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We were going to do 9 ,000 ounces this
year. Half of that was supposed to come
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out of the Indian River.
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The money invested there is huge.
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We had seven cuts here stripped, ready
to go. So this will probably take $10
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million of land to be picked up. Four or
five thousand ounces for sure.
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For two long years, Klondike kingpin
Tony Beats has been trying to unlock his
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gold -rich ground on Indian River.
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It all kicked off with shocking news in
2019.
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We don't have a water license.
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They have to leave.
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Denied a water permit, he tried the
following year.
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Worked. Sucked. Now we're right back to
square one.
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After two failures, he applied again
this year, only to be crushed once more.
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So, no license.
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This season is pretty well down to two.
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In a major pivot, Paradise Hill has
become Tony's main earner.
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In a bid to hit the elusive 4 ,500
ounces, Tony's running 350 yards an hour
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white channel pay through Mike's
trommel.
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We've had a relatively successful
season, but I'm disappointed that we
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get into the Indian and reach that 9
,000 ounce goal.
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But the king hasn't given up on his
prized Indian river yet.
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Yep. Hi, Tony.
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Tony's hired an expert to advise on a
new application.
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We took soil samples. We did a small
vegetation inventory.
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I'm completely encouraged by what we
saw. I have 95 % confidence that this
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license should and will be issued.
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That would be awesome because it is a
lot of money at stake.
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After three long years, Tony now
believes that a new license is imminent
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in no mood to waste any more time.
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If we do get a license in the Indian
River, we're going to have to get this
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trommel up and rolling because we've got
a pretty late start.
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I've got the 50 -ton train coming up, so
we're going to lift this thing up and
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put it on the truncheon.
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It would be nice to get this trommel
finished so we can put it out in the
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River.
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To be ready to sluice the Indian River
claims, Tony's breaking out the 40 -foot
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B .C. trommel.
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Tony, do you have coffee?
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Len, go ahead.
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I got stuck on the hill.
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Okay, I'll be right there.
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We got a truck and a crane stuck halfway
to the hill.
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We're going to go down there and have a
look, see what the situation is. Because
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every time we got something stuck on the
hill, we better pay attention.
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So what happened, Len? I heard a bang,
and I didn't have any traction anymore.
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And then I had a look under it, and the
oil came out of it. So I noticed it
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cracked from one side to the other side
of the airbox.
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So it seized completely.
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The 20 -degree hill is the worst
possible place to break down, as the
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Kenworth truck combined weigh just shy
of 100 tons.
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Mike, do you copy? Mike, do you copy?
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All right, go ahead.
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Can you bring that D -11 over to the
hill? Bring the D -11 over to the hill.
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I mean, this hill has always been
dangerous.
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You know, you always run a chance of
something breaking, something.
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You just never know.
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Good. Okay, I'll get in the back.
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Get Mike to tighten it up, Len.
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Okay, Mike, slowly, slowly tighten it.
Slowly, slowly, then Len can let the
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brakes off.
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Ripper shank up a little bit.
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Good. Roll it in a bit more.
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Good. Hold.
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Okay, I want everybody in front of the
cab.
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Everybody in front of the cab. Nobody
behind the load going up the hill. You,
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get in the pickup truck. Get at them.
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Of the cable snaps, chain brakes, you
just never know. We always take as many
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precautions as we can pulling up this
hill.
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You ready?
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Yeah. Pull it. Go.
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It seems to be going up the hill all
right.
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I'm always glad when it's up on top.
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As soon as we get it there, we'll unload
it, and let's put that drum in place.
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Now we start working on the drum.
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It's always nice to go safe and up on
top of the hill.
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The gold at Mud Mountain is definitely
looking better, but we've already blown
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the budget out the window.
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So we'll see.
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Hopefully the gold continues.
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With just four weeks left of the season,
27 -year -old Parker Schnabel has
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finally found gold at Mud Mountain.
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His team are now in a race to cash in
before season's end.
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Trying to get this stuff ready.
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As we've been working our way through
Mud Mountain, the gold's been getting
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better.
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It looks like this downstream end of it,
just as the last piece that we strip,
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seems to have the best gold.
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I probably should know better than
trying to rest most of your season on
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cut, but who knows?
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Maybe it's there, maybe it's not.
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With so much at risk, Parker needs a
steady earner.
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And he has it in the form of rookie
plant boss Tyson Lee, who's running
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land ground four miles away.
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This time of year, we're making a huge
push to grab every ounce of gold that we
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can.
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That kind of stirs Tyson still plugging
away. It's going fast, you know, the bad
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cut.
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I think Ken's a little off on the naming
of his cuts.
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It's a good cut.
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Did not do so good.
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The bad cut is doing better than the
good cut.
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And the ugly cut, I don't know. You
never know until it's in the jar.
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Lucifer's going to be done in the bad
cut and looking to move to the ugly. And
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the ugly is far from ready. So there's a
lot of work to do, a lot of dirt to
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move.
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You know, this year we've been stretched
thinner than any other year.
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And that's because of Mud Mountain and
it being 60 feet deep.
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The ugly cut is almost double the size
of the bad cut.
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With winter fast approaching, Tyson will
have to double his production rate.
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So, he's come up with a radical new
plan.
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As long as Parker agrees.
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Hey man, how's it going?
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Good, how are you? Pretty good, thanks.
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What's going on?
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This next plant pod setup I was thinking
of setting Lucifer up, so...
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You know, normally we have the wash
plant pad height being the same height
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the wash plant.
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Thinking of setting the wash plant up on
a pedestal.
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Let's say this is our wash plant pad,
right? And this is where the wash plant
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would normally sit.
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I want to kind of stick it out here so
the fines can travel around.
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The only comment I would have is if you
were going to have undermining issues,
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but if you've got lots of nice big
coarse bedrock, then...
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I trust your judgment.
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Right on. And whatever you can do to
stay as self -sufficient as possible is
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best thing for us because we're spread
so thin, as you well know.
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I'm thinking if things work out the way
I think it will, we should be able to
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get away with three guys on days and two
on nights down there.
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That'll free up another guy to be in a
truck.
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I'm not going to say you're on your own
down there, but act like you are until
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you really need help.
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Right on.
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I'll go get to her.
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Thanks, man.
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In a normal setup, tailings from the
wash plant build up, meaning the crew
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to continually clear them.
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Tyson's plan is to use 40 ,000 tons of
material to build a mega pad, allowing
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the fine tailings to fall away from the
plant, saving on time and crew.
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Normally it takes us about a week to
build the wash plant pad, and we started
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yesterday.
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Well, the pressure's on.
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And now we're at the point where we can
get this. Holy, this thing has some
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gremlins in it.
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My other hose down because it's doing a
parts regen. This one's on the fridge.
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ECU failure.
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Communications failure. Now it won't
move.
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And now it just died.
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Yeah, keep... Come on, Jerv.
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Let's go.
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It's a massive blow.
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Without the powerful 700 excavator,
finishing the 60 -foot -high megapod
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take days.
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The shutdown has already cost Tyson five
hours.
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Absolute mess on top of the batteries
here.
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How's it going, Tay?
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Want me to get Dumit's canoe for you?
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Yeah, we might need it.
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Is there any chances of it running
tonight, Tay?
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No way. No? No way.
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You have to probably use one of the
other hoes. Okay.
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With the 700 out of action, Tyson is
forced to finish the pad using the
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smaller 480.
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You know, normally we use the 750 or the
700.
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A lot bigger than a 480, but I guess I
got to make do with the 480.
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Final bucket.
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Get ready to shut her down.
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All right, Tyson, you got a copy?
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Go ahead, Marty.
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That's the last bucket here, buddy.
We're ready to shut her down.
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Yes, we'll shut her down now, Laurie.
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Sluicifer will now lie idle until Tyson
can finish the new mega pad.
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That's it.
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Bad cut's done.
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I still have to build the pad.
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So the beginning of the season went
really well. I was thinking we were
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a stride. The last couple weeks have
been nothing short of disaster.
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At California Creek, Special Forces
medic Fred Lewis has mined just half his
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-ounce season goal.
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We're not even coming close to hitting
our low -end goal at this point. If this
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continues and Sandra and Jorg are
definitely not happy with what we're
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in.
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Fred needs to find a way to ramp up his
goal production.
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before winter arrives.
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Right now we're kind of, we've got to
figure out how to get ourselves to where
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we're not.
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As hard as we've been pushing this
season, it's been a struggle.
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We've really outgrown our equipment. We
are pushing everything to the max every
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day, including ourselves.
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Now Fred's landlords, Jorg Lotz and
Sandro Fritzi, have arrived to check if
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is hitting his pre -agreed targets.
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What's up, guys?
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How's it going, Fred?
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How are you doing, sir?
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Good. Let me show you guys the cut we
just opened up and what we're down to as
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far as pay. Yeah, okay.
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How many yards did you have done at this
point?
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Right now, we just crossed 6 ,000 yards.
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Total? Total, as a team, from the day we
started.
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You remember what's in the contract?
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It's 35 ,000, so... Yeah, that's...
Whoa, you're far away.
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Yeah. You don't want to wait 20 years
until this creek is done.
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A real miner, a good miner, an
experienced miner, they would have done
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in a week. You know, you want to be
feasible and you want to earn some
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and with machinery this size, you won't
earn much money.
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This is not a sandbox, you know.
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Stripping is the key to the success of
this.
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To come to the point, in order to come
back next year, you need bigger
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now, this fall, not next year.
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Fred, you're missing.
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A big dozer here. Let's be honest.
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Okay. I can do that. I can work on that.
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We hope so.
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With only his two small excavators,
Fred's been running just 1 ,000 yards a
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week. A bigger dozer could move dirt
three times faster.
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It's a simple matter of numbers, and
Fred isn't hitting his.
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For them to make money on this
operation, we need to be putting a lot
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material through our plant and giving
them a lot more gold in the end. So they
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want better.
