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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:23,840 Got a lot going on right now, and hopefully we're not biting off too much. 2 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:32,280 Gold mining genius Parker Schnabel is planning an audacious move, running two 3 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:38,620 mining operations in two different countries, one in the Yukon and a new 4 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:39,620 in Alaska. 5 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:44,580 It's really dangerous having that big of a battle on two different fronts, 6 00:00:44,740 --> 00:00:47,060 getting people hitting hard. 7 00:00:47,770 --> 00:00:49,230 It's going to be a real challenge. 8 00:00:50,130 --> 00:00:55,570 But before resources can be moved to Alaska, Parker needs his Yukon crew to 9 00:00:55,570 --> 00:00:59,470 strip a mammoth 90 acres of ground at the airstrip. 10 00:01:00,830 --> 00:01:05,250 We have so much ground to get through that just stripping is the main issue. 11 00:01:06,450 --> 00:01:09,610 With just how spread out we're going to be, everybody's going to have to step 12 00:01:09,610 --> 00:01:10,610 up. 13 00:01:13,490 --> 00:01:19,160 To ramp up the pressure, Parker's water license at the airstrip expires at the 14 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:20,160 end of the season. 15 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:25,500 To maximize his profits, he'll need to extract every ounce of gold. 16 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:29,700 Either that, or it'll stay in the ground forever. 17 00:01:30,460 --> 00:01:33,240 We're getting really close to being done with the keyhole path. 18 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,220 Crew's working pretty hard to make sure that the next one's ready. 19 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,280 Guys, we're almost there. 20 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,900 After an early start, Parker's wash plant boss Tyson Lee... 21 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:49,160 has pulled out 975 ounces of gold from the 14 -acre keyhole cut. 22 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,360 We're getting to the bitter end of the first cut of the season here. I'm 23 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:56,460 out the last bit of pay. 24 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:03,360 So these are the last few truckloads, getting it up to big red. This cut is 25 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:04,360 and done with. 26 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,060 You're good, my horn is again. 27 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,479 Hey, you're good, you're loaded. 28 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:11,960 That's me. 29 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,440 I feel like I'm keeping up at the moment, which is good. 30 00:02:22,260 --> 00:02:23,260 You're doing great. 31 00:02:23,780 --> 00:02:25,100 I think that's it. 32 00:02:30,980 --> 00:02:37,140 The last bucket. 33 00:02:38,420 --> 00:02:39,420 Here we go. 34 00:02:44,330 --> 00:02:46,110 All righty, guys, time to shut Big Red down. 35 00:02:46,390 --> 00:02:47,990 The next step is Easy Street. 36 00:02:49,950 --> 00:02:54,990 Just upstream from the Keyhole Cut, Parker's crew have already stripped down 37 00:02:54,990 --> 00:03:01,730 pay at the 11 -acre Easy Street Cut, ground they hope can deliver over a 38 00:03:01,730 --> 00:03:03,150 million dollars in gold. 39 00:03:06,650 --> 00:03:08,670 We're stripping down here at the airstrip. 40 00:03:08,970 --> 00:03:11,890 Everybody's asking why we call it Easy Street, and I think it's because it's 41 00:03:11,890 --> 00:03:12,930 only going to get tougher from here. 42 00:03:17,290 --> 00:03:23,550 To wash gold at the new cut, Parker needs Big Red moved and running pay dirt 43 00:03:23,550 --> 00:03:24,830 just 10 hours' time. 44 00:03:28,070 --> 00:03:31,530 Hopefully we can nail these transitions. We have so much ground to get through 45 00:03:31,530 --> 00:03:36,890 that smoothly transitioning from one pit to the next is going to be a critical 46 00:03:36,890 --> 00:03:38,890 part of this, and we have a lot of them to do. 47 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:44,960 lose a couple days per plant move. It's going to throw a wrench in the works for 48 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:45,899 the whole season. 49 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:50,600 This is going to be on Tyson getting Big Red moved from the set up it's in to 50 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,060 the next one because he needs to get comfortable doing it on his own because 51 00:03:55,060 --> 00:03:56,780 Mitch is dealing with the stripping crew. 52 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:03,380 Right now it's just Tyson's over there on his own and we're relying on him to 53 00:04:03,380 --> 00:04:04,720 able to keep that plant going. 54 00:04:06,670 --> 00:04:10,090 So we're all done with Big Red here at this setup. We're ready to get back 55 00:04:10,090 --> 00:04:14,190 looping with the wash plant and the cut. Trying to do this myself, so wish me 56 00:04:14,190 --> 00:04:15,190 luck. 57 00:04:18,570 --> 00:04:22,670 This is the first time I've set Big Red up by myself, so we just want to be 58 00:04:22,670 --> 00:04:24,690 careful not to flip the thing over. 59 00:04:26,050 --> 00:04:28,810 So it's pretty well concreted into the ground. 60 00:04:31,130 --> 00:04:32,130 Stand back! 61 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:39,520 Yee -haw! 62 00:04:52,060 --> 00:04:55,980 So this is probably the sketchiest part of the whole pole. There's a narrow 63 00:04:55,980 --> 00:04:59,880 culvert crossing in the road and big red clips over. That's game over. 64 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:01,720 Looking pretty tight. 65 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,060 I don't know if we're gonna make it! 66 00:05:19,379 --> 00:05:24,940 The last step is to drag the plant up a 30 -foot ramp to the top of the pad. 67 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:40,100 The plant's dug in. When you're building a wash plant pad, you need compaction. 68 00:05:40,940 --> 00:05:42,960 That's what we're fighting against right now. 69 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:48,260 The plant's not level. 70 00:05:48,980 --> 00:05:52,600 We have to level the plant before everything else is built around it. 71 00:05:55,380 --> 00:05:57,380 Just need to, like, unbury it now. 72 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,040 I mean, the plant will do its thing and it'll probably settle, but it's more the 73 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,880 sluice runs with the river flowing off them I'm concerned about. 