1 00:00:28,140 --> 00:00:31,220 So we're a couple months in. We've been sluicing pretty good. 2 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,680 Tony Beats is on a roll. 3 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:42,980 Just two months into the season, he's already pocketed $8 million 4 00:00:42,980 --> 00:00:44,740 in gold. 5 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:51,080 I mean, with the way gold prices are, you like to sluice as much as possible. 6 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:54,140 Because, boy, what an opportunity it is. 7 00:01:09,140 --> 00:01:16,100 While Tony rides his crew at the Indian River, he's left son Mike in charge 8 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:18,260 of his other claim on Paradise Hill. 9 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,120 Last week, Mike finally got a plant running. 10 00:01:24,759 --> 00:01:27,940 sluicing old -timer tailings through wash plant Harold. 11 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:30,880 Harold's up and going. 12 00:01:32,060 --> 00:01:36,600 It's nice to finally be sluiced, and now I'm actually making a bit of money 13 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:37,640 instead of just spending it. 14 00:01:38,780 --> 00:01:41,240 My dad would be glad I'm making a bit of money. 15 00:01:41,940 --> 00:01:47,560 Mike's also been charged with stripping the super pit to feed the trommel, but 16 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,840 it's been slow going after Tony pilfered his crew. 17 00:01:51,820 --> 00:01:54,120 I would love to do more, but... 18 00:01:54,430 --> 00:01:56,910 I don't have the people, and that's the problem. 19 00:01:57,430 --> 00:01:59,570 My dad takes, he don't give nothing back. 20 00:02:00,290 --> 00:02:01,830 It ends up being a one -way street. 21 00:02:02,830 --> 00:02:09,229 With his depleted crew now at the super pit, Mike needs to hire new personnel to 22 00:02:09,229 --> 00:02:10,330 keep Harold running. 23 00:02:11,230 --> 00:02:13,290 Despite my dad taking, I'm going to get this done. 24 00:02:15,690 --> 00:02:19,330 I got these two new girls. I'm going to see how they do. One says she has a bit 25 00:02:19,330 --> 00:02:23,130 of experience with farm equipment, and the other one, I don't know. 26 00:02:23,450 --> 00:02:25,910 He has experience, but I can always train him. 27 00:02:33,950 --> 00:02:35,050 Whereabouts are you from? 28 00:02:35,610 --> 00:02:39,190 New Brunswick, but I moved to Alberta like four years ago. 29 00:02:39,570 --> 00:02:41,030 So where are you originally from? 30 00:02:41,330 --> 00:02:43,270 I'm originally from British Columbia. 31 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:48,330 I did a bit of construction, so like road pipe and started road work. 32 00:02:48,670 --> 00:02:49,890 How are you feeling about today? 33 00:02:50,110 --> 00:02:54,350 We have to run a plant by ourselves. It's our first time running equipment. 34 00:02:54,690 --> 00:02:58,450 Honestly, I'm pretty nervous. I haven't really stepped in a hole before. 35 00:02:58,670 --> 00:03:00,730 Is it your first time running equipment? 36 00:03:01,350 --> 00:03:08,330 No, I grew up farming, so I ran loader before, but nothing like what we're 37 00:03:08,330 --> 00:03:09,330 to be running it up here. 38 00:03:10,130 --> 00:03:11,290 I'm excited, though. 39 00:03:12,750 --> 00:03:14,510 I'm just going to park right over here. 40 00:03:22,730 --> 00:03:23,649 Hop up. 41 00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:24,850 I'm going to hand you the hose. 42 00:03:26,770 --> 00:03:32,390 Before tasking Sienna and Kendra with running the wash plant, Mike talks them 43 00:03:32,390 --> 00:03:33,790 through some basic tasks. 44 00:03:34,850 --> 00:03:36,770 You can see the bottom of the tank? 45 00:03:37,150 --> 00:03:38,290 Yeah. Perfect. 46 00:03:42,970 --> 00:03:45,730 Now, remember, let her flow. 47 00:03:46,390 --> 00:03:47,390 No go. 48 00:03:47,750 --> 00:03:49,230 So your valve there is closed. 49 00:03:49,570 --> 00:03:50,570 Open it up. 50 00:03:51,779 --> 00:03:53,080 Perfect. Now you hold the nozzle. 51 00:03:53,980 --> 00:03:55,560 You just clicked out, don't have a holder? 52 00:03:55,820 --> 00:03:56,820 No. It should. 53 00:03:57,220 --> 00:03:59,280 You've never dealt with any of this, have you? No. 54 00:03:59,740 --> 00:04:00,740 Yeah, like that. 55 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:04,080 Okay, now I'm going to go turn on the paw. 56 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,360 She's just probably unlucky right now because I haven't eaten anything, so I'm 57 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:14,360 kind of a little hangry. 58 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:15,700 Hangry. 59 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,800 I ordered breakfast this morning. I look at it like this. It's the least 60 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,160 appetizing thing I've seen in my life. I asked for scrambled eggs with cheese, 61 00:04:24,260 --> 00:04:25,840 so I got an omelet with cheese on top. 62 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,260 Pull it out slightly and open it to relieve the pressure in the hose. 63 00:04:35,820 --> 00:04:39,700 Next time, you lift it. You make sure the nozzle's in the tank. You relieve 64 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:42,160 pressure. That's how we don't get fuel everywhere. 65 00:04:45,380 --> 00:04:47,320 Next, Mike sends Kendra. 66 00:04:47,660 --> 00:04:50,020 to check the oil level in the water pump. 67 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:55,000 I think I'll be fine. Like, I did pipe fitting and water transfer back in 68 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,680 Alberta, so I know a little bit about pumps. 69 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:07,840 The engine oil in the pump was a little low, so I'm going to put some more oil 70 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:08,840 in it. 71 00:05:15,630 --> 00:05:18,810 I would like to have them a bit more time to get trained up because they're 72 00:05:18,810 --> 00:05:20,890 way too nervous for my liking. 73 00:05:21,230 --> 00:05:23,930 I'm still debating whether I'm actually going to let them loose today. 74 00:05:25,790 --> 00:05:27,250 It is very heavy. 75 00:05:28,910 --> 00:05:31,270 Oh my, why isn't this getting any lighter? 76 00:05:42,170 --> 00:05:43,390 Mike, do you copy Mike? 77 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:45,520 Go ahead, go ahead. 78 00:05:45,580 --> 00:05:46,780 I got the pump started. 79 00:05:47,220 --> 00:05:48,220 I'm full of oil. 80 00:05:48,620 --> 00:05:49,840 Okay, so we'll have to check. 81 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,480 It's good. 82 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:53,640 That way. 83 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:08,900 It was right there. 84 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,580 So this thing is insanely over full. 85 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:13,920 So, yeah. 86 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:17,540 Rebecca, do you copy Rebecca? 87 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:19,480 Okay. 88 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,660 Can you call Isaac and ask him to bring a pail or two with lids, because he's 89 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:26,160 got to empty some engine oil out of a pump for me. 90 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:27,980 All right, he's on the way. 91 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:30,580 That's best I caught it now. 92 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,180 This is why I double -check. This is why you add a little bit, you check your 93 00:06:34,180 --> 00:06:36,640 thing, because you can easily overfill one of those things. 94 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:41,000 If it builds up too much pressure, you can basically blow a head and 95 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,560 I'd rather not waste a $100 ,000 engine. 96 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Okay? 97 00:06:50,330 --> 00:06:52,970 happens. You've basically been thrust into something you've never done before, 98 00:06:53,190 --> 00:06:55,970 and you're not close enough that I can be consistently here. 99 00:06:56,330 --> 00:06:58,310 So I think I might just put you guys on rock trucks. 100 00:07:02,450 --> 00:07:03,850 I'm just going to drain a bit of oil. 101 00:07:05,070 --> 00:07:10,470 Had I left it, not double -checked it, and not trust my paranoia, that could 102 00:07:10,470 --> 00:07:11,470 have cost me an engine. 103 00:07:11,910 --> 00:07:16,030 It's not her fault. If you don't know, you don't know. I can't blame you for 104 00:07:16,030 --> 00:07:18,500 that. I think they'll be fine if we give them another day or two of training, 105 00:07:18,740 --> 00:07:21,840 just so they get more comfortable, more used to it. 106 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,520 And then they'll be fine. 107 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,080 Pump disaster avoided. 108 00:07:32,020 --> 00:07:38,040 Mike checks in on Kendra and Sienna, now on rock truck duties in the super pit. 109 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,240 Two rock trucks are going into the cut. Is that Kendra and Sienna? 110 00:07:41,860 --> 00:07:42,860 Yeah. 111 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,020 Yeah, do not be so close to each other, because that is asking for an accident. 112 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,940 Stop the one who's now speeding up. Stop! 113 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:51,680 I said stop, and you're still moving. 114 00:07:52,660 --> 00:07:55,700 Okay, stop it right now. Get out of your truck. You're being written off. 115 00:07:59,740 --> 00:08:03,180 You! I'm pointing at you. I don't know who's in that truck. You get out. You're 116 00:08:03,180 --> 00:08:04,079 coming with me. 117 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:05,080 Let's go! 118 00:08:06,740 --> 00:08:07,740 In the truck! 119 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,920 Next time I say stop, you stop. 120 00:08:14,460 --> 00:08:15,620 That's dangerous. 121 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,340 Do not ever get that close behind her. If she hit the brakes and you didn't 122 00:08:19,340 --> 00:08:23,740 it was quick enough, also, when I call on the radio, I demand that you reply. 123 00:08:25,540 --> 00:08:28,660 Now tell me, did you hear me on the radio when I was yelling at you? 124 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:32,200 I just looked at it and said F1, so I realized it was F1. 125 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,360 Okay, then did you hear me after that? You switched it. 126 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,900 And then did you still move after that? 127 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:39,220 No, I stopped. 128 00:08:40,289 --> 00:08:43,530 Okay, then I'll leave this as a verbal warning, and I won't actually write you 129 00:08:43,530 --> 00:08:44,530 up. 130 00:08:48,470 --> 00:08:49,950 Make sure your radio is on the channel. 131 00:08:50,430 --> 00:08:51,430 Perfect. 132 00:08:51,970 --> 00:08:55,370 I didn't know that there was a rule of how far you should be with the truck. 133 00:08:56,150 --> 00:08:59,770 I was very, like, intimidated in a way. 134 00:08:59,990 --> 00:09:05,490 I was scared because I don't want to go home. I want to stay here. I like it 135 00:09:05,490 --> 00:09:06,490 here in paradise. 136 00:09:07,150 --> 00:09:10,350 I say I try to be a good boss. I don't say I am a good boss. 137 00:09:11,530 --> 00:09:14,330 It's up to my employees to say I'm a good boss, not me. 138 00:09:15,390 --> 00:09:17,570 I think Mike had the right to get angry. 139 00:09:18,390 --> 00:09:24,150 It is, we are, like, me and her are both still new, but you gotta learn. 140 00:09:25,550 --> 00:09:31,370 Mike's lost a day of sluicing, attempting to train up Sienna and Kendra 141 00:09:31,370 --> 00:09:32,370 the wash plant. 142 00:09:34,590 --> 00:09:35,870 Sienna and Kendra. 143 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:40,720 are not doing the job right. They're still new to this. They're still new to 144 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:41,720 lot of this stuff. 145 00:09:41,820 --> 00:09:43,380 Which is fine. It's not their fault. 146 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,900 I do not have the time to sit there and watch them. 147 00:09:48,220 --> 00:09:49,220 Rebecca, do you copy? 148 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,320 I'm going to have to find somebody else. 149 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:59,500 Now, Mike is on the hunt for experienced operators capable of running the plant 150 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:00,500 on their own. 151 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:02,080 I need people. 152 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,940 You need people? Well, I printed the resume. 153 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:05,240 Perfect. 154 00:10:06,850 --> 00:10:07,809 Hey, Mother. 155 00:10:07,810 --> 00:10:08,810 Yes, what's up? 156 00:10:09,010 --> 00:10:11,110 Would you like to see some of the people we may be hiring? 157 00:10:11,590 --> 00:10:13,130 Okay. What are you all hiring? 158 00:10:13,570 --> 00:10:14,570 What do you need? 159 00:10:15,970 --> 00:10:20,710 I need a whole loader operator, more specifically, that can do multiple jobs. 160 00:10:21,170 --> 00:10:25,450 What about a rock truck driver? I can turn anyone into a mother into a rock 161 00:10:25,450 --> 00:10:26,069 truck driver. 162 00:10:26,070 --> 00:10:30,750 Well, that's questionable, too, because you couldn't make me into one. Yeah. 163 00:10:31,290 --> 00:10:34,910 So, there are a couple here that are going to go through. You're going to set 164 00:10:34,910 --> 00:10:36,070 interviews with them? Yeah. 165 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:39,840 Put them on the piece of equipment, and then you see what they can do. 166 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:41,520 Right? Yep. 167 00:10:42,020 --> 00:10:43,040 A -S -A -P? 168 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,540 Yeah, I know. Then you should go back to work? 169 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,560 Well, that is actually work. I know, but you should go to physical work? I know, 170 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:51,880 I get it, Ma. You want me gone. 171 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:53,160 Okay, let's go. 172 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,340 You do whatever you're going to do, and I go whatever I have to do. 173 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:58,740 I'll make some phone calls. 174 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,080 Sounds good. 175 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:04,520 I'll have a quick look at this one, because then we'll set up a couple of 176 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,280 interviews. Okay, let me know. which ones are suitable. 177 00:11:08,580 --> 00:11:11,840 If we're really going to sluice it, Mike is going to need to hire some more 178 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,820 people and he better get some there because otherwise it'll never happen. 179 00:11:35,210 --> 00:11:36,630 Nothing but work, work, and work. 180 00:11:37,530 --> 00:11:43,070 Kevin Beats, Tony's eldest boy, is battling to keep his season alive. 181 00:11:43,750 --> 00:11:49,910 After a flying start, he lost crew and has been fighting wash plant shutdowns 182 00:11:49,910 --> 00:11:50,910 for two weeks. 183 00:11:50,970 --> 00:11:54,950 With little gold coming in, Kevin is running out of money. 184 00:11:55,590 --> 00:11:56,590 Fast. 185 00:11:57,630 --> 00:11:59,490 Yes, been one thing after another. 186 00:12:00,370 --> 00:12:03,170 So far this year, we had Brennan leave. 187 00:12:03,770 --> 00:12:08,330 Then Caden left us, and now Buzz has gone to go, well, have a baby. 188 00:12:09,910 --> 00:12:12,910 I am definitely feeling everybody's absences these days. 189 00:12:16,010 --> 00:12:19,110 I'm spending more time down in the cut, helping to direct plans there. 190 00:12:20,370 --> 00:12:23,090 And I've got to jump back into more fixing things. 191 00:12:24,190 --> 00:12:26,930 Trying to find people is kind of a nightmare, to be honest. 192 00:12:28,250 --> 00:12:30,330 We can't just try people out like Tony can. 193 00:12:30,710 --> 00:12:32,290 Tony can have ten people. 194 00:12:34,419 --> 00:12:35,600 Well, that's a Parker. 195 00:12:36,820 --> 00:12:37,820 Hey, buddy. 196 00:12:37,860 --> 00:12:38,860 How's it going? 197 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,300 Not too bad. I've never been up here. 198 00:12:41,540 --> 00:12:42,540 No? 199 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,360 Good to see you. Same. How's your start of season going? 200 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,460 Oh, you know, spending money, not making any. 201 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:52,020 Yeah, at least made some. 202 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:53,560 Yeah. Yeah. 203 00:12:53,620 --> 00:12:54,680 That's kind of why I'm here. 204 00:12:57,020 --> 00:12:58,020 I kind of figured. 205 00:12:58,220 --> 00:12:59,220 Yeah. Yeah. 206 00:13:03,180 --> 00:13:04,180 What are you guys up to? 207 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:06,620 Me and Faith this year have gone out on our own. 208 00:13:07,020 --> 00:13:08,640 Congrats on doing this. Oh, thank you. 209 00:13:09,420 --> 00:13:13,600 Last season, Kevin and Faith bought equipment from Parker. 210 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,040 You don't need to pay for anything now. 211 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:17,240 You start a tab. 212 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:18,780 Appreciate that. I really do. 213 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:22,060 A bucket, a ripper, and a rock truck. 214 00:13:22,620 --> 00:13:23,620 110. 215 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,120 Let's go 105. 216 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:27,240 I don't haggle. 217 00:13:27,620 --> 00:13:29,540 Buy it or don't buy it, I don't really care. 218 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,520 So you're taking it? Taking it. Congratulations. 219 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,380 Running up a total debt close to $130 ,000. 220 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,180 It's hard to negotiate from the position of, well, we really need something. 221 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,340 Now, Parker wants his money. 222 00:13:51,220 --> 00:13:55,880 Yeah, because the deal was like end of the season, right? That was six months 223 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:56,880 ago. 224 00:13:58,660 --> 00:14:01,880 See, but you also didn't send us a bill until a couple weeks ago. 225 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,840 And if we don't have an invoice, it's kind of hard to just send money your 226 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:06,900 I hope you agree with that. 227 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,500 Uh, well, it's been like a month, Kevin. 228 00:14:11,580 --> 00:14:12,580 I know, I know. 229 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:15,160 Which was five months late. 230 00:14:22,060 --> 00:14:25,400 See, but you also didn't send us a bill until a couple weeks ago. 231 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,360 And if we don't have an invoice, it's kind of hard to just send money your 232 00:14:29,420 --> 00:14:30,420 I hope you agree with that. 233 00:14:32,140 --> 00:14:34,020 Uh, well, it's been like a month, Kevin. 234 00:14:35,140 --> 00:14:36,140 I know, I know. 235 00:14:36,820 --> 00:14:38,160 Which was five months late. 236 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:40,160 Kevin B. 237 00:14:40,220 --> 00:14:46,560 has a debt close to $130 ,000 with Parker, who wants his money 238 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,580 now. Like, what was the plan in January if I sent you an invoice? 239 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:52,720 I had to pay it then. 240 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,400 So how come you didn't pay it last month when I sent it? 241 00:14:56,860 --> 00:15:00,420 Because I figured you made us wait so long, you probably weren't hurting for 242 00:15:00,420 --> 00:15:01,940 money. I made you wait so long. 243 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:03,440 Yeah? 244 00:15:03,860 --> 00:15:04,860 Okay. 245 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,080 Good. 246 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,420 Perfect. All right. Thursday? 247 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:09,760 Double check with Faith, but yeah. 248 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,760 I need to double check with Faith? 249 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:13,640 If you want, we can both go double check. 250 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,500 Is she in here? Is she in the office? She might be in the kitchen. 251 00:15:33,610 --> 00:15:40,090 Hey, it's not here I get take it yet Okay She's not doing terribly good. So 252 00:15:40,090 --> 00:15:46,690 she's in the trailer. Give me two seconds Hey, babe Parker just dropped by 253 00:15:46,690 --> 00:15:51,790 he wanted to get paid for the rock truck and other things we bought from her 254 00:15:51,790 --> 00:15:58,310 last year. Mm -hmm He kind of sees his finances but I kind of got bars 255 00:16:01,710 --> 00:16:04,410 The money that I put aside for him, we've already spent it. 256 00:16:05,070 --> 00:16:08,890 Hopefully this week, we can lose enough that we can pay him back. 257 00:16:09,970 --> 00:16:13,530 I don't really give a... I just want to get paid so I can pay our bills. 258 00:16:14,870 --> 00:16:20,670 Because I have managed to spend, like, $4 .5 million so far this spring. 259 00:16:22,170 --> 00:16:28,170 And now I'm tracking down $130 ,000, like, the equivalent of looking through 260 00:16:28,170 --> 00:16:29,170 seat cushions. 261 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:35,500 Yeah, Thursday. 262 00:16:35,980 --> 00:16:40,000 Okay. So we should be able to do it for the truck, the bucket, and the ripper. 263 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:41,980 Okay. All right. Is everything correct? 264 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,240 Yeah. Perfect. Thanks. 265 00:16:44,660 --> 00:16:45,660 Thank you. 266 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,700 Hoping to delay paying him a little bit because, well, I assumed he could wait a 267 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:54,860 little bit more than the smaller guys. 268 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,120 If you're having to chase people for money, it's like Kevin shows up next 269 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:01,120 and needs something. 270 00:17:01,260 --> 00:17:03,220 I'm like, well, okay, cash up front. 271 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,619 Right? And that's probably what I should have done with the trucks, but I was 272 00:17:07,619 --> 00:17:09,599 like, it's Kevin's first season. I want to help a guy out. 273 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,380 As long as he pays for them, I'm fine. 274 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:15,119 Watch him not. 275 00:17:17,140 --> 00:17:18,540 Then the pitchforks come out. 276 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,839 I'm not feeling too bad about not getting his money as quick as possible 277 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:29,940 because, again, he's got more than I do by a lot. 278 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:53,480 Things right now are going really good. You know, we're like at a pretty decent 279 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,680 point in the season and starting to pick up momentum. 280 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:02,960 Back at his Dominion claim, Parker is hitting his stride. 281 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:10,000 The next thing is just like how much can we handle with how spread thin we are. 282 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,980 It's going to get real bad with three plants running this early in the season. 283 00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:17,060 There's just a lot going on, so. 284 00:18:18,380 --> 00:18:23,060 If we can keep the wheels on the bus, you know, we're in a very good place. 285 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:27,560 But it's going to take a lot of effort and work on everybody's part in order to 286 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:28,560 make that happen. 287 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:37,760 Parker's spending $100 ,000 a day running his wash plant. 288 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:42,640 With Mitch and Brennan pulling in gold from sulfur. 289 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,360 And Tyson with the extra pressure. 290 00:18:47,820 --> 00:18:50,340 of running two plants at Dominion. 291 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:58,280 Tyson is doing a really good job, but it's a lot for one guy to take on. He's 292 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,440 got a lot on his plate, so hopefully he can handle it. 293 00:19:07,180 --> 00:19:11,180 So this is the last bit of hay here for the first setup of Bob in the bridge bed 294 00:19:11,180 --> 00:19:12,180 of the season. 295 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,080 Then she'll be moving Bob to its new home. 296 00:19:16,810 --> 00:19:22,410 But there's a lot of work to be done to get the wash plant actually move like in 297 00:19:22,410 --> 00:19:23,410 preparation. 298 00:19:26,550 --> 00:19:30,170 We have our super stacker pad we've got to get in place. We have our feeder pad. 299 00:19:30,410 --> 00:19:31,750 We have our wash plant pad. 300 00:19:32,030 --> 00:19:34,470 That's a lot of work to happen by the end of the week here. 301 00:19:36,410 --> 00:19:39,450 Probably have to pull some late nights to get this happening here. 302 00:19:40,620 --> 00:19:45,660 While Tyson gets ready to move wash plant Bob to its second location in the 303 00:19:45,660 --> 00:19:52,540 bridge gut, in the Golden Mile, the cleanup crew is pulling Flucifer's mat. 304 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:00,480 I'm just checking to see how much gold we have in the run, and I'll make sure 305 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,120 that there is no gold at the bottom. 306 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,780 Actually, there's tons of gold down here. 307 00:20:10,220 --> 00:20:11,220 It's not good. 308 00:20:12,060 --> 00:20:17,040 Gold at the bottom of the sluice run could be a sign that some gold is being 309 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,600 washed away into the fine tailings. 310 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,900 Hey, Tyson, do you have a copy, Tyson? 311 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:24,640 Go ahead, Tater Tot. 312 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:30,440 I'm here at the sluice box, and it looks like we have a lot of gold right at the 313 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:35,400 bottom run, and it looks like we might have lost a bit. So can you come and 314 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,400 a look for us, please? 315 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:37,940 Well, that doesn't sound good, Todd. 316 00:20:38,140 --> 00:20:39,140 I'm on my way. 317 00:20:45,580 --> 00:20:47,860 Sounds like we're losing gold up at Lucifer. 318 00:20:49,260 --> 00:20:53,180 You know, this year there is a lot going on. Normally, I'm just in charge of one 319 00:20:53,180 --> 00:20:57,400 cut and one wash plant, and this year it's two. And, you know, who knows what 320 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,100 else Parker's going to try and throw at a guy. 321 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,160 Bob move is going to have to be on hold until we can figure this out. 322 00:21:08,430 --> 00:21:11,870 and do some panning here out of Lucifer's fine tailings. 323 00:21:20,270 --> 00:21:21,990 You know, this is really bad news. 324 00:21:22,370 --> 00:21:24,030 We're washing gold out of the run. 325 00:21:24,350 --> 00:21:30,670 With gold prices at an all -time high, Parker could be losing hundreds of 326 00:21:30,670 --> 00:21:31,870 thousands of dollars. 327 00:21:32,350 --> 00:21:34,190 Yeah, we've got to do something, that's for sure. 328 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:50,740 On the way to meet Parker. Gonna chat about Sluicifer. We're losing gold and 329 00:21:50,740 --> 00:21:51,740 gotta figure out why. 330 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:01,500 What'd you do? 331 00:22:01,540 --> 00:22:02,680 I didn't do it. 332 00:22:03,180 --> 00:22:04,180 Thing's broken. 333 00:22:04,540 --> 00:22:05,540 Watch out. 334 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:06,700 Nice. 335 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:08,520 Straight piped. 336 00:22:09,820 --> 00:22:13,020 You know man, I just left Sluicifer and it looks like the gold's running pretty 337 00:22:13,020 --> 00:22:14,020 hard down the box. 338 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,000 Just wanted to get your thoughts on things and what you think we should do. 339 00:22:19,340 --> 00:22:25,960 I think trying to slow the material down might help. 340 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:33,460 And so I think putting in kickbacks that kick the material back upstream, right? 341 00:22:33,660 --> 00:22:39,040 Yeah. And it just gives it a chance to kind of slow down and see if that makes 342 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,280 difference. For sure. 343 00:22:40,540 --> 00:22:43,120 All right. All righty. Sounds good, man. Thanks, Tyson. 344 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:51,940 Wash plant slucifer runs 250 yards of pay dirt an hour, but its gold -rich 345 00:22:51,940 --> 00:22:58,680 slurry is pouring into the sluice runs too fast, causing some gold to flow past 346 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,060 the ripples and out of the box into the fine tailor. 347 00:23:03,820 --> 00:23:09,580 Parker's plan is to redesign the distribution chutes that sit behind a 348 00:23:09,580 --> 00:23:13,500 curtain at the top of the sluices with eighth kickbacks. 349 00:23:15,470 --> 00:23:20,350 If they work, it should take some of the impact energy out of the gold -rich 350 00:23:20,350 --> 00:23:27,090 slurry as it falls and is kicked back, slowing the flow down, allowing all the 351 00:23:27,090 --> 00:23:30,810 gold time to settle and be caught in the sluice boxes. 352 00:23:37,870 --> 00:23:42,350 We got all day to do it, but it's two days worth of work. 353 00:23:54,190 --> 00:23:58,650 We're going to cut the back wall out of the distribution here, and then this 354 00:23:58,650 --> 00:24:01,110 plate will go up inside on an angle. 355 00:24:01,450 --> 00:24:07,270 That'll effectively, when the slurry comes down, it'll come towards the back 356 00:24:07,270 --> 00:24:08,270 this loose box. 357 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:23,800 and just put one tack on it? Yeah. 358 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:25,100 Away we go. 359 00:24:28,980 --> 00:24:30,760 Nice. Should we tack another one? 360 00:24:31,140 --> 00:24:32,300 Say something like that. 361 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:40,680 Not bad for eyeballing. I think they're pretty even. 362 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,380 One more and another and that's it. 363 00:24:44,260 --> 00:24:45,260 Try that. 364 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:50,900 Nice work. 365 00:24:51,630 --> 00:24:52,630 Is this where we're done? 366 00:24:53,110 --> 00:24:54,110 Yeah. 367 00:24:54,950 --> 00:24:56,070 All right, how's your day going? 368 00:24:56,930 --> 00:25:00,570 Hopefully better now, you guys tell me. We're just about to test it. All righty. 369 00:25:00,590 --> 00:25:01,590 I'll hit the belt. 370 00:25:01,790 --> 00:25:02,990 Yeah, they're clear, Alex. 371 00:25:03,770 --> 00:25:04,770 Clear! 372 00:25:12,530 --> 00:25:13,750 Hey, you know, it looks good. 373 00:25:14,030 --> 00:25:18,870 We got a lot of gold catches here, and we want it in the gold room, not in our 374 00:25:18,870 --> 00:25:19,870 tailing. 375 00:25:21,390 --> 00:25:25,550 Got to get down to Bob, continue setting up the next wash plant pad, because 376 00:25:25,550 --> 00:25:29,270 it's going to be done in a couple days, and this needs to be set up by the end 377 00:25:29,270 --> 00:25:31,550 of the week, so got a lot of work ahead of me. 378 00:25:42,590 --> 00:25:45,190 Right now, I ain't got hope in hell to do anything. 379 00:25:46,090 --> 00:25:49,950 Mike Beatt's plan, to run wash plant Harold all week. 380 00:25:50,490 --> 00:25:52,170 has crashed and burned. 381 00:25:52,610 --> 00:25:58,590 He's lost three days sluicing while struggling to find skilled crew to run 382 00:25:58,590 --> 00:25:59,590 plant. 383 00:25:59,670 --> 00:26:03,870 Now, he's trying two new hires who are more seasoned. 384 00:26:04,170 --> 00:26:08,270 So I put these two gentlemen in. We're going to see how they do. And they have 385 00:26:08,270 --> 00:26:09,270 bit of experience. 386 00:26:09,990 --> 00:26:12,530 You never know. Some people just pick it up like... 387 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,660 Here's the first bucket. 388 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:24,560 Let's make some money. 389 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:34,420 I'm from Saskatchewan. I came out here to learn heavy equipment. 390 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:42,040 This is the farthest I've ever gone for work, and it's beautiful out here. 391 00:26:46,140 --> 00:26:49,300 Before this, I was... 392 00:26:49,610 --> 00:26:51,530 Actually, industrial painter. 393 00:26:51,790 --> 00:26:55,290 I did all the white and yellow lines that you guys see down the road. 394 00:26:59,490 --> 00:27:06,030 It most definitely is a great deal of responsibility for me and me embracing 395 00:27:06,030 --> 00:27:07,630 be down here running the plant on our own. 396 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,400 Water pressure is way too low. I have to get a hold. 397 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:20,980 Mike, do you copy? 398 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:22,840 Go ahead. 399 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,020 The wash plant's here. The water pressure is really low, and things 400 00:27:28,020 --> 00:27:29,020 looking so good right now. 401 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:30,720 Copy that. 402 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,740 But it looks like the band in the side broke, because it looks like this whole 403 00:27:55,740 --> 00:27:56,880 thing got pulled away. 404 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,660 That's not going to last very long before it rips the hose off. 405 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:07,380 The pump's hose has ruptured, allowing water to escape, reducing pressure to 406 00:28:07,380 --> 00:28:08,380 wash plant. 407 00:28:10,220 --> 00:28:15,760 So, get a new hose, hook it up, and that way I can get this loosened again. 408 00:28:16,300 --> 00:28:17,300 Ready? Yep. 409 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,280 That's going to be fun to pick up. We're going to have to get a hole over here. 410 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,740 I'm being inhaled by mosquitoes. 411 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:47,220 Get out of my ear, you little... Hey. 412 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,640 New pipe. Now we're going to hook this whole thing up. 413 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,040 We'll be golden. 414 00:29:03,019 --> 00:29:07,000 We were pulling on the pipe and it put too much dress on that joint. 415 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,800 It just popped out. That happens sometimes. 416 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:12,880 Got 417 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:19,820 the 418 00:29:19,820 --> 00:29:22,900 new hose on. I'll have to do a starter up and it should be loosened here in 419 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:23,900 20 minutes. 420 00:29:28,750 --> 00:29:31,170 Everything's hooked up. We should be ready to get going now. 421 00:29:31,570 --> 00:29:32,570 Finally. 422 00:29:33,310 --> 00:29:36,810 That kind of sucked that I went down, but it's good that now we got it up and 423 00:29:36,810 --> 00:29:38,970 running and everything's running pretty smoothly right now. 424 00:29:39,710 --> 00:29:45,250 The pump breakdown has lost Mike another eight hours of sluicing. 425 00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:48,150 Good thing they contacted me and didn't just leave it running. 426 00:29:50,510 --> 00:29:51,329 I'm racing. 427 00:29:51,330 --> 00:29:53,130 No, I'd be doing pretty good. They want to learn. 428 00:29:53,510 --> 00:29:54,850 No, them boys do good. 429 00:29:55,210 --> 00:29:57,390 If it eventually does break, it happens. 430 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:05,280 Sucks, costs money, but as long as the end result is I'm getting gold, that's 431 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:06,280 all that matters. 432 00:30:37,290 --> 00:30:39,310 Copy, your antifree wash is all piled up. 433 00:30:39,810 --> 00:30:41,910 Shut the water off, Rick. Shut the water off. 434 00:30:42,470 --> 00:30:48,970 At Scribner Creek, Kevin B. Trude is racing to bank enough gold to pay back 435 00:30:48,970 --> 00:30:49,970 Parker. 436 00:30:52,150 --> 00:30:53,150 Copy, Kevin. 437 00:30:53,190 --> 00:30:55,150 Got a problem with the plant. We're shutting it down. 438 00:30:56,070 --> 00:30:57,230 Someone grab me a shovel. 439 00:31:03,590 --> 00:31:04,650 But now... 440 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:11,600 His wash plant has shut down, and with mechanic Buzz away, it's all on 441 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:12,980 Kevin to fix it. 442 00:31:14,380 --> 00:31:16,040 Let's go see what we're working with. 443 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:21,740 Oh yeah, 444 00:31:24,020 --> 00:31:25,020 I can see that right away. 445 00:31:26,180 --> 00:31:28,400 This kid plate is not lying flat. 446 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,580 It's built up, and you wouldn't think it going from like this. 447 00:31:32,990 --> 00:31:37,970 to this will make that much of a difference, but it is very noticeable 448 00:31:37,970 --> 00:31:41,490 mat lays flat on the pre -wash versus when it is like it is now. 449 00:31:43,530 --> 00:31:45,150 Let's put this out of the way for now. 450 00:31:46,510 --> 00:31:52,030 Before Kevin can realign the angle of the hopper feeder's skid plate, he needs 451 00:31:52,030 --> 00:31:58,810 to lift it out, remove the rubber mat, and clean out the dirt that pushed 452 00:31:58,810 --> 00:31:59,810 the plate up. 453 00:32:01,610 --> 00:32:04,150 And like I'm sure I can get somebody in here to shovel, but then I'll be 454 00:32:04,150 --> 00:32:07,230 standing watching the shovel, and a few things put me up the wall of standing 455 00:32:07,230 --> 00:32:08,230 around. 456 00:32:09,970 --> 00:32:15,250 So by taking out a lot of the stuff underneath the skid plate that's causing 457 00:32:15,250 --> 00:32:18,950 everything to rise up, I'm hoping by making it more angled, all the material 458 00:32:18,950 --> 00:32:22,490 that falls in here is just going to go straight into the plant. 459 00:32:23,150 --> 00:32:28,410 Kevin plans to replace the rubber mat with a more robust steel plate. 460 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:34,740 to ensure pay dirt doesn't get trapped and flows directly into the shaker deck. 461 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:41,660 This is my super official, highly complicated engineering drawing of what 462 00:32:41,660 --> 00:32:42,119 to cut. 463 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,660 The master plan. 464 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,460 I can almost still read it. 465 00:32:55,340 --> 00:32:56,340 Piece of cake. 466 00:33:01,230 --> 00:33:02,350 Yeah, that's pretty much it. 467 00:33:02,990 --> 00:33:05,810 The mass engineering plan has worked. 468 00:33:08,690 --> 00:33:11,870 Fixes are done, so let's turn it on and see what she does. 469 00:33:14,070 --> 00:33:15,070 There's on. 470 00:33:16,690 --> 00:33:18,090 I always hate this part. 471 00:33:32,810 --> 00:33:33,810 There we go. 472 00:33:35,250 --> 00:33:38,150 Feels good to be back on track and getting gold. 473 00:33:39,430 --> 00:33:43,850 It's always painful when you've got to shut down, but nice to get more money in 474 00:33:43,850 --> 00:33:44,689 the box. 475 00:33:44,690 --> 00:33:47,870 Yeah. That allows us to pay off America. 476 00:34:08,010 --> 00:34:09,010 We're about to connect. 477 00:34:09,310 --> 00:34:10,570 Six miles away. 478 00:34:11,949 --> 00:34:12,949 Easy, baby. 479 00:34:13,909 --> 00:34:15,010 Got to get that tongue. 480 00:34:15,310 --> 00:34:20,570 Parker Schnabel's foreman, Tyson, is about to attempt one of his trickiest 481 00:34:20,570 --> 00:34:21,570 moves. 482 00:34:22,690 --> 00:34:25,670 We're just about ready to pull our feeder out. What do we say, Liam? 483 00:34:26,090 --> 00:34:27,029 Drag her. 484 00:34:27,030 --> 00:34:28,030 Let's do her. 485 00:34:28,830 --> 00:34:32,550 Wash plant Bob slews 10 acres of the bridge cut. 486 00:34:34,219 --> 00:34:37,520 and needs to be moved to its second position of the season. 487 00:34:38,780 --> 00:34:45,360 First, Tyson and his crew will haul the plant's 40 -ton feeder on a low buoy up 488 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:51,639 a 15 -degree ramp, then navigate it around the edge of a narrow section of 489 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:56,360 pit and down into the new position 1 ,000 feet away. 490 00:34:57,340 --> 00:35:03,420 Finally, Tyson will drag the 45 -ton wash plant with an excavator. 491 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,940 across a narrow dike to its new path. 492 00:35:10,220 --> 00:35:12,660 Anyone sees anything they don't like, just holler. 493 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,660 Just want to be careful, go slow with it, because we do not have a spare 494 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,220 We cannot afford anything to go wrong with this feeder. 495 00:35:37,070 --> 00:35:42,690 Right now, we're trying to pull the feeder up this hill, but it doesn't want 496 00:35:42,690 --> 00:35:43,690 do it. 497 00:35:44,590 --> 00:35:47,110 It just wants to spin fully locked up. 498 00:35:48,410 --> 00:35:49,730 It gets spinning tired. 499 00:35:51,830 --> 00:35:53,450 Hey, Alex, you got a copy, Alex? 500 00:35:53,930 --> 00:35:54,930 Yeah. 501 00:35:55,290 --> 00:35:58,410 I'm going to give this one more try, man, but I think we need that loader 502 00:35:58,410 --> 00:35:59,690 here to pull this thing up the hill. 503 00:36:03,510 --> 00:36:04,510 Oh, 504 00:36:04,870 --> 00:36:06,050 we almost got her that time. 505 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:09,540 Better go grab that loader. 506 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:16,340 The semi -truck's 450 horsepower is not enough. 507 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,180 Tyson's solution? 508 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,540 Bring in extra muscle. 509 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,500 Parker's 390 horsepower 250 loader. 510 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,200 Okay, first gear? Yep. Good check. 511 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,200 We're starting to climb the steep part. 512 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,420 Just keep her going the way we're going. 513 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,180 We don't want to tear anything up here. 514 00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:55,980 Keep going, Alec. Keep going. 515 00:36:57,140 --> 00:36:58,800 Hang on. 516 00:36:59,620 --> 00:37:01,720 No hanging on. We're not stopping now. 517 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,600 Should be good there, Alec. 518 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:15,060 We got the feeder out, and now we're going to go drag a walk slant here. 519 00:37:22,350 --> 00:37:23,630 Okay, here we go. 520 00:37:30,170 --> 00:37:32,530 Starting to enter our narrow dike here. 521 00:37:34,090 --> 00:37:38,810 My biggest concern, this wash plant falling off this dike. 522 00:37:39,290 --> 00:37:41,990 Last thing we want to do is to fall down in the hole. 523 00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:46,860 Whoa, whoa, we're a little close to the edge there. 524 00:37:49,660 --> 00:37:53,040 You know, there's a lot of tension on those shackles. You can hear them 525 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,040 and cracking. 526 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,000 This is Bob's one heavy wash plant. 527 00:38:02,340 --> 00:38:03,340 Terrifying. 528 00:38:03,620 --> 00:38:06,800 Yeah, I mean, this is the highest badge we've ever built our wash plants on. 529 00:38:07,020 --> 00:38:08,020 How am I looking, Liam? 530 00:38:08,140 --> 00:38:09,680 Take another three, four feet. 531 00:38:10,020 --> 00:38:10,799 See you there. 532 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:11,800 Whoa. 533 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:19,340 We got her in place. 534 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:26,480 Wash plant Bob is now in position on its new 60 -foot high pad. 535 00:38:27,420 --> 00:38:30,240 Hey, Liam, you want to rig up the Super Sacker? 536 00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:35,020 Let's get it. 537 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:38,160 Keep it coming. 538 00:38:40,740 --> 00:38:42,520 Well, shall we? Let's do it. 539 00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:44,240 All righty, here we go. 540 00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:45,720 We got power. 541 00:38:48,140 --> 00:38:49,140 Looks like a jet. 542 00:38:49,540 --> 00:38:50,640 I'll go hit the water. 543 00:38:52,340 --> 00:38:58,040 With Bob in place, Tyson's finally bringing in more bridge -cut gold. 544 00:38:59,020 --> 00:39:03,660 Well, guys, we did it. Bob's back up and running. Nice work. Yeah, nice work on 545 00:39:03,660 --> 00:39:05,460 your behalf and your behalf. 546 00:39:15,850 --> 00:39:18,830 I just like the environment, and the Yukon's gorgeous. 547 00:39:19,250 --> 00:39:25,850 At Paradise Hill, Mike Beatt's new recruits, Kendra and Sienna, have 548 00:39:25,850 --> 00:39:27,770 their first week on site. 549 00:39:28,590 --> 00:39:32,650 Sienna and Kendra just need to get more confidence on it, not for a lack of 550 00:39:32,650 --> 00:39:37,290 skill, because they do pretty good. It's just they seem to get too nervous, and 551 00:39:37,290 --> 00:39:38,470 that's holding them back. 552 00:39:40,670 --> 00:39:41,870 Can't complain much. 553 00:39:42,310 --> 00:39:44,070 I haven't gotten yelled at. 554 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,440 You've got to be careful before you do things, of course. 555 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,420 And so when everything goes smooth and dandy, then it's a good day for sure. 556 00:39:53,180 --> 00:39:55,740 But it's not easy. It's not for everybody. 557 00:39:56,300 --> 00:40:01,360 I think it's wicked. I'd never seen actual gold until I came up here. 558 00:40:01,580 --> 00:40:06,080 And then I finally seen gold for the first time. I was pretty excited. 559 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,160 Oh, I love it up here. I don't know if I want to go home. 560 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,118 Hi guys. 561 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:23,120 Hello. 562 00:40:23,740 --> 00:40:25,000 Long time no see. 563 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,380 Been positively aging. 564 00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:29,160 What have you been up to? 565 00:40:29,580 --> 00:40:31,720 I've been busy cleaning out a cut in the Indian. 566 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,400 I think it's coming along just fine. 567 00:40:33,660 --> 00:40:37,600 Yeah. With that being said, I think we should weigh up the Indian. 568 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:39,060 Cool. Let's do it. 569 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,760 Tony has been running loose a lot in the early bird cut. 570 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,160 Non -stop this week. 571 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,840 10, 30, 40. 572 00:40:49,390 --> 00:40:56,330 70, 100, 110, 140, 190, 200, 210, 220, 230, 270, 573 00:40:56,450 --> 00:41:02,910 280, 300, 310, 320, 350, 370, 380, 400, 410, 574 00:41:03,150 --> 00:41:08,230 413 .32. 575 00:41:08,950 --> 00:41:13,390 Worth $1 ,450 ,000. 576 00:41:14,550 --> 00:41:16,370 That's an easy million and a half, huh? 577 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:17,718 Again, eh? 578 00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:18,658 Yeah, huh? 579 00:41:18,660 --> 00:41:21,880 Keep that up, we might even have a piggy bank yet. 580 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:23,960 Well, not the way you're spending. No? 581 00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:26,560 But that's pretty good for the week, though. 582 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,040 Yeah. It's all good. 583 00:41:28,860 --> 00:41:29,920 How's Harold going? 584 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:31,940 He's just not been going very well. 585 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:33,300 It's just little things. 586 00:41:33,820 --> 00:41:36,980 We did get some guys that are a little bit more experienced. 587 00:41:37,380 --> 00:41:40,620 Both of them were doing pretty good, throwing through quite what should be a 588 00:41:40,620 --> 00:41:41,920 reasonable amount of dirt. 589 00:41:42,220 --> 00:41:44,160 Okay, let's... I'll count Hattles. 590 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:50,820 Last week... Harold ran for two days, banking 14 .28 ounces of gold. 591 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:52,160 Are you ready? 592 00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:53,300 Yeah, well, let's do it. 593 00:41:55,520 --> 00:42:01,420 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 .92. 594 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,500 Worth $59 ,000. 595 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:09,500 How many days did you watch? 596 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:10,980 Three days, give or take. 597 00:42:11,420 --> 00:42:15,520 Well, it's kind of nice to see something coming out. It's not a lot, but at 598 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,440 least something is getting in from there. 599 00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:20,420 Like I said, I've been fighting the whole thing just to get that. 600 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:21,720 So what are you going to do? 601 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,720 I'm going to see if it gets better because maybe it's just tooth and pains. 602 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:31,380 Yeah. But if I keep having this much trouble just running it, and that's the 603 00:42:31,380 --> 00:42:34,540 goal I'm going to get, we're going to have to make plans for something else 604 00:42:34,540 --> 00:42:35,540 because it's just not working. 605 00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:38,940 Okay, well, just run it for another week. See what comes out. Give it one 606 00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:41,160 try. Done. It works. Fine. Not. 607 00:42:42,180 --> 00:42:43,480 So, what's your grand total? 608 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,360 $2 ,739, roughly. 609 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,240 That's all right. I mean, you know what? You get over a million bucks in every 610 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:52,900 week. I don't see what's wrong with that for now. 611 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:55,400 Yeah. I think we should go back to work. 612 00:42:55,860 --> 00:42:57,820 All right. I'm going for lunch. Okay. 613 00:43:08,910 --> 00:43:11,050 I just cleaned up gold, so now I'm going to do picking. 614 00:43:12,090 --> 00:43:18,390 Kevin Beats needs to clear 36 ounces of gold to pay off his debt to Parker. 615 00:43:20,190 --> 00:43:22,230 How are the pickings looking right now? Anything good? 616 00:43:22,650 --> 00:43:24,410 No, I don't have this much pickings right now. 617 00:43:24,890 --> 00:43:25,890 Let's see what it does. 618 00:43:26,210 --> 00:43:26,968 Let's do it. 619 00:43:26,970 --> 00:43:27,970 Let's do it. 620 00:43:30,690 --> 00:43:37,170 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7 .32. 621 00:43:37,850 --> 00:43:40,650 But I don't think it was going to quite cover Parker's bill. 622 00:43:41,030 --> 00:43:42,610 I still have a little bit more gold. 623 00:43:42,870 --> 00:43:44,670 Okay. Want to add it to the pile? 624 00:43:44,950 --> 00:43:45,950 Let's see what we got. 625 00:43:46,330 --> 00:43:53,210 8, 10, 12, 18, 20, 22, 626 00:43:53,410 --> 00:43:59,710 26, 27, 27 627 00:43:59,710 --> 00:44:03,850 .57. Worth $97 ,000. 628 00:44:04,730 --> 00:44:06,450 $31 ,000 short. 629 00:44:06,890 --> 00:44:07,950 Of what they owe Parker. 630 00:44:08,930 --> 00:44:10,470 I should probably quickly sell this. 631 00:44:10,850 --> 00:44:11,850 Yeah, probably. 632 00:44:12,570 --> 00:44:13,930 Plus whatever's in our bank account. 633 00:44:15,270 --> 00:44:17,490 I got stuff on the go, so I'll be back. 634 00:44:17,790 --> 00:44:19,370 Okay. Okay, mom. 635 00:44:19,630 --> 00:44:20,970 Goodbye. Bye. 636 00:44:21,870 --> 00:44:25,890 Still a bit annoyed at Parker for showing up and saying that we're six 637 00:44:25,890 --> 00:44:29,510 late paying the bill when he didn't give us the invoice until last month, but 638 00:44:29,510 --> 00:44:34,670 all that really matters is we have the gold now to pay him off, and we can put 639 00:44:34,670 --> 00:44:35,810 the whole thing to bed, so. 640 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,040 That's all that matters right now. 641 00:44:46,820 --> 00:44:48,100 How are you doing, Chris? 642 00:44:48,700 --> 00:44:49,700 Nice vest. 643 00:44:49,980 --> 00:44:50,980 Yeah. 644 00:44:51,260 --> 00:44:53,360 You can't even do it up in that font. 645 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,840 When I got up here, my pant size was 38. 646 00:44:56,220 --> 00:44:57,260 I'm now wearing 35. 647 00:44:57,940 --> 00:45:02,060 It has nothing to do with the fact that you smoke your breakfast and lunch. 648 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,440 Did we find any gold this week, Chris? 649 00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:08,340 Yeah, let's just lose. 650 00:45:08,940 --> 00:45:12,540 Good thing Tater Tot noticed that Sluicifer was losing gold when she shut 651 00:45:12,540 --> 00:45:16,700 down. She noticed there was gold running out the runs, and Parker came up with a 652 00:45:16,700 --> 00:45:19,620 solution of putting kickbacks to the distribution box. 653 00:45:19,980 --> 00:45:25,200 Yeah. Last week, Sluicifer delivered 232 .1 ounces. 654 00:45:25,500 --> 00:45:30,080 If the kickback has worked, it should get more gold. Here we go. 655 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,920 Got 10, 40. 656 00:45:34,430 --> 00:45:41,250 60, 80, 100, 150, 180, 220, 250, 657 00:45:41,750 --> 00:45:43,390 272 .15. 658 00:45:43,990 --> 00:45:47,750 Worth $953 ,000. 659 00:45:48,350 --> 00:45:49,350 There we go. 660 00:45:50,250 --> 00:45:51,250 That's not bad. 661 00:45:52,230 --> 00:45:55,230 Anyway, Bob took a hike this week. 662 00:45:55,770 --> 00:45:59,870 Yeah, a lot of pieces to move and never moves fast enough. 663 00:46:00,090 --> 00:46:02,570 I'm so busy around here that it's hard to be in. 664 00:46:03,100 --> 00:46:05,560 every place at once, so... You want to do Bob? 665 00:46:06,060 --> 00:46:11,540 Bob's total in the bridge cut last week was 188 .4 ounces. 666 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,160 Here we go. Here's Bob. 667 00:46:15,220 --> 00:46:21,940 20, 50, 70, 96 .5. 668 00:46:23,660 --> 00:46:26,960 Worth $338 ,000. 669 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,060 Short week. You got to expect it, right? Oh, flat move. Yeah. 670 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,140 How's our little extension treating us here at Sulphur? 671 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:41,140 While Tyson's work dominion, Mitch has been looking for gold left behind by the 672 00:46:41,140 --> 00:46:43,300 old timers on Sulphur Creek. 673 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:48,220 So far, it's been averaging 290 ounces a week. 674 00:46:49,020 --> 00:46:55,200 We got 60, 120, 200. 675 00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:57,620 Keep it going, keep it going. 676 00:46:58,180 --> 00:47:01,100 280. Oh, we're going to do it. 677 00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:03,540 Did we do it? 302. 678 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,400 Worth just over $1 million. 679 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:14,920 Holy. You're getting smokes, buddy. 680 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:19,100 Let's see what the book says. 681 00:47:19,780 --> 00:47:23,300 This week, we have 670 .65. 682 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:29,360 Our season total so far this year is 3 ,541 ounces. 683 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:34,120 Close to $12 .5 million worth of gold. 684 00:47:34,580 --> 00:47:37,440 Sweet. If we can keep this going, it'll be great. 685 00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:40,520 What? Sweet. 686 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,880 Yeah, I mean, what, you want me to do a dance? Yeah, I want to see you dance. 687 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:46,920 I'm not going to do a dance. 688 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,700 Well, should we go finish her off and get a plant food, buddy? All right, 689 00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:52,900 gentlemen. Yep. 690 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:54,360 See you, man. Take care. 691 00:47:55,140 --> 00:47:56,180 See you, Chris. Yep.