing, so we're close.

570
00:34:44,950 --> 00:34:46,680
We're actually gonna put in a bigger pump, too,

571
00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:47,950
Which is gonna give us a lot more pressure.

572
00:34:50,250 --> 00:34:52,450
This is gonna improve the yardage that we can run through the plant,

573
00:34:52,490 --> 00:34:53,890
And that's the whole point.

574
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,590
with the new hard pipe,

575
00:34:55,620 --> 00:34:58,390
Rick can now run a more powerful pump,

576
00:34:58,430 --> 00:35:02,460
Allowing him to run 20% more dirt every hour.

577
00:35:12,370 --> 00:35:14,840
Just swinging the pump into position right now.

578
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,780
We just got to get it done and get back around it,

579
00:35:21,820 --> 00:35:22,780
And that's all that matters.

580
00:35:29,620 --> 00:35:30,820
Perfect.

581
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:38,800
Good job, buddy.

582
00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:43,370
Turn this  around and start this thing up.

583
00:35:53,450 --> 00:35:55,950
that's a lot of water!

584
00:35:57,050 --> 00:35:58,280
So we got it fixed properly now,

585
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,190
We're not gonna have to deal with this again this year.

586
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:03,660
Awesome.

587
00:36:03,690 --> 00:36:05,960
the downtime has cost rick

588
00:36:05,990 --> 00:36:08,830
$22,000 in lost gold.

589
00:36:08,860 --> 00:36:12,760
But the new pump allows him to run the plant faster,

590
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,700
And he should make it back in under a week.

591
00:36:15,740 --> 00:36:17,470
Well, I'm glad we finally took the time

592
00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:18,670
To put in the new water system.

593
00:36:18,710 --> 00:36:20,670
Uh, the great thing is that it's going to allow us

594
00:36:20,710 --> 00:36:22,440
To run an extra 20 yards an hour.

595
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:23,940
That's an extra two ounces of gold a day,

596
00:36:23,980 --> 00:36:25,680
Another four grand in our pocket.

597
00:36:25,710 --> 00:36:27,980
That  adds up.

598
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,260
it's lunchtime at duncan creek.

599
00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:43,160
Rick has a new use

600
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,830
For the fusion machine's heater element.

601
00:36:45,870 --> 00:36:47,700
-Ooh, casa d'mama! - yeah!

602
00:36:47,730 --> 00:36:50,100
-Yeah! -Y'all were talking, boys, hot lunch.

603
00:36:50,140 --> 00:36:51,570
yeah, cook it.

604
00:36:51,610 --> 00:36:53,470
We turned it up to about 480.

605
00:36:53,510 --> 00:36:54,570
- yeah. - four-eighty.

606
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,110
now we're talking.

607
00:36:57,140 --> 00:36:58,480
Does that smell good, buddy?

608
00:36:58,510 --> 00:36:59,840
That's not for you, that's for us.

609
00:37:04,420 --> 00:37:05,880
she's taking the best parts, too.

610
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,060
-Shall we cut it right on it? -Yeah, cut it right on it.

611
00:37:12,190 --> 00:37:13,690
Oh, !

612
00:37:13,730 --> 00:37:16,030
-it's okay, we can still eat it.

613
00:37:16,060 --> 00:37:17,660
yeah, two-second rule.

614
00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:19,800
- it's hot. - I'll get this.

615
00:37:19,870 --> 00:37:22,130
I forgot this wasn't an actual table.

616
00:37:22,170 --> 00:37:24,000
This is actually a pretty good idea, boys.

617
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:25,740
This is a really good idea.

618
00:37:25,770 --> 00:37:27,770
Here, champ, you can have that.

619
00:37:27,810 --> 00:37:29,910
Here you go, got a big piece right here.

620
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,910
- good, get it.

621
00:37:44,060 --> 00:37:46,630
the king of the klondike, tony beets,

622
00:37:46,660 --> 00:37:48,930
Needs to find new ground.

623
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,430
After prospecting a piece of land

624
00:37:51,470 --> 00:37:53,430
On the other side of the mega cut,

625
00:37:53,470 --> 00:37:56,230
He's meeting with drilling expert, liam ferguson,

626
00:37:56,270 --> 00:37:58,900
To find out if it holds big gold.

627
00:38:00,970 --> 00:38:02,210
Yeah, always busy.

628
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,810
we found some pretty interesting stuff.

629
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,010
I've got you a map here.

630
00:38:16,860 --> 00:38:17,660
yep.

631
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,130
First hole,

632
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:21,460
Not so good.

633
00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:24,030
It looks like some false bedrock in there.

634
00:38:26,070 --> 00:38:27,730
that threw us off a bit.

