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It's doing around 200 yards an hour right now.

So we can go higher?

Possibly.

Let's leave her where she is for now.

Parker's happy with where it is, so... What happened to the young and wild

I used to know? He's dead.

I'm going to go talk to Parker.

What up?

Happy with the plant? Don't want the runs washed in?

I would prioritize the bridge cut.

Okay.

Next weekend, I've got a new guy showing up.

Pick me out somebody to fire.

So just cut your worst one out.

Want to give me a list of names of who it can be?

No, because then you're going to latch on to the options, and I don't want to

give you options.

All right.

Okay. Don't be afraid to just tell people to take a walk.

Okay.

Tyson, he's got something to prove this season.

Giving him a lot more responsibility has been good because he takes that very

seriously and very personally.

You want to have as few people doing as much work as possible.

He pretty much told me that someone's got to go by the end of the week.

I've never fired anyone before.

We've got to figure out who's going to make it and who's not.

One of them has to go.

Right now, we have a lot going on here at Dominion. We have Bob running the

bridge cut. We have Fucifer running the golden mile.

One month into the season, Parker Schnabel's foreman, Tyson Lee, has his

full.

To hit a 10 ,000 -ounce season goal, Parker's pushing Tyson to mine as much

as possible on his Dominion Creek claim.

Normally, it's been move that wash plant, get it set up, have a month to

breathe. This year, it's move that wash plant, get it set up, move to the next.

Get that wash plant set up, get it running, move to the next.

And somewhere in between there, I have to find the time to go through all these

operators, and one of them isn't going to make the cut.

Letting someone go, getting rid of someone, it's not a decision I'm taking

lightly. You know, they could have come up here like myself.

Ten years ago, hoping to be up here for years and years to come.

Just a decade ago, Tyson arrived in the Yukon.

Pretty green at the mining aspect of things.

Parker saw something special in the rookie miner.

I'm letting Tyson run, see what he's got, and hopefully this doesn't bite

of us in the ass.

Get her going.

And gave him a chance to step up to the plate.

Can I stop?

Thanks, man.

Back when I first started for Parker, and up until now, I've seen this company

go through a lot of growth, a lot of changes.

Every year I get thrown more and more, and this year more than ever, Parker

said, find your weakest operator, send one of them packing.

So right now we have Charlie up top who's doing fine in horse tailing.

Then we have Michael down below who's loading trucks, two new truck drivers.

There's Lauren and Julian.

And then upstream we have Caden loading Mary and who the is with Mary.

It's a lot of new people, man.

Over at the bridge cut.

Ah, for sakes.

New loader operator Charlie Carlton is struggling to clear tailings from wash

plant Bob.

Charlie seems to be having issues with his loader overheating. He doesn't

understand when to curl.

Hopefully, it's nothing too crazy.

Yo, yo!

Hey, so, how's it going?

I let it go down a few more degrees. It's at 107 now.

So, that is caused by two different issues.

You always want to have the tires moving when you're going in for a scoop.

Watch me scoop.

There's zero resistance against the machine.

You're going in for a scoop like this.

See how much the machine is struggling?

It's making that number climb.

Another thing that does it is riding the brake.

So if you're riding around like this, that number is going to climb. Those are

the two reasons why your rear axle oil temp is rising.

And then what is a safe temperature to start running again? I think it got to

about 120, 122.

It really shouldn't get over 100.

Yeah, 122 is on.

All right, thank you.

No worries.

I'll pay attention to both those things more next time.

Newbie learning curve, I guess.

Stuff that's common sense. Hey, the tires aren't moving. It's overheating. I

wonder why.

This year, I do not have time for that.

We've hired some experienced guys because we need some experience.

Charlie's experience level does not match what I was told he had when we

him.

Concerned with Charlie's performance, Tyson tasks operator Sandy Dubois with

keeping an eye on him.

So how did you get the job here?

I used to work as a software developer and systems engineer.

I'd spend my days in front of computers and I was just sick of it. I'm like,

man, I need to get out. Get into gold mining and get out in the wilderness.

I don't really know what to say, man.

I'll just keep doing.

I'm hoping to be able to get him to go a bit faster because he's going to have

to take care of this on his own.

You're not always going to get the best bucket, but you need more than a crumb.

Hey, Charles, you got a coffee, Charles?

Hey, Sandy.

If we're not utilizing our whole bucket, it's kind of just like a waste of fuel

and a waste of time.

Where am I going?

Let's do it again.

and see that your bucket's not fully curled in, making a mess over the road,

just make sure your bucket's curled all the way up.

Okay, I'll do that next.

Yeah, at this point, I can't leave him alone.

It would not work out. He would fall behind.

If that plant washes out, then we're not going to have a happy Parker, and

that's what I'm trying to avoid right now.

And he's starting to slowly get it, one bucket at a time.

Yeah, that looks a lot better.

Tyson and Parker leave no stone unturned. They have to train up some

they can be confident will get every last drop of gold out of this cut.

In the Golden Mile, new hire Caden Foote digs out pockets of pay from a section

of the cut.

driven motivated person i also like to think of myself as a little bit of a

perfectionist i like to do things right the first time and i don't like to come

back and do them again we have a lot of new people and a

couple of them are struggling here caden's one of them

yo

yo how's it going Pretty good yourself?

Oh, you know, just fighting water.

The ditch needs to be lowered, and then you're into pay here?

Into pay right here.

Lower the ditch, then you can carry on with what you're doing. Okay. Does that

make sense? Yep, that makes sense. Any questions, comments, concerns?

Like, I can jump in there for you, and you can watch me for five minutes if you

want. Up to you. I don't want to take up more of your time than necessary. No,

it's all good. I just want to make sure.

What I'm saying is what you're understanding, and the best way to do

you to sit and watch me for five minutes.

Sheriff, come on.

So far, so good. Just have a few little things I need to get adjusted to.

Right now, I'm trying to show Caden how to go about ditching. He seems to be

struggling with a lot of water flowing down.

What we need to do is get that water under control.

Tyson's making the ditch around the cut deeper and digging channels to funnel

water from the center cut down to the ditch, exposing the pay dirt beneath.

Hey, Caden, come take a look at this, because I can see there's still pay out

here, right?

Makes me wonder what else is under this water, right?

And you see, just listen for a sec. You see that gravel seam there? Right there,

yeah. So that's pay, right?

I'll point you down as I'm going.

With the cut full of water, Caden's leaving behind pockets of pay,

costing Parker thousands of dollars in lost gold.

Biggest thing of all is to get the water out, and if you've got a drain running

right beside where the water needs to go,

Then you can see what's there and what needs to be dug out.

Because it's only been a few minutes and he's got that drain in 100 % and we'll

be off to the races.

Yes, ma 'am.

You have to go over every inch of it, right? Because if you didn't do it, how

you know it's done? Okay.

Thank you. Thank you for your time. I really appreciate that. No worries. Have

fun. I'll see you in a bit. Come on, Garf. Let's go.

Hopefully he gets it now.

Caden, he's thinking he understands more than he does.

I would agree with that. Yeah. Maybe come in a little coffee, you know, a

hot. God help us if Parker came in there and decided to dig there and found that

we were burying pay pockets.

Yeah, no, he wouldn't be a happy camper. No.

This year we showed up early, but the first thing, most miners weren't even

yet, and we had a pretty decent payday already, so no complaints there

whatsoever. It was kind of like an early bird gets the worm, but we sure got it.

At Indian River, King of the Klondike, Tony Beats, is off to a strong start.

So far, his early bird cut has banked over 1 ,000 ounces of gold.

of his 6 ,500 -ounce target.

Tony wants to keep up the pace and is on a mission to sluice 24 -7.

Right now we're ripping this piece of frost out of here. I just want to make

sure that he can just start sluicing day and night.

Yeah, Tony seems to have a little bit of a rocket up his ass. He is getting

older, but he is not tired yet.

Cousin Mike...

He's running Tony's only working moneymaker, sluice a lot, feeding it 250

of pay dirt an hour and eating through ground faster than Tony can open it up.

I just need more equipment because they're going to be stripping day and

And then that opens up the whole world behind us, you see.

To increase his Indian River stripping power, Tony's on the hunt for a dozer.

an excavator, and three more rock trucks.

I just got an email this morning saying that there was a dozer for sale, so

we're going to go over and check this out.

You never have enough toys.

The guy that dies with the most toys wins.

I'm well on my way to have a whole pile.

Okay, well, let's go have a look, Connor.

Even secondhand, a D10 dozer could set Tony back more than $1 million.

Those are all good. Yeah.

So he's brought along trusted mechanic, Connor Elms. Don't hurt yourself.

To assess it.

Paint looks nice.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

There's a man spying on your stuff.

To keep his Indian River operation running 24 -7, Tony Beath is

hunting for another dozer.

How's it going, Barger?

Good, how are you?

Same every day. Huh? What are you doing?

He said you had a capsule sale.

What, you want to buy the thing?

Well, you said you want to get rid of it. Maybe. I haven't decided yet. I was

like, put some feelers out, but I'm a little hesitant to sell it right now

because we're in, we'd use it this summer.

But for you, Tony.

I knew that was coming.

I knew that was coming.

You know, you got to help the guys out that are struggling, right? Oh, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we're struggling all right.

Every day.

There you go. We'll name your price.

What do you want?

1 -5?

1 -3?

That's the end of season price.

No, no, no, no.

Okay, 1 -3. You're at 1 -3.

Probably not.

So then make a counter.

Okay. Let me think about it.

One, two.

Well, one, five.

No, no, no, no. Why not? It's worth it all day long, Tony. No, no, no, no.

But do you want to do something very quick?

No, I don't really care that much. You want to do it really quick? No.

No?

I'm in no rush.

Me neither.

Yeah, I know.

See, if you want to do something quick, let me know.

Okay. Mm -hmm.

Okay. We'll talk. Let me know.

You bet, dude. Later.

Good to see you, guy.

Later. No.

It's quite simple.

There's no buddies or friends in business.

If so, you would never make it.

Well, you have a prize in mind. You should stick to it.

You'll just find something else.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day.

It's been a tough start to the season.

I did a classic Rick move, and I made a quick decision and bought this ground

out at Lightning Creek.

People that know me know I don't have a whole lot of patience.

We've got to hope the gold's there, and we're going to know soon.

Rick Ness has gone all in on his biggest gamble yet.

After his water license on Duncan Creek expired,

Rick's thrown down $700 ,000 for the Lightning Creek claim with no idea

how much gold is in the ground.

A hell of a gamble.

I made this purchase based off of like a two -yard tap.

Probably more like a yard and a half, you know.

One pan with, you know, a few grams, not even a gram of gold in it.

It probably is one of the crazier things I've ever done.

You know what? I'm stubborn like that. I want to do things my way, and that's

just how it's going to be.

At the end of the day, I know the gold's there. We just have to make it pay off.

If Rick hits a hot spot on the notoriously unpredictable Keno ground,

mean a massive payday.

Rick loves taking big breaths.

Is it smart?

I don't know yet. Obviously, time will tell, but we all support them. I think

this whole crew is big risk -takers, and that's why we're here for them.

I mean, you can make a plan, and it sounds good and looks good on paper, but

it's definitely a finger -cross moment.

Now, it's time to find out if Rick's bet will pay off.

We are down to pay now. It actually went really quick. The guys did a great job.

They stuck with me, and now they're seeing pay dirt already.

So, I'm going to get to Lightning Creek, get the guys together, get a plan to

get Rocky set up, and get on the damn gold.

To start floosing, Rick just needs to move wash plant Rocky into place.

Look good down here, boys.

We're going to set up floosing, eh?

Yeah. I mean, there's not a whole lot of space to deal with right here. We're

all set up.

I'll drag it backward.

Then the only thing I'm worried about is it's a real narrow area. The creek on

one side and kind of a bank on that side.

I'm going to have to hug the creek to get this, you know, that foos box past

that bank. Otherwise it's dragging it all bent out of shape. So it's going to

have to have everybody on, you know, on both sides, both banks, just yelling and

screaming at me not to hit anything. And we should be good.

Rick's crew.

has already removed the two -acre diamond cut's shallow overburden and 15

of pay to make a stockpile ready to run.

Now, he wants to pull his 32 -foot -wide, 25 -ton wash plant, Rocky,

from its current home, 300 feet along a narrow and winding track using

a 750 excavator, avoiding a bank on one side.

and a creek on the other.

Then, drag it into position near his pay pile.

And finally, fire it up.

I just need eyes around me. Yeah, yeah. Eyes around.

Right. The hills have eyes.

Yeah.

Well, this is it. Start.

frozen i mean it's been sitting all winter and ice it just turns into

all those spines oh that's it right there oh oh that's what we needed

look at that look at that something broke no one got hurt no

A lot of money going out, and without gold coming in, it hurts. So we have to

get gold coming in right away.

All we can do now is drag it into place, set it up, and see what happens.

on that side and Kai. Both be in my eyes on that soup box because I can't see

behind me.

I'm going to hug this side by the river. Hope we don't dump it in the drink.

And here we go.

Lots of room. Lots of room.

Go to that side.

Did I hit? I can't see that side,

so I really picked that up. At Lightning Creek.

Rick and his crew are fighting to get wash plant Rocky up and running by the

of the day.

Yeah, it's got to go that way.

Let me see if I can do that.

Yeah, keep going that way.

We got two things. You don't want to bend the sluice boxes and you don't want

put it in the river because we don't have another one.

We're close.

We're close.

Ooh, yeah!

Yeah!

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Are you unhooked? Yeah, looks like it. Should we just stop overthinking it and

plug this?

See what happens? Yeah.

Getting the water line set.

Are we ready, you think?

I think so. Put some water in this thing? Yeah.

There it goes.

Oh, oh, oh.

That's what I'm talking about. Water.

Well, we got water.

Run it, boy.

Run it.

All right.

That's good.

Woo! Woo!

Hey, Rick.

Yeah, it's going to wash off pretty bad right there.

Other side?

Yeah.

It's just going to wash it out, you know?

The bank's eroding way too fast.

It's already creeping back towards the plant.

There's too much fines and not enough big rock.

Yeah. It's all topsoil.

Hey, shut it off. Shut it off. It's already gone too far.

I mean, you can honestly look at this and say if we ran it 10 more minutes,

going to go.

We haven't even put any dirt in it yet, right? No.

Banks trying to wash away.

We're going to have to yank this thing out of here and build it out, build it

with rock.

It's going to take some days.

It just sucks, man. We've been spending money since I got here and nothing's

coming in.

We've still got 1 ,800 ounces to get.

Bottom line is we're not sluicing today.

Things are going real nice here at Colbert.

I'm really happy with how this project has gone.

We've seen some really good gold come out of here, and I feel good about it.

Foreman Mitch Blaschke is on the gold, running wash -plaid rock sand at full

tilt.

We've got a busy week ahead of us here, keeping rock sand running.

These gold prices are high, and profit is what it's all about.

25 miles east at Dominion. Parker's asked me to find the weakest link and

him out of here. So I'm going to try and figure that out because my deadline's

due. Tyson is back to check in on recent hire Caden and see how he's doing

cleaning out pockets of leftover pay.

Hi.

Hi. You having fun?

Yes.

Getting there. But I might have to do a little more ditching.

I'll go clean it up.

All this trapped water back here, right?

I'll kind of cut a little trough here.

Because then all this stuff can drain.

Wet pay, as you know, doesn't like going up conveyors.

No, belt do not like wet material.

And this is soup.

Yeah. And we can make it so it's not soup. So we've got to get the water out.

Yeah. Because if we dug with that trapped water, it would come this way.

that yellow.

would end up back down here. Which is where we don't want it. That's what

after, right? We're after that yellow. It's worth something for some weird

reason. I'm just watching what you're doing so I can mimic it in my own work.

Yeah, yeah, pretty much.

I think Tyson will feel that I'm really trying my best to do what he wants and

get it right the first time.

We need to get this material out of here and we need it to happen now. My goal

is to get Caden's felt out.

on the way we do things here.

The main thing is just getting the water out, letting it so it can drain. You

can see how the water is draining towards the ditch now because it's

So you can see kind of what I'm doing here, right? Yeah, sloping the edge,

leveling it out.

Well, not leveling, but giving it a slope so water can run down into the

Yeah, have fun. I will try my absolute best to make you proud.

Yeah.

He explained it the way we like it done, but there's zero execution.

We have operators here who said they had lots of experience, and when they got

here, it didn't show.

So are one of those people going to be the ones to leave? Maybe, maybe not. Is

it going to be due to poor attitude?

Maybe, maybe not.

Not a decision I take lightly, but these people were hired to do a job, and if

they can't do that job, we'll find someone else.

No issues with the temperature. I'm fine.

Over at the bridge cut, loader operator Charlie is still on tailings. I'm

starting to feel a little more comfortable.

It's a little less chaotic.

I don't see much of Tyson. He's so busy.

Maybe that's a good thing that I don't see him much.

Trust me, if I was doing a bad job, I'm sure I would hear more from him. Can you

hear me?

Yeah.

Want to walk down?

Okay.

No, there's no panic, Charlie. There's no need to run.

We're all good.

Okay.

How's it going, Charlie?

Pretty good.

Sorry, can I ask a question? Yeah. While I have a minute?

Yeah.

So the part that you told me before, I did not realize that... We've got to

talk. I'm training, so you can keep going. No, I'm listening.

Now that I understand that the tailings is what's most important to us now.

Everything's most important, right? Feeding the plants is important.

Getting tailings is important.

Everything's important.

And that's why we have multiple people doing different jobs.

For you, that's making sure this wash plant doesn't bury itself.

Okay. Awesome.

You all set, Charlie?

Thank you. Okay, thanks.

Okay, jump in. I got to go.

He came with 20 years' experience, is what I was told.

If I have to do that with him, then we're...

Tyson this

year has a lot of responsibility.

So I thought I'd just run down, see how he's doing, how he's getting along with

his crew.

He takes his job very, very seriously. If he's having any problems, we need to

remedy those right off the bat.

T -Bird!

Yo, yo!

Hey, T.

Hey, Dumit, how's it going?

Good, how about you?

Oh, pretty good, thanks.

You're surviving so far, huh?

Yeah, so far, so good.

Parker said by the end of the week he wants someone's name on the board to

because he's got another operator coming.

You know Parker better than anybody when he gives a deadline.

So now I'm trying to figure out, okay, the guy over there in the excavator, is

he helping me or hurting me?

Or is he not cleaning the pay properly?

And then I have to tell him two, three times to go in when I could have gotten

what he could get done in three days, what I could get done in one.

One of my favorite sayings, I would have been done by now, but I had help. Yeah.

Right, exactly.

Maybe you can help me, you know, figure out if I'm making the right decision.

If they've not done the job, they don't understand the job.

You're going to fight with him all season long.

Now's the time to sort those people out. You're aware of that.

Every promotion, every step up you've taken, you've earned.

Thanks, Dylan. So make a decision and stick with it.

Start surrounding yourself with good people.

Okay, you take care, buddy. You're doing a great job. Thanks, Dylan.

Proud of you, son.

Later!

You know, Dumit just came down to the cut to check on me and see how I'm

I got some good insight from him.

I've reached a decision on who's going to be let go.

I'm going to have to let the first person go of the season.

At Dominion Creek, it's time for Tyson.

to send someone home you know this is a new role to me i know i've never fired

anyone before but i have a lot of people that deserve my time and i'm spending

it on people that should have experience so enough is enough

Things aren't really working out man. I'm gonna have to let you go. Okay.

Yeah, it's just You let on to have more experience than you have so I only have

so much of my time That I can spend training people. Okay. So yeah, if you

to grab your stuff We'll just shut this loader off

I gave it a try.

I guess it was harder than I expected it would be, to be honest.

You know, Parker asked me to find someone to let go, and we've done that.

When we're hiring experienced operators, we need experience.

Or, sadly, they're going to have to go down the road.

25 miles west at Sulford Creek, Caden has survived, but been demoted

to loader operator.

Right now, Parker doesn't have enough guys to run loader.

I'm not sure if Tyson had anything to do with me coming out here, but it ain't

my fault that Tyson's not around to give me guidance.

Hopefully I can go back to dig and pay because that's my happy place in my big

sandbox.

We don't have time for people to be not good at their job.

We only have so much time up here in the Yukon to get as much gold out of the

ground as we can.

I just care about getting the cuts stripped and ready, because then I have

of hay ready for when I do start sluicing. But what I need is to get my

set up.

At Paradise Hill, Mike Beats is trying to prove himself to his dad, Tony, in

hope that one day he'll get his own ground.

But so far, he hasn't sluiced an ounce of gold.

I've got to get my pump set up.

I've got to get a bunch of welding and cleanup, and then set up all the

conveyors.

And then I'm also going to have to put in my hopper and everything.

Hey, how's it going?

I don't even know. Probably three days by the time I'm all said and done.

Okay.

I'd love to lose my pay pause, but we fight the trauma every step of the way.

Every step of the way.

It's kind of frustrating.

They want to move things along in the Indian.

I just need more equipment because they're going to be stripping day and

So let's pick it up.

Tony's on the hunt for more equipment.

to increase his gold haul from the Indian River claims.

There ain't nothing happening here.

Up there's dry wind down there for everybody.

Going to steal some people, going to steal some trucks, going to steal a

Hey, Dad.

Hey, Mike.

I'm going to steal some trucks off you. I'm going to steal a whole of you.

I need Keith to get a weld something.

So I need him for a week or so to give me a boost.

And you're going to get him back?

Yeah, you're going to get him back. But in the meantime, I'm going to steal some

of you.

Bingo.

It's not his stuff, it's my stuff, so I might as well utilize it where we're

making the money right now.

If you don't like it, I guess that sucks to be in.

If you try to take all my people and then expect me to still run the hill,

might as well take me too, and we all work out there.

Ready to go?

Okay, who's in that rock truck? Who is that?

After raiding his son's operation, Tony's heading 40 miles to Indian River.

I run a shipping department out of hindsight.

I got a D -10 going to the Indian River right now.

So what the f*** am I supposed to do?

Because as much as he says I'm in charge, he's still the boss, the big,

boss.

Might as well walk there, you know what I'm saying?

Want to move things along in the engine a little bit.

We got to get going a little bit faster down there.

We're going to be slipping day and night with more trucks.

This needs a little boost. This needs a little boost.

Tony can now take the Indian River operation up a level and start running

24 -7.

But he's leaving Mike short on equipment and crew.

He ain't getting it back.

There's no friends or family in business. Absolutely not.

No, no, no, no.

Top luck.

Good thing is everything is here.

Everything in one piece.

Perfect. I don't give a f*** if Mike is annoyed.

I mean, this is where the money is being made. So I suggest that this is where

we start paying attention.

On the end of the day, it's my call.

Put a crew down there day and night. Push 24 hours a day. I like to stay

of the game. And this is what that takes.

This worked out just right, I think.

Want to get out of here? Let's go.

No, but yeah.

Yeah, I know.

At Lightning Creek, wash plant Rocky is still not flusing. And Rick is still not

getting gold.

And now, his friend Z is headed home.

We're going straight to the airport.

I mean, it sucks going home this early. I mean, usually when I'm up here, we at

least have the plant going and seeing some gold.

I'm sorry you can't see some gold, too, but I'm not good at planting at this.

Right? Let's just be honest. Yeah, not your strongest suit.

I know.

Do you think there's 1 ,800 ounces in this ground?

I think there is. I don't think it is.

Would I be a lot more comfortable getting it out of Vegas Valley?

Absolutely.

You're not going to go home with any gold right now, but if you can make her

back in the fall, you know, different story. Yeah.

Hi,

guys. Hello.

Well, look at Tony. There's a whole bunch of them. Filling coffee

Tony is about to find out if his push... to run 24 -7 at Indian River

has paid off.

So, how's it going out there?

Pretty good.

The land has been going steady.

We've got to stay ahead, do some more stripping in the early bird cuts. More

equipment, some more dozers maybe, some more crap.

How's Paradise Hill going, Mike?

Everything keeps coming to a screeching halt. I'm losing a bunch of equipment

and a bunch of people.

Maybe it's too timed out.

This is how it works. You guys always got to remember I'm number one.

So, I would like to go back to work, young lady, so why don't you put some

on that scale, would you please?

How many hours have we got on this?

A whole week, right?

Are you ready?

Last week, before Tony started running 24 -7, Sluicelot delivered 250

ounces.

100, 120, 80, 250,

300, 350.

370.

404 .52 ounce.

Worth over $1 .4 million.

Nothing wrong with that. Hi.

So how much is that roughly an hour?

2 .9 ounces an hour -ish. Well, two ounce, a little bit over two is not bad.

Yeah, it was amazing.

I drilled that cut 20 years ago, and there was only one good hole in it.

That's why you never mined it. And it wasn't even that good.

It's funny how that can pay off, isn't it?

Anyway, that's all pretty good. I'll take it any time, any day. Yeah. Be

We have two boxes going. Can you imagine? That'd be a good day.

Only a month into the season, Tony Slusalot has pulled in 1 ,430

ounces, banking him $5 million.

Okay. Talk to you later.

Yep. Bye.

That's doing pretty nice, huh?

Yeah, that looked pretty good. For the way that it's going these days, so far,

so good.

How's busy week?

You must have been busy, Chris.

Very busy.

So tight.

Heard you had some weak links kicking around.

Yeah, well, uh... Parker wanted one of them to go, so I had to let Charlie go.

He said he had more experience than he had when he came here, so I just had to

pull the plug there.

Too bad, because he was a nice guy. He was really nice. He was really trying,

but yeah, he just kind of oversold, I guess.

This is definitely jumping off the deep end. Yeah, for sure. When I was driving

him back, he's like, I thought it would be a lot easier than this.

For the first time this season, Parker has been running three wash plants.

all week, and is hoping to blast past last week's 527 -ounce haul.

First up, Roxanne at Sulphur.

Well, I hope you had fun with Roxanne here.

Roxanne? Yeah. Come on.

Roxanne's a little bit unique, Mitch. Why's that?

Because I didn't have a thermos big enough, and my scale doesn't go high

So this is Roxanne.

Starting off with a full pan there.

All right, we got 50,

100, 150, 200, 250,

300 right on the dot.

Right on the dot, but we got to move this aside because we have a thermos

too.

Wow. Now what's crazy, it's doing 150 yards an hour right now, too. That's

I was just thinking about.

So we've got 300 plus 10, 20, 30, 40,

50 .70.

So 350 .7.

Worth? One and a quarter million dollars.

Holy... That is... At 150 yards an hour.

At three ounces per 100 yards sluiced, sulfur is some of the richest ground

Parker has ever mined.

Clean up like the... Make my job fun.

Now, it's Tyson's turn.

You want to take a look at what you got? Let's see.

First up, Bob from Dominion's Bridge Cut.

Bob's been running pretty consistent lately.

Good old Bob. Chug -a -lug Bob, right?

Here we go.

10, 20, 40, 80, 100, 120, 160.

We're going to beat two.

195.

Not quite. 196 .2.

Yeah.

And then just up the creek from that, Lucifer's got the big thermos too.

All righty, here we go.

Sluicifer's been running all week at the Golden Mile.

Here we go, this is Sluicifer, buddy. Here we go.

20, 40, 80, 100, 150.

Oh, there's 200, 220, 240.

Keeps coming to it, 261 .25.

The Golden Mile is living up to its name.

And Tyson's two wash plants have banked Parker another $1 .6 million.

Last week, we had 527 .5 ounces.

This week, we have 808 .15 ounces in one week.

To give you an idea of what's going on, this time last year, we had

288 ounces.

We now have 2 ,043 and a half ounces.

Worth $7 .1 million.

Which we did over a third of this week.

Yeah.

Man, if it's like that all the way through, it's going to be great.

So we just need to do that 10 more times. Yeah.

And then like some more times after that.

It's $2 .5 million sitting there.

Can you do that thing where it's like, you get a pan, you get a pan, you get a

pan?

That's wild.

That's crazy.

That used to be like what we would spend in an entire season.

Yeah.

Wow.

Impressive.

Mesmerizing looking at that much gold. Yeah, get out of here. You're going to

come to my bedroom with a gun here soon. You get an airplane.

You get an airplane.

Good job, guys.

Like, genuinely, that's...

Insane. Oh, man.

Get this.

Make sure this ends up in the sink.

All of it?

Okay. We'll do that.