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King of the Klondike,

Tony Beets' fastest ever start to a season is starting to stall.

Tony's early blitz has pulled in 2,600 ounces of gold,

but it's wreaked havoc on his two Indian River wash plants.

The Shaker Deck needs major repairs,

and now Sluice-A-Lot is also down for maintenance,

leaving only one claim bringing in the gold.

40 miles north at Paradise Hill.

Rock truck drivers, rock truck drivers.

I have Troy watering the road so you don't dust each other out.

The pressure is on Tony's youngest son, Mike,

to keep their only running wash plant sluicing.

I do enjoy being in charge.

I'm not trying to do what my dad wants,

I'm trying to do it the way I want.

Sometimes you just need someone to make a decision.

Do it. Don't um and er.

Don't get stuck in limbo, make a decision.

It's very simple like that.

Mike is running the super pit's gold-rich white channel pay dirt

through Tony's main moneymaker,

the 35-year-old trommel.

What's going on?

Uh...

I don't like the sound of that generator.

Do you think we might have another one?

I doubt it.

The transfer pump on the generator is [bleep].

It means my generator is surging

'cause it's not getting enough consistent fuel.

It causes a lot of issues down the line.

It could fry electronics, it could force something to accidentally shut off.

It can do a whole whack load of that's just not [bleep] nice.

If the generator sends too much power to the trommel...

Shut it off!

...it could blow the motors that spin the trommel,

shutting it down for weeks.

In five to ten minutes, I'm gonna let you know if we're working today or not.

It's just not... Yeah, I'm gonna call.

Oh, my generator's surging.

The transfer pump is not working very well.

Exactly what I thought,

cause that's just asking for [bleep] trouble.

I'm just letting you know,

but I might be sending my guys home.

Okay, then I'll talk to you later, Dad.

Okay, bye.

Boys and girls, gather around!

Close it up, we're not sluicing today.

All right, we're gonna be hauling pay today.

We're gonna be stacking it,

and we're gonna go have a nice, lovely day of moving pay.

Mike sends his entire crew

to the super pit half a mile away...

Pull ahead, come straight back.

...to dig out pay dirt, haul it back to stockpile near the trommel,

ready to run once the surging generator has been fixed.

Yeah, this ground right now is a bit soft,

but I think it's still workable.

It's very frustrating.

All my stuff is real old.

It's been old and decrepit from when I was young,

so now it's real old and decrepit.

I got the only plant that was running,

so I'd better get this [bleep] going again

'cause otherwise we ain't making no [bleep] money.

Oh, my [bleep] generator's decided

it doesn't wanna exist no more.

I'd greatly appreciate it

'cause I ain't got nothing here working that I know of.

Perfect.

They're working

in the cuts for now,

hauling pay and maybe a bit of stripping.

Oh, I know.

Tony, you got a copy, Tony?

The excavator in the super pit's stuck.

The one Braeden's in.

I was trying to clear out some of the black muck

on top of the pay.

There was a bit of a soft spot,

and the front of my track sank.

I am now stuck.

21-year-old Braeden Miller has sunk his 48-ton excavator,

bringing Mike's stripping operation to a halt.

'Cause people don't listen.

You should've felt it was too soft the moment you got over there.

Hey, Dad, if I dig out a bit more over there,

do you think you'd be able to spin this way?

'Cause then I can grab ya.

Maybe.

That's a pain in the ass, but we got it done. That's all that matters.

On the bright side, at least we managed

to get 'em out pretty successfully.

Oof, put your biceps away.

Someone's gotta have guns on site.

Okay.

Beautiful, baby. Yes.

40 miles south,

it's a monumental day for Tony's eldest son, Kevin.

That's working beautiful.

After months of breakdowns, fights, and delays,

Kevin's finally ready to fire up his wash plant...

Boom!

...and catch his first gold as his own mine boss.