635
00:38:31,670 --> 00:38:33,310
But in the second hole,

636
00:38:33,340 --> 00:38:35,070
We saw some pretty good grades.

637
00:38:36,740 --> 00:38:37,780
Yeah.

638
00:38:44,180 --> 00:38:47,650
We're looking at about ounce per 100 yards.

639
00:38:47,690 --> 00:38:48,720
Mmm-hmm.

640
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,790
Getting a little better near the bottom upwards

641
00:38:50,820 --> 00:38:52,320
To an ounce a quarter, an ounce and a half.

642
00:38:53,860 --> 00:38:54,660
yeah.

643
00:38:56,660 --> 00:38:59,200
at that rate, the ground would be

644
00:38:59,230 --> 00:39:01,130
Even richer than the mega cut.

645
00:39:01,170 --> 00:39:03,070
One week of mining here

646
00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:06,970
Could earn tony nearly a million dollars.

647
00:39:07,940 --> 00:39:08,740
all right.

648
00:39:10,780 --> 00:39:11,640
all right, see you, tony.

649
00:39:32,570 --> 00:39:34,600
after getting the good news,

650
00:39:34,630 --> 00:39:37,870
Tony heads back to camp for the weekly gold weigh.

651
00:39:39,070 --> 00:39:40,340
- hi. - hey.

652
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,440
Oh, non-stop like usual.

653
00:39:44,710 --> 00:39:46,910
So how was everybody's week?

654
00:39:50,650 --> 00:39:51,520
yeah.

655
00:40:07,030 --> 00:40:09,730
So did you find anything when you went exploring?

656
00:40:18,380 --> 00:40:19,380
that's good.

657
00:40:19,410 --> 00:40:20,950
Yeah, it's getting harder and harder these days.

658
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,520
You gotta find your next best ground.

659
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:29,850
Are we gonna weigh some gold, then?

660
00:40:32,690 --> 00:40:34,360
so far this season,

661
00:40:34,390 --> 00:40:37,960
The trommel has averaged 200 ounces every week.

662
00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:42,430
Forty, 60, 65, 70, 80,

663
00:40:42,470 --> 00:40:46,440
100, 150, 160, 170,

664
00:40:46,470 --> 00:40:51,680
200, 240, 270, 280, 290,

665
00:40:51,710 --> 00:40:55,680
300. 308.16.

666
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:57,380
the biggest gold weigh

667
00:40:57,420 --> 00:40:59,580
The beets have had this season,

668
00:40:59,620 --> 00:41:03,820
Worth close to $600,000.

669
00:41:07,060 --> 00:41:08,830
that's not a bad haul for this.

670
00:41:08,860 --> 00:41:09,860
no, that's pretty good.

671
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:12,400
yeah.

672
00:41:15,140 --> 00:41:16,300
Yeah.

673
00:41:16,340 --> 00:41:18,470
So what's our season total, like, now?

674
00:41:18,510 --> 00:41:22,070
2,317.68.

675
00:41:22,110 --> 00:41:27,580
So we're only 700 ounces away from

676
00:41:27,610 --> 00:41:29,050
Tony's goal.

677
00:41:41,190 --> 00:41:43,030
having found new ground,

678
00:41:43,060 --> 00:41:45,330
And had their biggest weigh of the season,

679
00:41:45,370 --> 00:41:48,830
The tide is finally turning for the king of the klondike.

680
00:41:48,870 --> 00:41:51,540
I mean, we're not quite where we wanna be yet.

681
00:41:53,340 --> 00:41:54,410
Well, it's like I always said,

682
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,370
Don't count your chickens till they're hatched.

683
00:41:57,580 --> 00:41:59,580
Well, you better check up on everybody.

684
00:42:03,380 --> 00:42:04,550
Can you just  off?

685
00:42:07,490 --> 00:42:09,390
No, I'm gonna cook supper for you.

686
00:42:13,990 --> 00:42:14,960
Bye.

687
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:28,470
after a week of breakdowns,

688
00:42:28,510 --> 00:42:31,880
Rick and the crew sit down to weigh their gold.

689
00:42:35,780 --> 00:42:39,220
Well, it's gonna be a light week, I can tell you that.

690
00:42:39,250 --> 00:42:40,920
- so, like, how light? -Well,

691
00:42:40,950 --> 00:42:43,720
You think about what we've dealt with, right? I mean, uh,

692
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,120
We had to make some major improvements to the plant.

693
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:47,830
Yeah, well, and it also comes down to that you finally

694
00:42:47,860 --> 00:42:49,130
Let me fix that thing properly,

695
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:50,660
You shut the wash plant down, right? So...

696
00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:52,260
Well, you know how stubborn I get, right?

