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on this gold rush...

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It's a brutal time,

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Like, plants breaking down and conveyor belts icing up.

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This is just getting out of control.

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the schnabel crew battles to keep the wheels turning

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On parker's operation.

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It just adds up.

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There's always more problems going on

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And not enough people to do 'em.

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Right now, the valve came off.

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fred lewis calls in a favor from an old buddy.

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Well, if that was happening in our mine site,

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Parker would come out and not be happy.

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Now he knows our struggles.

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and tony beets pushes his luck.

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you've got to be kidding.

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We're just coming towards, you know, the end.

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And it's a brutal time, like, plants breaking down

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And conveyor belts icing up

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And sluice run's icing up

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And people are tired.

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26-year-old parker schnabel

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Is making up for lost time.

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After the pandemic delayed the start of the season,

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He's fought back hard to be in sight of a record gold haul,

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But winter could hit at any time.

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you know, with mitch leaving, we're pretty short staffed.

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It's very hard to find people

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Whose judgment you trust

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Because not everybody gets it right.

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I'm like, "oh, ,

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I got to wake up

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And probably go to work."

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parker is racing to finish a 26 acre cut at the airstrip.

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He's got three acres of stripped ground left to sluice.

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Short on crew,

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Parker is working in the cut to help get them over the line.

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this time of year, a lot of falls on the mechanic's shoulders.

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And with mitch gone,

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Shane's effectively holding this place together.

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we're nearing the end of the season,

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It's almost done, it's been a long one.

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We've had belt breaks,

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We've had hoppers down, bearings go.

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It never stops.

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in the 250 loader,

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Greenhorn operator tatiana costa,

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Feeds big red.

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So, this year's my first year mining.

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It's my first year,

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Uh, operating heavy machinery,

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So it's all very new and fresh for me.

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It's... You know, it's been a lot of months,

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Working a lot of hours every day,

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So it's... Everyone is starting to definitely getting tired.

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you know, we do need

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A record breaking year this year.

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Um, parker's in search of new ground in alaska.

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And, uh, you know,

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We've been chewing through so much the last few years

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That we're gonna run out sooner than later.

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So, he needs to get something in place asap,

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So we have a future in mining.

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what's wrong with his loader now? It's...

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Hey, guys.

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Brennan, um,

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I don't know if you could hear me,

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But this loader's down, so I'm gonna need your help.

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frustrating.

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I don't think we have any more spare loaders here.

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I don't know the severity of it,

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But I hope it's an easy fix, man,

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'cause this is just getting out of control.

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We'll just have to get shane to look at that.

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They just lost another loader. It's the last one we got.

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It's the only thing running big red right now

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And if it's not running, we're not bringing in any gold.

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I got to shut this down,

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Go back to the yard and fix the loader.

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It never ends.

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every hour big red is down,

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The crew loses almost $4,000 in lost gold.

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We got this loader down,

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But we gotta get it up as soon as possible.

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We got a cracked fitting.

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One more ball, I think we'll have her.

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A little tiny split right there,

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But you can see a stress line all the way across,

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But it's just starting to leak, like, right there.

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this late in the season,

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The team has no spare elbow joints for the hydraulic hose,

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So shane improvises.

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so, I'll probably have to weld

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A few beads across here to seal it up,

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And hopefully it'll work.

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Well, we're gonna put the pressure to it now

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And make sure it's not leaking.

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Send her back to work, wash some rocks.

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shane's bush fix will need to withstand

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7,000 pounds of hydraulic pressure.

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yeah, fire it up.

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-yes!

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It's leaking.

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still leaking?

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Yeah, it's not ideal situation

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'cause you can't see the crack, so...

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We got to pull it out and give it again.

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Shane, man, you got a copy? Shane?

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What's up, brennan?

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Hey, buddy, what's the status on that loader there, man?

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We got to try and get back sluicin'.

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Uh, is it a quick fix,

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Or what'd you figure?

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Eh, we're having a bit of grief.

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We can't get this leak sorted out.

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It's a split in the pipe,

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But we got to pull it out again and try another time.

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And hopefully it'll work 'cause no one in town's gonna have these fittings.

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No way.

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Okay, well...

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When it rains, it pours, eh?

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With mitch being gone,

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I don't know if we need to try and find another mechanic

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For the rest of this season or what.

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Because we can't rely on shane for everything.

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Poor guy is so burnt out, it's not even funny.

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you know, mitch gone now,

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It's kind of all on my plate.

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He had to go, he has no choice,

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But it just adds up.

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There's always more problems going on

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And not enough people to do 'em.

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It just kind of wears on me.

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I don't mind doing it,

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But sometimes it gets pretty old pretty fast.

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And that's the truth.

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Definitely can't afford this much downtime

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This time of the year.

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We got lots to do.

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And to be spending this much time on a hose,

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Kind of wasting everyone's time.

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so far, so good.

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I love that sound.

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I think we got it fixed.

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yeah, she's looking good.

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It's been pretty busy,

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It's kind of comfortable to sit back in the seat here and just pull levers.

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We all good, buddy?

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Nice.

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put this thing back to work,

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Get big red up and running,

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And carry on with our day.

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Nice.

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Good job, taylor.

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the four hours of downtime

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Has cost $15,000 in lost gold.

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Well, now we're sluicin'.

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oh, it's so nice to have the loader back.

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Uh, it's been almost half a shift.

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So, um,

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I'm looking forward to get 'em sluicing

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And put some gold in the bag.

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with just weeks left before the yukon winter puts a freeze

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On mining in paradise hill,

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King of the klondike tony beets

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Is still 700 ounces short of his 3,000-ounce season gold.

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over two seasons, the 18 acre mega cut

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Has produced nearly 4,000 ounces of gold worth over $6 million.

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But now, there's just 35,000 yards of pay left

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In the last corner of the cut.

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There's still five grand here,

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So we're really doing all we can.

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All hands on deck to, uh, get it out

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So we can get pay to the plant

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And get that trommel going and keep it sluicing.

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from digging out the last section of his mega cut,

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Before the end of this season,

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Tony beets has taken one scoop too many,

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Punching a hole in the wall between the cut

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And a two-million gallon tailings pond.

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Oh, no.

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Holy .

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you've got to be kidding me.

