"Gold Rush" Golden Acres Prospect

1 00:00:01,698 --> 00:00:05,043 [tense music playing] 2 00:00:11,043 --> 00:00:14,043 [country music playing] 3 00:00:16,905 --> 00:00:19,146 [Parker] <i>Come on, dude, don't do this.</i> 4 00:00:21,663 --> 00:00:24,491 Dozer, pick it up. 5 00:00:25,525 --> 00:00:27,905 Everybody's waiting. Get it. 6 00:00:27,939 --> 00:00:30,008 Get the toy. Get your toy. 7 00:00:31,663 --> 00:00:32,663 Get in. 8 00:00:37,215 --> 00:00:38,422 All right. Let's go. 9 00:00:41,836 --> 00:00:45,387 [narrator] <i> Twenty-seven-year-old mine boss, Parker Schnabel,</i> 10 00:00:45,422 --> 00:00:48,939 <i>is facing the toughest season of his life.</i> 11 00:00:48,974 --> 00:00:52,801 <i>In the Klondike, he's chasing a 10,000 ounce,</i> 12 00:00:52,836 --> 00:00:55,456 <i>$18 million payday</i> 13 00:00:55,491 --> 00:00:58,387 <i>that comes with an expiration date.</i> 14 00:01:00,732 --> 00:01:02,318 [Parker] <i>Because our license is expiring,</i> 15 00:01:02,353 --> 00:01:04,560 <i>we have a very real deadline here</i> 16 00:01:04,594 --> 00:01:06,801 <i>where this all has to be done.</i> 17 00:01:06,836 --> 00:01:08,422 <i>We got started sluicing early</i> 18 00:01:08,456 --> 00:01:10,180 and that's super important this year. 19 00:01:10,215 --> 00:01:12,077 Like, it's a big year of sluicing 20 00:01:12,111 --> 00:01:14,249 more than ever before. 21 00:01:15,456 --> 00:01:17,939 <i>The big push right now is keep the plants running</i> 22 00:01:17,974 --> 00:01:20,249 and stripping crew stay out ahead of them. 23 00:01:24,905 --> 00:01:26,767 [narrator] <i>Parker needs the Klondike</i> 24 00:01:26,801 --> 00:01:29,974 <i>to start paying out big right away.</i> 25 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,077 <i>In just a few short weeks,</i> 26 00:01:34,111 --> 00:01:37,560 <i>he plans to open another plant in Alaska,</i> 27 00:01:37,594 --> 00:01:40,422 <i>a move that will stretch him to the limit</i> 28 00:01:40,456 --> 00:01:43,146 <i>but could deliver a massive payday.</i> 29 00:01:44,215 --> 00:01:46,043 <i>Every year, we're pushing it,</i> 30 00:01:46,077 --> 00:01:48,629 <i>but this year, there's no wiggle room in it,</i> 31 00:01:48,663 --> 00:01:52,560 so we can't afford anything that keeps us down for too long. 32 00:01:52,594 --> 00:01:56,180 [tense music playing] 33 00:01:56,215 --> 00:01:58,939 [narrator] <i>Parker's original 45 acres of ground</i> 34 00:01:58,974 --> 00:02:02,111 <i>on the airstrip has doubled to 90</i> 35 00:02:02,146 --> 00:02:04,629 <i>since his deal with Tony Beets.</i> 36 00:02:04,663 --> 00:02:06,525 The first section to be mined 37 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,663 <i>is the 14-acre Keyhole Cut</i> 38 00:02:09,698 --> 00:02:12,836 <i>where Parker's crew are already down the pay</i> 39 00:02:12,870 --> 00:02:14,939 <i>and sluicing the gold rich material</i> 40 00:02:14,974 --> 00:02:18,318 <i>through Big Red at 200 yards an hour.</i> 41 00:02:21,905 --> 00:02:22,870 [Mitch] Let's get some gold. 42 00:02:22,905 --> 00:02:25,905 [machine whirring] 43 00:02:28,525 --> 00:02:31,353 [Mitch] You know, we've been making really good progress with the Keyhole Cut. 44 00:02:31,387 --> 00:02:33,939 Right now, I'm loading trucks. 45 00:02:33,974 --> 00:02:35,491 <i>Justin's up running the wash plant</i> 46 00:02:35,525 --> 00:02:38,939 <i>while Tyson's trying to send some pay dirt up to Big Red,</i> 47 00:02:38,974 --> 00:02:40,318 <i>so he can keep it running.</i> 48 00:02:42,318 --> 00:02:43,387 Garf, get in. 49 00:02:47,767 --> 00:02:50,353 <i>You know, we have a lot of ground to go through this year</i> 50 00:02:50,387 --> 00:02:53,698 and really not that much time. 51 00:02:53,732 --> 00:02:56,594 <i>You know, it's twice the amount of ground we mined last year.</i> 52 00:02:56,629 --> 00:02:59,456 And right now, we only have one wash plant running 53 00:02:59,491 --> 00:03:02,111 and it's probably gonna stay that way for quite some time. 54 00:03:08,043 --> 00:03:10,422 [bleep] it's frozen [bleep] stiff. 55 00:03:14,180 --> 00:03:18,629 This is not good running into permafrost here in the cut 56 00:03:18,663 --> 00:03:20,249 that we wanna be sluicing. 57 00:03:22,836 --> 00:03:25,318 The only thing we can do is send the pay to Big Red 58 00:03:25,353 --> 00:03:28,387 and hopefully it thaws before Big Red runs out of pay. 59 00:03:32,353 --> 00:03:35,318 [narrator] <i>After one of the harshest winters on record,</i> 60 00:03:35,353 --> 00:03:38,146 <i>the Schnabel crew is battling permafrost</i> 61 00:03:38,180 --> 00:03:39,560 <i>in the pay layer.</i> 62 00:03:44,111 --> 00:03:45,629 Yeah. Big Red's a... 63 00:03:45,663 --> 00:03:48,491 She's a hungry [bleep] but frozen pay dirt 64 00:03:48,525 --> 00:03:50,284 doesn't really mesh along with Big Red. 65 00:03:50,318 --> 00:03:51,767 They don't get along very well together. 66 00:03:52,663 --> 00:03:55,663 [metal creaking] 67 00:04:01,043 --> 00:04:03,456 [Justin] <i>Oh, we might have a jam up in the feeder.</i> 68 00:04:07,146 --> 00:04:09,663 [narrator] <i>Frozen for thousands of years,</i> 69 00:04:09,698 --> 00:04:11,387 <i>the permafrost pay dirt</i> 70 00:04:11,422 --> 00:04:13,974 <i>is starting to jam up the hopper.</i> 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:21,074 Do you want subtitles for any video? -=[ ai.OpenSubtitles.com ]=- 72 00:04:22,077 --> 00:04:23,629 [Justin] It looks all right for now. 73 00:04:25,491 --> 00:04:26,939 Just like that, feeder is clear. 74 00:04:26,974 --> 00:04:28,215 Back to sluicing. 75 00:04:37,732 --> 00:04:41,043 <i>I see some frozen chunks of pay up by the plant.</i> 76 00:04:41,077 --> 00:04:42,939 And it sounds like Justin and Tyson 77 00:04:42,974 --> 00:04:45,974 are having a real hard time with the frozen material. 78 00:04:46,008 --> 00:04:47,974 It's just been a really cold spring and that's... 79 00:04:48,008 --> 00:04:50,008 <i>You know, it's bound to come with issues.</i> 80 00:04:52,387 --> 00:04:53,905 Get out and stretch your legs. 81 00:04:57,974 --> 00:05:01,043 [narrator] <i>In addition to slowing down the operation,</i> 82 00:05:01,077 --> 00:05:05,629 <i>frozen chunks of pay dirt running through the plant aren't melting,</i> 83 00:05:05,663 --> 00:05:09,215 <i>leaving gold trapped inside the tailings.</i> 84 00:05:10,732 --> 00:05:12,387 [Parker] <i>Hey, man.</i> 85 00:05:12,422 --> 00:05:16,353 I was just coming to talk to you about this exact problem. 86 00:05:16,387 --> 00:05:18,215 [Mitch] It's called permafrost for a reason, right? 87 00:05:18,249 --> 00:05:19,801 Because it's permanently frozen. 88 00:05:19,836 --> 00:05:21,422 I mean, it would help us a lot 89 00:05:21,456 --> 00:05:25,043 if it was more than like 35 degrees for at least like four hours. 90 00:05:25,077 --> 00:05:27,146 We need some warm weather 91 00:05:27,180 --> 00:05:28,525 trying to keep up with stripping 92 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,663 and sluicing at the same time. 93 00:05:30,698 --> 00:05:33,180 And then that's the problem is that 94 00:05:33,215 --> 00:05:35,974 we're using a lot of our manpower right now 95 00:05:36,008 --> 00:05:38,043 to just try to keep the plant fed. 96 00:05:38,077 --> 00:05:40,111 I really feel like we should shut the plant down. 97 00:05:40,146 --> 00:05:42,801 [tense music playing] 98 00:05:42,836 --> 00:05:46,146 And just focus on thaw and stripping. 99 00:05:47,732 --> 00:05:50,146 But the thing is, with this much area, 100 00:05:50,180 --> 00:05:51,560 if we shut the plant down, I don't know 101 00:05:51,594 --> 00:05:52,560 if we'll be able to get through it all 102 00:05:52,594 --> 00:05:53,560 by the end of the year. 103 00:05:53,594 --> 00:05:55,284 But we're just gonna fight it all season 104 00:05:55,318 --> 00:05:57,146 if we don't put our foot on the brakes 105 00:05:57,180 --> 00:06:00,629 with the sluicing and focus on our stripping, you know. 106 00:06:00,663 --> 00:06:02,284 We're never gonna get to the point 107 00:06:02,318 --> 00:06:04,422 where we're just digging nice, clean thawed pay. 108 00:06:04,456 --> 00:06:07,422 So let's go ahead and just shut it down. 109 00:06:08,732 --> 00:06:10,180 It's a gamble that we're just gonna have to take. 110 00:06:10,215 --> 00:06:11,525 Yeah. 111 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,698 We'll fire back up when the sun decides that it's summertime. 