"Gold Rush" Buzzified

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 2 00:00:18,943 --> 00:00:22,309 [Parker] We're mining on the Indian River, but this license's expiring. 3 00:00:22,309 --> 00:00:25,543 What we don't mine this year... 4 00:00:25,543 --> 00:00:29,376 I never get a chance to, so it's going to be a struggle. 5 00:00:29,376 --> 00:00:31,410 We're definitely going to fight trying to get that done. 6 00:00:31,410 --> 00:00:34,410 [narrator] After a meteoric rise to the top, 7 00:00:34,410 --> 00:00:38,610 28-year-old Parker Schnabel may have finally bitten off 8 00:00:38,610 --> 00:00:40,777 more than he can chew. 9 00:00:40,777 --> 00:00:43,510 He's torn between running a new operation 10 00:00:43,510 --> 00:00:47,010 in Alaska and helping his crew run more ground 11 00:00:47,010 --> 00:00:49,576 than ever before in the Yukon. 12 00:00:49,576 --> 00:00:52,677 [Parker] I'm hoping here that we can, you know, 13 00:00:52,677 --> 00:00:56,309 put this place to bed nice and it would be a real shame 14 00:00:56,309 --> 00:00:57,677 to leave anything behind. 15 00:00:59,109 --> 00:01:01,576 [narrator] Over two-thirds into the season, 16 00:01:01,576 --> 00:01:07,043 Parker's mined nearly 5,000 ounces of Klondike Gold, 17 00:01:07,043 --> 00:01:10,343 but he's currently running at half capacity. 18 00:01:11,710 --> 00:01:14,943 The main thing here is we've got to get Big Red 19 00:01:14,943 --> 00:01:15,810 up and running. 20 00:01:15,810 --> 00:01:17,410 Like it's been down for two weeks 21 00:01:17,410 --> 00:01:21,410 and we've got a lot of sluicing still to do. 22 00:01:24,376 --> 00:01:28,076 [narrator] The Klondike crew just turned a big corner. 23 00:01:28,076 --> 00:01:32,276 After moving two million yards of dirt over four months, 24 00:01:32,276 --> 00:01:38,143 the final section, the 24-acre runway cut, is down to pay. 25 00:01:38,143 --> 00:01:41,610 If they can sluice it all before winter hits, 26 00:01:41,610 --> 00:01:47,743 it could net another $3.5 million in gold. 27 00:01:48,176 --> 00:01:49,843 What's happening? 28 00:01:49,843 --> 00:01:52,276 Liam is flying back over to Alaska, 29 00:01:52,276 --> 00:01:53,877 so I'm hitching a ride with him. 30 00:01:53,877 --> 00:01:56,877 I was hoping to stick around a few more days, but I shouldn't be gone long. 31 00:01:56,877 --> 00:01:58,476 But I just wanted to make sure you guys were all good 32 00:01:58,476 --> 00:02:01,143 and didn't have any concerns or questions. 33 00:02:01,143 --> 00:02:03,677 The biggest concern I have is just getting Big Red up and running. 34 00:02:03,677 --> 00:02:05,677 And every day it's sitting there is one day later 35 00:02:05,677 --> 00:02:08,176 we're going to have to try and make it sluice when it's cold. 36 00:02:08,176 --> 00:02:09,810 - Yeah. - Yeah, hopefully by the time 37 00:02:09,810 --> 00:02:12,309 you're back, it's up and running. 38 00:02:12,309 --> 00:02:15,043 - All right, man, later. Thanks, guys. - Have fun. 39 00:02:16,743 --> 00:02:19,176 He wants to sluice it all, he doesn't want to leave anything behind. 40 00:02:19,176 --> 00:02:21,043 We've been here for a few years. 41 00:02:21,043 --> 00:02:23,576 - That's crazy. - 50 different wash plant setups. 42 00:02:23,576 --> 00:02:25,243 We got to get Big Red back running, 43 00:02:25,243 --> 00:02:27,209 - but looks like that's on you and me. - Yeah. 44 00:02:27,209 --> 00:02:28,443 Later, man. 45 00:02:28,443 --> 00:02:31,843 [narrator] To get Big Red running before Parker returns, 46 00:02:31,843 --> 00:02:35,343 Mitch and Tyson need to transport it in sections 47 00:02:35,343 --> 00:02:38,576 from the Bear Cut to the Runway Cut. 48 00:02:38,576 --> 00:02:42,309 First task, move the 10-ton hopper feeder. 49 00:02:44,777 --> 00:02:47,176 - Come on, come on, come on. - [crashes] 50 00:02:47,176 --> 00:02:48,510 No. No. 51 00:02:51,209 --> 00:02:53,643 This thing's been sitting for too long, man. 52 00:02:53,643 --> 00:02:55,743 - Yeah. - Got some roots here now. 53 00:02:55,743 --> 00:02:58,176 It made itself a nice home, that's for sure. 54 00:03:06,143 --> 00:03:09,109 - Try again. - It's settled in, 55 00:03:09,109 --> 00:03:11,243 it's making it difficult to get the truck underneath it. 56 00:03:12,810 --> 00:03:14,777 [crashes] 57 00:03:17,309 --> 00:03:19,209 Man it was almost there. 58 00:03:19,209 --> 00:03:22,843 [narrator] With the truck unable to fit under the hopper feeder, 59 00:03:22,843 --> 00:03:26,209 Mitch calls in a loader to raise up the hopper. 60 00:03:28,510 --> 00:03:29,910 Got 'em in. 61 00:03:31,543 --> 00:03:32,710 Hop up. 62 00:03:41,309 --> 00:03:42,543 We're good to go. 63 00:03:44,176 --> 00:03:48,043 Right now we're just adding some cribbing underneath the hopper here 64 00:03:48,043 --> 00:03:51,209 to allow us to get the tractor underneath it. 65 00:04:04,209 --> 00:04:05,476 [crashes] 66 00:04:08,777 --> 00:04:11,476 [laughs] Got her, had to knock the dust off it. 67 00:04:11,476 --> 00:04:12,943 Some days you got to just get after it. 68 00:04:12,943 --> 00:04:14,510 Yeah, get a little ramroddy. 69 00:04:14,510 --> 00:04:17,510 Oh, man, well it just kept sinking here, we weren't gaining on it. 70 00:04:17,510 --> 00:04:18,410 No. 71 00:04:18,410 --> 00:04:20,076 We got our hopper feeder hooked up, 72 00:04:20,076 --> 00:04:21,843 now it's just a matter of getting it down to the cut. 73 00:04:29,943 --> 00:04:32,810 Well we got the feeder in, now we'll get the radial stacker in place. 74 00:04:36,376 --> 00:04:38,376 Sooner we can get Big Red up and running, 75 00:04:38,376 --> 00:04:40,576 the better off we'll be. 76 00:04:40,576 --> 00:04:42,309 How'd that go? Looked pretty smooth? 77 00:04:42,309 --> 00:04:45,543 - Yeah, didn't get hung up, so that's good. - Nice. 78 00:04:47,343 --> 00:04:51,276 Now we're going to go back for the shaker deck. 79 00:04:51,276 --> 00:04:55,710 [narrator] Big Red has been sluicing Indian River pay dirt for nine years, 80 00:04:55,710 --> 00:04:58,610 mining almost 30,000 ounces, 81 00:04:58,610 --> 00:05:02,443 almost 50 million dollars of gold. 82 00:05:02,443 --> 00:05:04,143 Well, man, this is what it's all about, 83 00:05:04,143 --> 00:05:06,743 one last ride for Big Red going down this valley here. 84 00:05:16,443 --> 00:05:17,576 It's looking good, Mitch. 85 00:05:19,309 --> 00:05:21,343 One more big piece of the puzzle here, 86 00:05:21,343 --> 00:05:22,777 the picture's starting to come together, 87 00:05:22,777 --> 00:05:26,743 we'll get the sluice runs next to it and, uh, we're gaining on it. 88 00:05:33,576 --> 00:05:35,510 Right now we're just flying these sluice runs 89 00:05:35,510 --> 00:05:37,677 like a magic carpet here. 90 00:05:47,810 --> 00:05:50,576 The sluice runs around in the last corner here, 91 00:05:50,576 --> 00:05:52,109 heading to the new wash plant pad. 92 00:06:00,376 --> 00:06:01,610 Come on, baby. 93 00:06:04,410 --> 00:06:05,710 Don't get crazy now. 94 00:06:08,510 --> 00:06:11,076 Yeah, keep on coming, man, it's looking nice. 95 00:06:26,543 --> 00:06:29,743 [narrator] Next, the 100 foot radial stacker 96 00:06:29,743 --> 00:06:31,610 is edged into position. 