"Gold Rush" The King's Mistake

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 2 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:17,060 Oh, I've got a new sidekick to introduce. 3 00:00:17,060 --> 00:00:19,560 This is Bosco. Bosco, come here. [whistles] 4 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,760 He doesn't listen very well. 5 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,800 He's a four or five-month-old chocolate lab. 6 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,090 I just got them yesterday from my mom and dad, 7 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:29,390 and that was my birthday present from them. 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:34,460 They got him like a month ago, got him potty trained for me. Great grandparents. 9 00:00:34,460 --> 00:00:36,760 They're gonna be doing that with my children. 10 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,790 And [chuckles softly] here he is. 11 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,590 My mom and dad were like, "Hey, do you want a dog for your birthday?" 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,560 And I'm like, "Yeah, it's probably time." 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,890 But I could never pick one out. 14 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:50,130 You know, it's always, like, "Not Dozer." 15 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:52,730 Will he, like, fetch? 16 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,460 Well, that's one thing about labs 17 00:00:56,460 --> 00:01:01,190 is they don't need much training for the fetch, I don't think. 18 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,530 Um, except on the retrieval side. 19 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,400 But anyways, getting back to work. 20 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,460 It's kind of a mayhem to keep three plants running, you know. 21 00:01:35,460 --> 00:01:41,460 It stretches the people and equipment kind of to the max. 22 00:01:41,460 --> 00:01:44,390 But with where we're at for gold, 23 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,600 it's really the only hope we've got. 24 00:01:47,460 --> 00:01:49,660 [narrator] Halfway through the season, 25 00:01:49,660 --> 00:01:53,160 Parker Schnabel has a mountain to climb. 26 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:56,460 After the slowest start of his mining career, 27 00:01:56,460 --> 00:01:59,660 with one bad gold weigh after another, 28 00:01:59,660 --> 00:02:02,360 he's finally turning the corner, 29 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:08,160 recently banking his first 500-plus-ounce gold weigh. 30 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,230 But he's not out of the woods yet. 31 00:02:11,060 --> 00:02:12,260 You start building a company bigger and bigger, 32 00:02:12,260 --> 00:02:15,460 and then it just becomes a monster that you have to feed. 33 00:02:15,460 --> 00:02:19,760 And the amount of cash that needs to go into the business every week 34 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,560 in order to to pay the bills just consumes you. 35 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,160 And we're definitely at that point. 36 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,160 [narrator] On the Indian River, 37 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,730 Parker's skeleton crew is sluicing Ken and Stuart's consistent ground. 38 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:40,660 At Dominion, in the huge 114-acre Bridge Cut, 39 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:44,300 his team are still running the top layer of pay dirt. 40 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:49,390 And a mile-and-a-half away... 41 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:54,890 they finally mined out the first half of the 20-acre Long Cut. 42 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:57,390 Hey, Tyson. You got a copy, Tyson? 43 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,890 [Tyson] Yeah. Go ahead, Jacob. 44 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:03,560 Hey, buddy, we're just about out of pay down here. 45 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:05,230 Nice work. 46 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:07,600 [Jacob] No more pay. 47 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,700 [powering down] 48 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:15,400 Sweet. We're all shut down. 49 00:03:17,860 --> 00:03:20,490 Roxanne just finished in the first section of the Long Pit, 50 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:24,500 and we're about to move it to the upstream section. 51 00:03:26,060 --> 00:03:31,160 It's way easier if we pull the plant out of a pit and just haul everything to it 52 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,460 because then the stripping crew 53 00:03:32,460 --> 00:03:35,690 can strip into the cut once it's done. 54 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:38,060 We want to have ground open for next year 55 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:40,900 so we're not screwed like we were this year. 56 00:03:42,060 --> 00:03:45,260 [narrator] Parker's crew spent nearly eight weeks 57 00:03:45,260 --> 00:03:48,600 sluicing the first 10 acres of the Long Cut. 58 00:03:49,260 --> 00:03:52,160 Now to sluice the second half, 59 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,960 he plans to haul wash plant Roxanne 60 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,800 over a mile upstream to a new path, 61 00:03:58,860 --> 00:04:01,830 where it will sluice into an existing pond. 62 00:04:02,860 --> 00:04:05,560 This lets him fill the downstream section 63 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,730 with overburden from a new cut 64 00:04:08,860 --> 00:04:11,300 that he plans to open up alongside it, 65 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,230 ready to mine next season. 66 00:04:17,660 --> 00:04:20,990 Parker wants the move to happen in a day, 67 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,230 ready for the night crew to start sluicing. 68 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,490 -How's it going, man? -[Tyson] Pretty good. 69 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:35,560 Roxanne's done here, and I got so much going on at the long cut down there. 70 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,790 I just gotta try and get that done 71 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,160 so that we actually can sluice when we move Roxanne. 72 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,490 Man, I know you've moved a lot of wash plants this season. 73 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:43,660 You wanna do one more? 74 00:04:43,660 --> 00:04:45,660 Yeah, for sure, man. How are things looking down there? 75 00:04:45,660 --> 00:04:46,960 We're really close. 76 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:47,960 We got a bunch of material down there, 77 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,460 the wash plant pads pretty well all in place, 78 00:04:50,460 --> 00:04:52,860 but the cut isn't and that's the problem 79 00:04:52,860 --> 00:04:54,460 is like Parker wants to be sluicing 80 00:04:54,460 --> 00:04:56,760 as soon as the plants move down there, no downtime. 81 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,560 Perfect. We'll get her moved. 82 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,990 -Well, right on, man. I appreciate it. -No worries. 