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(Transcrito por TurboScribe. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) So, fists or knives?

So what's new?

That's the end of the season.

It seems like a long year, but it's a short season up there.

But what an awesome year to be mining.

What a time to be alive, pal, I mean, f***ing almighty.

Prices are good.

I don't know what it's at today, what, $4,000?

It's not even normal.

I know.

You're finding some gold?

Yeah.

That's good.

Yeah.

Well, how much have you got?

Me?

Well, I'm the oldest, I should go last.

We just hit 10.

Okay, well, so did we, 10 too.

Nice.

Can't have you finding more than us.

Oh, really?

That's a lot of gold, that's a lot of gold.

It's impressive.

Where you at, what's your total?

Shooting for 1,800, and we're about 400 ounces short right now.

Yeah, well, a guy could get a fair buck, operation like yours.

If you could sell?

Well, I mean, as of right now, I definitely want to see how the season ends, but I'm considering it.

Let's give us a call.

What, Tony trying to buy you out?

No offer, yeah.

He came and visited me.

Oh.

Oh, good one.

Well, see, the difference between Tony and I is Tony really likes to do good deals, and I love doing bad deals.

So if you are ever serious about selling, give me a call.

Not to try to invade your guys' deal, but ground is hard to find, and it's worth a huge premium right now.

Everybody's looking.

There's a lot of people that say, oh, well, you know, the nice thing about this business is it's not competitive.

The three of us know what it is.

Yes, sirree.

Anyway.

Gentlemen, have a nice day.

All right, Tony.

It's good to see you, man.

Absolutely.

Have a good fall.

Yeah, you too.

Enjoy your winter if I don't see you again.

Oh, yeah.

You too.

I figured Tony was having a good year, but I didn't think it was going to be that good.

He's a bit ahead of me.

But we'll see what happens.

Those guys are killing it on the gold, you know, and the offers.

It's good to know there's options there.

I don't know what to do.

It's going to come down to my total.

If I hit my goal this year, man, I want to go in on my own terms.

I feel like just selling out is not the way I want to go, but you never know.

You know, money talks and results speak for themselves.

We've had a hell of a season gold wise.

We've hit our goal.

The big priority now is just getting every last ounce we can while prices are like this.

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

31-year-old mining mogul Parker Schnabel is running through the finish line.

Gold prices are at an absolute all-time high.

They hit $4,000 an ounce today, which is very, very cool.

It's a good time to be gold mining and have a lot of wash plants running.

We've got four wash plants running.

Parker is already breaking records this season with over $40 million in gold banked.

But he's determined to catch former mentor Tony Beetz, who is leading by 120 ounces.

Bit of a bummer that Tony is a bit ahead of me.

We've been on top for a long time.

It's getting cold and who knows how much longer we've got.

Frost will probably cut us off from being able to keep plants running.

But we're going to finish strong.

We'll give her one last good push right now and see what we come up with.

Hey guys.

How's it going?

Thanks for coming to join me.

No worries. What's going on?

I just wanted to give you guys a little update on what needs to get done.

What up?

Where have you been?

I call a meeting and you're late?

I'm just kidding.

For the final push, Parker's depending on his top lieutenants,

Mitch Blaschke, Tyson Lee, and Brennan Rule.

Thank you for getting us to the end here.

Hit our 10,000, right?

Yeah.

Like, sick.

Pretty wild.

No doubt.

Yeah.

What's the plan now?

I want to just make sure that we finish strong here.

Like, despite, you know, we hit the goal.

But Tony this spring told me that his goal was like 6,000 or 7,000 and he's over 10,000.

And you know me well enough to know how much I hate losing.

So I think you really have to turn your feed rates up and all that jazz.

That's mandatory.

At Dominion, I mean, we need to get those pay piles hammered out.

Yeah, they're still pretty big.

Mitch, keep Roxanne running.

And that stripping project is the main priority.

And Brennan, just whatever these guys need.

Yeah.

There's not a lot of tolerance for screw-ups or delays.

If there was ever a time to push extra late, now's the time.

It would just go until either the weather shuts us down or every plan's out of pay.

One of the two.

Let's go do some sleuthing.

Perfect.

Yeah, let's get her done.

Thank you, guys.

Thanks, man.

At Parker's flagship Dominion claim, Tyson must sleuth the last of the Golden Mile's stockpiled pay

through wash plants Big Red and Golden Goose.

And with Bob in the bridge cut, mine as much of the remaining 30 acres as possible.

Ten miles south, at Parker's leased ground, Kennon Stewards,

Mitch must run the pay from the last two acres of Pit 2 with wash plant Roxanne

and remove the final four acres of worthless overburden from a new cut for next season.

All before winter freezes them out.

Right now we're at 26 on our adjuster here.

All of a sudden you put that at 40.

Look at how fast that dirt's coming off that valley.

I've got the yardage cranked as fast as Roxanne can run, trying to get it done as fast as possible.

There's so much to do here.

To finish off the sleuthing we have to do, plus get all that mud removed for next season.

I don't know if this is even remotely close to possible, but I'm going to try.

This year my workload has pretty much tripled.

It's been a struggle at times.

Right now at Golden Goose, we've increased the feed rate to 250 yards an hour,

which only puts more pressure on us.

The weather's going to really start freezing on us any day now.

I know everyone wants to go home, but you can't go home until this pile is complete.

We're going to be sleuthing to the bitter end.

Hi, Mike.

Are you ready?

I'm always ready.

Good, good.

You're going to move this land?

Yeah.

You're going to f***ing try that.

We have, what, a week left in the season?

Yeah.

And we're going to need that down there to beat Parker.

Okay, let's go.

Okay, man.

Bingo.

Let's get this y'all on the road.

Gunny, shut her down, Dylan.

Everybody wants to go home, but you know what?

Sucks to be them.

A drop is a drop, and finish is finish.

If we're not f***ing finished by a long shot, the gold prize is absolutely just awesome.

I mean, this is kind of a chance of a lifetime.

Tony Beat's gold fever is relentless.

After blasting past his season target, he now has a new goal locked in his sights.

Secure his crown as king of the Klondike.

Parker, he seems to be right on my heels.

So, we'll just see on the end of the day who lands up on top this time.

We made one more move for the season.

Moved Sluice a lot.

Put it back into the early bird cut.

If I'm going to go beat Parker, we will be sluicing at four boxes 24 hours a day.

To stay ahead of Parker, Tony is matching his former protege's four plant final push.

At his Paradise Hill operation, Tony has tasked son Mike with finishing stockpiles at his Trommel and Harold wash plants.

Forty miles south at Indian River, his twin shaker decks, Sluice a Lot and Find a Lot, are in the 46-acre corner cut.

But after two months of non-stop running, the mammoth cut only has enough pay left to run one plant.

To keep both sluicing, Tony needs to move Sluice a Lot upstream, back to where he started the season, at a new three-acre extension of his early bird cut.

Everything is hooked up. Everything is ready. And off we go.

So far, so good. Plant is following good.

A couple of corners, a couple of hills. Nothing we haven't done before, but we still got to get on it and make it work.

Nicely keep this up. We'll be putting some rocks in there tonight. This will be good.

The ice can be cut.

Stakes are extra high with the price of gold at the moment.

At the new early bird extension, Tony's crew run full throttle to get the cut ready before Sluice a Lot arrives.

There is a bit of a race this season between Tony and Parker to see who can get the most gold.

Obviously, I'm rooting for the king of the Klondike. I'm team Tony all the way. I mean, of course.

I wouldn't say that Tony's going to keep that title this year. I'd say Parker's going to win that one. He's going to have it in the bag.

Up here where we're dumping, it's super soft and we're almost getting stuck. But we've got to get it done. We've got to get Sluice and they're moving Sluice a Lot.

He's up there, Tony.

Truck over where?

On the downslope side.

I'll go have a look.

Who the **** was that smart?

Yeah, I hear ya.

Who was driving that truck?

I was.

Tony's going to be passed.

****, you people are stupid.

Rock truck driver Scott Easley has flipped his box at Tony's early bird cut extension.

The bank gave way and then the thing just slowly went. I tried to put it into drive and get going and it was too late.

Sluice a Lot is less than a mile away and coming in fast.

Lyle Stratts here.

I just heard on the radio another rock truck flip.

So Tony's there giving a hand. We can't afford any more downtime. Winter is coming and we want to get to that goal as soon as possible.

Get over there Dalton.

I'll whip the **** over.

You'll take the hole over?

I'll flip the truck over.

Okay, copy Tony.

These people pay attention. You wouldn't have this **** just when you think you've seen it all.

Okay, let's grab the **** and flip it over.

Yeah, there you go.

So the new path is in sight.

The road ahead looks pretty good.

Okay, in that truck.

Sorry Tony.

Now **** pay attention.

Thank God I ain't tired. When Tony ran up, I thought I was a dead man.

Oh ****.

Sluice a Lot is here.

Get the **** out of the way.

Get that other rock truck out of the way.

Mike, do you copy?

Copy. All trucks are gone. You should be good.

Climb up this last little hill.

We're on the path. I just got to make sure to get as close to the end as possible.

Hey, just turn around.

Give it a half a turn.

Keep it going, keep it going, keep it going, keep it going.

Perfect.

There we go. Tony gave me the sign that it's good.

Now we got two, three guys coming in.

Drag that **** hose over. Get the excavator over here.

Hook up the hose.

Drive the genset beside it. Bingo. Done.

I'll fire the plant up and we'll be back to sluicing.

Alright, we got the thumbs up.

Off we go.

Tony is back to four plants running in his push for mining supremacy.

I think it'd be hard for Parker to compete.

I think everyone who works here has seen how much we've moved this season.

And we have no doubt Tony is the king of the Klondike.

I got to remember to give Parker a present.

I'm number one, buddy.

There's quite a bit of pressure right now.

The plants ran out of pay.

Still all overburdened.

Trying to get them to pay as quick as we can.

This is one of the worst spots I've ever been in.

We got to get back on that goal. We got to do it quick.

I know the guys are nervous. I'm nervous.

Winter will soon freeze all the miners out.

But unlike others, Rick Ness' future is on a knife's edge.

It's been a tough year. There's no doubt about it.

These guys have fought through a lot of **** that we shouldn't have to fight through.

We're 420 ounces shy of our goal yet.

And that's a lot. That's a lot of ounces to get.

And we don't have a whole lot of time to do it.

In a chaotic season of uncertainty and major missteps,

Rick gambled a million dollars mining a massive new cut only to get no gold.

It's a big debacle, a huge waste of money and time.

People are hoping that I'm panicking.

The vultures are circling right now, but I'm not panicking yet.

Buyout offers from big shots Tony and Parker have come in.

I've been offered a seven-figure amount for this, and it's a lot.

And it's tough to ignore.

Maybe it's time to go.

But if we hit our goal or get past it, and the profits can continue to get better,

why would I leave?

Now, as Rick's crew fight to dig out the final 10 feet to hit pay in the last-chance cut,

he's got a risky Hail Mary plan to get more gold fast.

It's going to be a fight.

But with these guys all in on it, I know we can get it.

What's going on, guys?

What's up?

I just want to thank you guys. You guys have been doing a hell of a job.

That being said, I know you're all tired from it and giving it all you've got,

but we're still a way off from our target, and that would be devastating if we're short.

The gold will be in that dirt for sure, but I think it's going to come right down to the bitter end.

We're running out of time, so I think we need to give a little more,

and I think we need to get back to Lightning Creek.

One last push down there.

That gold wasn't that good to begin with.

Yeah, but it's picking up at the end.

What if we do another clean out here and we're short?

If we pull another 50 ounces from there, I mean, that's big.

I mean, you guys got to stay, get Monster Red running, that's the priority,

but we need everything we can get.

The way it's set up down there, you know, we could get going right away.

Yeah.

We're almost at the end, and let's just push a little harder. We're going to be there, right?

Yep.

All right.

Early in the season, Rick bought new ground at Lightning Creek.

Let's do it.

All right.

After a shaky start, the gold improved.

50.4.

Yeah, that's way better than last time.

I got some news.

Then, a six-month license extension to mine Duncan Creek came in.

We got a water license.

Yeah.

Rick abandoned Lightning Creek.

Shut down Lightning Creek. We're moving back to Vegas Valley.

Sounds good to me, man.

Now, he wants to squeeze another 50 ounces from Lightning Creek to help get him over the line.

I hope this move is going to be worth it in Lightning, but, you know, we won't know until we start running some dirt.

If we do reach that 1,800, my mind's going to be blown because with all the struggles we've had this year.

Since I've joined Rick, it's always been a push. It's always been a gamble.

And in Rick fashion, we are swinging for the fence again at the end of the year.

While the stripping crew battle on in the last chance cut,

Rick and Kai head eight miles north to Lightning Creek to sluice a leftover pay pile with wash plant Rocky.

Everything should be good to go.

We got enough pay up there right now to start up the plant.

All right.

This hokey old thing.

All right, let me give this thing a shot here.

Come on, you old girl.

Here we go. Let's do it.

We got water. We got power. The shaker deck's moving, so kind of throw some dirt at it and get some gold.

Here we go.

Oh, hell yeah.

Rocky's sluicing. Rick is one step closer to pulling off his double plant plan and banking the 420 ounces he needs.

Everything looks good.

No way.

You gotta be kidding me.

What happened?

Wow, look at this. It's still smoking.

Well, I don't know.

At Lightning Creek, the feed pump for Rick Ness' wash plant Rocky has failed.

Pump blew a belt.

That's the belt that drives the cooling system. That's why this thing's smoking, because it's overheating.

This f***ing tensioner should not be that loose. That's what holds tension on the belt, right?

So when it's loose, it just hops, hops, hops, and that belt just rips.

And then it stopped cooling, so then it overheated.

This thing just shot to hell.

She's toast.

Rick's desperate push to get two plants running is over before it even started.

Very quick, very catastrophic end to the day.

Got half a bucket through that thing. I mean, that's something worth getting out of bed for.

Now, his only hope for 420 ounces lies in the last chance cut and getting Monster Red Sluicing.

Well, that's pretty f***ing sad showing.

The last chance cut, that's what we have to do.

The goal will be there. It's just whether or not we can get at it.

Well, hopefully it's enough.

It's getting cold, and people are wore out.

It's just been a long season for everybody.

The overarching theme for me is doing everything we can to find as much gold as we can.

100 miles west, with four wash plants going full tilt, Parker is within striking distance of Tony's gold haul.

It puts a huge amount of pressure on keeping wash plants running.

It just consumes my thoughts now.

In the Golden Mile, Golden Goose and Big Red power through the pay piles at a combined season max of 500 yards an hour.

Doing pretty good down here at Big Red.

Do my best to get through as much as I can.

What the f*** is going on up there?

Oh, yeah, f***. My shaker deck shut off.

Oh, you b****.

Woo, I'm out of breath.

The shaker deck stopped.

Nothing's f***ing working.

Alec, Liam, do you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead.

Hey, man, my shaker deck shut off, and I need you guys up here right now.

Okay, yeah, we're on our way.

Thanks, buddy.

F*** me.

Oh, I'm sick of this s***.

Oh, the Calvary's arrived.

We replaced the motor a couple months ago, so that should still be good.

Holy.

When was the last time this was open?

I think the feed conveyor is the shaker now, because that's the motor wires there.

Oh, what?

I'm imagining the shaker contactor malfunctioned or broke, and that's why we're running this backup feed conveyor one.

It's been hours.

This guy has probably failed.

What's going on, guys?

We're not able to get the shaker motor going.

Seriously?

Yeah, something in our contact right here is malfunctioning.

It's not letting power go from here to here.

Can't sluice without it.

Well, do you guys think we have one?

No.

We don't have any replacement parts or any contactors that look like this in stock.

F*** sakes, man.

I'll go and find Parker.

We can't go home until the Golden Mile is sluiced.

Without Big Red, I don't think it's going to happen.

Parker's not going to be happy.

How's it going?

What's going on?

Big Red's contactor essentially broke.