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no, I would be pumping the whole  time.

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that ain't gonna stop for a while.

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So, if we're done in the mega cut,

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Where are we gonna get pay for the rest of the season?

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tony's accidentally flooded his mega cut.

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He has just three days of pay dirt stockpile.

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He needs to find new ground fast to keep gold coming in.

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tony is banking on an area of virgin ground

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Between the mega cut and an old cut he knows had good gold.

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good girl.

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It's getting so cold, shoeshine doesn't wanna go outside.

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I don't know how much longer we're gonna get,

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But it's getting cold fast.

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We're in the mood right now,

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Trying to scramble and salvage

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As much as we can from the season.

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with the end of the season closing in,

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Fred lewis and his crew of combat veterans,

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Have mined less than three ounces of gold,

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Not even enough to cover fred's expenses.

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But two weeks ago, fred found a hidden spot

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Under the old mayor's house,

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Which they hope will pay out big.

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We don't have a lot of time to make mistakes.

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We're gonna basically capitalize on every minute we have.

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Mitch from parker's claim,

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Um, he had to basically come and scramble back

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To his house in oregon

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Because of forest fires,

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And now those have settled and he's free.

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So, instead of going back up to the border,

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He's gonna come and give us a hand.

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Right now, I'm just on my way over

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To see fred over in eastern oregon.

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Sounds like they've had a really rough start of the year here.

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parker's mechanic and co-foreman, mitch blaschke,

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Has been mining gold for nearly a decade.

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He and fred worked together

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At parker's claim last season.

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Now, fred's called in a favor

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And asked mitch to come fine-tune his operation

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And help save his season.

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you know, the thing with mining is,

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There's a lot more guys that go broke than guys that make it.

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It's pretty late in the season to be trying to turn things around,

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But I'm gonna go try and help him out the best I can

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And just get some machines fixed

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And to make us some money.

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Well, looks like we're just getting up to the mine site here.

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Let's go check this out.

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-What's happening? -What's happening?

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-How you doing, man? -Long time.

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I'm glad you're here.

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You picked a cold day to come.

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-How's it going? Mitch. -This is kendell.

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-Kendell. -Nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you, too, man.

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See what this thing's all about.

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It's a challenge.

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the lewis crew is working flat out

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After a run of poor gold weighs.

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You have mitch here watching us right now.

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And, uh, it's kind of good to have him here,

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You know, he's a part of parker's team,

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Those guys are usually successful.

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loader operator kyle pletzke

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Drops pay from the mayor's cut through the grizzly bars to remove large boulders...

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It'd be interesting to see what he has to say

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About the way our operation's set up.

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...Then alex voight

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Feeds the pay through wash plant colonel nugget.

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I've got plenty of pay,

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It seems to be going really good today.

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Hopefully, it keeps this way for the rest of the season.

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Hey, fred. Fred.

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You know, I've been talking about the grizzly bars,

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They just frickin' snapped.

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Oh, . We're coming.

263
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What do you mean by "snapped"?

264
00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,750
we got huge rocks that have fallen through.

265
00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,520
That's !

266
00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,660
Definitely what we don't want.

267
00:16:35,690 --> 00:16:37,360
There's no way we can, uh, keep moving pay

268
00:16:37,390 --> 00:16:38,760
With this screwed up like this.

269
00:16:38,790 --> 00:16:40,830
Dude, we've got to get it fixed.

270
00:16:40,860 --> 00:16:44,030
if the rocks aren't sifted out from the pay dirt,

271
00:16:44,070 --> 00:16:48,070
The team runs the risk of destroying the wash plant.

272
00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:50,740
Do you think you could fix something like this?

273
00:16:50,770 --> 00:16:52,040
it's gonna take some time.

274
00:16:52,070 --> 00:16:54,010
I mean, it's not like we're just gonna fix those two bars,

275
00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:55,110
You look at all the rest of it.

276
00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:56,610
Otherwise, the next scoop you put in here,

277
00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,310
We're gonna be right in the same spot, right?

278
00:16:59,350 --> 00:17:01,780
The biggest thing, you gotta be able to keep running.

279
00:17:02,980 --> 00:17:04,280
I'll get my truck over here

280
00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,490
And we'll just start welding and cutting and see what we got.

281
00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,720
Good thing mitch is here because we don't have the ability

282
00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,490
To weld something like this yet.

283
00:17:11,530 --> 00:17:14,590
Uh, it'll give kyle another chance to get a lesson on a welder,

284
00:17:14,630 --> 00:17:18,100
And give mitch a chance to help us out, which is awesome.

285
00:17:18,130 --> 00:17:20,900
It's a really good timing, but at the same time, it sucks.

286
00:17:20,940 --> 00:17:22,370
Things just keep breaking.

287
00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:29,440
Mitch has got the real tools and the real experience,

288
00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,210
And I'm gonna just ask questions,

289
00:17:31,250 --> 00:17:32,350
And that way, when he's gone,

290
00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:34,010
Hopefully I can kind of take over

291
00:17:34,050 --> 00:17:35,280
And know what to do for next time.

292
00:17:36,550 --> 00:17:38,420
One thing that we're gonna do here real quick

293
00:17:38,450 --> 00:17:40,290
-Is pre-heat these a little bit. -Okay.

294
00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,460
You put just a little bit of temperature in there.

295
00:17:42,490 --> 00:17:44,620
It's gonna let it cool down a little bit slower.

296
00:17:44,660 --> 00:17:46,830
It'll just help keep it from cracking up.

297
00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,970
This stuff's nasty, but you'll melt through it.

298
00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,200
Just leave it back and forth.

299
00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:57,840
All right, buddy, give it a try.

300
00:18:01,310 --> 00:18:03,010
That all look pretty good, buddy.

301
00:18:10,190 --> 00:18:12,150
-Good evening, boss. -You guys did great work.

302
00:18:12,950 --> 00:18:13,990
This is fantastic.

303
00:18:14,020 --> 00:18:15,590
Better than when we got it.

304
00:18:15,620 --> 00:18:16,920
Three and four sit here, see?

305
00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:18,990
We've re-welded the center

306
00:18:19,030 --> 00:18:21,190
And re-welded everything down here.

307
00:18:21,230 --> 00:18:22,960
It was all completely re-welded.

