All language subtitles for Minders Paradise

[narrator]
Gold mining prodigy...

[Parker] And that's $3 million
right there on the table.

[narrator] ...Parker Schnabel

is searching
for his next big score...

[Parker] This is wild.

[bleep] yeah.

[narrator] ...deep
in the jungles
of Brazil.

There's a huge amount
of conflict over mining.

The only way to understand
is to come here and see it.

That is [bleep] cool.

And if there is a opportunity
for us to invest,

then I wanna look
at those opportunities.

Look, look.
That's [bleep] gold.

[Parker] Look at these
bad boys.

I did get fitted for
a bulletproof vest, though.

That's a first.

[narrator] Previously on
Parker's Trail...

[Parker] The revenue
that would come out

of Serra Pelada would
probably be $1.5 billion.

[Larissa] There is a lot
of still legal issues

surrounding the cooperative.

[Parker] I don't really feel
like hanging around here

while the two factions
of the co-op do battle.

It'd be cool to see
a big hard rock mine.

Holy [bleep].

I would hate to guess
what this place is worth.

[Parker] It's too much
of an investment.

I know that there's
a ton of placer mining

in this country
that we haven't seen,

and I think it would be good
to see some of that.

[dramatic music playing]

Peixoto is kind
of a tradition area

-for the mining.
-[Parker] Right.

[Larissa] And it was founded
around mining activities.

To get there,
we are gonna cross,

it's like a very big
and famous indigenous land,

which the name
is Parque do Xingu.

[Parker] Yeah, it'd be cool
to meet indigenous people.

[narrator] After three weeks
exploring Brazil's

hard rock mining industry
in Serra Pelada and Pocone,

Parker has just one week left
in the country,

and he's decided
on a final roll of the dice

in the placer mining hub
of Peixoto de Azevedo.

In the north of Mato Grosso,
the city is surrounded

by seven million acres
of indigenous land.

[Parker]
I do feel like this trip

got quite a wide range

of different mining
operations in Brazil.

But this next part
of the trip,

I really want to go

into the more regulated
placer mines

that we're gonna
recognize a lot better

in terms of relatability
to our operation.

Hopefully, we can find
interesting places,

and people,
and opportunities.

That's the Peixoto
just by the river.

It looks dirty.

[narrator]
Billions of years ago,

Peixoto
was a volcanic landscape.

Liquid magma
erupted onto the surface

and crystalized into bands
of gold-rich quartz.

Waterways then carried
tiny fragments of gold

across the landscape,

forming a rich
placer deposit.

Since 1978,
miners have produced

over 250 tons of gold

worth $14 billion,

earning the town
the reputation

of a placer mining paradise.

[Danny] Well, here we are.

-It's a neat little town, huh?
-[Diego] Yeah.

-[Larissa] Yeah, very--
-[Danny] New town, new place,

new part of Brazil.

-Everyone excited?
-[Diego] Yup.

Yeah, I'm excited for it.

I think we should go first
with the co-op.

If I'm not wrong,
the biggest of Brazil.

-Yes, another co-op.
-[Danny] Yes.

I think this... The co-op here
in Peixoto de Azevedo

is very different from
the co-op in Serra Pelada.

They can give us, like,
a good context and also, like,

indicate places for us
to go and visit, you know?

[Danny] Yeah.

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator] Like most gold
regions in Brazil,

the local cooperative
controls the rights

to mine land in Peixoto.

[Diego speaking
other language]

[in English] I have no idea
what you just said,
but okay.

[narrator] A crucial
first stop for anyone

interested in investment.

[dramatic music playing]

Well, they've got
a nicer building.

It's different
from Serra Pelada, isn't it?

[chuckles] Hey, how you doin'?

[narrator] Gilson Camboim
is the director.

[Gilson in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
He's showing us around.

[Gilson in Portuguese]

[in English]
That's what we're looking for.

[laughter]

[Larissa] Copper...
This is copper ore.

Wow.

Yeah, look at that.

[Gilson in Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
As part of,
like, the cooperative,

are they running
the mine sites

or do they just do
all of the, like, admin

for people
that are doing the mining?

[in Portuguese]

-[Larissa in Portuguese]
-[Gilson in Portuguese]

Mmm-hmm.

[narrator in English]
The ground in Peixoto

belongs to landowners,

but the mining rights

sit with the co-op,

which supports over
200 individual operations

as well as funding projects

that help prevent illegal
mining on indigenous land.

[in Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
And I'm sure that
they have the same problem

that I do, the people
that mine illegally

reflects badly
on the whole industry.

Exactly.

And they must take a royalty?

[in Portuguese]

[in English] All the members,
they pay an annual fee...

-[Parker] Right.
-...of 0.3%.

-That seems really low.
-Yeah, it's low but actually,

they do have a lot of members

and they do produce
a lot of gold,

so they have an income

to keep their office running
and all that,

and since they produce
more or less

four tons of gold per year.

And they do four tons?

[dramatic music playing]

They produce more placer gold
than the entire Yukon.

Almost double.
All the placer miners

in the Yukon are normally
around 70,000 ounces a year

and four tons
is like 130,000.

[narrator] Four tons of gold
is worth $200 million.

They have
some ground for me?

[laughter]

Let's go
in that conference room

-and hack this out.
-[in Portuguese]

[man speaking Portuguese]

[Danny in English]
Did you see Parker's face

when they said four tons?

Now he knows
what it's like
to feel small.

Four tons, double the amount
that comes out

of the entire Yukon.

This little litmus.

Four... four...
four tons.

Four. Four?

Double. Wow.

[Parker] And this is a stark
contrast to Serra Pelada.

They seem very well-organized
and productive.

I mean, under the umbrella
of this cooperative is,

you know, an industry
bigger than the entire

placer mining industry
in the Yukon, so...

[laughter]

[Parker] I just need
to look for some ground.

Do you know
of any local landowners

that might have ground
for sale?

Yes.

[Larissa] Saying that
they have a contact.

So I think
we should give him a call.

That sounds good.

[in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
And Daniel is inviting you

to go to visit the mine site
with him.

-Oh, perfect.
-He's a geologist

so he'll know
all your doubt... You can...

-Yeah. Good.
-[Larissa] Answer...

-We can nerd out together.
-[Larissa] Exactly.

[Larissa] Yeah.
And we follow up
on landowner leads.

-[Parker] Perfect.
-Awesome.

Should we get...
Should we get on the road?

Should we do this?

[Parker] Obrigado.

[dramatic music playing]

I feel like a miner
with this hat on.

I feel like
I'm one of the locals.

[Larissa laughs]

I reckon
I'd blend in pretty well.

Yeah,
you're well-blended, yeah.

-[Danny] Yeah.
-For sure.

[narrator] While Danny
and Larissa stay in town

to follow up
with local landowners...

-[speaking Portuguese]
-[speaking Portuguese]

-[speaking Portuguese]
-[Daniel speaking Portuguese]

[laughs]

[narrator in English]
...Parker and Diego
follow the co-op geologist,

Daniel, to one of Peixoto's
top performing mine sites.

[dramatic music playing]

If cattle didn't stink
so much,

I would definitely be down

to be involved in some
ranching of some sort, yeah.

[Diego] Really?
I don't think it stinks.

I love the smell.

It's actually very nice.

[dramatic music playing]

[Diego] It's easier
as organized as they say.

Let's go.

[in Portuguese]

-[Diego speaking Portuguese]
-[in Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
Clever Truilho is the son

of one
of the co-op's founders,

and together with his father,
owns the Pepita Mine,

named after the Portuguese
word for nugget.

[Daniel in Portuguese]

[in English]
He's gonna explain to us
the process they have here.

[in Portuguese]

[Diego in English]
What would you like
to know?

What you want to ask to them?

[Parker] Everything.

[Diego in Portuguese]

-[in Portuguese]
-[speaking Portuguese]

-[Clever in Portuguese]
-[speaking Portuguese]

[dramatic music playing]

[Clever in Portuguese]

[in English]
How many employees?

On each dredge,
they have five workers,

three assistants.

[Parker] We have to open up
way bigger areas.

Everything's frozen
in the Yukon.

And so we can't sit
in small areas like this.

[narrator] Unlike Parker's
mine in the Yukon

where he must strip tons
of frozen soil

to get down
to gold rich pay dirt,

here, workers use water jets
to blast strip pay dirt

containing gold directly
to the bottom of each pit.

The slurry is then sucked up
by dredges, or floating pumps,

and sent directly to one
of six movable sluice runs

where the gold
falls into the box.

It's a system
that can be derigged

and rebuilt quickly
to chase the gold.

[dramatic music playing]

[Daniel in Portuguese]

[chuckles]

[Diego in English]
They have ripple.

[Clever in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[dramatic music playing]

[Parker in English]
[bleep],
it's so fine.

That's really
hard gold to catch.

[Diego]
Why does the gold float?

Because of the water
is too muddy?

[Parker] No, fine gold floats.

It's surface tension.

[narrator] Fine gold like this
can be so light

that it floats on water,
making it hard to catch.

[Clever in Portuguese]

-[in English]
And the gold just go...
-Yeah.

There, yeah.

[Clever in Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
To make sure
he is getting

the maximum gold,

Clever often runs
his waste tailings again.

[Parker]
Do they clean up every day?

[Clever in Portuguese]

[Parker in English] Got you.
We do it every 70 hours.

This is my least favorite part
of the whole mining process.

[in Portuguese]

[speaking Portuguese, laughs]

[Diego speaking Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[in English] Half a gram
per squared meter.

-[Parker] In eight hours?
-[in Portuguese]

-[Clever in Portuguese]
-[in English]
In eight hours, yeah.

[Parker] Oh, wow.

I was pretty impressed
with that pit.

[narrator] In his current pit,

Clever is mining
$12,500 of gold

every eight hours,

the equivalent
of $3 million a year.

[Parker] The gold,
it's impressive.

Peixoto has a ton
of positives.

It's pretty well-developed,
landownership rights,

and laws seem to be
fairly well-established.

It fits the bill quite well
in a way that no area

we've ever been to
before has.

Yeah, I could see us
getting involved in here.

[dramatic music playing]

[bleep], this is nice.

[narrator]
In a placer mining utopia

of Peixoto,
where small-scale miners

produce double the gold
of the entire Yukon...

[Parker] I'm loving
the heavy window tint.

I'm gonna have to do this
on our mine site.

[narrator] Parker has found
some serious yellow iron...

[dramatic music playing]

[narrator] A brand new D7,
260 horsepower dozer.

These dozers are very new,

so that's half a million
apiece, so there's, you know,

$1.5 million worth
of equipment

sitting here,
doing reclamation.

So, you know, obviously,

there's some money
in the ground.

[narrator]
These 30-ton machines

are a critical part of miner
Clever's operation.

First, for stripping ground
to get to pay dirt,

then for reclamation
by refilling the mined pit

before planting
native vegetation.

In this... The area,
the way it was before mining,

so for example,
this area was cattle,

so it was only grass
for feeding the cattle.

And they will leave it
back again as cattle area.

[narrator] Reclamation
is a non-negotiable part

of running a mine
in Peixoto.

[Clever in Portuguese]

[in English]
In all the mine sites
we've been to

in South America,
this is the first time

we've been to one, like,
actively doing reclamation.

It's really nice to see.

So I'm definitely interested
in planning something.

You just need a piece
of really good ground.

[line ringing]

-[Marcelo speaking]
-[narrator] Back in town.

[in Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
...Larissa's hot on the trail

of available land
that Parker could buy.

[in Portuguese]

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[Marcelo speaking Portuguese]

[in English]
It sounded positive.

Yes, it really did.

He's a landowner.

I asked if he could meet us
later in the hotel.

Mmm-hmm. Wicked. Perfect.

-Nice one, Larissa.
-Yeah.

[Clever in Portuguese]

[in English] Yeah.

I could sit in there
all day.

It's the one part
of the mine site

I miss when I'm away.

That's a nice tractor, too.

-[Clever speaking Portuguese]
-[Parker in English] Yeah.

Really nice.

One of the nicest dozers
I've ever ran.

My first impression
of Peixoto

is that it's the right place
to be.

Everybody's pretty chill.
It actually kind of has

a pretty similar vibe
to the Yukon.

And the big thing is,
like, how much ground

is still left here, you know?

That's one
of the big questions.

[dramatic music playing]

I really don't know
what to expect.

[narrator]
Back at the crew hotel...

[Danny] We just need him
to turn up, don't we?

[narrator]
Danny and Larissa wait

for one of Peixoto's
biggest landowners.

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[Larissa speaking Portuguese]

-[speaking Portuguese]
-[speaking Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
Marcelo Valbenocci

is a self-made
local businessman...

-[Danny in Portuguese]
-[speaking Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
...who owns
over 2,500 acres

of prime ground in Peixoto.

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

-[Larissa] Mmm-hmm.
-[in Portuguese]

[in English]
He's saying that he sees a lot
of opportunities still...

for gold mining and all that.

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
Marcelo specializes
in virgin ground,

land that has never been
mined before

and could be rich in gold.

-[in Portuguese]
-[Larissa in English]
Yeah. Wow.

-[Danny] All in right now.
-[Larissa] Yeah.

[Danny] Oh, my [bleep].

-[in Portuguese]
-[Danny in English] Wow.

[in Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
These nuggets are
worth over $40,000 combined.

[Danny] I think
it'd be really cool

if we could call him again
to meet up with Parker.

Yeah.

[in Portuguese]

[in English] He's saying
that he's away
for a couple of days,

but we can meet him
after that.

When they come back,
we'll have a chat with them

and see if we can
organize it.

-[Larissa] Yeah.
-Thanks so much
for your time.

-[Larissa in Portuguese]
-[Danny] Obrigado.

[in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
So we've just met Marcelo.

He was explaining to us
that he has land around,

and it seems he's been here
for a long time,

so that's why I think
it's important

for Parker to meet him.

-[Danny] How's it going?
-[Larissa] Hey.

How was your day?

[Diego] That mining site
was completely different

-from the other one we--
-[Larissa] Was it?

[Danny] Really?

Yeah. The first outfit
that I've seen

in South America
that actually made sense.

Awesome.

We've had a wicked day.

-[Diego] Really?
-Yeah.

Oh, yeah, we did
a lot of stuff.

You just missed
landowner Marcelo.

Oh, my [bleep].
I was just fondling

Marcelo's nugs that...

Not even 15 minutes ago.

[Larissa]
I think you should meet him.

[Parker] That sounds good.

So today we went
to this guy Clever's mine.

That was interesting.

There was a bunch
of pretty nice gear there.

And so, it felt like gold
from the ground

was paying for all that stuff.

And that's a good sign.
It means we're in a good area.

It sounds
like the opportunity

to talk to Marcelo,

and hopefully look
at some properties

and get some real leads.

So excited to check out more.

[Danny] Cool.

Right. Get some sleep and then
hit it tomorrow. Yeah?

-[Larissa] Yeah.
-[Danny] Awesome.

[Larissa] We had
a very productive day

here in Peixoto de Azevedo.

Clearly the ground here
is very good,

but we need to talk

and let's see what we come up
to do tomorrow.

I really want to show
a indigenous land

to Parker, Diego, and Danny.

So let's see what we find.

[dramatic music playing]

Wow. This is amazing.
This is cool, isn't it?

I'm so excited.

It's good to be here.

I don't think you have
a complete experience

of the Brazilian Amazon

if you don't get to meet
an indigenous community

and learn something
from them.

[narrator] With landowner
Marcelo out of town
for two days,

Parker and his crew
had 170 miles east

to the mighty Xingu River
in the heartland

of the indigenous
Kayapó people.

[Parker] That's so cool.

There is a pretty big,

well-established
indigenous community

here in Mato Grosso,

and for me,
there's always a lot

of local impact concerns

both environmentally
and socially.

So it's really important
to just go and meet with them

and sit down and hear it

straight from the horse's
mouth, if you will.

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
With ancestral lands

across Mato Grosso and Pará,

the Kayapó people
have only been in contact

with the outside world
for 70 years.

[Danny] Different world.

-[Larissa] Yeah.
-[Danny] Purest, whitest sand.

[Larissa] We are inside
indigenous land now,

so we should be respectful.

This is a Kayapó village.

-[Danny] Kayapó village.
-[Larissa] Yeah.

[rooster crowing]

They kind of divide the
activities in who does what.

You see like all the women,
they work together,

while men, they have other
activities that they do here.

[Diego in Portuguese]

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
Kayapó existence
relies on river fishing,

hunting, and foraging
the land around them

to source food
and natural medicines.

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[in English] This is manioc.

[Danny] Wow.

[Larissa] And then
they're drying it

like to make
the farofa manioc powder.

[narrator] Manioc, or cassava,
is a root vegetable

commonly crushed
into a powder

and used
to make the flatbreads

served with most meals.

[Parker] That is awesome.

[Larissa] We should
try to find Megaron.

[narrator]
Larissa has set up a meeting

with the well-known Kayapó
chief here named Megaron.

-[Larissa in Portuguese]
-[Engri in Portuguese]

-[Larissa in Portuguese]
-[Engri in Portuguese]

[Larissa in Portuguese]

-[in Portuguese]
-[Larissa in Portuguese]

-[Engri speaking]
-[Larissa speaking]

[speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[Engri in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
He can take us to Megaron,

but he say like, that's on
the other side of the village.

We need to cross
a little creek.

-[Danny] Yup. Cool.
-[Larissa] Yeah.

-Sounds good.
-He can take us there.

[Danny]
Yeah, that'd be amazing.

[Engri in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[Engri in Portuguese]

[in English] He's saying that
all the trees we see here,

he planted all of them
when he was a kid.

Wow.

Must be pretty cool
wandering through a forest

that you planted
as a kid.

[Larissa]
Megaron is super famous

indigenous leader in Brazil.

He's fighting against illegal
loggers and illegal miners.

You should be careful here.

You should not step here.

-We need to go that way.
-[Danny] Okay.

They're invading
the Kayapó territory

and think it's important
to show Parker.

[Diego in Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
Here we are.

[Larissa] The chief is here.

[Danny] Oh, wow.

[Megaron in Portuguese]

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[Larissa in Portuguese]

-Parker.
-[Larissa] Parker.

[both greeting in Portuguese]

-Diego.
-[Diego] Diego.

[Megaron speaking Portuguese]

[Diego speaking Portuguese]

[in English] How many
indigenous people
live like in this area

or in this particular park?

[in Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
Well, quite a few.

-Yeah.
-[Larissa] Yeah. It's a lot.

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[in English] Well, he's saying
like Kayapó people,

they are really suffering

because of illegal miners
in their territory.

They destroyed the land.
They pollute the rivers.

It also affected
the way they hunt

because they don't have as
much animals to hunt anymore.

[narrator] Since 2018,

illegal gold mining
has spread like wildfire

in the indigenous lands
of Brazil,

especially in the states
of Pará and Roraima

further north
with 50,000 acres destroyed

and polluted every year.

Because indigenous
communities

rely on harvesting food

and hunting in the forest
to survive,

these invasions
of protected land

have devastating effects,

including malnutrition
and illness.

[in Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
A cause Megaron
seeks to bring to light

through his work.

[in Portuguese]

[in English]
There's a lot of people
in the world

that, uh, no matter what,
it's never enough.

[Larissa] In Pará,
since he's very involved

in solving conflicts

between Kayapó people
and miners.

[in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
They wanna live in peace.

They have everything
they need here.

They want to protect
and preserve these lands.

[Parker] Well, these guys
were here first

and for a long time.

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[in English]
They don't face here,
in this area,

problems with illegal miners

because they don't accept
invaders in the territory.

[Parker] That's good.

[Megaron in Portuguese]

[in English] He says
it's important that us

with the camera
show the world

and spread the message
that what they really want

is to be left alone.

They wanna live in peace.

Just thank him for his time
and for the, um, warm welcome.

Mmm-hmm.

[Parker] You know,
I live in a community

that has pretty strong
indigenous roots.

[speaking Portuguese]

And visiting a place like that
makes me feel a bit sad.

They have to try so hard
to just get left alone.

-[Larissa in Portuguese]
-[Megaron in Portuguese]

[Larissa speaking Portuguese]

[Engri in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[Engri in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
He's saying
that his wife over there,

she knows how to do
the body painting.

If you wanna do
some body paintings.

Yeah.

We should do that.

[dramatic music playing]

[Parker] I do really like
getting a very different take

on what life's all about.

Can you ask them
what this means?

Some of them
are represent animals.

It's a tortoise painting.

[Parker] That's cool.

You know,
the beginning in this trip,

we filmed with a bunch
of illegal gold miners

and now we're with a village
of indigenous people

who have been in this area

for, I'm assuming,
thousands of years.

And that's definitely hard
to reconcile

visiting illegal miners,

understanding their issues,

then coming here and visiting
indigenous people,

understanding
the potential impact

that mining
has on them, right?

And I think that's why
it's important

that laws are enforced.

I really do.

And it's good
that in this area,

it sounds like they have
a pretty hard line

that they draw
of keeping industry out

so that they can live
the way they wanna live.

[Larissa]
The chief was explaining

that when a community
is in peace,

they do the body paintings,
and I'm like, yeah.

Yeah, much better than having
to do it before going to war.

-Yeah.
-Yeah. [laughs]

-[Larissa] You like it?
-Obrigado.

[tribal music playing]

Okey-dokey. All right.
Let's load her up.

Awesome.

-[Danny] Okay.
-Bye.

Ciao.

Back on the road.

[Larissa] It was my favorite
part of the trip.

[Parker] Yeah.

I love the idea of wandering
through your own forest.

I'm gonna have my own forest.

-[Danny] Oh, yeah?
-Yeah. My dad planted

-like 5,000 trees
like 30 years ago.
-Really?

-[Danny] No.
-Yeah.

[Danny] Ah, that's cool.

-[Larissa] But it is
in Alaska?
-That's so cool.

-It's kind of nice?
-[Danny] Yeah.

Yeah, it is nice.

[Parker]
Should we go see Marcelo then?

[narrator]
Heading back to Peixoto

after two days
in indigenous territory,

Parker is on the hunt
for his own slice

of this mining utopia.

It's probably one
of the better areas
we've ever been to

in all the years
of doing these trips.

This year, volume of gold
being mined,

the grade of the ground.

The next step is see
if we can find

some perspective ground.

I'm very excited.

[narrator] Larissa has managed
to secure a meeting

for Parker with one
of the biggest landowners
in the area.

See? He's got a lot going on,
Marcelo, isn't he?

He owns a lot of land around

and also he's
involved in mining,

but that's pretty much
what we know.

[tense music playing]

[Diego] I think
it's one of these places.

-I think it's here.
-[Larissa]
Oh, it's a nice house.

[Parker] Well,
it looks like he's done
pretty well for himself.

[Diego] Let's go.

Okay. Let's go and see
what he has to say.

[speaking Portuguese]
Mr. Parker.

[speaking Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
Marcelo Valbenocci
has lived in Peixoto

for 30 years,

slowly accumulating
a large portfolio of land.

-Beautiful house.
-It's gorgeous, isn't it?

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
He's inviting us
to see his land.

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
Sweet. That'd be great.

[narrator]
Marcelo has a piece of ground

he thinks Parker may be
interested in,

seven miles
north of the town.

[Danny] Okay. Let's go.

[Parker] Vamoose?

Nice truck.

I always like to see people
who have done really well

and they have a nice big,
fancy house.

And give a good reference
for the area

in terms of this
being the real deal.

[Danny] These cars always
make me feel really small.

[Larissa chuckles] Yeah.

[Parker] I wanna go where
the most gold is.

-[Larissa] Yeah.
-[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
Uh, he's saying that

-there's gold everywhere.
-[laughter]

[Parker] What's his
involvement with mining?

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
Marcelo has developed
a 2,500-acre empire

in the region, a mixture
of mines and farmland.

[in Portuguese]

[in English] He say
that all we see here
with the soy crops

there's also minerals in it.

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
So that's his property.

[narrator]
Marcelo's 50-hectare plot

currently planted
with soy crop,

sits right next
to a working mine site.

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
Well, this is nice.

[in Portuguese]

[in English] He's saying that
the real gold is here.

[Parker] What was
the grade like in this?

What kind of gold
per square meter was this?

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

-[Larissa in English]
Over five grams per...
-[Parker] Oh, wow.

-...square meter.
-That's really good.

[narrator]
Roughly five grams a yard

is nearly eight times
the gold of Parker's claim
in the Yukon.

-This is not his operation...
-[Parker] Mmm-hmm.

so you'd have to start

a new one over there
where he has the land.

[narrator]
This previously mined pit...

struck gold-bearing gravels
from an ancient river.

The plot Marcelo
is offering Parker

is just across the road.

And may also sit
on the ancient riverbed.

If the yields
are the same,

Marcelo's plot could make
Parker a potential

$160 million payday.

[Larissa]
Now you see the crops,

but in the future,
you see a mining pit.

[Parker]
This has not been like

drilled or explored
for mining?

[in Portuguese]

[in English] Okay. I really
appreciate that.

All right.
Should we, uh, part ways?

[Diego] Yeah.

[Larissa] I think Parker
really liked what he saw,

especially he was very curious
about the gold potential.

This is a very good area

for Parker to invest.

This place is chocker
full of gold, isn't it?

Yeah.

How many ounces of gold
would you be taking

if you were running
your plant here?

At the rate that we mine,
it was like

15 ounce an hour--

What are you running
an hour?

-Two.
-Two? Like, [bleep] mental,

seven times.

[Parker] It's a very
productive mining area.

I've always said,
if you could find gold

that has like somewhat
close grades

to what we're mining
in the Yukon

without the problems
of seasonality

and permafrost
that we have,

you could do really well.

[dramatic music playing]

[bleep]. What is that?
Hey, everybody,

everybody stop...
Everybody stop, please.

There's an accident
on the road.

Please everybody stop.

[bleep]

[bleep]

[bleep] Going to check.

[Frederique speaking]

[Diego speaking]

[Frederique speaking]

[Diego speaking]

[tense music playing]

What do you think of this guy?

What's your hunch?

I think he is great.

-[Danny] You like him?
-Yeah.

[narrator] Morning in Peixoto,

Parker and landowner Marcelo

get together
to talk business.

First of all,
like, thank you

for talking to us
about mining around here.

[in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
He says he's honored,
uh, receiving us here

and also everyone
in the region likes you

and loves the show.

We're always looking
for ground

and this area is really
intriguing to me.

You know,
I like the people here.

I like the, uh...

-I mostly like the climate.
It's a little hot.
-[Larissa laughs]

But it's just a matter
of how much money.

[dramatic music playing]

Can I ask how big
the whole price

of the 50-hectare area?

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
For the 50 hectares,

he would negotiate that
for six million reais.

All right.

[narrator] At $1 million

for roughly 100 acres,

it's over five times

what Parker paid
for his land in the Yukon.

And he's saying now that the,
um, price of land

in the... In the region, not
only here, but in Mato Grosso

as a whole increased
a lot in the past years.

Got you.

I would love to be able
to go test the ground.

[Larissa]
There's still need to be
a lot of drilling research.

[Marcelo in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese]

[in English]
Like if somebody
has a soy field,

-you can't just go mine...
-[Larissa] No, you can't.

-through the whole thing,
can you?
-[Larissa] No, you can't. No.

[narrator]
Parker cannot test the claim

until after the spring
harvest is taken

in five months' time.

[Parker] It's not cheap here.

You wanna buy
100 acres of land,

it's like a million bucks.

And we mine 100 acres
a year, so...

that math adds up but
the odds of being able to buy

100-acre block that is minable
is like probably very slim.

The amount of risk
that you take on is insane.

[narrator] For a deal
to go through now,

Parker would need
to buy the land

without testing for gold.

[Parker] I think that
there's a lot of potential,

but there's definitely
a lot to think about for me.

[Larissa in Portuguese]

[Parker in Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
The opportunity
Marcelo has here

in terms of my timelines
and risk profile,

it's... not the right thing
to do.

[dramatic music playing]

[Danny] How did
everyone sleep?

[Larissa] I slept
really well.

That felt a little bit
deflating yesterday
in some ways, didn't it?

[narrator] Parker's ruled out
a land deal with Marcelo.

Now, the crew must decide

whether to stay on
in Peixoto.

[Danny] It feels like back
to square one, but...

at the end of our trip--

Oh, but we still have
some time.

-Not much.
-[Larissa] Not much.

What are the options?

Continue exploring this area.

Especially after yesterday,

I feel like the ground
does look

really interesting, right?

I think that's
also a reason,

like, people here
are doing so well.

The cooperative
and also the miners

because here the gold
is easier to get.

Yeah, I think we should just
take a stab

-at meeting a few people
around here.
-[Larissa] Hmm.

[Parker] I mean, just about
every trip we've been on,

this area is the most
intriguing and interesting.

There's a huge amount of gold
coming out of the ground here.

[Danny] Sounds good. Cool.

[Parker] And to make
our business work
in the Yukon,

it took us having boots
on the ground

and meeting
owner after owner.

Cool.

[Parker] If we wanna
get serious about
finding ground down here,

that's what
we're gonna have to do.
Going all in on this

for the last week.
There is lot of opportunity.

But, you have to be here
and you have to live it.

-[Danny] Let's get on it.
-[Parker] Let's go.

[Danny] [bleep]

Oh, my [bleep].
That's massive.

[narrator] On the season
finale of Parker's Trail.

[suspenseful music playing]

I'm really impressed.

[Danny] Oh, my [bleep].
Look at that!

[Larissa] Oh, wow.

There's a huge amount
of opportunity

in gold mining here.

I really would love
to put some money

into something here.

[in Portuguese]

[in English] Well, let's take
some microphones off.