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I'm just looking at resumes because
we're going to do 10 ,000 outfits this

And we have a lot to do, so you need
good people that you can count on.

The truth is, somebody can write a
really good resume and be terrible.

30 -year -old Parker Schnabel is leaning
on his crew like never before.

After years of running the cuts himself,
he's testing his top lieutenant's

ability to lead.

Mitch and Brennan are getting sulfur
ready to go. We'll have their wash plant

firing up there very soon.

We have two wash plants already running
here on Dominion.

Bob and Lucifer.

Two weeks into the season, and with only
400 ounces, Parker wants his 40 -person

crew firing on old cylinders to bring in
a big haul this week and put him on

track. for his 10 ,000 -ounce season
goal.

We do have a big crew this year, you
know, a bunch of new people.

Tyson has a lot of training to do.

People need to understand what the
expectations are and when they're doing

things wrong, and if they can't correct
it, then we need to get rid of it, which

is always a challenge.

Parker's given me more and more
responsibility this year from last year.

probably about three times as much.

We have so many new people, and with
Parker still expecting more than double

productivity as last year, that's a
large ask from a lot of new people.

Parker's charged rising star Tyson Lee
with overseeing the huge Dominion Creek

operation, where two cuts are already
producing gold, the bridge cut and the

recently opened Golden Mile.

which Parker believes could deliver big
numbers if the crew keeps it running.

Hopefully the new people have an
understanding of what we expect and what

need out of them here as a mining
outfit.

And we're figuring out their caliber.

Right now we have Michael digging pay
down by Bob in the bridge cut.

The cut's looking hella nice.

Clearly, Parker's not around. He's going
for a big season this year. Besides his

operations, that's massive.

New recruit Mike Thompson is a veteran
gold miner with years of experience

operating heavy machinery.

I did five years at a neighbor mine.

Parker offered me this job.

Very hard to say no to.

Tyson's also relying on another new hire
to keep the bridge cut gold coming in.

I have Amy learning how to run loader
right now. She's feeding Bob, and I want

to throw a bunch of stuff at her with
the wash plant.

I have zero, zero mining experience.

So for the last three days, I have been
doing some training, and today is my

first day on my own.

Going from being a teacher just a month
ago, it's going to be a big transition.

Greenhorn Amy Lee traded a career as a
science teacher to become a gold miner.

Taylor and Tatiana are my besties.

Tatiana actually trained me in a rock
truck, which was amazing. We had such a

good time.

And then on day two, they just let me
loose on my own, and that was that.

After proving herself, Tyson is putting
Amy in charge of one of the most

important jobs, feeding pay dirt into
the wash plant.

How's it going, Amy?

Good, you? Pretty good.

Good. How are you finding things?

Now that I've gotten over a little bit
of the fear after a couple hours, it's

getting better.

That's good.

I'd like to do a once -over of the plant
with you and just kind of give you some

things to look at. So there's this tail
drum up here. So you can see how it's

nice and clean? Yeah. That's how it
should always be.

Yeah. If the belt walks left or right,
that can be an issue. When you're

the wash plant, a rock gets stuck.

on the belt and i've had it cut the belt
clean in half like a razor blade before

yeah if you think something is wrong
yeah just shut it down okay let's run up

here yeah open this rip on this that's
the breaker then run up there open the

bypass close the main any questions not
at this moment this is fun yeah let me

just absorb you absorbed it all still a
little bit like holy Yeah.

Oh, you'll get it.

All righty.

Go make us some gold. Okay. Have fun.

When you think of all the responsibility
you have and you're the sole person

watching the plant, it plays on your
mind a little bit.

Really happy with Amy.

Can't wait to see what she can do this
season.

Hey, Tyson, you on here, Tyson?

Yep, go ahead.

Hey, I got a pretty big up here. Can you
come have a look?

I'm getting flooded out.

I'm on my way.

Last thing I want to do is tell Parker
that the cut's flooded and we got to

Bob down.

Man, that's a lot of melt water.

That's not what I needed, man.

We have a lake in here.

We spent so much time getting the bridge
cut drain.

It's getting flooded out again. The
water's backing up the ditch line of the

cut.

I'm thinking that 8 -inch culvert's not
big enough. Oh, yeah.

We need to rattle your hoe over and dig
up this road. We got that big old

culvert up there, so let's throw that
puppy in.

Let's get this water out of here.

We got to get this water out, because
right now, the only pay we can truck to

Bob is in this square.

If it's flooding out, Bob's going to
shut down.

As the 114 -acre bridge cut thaws,
meltwater seeps into its drainage

where it is then channeled through an 8
-inch culvert under Bob's only access

road. But the narrow culvert is
overwhelmed by the volume of meltwater,

the ditches to overflow and flood the
cut.

To stop the flood, Mike must dig up the
access road and replace the small

culvert. with a much larger 36 -inch
culvert, then rebuild the road to wash

plant Bob.

I'm going to take the small little 8
-inch culvert up and let the water go.

If I don't hurry up and get this water
figured out, Bob's going to run out of

paint. That's bad news.

You ain't producing, you ain't
producing.

Here comes some water, boys.

Go get this culvert. The only thing I
got kicking around here, so hopefully I

can do the job.

Throw her in.

There.

Bend it.

There's one way to put a culvert in.

Let's see if this bank falls out on me.

That could suck, eh?

This is sketchy, man. Anybody bring some
extra undies?

I can safely say that Calvert's in
place.

I'm pretty proud of this. I feel pretty
good.

Mike, save the day.

That was fun. That was exciting.

Nice work, Mike. Yeah.

She's working.

Right on.

Got that done. Tyson's happy.

Pretty proud of myself.

Pretty happy. It was like, what, an
hour? Hour and five minutes. We got her

done.

Well, you know, Michael, sure.

Stepped up to the plate and saved the
day. He got that culvert in.

Got all the water leaving us.

He executed it perfectly.

We just got to keep the gold coming in.

Gold prices are up there, so we decided
to get with the program right off the

bat. We were the first ones pushing in
the Yukon.

The early bird cut is done, so now we're
going to expand it.

Ten miles southwest, King of the
Klondike, Tony B., has already mined out

his first cut, hauling in 632 ounces of
his 6 ,500 -ounce

target.

After a hot start on his Indian River
claim, Tony's nearly out of pay dirt,

and he needs to open more ground at the
early bird cut, fast.

100 feet wide all the way to the other
end so they can take all this gravel,

load it up, dump it in the old cut.

So we can get people on the go down
here.

Just like Parker, Tony's also relying on
a crew of new recruits to get the job

done.

We're going to have another 40 more
people this year, so you've got to make

with whatever you can get and then hope
it turns out okay.

Well, this is my first year here. Who
wouldn't want to come to the Yukon and

work? I love it here. I love the chaos.

We've got a lot of equipment packed in
here, weaving together.

Rock truck drivers Tyler Swan and Sam
Moore are part of an all -new crew

with getting the early bird extension
down to pay in just one week.

I'm pretty new to gold mining. I've only
been at this for a little over a month

now.

and there's very rarely a dull moment.

Tony's approach?

Throw the newbies in at the deep end and
hope they can swim.

Get the f*** out of the way and get that
other rock truck out of the way so this

will get out of the way.

Make some room.

I mean, you got two trucks if they can't
find their own way.

This rock truck will get back in there.

Andrew, make sure he doesn't drive over.

See, you know what I mean?

The bucket is over there. Chuck is way
over there.

You see where the bucket is, young
fella?

Look at me.

Me? How come you never answer your
radio?

I've got all my charges for it, sir.

Don't. Okay, get him a radio.

Crazy. Just crazy.

I want you underneath the bucket.

There you go.

It was pretty far.

on training here.

And then off into the deep end can be a
little bit stressful.

Back it up a bit, back it up a bit.

Pretty tight spot we're working in.
We've got a bit of a bend to turn around

here.

Now we're all in this together.

And you have eyes on everything.

Sam has just toppled one of Tony's
essential $300 ,000 rock trucks.

Jacob, I'm going to need some help.

Jacob, do you copy? Jacob?

Jay, do you copy, Jacob?

Yeah, go ahead.

My truck sort of tipped over here. My
box gave way under the bank.

We're going to need some help.

Yeah, for sure. I'll be in touch.

