"Gold Rush" Rogue Foremen

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 2 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,260 It's been a real struggle all season, 3 00:00:25,260 --> 00:00:27,260 figuring out where to put plants 4 00:00:27,260 --> 00:00:31,060 and hauling pay long distance and just on and on and on. 5 00:00:31,060 --> 00:00:32,360 So it's been hard. 6 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,990 [narrator] Four months into his most ambitious season ever 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,860 Parker Schnabel is struggling 8 00:00:38,860 --> 00:00:42,860 to bring in enough gold from his Dominion Creek claim. 9 00:00:42,860 --> 00:00:46,700 Overall, the gold, it's been very consistent. 10 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:48,490 Consistently poor. 11 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:52,760 We need to figure out how to do close to 1000 oz. every week. 12 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,790 [narrator] Initially gunning for 10,000 oz., 13 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,560 Parker is now hoping he can bring in at least 8000. 14 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,500 [Parker] And the problem is this week we only have two wash plants running. 15 00:01:04,100 --> 00:01:05,590 Sad. 16 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,860 I'm starting to get used to having three plants running 17 00:01:07,860 --> 00:01:10,330 and having a lot of nice, big, clean ups, right? 18 00:01:11,660 --> 00:01:16,260 [narrator] To hit his goal, Parker has been running three wash plants. 19 00:01:16,260 --> 00:01:19,790 But last week the operation on Sulphur Creek 20 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,090 ran out of stockpiled pay dirt, 21 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:23,530 shutting it down. 22 00:01:26,860 --> 00:01:31,260 Now, as a skeleton crew digs out more pay, 23 00:01:31,260 --> 00:01:36,260 he's back to depending on the unreliable Dominion Creek claims 24 00:01:36,260 --> 00:01:39,560 including the infamous Long Cut. 25 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,260 [Parker] Mitch is up at the Long Cut. 26 00:01:41,260 --> 00:01:43,560 The Cut's been just a brutal one all season, 27 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,060 and the gold's been kind of little less than I had hoped. 28 00:01:47,060 --> 00:01:48,660 But I'm glad Mitch is up there. 29 00:01:48,660 --> 00:01:50,560 I'm confident he'll get through it. 30 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:52,400 We need that cut to pay out. 31 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,660 [Mitch] Right now we're pulling the pay dirt 32 00:01:57,660 --> 00:02:00,360 from the downstream end of the Long Cut, 33 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,390 and we've got a lot of material 34 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,790 that's got to make it up to Roxanne to keep it running. 35 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,460 [narrator] The Long Cut's gold 36 00:02:06,460 --> 00:02:09,560 has been checkered for 16 weeks. 37 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,660 Now, Mitch is on a mission to find more 38 00:02:12,660 --> 00:02:14,690 and deliver a big week. 39 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:16,560 I'm just trying to get as much gold 40 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,660 out of this Long Cut as possible. 41 00:02:19,660 --> 00:02:21,990 Parker doesn't want to pull anything from any other project. 42 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,690 And there's no spares, 43 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:26,260 which means to keep Roxanne running 24/7, 44 00:02:26,260 --> 00:02:28,930 these 60-ton trucks have to be hustling here. 45 00:02:30,460 --> 00:02:34,260 [narrator] To increase their gold haul with limited crew, 46 00:02:34,260 --> 00:02:39,090 Mitch is using two giant A60 rock trucks. 47 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:45,830 Together, the mega-truck duo can deliver 600 yards of dirt an hour. 48 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,160 [Parker] Those A60s have been just lifesavers. 49 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,690 They're packing around almost double 50 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:53,930 of what some of the other trucks are packing. 51 00:02:53,930 --> 00:02:57,590 In order to keep up, we're overloading them quite a bit, 52 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,860 and it's very impressive what they'll handle. 53 00:02:59,860 --> 00:03:03,160 I've talked to my dad a lot about loading trucks, 54 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,060 like, "Do you get greedy and overload them a lot, 55 00:03:05,060 --> 00:03:07,660 or do you go with what they're rated for?" 56 00:03:07,660 --> 00:03:12,460 And my dad's like, "No, just go with what they're rated for." 57 00:03:12,460 --> 00:03:15,630 Maybe it's 'cause my dad says not to do it is why I do it. 58 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:22,660 This season, we have a bunch of new operators, 59 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:24,530 and this is going to be a big test here. 60 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:27,990 [James] We are going as fast as we can. 61 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,630 Me and the boys are flying today. 62 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:34,890 [narrator] Operating one of the A60s 63 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:39,230 is 22-year-old greenhorn James Kurtz. 64 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,290 [James] Definitely a good learning lesson 65 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:45,390 for it'll be my first time ever 66 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,230 working at a mine before and running equipment. 67 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,660 -[rattling] -[engine powers down] 68 00:03:54,660 --> 00:03:56,490 Oh, what was that noise? 69 00:03:56,500 --> 00:03:58,460 That didn't sound good. 70 00:03:58,460 --> 00:04:01,560 -[beeping] -Uh... 71 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:02,690 It's beeping at me. 72 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:04,600 Hey, Mitch, you got a copy? 73 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,160 We've got a problem. 74 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,490 I'm pretty sure this truck just went down. 75 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:11,960 [Mitch] Oh, man! That's not what we need right now. 76 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,000 Okay, dude, just park that thing. 77 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,990 Let me pull up out of the way for everybody. 78 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,660 -[engine starts, rattling] -Oh [bleep]! 79 00:04:22,660 --> 00:04:24,760 -That sounded worse. -[beeping] 80 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,490 That... Okay, I'm gonna park it here, I guess. 81 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:31,730 Hey, Mitch, I've got, like, four error codes flashing at me. 82 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,090 Hoses are all [bleep]. 83 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:42,760 That's a hell of a mess. 84 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,460 This is the companion flange that mounts... the drive shaft mounts to. 85 00:04:46,460 --> 00:04:50,300 Uh, this must have been cracked, and it snapped. 86 00:04:51,260 --> 00:04:52,860 As soon as he backed down the ramp, 87 00:04:52,860 --> 00:04:55,490 the wheels are driving the broken drive shaft, 88 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:58,400 and it's just blendarizing everything. 89 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:03,500 Oh, yeah. That's heavy. 90 00:05:04,660 --> 00:05:06,390 It's probably the worst one I've seen actually. 91 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,360 It's in a tough spot with 60 tons in the back. 92 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,390 [narrator] The flange connecting the drive shaft 93 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,990 to the rear wheels has snapped, 94 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,460 destroying all the brake lines 95 00:05:17,460 --> 00:05:22,060 and hydraulic hoses that power the dump box. 96 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:24,090 There's a drive shaft that goes to the front axle. 97 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:28,160 Obviously, we need to get the pay out of the back, 98 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,130 and then limp this thing back to the yard. 99 00:05:32,660 --> 00:05:34,400 All of this does something. 100 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:38,160 Um, these hoses are okay, 101 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,560 but everything that these attach to outward is [bleep]. 102 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,860 The lift cylinders don't function properly, so we can't even dump the box. 103 00:05:45,860 --> 00:05:49,290 Let's just start yanking everything out and run new [bleep]. 104 00:05:49,300 --> 00:05:50,990 [narrator] Taylor's plan, 105 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,990 replace the hoses to operate the truck's box, 106 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,990 and dump the 60 tons of pay. 107 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,560 Then, using only the front 2-wheel drive, 108 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,490 limp the mega truck back to the yard for the full repair. 109 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:07,660 The other half of this hose... [chuckles]. 110 00:06:07,660 --> 00:06:10,800 It does a lot of damage when the drive line breaks like that. 111 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:13,360 [Taylor] Okay, let's try it again. 112 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:14,360 [Tyler] Okay. I'll try to... 113 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,500 [Taylor] Lift up as much as you can right there. 114 00:06:17,860 --> 00:06:19,060 Okay, let's try, bro. 115 00:06:19,060 --> 00:06:21,460 [Tyler] It seems like it's working. 116 00:06:21,460 --> 00:06:23,000 [Taylor] We'll just dump it right here. 117 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,090 [Mitch] That's pretty impressive. 118 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:55,700 In not a good way. 119 00:06:56,300 --> 00:06:59,190 Experienced operators are expensive, 120 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,460 and inexperienced operators... 121 00:07:01,460 --> 00:07:03,090 -they're also expensive. -[Taylor chuckles] 122 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:04,360 Just in different ways. 123 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,090 There's a lot of work to be done 124 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:08,760 to get it back to running condition. 125 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,160 [Mitch] How long is it gonna take? 126 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,090 This pay pile is getting pretty small. 127 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:14,260 [Taylor] This thing is not safe to run. 128 00:07:14,260 --> 00:07:16,600 -It's gonna be down for a bit. -Got you. 129 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,990 [narrator] Taylor limps the truck back to the yard 130 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,960 to replace its drive shaft, 131 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,460 leaving Mitch just one 60-ton truck 132 00:07:27,460 --> 00:07:29,330 to haul pay to Roxanne. 133 00:07:31,860 --> 00:07:32,990 Hey, we're gonna shut this thing down. 134 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,090 We can't keep up with only one truck here, 135 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:38,900 so let's just let her run out of dirt and turn her off. 136 00:07:46,060 --> 00:07:48,030 [engine powers down] 137 00:07:50,100 --> 00:07:51,560 Parker wants 8000 oz. 138 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,660 That means we need dirt going out of this cut 139 00:07:53,660 --> 00:07:55,360 to a wash plant, keeping it running. 140 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,660 But right now, that's not gonna happen 141 00:07:56,660 --> 00:07:57,960 until we can fix some truck. 142 00:08:18,660 --> 00:08:21,860 [narrator] There's just a month and a half left of this season, 143 00:08:21,860 --> 00:08:24,760 and Klondike kingpin Tony Beets 144 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,600 is running at limited capacity. 145 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,360 [narrator] After plowing through his ready to sluice ground 146 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,190 on his Indian River claims, 147 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,700 Tony is waiting for the sun to thaw the frozen pay dirt. 148 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,260 [Mike] Both plants are shut down at the moment. 149 00:09:00,260 --> 00:09:02,760 We're waiting for pay. 150 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,160 The pay we have here is frozen solid. 151 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,990 In the meantime, no pay, no plants going. 152 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,660 So that means we're not catching any gold at the moment. 153 00:09:12,660 --> 00:09:16,460 [narrator] Until Cousin Mike's crew finish stripping 154 00:09:16,460 --> 00:09:19,590 the frozen ground, Tony's only gold 155 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,700 is coming from Paradise Hill. 156 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:37,160 [Mike] Well, they're shut down in the Indian 157 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,160 because they've got a bunch of frozen pay, 158 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,130 and they can't feed the two plants. 159 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,490 So they're kind of a little bit reliant 160 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:48,560 on me right now, sluicing as fast as possible. 161 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:51,660 [narrator] In charge of the trommel on Paradise Hill, 162 00:09:51,660 --> 00:09:53,960 Tony's youngest son, Mike Beets. 163 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,500 [bleep] a rough ride. 164 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,660 [narrator] Running the trommel all out 165 00:10:31,660 --> 00:10:35,190 has filled the 30-acre settling pond with silt. 166 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,860 If dirty water spills into the nearby creek, 167 00:10:38,860 --> 00:10:43,330 environmental authorities will shut down Tony's operation. 168 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:47,990 [narrator] To prevent this, 169 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,290 Tony has no option but to stop sluicing. 170 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:53,000 [engine powers down] 171 00:11:07,260 --> 00:11:11,190 [narrator] Paradise Hill has a series of three connected ponds. 172 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,090 They clean the trommel's ls dirty sluice water 173 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:17,060 by allowing silt to settle on the bottom, 174 00:11:17,060 --> 00:11:18,860 while clean water flows 175 00:11:18,860 --> 00:11:20,800 through the culverts back to the creek. 176 00:11:22,260 --> 00:11:24,360 Now the top pond is full 177 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,690 and silt is clogging the culvert 178 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:29,490 creating muddy discharge water. 179 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:32,760 To fix it, the Beets crew must build up the dikes 180 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,990 and raise the culvert to make the pond deeper, 181 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,260 giving the silt space to settle, 182 00:11:38,260 --> 00:11:40,160 cleaning the water. 183 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,660 [Mike] I don't know if I want rock trucks backing up that road 184 00:11:42,660 --> 00:11:45,200 'cause that's the quickest way for me losing a rock truck. 185 00:11:45,660 --> 00:11:48,600 [Tony speaking] 186 00:11:49,860 --> 00:11:50,790 [Mike] Oh, yeah. 187 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,300 [Tony speaking] 188 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:15,490 [narrator] To raise the dikes roads, 189 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:19,260 Mike's crew uses this specialty side dumper 190 00:12:19,260 --> 00:12:22,300 ideal for widening the narrow roads. 191 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:25,990 [Braeden] It's late in the season and the pressure is on. 192 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,360 So right now we're down on the dike, 193 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,000 making the road a bit longer and wider. 194 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,290 [narrator] As the trucks dump their load, 195 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:39,860 Mike levels the dike roads with the D11 Dozer. 196 00:12:39,860 --> 00:12:41,990 Much better to shut down for these two days 197 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,060 and do the work proper than it is 198 00:12:45,060 --> 00:12:47,690 to risk being possibly shut down for the rest of the year. 199 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:50,460 These shutdowns are gonna cost a lot of money, 200 00:12:50,460 --> 00:12:54,360 but there's no point in crying over spilled milk. [bleep] will happen. 