97 00:06:33,943 --> 00:06:36,810 Well, man, I'd say we about got her. 98 00:06:36,810 --> 00:06:38,777 - Nice work. - You too, man. 99 00:06:38,777 --> 00:06:41,610 She is in, get these belts rolling. 100 00:06:41,610 --> 00:06:43,610 - Start throwing some dirt at her. - Yeah. 101 00:06:49,076 --> 00:06:53,043 [narrator] Final task, fire up Big Red's pump and deliver 102 00:06:53,043 --> 00:06:56,877 1500 gallons of water a minute to the plant. 103 00:06:57,843 --> 00:06:59,276 Waiting on the water. 104 00:06:59,276 --> 00:07:00,977 [pump whirring] 105 00:07:13,677 --> 00:07:15,209 We'll have to figure out what's going on 106 00:07:15,209 --> 00:07:17,043 with Big Red's water pump here. 107 00:07:17,043 --> 00:07:20,810 A lot of old components, that water pump is... 108 00:07:20,810 --> 00:07:24,209 it's called Franken-pump 'cause it's a bunch of different parts. 109 00:07:24,209 --> 00:07:26,109 No, it doesn't want to play ball. 110 00:07:28,109 --> 00:07:30,643 Oh, I just heard some air leaking. 111 00:07:30,643 --> 00:07:32,576 You can hear it, yeah. 112 00:07:32,576 --> 00:07:35,677 You can see we've got a connection in our suction hose, 113 00:07:35,677 --> 00:07:37,276 everything is taking a beating here. 114 00:07:37,276 --> 00:07:38,910 We've got duct tape on the suction hose 115 00:07:38,910 --> 00:07:41,576 and it's, uh, getting pretty weathered. 116 00:07:41,576 --> 00:07:43,109 Yeah, that's a big guy here. 117 00:07:46,010 --> 00:07:49,343 We're going to need to take a look at this. We've got definite air leak. 118 00:07:57,910 --> 00:08:00,910 - What do we got? - We've got an O-ring. 119 00:08:00,910 --> 00:08:04,743 [narrator] A faulty O-ring, worth just a couple of bucks, 120 00:08:04,743 --> 00:08:07,010 is causing a loss of pressure, 121 00:08:07,010 --> 00:08:10,309 stopping the pump sending water to the wash plant. 122 00:08:12,443 --> 00:08:14,943 Do we give her the flip and try it? 123 00:08:14,943 --> 00:08:16,543 It's like when all your laundry is dirty 124 00:08:16,543 --> 00:08:17,877 and you've got to make it one more day. 125 00:08:17,877 --> 00:08:20,677 Just do the, turn the socks inside out, right? 126 00:08:20,677 --> 00:08:22,243 Clean the side out. 127 00:08:22,243 --> 00:08:25,710 [narrator] The O-ring is damaged on just one side. 128 00:08:25,710 --> 00:08:27,777 We'll put the bad spot at the bottom. 129 00:08:27,777 --> 00:08:30,410 Mitch hopes simply turning it around 130 00:08:30,410 --> 00:08:34,910 will create the airtight seal the pump needs to function. 131 00:08:34,910 --> 00:08:37,343 Once it gets water in there, hopefully it'll, uh... 132 00:08:37,343 --> 00:08:39,109 - Fill it with grease? - Yeah. 133 00:08:41,877 --> 00:08:43,510 [motor whirring] 134 00:08:50,410 --> 00:08:53,076 We've got our water pump fired up here for Big Red. 135 00:08:54,576 --> 00:08:55,743 Yes. 136 00:08:58,309 --> 00:09:00,877 Well, here we go, the shaker deck's shaking, 137 00:09:00,877 --> 00:09:03,343 the conveyors are spinning, time to throw some dirt at it. 138 00:09:05,576 --> 00:09:08,777 First bucket of pay on the last cut for Big Red. 139 00:09:08,777 --> 00:09:09,943 Yeah, buddy. 140 00:09:32,610 --> 00:09:35,309 [Fred] Right now, we are in a war for gold. 141 00:09:35,309 --> 00:09:37,243 I set a massive goal this season, 142 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:38,910 five times what we got last season. 143 00:09:38,910 --> 00:09:41,043 That's what we need to strive for. 144 00:09:41,043 --> 00:09:43,343 [narrator] Third year mine boss, Fred Lewis, 145 00:09:43,343 --> 00:09:46,476 has pulled in 93 ounces of gold. 146 00:09:46,476 --> 00:09:50,143 And while he's well short of his 500 ounce goal, 147 00:09:50,143 --> 00:09:52,910 he is closing in on last season's total 148 00:09:52,910 --> 00:09:54,710 of 110 ounces. 149 00:09:54,710 --> 00:09:58,176 We've got pretty decent gold right here in the Freedom Cut, 150 00:09:58,176 --> 00:10:01,010 but gold this season has not been as good as we had hoped. 151 00:10:04,510 --> 00:10:08,643 [narrator] After hauling in 21 ounces, their best gold weigh, 152 00:10:08,643 --> 00:10:13,643 Fred's crew believe they have a shot at saving their season. 153 00:10:13,643 --> 00:10:16,010 Last week we definitely hit a pay streak 'cause 154 00:10:16,010 --> 00:10:17,877 that's the best gold weigh we've had as a team. 155 00:10:17,877 --> 00:10:21,476 That is a great achievement and our guys definitely got 156 00:10:21,476 --> 00:10:22,843 a boost in morale. 157 00:10:24,977 --> 00:10:27,143 You know, I've got everything on the line right now. 158 00:10:27,143 --> 00:10:29,643 Just get every flake of gold through that wash plant 159 00:10:29,643 --> 00:10:32,309 and hopefully at the end of the season, pad my guys' pockets 160 00:10:32,309 --> 00:10:34,610 and get the [bleep] out of here. 161 00:10:44,877 --> 00:10:47,276 Hey, Fred, what's up? 162 00:10:50,710 --> 00:10:52,410 I'm coming to the mercy of you. 163 00:10:53,510 --> 00:10:55,309 You know my door's just down. 164 00:10:55,309 --> 00:10:59,109 - So I'm coming to you to see if you can help me out. - Yeah. 165 00:10:59,109 --> 00:11:02,943 [narrator] Last week, 23-year-old Brandon Clayton suffered 166 00:11:02,943 --> 00:11:06,443 a major setback when his D8 dozer died. 167 00:11:08,043 --> 00:11:11,209 We need to get it fixed or we're [bleep]. 168 00:11:13,176 --> 00:11:18,410 [narrator] Earlier in the season, Brandon lent his dozer to Fred. 169 00:11:19,843 --> 00:11:22,276 If you can let me borrow that, I'll let you use my dozer 170 00:11:22,276 --> 00:11:23,877 once it gets here, kind of desperate. 171 00:11:23,877 --> 00:11:26,309 Right. Yeah. Okay. 172 00:11:26,309 --> 00:11:27,843 - I really appreciate it. - Sure. 173 00:11:29,877 --> 00:11:33,109 [narrator] Now, Brandon's cashing in the favor. 174 00:11:33,109 --> 00:11:36,510 I think right now we can let you use it for a day. 175 00:11:36,510 --> 00:11:37,977 - Okay. - We owe you that one time. 176 00:11:37,977 --> 00:11:39,510 I'm going to give it to you for free. 177 00:11:39,510 --> 00:11:41,743 - Just understand we've got to be super careful with it. - Yeah. 178 00:11:41,743 --> 00:11:43,576 Got to take care of that puppy. 179 00:11:48,943 --> 00:11:51,176 We waited so long to get this thing 180 00:11:51,176 --> 00:11:54,743 and to loan it out, it should be used 181 00:11:54,743 --> 00:11:57,877 on our cut, not someone else's cut right now. 182 00:11:57,877 --> 00:12:01,043 I'm making a decision to honor our deal with the Claytons. 183 00:12:01,043 --> 00:12:03,777 I know they're our rivals and we do have a bet going, 184 00:12:03,777 --> 00:12:05,209 but, you know, we make deals. 185 00:12:05,209 --> 00:12:06,710 You've got to live up to them. 186 00:12:06,710 --> 00:12:08,376 This is about being a man of my word. 187 00:12:08,376 --> 00:12:11,910 Whether or not my guys agree this is a good idea, 188 00:12:11,910 --> 00:12:14,076 it could help us later on down the road. 189 00:12:19,710 --> 00:12:21,576 I can't wait to start stripping Golden Acres. 