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F. Wait through, there's second gold mining season.
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Your team Amethyst negative.
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The Huffman crew is hit one brick wall after another.
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In their hunt for gold, we're going to have to get our ass of gear.
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The American Dream is in our hearts.
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Every single one of us is taking a lot of crap.
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It's Todd and it's crew finally closed in.
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On their first gold of the year.
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So it feels good, we're chasing that pocket of gold.
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Their loader breaks down.
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Hey, no, no.
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Down south, at Port Gipin Creek.
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Come get this stuff right away.
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At the coat of boys, push their bodies and machines to the limits.
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See you later.
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And across the creek, at the big nugget mine,
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the pressure to find gold.
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Can you give us a minute?
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Create's tension between Parker Schnubble and his grandfather.
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Don't shut my crew down without talking to me.
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Up at Port's Creek in the Klondike.
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It's day 75 of the 150 day mining season.
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It's taken half the season.
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What the Huffman crew finally has their wash plant dialed in.
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Take an old piece of equipment that's laid alongside the road.
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You pour your heartache into it and you watch it come to life.
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And it'll start producing gold.
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I guarantee it.
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It's a good day.
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Overall, we're straight kicking some ass.
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Now we're out of 100 freaking yards an hour.
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This is the American dream right here.
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We're doing something right.
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And it's gold very soft.
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This way we came to do it and we're finally doing it.
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The Huffman crew is hungry for their first real gold of the year.
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Since moving to the Kondike, they've battled to get their old wash plant up and running.
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And I can sit here and not get to gold.
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After a series of setbacks, they made the controversial decision to switch out their gold-trapping
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ripples.
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The plan looks like it just made pay off.
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Guys, check this out.
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The Huffman crew can now get gold from the pay dirt they feed into the plan.
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With nothing to show for the first half of the season, they have no choice,
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but to run as much dirt as they can.
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The loader carries four tons of material in each bucket.
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Chris pushes the loader hard to keep the wash plant fed.
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All of a sudden, the loader conks out.
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I'm down.
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I won't be going anywhere for a while.
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Without it, the plant has no dirt to run.
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Dave Turin is first on the scene.
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I think it's feeling hydraulic fluid.
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Clear? Clear? Go ahead.
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With hydraulic fluid leaking, Chris's force to turn off the loader.
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We don't want to be spilling any oil on the ground, so we can get this up on a little spot
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where we can get it cleaned out a little bit safer.
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They can't let hydraulic fluid contaminate the creek.
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Todd only has one option.
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We're going to pull it out of here.
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Get it over here.
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We're changing to take a look at it.
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So we're going to go out there and drag it back out of there.
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So I can downloader the life in a mine.
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Gotta get it out of there.
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A loader broke down or pulling it out of here.
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Todd plans to use the 400 excavator to pull the loader out of the pit.
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This came a little break, but the loader weighs in at 35,000 pounds.
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Look at the brick out.
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Can't see over here.
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Take the break up.
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It's off.
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off.
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Hey, no, no.
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We're going three steps forward.
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Ten steps back.
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For more power, Todd swaps out the 400 for the D8 doser.
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Jackal.
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And Jim Thurber attaches a stronger cable.
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Rated for pulling 20 tons or 40,000 pounds.
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Look okay.
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Looks good.
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The roll.
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What's that cable?
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There we got you.
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Woo!
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With the loader safely out of the pit,
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Team mechanic James Harness diagnoses the problem.
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We have lost a bolt and it's either coming out of the bolt hole
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or the lock, the loss of that bolt,
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allowed the seal above that to fail.
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Deep inside the loader, a bolt has sheared on a plate connecting a hydraulic hose.
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The three remaining bolts can't keep the seal intact.
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With fluid leaking, the loader's hydraulic bucket bolt work.
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Getting at the problem is not easy.
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If I can get the bolt out with the rust seal in there,
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we're done and we can go back to trying to assume we have some kind of a future
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fun and some gold.