308
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,460
So, we're gonna get all the way

309
00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:25,930
Through the rest of the season no problem.

310
00:18:25,970 --> 00:18:28,970
Well, it's, uh, guaranteed till the next time it breaks,

311
00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:30,770
-But... -I'm impressed.

312
00:18:30,810 --> 00:18:32,810
-I want to test it out. -You want to test it out?

313
00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:34,070
Gotta do it. Find the gold.

314
00:18:34,110 --> 00:18:35,270
All righty. Thanks, mitch.

315
00:18:35,310 --> 00:18:36,240
-Whoo! -Yeah, no problem.

316
00:18:40,820 --> 00:18:42,050
Oh, yeah, that looks really good.

317
00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,280
Nothing's moving around, everything looks nice and tight.

318
00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,020
we just got the grizzly up and running.

319
00:18:47,060 --> 00:18:50,060
Now we can get pay from the mayor's cut up to the grizzly

320
00:18:50,090 --> 00:18:51,490
And keep feeding the plant.

321
00:18:51,930 --> 00:18:52,830
Perfect.

322
00:18:52,890 --> 00:18:54,860
We're hoping for a good week.

323
00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,640
Everything's running right now,

324
00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,680
So everything is good.

325
00:19:09,710 --> 00:19:12,110
Ah, this time of year, it's so awesome,

326
00:19:12,150 --> 00:19:16,120
Where all the leaves change, and the colors, and the sun rises.

327
00:19:16,150 --> 00:19:17,850
I mean, it's so beautiful up here.

328
00:19:17,890 --> 00:19:20,950
It just, uh... It amazes me sometimes.

329
00:19:20,990 --> 00:19:25,590
on indian river, parker schnabel's chief mechanic, shane smith,

330
00:19:25,630 --> 00:19:28,260
Starts his day at the airstrip cut.

331
00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:31,160
I got the loader fixed. Hopefully it will last the rest of the season.

332
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,000
It just seems to be a fight to keep everything running.

333
00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,800
Mitch is missing, but, uh,

334
00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,840
Now it's all the weights on my shoulders.

335
00:19:39,870 --> 00:19:43,040
And, uh, I gotta weld, I gotta fabricate,

336
00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,010
I gotta monkey-wrench.

337
00:19:45,050 --> 00:19:48,310
I just keep everything going, and we'll get through it.

338
00:19:53,390 --> 00:19:54,620
What's up, dude?

339
00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:56,790
Well, I don't mean to pin any more on you, buddy,

340
00:19:56,820 --> 00:19:59,760
But, uh, we had the pond get sucked dry there at big red.

341
00:19:59,790 --> 00:20:01,330
how the hell did that happen?

342
00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:03,560
Yeah, see, I went and looked over in the river bank,

343
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,770
And you can see that the river dropped overnight.

344
00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,430
We have to shut down big red.

345
00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,340
We've only dropped two feet of water,

346
00:20:14,380 --> 00:20:15,470
Look at the silt.

347
00:20:15,510 --> 00:20:17,780
- yeah, I know. -It's worked its way in here.

348
00:20:17,810 --> 00:20:19,280
All the tailings have built themselves up.

349
00:20:20,380 --> 00:20:21,710
That's pretty dirty water.

350
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:26,920
See, these part of the runs

351
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,550
Normally are fairly clean,

352
00:20:28,590 --> 00:20:30,660
But that one... Thing's gone,

353
00:20:30,690 --> 00:20:33,490
But it's just packed solid with sand and silt.

354
00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:39,330
big red's pond system is filled with clean water

355
00:20:39,370 --> 00:20:40,900
Fed from the indian river.

356
00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:47,140
But overnight, the river level dropped and cut off the supply.

357
00:20:47,180 --> 00:20:49,010
As the night shift kept working,

358
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,610
The tailings water silted up the pond.

359
00:20:53,650 --> 00:20:57,180
This dirty water was then pumped back through the plant

360
00:20:58,220 --> 00:21:00,320
And clogged the sluice runs.

361
00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:06,090
What's up, pop?

362
00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:10,660
Uh, yeah.

363
00:21:10,670 --> 00:21:12,800
So I don't know how long they ran last night like this.

364
00:21:12,830 --> 00:21:14,570
chris doumitt is responsible

365
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,140
For all the gold clean-ups on the claim.

366
00:21:17,170 --> 00:21:19,110
I don't mean to sound like a pro or anything,

367
00:21:19,140 --> 00:21:20,410
But I don't think those sluice runs

368
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,480
Are supposed to look like that.

369
00:21:22,510 --> 00:21:24,480
So, what happens, that gold's gonna hit that,

370
00:21:24,510 --> 00:21:26,380
It's just gonna... It's not gonna stop.

371
00:21:26,410 --> 00:21:27,650
It's going to the next one, next one,

372
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,250
And keep on going till it's out at the end of the sluice box.

373
00:21:30,290 --> 00:21:32,690
It just takes, like, a few minutes

374
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,650
And these sluice runs

375
00:21:34,690 --> 00:21:36,720
Will load up with that mud and...

376
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,190
Downtime now with gold not coming in,

377
00:21:38,230 --> 00:21:41,030
And how much do you think we could've lost potentially? I don't know.

378
00:21:41,060 --> 00:21:43,100
On a guess, I'd say we probably lost

379
00:21:43,130 --> 00:21:46,530
Somewhere around eight to twelve ounces.

380
00:21:46,570 --> 00:21:48,530
eight to twelve ounces of gold

381
00:21:48,570 --> 00:21:52,510
Is worth $15,000 to $23,000.

382
00:21:52,540 --> 00:21:54,940
We don't wanna go down that road.

383
00:21:58,150 --> 00:21:59,650
There's more to running a plant

384
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,050
Than just putting dirt in a hopper, that's for sure.

385
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,550
You gotta pay attention to the whole...

386
00:22:04,590 --> 00:22:05,690
The whole system.

387
00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:21,630
For  sake.

388
00:22:25,270 --> 00:22:27,070
This is total bull .

389
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:30,640
There's still gold in there,

390
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,980
But it's all packed with silt and mud,

391
00:22:33,010 --> 00:22:34,410
It's really tight.

392
00:22:34,450 --> 00:22:35,780
We're gonna have to wash it in good

393
00:22:35,820 --> 00:22:37,420
When we first start it up.

394
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,320
I want you guys to sort this out yourselves.

395
00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:46,560
With big red shut down,

396
00:22:46,590 --> 00:22:49,260
We got to make sure that sluicifer stays running.

397
00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:57,600
while doumitt cleans the sluice runs

398
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,510
To recover the night-shift gold,

399
00:23:01,310 --> 00:23:02,840
Shane and brennan need to find

400
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,780
A new source of clean water to run to the plant.

401
00:23:06,810 --> 00:23:08,850
what do you think, if we suck out of sluicifer's pond,

402
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,950
It's a little bit closer?

403
00:23:10,990 --> 00:23:13,090
We might make it with that pipeline.

404
00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,860
-Yeah. -That's something we could do.

405
00:23:15,890 --> 00:23:16,860
It'll save us a lot of time.

406
00:23:16,890 --> 00:23:18,760
We can get up and flush everything out

407
00:23:18,790 --> 00:23:20,390
And get going again.

408
00:23:20,430 --> 00:23:22,260
Yeah, true. Well, I like that idea.

409
00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:24,930
I mean, that's your best, quickest option to get back to work.

410
00:23:24,970 --> 00:23:26,530
So, I mean, we might as well just go for it.

411
00:23:26,570 --> 00:23:27,930
-Give it a whirl. -Yeah.

412
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,940
shane's plan is to move big red's pump

413
00:23:34,010 --> 00:23:39,780
Over to sluicifer's still-clean pond 360 yards further upstream.

414
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,720
Well, we gotta get this plant up and running.

415
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,990
It's costing way too much money to be down.

416
00:23:58,670 --> 00:23:59,670
We got it.

417
00:24:02,270 --> 00:24:03,670
Crank it up.

418
00:24:07,710 --> 00:24:09,710
There we go. finally.

419
00:24:09,740 --> 00:24:11,640
after seven-hours downtime,

420
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,920
Costing over $13,000 in lost gold,

421
00:24:15,950 --> 00:24:17,950
Shane fires up the plant.

422
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,350
Well, now we're sluicin'.

423
00:24:22,290 --> 00:24:23,720
Oh, shane...

424
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,560
Thanks again for all your hard work, buddy.

425
00:24:26,290 --> 00:24:27,430
no worries, man.

426
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,060
Yeah, it's been pretty tough.

427
00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:34,570
You're trying to do so much in such a short time.

428
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,870
It's just been one thing after another, just like, "go, go, go."

429
00:24:38,740 --> 00:24:40,870
And, uh, I am ready for some sleep.

430
00:24:58,130 --> 00:25:01,990
after flooding the last of the pay in the mega cut,

431
00:25:02,030 --> 00:25:06,930
Tony's gambling on a new piece of ground to reach his season goal.

432
00:25:06,970 --> 00:25:10,940
He's put youngest son mike in charge of opening this new cut:

433
00:25:10,970 --> 00:25:12,240
The upper cut.

434
00:25:17,810 --> 00:25:18,680
Okay.

435
00:25:21,220 --> 00:25:22,080
Yeah.

436
00:25:43,740 --> 00:25:47,510
tony needs to get down to pay dirt in the upper cut.

437
00:25:47,540 --> 00:25:51,480
Before his current stockpile runs out in just two days,

438
00:25:51,510 --> 00:25:53,580
Mike's assembled a whole fleet

439
00:25:53,610 --> 00:25:59,590
To move more than half a million yards of overburden in record time.

440
00:25:59,620 --> 00:26:02,790
the idea is to clear off a whole section down to pay.

441
00:26:02,820 --> 00:26:04,520
It's a pain in the ass to deal with.

442
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,390
When it rains, it's almost impossible to deal with.

443
00:26:07,430 --> 00:26:09,830
And unfortunately, it rained just before we were gonna be dealing with him.

444
00:26:12,230 --> 00:26:14,770
they tore apart half this hillside.

445
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,640
We ended up... It was so squishy.

446
00:26:17,670 --> 00:26:19,000
Big  mess.

447
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:25,710
here's the soupy mess.

448
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:27,910
If it just stopped raining, maybe we could actually

449
00:26:27,950 --> 00:26:29,520
Get things drying up a little bit.

450
00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:31,750
It's like a skating rink.

451
00:26:31,790 --> 00:26:33,750
It's hard to turn the tire that just slides.

452
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:42,290
Oh, !

453
00:26:47,340 --> 00:26:48,730
Come on, baby. Come on.

454
00:26:52,970 --> 00:26:54,540
That  sucks.

455
00:26:57,910 --> 00:26:59,210
Kevin, you got a copy?

456
00:27:00,180 --> 00:27:01,450
Go for kevin. Go for kevin.

457
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,980
I don't think I'm going anywhere now.

458
00:27:03,020 --> 00:27:04,980
I found another sinkhole here.

459
00:27:05,020 --> 00:27:06,590
We're gonna have to get her to pull us out.

460
00:27:06,620 --> 00:27:07,520
this is not good.

461
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,120
I'll come by with a tow to pull you out.

462
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,320
Copy that.

463
00:27:26,710 --> 00:27:29,240
Yeah, we know we gotta move it. It's right on the  way.

464
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,380
We'll get the cable. Hook it up. Pull it out.

465
00:27:31,410 --> 00:27:33,880
Not a  problem.

466
00:27:33,910 --> 00:27:36,920
a little before this, I had a hard time getting out of this one hole.

467
00:27:36,950 --> 00:27:39,280
This time here, she sunk a little bit deeper.

468
00:27:42,490 --> 00:27:43,520
Well...

469
00:27:46,590 --> 00:27:47,560
There we go.

470
00:27:51,330 --> 00:27:52,970
You can go ahead, kevin. We're good to go.

471
00:27:53,230 --> 00:27:54,030
Yeah.

472
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:04,980
Come on. You stubborn

473
00:28:09,150 --> 00:28:10,720
- whoa, whoa, kevin,

474
00:28:10,750 --> 00:28:13,750
I'm about four feet longer than I was about ten seconds ago.

475
00:28:19,830 --> 00:28:21,130
That's not good.

476
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:22,160
Oh, .