112 00:06:14,732 --> 00:06:17,525 And make the best use to everybody that we free up. 113 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,284 Well, I'll go up there and shut it down now 114 00:06:19,318 --> 00:06:20,387 and we'll just start working on 115 00:06:20,422 --> 00:06:22,180 getting everything taken care of down here. 116 00:06:22,215 --> 00:06:23,801 - All right. Thanks, Mitch. - All right. Yup. 117 00:06:26,353 --> 00:06:28,698 [Parker] <i>So it's not really something that I like to do.</i> 118 00:06:28,732 --> 00:06:31,698 Our rule is always that like once we start sluicing, 119 00:06:31,732 --> 00:06:33,180 we are running 24/7. 120 00:06:33,215 --> 00:06:35,801 <i>But given the price of fuel and where things are at,</i> 121 00:06:35,836 --> 00:06:39,491 we're much better off shutting it down for a while. 122 00:06:39,525 --> 00:06:42,491 [narrator] <i>Parker's gambling that shutting down Big Red</i> 123 00:06:42,525 --> 00:06:46,456 <i>will focus his crew on getting more ground stripped</i> 124 00:06:46,491 --> 00:06:49,905 <i>and exposed to the sun, so that it can thaw.</i> 125 00:06:51,491 --> 00:06:53,836 We're really just hoping the weather warms up for us, 126 00:06:53,870 --> 00:06:55,353 so we can get this ground thawing out 127 00:06:55,387 --> 00:06:58,801 because right now, we're not making any money, we're just spending it. 128 00:07:01,870 --> 00:07:04,870 [tense music playing] 129 00:07:06,870 --> 00:07:09,629 [country music playing] 130 00:07:12,146 --> 00:07:15,111 [chainsaw whirring] 131 00:07:20,594 --> 00:07:22,456 [Fred] Really gonna treat your poor chainsaw like this? 132 00:07:22,491 --> 00:07:24,284 It's ice. 133 00:07:24,318 --> 00:07:26,008 Long as there's no rocks in here, I'll be okay. 134 00:07:29,767 --> 00:07:33,111 [narrator] <i>Far from the big Klondike mining operation,</i> 135 00:07:33,146 --> 00:07:35,767 <i>ex-Green Beret medic Fred Lewis</i> 136 00:07:35,801 --> 00:07:38,111 <i>is battling 30 feet of ice</i> 137 00:07:38,146 --> 00:07:41,870 <i>that's holding his pay dirt hostage.</i> 138 00:07:41,905 --> 00:07:45,249 We're using our pumps, spraying water onto this ice to melt it faster. 139 00:07:45,284 --> 00:07:46,836 <i>Everything we've done to this point</i> 140 00:07:46,870 --> 00:07:48,491 <i>really hasn't done much to dent it.</i> 141 00:07:49,249 --> 00:07:52,215 [chainsaw whirring] 142 00:07:52,249 --> 00:07:54,077 <i>If we're going to wait for this to melt,</i> 143 00:07:54,111 --> 00:07:56,387 it may not even melt the whole year. 144 00:07:59,249 --> 00:08:01,939 <i>You know, I promised my guys a 500 ounce season.</i> 145 00:08:01,974 --> 00:08:03,836 <i>We need to be mining now.</i> 146 00:08:05,249 --> 00:08:07,732 [narrator] <i>Only a few hundred yards away,</i> 147 00:08:09,422 --> 00:08:12,663 <i>the Clayton brothers are also chasing the dream.</i> 148 00:08:15,215 --> 00:08:17,077 <i>Twenty-three-year-old Brandon,</i> 149 00:08:17,111 --> 00:08:19,732 <i>one of the youngest mine bosses in the Yukon.</i> 150 00:08:20,284 --> 00:08:21,249 Hey, Brady. 151 00:08:21,284 --> 00:08:23,284 [narrator] <i>And his 20-year-old brother...</i> 152 00:08:23,318 --> 00:08:25,456 - Yeah. - I got a map of our claims here. 153 00:08:25,491 --> 00:08:28,249 <i>Are hunting for untouched virgin ground.</i> 154 00:08:30,318 --> 00:08:34,974 Let's go see if we can put a mining plan together for the season. 155 00:08:35,008 --> 00:08:37,249 [narrator] <i>Brady has a hockey scholarship,</i> 156 00:08:37,284 --> 00:08:40,043 <i>but is dedicating his summer vacation</i> 157 00:08:40,077 --> 00:08:42,939 <i>to helping the family get back on its feet.</i> 158 00:08:42,974 --> 00:08:44,525 [Brandon] I think if we have any shot 159 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:46,146 in getting to our 500 ounce season goal, 160 00:08:46,180 --> 00:08:49,043 we got to find some good ground and quick. 161 00:08:49,077 --> 00:08:51,594 [narrator] <i>The Clayton brothers need to mine</i> 162 00:08:51,629 --> 00:08:53,560 <i>500 ounces of gold</i> 163 00:08:53,594 --> 00:08:56,422 <i>to help pay off a crippling family debt.</i> 164 00:08:57,422 --> 00:09:00,318 So last year, we stripped this 165 00:09:00,353 --> 00:09:03,111 and ran about 20,000 yards, 166 00:09:03,146 --> 00:09:05,215 averaged 1.5 ounces. 167 00:09:05,249 --> 00:09:06,284 Right. 168 00:09:06,318 --> 00:09:07,939 And I'm thinking it was getting better down here 169 00:09:07,974 --> 00:09:09,974 because there's two creeks that joined, 170 00:09:10,008 --> 00:09:11,767 so I think for our plan this year, 171 00:09:11,801 --> 00:09:15,043 we should look at spots where creeks join together. 172 00:09:15,077 --> 00:09:17,387 There is another one just downstream here that, 173 00:09:17,422 --> 00:09:18,732 see it, looks like it's coming in. 174 00:09:18,767 --> 00:09:19,698 [Brady] Mmm-hmm. 175 00:09:19,732 --> 00:09:22,974 So we should poke around and... 176 00:09:23,008 --> 00:09:24,629 Take the excavator and poke some holes? 177 00:09:24,663 --> 00:09:26,180 Yeah. Do some panning. 178 00:09:26,215 --> 00:09:27,629 Yeah. I like the sounds of that. 179 00:09:27,663 --> 00:09:29,284 [Brandon] Okay. Well, let's go do her... 180 00:09:29,318 --> 00:09:30,836 Yeah. Little treasure hunt. 181 00:09:34,180 --> 00:09:37,318 [narrator] <i>The source of the California Creek gold</i> 182 00:09:37,353 --> 00:09:40,077 <i>is the Sixty mile Pika fault.</i> 183 00:09:40,111 --> 00:09:42,043 <i>Over thousands of years,</i> 184 00:09:42,077 --> 00:09:44,939 <i>flowing water eroded gold from the fault,</i> 185 00:09:44,974 --> 00:09:47,491 <i>taking it downstream.</i> 186 00:09:47,525 --> 00:09:51,939 <i>Last season, the Claytons mined out the junction of two creeks</i> 187 00:09:51,974 --> 00:09:54,008 <i>where the water current slowed,</i> 188 00:09:54,043 --> 00:09:56,525 <i>allowing the heavy gold to sink</i> 189 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:58,560 <i>and be caught by natural riffles.</i> 190 00:09:59,422 --> 00:10:01,353 <i>Working on the same theory,</i> 191 00:10:01,387 --> 00:10:03,801 <i>Brady has identified another junction</i> 192 00:10:03,836 --> 00:10:05,870 <i>half a mile downstream,</i> 193 00:10:05,905 --> 00:10:07,870 <i>where he's hoping the same process</i> 194 00:10:07,905 --> 00:10:09,698 <i>has deposited more gold</i> 195 00:10:09,732 --> 00:10:11,905 <i>and will deliver a monster payday.</i> 196 00:10:11,939 --> 00:10:14,939 [dramatic music playing] 197 00:10:19,180 --> 00:10:21,698 <i>With the goal that we're shooting for this year,</i> 198 00:10:21,732 --> 00:10:25,215 we need a lot of ground, a lot of area. 199 00:10:25,249 --> 00:10:27,077 We got bills to pay. 200 00:10:27,111 --> 00:10:28,801 <i>We got to help our family out,</i> 201 00:10:28,836 --> 00:10:30,905 so if we don't find anything, 202 00:10:30,939 --> 00:10:32,870 we might as well [bleep] go home. 203 00:10:33,629 --> 00:10:35,387 [Brady] What are you thinking? 204 00:10:35,422 --> 00:10:36,905 [Brandon] Where we're starting to get wide here. 205 00:10:36,939 --> 00:10:37,836 Yeah. 206 00:10:37,870 --> 00:10:40,008 So the water would've slowed down 207 00:10:40,043 --> 00:10:43,008 and if it carried gold, it would've just deposited it. 208 00:10:43,043 --> 00:10:48,043 So let's dig a hole right in this ground here, 209 00:10:48,077 --> 00:10:50,629 throw that over, get me the gravel and I'll pan it. 210 00:10:50,663 --> 00:10:51,905 All right. Sounds good. 211 00:10:59,525 --> 00:11:01,146 This is kind of... kind of a do or die 212 00:11:01,180 --> 00:11:04,456 for not even our season, but for our family. 213 00:11:04,491 --> 00:11:06,353 [Brandon] Okay, Brady, I'm gonna get in that hole 214 00:11:06,387 --> 00:11:07,801 and grab some gravel here. 215 00:11:07,836 --> 00:11:08,870 [Brady] All right. Sounds good. 216 00:11:08,905 --> 00:11:12,905 [dramatic music playing] 217 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:21,939 We got a lot riding on this pan, 218 00:11:21,974 --> 00:11:23,732 we need to see some serious gold. 219 00:11:25,491 --> 00:11:28,491 If we think we're getting 500 ounces, 220 00:11:28,525 --> 00:11:30,146 this has to be the pan to do it. 221 00:11:30,180 --> 00:11:34,146 [tense music playing] 222 00:11:36,801 --> 00:11:38,663 Holy [bleep] dude, look at this. 223 00:11:39,422 --> 00:11:42,180 One, two, three. 224 00:11:42,215 --> 00:11:43,663 [Brandon] That's pretty [bleep] good right there. 225 00:11:43,698 --> 00:11:45,077 [Brady] Look at how big these things are. 226 00:11:45,111 --> 00:11:46,353 Six, seven. 227 00:11:46,387 --> 00:11:49,077 There's probably 15 colors in this pan. 228 00:11:49,111 --> 00:11:50,422 Yeah. It's pretty [bleep] good. 229 00:11:50,456 --> 00:11:51,456 Wow. 230 00:11:54,146 --> 00:11:57,560 If this pan represents this whole claim-- 231 00:11:57,594 --> 00:11:59,422 We're [bleep] set. 232 00:11:59,456 --> 00:12:01,077 [Brandon] We got to get a better view. 233 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:05,111 There's so much ground here to move. 234 00:12:05,146 --> 00:12:06,353 This is insane. 235 00:12:06,387 --> 00:12:09,387 This is what we need to get to our 500 ounce season goal, 236 00:12:09,422 --> 00:12:10,732 - right here. - Yup. 237 00:12:10,767 --> 00:12:12,836 And, man, if it pans like this, 238 00:12:12,870 --> 00:12:14,629 - this is Golden Acres. - Yeah. 239 00:12:16,422 --> 00:12:17,422 [bleep] Brady, this is something 240 00:12:17,456 --> 00:12:18,525 we're gonna have to write home about. 241 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:20,663 - [Brady] Yeah. - [Brandon] Dad's gonna be stoked. 242 00:12:20,698 --> 00:12:21,663 We just need to get down here. 243 00:12:21,698 --> 00:12:22,870 [Brandon] We got to get here. 244 00:12:25,525 --> 00:12:27,525 [narrator] <i>But there's one massive problem...</i> 245 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:30,146 [tense music playing] 246 00:12:30,180 --> 00:12:32,767 <i>their wash plant, Dirt Devil</i> 247 00:12:32,801 --> 00:12:37,146 <i>is a half mile upstream from Golden Acres.</i> 248 00:12:37,180 --> 00:12:38,525 [Brandon] <i>With fuel prices, we definitely don't</i> 249 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,560 <i>wanna haul from down here up in there.</i> 250 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:43,560 <i>Let's have a look and see</i> 251 00:12:43,594 --> 00:12:45,939 <i>if we can get the trommel through there or not.</i> 252 00:12:49,215 --> 00:12:51,353 Here, we got a road here so we could easily drag it 253 00:12:51,387 --> 00:12:53,594 - right beside the creek. - [Brady] Mmm-hmm. 254 00:12:55,422 --> 00:12:57,905 It's just this part here is what worries me. 255 00:12:59,732 --> 00:13:02,491 <i>Anything past this is not stripped,</i> 256 00:13:02,525 --> 00:13:04,387 <i>it's narrow as</i>[bleep]. 257 00:13:05,836 --> 00:13:09,180 [narrator] <i>Halfway between Golden Acres and Dirt Devil,</i> 258 00:13:09,215 --> 00:13:10,767 <i>the creek narrows</i> 259 00:13:10,801 --> 00:13:13,043 <i>and is surrounded on either side</i> 260 00:13:13,077 --> 00:13:15,146 <i>by steep, rugged terrain.</i> 261 00:13:16,767 --> 00:13:19,767 For us to even think about getting it there, 262 00:13:19,801 --> 00:13:21,732 - we can't pull it on the mud... - Mmm-hmm. 263 00:13:21,767 --> 00:13:23,353 because it'll just get stuck. 264 00:13:23,387 --> 00:13:25,732 <i>Can't drag it through the creek.</i> 265 00:13:25,767 --> 00:13:31,111 Building a road down here would cost $50,000 in fuel. 266 00:13:33,594 --> 00:13:36,284 We definitely can't afford to spend $50,000. 267 00:13:36,318 --> 00:13:37,698 And that's just... 268 00:13:37,732 --> 00:13:39,387 - Not even-- - not happening. 269 00:13:43,215 --> 00:13:44,318 <i>At the end of the day,</i> 270 00:13:44,353 --> 00:13:47,560 our goal is to clear up our debts. 271 00:13:47,594 --> 00:13:50,560 [narrator] <i>The family's debt means Brandon and Brady</i> 272 00:13:50,594 --> 00:13:54,629 <i>have almost no capital to fund their mining season.</i> 273 00:13:54,663 --> 00:13:56,801 Last thing we wanna do is let you down. 274 00:13:56,836 --> 00:13:58,974 [narrator] <i>And the last of their cash...</i> 275 00:13:59,008 --> 00:14:00,870 What the heck is going on here? 276 00:14:00,905 --> 00:14:02,146 [man] That's bad. 277 00:14:02,180 --> 00:14:05,180 <i>was spent repairing their dozer.</i> 278 00:14:05,215 --> 00:14:06,629 [Brandon] <i>We need that CAT to be stripping.</i> 279 00:14:06,663 --> 00:14:07,870 <i>I can't even run dirt.</i> 280 00:14:07,905 --> 00:14:09,146 We're down before we even started. 281 00:14:09,180 --> 00:14:13,353 [tense music playing] 282 00:14:13,387 --> 00:14:14,801 [Brady] <i>Kicked us in the nuts.</i> 283 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:19,249 If we can't figure anything out, 284 00:14:19,284 --> 00:14:21,111 our season is over before we start it 285 00:14:21,146 --> 00:14:25,043 and we might as well pack our campers up and go home. 286 00:14:25,077 --> 00:14:28,180 [tense music playing] 287 00:14:29,870 --> 00:14:32,215 [tense music playing] 288 00:14:32,249 --> 00:14:35,215 [country music playing] 289 00:14:49,215 --> 00:14:51,594 What have you been up to today, Len? 290 00:14:51,629 --> 00:14:53,111 I don't have a [bleep] clue. 291 00:14:53,146 --> 00:14:56,387 [laughter] 292 00:14:56,422 --> 00:14:59,111 I can break something for you and you can fix it. 293 00:14:59,146 --> 00:15:01,836 Oh, yes. You're good in that, so. 294 00:15:01,870 --> 00:15:03,594 I am... I am good at that, yeah. 295 00:15:07,387 --> 00:15:09,663 [Tony speaking] 296 00:15:13,594 --> 00:15:15,767 - Go. Bye. See you later. - Here we go. 297 00:15:20,525 --> 00:15:22,905 [narrator] <i>King of the Klondike, Tony Beets,</i> 298 00:15:22,939 --> 00:15:24,594 <i>has gambled his season</i> 299 00:15:24,629 --> 00:15:26,525 <i>on a high stakes treasure hunt</i> 300 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:28,008 <i>at Paradise Hill.</i> 301 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:34,491 <i>The fabled white channel pay runs through the claim,</i> 302 00:15:34,525 --> 00:15:36,043 <i>and if he can stay on it,</i> 303 00:15:36,077 --> 00:15:38,801 <i>he could be in for a big payday.</i> 304 00:15:40,732 --> 00:15:43,732 [Tony speaking] 305 00:15:52,870 --> 00:15:55,870 [tense music playing] 306 00:15:57,974 --> 00:15:59,974 [narrator] <i>In the 9-acre Cold Cut,</i> 307 00:16:00,008 --> 00:16:02,146 <i>Tony's crew have already stripped</i> 308 00:16:02,180 --> 00:16:04,663 <i>almost half of the cut down to pay.</i> 309 00:16:05,318 --> 00:16:07,456 <i>100 yards to the north,</i> 310 00:16:07,491 --> 00:16:10,491 <i>Tony wants to open up the 6-acre Blue Cut</i> 311 00:16:10,525 --> 00:16:12,249 <i>to double his chances.</i> 312 00:16:12,284 --> 00:16:14,801 <i>But to reach the white channel gold,</i> 313 00:16:14,836 --> 00:16:16,353 <i>his crew must first</i> 314 00:16:16,387 --> 00:16:19,146 <i>dig through 100 feet of overburden.</i> 315 00:16:20,422 --> 00:16:22,732 [dramatic music playing] 316 00:16:22,767 --> 00:16:24,801 [narrator] <i>Tony wants his oldest son Mike</i> 317 00:16:24,836 --> 00:16:26,870 <i>to get it done in just six days.</i> 318 00:16:29,939 --> 00:16:32,491 I took a breath to try to talk while I was drinking, 319 00:16:32,525 --> 00:16:33,560 didn't work quite so well. 320 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:36,836 You dink. 321 00:16:39,456 --> 00:16:40,629 We were throwing everything we can 322 00:16:40,663 --> 00:16:42,629 to get all this dirt moved 323 00:16:42,663 --> 00:16:44,456 before air comes up too much of a pain in the ass 324 00:16:44,491 --> 00:16:46,043 to move with trucks and we're gonna end up 325 00:16:46,077 --> 00:16:48,180 having to do more expensive [bleep] around. 326 00:16:50,629 --> 00:16:52,836 We're gonna have to hurry up with everything 327 00:16:52,870 --> 00:16:56,043 to stay ahead of the tractors and excavators. 328 00:16:57,905 --> 00:17:00,491 [narrator] <i>Mike Beets and cousin Mike</i> 329 00:17:00,525 --> 00:17:04,008 <i>rip and pile up worthless non-gold-bearing earth</i> 330 00:17:04,043 --> 00:17:07,456 <i>known as overburden with two dozers.</i> 331 00:17:07,491 --> 00:17:09,491 <i>Excavators then load the rock trucks</i> 332 00:17:09,525 --> 00:17:12,180 <i>that haul the dirt up to the dump sites.</i> 333 00:17:14,249 --> 00:17:15,939 [Megan] [bleep] move, man. 334 00:17:16,594 --> 00:17:17,525 Go. 335 00:17:20,215 --> 00:17:21,870 [Ruby] You're way too close to me. 336 00:17:23,491 --> 00:17:25,629 There's always the beginning of the year hiccups 337 00:17:25,663 --> 00:17:27,974 that always happens. 338 00:17:28,008 --> 00:17:29,663 You know, if it didn't happen, 339 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,077 I mean, it wouldn't be gold mining. 340 00:17:37,732 --> 00:17:38,870 Oh [bleep]. 341 00:17:38,905 --> 00:17:42,870 [tense music playing] 342 00:17:47,525 --> 00:17:48,836 [Mike] What's going on here? 343 00:17:49,629 --> 00:17:51,663 <i>Mike, need a copy.</i> 344 00:17:56,939 --> 00:17:59,008 What's wrong with that dozer? 345 00:17:59,043 --> 00:18:01,180 I've got a leak. 346 00:18:01,215 --> 00:18:02,801 [Mike] Holy [bleep] me. 347 00:18:04,801 --> 00:18:07,560 Kevin, do you copy, Kevin? 348 00:18:07,594 --> 00:18:09,215 [Kevin] <i>Go for Kevin.</i> 349 00:18:09,249 --> 00:18:11,629 Hey, Kevin, the D10L is leaking. 350 00:18:11,663 --> 00:18:13,422 So I'm gonna send him down to the lower yard. 351 00:18:13,456 --> 00:18:15,870 You wouldn't mind checking it out for me, please? 352 00:18:15,905 --> 00:18:17,353 [Kevin] <i>Be right on my way.</i> 353 00:18:17,387 --> 00:18:18,801 Okay. Thank you. 354 00:18:20,629 --> 00:18:22,836 [Michael] <i>We really can't deal with this right now.</i> 355 00:18:22,870 --> 00:18:25,111 We just need to get this thing fixed as fast as possible 356 00:18:25,146 --> 00:18:27,456 and start ripping again. 357 00:18:27,491 --> 00:18:30,422 [narrator] <i>Mike continues in the D11.</i> 358 00:18:30,456 --> 00:18:33,146 <i>But without the D10's ripping power,</i> 359 00:18:33,180 --> 00:18:36,146 <i>he has no chance of getting down to pay</i> 360 00:18:36,180 --> 00:18:37,663 <i>by the end of the week.</i> 361 00:18:38,594 --> 00:18:39,905 The D10 down, 362 00:18:39,939 --> 00:18:43,905 I have a lot less ability to get stuff done as fast as I want. 363 00:18:45,043 --> 00:18:47,767 <i>Very, very, very, very problematic.</i> 364 00:18:49,249 --> 00:18:52,215 [dramatic music playing] 365 00:18:58,077 --> 00:18:59,594 We've had to shut the plant down 366 00:18:59,629 --> 00:19:01,456 and we're just super shorthanded. 367 00:19:01,491 --> 00:19:04,318 And one of our best dozer operators 368 00:19:04,353 --> 00:19:09,387 is sat in the office and we need him. 369 00:19:09,422 --> 00:19:11,698 [narrator] <i>With all his pay dirt frozen,</i> 370 00:19:11,732 --> 00:19:13,698 Parker Schnabel shut down 371 00:19:13,732 --> 00:19:16,146 <i>his only operational wash plant</i> 372 00:19:16,180 --> 00:19:18,594 <i>and changed course.</i> 373 00:19:18,629 --> 00:19:20,456 <i>While the sun thaws the pay,</i> 374 00:19:20,491 --> 00:19:23,043 <i>he's opening even more ground</i> 375 00:19:23,077 --> 00:19:24,801 <i>betting that high temperatures</i> 376 00:19:24,836 --> 00:19:26,180 <i>will melt it all</i> 377 00:19:26,215 --> 00:19:28,801 <i>and give him a massive pay pile to run.</i> 378 00:19:29,491 --> 00:19:32,870 Hey, boss, are you super busy? 379 00:19:32,905 --> 00:19:35,836 A little. Yeah. Can't you tell? 380 00:19:35,870 --> 00:19:36,939 [Parker] Yeah, I know. 381 00:19:36,974 --> 00:19:38,525 We're having a pretty rough time 382 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,732 out in the pit with frost 383 00:19:40,767 --> 00:19:43,284 and just fighting things down there. 384 00:19:43,318 --> 00:19:45,870 I was wondering if you can come out 385 00:19:45,905 --> 00:19:47,732 of retirement for us for a little bit. 386 00:19:47,767 --> 00:19:49,629 You have probably more experience in a dozer 387 00:19:49,663 --> 00:19:51,732 than just about anybody on this mine site. 388 00:19:51,767 --> 00:19:54,146 So I was hoping to... I was hoping to try to use 389 00:19:54,180 --> 00:19:57,594 some of your expertise out there. 390 00:19:57,629 --> 00:20:00,180 - [Nona] Okay. - Is that okay? 391 00:20:00,215 --> 00:20:02,180 Do you know how long... how long I'll be out there for? 392 00:20:02,215 --> 00:20:03,249 Like, how many days? 393 00:20:03,284 --> 00:20:04,456 [Parker] Probably a week. 394 00:20:04,491 --> 00:20:05,491 Okay. 395 00:20:07,905 --> 00:20:09,180 That's fine. Yeah. 396 00:20:09,215 --> 00:20:10,215 I can do that for you for sure. 397 00:20:10,249 --> 00:20:12,939 - Okay. Thanks. I appreciate it. - [Nona] Yeah. 398 00:20:12,974 --> 00:20:15,422 - Thank you, girls. - [Nona] Okay. Thanks, Parker. 399 00:20:15,456 --> 00:20:17,698 Okay, we can do that. 400 00:20:17,732 --> 00:20:21,732 [dramatic music playing] 401 00:20:24,974 --> 00:20:26,732 Right now, we're just throwing everybody we can 402 00:20:26,767 --> 00:20:29,353 at these cuts to get them caught up 403 00:20:29,387 --> 00:20:31,180 <i>and ready to go and because, like,</i> 404 00:20:31,215 --> 00:20:33,077 <i>where we're at right now, there's, you know,</i> 405 00:20:33,111 --> 00:20:35,043 <i>12 feet of gravel that needs to thaw.</i> 406 00:20:36,353 --> 00:20:38,353 [narrator] <i>The frozen pay won't thaw</i> 407 00:20:38,387 --> 00:20:41,249 <i>unless it's broken up and exposed to sunlight.</i> 408 00:20:44,318 --> 00:20:46,456 We've got to do this as fast as we can here 409 00:20:46,491 --> 00:20:48,043 to get this ground exposed. 410 00:20:48,077 --> 00:20:49,318 <i>This is what it's gonna take.</i> 411 00:20:49,353 --> 00:20:50,801 <i>I mean, everybody's got to step up</i> 412 00:20:50,836 --> 00:20:54,008 because we just have too much ground to get through 413 00:20:54,043 --> 00:20:56,249 if we don't have everybody pitching in. 414 00:20:56,284 --> 00:21:00,318 [dramatic music playing] 415 00:21:05,180 --> 00:21:08,560 This gold mining gets in your veins, 416 00:21:08,594 --> 00:21:09,801 gets in your blood. 417 00:21:11,008 --> 00:21:13,422 [narrator] <i>Office manager Nona Loveless</i> 418 00:21:13,456 --> 00:21:16,525 <i>uses the 73-ton D10 dozer</i> 419 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,629 <i>to rip through the permafrost.</i> 420 00:21:21,284 --> 00:21:25,249 [Nona speaking] 421 00:21:39,939 --> 00:21:43,215 Some of this... some of this material is... 422 00:21:43,249 --> 00:21:44,801 Was permafrost 423 00:21:44,836 --> 00:21:48,836 and that stuff to rip is a real challenge. 424 00:21:48,870 --> 00:21:51,146 It's expensive, it's hard on the equipment. 425 00:21:51,180 --> 00:21:54,008 I am in a tough spot right now 426 00:21:54,043 --> 00:21:57,043 trying to get this done but it'll come, we'll get her. 427 00:22:02,732 --> 00:22:05,146 Holy. Come on. 428 00:22:06,767 --> 00:22:09,387 That doesn't seem to be wanting to come out. 429 00:22:12,974 --> 00:22:14,180 Whoa. 430 00:22:14,215 --> 00:22:16,215 What the heck. 431 00:22:16,249 --> 00:22:18,422 What... Oh, my [bleep]. 432 00:22:21,594 --> 00:22:24,870 What the hell is this? 433 00:22:26,836 --> 00:22:28,905 Are you kidding me? 434 00:22:28,939 --> 00:22:32,525 That hull is lifted off the blade. 435 00:22:33,836 --> 00:22:37,284 This is not what we need for another machine to be down. 436 00:22:37,318 --> 00:22:39,974 We get nowhere, nowhere today. 437 00:22:41,767 --> 00:22:44,318 Hey, Jordan, you got a copy? 438 00:22:44,353 --> 00:22:46,870 You're not gonna believe it, the blade is peeling up, just come and get it. 439 00:22:46,905 --> 00:22:47,801 Thank you. 440 00:22:49,077 --> 00:22:52,318 [dramatic music playing] 441 00:22:52,353 --> 00:22:55,146 This is really thin and it wore the welds off, 442 00:22:55,180 --> 00:22:57,353 so you have to take all these pieces off 443 00:22:57,387 --> 00:23:00,939 and then put the new pieces in that we have. 444 00:23:00,974 --> 00:23:03,318 What's going on, man? Why are you pulling that thing out of here? 445 00:23:03,353 --> 00:23:06,008 Oh, the skin is peeling right off. 446 00:23:06,043 --> 00:23:09,491 Obviously that frozen [bleep] just grabbed the bottom and peeled it up. 447 00:23:09,525 --> 00:23:10,939 [Mitch] Oh, no way. 448 00:23:10,974 --> 00:23:12,870 It's crazy how abrasive that stuff is 449 00:23:12,905 --> 00:23:14,284 to wear the steel down that hard. 450 00:23:14,318 --> 00:23:16,560 [Jordan] Yeah, I didn't think it was gonna go away that quick. 451 00:23:19,008 --> 00:23:21,077 Well, yeah, the sooner we can get her back in action 452 00:23:21,111 --> 00:23:22,146 the better off we're gonna be. 453 00:23:22,180 --> 00:23:23,077 [Jordan] Yeah. 454 00:23:23,111 --> 00:23:24,663 Yeah, kind of [bleep] timing but... 455 00:23:24,698 --> 00:23:27,111 [Mitch] Yeah, couldn't be any worse. 456 00:23:28,249 --> 00:23:30,043 Wasting a lot of money here. 457 00:23:32,836 --> 00:23:35,180 [tense music playing] 458 00:23:35,215 --> 00:23:38,146 [country music playing] 459 00:23:42,456 --> 00:23:44,491 [Mitch] Man, fighting that frost is just... 460 00:23:44,525 --> 00:23:46,663 It's a never ending battle here. 461 00:23:46,698 --> 00:23:48,491 [narrator] <i>Parker Schnabel and his crew</i> 462 00:23:48,525 --> 00:23:51,905 <i>are racing to get ground ripped and thawed</i> 463 00:23:51,939 --> 00:23:54,594 <i>so they can get back to running pay,</i> 464 00:23:54,629 --> 00:23:56,836 <i>but they're down a dozer.</i> 465 00:23:56,870 --> 00:23:59,456 Even Nona is one of the best past hitters that we've got. 466 00:23:59,491 --> 00:24:01,525 So, at a time like this, 467 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,629 her skills are needed. 468 00:24:09,456 --> 00:24:11,353 [Ty] <i>This is</i>[bleep]. 469 00:24:11,387 --> 00:24:13,043 [bleep]. 470 00:24:16,318 --> 00:24:17,767 Boys are asking for this. 471 00:24:17,801 --> 00:24:19,008 They got a lot of frozen ground, 472 00:24:19,043 --> 00:24:20,732 Big Red is down right now. 473 00:24:20,767 --> 00:24:22,422 [narrator] <i> Back at Parker's yard,</i> 474 00:24:22,456 --> 00:24:24,043 <i>mechanic Ty Smith</i> 475 00:24:24,077 --> 00:24:26,870 <i>and specialist welder Dan Colen</i> 476 00:24:26,905 --> 00:24:30,698 <i>are fighting to get the D10 back in action.</i> 477 00:24:30,732 --> 00:24:32,560 [Ty] Our blade skins are ripping apart. 478 00:24:32,594 --> 00:24:33,870 Dan's giving us a hand here. 479 00:24:33,905 --> 00:24:35,629 He's cutting everything apart. 480 00:24:35,663 --> 00:24:37,111 <i>We'll get the new skin put on here</i> 481 00:24:37,146 --> 00:24:39,249 and then this D10 can go back to pushing some mud 482 00:24:39,284 --> 00:24:41,318 and we can keep opening up ground. 483 00:24:42,732 --> 00:24:45,043 [Dan] <i>We're getting this done as fast as we can.</i> 484 00:24:45,077 --> 00:24:46,905 <i>We need this machine running.</i> 485 00:24:55,008 --> 00:24:56,698 [Ty] <i>It would be nice to get this thing back out</i> 486 00:24:56,732 --> 00:24:58,318 <i>in the cut and ripping some dirt.</i> 487 00:25:04,215 --> 00:25:05,801 [Dan] Right oh, yeah, she's solid. 488 00:25:05,836 --> 00:25:07,387 Sweet. We'll get the truck ready 489 00:25:07,422 --> 00:25:08,939 and get this thing down there. 490 00:25:13,491 --> 00:25:14,767 [Nona] <i>Mitch, you got a copy?</i> 491 00:25:15,974 --> 00:25:18,008 Go for Mitch. 492 00:25:18,043 --> 00:25:20,525 [Nona] Blade's fixed, we're back in business. 493 00:25:21,801 --> 00:25:24,387 [Mitch] <i>Yeah! Let's do it.</i> 494 00:25:26,974 --> 00:25:28,698 [Nona] <i>Ty got this done.</i> 495 00:25:28,732 --> 00:25:30,974 <i>And now we can get back on track</i> 496 00:25:31,008 --> 00:25:32,732 <i>and try to get Big Red fired up</i> 497 00:25:32,767 --> 00:25:35,215 and we are running out of time. 498 00:25:35,249 --> 00:25:37,215 [dramatic music playing] 499 00:25:39,836 --> 00:25:42,043 As soon as we have enough pay dirt, we're gonna fire Big Red up. 500 00:25:42,077 --> 00:25:43,801 <i>We can get ahead of it a little bit</i> 501 00:25:43,836 --> 00:25:45,594 <i>and hopefully Mother Nature works with us.</i> 502 00:25:45,629 --> 00:25:47,456 We can get this thing rolling again. 503 00:25:47,491 --> 00:25:50,043 The Yukon and Mother Nature working with us 504 00:25:50,077 --> 00:25:51,525 don't belong in the same sentence. 505 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,249 [laughing] 506 00:25:55,077 --> 00:25:58,180 [narrator] <i>With Nona and their dozer back in the game,</i> 507 00:25:58,215 --> 00:26:02,215 <i>the crew can rip for the next 24 hours straight.</i> 508 00:26:12,939 --> 00:26:14,663 [Mitch] <i>So we've been stockpiling pay dirt</i> 509 00:26:14,698 --> 00:26:16,629 <i>ever since we shut the plant down.</i> 510 00:26:16,663 --> 00:26:18,077 You know, the decision to shut down 511 00:26:18,111 --> 00:26:20,111 Big Red this week, definitely something 512 00:26:20,146 --> 00:26:22,491 I'm, you know, not a huge fan of 513 00:26:22,525 --> 00:26:24,456 but Parker made the decision 514 00:26:24,491 --> 00:26:27,180 to focus on stripping ground. 515 00:26:27,215 --> 00:26:28,767 <i>We can definitely use this warm weather</i> 516 00:26:28,801 --> 00:26:30,353 <i>that we're getting today here</i> 517 00:26:30,387 --> 00:26:32,180 <i>to help some of this pay thaw out.</i> 518 00:26:35,698 --> 00:26:37,974 <i>Yeah, it looks good.</i> 519 00:26:38,008 --> 00:26:40,387 We definitely got enough dirt to fire the wash plant back up. 520 00:26:40,422 --> 00:26:42,387 [rock music playing] 521 00:26:44,215 --> 00:26:47,663 Well, man, you know, at least it's not snowing today, so. 522 00:26:47,698 --> 00:26:50,974 - [Parker] Right on. - Hey, Justin, you got a copy? 523 00:26:51,008 --> 00:26:53,422 Go ahead. 524 00:26:53,456 --> 00:26:55,663 Hey, man, let's... We're gonna fire this thing back up. 525 00:26:55,698 --> 00:26:57,560 Let's get back to washing some rocks here. 526 00:26:57,594 --> 00:26:59,491 Sure thing, Mitch, show time, let's go, 527 00:26:59,525 --> 00:27:00,870 let's feed this beast. 528 00:27:00,905 --> 00:27:02,111 You wanna do the honors, Mitch? 529 00:27:02,146 --> 00:27:04,146 Let's do it, man, here we go. 530 00:27:10,318 --> 00:27:12,663 - Yeah! - There we go. 531 00:27:12,698 --> 00:27:14,663 [Mitch] <i> Get it, Justin, let's do it.</i> 532 00:27:19,111 --> 00:27:21,111 <i>There it is, Big Red is back running.</i> 533 00:27:23,594 --> 00:27:25,318 Hopefully, we got a lot of gold in that sluice box 534 00:27:25,353 --> 00:27:27,008 the end of the week here. 535 00:27:27,043 --> 00:27:30,560 [dramatic music playing] 536 00:27:41,594 --> 00:27:44,111 You know, originally we were gonna move the plant. 537 00:27:44,146 --> 00:27:45,905 Turns out, it's a bit more challenging 538 00:27:45,939 --> 00:27:47,318 than we anticipated. 539 00:27:49,698 --> 00:27:52,836 [narrator] <i>On the westernmost frontier of the Yukon,</i> 540 00:27:52,870 --> 00:27:54,801 <i>the Clayton brothers are out of luck</i> 541 00:27:54,836 --> 00:27:57,215 <i>and out of cash.</i> 542 00:27:57,249 --> 00:28:00,249 <i>They need to build a road to the hotspot</i> 543 00:28:00,284 --> 00:28:02,249 <i>they found at Golden Acres,</i> 544 00:28:02,284 --> 00:28:05,698 <i>but it'll cost $50,000.</i> 545 00:28:08,077 --> 00:28:11,215 At the rate we're going, we're [bleep] not gonna make 546 00:28:11,249 --> 00:28:13,594 our goal and one thing we're gonna lose the [bleep] so. 547 00:28:13,629 --> 00:28:15,974 - Yeah. - I ain't losing. 548 00:28:16,008 --> 00:28:18,077 [Warren] But what the [bleep] are we gonna do? 549 00:28:19,525 --> 00:28:22,043 [narrator] <i>Operator Warren Binnie has traveled</i> 550 00:28:22,077 --> 00:28:24,215 <i>from Grande Prairie in Alberta</i> 551 00:28:24,249 --> 00:28:27,387 <i>to join the Clayton brothers this season.</i> 552 00:28:27,422 --> 00:28:30,146 You know, we've invested enough just getting up here 553 00:28:30,180 --> 00:28:31,732 and getting started all the repairs 554 00:28:31,767 --> 00:28:33,732 for the transmission on the dozer, the torque, 555 00:28:33,767 --> 00:28:35,905 you know, we need to try something. 556 00:28:35,939 --> 00:28:38,663 [Brady] Well, what are we gonna do then? 557 00:28:38,698 --> 00:28:41,939 Why don't we test up top upstream of it? 558 00:28:41,974 --> 00:28:44,767 Like, just haul like a couple hundred yards or something? 559 00:28:44,801 --> 00:28:46,974 Yeah, say do 200 yards, 560 00:28:47,008 --> 00:28:49,008 if we have enough up there 561 00:28:49,043 --> 00:28:51,594 then see if we can get some money to... 562 00:28:51,629 --> 00:28:53,629 From there to go down to Golden Acres. 563 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,456 [Warren] I like it. 564 00:28:58,491 --> 00:28:59,974 You know, it's a shot in the dark, 565 00:29:00,008 --> 00:29:02,353 but it's worth the shot, I think, we're here. 566 00:29:02,387 --> 00:29:04,629 - Right. - You know, we're a team, guys. 567 00:29:04,663 --> 00:29:06,043 We don't give up. 568 00:29:06,077 --> 00:29:08,146 Then, let's give it a go. 569 00:29:08,180 --> 00:29:10,525 We'll get Dirt Devil running, 570 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:11,939 we'll wash 200 yards. 571 00:29:11,974 --> 00:29:13,318 We'll see how much gold is there. 572 00:29:13,353 --> 00:29:15,284 [bleep] yeah, guys. Let's do it. 573 00:29:15,318 --> 00:29:17,629 Let's [bleep] kick some [bleep] ass, guys. 574 00:29:17,663 --> 00:29:19,215 Hell yeah. 575 00:29:20,836 --> 00:29:23,767 [narrator] <i>Brady's plan, mine a strip of land</i> 576 00:29:23,801 --> 00:29:27,353 <i>just a hundred yards upstream from their wash plant.</i> 577 00:29:27,387 --> 00:29:30,629 <i>He's hoping there's just enough gold in the ground</i> 578 00:29:30,663 --> 00:29:32,456 <i>to finance their road</i> 579 00:29:32,491 --> 00:29:35,249 <i>and get them to a gold bonanza</i> 580 00:29:35,284 --> 00:29:38,043 <i>at Golden Acres.</i> 581 00:29:38,077 --> 00:29:40,353 [Brandon] <i>Pretty exciting. You know, we're gonna start</i> 582 00:29:40,387 --> 00:29:42,422 <i>running our first bit of dirt this season.</i> 583 00:29:43,318 --> 00:29:45,974 I'm gonna take the top gravels off. 584 00:29:46,008 --> 00:29:47,767 And we're gonna go 10 feet deep. 585 00:29:47,801 --> 00:29:50,318 We'll take the bottom five 586 00:29:50,353 --> 00:29:53,215 and then we're not diluting our pay stream. 587 00:29:56,111 --> 00:29:58,249 [narrator] <i> Brandon thinks the best gold</i> 588 00:29:58,284 --> 00:30:01,146 <i>lies at the bottom of the pay layer.</i> 589 00:30:01,180 --> 00:30:04,663 Okay. Brady, this is gonna be our first little test here. 590 00:30:04,698 --> 00:30:06,663 Let's get it to the Dirt Devil. 591 00:30:06,698 --> 00:30:08,732 [bleep] yeah, I like the sounds of that. 592 00:30:08,767 --> 00:30:10,939 [dramatic music playing] 593 00:30:15,008 --> 00:30:17,525 It feels good to be back in the machine. 594 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,422 Not usually rock truck, but I don't mind 595 00:30:19,456 --> 00:30:20,801 running these things. They are fun. 596 00:30:20,836 --> 00:30:22,491 Beats the hell out of fixing 597 00:30:22,525 --> 00:30:24,008 [bleep] I can tell you that. 598 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,870 The gravel looks good. 599 00:30:28,905 --> 00:30:31,594 But we tried in upper vents last year downstream 600 00:30:31,629 --> 00:30:34,146 and it didn't pay worth a [bleep] 601 00:30:34,180 --> 00:30:36,180 so, uh... 602 00:30:36,215 --> 00:30:38,387 I'm hoping that's not the case here. 603 00:30:38,422 --> 00:30:40,663 [dramatic music playing] 604 00:30:46,008 --> 00:30:47,560 [Brandon] <i>Yeah. I'm definitely depending on this.</i> 605 00:30:47,594 --> 00:30:48,663 <i>If this doesn't pan out</i> 606 00:30:48,698 --> 00:30:50,077 like how I want it, 607 00:30:50,111 --> 00:30:51,905 I don't know what the [bleep] is next. 608 00:31:04,801 --> 00:31:06,491 [Brady] <i> Dirt Devil looks good, eh?</i> 609 00:31:06,525 --> 00:31:08,008 [Brandon] <i>Yeah. It's good to be down here.</i> 610 00:31:08,043 --> 00:31:11,077 Just she's got a little rust on her 611 00:31:11,111 --> 00:31:12,629 and probably should throw some rocks 612 00:31:12,663 --> 00:31:14,456 and water in there soon 613 00:31:14,491 --> 00:31:16,111 and make her sparkle. 614 00:31:17,767 --> 00:31:19,767 [narrator] <i>The Clayton brothers are doing</i> 615 00:31:19,801 --> 00:31:21,870 <i>a test run of pay dirt from a site</i> 616 00:31:21,905 --> 00:31:24,008 <i>close to their wash plant.</i> 617 00:31:24,043 --> 00:31:26,318 <i>I think we're gonna run</i> 618 00:31:26,353 --> 00:31:27,870 our 200 yard test here, 619 00:31:27,905 --> 00:31:29,456 then we'll figure out 620 00:31:29,491 --> 00:31:32,249 if we can make money on it or not. 621 00:31:32,284 --> 00:31:33,870 - Okay, well, let's do her, guys. - Well, pitter-patter. 622 00:31:33,905 --> 00:31:36,077 - Let's go fire her up. - Let's do it. 623 00:31:36,111 --> 00:31:37,732 [narrator] <i>They need this test</i> 624 00:31:37,767 --> 00:31:39,767 <i>to deliver an ounce of gold</i> 625 00:31:39,801 --> 00:31:42,905 <i>to prove the ground will deliver the cash</i> 626 00:31:42,939 --> 00:31:45,249 <i>to get them to Golden Acres.</i> 627 00:31:46,353 --> 00:31:48,111 All right, boys, this is it. 628 00:31:48,146 --> 00:31:50,387 This is the first start of Dirt Devil of the season. 629 00:31:50,422 --> 00:31:52,939 So let's start her up and spin her over. 630 00:31:52,974 --> 00:31:55,215 [Brady] She'll go. She'll go. 631 00:31:58,629 --> 00:32:00,146 There she goes. 632 00:32:10,111 --> 00:32:11,077 Okay, feed her. 633 00:32:28,801 --> 00:32:30,456 [Brandon] Yeah. That's looking good, Warren. 634 00:32:31,594 --> 00:32:32,870 10-4. 635 00:32:41,663 --> 00:32:44,456 I don't know what [bleep] motivates me more, 636 00:32:44,491 --> 00:32:46,525 seeing him sluice 637 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,284 or just having a really big task over there 638 00:32:48,318 --> 00:32:49,663 on our claim, but right now, 639 00:32:49,698 --> 00:32:50,767 this is kind of pissing me off. 640 00:32:51,974 --> 00:32:54,111 [narrator] <i> Fred has bet Brandon</i> 641 00:32:54,146 --> 00:32:56,629 <i>he'll mine more gold this season,</i> 642 00:32:56,663 --> 00:32:59,629 <i>but right now, he's on the back foot.</i> 643 00:32:59,663 --> 00:33:01,146 <i>The ice we have over there</i> 644 00:33:01,180 --> 00:33:02,836 and all the problems we have, he could be a [bleep] month 645 00:33:02,870 --> 00:33:03,939 ahead of us right now. 646 00:33:06,249 --> 00:33:07,870 We're still gonna beat his ass. 647 00:33:07,905 --> 00:33:09,146 You know what I'm saying? Right? 648 00:33:09,180 --> 00:33:10,491 We're still gonna beat his ass. 649 00:33:12,180 --> 00:33:13,974 [Fred] Let's quit moping. Let's get back to work. 650 00:33:14,008 --> 00:33:15,456 Use this as fuel. 651 00:33:16,905 --> 00:33:19,353 [Brandon] What do you think? Is it gonna be good? 652 00:33:19,387 --> 00:33:20,801 [Brady] <i>I think it's gonna be good, boss.</i> 653 00:33:20,836 --> 00:33:22,077 [laughing] 654 00:33:37,111 --> 00:33:39,215 It's a pain in the ass having only one CAT to rip. 655 00:33:40,525 --> 00:33:42,974 [narrator] <i>Trusted by his dad to run the claim,</i> 656 00:33:43,008 --> 00:33:45,456 <i>Mike Beets is down a dozer.</i> 657 00:33:45,491 --> 00:33:48,249 <i>Without it, he has no hope of getting down</i> 658 00:33:48,284 --> 00:33:49,698 <i>to pay in the Blue Cut</i> 659 00:33:49,732 --> 00:33:51,974 <i>by the end of the week.</i> 660 00:33:52,008 --> 00:33:54,836 <i>Hopefully, my brother who's fixing the D10</i> 661 00:33:54,870 --> 00:33:56,560 <i>gets it done quick</i> 662 00:33:56,594 --> 00:33:58,111 so I can get that dozer back in here 663 00:33:58,146 --> 00:33:59,939 to give me a hand and finish all this ripping, 664 00:33:59,974 --> 00:34:03,456 <i>because I, am somewhat falling behind on that.</i> 665 00:34:05,698 --> 00:34:07,387 Something's up with the 10 L, 666 00:34:07,422 --> 00:34:09,801 so I'm gonna go check in with Cousin Mike 667 00:34:09,836 --> 00:34:11,249 and see what it is. 668 00:34:12,284 --> 00:34:13,905 Whatcha break? 669 00:34:13,939 --> 00:34:16,146 Cylinder here. 670 00:34:16,180 --> 00:34:18,525 I looked behind me and I saw oil 671 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,146 dripping out really quick. 672 00:34:21,180 --> 00:34:23,284 Inside the cylinder, the rod piece coming out, 673 00:34:23,318 --> 00:34:24,663 there's a seal around that. 674 00:34:24,698 --> 00:34:26,939 And that is... Well [bleep] 675 00:34:26,974 --> 00:34:30,146 it looks like I'm stuck doing a cylinder swap. 676 00:34:30,180 --> 00:34:32,318 And of course, this happens at the best [bleep] time 677 00:34:32,353 --> 00:34:34,422 where, you know, we really need it. 678 00:34:34,456 --> 00:34:36,801 So we got to get this machine, the D10 L, 679 00:34:36,836 --> 00:34:38,905 back up and running ASA [bleep] P. 680 00:34:39,870 --> 00:34:41,456 So I gotta go sign 681 00:34:41,491 --> 00:34:43,387 so I can find a [bleep] cylinder or two. 682 00:34:45,801 --> 00:34:47,629 Hey, Cody, got a copy, Cody? 683 00:34:48,663 --> 00:34:49,836 [Cody speaking] 684 00:34:49,870 --> 00:34:51,422 We have a D10 hydraulic leak, 685 00:34:51,456 --> 00:34:53,284 so now we need a new cylinder, 686 00:34:53,318 --> 00:34:54,905 and you know where that's hiding? 687 00:34:56,318 --> 00:34:59,318 [Cody speaking] 688 00:34:59,353 --> 00:35:01,560 - Cool. - [narrator] <i>First up,</i> 689 00:35:01,594 --> 00:35:04,767 <i>Kevin removes the broken hydraulic cylinder.</i> 690 00:35:12,008 --> 00:35:13,801 If we come to the front of our cylinder, 691 00:35:13,836 --> 00:35:15,180 we have our ram here. 692 00:35:15,215 --> 00:35:16,318 And what keeps her on the inside 693 00:35:16,353 --> 00:35:17,663 is this here seal. 694 00:35:17,698 --> 00:35:19,491 And right here you can see you got a [bleep] hole. 695 00:35:19,525 --> 00:35:21,111 It's not gonna hold the oil in. 696 00:35:21,146 --> 00:35:23,008 Because that's what holds in all the pressure. 697 00:35:23,043 --> 00:35:25,698 Meaning, when you engage the hydraulics 698 00:35:25,732 --> 00:35:27,111 and that isn't working, 699 00:35:27,146 --> 00:35:28,870 you can get like a 20-foot spray. 700 00:35:28,905 --> 00:35:31,387 It's important to not run it when it's doing that. 701 00:35:33,215 --> 00:35:35,008 This will be the new one to go in. 702 00:35:37,008 --> 00:35:38,353 [narrator] <i>Repairing the seal</i> 703 00:35:38,387 --> 00:35:39,698 <i>will take hours,</i> 704 00:35:39,732 --> 00:35:42,456 <i>but Kevin has a faster plan.</i> 705 00:35:42,491 --> 00:35:44,663 <i>Swap out the broken cylinder</i> 706 00:35:44,698 --> 00:35:47,249 <i>with an old spare bought at auction.</i> 707 00:35:47,284 --> 00:35:48,767 [Kevin] <i>This one was something</i> 708 00:35:48,801 --> 00:35:50,249 <i>I believe we picked up in D.C.,</i> 709 00:35:50,284 --> 00:35:51,974 <i>it can be as much as 10 years ago,</i> 710 00:35:52,008 --> 00:35:53,974 <i>but we never tested any of these either.</i> 711 00:35:54,008 --> 00:35:55,560 <i>For all we know, these cylinders</i> 712 00:35:55,594 --> 00:35:57,180 <i>are gonna leak as well.</i> 713 00:35:57,215 --> 00:35:59,146 If she's not quite well, that's okay. 714 00:35:59,180 --> 00:36:01,318 I can work with that. 715 00:36:01,353 --> 00:36:03,594 Thank you. [grunts] 716 00:36:03,629 --> 00:36:05,525 Can I have a hammer, <i> s'il vous plait?</i> 717 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,870 - [Mike] Does this one work? - [Kevin] [grunts] Thank you. 718 00:36:09,077 --> 00:36:11,939 Can I get you on this side? Tell me how lined up I am. 719 00:36:13,525 --> 00:36:16,284 Maybe like two millimeters up. 720 00:36:16,318 --> 00:36:19,180 [narrator] <i>If the bracket isn't lined up precisely,</i> 721 00:36:19,215 --> 00:36:22,008 <i>there's no way the steel pin will go through.</i> 722 00:36:22,836 --> 00:36:24,525 [hammering] 723 00:36:27,180 --> 00:36:29,146 - [Kevin] Oh, like butter. - [Mike] Perfect. 724 00:36:30,387 --> 00:36:31,836 [narrator] <i>Next...</i> 725 00:36:31,870 --> 00:36:32,974 [Kevin] Come on. Come on. 726 00:36:33,008 --> 00:36:34,249 [narrator] <i>He must attach</i> 727 00:36:34,284 --> 00:36:35,698 <i>the other end to the ripper.</i> 728 00:36:37,008 --> 00:36:38,491 [Kevin] Okay. 729 00:36:39,939 --> 00:36:41,767 Like, if there's one thing we're good at, 730 00:36:41,801 --> 00:36:44,560 it's making [bleep] work with what we [bleep] got. 731 00:36:49,180 --> 00:36:50,836 - She's in? - [Mike] Yeah. 732 00:36:50,870 --> 00:36:52,353 [Kevin] Okay. Let me put the lines on. 733 00:36:55,008 --> 00:36:56,767 Well, I'm gonna get my [bleep] out of the way, 734 00:36:56,801 --> 00:36:59,663 so to speak, Mike's gonna lift the ripper up, 735 00:36:59,698 --> 00:37:00,905 [bleep] flip that back and forth. 736 00:37:00,939 --> 00:37:02,353 Force the air out, 737 00:37:02,387 --> 00:37:04,870 see if it's gonna fail on us or not. 738 00:37:04,905 --> 00:37:06,215 And we'll go from there. 739 00:37:06,249 --> 00:37:08,491 [tense music playing] 740 00:37:08,525 --> 00:37:10,698 [machine revving] 741 00:37:10,732 --> 00:37:12,525 [Kevin] Here's the moment of truth. 742 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:13,939 Let's see what she does. 743 00:37:16,870 --> 00:37:18,836 Whole thing all the way up. 744 00:37:23,215 --> 00:37:25,077 Just putting it under a bit of load. 745 00:37:25,111 --> 00:37:28,111 It's not going on one side, which is good. 746 00:37:28,146 --> 00:37:29,732 Both sides look to be activating. 747 00:37:32,663 --> 00:37:33,939 You know, it all looks good. 748 00:37:36,456 --> 00:37:37,836 [Tony speaking] 749 00:37:37,870 --> 00:37:40,180 - [Kevin] Got it in. - [Tony speaking] 750 00:37:40,215 --> 00:37:41,594 Oh, yeah. 751 00:37:41,629 --> 00:37:43,146 [narrator] <i> With the dozer repaired,</i> 752 00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:45,732 <i>Cousin Mike is back in the game</i> 753 00:37:45,767 --> 00:37:48,215 <i>with a fighting chance of getting the Blue Cut</i> 754 00:37:48,249 --> 00:37:51,180 <i>down to pay by the end of the week.</i> 755 00:38:12,353 --> 00:38:14,111 [Parker] Doumitt to the rescue, buddy. 756 00:38:14,146 --> 00:38:15,732 [Chris laughs] 757 00:38:15,767 --> 00:38:17,422 [narrator] <i>To get back on track</i> 758 00:38:17,456 --> 00:38:19,387 <i>and run more pay,</i> 759 00:38:19,422 --> 00:38:22,318 <i>Parker's pulled gold recovery expert Chris Doumitt</i> 760 00:38:22,353 --> 00:38:25,353 <i>out of the Gold Room and into a loader.</i> 761 00:38:25,387 --> 00:38:28,456 [Chris] I remember when Big Red was born. 762 00:38:28,491 --> 00:38:30,663 I put the first scoop of dirt through Big Red, 763 00:38:31,698 --> 00:38:34,284 <i>ran it for the Hoffmans for a while</i> 764 00:38:34,318 --> 00:38:37,180 until my back got so screwed up, I couldn't do it anymore. 765 00:38:37,215 --> 00:38:39,180 <i>So Red and I go back a long ways.</i> 766 00:38:40,146 --> 00:38:42,284 <i>We're both old and rusty.</i> 767 00:38:42,318 --> 00:38:43,732 We're gonna have a little competition 768 00:38:43,767 --> 00:38:45,525 and see which one can last the longest. 769 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,836 [laughs] 770 00:38:56,870 --> 00:38:58,387 [Brandon] <i> If this doesn't pay out,</i> 771 00:38:58,422 --> 00:38:59,629 <i>I think we're running out of options.</i> 772 00:38:59,663 --> 00:39:01,249 <i>I don't know what else we got.</i> 773 00:39:02,180 --> 00:39:03,594 We need to get to Golden Acres 774 00:39:03,629 --> 00:39:05,387 and we need to find something 775 00:39:05,422 --> 00:39:07,318 to fund getting there. 776 00:39:07,353 --> 00:39:09,249 [narrator] <i> The Clayton brothers</i> 777 00:39:09,284 --> 00:39:10,491 <i>are betting their season</i> 778 00:39:10,525 --> 00:39:14,215 <i>on testing 200 yards of dirt.</i> 779 00:39:25,594 --> 00:39:27,180 [Brandon] We'd like to see three-quarters 780 00:39:27,215 --> 00:39:29,180 of an ounce per hundred. 781 00:39:29,215 --> 00:39:30,732 We can do half ounce a hundred, 782 00:39:30,767 --> 00:39:33,318 but it would make things tight. 783 00:39:36,732 --> 00:39:37,698 I can't see anything yet. 784 00:39:40,836 --> 00:39:43,974 [narrator] <i>They need to find at least an ounce of gold</i> 785 00:39:44,008 --> 00:39:46,111 <i>to prove the ground is rich enough</i> 786 00:39:46,146 --> 00:39:49,732 <i>to finance their road to Golden Acres.</i> 787 00:39:49,767 --> 00:39:51,698 [Brady] Usually you could see something by now 788 00:39:51,732 --> 00:39:53,629 with all, um, in this one, right? 789 00:39:54,974 --> 00:39:56,146 Right here? 790 00:39:56,180 --> 00:39:58,387 [laughter] 791 00:39:58,422 --> 00:40:01,146 [machine revving] 792 00:40:01,180 --> 00:40:04,801 [narrator] <i>The highbanker sluices the concentrated pay</i> 793 00:40:04,836 --> 00:40:06,491 <i>washing away dirt</i> 794 00:40:06,525 --> 00:40:09,560 <i>to leave the heavy gold in the riffles.</i> 795 00:40:09,594 --> 00:40:11,387 [Brandon] Oh, my gut is telling me it's not bad. 796 00:40:11,422 --> 00:40:14,180 My gut... My gut is telling me 797 00:40:14,215 --> 00:40:15,939 I shouldn't be too worried. 798 00:40:20,974 --> 00:40:22,560 Well, there is gold in there. 799 00:40:25,008 --> 00:40:27,767 Brady, we're seeing gold after the first pail, 800 00:40:27,801 --> 00:40:29,456 so that's a start. 801 00:40:29,491 --> 00:40:30,870 Yeah, it's coming. 802 00:40:32,836 --> 00:40:34,663 It's looking up. 803 00:40:34,698 --> 00:40:37,491 Well, it's hard to see, but you can see gold in those... 804 00:40:37,525 --> 00:40:39,353 Right in these pockets here. 805 00:40:39,387 --> 00:40:40,870 There's a few flakes there, hey? 806 00:40:40,905 --> 00:40:43,146 Yeah, it's a... 807 00:40:43,180 --> 00:40:45,353 There is some gold there, that's for sure. 808 00:40:53,249 --> 00:40:55,663 [Brandon] Okay, boys, this is the moment of truth. 809 00:40:55,698 --> 00:40:58,456 Let's see what we got. Let's put it on the scale 810 00:40:58,491 --> 00:41:00,801 and see what it tells us. 811 00:41:00,836 --> 00:41:03,008 [narrator] <i>To prove the ground is rich enough</i> 812 00:41:03,043 --> 00:41:05,594 <i>to finance the road to Golden Acres,</i> 813 00:41:05,629 --> 00:41:08,905 <i>Brandon needs at least an ounce of gold.</i> 814 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,629 ...3 of an ounce. 815 00:41:13,974 --> 00:41:17,939 [narrator] <i> Worth less than $600.</i> 816 00:41:17,974 --> 00:41:21,318 <i>Instead of providing the $50,000 he needs,</i> 817 00:41:21,353 --> 00:41:23,456 <i>Brandon would end up losing money</i> 818 00:41:23,491 --> 00:41:26,456 <i>running this low grade pay.</i> 819 00:41:26,491 --> 00:41:28,594 [Brandon] And we... Not even a half ounce. 820 00:41:28,629 --> 00:41:30,767 Man, it kind of looked like an ounce 821 00:41:30,801 --> 00:41:32,870 like, closer to an ounce but... 822 00:41:34,146 --> 00:41:36,974 Well, we know that's not work... Gonna work, is it? 823 00:41:37,008 --> 00:41:39,077 Nope. That [bleep] sucks. 824 00:41:39,111 --> 00:41:41,284 Kind of a kick in the nuts. 825 00:41:42,318 --> 00:41:44,594 That's not gonna work for the season, so... 826 00:41:47,215 --> 00:41:51,249 200 yards for .3 of an ounce... 827 00:41:51,284 --> 00:41:52,525 tough. 828 00:41:54,456 --> 00:41:57,629 Well, back to the drawing board. 829 00:41:58,836 --> 00:42:00,043 Let's go see what we can figure out. 830 00:42:00,077 --> 00:42:01,387 Yep. 831 00:42:01,422 --> 00:42:03,594 [Warren] Let's get out of here. 832 00:42:03,629 --> 00:42:06,629 [dramatic music playing] 833 00:42:09,767 --> 00:42:11,560 [Brandon] We need to pay the bills 834 00:42:11,594 --> 00:42:14,698 and, uh, help our family out with the debt back home. 835 00:42:14,732 --> 00:42:18,732 So, just trying to think on what we can do 836 00:42:18,767 --> 00:42:22,836 or how we can make some money this season. 837 00:42:25,629 --> 00:42:29,353 I'm kind of just lost for words. 838 00:42:29,387 --> 00:42:31,353 [acoustic music playing] 839 00:42:45,594 --> 00:42:49,422 [Mike] <i>We need to get as much stripping done as we can.</i> 840 00:42:49,456 --> 00:42:51,525 [narrator] At Paradise Hill, 841 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,180 <i>with just hours before the end of the week,</i> 842 00:42:54,215 --> 00:42:56,180 <i>Mike's stripping crew is battling</i> 843 00:42:56,215 --> 00:42:58,318 <i>to get down to pay in the Blue Cut.</i> 844 00:43:01,456 --> 00:43:03,870 Right now, we're trying to open up ground 845 00:43:03,905 --> 00:43:06,077 as quickly as possible. 846 00:43:06,111 --> 00:43:08,422 <i>It's kind of just all hands on deck right now</i> 847 00:43:08,456 --> 00:43:12,249 and we're all just trying to work together in this chaos. 848 00:43:19,525 --> 00:43:21,077 [Michael] Oh, sweet. 849 00:43:22,870 --> 00:43:24,491 Hey, Mike, do you copy? 850 00:43:25,594 --> 00:43:28,387 I think we're hitting pay here in the Blue Cut. 851 00:43:38,180 --> 00:43:40,284 [Mike] [bleep] you still look ugly. 852 00:43:40,318 --> 00:43:41,870 I know. It runs in the family. 853 00:43:41,905 --> 00:43:44,180 [grunts] Can't deny that. 854 00:43:44,215 --> 00:43:46,629 What? Is that actually pay? 855 00:43:46,663 --> 00:43:49,215 Looks like it does, too. 856 00:43:50,284 --> 00:43:51,698 Actually, that is pay from there. 857 00:43:51,732 --> 00:43:54,284 Yeah, that [bleep] is pay. 858 00:43:54,318 --> 00:43:56,008 It's like you see over here. 859 00:43:56,043 --> 00:43:58,146 Lots and lots of [bleep] quartz. 860 00:43:58,180 --> 00:43:59,905 Big quartz. Like, look at that. 861 00:43:59,939 --> 00:44:02,146 That's just... Look at all that rock. 862 00:44:03,594 --> 00:44:05,870 [narrator] <i>Gold is often found with the mineral,</i> 863 00:44:05,905 --> 00:44:07,663 <i>quartz.</i> 864 00:44:07,698 --> 00:44:09,560 So that's how you tell that's [bleep] pay. 865 00:44:10,870 --> 00:44:12,525 I wanna start sluicing all [bleep] 866 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:13,732 I wanna [bleep] start sluicing. 867 00:44:17,525 --> 00:44:19,629 [baby crying] 868 00:44:19,663 --> 00:44:21,594 What? Hi, baby. 869 00:44:21,629 --> 00:44:22,870 [man speaking] 870 00:44:23,732 --> 00:44:25,491 <i>- Hola,</i> everybody. - [woman] Hello. 871 00:44:25,525 --> 00:44:27,974 [narrator] <i>The Beets family gather to find out</i> 872 00:44:28,008 --> 00:44:31,422 <i>if Tony's hunt for the elusive white channel gold</i> 873 00:44:31,456 --> 00:44:33,732 <i>has paid off this week.</i> 874 00:44:33,767 --> 00:44:35,560 How did we do this week? 875 00:44:35,594 --> 00:44:36,629 [Mike] Oh, not too bad. 876 00:44:36,663 --> 00:44:38,491 Sluiced for seven days, more or less. 877 00:44:38,525 --> 00:44:42,008 [Tony speaking] 878 00:44:55,939 --> 00:44:57,560 - [Mike] Everybody ready? - [woman] Yup. 879 00:44:57,594 --> 00:44:59,146 - [Tony speaking] - [Mike] And go. 880 00:45:02,146 --> 00:45:05,629 [narrator] <i>Tony needs at least 200 ounces a week</i> 881 00:45:05,663 --> 00:45:08,422 <i>to reach his season goal.</i> 882 00:45:08,456 --> 00:45:11,180 [Mike] 100, 110, 120, 883 00:45:11,215 --> 00:45:13,077 130, 140, 884 00:45:13,111 --> 00:45:15,732 150, 160, 885 00:45:15,767 --> 00:45:17,870 170, 180, 886 00:45:17,905 --> 00:45:21,043 190... 887 00:45:21,077 --> 00:45:24,318 202.3. 888 00:45:24,353 --> 00:45:28,043 [narrator] <i> Worth over $360,000.</i> 889 00:45:53,387 --> 00:45:54,663 [Minnie] No. 890 00:45:57,249 --> 00:45:58,491 [woman] Bye, guys. 891 00:46:06,767 --> 00:46:09,491 [acoustic music playing] 892 00:46:11,043 --> 00:46:12,870 - [Mitch] Chris, what's happening? - [Chris] Hey, Mitchel. 893 00:46:12,905 --> 00:46:14,180 - [man] Hey, Doumitt. - [Mitch] How you going, man? 894 00:46:14,215 --> 00:46:15,422 Oh, not too bad. 895 00:46:15,456 --> 00:46:17,974 [Parker] What up? What up? 896 00:46:18,008 --> 00:46:20,146 [narrator] <i>The Schnabel crew are finally</i> 897 00:46:20,180 --> 00:46:22,594 <i>back running after shutting down</i> 898 00:46:22,629 --> 00:46:24,663 <i>because of frozen pay.</i> 899 00:46:24,698 --> 00:46:27,525 So we had a short run. Obviously we spent some time 900 00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,215 with Big Red down. But I mean, 901 00:46:30,249 --> 00:46:32,456 we did get some thawed pay dirt up to the plant. 902 00:46:32,491 --> 00:46:34,629 - Yup. - We got it through it. 903 00:46:34,663 --> 00:46:36,698 How much gold was in it? 904 00:46:36,732 --> 00:46:38,560 All right, Doumitt, let's see this. 905 00:46:38,594 --> 00:46:40,491 Come on. Short week. 906 00:46:40,525 --> 00:46:42,318 - [Chris] Short week. - [Mitch] Did we break a hundred? 907 00:46:42,353 --> 00:46:44,043 [Mitch] Oh, it's gonna be tight. 908 00:46:45,353 --> 00:46:46,594 [Chris] Forty, fifty, 909 00:46:46,629 --> 00:46:48,180 sixty, 910 00:46:48,215 --> 00:46:49,560 eighty, 911 00:46:49,594 --> 00:46:51,629 a hundred, one-twenty, 912 00:46:51,663 --> 00:46:55,249 one-thirty, one-forty, one-fifty. 913 00:46:55,284 --> 00:46:58,767 163.5. 914 00:46:59,836 --> 00:47:03,836 [narrator] <i> Worth over $290,000.</i> 915 00:47:03,870 --> 00:47:04,836 [Mitch] Not bad for a short week. 916 00:47:04,870 --> 00:47:06,284 [Chris] No. 917 00:47:06,318 --> 00:47:08,353 For the week, we got the 163 and a half 918 00:47:08,387 --> 00:47:11,767 and the season total is 525.65. 919 00:47:11,801 --> 00:47:13,836 It's not bad. 920 00:47:13,870 --> 00:47:15,939 [Mitch] When you look at how early we started. 921 00:47:15,974 --> 00:47:18,077 - Well, yeah, it's early-- - [Mitch] We knew we were gonna fight frost. 922 00:47:18,111 --> 00:47:20,560 You know, I'm not surprised we had to shut the plant down, 923 00:47:20,594 --> 00:47:22,318 but still don't like it, 924 00:47:22,353 --> 00:47:23,836 because with how much dirt we have to get through, 925 00:47:23,870 --> 00:47:26,353 we need that thing running every day we can. 926 00:47:26,387 --> 00:47:27,939 Judging by the way things are going, 927 00:47:27,974 --> 00:47:30,180 you better order the cold weather gear. 928 00:47:30,215 --> 00:47:32,422 - [Mitch] Yeah. - And be here late. 929 00:47:32,456 --> 00:47:34,215 [Chris] Sluicing till November, Mitch. 930 00:47:34,249 --> 00:47:35,732 Oh. Yeah. I'm getting 931 00:47:35,767 --> 00:47:38,663 my Christmas tree ornament set up. 932 00:47:38,698 --> 00:47:40,801 Send me a text on how you did, will you? 933 00:47:40,836 --> 00:47:42,215 [laughter] 934 00:47:42,249 --> 00:47:44,146 - Cheers. - Cheers. 935 00:47:44,180 --> 00:47:46,043 - [Parker] Thanks, Chris. - Yup. 936 00:47:46,077 --> 00:47:47,836 - [Mitch] Later. - See you, Doumitt. 937 00:47:47,870 --> 00:47:49,491 [Chris] Okay. 938 00:47:49,525 --> 00:47:51,284 [Parker] <i>You know, everybody's doing good.</i> 939 00:47:51,318 --> 00:47:54,560 <i>Equipment's staying together for the most part.</i> 940 00:47:54,594 --> 00:47:56,422 <i>Cold's still coming in.</i> 941 00:47:56,456 --> 00:47:58,043 It's a little sad when you can pull in, 942 00:47:58,077 --> 00:47:59,422 like, a quarter million dollars' worth of gold 943 00:47:59,456 --> 00:48:01,249 and still not make money, though. 943 00:48:02,305 --> 00:49:02,482 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm