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That thing is gonna freeze up.
Time is running out...
- How long? - Half hour.
Ten minutes.
Right now, we're at the home stretch,
trying to keep things moving.
on the roughest mine in Alaska.
This equipment is a disaster.
- How bad is it, man? - That's not good.
After a breakthrough gold yield...
What do we got?
... the Hoffman's have finally found
the mother lode.
- Holy cow. - Fifty-four.
Oh, my gosh.
About $89,000.
Jeez, man.
But with winter
crashing down on them...
Everything is frozen.
That's a sign of winter.
... they'll need to revive their biggest plant.
With the Big Trommel down,
that's half our production gone.
You gotta get that thing running.
- Right. Right. - This breaks us through.
To get to the $1,000,000 benchmark,
they've got one week...
- Shut it down. - Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Both rock trucks are down
so we're not hauling any pay to the plant.
It's gonna keep on breaking.
...and one challenge...
I'm welding on top of weld.
... after another.
This plant might be done for the season.
Whoa, dude. What the heck?
That's good.
Gotta have some heat.
See that whole pond is frozen.
The pond is frozen.
We're freezing.
My hands are frozen.
Fire.
During the morning hot swap,
when the day shift comes in to relieve the night shift,
a delayed refueling causes the plant to freeze.
How do they feel, Mike?
Still froze?
Oh, yeah.
Damn it.
As the cold is getting worse,
you gotta make sure you're constantly
greasing your equipment.
We're just in here trying to thaw this box out.
We got space heaters going,
weed burners on, so...
it's gonna take some effort.
The team has been able to thaw Z Plant before,
but they have to work quickly,
especially in these brutal temperatures.
This isn't a good thing.
Sparky has gotta get that thing done.
What could previously be accomplished
with one man and a welding rod,
now needs a team armed with torches
and multiple heaters.
Everything is good and hotter,
we could barely even open the caps to these
heaters right here just to heat up the box.
We got one heater working
but the other heater is not firing up.
I think this season is coming to an end pretty soon.
So what do you think about today?
I have a feeling more stuff
is gonna break down, my man.
I feel the same way.
I think this is about it, man.
I don't think it's gonna get any better from here.
So what's the move now? Are you guys running or what?
We gotta get some pay stacked.
Yeah, we need pay pay.
Is Chris loading pay over there?
He's waiting on it.
With both the Z Plant
and the Test Plant running night and day,
the mine is running short on the manpower necessary
to run enough pay dirt to the plants,
leaving Chris high and dry on top of his pay pile.
We just got done thawing out the box.
Everything is looking great.
But, unfortunately, we don't have pay here to run.
We already have everything thawed.
It might just freeze up again.
And then there goes our hour of trying to thaw the box.
Hey, Dakota.
If you want to bring that load over here,
we can shovel a couple of loads real quick
and then you all can fire it up.
I'm just gonna run it slow until we get to something.
Okay.
Sounds good. We'll do that.
Just keep thawing it out,
and then I'm gonna get in the loader and start
bringing some pay so we can get started here soon.
- Let's do it. - Let's go, dude.
We only have a week left in the season
and we still need 47 ounces to reach our goal.
With two plants running 24/7,
we're burning the candle on both ends.
We need some help.
So I put out the call
to see if anybody was crazy enough to come
all the way up here and give us a hand,
and sure enough somebody bit on that.
That's Chuck Feldhacker.
He's from my hometown.
Chuck has done a little bit of everything.
He's ran trucks, he's ran heavy equipment,
and he just can thrive in any environment.
I sent Jack and Thurber to go Nome,
down to the airport to pick up Chuck.
He wanted to come up.
So talked to him and I...
Said he wants to come up and mine basically or just...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He just...
He wants to learn it at least.
You know, some of it.
Nobody's ever done learning here I think, so...
No, when you quit learning, you're dead.
Yeah. And it's a whole a lot easier
with a guy that's not done it than a guy that
thinks he knows it all, you know?
We've had that happen.
Yes to that.
The more help, the better.
Strong back, weak mind.
We possess program, I think.
I go out. At least, I do.
He... He's needed running equipment.
Well, good. We need the help.
Oh, there's a moose.
Yup. There he is.
That's a nice one.
Back at the mine,
the crew has Z Plant thawed, fueled,
and ready for fresh pay.
Yeah, let's roll boys.
We got this plant up and running.
It's time to make some gold. You know what time it is.
It's gold time, baby. Gold time, baby.
I guess what's next is we'll go hit the bypass,
turn the shaker deck on, and we drop a bucket of pay.
All right. Let's do it.
Let's get this going.
That water's clean. Everything is working, man.
- Nice work. - Yeah. That's it, baby.
Good job, dude.
The battle against Mother Nature,
we manage to pull out a win this morning.
Now we're processing gold.
Yeah.
It might be our last run.
This is kind of sad.
Yeah, but we sure did run far.
Yeah. Bittersweet moment.
I'm Chuck Feldhacker.
I've come from Sandy, Oregon.
Just got off the plane.
I'm waiting here in the field
for Jack and Thurber.
When this opportunity came up, I couldn't say no.
It's an adventure of a lifetime.
I've done a little prospecting but I've never mined like this.
This is like a dream come true to come up here.
There he is. There's old Chuck.
- Yay. - Hey.
We made it.
- You made it. - We made it. Yay.
- Woo, woo, woo. - Oh, man.
You made it. You're crazy to fly
in one of those little planes.
Gotta do what I gotta do.
Just throw it in where it can't fall out.
- That's it. - If you lose it,
Jack's got extra underwear and stuff.
Yeah. Don't worry about that.
All right.
Man, I'm so glad to be here.
Well, so are we.
- All right. - Here we go.
Sure glad you guys found me out in this little airport.
Chuck it's easy. It's the only airport.
Yeah.
Gold mining in this cold weather is near impossible.
I will say it's nice to climb up into this heated cab
and listen to my tunes and get to be out of the elements.
We got this thing freaking up. It's just a headache.
We've already had to deal with that a couple times.
After the frozen morning,
Z Plant is operating well,
moving around 60 yards of pay per hour.
The Test Plant is running at its usual 30 yards per hour.
Meanwhile, the highest yardage plant,
the Hot Mess, hasn't run since the season's first freeze.
Whoa.
Shut it down.
It sounds rough.
All the materials come into one side of the shaker.
Yeah.
It still kind of evened out when it's not loaded down,
but once you got it loaded down,
it's all coming to this side.
Nick and Dakota noticed that material
appears to be crowding onto one side
of the shaker deck.
With Z Plant down for the second time this morning,
Sparky is called in to check it out.
I'm only assuming what could be the problem.
There's a structural piping that goes from this side plate
all the way to this side plate
that holds the whole screen deck.
There's three of them parallel to each other.
And our issue here is that this side plate right here
has completely cracked away.
There's nothing that we can repair to make any change to it.
It's gonna keep on breaking.
I'm welding on top of welds
and...
this plant might be done for the season.
My dad's coming down right now.
Mike thinks the bars
that are underneath the shaker broke again.
But this time it's worse.
The violently bouncing shaker deck
is braced by structural piping that attaches to side plates,
but the side plates have now disintegrated beyond repair
and nothing can prevent the shaker screens from collapsing.
Now, we can take off the screens of you'd like,
but I'm gonna be fair with you, man,
it's probably not even gonna last for a day
if I were to weld 'cause I cannot even reach
the part of that pipe.
Even with the screens out?
Even with the screens out,
like it wouldn't last a day.
This is... This is so gone.
I think what we should do for now
is take... Go down to the Big Trommel,
hook everything back up.
- It's all drained. - Yeah.
It's got fresh carpets on, right?
Yeah.
We need to pull that suction
and reset the suction sitting in mud.
We'll haul some pay down there
and we'll get it ready for tomorrow.
We only got four hours of daylight left
and it's gonna take much screwing around
to get this ready and I got no pay down there.
So I will get you pay, get the carpets out,
go get the Big Trommel ready to run,
take the 270 down there, get them on patch.
Make sure everything is fueled
and greased and it's all ready to go.
- Yeah. - All righty.
Okay.
Let's get started.
Todd, the Z Plant is down.
It's done.
There's no way we're gonna get it going again.
10-4.
We ran that Z Plant
way longer than it should have been.
I'm honestly surprised that it lasted this long.
Springs being bent, all the welding,
all the holes, and everything.
And we gotta figure out how to get the Hot Mess up and running
and running dirt now.
Holy...
So what I'm doing right now is I'm having Matt
and Al move the orange pump
from the Z Plant pond over to the Big Trommel pond,
because it takes a lot of water to keep that thing running.
So I'm having the guys go over and pull the orange pump
out of the Z Plant pond before it freezes up.
We gotta keep that pump running.
I'll get those hoses loaded up.
Then get the basket.
Grab it out of the pond.
This stuff gets cold,
and aluminum doesn't take a lot to break it
so you really gotta be careful.
Then I'll grab the pump.
Try to do it one trip.
Get it over to Big Trommel.
Okay. I'll see down there.
All right. So we're gonna set this pump
down here where the deeper water is coming through
on the creek still.
I will set it here and then run
the hose right up to where your pickup is.
Hopefully, I can get it to run down to the pond from there.
All right.
I'm gonna run the hose to our sluicing pond
so that we have some fresh water to run in our plants.
Right now Big Trommel can't run
'cause we don't have enough water in our pond,
so we gotta get this done so we can...
we can get it fired back up and make our season.
This could be make or break for us here.
Just go ahead and stretch your hose.
Looks good.
All right.
With the Z Plant water pump
now at the Big Trommel,
Randy needs to make sure the plant is fully thawed
before they try to get it up and running.
That's 68 inches of ice in there.
If I heat the steel up enough,
I may be able to get it to melt faster.
It would be great if we could have more than
one plant running at a time.
All right.
Flame on.
Chuck. How you doing this morning, my man?
Oh, dude, I'm okay.
We're gonna be running trucks today.
Yeah.
Sparky and new trucker, Chuck,
have a solid morning's workload.
They need to move the pay stacked at Z Plant
to the Big Trommel
and then keep the mine running at full capacity.
Having Chuck here makes it possible
that we can run pay dirt over to the Big Trommel
and, hopefully, we can keep running pay
over to the little Test Plant.
You're gonna be headed to the little plant.
All right. How many loads you're gonna need up there?
I'd say about six or seven.
- Six or seven loads? - Yeah.
Let's go hit it, dude.
We're gonna have some pay to haul today.
How about Sparky, you got a copy?
Go for Sparks. Go ahead.
All right, man. How you doing?
You ready to do this?
Let's get to rocking and rolling, baby.
Then pour.
Have a good day, my man. Let's get this.
With pay stacking up,
it's time to see if the Hot Mess
will run again.
Dakota, Hunter, do you guys have a copy?
Yeah.
You guys ready to get this guy rolling?
Yeah. We're getting people in position.
We finally got Big Trommel thawed out.
We brought the pump over from Z Plant.
I mean, this thing's been down for weeks
so I'm hoping it works out,
'cause if it doesn't, then we're done.
Let's fire this up.
Every time these plants fire up,
there's a little bit of smoke.
It's just part of the... part of the game.
Chris, you got a copy?
Talk to me, yes.
Are we good for me to hit the water?
We're ready now. We're ready.
Start that pump.
So we got the generator warming up right now,
Nick's in position, so I'm gonna fire this guy.
Water's on. Should be coming up soon.
I'm about 1,200 RPM right now.
We got water now.
Good flow.
Okay. Here goes the trommel.
Okay. Yeah, you got water. Start feeding.
So far, everything looks good.
The water looks good.
The tailings are coming off clean.
I'm really happy we got this thing up and running again.
Right now, it's all hands on deck with this plant.
We're gonna be swapping night shifts in
once it gets dark
and we're gonna run this thing 24/7.
This thing has to be going nonstop.
We can't afford to shut it down
so I'm praying for no breakdowns.
And as long as this thing's running,
we're on track.
The Hot Mess is finally back up.
All she needs now is plenty of pay dirt.
How about it, Randy, you got a copy?
Anybody got a copy? Todd, you got a copy?
Got a copy, Chuck. What's up?
This truck just
made some horrible noise and shut down.
Afraid he may be out front doing some fuel.
Maybe get something down here to move me out of the road.
I'll go take a look underneath,
but it was a nasty noise.
We're broke down right
in the middle of a narrow patch of road,
and Sparky is right behind me with his haul truck.
Gotta get it out of the way so we can continue working.
What's going on, dude?
Truck just flew to pieces.
It sounded like a rod maybe.
Yeah. She started clanking really bad
and she's dead on the spot.
We just got Big Trommel up and running and now we got
this rock truck stuck in the middle of the road
and this was our last hope.
If we don't get enough pay to Big Trommel
just to have it running for tonight,
then it's gonna freeze up.
And at this point in the season,
it's like we don't have time anymore.
Randy, you got a copy?
We're on our way.
Chris is coming with the excavator
and I'm gonna come and look at the truck.
Oh, crap.
They're gonna bring the excavator over here?
I don't know if that can pull this thing.
You think the excavator can pull it?
We just gotta tow it about 30 feet,
get it out of the way.
Chris is coming with the hoe right now.
400 is broke down in the middle of the road
over there in front of the old equipment.
While Chris maneuvers the excavator
to move the truck and Andy
determines the best way to clear the road...
You got a shackle?
Randy shows up
to examine the broken rock truck
that is critically important
to the success of the season.
So what do we got going on, Randy?
Not good. One of the U-joints let go,
swung elliptical, took out a hose.
I don't think I have this U-joint.
And the last time we had a U-joint go bad
it was seven days before we got a new one.
We really don't have seven days.
See what you can do.
We just got the big trommel going.
We need both trucks running.
I need your magic. You need to be Magic Randy on this one.
- All righty. All righty. - Okay. Do your best.
- I'll see what I can find. - Okay.
Maybe I can rob Peter.
Do you know where there's a guy named Peter?
Took it to the tooth.
A fully loaded rock truck
weighing roughly 140,000 pounds
has broken down on the mine's main road.
If the excavator, which isn't designed for this,
can't clear the truck,
the whole operation will grind to a halt.
We only have about
maybe a day's worth of pay down the Big Trommel,
so the nightshift,
that's a question depending whether we get this thing
out of here or not.
Okay. Let's go.
Come and be careful.
Perfect. Keep it going.
Start going to your right a little bit.
Easy.
Keep going, straight back.
Good. Hold.
Right there.
Good.
At least it's off the road good enough
that we can get smaller rigs around it,
excavators, loaders, and that type of stuff.
Randy will work his magic.
He'll make something out of the garbage can.
He'll find parts somehow.
He always does.
I'll leave you to your task.
Thank you.
Thanks, Randall.
You guys have a good day.
Do you copy, Randy?
Crap. Now what?
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, I got a little issue here myself.
Shouldn't be frozen full of water.
What you do when you have an idiot do your scheduling
to how long you're gonna to be in the bush?
This is what happens
when you out extended your welcome.
Right now, we kind of messed up.
What happened didn't...
I didn't disconnect the hose,
kind of forgot about it.
And it goes down on the ground.
It goes up to the pump.
So, all the way to the hill
where it's level with the pump is all full of ice,
which is what I have here.
So, I'm gonna get it thought out,
we'll get it fixed.
If you leave these hoses out, they freeze, you know?
And, you know, it's just...
It's that time, it will thaw out.
You stick it right in a hot water.
Let me pull it right up and into that hot water.
Well, here's this guy.
But don't hit that element, it will melt the hose.
That sucker is hot. I need the heat though.
We just got to do it slow.
You know, it's just the hose full of ice,
but it's the hose that brings water to the gold room.
So, need water,
that's the key to this gold room is water.
And if we can get all this in there,
thaw out pretty quick.
Our hose is going in the hot tub.
Okay, well,
so, I'm gonna get this thawed out.
I'll go down, run the hose back out.
We gotta get that pump as full of water as we can
because this might be the last time.
This is already a big hassle to get it full.
It's cold.
Sparky, you taking pay for the little trommel?
Yes, sir.
You're good to go.
Oh, come on.
Oh, crap.
Randall?
Go ahead, Sparky.
So, the rock truck
literally stuck in the middle of the road.
I'll be right there.
With the 400 rock truck
out of commission,
the 350 must now move pay
to both the big trommel and test plants.
Well, we didn't need this.
So this, uh...
This is the 35 ton rock truck.
And as you can see, the tire is completely flat.
- Sparks. - My man.
We got a bit of an issue.
I see that.
It was right when I was coming in
for my third load when Andy was done loading me,
I noticed that the tire was slowly...
Oh, man.
It happens a lot on the mine.
You get a small piece of quartz in the road,
it's just as sharp as a razorblade.
And that's what has happened here.
Sliced right through the face of the tire.
We cannot load with this
because the load is equalized
over these two tires.
And with that big old cut right there
in the face of that tire,
it's not usable.
I can't... I can't patch it.
I can't repair it.
This tire is junk.
No good.
Gotta get another tire.
The 400 is down.
Now the 350 is down.
Randy calls a meeting in the dome
to discuss this major issue with the team.
Now we have no rock trucks.
I got to go tell these guys.
They're not gonna be happy.
I got some bad news.
Yeah, Chuck told me about the truck.
350 is down, yeah.
- The 350? - Yeah.
I thought the 400 was down.
The 400 is down also.
What happened to the 350?
It took a rock through the face of a tire.
Unbelievable.
What happened? Did he just run into a...
A quartz, slice.
Oh.
Six to eight inches long.
- Jeez. - It's done.
I can't repair it.
And we got nothing.
Okay.
Unfortunately.
So basically what you're telling me
is we have no rock trucks?
None.
We cannot move pay.
Zero trucks.
Randy, we need at least one rock truck
or we have to shut down.
Randy, we need at least one rock truck
or we have to shut down.
We got enough pay on two plants for one day,
we got 48 hours.
Give me the status on the 400.
So here's the thing.
- There's a return hose. - Yeah.
That's got a pipe in the middle of it.
- Okay. - And that pipe
is two weeks away.
I've got to see if we can't replace
the whole thing with a hose instead of using the pipe.
The problem is what is that hose?
It's a return line.
- Of what? - So it's low pressure.
- Of what though? - Trans fluid.
Transmission fluid.
How do you put on hose clamps?
- Yeah. - Basically, two hose clamps and a hose.
- Two on each, yeah. - And one of them comes off
and our transmission boils up on our only truck.
I can have it back together probably tomorrow.
Ooh, okay.
But then we're back to one truck
but it is the 40.
One truck will keep one plant going.
Question is, do we risk it
with just a bush fix?
I mean, I don't think we have any other choice.
What do we wanna do?
No guts, no glory, you know, that's what I'd say.
- Go for it. - Go for it.
This late in the season, we don't have a choice.
Okay.
We get enough gold, we can buy a new transmission next year.
All right. Let's do it.
You got 48 hours of pay, Randy,
you're gonna have to fix this thing...
or, uh, we're shutting down.
All right. I'll get on it.
- Thanks, Randy. - Thanks, Randy.
See you guys, later.
No pressure, buddy.
Yeah, never was.
Go do something.
Wow.
Hey, did you hear the plan?
No. What's the plan?
We're gonna pull the box at Z,
get everything that we ran.
Only got a few hours of daylight left,
so we got to hurry up.
Z Plant is done for the year.
All that's left to do is to get out any gold
still left in the box.
Okay. Okay.
Dakota, are we pulling all of them?
Or we're just gonna clean from top to bottom really good
and that'll be that.
Hey, this is the end of an era right here.
End of an era, the Z.
It's the happiest I've been in a while,
never been so happy to get rid of boards in all my life.
Okay. These grates are coming up next.
Still frozen a little bit over here.
Give me. Give me. Give me. Give me. Give me.
I will say we got dang good and dang quick
at changing these mats.
That's for sure.
Let's get it cleaned up
and it's time to switch gears,
get over to the big tromm,
so we just got the last mat pulled.
This is gonna be the last one I think we do at the Z here.
Yeah. The repairs on the Z are just gonna be too much.
Big trommel is all we got left.
With this weather coming in right now, we can't stop.
I mean, once that trommel stops moving,
things freeze up, pipes freeze up,
things start to break, so it's gonna be nonstop
24/7 pretty much till winter comes.
We got nothing to fall back on right now,
so that's gonna be pretty much our last chance.
All right, man, these are the last two.
Bittersweet, let's get out of here.
Oh, that's a heavy girl.
What you got, Randy?
We cut the face of the tire.
- It's no good. - Okay.
Uh, we found another tire.
I didn't know we had one up there.
Okay.
But, uh, I'm gonna need your help.
We got to debead this, knock it off,
put the new tire on.
I was wondering if I could get your help
with an excavator.
Yeah. What do we got?
320, I suppose.
Go get it, bring it over.
I think that's a good idea.
While you're doing that, I'll jack this up,
get the lugs off
and, uh, chain it and we'll pull it off,
- set it here. - Okay. I'll go get that.
I'd be 15, 20 minutes,
I can be back here.
All right, take it easy.
Okay.
It's below freezing out.
It's cold.
Our 400 is down.
Now, we've got this,
uh, thank goodness we found a tire for it but,
uh, we still have a lot of work
to get this tire off and a new tire on.
We're gonna be super cautious about it.
I don't really wanna stay up all night doing a tire
with the wind and the cold,
but I have no choice, we have to have a...
At least one haul truck,
so I guess I know
what my evening plans are gonna be.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm just dropping this off
and we'll go back to the Z Plant.
So where is this from?
Z Plant.
I'm bringing the last batch.
The structural bracing on the screen deck
is all cracked around and busted.
Like all of them?
This time, it's done.
You know and I know it's a piece of crap.
- Yeah, piece of crap. - It is tired.
- Yeah. - That metal,
you just can't weld it, it's gonna crack right
by the well. It is what it is.
- It's done. - I'm gonna head back...
- Thanks, man. - and grab some more carpets
- and I'll be back fellas. - Yeah. Okay.
Well, thanks a lot, man.
Yes, sir.
I'm gonna fill this gap with some grease.
I got the tire off at the spare
and onto the 350's hub,
but I'm having a hard time keeping it inflated.
What we're trying to do is plug up all the air holes.
Hopefully, we can get some air to stay in the tire
long enough to bead it up and seat.
Let's see what we get now.
Come on, baby.
Now, it's leaking on the bottom side.
Yeah, I can hear it.
Which means I'm gonna have to stand it back up.
I got this wheel all greased up with the tire,
uh, trying to get it to inflate.
The tire is really stiff,
so it's taken a lot of grease
and, uh, both rock trucks are down
so we're not hauling any pay to the plant.
Everybody's breathing down my neck
trying to get at least one of these rock trucks back.
We can't take a tire from one to the other
because they're a different size.
So we got to do this.
And I'm not catching any breaks today.
It's starting to snow.
It's just gonna be a horrible day.
Dude, the bullfrog rod, dude.
I heard Hunter is gonna teach us how to fish.
Hunter, are you gonna teach us how to fish today, dude?
I've never even been fishing before.
Call us from the radio.
Yeah, I can cast backwards, dude.
I don't trust Mike.
Oh, yeah. Good catch, Mike.
Dude, across, dude.
Fish on. Fish on.
Fish on. Oh...
- Okay. - This is my lure.
Oh.
Ain't no damn fish here.
That's why they call it fishing, not catching.
Now it's leaking on the bottom side,
which means I'm gonna have to stand it back up.
But I don't have an operator
so I got to do it by myself.
Al got called back to the big trommel
to prepare for the first nightshift.
It's our last week and everyone's busy
trying to keep this place running.
Yeah. Yeah. Big gaps.
Nothing but big gaps.
Everywhere. One more time.
I'm gonna try to put this wheel
here on these blocks.
With enough force, I think I can get it to seat.
Missed.
Missed the wheel.
I need some help.
This is ridiculous.
All right, wait a sec.
Kidding me.
Get one side pushed in and the block of wood moves.
What's wrong with that?
I'm trying to support the wheel on the backside
to seat the backside.
Oh, man, am I frustrated.
Stupidity.
This is a wasted cause.
Trying to keep the air in it
so that the tire will expand,
problem is the tire is so stinking stiff,
the air pressure has to get up so high,
there's just no way to expand this tire.
Not in this weather.
I'm done.
Todd, this 350 can't be fixed.
It's impossible.
Randy must turn his focus
to fixing the other rock truck
which is now the only way to get pay
to the wash plants.
Meanwhile, the swap is on
from day shift to nightshift at the Hot Mess.
Night shift, baby.
Oh, yeah, got some good sleep.
Yeah.
- Got lots of pay. - I saw that, got a...
got a good load of pay in here.
So this is the first time we run Big Trommel,
needs to keep running.
We can't let it shut down,
otherwise things start freezing up.
I'll be running loader tonight.
Running loader, keeping them...
Keeping the pay,
keeping the large tails off.
I'm ready, primed and ready.
Hey, Dakota, you ready to swap out?
Yeah, go ahead.
All right, man.
It's all yours for the night.
How did it go today?
Not too bad. You're on her.
- All right. Good deal. - Yes, sir.
All right, awesome, dude.
We got an issue or are we good?
Dude, it's fine.
It's fine? Running good?
I think she'll make it through the night.
You know what though, there's only about 150 things
that could go wrong, but you know what?
God will be with you and a few things
will go right, so that's what we need.
Only a few days into their last week,
Todd and the team still need 47 ounces of gold
before they get shut down.
We have enough pay dirt to make it through the night.
What Randy has to do is he's got to get that 400
fixed immediately,
but we can do this,
we only need 47 ounces of gold
and we hit our goal.
We need it, we need a win here.
Quickly running through their pay dirt
with no working rock trucks to deliver more,
Todd and the Hoffman crew need to come together
one more time to make a miracle happen.
Everything's running and at least for right now,
pretty damn thankful.
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