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And if we want to stay here, we want
this to be our home for the next four or
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five seasons, we're going to have to
perform, we're going to have to find
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equipment, and we're going to have to do
what they want.
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Hey,
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Tony, this is Fred. How you doing?
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So my claim owners are kind of putting
an ultimatum on me to step up my
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production a little more.
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That would entail me finding larger
equipment, and I'm not finding anything
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locally.
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We're looking for a D8 or a D9.
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All right.
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I really appreciate it, Tony. Thank you.
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Yep. Bye.
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Well, that was a strikeout.
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Brandon. Hey, friend. What's going on?
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Oh, just fixing, you know. How's it
been?
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Good. You? Oh, man. Actually, not good.
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Neighboring mine boss, Brandon Clayton.
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Also leases ground from Jorg and Sandro.
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Sandro and Jorg came over and kind of
put an ultimatum on me, where they're
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like, we need more from you if you're
going to stay here. Oh, no. We've gotten
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to a point up there where our
equipment's just scraping away. We're
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250, 250 yards through the plant a day.
So if we had a dozer, obviously a dozer
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would solve 99 % of our problem.
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Brett, I really wish I could help.
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I'm stretched right now as it is trying
to run just a day shift.
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I'm pulling 900 on one shift with the
trauma right now.
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And we're at the point where we're
struggling as well to try and get it up
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enough to make a full day, right? Right.
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I'm short a hole right now. I need one
with the plant. I need one stripping.
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Maybe if I can use another hole, like
one of yours, and then I can give you my
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dozer. Yeah, I think that's something we
can work on.
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Maybe there's a way we can work
together.
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So what are you trying to say?
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If we could somehow figure a way where I
could get used to some of your bigger
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equipment over here, I think there may
be a kind of a middle ground we could
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come up with where we just consolidate
our equipment to where it helps us both.
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Like a partnership?
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Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You know, I've got
Buzz. I can run our night. Yeah. I think
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it's a good idea, actually, Fred,
really, if you think about it.
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I mean, I'm only running 12 hours a day,
and...
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We're getting to the time when it's
starting to freeze, so I want to run 24
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hours. Basically, we have to to keep my
plant going and not freezing overnight.
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We can't run two plants at once. That's
the only issue. I would be willing to
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pull that plant completely, put it on
reserve up there, and run your plant.
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And we'll pull from my area, your area,
just get dirt around this season.
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And we could just split the goal 50 -50.
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Split 50 -50.
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I think we got a deal. I'm down with it.
Give me the courtesy of running it by
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my guys, see what they think, and then
we'll just move from there.
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The partnership could allow the pair to
sluice three times as much pay dirt.
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If the Claytons' massive trommel can run
24 -7, it'll get Fred one step closer
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to hitting Sandro and York's goal.
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But only if Fred's crew agree.
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It boils down to numbers. If we combine
forces, like, really partnered with
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Brandon and started pulling our pay over
to his plant, we're going to be able to
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put up to 1 ,800 yards a day through his
plant. Yeah. Right. And we're putting
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300 through ours.
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The only downside that I see is their
equipment's down, like, all the time.
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That would be my concern. Because, you
know, they break down, too.
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The other risk is we end up hating each
other.
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I mean, what kind of season do we want?
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That's the question. Do we want to
scrape by and pull 100 ounces and hope
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Sandra and Jorg see that as our best?
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Or do we want to prove to them if we had
bigger equipment, Brandon, this is the
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difference. I don't want to go home
saying, yeah, we scraped it by.
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I want to go home with our heads held
high in a pocketful.
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You know, it's a little bit risky, but I
really think this could save our
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season, guys.
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As long as we're running pay.
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and pulling gold, then we're good.
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I don't want to have another season
where we go home with Jack.
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All right, guys, we good with this?
Yeah, man.
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All right,
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let's get it then. Let's get this work
done and move forward.
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Brandon's crew and Fred's misfits have
assembled to form one united team.
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Working with the Claytons, it's pretty
good to get the does here. It really
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helps with the stripping. They're
planted on good yards, so teaming up
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is really going to help our end of the
season goal.
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I'm feeling really good about the
collaboration, and things that we might
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have, they bring to the table, and what
they don't have, we bring to the table.
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So I think it's a really good
relationship.
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The only way I'm going to prove to
Sandro and yours, and to my investor,
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can do this on a larger scale than the
team with Brandon. Right now, we're
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to show what we're made of.
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A paradise hell, the beats are moving
metal.
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I'd like to bring it to the Indian
River.
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That is a chance we may get an license
this year. If we do, at least we'll have
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this trommel laying there and ready to
go.
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I'm going to lift the trommel up.
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And then we'll slide the skid out.
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Then after we slide the skid out, we'll
load that on a trailer.
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And then we'll come back in with another
trailer.
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And we'll just put the crumple on that
one.
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Okay, tighten the cables, gentlemen.
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Tighten the cables.
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More, more, more, more, more, more,
more. Hold it right there.
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Okay, gentlemen, give it a try. See what
they can do.