477
00:28:24,330 --> 00:28:25,660
Yeah, that's in two pieces.

478
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,050
It came apart. That's honestly what  happened.

479
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,720
Truck got stuck. I tried to pull it out.

480
00:28:44,750 --> 00:28:46,250
Plop!

481
00:28:46,290 --> 00:28:48,990
kevin beets' attempt to rescue a rock truck

482
00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:51,660
At the upper cut has ended in disaster.

483
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,900
I've never seen a rock truck pull apart yet.

484
00:28:57,930 --> 00:28:59,730
I've seen other breaks, I've seen frame breaks,

485
00:28:59,770 --> 00:29:01,870
But I've not seen one pull in two.

486
00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:03,140
That's a new one for me.

487
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,940
Kevin came along and hooked up the cable, as you can see.

488
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:11,510
And since he gave it a tug, I could tell something went wrong

489
00:29:11,550 --> 00:29:16,150
'cause the front of the truck dropped down and it felt like it got a little bit longer.

490
00:29:16,180 --> 00:29:18,820
And, yeah, as you can see, it's... it did get longer.

491
00:29:21,660 --> 00:29:24,860
kevin uses the d6 to pull the cab clear.

492
00:29:27,090 --> 00:29:30,030
But the body is not designed for towing.

493
00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:35,370
This is just a little, quick little eyelet

494
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,840
That I'm gonna weld on the front.

495
00:29:36,870 --> 00:29:38,270
In that way, when we pick it up,

496
00:29:38,310 --> 00:29:41,010
We'll be able to chain the front to the hitch.

497
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,410
Then that way, the ass end will be hanging down on the ground.

498
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,110
That'll save us running around behind it

499
00:29:45,150 --> 00:29:46,850
With a loader or something like that.

500
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,810
Could make things a little simpler.

501
00:29:48,850 --> 00:29:52,650
welder cody hunter must fabricate a towing point

502
00:29:52,690 --> 00:29:56,120
Strong enough for the 16-ton truck body.

503
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,160
customization.

504
00:30:30,860 --> 00:30:31,920
Very nice.

505
00:30:39,370 --> 00:30:42,400
six hours later, they're back stripping.

506
00:31:10,970 --> 00:31:12,630
with the overburden clear,

507
00:31:12,670 --> 00:31:16,240
Tony can finally run in pay from the new upper cut.

508
00:31:21,310 --> 00:31:23,780
hopefully, we can get more 3,000 ounces.

509
00:31:23,810 --> 00:31:26,710
Just shoving through as much as we can. Fingers crossed.

510
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:38,960
Got some more huff.

511
00:31:39,530 --> 00:31:40,590
New can.

512
00:31:40,630 --> 00:31:41,960
Sometimes they're wore out,

513
00:31:42,030 --> 00:31:44,500
They need a little extra incentive to get going.

514
00:31:44,530 --> 00:31:46,130
at the elkhorn claim,

515
00:31:46,170 --> 00:31:50,870
Parker schnabel's co-foreman and expert mechanic, mitch blaschke,

516
00:31:50,910 --> 00:31:54,370
Is on site to help fred lewis fix broken gear

517
00:31:54,410 --> 00:31:57,610
In the hope of getting big gold out of the mayor's cut,

518
00:31:57,650 --> 00:32:01,150
And saving what's left of his season.

519
00:32:01,180 --> 00:32:04,120
Sometimes you're going through so much starting fluid,

520
00:32:04,150 --> 00:32:06,390
You wonder if it's running of off this or diesel.

521
00:32:10,020 --> 00:32:11,160
Oh, yeah.

522
00:32:13,660 --> 00:32:16,160
-Gotta her up a bit. -Yeah.

523
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,800
both our water ponds here are fed from

524
00:32:18,830 --> 00:32:21,400
-A prior claim owner's hole they had dug. -Yeah.

525
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,040
so we pump up into this pond

526
00:32:24,070 --> 00:32:26,670
And feed these two ponds for running every day.

527
00:32:26,710 --> 00:32:28,010
-Yeah, recirculate. -Yeah.

528
00:32:29,110 --> 00:32:30,310
All right, get ready to fire up.

529
00:32:37,220 --> 00:32:38,550
All right, water's coming.

530
00:32:38,590 --> 00:32:39,690
Fire it up.

531
00:32:43,590 --> 00:32:45,520
Turn it off, lewis!

532
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:47,260
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

533
00:32:47,290 --> 00:32:48,560
fred, shut it down, bud.

534
00:32:48,630 --> 00:32:50,060
Oh, man!

535
00:32:53,170 --> 00:32:54,530
Gonna shut it down.

536
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,000
What's happenin'?

537
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,410
I think it's just not priming right.

538
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,340
the pump that feeds the plant has lost its prime,

539
00:33:04,380 --> 00:33:07,050
And fred's operation is shut down.

540
00:33:08,650 --> 00:33:10,750
Before they can restart the pump,

541
00:33:10,780 --> 00:33:13,520
They must force water into the system

542
00:33:13,550 --> 00:33:15,720
And flush out any air pockets.

543
00:33:17,620 --> 00:33:20,730
So, what I would do...

544
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,000
You got that two-inch line that's feeding that?

545
00:33:23,030 --> 00:33:25,200
-Mm-hmm. -Stuff on the top of that thing,

546
00:33:25,230 --> 00:33:26,700
Get that thing primed full,

547
00:33:26,730 --> 00:33:29,370
-Least just cork it, and start it up. -Okay.

548
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,670
fred's greenhorns used buckets to fill the system by hand,

549
00:33:33,710 --> 00:33:36,940
But expert mitch knows the most efficient way

550
00:33:36,980 --> 00:33:39,240
Is to use another pump to prime it.

551
00:33:47,050 --> 00:33:49,250
You ready to fire this thing up?

552
00:33:49,290 --> 00:33:50,890
Whoever knows how to start it.

553
00:34:05,470 --> 00:34:07,810
Now we got some water pumping.

554
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,210
They got this pump here feeding up the pond,

555
00:34:10,240 --> 00:34:11,840
You know, you do the fast, quickest thing, right?

556
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,510
Pop that connection loose, take it over there, fill that thing up.

557
00:34:15,550 --> 00:34:16,780
Get it fired up and get to work.