697
00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:53,360
Like, if that thing's not running,

698
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,030
Then we ain't making any gold, so...

699
00:42:55,070 --> 00:42:57,240
And I've seen how fragile you were when we were putting it in,

700
00:42:57,270 --> 00:42:59,170
And it was taking too long, I could see the smoke

701
00:42:59,210 --> 00:43:00,740
-Coming out of your ears.

702
00:43:00,770 --> 00:43:02,140
There was a string of expletives.

703
00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:04,940
But she's good to go, and most importantly,

704
00:43:04,980 --> 00:43:07,150
Um, it also upped our yardage.

705
00:43:07,180 --> 00:43:08,180
- yeah. -Right?

706
00:43:08,210 --> 00:43:10,580
So, you know, the end result here is that

707
00:43:10,620 --> 00:43:13,120
We probably got it pumped up to 120 yards an hour now.

708
00:43:13,150 --> 00:43:14,790
Pretty impressive for that little screen deck.

709
00:43:14,820 --> 00:43:17,990
Yeah, it is. I mean, we can make up that lost time.

710
00:43:18,020 --> 00:43:18,860
-You bet. -You know?

711
00:43:18,890 --> 00:43:19,820
We certainly can.

712
00:43:19,860 --> 00:43:21,460
We'll take the hit this week, but overall,

713
00:43:21,490 --> 00:43:22,890
We're gonna see the benefits from it.

714
00:43:22,930 --> 00:43:24,400
Hell, yeah.

715
00:43:24,430 --> 00:43:25,600
Well, let's weigh it up.

716
00:43:26,630 --> 00:43:29,100
to hit his 1,000-ounce goal,

717
00:43:29,140 --> 00:43:32,240
Rick needs at least 67 ounces of gold

718
00:43:32,270 --> 00:43:34,570
-Per week. - we're going for it.

719
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:39,780
Five, ten, 40, 30.

720
00:43:39,810 --> 00:43:41,910
Well, it's gonna be over 40 anyway, there we go.

721
00:43:42,820 --> 00:43:45,250
44.55.

722
00:43:46,420 --> 00:43:50,050
only two-thirds of what he needs.

723
00:43:50,090 --> 00:43:51,820
For the time we lost, that's not bad at all.

724
00:43:51,860 --> 00:43:55,230
I don't mind saying 44 is kind of disappointing.

725
00:43:55,260 --> 00:43:57,360
I know that it's not one of our best gold weighs,

726
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,230
And I hate to admit it, but...

727
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,600
If I would have listened to you, carl,

728
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,740
Maybe there would be more gold in the pan.

729
00:44:03,770 --> 00:44:07,470
with the gold total at 642 ounces,

730
00:44:07,510 --> 00:44:11,740
Rick now has just five weeks to hit his season goal

731
00:44:11,780 --> 00:44:14,680
And save his mining career.

732
00:44:14,710 --> 00:44:17,220
I just wanna thank all you guys for busting ass.

733
00:44:17,250 --> 00:44:18,280
yeah.

734
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,050
And ben for getting that fusion  up here.

735
00:44:20,090 --> 00:44:21,250
You guys are  awesome.

736
00:44:21,290 --> 00:44:23,250
You guys are all the reason right here again

737
00:44:23,290 --> 00:44:25,060
Why we have gold, and, uh,

738
00:44:25,090 --> 00:44:28,030
It's not gonna stop. I think with the improvements we've made,

739
00:44:28,060 --> 00:44:29,290
It's only gonna go up from here.

740
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:30,500
- yeah. - pump it out.

741
00:44:30,530 --> 00:44:31,560
- right? - yeah.

742
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:32,760
Well, let's go get after it.

743
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,100
- let's go make money. - let's get after it.

744
00:44:34,130 --> 00:44:35,630
-Yeah. -Do it.

745
00:44:35,670 --> 00:44:36,730
oh, yeah.

746
00:44:48,820 --> 00:44:52,220
one hundred miles west at scribner creek,

747
00:44:52,250 --> 00:44:55,150
The schnabel crew is ready to weigh up.

748
00:44:56,060 --> 00:44:57,190
Junior!

749
00:44:59,230 --> 00:45:00,830
That one was looking like we were gonna kiss here.

750
00:45:06,270 --> 00:45:07,470
How'd it go this week?

751
00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:09,630
I hear there was a little bit of excitement down there.

752
00:45:09,670 --> 00:45:11,770
Yeah, we found a little leak in the berm there.

753
00:45:11,810 --> 00:45:13,710
Well, it wasn't so small actually,

754
00:45:13,740 --> 00:45:16,410
So it was pretty busy trying to get that buttoned up,

755
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,210
So the berm wall didn't blow out and lose all our water

756
00:45:19,250 --> 00:45:20,780
In the pond, right, for sluicifer?