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Lift the thing up, lift the thing up.
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Good. All right, Dad.
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Come on, I got you.
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Come on, I got you.
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Okay.
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Good.
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We're all in there, Mike.
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Good. Good.
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Good job.
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Keep her coming. Keep her coming. Good.
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Yeah. I want two over on this side and I
want two over here.
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Monica, I think we got enough.
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Hold it right there. Okay, Mike, down.
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Down, down, down, down. Down, down.
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Okay, Len, let it out. Len, let it out,
please.
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Good. Hold it right there.
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That's all you can do, Kevin.
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With the 10 -ton BC trommel secured,
it's time to haul it the 40 miles to
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River.
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Moving equipment's always pretty tough.
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Anyway, we'll get this one set up down
the hill.
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We're going to get the other one loaded,
and then two trucks in the river. Off
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they go.
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So we got a problem on the way. We got a
skid on the way.
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We have a little dozer.
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So today, nicely cruising. Road looks
good.
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And we'll drop them off and...
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TV can make it home for supper, I guess.
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After a lot of time, we made it down
here.
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It actually feels good to be back here
for a minute.
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So we're going to drop off the load,
turn and burn, as they call that.
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You know what?
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Lucifer coming to an end in the bad cut.
It's my responsibility to get this pad
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set up.
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At the ugly cut, plant boss Tyson Lee's
operation has been down for 24 hours as
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he builds an ambitious new pad.
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Well, there goes the last rock truck
load of grizzly tailings. The plant
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done. We can drag Lucifer over here and
start on the ugly.
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Tyson's banking on the elevated pad to
accelerate his production rate.
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But first he must move Sluicifer up the
steepest ramp he's ever built.
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Right now we're just hooking up the
cables, and we're going to drag
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over to the wash plant pad we built.
It's looking pretty good over there.
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Just got to get her up there safely.
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The 700 was having issues.
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Alex figures it's electrical, so we're
going to have to make it work with the
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480.
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You know, it's kind of like trying to
move a dump truck with a two -door
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It would be nice to have the 700 to move
this thing because right now I'm
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struggling to pull it and 700 would just
move it like none other.
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I think where we're going to really
struggle is going to be pulling it off
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pod and getting it turned.
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It'll be interesting to see how Tyson
gets the plant up here and swings it
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around. He'll definitely be on the sides
of it. And that's a dirt
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slump, so that's about as steep as it's
going to get.
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Well, it's going to be a foot at a time.
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Now, as you can tell, the 480 is really
struggling to pull this thing up.
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Just got to get her to the top of this
hill and spin it a little.
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This 480 is not liking this kind of
abuse.
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I wonder how much you trust those
cables.
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Because if he's loaded up like that and
they pop, the excavator could even just
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go upside down right over it. Yeah,
that's quite a drop there.
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00:27:04,490 --> 00:27:05,670
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
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Have a look at that!
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or ornaments for Parker's table?
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Proof, if proof were needed, about the
stresses at play when trying to move a
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-ton wash plant.
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00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:31,380
That goes to show how heavy this wash
plant is. Oh, yeah.
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I thought we'd... the wash plant.
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The shackle, I can live with that.
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00:27:37,980 --> 00:27:43,480
Take two!
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00:27:48,650 --> 00:27:50,030
Okay, your stick's almost full out.
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Curl your bucket.
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You got her.
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Here she comes.
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Please don't come at me, wash plant.
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Almost at the bottom.
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Looks all good.
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So right now, we're just trying to spin
the flucifer and make sure it ends lined
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up with the trough I've made. Because if
it doesn't, it's going to be a fight
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00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,080
trying to move it side to side.
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Oh.
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Perfect.
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00:28:37,020 --> 00:28:38,020
Thank you.
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00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,400
Well, guys, she's in place.
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Yeah. Good work, guys.
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00:28:45,580 --> 00:28:49,220
Good work in the excavator. That's some
professional level stuff right there.
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That hill on that side, that was
impressive.
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00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,259
Thanks, man.
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00:28:54,260 --> 00:28:56,340
Yeah. Let's get back at her.
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00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:57,640
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:06,460
Sluciper's now ready to start running
hundreds of yards of gold -rich pay
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00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:12,600
You know, we got Sluciper in place,
level, banks in place. As you can tell,
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there's a lot of drop for fine tailings
to go and...
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00:29:17,260 --> 00:29:18,940
Yeah, definitely high up there.
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00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:23,600
Here we go, here starts the ugly cut.
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That was the first scoop right there.
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00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,780
You know, I'm actually really, really
excited that it's happening.
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Whereas right now we'd be able to eke
out 100 ounces, we're going to probably
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triple that and come out with like 300.
So hopefully we'll be able to, you know,
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make us all a little bit of money, a
little bit of gold.
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At California Creek, Fred Lewis has shut
down his wash plant and teamed up with
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neighbor Brandon Clayton.
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And decommissioning Mount Pesuvius. We
are moving our pay pile, what's left of
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it, over to Brandon's plant.
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00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:39,920
He's put the D9 dozer to work ripping
pay in hope of running at least 9 ,000
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yards a week through Brandon's wash
plant.
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00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:48,960
The method team is still pretty green at
mining, so I'm just double -checking
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our cuts, making sure that we're not too
deep.
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We're taking enough.
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and we're not leaving anything behind.
427
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,420
Fred. Hey, Fred.
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00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:03,800
Good morning, man.
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00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:04,920
How's it going?
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00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,480
Not too bad.
431
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:07,920
What's happening?
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You guys asked us to kind of step it up
as far as production goes. To get bigger
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equipment, right? Yeah, so I met with
Brandon and just talked about what
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we were having, and it kind of dawned on
us. I've got too small of equipment.
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00:31:20,620 --> 00:31:22,420
Right now, he's got too big of
equipment.
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00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,260
So we decided to go at it together.
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00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,600
I hope this will work out. You know,
before we had two mining operations, and
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now it's one mining operation.
439
00:31:35,220 --> 00:31:38,820
It's a little risky for both of us. But
I think if we work together and
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communicate, I think you guys will see a
huge production increase from this.
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Because obviously he's got the bigger
capacity.
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But with our small equipment and with
our extra guys, we can help his plant
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24 hours a day.
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and get that high yardage and shoot for
1 ,800 yards a day.
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We will see when is the time.
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You have to prove yourself in a few
days.
447
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,700
Yep. We will be here soon and check out
what you're doing.
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00:32:06,660 --> 00:32:11,100
I felt like Brandon and I made a great
decision, and I thought that it was the
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best possible choice for us going
forward, but now it seems a lot more
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00:32:16,260 --> 00:32:20,240
risk. It seems like Sandro and Jorg are
really going to expect big numbers.
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Teaming up with Brandon is kind of a
last resort if we're going to be able to
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really pull the season off. We'll finish
the season, but I don't want to limp
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through the finish line.
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I want to come out victorious with a
gold medal.
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00:32:36,930 --> 00:32:37,930
Warren, what's up?
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JV, I got a problem, man.
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Blew a tire.
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00:32:47,130 --> 00:32:48,890
I got a puncture in the right side.
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00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:57,100
Clayton crew operator Warren Binney has
blown a tire on the loader being used to
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feed the plant.
461
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,360
Yeah, that's it there, yeah. Right
there. That's a pretty big hole.
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It's either the shale rock that split it
or maybe a piece of metal in the
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tailings or something like that.
464
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,540
So that's our only loader, you know what
I mean? That's a key piece of equipment
465
00:33:15,540 --> 00:33:16,540
that we need.
466
00:33:16,890 --> 00:33:20,550
To make sure that the plant's running so
it's stopping us from processing the
467
00:33:20,550 --> 00:33:24,450
pay. If this keeps happening, then we're
not going to meet our quota. It's going
468
00:33:24,450 --> 00:33:25,450
to be a mess.
469
00:33:28,670 --> 00:33:29,750
So what do you got? Let's see.
470
00:33:29,970 --> 00:33:33,410
Good deal. That looks great.
471
00:33:36,430 --> 00:33:40,910
JB and his new comrades must patch the
tire in double quick time.
472
00:33:43,570 --> 00:33:44,770
And there it is.
473
00:33:46,129 --> 00:33:48,690
Push the tire down again so we can get
that ring on.
474
00:33:48,930 --> 00:33:49,930
Gotcha, gotcha.
475
00:34:02,890 --> 00:34:03,890
It's going now.
476
00:34:04,190 --> 00:34:05,330
Yeah, it's even going now.
477
00:34:06,170 --> 00:34:10,949
Trying to expand the tire so it actually
forms a seal, which we got it now.
478
00:34:11,449 --> 00:34:13,170
Let's get her back on our loader.
479
00:34:14,350 --> 00:34:17,150
You can start washing rocks again. I
think you had a holiday today.
480
00:34:25,929 --> 00:34:27,150
And that's on there.
481
00:34:27,690 --> 00:34:29,750
Hey, NASCAR does it a whole lot faster.
482
00:34:35,810 --> 00:34:40,449
Three hours of downtime has only
intensified the pressure on Fred.
483
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,860
to prove his risky alliance can bear
fruit.
484
00:34:44,340 --> 00:34:48,020
You know, this took way longer than we
wanted it to, but the best thing I took
485
00:34:48,020 --> 00:34:51,520
out of today is I'm seeing my guys work
with Brandon's guys, seeing fifth bump.
486
00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:55,300
Everyone's stressed, and it's not what
we want to be doing, but we're doing it
487
00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:56,620
together, and that's what keeps me
happy.
488
00:35:02,060 --> 00:35:07,080
At Mud Mountain, there's a different
sort of holdup, one that foreman Mitch
489
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:08,980
Blaschke was happy to instigate.
490
00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:14,260
So normally we go four days between
cleanups. This has only been two days
491
00:35:14,340 --> 00:35:16,740
and you see the gold already piling up
in all the riffles.
492
00:35:17,060 --> 00:35:18,820
So it's time to do a cleanup.
493
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:20,680
This is a good problem to have.
494
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,960
So this is just a, what, two -day run?
Yeah, this is just two days.
495
00:35:28,180 --> 00:35:29,800
This mat here, look at that.
496
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:31,800
That's just one handful.
497
00:35:37,420 --> 00:35:40,400
You just pick the chunks up off the
carpet like that.
498
00:35:40,820 --> 00:35:42,720
This is the stuff we've been waiting on.
499
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,180
And it looks like the wait was worth it.
500
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,280
Hi,
501
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,380
family. Hi, guys.
502
00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:58,960
Hola. Hola. Buenos dias.
503
00:35:59,420 --> 00:36:00,420
There's a baby.
504
00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:04,580
There's a baby on the table. We have
lots of babies on the table, it seems
505
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:05,840
Like every time.
506
00:36:07,330 --> 00:36:09,290
So, this week went pretty good, huh?
507
00:36:09,610 --> 00:36:13,110
Yeah, loading that trowel went good. We
had some trouble bringing the crane up
508
00:36:13,110 --> 00:36:14,110
the hill, though.
509
00:36:14,470 --> 00:36:18,590
I don't know what happened to the truck,
but that's sure going to cost a lot of
510
00:36:18,590 --> 00:36:22,750
money. Oh, yeah. I thought it was slick.
I haven't priced it out yet, but the
511
00:36:22,750 --> 00:36:26,070
gears were laying on the ground, so
that's not going to be cheap. Which
512
00:36:26,070 --> 00:36:30,050
are we talking about? One of our 500
winch tractors. Oh, Lord.
513
00:36:30,490 --> 00:36:34,790
Good thing you had that 11 up on the
hill close so we could drag it up.
514
00:36:35,150 --> 00:36:37,870
Other than that, it was pretty
uneventful, really. Yeah, I know.
515
00:36:38,390 --> 00:36:41,950
Dropped the trailers in the Indian, and
bingo, it can sit there.
516
00:36:42,890 --> 00:36:45,490
License we will get, and the tram will
be ready to go.
517
00:36:46,690 --> 00:36:49,850
And so, in all that commotion, you're
still sluiced all week, right?
518
00:36:50,130 --> 00:36:50,888
Oh, yeah.
519
00:36:50,890 --> 00:36:52,710
Perfect. Old faithful never stops.
520
00:36:53,270 --> 00:36:55,710
No, that thing just keeps on rolling.
That thing does fine.
521
00:36:56,330 --> 00:36:59,550
Anyway, so what do you guys want to do?
Wait and see what we got there with.
522
00:37:01,390 --> 00:37:08,350
To reach his 4 ,500 -ounce season goal,
Tony needs 370 ounces a
523
00:37:08,350 --> 00:37:10,150
week. You ready, Mike?
524
00:37:11,290 --> 00:37:12,610
Oh, yeah. Are you ready?
525
00:37:13,010 --> 00:37:15,230
Let's do the thing. Chicken wing. Three,
two, one, go.
526
00:37:15,970 --> 00:37:16,970
Four.
527
00:37:18,330 --> 00:37:19,970
Five. Ten.
528
00:37:20,990 --> 00:37:22,510
Forty. Fifty.
529
00:37:24,130 --> 00:37:25,510
Seventy. Hundred.
530
00:37:26,130 --> 00:37:30,290
One -twenty. One -sifty. One -seventy.
Two -hundred. Two -ten.
531
00:37:31,220 --> 00:37:33,520
250, 260, 300.
532
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Keep going.
533
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:39,440
306 .98.
534
00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:43,240
Worth over $550 ,000.
535
00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:45,060
That wasn't a bad week, though.
536
00:37:45,380 --> 00:37:47,200
They're over 300 again, so that's nice.
537
00:37:47,460 --> 00:37:48,460
I think so.
538
00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:52,620
But at least, you know, we have
something to look forward to next year.
539
00:37:52,620 --> 00:37:54,720
we get back into the Indian next season.
540
00:37:55,230 --> 00:37:59,810
These gold ways should double on us, and
the goal we had set, having both
541
00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:02,290
properties on the go, was not out of
line.
542
00:38:02,730 --> 00:38:07,330
But like a wise man always says, don't
count it until it's dried and weighed.
543
00:38:07,530 --> 00:38:09,470
That's correct, but we'll get to that
point.
544
00:38:09,770 --> 00:38:12,670
But on that note, we need to head out.
545
00:38:13,290 --> 00:38:14,510
I leave it.
546
00:38:30,860 --> 00:38:33,560
Well, guys, you ready for this one?
547
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:34,800
Oh, yeah.
548
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,440
At California Creek.
549
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,620
I think it was a big gamble. A little
nervous because Andrew and Jorg, they
550
00:38:40,620 --> 00:38:43,920
didn't necessarily say, I want you to
team up with my other operation.
551
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:50,000
It's Fred's first gold way since
partnering up with Brandon's crew.
552
00:38:51,420 --> 00:38:56,680
Hey, Jorg, how's it going? Oh, yeah,
good. Good. How are you? Good. Andrew,
553
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:57,680
are you doing?
554
00:38:58,090 --> 00:39:01,550
And the claim owners are back to find
out if the deal paid off.
555
00:39:02,010 --> 00:39:03,050
So how's it going here?
556
00:39:03,310 --> 00:39:04,750
I'm really glad you guys came today.
557
00:39:04,990 --> 00:39:06,950
This is our first real go -away
together.
558
00:39:07,470 --> 00:39:10,350
So Fred, in the contra, they were 35
,000 yards.
559
00:39:10,630 --> 00:39:14,310
How many did you run at this point? We
ran 6 ,200 yards.
560
00:39:14,550 --> 00:39:17,770
6 ,200, yeah. And I guess it's an
improvement of the yard that you did
561
00:39:17,930 --> 00:39:21,410
right? We're doing 90 yards an hour
still. We're just running day and night
562
00:39:21,510 --> 00:39:24,690
Yeah, yeah. So more hours per day.
That's right. And it's good.
563
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,480
But for sure we are very curious what
the result.
564
00:39:27,780 --> 00:39:31,640
Yeah. Can we see some numbers? Do you
have some numbers to show? We got some
565
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:32,640
numbers. You guys ready?
566
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:33,720
Yes. Scales over here.
567
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:40,280
Before they joined forces, Fred and
Brandon averaged a combined 19 ounces.
568
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,840
All right, guys. Stansby, you want to
call it out?
569
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,520
Go ahead. Now remember, guys, this is
only half a bar.
570
00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:48,360
Don't get too excited.
571
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:53,420
Okay, two, three. Oh, there's the big
gun nugget. Four, five.
572
00:39:55,210 --> 00:40:02,030
9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
23. Wow.
573
00:40:02,310 --> 00:40:04,710
25, 30.
574
00:40:05,270 --> 00:40:06,270
Some more.
575
00:40:06,930 --> 00:40:07,930
37.
576
00:40:09,070 --> 00:40:11,210
Holy cow. 38 .66.
577
00:40:12,290 --> 00:40:15,090
Worth just under $70 ,000.
578
00:40:15,750 --> 00:40:19,050
More than double the amount both crews
were getting before.
579
00:40:20,350 --> 00:40:23,490
Fred's half share of 19 .33 ounces.
580
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,080
It's his biggest ever gold hole.
581
00:40:26,660 --> 00:40:29,660
That's pretty good for you as well,
right? Yeah, I'm happy with that, yeah.
582
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:30,920
What about you guys?
583
00:40:31,180 --> 00:40:33,640
If we keep going like that, yeah, every
five days.
584
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,020
Yeah, and I believe if we get everything
dialed in, we'll be doing better than
585
00:40:37,020 --> 00:40:39,440
that. I think this is just the
beginning, I think.
586
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:44,160
Already you doubled your production. I
can't say that it's bad.
587
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,180
Right. Now if you double again, it's
even better, right?
588
00:40:47,670 --> 00:40:51,570
So, yeah, it looked your idea was okay,
staring and getting together with
589
00:40:51,570 --> 00:40:55,590
Brandon. We were a little bit skeptical,
but, yeah, if you do it, like, in this
590
00:40:55,590 --> 00:40:56,328
way, it's good.
591
00:40:56,330 --> 00:41:00,010
All right, guys, well, I think we should
get him back to work. Yeah, I think we
592
00:41:00,010 --> 00:41:02,770
go back, start hauling, and keep
washing. Keep going.
593
00:41:03,270 --> 00:41:04,270
Sounds good.
594
00:41:05,150 --> 00:41:09,430
At the beginning, I was kind of
skeptical about this merging, the two
595
00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:11,570
between Brandon and Fred.
596
00:41:12,550 --> 00:41:15,110
But what I saw today, I really like it.
597
00:41:15,550 --> 00:41:19,570
I mean, it looks like the guy, they work
together, they collaborate very well,
598
00:41:19,690 --> 00:41:23,290
and the production is not bad at all.
Actually, there is an increase.
599
00:41:23,830 --> 00:41:27,350
So I would say I'm pretty happy,
definitely.
600
00:41:28,430 --> 00:41:31,710
I feel like they saw the potential. They
see that this is just the beginning,
601
00:41:31,830 --> 00:41:33,010
right, and we're going to get better.
602
00:41:33,270 --> 00:41:37,510
We doubled our yardage in five days of
running, which is freaking amazing if
603
00:41:37,510 --> 00:41:38,510
ask me.
604
00:41:39,110 --> 00:41:42,690
But these goalways will get bigger, and
that's really all that matters.
605
00:41:56,529 --> 00:41:59,470
What's going on, Chris? Hey, Mitch.
How's it going, man? Oh, not too bad.
606
00:41:59,750 --> 00:42:00,990
Good to see you, buddy. You too.
607
00:42:01,910 --> 00:42:03,750
Hey, T -Bird. How you doing, man?
608
00:42:03,990 --> 00:42:04,990
Not much, you?
609
00:42:05,270 --> 00:42:06,229
Cleaning gold.
610
00:42:06,230 --> 00:42:07,510
Yeah? Nonstop.
611
00:42:10,510 --> 00:42:14,670
But you've been busy this week. You got
Sluiceford moved over to the new wash
612
00:42:14,670 --> 00:42:15,770
plant pad. She's tall.
613
00:42:16,090 --> 00:42:17,570
Yeah, man. It's up there.
614
00:42:18,430 --> 00:42:21,570
Difficult getting it in place. Nice to
see it up there and hopefully don't have
615
00:42:21,570 --> 00:42:22,970
to mess with tailings too much.
616
00:42:23,170 --> 00:42:24,990
That should be one solid wash plant pad.
617
00:42:25,250 --> 00:42:29,210
Oh, yeah, man. It was nuts. I'm looking
forward to the cleanup here, Dumit.
618
00:42:29,290 --> 00:42:30,370
Hopefully there's some gold in it.
619
00:42:30,690 --> 00:42:31,810
Well, you want to see what we got?
620
00:42:32,970 --> 00:42:37,310
Time to find out if the last of the bad
cut lived up to its name.
621
00:42:37,550 --> 00:42:38,790
Take your guess, Parker.
622
00:42:39,050 --> 00:42:40,050
What do you got?
623
00:42:43,410 --> 00:42:46,190
192, based on how he's holding it.
624
00:42:48,620 --> 00:42:54,400
10, 20, 40, 60, 130,
625
00:42:54,980 --> 00:42:57,220
160. It's over.
626
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:58,480
200,
627
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:05,680
220, 240, 250, 277 .05.
628
00:43:06,300 --> 00:43:10,360
That was way off. Worth just under half
a million dollars.
629
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,040
That's a good cleanup.
630
00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:13,240
Yeah, no kidding.
631
00:43:13,620 --> 00:43:17,660
It's your last of the bad cuts, so now
we got to see what the ugly cut's going
632
00:43:17,660 --> 00:43:18,660
to do, right? Yeah.
633
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,460
Hopefully not hold up to its name. All
right. This is the first of Big Red.
634
00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:30,920
Parker spent over $4 million getting
down to pay in Mud Mountain after drill
635
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:35,600
results showed it was four times richer
than any other Indian river ground.
636
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,220
I see you got two pans, Dumit, so what
are you trying to tell me?
637
00:43:39,530 --> 00:43:41,790
My scale goes up to 400 ounces.
638
00:43:42,050 --> 00:43:48,590
With the way Mud Mountain has been
going, right here, you guys, is 400
639
00:43:48,590 --> 00:43:49,590
ounces.
640
00:43:50,570 --> 00:43:52,230
Well, that's a good way to start.
641
00:43:53,550 --> 00:43:55,510
That's the first thermos.
642
00:43:55,950 --> 00:44:00,450
400 on the dot. This is plus the 400.
643
00:44:00,890 --> 00:44:02,990
Let's see what we got on top of 400.
644
00:44:03,890 --> 00:44:08,110
20, 40, 100.
645
00:44:11,540 --> 00:44:17,580
130, 180, 196 .6.
646
00:44:17,860 --> 00:44:22,420
For a total of 596 .6 ounces in one
week. That's incredible.
647
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,640
Worth over $1 million.
648
00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:29,320
We've been busy down here. Let's put it
that way.
649
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:34,600
I mean, just last week, Big Red had its
best week ever, and it just popped it.
650
00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:37,120
This is the best week.
651
00:44:37,610 --> 00:44:39,570
of Red's history from day one.
652
00:44:40,050 --> 00:44:44,690
It's just wild how much effort and
stripping went into it and how fast
653
00:44:44,690 --> 00:44:49,410
getting through it. Every hour of
sluicing probably represents $1 ,000
654
00:44:49,410 --> 00:44:53,770
stripping or something, right? Or $2
,000 worth of stripping. For the week,
655
00:44:53,770 --> 00:44:59,950
guys, believe it or not, it's 873 .65
ounces. Jeez.
656
00:45:00,370 --> 00:45:02,830
Worth over $1 .5 million.
657
00:45:04,390 --> 00:45:06,070
Parker's Biggest Gold Way.
658
00:45:07,630 --> 00:45:12,250
I never thought after last week we'd top
what we just did, but it's a matter of
659
00:45:12,250 --> 00:45:14,430
if it'll hold out for long enough to
make it worthwhile.
660
00:45:14,910 --> 00:45:19,870
Let's do this again next week. Yeah,
let's do it again a few more times. A
661
00:45:19,870 --> 00:45:20,870
more times, yep.
662
00:45:21,050 --> 00:45:21,928
We'll try.
663
00:45:21,930 --> 00:45:24,610
Good job, guys. All three of you. Have a
good week.
664
00:45:25,150 --> 00:45:28,990
So how many rounds of golf did you miss?
Yeah, exactly.
665
00:45:29,870 --> 00:45:31,930
I didn't always have to work every day.
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