83 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,900 -Have a good one. Thanks. -You too. 84 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:11,990 So right now, trying to pull the feeder out in the long cut 85 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,790 and get the radial stacker out, 86 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,890 get the pipeline dug out, the water pump out, 87 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:21,390 generator moved, Roxanne moved, sluice runs moved, 88 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,490 and all set up in a new location. 89 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:28,430 So it's a lot of work, not much time to do it in. 90 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:33,060 Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. 91 00:05:33,060 --> 00:05:34,490 Yep! 92 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:38,600 [narrator] First, Tyson moves the sluice runs over to the new pad. 93 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,990 Well, now that we got the sluice runs in place, Liam, 94 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,200 -we'll go back for the shaker deck, okay? -Yeah. 95 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,760 So now it's time to go for the long drag. 96 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,100 Over a mile of distance, we're dragging this thing. 97 00:06:30,060 --> 00:06:31,530 How are we looking, Liam? 98 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,460 I'm almost out of room here. 99 00:06:34,460 --> 00:06:37,460 -All righty. Get me on the edge here, Liam. -[Liam] Yep. 100 00:06:37,460 --> 00:06:40,230 Don't let me drown. That ponds 25 feet deep. 101 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:44,960 It's beautiful. 102 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,130 [Tyson] All righty. Nice work, guys. 103 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,860 So right now I'm armoring up the bank. 104 00:06:53,860 --> 00:06:57,160 We got the material here, it just needs to be played with a bit. 105 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,560 So I wanna make sure the wash plant and the sluice runs 106 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,030 don't end up at the bottom of this pond. 107 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,990 You know, in my second or third year, 108 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,560 when we were setting up Sluicifer, Sluicifer went off the edge. 109 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,590 Only time I've ever seen a wash plant go off an edge. 110 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,200 [Parker] [bleep] me. That is not good. 111 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,090 [narrator] With Roxanne secured on its pad, 112 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:25,100 Tyson eyeballs the conveyor into position. 113 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,460 This is a dime and a dozen, this thing lines up for a shot, 114 00:07:29,460 --> 00:07:32,130 and it looks like I might have gotten it, which is good. 115 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:36,390 Got her first try! 116 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,460 [narrator] After just five hours, 117 00:07:38,460 --> 00:07:41,990 Tyson is ready to fire up. 118 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,460 [Tyson] All right, now we're just waiting for water to get to our wash plant. 119 00:07:45,460 --> 00:07:49,230 Hopefully, this new pump wants to throw some water at us. 120 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,360 [narrator] Earlier this season, 121 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,190 Parker spent $180,000 on a new pump 122 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:01,700 capable of sending over 7,000 gallons of water a minute to the wash plant. 123 00:08:04,260 --> 00:08:05,590 [man speaking over radio] 124 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,300 Yeah, I haven't even had a burp yet. 125 00:08:13,860 --> 00:08:14,990 Well, this sucks. 126 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,160 Everything is ready, but the pump doesn't wanna pump. 127 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,130 [man speaking over radio] 128 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,460 Okay, right on. 129 00:08:24,460 --> 00:08:28,890 [narrator] Air is being sucked into the pump from a loose intake hose, 130 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:32,730 creating an airlock and stopping water from flowing. 131 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:36,530 Just gonna tighten that top one. 132 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:39,900 [Tyson] It's coming. 133 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:47,660 Go ahead and start feeding. 134 00:08:47,660 --> 00:08:50,130 We've got water up here, we're sluicin'. 135 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:55,260 [narrator] Tyson and his crew have hit Parker's deadline, 136 00:08:55,260 --> 00:09:00,160 and Roxanne is back sluicing 24-7. 137 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,690 [Tyson] You know, right now, things are looking pretty good so far. 138 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:09,030 We have dirty rocks coming in one end, clean coming out the other. 139 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,130 Now the real race begins. Keeping it fed. 140 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,230 [Tony speaking] 141 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:40,930 [narrator] King of the Klondike, Tony Beets, is way ahead of the pack. 142 00:09:42,260 --> 00:09:43,360 [Tony speaking] 143 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,590 [narrator] 12 weeks into the season, 144 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,090 he's already mined over 2,900 ounces, 145 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:52,900 $7.25 million in gold. 146 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:09,760 [narrator] On Paradise Hill, 147 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:14,600 Tony's son, Mike, is on a roll running the trommel 24-7. 148 00:10:17,260 --> 00:10:20,790 At the Indian River, after a week of maintenance, 149 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:25,360 Tony's nephew, Cousin Mike, has Sluice-A-Lot back running, 150 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,700 churning through 6,000 yards of come back paydirt a day. 151 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:40,500 [Tony speaking] 152 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,560 [narrator] Cousin Mike is tearing through pay fast, 153 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:59,130 and Tony is now in danger of running out. 154 00:11:00,260 --> 00:11:03,760 To keep his Indian River operation on the gold, 155 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,630 Tony needs to find a new score. 156 00:12:42,060 --> 00:12:48,760 [narrator] Tony needs all his years of experience to find the gold sweet spot. 157 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:53,330 If he fails, it could be game over for Indian River. 158 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,290 [narrator] Running short of open ground on the Indian River, 159 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:42,600 Tony Beets is hoping he's found his next cut. 160 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,490 [narrator] With a new spot to mine, 161 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:17,260 Tony sends in his troops to strip the cut down to pay dirt 162 00:14:17,260 --> 00:14:20,800 and build a wash plant pad for Sluice-A-Lot. 163 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,460 So we've done two gold weighs out of the Crew Cut, 164 00:15:01,460 --> 00:15:03,260 and the numbers are just garbage. 165 00:15:03,260 --> 00:15:05,990 It's just not even paying the bills 166 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:06,860 and it's not sustainable. 