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I'm just looking at resumes because
we're going to do 10 ,000 outfits this
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And we have a lot to do, so you need
good people that you can count on.
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The truth is, somebody can write a
really good resume and be terrible.
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30 -year -old Parker Schnabel is leaning
on his crew like never before.
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After years of running the cuts himself,
he's testing his top lieutenant's
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ability to lead.
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Mitch and Brennan are getting sulfur
ready to go. We'll have their wash plant
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firing up there very soon.
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We have two wash plants already running
here on Dominion.
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Bob and Lucifer.
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Two weeks into the season, and with only
400 ounces, Parker wants his 40 -person
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crew firing on old cylinders to bring in
a big haul this week and put him on
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track. for his 10 ,000 -ounce season
goal.
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We do have a big crew this year, you
know, a bunch of new people.
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Tyson has a lot of training to do.
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People need to understand what the
expectations are and when they're doing
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things wrong, and if they can't correct
it, then we need to get rid of it, which
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is always a challenge.
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Parker's given me more and more
responsibility this year from last year.
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probably about three times as much.
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We have so many new people, and with
Parker still expecting more than double
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productivity as last year, that's a
large ask from a lot of new people.
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Parker's charged rising star Tyson Lee
with overseeing the huge Dominion Creek
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operation, where two cuts are already
producing gold, the bridge cut and the
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recently opened Golden Mile.
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which Parker believes could deliver big
numbers if the crew keeps it running.
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Hopefully the new people have an
understanding of what we expect and what
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need out of them here as a mining
outfit.
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And we're figuring out their caliber.
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Right now we have Michael digging pay
down by Bob in the bridge cut.
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The cut's looking hella nice.
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Clearly, Parker's not around. He's going
for a big season this year. Besides his
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operations, that's massive.
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New recruit Mike Thompson is a veteran
gold miner with years of experience
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operating heavy machinery.
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I did five years at a neighbor mine.
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Parker offered me this job.
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Very hard to say no to.
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Tyson's also relying on another new hire
to keep the bridge cut gold coming in.
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I have Amy learning how to run loader
right now. She's feeding Bob, and I want
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to throw a bunch of stuff at her with
the wash plant.
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I have zero, zero mining experience.
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So for the last three days, I have been
doing some training, and today is my
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first day on my own.
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Going from being a teacher just a month
ago, it's going to be a big transition.
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Greenhorn Amy Lee traded a career as a
science teacher to become a gold miner.
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Taylor and Tatiana are my besties.
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Tatiana actually trained me in a rock
truck, which was amazing. We had such a
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good time.
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And then on day two, they just let me
loose on my own, and that was that.
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After proving herself, Tyson is putting
Amy in charge of one of the most
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important jobs, feeding pay dirt into
the wash plant.
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How's it going, Amy?
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Good, you? Pretty good.
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Good. How are you finding things?
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Now that I've gotten over a little bit
of the fear after a couple hours, it's
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getting better.
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That's good.
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I'd like to do a once -over of the plant
with you and just kind of give you some
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things to look at. So there's this tail
drum up here. So you can see how it's
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nice and clean? Yeah. That's how it
should always be.
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Yeah. If the belt walks left or right,
that can be an issue. When you're
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the wash plant, a rock gets stuck.
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on the belt and i've had it cut the belt
clean in half like a razor blade before
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yeah if you think something is wrong
yeah just shut it down okay let's run up
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here yeah open this rip on this that's
the breaker then run up there open the
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bypass close the main any questions not
at this moment this is fun yeah let me
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just absorb you absorbed it all still a
little bit like holy Yeah.
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Oh, you'll get it.
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All righty.
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Go make us some gold. Okay. Have fun.
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When you think of all the responsibility
you have and you're the sole person
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watching the plant, it plays on your
mind a little bit.
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Really happy with Amy.
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Can't wait to see what she can do this
season.
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Hey, Tyson, you on here, Tyson?
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Yep, go ahead.
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Hey, I got a pretty big up here. Can you
come have a look?
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I'm getting flooded out.
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I'm on my way.
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Last thing I want to do is tell Parker
that the cut's flooded and we got to
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Bob down.
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Man, that's a lot of melt water.
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That's not what I needed, man.
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We have a lake in here.
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We spent so much time getting the bridge
cut drain.
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It's getting flooded out again. The
water's backing up the ditch line of the
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cut.
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I'm thinking that 8 -inch culvert's not
big enough. Oh, yeah.
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We need to rattle your hoe over and dig
up this road. We got that big old
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culvert up there, so let's throw that
puppy in.
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Let's get this water out of here.
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We got to get this water out, because
right now, the only pay we can truck to
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Bob is in this square.
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If it's flooding out, Bob's going to
shut down.
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As the 114 -acre bridge cut thaws,
meltwater seeps into its drainage
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where it is then channeled through an 8
-inch culvert under Bob's only access
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road. But the narrow culvert is
overwhelmed by the volume of meltwater,
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the ditches to overflow and flood the
cut.
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To stop the flood, Mike must dig up the
access road and replace the small
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culvert. with a much larger 36 -inch
culvert, then rebuild the road to wash
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plant Bob.
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I'm going to take the small little 8
-inch culvert up and let the water go.
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If I don't hurry up and get this water
figured out, Bob's going to run out of
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paint. That's bad news.
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You ain't producing, you ain't
producing.
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Here comes some water, boys.
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Go get this culvert. The only thing I
got kicking around here, so hopefully I
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can do the job.
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Throw her in.
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There.
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Bend it.
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There's one way to put a culvert in.
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Let's see if this bank falls out on me.
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That could suck, eh?
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This is sketchy, man. Anybody bring some
extra undies?
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I can safely say that Calvert's in
place.
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I'm pretty proud of this. I feel pretty
good.
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Mike, save the day.
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That was fun. That was exciting.
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Nice work, Mike. Yeah.
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She's working.
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Right on.
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Got that done. Tyson's happy.
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Pretty proud of myself.
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Pretty happy. It was like, what, an
hour? Hour and five minutes. We got her
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done.
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Well, you know, Michael, sure.
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Stepped up to the plate and saved the
day. He got that culvert in.
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Got all the water leaving us.
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He executed it perfectly.
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We just got to keep the gold coming in.
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Gold prices are up there, so we decided
to get with the program right off the
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bat. We were the first ones pushing in
the Yukon.
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The early bird cut is done, so now we're
going to expand it.
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Ten miles southwest, King of the
Klondike, Tony B., has already mined out
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his first cut, hauling in 632 ounces of
his 6 ,500 -ounce
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target.
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After a hot start on his Indian River
claim, Tony's nearly out of pay dirt,
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and he needs to open more ground at the
early bird cut, fast.
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100 feet wide all the way to the other
end so they can take all this gravel,
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load it up, dump it in the old cut.
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So we can get people on the go down
here.
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Just like Parker, Tony's also relying on
a crew of new recruits to get the job
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done.
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We're going to have another 40 more
people this year, so you've got to make
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with whatever you can get and then hope
it turns out okay.
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Well, this is my first year here. Who
wouldn't want to come to the Yukon and
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work? I love it here. I love the chaos.
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We've got a lot of equipment packed in
here, weaving together.
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Rock truck drivers Tyler Swan and Sam
Moore are part of an all -new crew
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with getting the early bird extension
down to pay in just one week.
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I'm pretty new to gold mining. I've only
been at this for a little over a month
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now.
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and there's very rarely a dull moment.
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Tony's approach?
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Throw the newbies in at the deep end and
hope they can swim.
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Get the f*** out of the way and get that
other rock truck out of the way so this
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will get out of the way.
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Make some room.
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I mean, you got two trucks if they can't
find their own way.
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This rock truck will get back in there.
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Andrew, make sure he doesn't drive over.
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See, you know what I mean?
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The bucket is over there. Chuck is way
over there.
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You see where the bucket is, young
fella?
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Look at me.
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Me? How come you never answer your
radio?
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I've got all my charges for it, sir.
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Don't. Okay, get him a radio.
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Crazy. Just crazy.
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I want you underneath the bucket.
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There you go.
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It was pretty far.
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on training here.
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And then off into the deep end can be a
little bit stressful.
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Back it up a bit, back it up a bit.
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Pretty tight spot we're working in.
We've got a bit of a bend to turn around
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here.
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Now we're all in this together.
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And you have eyes on everything.
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Sam has just toppled one of Tony's
essential $300 ,000 rock trucks.
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Jacob, I'm going to need some help.
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Jacob, do you copy? Jacob?
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Jay, do you copy, Jacob?
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Yeah, go ahead.
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My truck sort of tipped over here. My
box gave way under the bank.
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We're going to need some help.
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Yeah, for sure. I'll be in touch.
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All right. Good.
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At Indian River,
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Tony's racing to extend his cut down to
Pave.
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Before Washplant's loose -a -lots pay
pile runs out.
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But rookie driver Sam has flipped his
rock truck, bringing the operation to a
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halt.
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The game plan is to go up, use the 480
if it'll pull it, and hook onto the high
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point of the box and pull it back over
on the right side up.
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All right, let's go flip this truck
over.
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Rushing to the rescue is heavy equipment
operator Jacob Moore.
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All right,
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everything went smooth and properly
done.
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We're back on the road now, so hopefully
we didn't lose too much time.
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I feel a little bit stressed about what
Tony will think.
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Do you solve a favor and do that one
more time and then get out of here?
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You know this couple down there, you do
it once, you're in. You do it twice,
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you're out. So pay attention, would you
please?
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I'm definitely back in the corner at
this point. I've got all this ground
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just finished paying off, and no water I
can be able to mine it, and it's just
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like they're taunting me.
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Really, this has left me with no other
choices but to move on.
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100 miles east of Tony, Rick Ness hasn't
mined a single ounce of gold.
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Forced to abandon a pile of pay and the
richest ground he's ever mined at his
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Duncan Creek claim, Rick's committed his
entire operation.
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to gamble on new land.
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At the end of the day, I had to make a
deal with Troy in Lightning Creek.
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I have to do something before we lose
out on that even.
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There's people snooping around for
ground with license on it everywhere,
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can't afford to wait any longer.
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Last week, I'm here to make a deal.
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Rick met with landowner Troy Taylor.
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15 % royalty payment.
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We're going to do a 100 -ounce payment,
and we can get started on there right
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away. Made a handshake deal to lease
Lightning Creek.
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and moved his entire mining operation
eight miles northwest.
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Well, we're at Lightning Creek.
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We're going to go and hit this as hard
as we can.
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This year, you know, gold price is once
again record high. So we've got about
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100 ounces a week to get by the end of
the year. We're going to get to 1 ,800
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ounces, so we've really got to get a
move on.
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We've broken ground down at Lightning
Creek.
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Plenty of challenges ahead of us. It's a
new ground we've got to learn.
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Time to get on some gold.
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Rick opened the diamond cut and is
depending on his crew to locate the
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of gold -rich paper in this notoriously
unpredictable area.
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The down cut's definitely going at a
good speed.
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But at the start of any cut, it takes
some time to get prepped up.
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This ain't bad, but it may seem
frivolous that we're just moving dirt
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A to point B, but this is what we need
to do.
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Efficiency is key.
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Not going to lie, this is a good day.
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I just want to make sure I'm keeping up
with the pace, because at the end of the
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season, I want a big gold bonus. So, you
know, whatever it takes to get down to
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pay and start moving it, that's what
I'll do.
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What the... Hey, Ricky, can you hear me?
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Sorry.
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I think we're down to pay.
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Guy, get over here.
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Look at that.
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You ever seen pay dirt?
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Pay dirt? That's what it is right there.
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Boulders and gravels.
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Pay dirt is gravelly and rocky, gold
-bearing material that lies beneath the
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waste topsoil known as overburden.
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That's it with the gold in it.
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Right. Yeah. Look at it. That looks
good.
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That whole floor down there, that's the
pay dirt we're looking for. That came
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quick when we don't have to go down 150
feet, eh?
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Just in this area right here is bigger
than it gets down. I know, I know.
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exciting. And that should make for quick
stripping.
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And then we've got below that.
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According to Troy, anywhere is 12 to 15
feet of pay. Yeah.
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So put the overburden where it wants to
go and lost a good amount of pay to
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explode here in no time.
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Let's get back on the gold.
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Let's do it.
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We're already down to pay. You know, I'm
not used to that. We're used to going
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100 -some feet through overburden just
to get to it, and it's nice that it's so
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shallow here.
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Bailey's doing a great job.
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Trucks are moving dirt.
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Sun's out.
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Good day.
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With the team on the pay layer.
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Rick tasks the crew with stripping the
entire diamond cut.
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Compared to, like, Rick's plane, it's a
huge difference because we're moving
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about 160 feet worth of overburden, and
then over here, you know, 5 feet.
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It's my first time seeing pay.
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Once we get that through the sluice box
and through the plan, it'll be good to
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see the actual gold.
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While the team works, Rick takes a
moment to make his handshake deal with
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official. And sign the lease.
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Ridiculous.
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I'm kind of reading through it, and I
just don't like some of the stuff I'm
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seeing.
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Oh, yeah.
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Hey, Z, you got a copy?
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Yeah, go ahead, Z.
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Why don't you come over here, and I'll
show you something.
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You going to make me read?
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No, I've got an updated agreement with
Troy.
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He's given himself an awful lot of
power, I think.
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Well, how it works is that I have to
submit my mining plan to him, and then
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decides how it works, right?
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It says that he shall have access to the
equipment and or personnel at his
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discretion. Well, to me, that means,
yeah, on a Tuesday, he'd come and shut
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the soothbox.
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I think it's a bit of an overreach.
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Don't you? I always assumed when you
leased the ground that you get to do
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whatever you want.
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Like how your mining plan is. And this
sounds like you signed a lease and then
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he has all the power. I don't know what
the angle is there. I don't know if
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there is an angle.
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At this point, I'm waiting to stumble
around a corner and find him like this.
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Like, whoa.
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You know what I mean? Like that gets
your wheels turning, right?
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Let's just read over the contract a
little bit more.
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We're down here. We'll keep plugging
away.
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Yeah, yeah. No, like I said, I
appreciate it. Keep my head on straight.
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sure that this deal is in our favor.
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Keep on trucking. Keeps everyone here.
Thanks, buddy. All right. We'll talk to
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you. See you at dinner. Yeah, yeah,
yeah.
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Even
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when
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I'm not producing gold now, I'm on the
hook for $20 ,000 a month.
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The more I look at this, the more I'm
saying it's not.
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Chance in hell I'm signing this. I don't
know why he's putting all this section
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there. It's just not sitting right with
me.
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I've worked with Troy for a while, and I
trust the guy, but it's fishy that I
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just paid him off, and now we're going
back, and suddenly he's got more ground
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for us, and I'm paying him again.
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I'm kind of thinking he might be using
my lack of options to turn things in his
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favor.
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Rick has already spent over $40 ,000 in
fuel and wages.
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mining Lightning Creek.
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But it could be all for nothing.
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I'm trying to stay calm, but I'm getting
pretty riled up about it because I'm
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already down there working.
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I've got money into this. I've got guys
down there. I've got equipment down
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there.
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And I'm not stopping.
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But I'm not fine with it. So he's going
to have to change his way of thinking
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because that's...
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Right now we have two wash plants
running.
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They have a little bit of time to do a
lap of going into the bridge cut,
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00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,020
checking on Bob, making sure everyone's
doing all right.
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At Dominion, Tyson Lee is maxing out
Lucifer on the Golden Mile.
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And in the bridge cut, he has new
operator Mike digging out Hayden.
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I want to prove to this crew that I'm
capable and I can do the job. Whatever
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they throw at me, I definitely have the
taste for that gold fever.
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While Greenhorn Amy, in charge of
running wash plant Bob, feeds 250 yards
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pay an hour.
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I am making sure that I am keeping a
constant flow of pay dirt going up
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the conveyors and also making sure
they're not getting clogged up.
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or many other things that I'm sure...
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Oh, this doesn't look good. What
happened?
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It's all clogged up at the top.
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00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:46,220
I just saw rocks shooting from the side.
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There's a rock jammed in somewhere, like
up against our chain drive that caused
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it to not want to spin.
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But first things first, get all the dirt
off the belt.
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Tyson suspects wash plant Bob has rocks
lodged in its hopper feeder's internal
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conveyor chains, stopping the mechanism
from moving pay dirt toward the shaker
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deck. leading to it piling up.
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The solution?
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Dig out the hopper feeder, removing all
rocks lodged in the chain conveyor.
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Then, clear any rocks from the Super
Stacker's belt rollers and start the
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up again.
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00:26:28,370 --> 00:26:30,450
Yeah, we just want to... Clear it out?
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00:26:30,690 --> 00:26:34,730
Yeah. Because if we fired the Super
Stacker up, they'd be flying around like
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popcorn. Okay.
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He'll get sucked down into the tail drum
and slice the belt. Okay.
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00:26:40,460 --> 00:26:42,400
You did a great job, though, Amy.
Thanks.
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00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:55,680
What happened?
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This chain bind up on something? Like a
rock got stuck in the chain drive. Okay.
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00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:03,280
Did we pick anything up?
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00:27:03,540 --> 00:27:04,540
I don't know.
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00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,640
We're just trying to shovel it out to
make sure that the belt's all good.
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00:27:08,420 --> 00:27:13,340
You can see there's a lot of big rock on
the conveyor belt itself.
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Give me that shovel.
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00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:18,360
Watch out. Okay.
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00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,120
Look at the bottom of that belt.
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You know, it's serious when Parker shows
up and...
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Jumps into action.
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Tail drums packed. Pull it.
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00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,000
Oh, let's just get the big ones out of
there.
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00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,900
Let's climb down when Parker's done
doing Parker things.
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00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:53,040
I think we're good to go. Nice work.
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00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,800
I'm climbing down. You're still up
there. Generator's getting fired up.
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00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:13,840
You want some dirt?
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00:28:13,860 --> 00:28:16,540
Hey, Parker, you want some dirt?
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00:28:16,780 --> 00:28:17,780
Yeah.
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00:28:18,180 --> 00:28:19,300
I'm so out of shape.
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Fire it up.
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00:28:24,380 --> 00:28:25,420
We're ready to flew.
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00:28:38,940 --> 00:28:41,260
I'm so happy that.
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00:28:41,740 --> 00:28:46,660
I was able to spot it right away and
shut it down because there were so many
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rocks that were jammed up in the belt.
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00:28:53,420 --> 00:28:57,140
How's Amy doing? She dealt with that
well. Yeah, definitely. She did it
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how we showed her. Yeah.
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00:28:59,380 --> 00:29:01,080
All right, be on the flip side. See ya.
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00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:03,000
Amy's doing wonderful.
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00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:04,880
Couldn't have done anything better,
really.
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00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,680
The bar is set high.
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00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,260
With the gold price out there, it
doesn't take long to make a small
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to speak.
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00:29:26,860 --> 00:29:30,040
So, make hay when the sun shines, I used
to say.
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00:29:31,060 --> 00:29:36,760
At the early bird extension, Tony is
battling to open his new ground before
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only running wash plant, Sluicelot, runs
out of pay.
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00:29:40,860 --> 00:29:42,520
We lost a bit of stripping time.
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00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,780
We have to get the early bird extension
cut ready.
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00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:48,260
Just stay ahead, stay ahead, stay ahead.
402
00:29:50,250 --> 00:29:53,550
But he's dealing with a batch of rookies
who are struggling.
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00:29:56,990 --> 00:30:00,390
I bet you out of all the trucks that are
driving around there and everything,
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00:30:00,610 --> 00:30:04,450
none of them still have a clue as to
what is happening. Some have it, some
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00:30:04,450 --> 00:30:08,050
never get it. So I was going to snoop
around for a second.
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00:30:16,770 --> 00:30:19,130
I'm back here today, and I am...
407
00:30:19,450 --> 00:30:21,650
Really glad Tony didn't fire me.
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00:30:22,310 --> 00:30:28,410
Tony has his eye on Greenhorn Sam, who
flipped his rock truck earlier in the
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week. I'm still on pretty thin ice.
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00:30:31,410 --> 00:30:35,250
You feel like anything could get you
fired if you're not careful.
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00:30:35,830 --> 00:30:41,310
With the clock ticking, Tony has brought
in experienced truck driver, Mason
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McIntyre, to help out.
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00:30:43,390 --> 00:30:47,150
The conditions down here are pretty
floppy right now.
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00:30:49,210 --> 00:30:52,670
Big ruts, which is hard to drive in
sometimes for some people.
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00:30:53,630 --> 00:30:56,110
You've got to adjust to the conditions.
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00:30:56,330 --> 00:31:01,390
Some people catch on really quick and
are used to it, and some people just
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00:31:01,390 --> 00:31:04,010
catch on at all, and that's how mistakes
happen.
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00:31:05,170 --> 00:31:09,270
That can be quite dangerous, honestly,
if you can't run something like this,
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00:31:09,310 --> 00:31:13,810
which is not simple, but a lot more
simple than another piece of equipment.
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00:31:14,830 --> 00:31:16,930
Oh, somebody dumped her.
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00:31:21,289 --> 00:31:25,410
You people, it's going to be a mess.
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00:31:26,550 --> 00:31:29,390
I'll be right over there and have a look
at it, okay?
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00:31:29,750 --> 00:31:30,750
Don't move.
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00:31:41,570 --> 00:31:46,590
You people, it's going to be a mess.
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00:31:47,710 --> 00:31:54,690
I'll be right over there and have a look
at it. At Tony B's early bird cut,
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00:31:54,950 --> 00:31:59,630
another $300 ,000 rock truck has
flipped.
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00:32:19,690 --> 00:32:20,690
What was it?
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00:32:27,510 --> 00:32:33,690
What happened, Mason?
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00:32:34,450 --> 00:32:35,450
Got a little soft.
430
00:32:35,650 --> 00:32:38,350
A little soft down there or what? Yeah,
a little bit.
431
00:32:39,150 --> 00:32:43,370
Experienced driver Mason McIntyre has
flipped his first truck.
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00:32:43,610 --> 00:32:46,850
Okay, I'll scoop it out. You can own the
cap. Let's get the f***ing thing out of
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00:32:46,850 --> 00:32:47,409
there, okay?
434
00:32:47,410 --> 00:32:48,410
Okay.
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00:32:53,490 --> 00:32:59,690
Tony uses the 480 excavator to empty the
rock truck's box of dirt and push it
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00:32:59,690 --> 00:33:00,690
upright.
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00:33:02,650 --> 00:33:09,410
Part of me is happy to see that it
happens to other people besides me, but,
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00:33:09,630 --> 00:33:14,350
I mean, I feel for the guy. It's pretty
unpleasant when the box flips over on
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00:33:14,350 --> 00:33:15,350
your rock truck.
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00:33:21,370 --> 00:33:22,730
Hey Mason, drive ahead a bit.
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00:33:27,290 --> 00:33:28,290
Right off.
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00:33:28,330 --> 00:33:29,330
See you later, man.
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00:33:29,810 --> 00:33:30,810
Thank you, Tony.
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00:33:34,250 --> 00:33:35,990
That's my first truck I tipped over.
445
00:33:36,390 --> 00:33:37,550
It was a little scary.
446
00:33:38,090 --> 00:33:42,070
Tony was pretty relaxed. I think I had
the luck because I'm here my second
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season.
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00:33:44,690 --> 00:33:47,330
Tony's crew are back in the race.
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00:33:47,770 --> 00:33:51,290
to get down to pay before sluice -a -lot
runs out.
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00:33:51,630 --> 00:33:56,290
If you want to do X amount of ounces a
year, you need X amount of people, so
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you'd rather put up with some more, I
suppose.
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00:33:58,890 --> 00:34:02,270
But sometimes it's not that easy,
especially when it costs money. I mean,
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00:34:02,270 --> 00:34:03,270
turn trucks over.
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00:34:03,610 --> 00:34:06,830
But sometimes you wonder what the heck
you're doing.
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00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:23,639
I asked Troy to come down and meet me
here.
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00:34:24,820 --> 00:34:26,639
I'm basically going to tell him that his
contract is booked.
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00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:28,320
I mean, I don't know what he wants me to
do with this.
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00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:32,260
I'm not budging off that ground, and I'm
not signing this, so we need to come to
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some kind of compromise.
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00:34:38,179 --> 00:34:41,580
After moving his crew to a new claim on
Lightning Creek,
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Rick Ness has called a meeting with
landlord Troy Taylor to negotiate the
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of the lease.
463
00:34:49,340 --> 00:34:50,340
Hey, Troy. Hey, Rick.
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00:34:50,810 --> 00:34:52,409
How you doing? Good. Good to see you.
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00:34:55,370 --> 00:35:00,230
We got to put some signatures on paper
and make it legal.
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00:35:01,470 --> 00:35:02,470
There's no way.
467
00:35:02,550 --> 00:35:06,910
I have gotten over the contract and a
lot of things that I don't like.
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00:35:08,290 --> 00:35:10,730
It says that you have the right to
change the mining plan at any time.
469
00:35:11,070 --> 00:35:15,030
You can pull my equipment and my
personnel when you see fit.
470
00:35:15,350 --> 00:35:17,430
There's an awful lot of power going in
your hands here.
471
00:35:17,850 --> 00:35:20,910
I mean, I would like to think that our
last contract went pretty smooth.
472
00:35:21,170 --> 00:35:26,250
I think it's coming down to a trust
thing. And, you know, for me right here
473
00:35:26,250 --> 00:35:28,090
this contract, it looks like you don't
trust me at all.
474
00:35:28,450 --> 00:35:30,910
And so I'm kind of wondering why I trust
this, you know?
475
00:35:32,150 --> 00:35:33,390
Yeah, I get that.
476
00:35:34,270 --> 00:35:35,850
It's nothing personal.
477
00:35:37,030 --> 00:35:40,250
It's just since the last agreement,
things have changed so much.
478
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:47,120
The water licenses these days, if
there's any blemish, if you are doing
479
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:53,560
wrong, maybe you weren't here on a day
that something's going sideways, it will
480
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,560
be reflected on me. It could result in
getting my water license revoked.
481
00:35:59,020 --> 00:36:04,820
I want to keep mining, so I have to have
some teeth in this agreement.
482
00:36:12,319 --> 00:36:16,140
I can kind of see where you're coming
from, Troy, but I don't believe that
483
00:36:16,140 --> 00:36:17,880
level of supervision is necessary.
484
00:36:18,260 --> 00:36:21,880
I mean, I don't want to feel like I'm
looking over my shoulder all the time,
485
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:22,880
that's why I brought this.
486
00:36:23,860 --> 00:36:27,800
You know, off the bat, that's the 100
ounces that I owe you as the minimum
487
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,720
royalty on this deal, and I'd be willing
to give that to you up front right now
488
00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:33,580
today and get rid of this.
489
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:49,840
Oh, boy.
490
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:55,020
From my perspective, if I don't have
some control in the agreement, that's
491
00:36:55,020 --> 00:36:58,380
I've got. I can't back up on that. I
just can't.
492
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,820
I understand it's got to be a tough one,
tough pill to swallow.
493
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:14,380
What if I buy it?
494
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,320
That's the big one for me.
495
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:29,960
I would need another 200 ounces on top
of it. So 300 ounces total?
496
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:31,680
Yeah.
497
00:37:39,020 --> 00:37:40,640
It's just too much.
498
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:45,260
I get that ground is at a premium with a
water license right now, but it's a lot
499
00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:48,440
of money on the line, and I won't be
squeezed. It's just not going to happen.
500
00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:53,880
How about I get you another 100 ounces?
501
00:37:54,740 --> 00:37:57,660
That's 200 ounces total, and then we
call that good.
502
00:38:04,860 --> 00:38:08,760
I'm still responsible for the water life
until I get paid.
503
00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:14,820
As you know, I'm still on the hook. How
about by the end of the month, and then
504
00:38:14,820 --> 00:38:15,658
we part ways?
505
00:38:15,660 --> 00:38:19,220
This is gone, your name's off it, I take
over the ground.
506
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:20,698
In a month?
507
00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:21,678
In a month.
508
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,140
Your liability's gone, you're paid.
509
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:30,220
Rick, that's a lot of gold to produce in
a month. You've got a lot of stuff to
510
00:38:30,220 --> 00:38:34,020
do. If that's what it's going to take to
mine this ground my way, that's what
511
00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:35,020
we're going to do.
512
00:38:35,220 --> 00:38:36,220
I'll make it happen.
513
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:39,480
Well, I like your determination.
514
00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:41,700
Let's do it.
515
00:38:42,260 --> 00:38:42,979
Call good?
516
00:38:42,980 --> 00:38:44,080
Yeah. All right.
517
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,040
Deal done.
518
00:38:47,180 --> 00:38:48,240
Well, we don't need this anymore.
519
00:38:50,570 --> 00:38:56,790
Rick Ness has just purchased another 1
,600 acres of land for $700
520
00:38:56,790 --> 00:38:58,750
,000 in gold.
521
00:38:59,290 --> 00:39:00,530
I'm not sure what I just did.
522
00:39:01,310 --> 00:39:02,670
I think I came out on top.
523
00:39:02,890 --> 00:39:06,890
Gold prices are higher than ever, but
right now it seems that a ground with a
524
00:39:06,890 --> 00:39:08,490
water license on it is even harder to
find.
525
00:39:08,690 --> 00:39:10,170
He owns it. It's all his.
526
00:39:11,050 --> 00:39:13,610
So I hope it's good ground, and I wish
him the best.
527
00:39:14,010 --> 00:39:17,780
The guys are probably going to question
it. This ground is... We haven't even
528
00:39:17,780 --> 00:39:20,660
fluked it yet, but we did test it. We
know there's gold. So I need to get this
529
00:39:20,660 --> 00:39:23,320
ground. I need to get this going. This
was the only way I thought how to do it.
530
00:39:32,940 --> 00:39:33,940
Woo!
531
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,720
We've hired a lot of people this year.
I'm Ethan.
532
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,280
I'm Raya.
533
00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:39,259
I'm Jordan.
534
00:39:39,260 --> 00:39:41,060
They've come with a range of skills.
535
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:42,860
I've milked cows my whole life.
536
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:44,300
Demolition side of things.
537
00:39:44,780 --> 00:39:49,200
I was a line coach before this. The
revolving door of new people is not
538
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,000
stop this year. New recruits have come
from far and wide.
539
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,340
I went for a motorcycle ride 3 ,500
kilometers from home to find Parker.
540
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,260
Hello. Hey, Parker.
541
00:39:59,740 --> 00:40:03,000
You're Steve, right? Yes, yes. Good to
meet you. I heard that you just showed
542
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:03,799
on a motorcycle.
543
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:04,840
Yeah, it's sitting at your office.
544
00:40:05,060 --> 00:40:08,920
I saw it there. And I was like, today is
not the day for tourists.
545
00:40:09,410 --> 00:40:12,190
And then Nona found me and was like, oh,
he's in the loader.
546
00:40:13,470 --> 00:40:16,610
No, I've been running equipment for 30
years, and I've always dreamed of coming
547
00:40:16,610 --> 00:40:17,529
up here doing this.
548
00:40:17,530 --> 00:40:19,390
Do you have, like, work clothes and
stuff?
549
00:40:19,790 --> 00:40:20,790
This is it.
550
00:40:21,250 --> 00:40:22,970
It's, like, literally in his writing
clothes.
551
00:40:23,670 --> 00:40:25,690
Glad to have you on board. Can you take
a picture?
552
00:40:26,670 --> 00:40:27,670
Here you go, Steve.
553
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:39,080
They'll be around at the early bird
extension cut for a while. So they're
554
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,580
to check, see if they're down to pay.
555
00:40:44,980 --> 00:40:51,820
At the early bird extension, Tony is
panning to see if his crew has
556
00:40:51,820 --> 00:40:52,820
hit pay.
557
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,380
Usually we look for gold in the pan.
558
00:40:58,460 --> 00:41:00,840
You know, we don't watch rocks for the
fun of it.
559
00:41:05,060 --> 00:41:06,440
Huh? There is no way.
560
00:41:07,420 --> 00:41:09,800
Hey, Jacob, do you copy? Jacob, do you
copy?
561
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:17,480
What? Okay, bring them guys in and
they're doing some panning and a cut.
562
00:41:36,310 --> 00:41:37,310
Morning, gentlemen.
563
00:41:37,490 --> 00:41:38,490
Morning.
564
00:41:39,070 --> 00:41:41,450
In case you're wondering, we're looking
for gold.
565
00:41:44,790 --> 00:41:47,450
Look at that. So that's pay dirt to me.
566
00:41:47,810 --> 00:41:48,970
You know, are you looking at that?
567
00:41:49,250 --> 00:41:53,390
Not exactly. No, that don't surprise me.
Okay, I see that. Okay, well, there you
568
00:41:53,390 --> 00:41:55,390
go. Yeah, that's what it's all about,
Sam.
569
00:41:56,650 --> 00:41:58,170
That actually looks very nice.
570
00:41:59,190 --> 00:42:00,810
There's lots of colors in there.
571
00:42:01,050 --> 00:42:02,130
It looks good.
572
00:42:03,710 --> 00:42:05,410
Circles up at the top. Yeah.
573
00:42:05,740 --> 00:42:08,360
I'd say this cat is ready to be going in
the sluice box, eh?
574
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:09,640
Okay.
575
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,880
Give you guys an idea as to what we're
after.
576
00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:16,060
Yeah. Let's go and get some more. Yes,
sir. You bet.
577
00:42:16,980 --> 00:42:20,400
Seeing that pan of gold with some gold
in it was nice.
578
00:42:21,380 --> 00:42:25,720
I've had a few mistakes coming in here,
but, you know, seeing the gold makes it
579
00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:26,720
worth it.
580
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,500
We have a lot of people that have never
even been in an airplane. They come up
581
00:42:30,500 --> 00:42:33,620
here, never mind the piece of equipment,
but somehow you're going to have to
582
00:42:33,620 --> 00:42:34,589
make it work.
583
00:42:34,590 --> 00:42:38,190
And as long as you get some gold in your
pocket, then on the end of the day,
584
00:42:38,190 --> 00:42:39,190
it's all worth it.
585
00:42:45,590 --> 00:42:46,790
Hello, family.
586
00:42:47,630 --> 00:42:48,730
Hey, guys. How are you?
587
00:42:49,950 --> 00:42:50,950
Good. How are you?
588
00:42:52,810 --> 00:42:55,350
Get that pail out of the table. Holy
crap.
589
00:42:57,130 --> 00:42:58,230
Bring it over here, Michael.
590
00:43:00,750 --> 00:43:03,450
After a turbulent week at Indian River,
591
00:43:04,220 --> 00:43:07,840
Tony is ready to weigh the gold from the
early bird cut.
592
00:43:08,420 --> 00:43:09,420
How's your new crew doing?
593
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,960
Well, green horns, you know, come with
troubles.
594
00:43:12,180 --> 00:43:14,500
We tipped the odd rock truck box here
and there.
595
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,220
Jacob had to rescue one the other day. I
mean, you got the same thing on the
596
00:43:18,220 --> 00:43:18,779
hill, right?
597
00:43:18,780 --> 00:43:22,700
You get new people, you got the same old
problems. Most mine are returnees, so.
598
00:43:22,820 --> 00:43:26,600
Yeah. Yeah, well, that's lucky because
then you don't have to have that crap.
599
00:43:27,020 --> 00:43:28,720
Do you want to see the fruits of your
labor?
600
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,080
Last week.
601
00:43:31,230 --> 00:43:34,570
The early bird cut delivered 214 ounces.
602
00:43:39,110 --> 00:43:40,190
You ready, Mike?
603
00:43:40,450 --> 00:43:41,450
Yep.
604
00:43:42,410 --> 00:43:49,030
10, 20, 30, 60, 70, 80, 100,
605
00:43:49,250 --> 00:43:52,410
110, 120, 130, 140,
606
00:43:53,130 --> 00:43:57,210
142 .14.
607
00:43:59,250 --> 00:44:06,020
Worth. nearly half a million dollars,
bringing Tony's total to 774
608
00:44:06,020 --> 00:44:07,020
ounces.
609
00:44:07,780 --> 00:44:09,700
But it's a drop in production.
610
00:44:10,060 --> 00:44:16,120
If Tony is going to hit his 6 ,500
-ounce goal, his extension of the early
611
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,340
cut will have to deliver a big
improvement.
612
00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:23,180
So we're still a little ways off from
our goal.
613
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:24,960
Still pretty early.
614
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:26,280
We'll get there.
615
00:44:26,420 --> 00:44:28,560
But I think everybody should go back to
work.
616
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,320
Sounds good. Why don't you guys go make
us some more money?
617
00:44:31,660 --> 00:44:33,120
Okay, thank you. See you, Mike.
618
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,020
Bye. Yeah, bye. Don't go away mad, guys.
619
00:44:36,820 --> 00:44:37,658
Love you.
620
00:44:37,660 --> 00:44:38,660
Yeah, bye.
621
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:54,200
Where's Chris?
622
00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:57,140
He didn't hear us. Chris.
623
00:44:57,690 --> 00:44:59,610
Oh, his new hearing aids really don't
work.
624
00:45:01,830 --> 00:45:02,850
Sorry, I'm late.
625
00:45:03,090 --> 00:45:04,090
No, you're fine.
626
00:45:04,150 --> 00:45:06,290
Anything crazy happen down on your end?
627
00:45:06,690 --> 00:45:11,250
Just lots of dirt. Yeah? Yeah, just
trying to stack everything up. Yeah,
628
00:45:11,250 --> 00:45:12,250
really limited on space.
629
00:45:12,510 --> 00:45:13,510
It's very tight up there.
630
00:45:13,930 --> 00:45:18,170
Mitch and Brennan have been tripping
ground at Sulphur Creek.
631
00:45:18,550 --> 00:45:24,330
While at Dominion, Tyson's kept two wash
plants flusing with new crews.
632
00:45:24,630 --> 00:45:26,870
You got a new plant operator, Amy?
633
00:45:27,620 --> 00:45:28,720
Yep. How's she doing?
634
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,460
She's doing really good, yeah. Is she?
Going from being a school teacher to a
635
00:45:32,460 --> 00:45:36,040
loader operator, so that's definitely
the change of pace for her.
636
00:45:36,380 --> 00:45:37,780
But, yeah, she's doing really good.
637
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,120
Is it, though?
638
00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:42,740
If she was, like, a kindergarten to
fifth grade, it's probably not that much
639
00:45:42,740 --> 00:45:43,740
different.
640
00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:49,180
I have to talk really slow to these guys
so they understand me.
641
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:50,680
Don't eat the crayon.
642
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,580
Two plants running, though, all week.
643
00:45:55,020 --> 00:45:58,960
Yeah, two plants. You got two plants,
man. You're responsible for both of
644
00:46:00,700 --> 00:46:02,020
Here we go, slucifer.
645
00:46:02,820 --> 00:46:08,300
Wash plant slucifer's been running in
the Golden Mile all week, and Parker's
646
00:46:08,300 --> 00:46:12,380
hoping to see an uptick from last week's
112 ounces.
647
00:46:13,180 --> 00:46:14,660
Let's see how the Golden Mile did.
648
00:46:16,860 --> 00:46:23,800
10, 30, 40, 70, 80, 100 ounces.
649
00:46:26,540 --> 00:46:30,660
120, 130, 150, 152 even.
650
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:37,600
Worth over $530 ,000, a 35 % increase
from last
651
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:38,800
week. Perfect.
652
00:46:39,020 --> 00:46:42,720
That's a lot better. A lot better.
Picked up a few ounces over last week.
653
00:46:42,820 --> 00:46:43,820
Definitely.
654
00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:45,240
Working some kinks out.
655
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:52,400
Yeah. Next up, Bob at the Bridge Cut,
which is averaging 143 ounces
656
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:53,400
a week.
657
00:46:53,550 --> 00:47:00,270
We got 30, 50, 80, 100, 120, 140,
658
00:47:00,850 --> 00:47:03,730
150, 156 .2.
659
00:47:04,030 --> 00:47:07,570
Worth almost $550 ,000.
660
00:47:08,030 --> 00:47:10,090
Wow, that was close, Dave. Yeah.
661
00:47:10,530 --> 00:47:14,930
Those two plants are four ounces off
each other. Just a couple ounces off of
662
00:47:14,930 --> 00:47:17,150
each other. That's weird. Yeah, that's
crazy.
663
00:47:17,410 --> 00:47:21,450
This week, we got 308 .2 ounces.
664
00:47:22,190 --> 00:47:26,190
which gives us a season total of 707 .9.
665
00:47:26,590 --> 00:47:30,170
Tyson has nearly doubled their season
total.
666
00:47:30,510 --> 00:47:33,790
You know, last year at this time we were
talking about 10 ,000 ounces and we
667
00:47:33,790 --> 00:47:35,190
were all thinking it was pretty doable.
668
00:47:35,750 --> 00:47:38,270
Are we thinking we're going to do it
this year?
669
00:47:38,950 --> 00:47:40,730
You're too early to ask that question.
670
00:47:41,790 --> 00:47:43,550
You guys need to get on the board now.
671
00:47:43,890 --> 00:47:44,890
Yeah, we'll do it.
672
00:47:45,150 --> 00:47:48,730
Hopefully next week there'll be three
pans lined up there. There will be.
673
00:47:50,129 --> 00:47:51,129
Right.
674
00:47:53,130 --> 00:47:54,370
Sounds like we don't got a choice.
675
00:47:54,570 --> 00:47:55,570
No.
676
00:47:55,710 --> 00:47:56,830
All right. Have a good one.
677
00:47:57,050 --> 00:47:58,050
Thanks, Chris.
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