757
00:45:20,810 --> 00:45:23,150
That would have, what, fed back into the cut, or...

758
00:45:23,180 --> 00:45:25,220
Yeah, all over all of our pay, everything.

759
00:45:25,250 --> 00:45:27,190
It's insane, the amount of water in there. Like,

760
00:45:27,220 --> 00:45:29,050
It's just puking out of both sides.

761
00:45:29,090 --> 00:45:30,490
Well, there's the pond on one side

762
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,590
And the river on the other, so...

763
00:45:32,630 --> 00:45:35,030
-Fun stuff. - yeah, man.

764
00:45:35,060 --> 00:45:36,860
Meanwhile, I'm trying to find somewhere to dig dry pay

765
00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:38,260
To keep the wash plants going.

766
00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:40,500
Yeah, trying to keep two plants going at the same time, right?

767
00:45:40,530 --> 00:45:42,570
-Yeah. -Did you lose much sluicing time?

768
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,400
- no. -No, we kept them going,

769
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,870
-But it was... It was... -Touch and go.

770
00:45:46,910 --> 00:45:49,840
Your stomach was turning watching the water levels come up,

771
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,480
But, yeah, we got it fixed, so let's just pray to hell

772
00:45:52,510 --> 00:45:54,480
That it makes it past this season.

773
00:45:54,510 --> 00:45:56,980
Why I'm asking if you lost any sluicing time,

774
00:45:57,020 --> 00:45:59,180
Because this was a very interesting week.

775
00:45:59,220 --> 00:46:01,750
Two plants, both on the same cut,

776
00:46:01,790 --> 00:46:03,920
Basically side-by-side.

777
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,460
We have two pans of gold here.

778
00:46:06,490 --> 00:46:09,030
well, why don't you bust 'em out and show us?

779
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,300
first up, sluicifer's second week

780
00:46:13,330 --> 00:46:14,870
Of airstrip gold.

781
00:46:18,770 --> 00:46:20,940
I'm not doing your little counting up thing.

782
00:46:20,970 --> 00:46:22,310
No, no, you're good.

783
00:46:26,250 --> 00:46:28,810
We're looking at 172.15.

784
00:46:29,820 --> 00:46:33,250
worth $327,000.

785
00:46:34,150 --> 00:46:35,550
That's pretty decent.

786
00:46:37,060 --> 00:46:39,860
Red, on the other hand...

787
00:46:52,370 --> 00:46:55,670
So, from red, we're looking at 145.3.

788
00:46:56,510 --> 00:47:00,910
worth $276,000.

789
00:47:00,950 --> 00:47:03,380
-It's a good week. -Yeah, it's a really good week.

790
00:47:03,420 --> 00:47:05,820
-317 ounces. - 317?

791
00:47:05,850 --> 00:47:08,050
sluicifer and big red

792
00:47:08,090 --> 00:47:13,290
Have pulled in over $600,000 worth of gold.

793
00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:16,330
For the season total, we just broke 6,000 ounces.

794
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:17,660
-Great. -6,002 ounces.

795
00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:18,830
good. All right.

796
00:47:19,570 --> 00:47:20,700
That's sweet.

797
00:47:20,730 --> 00:47:23,300
nearly 2,000 ounces more

798
00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:26,770
Than parker mined this time last year.

799
00:47:30,380 --> 00:47:32,340
Next time on gold rush...

800
00:47:33,550 --> 00:47:35,710
Fred lewis is out of luck...

801
00:47:35,750 --> 00:47:37,220
Hold on, I'm gonna get alex some help.

802
00:47:37,250 --> 00:47:38,180
...And out of pay.

803
00:47:38,220 --> 00:47:40,320
is that everything we got?

804
00:47:40,350 --> 00:47:42,190
Right now, we are dead in the water.

805
00:47:42,220 --> 00:47:46,090
rick ness calls on an old friend.

806
00:47:46,130 --> 00:47:47,690
I think it's in there sideways.

807
00:47:47,730 --> 00:47:49,830
If I don't get our goal this year,

808
00:47:49,860 --> 00:47:51,260
I don't see continuing on.

809
00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:54,030
and parker schnabel

810
00:47:54,070 --> 00:47:57,200
Faces his biggest loss of the season.

811
00:47:57,240 --> 00:47:58,700
it's really smoky.

812
00:47:58,740 --> 00:48:00,340
Grab what you can and get out of there.

813
00:48:00,370 --> 00:48:02,970
I don't want you to even consider not going.

813
00:48:03,305 --> 00:49:03,696
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