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Lance is coming. You know, he's my partner here.

He knows exactly where our gold count is.

And just like me, he's not happy with it.

It's not what we expected.

He's gonna have some things to say.

What you doing, Dave?

Hi, Lance. Hey, good to see you, buddy.

Lot's changed since I was here last.

- Yep. - We're behind of what our projections were.

- I thought about it, Lance. - He expects more gold.

- We got a lot of hard work to do. - Yeah.

You know, we got plenty of pay,

we gotta cut open, we got a nice plant.

We're gonna see what we can do to, uh, crank that up

and get what we need to get.

Do you think this can take some more volume?

Yeah.

- Hey, Chris. This is Lance. - What you got?

Can you come down quickly and meet me at the sluice box?

What's up, Lance?

I've been watching and kind of the weak link

is the loading.

- Uh... - So, my suggestion is, is we crank it up,

I think we try to do that

and hop back in your loader and see what we can do.

No. you.

I won't work my butt off.

Lance has come in.

I don't think he's a miner.

I think he's on the business side.

I think he ought to stick to his spreadsheet

and not on a mine site.

Glacier Creek.

He's coming. He just called me.

The end of fall approaches.

Dave learns that business partner Lance Baller

is enroute to the Valdese claim.

So, Lance is my partner. He's gonna come.

But I am a little anxious because he's got an invested stake.

I couldn't afford all this

and Lance was able to help finance it.

Lance is a miner.

And he understands the business,

so if he comes in and says,

"You might wanna think about this... or that."

I'm like, "I'm listening."

It's been just 24 hours

since rock truck driver 'KC' Morgan

returned from Arizona,

after two weeks at home with his family.

I literally thought my wife had perished

dead at the Grand Canyon, I thought that.

She's gone.

And in an instant, everything in my life changed.

But I'm happy. My wife's fine.

So, you guys

the eagle is runnin'

and, uh, it's hard to keep up with it.

You know, if something breaks down, you're fixin' it,

but to keep the eagle up to speed,

we need help with this situation.

I think we need another guy around here.

I'm gonna give my buddy a call.

His name's Rick.

He's just the perfect guy

to get us over the end and finish the season.

All right, let's get to work.

KC, I need to talk to you a little...

- All right. Sounds good. - Do it on the way out. Okay.

I know KC wants to jump right back into that haul truck.

But he's been through some tough times.

Hey, KC.

Hang on a minute.

Rick's gonna be runnin' the rock truck.

- Really? - Yeah.

I'd like... I got a project for you.

Uh, I'd like you to

build Shelly

some walls on the gold room.

And, uh, we need to kind of wall this in.

Both sides, double doors.

You know, this will give you an opportunity

to kind of work by yourself, clear your head

and get focused.

I'm all right, I mean,

that was a tough moment.

- I know. - I was worried if she was dead or alive

- and that was a pretty scary thing and... - That's rough.

That's why I want you to kind of work here a little bit.

- Good, good. - All right, buddy.

- You good? Thank you. - Yeah.

I see the KC that I love,

but I've also seen the KC that's withdrawn.

And that's hard to watch.

And drivin' a rock truck,

you have to be focused.

That's gonna be a right there.

I'm ready to get back in any machine right now.

But I'm not on the front end,

so I'm just building gold rooms

That's what I like.

You know, I don't know what's

trying to be told to me, but...

I mean, it's really kind of weird.

All right, Jason, the new cottonwood cut

is open for business.

Start hauling some pay out of here.

Across the claim,

I'm excited and ready for this new cut, man.

The pappy cut gave the crew just 27 ounces last week.

So Dave took the decision to open virgin ground,

the cottonwood cut.

We're done with the pappy cut.

Finally gonna get up out of the water and, uh,

to high ground.

There's the first bucket of cottonwood cut pay

headed to the eagle.

This is gonna be better managed than our other cut.

Because we inherited the other one, but this one

is up to Jason and I to set it up, manage it.

And if there's any problems with it, it's on us.

Diggin' low.

Swing and sing.

What we're doing is just typewriter.

Cut by cut by cut,

and we're gonna do the same pattern all the way.

Just south of the waterlogged pappy cut,

the cottonwood cut will be opened in half-acre stages.

To manage the water on the site,

Jason digs a four-foot drainage ditch

around the perimeter

to form an island of dry paydirt.

Then, working backwards,

Jason will dig down accurately

in consecutive lines like a typewriter,

sending every last bit of minable pay

to the plant.

We're smarter now

and we've learned from the first cut.

And, so, hopefully, we manage to water a little bit better.

Chris, fire it up. Let's go.

Generator's on.

I'm coming up.

I wanna see that sluice box light up.

Light that up, boys.

Until Rick, the new truck driver arrives,

mechanic Nate, is on double-duty.

All right, Chris, confirming we got some good drop pay coming in.

Yippee-Ki-Yay. Bring it. Let's put it in there.

It's not like we were getting bored...

I'm driving the haul truck. I enjoyed it.

But, uh, I do miss my buddy KC being here.

Whenever he is ready, we'll get that haul truck

and be ready to have it.

The four-man crew runs a full ten-hour day,

pushing the eagle to process over 1,000 yards of pay.

I feel like we're in pretty good shape right now.

This is our cut

and we're gonna get a lot of gold out of here.

Lance is a great miner.

He's gonna have some things to say.

There's a lot of room for improvement.

Morning.

Rick just said he's in camp.

Kind of excited to see him.

Dave's latest recruit Rick Tolbert

makes it to the claim.

How are you doing?

- Oh, man. -

- Good to see you. - Too long.

- You good? - Too long. Oh, I'm good.

- I'm ready... - You ready to go to work?

You betcha.

You remember how to run equipment?

- I hope so. - Yeah.

- It's been a while. Been a while. - Yeah.

What I'm gonna do is have you jump in the truck with Nathan.

- Nate's gonna show you all the ropes. - Okay.

Dave knows I have a lot of experience.

And pretty much everything here, I'm familiar with.

So, he won't have to do much training.

- You must be Big Rick. - You must be Nate.

- I'm Nathan, man. It's good to meet you, man. - You as well, my friend.

Dave's told me some stories about you,

so I don't wanna piss you off.

-

This is gonna be your new baby.

Go ahead and drive, buddy.

Rick has the site's most treacherous task,

running the rock truck.

It's gonna be nice to have somebody come in

and knows what the hell we're doing.

I think you're fine. I think he knows.

See, he knows where the horn honk is.

See, that's what I'm talking about!

You already know.

Rick and I go so far back.

You know, he worked at our family rock quarry.

I worked a couple of years

on the Hoffman crew with him.

He's a great operator. He'll do anything you ask.

And he's one of my best friends.

Yeah, I love Rick.

I met Dave in 1997.

I went by Jim Turin & Sons,

asked for a job and they gave me one.

I worked with Dave Turin for 21 years.

It was a blessing.

And I'm best friends.

That makes me choke a little bit.

And then when I was retired,

I didn't feel worth anything.

And when Dave asked me if I'd

come help him out, I was excited.

I was very excited.

That's probably the easiest task,

tearing up every gunner out there.

Yeah!

That's what I'm talking about.

With Rick now running rock truck,

the crew is back to full strength.

But KC remains on the sidelines.

I'm not happy.

No, I'm not happy.

And here's the other thing.

My role in the team feels very good for him.

It's a real

It's, uh...

The rock truck, Rick's runnin' it.

No, this is not... This is tough to take.

It is what it is.

But I'm ready to get back out there.

Coming up...

The goal was to get over last year's total of 600.

It's gonna be a tough one.

Twenty, twenty-five.

- Good, good. - 31.

- Keep going. - Oh, big money.

What's that?

Oh, I know. We always lose it faster than we gain it

every damn time.

New recruit Rick Tolbert is at the rock truck wheel,

as Team Turin pushes the eagle to a monster

130 yards per hour.

I can't believe the atmosphere around here compared to what I've seen.

And I just feel like I fell right into the family.

And it is a great feeling.

Aah!

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Shut it down.

Aah!

- Drain it. - Hup!

Nate! We got water. Shut it down.

We got... Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Damn it.

Pipe off.

Chris!

It was blowing water off the side. Water.

Coming on the other side. There you go.

I hit the bypass, the emergency,

and then I ran down to the pump.

It was shooting water.

Hose came off.

Oh! Damn it.

What now?

Yeah, we blew a hose.

Which one is shut off? Oh, that one is.

- Yeah. - Must be a lot of pressure.

Yup. Especially, if she's plugged up. Right?

It's got a bunch of rocks... All up in here.

It's up there, up there.

Mud. It's like clay.

This is what we got going on here.

Spray-bar right here.

You see all the material in it?

We just got a bunch of rocks in here.

- We can pull it out now. - Yeah.

Sorry, Dave. Let's fire it up. Full RPM.

Yeah. Turning it on.

We're gonna hopefully blow those rocks out.

Then we're gonna get those spray-bars cleared.

Let her up for a little bit.

All right, Dave, go and lower the RPMs down.

Hey, Nathan. Yeah.

We're still getting some rocks.

Come, do you hear them? Ting, ting, ting, ting.

Right here.

- Are you? - Yeah.

Hey, Dave.

Chris says he still hears rocks coming through there.

Really? You don't think they're blown out, huh?

Oh, no.

This hose, connects to that bath.

Gravel goes in, comes up, clogs up the bar.

It's all to do with what we're putting into this pond.

It's all our tailings going down the hill.

We don't have clean water to put through our plant.

Nathan, what we'll do is plug the Pappy Cut.

This is be our new settling pond.

10-4 to the idea.

Brand new clean water to sluice with.

Hello, that should help.

With the Eagle running at 130 yards per hour,

the tailings have no time to settle.

So, silt and rocks get sucked back

through the clean water hose.

Dave's plan? Flood the Old Pappy Cut,

and connect it to the pond with the drainage ditch,

to allow time for the dirt to settle,

so, cleaner water returns to the Eagle.

But, flooding the half-acre Pappy Cut

with over 1,000,000 gallons of water

is a high stakes gamble.

I've gone and cut a ditch from our first settling pond

so that, uh, it all drains into the Pappy Cut.

When the Pappy Cut gets flooded

we might not be able to manage the water

that's in the Cottonwood Cut. And, it's risky.

But, I'm a risk taker.

Jason, lift this suction out for me.

Si, boss.

Overnight...

Up!

...the Pappy Cut is flooded with fresh water

for the Eagle.

Swing it right!

Ready for the new pumps to start drawing

a clean supply for the massive wash plant.

Do you want her to pull in a little bit more that way?

It's all right.

I think we're good.

Best water supply for the Eagle.

She's going to be washing clean as hell now.

All right, let's go ahead and fire it up.

Coming on.

Get running.

Fire her up.

Look at that clean water. All right, Chris. Go ahead.

Drop's in the box.

Good job guys. Let's make gold today.

Hearing a quiet run makes me happy.

That's money. Boom, boom, boom.

Now we're running. Good water flow.

And, it feels good.

The mine site fires on all cylinders once again.

But, Casey's still at the Gold Room.

Hi, Casey. Beautiful day.

- Yeah? - Love it.

How are you?

It's hard for me to focus.

- Right. - So.

Tough being away from home.

- It's important. - You know, it's still mentally there with my wife and son.

- Probably even hard to get back here. Right? - Yeah, it's really hard.

But, um, right now I wanna go back in the machines.

- and get back to work. - Okay.

All right. Let's do it.

- You do your thing. I'll do mine. - All right.

It's very nice having him back here.

Now his mind needs to get back in the game here.

And, really focus on his job.

uh, hopefully by the time he has these walls done

he'll be ready to get back into the equipment

and on the mine site with the guys.

Who knows, how long it will take.

That sure is a lot of water.

The next morning...

overnight rain breaches the Pappy Cut banks,

and swamps the haul road.

Hey, Jason, I'm not being a smart-ass.

I'm not being a know-it-all, or nothing.

Listen, obviously,

driving this close to water with this much weight,

you go off to the right or the left,

you might be out of sight.

Careful buddy, that's right on the edge.

I don't wanna say something. I'm the new guy, that's all.

Hey, buddy.

I have to roll across by that lake.

Gotta keep her above the water.

If the haul road floods,

it will be impossible to transport paydirt

to the plant.

Our water is killing us.

Since we have now let the Pappy Cut fill up,

We don't have any overflow situation.

And, our water is starting to get up higher than our road.

We gotta be able to put that water somewhere.

Dave's business partner, Lance

is on his way to the mine.

So, the team needs the fastest fix.

This water level just keeps rising and rising.

It won't drop fast enough.

Cover all the road?

- Yes. - Yes.

- I don't want that. - I know.

We can't let the water get over there.

We just gotta manage it now.

If we don't manage it now,

we're gonna be out of luck.

The only way to do it is, build the road up,

push a culvert in there.

This'll flow under our road.

To keep the Eagle in play,

Jason and Nate, will lay a pipe

into the haul road to create a culvert.

They will then raise the haul road up by two feet,

allowing the surplus water from the Pappy Cut

to run into a drainage canal.

The last thing we need is for the haul truck

to go on in there and have an accident.

This way, we'll make sure it's safe.

Oh, for sake.

way short.

Yeah man, I... I mean...

They ain't really got another choice.

This is the one thing we got.

Chris to Nate.

Chris.

Running low.

Copy that.

Do we got another fat-end skinny-end? Another one?

I got a small one up there.

Could we put it in and, like, slide it off?

Yeah, buddy.

I'm okay with that.

- Hey, Nate! - Yeah?

- Anybody tell you they love you today? - you.

Our culvert is too short,

but we have another chunk,

that has a fat end and a skinny end.

We can actually slide it inside.

It's gonna wedge itself in down here at the bottom,

giving us an extension.

You're gonna have to swing this way.

Easy there.

Easy.

Just a little more.

Whoo! Yeah, baby!

Now, we've made the mound that's gonna be the support.

Gonna hold to that pipe so the haul truck

doesn't crush it.

What do you think?

We make you wanna try coming over

- and see how she does? - Yes, sir.

The road is real good. Real happy with it.

Good and firm.

That's nice. That'll work.

The culvert's there. The culvert's working.

Our water level has started dropping down more and more.

So, I'm happier than hell.

7:00 a.m.

I've been on the phone daily with Dave.

We have a lot riding on this.

Dave's business partner, Lance is on his way to the site.

I'm very invested. I wanna try to get our

investment back as quick as we can.

As an outsider, it's time to give

some fresh perspectives and ideas.

See if we can get this plant cranked up

and do a little bit more.

Lance is coming. I'm a little bit nervous.

He knows exactly where our gold count is.

And, just like me, he's not happy with it.

It's very simple. It's not what we expected.

And, I know Lance well enough,

that he's gonna have some things to say.

And, they'll be constructive.

- Dave! - Hey, Lance.

- How are things going? - Well...

You know, we're mining away.

You wanna go check it out?

- Let's go look at the cut. - Okay.

Lot has changed since I was here last.

- Yep. - We're behind of what our projections were.

I thought about it Lance.

We expects more gold.

We got a lot of hard work to do.

Yeah. You know, we got plenty of pay.

We got a cut open. We got a nice plant.

- Certain days, we weren't making money. - Yeah.

I do know we gotta pick up the volume,

- We gotta pick up the runtime on the plane. - Yeah.

This right here, is what I mean.

It is for sale but it's gonna cost you.

It's a half a million.

Half a million!

How much you bring with you?

So I've been in gold-mining for over 14 years.

I've had multiple companies listed

on different stock exchanges around the world

in various different industries.

Mining's a real passion of mine,

and, it's turned into more of a passion

because we make money off of it. Really good money.

And, I really wanna come in here

and see if we can make this season have a bang.

When you start late, you're digging out of a hole

and we just gotta dig harder. If we don't dig harder,

we're not gonna get out of the hole.

So this is our second cut.

You can see Jason's already mining.

He runs a very successful mine.

I mined with him at Box Creek last year.

It would be good to have a big view.

And he could look at something.

You know, a lot of times, we're in the middle of this.

We started it, we hammered down and we keep going.

I welcome the information.

You know, if he's got some criticism, something to say,

come on, bring it on.

The problem right now is paying the bills.

I wish we had more gold. We are at 210 now.

Should've been at 250.

Right.

Snow is already on top of the mountain.

We are talking days.

Before we get more and more

and it starts coming down here.

We are too late in the year.

I wish we were standing here in July,

but that's not the case.

We got to get this done.

We got to make changes to the mine site.

Yes sir, I do.

How are things going down there?

All good.

We are getting it off all the same.

Copy.

The crew is already in high gear.

But Dave's partner Lance Baller

focuses on identifying improvements.

I'm all about data and all about trying things.

With this guy getting that up time,

we got to get every little ounce that we can.

I'll show you where we are digging.

Let's go talk to Jason.

Lance is here to help us

to do better.

He's a smart guy.

Sometimes his delivery is not the best.

You know, when he sees something he doesn't think

is right, boy, he's going to let you know.

And so, yeah, I am going to listen.

So, I'm thinking of turning the plan up.

Do you think it is possible to do that?

Yeah.

I absolutely think it's possible.

All right.

These are the old Swiss...

Do you think this can take some more volume,

if we throw it at her and crank it up?

I really think with this material, we can run.

More. I mean I don't know how much more.

All right, good job.

That's our pay pile.

Reckon the hard truck is ahead of what we are able

to feed the plants.

So he's able to build there.

Stockpile pay quicker than the plant can be fed.

We could really crank up the amount of pay,

we can beat the plan.

What I am seeing here,

the weak point is being able to feed the plan.

Yeah.

Hey Chris, this is Lance, do you copy?

What have you got?

Can you come down quickly and meet me at the sluicebox?

What's up, Lance?

Hey, how you doing?

So I have been watching and kind of the weak link

is the loading.

So my suggestion is that we crank it up

150 and hit them harder.

So, try to do that

and hop back in your loader and see what we can do.

I work my butt off.

Lance has come in.

I don't think he is a miner.

I think he ought to stick to his spreadsheet,

and not on the mine site.

My experience is either team comes together

or they let these things break it apart

when it gets challenging.

Let's see.

Later, at the gold room...

Hey Casey.

Since Casey has returned from a traumatic experience at home

Dave's put him on light duty,

building a wall for the gold room.

Looking good.

Getting close?

Getting close. Almost ready.

Shell would be happy.

How are you feeling about everything?

Pretty good. Back to the open.

Good to be back to work.

You know. Get the mind back in the game.

Are you good to jump back into a piece of equipment?

Yeah. I'm good. I'm ready.

Rick's doing a pretty good job in the rock trucks.

Yeah.

What I'd like to do is throw you in the dozer.

Okay.

We got a little bit of stripping to do

in the Cottonwood cut.

Feel like your head's in the right spot,

we'll throw you in the dozer.

Yeah, I'm good. I'm ready.

Good job on the gold room, man.

No problem, man.

Winter's coming.

Casey's good.

His head's in a good spot.

He's focused.

I feel like, you know, the family's back.

The boys are back in town and it's time to go to work.

Across the site...

We got a challenge put in front of us

and I never back down from one.

So, better get to it.

The team's new goal of running a 150 yards an hour

is the equivalent of 1800 tons of dirt a day

piling even more pressure on loader Chris.

Abe and I wanted to work out with Chris,

but Chris is a little bit of a weak spot.

So hopefully, he's comfortable with the challenge

of moving up the plank.

You know, we need to up the production.

This ain't our first rodeo.

Wear your gloves.

The cowboy chaps 'cause

we're going for a ride.

Feels pretty good.

Nothing better than a big ass dozer.

I love 'em.

Bryan said, " Knock it out of the park".

It's possible.

Hey, Nate.

Hello boys, keep it coming.

Goes in the box, man.

If we gonna do this dance, we got to dance.

We can't just sit on the sidelines

like we are in sixth grade watching girls dancing

and the boys sitting on one side.

You have to stay on it.

Hey Nathan, you want to be Lurch or Herman?

He's Shrek.

He's funny looking.

Oh, that's me.

They have been calling me that for years.

Well, now there's two of us now, Rick.

There you go.

Kind of ugly.

Ha ha.

But he's got a real nice smile.

That's cute.

When Shrek became human, he was a beautiful man.

That's why I was called Shrek.

Crush 'em.

We need a big clean up.

Grab on.

Hope ...

In a week,

plagued with setbacks,

the crew pushes to a strong finish,

and steps up to Lance's challenge

to run the plan at a 150 yards per hour.

The cut's going real good.

Good. Good. Good.

One last push. We got it.

Lance wanted to see how we can get more gold.

I mean, Chris worked his ass off.

We're happy.

Pace being kept up,

and I'm doing fine, and

hopefully the box is.

You know, Lance, we didn't start off on the right foot,

and he got it right.

So, kudos to him.

Everything looks good down here.

So, I think we are in good shape.

Hey Casey, you're going to kill it, buddy.

Yeah, I'm killing it.

With every last minute spent

processing pay through the eagle,

it's time to pull the mats.

Glad you're back, Casey.

Thank you Chris. I'm glad to be back.

If they don't ever get any snow here,

it's tropical paradise.

It was damn good they had a run in

hopefully the gold weighs good.

But today is set and over with.

Go back and have a drink.

That was really dumb.

Let's go back, have a drink.

Morning at the all-important gold weigh.

Hi guys.

Hey, we got some new people here today.

We do.

Rick, how's it going down there?

Great, going great.

Casey, you're back in the dozer. How's that feel?

Feels pretty good.

Yeah.

Back in a machine, pushing some dirt.

Or camping.

We're back at full strength.

You know what? Shelly, you want to pour?

With little over a month

until winter closes the season,

the crew has just 210 ounces of gold in the bank.

All. right. Ready guys?

To keep on track the season goal of 600 ounces

the team must hit a weekly total of 65 ounces.

Three.

Seven, eight, nine. Ten.

Twelve.

Sixteen.

Twenty. Twenty five.

Okay. Keep it going.

Twenty eight.

Thirty one.

Thirty two ounces.

I'm disappointed, but also...

...let's be real.

It's been a tough week.

It's been a everyday struggle.

So, not much season left.

We got, you know, maybe a month.

The goal was to get over last year's total of 600.

It's going to be a tough one.

I think 450 is reasonable.

We're running the eagle then.

I do think it is realistic that we will get 450.

It's not exactly what we hoped,

but I think you guys have done really, really well.

A lot of things going good.

I mean, it's hard and doing it

but you guys got three plans that you've ran this season.

You're doing it and that's the positive.

You know, it's good.

No excuses now, boys.

450 ounces.

That's what I am striving for.

So we got roughly, hopefully five weeks to achieve that.

I'm up for the challenge.

We're going to rock and roll.

Up production a little bit.

Day will kind of look longer.

Might have a bit of tears, but you know what,

part of it.

Another 250 ounces.

This close to winter.

I don't know. But you know what,

the reality is we're going to give it our all.

See if we can get it out. I hope we do.

450 ounces.

And that'd be a decent season.

And we'd all walk out of here with gold in our pockets.

It's first season.

We started late.

I think there's good times ahead.

I do believe this new cut's going to pay.

I think things are looking up.

Challenge accepted.

We all in?

All in.

All in.

Everybody said challenge accepted.

We're all in.

And I think we can do it.

This could be the big one.

On the next episode...

How many acres do you have?

4,000.

Wow. There's so much gold out here.

A search for new opportunity.

There's some gold there. There's no doubt about it.

There's probably mud there.

Blaise Team Turing's future

- on the line. -

And as the temperature drops,

Winners only. A thousand feet above us.

the pressure rises.

I am nervous because that's my family's gold.