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We have a plan and right now we're going
to stick to it.
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Parker Snable is two months deep into
the Yukon mining season.
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He's invested most of his crew and two
and a half million dollars opening up
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ground at the massive mud mountain.
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Home to a whopping 8 ,000 ounces, Parker
has yet to hit gold.
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In a bid to cover his corn, his other
claims will lead to up production.
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So Parker has a plan.
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We're not going to have a successful
season unless both wash plants get up
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running.
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Sluice fruit just got moved down to
Stewart's ground, which is good. It's
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up. It's loosing and making money. It's
washing wrong.
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It's doing its part.
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Now it's just a matter of getting big
red.
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fired up at the airstrip, and we need to
start getting some revenue in.
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The plan is to concentrate his forces at
the airstrip cut and pull a total of 3
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,000 ounces from the ground.
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Leaked from Parker's frenemy, Tony
Beach, there are some unique causes to
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navigate.
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The deal we've got with Tony is a little
bit weird on the old royalty front, so,
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like, on the ground by the airstrip,
and...
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15 % on the first 1 ,500 ounces, and
then it goes up 5 % every 1 ,500 ounces
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after that per plant. I don't understand
the rationale behind it. Whatever, I've
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argued it for years.
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They don't budge on it, so I'm done
talking to a wall about it.
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To dodge paying the higher royalties,
Parker's crew have been tasked with
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swapping out the wash plants at the
airstrip.
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once they hit the 1 ,500 ounces mark.
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Tony's thinking that we'd never go to
all the extra steps here to play musical
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wash plants, but if that's what he was
thinking, he definitely doesn't know us
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very well.
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Last week, wash plant Sucifer hit its
target of 1 ,500 ounces at the airstrip.
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It was then shut down and moved to the
newly opened promised land.
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There, a further 1 ,500 ounces must be
mined.
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to get Park a buck to Mud Mountain.
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Our big push right now is to get Big Red
over here and get it all set up.
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Once it finishes here at the airstrip,
we're going to move Big Red over to Mud
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Mountain. You know, that's where Brendan
and I have done this so many times. We
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had a really good system down. Well,
obviously, he isn't here with us this
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So, I'm going to have to get Tyson
trained up. He doesn't have very much
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experience with Big Red.
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Hey, Tyson, you got a copy?
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Yeah, I'm on, too. Hey, this block flat
path's looking really good, so let's get
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Big Red over here and we'll start
putting her together.
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Second -year plant bot Tyson Lee has
juggled filling Brennan's shoes at the
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airstrip and running Sucifer at the
promised land.
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We need stuff down at the promised land.
They need stuff up at the airstrip. You
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know I can't.
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be over there all day, and if I have to
be, then that means I'm not getting
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anything done.
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Brennan's left the team this year, and
it sucks to see him go, but he was co
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-form in there for a few years, and it
might mean that I get to step into that
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role, and, you know, if it gets offered
to me, I'll gladly take it on. You know,
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trying to do a good job.
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Setting up his rookie crew to run while
he's away, Tyson heads to the airstrip.
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How's it going, Mitch?
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Oh, not bad yourself.
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Oh, pretty good, thanks.
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What excavator were you thinking this
time? What we'll probably do here is
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trade out for the 750, so we got some
horsepower there, and use that to drag
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over, and then we can use the 480 to
fine -tune everything around it.
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Yeah, when I was dragging Lucifer with
this thing and did it, but I didn't like
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it. Didn't like it, yeah. No, you need
that machine with some weight behind it.
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We could always drag it down the road
with the cat if you wanted to.
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I'd rather use 750.
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Yeah, there you go.
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We've moved it that way a lot, so it
works good.
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Sounds good, man. I'll see you in a bit.
All right, buddy. That'll work. Thanks,
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man.
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Big Red is definitely my favorite wash
plant.
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I've been around it a lot of years.
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It's nice that he's a younger guy and
he's got his ideas and ways that he
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to do things.
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But it just takes lots of years of
experience and lots of doing things
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figure out how to do it. In this plant,
it's very top -heavy, way more top
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-heavy than sluiceper. So you just
really got to watch the camber and the
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If this plant gets over the edge, it's
going to want to keep going that way.
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with all this weight up top, how tall
this plant is, it's got a pretty good
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chance of going over.
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All in all, just nice, slow, steady.
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And the last thing we want to do is
tweak this wash plant. Well, let's go
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and get the thing drug over there.
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You ready, Tyson?
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, listen to her. Yeah, she's talking.
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Woo!
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You like the sound of that? She's making
up here.
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Oh, yeah. She broke free pretty nicely,
eh?
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Let's just keep it rolling, nice steady
pace here.
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You gotta watch it when it starts
shattering like that. You either gotta
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your lift, try and lift a little bit
more, or change your speed a little bit.
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OMG.