190 00:12:21,576 --> 00:12:23,343 We're ready to [bleep] go. 191 00:12:23,343 --> 00:12:26,710 This dozer is definitely a bit bigger than ours, 192 00:12:26,710 --> 00:12:30,777 but it's quite the unit, man. 193 00:12:30,777 --> 00:12:32,443 It's definitely an antique. 194 00:12:32,443 --> 00:12:36,977 It's basically a museum on track, so you've got to be pretty careful with it. 195 00:12:37,476 --> 00:12:38,777 We'll try her out 196 00:12:39,743 --> 00:12:41,376 and we'll hope for the best. 197 00:12:52,943 --> 00:12:54,810 [machine crashes] 198 00:12:54,810 --> 00:12:57,376 Oh, [bleep]. What the [bleep] going on there? 199 00:13:05,610 --> 00:13:07,209 Oh, well, that's not good. 200 00:13:08,743 --> 00:13:11,076 Well, I'm going to have to walk it back to the plant, 201 00:13:11,076 --> 00:13:13,576 this carrier roller has swamped. 202 00:13:13,576 --> 00:13:15,510 And I can't run it like that. 203 00:13:15,510 --> 00:13:16,977 Fred's probably not going to be happy, 204 00:13:16,977 --> 00:13:19,743 but we'll see what he has to say, I guess. 205 00:13:19,743 --> 00:13:22,543 Hopefully they're not too mad. I know it's their baby. 206 00:13:35,510 --> 00:13:39,376 I don't want to say I told you so to Fred, but I told you so. 207 00:13:39,376 --> 00:13:41,743 I mean, I'm mad that it's broke. 208 00:13:41,743 --> 00:13:43,510 I'm not a happy camper at all. 209 00:13:44,977 --> 00:13:48,443 [narrator] Less than three hours after Fred's crew loaned 210 00:13:48,443 --> 00:13:51,576 their only dozer to neighbor Brandon Clayton, 211 00:13:51,576 --> 00:13:54,610 it's been returned, busted. 212 00:14:05,209 --> 00:14:09,276 [narrator] Carrier rollers smoothly guide the dozer's tracks, 213 00:14:09,276 --> 00:14:12,076 but the pedestal that supports one of the rollers 214 00:14:12,076 --> 00:14:13,943 is cracked, 215 00:14:13,943 --> 00:14:17,376 causing the carrier roller to fall out of position 216 00:14:17,376 --> 00:14:21,010 and the track to become dangerously loose. 217 00:14:21,010 --> 00:14:23,877 If we had to call a mechanic to come in and fix this, 218 00:14:23,877 --> 00:14:25,943 as you're looking at probably here in the Yukon. 219 00:14:25,943 --> 00:14:29,410 Probably right around like 165 bucks an hour, 220 00:14:30,810 --> 00:14:33,677 which would be a pretty big cost. 221 00:14:33,677 --> 00:14:35,476 It'll be a few grand to fix this up. 222 00:14:43,743 --> 00:14:46,843 [narrator] Buzz will have to source a replacement pedestal 223 00:14:46,843 --> 00:14:49,376 to get the dozer back up and running. 224 00:14:51,043 --> 00:14:52,543 Come here and look here. 225 00:14:55,376 --> 00:14:56,943 See that pan? 226 00:14:56,943 --> 00:14:58,309 - Yeah. - Right? 227 00:14:59,376 --> 00:15:00,743 How's it going, guys? 228 00:15:00,743 --> 00:15:04,476 - Well, slowly. - Holy [bleep]. 229 00:15:04,476 --> 00:15:06,610 - The, uh... - Isn't there supposed to be something here? 230 00:15:06,610 --> 00:15:08,410 So this wasn't a little fix, was it? 231 00:15:08,410 --> 00:15:10,443 Not really. 232 00:15:10,443 --> 00:15:12,376 This is at the worst case scenario for us. 233 00:15:12,376 --> 00:15:14,010 This is our moneymaker. 234 00:15:14,010 --> 00:15:16,209 Without this, we're [bleep]. 235 00:15:16,209 --> 00:15:18,276 A lot of ground ahead that needs to be stripped 236 00:15:18,276 --> 00:15:20,276 and torn and ripped up, and... 237 00:15:21,943 --> 00:15:25,510 I just... we can't afford having this dozer down. 238 00:15:25,510 --> 00:15:28,943 - Yeah. - [narrator] With the broken dozer taking Buzz and JB out 239 00:15:28,943 --> 00:15:31,677 of the cut, the crew can't deliver fresh pay 240 00:15:31,677 --> 00:15:33,543 to the plant. 241 00:15:33,543 --> 00:15:37,610 We've got to have to bite the hard bullet here and shut the plant down. 242 00:15:37,610 --> 00:15:40,010 This is my finances. This is my home. 243 00:15:40,010 --> 00:15:41,777 This is everything my family's put into it. 244 00:15:41,777 --> 00:15:43,076 But right now we're [bleep]. 245 00:15:43,076 --> 00:15:44,243 Shut it down. 246 00:15:52,543 --> 00:15:54,476 - Hey, Stuart. - Yo. 247 00:15:54,476 --> 00:15:56,843 - I need your assistance. - What are we doing? 248 00:15:56,843 --> 00:16:01,209 Ah, I guess a little good cop, bad cop. 249 00:16:01,209 --> 00:16:03,810 - Okay. - I just talked to Buzz about the dozer. 250 00:16:03,810 --> 00:16:05,176 Oh, yeah, what is going on with it? 251 00:16:05,176 --> 00:16:09,343 It's still not fixed. We're analyzing this whole transaction 252 00:16:09,343 --> 00:16:12,043 with Brandon, and, uh... 253 00:16:12,043 --> 00:16:13,910 we're going to have to go tell him he can't use it anymore. 254 00:16:13,910 --> 00:16:17,176 To me this is really tricky because we're still trying to build a relationship 255 00:16:17,176 --> 00:16:19,777 with Brandon. We're still trying to be the better neighbors here. 256 00:16:19,777 --> 00:16:21,276 Oh, yeah. I fully agree with it. 257 00:16:21,276 --> 00:16:23,943 You know, I mean, we were kind of just being the good neighbor, 258 00:16:23,943 --> 00:16:26,610 and he was in a really, really bad spot where 259 00:16:26,610 --> 00:16:29,643 his season was actually at the point where it might be over, 260 00:16:29,643 --> 00:16:31,777 and we lent our helping hand, 261 00:16:31,777 --> 00:16:33,276 and we kind of got [bleep] for it. 262 00:16:33,276 --> 00:16:36,109 - Let me lead. We'll play it soft. - Mm-hmm. 263 00:16:36,109 --> 00:16:38,677 - If he gives us any tension, we'll just bring up the facts - Yeah. 264 00:16:38,677 --> 00:16:40,410 and be like, look, this isn't personal. 265 00:16:40,410 --> 00:16:42,209 - Yeah. - This is a business decision. 266 00:16:42,209 --> 00:16:44,209 - Uh-huh. - We're still here to help when we can, 267 00:16:44,209 --> 00:16:46,143 - Yeah. - but we can't help you with the dozer anymore. 268 00:16:46,143 --> 00:16:48,176 - Yeah, absolutely. - All right? All right, let's do it. 269 00:17:06,443 --> 00:17:09,777 [Dave] I started this season, came up here to shut down the mine, 270 00:17:09,777 --> 00:17:11,343 sell these claims, 271 00:17:12,010 --> 00:17:15,677 and now we're mining again. 272 00:17:15,677 --> 00:17:19,443 [narrator] Veteran miner Dave Turin is throwing the dice 273 00:17:19,443 --> 00:17:22,376 one more time before he hangs up 274 00:17:22,376 --> 00:17:24,209 his gold mining boots. 275 00:17:25,610 --> 00:17:28,743 He wants to prove his claim has 10 years' worth 276 00:17:28,743 --> 00:17:34,376 of mining with the potential to produce $10 million worth of gold. 277 00:17:38,309 --> 00:17:41,877 [Dave] So I have to prove that this place is not a dud, 278 00:17:41,877 --> 00:17:44,209 and I got to prove it to Nathan and Jason that 279 00:17:44,209 --> 00:17:47,143 there's virgin ground with gold on it. 280 00:17:47,143 --> 00:17:51,043 [narrator] Dave hopes to sell it to his most loyal crew members, 281 00:17:51,043 --> 00:17:55,877 operator Jason Sanchez and mechanic Nathan Clark, 282 00:17:55,877 --> 00:17:57,977 for $1 million. 283 00:17:57,977 --> 00:18:00,476 You know, I've always wanted to run my own operation. 