All right. Good.

At Indian River,

Tony's racing to extend his cut down to
Pave.

Before Washplant's loose -a -lots pay
pile runs out.

But rookie driver Sam has flipped his
rock truck, bringing the operation to a

halt.

The game plan is to go up, use the 480
if it'll pull it, and hook onto the high

point of the box and pull it back over
on the right side up.

All right, let's go flip this truck
over.

Rushing to the rescue is heavy equipment
operator Jacob Moore.

All right,

everything went smooth and properly
done.

We're back on the road now, so hopefully
we didn't lose too much time.

I feel a little bit stressed about what
Tony will think.

Do you solve a favor and do that one
more time and then get out of here?

You know this couple down there, you do
it once, you're in. You do it twice,

you're out. So pay attention, would you
please?

I'm definitely back in the corner at
this point. I've got all this ground

just finished paying off, and no water I
can be able to mine it, and it's just

like they're taunting me.

Really, this has left me with no other
choices but to move on.

100 miles east of Tony, Rick Ness hasn't
mined a single ounce of gold.

Forced to abandon a pile of pay and the
richest ground he's ever mined at his

Duncan Creek claim, Rick's committed his
entire operation.

to gamble on new land.

At the end of the day, I had to make a
deal with Troy in Lightning Creek.

I have to do something before we lose
out on that even.

There's people snooping around for
ground with license on it everywhere,

can't afford to wait any longer.

Last week, I'm here to make a deal.

Rick met with landowner Troy Taylor.

15 % royalty payment.

We're going to do a 100 -ounce payment,
and we can get started on there right

away. Made a handshake deal to lease
Lightning Creek.

and moved his entire mining operation
eight miles northwest.

Well, we're at Lightning Creek.

We're going to go and hit this as hard
as we can.

This year, you know, gold price is once
again record high. So we've got about

100 ounces a week to get by the end of
the year. We're going to get to 1 ,800

ounces, so we've really got to get a
move on.

We've broken ground down at Lightning
Creek.

Plenty of challenges ahead of us. It's a
new ground we've got to learn.

Time to get on some gold.

Rick opened the diamond cut and is
depending on his crew to locate the

of gold -rich paper in this notoriously
unpredictable area.

The down cut's definitely going at a
good speed.

But at the start of any cut, it takes
some time to get prepped up.

This ain't bad, but it may seem
frivolous that we're just moving dirt

A to point B, but this is what we need
to do.

Efficiency is key.

Not going to lie, this is a good day.

I just want to make sure I'm keeping up
with the pace, because at the end of the

season, I want a big gold bonus. So, you
know, whatever it takes to get down to

pay and start moving it, that's what
I'll do.

What the... Hey, Ricky, can you hear me?

Sorry.

I think we're down to pay.

Guy, get over here.

Look at that.

You ever seen pay dirt?

Pay dirt? That's what it is right there.

Boulders and gravels.

Pay dirt is gravelly and rocky, gold
-bearing material that lies beneath the

waste topsoil known as overburden.

That's it with the gold in it.

Right. Yeah. Look at it. That looks
good.

That whole floor down there, that's the
pay dirt we're looking for. That came

quick when we don't have to go down 150
feet, eh?

Just in this area right here is bigger
than it gets down. I know, I know.

exciting. And that should make for quick
stripping.

And then we've got below that.

According to Troy, anywhere is 12 to 15
feet of pay. Yeah.

So put the overburden where it wants to
go and lost a good amount of pay to

explode here in no time.

Let's get back on the gold.

Let's do it.

We're already down to pay. You know, I'm
not used to that. We're used to going

100 -some feet through overburden just
to get to it, and it's nice that it's so

shallow here.

Bailey's doing a great job.

Trucks are moving dirt.

Sun's out.

Good day.

With the team on the pay layer.

Rick tasks the crew with stripping the
entire diamond cut.

Compared to, like, Rick's plane, it's a
huge difference because we're moving

about 160 feet worth of overburden, and
then over here, you know, 5 feet.

It's my first time seeing pay.

Once we get that through the sluice box
and through the plan, it'll be good to

see the actual gold.

While the team works, Rick takes a
moment to make his handshake deal with

official. And sign the lease.

