1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,040 dramatic chord strike] 2 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,040 Hi. 3 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,119 Hi. 4 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,519 How are you? 5 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,479 Oh. 6 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:32,840 Oh! 7 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,520 So, Tony, we lost seven good people. 8 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,000 Jacob, too. 9 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,480 All left in the middle of the night, 10 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:45,160 and they all went to Parker. 11 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,040 I guess so. 12 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:11,960 Yeah. 13 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,639 You know, it's not gonna stop us. 14 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,360 I mean, the core group of us is still here. 15 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:08,280 After losing seven crew members, King of the Klondike, 16 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:13,279 Tony Beets, is forced to get his hands dirty to keep 17 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,079 the gold flowing. 18 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:24,760 To date, Tony's put $16 million in gold in the box. 19 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,039 Just last week, he hit his biggest gold weigh 20 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,999 of the season, 672 ounces, and he wants another 21 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,320 mega payday by the end of the week. 22 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,720 Cousin Mike is running two washplants 23 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,999 in the 46-acre Corner Cut. 24 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,040 At the north end is Tony's heavy-hitter, Sluice-A-Lot. 25 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,600 1,500 feet south sits his new 26 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:05,960 million-dollar plant, Find-A-Lot. 27 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,280 Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. 28 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,839 You're running right over the cone. 29 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,440 But after the defection, Cousin Mike's now left 30 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,320 with inexperienced crew. 31 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:21,560 It's not great. 32 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,920 You got to train people constantly. 33 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,719 So this means more work for me. 34 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,840 I just got on the excavator loading Sluice-A-Lot. 35 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,280 Enjoying myself. 36 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,680 Without a seasoned operator to feed washplant Sluice-A-Lot, 37 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,840 Cousin Mike's given the job to Darian Dennis, 38 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,160 who's been a gold miner for just one year. 39 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,920 I'm from Jamaica, originally. 40 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,320 I'm actually taking a pilot course. 41 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,640 Eventually, I want to fly for one of the big airlines. 42 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,160 This is, in my opinion, the dream team. 43 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:10,440 In the 350 loader, Meghan Roberts clears tailings. 44 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,280 We worked together last season. 45 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:13,399 Both of us have, like, 46 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,840 good attention to detail, hard workers. 47 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,760 Being up here is just, you know, 48 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,680 a lot of responsibility, 49 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,519 but like Spider Man said, 50 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,520 "With great responsibility comes great power," 51 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,160 something like that, you know? 52 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:44,400 Darian, do you copy Darian? 53 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:47,679 Do you hear that? 54 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:56,240 There's something wrong with the plant. 55 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:01,479 There's a noise that normally isn't there. 56 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:02,880 It doesn't sound good. 57 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:27,880 Cousin Mike, do you copy Cousin Mike? 58 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:30,680 Something's really wrong with the plant. 59 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,000 We shut it down, but you need to get here as soon as you can. 60 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,240 Oh, it's pretty bad. 61 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:56,760 Pretty bad. 62 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:04,360 We've got the feeder here. 63 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,159 It pushes all the material onto the deck, and there's supposed 64 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,399 to be a whole chunk of metal here, an impact bed. 65 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,400 So not only is this piece broken off, 66 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:15,400 it's rattled through the plant. 67 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,360 So yeah, this is [bleep]. 68 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,000 And he didn't hear it, eh? 69 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:24,480 Yeah, that's what he says. 70 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:25,800 Yeah. 71 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:29,880 You can't tell me you didn't hear that. 72 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,480 You're either not paying attention 73 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,039 or you're full of [bleep]. 74 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,760 I'm gonna send the operator to his room. 75 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:41,959 A pretty big [bleep] up. 76 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:43,160 Yeah. 77 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,960 Sluice-A-Lot's impact bed has fallen into the plant, 78 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,440 smashing up the whole top shaker deck. 79 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:30,600 I'm moving, I'm moving. 80 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:33,679 Yeah, we can cuddle. 81 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,360 Oh! 82 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,840 On the call, Sluice-A-Lot's manufacturer, 83 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,240 Jeff Turnell. 84 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:10,640 Uh... 85 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:24,119 That sounds great. 86 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,480 I did, yeah. 87 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,560 To me, I think your best action is gonna be taking 88 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:55,200 that top deck out and replacing it. 89 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,840 I can have that ready to ship Friday. 90 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:04,160 Yeah, bye. 91 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,000 We'd have to take the whole top off, right? 92 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,320 OK. 93 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,920 It's the main part of your plant, really, here. 94 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:32,360 So it's basically like rebuilding 95 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,000 the whole [bleep] plant. 96 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:36,960 It's gonna be a big job. 97 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:40,240 With the people leaving 98 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:41,880 and now downtime sluicing, 99 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,000 we don't have time for that [bleep]. 100 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,039 Tony has been punched in the gut. 101 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:56,039 They'll have to dismantle and rebuild the entire $21,000 102 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:02,119 top deck, with the downtime costing Tony over $190,000 103 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,520 a day in lost production. 104 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:31,560 I've been a lot more hands-off this year. 105 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,959 We've got four washplants running, which is crazy, 106 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,480 but we have a long ways to go. 107 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,800 31-year-old Parker Schnabel's season is in danger 108 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,160 of coming off track. 109 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:50,440 14 weeks in, he's banked over $22 million in gold. 110 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,800 But his numbers are slipping. 111 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,399 Last week, he had his worst gold weigh yet. 112 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,840 It's a little disheartening. It's a bit scary. 113 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:09,480 Parker's spending $100,000 a day running four washplants 114 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,000 in an ever-expanding operation. 115 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:13,759 At Ken and Stuart's, 116 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,400 Rocksand has nearly mined out Pit One. 117 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:21,200 Now, Parker wants a second pit, twice the size, 118 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,959 done by the end of the season. 119 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,000 At Dominion, washplant Bob has half 120 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,680 the massive Bridge Cut still to mine, 121 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,240 while Sluicifer and Big Red 122 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,360 are only a third of the way through the Golden Mile. 123 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,360 Priority now is just keeping those washplants running 124 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:42,840 at all costs, so we always need a lot more people. 125 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:45,760 We've been getting a lot of crew coming over from Tony's, 126 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:47,400 which is nice and helpful for us. 127 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,719 We treat them as good as we can. 128 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,840 We pay them as well as we can. 129 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,439 Wasn't very much fun working at Tony's, always worried about 130 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,679 what to do, what to say, all that, whether you're gonna 131 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:05,680 get yelled at or whether Tony was in a good mood or not. 132 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,279 Everyone's always in a good mood here. 133 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:10,480 Way better place to work. 134 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,959 At Parker's, it's more relaxed, stress-free. 135 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:17,160 You know what you're doing. 136 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,160 It's a little weird to hear please and thank yous 137 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,519 all the time, rather than somebody that's just being called 138 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,240 a [bleep] at 7:30 in the morning. 139 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,039 When you compare to Tony Beets, that's like he's 140 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,280 on a very, very far, far end of a spectrum in terms 141 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,279 of how you treat people. 142 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:36,680 That's fine. That's Tony's style. 143 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:38,240 It's none of my business. 144 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:43,439 But, you know, early years, I was terrible. 145 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,040 I was a dick. But you live and learn, right? 146 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,800 It definitely annoys me hiring all these new people, 147 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,440 and they just come and get to run whatever piece 148 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:02,440 of equipment they want. 149 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:06,039 But the people that have been here a while are just kind 150 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,200 of stuck where they are. 151 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,679 It definitely, like, upsets people. 152 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:14,479 Like, poor Evan has been working here for [bleep] years. 153 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:15,679 And he knows how to run a hoe, 154 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:18,159 but yet they keep him still running a plant, 155 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,280 which I think is bull[bleep]. 156 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,880 The new people come in and just get to do 157 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,160 whatever they want, really. 158 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,639 We've hired on quite a few new guys, and they 159 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:31,760 used to work for Tony. 160 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:34,239 The more help, the better over here. 161 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,040 I'm not too sure what's going on over there. 162 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:41,160 Foreman Tyson now has to get the new crew up to speed. 163 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,480 Just got hired on at Parker Schnabel's 164 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,120 mine site three days ago. 165 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,120 It's way better here, it's awesome. 166 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,279 Food's better, camp's better, people are nice. 167 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,560 You actually get appreciated for the work that you do. 168 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,360 Tyson's handed the crucial role of feeding Sluicifer, 169 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,599 one of two washplants running side by side 170 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:06,960 in the Golden Mile, 171 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,720 to Beets' defector, Rick Raymond. 172 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,599 I wouldn't say I'm a pro or anything, but I know 173 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,080 a certain amount, enough to get stuff done. 174 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,400 Rick loads pay into the hopper, 175 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,560 which travels up the 120-foot SuperStacker 176 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:31,200 into the washplant. 177 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,039 As long as you're doing your job and not screwing up, 178 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:38,440 I think you're pretty good. 179 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,920 [bleep] Yeah, go ahead. 180 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,880 - OK, sorry about that. - You're all good, man. 181 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,200 Oh, hey. She's [bleep] smoking. 182 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,040 SuperStacker's [bleep] jammed up. 183 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:30,480 Whoa! 184 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:39,400 [bleep]. 185 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,160 Holy [bleep]. 186 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,800 Stacker [bleep] stopped, started pouring dirt over. 187 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,599 I just seen it over there. 188 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,040 At Dominion Creek, Sluicifer's SuperStacker has 189 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,600 jammed, causing the generator to surge and smoke, 190 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,919 shutting down the plant on the watch of new hire Rick. 191 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,920 Rick, I guess he wasn't paying attention. 192 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,479 It looks like it was running for a while 193 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:15,480 and the kid didn't notice. 194 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,200 So now we got to go do a whole [bleep] pile of shoveling, 195 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,320 try and get this thing back up and washing rocks. 196 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,240 We don't have time to be [bleep] around 197 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,360 and wasting on, you know, stupid [bleep] like this. 198 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:38,199 I didn't see it happen. 199 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,320 Just happened to look up and it was plugged. 200 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:45,440 Ah, [bleep]. 201 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,759 Looks like our SuperStacker quit. 202 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,920 There's smoke coming out of this box. 203 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:51,920 Parker bought the SuperStacker 204 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:53,760 earlier this season, 205 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,720 with 20,000 hours already on the clock. 206 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:58,840 She's got some 207 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:01,640 electric gremlins for sure. 208 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,839 We're gonna be down for an hour just shoveling, 209 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,600 it's a huge pain in the ass. 210 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,839 It's a good thing Sean spotted the pile over when he did, 211 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,879 because, [bleep], if he didn't, 212 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,319 we'd be here for way longer than an hour. 213 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:20,040 I'm sorry, I'm just [bleep] tired out. 214 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:26,519 Rick just isn't cutting it. 215 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,200 He's, uh... 216 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:30,000 I don't know what they did over at Beets' there, 217 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:31,520 but yeah, he's not really 218 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,160 getting the program here with sluicing, so I'm gonna have 219 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:36,960 to come up with something else. 220 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:39,440 Do you think you're good? 221 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:40,600 Yeah. 222 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:42,640 All right. 223 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:47,480 Good for a test? 224 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,159 Well, it looks like it's all there mechanically. 225 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,680 Our power supplies are working 226 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,960 and everything's moving as it should. 227 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:01,960 I think we're just gonna fire up. 228 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,599 - Hey, Sean, how's it going, man? - Good, buddy. 229 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,600 Gonna need to find something else for Rick to do. 230 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,400 So do you mind jumping in a loader for us 231 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:19,440 and feeding Sluicifer? - Yeah, yeah, no problem, man. 232 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,000 Looks like our SuperStacker is stacking for now. 233 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,200 Sluicifer's online and that means we're making money. 234 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:46,639 Really lucky I was here to see that and catch it 235 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,599 at the right time. 236 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:49,879 This isn't a little [bleep] show 237 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:51,360 like Tony's got going over there. 238 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:53,960 This is where the big boys play. 239 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:20,160 All right, let's take that steel out. 240 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:28,479 It's jammed. 241 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,279 Cousin Mike has the weight 242 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,520 of Tony's operation on his shoulders. 243 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,879 Shorthanded after a load of crew defected to Parker's. 244 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,279 Ah, [bleep]. 245 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,119 He's battling to get Sluice-A-Lot 246 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:43,320 back washing rocks for Tony 247 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,000 after the catastrophic break of the top deck. 248 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:48,600 OK, one more like that. 249 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:55,520 Yeah. 250 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,120 [bleep] yeah. 251 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:06,720 Piece of [bleep]. 252 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,480 It's a lot heavier than you think. 253 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,120 On the other side of the cut, 254 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,160 Find-A-Lot is now Tony's only working washplant. 255 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:47,840 Over millennia, 256 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,999 gold sinks through gravel until it hits solid bedrock. 257 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,759 Often, the richest paystreaks are found right above 258 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,159 this impenetrable surface. 259 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:04,039 But water can seep into hairline cracks and over time 260 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,039 freeze and expand, causing fractures 261 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,240 that fill with gold. 262 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,880 Tony believes there's a bumper payday in the jagged bedrock, 263 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,959 and is willing to risk the sharp rocks damaging 264 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,520 his washplant to get more ounces. 265 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,759 Overseeing Find-A-Lot are Beets' veterans Eric Morel 266 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,199 and his girlfriend, Agnes Viger. 267 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:54,880 Oh, [bleep]. 268 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,920 At Indian River, Tony's only working washplant, Find-A-Lot, 269 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,520 is jammed with jagged bedrock. 270 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,559 For [bleep] sakes. 271 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,560 This is what happens when you wash bedrock. 272 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,159 As you can see, it's sharp. It doesn't roll. 273 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,320 When two big pieces meet each other, they don't slide past 274 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,439 each other, so that's what you get. 275 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,440 Then the other rocks come in 276 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,760 and it'll spill all over the place. 277 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,279 Sluice-A-Lot's not running, 278 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,280 And now Find-A-Lot is down as well. 279 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,039 So at the moment, the company is making no money. 280 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:38,360 Both plants down means Tony's losing $16,000 an hour. 281 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:41,160 We better get these rocks out of here 282 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,040 and get at least these plants on the go. 283 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,520 Good thing our operator was paying attention. 284 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,519 The girl on the tailings paid attention. 285 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,160 They shut the plant off quick. 286 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,160 We really got to get her going. 287 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,240 I'd say that's all right, or what? 288 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,079 Yeah, good enough. 289 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,680 Looking good, rocks are gone. Let's fire it back up. 290 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,839 Because the crew spotted the jam quickly, Find-A-Lot 291 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,400 was down less than an hour. 292 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:40,320 And Tony will soon find out if his gamble to run bedrock will 293 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,240 deliver him a big payday. 294 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,720 Washing rocks again! 295 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,240 Making some money again, at least with this plant. 296 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,560 We'll move on, we'll go to Sluice-A-Lot 297 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,880 and start getting that thing on the go, too. 298 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,040 Well, Chris, how's the last run looking here? 299 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,320 - Oh, it's chunky. - Nice. 300 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,879 At Parker's Indian River claim, foreman Mitch Blaschke 301 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,599 is making a pit stop as he transitions from Pit One 302 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,160 to Pit Two. 303 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,159 We're just running out of days here, so my big concern is, 304 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:34,280 is there actually any gold in it? 305 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:36,840 There might be more, 306 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,279 but that one just stuck out to me. 307 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,040 A nugget for good luck. 308 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:45,600 Pit One has delivered just 500 ounces in four weeks. 309 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:51,079 Now, Mitch is in a race to get sluicing at Pit Two, 310 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,680 and increase Parker's weekly gold total. 311 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,720 This washplant move needs to be the fastest one 312 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,040 that we've done this season. 313 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,640 All righty, time for moving Rocksand. 314 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,039 So, Sean, you can have that road done and ready by the time 315 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,880 we get there with the washplant parts. 316 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,840 We need to have this thing back up and running by the end 317 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,240 of the day for night shift. 318 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:20,040 So it's a lot to do, but I think we can make 319 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,519 it happen. - All right, let's do it. 320 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:22,520 All right. 321 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,680 At the Indian River, Mitch and his crew spent 322 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,519 four weeks mining out the eight-acre Pit One. 323 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,320 Now Mitch needs to break up Rocksand, 324 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,799 ready to move to a new pad 325 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,039 three quarters of a mile away 326 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,360 in the new 15-acre Pit Two. 327 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,880 But first, Sean needs to finish building the road 328 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,640 that connects the two paths. 329 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,119 Once he's done, Mitch can haul Rocksand to its new home 330 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:56,360 and get sluicing by the end of the day. 331 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,000 Normally this is all stuff we'd have done, 332 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:07,240 have it ready and prepped. 333 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,920 Just being short-handed is kind of a pain in the ass. 334 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,239 So just try and pull it out 335 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,520 and towards me a little bit here. 336 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,720 First time I've ever 337 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,880 done anything like this. 338 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,119 I feel like it's putting some trust on me to be able 339 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,399 to do this. It's nice to see. 340 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:44,359 After four years running truck and loader, Parker's trialing 341 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:46,760 Evan Kurtz on excavator. 342 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:51,080 His first task-- drag Sluicifer's twin sluice runs 343 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,800 onto the lowboy. 344 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,439 I kind of know what I'm doing, but I also don't really know 345 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,639 what the [bleep] I'm doing. 346 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:57,840 Oh, that's close! 347 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,000 - So I'm a little nervous. - That's real easy. 348 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:04,880 We couldn't have cut that any tighter. 349 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:07,920 Yeah, buddy, nice and easy. 350 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,800 The 20-foot runs must be dead center on the trailer bed, 351 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,520 or they risk tipping off the side. 352 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,880 Ah! Going pretty smoothly here. 353 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:21,960 Keep going. Keep going. 354 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:26,480 Yep. Twist it. 355 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,000 One more of that. 356 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,880 Perfect, stop. Nice job, man! 357 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,519 Look at you go! 358 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,079 That's so much just anxiety. 359 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,920 Alrighty, let's get rolling. 360 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,280 So we got everything loaded up, chained down. 361 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:18,920 Oh, man. 362 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,600 Hm... that's not good. 363 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,880 We're not gonna be making it down. 364 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,079 So you can see here just how soft this is. 365 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,719 We get this truck on here with all the weight 366 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:45,919 of the washplant, 367 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,600 I think we're gonna get ourselves hung up. 368 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,279 I got a giant roadblock from where I'm at 369 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:52,600 to where I gotta be. 370 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,320 Oh, man... 371 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,600 At Ken and Stuart's, Sean's unfinished road has 372 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,239 thrown a curveball at Mitch's plan to be up and running 373 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,879 by nightshift. 374 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,799 I was hoping we'd be a bit further along than this. 375 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,200 She's gone to the other end there. 376 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,800 I just had to give it a quick back drag back, smooth it out. 377 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,519 After you get over 100,000 pounds up on this, 378 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,159 then we're just gonna be sinking right up to the axles. 379 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,760 We got to try and get this compacted. 380 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,560 Like, not just do we need it flat, but it's got to be 381 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:36,920 firm, you know? - Yeah. 382 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,399 Yeah, we got to do something about this. 383 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:42,560 We're just burning time. 384 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,799 I was trying my best to get it done as soon as I could, 385 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,200 but obviously it wasn't quick enough. 386 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:57,680 Let's go get her. 387 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,080 There is no [bleep] way 388 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,719 that semi would make it through this road right now. 389 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,759 Alongside Sean's D10 dozer, Mitch brings in the loader, 390 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,159 rock truck, and 480 excavator 391 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,559 using the weight of the machines 392 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,440 to compact the top layer of sand. 393 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,479 We got all hands on deck trying to get this road 394 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,479 finished so we can get this plant where it needs 395 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,240 to go and assembled. 396 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,239 It's all about getting that plant shaking 397 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:32,240 and getting that gold. 398 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,119 So you can see here from running the trucks on it, 399 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,360 just the difference this has made, how much compaction 400 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:40,919 there is now. 401 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:42,799 So we should be good to go here. 402 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,599 We're gonna try and roll across it. 403 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,400 All right, here we go. 404 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,800 We're going to take it right down the middle here. 405 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,639 Come on, baby! 406 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,200 We got some sluicing to do. 407 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:03,160 Yeah, buddy. 408 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:05,919 All right, buddy. Go for it. 409 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,959 You're gonna go all the way to the edge. 410 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,120 Keep going. Keep going. 411 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:14,320 That'll do it. 412 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,359 We got our sluice runs where we want them. 413 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,520 It's time to grab the shaker deck. 414 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,680 It's gonna run out of real estate. 415 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,000 That might be good there. 416 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,840 Right on, buddy. 417 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,879 We're gonna go back, get the feeder, hook up 418 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,120 the water line, and this baby should be running by the end 419 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,240 of the day. 420 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,200 Keep coming. Keep coming. 421 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:52,960 Keep coming. Keep coming. 422 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,600 - You're good there. - Yeah, there we go. 423 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,000 Ha-ha! 424 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,240 - Nice job, buddy. - Thank you, sir. 425 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,079 You know, you're really, really stepping up. 426 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,280 Sweet. 427 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,039 We got a pile of pay over there. 428 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,319 It's time to turn it into some gold. 429 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,880 All right, here we go. There we go. 430 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,240 Hey, Sean, send me some water, buddy. 431 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:27,960 What do you think, Evan? 432 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,360 You ready to put some dirt in this thing? 433 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,400 Here we go. 434 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,240 Ha! We are back sluicing! 435 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,680 Just in time for night shift, Mitch and the crew are sluicing 436 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,280 Pit Two with all eyes on the new pit to pay out. 437 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:54,559 How's it going, man? 438 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,280 - Good, how are you? - Not too bad. 439 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,399 You guys got her moved in a hurry. 440 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,439 Mainly just the two of you and Sean? 441 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:03,560 - Yeah. - Pretty much. 442 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:04,960 Dude, you guys are smashing it. 443 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,519 Yeah. 444 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,000 Tony's plans for another monster week on the gold 445 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,840 are falling apart. 446 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,040 He's lost crew to Parker. 447 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,879 His main plant at Indian River is down. 448 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:47,040 Now he's checking in with son Mike, who's been trying to get 449 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,679 the trommel running all season. 450 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:53,719 It's right over there. 451 00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:58,360 Last week, Mike dug a feeder pond and installed a pump, 452 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,360 but despite his best efforts, 453 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,320 the trommel still isn't turning. 454 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,880 He's got problems with his water pipes. 455 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,120 Yeah. 456 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,360 40 miles away... 457 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,320 Sluice-A-Lot's been out of action for five days, 458 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,000 but the new top deck has finally arrived. 459 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,999 Now Cousin Mike must remove the old one 460 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,440 before installing the new frame. 461 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,040 An epic task, which will cost him 462 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,800 another whole day of sluicing. 463 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,319 Keith is gonna cut the deck in half. 464 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,919 Then we'll give it a pull with a crane, yank it out. 465 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,359 Yeah. 466 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,160 The longer we take, 467 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,600 the more money it costs. So we better hurry up. 468 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,360 Oh, yeah. There's a lot of torque. 469 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,920 Whoo! 470 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,040 Nice. 471 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,799 Oh, yeah! 472 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,440 That's what we were looking for. 473 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,600 Hopefully, our new deck goes in as easy as this one come out. 474 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,080 We'll take these side plates out, 475 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,319 and then we'll put the new deck in from the top. 476 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,159 Almost broke in half. 477 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:12,679 We should do it a little more gentle. 478 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,680 - Let's all hold it. - Yeah. 479 00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:21,720 Whoa! 480 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:24,560 OK. 481 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:30,600 - Right there? - A little bit more. 482 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,200 It's gonna be [bleep] close. 483 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,520 Yeah, I think more my way. 484 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,919 OK, we're on the frame over here. 485 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:40,920 Oh, [bleep]. 486 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,960 Yeah, [bleep]. 487 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,759 I didn't think of that one. 488 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,959 OK, come-alongs. 489 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,200 Come-alongs. 490 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,240 If it doesn't fit, we got the manifold in the way. 491 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:03,239 So now we gotta let one side down to get underneath 492 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:04,240 the frame there. 493 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,039 But at the same time, we gotta get underneath 494 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,439 the spray bars on the side. 495 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,439 So we're gonna have to have one corner up 496 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,479 and three corners down. 497 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,079 So that's where the come-alongs come in. 498 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:20,080 Cousin Mike uses hand-operated winches, or "come-alongs," 499 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,200 positioned to allow the crew 500 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,720 to precisely raise or lower each corner. 501 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:28,560 Whoo! 502 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:33,840 Oh, yeah. 503 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:36,360 - OK. - There we go. 504 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,400 We're [bleep] in there now. 505 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:40,799 It feels good, doesn't it? 506 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:41,919 Yeah, it does. 507 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,640 OK, so it's gonna come my way and down. 508 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,320 OK, whoa. 509 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,879 - That's it. - It looks good. 510 00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,599 Yay! 511 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,880 Last job, secure the deck and put new screens in. 512 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:06,680 There we go. 513 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,639 The new shaker deck is in. 514 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,800 So we better get this plant fired up and back to sluicing. 515 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,279 It's cost them six days of sluicing and over 516 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,320 a million dollars in lost gold production. 517 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,920 Hit it! Off we go. 518 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,959 But Tony's Indian River washplants 519 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,320 are back on the gold. 520 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,759 I'm glad I'm still in the excavator feeding the plant 521 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,160 because people have been fired for less, you know. 522 00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:40,040 Let's get that gold, man. 523 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,199 Finally, we're sluicing. 524 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:49,800 That went all right. 525 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:53,520 I would say so. 526 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:58,560 No problem. 527 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:24,720 - Hi, guys. - Hello. 528 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:27,799 - Hello. - Hi. 529 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,079 He didn't bring a big tray. Oh, there it is. 530 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,440 You guys need a fly light in here, because holy [bleep]. 531 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,719 - Yeah, it's pretty bad. - Bzz, bzz, bzz! 532 00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:39,079 Yeah, look at that. 533 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,559 Maybe we should have a shower. 534 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,159 So, I hear you need new employees. 535 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:52,840 Yeah. 536 00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,999 Some actually last a little longer, which is kind of nice 537 00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,800 because it's a lot less paperwork. 538 00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:01,840 Now we at least know where the rejects go, right? 539 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,280 Yeah. To Parker's. 540 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:06,880 Anyways, it's all good. 541 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,039 I don't give a rat's ass. 542 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:09,080 Next. 543 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,359 I heard Sluice-A-Lot was down for a big part of the week. 544 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,679 Yeah. A big chunk out of the 545 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,279 top deck broke off. 546 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,719 It's not too bad. Got it fixed, right? 547 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:20,920 How's the trommel doing? 548 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,800 OK, anyways, you guys only ran for about 24 hours 549 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,439 after you fixed it? - 24 hours for this week. 550 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,199 Yeah, OK. Let's see what we got. 551 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:37,200 From its seven day run last week, Sluice-A-Lot scored 552 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,879 over 330 ounces. 553 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:44,360 But this week, the plant ran for just 24 hours. 554 00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:50,160 5, 10, 15... 555 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:55,680 20, 25, 30, 35... 556 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,040 45.48. 557 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,999 Worth $159,000. 558 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,560 That kind of hurts a little. 559 00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:15,640 Well, this one's very full. 560 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,280 Who wants to count? 561 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,080 Michael, Miguel, brother of mine. 562 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:21,759 I don't have my glasses with me. 563 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,280 Keep forgetting that you have glasses now. 564 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:24,559 You have glasses? 565 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,159 He's looking very sophisticated. 566 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:28,160 Are you ready? 567 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,839 10, 20... 568 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,599 All week, washplant Find-A-Lot ran bedrock, 569 00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:42,279 which Tony's gambling will deliver over 200 ounces. 570 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:47,440 ...140, 150, 160, 170, 180. 571 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,960 237.68. 572 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,559 Worth over $830,000. 573 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:03,999 Perfect. 574 00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:10,720 True that. 575 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:16,479 This week's gold takes Tony to a season total 576 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,680 of 4,894 ounces, 577 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:24,639 worth over $17 million. 578 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,719 Why don't you guys bring all this stuff away, 579 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:30,159 and then you and I can go back to the Hill? 580 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:32,720 Are you talking to me? 581 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:35,720 Bye, children. 582 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,320 - Bye. - Goodbye. 583 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,239 Hi. 584 00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:57,240 What? 585 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:00,600 Any single person, 586 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,999 like not even on this mine site, anybody could like give 587 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,559 him a treat, let him in their vehicle, and he would 588 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,360 just become their dog. - Got food? 589 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:10,480 - OK. - Yeah. 590 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:14,400 Let's do it. 591 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:15,960 Come on, lay down. 592 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,000 He's like, "I don't wanna do that." 593 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:21,400 Gotta be on his timeline. 594 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,479 Yeah. 595 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,320 So you've got a bunch of like new Tony guys. 596 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,080 Yeah. 597 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,079 Some of them are hella nervous. 598 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,079 They are like beaten dogs. 599 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,160 They're all doing really good, but... 600 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,360 we had Rick running Sluicifer there and he didn't notice 601 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,759 a pile up in Sluicifer and luckily Sean was there 602 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,400 and jumped into action and... - Who's Rick? 603 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:42,600 He's gone. 604 00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:44,880 He don't work here no more. 605 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:50,759 Well, Doumitt, shall we see what we did? 606 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,640 Yeah, we could do that. 607 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,199 Recent gold weighs from all four plants 608 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,599 totaled in the 400s. 609 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:04,440 Now, Parker's looking to get back to 550 ounces or more. 610 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,480 Mitch, we're gonna start with Rocksand, because you guys had 611 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,080 a plant move. Last of the old cut. 612 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:10,680 All right, let's see what Rocksand did here. 613 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:13,520 We got 20... 614 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,519 Last week, Ken and Stuart's Pit One 615 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,000 got 100 ounces. 616 00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,360 70... 617 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,439 76.3. 618 00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,960 Worth over $260,000. 619 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,440 That's the last of Cut One. 620 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:32,839 That's the end of it. 621 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,120 OK, Tyson, we got Big Bob here. 622 00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:37,240 Alrighty, let's see how Bob did in the Bridge Cut. 623 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,119 Ten... 624 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,799 This season, in Dominion Creek's Bridge Cut, 625 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,960 Bob has averaged nearly 160 ounces a week. 626 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,200 100, 110... 627 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:55,960 120.7. 628 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:01,679 Worth $422,000. 629 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,039 - It's not bad. - Not bad. 630 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,680 You're in three digits, can't argue. 631 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:05,800 Yeah. 632 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,080 - And then the Golden Mile. - All righty. 633 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,160 Let's see how two washplants did together. 634 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,919 Last week, Sluicifer and Big Red 635 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,680 delivered 247 ounces. 636 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,360 20, 40... 637 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,160 80... 638 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,440 160... 639 00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,439 200... 640 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,599 236.4. 641 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:41,040 Worth over $820,000. 642 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,440 - Nice. - Yeah, it's not bad. 643 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:49,879 Last week, we had 453 ounces on the nose. 644 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:54,120 This week, it's 433.4. 645 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,599 Parker's numbers have dropped now for the second week in 646 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:02,559 a row, and with Parker spending close to a million dollars 647 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:07,000 a week, he can't afford for it to slide anymore. 648 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,040 Things have definitely slowed down 649 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:10,480 since the beginning of the season. 650 00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:13,600 We started really good, and we're kinda... 651 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:16,120 going downhill. 652 00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:18,120 We need somehow to pick that back up... 653 00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,160 - Yeah. - ...and get back on schedule. 654 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,880 He's telling you guys to find better ground. 655 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,759 Well, I'm trying to do it nicely. 656 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:28,760 It's too late for that. 657 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:30,920 OK. 658 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:36,760 Our season total, 6,742.3. 659 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:42,680 All right, thanks, guys. 660 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,480 - All right, gentlemen. - Later, have a good one. 661 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:45,879 - Thanks, Chris. - You bet. 662 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,000 Come on, Bosco! It's dinner time. 663 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,280 This week, numbers have gone down again, 664 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,920 and we really need to step it up. 665 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,560 Good plants, good people, hopefully some good ground, 666 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:00,680 then we'll make it.