74 00:06:07,359 --> 00:06:13,300 Tyson now has just six hours to get the sluices, pump and generator ready for 75 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:14,300 the night shift. 76 00:06:18,020 --> 00:06:19,020 How's things looking? 77 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:20,940 When are you firing up tonight? 78 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,740 Hopefully. I was hoping to just get it prepped. I don't know how you do it. 79 00:06:26,340 --> 00:06:28,120 I just don't want to worry about it. 80 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:29,720 I'm worried about stripping. 81 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,500 That's why I haven't been here. 82 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:32,740 No, it's all good. 83 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,660 You don't have to worry about it. Thanks, man. Thanks. 84 00:06:38,830 --> 00:06:42,790 We're dealing with an uncompacted pad, so we're going to need good water 85 00:06:42,790 --> 00:06:44,930 distribution, and that involves having a chute. 86 00:06:45,710 --> 00:06:49,070 Two years ago, when Tyson set up a wash plant. 87 00:06:49,350 --> 00:06:51,070 Where's all this water coming from? 88 00:06:52,030 --> 00:06:54,470 Water from the sluices undermined the pad. 89 00:06:55,710 --> 00:06:56,710 Holy crap! 90 00:06:57,350 --> 00:06:59,310 And nearly toppled the wash plant. 91 00:07:00,650 --> 00:07:01,650 Tyson! 92 00:07:02,590 --> 00:07:05,710 This time he plans to divert the water runoff. 93 00:07:06,250 --> 00:07:08,950 with a 35 -foot -long steel chute. 94 00:07:09,210 --> 00:07:12,750 We've got to get this trough, and we've got to get it back up to Big Red, 95 00:07:12,810 --> 00:07:14,850 because there's still hope at Big Red running tonight. 96 00:07:15,290 --> 00:07:19,050 Any day we're not floosing means another day we have to floose into October, 97 00:07:19,150 --> 00:07:20,150 November. 98 00:07:20,470 --> 00:07:25,050 But the chute is a four -mile journey downstream to where it was last used. 99 00:07:26,030 --> 00:07:29,290 Parker's really counting on me to get Big Red up and going, so I'm going to do 100 00:07:29,290 --> 00:07:31,210 my best to have it running by the end of the day. 101 00:07:32,510 --> 00:07:33,510 What the... 102 00:07:39,140 --> 00:07:43,380 This is the last thing I wanted to see right now. Our road's washed completely 103 00:07:43,380 --> 00:07:47,740 out. I'm going to have to pack material in and get that water going through that 104 00:07:47,740 --> 00:07:50,000 culvert. It must have just been roaring through here. 105 00:07:50,820 --> 00:07:51,940 Move your bum, Jerv. 106 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:53,300 Go on. 107 00:07:54,580 --> 00:07:58,560 Last year we had this happen, and man, it took six, seven different pieces of 108 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:03,080 equipment and people and damn near a whole day to rebuild this road. And 109 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:04,080 time I don't have. 110 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:23,460 I could be in serious trouble. 111 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,640 I've got fuel bills coming in, and I only have so much money. 112 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,100 So once that money runs out, we don't have gold coming in. 113 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:33,780 Well, we're screwed. 114 00:08:34,100 --> 00:08:37,760 I mean, our house is up for grabs on this. We're walking a tightrope right 115 00:08:39,179 --> 00:08:45,840 46 miles west of Dawson, in the wilderness of California Creek, combat 116 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,120 Fred Lewis is chasing a record 500 -ounce season goal. 117 00:08:51,050 --> 00:08:55,130 But five weeks in, he's still not mined a single ounce. 118 00:08:55,850 --> 00:08:59,210 We're just trying to get the mine site running so money can start coming in 119 00:08:59,210 --> 00:09:00,210 instead of going out. 120 00:09:00,890 --> 00:09:03,410 We've just got to keep pushing and get to where we need to be to start 121 00:09:03,410 --> 00:09:04,410 soliciting. 122 00:09:04,870 --> 00:09:08,330 The long, harsh winter has dealt Fred a crippling blow. 123 00:09:10,210 --> 00:09:16,430 A quarter of a mile -long ice sheet has prevented any mining, along with access 124 00:09:16,430 --> 00:09:18,110 to any gold -rich pay dirt. 125 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,000 We're trying to uncover as much as we can and get this mine site moving. 126 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:30,700 Last week, Fred resurrected an ancient 90 -yard -an -hour wash plant. 127 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:32,520 Hit it! 128 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,200 But it's redundant until Fred can dig down to pay. 129 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:43,780 Any attempts so far to melt the ice have failed. 130 00:09:46,770 --> 00:09:51,150 so far behind schedule at this moment in time that we don't have any time to 131 00:09:51,150 --> 00:09:55,090 wait. So we have to take action and take control of the creek. 132 00:09:57,030 --> 00:09:58,030 Hey, Fred, man. 133 00:09:58,110 --> 00:09:59,110 What's going on? 134 00:09:59,830 --> 00:10:04,690 Well, this ice has got to go, man. We don't have any other way to do it, I 135 00:10:04,690 --> 00:10:08,530 think, but to go up there and try and make the creek go back where it belongs 136 00:10:08,530 --> 00:10:12,390 somehow, and that should facilitate melting the ice on the right side. If we 137 00:10:12,390 --> 00:10:14,890 can't do that, we really don't have anything else to get it to go. 138 00:10:15,790 --> 00:10:17,770 I feel like you've got the skill to do this. 139 00:10:17,990 --> 00:10:23,190 I think my best bet is for me to walk along the berm as you're going up there 140 00:10:23,190 --> 00:10:28,030 and just spot it for you. All we can do is try, right? We can't sit here and 141 00:10:28,030 --> 00:10:29,030 wait. We've got to try. 142 00:10:29,230 --> 00:10:30,470 Let's pound some of that ice off. 143 00:10:31,210 --> 00:10:32,310 Okay, let's do it. 144 00:10:33,050 --> 00:10:34,050 You got me on the radio? 145 00:10:34,570 --> 00:10:35,509 Yes, I do. 146 00:10:35,510 --> 00:10:36,510 All right, I'll be on the bank. 147 00:10:36,530 --> 00:10:37,530 All right. 148 00:10:41,290 --> 00:10:44,450 Fred's plan is to create a 20 -foot -long ice dam. 149 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:47,020 across the narrowest point of the creek. 150 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:54,860 The blockage should divert water onto the top sheet, helping to melt the ice 151 00:10:54,860 --> 00:10:58,960 covering the gold -rich pay dirt left over from last season. 152 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,560 So we got to try it. It's worth the risk. 153 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:11,460 Hey, Buds, this is probably the fastest running water at this choke point. 154 00:11:12,020 --> 00:11:13,020 Yeah. 155 00:11:14,620 --> 00:11:18,220 It's a little bit risky. If we sink this 220, we're done. 156 00:11:19,220 --> 00:11:24,020 Let's take our time and make sure nothing bad happens to it, right? 157 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:32,220 All right, your tracks are about... Oh, man, you're almost submerged completely. 158 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,120 It's not pushing you at all, is it? 159 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:38,660 Take this corner a little bit. 160 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:49,820 Hey, Buzz, that ice is awful beautiful, but we're going to have to kill it. 161 00:11:50,060 --> 00:11:51,620 Sounds like a good plan, doesn't it? 162 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:57,400 Oh! 163 00:11:59,660 --> 00:12:00,660 Wow. 164 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:04,980 That's like 20 ,000 pounds of ice in his throat. 165 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:06,480 Yeah! 166 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:08,980 Oh, now it's massive. 167 00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:14,320 The boys hope the ice boulders will choke the river and divert the water. 168 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,140 There we go. 169 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,540 You've got a little bit of ice that's holding. 170 00:12:24,860 --> 00:12:26,320 It looks that way. 171 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:28,440 Fingers crossed it works. 172 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,760 I'm going to make a nice jam. 173 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,200 There we go. 174 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:37,540 That's lovely. 175 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:42,680 Wow. 176 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,040 I've got a pretty good ice jam here. 177 00:12:46,990 --> 00:12:49,910 You know, you're actually getting close to the top of that ice. If you could get 178 00:12:49,910 --> 00:12:52,110 it over the top, that would actually melt it really well. 179 00:12:52,750 --> 00:12:54,010 Under the excavator. 180 00:12:55,250 --> 00:12:56,390 Just be really careful. 181 00:13:00,170 --> 00:13:00,530 So 182 00:13:00,530 --> 00:13:09,270 there 183 00:13:09,270 --> 00:13:10,270 goes the ice dam. 184 00:13:11,030 --> 00:13:12,050 That's not feasible. 185 00:13:12,330 --> 00:13:14,210 We're going to have to think of something else. 186 00:13:18,410 --> 00:13:21,090 This is definitely not going to work. 187 00:13:22,270 --> 00:13:24,010 Dude, we don't have a backup plan. 188 00:13:24,350 --> 00:13:25,410 Like, we got nothing. 189 00:13:25,750 --> 00:13:26,950 Is that what you're telling me? 190 00:13:28,190 --> 00:13:29,830 We're in this point in time. 191 00:13:32,670 --> 00:13:39,550 If the frigid wilderness refuses the coming 192 00:13:39,550 --> 00:13:44,130 of spring, Fred will fail before he even gets started. 193 00:13:45,270 --> 00:13:46,590 It's a crushing blow. 194 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,020 he may not recover from. 195 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:50,680 Hey, man. 196 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,160 I don't have anything else to throw at this. I know, sorry. Well, but it's one 197 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:57,920 of those things. We're not going to go home. We're not going to quit. 198 00:13:58,300 --> 00:13:59,300 I'm going to run out of money. 199 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,340 It's a possibility, but it's also a possibility that we're going to hit the 200 00:14:04,340 --> 00:14:07,720 mother load and walk out of here and be able to go back and buy Bentley. 201 00:14:08,060 --> 00:14:13,260 And usually that is all I'm thinking about, but lately it just seems like 202 00:14:13,260 --> 00:14:17,770 puppeteer pulling my strings and making... go wrong, and it's like, how 203 00:14:17,770 --> 00:14:20,110 you take? How much can you take? And I just want to cut string. 204 00:14:20,690 --> 00:14:22,310 Yeah, I'm just at the end of my rope, man. 205 00:14:36,150 --> 00:14:40,370 We have to keep the trauma going in order to reach our 5 ,000 -pound goal. 206 00:14:40,690 --> 00:14:42,770 It's not optional. We have to stick to it. 207 00:14:45,310 --> 00:14:52,010 Klondike King, Tony Beetz, is digging deeper than ever before, opening up two 208 00:14:52,010 --> 00:14:57,410 monster cuts in the hunt for Paradise Hill's gold -rich White Channel pastry. 209 00:14:58,090 --> 00:15:01,550 The cold cuts and the blue cuts are going to be key out this season. 210 00:15:01,770 --> 00:15:06,150 It's been a while since we did them that big. I think they should easily produce 211 00:15:06,150 --> 00:15:09,370 2 ,500 apiece. They're going to have to deliver. 212 00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:16,990 After five weeks fighting deep frozen ground in both his cuts, Tony's banked 213 00:15:16,990 --> 00:15:22,890 less than 500 ounces, way short of the 200 ounces a week he needs. 214 00:15:24,530 --> 00:15:27,730 I'm going to be ripping in here for a good chunk of the day, probably a good 215 00:15:27,730 --> 00:15:31,170 chunk of tomorrow, because frozen pay is just a pain in the ass. 216 00:15:31,890 --> 00:15:35,630 Tony's entrusted youngest son Mike with managing the cuts. 217 00:15:36,270 --> 00:15:37,530 and bringing in the gold. 218 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:42,410 Mike, he has a big responsibility this year. He has to have enough material 219 00:15:42,410 --> 00:15:44,370 there in order to keep the sluice bars going. 220 00:15:44,570 --> 00:15:48,970 But the ground being that frozen, he's got to rip it with two cuts. He really 221 00:15:48,970 --> 00:15:50,990 has his job cut out. 222 00:15:52,150 --> 00:15:54,130 A mechanical balancing act. 223 00:15:54,470 --> 00:16:00,150 Mike must juggle the nine -acre cold cut with its foreboding 60 -foot -deep 224 00:16:00,150 --> 00:16:01,210 frozen pay layer. 225 00:16:02,709 --> 00:16:08,990 alongside the newly opened six -acre blue cut, where D11 dozers use ripper 226 00:16:08,990 --> 00:16:12,750 shanks to expose stubborn permafrost to sunlight. 227 00:16:13,330 --> 00:16:18,570 If it doesn't defrost in time, the stockpile of thawed pay dirt will run 228 00:16:18,750 --> 00:16:20,730 forcing them to shut down. 229 00:16:21,570 --> 00:16:26,490 And it's all ripped up, so it all thaws out, and we have a lot of pay ready to 230 00:16:26,490 --> 00:16:27,490 lose now. 231 00:16:29,580 --> 00:16:34,520 The only other machine in Tony's arsenal powerful enough to dig through frozen 232 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:39,320 pay is the $1 .1 million 950 excavator. 233 00:16:40,060 --> 00:16:45,640 Mike has tasked James Rhino, a beach crew veteran, with digging out the pay, 234 00:16:45,780 --> 00:16:47,760 ready to thaw at the pay pile. 235 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,200 It's pretty frosty in here this morning. 236 00:16:51,260 --> 00:16:53,440 A lot of frozen ground in here. 237 00:16:58,060 --> 00:16:59,180 Hey, Tony, you copy? 238 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,000 James, go ahead. James, go ahead. 239 00:17:02,420 --> 00:17:04,079 Yeah, this ground is really hard. 240 00:17:04,859 --> 00:17:06,280 Can we come up with another plan? 241 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,900 Throw the thing out of there, bring it to the staging yard, and we'll figure 242 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:10,900 something out. Okay. 243 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,540 We're going to take the boom off the excavator. 244 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,660 We're going to put a shorter boom on, and then we have more power, and it's 245 00:17:21,660 --> 00:17:24,220 easier to get a bucket full. It should be a lot more productive. 246 00:17:26,069 --> 00:17:32,950 Tony's plan is to remove the 950's 28 -foot boom and replace it with a 24 247 00:17:32,950 --> 00:17:33,950 boom. 248 00:17:34,810 --> 00:17:39,810 The shorter arm will generate more force and concentrate digging power. 249 00:17:41,710 --> 00:17:43,990 We already took the bucket off. 250 00:17:44,190 --> 00:17:45,830 Now we're going to pull the main boom pin out. 251 00:17:46,110 --> 00:17:50,310 Taking charge of the swap is mechanic Sam Aftonis. 252 00:17:51,750 --> 00:17:54,870 The pin's stuck in here. It's just being up. 253 00:18:00,430 --> 00:18:01,430 What do you got then? 254 00:18:01,490 --> 00:18:03,070 So, I proceed. 255 00:18:03,330 --> 00:18:05,630 Pulling that pin out is going to be a pain in the ass. 256 00:18:05,930 --> 00:18:06,930 Says who? 257 00:18:07,310 --> 00:18:08,310 Me. 258 00:18:09,350 --> 00:18:10,350 James. Yeah. 259 00:18:10,990 --> 00:18:15,350 Double wrap that half inch chain around one of those uprights. 260 00:18:16,750 --> 00:18:17,729 Around them? 261 00:18:17,730 --> 00:18:18,730 Double wrap it. 262 00:18:25,190 --> 00:18:28,490 Good. Hook it up, wrap it up. It's not going to work with the slip hook, is it? 263 00:18:28,530 --> 00:18:29,399 Oh, really? 264 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:30,940 What if you double it up and it doesn't? 265 00:18:37,780 --> 00:18:41,040 54 and a half, and that is five. 266 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,020 I'm hoping that pin doesn't jump out of there, Craig. 267 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,120 No, that's why he's pulling with the bucket, not the loader. 268 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:49,480 Okay. 269 00:18:49,780 --> 00:18:50,980 Pull your bucket a bit. 270 00:18:52,780 --> 00:18:54,820 Pull it, pull it, pull it, pull it. Oh. 271 00:19:06,270 --> 00:19:07,830 Oh, no, I hooked it up, remember? 272 00:19:08,250 --> 00:19:09,250 Yeah, I do. 273 00:19:09,430 --> 00:19:10,430 Get ready for the boom? 274 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:11,930 Yeah. Good. Go for it. 275 00:19:21,270 --> 00:19:23,130 Just put it on the ground. Who cares? 276 00:19:23,370 --> 00:19:27,930 We got the boom off. Now put this one on, and then we'll see how far we're 277 00:19:27,930 --> 00:19:28,930 to get today. 278 00:19:30,830 --> 00:19:32,090 Okay, lift. Bring it up. 279 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:40,420 Let's go. Hook it up. 280 00:19:41,660 --> 00:19:44,080 Whoa. Put some good pressure on it. 281 00:19:44,460 --> 00:19:46,800 Let's... Wait, wait, wait. 282 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:49,640 Dave, watch my calf. 283 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:51,500 Watch the beam. 284 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:53,860 Hang it up for a second, Sam. 285 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,160 Okay. Have a good one. 286 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:58,620 Dave, push it over a bit. 287 00:20:13,770 --> 00:20:14,770 Good. Yeah. 288 00:20:19,950 --> 00:20:21,690 Okay. Somebody on there? Bingo. 289 00:20:23,930 --> 00:20:25,210 Safe's over when it's easy. 290 00:20:29,070 --> 00:20:30,670 Oh, we're in the other side. 291 00:20:31,030 --> 00:20:32,790 Okay. Take it off. Good enough. 292 00:20:33,010 --> 00:20:34,070 That went really well. 293 00:20:34,310 --> 00:20:36,890 Yeah. That was super fun. 294 00:20:37,210 --> 00:20:38,210 Woo! 295 00:20:41,390 --> 00:20:43,690 With the 950 back in the blue cut. 296 00:20:43,950 --> 00:20:45,990 My old girl, I got to get her back in the dirt. 297 00:20:47,170 --> 00:20:52,670 It should tear through the concrete hard frozen ground and keep the trommel fed 298 00:20:52,670 --> 00:20:53,870 with thawed paydirt. 299 00:21:02,350 --> 00:21:05,050 It does dig a lot better than that long boom. 300 00:21:06,050 --> 00:21:07,630 Just tears through that frost. 301 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,600 Nice full scoops. 302 00:21:14,660 --> 00:21:17,300 It actually picks the bucket up, so that's a nice change. 303 00:21:18,780 --> 00:21:22,040 It's going to be a little bit different getting used to having trucks closer to 304 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,160 you because you're going to have to keep them nice and tight to be able to reach 305 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,640 them, but I like the way it digs. 306 00:21:27,860 --> 00:21:31,500 We're going to have a lot better time keeping up with trucks and moving a lot 307 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:32,500 more dirt with this thing. 308 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:49,620 I'm getting a bit stressed out because we're so spread out and there's so much 309 00:21:49,620 --> 00:21:50,620 to do. 310 00:21:50,820 --> 00:21:56,320 At Parker Schnabel's Astrid Cut, they're racing to mine out 90 acres of ground 311 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,320 in just a single season. 312 00:21:58,580 --> 00:22:02,340 With this water license expiring and so much ground to get through, we're having 313 00:22:02,340 --> 00:22:06,900 to really just plow hard into getting everything as opened up as we can. 314 00:22:07,340 --> 00:22:10,640 We don't have another season after this, but the water license, everything has 315 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:11,640 to be sluiced. 316 00:22:11,930 --> 00:22:17,310 Nearly all of Parker's crew are focused on stripping, leaving plant boss Tyson 317 00:22:17,310 --> 00:22:23,330 Lee running solo as he bids to get Big Red running before night shift takes 318 00:22:23,330 --> 00:22:24,750 in just three hours' time. 319 00:22:25,570 --> 00:22:29,910 You know, we're just so strung out on guys this year that no one's had time to 320 00:22:29,910 --> 00:22:32,850 come down here and see how the roads are. 321 00:22:33,130 --> 00:22:38,010 Tyson needs to collect a metal chute to help disperse water from Big Red's 322 00:22:38,010 --> 00:22:38,909 sluice run. 323 00:22:38,910 --> 00:22:40,250 But a washed -out road? 324 00:22:40,810 --> 00:22:42,110 has hampered his progress. 325 00:22:42,510 --> 00:22:45,990 If these roads weren't washed out, Big Red would be running right now. 326 00:22:47,090 --> 00:22:48,810 This is the last stoop here. 327 00:22:49,310 --> 00:22:52,890 It's a quick bush pick, good enough to get our chute, and hopefully I'll come 328 00:22:52,890 --> 00:22:55,030 back in time that the road's still here. 329 00:22:57,750 --> 00:23:02,590 So here we are, finally at our chute. This thing looks like something you'd 330 00:23:02,590 --> 00:23:07,390 in a scrapyard, but it definitely makes everything go that much smoother. 331 00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:11,510 Found our chute. 332 00:23:12,570 --> 00:23:14,310 Now we just got to get it upstream. 333 00:23:14,950 --> 00:23:15,950 Let's go. 334 00:23:24,230 --> 00:23:28,350 With the chute on site, the finishing touches can commence. 335 00:23:28,990 --> 00:23:31,090 We just got to get this bank armored up. 336 00:23:31,370 --> 00:23:36,330 There is two metric tons of water going to be flowing over these loose runs. 337 00:23:44,810 --> 00:23:46,550 Hey, you know, Big Red's all set to go. 338 00:23:49,890 --> 00:23:51,910 First scoop of Easy Street going in. 339 00:23:52,190 --> 00:23:53,630 All right, boys, showtime. Let's go. 340 00:23:54,590 --> 00:23:55,590 Let's do it. 341 00:24:02,910 --> 00:24:05,350 You know, 342 00:24:09,930 --> 00:24:12,750 I'm really happy I could find the diverter trough and get it up here. 343 00:24:13,260 --> 00:24:16,140 You guys, you can help really saving our ass right now. 344 00:24:35,220 --> 00:24:38,040 I'll just stand down here and take a look at Big Red and see how she's 345 00:24:48,750 --> 00:24:53,170 I see Mitch is up here doing his rounds, so I want to see what he thinks of my 346 00:24:53,170 --> 00:24:54,170 setup. 347 00:24:55,050 --> 00:24:55,929 What's happening? 348 00:24:55,930 --> 00:24:56,930 How's it going? 349 00:25:00,630 --> 00:25:01,630 It's looking really good. 350 00:25:03,790 --> 00:25:04,970 How's our bank doing? 351 00:25:05,190 --> 00:25:08,450 The bank's holding up nice. Looks good. Good job, man. Thanks, Mitch. 352 00:25:09,230 --> 00:25:12,410 Big Red is alive and back on the gold. 353 00:25:13,310 --> 00:25:17,770 Tyson has proved himself and the race is on to mine out the airstrip. 354 00:25:18,220 --> 00:25:19,400 before season's end. 355 00:25:25,380 --> 00:25:29,380 If you're going to reach that 5 ,000 -ounce goal, you've got a lot of work to 356 00:25:29,380 --> 00:25:34,080 do. Having the 950 in there, that makes a hell of a difference. 357 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:39,500 At Paradise Hill, Tony's trommel is running 300 yards an hour of white 358 00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:40,500 pay dirt. 359 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:46,040 Keeping it fed requires a constant flow of thawed pay dirt from the two monster 360 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,019 cuts. 361 00:25:47,020 --> 00:25:49,100 We're running out of good thought hay right now. 362 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,540 Damn hoes are loading trucks like crazy, man. They're tearing up that dirt. 363 00:25:57,260 --> 00:26:03,080 In the cold cut, Ruby Mahoney is taking her first turn in the 950 excavator. 364 00:26:03,740 --> 00:26:06,340 A lot shorter, eh? It's so weird! 365 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,300 With its new, shorter boom. 366 00:26:09,780 --> 00:26:13,280 We have a new boom from the 950. 367 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,340 It's about five feet shorter than it. 368 00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:19,600 the one we had before, and it'll be a little bit more faster and a little bit 369 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,500 more powerful than what it should be. 370 00:26:27,540 --> 00:26:30,220 I don't mind driving a rock truck. Everyone's in well. 371 00:26:31,020 --> 00:26:36,160 Tony's nephew, known as Cousin Mike, is in a relationship with Ruby. 372 00:26:36,620 --> 00:26:38,300 He's loading his rock truck. 373 00:26:38,620 --> 00:26:41,420 When I do it for too long, it gets boring, but... 374 00:26:42,090 --> 00:26:44,010 I get to work with Ruby, which is nice. 375 00:26:44,210 --> 00:26:47,810 Sometimes you just want to hang out with your girlfriend. 376 00:26:48,230 --> 00:26:55,090 It definitely helps that I have somebody to go home to at the end of the day 377 00:26:55,090 --> 00:27:00,050 that understands everything that we go through throughout the day. 378 00:27:01,290 --> 00:27:07,370 So I came to the Yukon to mine for gold, and I ended up finding a diamond. 379 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,260 What are we trying to accomplish here, babe? 380 00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:20,120 Sorry, what was that? 381 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,620 Oh, what was that? 382 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:34,900 Working to dig up frozen pay, Ruby has crashed the Beats 950 excavator into 383 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:36,220 cousin Mike's rock truck. 384 00:27:38,580 --> 00:27:39,920 Kevin, do you copy Kevin? 385 00:27:45,450 --> 00:27:48,770 The end of my excavator clips the corner of the rock sack. 386 00:27:49,130 --> 00:27:54,870 And unfortunately, I bent out of the door. And I feel absolutely horrible 387 00:27:54,870 --> 00:27:55,870 it. 388 00:28:05,150 --> 00:28:06,150 Now. 389 00:28:08,350 --> 00:28:09,410 So yes, you can. 390 00:28:10,430 --> 00:28:11,690 Back at the wash plant. 391 00:28:12,270 --> 00:28:14,870 The stockpile requires constant replenishing. 392 00:28:15,290 --> 00:28:20,230 If the 950 remains out of action, the trommel will be forced to shut down, 393 00:28:20,510 --> 00:28:24,470 costing the Beats $3 ,000 an hour. There we go. 394 00:28:33,030 --> 00:28:38,210 That should be attached. 395 00:28:38,990 --> 00:28:41,730 Also, that should also be attached. 396 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,140 It hid here. 397 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,580 You can see where the paint has come off, causing this piece here to, boom, 398 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,860 snapping all four bolts off cleanly. 399 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,200 The impact sheared off the bolts holding the hydraulic valve body that controls 400 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:01,120 all the hydraulic systems on the $1 .1 million machine. 401 00:29:02,140 --> 00:29:05,260 Hydraulics is what drives the entire machine. Without the hydraulic system 402 00:29:05,260 --> 00:29:08,900 sealed, you can't fire it up in any capacity to move it or anything. 403 00:29:12,650 --> 00:29:16,550 It is one of our biggest excavators. It is always important to have it fixed. 404 00:29:17,250 --> 00:29:18,970 We don't have time for any of this downtime. 405 00:29:20,950 --> 00:29:21,950 Is everyone good? 406 00:29:23,030 --> 00:29:27,230 This unit that I pulled off here, bolts are sheared off entirely. 407 00:29:27,730 --> 00:29:29,710 We got the right bolts, but longer. 408 00:29:30,730 --> 00:29:35,530 And we're going to see if I'm able to modify these ones enough to make them 409 00:29:35,530 --> 00:29:36,530 until we get the proper ones. 410 00:29:36,890 --> 00:29:38,350 Well, can all of it be worse? 411 00:29:38,690 --> 00:29:40,730 I know we have bolts on order, but... 412 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:47,920 We need the 950 back in production ASAP, so I'll make some that'll work. 413 00:29:49,020 --> 00:29:54,760 Kevin will fashion a fix by cutting half an inch off the bolts in the hope they 414 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,960 still secure the valve body in place. 415 00:29:58,060 --> 00:30:00,140 Essentially, it needs to be about half an inch shorter. 416 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,100 That turned out pretty well. 417 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,600 Yeah, perfect. 418 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:17,720 We're laughing. 419 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,520 Okay, this is the last bolt. 420 00:30:20,140 --> 00:30:23,720 And she's hooking up the hoses, and then she's done. 421 00:30:24,540 --> 00:30:25,540 Time to fire it up. 422 00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:35,260 It doesn't look like anything's leaking. 423 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:37,660 You ready to go back to work? 424 00:30:38,460 --> 00:30:40,400 The 950, back up and running. 425 00:30:41,150 --> 00:30:46,210 Ruby can return to digging pay before the stockpile runs out of the trommel. 426 00:30:46,590 --> 00:30:51,910 Well, Ruby probably feel like, well, that girl always gives it 110%. If you 427 00:30:51,910 --> 00:30:53,330 an idiot on there, he's okay. 428 00:30:53,570 --> 00:30:57,670 You should have paid attention, right? But with Ruby being there so long, she's 429 00:30:57,670 --> 00:30:58,670 always so cautious. 430 00:30:58,970 --> 00:31:02,630 What the f*** are you going to do about it? I mean, life goes on. 431 00:31:02,890 --> 00:31:08,690 I've worked for Tony for six years, and this is my first big mistake. 432 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:15,660 You know, I try to do the best of my ability and try to pay as good attention 433 00:31:15,660 --> 00:31:16,660 everything as I can. 434 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,580 I'm probably going to be overly cautious with that for a while. 435 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,640 So right now I'm trying to break up some ice to get the creek diverted back to 436 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:37,640 where it needs to be going. 437 00:31:39,550 --> 00:31:45,170 To frozen California Creek, Fred Lewis' crew are battling the glacial -like ice 438 00:31:45,170 --> 00:31:48,030 sheet that's locked them out from mining gold. 439 00:31:49,210 --> 00:31:53,330 We're trying to get down to dirt to pull gold from, but the ice isn't stopping 440 00:31:53,330 --> 00:31:54,670 us from getting what we need to get done. 441 00:31:55,250 --> 00:32:00,890 Front of center in the 220 excavator is Fred's stepson, Chris Parker. 442 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,200 Whoa, holy. 443 00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:12,740 Like, what is that? 444 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:14,600 Is that what I think it is? 445 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,340 Yo, Freddie, come check this out real quick, man. 446 00:32:22,580 --> 00:32:23,580 What's up? 447 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,280 Look where my bucket is. 448 00:32:26,220 --> 00:32:27,220 What am I looking at? 449 00:32:28,260 --> 00:32:29,260 Let me go look. 450 00:32:33,980 --> 00:32:34,980 Oh, wow. 451 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,600 Sports, sports, sports, sports, sports. 452 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:40,520 Look, look. 453 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:41,760 It's a vein. 454 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,360 Wow. Give me your headset. We've got to get buzzed over here, like, right now. 455 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,560 Buzz, buzz. This is Fred. I need you to come to the 220 ASAP. Looks like we may 456 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,620 have found a quartz vein. 457 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,960 A quartz vein indicates gold deposits could be close by. 458 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,040 This is a big -ass quartz vein. I don't know how big it is, but it goes all the 459 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,040 way at least to here. 460 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,240 Well, it looks good, right? 461 00:33:05,940 --> 00:33:08,220 But look, it's also got a lot of iron in it. 462 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,820 Yeah. All that brown, all that iron, so that means there was a lot of heat that 463 00:33:12,820 --> 00:33:13,820 forced this up. 464 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:20,620 Millions of years ago, magma containing gold forced its way up through faults in 465 00:33:20,620 --> 00:33:21,620 the Earth's crust. 466 00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:27,160 It cooled and crystallized into veins of quartz and gold. 467 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:34,460 If Fred's small quartz vein is rich in gold, it could indicate a season -saving 468 00:33:34,460 --> 00:33:35,460 find. 469 00:33:36,540 --> 00:33:37,680 And possibly... 470 00:33:38,110 --> 00:33:42,230 even lead to him finding the mother lode at California Creek. 471 00:33:42,830 --> 00:33:46,490 Doesn't look like it continues much more here. It might go underneath, but it's 472 00:33:46,490 --> 00:33:47,429 going that way. 473 00:33:47,430 --> 00:33:49,170 Yeah. Right with this bedrock. 474 00:33:50,110 --> 00:33:51,190 What do you think, Buzz? 475 00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:58,690 We'll try to pulverize some of the steel there and put some signs, right? Check 476 00:33:58,690 --> 00:33:59,289 it out. 477 00:33:59,290 --> 00:34:02,590 You and Chris want to gather up some rock, put it in his bucket? 478 00:34:03,290 --> 00:34:05,450 Good find. Hey, really good find. 479 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,300 Hey, Buzz, where do you want me to take all this? 480 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,500 That's a pretty good sample there. Let's take that on up. We'll bring it to the 481 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:18,500 gold room. 482 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:19,920 Drag that. 483 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,239 You're going to accurately pull out gold. We don't just mine the entire 484 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:27,920 We use these signs to get us to it. 485 00:34:31,620 --> 00:34:34,060 To tease out any potential gold. 486 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:35,320 All right, safety first. 487 00:34:35,580 --> 00:34:38,040 Fred plans to pulverize the hard rock. 488 00:34:39,790 --> 00:34:42,530 with five -pound solid steel ball bearings. 489 00:34:44,310 --> 00:34:45,949 They're going to break up just about anything. 490 00:34:47,530 --> 00:34:49,870 All right, you guys ready? 491 00:34:50,690 --> 00:34:52,570 Sure. See how loud this is going to be. 492 00:34:57,430 --> 00:34:58,830 We get out of here. 493 00:34:59,150 --> 00:35:00,250 Feel the cold pressure. 494 00:35:02,370 --> 00:35:03,370 Do your work. 495 00:35:04,370 --> 00:35:07,790 If we crush that up and there's not a worthless pile of rock and there's even 496 00:35:07,790 --> 00:35:08,790 speck of gold. 497 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,420 The paint could have a hell of a lot of gold in it. 498 00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:22,320 After an hour being crushed and bullied by the steel balls, it's time to check 499 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,320 the material. 500 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:24,760 Let's go do it. 501 00:35:30,540 --> 00:35:31,660 That's fine. We got a catch? 502 00:35:31,980 --> 00:35:32,980 Yeah. 503 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:34,900 Oh! 504 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,120 Yeah. 505 00:35:37,790 --> 00:35:39,630 I did a better job with my hammer. 506 00:35:41,110 --> 00:35:44,170 I was kind of hoping we'd pull this thing open. There'd be a bunch of powder 507 00:35:44,170 --> 00:35:47,130 there. I know there are certain ways that we can do it. 508 00:35:47,470 --> 00:35:50,290 I really like what they did in Papua New Guinea. It just took a long time. 509 00:35:50,590 --> 00:35:55,090 All they did, they had a solid pipe inside of a pipe with a base in it, so 510 00:35:55,090 --> 00:35:58,150 nothing got out. They threw the rock in there, and then they just smashed it by 511 00:35:58,150 --> 00:36:00,110 hand. Bam, bam, bam. 512 00:36:02,210 --> 00:36:06,010 Fred's new plan is to construct a low -tech rock crusher. 513 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:11,260 he first encountered whilst on a gold prospecting mission with Parker in the 514 00:36:11,260 --> 00:36:12,620 jungles of Papua New Guinea. 515 00:36:14,460 --> 00:36:18,420 We're basically going to find, like this right here, we're going to find a pipe. 516 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,160 We're going to make it so it has a floor and another pipe that's going to go 517 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,580 inside of it and crush it just like a post pounder. 518 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:42,480 All right, so I've only done this once. Yeah? Start, yeah. 519 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:03,640 With brute force succeeding where mechanical power failed, it's time to 520 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,180 the quartz vein running through his claim is gold heavy. 521 00:37:08,610 --> 00:37:14,530 If it is, Fred could have hit the motherlode, and the surrounding ground 522 00:37:14,530 --> 00:37:16,410 be the richest on California Creek. 523 00:37:23,970 --> 00:37:25,030 I'm seeing gold, buddy. 524 00:37:26,050 --> 00:37:27,770 Yeah, no, there's gold in there. There's gold. 525 00:37:31,210 --> 00:37:32,210 Wow. 526 00:37:32,930 --> 00:37:34,170 And a piece there? Yeah. 527 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:35,578 And a piece there. 528 00:37:35,580 --> 00:37:36,620 A piece up top right there. 529 00:37:36,820 --> 00:37:37,759 And a piece there. 530 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,600 Yeah. I mean, that was a handful. 531 00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:42,560 I know. We got three colors and a lot of little fine stuff. 532 00:37:42,820 --> 00:37:46,400 This is the first gold we found this season. That tells us there's a vein 533 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,660 carrying gold running up the middle of our claim. 534 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:50,960 Yeah. 535 00:37:51,740 --> 00:37:52,940 I needed this. 536 00:37:53,460 --> 00:37:54,980 I'm hurting. I know, man. 537 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,840 That's just the way that this profession is, I've noticed. 538 00:38:00,830 --> 00:38:03,950 The highs are high and the lows are really, really low. 539 00:38:04,270 --> 00:38:05,209 You ain't lying. 540 00:38:05,210 --> 00:38:08,910 This is about the best I've felt this season. We have a source producing the 541 00:38:08,910 --> 00:38:09,910 gold. 542 00:38:10,730 --> 00:38:15,470 The potential that there could be a quartz vein that has gold -bearing 543 00:38:15,470 --> 00:38:19,670 through it kind of fires us up a little bit, and it's just given us a little bit 544 00:38:19,670 --> 00:38:23,170 more fuel to keep exploring this creek and find out where it is because the 545 00:38:23,170 --> 00:38:26,810 source is somewhere, and it's coming from somewhere, and we're going to find 546 00:38:48,260 --> 00:38:54,140 After a week battling frozen ground, the Beats family gather to find out if 547 00:38:54,140 --> 00:38:55,620 their hard work has paid off. 548 00:39:09,580 --> 00:39:10,379 Hard to. 549 00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:11,380 Well, 550 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,920 if you didn't buy that last year, we'd be in big trouble this year. 551 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,560 So, anything else exciting happen? 552 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,380 Where we were trying to squeeze by Cousin Mike in a rock truck. 553 00:39:22,980 --> 00:39:25,040 There wasn't quite enough room. 554 00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:29,220 Well, I bet you thought it was awful. Oh, she did. 555 00:39:29,620 --> 00:39:32,000 At least he can. 556 00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:35,360 Well, it's almost good. Oh, yeah. 557 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:40,720 So, with that being said, we should probably pour some gold. Yeah. Yeah. 558 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:41,880 let's do this thing, folks. 559 00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:49,560 Tony has less than 500 ounces in the bank and needs over 200 a week to hit 560 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:50,780 ,000 -ounce goal. 561 00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:52,100 Three, two, one, let's go. 562 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,400 15. 563 00:39:58,420 --> 00:39:59,420 65. 564 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,260 75. 85. 565 00:40:03,790 --> 00:40:04,790 120. 566 00:40:05,710 --> 00:40:06,710 130. 567 00:40:07,390 --> 00:40:08,390 140. 568 00:40:09,250 --> 00:40:10,850 150. 160. 569 00:40:15,150 --> 00:40:17,090 162 .42. 570 00:40:19,170 --> 00:40:21,950 Worth nearly $300 ,000. 571 00:40:27,590 --> 00:40:31,270 That's a little less than normal, but I guess with the material that we had. 572 00:40:31,670 --> 00:40:34,860 Yeah. Let's have to make up for it next time, I guess. 573 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:35,919 But you know what? 574 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,740 It's better than nothing. Better than nothing at all. 575 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:39,560 Sluicing every day. 576 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:41,780 Anyway, that ripping goes good. 577 00:40:42,220 --> 00:40:45,460 But you're going to have to stay ahead with that in order to keep sluicing, 578 00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:46,399 don't we? 579 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,400 Okay, good enough. Okay, good. Well done. 580 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:50,560 We'll talk to you guys later. 581 00:41:14,350 --> 00:41:17,390 Hey, T -Bird. How's it going, Dumit? Good. How are you doing, buddy? Pretty 582 00:41:17,390 --> 00:41:18,390 good, thanks. 583 00:41:24,490 --> 00:41:27,230 Well, we finished one. We started another. 584 00:41:27,570 --> 00:41:29,170 Thank you guys for getting that pit done. 585 00:41:29,430 --> 00:41:31,210 That's one of many. 586 00:41:31,570 --> 00:41:32,570 Yeah. 587 00:41:33,610 --> 00:41:39,010 And, Tyson, you got your first big experience there of moving Big Red. 588 00:41:39,270 --> 00:41:40,270 Yeah. 589 00:41:41,410 --> 00:41:42,610 What do you think about Big Red? 590 00:41:43,010 --> 00:41:46,590 Different. It's a lot easier getting it where you want it. It's kind of fun, 591 00:41:46,590 --> 00:41:48,610 like, every move having to be spot on. 592 00:41:48,850 --> 00:41:51,350 You even had it pointing in the right direction the first time, huh? 593 00:41:51,870 --> 00:41:52,870 Yeah. 594 00:41:53,450 --> 00:41:54,790 Good for you, T. 595 00:41:55,390 --> 00:41:57,070 You want to see how the keyhole finished up? 596 00:41:57,310 --> 00:41:59,570 Let's do it. Why we're here, dude, we want to see some gold. 597 00:42:00,370 --> 00:42:01,370 Keyhole, right here. 598 00:42:01,550 --> 00:42:02,550 I'll take this one. 599 00:42:02,970 --> 00:42:06,850 All right, so this is the last flue some Big Red did before he moved it. 600 00:42:08,190 --> 00:42:09,190 All right. 601 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:17,260 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 602 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,280 120, 140, 603 00:42:21,140 --> 00:42:23,780 150. Keep going. 604 00:42:26,220 --> 00:42:28,280 174 .05. 605 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,680 Worth over $310 ,000. 606 00:42:33,940 --> 00:42:35,160 That's not bad. 607 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,180 I mean, when you look at the amount of runtime it had. Exactly. 608 00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:42,480 So the big question, Chris, so that's two days of running at the keyhole cut, 609 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:47,940 finishing that off, 174. How did we do at Easy Street with two days of running? 610 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,740 Well, there's not a lot of hours on this thing, right? Yeah. 611 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,500 Here we go. Oh, no. 612 00:42:53,780 --> 00:42:56,940 One. Tipped a long ways before anything came out. 613 00:42:58,340 --> 00:43:05,340 30, 35, 38, 40, 55 .8. 614 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,620 Worth a clean $100 ,000. 615 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,580 So for the week, it's 229 .85. 616 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,640 And for the season, we just broke 1 ,200. 1 ,204 .45. 617 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,840 That wasn't a bad week, though, when we moved the wash plant. Yeah, yeah. And 618 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,500 what? Total of four days running. 619 00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,220 All this going on. I think we did okay. I think we did good. 620 00:43:31,580 --> 00:43:33,140 We got a long way to go. 621 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:34,480 All right, Chris. 622 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:36,120 Thank you for that. 623 00:43:36,340 --> 00:43:37,780 Yep. See you next week. 624 00:43:38,140 --> 00:43:39,140 Thanks, man. Thanks, Chris. 49079

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