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I've got a new sidekick to introduce.
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This is bosco. Bosco, come here.
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He doesn't listen very well.
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He's a four or
five-month-old chocolate lab.
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I just got them yesterday
from my mom and dad,
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and that was my birthday
present from them.
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They got him like a month ago, got him
potty trained for me. Great grandparents.
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They're gonna be doing
that with my children.
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And here he is.
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My mom and dad were like, "hey,
do you want a dog for your birthday?"
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And I'm like, "yeah, it's probably time."
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But I could never pick one out.
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You know, it's always, like, "not dozer."
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Will he, like, fetch?
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Well, that's one thing about labs
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is they don't need much
training for the fetch, I don't think.
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Except on the retrieval side.
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But anyways, getting back to work.
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It's kind of a mayhem to keep
three plants running, you know.
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It stretches the people and
equipment kind of to the Max.
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But with where we're at for gold,
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it's really the only hope we've got.
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Halfway through the season,
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Parker schnabel has
a mountain to climb.
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After the slowest start
of his mining career,
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with one bad gold weigh after another,
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he's finally turning the corner,
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recently banking his first
500-plus-ounce gold weigh.
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But he's not out of the woods yet.
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You start building a
company bigger and bigger,
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and then it just becomes a
monster that you have to feed.
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And the amount of cash that needs
to go into the business every week
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in order to to pay the
bills just consumes you.
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And we're definitely at that point.
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On the Indian river,
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Parker's skeleton crew is sluicing
Ken and Stuart's consistent ground.
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At dominion, in the
huge 114-acre bridge cut,
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his team are still running
the top layer of pay dirt.
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And a mile-and-a-half away...
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They finally mined out the
first half of the 20-acre long cut.
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Hey, Tyson. You got a copy, Tyson?
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Yeah. Go ahead, Jacob.
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Hey, buddy, we're just
about out of pay down here.
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Nice work.
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No more pay.
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Sweet. We're all shut down.
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Roxanne just finished in
the first section of the long pit,
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and we're about to move
it to the upstream section.
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It's way easier if we pull the plant
out of a pit and just haul everything to it
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because then the stripping crew
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can strip into the cut once it's done.
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We want to have
ground open for next year
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so we're not screwed
like we were this year.
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Parker's crew spent nearly eight weeks
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sluicing the first 10
acres of the long cut.
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Now to sluice the second half,
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he plans to haul wash plant Roxanne
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over a mile upstream to a new path,
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where it will sluice into an existing pond.
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This lets him fill the downstream section
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with overburden from a new cut
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that he plans to open up alongside it,
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ready to mine next season.
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Parker wants the move
to happen in a day,
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ready for the night crew to start sluicing.
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- How's it going, man?
- Pretty good.
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Roxanne's done here, and I got so
much going on at the long cut down there.
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I just gotta try and get that done
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so that we actually can
sluice when we move Roxanne.
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Man, I know you've moved a
lot of wash plants this season.
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You wanna do one more?
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Yeah, for sure, man. How
are things looking down there?
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We're really close.
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We got a bunch of material down there,
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the wash plant pads
pretty well all in place,
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but the cut isn't and that's the problem
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is like Parker wants to be sluicing
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as soon as the plants move
down there, no downtime.
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Perfect. We'll get her moved.
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- Well, right on, man. I appreciate it.
- No worries.
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- Have a good one. Thanks.
- You too.
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So right now, trying to pull
the feeder out in the long cut
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and get the radial stacker out,
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get the pipeline dug
out, the water pump out,
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generator moved, Roxanne
moved, sluice runs moved,
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and all set up in a new location.
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So it's a lot of work,
not much time to do it in.
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Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
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Yep!
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First, Tyson moves the
sluice runs over to the new pad.
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Well, now that we got the
sluice runs in place, Liam,
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- we'll go back for the shaker deck, okay?
- Yeah.
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So now it's time to go for the long drag.
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Over a mile of distance,
we're dragging this thing.
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How are we looking, Liam?
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I'm almost out of room here.
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All righty. Get me on
the edge here, Liam.
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Yep.
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Don't let me drown.
That ponds 25 feet deep.
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It's beautiful.
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All righty. Nice work, guys.
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So right now I'm armoring up the bank.
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We got the material here, it
just needs to be played with a bit.
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So I wanna make sure the
wash plant and the sluice runs
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don't end up at the bottom of this pond.
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You know, in my second or third year,
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when we were setting up
sluicifer, sluicifer went off the edge.
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Only time I've ever seen a
wash plant go off an edge.
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Me. That is not good.
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With Roxanne secured on its pad,
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Tyson eyeballs the
conveyor into position.
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This is a dime and a dozen,
this thing lines up for a shot,
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and it looks like I might
have gotten it, which is good.
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Got her first try!
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After just five hours,
Tyson is ready to fire up.
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All right, now we're just waiting
for water to get to our wash plant.
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Hopefully, this new pump
wants to throw some water at us.
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Earlier this season,
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Parker spent $180,000 on a new pump
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capable of sending over 7,000 gallons
of water a minute to the wash plant.
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Yeah, I haven't even had a burp yet.
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Well, this sucks.
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Everything is ready, but the
pump doesn't wanna pump.
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Okay, right on.
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Air is being sucked into the
pump from a loose intake hose,
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creating an airlock and
stopping water from flowing.
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Just gonna tighten that top one.
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It's coming.
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Go ahead and start feeding.
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We've got water up here, we're sluicin'.
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Tyson and his crew
have hit Parker's deadline,
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and Roxanne is back sluicing 24-7.
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You know, right now, things
are looking pretty good so far.
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We have dirty rocks coming in
one end, clean coming out the other.
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Now the real race begins. Keeping it fed.
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King of the klondike, Tony
beets, is way ahead of the pack.
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12 weeks into the season,
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he's already mined over 2,900 ounces,
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$7.25 million in gold.
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On paradise hill,
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Tony's son, Mike, is on a
roll running the trommel 24-7.
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At the Indian river, after
a week of maintenance,
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Tony's nephew, cousin Mike,
has sluice-a-lot back running,
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churning through 6,000 yards
of come back pay dirt a day.
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Cousin Mike is tearing through pay fast,
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and Tony is now in
danger of running out.
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To keep his Indian river
operation on the gold,
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Tony needs to find a new score.
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Tony needs all his years of
experience to find the gold sweet spot.
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If he fails, it could be
game over for Indian river.
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Running short of open
ground on the Indian river,
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Tony beets is hoping
he's found his next cut.
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With a new spot to mine,
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Tony sends in his troops to
strip the cut down to pay dirt
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and build a wash plant
pad for sluice-a-lot.
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So we've done two gold
weighs out of the crew cut,
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and the numbers are just garbage.
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It's just not even paying the bills
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and it's not sustainable.
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We're not gonna make a living that way,
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we're not gonna walk out of here
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with any kind of a profit, it's.
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Like Tony beets, Rick ness is
scrambling to find good ground.
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After a strong start to his season,
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his gold production has fallen off a cliff
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with the recent crew cut delivering
just 19 ounces in two weeks.
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Now he's looking for a savior before
he burns through all the cash he's made.
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There's so much ground
here, and where the is it?
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There's no sign pointing out where
the gold is, it takes time to find it.
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And right now I know that I'm not
gonna have any money coming in
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and I know I need to find it quick.
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And going into this knowing
that, yeah, it's stressful.
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Rick's targeting ground
near his bench cut,
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a spot that's paid out in the past,
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but is now covered in permafrost.
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Desperate to find gold, he's hoping
to discover a thawed area nearby.
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If there's gold here and
we get on it right away,
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then there's still a chance for
us to get our 1,500-ounce gold,
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but if I gotta keep poking
around for weeks, trying find it,
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then that gets more and
more unlikely by the day.
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The glacier's really
made a mess out of this.
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I'm not sure what to think about it,
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a lot of it doesn't make sense.
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Over 150,000 years
ago, a giant glacier eroded
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and picked up gold from
the mount hint on mother lode.
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The massive 2.5-mile thick ice sheet
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bulldozed through Duncan
creek, tearing up the landscape.
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When the ice melted, it
left behind rocks, debris,
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and pockets of gold
throughout Rick's vast claim.
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There's a lot of metallics in this soil.
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I really think there might be
gold here, and it's really shallow.
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So I think I'm just gonna test it.
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After losing time and
money at the crew cut
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by relying only on the result of a pan,
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Rick doesn't wanna make
the same mistake again.
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I got Heather and Jason coming
down here with some buckets.
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We're gonna pull a quarter yard out of it
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and try to run it through the
gold room and see what we got.
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It's just kind of a quick way to get an
idea of what we're dealing with here.
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I saw some gravel
poking out of the surface,
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so I just moved the
bucket around in here and.
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Like, 6 inches of mud and moss,
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and then a little bit of a
mix of gravel and bedrock.
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It would be easy to
get if there's gold in it.
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Let's run up a little sample on it
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and just see what we get out of it, and
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I'll just pick a spot.
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Probably where there's a
little more gravel than that,
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and I'll fluff it up with a bucket and
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- dig me a hole.
- All right.
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Just gonna give it a shot. It's
easy to get to, why not sample it?
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If there is a lot of gold here,
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I mean, it'll be amazing.
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So this is confusing and
different from other stuff.
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So we're not really sure
what to expect from it, but...
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But this so far looks pay dirt-y,
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and there looks to be bedrock.
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So hopefully we'll see
some gold in it after a sample.
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How many are we up to?
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Half a pail more.
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We got those buckets
all loaded up for you there,
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and we should be able to
have those samples processed
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and back to you later today.
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- All right. Get that done.
- Okay.
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Five hours later, Rick checks
on the results of the test run.
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Very nervous but very excited too.
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Fingers crossed.
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What's the scoop?
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Dirt.
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- You can see the pieces.
- There's some in there.
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It's right there.
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No, it shakes, and then, yeah, the
water jets blow off the lighter material.
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The gold settles into the
grooves and travels to the end.
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Shiny gold.
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I mean, I'm seeing gold come out of it.
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We've never done a quarter-yard
test like this, so I'm still nervous.
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I still don't know how
that's supposed to look.
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I saw gold in it, I know that. I
have no idea how much yet.
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00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,700
We'll see if it picks it
up. It's not very much.
240
00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:29,400
That comes out to...
241
00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:36,136
Just over an ounce per 100
yards, which is mine able.
242
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,400
I feel like we've mined
worse ground than that.
243
00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:42,036
Looking at it positively, it is good news.
244
00:20:42,060 --> 00:20:43,636
We have to move on from that ground
245
00:20:43,660 --> 00:20:44,776
that we've been running at rocky.
246
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,936
It's and we can't make
any money off of that.
247
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:48,976
This, a little amount,
is actually not that bad.
248
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,176
It's economical to mine, it's shallow,
249
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,776
and it's right there, you know.
250
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,076
So we didn't waste too much time,
251
00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,136
and I think we continue on
stripping that and get ready to run it.
252
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,636
The numbers add up.
253
00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:03,630
All right, let's do this.
254
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,400
Yeah, guys, let's just have a
quick chat about this ground here.
255
00:21:24,460 --> 00:21:27,076
Yo. This next spot down
here that I've been prospecting,
256
00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:28,236
we've pulled samples out of it.
257
00:21:28,260 --> 00:21:30,076
It looks like it could be really good.
258
00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:32,536
And the nice thing about it is
there's not much overburden,
259
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,236
so it's gonna be easy stripping.
260
00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:36,636
Basically all this dirt sitting on
an edge with the bedrock drop,
261
00:21:36,660 --> 00:21:38,436
so let's just call it the edge cut.
262
00:21:38,460 --> 00:21:41,076
It's a pretty good stretch, but you know...
263
00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:44,236
It won't take us the end
of the season, I don't think,
264
00:21:44,260 --> 00:21:46,700
but it could be a quick
hit and really good gold.
265
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:49,376
Yeah. Well.
266
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,436
Yeah, let's pack our and
get back on that good gold.
267
00:21:51,460 --> 00:21:52,776
Sounds good.
268
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,530
- Let's get out there. Go.
- My boys.
269
00:21:57,300 --> 00:21:59,376
Rick's got a couple of ideas
going over to the edge cut.
270
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:00,676
He says it's really good.
271
00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:03,076
Hopefully, yeah, it is. That's
what we really need right now.
272
00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:05,500
Just to get up into that 1,500-ounce goal.
273
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:23,230
So last night we fired up
Roxanne up here in the long cut.
274
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,036
Parker schnabel is
running three wash plants
275
00:22:28,060 --> 00:22:30,500
to hit his 10,000-ounce target,
276
00:22:31,460 --> 00:22:34,900
but it's stretching his
operation to the limit.
277
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,276
We have tayvin in the loader.
278
00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:40,576
Now it's his first time
running it by himself,
279
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,536
so he's gotta be quick on his feet.
280
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,130
A lot to keep an eye on.
281
00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:51,976
Roxanne, it's a one-man
band out here. It's just him.
282
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,230
So he needs to be able
to keep up with this plant.
283
00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,376
There's a lot to look for
284
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:00,736
when you're feeding a wash plant.
285
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,636
So it's pretty hard keep
an eye on everything
286
00:23:04,660 --> 00:23:09,636
while you keeping an eye on
your bucket and where you're going.
287
00:23:09,660 --> 00:23:14,436
20-year-old tayvin Peterson
has run rock trucks all season.
288
00:23:14,460 --> 00:23:19,000
Now, he's been promoted
to feeding Roxanne.
289
00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:25,336
It just sucks. I feel so bad that I'm
not very good at running the loader yet,
290
00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:27,600
and they want me to start
running this wash plant.
291
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,700
But I'm trying my
damnedest, and it's so hard.
292
00:23:34,460 --> 00:23:35,830
Whoa!
293
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,730
My goodness gracious.
My kidneys hurt so bad.
294
00:23:44,860 --> 00:23:49,836
Tayvin must feed the plant
250 yards of pay an hour.
295
00:23:49,860 --> 00:23:54,000
But six hours into his shift,
he's struggling to keep up.
296
00:24:05,300 --> 00:24:07,000
The hopper's jammed.
297
00:24:08,260 --> 00:24:10,376
I'm about to shut it down.
298
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,120
Half of the hopper's jammed up
with mud, so I have to shovel it out.
299
00:24:24,660 --> 00:24:26,936
Tyson never mentioned
what to do in this situation,
300
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,000
so I never got the memo for this.
301
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,230
Kind of just winging it.
302
00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:49,836
I just keep running around like a chicken
303
00:24:49,860 --> 00:24:52,736
with my head cut off, I guess.
304
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,700
I am actually just stressed
right out and have no plan.
305
00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:00,836
Tyson, do you have a copy?
306
00:25:00,860 --> 00:25:03,836
- Tyson.
- Hey. What's up?
307
00:25:03,860 --> 00:25:06,836
Hey, Tyson, half the hopper
is jammed up with mud,
308
00:25:06,860 --> 00:25:09,536
so what am I supposed to do?
309
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,036
I'm just feeding half the hopper.
310
00:25:13,060 --> 00:25:14,836
Mitch should be up there soon.
311
00:25:14,860 --> 00:25:17,230
If you can get Mitch.
312
00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:19,730
Holy cow.
313
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,800
Mitch, do you have a copy? Mitch.
314
00:25:25,860 --> 00:25:27,836
Half of the hopper is still plugged up.
315
00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:31,936
But if I'm able to feed it for now
316
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,930
and hopefully let that other
half dry out for a little bit.
317
00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:38,536
I just got a radio call from tayvin here.
318
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,076
Came across pretty staticky,
319
00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:41,376
so we're just gonna
see what he wants here.
320
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,960
But definitely can tell he needs
some help up here at the plant.
321
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:46,776
How's it going?
322
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,376
Half the hopper's jammed
up, and I'm not too sure
323
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,436
what to do when it gets like that.
324
00:25:51,460 --> 00:25:53,900
The first thing we'll do here
is we'll have a look in there.
325
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,960
Yeah, you can see we've
got that big rock there.
326
00:26:05,984 --> 00:26:06,436
Yeah.
327
00:26:06,460 --> 00:26:10,036
A large flat rock has slipped
through the grizzly bars
328
00:26:10,060 --> 00:26:12,236
and landed on the belt,
329
00:26:12,260 --> 00:26:17,676
preventing the compacted mud
above it from moving through the hopper.
330
00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:20,276
When it gets all built
up with material like this,
331
00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:22,336
you certainly got to shut it off.
332
00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:24,600
I mean, obviously, we
want to keep running.
333
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,836
- Just go hop out.
- All right.
334
00:26:27,860 --> 00:26:30,876
Turn on the both of them
and just give me a minute.
335
00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,500
- And when I yell, turn this off.
- -Okay.
336
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:41,777
Ready, Mitch?
337
00:26:41,801 --> 00:26:43,600
Yeah, go.
338
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,076
Right now, Mitch is shoveling
339
00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:51,276
and putting it on the conveyor,
340
00:26:51,300 --> 00:26:54,030
and I'm ready to stop it
if anything goes wrong.
341
00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:58,636
Boy, am I glad Mitch showed up.
342
00:26:58,660 --> 00:27:01,330
All right, go ahead and shut it off.
343
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,800
- Watch your fingers and toes.
- -Yep.
344
00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:17,076
Put this on the conveyor or throw it out?
345
00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:19,600
- Just Chuck it out.
- Yeah.
346
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,236
There you go.
347
00:27:29,260 --> 00:27:31,130
- You good?
- Yeah, I'm good.
348
00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:34,336
- Yeah, if you put...
- lucky I didn't get that on the nuts.
349
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:35,360
If you
350
00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:40,836
looks like it's clearing out pretty good.
351
00:27:40,860 --> 00:27:42,336
- Thank you so much.
- Yeah. You good, dude?
352
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:43,037
- Yeah.
- Okay.
353
00:27:43,061 --> 00:27:44,536
Good to get back in the loader
354
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:45,876
- and start washing rocks again?
- Yeah.
355
00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:47,788
I think you can throw
some more at it, buddy.
356
00:27:47,812 --> 00:27:48,812
Perfect.
357
00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:53,536
Back running again.
358
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,300
Man.
359
00:27:56,660 --> 00:28:00,060
My arm hurts from
slipping on that belt, though.
360
00:28:01,660 --> 00:28:03,536
It definitely could have been a lot worse.
361
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,136
He saw he had a problem, and
he got a hold of us on the radio.
362
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,836
If he would have kept running it,
363
00:28:07,860 --> 00:28:09,636
that rock starts cutting the belt,
364
00:28:09,660 --> 00:28:12,076
we could be doing a belt
replacement right now, so...
365
00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:14,876
At the end of the day, this thing's
got to have dirt going through it
366
00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:17,330
if you want to have some
gold at the end of the week.
367
00:28:28,460 --> 00:28:30,176
We're out of pay in this area.
368
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,436
It sucks that we don't have any pay
369
00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:34,300
to feed the wash plants with.
370
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,636
I got to shut the plant down.
371
00:28:38,660 --> 00:28:41,976
After three months of
near non-stop running,
372
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,636
Tony beets' wash plant, sluice-a-lot,
373
00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:50,476
has finished running the last
of the comeback cut's pay dirt.
374
00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:55,076
To stay on Indian river gold,
he plans to haul the plant
375
00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:57,300
to the newly-opened corner cut.
376
00:28:59,260 --> 00:29:00,576
We want to have the plant in place
377
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,630
and, be sluicing as soon as possible.
378
00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:07,600
Now we're going to drag
this plant about a mile.
379
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:14,000
Cousin Mike is in charge
of the mammoth plant move.
380
00:29:27,860 --> 00:29:30,336
I'm trying to stay on
the right side of the road,
381
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,536
without getting too close to the trees.
382
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,900
But I have to stay away from this
edge because that's a deep drop.
383
00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:41,976
Because we've got the
creek on the one side
384
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,400
and the road is in a little bit
of an angle towards the creek,
385
00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:51,536
I gotta make sure that this
plant doesn't slide sideways.
386
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,400
Because once it's going towards the
hole on the left, there's no stopping.
387
00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:01,936
We wide the road, but it's still a
388
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,476
a tight spot.
389
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:04,437
With the bridge on one side
390
00:30:04,461 --> 00:30:07,100
that I don't want to
hit with the sluice runs.
391
00:30:08,660 --> 00:30:11,600
And the plant is moving
to the left quite a bit.
392
00:30:12,260 --> 00:30:14,336
You can see where my tracks are.
393
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:19,776
The plant is moving half a
dozer width over to the left,
394
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,076
towards the creek.
395
00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:25,536
I hope the excavator gets out of the way
396
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,400
because he's gonna be stopped.
397
00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:37,800
I can feel the dozer struggling.
398
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,530
I can feel I'm having trouble steering.
399
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,236
Well, we put in this
road that I'm on right now.
400
00:31:01,260 --> 00:31:05,230
It's still pretty narrow because
we couldn't Bury the culvert.
401
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:12,976
At Indian river, cousin Mike is
dragging Tony's 45-ton sluice-a-lot
402
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,500
to its new pad in the corner cut.
403
00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:22,336
I got to make a wide turn with the dozer
404
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,536
because the plant is
gonna take a shortcut.
405
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,576
Lots of weight on the back of the dozer,
406
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,000
so I can't just make a
sharp turn right away.
407
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,836
There she goes, just slide over.
408
00:31:37,860 --> 00:31:40,230
And now, it's just straight ahead.
409
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,800
So I'm in the yard right now.
410
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,630
There's some stuff
on the side of the road.
411
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,230
That is going to be very tight.
412
00:32:01,660 --> 00:32:05,600
I've got a trailer on my right
that I also don't want to hit.
413
00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:12,900
Yeah, we made it through.
414
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:15,977
Almost there.
415
00:32:16,001 --> 00:32:18,576
I got the pad on my left.
416
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,976
Right now, the challenge is,
417
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,500
turning this plant around.
418
00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:30,536
Yeah, it doesn't matter
if Tony is watching or not.
419
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,730
Either way, you don't wanna do it wrong.
420
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,600
Just got to back it up from here on.
421
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:43,976
We did it.
422
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,100
Yeah, it looks good. I'm happy.
423
00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:05,230
Just got to get it forward into place.
424
00:33:19,260 --> 00:33:22,360
There we are. Landed in place.
425
00:33:25,860 --> 00:33:27,976
Plant move accomplished,
426
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:34,500
now, Tony needs cousin Mike to get
back in the cut and build up a pay pile.
427
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,000
We... we can't,
428
00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:05,800
sit down and relax because we've
got to keep stripping and stay ahead.
429
00:34:14,460 --> 00:34:15,676
That doesn't feel right.
430
00:34:15,700 --> 00:34:17,000
That's not good.
431
00:34:17,860 --> 00:34:19,900
This is not promising at all.
432
00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:23,436
That feels like frost.
433
00:34:23,460 --> 00:34:25,600
Yeah, that's very frozen.
434
00:34:27,460 --> 00:34:30,636
I was hoping to get to pay easy,
435
00:34:30,660 --> 00:34:33,336
but, I found some permafrost
436
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,736
that we didn't expect here.
437
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,736
So, this is gonna slow us down.
438
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,700
It's not good.
439
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,976
We really can't have frost right now
440
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,530
because this is, gonna
cost us a lot of time.
441
00:34:53,060 --> 00:34:54,700
We should try another spot.
442
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,136
This spot is not any better.
443
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,500
This is all frozen, too.
444
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:14,830
Tony, do you copy? Tony.
445
00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:21,360
It's all frost here in this cut.
446
00:35:24,660 --> 00:35:26,576
I think we've got to
come up with a new plan
447
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,036
because, we were hoping
to get some pay here quick,
448
00:35:30,060 --> 00:35:32,530
but that is not gonna happen here.
449
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,000
Yeah, it's all frozen.
450
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,100
It's right over there, right over there.
451
00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:04,300
Yeah.
452
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:07,630
Yeah.
453
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:11,630
Yeah.
454
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,430
Tony's plans for Indian
river gold are on ice.
455
00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:48,336
Right now, we're just
clearing a strip of overburden
456
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,136
in this new cut here, on the edge.
457
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,936
So we're gonna try to get this
stripped as quick as we can,
458
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,236
and get the pay in the plant and run it
459
00:36:56,260 --> 00:36:58,036
so that we can keep the gold coming in.
460
00:36:58,060 --> 00:37:00,276
We've got a long ways to
go to get to 1,500 ounces yet,
461
00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,776
and, we're not going to get
there if we're not sluicing.
462
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,376
Rick ness is betting
big on the new edge cut
463
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,900
to get him back on the gold.
464
00:37:14,860 --> 00:37:17,136
We sampled it and we got gold.
465
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,336
I should feel comfortable that
466
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,500
you know, that this is
definitely worth our while.
467
00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:28,736
Every single one of us is in a
machine right now trying to move
468
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,136
move this overburden,
because right now,
469
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,536
that's the most important
thing on site, you know.
470
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:33,277
We've got to get this cleared,
471
00:37:33,301 --> 00:37:34,436
we've got to get down to gold,
472
00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:36,400
so everybody's here and
everybody's pitching in.
473
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,230
What the is going on here?
474
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,176
I'm just scraping the moss off,
475
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,176
and there's no gravel.
476
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,576
With, like, a few little
pebbles here and there.
477
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,936
But that's... that's
just really weird. That's
478
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,136
it's like the gravel layer
completely disappeared on me.
479
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,030
I would think that that would
mean that there's no gold.
480
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,476
Yeah, I don't know. I
don't know about this.
481
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,530
This is... this is not looking very good.
482
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,076
I think we're gonna have
to run another test on this.
483
00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:31,936
Before Rick spends any more
money stripping the edge cut,
484
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,530
he wants to double check
it holds the gold he needs.
485
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,076
I want to do a larger test, a bulk test.
486
00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:41,037
We'll do a 1,000-yard test.
487
00:38:41,061 --> 00:38:42,936
And if that shows us
that there's gold in it,
488
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,300
well, then I can commit to this.
489
00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:47,876
There's a fair amount
of stripping to do here,
490
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:50,436
but if there's gold here,
it's gonna be worth it.
491
00:38:50,460 --> 00:38:52,730
If there's not, then we
need to be moving on.
492
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,536
After pulling out a 1,000 yards of pay,
493
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,800
Rick stops stripping
to feed it through rocky.
494
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Fire it up!
495
00:39:17,860 --> 00:39:19,006
The bottom line is at this point,
496
00:39:19,030 --> 00:39:21,136
we can't afford to be
running dirt with no gold in it.
497
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,476
So we're doing a 1,000-yard test.
498
00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:25,076
Fingers crossed that
there's a bunch of gold in it.
499
00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:27,130
If there is, we're all set.
500
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,436
Should we get my wu-tang rock in here?
501
00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:41,336
Dude, you haven't seen this?
502
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,636
Perfect w. Look at that.
503
00:39:43,660 --> 00:39:44,730
How sweet is that?
504
00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,400
Wu-tang forever.
505
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,136
My collection of rocks.
506
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,376
This one, I think, is part
of a mammoth vertebrae.
507
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,136
This one's a big heart.
508
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,376
I keep that one because I don't have one.
509
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:58,630
This one's the,
510
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,130
serving tray, like platter.
511
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,100
Put stuff on it.
512
00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:05,737
I don't know why I grabbed that one.
513
00:40:05,761 --> 00:40:07,830
I guess it's just really weird looking.
514
00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:11,436
Got a bunch of cool stuck to it.
515
00:40:11,460 --> 00:40:12,800
Little stone sandals.
516
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:14,907
I like the sandals, though.
517
00:40:14,931 --> 00:40:16,700
I'm gonna take the
sandals home this year.
518
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,100
Gotta admit, those are pretty sweet.
519
00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:31,560
- Hi, guys.
- Hello.
520
00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:35,200
How are you feeling?
521
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:37,160
Well.
522
00:40:44,260 --> 00:40:45,660
Anyways, what happened this week?
523
00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:04,736
Unable to sluice from the new
corner cut this week at Indian river,
524
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,560
all Tony has is the last
gold from the comeback cut.
525
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:21,400
Five, ten, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35,
526
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,200
50, 60, 70.
527
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,536
75.66.
528
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,500
Worth $190,000.
529
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,130
So this is the trommel, Mike.
530
00:41:40,860 --> 00:41:42,276
Ten, 20.
531
00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:47,536
Mike's trommel has been
running 24/7 on paradise hill.
532
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,660
190.
533
00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:54,030
Yeah. He has another jar, you know.
534
00:41:55,560 --> 00:42:03,336
210, 220, 240, 250,
280, 290, 300, 340, 370.
535
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,336
374.34.
536
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,130
Worth $936,000.
537
00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:15,576
Just about, yeah.
538
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,200
That's pretty nice.
539
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,276
Okay. I'll get her done.
540
00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:31,336
Now that all your gold is poured out,
541
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,776
I assume you wish for us to leave.
542
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,136
All right. Sayonara, arrivederci, ciao.
543
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,330
See you later.
544
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:42,160
Just flock off.
545
00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:46,000
So we'll see you for the next one.
546
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:05,637
Yo.
547
00:43:05,661 --> 00:43:08,776
- Yo.
- That's a downing yo.
548
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,136
I don't know. Not a downing yo.
549
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,736
Just a confused yo.
550
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,076
Yo.
551
00:43:15,100 --> 00:43:16,676
Well, I mean, one way or another,
552
00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:19,676
we're at a crossroads, at the moment.
553
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,076
I mean, kind of, what it boils
down to is we're having, you know,
554
00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:23,836
a bad few weeks, and
555
00:43:23,860 --> 00:43:25,376
I mean, we can absorb that,
556
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,230
but we can't keep it up, you know.
557
00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:33,336
Rick has run a 1,000 yards
of pay dirt from the edge cut.
558
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,776
To be worth mining, he
needs to see ten ounces.
559
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,930
Well, should we weigh
this up, see what it is?
560
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,936
All right, well.
561
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,136
Two.
562
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,130
2.59.
563
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,800
Worth just $6,500.
564
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,236
So this is where you're,
565
00:43:56,260 --> 00:43:58,636
pulling out another jar from
under the table, saying, "joke."
566
00:43:58,660 --> 00:44:00,176
I wish.
567
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,036
I think we all do.
568
00:44:02,060 --> 00:44:03,276
Two, yeah. Two point.
569
00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:06,336
Just over 2.5 ounces. That's pretty bad.
570
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,936
I don't think we'd ever make the
decision to mine ground that bad.
571
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,236
So either you've got to do a drastic
reconfiguration on how you want done,
572
00:44:14,260 --> 00:44:15,930
or where you're going to move or
573
00:44:16,300 --> 00:44:17,300
yeah.
574
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,530
Just pack it up.
575
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,836
Yeah, as far as gold weighs go,
576
00:44:36,860 --> 00:44:39,136
that was, the worst
one, by far, I've ever had.
577
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,536
I mean, it was only a
1,000-yard test, but still it's bad.
578
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:42,337
It's a bad result.
579
00:44:42,361 --> 00:44:44,430
We need to find better ground fast.
580
00:44:56,700 --> 00:44:58,536
Does he bark at all?
581
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,336
- No.
- That's awesome.
582
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,436
Well, Mitch, how was your week?
583
00:45:02,460 --> 00:45:03,576
Buddy.
584
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,476
You know, we finished the
downstream in the long cut,
585
00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:06,536
and now, we got the plant moved.
586
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,336
We've got, you know,
tayvin in the loader up there.
587
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,336
And he had a pretty good
jam up in the hopper feeder,
588
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,076
so I had to show him all about
getting that cleared out and
589
00:45:16,100 --> 00:45:17,336
- yeah, get these green guys...
- Yeah.
590
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,476
Used to the real... the real problems.
591
00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:21,736
Tayvin seems to be doing
good, though, hey, so far.
592
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:22,836
Yeah, he's learning a lot.
593
00:45:22,860 --> 00:45:24,376
Because I told him for, like, a week,
594
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:25,906
you know, everything can go fine.
595
00:45:25,930 --> 00:45:28,876
And then, you know, second you get
comfortable, that's when stuff piles up.
596
00:45:28,900 --> 00:45:30,636
So it's good he caught it.
597
00:45:30,660 --> 00:45:32,236
Yeah.
598
00:45:32,260 --> 00:45:36,076
Wash plant rocks and
has been sluicing all week
599
00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:39,536
in the new section of the long cut.
600
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:44,130
After averaging just 138 ounces
a week from the first section,
601
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,176
Parker's hoping the new area picks up.
602
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,536
Rocksand had a big
thermostat this week.
603
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,336
Let's see how we did
after everything up there.
604
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,136
Chris had the grunt picking that up.
605
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:01,130
We got 20, 40, 60, 100,
606
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:07,236
110, 120, 130, 185, 190.
607
00:46:07,260 --> 00:46:08,836
Two hundred.
608
00:46:08,860 --> 00:46:11,436
- 222.5.
- Nice.
609
00:46:11,460 --> 00:46:16,900
Worth $556,000.
610
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,436
So you want to see how big red did?
611
00:46:19,460 --> 00:46:21,376
Let's check it out.
612
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,736
- All righty.
- Okay, here we go.
613
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,976
Big red has been running
pay at the bridge cut...
614
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,376
Ten, 20, 60.
615
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,676
Running the top layer of pay dirt.
616
00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:34,076
Eighty.
617
00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:36,336
82.80.
618
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:40,436
Worth $207,000.
619
00:46:40,460 --> 00:46:42,036
- Nothing wrong with that.
- Yep.
620
00:46:42,060 --> 00:46:44,076
Then we got big Bob.
621
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:48,136
And I'm not sure how much
more you got to do down there.
622
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:49,836
They probably only have
one or two more cleanups.
623
00:46:49,860 --> 00:46:51,300
Is that right?
624
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,306
We got 30, seventy.
625
00:46:55,330 --> 00:47:00,476
Bob has been running
24/7 at Ken and Stuart's.
626
00:47:00,500 --> 00:47:08,500
260, 280, 290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340.
627
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,136
346.80.
628
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:17,536
Worth $867,000.
629
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,336
I didn't know that scale went that high.
630
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,176
That must be the best one of the season.
631
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,536
- It is, yeah.
- Yeah.
632
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,036
So this week, we got 652.1 ounces.
633
00:47:27,060 --> 00:47:31,836
Gives a season total of 2,345.3 ounces.
634
00:47:31,860 --> 00:47:33,436
She's climbing fast now.
635
00:47:33,460 --> 00:47:36,576
Everything's an improvement
if we can keep it happening.
636
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,736
We'll aim for better for next week.
637
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:39,637
Let's do it.
638
00:47:39,661 --> 00:47:40,706
- Yeah, all right.
- Sounds good.
639
00:47:40,730 --> 00:47:42,830
- All right. Thanks, guys.
- Yeah.
640
00:47:44,460 --> 00:47:46,036
Like, I'm happy with this result,
641
00:47:46,060 --> 00:47:48,536
but it's really just a
matter of sustaining that
642
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,736
because there's hardly that
many weeks left in the season.
643
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,576
So we just got to try to
hammer these pits out
644
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,576
and try to keep the plants running.
645
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:57,960
So we'll see.51172
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