I didn't start my summer with a wash plant ready to go,

so it's only natural that we're a little slower getting going.

Who do you think set up all the plants?

Who do you think set up Mike's plant?

You think set up Monica's plant?

Yeah, it wasn't them, it was me.

The only difference, really, at the end of the day now

is that I get to keep all the shiny yellow

as opposed to handing it off to somebody else.

Little bit, little bit.

Little bit.

Slide horizontally, 4 inches.

Oh, right there. That looks pretty deadly.

deadly, Cousin!

So far, this year, it has really felt, like, problem after [bleep] problem,

but we've been making it work.

We got our super stacker in place,

we have the feeder and water lines.

The goal is definitely to get running.

The bills are piling up and we gotta get some gold in the box.

It's about [bleep] time.

Chasing an ambitious 1,000-ounce target,

Kevin has got his wash plant all set up.

And a mountain of Lynx Cut pay ready to run.

All he needs now is power.

We're gonna be bringing in a new power source

that, to my knowledge, nobody else in the Yukon is using.

Tony's not using it, Parker's not using it.

Nobody is, so I'm excited for that to show up.

Kevin's investing over $100,000 of his life savings

on a new generator fueled by two 1,000-gallon liquid propane tanks.

We have this lovely 120-kilowatt propane generator

that will run everything that we need to run. It's gonna be nice.

The big benefit for propane is it burns cleaner than diesel.

So right off the bat, it's better for the environment

and, well, it's cheaper.

Diesel these days is expensive.

On the other side, liquid propane is much more flammable.

We do not need a ka-boom on site.

Let's go to your plant.

Hauling in the propane tanks, Beets veteran, Len Hoekstra.

Yeah, I have a little bit of hard time to get in.

The moment I straight out my truck with my hood,

I will be in the bushes.

So right now, this approach is not exactly in a good spot.

Whichever direction Len keeps coming from he ends up jackknife,

so trailer, truck, and pushing into trees and into dirt piles.

[bleep]. This is not good.

I got a little bit problem.

Back, I try it again.

We need a little bit more room over there.

Let me try.

There, now he's got a chance.

Perfect.

Not a lot of room, but we got it.

Pretty [bleep] good though.

The branches are in the way now.

Oh, it looks really [bleep] good.

Oh, yeah. It looks real nice, honestly.

Well, now hopefully it'll fire up and actually get first test run.

Once we get the water running,

we'll throw a load of dirt through, and that'll be your test run.

Let's just hope it all goes off without a hitch.

It's time to make up for lost time

from now until the snow flies.

- Seven! - Are you still at seven?

- Yep. - Okay.

Now this is the power cable for the actual wash plant itself.

Let's plug the wires in and get them going.

I really hope it goes well, after all the nights and days that have gone into this.

So my fingers are crossed, my toes are crossed.

If I could, I'd cross my tongue.

150 pounds PSI.

It's good to press the "On" button finally.

Oh, natural gas pressure, low.

Probably needs some time to warm up.

- Hey, I feel way better. - Yay!

- Everybody clear? - Yeah.

Screen deck. Three months in the making.

Three, two, one.

Holy [bleep], that's violent.

Whoo! Yeah!

That scared me for a sec.

A little terrifying.

- Want me to hit the water now, Kev? - Yeah.

All right, I'm gonna open her up!

There we go.

Looking pretty good.

We're spending so much time making sure that everything's gonna run

before we put actual pay through the plant.

It's a lot more work, but we're gonna save time down the line.

Do we run the loader?

Yeah, I'll throw him in the truck.

Go on, bud. Go on.

Put the dirt in the hopper and hopefully I don't bump the hopper.

First load, in we go.

Thumbs up, Kev. beautiful.

This is rolling and the dirt's going up.

Three months into the season,

the first-time mine boss is finally running pay dirt.

We really want to do something different than Tony,

we don't wanna be as [bleep] chaotic.

We wanna do it once and do it right and just be done with it.

So that's how we're gonna [bleep] run it.

[bleep] a bunch of it's falling off, you better hit stop.

It's all falling off before the pre-wash.

[bleep].

We didn't have a lot of water up there, you think?

I don't know.

Just moments after Kevin's first ever fire-up as mine boss,

his wash plant is already shut down.

I'm trying to see what is causing it to build up in the back there.

The conveyor belt, it looked like it was spinning fast,

and down below, it's just not going far enough into the pre-wash,

so the water isn't taking it away.

I think we're too far back.

Do you think that the conveyor is too far back, though?

I think so.

I'm betting if we dropped it in a bit higher, we'd be doing good.

Conveyor wasn't putting the dirt far enough ahead in the pre-wash,

causing it to pile up.

So right now we're putting it in position, raising it up,

and in a sec, we'll send it out.

And then we'll play and see how far the dirt gets down.

Yeah, have to go up a few more inches there, Kev.

Well, keep going a little more, a little more.

Let's try that.

So it's sitting a bit higher.

That gives it more room to throw the dirt.

This is just so that the material actually falls where the water is.

That's going to help force everything into the shaker deck itself.

I just hope that when it fires up,

there is no pissing around anymore after this.

This [bleep] thing should be washing rocks by now.

Hey, Brennan, got a copy?

I'm clear.

Screen deck is coming on. Watch yours.

So now hopefully it'll actually get to sluicing, finally.

I'm gonna turn on the conveyor,

we're gonna see how the dirt [bleep] falls.

Here we go!

Dead center of whirl plane.

Oh, that's pretty good.

[bleep] yeah!

Let there be gold.

Exciting day. This is a long time coming.

Feels good to see it [bleep] running.

Looking good.

Sounds like great news so far.

It's looking really nice, Kev.

So excited, bud.

Yes, finally!

I'm currently relieved.

I'll give you a hug for this one.

Nice work keeping her going.

finally.

Time to rest those old bones for a few days, eh?

Tell me about it.

It's a relief to actually get to this point.

It's a good feeling.

Yeah, overall, I think it's a pretty good day.

Rally Valley was the best pay that we've ever run.

We just did 900 ounces in three weeks.

That's no small feat.

Duncan Creek's new landowner, Rick Ness,

hit the jackpot in Rally Valley.

Now that it's mined out, he's on the hunt for his next mammoth payday.

We own this ground now, and there's a ton of it.

I know the gold's here, we all know the gold's here.

We just gotta figure out where the right spot is.

To keep the gold rolling in,

last week, Rick opened up the new Crew Cut,

but so far, it's looking bleak.

We went from 400 ounces in a week to 10.

But Buzz is convinced that he can find some better gold over there.

He knows what he's doing, so I'm gonna give him one more week.

Foreman Buzz Legault

believes he's hit a richer pay streak in the Crew Cut.

Yeah, just another day here at Rocky, you know,

everything seems like it's running pretty smoothly here.

700 feet away, Operator Bailey Carten

feeds 100 yards-an-hour of Crew Cut pay through wash plant Rocky,

while Kyle Lawson, clears the waste tailings.

Pay pile's kind of building up a little bit.

Hopefully, you know, this cleanup's gonna look

a little bit better than the last one.

Just gets us closer and closer to that 1,500-ounce goal.

My number one priority right now,

keeping these tailings down for Bailey.

We're spending all this money on fuel right now, running this ground.

Hopefully it pays off.

Ah, [bleep].

Truck can't go forward or...

Um, the parking brake's not coming off.

It won't let us drive this machine right now.

Wonder what the Kyle's doing.

He's been sitting there for a while.

I'm gonna have to call Ryan, get him down here.

Hey, Ryan, I can't get this parking brake to come off.

Yeah.

Um...

Okay.

So Ryan's gonna bring me the other loader.

And hopefully we can figure this out quick.

Couldn't have parked it in a worse spot.

If they keep building up and we don't have a loader, we're gonna have to shut down.

You know, we've got a half an hour

before the tails completely get built up too quick.

And we'll have to shut down the plant.

At Duncan Creek,

a broken loader is threatening to shut down

the Ness Crew's only running wash plant.

Heading down to Rocky right now.

Kyle, uh, he's got a battery light on.

The parking brake switch won't come off.

It could be AC compressor locked up,

it could be alternator locked up.

I got to take it apart and figure it out.

But he's parked right in front of the plant,

so kind of a [bleep] spot for him to be.

I wonder if something got wet.

It's fired up right now.

But it's throwing a bunch of electrical codes.

Won't let him come out of park.

brakes.

It's part of it.

Just blew a belt.

Blew an accessory drive belt.

This belt basically goes around the air compressor.

Goes around the alternator,

which is the most important thing.

When that alternator is not turning,

batteries aren't charging.

starts acting weird on that, uh, loader, so...

Do we have extras?

Oh, I know we don't have one.

Bailey, you got a copy?

We're gonna have to shut the plant off.

Shut her down.

Shut her down, baby.

I just heard on the radio Bailey saying, "Shut the wash plant down."

So, I'm heading down there right now to see what the [bleep] is going on.

And if the plant's not running,

we're not getting any gold.

Hey, Rick.

What's this?

- Right in front of the [bleep] plant? - Yeah.

Um, problem is there's no air in the tank,

and parking brake, air powered.

So to release that parking brake,

we need to have air in it, so...

- You got a plan? - I've got a little adaptor.

I'll force air through here, out of my tank, into there, build up enough air pressure.

Uh, should be able to release the brakes

and at least get us over here by the fuel truck.

Yeah, right now, any kind of downtime

is going to put us behind, right?

So we need to get this loader fired up,

and we need to get out of the way.

Rick's 220 loader is stuck in park.

It's accessory drive belt transmits drive energy

to the alternator and air compressor.

But it snapped.

With no belt, the air compressor won't work,

and the parking brakes locked on.

Ryan's quick fix,

use his truck's air compressor

to disengage the parking brakes.

Move the stricken loader away from the plant,

then bring in the spare loader

to clear the tailings pile.

Once the brakes release,

- you'll hear the air dryer go off. - Yeah.

Just take it easy

- because we're gonna leave that hood open. - Yeah.

Now, just crank it and pump the gas out.

Do that right now.

I'll hand you this hose here in a second.

- About ready. - Lift that bucket up.

Go ahead. Good.

- You guys ready? - Let's do it.

All right, let's do it.

No, that's it. That's all we had to do right there.

Just get the [bleep] thing out of the way

so we can get back to sluicing.

We'll worry about fixing it later.

Well, at least we got Rocky running.

The plant's going.

Uh, luckily, Rick's got the second loader over there.

We never really used it at all last year.

Uh, this year, it's unbelievably coming in handy.

Kyle, that is [bleep] deep.

Can you see how deep that hole is?

Oh!

Oh, [bleep].

For [bleep] sake.

Lost the tilt link. clean break.

Rick's spare loader's tilt link has snapped in half.

With no loader to clear tailings,

Rick's only source of gold production

must once again shut down.

wild to see that break like that.

Just had the other loader go down with something simple and then no linkage here.

That's not something simple to replace.

- And we don't have [bleep]. - Yeah.

So we're kind of [bleep].

I'll get Steve to drive forward.

I'll hook it up, you swing it over.

- I will. - Okay.

The Beets' only moneymaker is at a standstill

after Mike's generator broke down.

Now, his cousin, Mike, is helping him swap it out

for another old genset from the Indian River.

It's busy. Just arrived here.

And, uh, we'll bring in the generator,

and then this plant will be back to sluicing.

So we're gonna get this one all set up, all hooked up.

We should be able to start sluicing either tonight or tomorrow.

Give it a little bit more.

Pull it this way. See if it'll stay straight.

Take them off, please.

She's pretty low.

Just topping off the oil.

Now we're gonna fire it up and run with it, so...

Are you ready?

Yeah, I'm ready. Let's go.

What the [bleep] is that?

Hold it. Stop feeding. Stop feeding.

Trevor, you go off the water again.

I'm gonna shut it off.

I don't like how the belt's dropping dirt.

The belt's not sitting in the right place.

It leaves a massive gap for dirt to fall out.

It's got to come about two more inches this way.

Otherwise, I'll need a guy over there shoveling [bleep] all day.

And he'd have a hard time keeping up.

Might want to shut it down just to fix it.

But the problem is, I want to also run the sluice.

Why are you tracking over all of a sudden?

You were good for a while.

There's a bolt on the other side.

You might have to loosen some more.

Okay.

You're good to stop.

We're gonna see if he can, uh, adjust it on his end.

To recenter the conveyor belt,

Mike tries to adjust the rods that align the belt's guide roller.

There's a lot of squealing so bad right now.

And where is it squealing?

There's a lot of dust coming down, too.

I swear, every [bleep] time we get sluicing,

some new [bleep] shows up.

Hey, Braeden, can you go shut off the conveyor?

Shut off the conveyor.

Shut it off!

It looks like the conveyor is sitting like this.

Can you go get my level, please?

At Paradise Hill, the trommel's conveyor belt is running crooked...

How does that look to you, man?

...shutting down Tony's only working wash plant.

Now, you have a half inch

that has to go up on your side.

One of you hop up top, find somewhere flat

and tell me how off it is.

This side has to come up,

like, a quarter inch or something.

- That side? - Yeah.

My conveyor is all twisted out of shape.

And no matter how much I try to adjust it,

I can't get her to move the way I want.

My brother did a [bleep] job setting it up.

I'm just trying to fix it.

Last season...

Yes, that's good. That's far enough.

...Mike's brother, Kevin...

Yeah, just hit the piping now.

Let's see what that does.

...bush fixed the worn out conveyor...

The issue is when these holes line up, these don't line up.

...cutting the struts from their cross-beams...

Ow, ow, ow, ow!

...to realign the conveyor belt.

Oh, perfect.

I think we're pretty happy right there.

But it looks as if Kevin's fix

has created another problem.

My rollers are not sitting right.

That roller underneath? - Yeah.

This roller right there.

We got to figure out a way to force that belt back that way.

And if that requires taking out this, we'll take this out.

The 35-year-old trommel's conveyor belt

runs on guide rollers mounted on a frame,

allowing it to move smoothly.

Kevin's previous fix twisted the frame,

causing one of the rollers to lie crooked.

Pushing the belt off center, spilling gold-bearing pay over the side.

Mike's quick fix,

simply remove the crooked roller

and let the belt hang more freely.

If it works, the belt should recenter on the twisted frame

and not lose any gold.

No, grab the canned one.

Swing over, hook. Swing over, hook.

That way it lifts the belt

because that's how we got it on the first time.

No.

It's got to go up because we're trying to pull the thing up.

I keep my mouth shut.

This is not my, uh...

My business.

Here. Take that chain off now.

Take that off for now.

Bring it up again.

Put it over this side.

But the last time I did this, it took us five minutes.

It seems to take longer when I explain [bleep].

Yeah, just keep tightening it.

Lift it. Let that sucker out.

Oh, [bleep].

Watch fingers.

Got it.

The whole [bleep] thing's got to get pulled out and reset up.

That's going to be a couple of weeks of work, where we--

Where we want to just sluice.

Looks like you got the same problem as us.

Never enough time to do it right.

Can you start the belt, please?

You can already see it starting to track over again.

I got two inches simply from taking that roller out.

Let's start her up.

Looks good to me.

Do you want to do the honors?

You haven't done it in a while.

Sure. Yeah.

I have hardly any pay

falling off the conveyor belt anymore.

Now, it's perfect.

It's looking good now.

So I'm just gonna have them keep running it.

Got to grab this 460 real quick.

Bailey's running the plant. Tailings are piling up.

And our only loader broke a tilt linkage.

So right now, we're down two loaders.

And, unfortunately, this is what we've got to use.

The only thing we've got running right now is Rocky.

And, you know, for us to hit that season goal,

it's absolutely crucial for us to keep Rocky rolling.

Unfortunately, using two pieces of equipment

to haul tailings out instead of one.

To get Rocky back sluicing for gold,

Ryan's taking the 460 excavator and a rock truck

out of the crew cut for Kyle to run both

and do the job of one loader.

Now we've got our excavator up here

and a rock truck self-loading,

so we can keep running at least.

But definitely, uh, need those loaders fixed sooner than later.

It definitely sucks to be using two machines,

you know, instead of one.

It's a lot more, uh, fuel costing.

It takes a lot longer to do now.

A lot of money is going out just to run this little plant here.

What the is going on here?

What's going on?

- Yo. - Holy [bleep].

Yeah.

What happened here?

Um, we've lost a, uh, tilt linkage.

I've never seen one of those snap like that.

Then we got to looking closer.

All these welds are broke all the way around this thing.

I'd say this old girl's had a hard life.

She's been completely welded right there in the center section.

Holy [bleep].

This thing was broken before.

They did a good job of hiding it when I looked at it.

Obviously, this one's gonna need some love,

need some welding, need some time.

Other one's down.

It's got a locked-up compressor, which threw a belt.

So why don't we just rip off the belt [bleep] that we need

to complete that one over there.

That will at least free up the 460 and the rock truck.

We can get done with using two.

Yeah. I mean, I hate robbing parts, but you're right.

I mean, this thing's gonna be down for a while.

All right. How long is it gonna take?

Hour, hour and a half.

- Sweet. That's a good plan. - All right. Let's go.

So we got everything ripped off the, uh--

The 220 loader that had the broken linkage on it.

We're gonna transfer that compressor belt over onto this one.

Let's see if we can knock this out here pretty quick.

This is our air compressor.

This supplies air to the tanks to release the brakes.

This is what caused our belt to melt.

And it is locked up and no good.

Now on with the new.

New used.

All right, compressor's mounted.

Everything's back together.

It's time to put the belts on.

Looks good.

All right. This should be everything.

See if it'll start?

Yeah. Go ahead.

Make sure that belt is right in the grooves it needs to be in.

None of them are walking. Everything looks good.

That's it. send it out.

Loader back in the game,

Rick's crew are back to full strength, chasing crew-cut gold.

It's nice to have one machine going again.

It sucks we had to rob parts from one from another.

But at least we're not using two machines to haul tailings.

Thank you. Yeah.

Not quite.

Thirty-six.

Do you remember what you had for breakfast this morning?

He was a 36-year-old Romeo.

Okay.

Oh, not [bleep] bad.

- I got like-- - I guess I was coming for birthday cake,

but you don't have any here, I assume.

Then again, I keep forgetting it's my [bleep] birthday.

Oh, not too bad.

We're finally sluicing.

- Oh, exciting. - Oh, is it time already?

- Yeah. - So--

That's on the wish list down the line.

Let's go. He has to go to work.

All right. Thank you for the visit.

Well, I would have liked birthday cake really.

Me as well.

- Kevin, talk to you later. - Have a good one.

Is there gold in there?

Yeah, it looks like there's gold.

Oh, wow. Wow.

Looks like a nugget.

One of the fruits of your labor.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

Can I make an earring out of it?

No. It's my earring.

"It's my earring"?

I think that's the biggest piece I've ever seen.

After 12 weeks of hard work,

it's Kevin's first chance to see

if his gamble to strike out on his own

will pay off.

Nice yellow pad.

So I'll pan this

so we have a better idea of what's in it.

Here we go.

When you look through the--

Look through here at the mats right now,

you can see gold very clear.

Getting a little late starting sluicing

is not gonna be the end of the world

as long as the gold stays good, and it looks like it.

Like, look at that pocket right there.

That's what we want to see.

If we can make up for the lost time there this spring,

that's all that's going to matter

to, uh, hit our 1,000-ounce goal,

and that's what I want to see.

Too much gold in that bucket, Kevin.

- It's heavy. - Nice.

Not half bad.

We can pay some bills with this.

If everything else is half this good,

we should have a very good first gold weigh.

The next step is, uh, put everything back together

and, uh, sluice some [bleep] more.

Get some more of this [bleep].

- Oh, is it-- - Oh, [bleep]!

Stop it.

Full steam ahead till the end of season.

Time to get some gold finally.

yeah.

What happened to those loaders this week?

- Kyle broke them both. - Oh, [bleep].

That's a hell of a fire you built.

Yeah. You like that, eh?

It's working just as good as both our loaders.

Despite the loader problems,

Rick's crew managed to run crew-cut pay for nearly a full week.

Now, Rick wants to see if Buzz was able to find a good pay streak.

We didn't have much downtime,

but, yeah, the cost went up obviously.

Uh, I think 40 to 50 ounces a week is what we need.

All right, let's weigh this up.

All right. Here we go. Let's get it done.

Two, three four, five, six, seven eight, nine.

Not even ten.

9.28.

Worth just over $23,000.

Well, that's horrible.

Horrible.

I'll take the blame for that.

That's on me.

Did that cover the parts, Jason?

Not even close.

If we didn't have those good cleanups at the start,

and that's what we were getting,

we'd be going home right now.

I think we'd already be home.

You know, we mined a lot of that ground.

Some of it was good, some of it leaned out.

This was a lean spot.

You know. it was a shot and a miss.

So, nowadays, everything is hit and miss, right?

Crew cut's obviously over.

- Yeah. - Um, we got to find some better ground,

and we got to find it fast.

So what's your plan?

I mean, there's endless ground here.

I just gotta find the right piece, right?

That puts us at, like, nine-- Just shy of 950.

But we do still have 550 ounces of gold.

I'm not really sure where it's gonna come from.

At least we have that 900

- until we find actually that good ground. - Yeah. Yeah.

Ideally, I want to be back at Monster Red,

back in Rally Valley.

Unfortunately, that's not the world we live in right now, so...

We've got time left in the season.

But I mean, you guys know as well as I do

it's going to start going fast, so...

We spent a lot of time out there at the crew cut.

It was a bust.

It is what it is.

We'll move on to bigger and better things next time.

It's a bad week.

We took a couple of stumbles.

Um, we've still got time.

But if I'm being honest, I'm starting to feel the pressure.

You know, we need good ground, and we need it now.

Hello.

Hi, guys.

How are you?

What's been happening in the Indian?

We had some generator issues early in the week,

so that, kind of, shut us down for a day or two.

Yep.

It should be enough to pay for your bills.

It's definitely not mine.

Oh, you don't have to worry, Dad.

I got this.

To be on track for his 5,000-ounce target,

Tony needs 200 ounces a week.

40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90,

100, 190, 200.

210, 220, 230, 240, 290, 300,

310, 320, 3--

325.14.

Worth over $800,000.

Bringing Tony's season total to almost 3,000 ounces.

That's not bad for five days.

You've done good.

Thanks, guys.

Okay.

It would. Some things are just out of your control, too.

- Yeah, yeah. - Things break down and parts.

- It'll be-- - I mean, it's not as simple as it used to be, that's all.

Anyway, we'll get all three of them running.

That 5,000 ounces will come from somewhere.

You're gonna go back to work, too,

so get the hell out of here.

Sure.