558
00:34:22,690 --> 00:34:25,520
You know, they're getting ten minutes runtime, now we shut down for five.

559
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,060
Starting back up makes it very difficult to get any consistency.

560
00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:32,230
And that's what you want. You wanna get in that rhythm, in that groove,

561
00:34:32,270 --> 00:34:35,000
Put material in, kicking it out the other side,

562
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,540
And get some gold at the end of the day.

563
00:34:38,810 --> 00:34:41,070
with the pump fixed,

564
00:34:41,110 --> 00:34:43,380
Mitch turns his attention to the wash plant,

565
00:34:43,810 --> 00:34:44,940
Colonel nugget.

566
00:34:44,980 --> 00:34:47,650
Right now, I'm just watching the action on the sluices.

567
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,080
Everything looks really nice there.

568
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,850
You watch how the water's flowing down,

569
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,480
You can see the rocks jumping.

570
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:53,490
That's what you wanna see.

571
00:34:57,590 --> 00:35:01,490
If there's any gold in this, those sluices definitely will be catching it.

572
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:10,500
oh, my .

573
00:35:13,010 --> 00:35:14,910
hey, stop, stop, stop.

574
00:35:18,510 --> 00:35:22,350
the drive belt for the shaker deck has come off.

575
00:35:22,380 --> 00:35:24,080
You gotta be kidding me.

576
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,280
The belt came off.

577
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:27,950
Uh, we'll get the belt back on,

578
00:35:27,990 --> 00:35:29,250
We'll get the water flowing again,

579
00:35:29,290 --> 00:35:31,520
And get the plants starting right back up.

580
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,090
we've had the belts come off the shaker deck.

581
00:35:34,130 --> 00:35:35,760
You know, that's just not acceptable.

582
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,000
If that was happening in our mine site,

583
00:35:37,030 --> 00:35:38,830
Parker would come out and not be happy.

584
00:35:39,630 --> 00:35:41,530
And now he knows our struggles.

585
00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:52,240
All right.

586
00:35:58,490 --> 00:36:01,490
as pay builds up in the hopper feeder,

587
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,860
Water is forced over the sides of the wash plant,

588
00:36:04,890 --> 00:36:07,490
And loosens the shaker deck drive belt.

589
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,360
Mitch plans to build a screen

590
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,960
To divert the water away from the belt

591
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,500
And keep the plant running.

592
00:36:22,810 --> 00:36:26,010
We just extended this here with another plate, a piece of angled iron.

593
00:36:26,050 --> 00:36:27,950
And, hopefully now, any material gets on top of this,

594
00:36:27,980 --> 00:36:31,050
It will ride past the belts and fall down out of the way.

595
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,980
It won't be kicking the belts off every time.

596
00:36:41,230 --> 00:36:42,830
It's looking good, buddy.

597
00:36:48,170 --> 00:36:50,670
I have a feeling we're not gonna be changing that belt for a while now.

598
00:36:51,310 --> 00:36:52,470
Let's hope so.

599
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,310
-What's up, dude? -What's happening, my man?

600
00:37:01,350 --> 00:37:02,380
-Hey. -What's up, man?

601
00:37:02,420 --> 00:37:03,980
That was quite a week.

602
00:37:04,020 --> 00:37:05,380
Heck yeah, it was.

603
00:37:05,420 --> 00:37:07,150
Appreciate you guys letting me come out

604
00:37:07,190 --> 00:37:08,790
-And hang out with you for a week. -Thanks for coming.

605
00:37:08,820 --> 00:37:10,890
and, yeah, best of luck to ya.

606
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,220
It's mining, it's never easy.

607
00:37:12,260 --> 00:37:14,190
-Shoo, it's not.

608
00:37:14,230 --> 00:37:16,960
but, yeah, you guys are definitely quick learners, so...

609
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,460
well, thanks for everything you've done.

610
00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:20,930
Especially all the insight you gave us and the advice.

611
00:37:20,970 --> 00:37:22,670
We've really taken a lot of it to heart.

612
00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:24,470
-All right, no problem, man. -Yeah, for sure.

613
00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:26,500
All righty, I'm gonna get on the road, but, uh,

614
00:37:26,540 --> 00:37:30,010
Yeah, you guys just keep throwing dirt in there until you can't anymore.

615
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,910
When a problem pops up, just wait,

616
00:37:31,950 --> 00:37:33,680
About ten minutes later, there'll be another one.

617
00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:35,310
-that's mining, so...

618
00:37:35,350 --> 00:37:36,250
You guys have a good one.

619
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,880
-Take care. Drive safe. -Drive safe, man.

620
00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:41,190
it was great having mitch here.

621
00:37:41,220 --> 00:37:44,120
Any time I can get to pick someone's brain that has a lot of knowledge

622
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,430
In something I'm trying to perfect, is perfect scenario.

623
00:37:47,460 --> 00:37:50,100
It's gonna make everything a lot more efficient.

624
00:37:50,130 --> 00:37:53,160
And we should get good gold.

625
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,170
That's what we need more than just about anything else.

626
00:38:11,950 --> 00:38:14,220
tony beets is eager to see

627
00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:16,920
How his new upper cut will pay out.

628
00:38:20,060 --> 00:38:22,760
with the old timers, if they walked away with this,

629
00:38:22,830 --> 00:38:24,200
They'd leave all the fine stuff.

630
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,370
just one pan reveals around three ounces of gold.

631
00:38:40,410 --> 00:38:43,050
Well, we'll put it in front of you 'cause people wanna see your face.

632
00:38:44,580 --> 00:38:46,450
-No. - do you know how to do that?

633
00:39:02,540 --> 00:39:03,940
-Hi, guys. -Hi, everybody.

634
00:39:03,970 --> 00:39:04,770
Hi.

635
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,410
So how was everybody's week?

636
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:37,770
so what did you learn?

637
00:39:43,010 --> 00:39:44,540
Hopefully, it packs some punches?

638
00:39:46,350 --> 00:39:47,250
ahh!

639
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,610
How long have you been waiting for that?

640
00:39:55,990 --> 00:39:59,220
10, 20, 30, 40, 50,

641
00:39:59,260 --> 00:40:01,090
60, 70, 80...

642
00:40:01,660 --> 00:40:05,400
100, 120, 130, 140, 150,

643
00:40:05,430 --> 00:40:08,270
160, 170, 180, 200.

644
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:13,710
210, 220, 230, 240,

645
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,880
260, 270...

646
00:40:20,010 --> 00:40:21,110
that's good, mike.

647
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,950
278.12.

648
00:40:24,990 --> 00:40:27,120
- yeah, right on.

649
00:40:27,150 --> 00:40:30,420
the gold from the mega cut before the flood,

650
00:40:30,460 --> 00:40:33,160
Along with the pay from the new upper cut,

651
00:40:33,190 --> 00:40:36,830
Totals over 278 ounces.

652
00:40:36,860 --> 00:40:41,330
That's roughly a bit over half a a million, eh?

653
00:40:41,370 --> 00:40:44,500
might help to, uh, pay to fix up that rock truck

654
00:40:44,540 --> 00:40:47,570
I kind of pulled in half.

655
00:40:47,610 --> 00:40:49,270
When they say pull up the truck,

656
00:40:49,310 --> 00:40:51,140
They mean the whole truck, not half of it.

657
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:54,350
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

658
00:40:54,380 --> 00:40:55,880
tony's season total

659
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,320
Is now nearly 2,600 ounces

660
00:40:59,350 --> 00:41:02,190
Worth 4.7 million dollars,

661
00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:05,420
And just 400 ounces short of his season goals.

662
00:41:10,460 --> 00:41:13,470
So I suggest you guys all get out there and do it.

663
00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:17,640
Sounds like a plan.

664
00:41:19,570 --> 00:41:20,670
So we'll see you later.

665
00:41:23,410 --> 00:41:24,780
Well, it's about time.

666
00:41:24,810 --> 00:41:26,510
-just saying.

667
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:31,620
no.

668
00:41:31,650 --> 00:41:34,590
Nice jeans, though. Cute ass.

669
00:41:46,570 --> 00:41:49,800
well, guys, I know we had a lot of breakdowns this week, as usual,

670
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,440
But if mitch wasn't here,

671
00:41:51,470 --> 00:41:53,670
It would've been a lot harder for you to scramble to fix it.

672
00:41:53,710 --> 00:41:55,440
fred lewis and his crew

673
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,240
Had vital help from expert mechanic mitch blaschke.

674
00:42:00,510 --> 00:42:02,280
I'm feeling more like we're getting

675
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,350
To be more of a nascar pit crew

676
00:42:04,380 --> 00:42:06,250
When  breaks down, or getting there fast.

677
00:42:07,150 --> 00:42:09,250
Feel like just our communication skills

678
00:42:09,290 --> 00:42:11,990
And our ability to work as a team is really coming along.

679
00:42:12,030 --> 00:42:17,060
this week, the lewis crew ran a total of 520 yards of pay

680
00:42:17,100 --> 00:42:19,700
From the mayor's cut at elkhorn claim.

681
00:42:19,730 --> 00:42:21,500
that was the most pay we put through that plant,

682
00:42:21,540 --> 00:42:23,670
And I think you guys should really be proud of that.

683
00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:24,740
Wanna see the gold?

684
00:42:24,770 --> 00:42:26,040
yeah.

685
00:42:29,740 --> 00:42:32,110
bigger pile than before. We're getting bigger.

686
00:42:32,150 --> 00:42:33,880
.82.

687
00:42:33,910 --> 00:42:36,580
worth nearly $1,500.

688
00:42:36,620 --> 00:42:39,550
It's their biggest gold weigh of the season.

689
00:42:39,590 --> 00:42:41,620
so we're getting close to an ounce cleanup.

690
00:42:41,660 --> 00:42:44,360
Yeah. Well, hey, guys, this is our best gold weigh yet.

691
00:42:44,390 --> 00:42:46,060
And we're a long way from where we're supposed to be.

692
00:42:46,090 --> 00:42:47,830
But we're learning, we're adapting.

693
00:42:47,860 --> 00:42:49,760
I'm personally proud of how far we've come this season.

694
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,330
You guys are doing great.

695
00:42:52,370 --> 00:42:54,930
having mitch here, you know, he kind of,

696
00:42:54,970 --> 00:42:56,970
Brought a little organization to the table,

697
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,770
Stuff that, you know, in my opinion, we were missing.

698
00:42:59,810 --> 00:43:01,440
it's nice having somebody in

699
00:43:01,470 --> 00:43:04,380
With experience on that level and, uh,

700
00:43:04,410 --> 00:43:06,980
Was pretty informational to myself and fred.

701
00:43:07,010 --> 00:43:09,310
I feel like we've taken some pretty good pointers from mitch.

702
00:43:10,750 --> 00:43:12,820
And now we're operating a little more smoothly.

703
00:43:12,850 --> 00:43:14,850
Everybody has a better idea of what's going on,

704
00:43:14,890 --> 00:43:16,490
And I think we're moving forward.

705
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,490
We're gonna work as hard as we possibly can,

706
00:43:18,530 --> 00:43:20,460
And hopefully, we can salvage this season.

707
00:43:32,670 --> 00:43:33,540
How's it going?

708
00:43:33,570 --> 00:43:34,640
Hey, how you doing?

709
00:43:34,670 --> 00:43:35,940
-Good. How are you? -Good.

710
00:43:35,980 --> 00:43:37,840
-Hey, man. -Hey, doumitt. How are you?

711
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:39,710
-Good, good. -That's good.

712
00:43:39,750 --> 00:43:44,380
at scribner creek, the schnabel crew gathers for the weekly gold weigh.

713
00:43:44,420 --> 00:43:46,380
You guys look a little wet and cold.

714
00:43:46,420 --> 00:43:48,790
You're not, like, getting overworked or anything, are you?

715
00:43:48,820 --> 00:43:51,260
oh, no. There's never enough to do.

716
00:43:52,290 --> 00:43:54,030
There's never... Never enough to do?

717
00:43:54,060 --> 00:43:55,160
-yeah, right.

718
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,560
I might just drop in one spot.

719
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,230
You guys have put in some long days recently,

720
00:44:01,740 --> 00:44:03,330
And I appreciate it.

721
00:44:03,370 --> 00:44:04,340
oh, no worries.

722
00:44:04,370 --> 00:44:06,040
this time of year, it's never fun.

723
00:44:06,070 --> 00:44:09,270
Um, but the last couple of weeks, for sure,

724
00:44:09,980 --> 00:44:11,510
Have been a bit manic.

725
00:44:11,540 --> 00:44:14,180
yep. We're all here for the same thing.

726
00:44:14,210 --> 00:44:16,650
I don't understand what it is about this time of year

727
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,350
That causes to just  up.

728
00:44:19,390 --> 00:44:22,690
What did we get for the week, with the water failure and everything else?

729
00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:24,760
I'm excited to see it.

730
00:44:24,790 --> 00:44:28,760
big red has averaged 153 ounces a week

731
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,500
Since it moved to the airstrip cut three weeks ago.

732
00:44:32,530 --> 00:44:34,430
-Brennan, you do it. -Oh.

733
00:44:34,470 --> 00:44:36,830
We're gonna let you do it 'cause you don't have to count that high.

734
00:44:36,870 --> 00:44:38,740
-Yeah.

735
00:44:40,540 --> 00:44:45,480
10, 50, 80, 90,

736
00:44:46,750 --> 00:44:49,550
100, 101.4.

737
00:44:50,550 --> 00:44:53,990
worth around $200,000.

738
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,560
-Yeah. - you got brutalized this week.

739
00:44:57,590 --> 00:44:59,260
-Yeah. - so...

740
00:44:59,290 --> 00:45:02,030
100 ounce week, if we really think about it,

741
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:04,260
Isn't that bad.

742
00:45:12,110 --> 00:45:14,510
that was going out of our control, what happened, right?

743
00:45:14,540 --> 00:45:16,070
right.

744
00:45:16,110 --> 00:45:18,010
At least we made up for it as quick as we could go and got back to sluicing.

745
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:19,310
Hopefully, next week's better.

746
00:45:19,350 --> 00:45:21,880
sluicifer's gonna kick big red's ass, or what?

747
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,450
-When doesn't it?

748
00:45:24,820 --> 00:45:27,650
Come here, tyson. You can count higher.

749
00:45:33,460 --> 00:45:37,300
20, 40, 60, 80,

750
00:45:37,330 --> 00:45:41,700
100, 130, 150, 180, 200.

751
00:45:42,770 --> 00:45:44,700
209. Even.

752
00:45:44,740 --> 00:45:46,640
on the other side of the cut,

753
00:45:46,670 --> 00:45:51,710
Sluicifer has delivered more than twice as much gold as big red,

754
00:45:51,750 --> 00:45:55,110
Worth almost $400,000.

755
00:45:55,150 --> 00:45:56,950
obviously, it had twice the sluicing time.

756
00:45:56,980 --> 00:45:58,520
yeah.

757
00:45:58,550 --> 00:46:02,020
Hmm, that's the same amount of hours a week, though, chris, you know?

758
00:46:02,060 --> 00:46:04,460
-Yeah, brennan. -That's true.

759
00:46:04,490 --> 00:46:07,090
-You didn't do so swell, did you?

760
00:46:07,130 --> 00:46:10,030
So, for the week, we wound up with 310.4.

761
00:46:10,060 --> 00:46:13,460
worth $590,000.

762
00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:16,570
Good week, really. Considering.

763
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,440
-We're kicking the read on last year's yields, eh? -Yeah.

764
00:46:19,470 --> 00:46:22,670
with 6,401 ounces,

765
00:46:22,710 --> 00:46:26,280
Parker is just 822 ounces short

766
00:46:26,310 --> 00:46:29,310
Of his entire total for last season.

767
00:46:31,850 --> 00:46:33,320
-Wow. -That's nuts, how much it's climbed

768
00:46:33,350 --> 00:46:34,950
Since we came to the airstrip cut, eh?

769
00:46:34,990 --> 00:46:39,560
Yeah. If this airstrip cut continues,

770
00:46:39,590 --> 00:46:43,030
And you can keep your plants going, we'll have a record year.

771
00:46:43,060 --> 00:46:45,000
So I guess I get no sleep.

772
00:46:45,030 --> 00:46:46,400
-Yeah.

773
00:46:46,430 --> 00:46:48,170
You can sleep this winter.

774
00:46:49,770 --> 00:46:50,900
Go get your acre, you guys.

775
00:46:50,940 --> 00:46:52,800
All righty. I'm out. Thanks.

776
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,270
-You betcha. -Have a good night.

777
00:46:54,310 --> 00:46:56,340
-Thanks, doumitt. -Yeah, thanks for all you do, you guys.

778
00:46:56,380 --> 00:46:58,340
-Thank, guys. -Young man.

779
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:05,420
A couple of bad weeks in a row here,

780
00:47:05,450 --> 00:47:07,620
But big red lost all its water.

781
00:47:07,650 --> 00:47:10,250
Boom, shane got on it right away to help me out,

782
00:47:10,290 --> 00:47:12,290
And we got the plant back up and sluicing.

783
00:47:12,890 --> 00:47:14,160
Shane is so burnt out,

784
00:47:14,190 --> 00:47:16,230
The only thing on my mind is getting that guy some days off

785
00:47:16,260 --> 00:47:17,930
Before he doesn't show up for the rest of the year.

786
00:47:21,270 --> 00:47:23,100
on the next gold rush...

787
00:47:26,710 --> 00:47:27,910
Well, I'll be damned.

788
00:47:27,940 --> 00:47:30,710
tony beets makes a stunning discovery...

789
00:47:30,740 --> 00:47:32,180
there's something happening over there.

790
00:47:32,210 --> 00:47:34,710
...That could lead to a monster payday.

791
00:47:38,380 --> 00:47:40,250
If anybody wants to go home, they can  go home.

792
00:47:40,290 --> 00:47:42,820
There's no need to come here and be a  about it.

793
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:46,060
parker schnabel's crew pushes back.

794
00:47:46,090 --> 00:47:47,490
Go pack leave right now.

795
00:47:47,530 --> 00:47:49,060
I don't give a about any of this .

796
00:47:55,100 --> 00:47:57,400
and rick ness hits it big.

797
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,710
People search their whole life for this type of material.

798
00:48:00,740 --> 00:48:02,240
holy .

798
00:48:03,305 --> 00:49:03,696
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