201 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,060 You will have to fix it. 202 00:12:56,060 --> 00:12:57,760 Crying, whining, complaining, 203 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,400 and saying "Oh, woe is me," ain't gonna [bleep] solve it. 204 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,790 [Curtis speaking over radio] 205 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:07,790 Sure. 206 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,990 [Curtis speaking over radio] 207 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,300 [bleep] 208 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:26,060 [bleep] sakes! 209 00:13:26,060 --> 00:13:29,060 [Mike] First time ever I've seen a truck here flip. 210 00:13:29,060 --> 00:13:30,760 I wouldn't stand anywhere near the front of the truck 211 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,860 'cause it could all come over. 212 00:13:32,860 --> 00:13:36,390 [narrator] At Paradise Hill, disaster has struck 213 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,090 while Mike Beets' crew 214 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:41,030 rush to build up the settling pond's dike. 215 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,130 [Mike] Oh, that frame is completely [bleep]. 216 00:13:45,660 --> 00:13:47,360 He went through the corner with a full load. 217 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,260 That's why it [bleep] started to flip in the first place. 218 00:13:50,260 --> 00:13:52,460 [Curtis] I should have been watching it more, 219 00:13:52,460 --> 00:13:55,260 but the back tire caught the side of the dike 220 00:13:55,260 --> 00:13:57,690 and it just slowly started pulling it in. 221 00:13:57,700 --> 00:14:00,460 So by the time I stopped, it had... it kept moving, 222 00:14:00,460 --> 00:14:02,490 and then it started grabbing the truck. 223 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:08,000 [narrator] The 10-ton side dumper now hangs off a 15-foot drop. 224 00:14:09,060 --> 00:14:10,630 [Curtis] Give me a chain. 225 00:14:13,260 --> 00:14:16,860 Mike's trying to position the chain here 226 00:14:16,860 --> 00:14:19,460 so that we get it back out of the ditch. 227 00:14:19,460 --> 00:14:21,990 The thing still wants to fall that way. 228 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,660 [narrator] To keep the truck from rolling into the pond, 229 00:14:24,660 --> 00:14:30,000 Mike uses his 220 excavator to yank it back onto the road. 230 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,030 [engine whirring] 231 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,500 That chain is under a great deal of [bleep] stress. 232 00:14:47,460 --> 00:14:48,800 Oh, yeah. 233 00:14:56,860 --> 00:14:59,060 Take that hoe, drive it to the end. 234 00:14:59,060 --> 00:15:00,230 It's just too much weight, 235 00:15:00,230 --> 00:15:03,260 so I have to try to grab it from two [bleep] points. 236 00:15:03,260 --> 00:15:05,660 [narrator] To double his lifting power, 237 00:15:05,660 --> 00:15:11,690 Mike brings in a 480 excavator rated to lift up to 20 tons. 238 00:15:11,700 --> 00:15:14,700 [Mike] It doesn't help with the fly. The [bleep] hell! 239 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,630 It's gonna have to be a bit of a twin process here trying to flip this. 240 00:15:21,060 --> 00:15:22,990 So we have to find another spot on this truck 241 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,800 where I can lift two. 242 00:15:29,260 --> 00:15:32,230 Okay, I'm gonna start lifting and you start lifting. 243 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,030 [engine revving] 244 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,460 [rattling] 245 00:15:45,460 --> 00:15:47,090 [Mike] Nope! That ain't gonna work. 246 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:48,900 [rattles] 247 00:15:51,460 --> 00:15:53,390 I simply don't have enough [bleep] power 248 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,030 to do this the way I want to do it. 249 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,260 It's just too much weight. 250 00:15:57,260 --> 00:15:59,460 That means I can't apply the right force the right directions 251 00:15:59,460 --> 00:16:01,590 'cause I have no room to work. 252 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,060 It'd be so much easier if I just detach the thing. 253 00:16:04,060 --> 00:16:06,830 But I don't want to do that. That's gonna be a ton of work. 254 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:09,600 The [bleep] flies! 255 00:16:10,060 --> 00:16:11,300 Argh! 256 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,260 [Curtis] What's the plan now? 257 00:16:16,260 --> 00:16:17,890 [Mike] It's really hard to think of solutions 258 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:20,160 when I'm constantly getting interrupted. 259 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:21,890 [Curtis speaking] 260 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:24,400 [Mike] I don't even know if I have enough chains to do what I want. 261 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,160 Do we have any other half-inch chains? 262 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:28,300 [Curtis] I don't know. 263 00:16:29,660 --> 00:16:31,990 Everything [bleep] seems to take forever. 264 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,960 I think we're gonna have to bite the bullet and stop this right now. 265 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,230 We're gonna be down for what, two, three days. 266 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:40,460 [narrator] Until the truck is rescued, 267 00:16:40,460 --> 00:16:43,390 raising the dike is stopped cold, 268 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,560 and Tony's trommel can't sluice any gold. 269 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,560 [Mike] I'm annoyed because somehow it's my fault 270 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:49,690 when they do something stupid. 271 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:52,400 And just one little [bleep] up and guess what happens. 272 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:55,800 I might have to ask my dad to come over here and give a hand. 273 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,060 [narrator] Forty miles down the road... 274 00:17:10,060 --> 00:17:14,660 [Kevin] I'm finding being out on my own a lot more peaceful. 275 00:17:14,660 --> 00:17:17,530 I am definitely not getting as much sleep as I should be, but... 276 00:17:18,460 --> 00:17:20,690 I will persevere. 277 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:24,860 [narrator] Mike's brother and first year mine boss Kevin Beets 278 00:17:24,860 --> 00:17:30,360 is working around the clock to keep his fledgling operation afloat. 279 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:35,090 I'm very glad to finally have some gold coming out of the ground. 280 00:17:35,100 --> 00:17:36,360 [Kevin] We just started sluicing, 281 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:41,160 so we still have quite a ways to go before we hit 1000 oz. 282 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,090 [narrator] Kevin's invested nearly two million dollars 283 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:47,430 of his life savings to start up his own mine. 284 00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:51,460 Since deciding to run 24/7, 285 00:17:51,460 --> 00:17:54,160 he's brought in 155 oz. 286 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,230 But now, he has a new problem. 287 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:00,460 [Kevin] The plant is going through our pay pile 288 00:18:00,460 --> 00:18:02,360 a lot quicker than we thought. 289 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:07,460 So it really means we've got to hammer down on getting another cut 290 00:18:07,460 --> 00:18:09,990 opened up before it's too late. 291 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:14,800 In order to hit 1000 oz., we will need to be running... 24 hours. 292 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:20,860 [Brennan] Today, we're just working 293 00:18:20,860 --> 00:18:23,660 on trying to open up the Lynx Cut extension 294 00:18:23,660 --> 00:18:25,990 and get it down to pay. 295 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,690 It needs to happen super bad, 296 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:31,460 because that pile is getting chewed down so quickly, 297 00:18:31,460 --> 00:18:32,830 it's actually getting scary. 298 00:18:32,830 --> 00:18:36,090 But I keep stressing it that it could be a really early cold winter, 299 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:37,360 and that will not be good. 300 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:40,000 We need to find our 1000 oz. minimum. 301 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,460 If you look at that mountain, we're in a huge belly here, 302 00:18:47,460 --> 00:18:52,130 so hopefully that means maybe there'll be some huge nuggets over here. 303 00:18:55,660 --> 00:18:58,130 [Chase] Right now, we're still stripping overburdened. 304 00:18:58,760 --> 00:18:59,760 We're trying to get down to pay. 305 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:01,860 We've got a little bit of a water problem, 306 00:19:01,860 --> 00:19:06,000 and it's making for a couple of sloppy days here in the cut. 307 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,500 As you can see, we've got tons and tons of water in here. 308 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,090 Let's start turning out and taking a different path here. 309 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:17,860 It's just turn way out and go over there. 310 00:19:17,860 --> 00:19:19,230 It'll be way easier. 311 00:19:26,260 --> 00:19:28,660 As you can see, everything's saturated in the cut. 312 00:19:28,660 --> 00:19:30,890 There's some muddy spots in the back of the cut. 313 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:31,900 There's a [bleep] mud hole. 314 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,460 Oh [bleep]. 315 00:19:36,460 --> 00:19:40,190 [engine revving] 316 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,200 [bleep] sakes. 317 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:46,390 Hey, Brennan, you got a copy? Brennan? 318 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,690 Hello? 319 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:51,090 [Chase] Hey, buddy, I'm stuck down here in the cut. 320 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:53,760 Yeah? Okay. [bleep] 321 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,460 [Brennan] You've got to get this water dealt with. 322 00:19:55,460 --> 00:19:56,630 What a [bleep]. 323 00:19:56,630 --> 00:19:59,090 I'm gonna need to get another pump in here immediately. 324 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:01,330 And we have no extra pumps. 325 00:20:02,460 --> 00:20:06,460 [narrator] Earlier this season, the Lynx cut flooded... 326 00:20:06,460 --> 00:20:07,590 [Brennan] Yeah, I need that pump. 327 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,690 Until then, we're really shut down. 328 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:13,330 [narrator] ...forcing Kevin to borrow a pump from Tony. 329 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:17,090 [Kevin] This is the pump Tony sent for me to borrow. 330 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:18,590 [Brennan] Whoo! Nice work, Kev! 331 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,960 [narrator] But he's since run out of favors 332 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,860 from the bank of Mom and Dad. 333 00:20:23,860 --> 00:20:24,960 [Tony speaking] 334 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,690 [narrator] And the borrowed pump is now being used 335 00:20:27,700 --> 00:20:29,660 to run Kevin's wash plant... 336 00:20:29,660 --> 00:20:31,290 [Brennan] Looking pretty good! 337 00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:33,130 [narrator]. ..leaving him without a spare. 338 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,100 I think I might try and nudge you backwards. 339 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:55,000 [Chase] Thanks, Brennan. You're the man. 340 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,090 The main reason why there's so much water on this side 341 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:01,360 is because it's bleeding over from the wash plant side 342 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:04,660 and it's really hindering us from getting this cut stripped, 343 00:21:04,660 --> 00:21:05,760 and the pay out of here. 344 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:07,660 I can't wait any [bleep] longer 345 00:21:07,660 --> 00:21:09,090 to get a [bleep] pump in here. 346 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:12,190 [narrator] The two-acre Lynx cut extension 347 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,990 shares a wall with the wash plant's settling pond. 348 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,290 The sluice water is seeping through it 349 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:22,690 turning the new cut's floor into a swampy mess. 350 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:25,990 To strip the cut without shutting down the wash plant, 351 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,990 Brennan needs a new pump to drain the extension 352 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,860 allowing the trucks to operate without getting stuck, 353 00:21:33,860 --> 00:21:37,600 haul out the overburden and hit pay dirt. 354 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:47,390 [car door opens] 355 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,260 [Kevin] Hey, Brennan. 356 00:21:49,260 --> 00:21:51,990 I can't dig pay down here, dude. 357 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,960 I've been needing another pump for, like, a week now. 358 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,490 I know. 359 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:59,530 We just got to do a cleanup with you to pay for the [bleep] thing. 360 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:03,090 [Brennan] Can we get another pump from Tony? 361 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:04,860 [Kevin] I'm not going to ask Tony until I have to. 362 00:22:04,860 --> 00:22:06,790 I've fixed enough with Tony [bleep]. 363 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,260 I'm just really struggling down here, man. 364 00:22:09,260 --> 00:22:11,160 I'm just getting frustrated as [bleep] like, 365 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,060 if that pay pile runs out, that shuts off, 366 00:22:13,060 --> 00:22:14,260 we don't have any money coming in, 367 00:22:14,260 --> 00:22:16,300 and I feel like that's on my shoulders. 368 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:18,860 Like, what do you want me to do here? 369 00:22:18,860 --> 00:22:20,760 I need a [bleep] pump. 370 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,260 I don't know what to say, like, 371 00:22:22,260 --> 00:22:23,990 we don't have the cash right now. 372 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,190 We don't got a [bleep] pump. 373 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:26,700 [bleep] tough. 374 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,360 [sighs] Okay, well, I'm gonna... Uh... 375 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:33,230 Yeah, I don't know what else to say here. 376 00:22:39,460 --> 00:22:41,290 [woman speaking] 377 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:42,930 [Brennan] Get out of my face for a while. 378 00:22:46,860 --> 00:22:49,400 I need a [bleep] pump [bleep]. 379 00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:53,030 [engine starts] 380 00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:59,090 Weird. Where the [bleep] he's going? 381 00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:00,900 [engine revving] 382 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,760 [Parker] Those 60-ton trucks, 383 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,660 they've had a huge impact on the mine site. 384 00:23:18,660 --> 00:23:20,860 And so when one of those goes down 385 00:23:20,860 --> 00:23:23,760 for whatever stupid little things have been going on with them, 386 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,860 things can grind to a halt in a hurry 387 00:23:25,860 --> 00:23:29,660 if we don't get them fixed and keep them running. 388 00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:34,260 [narrator] In Parker's long cut sluicing is on hold 389 00:23:34,260 --> 00:23:37,760 after a 60-ton rock truck broke down, 390 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,660 stopping paydirt from reaching the plant. 391 00:23:40,660 --> 00:23:43,690 Three hundred tons an hour of pay that's not getting to the plant right now, 392 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:45,900 and this thing's going to be down for a bit. 393 00:23:48,900 --> 00:23:50,760 Just hammer the box against the stops 394 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:51,990 and we'll try to get that [bleep] out of there, 395 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,730 so it's not going to land on anyone. 396 00:23:56,660 --> 00:24:01,560 That's enough dirt to kill someone, uh, and we don't want that. 397 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:02,790 It's going to fall out at some point. 398 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,560 We want it to fall out right now. 399 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,130 There it comes. 400 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,660 Maybe you get off your high horse and throw some tools around. 401 00:24:12,660 --> 00:24:14,690 You want this thing hauling pay? 402 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:16,760 You know, Mitch wants us at the plant. 403 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:17,790 Yeah? 404 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,730 He wants us hauling pay at Roxanne. 405 00:24:20,060 --> 00:24:21,090 Dude, we're on it. 406 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:23,700 Okay? We can't do it any faster. 407 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:25,960 Okay? So stop hounding us. 408 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,760 [man laughing] 409 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,590 [narrator] To get the A60 back on the road, 410 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,160 and Roxanne back on the gold, 411 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,300 Taylor needs to replace the broken drive shaft. 412 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,760 Let's get this [bleep] changed. 413 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,260 I'll grab some wheel chucks. 414 00:24:41,260 --> 00:24:42,400 Let's do it. 415 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,660 Here's our new harness. Um... 416 00:24:46,660 --> 00:24:49,860 We need to lay it into the machine. 417 00:24:49,860 --> 00:24:51,860 [narrator] Taylor's first step, 418 00:24:51,860 --> 00:24:56,560 replace all the destroyed brake lines and electrical wires 419 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:00,460 before fitting and installing a new driveshaft. 420 00:25:00,460 --> 00:25:02,660 Here. We can start feeding it through, eh? 421 00:25:02,660 --> 00:25:04,990 [Taylor] Yeah, they are... 422 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,660 screaming to have this truck back in the cut. Uh... 423 00:25:07,660 --> 00:25:11,130 So we're busting our ass to get it back out there. 424 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,660 So we... we've just put the harness in. 425 00:25:15,660 --> 00:25:17,560 Everything is pretty secured. 426 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,460 Janko's just I jumped in the skid steer 427 00:25:20,460 --> 00:25:23,900 to go grab our drive shaft. 428 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:29,790 So, the next step is to crane our driveshaft in here. 429 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,260 All right. The final step to this job, eh? 430 00:25:32,260 --> 00:25:33,990 Send this thing back to work. 431 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,290 [objects clattering] 432 00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:38,200 These are the ways that they're supposed to look... undamaged. 433 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:41,800 Swing it into position. 434 00:25:43,060 --> 00:25:45,530 All right. We've got a driveshaft in the air. 435 00:25:47,100 --> 00:25:48,760 It's go-time. 436 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,000 Look at that bad boy. 437 00:25:52,660 --> 00:25:53,830 Yeah. 438 00:25:55,660 --> 00:25:57,260 This has to line up perfectly, 439 00:25:57,260 --> 00:26:01,460 because these grooves have to meet with the companion plunge. 440 00:26:01,460 --> 00:26:06,460 We're just throwing some bolts here in the drive shaft on the deaf side, 441 00:26:06,460 --> 00:26:09,300 and then we can line up the park break side. 442 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:13,060 The transmission's in neutral. 443 00:26:13,060 --> 00:26:15,260 It can sit there in free wheel right now, 444 00:26:15,260 --> 00:26:16,860 with the engine running there. 445 00:26:16,860 --> 00:26:19,890 It wants to do it on its own. 446 00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:22,700 It could go sideways, but it's really dangerous. 447 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:26,190 I have pressure on it right now with my pry bar, 448 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,490 so I'm pushing the brake pad against the rotor. 449 00:26:28,500 --> 00:26:31,890 So I'm just... just bouncing it a little bit 450 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:34,260 to release pressure, to get everything lined up. 451 00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:36,190 As soon as we get the bolts in there, 452 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,800 uh, we can... we can shut the machine off. 453 00:26:39,860 --> 00:26:41,100 All right. Release. 454 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:43,260 How much? 455 00:26:43,260 --> 00:26:45,700 We got to go about 30 degrees. 456 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:47,700 [machine creaks] 457 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:49,730 A little more. 458 00:26:51,260 --> 00:26:52,500 Little more. 459 00:26:53,460 --> 00:26:54,830 Okay, hold it right there. 460 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,600 [machine whirring] 461 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,200 That's one installed drive shaft. 462 00:27:00,860 --> 00:27:01,830 Okay. 463 00:27:01,830 --> 00:27:03,660 Mitch will be stoked we got this thing done. 464 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:05,860 Uh, we can give him a shout, and he can come pick it up. 465 00:27:05,860 --> 00:27:07,800 -Yeah. Nice, buddy. -All right, bro. 466 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,590 I'm glad I can start trucking again. 467 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,230 Moving more pay for the boys. 468 00:27:15,260 --> 00:27:17,590 We're back to hauling as fast as we can. 469 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,660 Taylor is a wizard and what he does, 470 00:27:19,660 --> 00:27:21,800 so he's getting... He got it back up in... 471 00:27:22,660 --> 00:27:24,300 only a couple of... [exclaims] 472 00:27:27,260 --> 00:27:30,360 And hopefully she doesn't break down anytime soon again. 473 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:32,390 [narrator] After just six hours, 474 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,400 the Ace 60 is back, hauling pay to the plant. 475 00:27:37,260 --> 00:27:39,360 [Mitch] Time to fire up Roxanne. 476 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:42,790 [narrator] And Mitch can start sluicing again. 477 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:43,960 [Mitch] You know, definitely not the way 478 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,490 we thought the day was going to go, 479 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:47,600 but we got the trucks back up and running. 480 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,090 We're back sluicing, 481 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:53,500 and we're going to try and keep it that way. 482 00:28:05,260 --> 00:28:06,430 [dramatic music playing] 483 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,460 [Tony speaking] 484 00:28:14,460 --> 00:28:17,030 [Mike] The truck was tired, decided it wanted to take a nap. 485 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,560 [Tony speaking] 486 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,590 [narrator] After shutting down his only running plant 487 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,790 to rebuild a dyke road, 488 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:29,760 Tony Beets hasn't caught an ounce of gold in over 24 hours. 489 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,090 And a truck crash is adding to his sluicing delay. 490 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:36,090 [Mike] I managed to get the trailer out of the [bleep] hole 491 00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:37,930 so it's not sitting there [bleep] bending. 492 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,130 [Tony speaking] 493 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,460 Well, I was hoping to just get the whole thing to come down over. 494 00:28:47,460 --> 00:28:49,100 [Tony speaking] 495 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,330 [Mike] Yeah. 496 00:29:13,260 --> 00:29:17,260 [narrator] Tony wants to unhook the truck from the trailer 497 00:29:17,260 --> 00:29:20,390 and rescue each piece separately. 498 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,400 To do that, he must first remove the metal pin that's holding them together. 499 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:30,490 [Tony speaking] 500 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:31,700 [Mike] Yeah. 501 00:29:39,260 --> 00:29:41,000 [Tony speaking] 502 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,290 [Mike] What do you want me to do? 503 00:29:47,300 --> 00:29:48,530 [Tony speaking] 504 00:29:49,460 --> 00:29:50,900 [machinery chugging] 505 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,230 [Tony speaking] 506 00:30:05,660 --> 00:30:07,260 Yeah. We are two different pieces. 507 00:30:07,260 --> 00:30:10,130 -[Tony speaking] -[all laugh] 508 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,690 [narrator] Tony can now flip the truck and trailer upright individually. 509 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:19,890 First up, the 20-ton semi-truck. 510 00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:21,130 [Tony speaking] 511 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:34,300 I am. 512 00:30:35,260 --> 00:30:36,600 [Tony speaking] 513 00:30:45,860 --> 00:30:47,230 [machinery whirring, chugging] 514 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,500 [Tony speaking] 515 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,360 [Mike] I am. 516 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,660 [narrator] At nearly 40 feet long, 517 00:30:57,660 --> 00:30:59,360 Tony wants to ensure the truck 518 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,360 doesn't smash into the excavator 519 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,260 when Mike pulls it over. 520 00:31:04,260 --> 00:31:06,700 [Tony speaking] 521 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,000 [truck creaking] 522 00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:17,100 -[truck creaking] -[Tony speaking] 523 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,060 [narrator] While attempting to rescue a flipped truck. 524 00:31:25,060 --> 00:31:30,330 Mike has nearly smashed the semi into his own excavator. 525 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,100 [Tony speaking] 526 00:31:34,860 --> 00:31:36,590 Oh, I knew exactly where she was gonna land. 527 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:37,900 [Tony speaking] 528 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:54,730 [engine roaring] 529 00:32:06,660 --> 00:32:07,960 [Tony speaking] 530 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,430 [engine starting] 531 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:12,860 [horn honks] 532 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,400 [man] So everything's fixed, back to work. 533 00:32:19,460 --> 00:32:20,990 The pressure is on though a little bit, 534 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,460 so we've got to make some rounds here 535 00:32:23,460 --> 00:32:25,360 and try to get caught up for the delay. 536 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,460 [narrator] After nearly two days, the truck is rolling again, 537 00:32:29,460 --> 00:32:32,700 and the dyke repair is back on track. 538 00:32:38,660 --> 00:32:40,760 I want to get this up as soon as possible. 539 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,460 You can get fired up. 540 00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:43,960 [narrator] The final step, 541 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:49,260 Mike raises the culvert to get the settling ponds ready for sluicing. 542 00:32:49,260 --> 00:32:51,600 We're gonna hit the sluice to make the gold. 543 00:32:58,660 --> 00:33:00,560 Dyke is done. I got it lifted up. 544 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,090 Culvert's back in. 545 00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:04,800 Now I'm just gonna go start up the pump and I can get sluicing. 546 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,400 [Mike] Time to get sluicing. 547 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,530 [dramatic music playing] 548 00:33:43,460 --> 00:33:46,160 [narrator] First year mine boss, Kevin Beets, 549 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:50,990 is running out of time and pay dirt. 550 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,760 So I had talked with Brennan, and he is understandably concerned about 551 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,590 our pond for settling. 552 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,000 I honestly have no clue where he is now. 553 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:04,660 [narrator] After Kevin denied Foreman Brennan a pump 554 00:34:04,660 --> 00:34:08,130 to drain the new cut, Brennan disappeared. 555 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:13,990 Brennan's gone, and he was the only one that had the know-how. 556 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,390 And now I wish he taught me a lot more, 557 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,800 and showed me how to do everything before he left. 558 00:34:23,060 --> 00:34:24,830 [tense music playing] 559 00:34:27,660 --> 00:34:29,760 [Brennan] I just had to take matters into my own hands there 560 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,800 and help Kevin and Faith out a little bit. 561 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,590 What we have here is a pump that I went and purchased from 562 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,460 a really good friend of mine upstream. 563 00:34:46,460 --> 00:34:48,460 And so I'm actually super excited to see how it works. 564 00:34:48,460 --> 00:34:50,660 Then we'll pump some water and we'll dry her cut out. 565 00:34:50,660 --> 00:34:54,990 I'd imagine by tomorrow you'd see a lot of this surface water dissipated, 566 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,460 which is what we need right now. 567 00:34:56,460 --> 00:34:58,260 They started hauling overburdened gravel off 568 00:34:58,260 --> 00:35:00,800 and started filling that [bleep] pay pile up immediately. 569 00:35:01,660 --> 00:35:04,260 [narrator] Before he can start stripping again 570 00:35:04,260 --> 00:35:07,090 and replenish the dwindling pay pile, 571 00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:09,900 Brennan first needs to drain the cut. 572 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,660 [Brennan] I got a pretty good deal on this pump. 573 00:35:13,660 --> 00:35:15,060 I got it for 11 grand, 574 00:35:15,060 --> 00:35:18,360 and it had come with like, 800 feet of lay flat hose. 575 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,990 Maybe one day I'll be able to find my own ground to mine. 576 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,090 Just slowly adding to the collection of mining utensils I'll need 577 00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:28,390 if I ever get to find a chunk of ground for myself one day. 578 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,760 It would just be cool to have a piggy bank full of gold 579 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,300 to take home for myself. 580 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:36,700 [engine powers down] 581 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,130 I'm so excited I bought a pump. 582 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,260 I'm more happy about buying this 583 00:35:42,260 --> 00:35:45,230 than any of the cool toys I've bought in the last 10 years. 584 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,900 And hopefully she just starts pumping immediately. 585 00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:54,160 That's a very nice looking pump. 586 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:55,490 Somebody had one for sale. 587 00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:57,490 -Nice, nice. -And I went and bought that. 588 00:35:57,500 --> 00:35:58,860 I was a little worried when you peeled out. 589 00:35:58,860 --> 00:36:00,360 -I wasn't sure where you were heading, so... -Yeah. 590 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,000 Well, I want to smash this out of the [bleep] water. 591 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,130 That's pretty [bleep] good. 592 00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:08,530 [dramatic music playing] 593 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,660 [Kevin, in sing-song voice] Let's have a gander. Let's have a look. 594 00:36:16,660 --> 00:36:18,460 Are we getting any water at all? 595 00:36:18,460 --> 00:36:20,790 [Brennan] No, I put... I took this off. It's dry in there. 596 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,860 Self-farming pumps generally require some water in the system to prime. 597 00:36:24,860 --> 00:36:27,760 Otherwise, it's essentially compressing air 598 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,700 and not creating a vacuum to suck. 599 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:32,300 So we're going to pull it open. 600 00:36:33,660 --> 00:36:35,330 Prime it a bit manually. 601 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,290 Then hopefully that will work. 602 00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:39,560 And if that doesn't work, 603 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,300 we'll move on to the next steps. 604 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,090 [narrator] To manually prime the pump, 605 00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:48,230 Kevin pours water inside its casing. 606 00:36:49,660 --> 00:36:52,090 [Kevin] We'll do one more bucket and then we'll dry it. 607 00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:54,660 I'm definitely hoping that this is all it was. 608 00:36:54,660 --> 00:36:57,130 -Okay. You want me to fire up? -Yeah. 609 00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,260 [motor starting] 610 00:36:59,260 --> 00:37:00,800 Whoo! 611 00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:03,290 This stick runs really nice. 612 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:04,790 Small little cap motor in it. 613 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,890 It sounds really, really good. 614 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:08,530 [motor running steadily] 615 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:12,600 Come on. 616 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:17,760 Getting the water on the cut is kind of vital, 617 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,460 because if we can't get the water down, 618 00:37:20,460 --> 00:37:22,500 we can't dig the payout. 619 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,290 We should have water here by now. 620 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:27,730 I don't know what's going on. 621 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:41,460 [Kevin] Should just suck, 622 00:37:41,460 --> 00:37:42,630 I don't know what's going on. 623 00:37:45,860 --> 00:37:47,500 Hear it pump now, eh? 624 00:37:48,660 --> 00:37:49,900 [motor whirring] 625 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,300 Oh, there we go. 626 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,400 [Brennan] Yay! 627 00:38:04,860 --> 00:38:06,760 Great job! To the rescue. 628 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,160 [both laugh] 629 00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:13,360 [narrator] Brennan can now dewater the cut extension 630 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,090 and get stripping down to pay again. 631 00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:19,090 [Kevin] That's a very nice little pump 632 00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:20,390 Brennan went off and bought. 633 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,460 This will at least allow us to get this cut down. 634 00:38:23,460 --> 00:38:25,460 Get more pay to the plant so we can keep sluicing. 635 00:38:25,460 --> 00:38:27,230 Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 636 00:38:28,260 --> 00:38:29,800 A [bleep] purchase, I think. 637 00:38:30,660 --> 00:38:32,330 That's really hot. Don't touch that. 638 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:37,130 [Brennan] It's definitely awesome working with Kevin. 639 00:38:37,130 --> 00:38:40,090 Like, he's got his strengths in all the mechanical side. 640 00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:42,190 I got it all in the earth work side. 641 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:43,290 And combine those together, 642 00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:45,460 you know, we worked really, really good together. 643 00:38:45,460 --> 00:38:47,260 [Kevin] I was a bit worried when Brennan took off. 644 00:38:47,260 --> 00:38:48,660 I do appreciate him coming back 645 00:38:48,660 --> 00:38:50,090 and explaining what happened. 646 00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:52,990 And him spending his own money so we can keep going. 647 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,300 That is very kind of him. Honestly. 648 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,060 It's a very old drill. 649 00:39:08,060 --> 00:39:09,590 [narrator] At Paradise Hill, 650 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,460 Mike Beets has discovered some buried mining treasure. 651 00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:15,000 [Tony speaking] 652 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:19,760 I'm doing my best. 653 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,000 [Tony speaking] 654 00:39:43,660 --> 00:39:45,790 [Mike] I [bleep] love how it has the old style tires 655 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,800 -and it even has a spare on it. -[Tony] Yeah. 656 00:39:50,460 --> 00:39:52,360 [Tony speaking] 657 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,160 [Mike] Yeah, that's [bleep] impressive, too. 658 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:55,290 [Tony laughs] 659 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:57,400 [Tony speaking] 660 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:00,700 [Tony chuckles] 661 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,590 -Hi, guys. -[man] Hello. 662 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,960 [narrator] This week, Tony's been running just one wash plant, 663 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,660 His trommel on Paradise Hill. 664 00:40:18,660 --> 00:40:21,290 We haven't been sluicing all week, have we? 665 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:24,260 I heard you had a bit of excitement with one of your trucks? 666 00:40:24,260 --> 00:40:26,990 Well, he's lucky, because if he had gone fully over the edge, 667 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,290 it literally almost would have been cheaper just to leave him there. 668 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:30,630 [Tony speaking] 669 00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:32,890 Uh, three nights, two days. 670 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:34,860 Okay. Well, that really sucks. 671 00:40:34,860 --> 00:40:36,260 [Tony speaking] 672 00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:37,560 [Monica] You ready? 673 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,360 [narrator] To hit his 5,000 ounce goal, 674 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,890 Tony needs around 200 ounces each week. 675 00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:47,660 [Mike] Eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten... 676 00:40:47,660 --> 00:40:49,590 hundred and twenty, hundred and thirty, 677 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,200 hundred and forty... 678 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,060 Keep going. 679 00:40:54,060 --> 00:40:57,090 A hundred and forty-three point five-eight. 680 00:40:57,100 --> 00:41:01,090 [narrator] Worth over $35,000. 681 00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:02,390 [Tony speaking] 682 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,990 More is always better, but take what you can get. 683 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,460 [Minnie] We need to get some revenue. 684 00:41:05,460 --> 00:41:06,660 [Tony speaking] 685 00:41:06,660 --> 00:41:10,660 So where are we in terms of amount this season? 686 00:41:10,660 --> 00:41:13,560 -We've got like 3,800? -Yeah. 3,800. 687 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:14,760 Roughly 3,800. 688 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,560 I mean, it'd be better if you had the Indian River going, 689 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,160 and we had the Hester cut going. 690 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,690 the whole Hester cut's still down below waiting. 691 00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:23,560 [Tony speaking] 692 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,660 -[Minnie] It's calling your name, eh? -Yeah. 693 00:41:25,660 --> 00:41:27,830 [Tony speaking] 694 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:30,660 [Monica] This has been a lovely gold weigh, 695 00:41:30,660 --> 00:41:31,990 but I have work to do. 696 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,360 -Okay. -[Monica] I'll see you guys later. 697 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,260 I'll see you guys later. 698 00:41:34,260 --> 00:41:36,230 [Tony speaking] 699 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,000 [intense music playing] 700 00:42:01,100 --> 00:42:02,400 Tony and Minnie. 701 00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:07,260 [Minnie] Hey, Kevin. 702 00:42:07,260 --> 00:42:08,290 Hey, guys. How are you? 703 00:42:08,300 --> 00:42:09,390 -[Tony speaking] -How are you? 704 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:10,860 -Good. How are you guys? -[Tony speaking] 705 00:42:10,860 --> 00:42:13,360 Good. Busy. Very busy. 706 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,400 [Tony speaking] 707 00:42:18,060 --> 00:42:20,090 We better get to the gym. 708 00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:24,360 [narrator] After running his links cut stockpile, 24/7, 709 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,560 Kevin Beets weighs his weekly gold haul, 710 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,860 with landlords Tony and Minnie 711 00:42:29,860 --> 00:42:33,190 looking to collect their first 10% royalty. 712 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,160 So what's been happening here? 713 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:36,690 [Brennan] We had some more water problems 714 00:42:36,700 --> 00:42:39,160 and I ended up buying a pump there just to help out. 715 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,560 You can never have enough [bleep] pumps. 716 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,500 [Tony speaking] 717 00:42:44,260 --> 00:42:46,190 I just wanted to help out and keep going, so... 718 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,390 [Kevin] I appreciate it. It definitely got us through that little rough spot. 719 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,760 [Tony speaking] 720 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:52,960 [Kevin] Exactly. 721 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,290 So, yeah. If we're gonna reach our goal of 1,000 ounces, 722 00:42:55,300 --> 00:42:57,360 we're gonna have to have a couple more good gold weights. 723 00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,400 So let's see what we got for this one. 724 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,030 [Tony speaking] 725 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,260 [narrator] To hit his 1,000 ounce goal, 726 00:43:05,260 --> 00:43:09,000 Kevin needs around 120 ounces each week. 727 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:10,660 Thirty... 728 00:43:10,660 --> 00:43:11,790 forty... 729 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,000 fifty... 730 00:43:13,460 --> 00:43:14,700 fifty-five... 731 00:43:15,100 --> 00:43:16,790 seventy, eighty, 732 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,790 ninety, hundred, 733 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,330 hundred twenty, hundred thirty, 734 00:43:22,060 --> 00:43:23,300 hundred forty, 735 00:43:24,100 --> 00:43:25,730 hundred fifty. 736 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,890 -[Kevin] Are you kidding me? -156.60. 737 00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:34,990 [narrator] Worth over $390,000. 738 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,660 It's his best haul of the season, 739 00:43:37,660 --> 00:43:41,930 and doubles his gold total to 312 ounces. 740 00:43:42,260 --> 00:43:43,390 [Tony speaking] 741 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,300 Yeah, beautiful. 742 00:43:46,060 --> 00:43:47,930 It's nice to be on the upswing, honestly. 743 00:43:48,460 --> 00:43:49,560 Yay, money! 744 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:50,760 [Tony] "Yay, money!" 745 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,130 [all laughing] 746 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,700 [Tony speaking] 747 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,260 [Minnie] Yeah. Mm-hmm. 748 00:44:01,260 --> 00:44:03,530 [Tony speaking] 749 00:44:07,700 --> 00:44:09,660 [Minnie] How about our royalties? 750 00:44:09,660 --> 00:44:11,700 [Tony speaking] 751 00:44:13,860 --> 00:44:16,660 This gold just changes everybody's thought process on it all. 752 00:44:16,660 --> 00:44:19,590 It makes me feel good that we're gonna be well on our path 753 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,790 to the 1,000 ounces, and that's all that matters now. 754 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,360 You know, frustrations can leave, 755 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,560 and the gold comes in, everybody's happy. 756 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,160 And just... let's hope the rest of the cut stays that good, 757 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,030 so we can actually conquer our goal. 758 00:44:30,860 --> 00:44:31,990 That was good. 759 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:36,490 Now that we have capital, we'll get our pump in there. 760 00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:37,990 And it was really helpful of Brennan 761 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,390 to to bring his down and keep us [bleep] going. 762 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,560 -Oh, yeah. -I'm really excited for 763 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,760 probably next week, week after we start running that 764 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,990 and see what that cut pulls out. 765 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,500 -Mm-hmm. -That should be pretty [bleep] exciting. 766 00:44:55,860 --> 00:44:57,500 [intense music playing] 767 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:01,800 [upbeat country music playing] 768 00:45:12,860 --> 00:45:13,960 Hi, Chris. 769 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,830 -How's it going? -It's going. 770 00:45:18,460 --> 00:45:19,760 So how'd your week ago, Mitch? 771 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,160 We lost a drive shaft in one of the trucks. 772 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,090 So, yeah, it was a spendy week there. 773 00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:26,460 [Chris] Yeah, no kidding. 774 00:45:26,460 --> 00:45:28,460 Big Red been treating you decent 775 00:45:28,460 --> 00:45:30,560 Yeah. Yeah, it's been going good there. 776 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,260 Just more of the same red gravels, 777 00:45:32,260 --> 00:45:34,700 but we're making our way through it. 778 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,660 [narrator] To hit his 8,000 ounce target, 779 00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:42,960 Parker needs to mine 600 ounces of gold each week. 780 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,860 -I see you got a big thermos this week. -[Chris] Yeah. 781 00:45:45,860 --> 00:45:48,460 You didn't say that very confidently. 782 00:45:48,460 --> 00:45:50,660 [Chris] Well, you know, I've caught on to you guys. 783 00:45:50,660 --> 00:45:51,790 Just pour it out. 784 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,460 [laughter] 785 00:45:53,460 --> 00:45:54,730 [Tyson] Here we go. Big Red. 786 00:45:54,730 --> 00:45:58,660 [narrator] Last week, Tyson sluiced red gravel pay dirt 787 00:45:58,660 --> 00:46:02,690 from the bridge cut, delivering 136 ounces 788 00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:04,160 from Big Red. 789 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:08,330 [Tyson] Seventy, eighty-five, a hundred... 790 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:11,860 A hundred point eight. 791 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,890 You definitely found an ounce to put in that to make it triple digits. 792 00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:20,760 We scoured the gold room kind of hard, 793 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,160 trying to come up a little bit more. 794 00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:24,990 You wanna see how Roxanne's doing, Mitch? 795 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,600 All righty. Here we go. 796 00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:28,790 Roxanne. 797 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,360 [narrator] For the long cut to be on track for 3000 ounces, 798 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:38,530 Parker needs it to deliver 475 ounces every week. 799 00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:42,460 A hundred, one ten, one forty, 800 00:46:42,460 --> 00:46:46,590 one sixty, one seventy, one eighty. 801 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:47,760 Are we gonna break two? 802 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:48,790 Two hundred. 803 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:53,100 -[tapping cannister] -206.8. 804 00:46:55,260 --> 00:46:58,390 [Chris] Almost 100 ounces less than last week. 805 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,760 This week we have 307.6 ounces. 806 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,860 [narrator] Worth over $769,000. 807 00:47:07,860 --> 00:47:12,760 This is Parker's worst gold weigh in seven weeks. 808 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,960 A slump, when his production should be peaking. 809 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:18,600 Did we break four? 810 00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:23,360 Our season is 4,175.4. 811 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:24,460 Halfway there. 812 00:47:24,460 --> 00:47:25,700 Not bad. 813 00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,930 No, but two straight weeks of decline. 814 00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,790 We'll get those numbers back up there, hopefully. 815 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,060 [Parker] You guys have to pump those numbers up. 816 00:47:35,060 --> 00:47:37,190 [Mitch] I'm gonna bag this stuff up. 817 00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,960 Try and keep them running. 818 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:39,790 See you guys at dinner. 819 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,560 See you at dinner. Bosco, come here. 820 00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,330 In you get. Nice try. 821 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:45,600 Oh. 822 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,490 [door closes] 823 00:47:47,500 --> 00:47:50,860 [sighs heavily] Oh, man. We've got a long ways to go, Chris. 824 00:47:50,860 --> 00:47:53,160 -[Chris] Yeah, we do. -And a short time to get there. 825 00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,300 [somber music playing] 825 00:47:56,305 --> 00:48:56,483 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm