1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 2 00:00:21,732 --> 00:00:23,180 So, today's a pretty big day. 3 00:00:23,180 --> 00:00:25,698 We've finally got some boots on the ground here in Alaska 4 00:00:25,698 --> 00:00:27,353 and some mining equipment, here, 5 00:00:27,353 --> 00:00:31,043 and we're gonna go see if we can find some gold. 6 00:00:32,180 --> 00:00:34,767 Nine years after leaving... 7 00:00:34,767 --> 00:00:39,629 ...27-year-old Parker Schnabel is back in his home state of Alaska, 8 00:00:39,629 --> 00:00:42,836 finally ready to fire up his new operation. 9 00:00:44,732 --> 00:00:46,732 It's been two years in the making. 10 00:00:47,801 --> 00:00:50,422 For me, the big driver of this 11 00:00:50,422 --> 00:00:55,560 is really trying to find the next spot to bring a big operation in. 12 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,767 It is about showing that, okay, there is, you know, another... 13 00:00:59,767 --> 00:01:03,663 ...10,000 or 20,000 or 30,000 or whatever-thousand ounces to do, here. 14 00:01:05,456 --> 00:01:09,318 Parker struck a deal to mine 3,000 acres 15 00:01:09,318 --> 00:01:14,525 of historically gold-rich ground 20 miles North of Fairbanks, 16 00:01:14,525 --> 00:01:19,215 that he's hoping will net 1,000 ounces in his first season. 17 00:01:21,111 --> 00:01:25,215 The one guy that I hired should be here already. 18 00:01:25,215 --> 00:01:26,767 - Is that Mark? Yeah, okay. - Yeah. 19 00:01:26,767 --> 00:01:28,387 Hopefully, that's him. 20 00:01:28,387 --> 00:01:32,353 Australian miner Tyler Mahoney will help run the operation. 21 00:01:33,663 --> 00:01:34,939 Hello! Hey, how's it going? 22 00:01:34,939 --> 00:01:36,939 You must be Tyler. Nice to meet you, I'm Mark. 23 00:01:36,939 --> 00:01:38,180 Nice to meet you, Mark. 24 00:01:38,180 --> 00:01:40,353 ...alongside foreman Mark Forrs. 25 00:01:41,249 --> 00:01:42,870 - How you doing? - Good. 26 00:01:42,870 --> 00:01:45,318 All right, well, let's get in there and, and see if the gears are ready to work. 27 00:01:45,318 --> 00:01:46,836 Sounds good, all right. - Sounds like a plan. 28 00:01:46,836 --> 00:01:48,456 Let's do it. Let's go do it. 29 00:01:57,353 --> 00:01:59,663 Hey, that's a good start. 30 00:01:59,663 --> 00:02:00,801 Yeah, we got a dozer. 31 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,008 Nice looking gear. 32 00:02:05,008 --> 00:02:06,146 Very new. 33 00:02:11,905 --> 00:02:14,456 Lots of tailings everywhere. 34 00:02:14,456 --> 00:02:17,525 Yeah, there was two dredges on this creek. 35 00:02:17,525 --> 00:02:18,594 Oh, wow. 36 00:02:21,801 --> 00:02:23,077 This is it. 37 00:02:27,525 --> 00:02:31,043 It doesn't look like much right now. Just a lotta trees. 38 00:02:35,146 --> 00:02:38,043 We did a buncha pans in these drift tailings. 39 00:02:38,043 --> 00:02:42,560 I was thinking to start with, we would just start hauling these back to the yard. 40 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,870 And when the plant gets there, then we'll have a stockpile of pay ready to go. 41 00:02:45,870 --> 00:02:48,663 Seems like it'd be easy mining to start off with. 42 00:02:48,663 --> 00:02:51,870 Parker believes the virgin ground on his claim 43 00:02:51,870 --> 00:02:55,146 could hold upwards of 2,000 ounces. 44 00:02:55,146 --> 00:02:57,732 But with half the season already gone, 45 00:02:57,732 --> 00:03:00,663 first, he's going after the easy pickings. 46 00:03:03,594 --> 00:03:06,111 The old timers excavated shafts 47 00:03:06,111 --> 00:03:10,698 through concrete-like permafrost up to 100 feet deep 48 00:03:10,698 --> 00:03:13,008 until hitting paydirt above bedrock. 49 00:03:13,974 --> 00:03:17,353 Then, they drift mined horizontally 50 00:03:17,353 --> 00:03:20,905 and hauled out the seam of gold back to the surface, 51 00:03:20,905 --> 00:03:24,594 where they washed the paydirt through primitive sluice boxes 52 00:03:24,594 --> 00:03:26,318 and dumped their tailings. 53 00:03:29,767 --> 00:03:32,491 Earlier in the season, test pans revealed... 54 00:03:32,491 --> 00:03:33,939 Oh, yeah. 55 00:03:33,939 --> 00:03:37,629 ...that the old timers' tailings are rich in gold. 56 00:03:37,629 --> 00:03:40,525 This is like the best pan I've ever panned. 57 00:03:43,594 --> 00:03:47,629 A lotta times with tailings, if you see birch trees growing out of it, they've got roots, 58 00:03:47,629 --> 00:03:49,629 there's gravel, there could be gold. 59 00:03:52,732 --> 00:03:54,318 Parker's plan? 60 00:03:54,318 --> 00:03:57,594 Dig out and run the shallow leftover tailings. 61 00:03:59,043 --> 00:04:01,353 This did get underground mined pretty hard. 62 00:04:01,353 --> 00:04:03,456 So it's gonna be a mess down at the bottom, but like... 63 00:04:03,456 --> 00:04:05,318 Do you think we'll find, like, some shafts and stuff like that? 64 00:04:05,318 --> 00:04:07,767 And drifts. And maybe even some rooms. 65 00:04:07,767 --> 00:04:08,767 - Oh. - That are all roomed out. 66 00:04:08,767 --> 00:04:10,111 And they'll be all full of mud. 67 00:04:12,767 --> 00:04:18,043 All right. We're going to get this stacked up over in our yard. 68 00:04:18,043 --> 00:04:22,146 Experienced operator and Alaskan local Mark Forrs 69 00:04:22,146 --> 00:04:25,801 clears the trees to expose the tailings. 70 00:04:25,801 --> 00:04:28,836 This stuff's just sitting on top. You scrape the trees off, 71 00:04:28,836 --> 00:04:31,974 and it's pretty much ready to put in the plant, 72 00:04:31,974 --> 00:04:34,629 so, pretty cheap to mine. 73 00:04:38,284 --> 00:04:41,249 I grew up on a homestead out in, uh, McGrath. 74 00:04:41,249 --> 00:04:44,043 So I'm used to remote living. 75 00:04:46,111 --> 00:04:48,008 With gold mining, it's out in the woods, 76 00:04:48,008 --> 00:04:50,525 kind of off the grid a little bit, which I like. 77 00:04:53,387 --> 00:04:55,629 It's a little bit challenging, 78 00:04:55,629 --> 00:04:58,008 because in finding these old shafts, 79 00:04:58,008 --> 00:05:01,456 there's a lot of mudholes around here you can bury your dozer in, 80 00:05:01,456 --> 00:05:06,353 and so we're carefully trying to find the edge of these tailings. 81 00:05:10,801 --> 00:05:12,767 So, we've got Mark on board. 82 00:05:12,767 --> 00:05:15,905 He's the only person that's coming here other than Tyler 83 00:05:15,905 --> 00:05:17,560 that I have even spoken to. 84 00:05:18,594 --> 00:05:21,456 But he needs help. 85 00:05:21,456 --> 00:05:26,387 This late in the season, skilled operators are hard to come by. 86 00:05:26,387 --> 00:05:32,801 So Tyler has been forced to recruit the rest of their crew via social media. 87 00:05:32,801 --> 00:05:36,008 The first of Tyler's recruits are showing up today. 88 00:05:36,008 --> 00:05:39,043 So hopefully, they have a good attitude and lots of experience, 89 00:05:39,043 --> 00:05:40,318 'cause we need those two things. 90 00:05:45,318 --> 00:05:46,698 This is Phill and Jarred. 91 00:05:46,698 --> 00:05:48,284 Hi. Nice to meet you guys. 92 00:05:48,284 --> 00:05:49,560 You ready to move some dirt? 93 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:50,456 - Yeah. - We're here, yeah. 94 00:05:50,456 --> 00:05:51,525 Okay, sweet. 95 00:05:51,525 --> 00:05:53,008 Parker's new recruits? 96 00:05:53,008 --> 00:05:57,732 36-year-old Phill Wickert and 24-year-old Jarred Chase. 97 00:06:02,043 --> 00:06:03,836 You guys have ran hoes before? 98 00:06:03,836 --> 00:06:07,629 I have never operated one, no. Always wanted to. Willing to learn. 99 00:06:08,215 --> 00:06:09,215 Gotcha. 100 00:06:12,801 --> 00:06:15,525 I'm just kinda excited to learn some of this stuff. 101 00:06:15,525 --> 00:06:18,560 Always wanted to be running machines like this. 102 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,180 Let's run out to the cut, and you can start digging dirt, 103 00:06:21,180 --> 00:06:24,387 and you can start learning how an excavator runs. 104 00:06:24,387 --> 00:06:27,594 Over where we're working, we're gonna have some really unstable banks. 105 00:06:27,594 --> 00:06:31,043 Don't do anything sketchy when it comes to working around the water. 106 00:06:31,043 --> 00:06:34,077 Just always stay way back from the edge. 107 00:06:34,077 --> 00:06:36,456 Be ready to get in reverse if it all starts going, right? 108 00:06:36,456 --> 00:06:37,801 - Yeah. - Correct. 109 00:06:37,801 --> 00:06:40,870 It's up to you to think and not panic if something goes wrong. 110 00:06:40,870 --> 00:06:44,284 So many people wanna, like, get excited and, like, oh, I got this stuck, 111 00:06:44,284 --> 00:06:46,008 and I'm gonna get it unstuck, and they end up, like, 112 00:06:46,008 --> 00:06:47,491 making it just ten times worse. 113 00:06:47,491 --> 00:06:48,525 Yeah. 114 00:06:54,939 --> 00:06:56,422 So, the big thing... 115 00:06:57,456 --> 00:06:58,491 ...the big thing. 116 00:06:59,698 --> 00:07:00,767 Don't walk in the pond. 117 00:07:02,422 --> 00:07:05,146 That pond will eat you alive. 118 00:07:07,043 --> 00:07:09,560 Let's go ahead and let's take the excavator, 119 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:11,491 and we'll walk over and find a spot for ya. 120 00:07:14,836 --> 00:07:17,594 So, you can come in here and kind of smooth this out. 121 00:07:19,318 --> 00:07:22,939 And then I need a road, and fill this pond in. 122 00:07:24,491 --> 00:07:26,767 There's your chariot. Do you know how to start it? 123 00:07:27,353 --> 00:07:28,353 Turn the key, right? 124 00:07:30,594 --> 00:07:31,939 - You good? - Should be. 125 00:07:32,698 --> 00:07:33,870 What's the number one rule? 126 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:36,008 - Be safe? - water. 127 00:07:36,008 --> 00:07:37,491 - Don't go in the pond. - Stay out of the water. 128 00:07:37,491 --> 00:07:38,663 No swimming. 129 00:07:40,663 --> 00:07:43,180 Phill has been mining for eight years, 130 00:07:43,180 --> 00:07:45,249 operating trucks and loaders. 131 00:07:45,249 --> 00:07:48,284 But now, he has to step up a level. 132 00:07:48,284 --> 00:07:51,077 So, Phill has no excavator experience, which is... 133 00:07:53,249 --> 00:07:55,905 ...not great. 134 00:07:55,905 --> 00:08:00,836 We'll see how it goes. Um, you know, day one, everybody's a little jittery. 135 00:08:02,629 --> 00:08:07,801 Trying to prove myself a little bit, being kinda green at, uh, running excavator. 136 00:08:07,801 --> 00:08:09,974 Well, literally, it looks like I'm getting into the swing of it. 137 00:08:09,974 --> 00:08:12,422 If you know what I mean. 138 00:08:14,284 --> 00:08:17,146 We're just gonna remember which stick does which maneuver. 139 00:08:20,525 --> 00:08:22,008 Is there a horn on this thing? 140 00:08:24,732 --> 00:08:25,663 There we go. 141 00:08:32,698 --> 00:08:35,249 Parker, he has me baling dirt. 142 00:08:37,387 --> 00:08:42,146 And I think Parker doesn't know us yet, and our abilities, 143 00:08:42,146 --> 00:08:44,180 so he's skeptical. 144 00:08:44,180 --> 00:08:47,146 I don't feel pressured. It's just work. 145 00:08:57,180 --> 00:08:58,456 Uh-oh. That ain't good. 146 00:09:00,491 --> 00:09:03,594 I feel like I'm sinking, which I probably am, so... 147 00:09:05,146 --> 00:09:06,111 Yeah, it looks like. 148 00:09:10,594 --> 00:09:14,560 Nah. Very, very not cool. 149 00:09:18,111 --> 00:09:20,180 Quit sinking. 150 00:09:20,180 --> 00:09:23,008 Just quit sinking. That's all I want you to do. 151 00:09:25,663 --> 00:09:29,008 Less than two hours after stepping in the cab, 152 00:09:29,008 --> 00:09:35,077 Jarred has sunk the 53-ton 480 into an old mine shaft. 153 00:09:41,215 --> 00:09:43,146 Just come up a few feet. 154 00:09:43,146 --> 00:09:44,974 Yeah, I hit water right there. 155 00:09:44,974 --> 00:09:47,525 Just hold the level that we're on over there. 156 00:09:47,525 --> 00:09:49,146 - I'm trying. - Um... 157 00:09:49,146 --> 00:09:50,215 Okay. 158 00:09:51,077 --> 00:09:51,939 Cool. 159 00:10:12,698 --> 00:10:15,905 I'm nervous just without all of the infrastructure from... 160 00:10:15,905 --> 00:10:17,456 That I'm used to having. 161 00:10:17,456 --> 00:10:18,698 Like, we don't even have a mechanic. 162 00:10:20,732 --> 00:10:23,215 Mitch was gonna come over here. He's not here. 163 00:10:23,215 --> 00:10:27,974 Because just I need him in, in Dawson, running the place. 164 00:10:27,974 --> 00:10:30,767 So, that leaves me with this. 165 00:10:32,836 --> 00:10:36,249 So we're definitely late, understaffed... 166 00:10:37,629 --> 00:10:38,836 ...and underequipped. 167 00:11:02,870 --> 00:11:05,594 Sergeant Sluice is hungry. 168 00:11:05,594 --> 00:11:07,698 Right now, we've got some pretty good gold in the pocket. 169 00:11:07,698 --> 00:11:11,594 We are up and running, all guns ablaze. 170 00:11:11,594 --> 00:11:14,870 We set ourselves a pretty aggressive goal, 500 ounces, 171 00:11:14,870 --> 00:11:16,870 and it's definitely not gonna come easy. 172 00:11:19,146 --> 00:11:22,387 Combat vet turned gold miner Fred Lewis 173 00:11:22,387 --> 00:11:26,560 is chasing the dream of pulling $1 million out of the ground. 174 00:11:28,111 --> 00:11:32,525 But halfway through the season, he's banked less than 20 ounces, 175 00:11:32,525 --> 00:11:35,732 worth just $32,000. 176 00:11:38,111 --> 00:11:40,629 If we fall short of our goal, Misfits are done. 177 00:11:40,629 --> 00:11:42,801 There's no more next season, there's no more coming back. 178 00:11:42,801 --> 00:11:44,043 It's all or nothing. 179 00:11:46,456 --> 00:11:52,077 Fred's Misfit Crew have mined out the leftovers from last season's cut. 180 00:11:52,077 --> 00:11:56,836 Now, they're finally running paydirt from the game-changing Freedom Cut, 181 00:11:56,836 --> 00:12:00,525 which Fred believes is close to the mother lode, 182 00:12:00,525 --> 00:12:03,560 the source of California Creek's gold. 183 00:12:05,836 --> 00:12:08,594 I'm 100% positive there's gold in that Freedom Cut. 184 00:12:08,594 --> 00:12:12,284 If we mine through it, we're just gonna be financially free. 185 00:12:12,284 --> 00:12:15,663 Well, I can feel it. But it's gonna be a lotta work. 186 00:12:18,318 --> 00:12:21,939 It looks like the pay that we're pulling right now is very nice stuff. 187 00:12:24,077 --> 00:12:28,870 Fred's wife Khara feeds 90 yards of Freedom Cut pay an hour 188 00:12:28,870 --> 00:12:32,491 through wash plant Sergeant Sluice. 189 00:12:32,491 --> 00:12:35,732 As long as we keep running, as long as I can keep this wash plant fed, 190 00:12:35,732 --> 00:12:38,801 then it's looking encouraging for sure this season. 191 00:12:41,146 --> 00:12:44,008 Us being successful is extremely important to me. 192 00:12:46,974 --> 00:12:50,905 Trucking the pay from the cut a quarter of a mile to the plant? 193 00:12:50,905 --> 00:12:53,249 Ex-sniper Stuart McKenzie. 194 00:12:55,525 --> 00:12:57,077 I wanna provide for my family. 195 00:12:57,077 --> 00:12:59,491 I wanna provide them a life that, you know, they really, really deserve, 196 00:12:59,491 --> 00:13:04,836 especially for how much stress and just chaos I put 'em through, 197 00:13:04,836 --> 00:13:08,905 with, uh, me kind of finding myself again after coming home from Iraq. 198 00:13:23,043 --> 00:13:26,249 Stuart, stop the truck, man. I hear something grinding, here. 199 00:13:26,249 --> 00:13:27,767 Wait, I'm gonna run in. 200 00:13:29,939 --> 00:13:33,043 The whole rear end is grinding back here. 201 00:13:33,043 --> 00:13:36,111 It sounds bad. I don't see anything external. 202 00:13:36,111 --> 00:13:37,939 It's like to inside the drum, here. 203 00:13:37,939 --> 00:13:39,456 Oh, [bleep]. 204 00:13:39,456 --> 00:13:41,318 Something let loose. Definitely. 205 00:13:41,318 --> 00:13:44,180 We'll pull it down there, we'll pull that cap off and see, uh, 206 00:13:44,180 --> 00:13:45,905 what the heck happened now, man. 207 00:13:51,491 --> 00:13:54,146 The rock truck is a, uh... 208 00:13:54,146 --> 00:13:57,008 ...a major piece of equipment when you only have one. 209 00:13:57,008 --> 00:13:58,560 We can't haul pay if it don't work. 210 00:14:06,525 --> 00:14:08,491 Not looking good like that. 211 00:14:10,456 --> 00:14:15,043 The oil inside the wheel cap should be clear and free from debris. 212 00:14:16,939 --> 00:14:21,663 Shut it off. Chunks of steel coming out of the inside of that. 213 00:14:21,663 --> 00:14:25,111 There seem to be metal-- Little metal part, particles in there. 214 00:14:25,111 --> 00:14:28,905 We got some major internal issues. That's not good at all. 215 00:14:28,905 --> 00:14:33,905 We'll have to put... Take this cover off and check all your planetary gears. 216 00:14:35,318 --> 00:14:38,560 The six wheel drive A35 rock truck 217 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:43,767 relies on planetary gear systems to drive each wheel. 218 00:14:43,767 --> 00:14:49,008 In the center, a sun gear interlocks with three outer planet gears. 219 00:14:49,008 --> 00:14:52,180 When the sun rotates, it drives the planets, 220 00:14:52,180 --> 00:14:55,284 which in turn rotate the outer ring gear, 221 00:14:55,284 --> 00:14:57,422 increasing torque to the wheel. 222 00:14:59,629 --> 00:15:05,560 If just one gear fails, the truck loses its ability to take on the rugged terrain. 223 00:15:10,594 --> 00:15:13,801 I think it's just, uh, hung up on all the in there. Here. 224 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:17,801 Ohh! 225 00:15:17,801 --> 00:15:21,215 No. 226 00:15:23,180 --> 00:15:24,353 Oh, my [bleep]. 227 00:15:25,387 --> 00:15:26,870 I mean, that's like scorched earth. 228 00:15:27,974 --> 00:15:29,215 It's bad. 229 00:15:36,111 --> 00:15:37,939 Here. 230 00:15:39,180 --> 00:15:40,456 Ohh! 231 00:15:40,456 --> 00:15:42,767 No. 232 00:15:46,249 --> 00:15:47,318 Oh, my [bleep]. 233 00:15:48,525 --> 00:15:50,732 I mean, that's like scorched earth. 234 00:15:50,732 --> 00:15:52,698 Man, this is, uh, this is bad. 235 00:15:55,594 --> 00:15:58,905 Without this rock truck, we're gonna be out of pay for the wash plant 236 00:15:58,905 --> 00:15:59,732 in, like, half an hour. 237 00:16:02,249 --> 00:16:06,767 Fred Lewis' only rock truck has ground to a halt. 238 00:16:06,767 --> 00:16:08,387 Yeah, this is what we call FUBAR. 