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Whoa, whoa, easy, easy, easy. Once it
starts doing that, you gotta get it
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falling back down.
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Try and change your angle, that thing is
not happy.
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It's definitely stressful, you know,
having Tyson moving this watch plant
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around.
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The last thing we want to be doing is
breaking our watch plant.
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We're going to rattle this thing apart
before we ever get her there like that.
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All right, Tyson, let's get your hop in
here, man. Let's get this thing up on
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top of this watch plant path.
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Try and get some height. She's really
digging in there with Big Red.
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Try and get some height.
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Lift her up.
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Nice job, Dyson. She's in place. Thanks,
Nick. We're one step closer to making
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money here.
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All right, Dyson, you ready?
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Go ahead and get her off the ground.
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Okay, stop there.
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Stop. Stop.
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Not too bad. Not too bad.
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Nothing's totaled, so I'm happy.
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Well, we just got the sluice runs in a
big red here, and that frees me up to go
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back down to the promised land.
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Quite honestly, we are just not on track
to hit our 2 ,000 -ounce goal.
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In the mountains above Keno, Rick Ness
is a third of the way through the
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And he's mined only 500 ounces of gold.
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Early, we're running pay for the bacon
strip.
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It's not the best pace we've ever run.
All we can do is just keep hammering as
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much pay through the plant as we can, as
efficiently as we can.
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I mean, I want nothing more than to see
my buddies succeed.
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Right now, I'm away. My new wife is...
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planning our wedding reception for when
I get home.
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So a nice fat gold bonus to go a long
way to having a pretty kick -ass sin dig
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for our wedding.
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It's a team effort to find the gold that
we do, but I just really want to help
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Rick get the 2 ,000 ounce, and I really
want this to be his best season yet.
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After last season's hard work, Rick has
set an ambitious goal for Duncan Creek.
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We've got the ground here now to run
without too much effort.
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And we've been focused for the majority
of our effort on this real deep ground
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because it's going to be an expensive
process.
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But I'm going to sink everything I own
into getting down to that ground.
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And if I don't get anything back out of
it, I wouldn't say that my margins are
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tight. I would say that that's been to
me. I might as well go home and pack
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everything up.
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We'll be able to afford my house.
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And I'll never come up to the Yukon
again.
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700 ounces of gold must be banked before
Rick can take a risk on the deeper,
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richer ground at Duncan Creek.
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Ah, wait.
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Water's not supposed to come out of
there.
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What's going on?
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Oh.
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Cut the power.
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Something's going on in the wash plant.
Water and dirt coming out the back where
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it shouldn't be.
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Bottom lift coming off the tree wash.
Doesn't look like it's even there
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A gap has appeared between the plant and
the pre -wash, letting gold -rich
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material flood out.
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It's not a big piece of steel, but it's
a pretty important one.
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It's probably in the tailings pile
somewhere.
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We'll be shutting down until we fix
that.
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All the dirt's just coming out of the
pre -walk, and it's just falling between
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the pre -walk and the plant.
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With no mechanic in the team, it's down
to Rick to assess the damage.
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I think it actually comes off a... Well,
there's no obvious, you know what I
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mean? There's no obvious, like, strength
here. There's no... I mean, I know
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there's got to be a piece, you know,
that goes over.
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Why can't it put together what this is
supposed to look like?
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For the life of me, I can't remember how
this is supposed to look.
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Nothing going on in the wash plant.
There's water and dirt coming from out
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back where it should be.
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From Lower Duncan Creek, Rick Ness is in
shutdown mode.
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I don't see anything.
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The whole thing shifted back and down.
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Oh, so it's got to be all... There's no
piece missing, just the whole pre -wash
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moved backwards.
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So shouldn't there be pins?
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Yeah.
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That's why we couldn't find anything up
there, like any fresh breaks or
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anything. Yeah, we're not missing a
piece out of the pre -wash, it's the
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pre -wash moved back, because the pins
fell out and the whole thing fell
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backwards. You'd think that they'd be
right here.
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They found its way back today, but those
pins could have been gone for weeks.
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The plant can't run until the missing 9
-inch steel pins are replaced.
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Cruzy, can you come down to the plant,
please?
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With no mechanic, it's up to Chris to
fix the plant.
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What's going on up there, guy?
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Yeah, the whole pre -wash fell back.
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You just need to make some pins, right?
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Yeah. I mean, there's no pins in sight.
They could have been gone for weeks.
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Nothing's actually broken. We just have
missing pieces. So we need to find some
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things to put back in there and put back
into place.
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But it is downtime.
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We don't need that.
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I can't afford anything right now.
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With a breakdown like this, I mean,
probably only be a few hours, but these
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things add up, man.
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Every single one of them is just making
it harder and harder to hit 2 ,000
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ounces.
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Just got a piece of round stock for a
new pin.
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We found another one that we can use.
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Luckily,
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I have the welding experience because
nobody else seems to be very well versed
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in welding.
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Rick must now reposition the pre -wash
factor within touching distance of the
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shaker deck.
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Cruisy, I count on him. It takes care of
the machine. It takes care of the
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plant. He's kind of turned into a bit of
a utility guy for me, and that's really
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nice. I couldn't be happier with how
that's working out.
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Hey, guide me and make sure I'm lifting
her straight.
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Listen, team, lift it up and this is the
only watch point we've got running
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right now. It needs to be running again
by the end of the day, so I can't piss
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up. That'll make it a big repair, so got
to be very careful here.
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Start going up and I'll see what
happens.
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Okay.
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Up towards me.
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that way a little bit.
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All right, keep coming towards me.
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All right, I'll come down.
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Hold it right there.
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And just like that.
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Tins are in.
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Well, as far as breakdowns go, that was
too bad.
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Nice work.
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Thanks, pal.
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You know, we can never afford to have
the plant down. Luckily, this time was a
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pretty easy fix. We got it going quick,
but there's not a whole lot of time left
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on that plant before some serious
rebuilding.
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Our watch plant's finally here. It's
been a long road getting that bad boy
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to this claim, but it is here.
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In the remote Yukon wilderness.
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Fred Lewis and his crew are nine weeks
in.
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But only now are they about to fire up
their new 60 -yard -an -hour walk plan.
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I'm excited to just get it in place and
just start moving dirt.
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Put it to work.
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Yeah. Still a month behind, but we're
going to get caught up real quick.
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If we just take that work ethic that we
have, you know, from the military and
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everything else, come out of here pretty
rich, man.
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I feel like a whole misfit team has just
gotten their momentum. We have a solid
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crew, and we're doing this for a better
life because of the sacrifices we're
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making right now.
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To get his wash plant finally tuned to
catching gold, a favor has been called
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in. Where is this camp supposed to be,
Freddie? Well, he said it was 45 miles
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out of Dawson.
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Answering the call is gold recovery
expert Freddie Dodge and mechanical
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Juan Ibarra.
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There's the little plant right there,
Freddie.
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Not set up to run, is it? Not at all.
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How's it going, Fred?
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You guys made it!
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How's it going?
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Good, how you been?
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You know,
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honestly, we figured you'd be running by
now.
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We're about a month behind.
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You don't have much of the season left,
really.
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No, but we're looking at this in
positive light as we put a lot of work
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this season to get it ready. We might
have a short season.
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We've got pay waiting.
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We've got the equipment. We've got the
manpower.
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These last couple of really important
steps that it's great that you guys come
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now. I can't wait for you guys to see
it.
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Have you seen these kiwi plants before?
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All still green.
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So those will last the entire season. We
don't have to worry about any screens
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going bad.
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It's simplified compared to what we had
last season. I like it.
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Well, so this is the plant. I'd really
love to show you guys the claim. I've
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really been itching to show you guys the
claim. Yeah, let's take a look at it.
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Let's take a look at it. It's a bit of a
walk.
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So this will be our last pond.
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But this is probably where we'd have to
pull our water from before we could
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recycle.
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So right here, we're developing our
second pond.
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I've got some pillars, and we're going
to raise it up to be about this level
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eventually once we get enough rock.
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My advice to you is you've got multiple
issues.
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Well, we're looking at the amount of
water in your creek.
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And you don't have enough water to run
your plant.
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It's a glorified ditch is what you've
got going on here.
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This is a mud puddle.
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This is going to turn into a milkshake.
The second you have a milkshake here,
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it's going to go to your plant, right?
Yeah. You're pulling the water out of
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here. So it's going to go to your plant,
plug up all your screens, plug up all
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your riffles.
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This water is going to silt up on you so
fast, you'll literally only have a few
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hours of sluicing before you'll have to
shut down.
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So what do you guys think the solution
is?
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So this road right here, what's this
road for?
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This is our original road.
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We're the only road we had access on in
the beginning, but now we have access on
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the side. Now we have access on the
side. So can we eliminate this road?
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And just really widen this pond out. You
do not have enough water. And then
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you're going to need another pond below
this one to clarify your water even more
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before you put it in the creek. Right
now, you don't have jack for water
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storage.
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Freddie and Juan's plan is to move the
access road in the middle of the claim
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feet over to the other side.
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They'll dig three ponds to allow silt
from the wash plant to settle.
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providing clean water for souping and
ensuring no soup is discharged
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into the creek.
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That's the only way you're going to
actually be able to run.
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And we're not trying to give you news,
but... No, no, no. This is why I had you
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guys here. We're like, well, we'll run
it and we'll see how long it's going to
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last and we'll adapt, but... It's going
to last about four hours.
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That's nowhere near enough.
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Because right now you're... Okay.
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Well, it's great having Freddie and Juan
here.
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However, they've given us a list of
tasks to do that are going to take us
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another week and extremely frustrating.
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It is what it is. They think we need
more ponds. I'll dig more ponds, but
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now I got to get this loosened.
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It's a pain in the ass considering that
we are like literally done.
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Well, mount this down so I can get
Christopher back here. Yeah. And we'll
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get him to come up to here.
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and drop you one more load in that. And
what do you want done with that? Well,
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first, build the dam up so you can
finish it, and then make this nice and
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smooth, and then look and see if the
water level is high enough. If not,
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it up another foot.
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Yeah, okay.
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Because right now we're trying to get
the mine running. So let's get this
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Okay.
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It's a blow to the team, who must now
race to make the changes.
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Fred's son, Christopher, is wary of how
his dad will react.
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It's just a bunch that we have to deal
with.
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And so he's on his back with Frankie
today.
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Dealing with Fred when he gets like this
is difficult because he won't listen to
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anyone. And he always has it in his head
that he's right, especially when he's
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angry. Hey!
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Taking you guys almost 45 minutes to
load.
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Christopher, get at least two loads out
there. At least.
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We just gotta...
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Figured it out.
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Without this bomb, we can't run.
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What's happening, man?
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What's going on?
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We got Big Red sitting on his wash plant
pad there, just putting everything
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together. What's he planning for water?
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It's a long ways from where Lucifer...
Like where Lucifer had... Yeah, yeah. We
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don't have enough water line to get.
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from that pond and that water source to
where Big Red is now.
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Right. So my thought was, you know,
recirculating in zones one and
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two.
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So we'll need to flood that area.
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So what's the best way to charge the
pond?
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Well, we've been fighting all season to
keep zones one and two dry.
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Right. I mean, remember at the start of
the year when the... wall blue out there
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what would it take to dig through that
section or is it just going to bleed in
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pretty quick well i mean it's a band
-aid with it's barely hanging on over
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if we go over there and help it i think
it'd probably start coming in there
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pretty good it sounds like that's going
to be the fastest from my standpoint
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you're under a lot of time pressure
because big red
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have an appointment with Mud Mountain
that is going to come up in a hurry.
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And you need to try to pound out 1 ,500
ounces down there at the airstrip and
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then get that plant moved.
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Okay.
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Mitch is betting on water from
Sluicifer's old pond, having leaped
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patch that burned.
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To release it, he'll dig down in the
hope of tapping into the groundwater.
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and using it to flood the mined out cut,
providing a pond to feed Big Red.
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Now at the start of the year we had an
issue with water leaking in from our
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settling pond.
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Right now we're just going to remove the
material that we used to plug this.
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To help flood the cut, Mitch brings
Tyson back to the airstrip.
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So in the spring, we stripped this cut.
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When we were stripping it, we pushed
into an old pond. So essentially what
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trying to find is the toe of the pond.
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We're looking for a lot of water flow
here.
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When I plugged this off, it was flowing
like a river.
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That's more like it.
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That's what we're looking for.
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With the water source now unplugged,
it's just a question of time
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and letting nature take its course.
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Hey, Mitch, you got a copy, Mitch?
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I'm going to go work on the other wash
plant. Have fun, man.
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Copy that.
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Come on, baby.
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There we go.
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Oh, yeah, we got water.
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We've got our pond filled up, our water
pump pumping water.
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The generator's warming up here. We're
going to turn on the breaker and get
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belts spinning.
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All right, it's going to be showtime
here in a sec.
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There we go, we got power.
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All the belts are spinning.
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Big Red is coming to life.
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All right, here we go. First scoop of
Big Red this year. Let's do this. Let's
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get that gold.
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what we've been waiting for.
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Here comes the dirt.
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Finally, nine weeks into his season,
Parker has Big Red and Lucifer
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running together.
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Here we are.
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Come on, Garth.
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Home sweet home.
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Hey, Shane, everything's looking really
good up here at the Shaker Deck, so just
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keep the dirt coming.
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Awesome, buddy. I'll keep feeding the
bees.
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I can smell the gold in this stuff.
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It smells like money, baby.
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At Lower Duncan Creek, Rick Ness and his
skeleton crew are still running
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hundreds of yards of gold -rich pay dirt
through their trusted wash plant.
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The problem with that is we've all had
to chip in and try to make it work, and
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having Carl here would be a lot better
than it all being passed to me.
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Pretty big shoes to fill.
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Everybody's wearing a lot of hats these
days.
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Looks like a lot of big rocks in the
plant.
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That shouldn't be getting through.
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Cold. Even though there's a lot of water
in there, I can see big holes in the
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deck.
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Once again, Rick Ness has ground to a
halt.
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Holes in his steel screen deck are
allowing rocks to drop into the sluices.
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00:28:20,010 --> 00:28:24,230
Well, it's not like a typical, you know,
watch plant where you can just replace
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the screen. It was modified for this
ground, which is great because it'll
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all the boulders.
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But it's going to have to take out and
put a new one in, right?
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00:28:34,170 --> 00:28:35,750
You know, it's a huge job.
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00:28:35,950 --> 00:28:38,950
This plant really needs to keep going
for a couple of weeks at least.
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00:28:39,550 --> 00:28:42,030
Right now it doesn't look like it wants
to go a couple hours.
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Let's throw a band -aid on and keep
running it.
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Half -miner, half -mechanic Chris Cruz
is tasked with getting the plant back up
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and running.
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That's the problem right there.
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Oh!
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I mean, obviously we've got a problem
here. It's letting in too big a rock and
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holes, so I'm thinking we should just go
all the way across with it.
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Yeah, you know like this seems pretty
good on the outside and the first six
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inches Yeah, and that would you know
something to tie into there same on that
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side Yeah, come in six inches and give
us a little bit of We're not losing all
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of that surface area Yeah, the screen
that's worn. Oh, we knew that I just I
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Don't want to shut it down yet. This is
a big job to replace
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The plates will cover the holes with
welded steel plates, preventing larger
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rocks from getting into the wash plant.
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But it comes at a cost.
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When we put patches in, we lose the
surface area of the punch plate.
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So there's potential of gold going right
out the end of the top deck.
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I'm a bit concerned about our loss of
surface area on the punch plate by
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covering up with a solid plate.
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00:30:02,899 --> 00:30:07,360
Rick made that call, and it's his call
to make, so we'll go with it.
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Every minute that we're not fluking
means every minute we're not catching
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so time is of the essence.
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My body feels like I'm about 10 days
away from being 50.
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As you can see, it fit in here perfectly
the way I needed it to.
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It's time for me to clean up my mess and
get back pouring dirt in this thing.
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00:30:46,740 --> 00:30:48,280
I'm just glad to be up and running
again.
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00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:50,160
You know, all this downtime is hurting
us bad.
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00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,080
It's all adding up. It's hurting our
chance of hitting 2 ,000 ounces.
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00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,440
Hopefully, Cruze is well pulled
together. Otherwise, we're...
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00:31:03,150 --> 00:31:06,170
With any luck, my patches don't come
flying out the end right away.
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All right, so our ponds are looking
pretty good. Right now I've got
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Freddie digging out our tailings pond.
That sounds pretty nice, okay?
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You got a booster seat?
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At California Creek, Fred Lewis and his
self -styled band of misfits are
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battling back once again.
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00:31:43,410 --> 00:31:48,510
In just four days, they've created a
three -pond system under the expert
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guidance of Freddie Dodd and Juan
Ibarra.
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So right now, we've got our lower half
of this long pond at the right level.
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It's right at max.
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We've got our dams up. Our water's
holding really well.
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00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,340
We've got definitely enough water to
circulate through our plant at this
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I feel that we have succeeded in all of
our tasks, and it's time to get mining.
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Mechanic J .B. Mayer. Just swing around.
I'll keep an eye on the back there.
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00:32:16,580 --> 00:32:22,280
And local operator Buzz Lago moves a new
13 -ton wash plant into position.
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That looks pretty good, Buzz.
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Got it? Woo!
456
00:32:29,980 --> 00:32:33,040
Clevis, Clevis, and then we'll be able
to lift from that point, right? How's it
457
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:33,599
going, guys?
458
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:34,860
Hey, good morning, good morning.
459
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,960
Well, is there anything we can help you
guys with? We're here.
460
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,040
You need a sandwich or something? I can
make some sandwiches.
461
00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:41,700
Pretty good at that.
462
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:46,100
Well, we get, you know, it's critical,
you know, we get these sluices off
463
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:48,200
without bending them, dropping them.
464
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,440
We'll give you guys a hand. We can do
that.
465
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,080
That thing is nice.
466
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,320
About a thousand bucks.
467
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:56,360
Oh, wow.
468
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,220
You're just going to do about one point
then?
469
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:01,619
All right.
470
00:33:01,620 --> 00:33:03,680
All right. Straight up, boom up.
471
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,760
I mean, that's a pretty cool chain
setup.
472
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,240
It's something that we look at, for me,
I look at for having for next year.
473
00:33:10,460 --> 00:33:13,060
Right now, I mean, this is the beginning
of everything.
474
00:33:13,300 --> 00:33:16,620
Let's get mining. That's why we came
here. I love it. Yeah, that thing's
475
00:33:16,620 --> 00:33:18,240
cool. You got those stud wrenches?
476
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:19,920
Oh, yep. They're over here.
477
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,200
It isn't going to fit, Juan, I don't
think.
478
00:33:24,050 --> 00:33:28,110
We're flat tight against here, metal to
metal. And I understand that. Well, I
479
00:33:28,110 --> 00:33:31,910
think the design is we've got to lift it
up, put it in it, and then the pressure
480
00:33:31,910 --> 00:33:36,170
itself locks that edge in. When we kink
up, it's going to throw us farther back.
481
00:33:36,890 --> 00:33:39,350
Does that lip we're on, does it go on
the inside?
482
00:33:39,810 --> 00:33:40,810
It could be.
483
00:33:41,050 --> 00:33:42,810
Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
484
00:33:43,070 --> 00:33:48,010
It's got a design where there's no room
for forgiveness there. It's very tight.
485
00:33:48,270 --> 00:33:49,270
Yeah. Oh, oh!
486
00:33:50,010 --> 00:33:51,010
That's it right there.
487
00:33:51,270 --> 00:33:52,270
Go right there.
488
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,660
When I pin this this way, put pressure
against it. Pull on your side, if you
489
00:33:56,660 --> 00:33:57,660
would, a little bit.
490
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:58,880
Step, push.
491
00:34:03,460 --> 00:34:04,640
Got her? Got her, huh?
492
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,960
Next one?
493
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,440
Kind of a pain in the ass.
494
00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:11,920
Well, this next one should go a little
easier now that we know how it goes,
495
00:34:17,940 --> 00:34:19,520
All right, we got her.
496
00:34:19,820 --> 00:34:23,540
This is a pretty exciting time because
this is our moment of truth. If this
497
00:34:23,540 --> 00:34:26,040
thing's going to actually work or not,
this is make or break.
498
00:34:28,420 --> 00:34:35,080
It's taken two months of complications,
frustration, and back -breaking work.
499
00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:41,100
But finally, Fred Lewis is ready to
start washing for gold.
500
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,400
It's not about coming out here.
501
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,480
and just mining. It's about coming out
here, making a statement, and pulling as
502
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,060
much gold as we possibly can.
503
00:34:51,219 --> 00:34:53,179
Well, everything's hooked up, huh? Yep.
504
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:55,400
Perfect.
505
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,080
Hey, Misfits, let's rally over here on
the wash plant.
506
00:35:01,940 --> 00:35:05,980
Everyone's really excited to actually,
like, come down here and do some work
507
00:35:05,980 --> 00:35:09,920
and, like, just pulling a lot of gold
out of the ground.
508
00:35:10,860 --> 00:35:11,860
All right, guys.
509
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,140
Here we go. Fire it up, guys.
510
00:35:14,340 --> 00:35:14,859
All right.
511
00:35:14,860 --> 00:35:15,860
Let's get some gold.
512
00:35:15,940 --> 00:35:19,160
This is like when you walk out the
tunnel right before the game and you get
513
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,800
feeling and get all pumped up and then
the whistle blows.
514
00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:24,700
A little nervous.
515
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:30,440
This is what the whole season's been
about.
516
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:33,480
And there she is.
517
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,280
All right,
518
00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:43,900
send the water.
519
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:45,900
by filling up and heading your way.
520
00:35:56,340 --> 00:36:01,780
This right here is where it's all about.
521
00:36:04,860 --> 00:36:06,040
Now we're gold miners.
522
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:07,500
This is the big deal.
523
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:09,680
How's it feeling Stuart?
524
00:36:09,980 --> 00:36:10,980
We're up and running.
525
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:27,680
Now put your fingers in there.
526
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:30,500
Right?
527
00:36:30,940 --> 00:36:32,880
Your pack's working that gold zone.
528
00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:34,658
Go on.
529
00:36:34,660 --> 00:36:36,200
You're going to have to slow your feed
down.
530
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:37,520
Okay.
531
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:42,060
This will not handle 60 yards an hour. I
think 41, huh?
532
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:43,300
General, would I think it's 40?
533
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,720
Hey, let's cut our feed rate in half.
534
00:36:46,180 --> 00:36:48,280
What? Cut it in half. Huh?
535
00:36:48,740 --> 00:36:51,200
We're going to cut it to one every two,
see how that goes.
536
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,600
There's no use in stripping it, digging
it, hauling it, feeding it.
537
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,660
If you're losing the gold, right? Right.
538
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,780
This is what happens when you put your
head to something and you work your ass
539
00:37:01,780 --> 00:37:02,780
off.
540
00:37:13,140 --> 00:37:14,280
Yeah, rough week, huh?
541
00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:15,780
Well,
542
00:37:18,180 --> 00:37:21,860
I'm glad. I still have a good attitude
about it, too, but that's not fair.
543
00:37:22,549 --> 00:37:27,070
Rocky's been so rock solid for us for
the last couple years, and we've abused
544
00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:28,350
it, and it's showing.
545
00:37:29,390 --> 00:37:33,030
I think it was down more than it ran
this week. We can't afford too many
546
00:37:33,030 --> 00:37:34,030
like this.
547
00:37:34,610 --> 00:37:36,230
I don't know if you want to hit 2008.
548
00:37:36,590 --> 00:37:41,130
Here's the thing. It's going to get to
the point where we're going to have to
549
00:37:41,130 --> 00:37:45,590
address it. We all know what it needs,
but we all know that we can't afford to
550
00:37:45,590 --> 00:37:46,529
really set it down.
551
00:37:46,530 --> 00:37:48,950
What do you do, right?
552
00:37:49,990 --> 00:37:51,630
All I have to say is a bummer of a week.
553
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,340
But there is some gold.
554
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:54,880
We weighed up.
555
00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:57,820
I didn't even try to hide it from you
guys.
556
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,940
All right.
557
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:09,000
We got... To reach his 2 ,000 -ounce
558
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,900
target, Rick needs 105 ounces every
week.
559
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,880
Even if it was what it was last week,
we're still in the same boat.
560
00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:21,720
Yeah.
561
00:38:22,030 --> 00:38:23,690
It's not getting us to 2 ,000 ounces.
562
00:38:24,410 --> 00:38:26,870
You got an eye on some other ground?
563
00:38:27,150 --> 00:38:31,050
I know there's ground here, but I'm
taking my time, but we're going to have
564
00:38:31,050 --> 00:38:32,050
pull the trigger on something soon.
565
00:38:32,550 --> 00:38:33,550
Perfect.
566
00:38:33,910 --> 00:38:34,910
Thanks again, guys.
567
00:38:35,830 --> 00:38:36,830
Well,
568
00:38:39,630 --> 00:38:42,250
it was a tough week, but, you know, the
team pulled through.
569
00:38:43,190 --> 00:38:46,370
We're not getting the goal numbers that
we need, but, you know, without these
570
00:38:46,370 --> 00:38:48,090
guys, it could have been a hell of a lot
worse.
571
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,900
We are going to have to figure out
something else, though, because at this
572
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,020
we are not going to get our 2 ,000
ounces.
573
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:12,360
Looking pretty good.
574
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:14,480
Is that gold?
575
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,880
I was really starting to get a little
worried. You know, last season, it still
576
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,420
weighs very heavily on my mind. It makes
it all worth it. You know, I'm not up
577
00:39:25,420 --> 00:39:30,620
here wasting my time watching my
daughter grow up on FaceTime and, you
578
00:39:30,620 --> 00:39:31,620
pictures.
579
00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:34,320
So I'm really excited that this is
finally coming together.
580
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:42,300
At California Creek, with the help of
Freddie George and Juan Ibarra, Fred
581
00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:45,500
Lewis' moment of truth is finally here.
582
00:39:46,210 --> 00:39:47,450
Last bucket Stewart.
583
00:39:47,710 --> 00:39:48,710
We're about to shut down.
584
00:39:57,170 --> 00:39:58,710
Oh yeah, there's gold in here.
585
00:39:59,010 --> 00:40:00,330
Oh nice gold.
586
00:40:00,710 --> 00:40:07,630
We'll pan her for it. We're just trying
587
00:40:07,630 --> 00:40:09,250
to verify that we're actually catching
gold.
588
00:40:09,570 --> 00:40:10,890
So I'm going to pan it down.
589
00:40:13,970 --> 00:40:14,970
There's some gold.
590
00:40:15,980 --> 00:40:17,100
I'm already seeing it.
591
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:18,560
Look at that.
592
00:40:19,860 --> 00:40:22,680
That's a pretty pan. I'll take it. I'll
take it all day.
593
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:24,320
Yeah.
594
00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:27,960
That's about the biggest pan we had last
season times ten.
595
00:40:29,140 --> 00:40:32,480
Pass us around. Get your first look at
Yukon Gold. Let's check it out.
596
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:34,540
Man, look at that. Don't fall over.
597
00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:36,840
Good thing of beauty, man.
598
00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:42,060
Let this motivate you. This is why we're
in the Yukon. Yeah, guys. Now we just
599
00:40:42,060 --> 00:40:44,200
got to buckle down and put her to the
end.
600
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,560
You and your team should be really
proud. You know, we helped you a little
601
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,640
with suggestions, but you guys did this
on your own. And here you are. You're
602
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:53,419
producing gold.
603
00:40:53,420 --> 00:40:55,500
And you know what? I am really proud of
my team. Yeah.
604
00:40:55,740 --> 00:40:59,040
Well, I appreciate everything you guys
have done to make us better. Good for
605
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,460
again, Fred. Really appreciate it. Take
care, man. Bye, buddy. We're trying to
606
00:41:01,460 --> 00:41:05,680
make a statement to the point where
Greenhorns can come together with our
607
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,320
background, learn something immensely
difficult, and make it profitable.
608
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:14,600
We got six ounces last season. I believe
wholeheartedly our first cleanup.
609
00:41:15,070 --> 00:41:16,350
Could be life -threatening total.
610
00:41:16,830 --> 00:41:19,870
Come hell or high water, the misfits are
coming out on top.
611
00:41:32,350 --> 00:41:34,390
Hey, the old timer.
612
00:41:35,290 --> 00:41:36,490
How are you, Chris?
613
00:41:36,810 --> 00:41:42,750
At Scribner Creek, claim owner Ken
Tatlow arrives to weigh the first gold
614
00:41:42,750 --> 00:41:44,370
the ground he leases to Parker.
615
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,000
So, how you been?
616
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:47,040
Good, good.
617
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,760
The plant boss, Tyson Lee.
618
00:41:50,180 --> 00:41:52,200
Hey, Tyson. Hey, T -Bird, how you doing,
buddy?
619
00:41:52,460 --> 00:41:54,060
Pretty good, you doing? Good, good.
620
00:41:54,660 --> 00:41:56,440
And foreman, Mitch Blushke.
621
00:41:58,020 --> 00:41:59,020
What's happening?
622
00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:00,480
Hey, Mitch. Hey, Mitchell.
623
00:42:01,940 --> 00:42:04,920
They're here for the first double
goldway of the season.
624
00:42:11,020 --> 00:42:12,920
I think you guys did a great job.
625
00:42:13,420 --> 00:42:18,080
Setting up Big Red. I mean, you know,
Mitch, you and Brennan always did it.
626
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,600
you guys and those excavators worked
with one unit. It was just amazing. But
627
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:22,940
Tyson, you stepped right up.
628
00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:24,640
I mean, it's great.
629
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,720
Well, this is our first cleanup on your
ground, Ken.
630
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:28,960
That'll be exciting.
631
00:42:29,260 --> 00:42:31,540
Yeah, yeah. Haven't seen any for a
while.
632
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:38,200
To match last season, both plants need
to average
633
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,120
235 ounces.
634
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,980
So if you want to rattle off some
numbers, I'll pour it out.
635
00:42:46,340 --> 00:42:48,180
Three, third, 40, 50.
636
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:49,400
Slow down.
637
00:42:52,140 --> 00:42:58,300
90, 100, 110, 130, 150, 180,
638
00:42:58,740 --> 00:43:03,880
206, 208 .75.
639
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,200
Not bad, old dog.
640
00:43:08,540 --> 00:43:10,060
Set for 40 hours.
641
00:43:12,470 --> 00:43:14,610
No. A lot of hours to make that happen.
642
00:43:14,970 --> 00:43:17,110
You're missing a zero. Yeah, I know.
643
00:43:17,410 --> 00:43:18,530
Well, that's what you have.
644
00:43:21,170 --> 00:43:26,090
Mitch, on this third cut, we're hoping
to get, what, 1 ,500 ounces out of the
645
00:43:26,090 --> 00:43:28,530
thing? We need 1 ,500 to match what
Lucifer did.
646
00:43:29,110 --> 00:43:36,090
Here we go. We got 20, 40, 50, 80
hunters.
647
00:43:37,670 --> 00:43:41,710
Now to find out if Big Red can match
Lucifer.
648
00:43:42,470 --> 00:43:46,790
180, 200, 220, 240.
649
00:43:47,050 --> 00:43:48,190
Keep her going.
650
00:43:48,430 --> 00:43:49,430
250.
651
00:43:49,550 --> 00:43:50,570
That's all I got.
652
00:43:51,170 --> 00:43:52,730
263 .8.
653
00:43:53,350 --> 00:43:54,610
All right, let's go at it.
654
00:43:57,310 --> 00:44:04,190
Worth nearly $475 ,000, Big Red has got
655
00:44:04,190 --> 00:44:05,610
Parker back up to speed.
656
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:12,200
Well, it's nice to see that Big Red
remembers its job there. Put that on top
657
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,720
what we got out of Sluicifer. Makes for
a good week. It does. Really good week.
658
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,160
We got 472 .55 ounces.
659
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,100
Great week. Great week.
660
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,300
Our season total is 2 ,070.
661
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,620
So we broke 2 ,000 ounces.
662
00:44:26,980 --> 00:44:28,540
And good job on both those setups.
663
00:44:28,820 --> 00:44:30,340
The plants are in really nice shape.
664
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,420
Let's try and make it happen again next
week. Yeah, do it again.
665
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,460
Do it again and again and again.
666
00:44:39,740 --> 00:44:43,240
You know, it's so awesome that we have
Big Red and Sluicepur both set up and
667
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:44,680
running. They both had good weeks.
668
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:46,340
But now the struggle begins.
669
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,000
The challenge of keeping them both
running is giving me no room for error.
54866
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