284 00:18:00,476 --> 00:18:03,543 It's a risk, but we can pull a good gold right here, 285 00:18:03,543 --> 00:18:04,910 and it can be life-changing. 286 00:18:10,843 --> 00:18:14,943 Team Turin wants 30 ounces from the Three Amigos 287 00:18:14,943 --> 00:18:18,643 cut to prove the ground, cover costs, 288 00:18:18,643 --> 00:18:20,743 and pocket some gold, 289 00:18:20,743 --> 00:18:25,443 but so far they've banked less than six ounces. 290 00:18:25,443 --> 00:18:30,677 You know, for three guys, 5.58 ounces, it's not bad. 291 00:18:30,677 --> 00:18:33,309 In the end, I want everybody to walk out of here with gold 292 00:18:33,309 --> 00:18:36,143 in their pockets to help cover the costs and the costs 293 00:18:36,143 --> 00:18:38,043 of coming up here to shut the claims down, 294 00:18:38,043 --> 00:18:40,576 but I need the gold to keep coming. 295 00:18:43,743 --> 00:18:47,576 [narrator] Dave's convinced there's much larger gold deposits 296 00:18:47,576 --> 00:18:49,376 still to be discovered. 297 00:18:49,376 --> 00:18:51,777 We go deep. We're starting to hit those big rocks. 298 00:18:51,777 --> 00:18:53,109 That's where the gold's living. 299 00:19:00,510 --> 00:19:03,843 [narrator] To help convince Jason and Nathan to buy, 300 00:19:03,843 --> 00:19:06,677 Dave is also throwing into the deal 301 00:19:06,677 --> 00:19:10,410 his half a million-dollar wash plant, the Eagle. 302 00:19:12,677 --> 00:19:16,010 Remote-controlled with tank-like tracks, 303 00:19:16,010 --> 00:19:19,943 it's capable of sluicing 180 yards an hour, 304 00:19:19,943 --> 00:19:23,910 making it a mean, lean, all-terrain, 305 00:19:23,910 --> 00:19:26,710 money-making machine. 306 00:19:26,710 --> 00:19:30,677 [Dave] I do know what it takes to come into a mine empty-handed, 307 00:19:30,677 --> 00:19:32,076 and that's not the case here. 308 00:19:32,076 --> 00:19:37,410 We would buy the wash plant, pumps, excavators, loader. 309 00:19:37,410 --> 00:19:40,109 Basically, this is a turnkey operation. 310 00:19:43,376 --> 00:19:45,977 [narrator] Jason digs pay in the excavator. 311 00:19:49,777 --> 00:19:52,810 Dave and Nathan haul the pay to the wash plant. 312 00:19:54,143 --> 00:19:58,209 This is the first time I've ever mined with this few a guys, 313 00:19:58,209 --> 00:20:01,576 so, you know, it kind of goes to show 314 00:20:01,576 --> 00:20:04,643 if you got some competent, really good people, 315 00:20:04,643 --> 00:20:06,643 you can do it with a small crew. 316 00:20:08,710 --> 00:20:10,610 It kind of proves to those guys, too, 317 00:20:10,610 --> 00:20:12,843 that if they want to buy this, they could, 318 00:20:12,843 --> 00:20:16,677 you know, work on this with a small crew. 319 00:20:16,677 --> 00:20:19,443 It's really cheap. We'll pull some decent numbers out of here. 320 00:20:19,443 --> 00:20:22,443 As long as the ground pays out, we'll do all right. 321 00:20:22,443 --> 00:20:25,043 I'm a happy, happy, happy boy right now. 322 00:20:27,576 --> 00:20:30,677 [Dave] Jason's getting into some big rocks right now. 323 00:20:33,376 --> 00:20:36,677 Okie-dokie, here comes the big rocks. 324 00:20:36,677 --> 00:20:39,343 I hope we find a lot of gold with all that big rocks. 325 00:20:40,176 --> 00:20:42,843 Me, too. I'm hoping, hoping, hoping. 326 00:20:42,843 --> 00:20:44,410 This is going to be so exciting. 327 00:20:48,610 --> 00:20:50,443 You hate to throw those kind of rocks 328 00:20:50,443 --> 00:20:52,343 on your wash plant, but there should be 329 00:20:52,343 --> 00:20:54,376 a lot of big gold around those big rocks, 330 00:20:54,376 --> 00:20:55,877 so that's what we're hoping for. 331 00:21:16,643 --> 00:21:19,610 This conveyor quit, Nate. I'm not sure what's up. 332 00:21:22,443 --> 00:21:24,209 [man on radio] The belt conveyor stopped. 333 00:21:24,209 --> 00:21:27,476 - Did he just say the belt stopped? - Aw, [bleep]. 334 00:21:34,677 --> 00:21:35,977 Just one big one? 335 00:21:38,810 --> 00:21:41,643 Looks like we got a rock in the tail pulley. 336 00:21:44,109 --> 00:21:47,877 [bleeping] is in there, something fierce, y'all. 337 00:21:50,610 --> 00:21:54,010 [narrator] The coarse tailing's conveyor is jammed. 338 00:21:55,810 --> 00:21:58,343 A rock is wedged between the belt 339 00:21:58,343 --> 00:22:00,677 and the pulley that rotates the conveyor. 340 00:22:05,410 --> 00:22:06,576 There you are. 341 00:22:10,410 --> 00:22:12,076 She's got to be almost out. 342 00:22:12,076 --> 00:22:13,610 - Keep prying? - No, hold-- 343 00:22:13,610 --> 00:22:14,643 Okay. 344 00:22:14,643 --> 00:22:17,109 We're going to have to loosen the belt, 345 00:22:17,109 --> 00:22:19,943 try to spin that tail pulley in the belt, 346 00:22:19,943 --> 00:22:21,510 so it'll kick that rock out. 347 00:22:28,243 --> 00:22:32,109 [narrator] Dave has to spin the tail pulley by hand. 348 00:22:37,176 --> 00:22:39,143 - Keep loosening? - Yeah, no you're good. 349 00:22:39,143 --> 00:22:40,810 - Good? - She's moving. 350 00:22:46,010 --> 00:22:47,309 Ah, got her. 351 00:22:48,109 --> 00:22:49,677 [bleep] 352 00:22:49,677 --> 00:22:50,777 Man. 353 00:22:54,209 --> 00:22:55,410 Okay. 354 00:22:55,410 --> 00:22:57,443 [Nathan] So this is the rock that was wedged in there, 355 00:22:57,443 --> 00:23:00,843 but the way it was wedged was bound into that belt 356 00:23:00,843 --> 00:23:03,276 so much that we couldn't get it to roll 357 00:23:03,276 --> 00:23:06,543 or flip to the flat point to get it to come out. 358 00:23:12,209 --> 00:23:13,777 - Hey, Jason. - Yes, sir? 359 00:23:13,777 --> 00:23:17,010 - Come here. [bleep] - There's some little pieces in there. 360 00:23:17,010 --> 00:23:18,710 It sure looks like it, doesn't it? 361 00:23:18,710 --> 00:23:20,243 I'll bet that's gold. 362 00:23:22,376 --> 00:23:25,309 - Now that's gold. - Without a doubt, 100%. 363 00:23:25,309 --> 00:23:29,410 This rock broke open 364 00:23:29,410 --> 00:23:31,143 and there's a little bit of gold in it. 365 00:23:31,143 --> 00:23:33,010 So we're going to hang on to that one. 366 00:23:33,010 --> 00:23:34,610 Fire the plant up. 367 00:23:35,610 --> 00:23:36,810 Eagle coming on. 368 00:23:37,910 --> 00:23:39,843 [motor whirring] 369 00:24:00,543 --> 00:24:03,443 It's kind of frustrating, we are really limited 370 00:24:03,443 --> 00:24:05,243 on the amount of time that we're going to be here. 371 00:24:05,243 --> 00:24:07,343 I need to get gold right now. 372 00:24:18,109 --> 00:24:22,143 [Fred] I knew that loaning out the dozer was probably a risk, 373 00:24:22,143 --> 00:24:24,209 but it's caused us to lose some gold 374 00:24:24,209 --> 00:24:26,543 at this point and some sluicing. 375 00:24:26,543 --> 00:24:29,777 [narrator] Fred Lewis' wash plant has been shut down 376 00:24:29,777 --> 00:24:33,843 for 24 hours after Brandon Clayton damaged 377 00:24:33,843 --> 00:24:35,209 his dozer, 378 00:24:35,209 --> 00:24:38,209 leaving Fred unable to strip ground 379 00:24:38,209 --> 00:24:41,677 and access new pay to feed the plant. 380 00:24:55,843 --> 00:24:57,109 Brandon. 381 00:24:59,977 --> 00:25:02,043 I wanted to come over and talk about the dozer. 