239 00:16:08,387 --> 00:16:10,387 Up Beyond All Recognition. 240 00:16:10,387 --> 00:16:12,284 So we can't even run the plant. 241 00:16:12,284 --> 00:16:13,456 When the carrier's almost out of pay. 242 00:16:14,284 --> 00:16:15,318 me. 243 00:16:15,939 --> 00:16:17,801 Not good at all. 244 00:16:17,801 --> 00:16:18,836 That's [bleep]. 245 00:16:20,318 --> 00:16:22,387 Well, right now, 246 00:16:22,387 --> 00:16:26,284 as soon as I get anything that's gonna go wrong, it's gonna go wrong. 247 00:16:26,284 --> 00:16:30,180 For this rock truck, when it goes down, everything stops, and that can't happen. 248 00:16:34,111 --> 00:16:37,663 With no rock truck to haul pay from the cut to the wash plant... 249 00:16:39,698 --> 00:16:45,422 ...Fred's hopes of hitting his 500-ounce goal are fading fast. 250 00:16:45,422 --> 00:16:47,801 Khara. Khara, this is Fred. 251 00:16:47,801 --> 00:16:50,525 The rock truck is down in a big way right now. 252 00:16:51,939 --> 00:16:54,525 How long is it gonna be out? How fast can you get it fixed? 253 00:16:55,663 --> 00:16:57,663 Well, Buzz was saying it could be out for a week 254 00:16:57,663 --> 00:16:59,974 if we have to wait for parts and we can't find parts. 255 00:16:59,974 --> 00:17:04,180 I'm completely out of pay, just about. I have, like, a couple scoops left, 256 00:17:04,180 --> 00:17:05,870 and you're saying I'm not getting any more pay? 257 00:17:07,525 --> 00:17:09,456 That is exactly what I'm saying. 258 00:17:09,456 --> 00:17:12,422 This is getting out of control. 259 00:17:12,422 --> 00:17:16,180 Yeah, I know, Khara. It's stressful. I get it. It's killing me, too. 260 00:17:16,180 --> 00:17:18,525 Well, you better come up with like, a B and C solution, 261 00:17:18,525 --> 00:17:20,905 because we don't have another house to sell. 262 00:17:42,077 --> 00:17:44,318 That's a lotta carbohydrates. 263 00:17:45,767 --> 00:17:47,249 He's trying to get as big as me. 264 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,387 Halfway through the season, 265 00:18:08,387 --> 00:18:13,249 king of the Klondike Tony Beets has mined just a quarter 266 00:18:13,249 --> 00:18:15,249 of his 5,000-ounce target. 267 00:18:29,146 --> 00:18:32,456 Last week, Tony turbocharged his operation, 268 00:18:32,456 --> 00:18:36,318 starting a night shift, running round the clock 269 00:18:36,318 --> 00:18:38,698 to haul in as much gold as possible. 270 00:18:39,939 --> 00:18:42,629 But doubling his wash plant's run time 271 00:18:42,629 --> 00:18:46,353 means doubling the water runoff to the settling ponds. 272 00:19:10,939 --> 00:19:14,318 Below Mike's trommel sit three settling ponds 273 00:19:14,318 --> 00:19:16,422 stretching one and a half miles, 274 00:19:16,422 --> 00:19:19,870 divided by two access roads. 275 00:19:19,870 --> 00:19:24,146 Dirty water from the wash plant flows into the first pond, 276 00:19:24,146 --> 00:19:26,008 where the heavy silt settles. 277 00:19:27,629 --> 00:19:30,663 The water then filters through the other ponds, 278 00:19:30,663 --> 00:19:33,249 where finer sediment deposits, 279 00:19:33,249 --> 00:19:37,560 before the now-clean water flows back into the creek below. 280 00:19:43,491 --> 00:19:47,387 The last thing I want is the water isn't going the way we want it. 281 00:19:47,387 --> 00:19:53,353 And, uh, yeah, because this is my responsibility... 282 00:19:53,353 --> 00:19:58,594 ...I want this to go smoothly and without any problems. 283 00:19:58,594 --> 00:20:03,801 Cousin Mike uses dried silt already settled in pond two 284 00:20:03,801 --> 00:20:07,284 to reinforce the dikes near the access road. 285 00:20:07,284 --> 00:20:11,870 Worst case would be if we are not able to fight this water, 286 00:20:11,870 --> 00:20:15,077 and it would run over the dikes into the creek 287 00:20:15,077 --> 00:20:17,077 and we would have to stop sluicing. 288 00:20:19,905 --> 00:20:22,146 Tony has us running our asses off right now. 289 00:20:25,422 --> 00:20:28,525 This is crucial. You know, we got this dike built up. 290 00:20:30,111 --> 00:20:31,318 Closer to the creek, 291 00:20:31,318 --> 00:20:36,456 Megan is unloading tailings to strengthen the barrier. 292 00:20:36,456 --> 00:20:39,594 We're raising up this part of the dike just to make it a little higher. 293 00:20:41,008 --> 00:20:42,801 So that it's less likely to overflow. 294 00:20:46,732 --> 00:20:48,491 Where I grew up... 295 00:20:48,491 --> 00:20:51,836 ...I lived below sea level. There's dikes everywhere. 296 00:20:51,836 --> 00:20:56,318 It's funny that, uh, I came all the way to Canada, 297 00:20:56,318 --> 00:21:00,525 and, uh, yeah, back home, there's a lot of water management. 298 00:21:00,525 --> 00:21:04,249 It's a Dutch thing to do work like this. 299 00:21:10,008 --> 00:21:12,180 Oh, [bleep]. What's going on over here? 300 00:21:13,491 --> 00:21:14,732 There's water everywhere. 301 00:21:17,284 --> 00:21:20,077 The beds are breaking at, at multiple points. 302 00:21:24,491 --> 00:21:26,870 Tony, Tony, do you copy? 303 00:21:26,870 --> 00:21:29,801 We've got multiple breaks in a dike. There's water everywhere. 304 00:21:32,525 --> 00:21:36,629 Rising water in the ponds has washed away the road, 305 00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:39,215 cutting off access to the main dike. 306 00:21:49,974 --> 00:21:51,008 It's a mess. 307 00:21:53,801 --> 00:21:55,387 Tried to keep up, but, uh... 308 00:21:57,974 --> 00:22:02,594 I tried to build up those dikes, but they just keep overflowing. 309 00:22:35,732 --> 00:22:37,560 I haven't been in a rock truck in a while. 310 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,215 I don't remember the last time I was, actually. 311 00:22:40,215 --> 00:22:45,387 Now, we're just hammering some of these old drift tailings. 312 00:22:45,387 --> 00:22:49,008 The nice thing about this is that it's all here and on the surface, 313 00:22:49,008 --> 00:22:51,387 it's pretty minimal cost. 314 00:22:54,698 --> 00:22:57,629 Parker Schnabel is finally up and running 315 00:22:57,629 --> 00:22:59,629 at his Alaskan operation, 316 00:22:59,629 --> 00:23:04,525 working with an unproven young crew Tyler found through social media. 317 00:23:06,008 --> 00:23:08,939 So, I saw the chance to come up here, and, uh, 318 00:23:08,939 --> 00:23:10,180 I took full advantage of it. 319 00:23:11,870 --> 00:23:16,284 So, I flew into the airport, Tyler picked me up 320 00:23:16,284 --> 00:23:19,318 on a Saturday afternoon, 321 00:23:19,318 --> 00:23:23,491 and, uh, we were out here on Sunday morning having at it. 322 00:23:25,422 --> 00:23:29,422 Latest recruit 24-year-old Michael Bodri 323 00:23:29,422 --> 00:23:33,870 has four years' experience operating on mine sites. 324 00:23:33,870 --> 00:23:37,905 Parker had walked me through my on-site part of being here. 325 00:23:39,732 --> 00:23:44,939 And he said, "Well, it looks like Mark's got some dozing work to do, 326 00:23:44,939 --> 00:23:48,387 why don't we put you in the excavator and see what you can do." 327 00:23:51,939 --> 00:23:55,594 We are placing a lot of faith in the miners we've hired, 328 00:23:55,594 --> 00:23:57,353 which is stressing me out a lot, 329 00:23:57,353 --> 00:23:59,146 because we don't have time here. 330 00:23:59,146 --> 00:24:00,801 We've got such a short window to mine. 331 00:24:02,318 --> 00:24:04,146 After prepping the site, 332 00:24:04,146 --> 00:24:08,974 the greenhorns are stockpiling the drift tailings' pay dirt in the cut, 333 00:24:08,974 --> 00:24:12,767 ready for when Parker's new wash plant arrives. 334 00:24:12,767 --> 00:24:15,663 All right, guys, we're into it this far. 335 00:24:15,663 --> 00:24:16,870 What are we gonna call this cut? 336 00:24:16,870 --> 00:24:18,698 We can call it the Old-Timers' Cut 337 00:24:18,698 --> 00:24:21,111 considering that it came from the old timers. 338 00:24:21,111 --> 00:24:22,525 It pays a nice homage 339 00:24:22,525 --> 00:24:25,043 to guys that were way tougher than any of us 340 00:24:25,043 --> 00:24:27,801 that were out here back 100 years ago. 341 00:24:27,801 --> 00:24:30,284 It does sound nice, but Drift Cut, 342 00:24:30,284 --> 00:24:33,180 'cause they were drifting it from the bottom. 343 00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:35,698 Drift Cut, that ain't too bad. I think I can go with that. 344 00:24:39,629 --> 00:24:43,284 While the greenhorns pile tailings in the Drift Cut, 345 00:24:43,284 --> 00:24:46,905 Parker takes Mark and Tyler to scout the other side of the claim 346 00:24:47,491 --> 00:24:48,905 where last year, 347 00:24:48,905 --> 00:24:52,146 he drilled down to a deep gold-rich pay streak 348 00:24:52,146 --> 00:24:55,974 that could be 10 times richer than his Yukon ground. 349 00:24:57,111 --> 00:25:00,525 The layer that we tested was just the bottom 4 feet. 350 00:25:00,525 --> 00:25:03,111 And that's what our numbers are based off of 351 00:25:03,111 --> 00:25:05,663 - as far as gold in the ground. - Okay. 352 00:25:05,663 --> 00:25:09,629 There's supposed to be about 2,000 ounces in this piece, 353 00:25:09,629 --> 00:25:13,146 and hopefully we can do half of it this year. 354 00:25:13,146 --> 00:25:15,560 - We'll see. That's the goal anyway. - Gotcha, yeah. 355 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,008 So, how much dirt is there to move to get to that? 356 00:25:19,284 --> 00:25:21,767 - Oh, 200,000 yards. - Wow. 357 00:25:24,491 --> 00:25:25,870 A big wolf track. 358 00:25:25,870 --> 00:25:27,525 - What? - Right there. 359 00:25:27,525 --> 00:25:29,663 - Look, right here. - Oh, my [bleep], it's huge. 360 00:25:29,663 --> 00:25:32,008 - Look at that. - That's terrifying. 361 00:25:34,353 --> 00:25:37,491 It's like the size of my hand. 362 00:25:38,767 --> 00:25:39,767 Is that fresh? 363 00:25:45,422 --> 00:25:46,663 That's actually terrifying. 364 00:25:50,525 --> 00:25:54,284 Parker's plan, open the 4-acre Wolf Cut. 365 00:25:56,077 --> 00:25:59,456 He'll dig down 30 feet through worthless overburden 366 00:25:59,456 --> 00:26:02,180 to hit a 4-foot thick pastry 367 00:26:02,180 --> 00:26:05,594 that he hopes holds 2,000 ounces of gold. 368 00:26:09,456 --> 00:26:13,491 I'm young. I don't really know much about this. 369 00:26:14,456 --> 00:26:16,077 New adventure. 370 00:26:16,077 --> 00:26:20,525 Parker's tasked 24-year-old operator, Jarod Chase, 371 00:26:20,525 --> 00:26:22,629 with opening the Wolf Cut. 372 00:26:22,629 --> 00:26:26,801 This dirt that I'm on it's very soft and sloughing, 373 00:26:26,801 --> 00:26:29,836 so you've always gotta be in the lookout on your rears. 374 00:26:30,594 --> 00:26:32,111 Make sure your sides are good. 375 00:26:45,077 --> 00:26:45,870 Whoa! 376 00:26:48,180 --> 00:26:48,974 Oh, no! 377 00:26:51,111 --> 00:26:52,111 Oh, [bleep]. 378 00:26:54,491 --> 00:26:55,905 Oh, [bleep], it's slippery. 379 00:26:57,180 --> 00:26:57,974 That's not good. 380 00:27:03,801 --> 00:27:06,836 Oh, we got a hose blown. That's not good. 381 00:27:07,870 --> 00:27:09,974 What went wrong, man? 382 00:27:09,974 --> 00:27:12,180 - I was trying to pick the boom up... - Yep. 383 00:27:12,180 --> 00:27:14,284 ...and it just started spraying. 384 00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:20,456 Jarod has blown a hydraulic hose on the 480 excavator, 385 00:27:20,456 --> 00:27:22,732 completely disabling the boom arm. 386 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,008 You weren't beating on the ground, were you, 387 00:27:28,008 --> 00:27:29,663 - with the boom? - No. 388 00:27:30,939 --> 00:27:32,560 Well, this kinda screws us here. 389 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,043 I mean, we're gonna have to spend the rest of the day getting this hose off, 390 00:27:37,043 --> 00:27:39,905 - and get her turned off pretty quick. - Yeah, like, extremely quick. 391 00:27:41,353 --> 00:27:43,146 This is a new machine, new hose, 392 00:27:43,146 --> 00:27:44,974 so it shouldn't do that. 393 00:27:48,422 --> 00:27:50,663 I think I got another hose here, 394 00:27:50,663 --> 00:27:52,767 an older hose that might be able to change that out. 395 00:27:54,732 --> 00:27:56,180 This one looks like it almost might work. 396 00:27:58,353 --> 00:28:00,698 Hey, Jarod, let's go! 397 00:28:02,284 --> 00:28:03,491 That 90's a little bit... 398 00:28:05,146 --> 00:28:07,387 It would be nice to make it slip in there. 399 00:28:07,387 --> 00:28:10,836 Trying to, uh, get this done as quick as possible. 400 00:28:10,836 --> 00:28:13,249 Sometimes these bush fixes work, sometimes they don't, 401 00:28:13,249 --> 00:28:15,043 so we'll see. We'll get right on it. 402 00:28:16,525 --> 00:28:18,008 Mark's plan, 403 00:28:18,008 --> 00:28:20,594 chop the fitting off the burst hose 404 00:28:20,594 --> 00:28:23,387 and weld it to the replacement hose. 405 00:28:23,387 --> 00:28:25,870 Let me grab a tape measure, and we'll measure... 406 00:28:26,974 --> 00:28:30,215 So, we'll, uh, chop it, and then we'll weld it. 407 00:28:30,215 --> 00:28:31,043 See if it holds pressure. 408 00:28:41,767 --> 00:28:42,870 It might not last forever, 409 00:28:44,353 --> 00:28:46,939 but at least we'll get going until we get a new hose in here. 410 00:28:46,939 --> 00:28:49,043 Hopefully it holds pressure and we can get back to work. 411 00:28:54,215 --> 00:28:56,284 I think this might work. 412 00:28:56,284 --> 00:28:57,767 Let's go ahead and fire this hoe up. 413 00:28:59,836 --> 00:29:01,318 Everybody cross their fingers. 414 00:29:33,836 --> 00:29:36,180 All right, well, bush fix seems to be workin', 415 00:29:36,180 --> 00:29:38,456 so let's go put this hoe back to work, 416 00:29:39,249 --> 00:29:40,146 and make some money here. 417 00:30:02,456 --> 00:30:03,456 Buzz... 418 00:30:05,111 --> 00:30:06,698 ...this place [bleep] sucks. 419 00:30:08,974 --> 00:30:11,594 - Yeah. - With the rock truck, 420 00:30:11,594 --> 00:30:13,698 - that just [bleep] puts a nail right in the coffin. - I know. 421 00:30:16,387 --> 00:30:18,318 At California Creek 422 00:30:18,318 --> 00:30:22,077 Fred Lewis's only rock truck is down, 423 00:30:22,077 --> 00:30:24,698 unable to truck pay to the plant. 424 00:30:24,698 --> 00:30:27,801 His operation is at a standstill. 425 00:30:27,801 --> 00:30:30,146 We've got this ground in front of us with great gold in it, 426 00:30:30,146 --> 00:30:32,353 and we can't keep equipment going to [bleep] mine it. 427 00:30:35,249 --> 00:30:36,353 Look at that wash plant. 428 00:30:38,180 --> 00:30:39,387 What did we design it for? 429 00:30:40,870 --> 00:30:43,008 What do we put underneath it? 430 00:30:43,008 --> 00:30:44,767 - Are you talking about skeds? - Exactly. 431 00:30:47,008 --> 00:30:52,077 Instead of worrying about rock trucking the gold to the plant, 432 00:30:52,077 --> 00:30:54,043 why don't we take the plant to the gold? 433 00:30:55,146 --> 00:30:59,905 Hey, now we have a whole ton of pay up there 434 00:30:59,905 --> 00:31:01,318 that we can push up with the dozer. 435 00:31:03,180 --> 00:31:06,008 I mean, that's massive. That's a big [bleep] move. 436 00:31:07,043 --> 00:31:09,043 With no other options, 437 00:31:09,043 --> 00:31:13,249 Buzz wants to drag the 14-ton wash plant 438 00:31:13,249 --> 00:31:15,629 along narrow, winding dirt roads 439 00:31:17,456 --> 00:31:20,111 1,500 feet to a new pad 440 00:31:20,111 --> 00:31:21,836 in the middle of the Freedom Cut. 441 00:31:23,249 --> 00:31:25,939 To keep it fed, they'll use their dozer 442 00:31:25,939 --> 00:31:28,905 to push pay dirt directly up to the plant. 443 00:31:31,146 --> 00:31:34,249 JB, Stuart, come on over. 444 00:31:34,870 --> 00:31:35,663 All right. 445 00:31:36,732 --> 00:31:39,491 With no rock truck, Buzz and I had a talk. 446 00:31:39,491 --> 00:31:41,180 We're gonna do something drastic. 447 00:31:41,180 --> 00:31:42,422 We're going to Freedom Cut. 448 00:31:44,456 --> 00:31:46,663 Oh, yeah. Sounds good. 449 00:31:46,663 --> 00:31:47,974 - All right? - We're gonna make it happen. 450 00:31:47,974 --> 00:31:50,008 I actually feel good about this. This makes me feel good. 451 00:31:50,008 --> 00:31:52,732 It's a big move. It's a lot of work, guys. 452 00:31:52,732 --> 00:31:54,422 Buzz will be calling the shots. 453 00:31:54,422 --> 00:31:56,663 - Okay, let's make this happen. - Come on, guys 454 00:31:57,732 --> 00:31:58,525 Come on back. 455 00:32:08,180 --> 00:32:09,629 Oh, it's come unhooked. 456 00:32:14,180 --> 00:32:15,525 All right, let's try again. 457 00:32:24,939 --> 00:32:27,008 So, JB, realistically speaking, 458 00:32:27,008 --> 00:32:29,698 this is the sergeant's first marching orders, eh? 459 00:32:29,698 --> 00:32:32,284 Yeah, no lie. 460 00:32:32,284 --> 00:32:34,043 Oh, man, she's movin' fine. 461 00:32:49,594 --> 00:32:53,629 Buzz has hit a steep downhill hairpin bend 462 00:32:53,629 --> 00:32:56,111 with a 20-foot drop into the creek. 463 00:33:11,249 --> 00:33:13,629 No, no, no, no, no! Stop! Stop! Stop! 464 00:33:25,491 --> 00:33:27,456 No, no, no, no, no! Stop! Stop! Stop! 465 00:33:31,456 --> 00:33:33,870 Good lord! 466 00:33:33,870 --> 00:33:37,525 Realistically, the sarge can do this basic removal. It's a lot better. 467 00:33:42,594 --> 00:33:45,629 Fred Lewis is making a bold move 468 00:33:45,629 --> 00:33:47,491 to save his season. 469 00:33:47,491 --> 00:33:49,525 - Come around that sketchy corner, you know... - Whoo. 470 00:33:49,525 --> 00:33:51,732 - Ah, yeah. - We were... 471 00:33:53,594 --> 00:33:56,905 Unable to truck pay dirt to the wash plant, 472 00:33:56,905 --> 00:33:59,456 his crew is hauling Sergeant Sluice 473 00:33:59,456 --> 00:34:02,111 to a mountain of gold-rich pay dirt 474 00:34:02,111 --> 00:34:04,180 stockpiled in the Freedom Cut. 475 00:34:05,801 --> 00:34:07,732 Sarge here could handle it well. 476 00:34:12,387 --> 00:34:13,698 We're just about there. 477 00:34:13,698 --> 00:34:15,698 It's only about three more feet or so, probably. 478 00:34:22,318 --> 00:34:24,318 Well, that was pretty damn good there. 479 00:34:24,318 --> 00:34:25,594 Right where it's hittin', man. 480 00:34:25,594 --> 00:34:27,422 It looks pretty level back there. 481 00:34:27,422 --> 00:34:28,456 Sarge is in place. 482 00:34:29,939 --> 00:34:31,801 If we tie [bleep]... 483 00:34:33,387 --> 00:34:34,560 That looks good to me. 484 00:34:41,146 --> 00:34:42,629 You sure are a genius. 485 00:34:44,870 --> 00:34:48,215 Having already lost two days of sluicing, 486 00:34:48,215 --> 00:34:51,111 Fred and his crew race to get the plant back together 487 00:34:51,698 --> 00:34:54,870 ready to fire up ASAP. 488 00:34:54,870 --> 00:34:56,663 All right, it's our last connection. 489 00:34:56,663 --> 00:34:57,456 Everything good over there, Buzz? 490 00:34:58,491 --> 00:35:00,146 Hose is connected, brother. 491 00:35:00,146 --> 00:35:02,077 Hey, Stuart, are you ready up there in the excavator? 492 00:35:02,077 --> 00:35:03,043 Let's turn and burn. 493 00:35:09,146 --> 00:35:10,491 So, right now, we're a little bit nervous. 494 00:35:10,491 --> 00:35:12,111 I'm not gonna lie. 495 00:35:13,801 --> 00:35:15,663 It was a big gamble coming up here to the Freedom Cut. 496 00:35:18,732 --> 00:35:20,560 Old Sarge is finally home. 497 00:35:28,594 --> 00:35:30,491 Okay, brother. 498 00:35:36,732 --> 00:35:37,939 It looks pretty good. 499 00:35:42,974 --> 00:35:43,767 Excellent. 500 00:35:47,767 --> 00:35:49,594 It's perfect. There's no problems at all. 501 00:35:51,905 --> 00:35:54,905 With the dozer pushing pay to the plant, 502 00:35:54,905 --> 00:35:58,353 Fred's crew are back running Freedom Cut pay dirt. 503 00:35:59,422 --> 00:36:01,663 To make up for lost time, 504 00:36:01,663 --> 00:36:03,870 they needed to deliver... big. 505 00:36:07,180 --> 00:36:09,629 Man, this is really big for us. 506 00:36:09,629 --> 00:36:11,939 This mine site is 100% active. 507 00:36:11,939 --> 00:36:13,387 We're doing it with our rock trucks. 508 00:36:13,387 --> 00:36:16,456 We're doing it our way with our wash plant, with our dozer. 509 00:36:17,353 --> 00:36:18,629 It's pretty friggin' fantastic. 510 00:36:48,111 --> 00:36:51,456 Tony Beets has shut down his trommel. 511 00:36:51,456 --> 00:36:55,836 Increased water runoff from running the plant 24/7 512 00:36:55,836 --> 00:37:00,422 has washed away the access road to the dike that protects the creek. 513 00:37:06,422 --> 00:37:09,043 Yeah, that's the least thing we [bleep] need. 514 00:37:12,318 --> 00:37:13,594 Yeah, I'm gonna have to clean that off. 515 00:37:18,491 --> 00:37:21,180 If you build over that, it's gonna turn into a [bleep] hole anyway. 516 00:37:41,801 --> 00:37:43,698 This is all the really, really fine stuff. 517 00:37:45,836 --> 00:37:47,836 So, I'm tryin' to push it off the road here. 518 00:37:49,663 --> 00:37:52,111 If all this silt gets pushed into the creek, 519 00:37:54,284 --> 00:37:56,284 the water board will shut us right [bleep] down. 520 00:37:59,663 --> 00:38:02,008 so it makes a bit of a pain in the ass to clean it up. 521 00:38:21,387 --> 00:38:23,353 Mike pushes the watery sludge 522 00:38:23,353 --> 00:38:25,043 back into the settling pond, 523 00:38:26,456 --> 00:38:29,698 allowing rock trucks access to dump overburden 524 00:38:29,698 --> 00:38:31,456 and build the road back up. 525 00:38:38,801 --> 00:38:39,939 It's coming down. 526 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,353 Ten hours after the water broke through, 527 00:39:44,353 --> 00:39:46,353 the access road is fixed. 528 00:39:47,801 --> 00:39:50,767 Tony can now get his rock trucks back, 529 00:39:50,767 --> 00:39:52,732 building up the all-important dikes. 530 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,836 The settling pond's stronger dikes should mean 531 00:40:40,836 --> 00:40:44,732 Tony can now run 24 hours a day trouble-free. 532 00:41:39,318 --> 00:41:40,560 I don't want you to leave, honey. 533 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,801 I get it though, everyone needs Mommy or Daddy, 534 00:41:43,801 --> 00:41:46,284 but the team kinda needs you too. 535 00:41:48,836 --> 00:41:52,663 For now, stay optimistic when you're in front of the crew. 536 00:41:52,663 --> 00:41:55,594 I'm not gonna lie. It's really tough being separated. 537 00:41:55,594 --> 00:41:57,077 And you know, when I got out the army, 538 00:41:57,077 --> 00:42:00,801 it was something we talked about not doing this again. 539 00:42:00,801 --> 00:42:03,043 - All that stuff-- - It sucks. It's really hard. 540 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,939 - Remember that fortune... - Ugh. 541 00:42:06,939 --> 00:42:09,698 - ...favors the brave. - I know. 542 00:42:09,698 --> 00:42:11,284 I'll carry your bag out. 543 00:42:13,801 --> 00:42:15,767 This thing is like 9,000 pounds. 544 00:42:15,767 --> 00:42:17,525 Did you steal all the gold? 545 00:42:17,525 --> 00:42:18,801 What do you mean? There's zero gold. 546 00:42:34,870 --> 00:42:36,732 What's up, slacker? 547 00:42:36,732 --> 00:42:38,732 At California Creek 548 00:42:38,732 --> 00:42:42,629 it's the moment Fred and his crew have been battling towards, 549 00:42:42,629 --> 00:42:46,353 the first gold weigh from the Freedom Cut. 550 00:42:46,353 --> 00:42:48,146 It's been an eventful two weeks, man. 551 00:42:48,146 --> 00:42:49,836 We've been moving, moving, moving, moving. 552 00:42:50,525 --> 00:42:52,456 - Ah. - About time. 553 00:42:53,767 --> 00:42:56,767 After just two days of washing pay, 554 00:42:56,767 --> 00:43:00,180 Fred needs to see improvement on his season total 555 00:43:00,180 --> 00:43:02,491 of just over 18 ounces. 556 00:43:04,422 --> 00:43:06,180 All right, who wants to call it out? Buzz? 557 00:43:06,698 --> 00:43:07,491 Buzz. 558 00:43:11,387 --> 00:43:15,836 One, two, three, four, five, 559 00:43:15,836 --> 00:43:19,732 six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12... 560 00:43:21,180 --> 00:43:24,318 ...13, 14, 15, 561 00:43:24,801 --> 00:43:27,353 16, 17... 562 00:43:30,146 --> 00:43:31,456 18.5. 563 00:43:32,249 --> 00:43:35,939 Worth over $31,000, 564 00:43:35,939 --> 00:43:38,284 doubling their season gold haul 565 00:43:38,284 --> 00:43:40,974 and proving that the Freedom Cut 566 00:43:40,974 --> 00:43:44,043 is some of the best ground they've ever mined. 567 00:43:44,043 --> 00:43:46,663 This represents more than we've mined the entire season. 568 00:43:46,663 --> 00:43:48,905 So, this is two day's work. 569 00:43:48,905 --> 00:43:50,698 - I'd say we're doin' better. - Mmm-hmm. 570 00:43:50,698 --> 00:43:52,318 - And we're definitely getting where we need to be. - Yeah. 571 00:43:52,318 --> 00:43:54,077 And our gold's coming in. 572 00:43:54,077 --> 00:43:55,215 I mean, we know the gold's there. 573 00:43:55,215 --> 00:43:57,456 - So, we just need to keep [bleep] fightin'. - Mmm-hmm. 574 00:43:57,456 --> 00:43:59,111 I'm happy about this, guys, 575 00:43:59,111 --> 00:44:00,732 - we just need to replicate it. - Yep. 576 00:44:00,732 --> 00:44:03,111 So, let's keep our hard work goin' 577 00:44:03,111 --> 00:44:04,974 and we might actually pull this off. 578 00:44:04,974 --> 00:44:07,663 Yeah... just maybe. 579 00:44:07,663 --> 00:44:09,974 Hey, good work though, guys. Well, let's get back to work. 580 00:44:09,974 --> 00:44:11,698 - All right, let's do this. - yeah. 581 00:44:13,491 --> 00:44:14,801 No, you can't touch it, it's mine. 582 00:44:17,318 --> 00:44:19,249 It's great to see gold in the pan, you know what I mean? 583 00:44:19,249 --> 00:44:22,284 It, uh, it validates all your hard work. 584 00:44:22,284 --> 00:44:24,974 It validates everything that you've, uh, kind of been going through. 585 00:44:24,974 --> 00:44:27,456 It's no easy task getting it out of the ground, 586 00:44:27,456 --> 00:44:29,525 you know, and so, just being able to see 587 00:44:29,525 --> 00:44:32,008 that amount of gold in just two days' worth of work, 588 00:44:32,008 --> 00:44:34,801 it really gives me hope. 589 00:44:34,801 --> 00:44:36,594 Things are starting to turn around for us. 590 00:44:47,318 --> 00:44:49,180 Well, thank you guys for coming. 591 00:44:49,180 --> 00:44:52,043 - Thanks, team. - We appreciate the opportunity. 592 00:44:52,043 --> 00:44:54,249 It's been a good first week, hey? 593 00:44:54,249 --> 00:44:56,836 So far so good. Hopefully it keeps up this way. 594 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,491 I kind of didn't think we were actually gonna get 595 00:45:00,491 --> 00:45:02,905 to the point when we're here and moving through it. 596 00:45:02,905 --> 00:45:05,215 Yeah, for hiring us off social media. 597 00:45:07,008 --> 00:45:09,456 - Yeah. - Yeah, now that was definitely a risk. 598 00:45:09,456 --> 00:45:12,491 Like there's always a training process with people, right? 599 00:45:12,491 --> 00:45:15,801 And then it's like with more people you're just, like... 600 00:45:15,801 --> 00:45:18,043 - More headache? - Oh, my [bleep] don't get me started. 601 00:45:21,594 --> 00:45:23,456 All right, cheers, team. 602 00:45:23,456 --> 00:45:25,008 Good work for the first week. 603 00:45:25,008 --> 00:45:27,491 - All right! - Whoo. 604 00:45:27,491 --> 00:45:29,629 All right, I'm outskies. 605 00:45:29,629 --> 00:45:32,456 I'm feeling good right now, um, about everything. 606 00:45:32,456 --> 00:45:34,111 I am a bit anxious. 607 00:45:34,111 --> 00:45:37,146 There is a lot to do, like a lot. 608 00:45:37,146 --> 00:45:38,318 We've got a lot of dirt to move. 609 00:45:39,732 --> 00:45:41,180 We've got Mark, which is a great start. 610 00:45:41,180 --> 00:45:42,491 He seems capable. 611 00:45:44,146 --> 00:45:46,732 But we've got some new miners. We're hoping they're capable. 612 00:45:46,732 --> 00:45:49,836 We're going to have to put a lot of faith in the miners and trust them. 613 00:45:53,491 --> 00:45:56,594 So, yeah. I mean, Jarod and Phil, 614 00:45:56,594 --> 00:45:58,525 they seem all right. 615 00:45:58,525 --> 00:46:01,836 Um, it's a good that Mark's good. 616 00:46:01,836 --> 00:46:03,284 You know, he's a good operator. 617 00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:06,905 We'll see if we can make it work. 618 00:46:23,525 --> 00:46:24,836 - Hi, everybody. - Hey, guys. 619 00:46:24,836 --> 00:46:26,111 - Say hello. - How are ya? 620 00:46:27,629 --> 00:46:28,663 I made you some coffee. 621 00:46:30,215 --> 00:46:32,043 On the Beets' claim 622 00:46:32,043 --> 00:46:35,043 it's the second week of running night and day. 623 00:46:37,111 --> 00:46:39,180 Okay, we did four days, 624 00:46:39,180 --> 00:46:41,870 so, you did a little bit more than 90 hours of sluicing, 625 00:46:41,870 --> 00:46:43,767 23 hours a day. 626 00:46:43,767 --> 00:46:46,698 So then we probably should see how much we have. 627 00:46:49,422 --> 00:46:52,353 To hit his 5,000-ounce target... 628 00:46:52,353 --> 00:46:54,008 Five, 10... 629 00:46:54,008 --> 00:46:55,767 ...Tony needs to average... 630 00:46:55,767 --> 00:46:58,284 Forty, 50, 60... 631 00:46:58,284 --> 00:47:00,698 ...over 300 ounces a week. 632 00:47:00,698 --> 00:47:03,249 A hundred, 110, 120, 633 00:47:03,732 --> 00:47:07,111 130, 140, 150. 634 00:47:12,456 --> 00:47:14,698 - But wait, there's more. - There's more? 635 00:47:19,594 --> 00:47:23,422 170, 180, 190, 200, 636 00:47:23,422 --> 00:47:27,008 230, 240, 260, 280, 637 00:47:27,008 --> 00:47:32,732 290... 296.38. 638 00:47:35,732 --> 00:47:37,111 Really not too bad for a [bleep]. 639 00:47:38,146 --> 00:47:41,318 That will put us over 1,600 ounces. 640 00:47:41,318 --> 00:47:44,801 Running 24 hours has paid off, 641 00:47:44,801 --> 00:47:48,318 delivering Tony his biggest gold weigh of the season. 642 00:47:48,801 --> 00:47:51,043 Over $500,000. 643 00:47:51,801 --> 00:47:52,905 It makes a difference. 644 00:47:52,905 --> 00:47:54,249 I mean, you're run double the time, 645 00:47:54,249 --> 00:47:55,491 you're gonna get double your gold. It's quite simple. 646 00:47:56,836 --> 00:47:57,836 We have the [bleep]. Let's get out. 647 00:48:00,008 --> 00:48:01,215 Let's go. 647 00:48:02,305 --> 00:49:02,482