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Without the loader, there is no pay gravel for the wash plan.
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Todd is forced to shut down the entire mining operation.
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The hopping crew still hasn't found a single ounce of gold halfway into the season.
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The crippled loader is yet another major setback.
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I think this probably about the most depressing day I've had in weeks.
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It's frustrating. I almost started to think maybe we shouldn't be here.
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There's too many things are beaten up on us.
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Down at Porcupine Creek in southeast Alaska.
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The Dakota Boys prep their DRocker wash plan to run dirt for seven straight days.
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It would be pretty exciting, I'm sure.
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You'll see.
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Figure within one week.
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We'll have more gold than they made all last year.
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We've got to have about 15 ounces to make that work.
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We'll see how many yards it takes to get there.
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Hey, long as I can run, I'll make the bet.
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Just a month ago.
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Dakota Fred made a bet with Jack Hoffman.
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I'm owned mine more gold in one week than you did all year.
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It's taken the Dakota Boys four weeks to dial in their DRocker.
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But now it's fully operation running up to 150 yards of dirt and out.
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I feel charged right now.
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To beat the Hoffman's first season total of 14.6 ounces in just one week.
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The Dakota Boys have to run thousands of yards of dirt.
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And they're going to have to do it without their business partner Paul.
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There are just two men left to win the bet.
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Fred digs Peter while Dustin takes it to the wash plan.
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Just doing a hell of a job.
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If you're up, but he young man, he can handle it.
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He feeds the DRocker materials.
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And then clears the tailings.
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The washed rocks that the DRocker discards.
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Rock feel like a playing catch-up constant.
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Dustin works two jobs at once.
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But after six hours of running, he's struggling to keep up.
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Just there.
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I'll get this stuff running and Dustin right away.
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That freaks me out.
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Dustin is fighting a losing battle.
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He just can't keep the DRocker free of tailings.
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It's clear that the Dakota Boys need three men working or they won't be able to run enough dirt.
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It doesn't work.
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And that's why we add three people.
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So run with two people is less than half of what you can do.
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Because not only are you just doing twice the work, you're going in between the jobs.
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Okay.
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So we'll add the look around and see.
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There we are.
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It'll be done.
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What's that?
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That way it'll be done.
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Yep.
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All right.
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Well, we'll see you later.
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There we go.
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At this rate, Fred stands to lose a lot more than
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just his bet with Jack.
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Fred leaves a message for the only guy in town that can help.
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I'll give you a call back a little later on.
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See if I can catch you in the office.
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Thanks, Ken.
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This Fred.
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Thank you.
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Bye.
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No loader.
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No goal.
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Up ahead.
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Over at the big nugget mine.
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The pressure to get to the goal.
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It's Parker Schnubble hard.
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I've got an idea.
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If you want to be in charge of the plan,
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we might as well make it official.
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To go to Fred and his son Dustin.
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Tell me that school.
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Get back on track with their first real goal of the season.
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My first baby nugget.
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And just when they need him most.
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Just surgery.
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Let me down.
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The Huffman Cruise mechanic.
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James Hardest drops a bomb show.
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But I can't do it in the condition.
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At the big nugget mine in southeast Alaska.
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17-year-old Parker Schnubble is clearing ground.
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He's pumping a new dig site 200 feet up on the slope of Smith Creek Hills.
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That is awesome.
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Halfway through the gold mining season.
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Parker has found only 14 ounces of gold,
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worth just $22,000.
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Since he took over his grandfather's mine at the start of the season.
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Parker has had a hard time finding Peter.
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I've got everything I need.
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Except there with gold in it.
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Desperate for a new source of gold,
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Parker has sunk $8,000 into a new dig site up on Smith Creek Hills.
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He dunked down the bedrock.
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But there was no gold.
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Parker took his grand-pause advice to keep at it on Smith Creek Hills.
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A week ago, he cleared overhanging trees from an exposed wall.
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Now Parker plans to dig into the side of the hill.
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This is his last chance to make Smith Creek pay.
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Well, I'm trying to get close to bedrock.
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So what I'm going to do is take it all down and then take it down some more.
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So that I'll hit the pay streak if there is one.
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Pace streaks are channels of gold that often sit on the bedrock of ancient riverbids.
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Thousands of years ago, Smith Creek could have passed through this hillside.
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Parker believes that when it drying out, it left a trail of gold on its riverbed.
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If he's right, the pay streak is very deep in the Alaskan dirt.
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Looks like we found a bedrock.
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The plan was finding them back wall and start falling down.
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And when she knew it, but we actually did it.
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We'll find some good gold up here.
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I feel like we will go like we'll find good gold up here.
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If Parker has finally hit bitten, this dirt could be full of gold.
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He waste no time stockpiling material to run through his wash plan.
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77 days into the mining season, Parker could be on the Smith Creek pay streak.
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Back up at Courts Creek in the Klondike.
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Mechanic James Harness struggles to extract a broken bolt that shut down the loader's hydraulics.
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It's ugly in there, and without the right tools, there's no way to do anything about it.
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For six hours, Harness is struggled to find a fix, but working under the loader has taken its toll.
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Last season, Harness pushed his body to the limit,
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and eventually an old spinal injury caught up with him.
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I blazer shot.
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Radical surgery in the offseason gave him a temporary reprieve.
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At first light, the next day, James calls the crew together.
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I was about in tears under that thing last night, trying to squeeze in there and get anything done.
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I just gave up.
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That's not like you.
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I know.
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It's a fight I can't win right now.
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I've overdone it.
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The surgery let me down months earlier than it was supposed to wear off,
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and I need to go get some shots or some medication before I can go any further.
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I was hoping to get a clean out before that happened, because we really need to know where we stand
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and a lot of issues.
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Mainly, if we have anything to divide up at the end,
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or we spend our wheels for nothing, and a lot of decisions have to be made.
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I've always been the team player, and I want to help you guys no matter what,
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but I can't do it in the condition I'm in.
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So I need a few days. It's all I'm asking for.
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I know you and I had a couple of blocks earlier, but get it done,
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and whatever you can get done, and we'll be here when you get back.
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To sort out his back, harnesses heading 2,000 miles south to Oregon.
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He's the only member of the Hoffman crew that can fix the broken loader,
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and he could be gone for weeks.
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See you later.
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Right careful, John.
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Yeah.
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If this can help that pain, I'm glad to see you go.
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Hopefully, we can keep going, you know, and just struggle through until he gets back.
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The Hoffman crew is running out of time.
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They have to find another mechanic to fix their loader, and quick.
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At Porcupine Creek in southeast Alaska.
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So what are we going to do today?
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Dakota Fred and Sun Dustin are waiting on reinforcements.
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I hope that's Kenny.
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Go on.
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All right.
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Are you a site for sororize?
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Good man.
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Good man.
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Fred is hired local miner, Kenny Waldo.
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Kenny will operate the doser, so the Dakota boys can run the maximum amount of dirt.
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So you're going to come out and help us out today?
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Yeah, I'll come and help you guys now.
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Fred might have a fighting chance of winning his bet with Jack Hoffman.
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We got this little thing going with the former residents here.
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I kind of boasted it.
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I was going to get more gold in one week, then they got all last year.
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Were you close with your help?
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I think we can do it.
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All right.
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Well, you're the best shot.
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Kenny starts clearing tailings, freeing up dust to collect four tons of fresh material with each bucket loan.
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He didn't want ever three minutes.
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That's about eighty ninety yards an hour.
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Kenny doing a great job.
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Stop in a man.
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Now Fred has to hope that there's enough gold in the porcupine dirt to be 14.6 ounces by the end of the week.
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Court's Creek the Clondite with their loader broken and wash plants shut down.
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The Hoffman crew is putting the finishing touches on their gold room.
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This year, the Hoffmans are automating their gold recovery protected from the elements.
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Sit two gold catching machines, a duplex jig and a gold table.
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Last year, we wound up in a gold band.
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In their rookie mining season, the Hoffman crew failed to dial in their machines properly.
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It's just unbelievable.
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The Hoffmans learned their lesson.
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This season, their machines are already set up to catch gold.
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We wind up with a bucket of material like this that's loaded with freaking gold.
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Then we shovel it into this hopper.
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It's washed in that hopper.
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It goes to the two jigs.
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The gold bearing dirt enters the top of the duplex jig where rocks and stones are discarded.
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The material then flows through pipes into the jig and onto a pulsating bed of steel shot on a fine screen.
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Only the heaviest material, black sand and gold falls through into buckets beneath.
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Ready for the next machine.
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We come out with this red bucket from underneath here.
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Like this, it'll have constant trade in it.
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We take that bucket over to this hopper and we feed it into this hopper.
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The concentrate then falls under the gold table where jets of water wash the dirt.
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As the material works its way down the table, the constant vibration of the machine separates the gold from the black sand.
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The gold should form into a line in the central channel.
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This table is drop dead fantastic yet it really works and I'm real happy with it.
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I have yet to see anything better.
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This year, the Hoffman crew should be able to capture every grain of gold.
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All they need to do now is get back up and run it.
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I think missing from this beautiful equation is gold and run it so that's what we're doing next.
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600 miles south at the big nugget mine.
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Parker is at his wash plate overseeing the clean out of the dirt from Smith Creek Hill.
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There's a lot on the online kind there this week.
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You know, we've been having quite a few down weeks and I am worried.
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Parker spent two weeks prospecting at Smith Creek.
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If he's on the gold, Parker should see at least an ounce of gold worth $1,600 in this process material.
313
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Pretty poor.
314
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The gold prices are out, but not that high.
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We need more in a few flakes.
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I mean, that's only like $50.
317
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It doesn't make sense.
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It is what it is, you know.
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I can't change what's in the ground.
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I can get there.
321
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I can dig it up.
322
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There's gold, there's gold, there's not.
323
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There's something weird about that piece of ground up there.
324
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Well, if that ground is $300,000 a year's land there,
325
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that waiting for us by the must be something hidden underneath it.
326
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Smith Creek Hill isn't panning out in just four weeks.
327
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Parker has to go back to high school.
328
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His season is slipping away.
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At court's creek in the clundice, Todd Hoffman has hired two local mechanics to fix the broken down loader.
330
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Without it, Todd can't run dirt and find gold.
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It cost me $200 and $50 an hour.
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It'll be $200,000 probably by the time it's all said.
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They wanted me to ask you what the plan is.
334
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Plan is to pull it apart and fix it for over.
335
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Fix it proper.
336
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The mechanics discover what the Hoffman crew mechanic James Harness already knew.
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A sheared bolt has compromised the seal of the hydraulic hose that controls the loader's bucket.
338
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So one that flew out is this one here.
339
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We got the guys and they have angled drills and stuff we don't have.
340
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So what was impossible to ask they're going to be able to do.
341
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Unlike Harness, the new mechanics have the tools to get to the underbelly of the loader to replace the bolt.
342
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The work takes eight hours.
343
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Looking good, we got our loader back.
344
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The fix costs Todd $2000, but in the long run he hopes to get the money back in gold.
345
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We're ready. Everybody's ready to see gold in that box.
346
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This is a real good site. This is a real good site.
347
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All right. Thanks, you guys.
348
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With the loader and wash plant finally back up and runny.
349
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The Hoffman crew is once again headed for their first gold cleanup of the season.
350
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I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing finally.
351
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Dark again.
352
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Looks like we're all mine.
353
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God, that thing is holding out.
354
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That is.
355
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It almost tastes uh, that's his golveder right there man.
356
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Down at the big nugget mine in southeast Alaska.
357
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Parker has fallen on hard times.
358
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He followed his grandpas advice to mine Smith Creek Hill.
359
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But so far, no gold.
360
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He is now running reserve painter material saved for dark days at the mine.
361
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This is the security dirt, I guess.
362
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I think we can pretty reliably get around three quarters of an ounce of gold a day.
363
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000
We'll at least break even like last week.
364
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000
We didn't even find a half out.
365
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000
It costs a thousand dollars a day to run the big nugget mine.
366
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Parker is out of options.
367
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He has to cover his costs.
368
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While Parker stockpiles the reserve dirt,
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Renpa John runs it through the wash plant.
370
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000
Right now we haven't had much success.
371
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This material is bringing here I'm sure we'll produce gold.
372
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The wash plant runs for six straight out.
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After running a hundred loads of grandpas reserve painter,
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John calls it a day.
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We've got all shut this thing down.
376
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But Parker has more dirt that he wants to run through the wash plant.
377
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Can you give us a minute?
378
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Yep.
379
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Pardon?
380
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Don't shut my crew down.
381
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000
Pardon?
382
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000
Don't shut my crew down without talking to me.
383
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,000
Who's the boss?
384
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000
You are.
385
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000
What?
386
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000
And that doesn't feel like it.
387
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000
Parker, I don't want to.
388
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I really appreciate the help.
389
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But when it comes to telling the crew to shut the plant down,
390
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I think that I should be have some input in that.
391
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000
Well, I'm fine.
392
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,000
That's great.
393
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I'm sorry.
394
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I stepped out of line.
395
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That was put it that way.
396
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000
Okay, let's see.
397
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000
The pressure to turn a profit is taking a toll
398
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on the 17-year-old boss of the big nugget mine.
399
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,000
So I got an idea if you want to be in charge of the plant
400
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000
and Terry and Gary.
401
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000
I can just bring dirt to the plant.
402
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000
I just like, I did last year.
403
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,000
Please, I did not wish to.
404
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,000
The last few weeks, that's been what's going on anyway.
405
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000
So we might as well make it official.
406
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,000
He feels that I am undermining his authority.
407
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,000
I guess is the right way to praise it.
408
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:20,000
But in my mind, I wasn't doing anything but trying to help him.
409
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000
Sometimes we don't know what we're doing.
410
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000
Like that, that was a little more aggressive than I should have been.
411
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000
He's going to take that pretty hard at night.
412
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000
I might have been a little too rough on him.
413
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,000
After one day of running grand pause,
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reserved dirt, Parker just may see his first golden weeks.
415
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Four ounces.
416
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,000
Four ounces in a week isn't bad.
417
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000
Four ounces worth about $6,400.
418
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,000
Enough to just cover Parker's running costs for the week.
419
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,000
Parker weighs the gold he's fell and so far this season.
420
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000
18.7 ounces.
421
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000
Pretty piss poor.
422
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000
I gotta get back to work.
423
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000
Parker needs 70 ounces to break even this year.
424
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,000
In just four weeks, he has to go back for his senior year of high school.
425
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000
He has to find gold now.
426
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:48,000
If he doesn't, the big nugget mine just may go out of business.
427
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000
At Porcupine Creek in southeast Alaska.
428
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:09,000
Dakota friend his son Dustin and a new recruit Kenny are running dirt.
429
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Right now everything seems to be gone alright.
430
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000
We hold in our breath for another couple hours here.
431
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000
Everything all together.
432
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000
You're closing in on a good day now, dude.
433
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:28,000
It's the seventh and final day for Fred to win his bet with Jack Hoffman.
434
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:35,000
Fred boasts that he could find more gold in one week than the Hoffman's found in their entire rookie season.
435
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:40,000
In a single week, the Dakota boys have run 5,000 yards of dirt.
436
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000
It's finally time to clean up their wash.
437
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000
Set it up.
438
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000
Anything over 14.6 ounces will give them bragging rights.
439
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000
We got it for it.
440
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,000
We are rolling know how much we got until we clean it up.
441
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000
You need to prove me wrong or prove me right. We don't know.
442
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:15,000
If they are on the gold, it will be trapped in rows of ripples and special carpet known as minors moss.
443
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,000
Yeah, apprehensive. You don't know.
444
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,000
You can't see it.
445
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,000
It's all hidden out of that dirt mud, everything else.
446
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000
My fate is in the box.
447
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Dustin loads seven buckets of concentrated material into the clean out trauma.
448
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:42,000
The trauma washes the dirt separating out only the heaviest material, like gold.
449
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,000
This refined dirt is then caught in more ripples and minors moss.
450
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000
I'm pretty excited.
451
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000
I think we have more than we think we have.
452
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000
It's taking me two and a half months to get to these seven days.
453
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,000
It's been a rough row.
454
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000
Fred shuts down the trauma.
455
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000
Hey, hey, hey.
456
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Hold on. Just just let us sit there for a minute.
457
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:25,000
After 82 days, the Dakota boys will finally find out if they have found gold that
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Porcupine Creek.
459
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,000
I want to see a nugget.
460
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Yeah.
461
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,000
Big one right there.
462
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,000
There it is.
463
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000
That is nice, huh?
464
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Look at that.
465
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000
There's a lot of little stuff, huh?
466
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000
Oh, God, look at all those flakes.
467
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,000
Oh, there's so many of them, I love it!
468
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:56,000
The Dakota boys can see good gold,
469
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,000
but the layer of miners must might have trapped even more.
470
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000
All right, there you go.
471
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000
God, look at all those flakes.
472
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Yeah!
473
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000
It's all gold flakes in there.
474
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,000
We've got to need ever bit week and get.
475
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000
They're on the goal, but the question is,
476
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000
how much Fred lost his home in North Dakota to floods.
477
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000
He needs 70 ounces, just to cover costs this year.
478
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Well, I've invested very huge part of any savings I've had.
479
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,000
We're going to have to get a lot of gold to cover these expenses.
480
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000
To determine their week's haul,
481
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,000
Fred and Dustin pan late into the Alaskan night.
482
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000
Water!
483
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000
Oh, no way.
484
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000
Tell me that's gold.
485
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,000
That's gold.
486
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000
That's gold.
487
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Yeah.
488
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000
My first baby nugget.
489
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,000
In the middle of the night, they are finally ready to weigh their gold.
490
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,000
The Dakota boys need over 14.6 ounces
491
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,000
to beat the Hoffman's total for all of last season.
492
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000
All right, we need drum roll, Dustin.
493
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000
I can't do that.
494
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Are we ready?
495
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000
Five months last year.
496
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Six guys working in the same hole.
497
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
They get 4.5 ounces.
498
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,000
There's 14.5.
499
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000
17.
500
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,000
Eighteen point nine loaf.
501
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Eighteen point nine ounces in seven days.
502
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000
Take that Hoffman's.
503
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,000
Fred has one bragging rights over the Hoffman's,
504
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000
but more importantly,
505
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,000
the Dakota boys have found $30,000 of gold
506
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,000
in their first full week of running.
507
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000
I'm proud of you, proud of everybody that helped.
508
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000
I'll say you want it really,
509
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,000
it's been a hard roll to hold,
510
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
but hey, I'm happy.
511
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,000
I think tonight is a three beer night.
512
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000
The Dakota boys are now on track
513
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
to pull in almost $300,000 in gold
514
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000
before winter chokes off Porcupine Creek.
515
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000
Good job, Fred.
516
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000
While the Dakota boys celebrate long overdue success,
517
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,000
600 miles north at Court's Creek.
518
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
The Hoffman's repaired loader is bringing
519
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000
pay gravel to the wash plan.
520
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000
Todd and his crew are finally back up in running,
521
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000
headed for their first payday of the season.
522
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000
The bill's good to be riding,
523
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000
chasing that pocket of gold in all.
524
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,000
This is the critical stage.
525
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Everything we've done comes down to this.
526
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000
We do this wrong.
527
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000
It's all for hot.
528
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
After running a thousand yards
529
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,000
of the top layer of pay gravel through the wash plan,
530
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000
Todd shuts down.
531
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000
It's time for their first big cleanout of the year.
532
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Look right there.
533
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000
I see gold in here.
534
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,000
That's good.
535
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000
That's all fine fine gold.
536
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Look at it.
537
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,000
It's all over.
538
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Right now we know there's gold in the slew,
539
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000
but nobody knows how much.
540
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000
That'll be kind of a benchmark for the rest of the season.
541
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Are we going to make it or break it?
542
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:04,000
There are specs in the Hoffman crew's slew boxes,
543
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000
but no one knows just how much gold
544
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,000
the first thousand yards of pay gravel holds.
545
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,000
The answer is in 50 pounds of muddy concentrate.
546
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,000
The Hoffman crew's future sits in this tub.
547
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,000
Okay guys, this is the big moments are first cleanout.
548
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Let's get her done.
549
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000
Let's get her done.
550
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Let's do it.
551
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Court's Creek, the Klondike.
552
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,000
Over a halfway through their second gold mining season,
553
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000
the Hoffman crew is deep into their first cleanout of the year.
554
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Step out of gold for us.
555
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000
The result will make or break.
556
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,000
There's season.
557
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Okay guys, this is the big moments are first cleanout.
558
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,000
Let's let Fred do his thing, guys, and everybody pay attention.
559
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Let's get her done.
560
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000
Let's do it.
561
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000
We're ready.
562
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000
Todd's recruited gold expert, Fred Duns,
563
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000
to run the Duplex jig in the gold team.
564
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Todd needs Fred to extract every last bit of gold.
565
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,000
First, Fred loads the dirt into the jig.
566
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000
Just try to keep a constant feed.
567
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000
Soar materials in our feeders.
568
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000
We're putting it into a slurry.
569
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Then it's going down to the street deck.
570
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000
Our screen deck's cleaning arm material.
571
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000
And getting our fine material out.
572
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,000
Then our fine material is going to carry through.
573
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000
And into our kick.
574
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000
Our light material is going up.
575
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Our heavy material is going down.
576
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000
This is the nephal process that works extremely well.
577
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,000
Fred, is this looks like pretty rich material.
578
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Are you seeing any gold?
579
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Fibal tell.
580
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,000
We'll see here in a minute.
581
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,000
Who knows, huh?
582
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000
You can see how clean our material is.
583
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
Our screen's doing an exceptional talk.
584
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
Once all of the material is run through the jig,
585
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,000
the refined concentrate gathers in buckets below.
586
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
And it's looking good.
587
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000
What is that going right through the bottom?
588
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Is that gold?
589
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,000
Do you hear Brad?
590
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,000
Yep.
591
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,000
You can see some gold.
592
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,000
Three.
593
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Here's our fine gold.
594
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,000
So now we've got the majority of our heavies.
595
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,000
Oh.
596
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000
And our gold.
597
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000
See the gold in it.
598
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,000
See the gold in it.
599
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,000
That's just a goddamn nasty, you know.
600
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000
What about it, Fred?
601
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000
Yeah, we're done with this process.
602
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,000
The final step in separating the gold from the dirt is the gold table.
603
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,000
So let's get the table rolling up.
604
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,000
Let's see what's in your fine stuff, thought.
605
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Yeah.
606
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
This is a big time.
607
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Looks like we're ready.
608
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000
These grooves are catching our material.
609
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000
So I'll be able to cut the gold right out of it.
610
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000
And we'll get rid of the rest of the material.
611
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000
That is it.
612
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000
That's it.
613
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000
That's the first jump.
614
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,000
It came down.
615
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Drop down.
616
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000
And went back up here and it's coming down.
617
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000
There we go.
618
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,000
There goes.
619
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,000
It's in the bucket.
620
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Guys, we're done.
621
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000
We're just starting, but we're doing it.
622
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000
Hey guys, let's see what you did.
623
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,000
Yeah.
624
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,000
After an hour of running the material through the machines,
625
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,000
it's time to total up the gold.
626
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,000
Here we go, Todd.
627
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,000
See how much gold you've got.
628
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,000
Four ounces.
629
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Yeah.
630
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,000
Good Lord.
631
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Four ounces.
632
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Or $6,500 from only a thousand yards of pay gravel.
633
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
With their operation now firing on all cylinders,
634
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000
the Hoffman should be able to process a thousand yards a day.
635
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000
If they can average four ounces a day for the rest of the season,
636
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:38,000
the Hoffman crew will walk away with over $400,000 in gold.
637
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,000
Enough money to feed their families over winter.
638
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000
But overall man, I feel pretty happy.
639
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Almost a third of what we did last year.
640
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000
And it's our first clean up.
641
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,000
They told us we couldn't get in here and get set up.
642
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000
And actually run any gold this year.
643
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
We got four ounces on the top.
644
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,000
We're set up to end this season very successfully.
645
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:07,000
These clean outs are going to go from four ounces to 10 ounces to 15 ounces to 20 ounce clean outs.
646
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:13,000
We're going to have clean outs mark my words that are bigger than what we did all last season.
647
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000
In one clean out.
648
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,000
Guys, we've got to work twice as hard as everybody else.
649
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:23,000
And we can put several hundred ounces in our pockets by the end of the season.
650
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Let's get to work.
651
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000
With 67 days left in the season,
652
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,000
the Hoffman crew can still strike it rich at Quartz Creek.
653
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Guys, incredible to see the gold in that table.
654
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
We know something now.
655
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,000
We know that there's gold.
656
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,000
We know that we've got depth to go yet.
657
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,000
I mean, that's the gold.
658
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000
That's where the gold is.
659
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,000
The American Dream was based on the fact that if you want it bad enough,
660
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,000
you can have it.
661
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,000
Everybody here has wrist a lot.
662
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:06,000
But the opportunities for the returns are phenomenal.
663
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,000
Four ounces is not bad to start.
664
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,000
By the time we get down to our real painter,
665
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000
we're going to have our game down.
666
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000
If we get everybody going again,
667
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
we'll be rocking in the morning.
668
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000
So we've got to get going here.
669
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000
In the second half of the mining season.
670
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000
They guys, this is our final push.
671
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,000
Time is running out on all three plates.
672
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,000
We're going to run and run and run.
673
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Easy, Jack!
674
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,000
The miners race to get to the gold.
675
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000
Let's get to a hundred ounces.
676
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,000
I can't keep chasing the dream.
677
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,000
Disaster strikes.
678
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,000
My grandpa's had a heart attack.
679
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Temporous flare.
680
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,000
Get out of the way, I've had it.
681
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,000
Stop!
682
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000
Oh, what the f*** stop is.
683
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,000
I don't want anyone talking about it.
684
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,000
And the authorities clamped down.
685
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,000
We've got to shut you down because of some damn paperwork.
686
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000
It's ridiculous.
687
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,000
And as the winds, once again, this sends on the miners.
688
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000
We're getting our butts kicked by the winner.
689
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000
They fight the frozen north to the bitter end.
690
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,000
Desperate times.
691
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000
The required desperate measures.
692
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,000
Come on.
693
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Woo!
694
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,000
That's our first Klondagnaga.
695
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,000
This might just be the part of the go.
696
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,000
We've been looking for it.
697
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,000
You don't have to get, you know?
698
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000
You don't deserve to go.
699
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000
I'm Christo Doyle executive producer of Gold Rush.
700
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
This time on the Gold Rush after show.
701
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,000
We've got to ask you.
702
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,000
We see it in the show all the time.
703
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000
But in on your helmet, it says Big Boot.
704
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000
It's actually a term of indirma domain in a way.
705
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Regular boot.
706
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,000
Big Boot.
707
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,000
Okay?
708
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,000
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