167 00:15:06,860 --> 00:15:08,090 We're not gonna make a living that way, 168 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:08,990 we're not gonna walk out of here 169 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,160 with any kind of a profit, it's [bleep]. 170 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:16,400 [narrator] Like Tony Beets, Rick Ness is scrambling to find good ground. 171 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:19,760 After a strong start to his season, 172 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,260 his gold production has fallen off a cliff 173 00:15:23,260 --> 00:15:29,160 with the recent Crew Cut delivering just 19 ounces in two weeks. 174 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:34,630 Now he's looking for a savior before he burns through all the cash he's made. 175 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,260 [Rick] There's so much ground here, and where the [bleep] is it? 176 00:15:39,260 --> 00:15:42,760 There's no sign pointing out where the gold is, it takes time to find it. 177 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,960 And right now I know that I'm not gonna have any money coming in 178 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:47,290 and I know I need to find it quick. 179 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:50,730 And going into this knowing that, yeah, it's [bleep] stressful. 180 00:15:52,860 --> 00:15:55,190 [narrator] Rick's targeting ground near his Bench Cut, 181 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,560 a spot that's paid out in the past, 182 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,400 but is now covered in permafrost. 183 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:08,300 Desperate to find gold, he's hoping to discover a thawed area nearby. 184 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,090 [Rick] If there's gold here and we get on it right away, 185 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:14,460 then there's still a chance for us to get our 1,500-ounce gold, 186 00:16:14,460 --> 00:16:17,990 but if I gotta keep poking around for weeks, trying find it, 187 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 then that gets more and more unlikely by the day. 188 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,630 The glacier's really made a mess out of this. 189 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,000 I'm not sure what to think about it, 190 00:16:34,460 --> 00:16:36,100 a lot of it doesn't make sense. 191 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:44,190 [narrator] Over 150,000 years ago, a giant glacier eroded 192 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,730 and picked up gold from the Mount Hinton mother lode. 193 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:52,460 The massive 2.5-mile thick ice sheet 194 00:16:52,460 --> 00:16:56,500 bulldozed through Duncan Creek, tearing up the landscape. 195 00:16:57,900 --> 00:17:03,290 When the ice melted, it left behind rocks, debris, 196 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:07,300 and pockets of gold throughout Rick's vast claim. 197 00:17:14,100 --> 00:17:16,860 There's a lot of metallics in this soil. 198 00:17:16,860 --> 00:17:20,630 I really think there might be gold here, and it's really shallow. 199 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,300 So I think I'm just gonna test it. 200 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,460 [narrator] After losing time and money at the crew cut 201 00:17:28,460 --> 00:17:31,790 by relying only on the result of a pan, 202 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,930 Rick doesn't wanna make the same mistake again. 203 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,360 [Rick] I got Heather and Jason coming down here with some buckets. 204 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:40,860 We're gonna pull a quarter yard out of it 205 00:17:40,860 --> 00:17:43,290 and try to run it through the gold room and see what we got. 206 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:46,430 It's just kind of a quick way to get an idea of what we're dealing with here. 207 00:17:49,260 --> 00:17:50,990 I saw some gravel poking out of the surface, 208 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,090 so I just moved the bucket around in here and [bleep]. 209 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:57,090 Like, 6 inches of mud and moss, 210 00:17:57,100 --> 00:17:59,530 and then a little bit of a mix of gravel and bedrock. 211 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:02,760 It would be easy to get if there's gold in it. 212 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:04,590 Let's run up a little sample on it 213 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,260 and just see what we get out of it, and... 214 00:18:06,260 --> 00:18:08,460 [Rick] I'll just pick a spot. 215 00:18:08,460 --> 00:18:10,790 Probably where there's a little more gravel than that, 216 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:11,860 and I'll fluff it up with a bucket and-- 217 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:14,230 -Dig me a hole. -[Rick] All right. 218 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,930 Just gonna give it a shot. It's easy to get to, why not sample it? 219 00:18:23,860 --> 00:18:25,760 If there is a lot of gold here, 220 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,330 I mean, it'll be [bleep] amazing. 221 00:18:28,460 --> 00:18:31,960 [Heather] So this is confusing and different from other stuff. 222 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:36,400 So we're not really sure what to expect from it, but... 223 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,160 But this so far looks pay dirt-y, 224 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,690 and there looks to be bedrock. 225 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:48,630 So hopefully we'll see some gold in it after a sample. 226 00:18:58,160 --> 00:18:59,530 [Rick] How many are we up to? 227 00:19:00,100 --> 00:19:01,600 Half a pail more. 228 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,160 We got those buckets all loaded up for you there, 229 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,990 and we should be able to have those samples processed 230 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:12,360 and back to you later today. 231 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:15,230 -All right. Get that done. -[Jason] Okay. 232 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:27,900 [narrator] Five hours later, Rick checks on the results of the test run. 233 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:32,500 Very nervous but very excited too. 234 00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:34,630 Fingers crossed. 235 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:37,890 [Heather greeting Rick] 236 00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:39,300 [Rick] What's the scoop? 237 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:40,830 [Heather] Dirt. 238 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:44,760 -You can see the pieces. -There's some in there. 239 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,990 [Heather] It's right there. 240 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,260 No, it shakes, and then, yeah, the water jets blow off the lighter material. 241 00:19:51,260 --> 00:19:54,100 The gold settles into the grooves and travels to the end. 242 00:19:55,860 --> 00:19:57,360 Shiny gold. 243 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,400 I mean, I'm seeing gold come out of it. 244 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,060 We've never done a quarter-yard test like this, so I'm still nervous. 245 00:20:06,060 --> 00:20:08,660 I still don't know how that's supposed to look. 246 00:20:08,660 --> 00:20:12,100 I saw gold in it, I know that. I have no idea how much yet. 247 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,700 We'll see if it picks it up. It's not very much. 248 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:29,400 That comes out to... 249 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:36,160 just over an ounce per 100 yards, which is mineable. 250 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,400 I feel like we've mined worse ground than that. 251 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:42,060 Looking at it positively, it is good news. 252 00:20:42,060 --> 00:20:43,660 We have to move on from that ground 253 00:20:43,660 --> 00:20:44,790 that we've been running at Rocky. 254 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,960 It's [bleep] and we can't make any money off of that. 255 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:48,990 This, a little amount, is actually not that bad. 256 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,190 It's economical to mine, it's shallow, 257 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,790 and it's right there, you know. 258 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,090 So we didn't waste too much time, 259 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,160 and I think we continue on stripping that and get ready to run it. 260 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,660 The numbers add up. 261 00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:03,630 All right, let's do this. 262 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,400 [Rick over radio] Yeah, guys, let's just have a quick chat about this ground here. 263 00:21:24,460 --> 00:21:27,090 Yo. This next spot down here that I've been prospecting, 264 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:28,260 we've pulled samples out of it. 265 00:21:28,260 --> 00:21:30,090 It looks like it could be really good. 266 00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:32,560 And the nice thing about it is there's not much overburden, 267 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,260 so it's gonna be easy stripping. 268 00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:36,660 Basically all this dirt sitting on an edge with the bedrock drop, 269 00:21:36,660 --> 00:21:38,460 so let's just call it the Edge Cut. 270 00:21:38,460 --> 00:21:41,090 It's a pretty good stretch, but you know... 271 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:44,260 it won't take us the end of the season, I don't think, 272 00:21:44,260 --> 00:21:46,700 but it could be a quick hit and really good gold. 273 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:49,390 Yeah. Well, [bleep]. 274 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,460 Yeah, let's pack our [bleep] and get back on that good gold. 275 00:21:51,460 --> 00:21:52,790 Sounds good. 276 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,530 -Let's get out there. [bleep] go. -My boys. 277 00:21:57,300 --> 00:21:59,390 Rick's got a couple of ideas going over to the Edge Cut. 278 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:00,690 He says it's really good. 279 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:03,090 Hopefully, yeah, it is. That's what we really need right now. 280 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:05,500 Just to get up into that 1,500-ounce goal. 281 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:23,230 So last night we fired up Roxanne up here in the long cut. 282 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,060 [narrator] Parker Schnabel is running three wash plants 283 00:22:28,060 --> 00:22:30,500 to hit his 10,000-ounce target, 284 00:22:31,460 --> 00:22:34,900 but it's stretching his operation to the limit. 285 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,290 [Tyson] We have Tayvin in the loader. 286 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:40,590 Now it's his first time running it by himself, 287 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,560 so he's gotta be quick on his feet. 288 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,130 A lot to keep an eye on. 289 00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:51,990 Roxanne, it's a one-man band out here. It's just him. 290 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,230 So he needs to be able to keep up with this plant. 291 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,390 There's a lot to look for 292 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:00,760 when you're feeding a wash plant. 293 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,660 So it's pretty hard keep an eye on everything 294 00:23:04,660 --> 00:23:09,660 while you keeping an eye on your bucket and where you're going. 295 00:23:09,660 --> 00:23:14,460 [narrator] 20-year-old Tayvin Peterson has run rock trucks all season. 296 00:23:14,460 --> 00:23:19,000 Now, he's been promoted to feeding Roxanne. 297 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:25,360 It just sucks. I feel so bad that I'm not very good at running the loader yet, 298 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:27,600 and they want me to start running this wash plant. 299 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,700 But I'm trying my damnedest, and it's so hard. 300 00:23:34,460 --> 00:23:35,830 Whoa! 301 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,730 Oh, my goodness gracious. My kidneys hurt so bad. 302 00:23:44,860 --> 00:23:49,860 [narrator] Tayvin must feed the plant 250 yards of pay an hour. 303 00:23:49,860 --> 00:23:54,000 But six hours into his shift, he's struggling to keep up. 304 00:23:56,260 --> 00:23:57,530 [Tayvin] [bleep] 305 00:24:05,300 --> 00:24:07,000 The hopper's jammed. 306 00:24:08,260 --> 00:24:10,390 I'm about to shut it down. 307 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,000 Half of the hopper's jammed up with mud, so I have to shovel it out. 308 00:24:24,660 --> 00:24:26,960 Tyson never mentioned what to do in this situation, 309 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,000 so I never got the memo for this. 310 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,230 Kind of just winging it. 311 00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:49,860 I just keep running around like a chicken 312 00:24:49,860 --> 00:24:52,760 with my head cut off, I guess. 313 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,700 I am actually just stressed right out and have no plan. 314 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:00,860 Tyson, do you have a copy? 315 00:25:00,860 --> 00:25:03,860 -Tyson. -[Tyson on walkie-talkie] Hey. What's up? 316 00:25:03,860 --> 00:25:06,860 Hey, Tyson, half the hopper is jammed up with mud, 317 00:25:06,860 --> 00:25:09,560 so what am I supposed to do? 318 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,060 I'm just feeding half the hopper. 319 00:25:13,060 --> 00:25:14,860 [Tyson] Mitch should be up there soon. 320 00:25:14,860 --> 00:25:17,230 Uh, if you can get Mitch. 321 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:19,730 [Tayvin] Holy cow. 322 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,800 Mitch, do you have a copy? Mitch. 323 00:25:25,860 --> 00:25:27,860 Half of the hopper is still plugged up. 324 00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:31,960 But if I'm able to feed it for now 325 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,930 and hopefully let that other half dry out for a little bit. 326 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:38,560 [Mitch] I just got a radio call from Tayvin here. 327 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,090 Came across pretty staticky, 328 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:41,390 so we're just gonna see what he wants here. 329 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,700 But definitely can tell he needs some help up here at the plant. 330 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:46,790 How's it going? 331 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,390 Half the hopper's jammed up, and I'm not too sure 332 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,460 what to do when it gets like that. 333 00:25:51,460 --> 00:25:53,900 [Mitch] The first thing we'll do here is we'll have a look in there. 334 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,460 -Yeah, you can see we've got that big rock there. -[Tayvin] Yeah. 335 00:26:06,460 --> 00:26:10,060 [narrator] A large flat rock has slipped through the grizzly bars 336 00:26:10,060 --> 00:26:12,260 and landed on the belt, 337 00:26:12,260 --> 00:26:17,690 preventing the compacted mud above it from moving through the hopper. 338 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:20,290 [Mitch] Oh, when it gets all built up with material like this, 339 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:22,360 you certainly got to shut it off. 340 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:24,600 I mean, obviously, we want to keep running. 341 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,860 -Just go hop out. -[Tayvin] All right. 342 00:26:27,860 --> 00:26:30,890 Turn on the both of them and just give me a minute. 343 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,500 -And when I yell, turn this [bleep] off. -[Tayvin] Okay. 344 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:41,790 Ready, Mitch? 345 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,600 [Mitch] Yeah, go. 346 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,090 Right now, Mitch is shoveling 347 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:51,290 and putting it on the conveyor, 348 00:26:51,300 --> 00:26:54,030 and I'm ready to stop it if anything goes wrong. 349 00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:58,660 Boy, am I glad Mitch showed up. 350 00:26:58,660 --> 00:27:01,330 [Mitch] All right, go ahead and shut it off. 351 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,800 -[Mitch] Watch your fingers and toes. -[Tayvin] Yep. 352 00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:17,090 Put this on the conveyor or throw it out? 353 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:19,600 -Uh, just chuck it out. -Yeah. 354 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:22,500 [Tayvin grunts] 355 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,260 There you go. 356 00:27:29,260 --> 00:27:31,130 -You good? -Yeah, I'm good. 357 00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:34,360 -Yeah, if you put-- -Lucky I didn't get that on the nuts. 358 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:35,260 If you-- [chuckles] 359 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:40,860 Looks like it's clearing out pretty good. 360 00:27:40,860 --> 00:27:42,360 -[Tayvin] Thank you so much. -[Mitch] Yeah. You good, dude? 361 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:43,060 -[Tayvin] Yeah. -[Mitch] Okay. 362 00:27:43,060 --> 00:27:44,560 Good to get back in the loader 363 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:45,890 -and start washing rocks again? -Yeah. 364 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:47,830 -I think you can throw some more at it, buddy. -[Tayvin] Perfect. 365 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:52,090 Phew. 366 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:53,560 Back running again. 367 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,300 Oh, man. 368 00:27:56,660 --> 00:28:00,060 My arm hurts from slipping on that belt, though. [bleep] 369 00:28:01,660 --> 00:28:03,560 [Mitch] It definitely could have been a lot worse. 370 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,160 He saw he had a problem, and he got ahold of us on the radio. 371 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,860 If he would have kept running it, 372 00:28:07,860 --> 00:28:09,660 that rock starts cutting the belt, 373 00:28:09,660 --> 00:28:12,090 uh, we could be doing a belt replacement right now, so... 374 00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:14,890 At the end of the day, this thing's got to have dirt going through it 375 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:17,330 if you want to have some gold at the end of the week. 376 00:28:28,460 --> 00:28:30,190 [Michael] We're out of pay in this area. 377 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,460 It sucks that we don't have any pay 378 00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:34,300 to feed the wash plants with. 379 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,660 I got to shut the plant down. 380 00:28:38,660 --> 00:28:41,990 [narrator] After three months of near non-stop running, 381 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,660 Tony Beets' wash plant, Sluice-A-Lot, 382 00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:50,490 has finished running the last of the Comeback Cut's paydirt. 383 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:55,090 To stay on Indian River gold, he plans to haul the plant 384 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:57,300 to the newly-opened Corner Cut. 385 00:28:59,260 --> 00:29:00,590 [Michael] We want to have the plant in place 386 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,630 and, uh, be sluicing as soon as possible. 387 00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:07,600 Now we're going to drag this plant about a mile. 388 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:14,000 [narrator] Cousin Mike is in charge of the mammoth plant move. 389 00:29:27,860 --> 00:29:30,360 I'm trying to stay on the right side of the road, 390 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,560 without getting too close to the trees. 391 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,900 But I have to stay away from this edge because that's a deep drop. 392 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:41,990 Because we've got the creek on the one side 393 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,400 and the road is in a little bit of an angle towards the creek, 394 00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:51,560 I gotta make sure that this plant doesn't slide sideways. 395 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,400 Because once it's going towards the hole on the left, there's no stopping. 396 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:01,960 We wide the road, but it's still a, uh-- 397 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,490 A tight spot. 398 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:04,460 With the bridge on one side 399 00:30:04,460 --> 00:30:07,100 that I don't want to hit with the sluice runs. 400 00:30:08,660 --> 00:30:11,600 And the plant is moving to the left quite a bit. 401 00:30:12,260 --> 00:30:14,360 You can see where my tracks are. 402 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:19,790 The plant is moving half a dozer width over to the left, 403 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,090 towards the creek. 404 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:25,560 I hope the [bleep] excavator gets out of the way 405 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,400 because he's gonna be stopped. 406 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:37,800 I can feel the dozer struggling. 407 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,530 I can feel I'm having trouble steering. 408 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,260 Well, we put in this road that I'm on right now. 409 00:31:01,260 --> 00:31:05,230 It's still pretty narrow because we couldn't bury the culvert. 410 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:12,990 [narrator] At Indian River, Cousin Mike is dragging Tony's 45-ton Sluice-A-Lot 411 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,500 to its new pad in the Corner Cut. 412 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:22,360 I got to make a wide turn with the dozer 413 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,560 because the plant is gonna take a shortcut. 414 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,590 Lots of weight on the back of the dozer, 415 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,000 so I can't just make a sharp turn right away. 416 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,860 There she goes, just slide over. 417 00:31:37,860 --> 00:31:40,230 And now, it's just straight ahead. 418 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,800 So I'm in the yard right now. 419 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,630 There's some stuff on the side of the road. 420 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,230 That is going to be very tight. 421 00:32:01,660 --> 00:32:05,600 I've got a trailer on my right that I also don't want to hit. 422 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:12,900 Yeah, we made it through. 423 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:15,990 Almost there. 424 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,590 I got the pad on my left. 425 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,990 Right now, the challenge is, uh, 426 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,500 turning this plant around. 427 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:28,290 [Tony speaking] 428 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:30,560 Yeah, it doesn't matter if Tony is watching or not. 429 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,730 Either way, you don't wanna do it wrong. 430 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,600 Just got to back it up from here on. 431 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:43,990 We did it. 432 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,100 Yeah, it looks good. I'm happy. 433 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:05,230 Just got to get it forward into place. 434 00:33:10,860 --> 00:33:12,830 [Tony speaking] 435 00:33:19,260 --> 00:33:22,360 There we are. Landed in place. 436 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,730 [Tony speaking] 437 00:33:25,860 --> 00:33:27,990 [narrator] Plant move accomplished, 438 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:34,500 now, Tony needs Cousin Mike to get back in the cut and build up a pay pile. 439 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,000 We, uh-- We can't, uh, 440 00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:05,800 sit down and relax because we've got to keep stripping and stay ahead. 441 00:34:11,860 --> 00:34:13,300 Oh, [bleep]. 442 00:34:14,460 --> 00:34:15,690 Oh, that doesn't feel right. 443 00:34:15,700 --> 00:34:17,000 That's not good. 444 00:34:17,860 --> 00:34:19,900 This is not promising at all. 445 00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:23,460 That feels like frost. 446 00:34:23,460 --> 00:34:25,600 Yeah, that's very frozen. 447 00:34:27,460 --> 00:34:30,660 I was hoping to get to pay easy, 448 00:34:30,660 --> 00:34:33,360 but, uh, I found some permafrost 449 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,760 that we didn't expect here. 450 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,760 So, uh, this is gonna slow us down. 451 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,700 It's not good. 452 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,990 We really can't have frost right now 453 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,530 because this is, uh, gonna cost us a lot of time. 454 00:34:53,060 --> 00:34:54,700 We should try another spot. 455 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,160 Oh, [bleep]. This spot is not any better. 456 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,500 This is all frozen, too. 457 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:14,830 Tony, do you copy? Tony. 458 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,060 [Tony speaking on walkie-talkie] 459 00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:21,360 It's all frost here in this cut. 460 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:22,800 [Tony speaking] 461 00:35:24,660 --> 00:35:26,590 [Michael] I think we've got to come up with a new plan 462 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,060 because, uh, we were hoping to get some pay here quick, 463 00:35:30,060 --> 00:35:32,530 but that is not gonna happen here. 464 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,000 Yeah, it's all frozen. 465 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,100 It's right over there, right over there. 466 00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:04,300 Yeah. 467 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:07,630 [Michael] Yeah. 468 00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:11,630 Yeah. 469 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,430 [narrator] Tony's plans for Indian River gold are on ice. 470 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:48,360 [Rick] Right now, we're just clearing a strip of overburden 471 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,160 in this new cut here, uh, on the Edge. 472 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,960 So we're gonna try to get this stripped as quick as we can, 473 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,260 and get the pay in the plant and run it 474 00:36:56,260 --> 00:36:58,060 so that we can keep the gold coming in. 475 00:36:58,060 --> 00:37:00,290 We've got a long ways to go to get to 1,500 ounces yet, 476 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,790 and, uh, we're not going to get there if we're not sluicing. 477 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,390 [narrator] Rick Ness is betting big on the new Edge Cut 478 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,900 to get him back on the gold. 479 00:37:14,860 --> 00:37:17,160 [Rick] We sampled it and we got gold. 480 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,360 [stutters] I should feel comfortable that, uh-- 481 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,500 You know, that this is definitely worth our while. 482 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:28,760 Every single one of us is in a machine right now trying to move, uh-- 483 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,160 Move this overburden, because right now, 484 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,560 that's the most important thing on site, you know. 485 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:33,290 We've got to get this cleared, 486 00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:34,460 we've got to get down to gold, 487 00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:36,400 so everybody's here and everybody's pitching in. 488 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,900 [man speaking] 489 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,230 [Rick] What the [bleep] is going on here? 490 00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,190 I'm just scraping the moss off, 491 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,190 and there's no [bleep] gravel. 492 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,590 With, like, a few little pebbles here and there. 493 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:04,990 But [bleep] that's-- 494 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,960 That's just really weird. That's, uh-- 495 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,160 It's like the gravel layer completely disappeared on me. 496 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,030 I would think that that would mean that there's no gold. 497 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,490 Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about this. 498 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:22,160 This is, uh-- 499 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,530 This is not looking very good. 500 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,090 I think we're gonna have to run another test on this. 501 00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:31,960 [narrator] Before Rick spends any more money stripping the Edge Cut, 502 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,530 he wants to double check it holds the gold he needs. 503 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,090 I want to do a larger test, a bulk test. 504 00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:41,060 We'll do a 1,000-yard test. 505 00:38:41,060 --> 00:38:42,960 And if that shows us that there's gold in it, 506 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,300 well, then I can commit to this. 507 00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:47,890 There's a fair amount of stripping to do here, 508 00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:50,460 but if there's gold here, it's gonna be worth it. 509 00:38:50,460 --> 00:38:52,730 If there's not, then we need to be moving on. 510 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,560 [narrator] After pulling out a 1,000 yards of pay, 511 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,800 Rick stops stripping to feed it through Rocky. 512 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:04,760 [Rick] Fire it up! 513 00:39:17,860 --> 00:39:19,030 The bottom line is at this point, 514 00:39:19,030 --> 00:39:21,160 we can't afford to be running dirt with no gold in it. 515 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,490 So we're doing a 1,000-yard test. 516 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:25,090 Fingers crossed that there's a bunch of gold in it. 517 00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:27,130 If there is, we're all set. 518 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,460 [Rick] Should we get my Wu-Tang rock in here? 519 00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:41,360 Dude, you haven't seen this? 520 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,660 Perfect W. Look at that. 521 00:39:43,660 --> 00:39:44,730 How sweet is that? 522 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,400 Wu-Tang forever. 523 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,160 My collection of rocks. 524 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,390 This one, I think, is part of a mammoth vertebrae. 525 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,160 This one's a big heart. 526 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,390 I keep that one because I don't have one. 527 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:58,630 This one's the, uh, 528 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,130 serving tray, like platter. 529 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,100 Put stuff on it. 530 00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:05,760 I don't know why I grabbed that one. 531 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,830 I guess it's just really weird looking. 532 00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:11,460 Got a bunch of cool [bleep] stuck to it. 533 00:40:11,460 --> 00:40:12,800 Little stone sandals. 534 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:14,930 I like the sandals, though. 535 00:40:14,930 --> 00:40:16,700 I'm gonna take the sandals home this year. 536 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,100 Gotta admit, those are pretty sweet. 537 00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:31,560 -[Minnie] Hi, guys. -Hello. 538 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,300 [Tony speaking] 539 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:35,200 [Monica] How are you feeling? 540 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:36,990 [Monica] Oh, well. 541 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,400 [Tony speaking] 542 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,200 [Minnie laughing] 543 00:40:44,260 --> 00:40:45,660 Anyways, what happened this week? 544 00:40:45,660 --> 00:40:48,700 [Tony speaking] 545 00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:04,760 [narrator] Unable to sluice from the new Corner Cut this week at Indian River, 546 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,560 all Tony has is the last gold from the Comeback Cut. 547 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,200 [Tony speaking] 548 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,360 [Mike] Five, ten, 15, 549 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,400 20, 25, 30, 35, 550 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,200 50, 60, 70. 551 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,560 75.66. 552 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,500 [narrator] Worth $190,000. 553 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,130 So this is the trommel, Mike. 554 00:41:40,860 --> 00:41:42,290 Ten, 20. 555 00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:47,560 [narrator] Mike's trommel has been running 24/7 on Paradise Hill. 556 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,660 [Mike] 190. 557 00:41:50,660 --> 00:41:51,890 [Tony speaking] 558 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:54,030 [Minnie] Yeah. He has another jar, you know. 559 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,090 [Mike] 210, 220, 240, 250, 560 00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:00,360 280, 290, 300, 561 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,360 340, 370. 562 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,360 374.34. 563 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,130 [narrator] Worth $936,000. 564 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:15,590 -Just about, yeah. -[Tony speaking] 565 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,200 [Minnie] That's pretty nice. 566 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,290 [Mike] Okay. I'll get her done. 567 00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:31,360 [Monica] Now that all your gold is poured out, 568 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,790 I assume you wish for us to leave. 569 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,160 All right. Sayonara, arrivederci, ciao. 570 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,330 -[Tony speaking] -[Minnie] See you later. 571 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:41,960 [Minnie] Just flock off. 572 00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:45,990 So we'll see you for the next one. 573 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,800 [Tony speaking] 574 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:05,660 Yo. 575 00:43:05,660 --> 00:43:08,790 -Yo. -That's a downing yo. 576 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,160 Oh, I don't know. Not a downing yo. 577 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,760 Just a confused yo. 578 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,090 Yo. 579 00:43:15,100 --> 00:43:16,690 [Rick] Well, I mean, one way or another, 580 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:19,690 we're at a crossroads, um, at the moment. 581 00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,090 I mean, kind of, what it boils down to is we're having, you know, 582 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:23,860 a bad few weeks, and, um-- 583 00:43:23,860 --> 00:43:25,390 I mean, we can absorb that, 584 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,230 but we can't keep it up, you know. 585 00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:33,360 [narrator] Rick has run a 1,000 yards of pay dirt from the Edge Cut. 586 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,790 To be worth mining, he needs to see ten ounces. 587 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,930 Well, should we weigh this up, see what it is? 588 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,960 All right, well. 589 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,160 Two. 590 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,130 2.59. 591 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,800 [narrator] Worth just $6,500. 592 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,260 [Ryan] So this is where you're, uh, 593 00:43:56,260 --> 00:43:58,660 pulling out another jar from under the table, saying, "Joke." 594 00:43:58,660 --> 00:44:00,190 I wish. 595 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,060 [Ryan] I think we all do. 596 00:44:02,060 --> 00:44:03,290 [Rick] Two, yeah. Two point. 597 00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:06,360 Just over 2.5 ounces. That's pretty bad. 598 00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,960 I don't think we'd ever make the decision to mine ground that bad. 599 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,260 So either you've got to do a drastic reconfiguration on how you want [bleep] done, 600 00:44:14,260 --> 00:44:15,930 or where you're going to move or-- 601 00:44:16,300 --> 00:44:17,300 Yeah. 602 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,530 Just [bleep] pack it up. 603 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,860 Yeah, as far as gold weighs go, 604 00:44:36,860 --> 00:44:39,160 that was, uh, the worst one, by far, I've ever had. 605 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,560 I mean, it was only a 1,000-yard test, but still it's bad. 606 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:42,360 It's a bad result. 607 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,430 We need to find better ground fast. 608 00:44:56,700 --> 00:44:58,560 [man] Does he bark at all? 609 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,360 -[Parker] No. -[man] That's awesome. 610 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,460 Well, Mitch, how was your week? 611 00:45:02,460 --> 00:45:03,590 [Mitch] Oh, buddy. 612 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,490 You know, we finished the downstream in the Long Cut, 613 00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:06,560 and now, we got the plant moved. 614 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,360 We've got, you know, Tayvin in the loader up there. 615 00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,360 And he had a pretty good jam up in the hopper feeder, 616 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,090 so I had to show him all about getting that cleared out and-- 617 00:45:16,100 --> 00:45:17,360 -[Parker] Yeah, get these green guys... -Yeah. 618 00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,490 ...used to the real-- The real problems. 619 00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:21,760 Tayvin seems to be doing good, though, hey, so far. 620 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:22,860 Yeah, he's learning a lot. 621 00:45:22,860 --> 00:45:24,390 Because I told him for, like, a week, 622 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:25,930 you know, everything can go fine. 623 00:45:25,930 --> 00:45:28,890 And then, you know, second you get comfortable, that's when stuff piles up. 624 00:45:28,900 --> 00:45:30,660 So it's good he caught it. 625 00:45:30,660 --> 00:45:32,260 Yeah. 626 00:45:32,260 --> 00:45:36,090 [narrator] Wash plant Rocksand has been sluicing all week 627 00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:39,560 in the new section of the Long Cut. 628 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:44,130 After averaging just 138 ounces a week from the first section, 629 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,190 Parker's hoping the new area picks up. 630 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,560 [Chris] Rocksand had a big thermostat this week. 631 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,360 Let's see how we did after everything up there. 632 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,160 Chris had the grunt picking that up. 633 00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:01,130 We got 20, 40, 60, 100, 634 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,090 110, 120, 130, 635 00:46:04,100 --> 00:46:07,260 185, 190. 636 00:46:07,260 --> 00:46:08,860 Two hundred. 637 00:46:08,860 --> 00:46:11,460 -222.5. -Nice. 638 00:46:11,460 --> 00:46:16,900 [narrator] Worth $556,000. 639 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,460 [Chris] So you want to see how Big Red did? 640 00:46:19,460 --> 00:46:21,390 [Tyson] Let's check it out. 641 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,760 -All righty. -[Chris] Okay, here we go. 642 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,990 [narrator] Big Red has been running pay at the Bridge Cut... 643 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,390 Ten, 20, 60. 644 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,690 ...running the top layer of pay dirt. 645 00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:34,090 [Tyson] Eighty. 646 00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:36,360 82.80. 647 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:40,460 [narrator] Worth $207,000. 648 00:46:40,460 --> 00:46:42,060 -Nothing wrong with that. -[Tyson] Yep. 649 00:46:42,060 --> 00:46:44,090 [Chris] Then we got Big Bob. 650 00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:48,160 And I'm not sure how much more you got to do down there. 651 00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:49,860 They probably only have one or two more cleanups. 652 00:46:49,860 --> 00:46:51,300 Oh, is that right? 653 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,060 [Mitch] We got 30, 654 00:46:54,060 --> 00:46:55,330 seventy. 655 00:46:55,330 --> 00:47:00,490 [narrator] Bob has been running 24/7 at Ken and Stuart's. 656 00:47:00,500 --> 00:47:06,160 [Mitch] 260, 280, 290, 300, 657 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,600 310, 320, 330, 340. 658 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,160 346.80. 659 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:17,560 [narrator] Worth $867,000. 660 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,360 [Parker] I didn't know that scale went that high. 661 00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,190 That must be the best one of the season. 662 00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,560 -[Chris] It is, yeah. -Yeah. 663 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,060 So this week, we got 652.1 ounces. 664 00:47:27,060 --> 00:47:31,860 Gives a season total of 2,345.3 ounces. 665 00:47:31,860 --> 00:47:33,460 She's climbing fast now. 666 00:47:33,460 --> 00:47:36,590 Everything's an improvement if we can keep it happening. 667 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,760 We'll aim for better for next week. 668 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:39,660 Let's do it. 669 00:47:39,660 --> 00:47:40,730 -[Chris] Yeah, all right. -Sounds good. 670 00:47:40,730 --> 00:47:42,830 -[Parker] All right. Thanks, guys. -Yeah. 671 00:47:44,460 --> 00:47:46,060 [Parker] Like, I'm happy with this result, 672 00:47:46,060 --> 00:47:48,560 but it's really just a matter of sustaining that 673 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,760 because there's hardly that many weeks left in the season. 674 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,590 So we just got to try to hammer these pits out 675 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,590 and try to keep the plants running. 676 00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:57,960 So we'll see. 676 00:47:58,305 --> 00:48:58,482 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm