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stop for nobody.
On this gold rush.
Gold prices up, fuel prices low.
Driven by soaring gold prices, Tony Beats searches for buried treasure.
Sometimes you gotta gamble a little bit.
On his road to redemption, Rick Ness battles to hit a major milestone.
I'm just gonna stay here right now. We're going for a thousand ounces this
Shut her down, Mark! Shut her down!
I almost lost everything.
And Parker's naval race to build a war jet pushes his crew to the limit.
But could break the scale.
35
years
ago when I started there, we were getting 500 dollars an ounce.
Well, right now we get three times as good, right?
We have record high gold prices. So the more material we're on, the better we're
like you do.
After two disastrous seasons, King of the Klondike Tony Beats is hoping to
a comeback.
Last year we didn't have a great season, but this year with the gold price being
up, we have a trouble going already.
So we're going to see if we can make 3 ,000 ounces on the hill this year.
Eight weeks into the season, Tony's fixed his trommel and is running mega
pay dirt, which he hopes will deliver his 3 ,000 -ounce season goal.
But he's not stopping there.
At this cool price, we're going to have to open up new grounds quick. I mean, it
is now or never, right?
I'm going to go and have a chat with Minnie. I'll look at the map because we
really need piles.
Very good.
Hey, Minnie.
Yeah?
Have a look.
What are we looking at?
Got to figure out that we're going to open up some more ground.
Really? Feels low, gold is high. So if ever was a time to take a gamble, then
now it should be it.
What about the...
We've been looking at it for the last 30 years. Where? You've been dumping
stuff? Well, we put overboard that 30 years ago.
We mined all four sites, so why wouldn't the center be any good?
Are you going to test it first?
Do you think it's worth it? Well, the only way you're going to find out is if
we're going to excavate it and dig it up.
Like I said, with the gold price, we can do it right now.
Well, then you better get on it.
Okay. So if you get out of my office, then I'll get out of my office. I'm
There you go. Go do it.
400 yards from Tony's camp is his potential new ground at the heart of
Hill. It's always nice to have more than one shot open.
To search for the buried pay streak, Tony brings in his 460 excavator.
To get to the pay, Tony will have to literally move a mountain.
When he opened his first cut on Paradise Hill 30 years ago, he piled the
worthless overburden on top of virgin granite.
Since then, he's mined around the waste site, piling 50 ,000 yards of
overburden, enough to fill 15 Olympic swimming pools, on top of what could be
massive layer of gold -rich pay dirt.
I do remember...
Mining in front of it. I remember mining all the way around it. I just don't
remember how far in we mined up to it.
I'll just have to dig around and figure it out.
Grow prices up, fuel prices low. So whenever a time that we could probably
this out, then today will be the day, I think.
Tony's looking for the gold -rich virgin ground, indicated by lighter -colored
gravel. which should be underneath the overburden.
We're getting some gravel, which would be a good sign, but that doesn't
necessarily mean that there's merging ground.
I don't think we're gonna get lucky over here.
Well, let's see what we're going to find down here.
I mean, you can feel it when you dig it.
Whether it's buzzing around or not.
Well, let's not get too excited too soon.
Have a look.
Tony's hit a pay streak.
But to find out how much gold it contains...
he must now remove 50 ,000 yards of overburden.
If
Tony's
right, this piggy bank, buried for 30 years, could be worth over a million
dollars.
Hey, what'd you find?
You guys put all this overburden here, what, 30 years ago? You don't
remember what it looks like.
No, all I know is that we did put a cut in the far side, but as to how far and
what we left in between, no, not really.
Okay, are you sure it's going to pay out?
Well, we'll see.
It costs a bit to put a D10 in there for a couple of days, though. I know it
feels low right now, but it still adds up.
I know, I know.
Sometimes you've got to gamble a little bit, too. So I'll take the 10s on it.
Let's make it disappear and find out what's underneath it. All right.
Yeah, let's go. Let's make this happen. Two weeks ago, Tony gambled on Monica's
hunker cut.
9 .92.
It didn't pay off.
We cannot afford to run any dirt with no gold in it.
Now he's rolling the dice again.
Moving the overburden will cost more than $100 ,000.
And failure will set him back by at least a week.
This season is already short, so it's time he can't afford to lose.
We've got a good 30 feet, maybe 40 feet of overburden that needs to come off.
Tony's being convinced that there's going to be a lot of pay here, but I
think so. We'll see.
You know,
we got a pretty late start this season because of the whole COVID thing.
Despite losing four weeks at the start of the season.
25 -year -old Prakash Nabel has big plans to expand his mining empire beyond
Yukon.
Even with the lake there we've got, hopefully we can find more ground in
It takes a lot of money to find more ground.
The gold price is getting better, which is really good.
The best chance we've got of finding more ground is just to take advantage of
the high gold prices, make some money.
Even with the late start we've got, it's decent. Hopefully we can do that.
To build up the war chest he needs to expand, Parker splits his crew in half
run two massive wash plans.
How'd you sleep last night with that rainstorm, man? I slept pretty good.
Made me sleep like a baby. Hey, let me tell you something. As a new father, the
whole sleeping like a baby thing, complete lie. That means you woke up
least three or four times.
I can't imagine.
In the last cut, co -former Nick Blaschke and Brennan Ruot run wash plant
Red.
We had some rain last night, so we're just hoping that we can keep up with Big
Red.
While four miles west, loader operator Aaron Bowe feeds wash plant Sluicifer.
He's racing to finish the pay so he can move the plant.
Just feeding the plant.
I'm trying to finish up so we can get into our next cut, get back to getting
that gold.
The wash plant move is part of Parker's radical new plan to make up for lost
time by having his crew move the plant faster and more often.
What's up, boss?
Yeah, so this week we're going to move the plant.
Last week.
Mitch and Brennan struggle to move Big Red.
Whoa, it's going over. What are you doing in there, man?
They ended up costing Parker $200 ,000 in lost gold.
That was terrible.
Now the pressure's on Aaron to make sure
Sluicifer's move is more successful.
Shainer's gonna move this plant whenever he's ready and he ain't waiting for
you. Yeah, but the timing should work out all right.
When you run this, you're gonna have to stand there and babysit it. But it's
just this spot so far, this wet hay is disgusting though.
Every day you see like all four seasons.
We've been seeing a lot of rain which is always a concern.
Wet hay, never good, never good. It always causes problems.
Aaron joined Parker's crew in 2014 as a rock truck driver.
Yeah, let's get that stuff up to the plant.
Since then, he's proved himself as a loader operator.
It's just me over here at Big Red today.
It's just me on my loader.
Now, he's responsible for running Parker's most productive wash plant
When I heard that the Yukon is named Gold Mining and Essential Service, I was
real happy about that. I mean, every day I just think about how fortunate I am
to have a job.
I put some wet material on the belt, and I noticed that it was all spilling over
the sides there.
On Indian River, Parker Snable is a month behind schedule, and his wash
Lucifer, is jammed with wet pay.
I tried to run back and shut this thing down as quick as possible, but I just
couldn't do it fast enough.
Aaron Bow loaded the hopper with wet pay dirt.
We split down the split rubber belt, clog the rollers, and jam the
conveyor.
This is a lesson I've learned the hard way before.
I guess I was just thinking about some days off instead of focusing on what I
should have been focused on.
Aaron needs to finish losing.
so the plant can be moved.
The shutdown is costing valuable time and over $5 ,000 an hour in lost gold.
JM, he's supposed to take over the plant for the second half of the day here.
And this is how he gets started with his training on the plant.
First lesson, what not to do.
Where it's loose in three ounces an hour, I just cost the boss about five
Oh, okay.
Yeah, we got everything away from the rollers.
Best case scenario, everything fires up.
All right, moment of truth.
Look at that now.
Yeah, I don't know what that beeping is.
Not good.
I've never even had this problem before.
We're going to be down longer than I thought.
This isn't good.
Yeah, I'm caught Parker's block funny right now. I got to go let him know that
things have gone from bad to worse down there.
We don't have time for stupid mistakes like the one I just made.
See how he takes it.
Okay, bye.
Just hold on to that.
Okay. Sorry about that.
He doesn't want to be bothered right now.
He just told me to go get Shane to have a look and see if he can do something
about it.
Oh, it'd be lovely if Shane, he has that magic touch and he just presses a
button and it works.
Fantastic.
I want to check to see if that drum is trying to turn up there.
It's broken.
That's why.
The belt is off on the motor.
That's going to be an issue.
It might have something to do with why it's not turning.
These belts snap because of all the weight on the belts from that jam up.
can see.
Right in here, all this soot in there, and that's the belt burning apart.
Burnt him right out.
Two hours into the shutdown, mechanic James Smith replaces the broken drive
belt.
Well, now we'll know it's not the belt since we still got an issue.
Fingers crossed.
All clear?
Yeah, I'm clear.
Looks good there.
Should be good to go.
Far up the plat.
Better walk the rocks again.
Well, I kind of just relearned a lesson.
You don't put wet material on these belts. You end up shoveling for half an
hour. It's just a can of worms you don't want to open up.
Pretty happy to see our plant up and running now.
Sometimes things go wrong on the mine.
Sometimes it's somebody's fault. This time it was definitely mine.
So should we send Aaron through the wash plant?
Die? I mean, the conveyors are great until that happens. Until something
happens, yeah?
Parker can finish running paint, but he's through.
now has even less time to move the plank.
And he's lost two hours of valuable blue screen.
I mean, telling me you screwed up doesn't change the 10 ,000 o 'clock.
These last couple of years have been rough.
Just breaking even. I've got to make money this year, otherwise I'm not going
be able to keep gold mining.
For Rick Ness, this is the year that makes or breaks his mining career.
After two years struggling to turn a profit, he has to make money this
But he's already two months behind schedule.
So Troy said I want my minimum royalties the first month.
That's 100 ounces.
By next week.
Rick must deliver 100 ounces of gold to claim owner Troy Taylor as a guarantee
for the season, or he'll be shut down.
There's only five of us on the crew, so I really need everyone to step up if
we're going to get as much gold as possible.
So far, he's only mined 66 ounces of gold.
You see it right there.
The late start and the short season mean Rick needs to motivate his crew.
to make every second count.
It's starting to look like we've got a team here.
You know, I've been struggling a bit for the last couple of years, kind of on
where I belong.
I did not set a very good example last year. I pretty much come to terms with
the fact that I don't belong in an office at all.
We knew that. We knew that from the beginning.
Well, why didn't you tell me?
I told you. I told you.
Well, we need you in the field. Yeah. I should have been out in the field a lot
more last year, and I'll rectify that this year.
And that being said, we all need to tighten up.
I'm just going to say it right now, we're going for 1 ,000 ounces this year.
I know we've got a short amount of time, but if we just work and pound it out
together, I think we can get it.
Right off the bat, Truzy, you're going to be in a truck. We'll see where that
goes from there. Carla, obviously, you're going to be in the gold room.
Might need to throw you in a truck here and there, too.
Mark, that wash plant's going to kind of be your wheelhouse.
You know, Carl, obviously, thanks for coming back.
Yeah, you bet, yeah.
And, Carl, your first job is getting that 700 rolling.
I'll get up there.
Let's do this. We're good?
Let's do it. Yep.
Rick's plan is to first mine the shallow ground that will deliver fast gold in
order to pay Troy his 100 ounces.
Then with that gold bank, he'll move to deeper ground, which is harder to mine.
But where tests go, there's more gold to be found.
You ready to fire up? I'm ready.
New crew member Mark Dover's bike feeds the wash plants with gold -rich pay from
the stockpile.
This is my first time mining on this scale.
There is some pressure here. I have 20 seconds between loads, so it demands
full attention all day.
Rick's 700 excavator, which he's used to dig out pay dirt, is down with a blown
hydraulic hose.
Mechanic Carl Rosk needs to fix it before the stockpile of pay runs out, or
they'll have to shut down the plant.
I picked this hose up on the way up and we're going to feed this through here
right now and hopefully have this thing up and running so employees can put it
to work.
Yeah? I'm going to run this line up properly.
Well, what do you need from me?
If you could pass it up through.
It's hard for me to run it up there and grab it at the same time.
This way? Yes, sir.
Just give me a second.
And then feed that up in there.
All right. There you go.
I'll put it together.
Awesome.
We're ready for hydrology.
It's like two stories to get up on this thing.
It is nice having you out here, Rick.
Yeah, well, I don't know why it took me two years to figure out that I'm better
off in the field than in the office, but that's my plan, right?
I have the most experience, and that means I need to be out there doing the
and directing the work, so I'm going to be out in the field the whole time this
year. Things are still different than last year.
I'm stepping up and being the foreman. It's huge, man.
Well, once this hydraulic soil is in here, you can just button it up. Yep.
We'll be back up and running. I'll put these covers back on and put that fan on
there and we'll rock.
All right.
Get on these backs.
Oh, yeah.
Back and visit.
We're good to go.
Rick gets back to the cook to gun fresh pay dirt to the plant.
So I did some math and ran the numbers. When we run two rock trucks, The PayPal
gets bigger twice as fast.
Well, I thought we'd hold out just the three of us, but it sure feels nice to
have an extra hand on board.
This crew is doing pretty good. Everyone is tight, respectful.
Great to be playing for you.
This year, man, already a huge gain.
Rick's stepping up, and, you know, being the foreman is huge for us, right?
Rick's back in the game with a chance of getting the 100 ounces he owes claim
owner Troy.
Yeah, it's great to have Carl back.
He got the 700 running right away, my main production machine. Now we can
get the dirt moving, get the gold coming in.
Ruby and I are up here on this hillside pushing it flat.
On Paradise Hill.
Tony Beats' daughter Monica is on the hunt for gold.
Tony's gambled three days of fuel and crew to dig out a pastry he buried 30
years ago at what he's calling the Piggy Bank Cup.
Two biggest expenses in a mining camp are fuel and people.
Ruby's on the excavator to seal the edge out. I'm pushing the overburden over.
A hundred yards away, on the other side of the waste site, Monica's childhood
friend, Ruby Mahoney, is loading rock trucks.
There's a lot of work that has to be done here, so I really hope this is
going after.
Ha!
Looked off the right over there.
Tony, do you copy Tony?
Do I seem to have found a little bit of a white layer?
Doesn't seem to be much of it there.
I'll be right over there.
I don't know if Tony's going to want to keep going or if he's going to want to
hold a fly.
Let's go have a look at it.
Too bad it's not too on the feed wide, huh?
Monica has hit virgin ground, but the pay layer.
is only 10 feet wide.
Do you want to just keep digging down and hope it's there or? It's like a
hundred grand in itself so we might as well keep on going.
Okay. Okay, let's do it.
Despite the pay streak being smaller than expected, Tony's gone too far to
now.
He'll have to wait for the material to be sluiced and weighed to see if his
gamble pays off.
There's a ton of money to get in here, you know, with all the man hours and all
the fuel costs.
I don't know if Tony just didn't remember how little was there or what's
on, but it doesn't look so hot to me.
There we go.
There's the first rock truck of the day.
I really hope this is worth it.
In the promised land, Parker Schnabel's crew is half a day behind schedule after
Aaron Bow jams Lucifer Copper.
Now they have just six hours to move the wash plant to its new path, a job that
normally takes 12.
Don't stop for nobody!
Parker has a new strategy to move his wash plant every time they run out of
to save fuel and speed up his operation.
Not many people get to work with their kids, but it's been a good experience.
He's put father and son mechanics Dane and Ty Smith in charge of the move.
We've been working together for the last four years. Pretty much every single
day we're up here.
Sucks some days.
But most of the time it's pretty good.
That's only for the camera.
Yeah, you guys don't see what happens at home.
Parker wants the plant moved in time for the night shift in six hours time.
All right.
I'm going to, unless you guys have work for them, I'm going to get everybody out
of here.
Is that cool with you?
Yeah, that's awesome.
They're coming to work tonight. I told them they were working at night. Is that
all right? Yep. Yep.
Oh, they're dragging it.
Wouldn't be too bad.
so far.
Pull that thing up on the hill and we can start putting the rest of the plant
back together.
Looks crooked.
This one pontoon dug in pretty good.
We can level it with leveling jocks, but it takes at least six hours to do.
I don't want to be Captain Obvious.
Pain or stuff is what's happened.
And now he's trying to figure out how to fix it.
When you level up this plant, you've got to get the sluice runs and the plant
level all in one. And the sluice runs have to be perfectly level.
There's just no room to do nothing.
I'm tempted to pull it back this way and then just carve this out again.
Yeah, let's do that.
While pulling slucifer onto its new pad, one of the pontoons dug in,
making the wash plant uneven.
Game wants to pull slucifer back down the ramp, use the excavator to level and
firm up the pad, and then drag the wash plant back into position.
It's the only way.
Cowboy way.
Redneck way.
We're going to pull it back over the hill a little bit here and then fix up
pad.
Keep an eye on Mike. Boop.
Saner, keep your bucket flat so if you have to move that, you can.
Hey, Saner.
Watch your boob.
Dana, it's coming.
Dana.
Oh,
take her easy, buddy.
Okay, you're good enough.
Good? Good enough.
That's a little closer than it needed to be.
We're still in one piece.
We're right where we need to be.
The pronged out of the way.
Getting levels of power.
The plant dug in a little bit on the one side.
I'm going to throw some material in here and pad it up a bit and pull it back on
again.
It'll do it.
We'll give it a try.
Pull up here and I think we'll get it this time.
Let's leave it like this.
It's losing.
on that thing.
Pretty level.
Check her out, cowboy.
Nice. Looking good.
Nice. Nice.
What's next, Dana?
Pipeline, stackers.
Yeah.
With the take a deck level, Kane and Ty bring in the rest of the pieces just
before Parker returns to check on progress.
You happy there?
Sitting pretty.
At least you guys did a really good job on this thing.
It was a battle.
Yeah, let's see if this thing will start up.
Oh, yeah!
Moving sluice -a -fuck took the entire day through.
Um, yeah, we got a pat moved and running.
It takes a little bit longer to move.
Maynard knows what he's doing, so don't worry about me getting screwed up.
It was just a lot of BS moves.
The next one could go smoother than that.
Oh, it's running fine.
That was almost the end of my career right there.
I had more people on the crew, and we were working just as hard, but the
sucked and almost lost everything.
At Duncan Creek, Rick Nash has set himself a 1 ,000 -ounce season goal.
This year I'm trying to stay realistic, keep costs down, send out the crew. I
have 100 hours plus a week.
I don't take days off, and I expect that out of my crew, too.
And he's putting his crew hard to make up for last year's failure.
There's no doubt it takes the best kind of person to be able to work like this.
It's lifestyle. It ain't for everybody.
But, you know, one summer can change your entire life.
That's all there is to it.
Last week, Rick brought in Mark Doverspike, and the pressure is on the
team member.
to keep the wash plant fed.
Yeah, so, you know, coming into the season, it was nice to finally get
and head north and do a lot of amateur gliding back home.
I have a sluice box that's like three feet long, and my hoe is a shovel.
This is just big.
This spring, at the start of the pandemic,
Mark lost his job as a pipeline mechanic.
Unemployed for about five months.
So it just feels great to get back in the seat and to be able to actually put
money in the bank. For me, I really don't care where I work as long as
got decent guys to work with.
The hose that supplies water to the wash plant has blown.
It's not good.
Working with junk, man.
Without water, Rick's operation is shut down.
Hey, Rick. Rick, you got a copy? We need you down here. We had to shut down the
wash plant. The lathe flat broke.
All right, I'm on my way.
Here's the split.
About 16 inches.
It's just stuck through a hole.
I'm not surprised.
You see what happened?
That whole seam is going to rip. Yeah.
Down the whole pipe.
We're going to need another coupler or something.
Every hour they're down costs Rick, in practice, lost gold.
I just grabbed this. There's one connector in here.
That lay flat pipe, after time, while it's pressurized and it's
vibrating, it just splits open and then we lose all pressure.
Tried to put something in there to keep it from ripping again.
Mark prepares a coupler to patch the leak.
I'm just prepping these surfaces with this wire brush.
It gets corroded.
I'm sure this was zinc -plated at one time, but it's not anymore.
Check her for cracks.
Hook her up, see if she works.
You know, I don't know what time it is, but we're probably a half an hour, 40
minutes behind schedule, which isn't ideal, but it is what it is. We'll get
thing hopefully up and running.
Hopefully we don't have any more like this, right?
Yeah.
That's what it looks like. Yeah.
Let's get this thing running again.
Fire that thing up.
Yep.
We're going to have to live with that.
It's like you know what we're doing here.
The hull's repaired.
The crew gets back to mining.
Get that hose swinging!
They're hoping to hit Rick's 1 ,000 -ounce goal and earn themselves a gold
bonus.
You know, the pressure's on all of us.
I'm going to give it my all, and if we can do this.
In just two days, Rick will clean the mess and discover if he's got the 100
ounces he owes his landlord and if he's into profit yet.
We've already got holes everywhere, but a $2 fix, it'll get us through another
week probably.
Well, I'm going to go get some gold out of the ground and start making money.
One scoop at a time.
What's up, guys? Ricky!
You got that?
Yeah. Let me in.
At Lower Duncan Creek, Rick Nass gathers his crew for the weekly Gold Way.
Oh, now down to business.
First week gone by with full crew here. I'm happy with it. We did work well this
week, you know, together.
You know, we did face some downtime at the plant. You know, that stupid lay
hose. I mean, what a joke. We're dealing with a budget here, but... You know as
well as anybody else, any kind of downtime is going to show up in the gold
at the end of the week, right?
Yeah, sure.
That's mine.
No, no one said it'd be easy. No.
Anyways, can we see what we're here for? Yeah.
I'm kind of excited about this. Yeah.
All right, you guys ready for this? Let's dump it out. All right, come on
come on.
Rick needs 34 ounces to hit the 100 -ounce minimum royalty he owes the claim
owner.
9, 10, 12, 20, 30, 41.
41, 30.
Worth $72 ,000.
Rick had enough gold to pay the royalty, keep his plane, and go into profit.
That's unreal.
That is awesome.
And consistent, too. That's the downtime, right? You take that downtime
And that's not far off from where we were last week, right? Yeah, exactly.
That's consistent.
That means we're in good ground for once. Ain't no joke. There's gold in
ground. We're over 100 ounces. Wow.
That's the other thing. With this late start, I made a deal with Troy. He said
he wanted the minimum royalty right up front. Oh.
So that's 100 ounces.
There goes our gold.
That's due by next week. But we got it. Our minimum royalty is out of the way.
Yeah, the rest is ours.
The rest is ours.
Sounds good to me after a week here.
Hell yeah.
Yeah, buddy.
All right, get some sleep. We got a lot more to do.
Eat, sleep, mind. Eat, sleep, mind.
By the end of the week, Tony Beats has completely mined out the piggy bank cut.
Okay, let's go.
Get this hill on the road.
The Beek family gathered to find out if Tony's gumball paid off.
What's been happening this week?
Decided to go back on this side of the hill. You know, 30 years ago, put a lot
of overburden on this side. When we started the hill, we had to put it
somewhere. And there's a whole slice of white channel gravel left in there.
So, it's been curious to finish that off. Today, the gold price is up there,
why not do it?
So he's got four rockets, two hoes, cat damage, a lot.
The cost of getting down there was big.
And then you had myself.
That's expensive.
Let's see if we recover the money we stuck in there. That being said, let's
wait. Are you ready?
Let's do this thing.
Tony needs 85 ounces to cover his cost.
30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80.
90, 100, 105 .20.
Worth almost $185 ,000.
Not as much as I thought it would be. Memory didn't quite serve me right.
So we spent, give or take, what, $150 ,000?
So, and you made about $185 ,000.
So we kind of covered it up.
You covered your end.
Tony's profits on the piggy bank is just $35 ,000.
You know, you were all set and sure that you were going to make millions there.
You think you know what's under the ground.
Well, there's a joke that there was not a sure thing, right?
Sometimes you take a chance.
If you wanted a sure thing, you would work for the government, right? That's
right.
I was late.
At the end of a grueling week, it's time for Parker Schnabel to find out if his
strategy of fast and furious plant moves had paid off.
I heard Aaron had quite the incident down there.
Yeah, he got a little carried away with some wet pay, but it was all good. We
got it all sorted out and got him back up running. That move went pretty good,
though, really.
Yeah, I actually got a solicitor to run down the hill. That was kind of cool.
Did it, like, slide down the hill? Oh, yeah, it was coming quick.
That's awesome. Big Red was steady.
We had a lot of run time, no real issues.
So, ready to weigh up some gold?
Yes, sir.
Let her rip.
First up, Big Red.
It's been running pay from the last cut at 220 yards an hour.
280, 300, 320, 330, 340, 357
.05.
Worth $625 ,000.
Big Red's most profitable week ever.
That's a hollow week.
Well, Shane, you're the hero.
You ready?
Sure.
Between a conveyor jam and the move to a new cut, Lucifer was down for a whole
day. 150, 170, 180, 200, 270, 300.
320. 337 .0.
Worth $590 ,000.
Good week. Where are we at, Chris?
Okay, so for the week, we got 694 ounces.
Oh, man. For the season, it puts us at 1 ,674 ounces.
Rocketing gold prices mean Parker Crew has mined over $1 .2 million worth of
gold. in just one week.
His highest ever weekly total.
And that's a solid week.
Definitely getting rolling on the right track now.
Thank you guys for keeping these plans going.
I know it's not easy, especially when people stop singing for about 30
It doesn't even take that long.
But I appreciate you guys being patient with everybody here.
Thanks, guys. Have a good night.
On the next Gold Rush.
What the... So something is... We
don't have enough people. We're trying to find somebody that can help you guys
out.
Oh!
If we can get this thing up to 125 yards an hour, that's a quarter million
dollars a month.
It's a little scary here. I heard some metal breaking.
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