Ridiculous.

I'm kind of reading through it, and I
just don't like some of the stuff I'm

seeing.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, Z, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Z.

Why don't you come over here, and I'll
show you something.

You going to make me read?

No, I've got an updated agreement with
Troy.

He's given himself an awful lot of
power, I think.

Well, how it works is that I have to
submit my mining plan to him, and then

decides how it works, right?

It says that he shall have access to the
equipment and or personnel at his

discretion. Well, to me, that means,
yeah, on a Tuesday, he'd come and shut

the soothbox.

I think it's a bit of an overreach.

Don't you? I always assumed when you
leased the ground that you get to do

whatever you want.

Like how your mining plan is. And this
sounds like you signed a lease and then

he has all the power. I don't know what
the angle is there. I don't know if

there is an angle.

At this point, I'm waiting to stumble
around a corner and find him like this.

Like, whoa.

You know what I mean? Like that gets
your wheels turning, right?

Let's just read over the contract a
little bit more.

We're down here. We'll keep plugging
away.

Yeah, yeah. No, like I said, I
appreciate it. Keep my head on straight.

sure that this deal is in our favor.

Keep on trucking. Keeps everyone here.
Thanks, buddy. All right. We'll talk to

you. See you at dinner. Yeah, yeah,
yeah.

Even

when

I'm not producing gold now, I'm on the
hook for $20 ,000 a month.

The more I look at this, the more I'm
saying it's not.

Chance in hell I'm signing this. I don't
know why he's putting all this section

there. It's just not sitting right with
me.

I've worked with Troy for a while, and I
trust the guy, but it's fishy that I

just paid him off, and now we're going
back, and suddenly he's got more ground

for us, and I'm paying him again.

I'm kind of thinking he might be using
my lack of options to turn things in his

favor.

Rick has already spent over $40 ,000 in
fuel and wages.

mining Lightning Creek.

But it could be all for nothing.

I'm trying to stay calm, but I'm getting
pretty riled up about it because I'm

already down there working.

I've got money into this. I've got guys
down there. I've got equipment down

there.

And I'm not stopping.

But I'm not fine with it. So he's going
to have to change his way of thinking

because that's...

Right now we have two wash plants
running.

They have a little bit of time to do a
lap of going into the bridge cut,

checking on Bob, making sure everyone's
doing all right.

At Dominion, Tyson Lee is maxing out
Lucifer on the Golden Mile.

And in the bridge cut, he has new
operator Mike digging out Hayden.

I want to prove to this crew that I'm
capable and I can do the job. Whatever

they throw at me, I definitely have the
taste for that gold fever.

While Greenhorn Amy, in charge of
running wash plant Bob, feeds 250 yards

pay an hour.

I am making sure that I am keeping a
constant flow of pay dirt going up

the conveyors and also making sure
they're not getting clogged up.

or many other things that I'm sure...

Oh, this doesn't look good. What
happened?

It's all clogged up at the top.

I just saw rocks shooting from the side.

There's a rock jammed in somewhere, like
up against our chain drive that caused

it to not want to spin.

But first things first, get all the dirt
off the belt.

Tyson suspects wash plant Bob has rocks
lodged in its hopper feeder's internal

conveyor chains, stopping the mechanism
from moving pay dirt toward the shaker

deck. leading to it piling up.

The solution?

Dig out the hopper feeder, removing all
rocks lodged in the chain conveyor.

Then, clear any rocks from the Super
Stacker's belt rollers and start the

up again.

Yeah, we just want to... Clear it out?

Yeah. Because if we fired the Super
Stacker up, they'd be flying around like

popcorn. Okay.

He'll get sucked down into the tail drum
and slice the belt. Okay.

You did a great job, though, Amy.
Thanks.

What happened?

This chain bind up on something? Like a
rock got stuck in the chain drive. Okay.

Did we pick anything up?

I don't know.

We're just trying to shovel it out to
make sure that the belt's all good.

You can see there's a lot of big rock on
the conveyor belt itself.

Give me that shovel.

Watch out. Okay.

Look at the bottom of that belt.

You know, it's serious when Parker shows
up and...

Jumps into action.

Tail drums packed. Pull it.

Oh, let's just get the big ones out of
there.

Let's climb down when Parker's done
doing Parker things.

I think we're good to go. Nice work.

I'm climbing down. You're still up
there. Generator's getting fired up.

You want some dirt?

Hey, Parker, you want some dirt?

Yeah.

I'm so out of shape.

Fire it up.

We're ready to flew.

I'm so happy that.

I was able to spot it right away and
shut it down because there were so many

rocks that were jammed up in the belt.

How's Amy doing? She dealt with that
well. Yeah, definitely. She did it

how we showed her. Yeah.

All right, be on the flip side. See ya.

Amy's doing wonderful.

Couldn't have done anything better,
really.

The bar is set high.

With the gold price out there, it
doesn't take long to make a small

to speak.

So, make hay when the sun shines, I used
to say.

At the early bird extension, Tony is
battling to open his new ground before

only running wash plant, Sluicelot, runs
out of pay.

We lost a bit of stripping time.

We have to get the early bird extension
cut ready.

Just stay ahead, stay ahead, stay ahead.

But he's dealing with a batch of rookies
who are struggling.

I bet you out of all the trucks that are
driving around there and everything,

none of them still have a clue as to
what is happening. Some have it, some

never get it. So I was going to snoop
around for a second.

I'm back here today, and I am...

Really glad Tony didn't fire me.

Tony has his eye on Greenhorn Sam, who
flipped his rock truck earlier in the

week. I'm still on pretty thin ice.

You feel like anything could get you
fired if you're not careful.

With the clock ticking, Tony has brought
in experienced truck driver, Mason

McIntyre, to help out.

The conditions down here are pretty
floppy right now.

Big ruts, which is hard to drive in
sometimes for some people.

You've got to adjust to the conditions.

Some people catch on really quick and
are used to it, and some people just

catch on at all, and that's how mistakes
happen.

That can be quite dangerous, honestly,
if you can't run something like this,

which is not simple, but a lot more
simple than another piece of equipment.

Oh, somebody dumped her.

You people, it's going to be a mess.

I'll be right over there and have a look
at it, okay?

Don't move.

You people, it's going to be a mess.

I'll be right over there and have a look
at it. At Tony B's early bird cut,

another $300 ,000 rock truck has
flipped.

What was it?

What happened, Mason?

Got a little soft.

A little soft down there or what? Yeah,
a little bit.

Experienced driver Mason McIntyre has
flipped his first truck.

Okay, I'll scoop it out. You can own the
cap. Let's get the f***ing thing out of

there, okay?

Okay.

Tony uses the 480 excavator to empty the
rock truck's box of dirt and push it

upright.

Part of me is happy to see that it
happens to other people besides me, but,

I mean, I feel for the guy. It's pretty
unpleasant when the box flips over on

your rock truck.

Hey Mason, drive ahead a bit.

Right off.

See you later, man.

Thank you, Tony.

That's my first truck I tipped over.

It was a little scary.

Tony was pretty relaxed. I think I had
the luck because I'm here my second

season.

Tony's crew are back in the race.

to get down to pay before sluice -a -lot
runs out.

If you want to do X amount of ounces a
year, you need X amount of people, so

you'd rather put up with some more, I
suppose.

But sometimes it's not that easy,
especially when it costs money. I mean,

turn trucks over.

But sometimes you wonder what the heck
you're doing.

I asked Troy to come down and meet me
here.

I'm basically going to tell him that his
contract is booked.

I mean, I don't know what he wants me to
do with this.

I'm not budging off that ground, and I'm
not signing this, so we need to come to

some kind of compromise.

After moving his crew to a new claim on
Lightning Creek,

Rick Ness has called a meeting with
landlord Troy Taylor to negotiate the

of the lease.

Hey, Troy. Hey, Rick.

How you doing? Good. Good to see you.

We got to put some signatures on paper
and make it legal.

There's no way.

I have gotten over the contract and a
lot of things that I don't like.

It says that you have the right to
change the mining plan at any time.

You can pull my equipment and my
personnel when you see fit.

There's an awful lot of power going in
your hands here.

I mean, I would like to think that our
last contract went pretty smooth.

I think it's coming down to a trust
thing. And, you know, for me right here

this contract, it looks like you don't
trust me at all.

And so I'm kind of wondering why I trust
this, you know?

Yeah, I get that.

It's nothing personal.

It's just since the last agreement,
things have changed so much.

The water licenses these days, if
there's any blemish, if you are doing

wrong, maybe you weren't here on a day
that something's going sideways, it will

be reflected on me. It could result in
getting my water license revoked.

I want to keep mining, so I have to have
some teeth in this agreement.

I can kind of see where you're coming
from, Troy, but I don't believe that

level of supervision is necessary.

I mean, I don't want to feel like I'm
looking over my shoulder all the time,

that's why I brought this.

You know, off the bat, that's the 100
ounces that I owe you as the minimum

royalty on this deal, and I'd be willing
to give that to you up front right now

today and get rid of this.

Oh, boy.

From my perspective, if I don't have
some control in the agreement, that's

I've got. I can't back up on that. I
just can't.

I understand it's got to be a tough one,
tough pill to swallow.

What if I buy it?

That's the big one for me.

I would need another 200 ounces on top
of it. So 300 ounces total?

Yeah.

It's just too much.

I get that ground is at a premium with a
water license right now, but it's a lot

of money on the line, and I won't be
squeezed. It's just not going to happen.

How about I get you another 100 ounces?

That's 200 ounces total, and then we
call that good.

I'm still responsible for the water life
until I get paid.

As you know, I'm still on the hook. How
about by the end of the month, and then

we part ways?

This is gone, your name's off it, I take
over the ground.

In a month?

In a month.

Your liability's gone, you're paid.

Rick, that's a lot of gold to produce in
a month. You've got a lot of stuff to

do. If that's what it's going to take to
mine this ground my way, that's what

we're going to do.

I'll make it happen.

Well, I like your determination.

Let's do it.

Call good?

Yeah. All right.

Deal done.

Well, we don't need this anymore.

Rick Ness has just purchased another 1
,600 acres of land for $700

,000 in gold.

I'm not sure what I just did.

I think I came out on top.

Gold prices are higher than ever, but
right now it seems that a ground with a

water license on it is even harder to
find.

He owns it. It's all his.

So I hope it's good ground, and I wish
him the best.

The guys are probably going to question
it. This ground is... We haven't even

fluked it yet, but we did test it. We
know there's gold. So I need to get this

ground. I need to get this going. This
was the only way I thought how to do it.

Woo!

We've hired a lot of people this year.
I'm Ethan.

I'm Raya.

I'm Jordan.

They've come with a range of skills.

I've milked cows my whole life.

Demolition side of things.

I was a line coach before this. The
revolving door of new people is not

stop this year. New recruits have come
from far and wide.

I went for a motorcycle ride 3 ,500
kilometers from home to find Parker.

Hello. Hey, Parker.

You're Steve, right? Yes, yes. Good to
meet you. I heard that you just showed

on a motorcycle.

Yeah, it's sitting at your office.

I saw it there. And I was like, today is
not the day for tourists.

And then Nona found me and was like, oh,
he's in the loader.

No, I've been running equipment for 30
years, and I've always dreamed of coming

up here doing this.

Do you have, like, work clothes and
stuff?

This is it.

It's, like, literally in his writing
clothes.

Glad to have you on board. Can you take
a picture?

Here you go, Steve.

They'll be around at the early bird
extension cut for a while. So they're

to check, see if they're down to pay.

At the early bird extension, Tony is
panning to see if his crew has

hit pay.

Usually we look for gold in the pan.

You know, we don't watch rocks for the
fun of it.

Huh? There is no way.

Hey, Jacob, do you copy? Jacob, do you
copy?

What? Okay, bring them guys in and
they're doing some panning and a cut.

Morning, gentlemen.

Morning.

In case you're wondering, we're looking
for gold.

Look at that. So that's pay dirt to me.

You know, are you looking at that?

Not exactly. No, that don't surprise me.
Okay, I see that. Okay, well, there you

go. Yeah, that's what it's all about,
Sam.

That actually looks very nice.

There's lots of colors in there.

It looks good.

Circles up at the top. Yeah.

I'd say this cat is ready to be going in
the sluice box, eh?

Okay.

Give you guys an idea as to what we're
after.

Yeah. Let's go and get some more. Yes,
sir. You bet.

Seeing that pan of gold with some gold
in it was nice.

I've had a few mistakes coming in here,
but, you know, seeing the gold makes it

worth it.

We have a lot of people that have never
even been in an airplane. They come up

here, never mind the piece of equipment,
but somehow you're going to have to

make it work.

And as long as you get some gold in your
pocket, then on the end of the day,

it's all worth it.

Hello, family.

Hey, guys. How are you?

Good. How are you?

Get that pail out of the table. Holy
crap.

Bring it over here, Michael.

After a turbulent week at Indian River,

Tony is ready to weigh the gold from the
early bird cut.

How's your new crew doing?

Well, green horns, you know, come with
troubles.

We tipped the odd rock truck box here
and there.

Jacob had to rescue one the other day. I
mean, you got the same thing on the

hill, right?

You get new people, you got the same old
problems. Most mine are returnees, so.

Yeah. Yeah, well, that's lucky because
then you don't have to have that crap.

Do you want to see the fruits of your
labor?

Last week.

The early bird cut delivered 214 ounces.

You ready, Mike?

Yep.

10, 20, 30, 60, 70, 80, 100,

110, 120, 130, 140,

142 .14.

Worth. nearly half a million dollars,
bringing Tony's total to 774

ounces.

But it's a drop in production.

If Tony is going to hit his 6 ,500
-ounce goal, his extension of the early

cut will have to deliver a big
improvement.

So we're still a little ways off from
our goal.

Still pretty early.

We'll get there.

But I think everybody should go back to
work.

Sounds good. Why don't you guys go make
us some more money?

Okay, thank you. See you, Mike.

Bye. Yeah, bye. Don't go away mad, guys.

Love you.

Yeah, bye.

Where's Chris?

He didn't hear us. Chris.

Oh, his new hearing aids really don't
work.

Sorry, I'm late.

No, you're fine.

Anything crazy happen down on your end?

Just lots of dirt. Yeah? Yeah, just
trying to stack everything up. Yeah,

really limited on space.

It's very tight up there.

Mitch and Brennan have been tripping
ground at Sulphur Creek.

While at Dominion, Tyson's kept two wash
plants flusing with new crews.

You got a new plant operator, Amy?

Yep. How's she doing?

She's doing really good, yeah. Is she?
Going from being a school teacher to a

loader operator, so that's definitely
the change of pace for her.

But, yeah, she's doing really good.

Is it, though?

If she was, like, a kindergarten to
fifth grade, it's probably not that much

different.

I have to talk really slow to these guys
so they understand me.

Don't eat the crayon.

Two plants running, though, all week.

Yeah, two plants. You got two plants,
man. You're responsible for both of

Here we go, slucifer.

Wash plant slucifer's been running in
the Golden Mile all week, and Parker's

hoping to see an uptick from last week's
112 ounces.

Let's see how the Golden Mile did.

10, 30, 40, 70, 80, 100 ounces.

120, 130, 150, 152 even.

Worth over $530 ,000, a 35 % increase
from last

week. Perfect.

That's a lot better. A lot better.
Picked up a few ounces over last week.

Definitely.

Working some kinks out.

Yeah. Next up, Bob at the Bridge Cut,
which is averaging 143 ounces

a week.

We got 30, 50, 80, 100, 120, 140,

150, 156 .2.

Worth almost $550 ,000.

Wow, that was close, Dave. Yeah.

Those two plants are four ounces off
each other. Just a couple ounces off of

each other. That's weird. Yeah, that's
crazy.

This week, we got 308 .2 ounces.

which gives us a season total of 707 .9.

Tyson has nearly doubled their season
total.

You know, last year at this time we were
talking about 10 ,000 ounces and we

were all thinking it was pretty doable.

Are we thinking we're going to do it
this year?

You're too early to ask that question.

You guys need to get on the board now.

Yeah, we'll do it.

Hopefully next week there'll be three
pans lined up there. There will be.

Right.

Sounds like we don't got a choice.

No.

All right. Have a good one.

Thanks, Chris.