382 00:25:02,043 --> 00:25:03,376 [Brandon] Yeah, sorry about that. 383 00:25:05,276 --> 00:25:07,309 But I don't think we can let you guys borrow it anymore. 384 00:25:08,643 --> 00:25:11,109 - And it's not personal. - Right. 385 00:25:11,109 --> 00:25:12,910 I don't want to be a bad neighbor, 386 00:25:12,910 --> 00:25:15,376 - Yeah. - but at the same time, I've got to run the business 387 00:25:15,376 --> 00:25:17,843 and I just don't see us having time to let you borrow it again. 388 00:25:17,843 --> 00:25:20,343 - Right. - It's just I can't afford to be down again. 389 00:25:20,343 --> 00:25:21,943 Do you guys need help fixing it? Or... 390 00:25:21,943 --> 00:25:23,677 Right now we've got the part. 391 00:25:23,677 --> 00:25:25,543 - Buzz is going to get it up and running today, - All right. 392 00:25:25,543 --> 00:25:26,476 so we're good. 393 00:25:26,476 --> 00:25:27,777 Yeah, yeah, that's cool. 394 00:25:27,777 --> 00:25:29,743 I mean, we didn't mean to make it break either. 395 00:25:29,743 --> 00:25:31,010 No, no. 396 00:25:31,010 --> 00:25:32,343 Water under the bridge, bro. 397 00:25:34,410 --> 00:25:36,076 All right, I'll get out of your hair. 398 00:25:36,076 --> 00:25:37,243 - See you later. - Later, brother. 399 00:25:37,243 --> 00:25:38,777 See you, dude. See you, Stuart. 400 00:25:45,410 --> 00:25:50,710 This carrier roller pedestal, it got busted off all twisted up, 401 00:25:50,710 --> 00:25:53,443 so I had to drive to the other side of the territory. 402 00:25:53,443 --> 00:25:56,710 This took me all freaking day to get it. 403 00:25:56,710 --> 00:26:01,309 And now we're... I'll be in the process of getting it back on. 404 00:26:01,309 --> 00:26:03,209 [narrator] To get the dozer up and running, 405 00:26:03,209 --> 00:26:05,810 Buzz sourced a replacement pedestal 406 00:26:05,810 --> 00:26:09,010 150 miles away in Keno. 407 00:26:09,010 --> 00:26:10,677 Unfortunately, when this happened, 408 00:26:10,677 --> 00:26:11,843 three bolts broke. 409 00:26:11,843 --> 00:26:15,943 The convenience of normal life isn't really here. 410 00:26:15,943 --> 00:26:19,443 You end up doing a lot of bush fixes. 411 00:26:19,443 --> 00:26:21,910 We don't really have time to [bleep] around. 412 00:26:25,243 --> 00:26:29,710 [narrator] First, he needs to place the new pedestal back on the frame. 413 00:26:37,410 --> 00:26:39,176 Oh, it looks good. 414 00:26:39,743 --> 00:26:41,576 This is a pedestal. 415 00:26:41,576 --> 00:26:45,410 [narrator] Then secure the carrier roller onto the pedestal. 416 00:26:48,010 --> 00:26:50,109 Everybody watch your toes. 417 00:26:56,510 --> 00:26:57,943 It's heavy. 418 00:26:59,877 --> 00:27:01,510 We're just going to lock her down. 419 00:27:06,643 --> 00:27:10,109 [narrator] Bolt down the pedestal with the one remaining bolt. 420 00:27:10,109 --> 00:27:13,777 So I'll just get the one bolt that I can put in, in, 421 00:27:13,777 --> 00:27:16,643 weld it down, and get to work. 422 00:27:16,643 --> 00:27:18,877 [narrator] And weld it to the frame. 423 00:27:23,443 --> 00:27:25,910 [Buzz] After I weld it, things should be good to go. 424 00:27:31,043 --> 00:27:32,443 Buzz... 425 00:27:33,276 --> 00:27:35,810 - how's it going? - Don't slam it around. 426 00:27:35,810 --> 00:27:37,243 Everything should be fine. 427 00:27:37,243 --> 00:27:39,109 That's why you're the only one driving it. 428 00:27:39,109 --> 00:27:40,309 That's right. 429 00:27:40,309 --> 00:27:42,643 So what are you looking at for time now to get her going? 430 00:27:42,643 --> 00:27:43,877 What time is it? 431 00:27:43,877 --> 00:27:45,710 Like, six o'clock. 432 00:27:46,376 --> 00:27:47,710 6:15. 433 00:27:47,710 --> 00:27:49,977 Oh, I like that. Okay. Good. 434 00:27:49,977 --> 00:27:51,910 'Cause we've got to get going. We're running out of time. 435 00:27:51,910 --> 00:27:54,410 You know, it's going to start freezing at night before we know it here. 436 00:27:54,410 --> 00:27:55,677 - Yeah. - Love it. 437 00:27:57,810 --> 00:27:58,977 All good. 438 00:28:00,176 --> 00:28:02,677 Hey, now I've got this puppy all welded up. 439 00:28:03,910 --> 00:28:06,109 Is it going to start? 440 00:28:06,109 --> 00:28:08,309 [engine sputters] 441 00:28:15,543 --> 00:28:17,476 [engine starts] 442 00:28:21,243 --> 00:28:23,810 That's the shiznit right there. 443 00:28:26,443 --> 00:28:27,877 There we go. 444 00:28:36,510 --> 00:28:37,777 Fire it up. 445 00:28:38,910 --> 00:28:40,877 [motor starts] 446 00:28:43,209 --> 00:28:45,543 Sluice is back up and running again. 447 00:28:48,476 --> 00:28:49,643 We got water. 448 00:29:01,343 --> 00:29:03,443 Seeing that wash plant up and running right now means 449 00:29:03,443 --> 00:29:04,610 the world to us. 450 00:29:04,610 --> 00:29:06,443 Without somebody like Buzz, who is always willing 451 00:29:06,443 --> 00:29:09,977 to fix problems and go the extra mile to make [bleep] happen, 452 00:29:09,977 --> 00:29:11,343 it wouldn't be possible. 453 00:29:11,343 --> 00:29:14,843 So right now, the heartbeat of our operation's up and running. 454 00:29:14,843 --> 00:29:17,576 Got to keep it running if we're going to achieve that goal we have. 455 00:29:17,576 --> 00:29:18,843 It's on. 456 00:29:29,209 --> 00:29:31,576 We've been running these wash plants hard all year, 457 00:29:31,576 --> 00:29:33,843 but we're going to run them the hardest right now, 458 00:29:33,843 --> 00:29:35,777 right to the finish line. That's it down there. 459 00:29:35,777 --> 00:29:37,877 Hopefully there's a little gold in this ground here. 460 00:29:39,877 --> 00:29:42,376 [narrator] At Parker's Indian River claim, 461 00:29:42,376 --> 00:29:45,610 foreman Mitch Blaschke is trying to sluice a mountain 462 00:29:45,610 --> 00:29:49,276 of pay dirt before the end of the season. 463 00:29:49,276 --> 00:29:54,710 With wash plants Big Red and Sluicifer both running 24/7. 464 00:29:54,710 --> 00:29:57,710 To keep the plants fed, Mitch has elevated 465 00:29:57,710 --> 00:29:59,710 one of his green crew members 466 00:29:59,710 --> 00:30:02,543 from a rock truck to a loader. 467 00:30:02,543 --> 00:30:04,977 We got Evan, trying to train him up because 468 00:30:04,977 --> 00:30:07,743 he's a young guy that's really enthusiastic, 469 00:30:07,743 --> 00:30:09,576 wants to be out here learning the machines 470 00:30:09,576 --> 00:30:12,877 and how to do things, and he's got a great attitude. 471 00:30:23,176 --> 00:30:25,677 Mitch asked if I wanted to do some loader today 472 00:30:25,677 --> 00:30:26,943 and I was like... 473 00:30:26,943 --> 00:30:30,710 [bleep] yeah I do, that's great. 474 00:30:30,710 --> 00:30:35,076 [narrator] 19-year-old Evan Kurtz came to the Klondike Goldfields 475 00:30:35,076 --> 00:30:37,877 in the hope of rising in the ranks. 476 00:30:37,877 --> 00:30:41,343 When I'm learning new things I get kind of nervous 477 00:30:41,343 --> 00:30:44,576 and stressful just because I don't want to [bleep] up anything, 478 00:30:44,576 --> 00:30:48,610 but, yeah, there's a lot more responsibility in a loader. 479 00:30:48,610 --> 00:30:52,243 You've got to be mindful of everyone around you. 480 00:30:52,243 --> 00:30:56,043 Evan on a loader, I think he was born for that. 481 00:30:56,043 --> 00:31:00,309 A loader is probably the hardest thing to drive 482 00:31:00,309 --> 00:31:04,343 because it's a constant feeling it. 483 00:31:04,343 --> 00:31:06,910 We'll make a miner out of him, that's for sure. 484 00:31:14,943 --> 00:31:17,209 Oh [bleep]. 485 00:31:17,910 --> 00:31:20,610 What the [bleep] is going on? 486 00:31:21,276 --> 00:31:23,209 Tyson, you got a copy, Tyson? 487 00:31:23,209 --> 00:31:26,309 There's a bunch of rocks in the sluice runs. 488 00:31:26,309 --> 00:31:28,010 We're going to go ahead and shut her down. 489 00:31:30,943 --> 00:31:31,943 Hit it! 490 00:31:40,576 --> 00:31:43,877 Parker's due back from Alaska, 491 00:31:43,877 --> 00:31:46,309 Big Red's down, we have no gold coming in, 492 00:31:46,309 --> 00:31:48,943 no money coming in, but a lot going out. 493 00:31:48,943 --> 00:31:50,810 We really need to try and hammer this out 494 00:31:50,810 --> 00:31:53,576 and get it done. Get this fired back up. 495 00:32:08,410 --> 00:32:10,643 Oh, we got Big Red down this morning, 496 00:32:10,643 --> 00:32:14,176 it's got a lot of large material going down the sluice rung. 497 00:32:15,643 --> 00:32:18,677 [narrator] At Parker Schnabel's Airstrip claim, 498 00:32:18,677 --> 00:32:21,943 Mitch and Tyson have had to shut down Big Red 499 00:32:21,943 --> 00:32:25,610 after Evan spotted rocks in the sluice runs. 500 00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:27,643 I'm just going to take a look at it. 501 00:32:27,643 --> 00:32:30,343 You know, you see all these here? 502 00:32:30,343 --> 00:32:32,010 That means we have a blown out screen 503 00:32:32,010 --> 00:32:34,276 and it's got to be a pretty big hole for rocks this size 504 00:32:34,276 --> 00:32:36,710 to be coming in and when the rocks land in spots 505 00:32:36,710 --> 00:32:38,376 like this, it'll create dead spots where 506 00:32:38,376 --> 00:32:40,476 the gold isn't being caught, so... 507 00:32:40,476 --> 00:32:42,076 As you can tell the runs are littered in rocks, 508 00:32:42,076 --> 00:32:44,343 so I'm going to have to go and hand pick all these out 509 00:32:44,343 --> 00:32:46,777 and get up in the screen deck and change that screen. 510 00:32:50,576 --> 00:32:52,209 You know the material that we're running right now, 511 00:32:52,209 --> 00:32:54,376 as you can see from the tailings here 512 00:32:54,376 --> 00:32:56,610 is really sharp, aggressive rock, 513 00:32:56,610 --> 00:32:59,343 so you think about all that material working 514 00:32:59,343 --> 00:33:02,276 its way across this wash plant hours and hours a day 515 00:33:02,276 --> 00:33:05,510 and, you know, these screens are pretty thin to begin with 516 00:33:05,510 --> 00:33:08,410 and then when you go and work that material over the top, 517 00:33:08,410 --> 00:33:10,677 eventually it cuts through 'em, so we're going to remove 518 00:33:10,677 --> 00:33:11,810 the old screen, 519 00:33:11,810 --> 00:33:14,777 bring the new one in, get her bolted back up. 520 00:33:17,109 --> 00:33:20,476 [narrator] The screen deck meshing separates large rocks 521 00:33:20,476 --> 00:33:24,343 from the finer pay dirt allowing the gold rich material 522 00:33:24,343 --> 00:33:26,076 to drop through the screens. 523 00:33:27,677 --> 00:33:32,743 But if the screen breaks, the large rocks fall through as well. 524 00:33:32,743 --> 00:33:35,810 Once in the sluices, the rocks block the flow 525 00:33:35,810 --> 00:33:39,510 of water, stopping the riffles from catching the gold 526 00:33:39,510 --> 00:33:42,076 and washing it out of the end of the box. 527 00:33:46,910 --> 00:33:48,243 You see it? 528 00:33:48,243 --> 00:33:51,243 Yeah we've got a bad screen here. Check that one out the bottom. 529 00:33:54,576 --> 00:33:56,276 Yeah just like that. 530 00:34:03,410 --> 00:34:04,977 It's looking good. 531 00:34:10,710 --> 00:34:12,910 So this is our screen that we just pulled out 532 00:34:12,910 --> 00:34:16,010 and as you can see, it's supposed to just have half inch size holes here, 533 00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:18,243 but once these break, real big rocks. 534 00:34:18,243 --> 00:34:19,977 They make their way into the sluice box. 535 00:34:22,209 --> 00:34:24,109 It's been a fight getting Big Red set up, 536 00:34:24,109 --> 00:34:27,209 but, hopefully, the fight is over. 537 00:34:27,209 --> 00:34:29,309 - She's fixed. - Time to fire it up. 538 00:34:29,309 --> 00:34:30,376 It's a good feeling. 539 00:34:32,677 --> 00:34:34,977 [motor starts] 540 00:34:41,610 --> 00:34:43,610 You know if Evan hadn't have spotted this, 541 00:34:43,610 --> 00:34:45,209 more and more material would have built up 542 00:34:45,209 --> 00:34:47,910 in the sluice runs until we're doing all this work. 543 00:34:47,910 --> 00:34:50,343 We're washing all these rocks, but we're not catching any gold. 544 00:34:51,877 --> 00:34:54,910 Running the plant by myself knowing that 545 00:34:54,910 --> 00:34:57,276 they trust me to do so. 546 00:34:57,276 --> 00:35:01,209 It's a big step up and I'm really happy to be taking it right now. 547 00:35:09,877 --> 00:35:11,443 Just need to keep working everything on that-- 548 00:35:11,443 --> 00:35:13,510 - Hello, guys. - What up baby? 549 00:35:13,510 --> 00:35:15,777 You got our baby back in action? 550 00:35:15,777 --> 00:35:17,010 Back up and rolling. 551 00:35:17,010 --> 00:35:18,877 Well, it looks like you got her turned up. 552 00:35:18,877 --> 00:35:20,877 She's cranking through the dirt right now 553 00:35:20,877 --> 00:35:23,276 But, man, it just feels good to have Big Red back up and running. 554 00:35:23,276 --> 00:35:25,209 Yeah, but you guys got that done in a hurry. 555 00:35:25,209 --> 00:35:26,543 So that's the final stretch, 556 00:35:26,543 --> 00:35:29,343 we just gotta hunker in and keep feeding it, huh? 557 00:35:29,343 --> 00:35:32,510 I mean it's pretty wild, you look down there and that's the property line. 558 00:35:32,510 --> 00:35:35,276 Definitely a pretty ambitious season 559 00:35:35,276 --> 00:35:37,943 and thank you, guys, for making it happen. 560 00:35:48,510 --> 00:35:50,543 We're getting gold, so that's a good thing. 561 00:35:50,543 --> 00:35:54,043 We got bigger rocks which means bigger gold 562 00:35:54,043 --> 00:35:55,843 and things are working well. 563 00:35:55,843 --> 00:35:59,643 It's the three amigos, you just got three guys working. 564 00:36:02,443 --> 00:36:06,810 [narrator] Dave Turin is on a mission to prove his Glacier Creek claim 565 00:36:06,810 --> 00:36:09,443 is worth its million dollar price tag 566 00:36:09,443 --> 00:36:12,576 to potential buyers, Jason and Nathan. 567 00:36:13,643 --> 00:36:15,877 Now if it's profitable, I don't know, 568 00:36:15,877 --> 00:36:18,410 so you get the gold on the scale, 569 00:36:18,410 --> 00:36:20,276 it'll make a big decision on what we're gonna do 570 00:36:20,276 --> 00:36:22,076 if we're gonna buy this property. 571 00:36:32,276 --> 00:36:34,643 You know, it's going really, really smooth right now 572 00:36:34,643 --> 00:36:37,510 and that's the scary part, nothing ever goes smooth in mining. 573 00:36:38,209 --> 00:36:39,977 Yeah, bring me some pay, Nate. 574 00:36:47,076 --> 00:36:48,743 Oh, [bleep] 575 00:36:48,743 --> 00:36:52,543 - Nate... - I, uh, conveyor quit again. 576 00:36:52,543 --> 00:36:54,309 - Kill it, kill it, kill it, kill it, kill it. - What? 577 00:36:55,010 --> 00:36:56,276 Kill it, kill it, Jason. 578 00:36:58,376 --> 00:37:01,710 [bleep] piece of [bleep] [bleeping] 579 00:37:04,810 --> 00:37:07,576 [narrator] The coarse tailings belt has jammed... 580 00:37:08,010 --> 00:37:09,309 once again. 581 00:37:15,476 --> 00:37:20,476 Well, we thought we fixed it, but we didn't fix it. 582 00:37:20,476 --> 00:37:24,877 Once again, we got a bunch of [bleep] rocks in the tail port. 583 00:37:26,677 --> 00:37:29,476 [narrator] Dave must now clear the rocks by hand. 584 00:37:38,243 --> 00:37:40,977 Rocks coming off conveyor, is everybody clear? 585 00:37:45,176 --> 00:37:47,010 That moved a [bleep] ton. 586 00:37:51,576 --> 00:37:53,276 Let me clear the belt out, Dave. 587 00:37:54,376 --> 00:37:55,610 Clear. 588 00:38:00,710 --> 00:38:04,109 It's just a piece of rubber that keeps flopping open 589 00:38:04,109 --> 00:38:07,276 and the rocks get down and then they fall into the tail place. 590 00:38:08,376 --> 00:38:10,043 Yeah it's just wear on the machine, 591 00:38:10,043 --> 00:38:12,043 it wears the rubber out and then what happens 592 00:38:12,043 --> 00:38:14,977 is you create a little hole and the little rocks get in there. 593 00:38:14,977 --> 00:38:17,943 Pretty soon it grows, now you got a problem. 594 00:38:17,943 --> 00:38:21,977 When you run a million rocks over rubber, 595 00:38:21,977 --> 00:38:24,309 the rock will always win. 596 00:38:24,309 --> 00:38:26,443 So right now, we're patching that hole. 597 00:38:29,076 --> 00:38:32,643 [narrator] A rubber flap on the edge of the belt has worn out. 598 00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:35,309 Instead of steering rocks up the conveyor, 599 00:38:35,309 --> 00:38:39,010 the flaps ripped open, allowing rocks to fall through, 600 00:38:39,010 --> 00:38:40,910 jamming the tail pulling. 601 00:38:43,076 --> 00:38:46,643 To get the Eagle back up and running as fast as possible, 602 00:38:46,643 --> 00:38:49,710 the team fix a rubber patch across the gap. 603 00:38:58,943 --> 00:39:01,910 We're fixed, see if [bleep] runs that way. 604 00:39:01,910 --> 00:39:04,010 Yeah, you want to turn it on. Make sure everything's good? 605 00:39:04,010 --> 00:39:04,910 Yeah. 606 00:39:07,143 --> 00:39:08,977 [pump whirring] 607 00:39:17,376 --> 00:39:19,610 [narrator] Dave's back in the game, 608 00:39:19,610 --> 00:39:22,476 but the shutdowns have cost him eight hours 609 00:39:22,476 --> 00:39:24,543 in vital sluicing time. 610 00:39:24,543 --> 00:39:29,010 Now all he can do is hope this spot pays out. 611 00:39:29,010 --> 00:39:31,209 You know, Jason and Nathan want to see some gold. 612 00:39:31,209 --> 00:39:32,643 We're going to try to find that. 613 00:39:43,843 --> 00:39:46,043 I've been cleaning gold all day. 614 00:39:46,043 --> 00:39:47,510 About time to take a break. 615 00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:51,076 [narrator] Chris Doumitt celebrates his 71st birthday 616 00:39:51,076 --> 00:39:53,843 working on his golf handicap. 617 00:39:56,743 --> 00:39:58,076 Too far. 618 00:40:03,977 --> 00:40:05,610 Oh, just short. 619 00:40:06,343 --> 00:40:07,343 Ah... 620 00:40:17,209 --> 00:40:20,209 Yeah, hole in one, baby. 621 00:40:20,209 --> 00:40:22,410 Don't touch that, it's hot. 622 00:40:23,209 --> 00:40:24,276 [laughs] 623 00:40:25,443 --> 00:40:26,543 Nailed it. 624 00:40:36,677 --> 00:40:38,343 - Hey, Shell. - Hi, guys. 625 00:40:41,176 --> 00:40:43,043 Tell me it looks great. 626 00:40:43,043 --> 00:40:45,410 [Shelly] I was thinking it was going to be a bit more than that. 627 00:40:45,410 --> 00:40:47,943 So what do we got on in the box, Nate? 628 00:40:47,943 --> 00:40:49,209 About 20 hours on it. 629 00:40:49,209 --> 00:40:51,576 100 yards an hour, there's 2,000 yards 630 00:40:52,443 --> 00:40:53,710 right there. 631 00:40:53,710 --> 00:40:57,977 [narrator] Last week, Team Turin ran 1,400 yards 632 00:40:57,977 --> 00:41:01,343 delivering 5.58 ounces. 633 00:41:01,343 --> 00:41:03,677 This week they've mined deeper, 634 00:41:03,677 --> 00:41:07,510 hitting bigger rocks and Dave thinks they should pull in 635 00:41:07,510 --> 00:41:10,877 significantly more than their last weigh. 636 00:41:10,877 --> 00:41:12,143 Now, let's weigh it up. 637 00:41:13,943 --> 00:41:18,176 One, two, three... 638 00:41:18,943 --> 00:41:21,443 four, five, there's six... 639 00:41:23,243 --> 00:41:25,610 6.86 ounces. 640 00:41:27,910 --> 00:41:30,843 [narrator] Worth $11,000. 641 00:41:32,443 --> 00:41:33,510 Shoot. 642 00:41:34,010 --> 00:41:35,243 For fudge sakes. 643 00:41:35,243 --> 00:41:38,309 - Explain that. - Just not a lot of gold. 644 00:41:38,309 --> 00:41:40,877 I was hoping for double figures. 645 00:41:44,309 --> 00:41:46,510 The way I understand it and what all the old timers 646 00:41:46,510 --> 00:41:49,376 have told me, every time there's a storm, 647 00:41:49,376 --> 00:41:53,010 it's depositing gold and this river is flushing it down. 648 00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:56,076 The river continually is depositing gold. 649 00:41:56,076 --> 00:41:58,143 I believe that, Dave, but I hate to say it, 650 00:41:58,143 --> 00:42:01,643 it's not financially feasible for us to try and wait for it 651 00:42:01,643 --> 00:42:04,243 to deposit enough for us to make money off of it. 652 00:42:04,243 --> 00:42:06,343 Really if you look at everything that we have 653 00:42:06,343 --> 00:42:09,076 in front of us, you might not be able to sell this for 20 years, Dave. 654 00:42:11,810 --> 00:42:15,476 I just don't know this is where I want to be. 655 00:42:16,743 --> 00:42:18,076 I really don't. 656 00:42:18,076 --> 00:42:22,143 I had said I'd follow Dave to the end. 657 00:42:22,143 --> 00:42:24,443 Well, that could be the end. 658 00:42:24,443 --> 00:42:26,410 [Dave] I hate to say it, it's somewhat embarrassing. 659 00:42:26,410 --> 00:42:30,043 I do believe there's virgin ground under there. 660 00:42:30,043 --> 00:42:32,010 I think we're going to get a lot better gold 661 00:42:32,010 --> 00:42:36,877 down deeper and we're only at, what, 12 or 15 feet? 662 00:42:36,877 --> 00:42:38,877 So that's what we're going to do. 663 00:42:38,877 --> 00:42:42,276 I mean it's one last push, try to prove to Jason 664 00:42:42,276 --> 00:42:44,877 and Nathan that there's good gold down deeper. 665 00:42:57,276 --> 00:42:59,777 You know, guys, this week's been a little bit tough. 666 00:42:59,777 --> 00:43:03,643 - Oh. - I'm kind of happy to see gold in the bottle here. 667 00:43:03,643 --> 00:43:05,076 Um... 668 00:43:05,076 --> 00:43:07,777 I'm going to apologize to you two, JB and Buzz, 669 00:43:07,777 --> 00:43:08,977 about the dozer. 670 00:43:08,977 --> 00:43:11,076 I'm going to leave you and JB in charge of who uses that 671 00:43:11,076 --> 00:43:13,443 and when they use it from now on, I'm not going to have any say. 672 00:43:17,710 --> 00:43:19,143 Problem solved. 673 00:43:19,943 --> 00:43:21,443 Oh, Buzz. 674 00:43:21,443 --> 00:43:23,109 Obviously I still think it was a good idea 675 00:43:23,109 --> 00:43:25,810 to let Brandon borrow it, but we learned our lesson. 676 00:43:25,810 --> 00:43:29,209 1800 yards is all we really ran this week because of it. 677 00:43:29,209 --> 00:43:31,010 It is what it is, right? 678 00:43:31,010 --> 00:43:32,476 You want to count this one out? 679 00:43:32,476 --> 00:43:37,309 [narrator] Despite all the setbacks, Fred is just 17 ounces short 680 00:43:37,309 --> 00:43:40,843 of his last season total of 110 ounces. 681 00:43:40,843 --> 00:43:45,910 One, three, four, five, six, seven... 682 00:43:47,476 --> 00:43:55,243 ten, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18.02. 683 00:43:55,243 --> 00:44:00,376 [narrator] Worth over $30,000 bringing their season haul 684 00:44:00,376 --> 00:44:02,543 to 111 ounces, 685 00:44:02,543 --> 00:44:05,410 surpassing last year's total. 686 00:44:05,410 --> 00:44:08,810 If they can just keep running, they still have a shot 687 00:44:08,810 --> 00:44:12,843 of hitting their 500 ounce season goal. 688 00:44:12,843 --> 00:44:14,877 At this point, we're paying the bills. 689 00:44:14,877 --> 00:44:18,209 We're paying back debt and I think if we hadn't have [bleep] up 690 00:44:18,209 --> 00:44:21,476 with letting our dozer go down and had that down time, 691 00:44:21,476 --> 00:44:22,910 imagine how much more we'd have. 692 00:44:22,910 --> 00:44:24,309 We might have beaten our personal best. 693 00:44:24,309 --> 00:44:25,476 - Yeah. - [groans] 694 00:44:25,476 --> 00:44:28,476 So, keep this gold coming in. 695 00:44:43,443 --> 00:44:44,410 How's your week been? 696 00:44:44,410 --> 00:44:46,543 Nice to have two plants up and running again. 697 00:44:46,543 --> 00:44:48,743 Yeah, definitely. It's been a long time coming 698 00:44:48,743 --> 00:44:50,543 - getting Big Red going. - Yeah, really. 699 00:44:50,543 --> 00:44:52,810 We got two of them running again. How good is that? 700 00:44:52,810 --> 00:44:54,010 Hopefully we can keep it running. 701 00:44:54,010 --> 00:44:55,610 Hey, Parker. 702 00:44:55,610 --> 00:44:57,810 - Hey, man. - Happy birthday. 703 00:44:57,810 --> 00:44:59,877 Oh, my gosh. For me? Thanks. 704 00:45:00,810 --> 00:45:02,010 [laughs] 705 00:45:02,443 --> 00:45:04,376 It's an ashtray. 706 00:45:04,376 --> 00:45:07,343 - Oh. Is it real gold? - It's our gold. 707 00:45:07,343 --> 00:45:10,143 - Are you kidding me? - No. 708 00:45:11,176 --> 00:45:13,343 Holy cow. 709 00:45:13,343 --> 00:45:15,543 - Oh, my gosh. - Happy birthday. 710 00:45:15,543 --> 00:45:16,777 Thank you. 711 00:45:16,777 --> 00:45:19,877 [Parker] So, everything's made out of gold from here. 712 00:45:20,476 --> 00:45:22,309 A golden ashtray. 713 00:45:22,710 --> 00:45:24,877 Holy cow. 714 00:45:24,877 --> 00:45:27,810 You guys can expect something similar in 30 years, 715 00:45:27,810 --> 00:45:31,043 - [all laughing] - 40 years. 716 00:45:31,043 --> 00:45:33,109 - 695. - Yeah. 717 00:45:33,109 --> 00:45:36,109 [narrator] Worth $12,000. 718 00:45:36,109 --> 00:45:37,943 Seems like saying thank you is not enough. 719 00:45:37,943 --> 00:45:40,209 You're everybody's friend out here, you know? 720 00:45:40,209 --> 00:45:42,076 - Yeah. - And we all really appreciate that. 721 00:45:42,076 --> 00:45:43,777 - Thank you. - And that's from the crew. 722 00:45:43,777 --> 00:45:45,043 Oh, thank you. 723 00:45:45,043 --> 00:45:47,243 Got Big Red set up 724 00:45:47,243 --> 00:45:49,910 and just got it up and going. 725 00:45:49,910 --> 00:45:51,877 So, Big Red didn't get a whole lot of run time? 726 00:45:51,877 --> 00:45:53,209 Day and a half. 727 00:45:53,209 --> 00:45:54,376 Oh. Oh, yeah. 728 00:45:54,376 --> 00:45:56,176 - Want to see? - Sure. 729 00:45:56,176 --> 00:46:00,576 [narrator] Now, it's time for the first gold from the Runway cut. 730 00:46:04,376 --> 00:46:05,977 Ten. There we go. 731 00:46:05,977 --> 00:46:07,143 Twenty. 732 00:46:09,343 --> 00:46:14,209 Thirty, 40, 51.6. 733 00:46:15,076 --> 00:46:18,810 [narrator] Worth nearly $90,000. 734 00:46:18,810 --> 00:46:22,410 But if they can run Big Red for a full week, 735 00:46:22,410 --> 00:46:25,276 it could deliver half a million. 736 00:46:26,510 --> 00:46:29,309 And Sluicifer's been purring right along, too. 737 00:46:29,309 --> 00:46:31,743 There's been no majors on that, so... 738 00:46:31,743 --> 00:46:33,743 we got a good number here, T. 739 00:46:33,743 --> 00:46:37,576 [narrator] Sluicifer has been running dirt from the payback cut. 740 00:46:37,576 --> 00:46:41,143 The last clean-up produced 210 ounces. 741 00:46:41,143 --> 00:46:42,643 We're ready. Let's do it. 742 00:46:42,643 --> 00:46:45,109 Twenty, 40... 743 00:46:46,743 --> 00:46:49,376 150, 200, 744 00:46:51,777 --> 00:46:54,476 300, 330, 745 00:46:56,209 --> 00:46:58,943 336.05. 746 00:46:58,943 --> 00:47:00,843 - It's not bad. - Not at all. 747 00:47:01,977 --> 00:47:06,510 [narrator] Worth nearly $600,000. 748 00:47:06,510 --> 00:47:08,076 Now you get Big Red to do that too, 749 00:47:08,076 --> 00:47:09,710 and we'll have some pretty nice weeks. 750 00:47:09,710 --> 00:47:11,977 [Parker] Well, are you guys happy to be done moving wash plants? 751 00:47:11,977 --> 00:47:13,910 - Yeah. - It's a lot of work, that's for sure, 752 00:47:13,910 --> 00:47:16,076 but you know, to have Big Red there, 753 00:47:16,076 --> 00:47:18,309 and, I mean, you look at the property lines, 754 00:47:18,309 --> 00:47:19,710 right there, we're at it. 755 00:47:19,710 --> 00:47:22,343 So now it's a matter of just getting all that dirt through 756 00:47:22,343 --> 00:47:24,576 these plants, and pretty crazy, 757 00:47:24,576 --> 00:47:26,677 like, you look at how many miles of ground we've gotten through 758 00:47:26,677 --> 00:47:27,810 over the years, 759 00:47:27,810 --> 00:47:30,376 and to be at the last little bit of it. 760 00:47:30,376 --> 00:47:31,910 Sluice it or lose it. 761 00:47:31,910 --> 00:47:33,276 Okay. Thanks, fellas. 762 00:47:33,276 --> 00:47:35,376 - No problem, see you guys later. - Thank you. 763 00:47:35,376 --> 00:47:37,209 That is totally... he hammered all of that. 764 00:47:37,209 --> 00:47:38,510 Don't take it to Vegas. 765 00:47:38,510 --> 00:47:41,643 No. Thanks, Parker. 766 00:47:41,643 --> 00:47:43,710 It's good to have two plants back up and running. 767 00:47:43,710 --> 00:47:46,109 Um... 768 00:47:46,109 --> 00:47:48,309 You know, we've still got a lot of ground to get through, 769 00:47:48,309 --> 00:47:50,677 and not a lot of season left to do it in, so... 770 00:47:50,677 --> 00:47:51,710 Come on. 771 00:47:53,576 --> 00:47:56,109 So, hopefully we can just keep them going, 772 00:47:56,109 --> 00:47:59,010 but that gets more and more difficult 773 00:47:59,010 --> 00:48:00,710 as the year drags on. 773 00:48:01,305 --> 00:49:01,882 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm