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Alaska is pretty much our last shot

at really good gold.

I have no other option,

I have to start mining to pay the bills,

but this late in the season,

we are taking a huge risk.

Hey, Nate, go about six inches in.

The first test hole in Alaska, virgin ground.

Everything out here wants to kill you and eat you,

mosquitoes, the bears, nothing likes you out here.

Dave?

Boom, I told you there's nuggets here.

Looks like they are bigger to me. What do you think, Dave?

Oh, that's pretty cool.

This is right off the box.

- This is a good sign. - Yeah.

You've always told me it's nugget ground.

You throw a few of these in there,

all of a sudden it starts adding up.

- Here we go. - All right.

Get it, boys. Get her done, Nathan.

I love Montana.

You know, we've mined here before,

and the sun's out, snows melted,

now it's time to mine.

10-4, Dave.

After busting out on two prospects in Idaho,

Team Turin returns to the treasure state

on a desperate search for ground.

We have three to four weeks through the season,

and I still don't have a place to mine.

That's tragic.

I've already spent $500,000 on a wash plant.

It's very stressful.

Everybody is staring at me

like, "What are we going to do next?"

I've got to keep my head up.

I've got to keep the guys motivated.

All right, guys, I'm gonna go straight on the pavement.

Good luck. That's your road.

Bye, Dave.

Team Turin is left

with just two remaining options

in the lower 48.

Dave chases down a hot lead at the Secret Family Ranch,

hidden high in the Montana Rockies

as Jason leads the team to the Skinner Ranch

at the heart of the historic Gold Creek.

First gold find in the state was right here.

I know how much is still left.

I know where it's at.

In the off season,

Jason found gold in the pan at the Skinner Ranch.

Now it's on him to prove

the ground is valuable enough to stake a season on.

This year I'll need to continue moving

in that direction of becoming a leader.

The team wants to follow.

I want them to believe in me. That's a leader.

Whoo!

There it is, boys.

Well, beautiful country.

Isn't this sweet?

As long as they have some gold, that's all I care about.

It's the history here.

You know, the old stamp mill

is right in that cluster of trees.

Right across there you can see the waste pile

Mmm-hmm.

- From all your tailings, from the hard rock. - Yep.

101,000 ounces came out of that

and there was other additional hard rock mines as well.

Gold was first discovered in hard rock

at Gold Creek Mining District in 1884.

Over 58 years, operations in the region

produced lode gold in today's money

worth $180 million

but there's little evidence of placer mining in the area.

Historically, hard rock miners,

they kind of snub their nose at placer miners,

they really, really did.

So whatever was here along that creek,

the hard rock miners wouldn't let them touch it.

But Montana has a ton of it left.

This is ours, at least for now.

That's awesome.

- Let's go get a shovel in the ground. - Yeah.

Let's see what's on bedrock.

This spot right here

seems to be the lowest point of the claim.

Jason's theory,

the old timers pulled so much gold

out of the hard rock,

they left the placer ground untouched.

His plan,

dig along the low points of the valley

in the hope of uncovering alluvial deposits,

rich in gold.

There'd be a lot of gold.

That's where I'd be digging.

Other than Alaska,

I think Montana holds some of the best

undiscovered placer ground in the United States.

Well, let's spin it this way.

Yeah, come forward.

- Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa. - There we go.

Always exciting because you don't know what you're gonna get,

but only way to find out is you got to dig a hole.

You know, every season I want to prove my ability to prospect.

My ego isn't bigger than my ability to perform.

I want to be proud of what I'm doing.

I can pull a sample right here.

That material there, potential on that.

That's a sandy change.

It could have some good stuff in it.

I'll go pan that in.

I'm looking for any color right now.

Just trying to see what the old timers left us.

It's got a lot of black sand.

Hey, Jason.

Yeah.

Take a look at it.

- Nothing to see. Just sit back and relax. - Well, I'm not gonna look.

Time to move on. Right?

One thing I know for sure is

I'm going to dig until I find some damn gold or bedrock.

You know, the guys are gonna be looking at me a little bit,

but that's the risk of being the number two position

that Dave has put me in and kind of verify

why he did that.

Rob is the best placer miner I've ever met,

and Rob has got an amazing opportunity.

35 miles away,

Dave heads to meet Montana miner Rob Towner.

I mean, I don't want to say

it's the holy grail of placer mining

but Rob says it's probably

one of the best pieces of ground left in Montana.

Problem is there's a family ranch

and they're very apprehensive.

I just got these maps. What do you see here?

I see Ophir everywhere. Ophir, Ophir bar. Ophir.

But you know what that means in Hebrew?

Place of riches.

I love it, land of riches.

Gold was first discovered

in the Ophir district in 1865.

During its first years of being mined,

the area produced gold in today's money

worth over $304 million.

But one spot beneath an 8,000 acre cattle ranch

remains untouched by the old timers.

Rob Towner is the only miner ever

to put boots on the ground for a test in the 1980s.

But before he could uncover the riches,

the cattle ranching family pulled the plug

on his operation.

A fellow, he hired me to do some testing,

and I think in one week,

our best week was like 87 ounces.

- In a test? - In a test pit, yeah.

- So - *bleep* Rob

- No, dredges in here. - No.

This is amazing, Rob,

the fact that none of this has been dredged.

Now, after decades of waiting,

Rob believes the family may be open for a deal to mine there.

I'm hoping after today's meeting

that I have to convinced him that we're not just coming in here

as garden weasel miners.

Mining and ranching

a lot of times throughout history

- hasn't gotten along. - Exactly.

And I know that they were not amenable to mining for a long time.

- All right. Well, you go in. - All right.

And then as soon as we can,

let's see if we can sit down and...

- Yeah. - And I trust you.

- Go do your thing. - We'll get it.

Okay.

I don't want to screw it up, I don't want to mess it up.

It's real sensitive.

So Rob is taking charge and he's gonna go do it.

I think I'll be talking to the family soon enough.

Future lies in the hands of Rob.

I just hope and pray I get the ground.

We got a lot of work ahead of us.

We need to go deeper. We need to get bedrock.

At the heart of Gold Creek Valley,

the crew sets up to run a bulk test with the Beetle.

Hey, y'all. What the *bleep* is going on down there?

We now have a plant set up ready to go.

Me and Chris are ready to rock and roll.

Y'all are *bleep* holding us up.

You know what? Better check your tone.

Once again

waiting on dirt to the plant, aren't we?

I have my concerns. Looks like all clay.

Gold ain't gonna penetrate that.

I am just checking the dirt makeup.

We got some old, old rocks.

At a depth of 15 feet and still no sign of bedrock,

KC pulls another pan.

Usually we're setting up a wash plant,

getting ready to mine at this time of year,

so we're behind the gun right now.

It gets into your head a little bit

and can bring you down, so trying to stay positive.

I kind of went out on a limb

trying to convince the guys the possibilities

that could be at skinners.

That can go both ways for me

because if it turns out really bad,

it's going to be a very rough year,

but if it turns out good,

we all win.

That's the risk you have to take.

I do not see even a micro-fine of gold.

That's it?

Bad news bears,

we're not seeing any gold in here.

We need to pack up. We need to go check somewhere else.

And you give me some time

and I'll get down to the bottom there.

I think you should move, it's my opinion.

Well, we've already dug this far.

I haven't seen a single speck, man.

Nothing, zero, nada.

I think you should pack up and move out.

It might be right there. It might be one scoop away.

I'm not gonna start yelling at you like a *bleep* so...

I don't know how else to say it, there is no gold.

This mother *bleep*

At the Secret Family Ranch boundary.

Hopefully, Rob comes back with some good news.

Dave's mining season rests on the outcome

of Rob's meeting with the ranching family.

If we could secure that land and move the plant in there,

I think it would be,

you know, the season of a lifetime.

Well, we'll find out now.

Hi, Rob. Hope you got some good news.

I haven't gotten any good news.

It's gonna take more time.

Some time to get them used to the idea.

You know, I feel punched in the gut,

I just can't give you some information and...

I didn't... that's something I don't have, is a lot of time.

I just...

Is there any chance we can get a meeting or anything?

It's open ended right now,

but it's still gonna take some time, buddy.

If it's gonna take that much time, I've got to move on.

- I know. Yeah, so. - All right.

- Thanks for your effort. - Yeah.

- Thanks, Buddy. - Okay.

Spent years hoping that this would come about

and it's a ranching family

and they have to get used to you, it's gonna take a while.

Well, that's not the *bleep* news I wanted.

That sucks.

I got a broken heart.

It's like a kick in the stomach and it hurts.

That's the best opportunity I've ever seen

and I have to go home with nothing to show for it.

Coming up, as the crew searches for a miracle.

We need to see some gold. We need to see it right now.

Dave rolls the dice on The Last Frontier.

I have to go to the extremes now

to find gold for my crew.

But will his gamble pay off?

Millions of dollars riding on this decision?

I'm starting to click something with my teeth.

At the Skinner Ranch,

after striking out in two locations,

Jason and KC move closer to the creek

on the hunt for gold rich bedrock.

Yeah, this is a little different makeup.

Feels a little more grit.

It is either rock or bedrock

'cause it felt like a long drag.

Good job, Morgan.

Take a look at it.

Always hoping for 15 colors, but I'll settle for 7.

That's not a bad pan. Cool.

It's a good sign.

I think there might be some good gold around here.

A little bit of pressure, a little bit of stress.

You know, I push for success in everything that I do

and it's a lot easier to achieve that

when you're on the ground.

Give it to me, baby. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Let's go. Fire it up.

Now with good color in the pans,

The Beetle finally springs to life.

Well, the Beetle we don't mostly mine,

so we'll be able to see exactly what we get out of the ground.

Okay, here we go. First bucket.

- Good. - Nice.

Panning or not, you've got to run in bulk.

I hope to find some good gold

and have our ground here in Montana.

Yeah, hey, how's it going?

No way.

The Skinner Ranch is Dave's final option

in the lower 48.

Are you sure? You don't think I can make a deal?

So he's chasing down every lead he can.

Dang it. All right. Well, thanks for trying, Mike.

Okay. All right. Take care, man. Bye.

For me, I feel the weight

of everybody's anxiety.

Okay, I... I would love to go to Nevada

and, yeah, we could pull that exploration permit real quick.

Everybody that's in this business

is trying to find the same ground I'm looking for.

This is Dave Turin.

We've been on 13 or 14 properties

in three months

and we're just having a hell of a time.

We need to see some...

we need to see some gold. We need to see it right now.

On Gold Creek,

the crew runs a 15 yard Hail Mary bulk test

from the one spot where good gold was panned.

One yard to go

That's the last one?

Yes.

Okay, Chris. Shut her down.

No stone unturned.

There you go.

Jason brought us down here.

I know he's feeling a bit more pressure, but it's on us too.

We need 20 bucks a yard to save our season.

What you got Morgan?

Ain't seen anything yet.

This is it, man.

This is the biggest

buckshot I've ever seen.

No gold.

I'm not seeing any color worth of crap.

My level of desperation is going up quite quickly.

This is just plain and simple, not minable.

It shows no gold in the ground, nada *bleep*

I guess I'm hauling *bleep* back to Kentucky with nothing in my pocket.

Outcroppings are sticking out all over.

Well...

We get out of Montana right now,

unless Dave pull some rabbit out of the *bleep* hat.

Yeah.

We're up... we're up a *bleep*

creek without a paddle, boys.

Hello. Yeah. Hi, Erin.

I'm good. Yep.

We're still here in... uh... for ground, you know?

All right, really?

Where is it?

Okay.

It's all right. Thanks, Erin. Okay. All right, bye.

Yes!

It's a big deal.

This could be the one that's gonna make the season.

I got to talk to the guys.

I think we're back in the game.

Hey, guys.

What's going on? You're loading up already.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- We got the sample in. - Here, take a look.

- Oh, come on. - No

- No. - Yes, sir.

Seriously?

We got six colors

and they're micro, Dave.

They're real small.

Sorry.

There's nothing to weigh here, Dave.

That's it?

- That's it. - Yes, sir

I benched in three times in one of our holes.

That puts us down over 30 feet.

- The one we dredged. - Yeah.

The one that we actually ran through the plant.

Dave, how'd you do on your prospect?

Well, that family ranch,

um, we've got to wait on that, so...

It's just... just the way it's going.

The competition is fierce for this ground.

We... we've worked our *bleep* off

and we're not coming up with nothing every time.

But with that said Aryn, the geologist,

she's got an option for us, it's a property in Alaska.

That's why I want to move on this quick.

Whoa, Alaska.

I don't know Aryn very well,

but if she's got ground,

if it'd save our season, that'd be great.

- When are you going? - We're like... today. Really?

We've got to get moving. I'm not kidding.

If we wait, I'm afraid we're going to lose it.

It's about 100 miles north of Fairbanks,

so we are up there in the boonies.

So what we're gonna do is divide and conquer.

You guys stay here, keep looking.

Nathan is going with me.

See if we can get the equipment fired up.

She claims there's gold there.

We've got to go look, camp set up, permits are in effect.

We got water, go in there, and do some prospecting.

See what happens.

I'm all about it, man. I think we'll go find Santa.

- We'll go knock it out. - Yeah, that's right.

- Frontier, here we come. Let's do it. - All right.

All in.

The gold's gonna have to be really good.

I mean, it's gonna have to be great up in Alaska.

You got the expense to getting up there,

plus the short season.

But right now, anything is looking good to us.

Go, people.

Pack up, rollout.

We're just striking out all over the place.

The last place,

you know, on this planet that I can go

is the far north.

This is a huge gamble. It's a huge risk.

Dave said in the beginning,

he'll take us to the ends of the Earth

to make a living for our families,

looks like we might be going.

I think we're done here in the lower 48,

and we haven't found anything.

In Montana.

So we're going to Alaska.

I'm the only one that's mined up there

and it's going to be a rough go.

It's tough. It's not for somebody that's faint of heart.

And let's be honest,

the amount of money it takes to mine in Alaska,

I'm going to need a partner.

Hope this is where our future lies at.

Dave's got a big hunch here.

So this is what I wanted to do is know the whole business.

This is a dream right now,

even though it's stressful as hell,

I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

I want to be a full, rounded gold miner.

Chasing a lead from geologist Aryn Rowe,

Dave and Nate traveled 1,900 miles north

to the unforgiving Yukon Tanana Uplands,

where a thousand feet above sea level

lies the turnkey mining operation Shirley Bar.

We're moving so fast.

Everywhere I go, it seems like somebody either been there,

done it, now, all of a sudden,

Aryn gives me a tip...

and here we are in Alaska.

Partnering up with Dave,

Colorado mine boss Lance Baller.

Dave and I can be partners

in owning land in Alaska,

and I think we can make a very profitable venture.

I think there's huge placer deposits

that have not even been found,

so I'm really excited about this prospect.

I mean, this is a foot hole into Alaska, Dave.

This could be game changing for the long term.

We get out there and do a good prospect,

and hopefully this is home.

- Right here. - Right there?

- Yep. - That's it.

- No kidding. - Yep.

- Right here's the mining road. - This is it.

Yeah, this is it. This is the place.

Hidden in the Alaskan wilderness,

the 2,400 acre claim has been owned

by geologist Aryn Rowe

and her business partner since 2016.

Hey guys.

- Hey. - How's it going?

- I'm Lance. - I haven't met. Yeah, I'm Aryn.

- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

Nathan. Here we are in Alaska.

Alaska is kind of like my second home.

Beautiful. It's wild. It's raw.

The most challenging ground I've ever been on,

but it's also the most rewarding.

It's got gold everywhere. You just got to know where to look.

I got some maps.

So, Aryn, can you tell us a little bit about the history?

When was this mine founded?

The old timers first found gold out here in the 1890s.

Uh-huh.

And they found nuggets on the surface,

so that kind of started a gold rush.

It's kind of been mined...

intermittently since then.

In 1906, old timer Frank G. Manley

bought the Shirley Bar claim.

Despite his checkered past as an outlaw,

Manley made his fortune here with valuable nugget finds.

With his newfound fortune,

he established the town of Manly Hot Springs

and started a luxury hotel business,

turning Shirley Bar

into a real-life rags to riches story.

Well, I'm late in the season,

but why aren't you guys mining?

Dave, that's the thing. I'm a geologist.

- I'm a part time gold miner. - Okay, got it.

But I'm not a real gold miner like you.

I've been out here looking at the geology

and helping with the mine since 2016.

I can help you with the geology,

but setting up operations,

knowing how to do the mining operations,

that's all you.

So we do that right and you set up the operation,

- I think you should hit your goal this year. - Perfect.

I got something to show you.

Dang, here we go.

So that's... that's the size of nuggets that we found.

Those were found right here in this area right here.

- It's encouraging. - Yeah.

Where's your best spot?

These gold dots, that's where I think there is gold.

So I think we should test those three places.

- All right. Let's do it. - Okay.

Let's go find some gold.

Okay.

Last mined in 2018,

the 2,400-acre site comes with a wash plant

and several machines set to the north of the claim.

Aryn has highlighted three locations of interest,

so Dave will start prospecting from the south,

beginning on a flat area known as a bar or bench.

It's here old timers made fortunes in the 1900s,

picking nuggets as they worked the ground.

Now, with the easy gold gone,

it's the fine gold Dave needs to save his season.

Thinking we should dig here

because this is an extension of the Shirley Bar,

that first bench where they found the most gold.

Hey.

Nate, just go up next to that spruce

and let's take a look.

The first test hole in Alaska,

that we're going to dig here, this is virgin ground.

We're going to...

...try to pull a sample from the top.

Maybe two or three feet down

and we're going to observe what's here.

That's all depends on whether it's economically viable.

Just go about six inches in.

Historically, this was the area

where they found the most nuggets

and it's slightly down dip, but pretty flat.

So there's a pretty good chance

that the Nuggets probably stopped here

and the gold was stuck here.

We're doing test holes, but then beyond that,

we know that there's nuggets here,

so with nuggets,

you'll find it more likely with a metal detector

than with a pan.

You know, this place here is like the south on steroids.

It's *bleep* nuts.

I know I dealt with mosquitoes,

but I ain't never dealt with *bleep* like this before in my life.

Everything out here wants to kill you and eat you,

mosquitoes, the bears, nothing likes you out here.

So the gold has got to be damn good for us

to come out here and deal with all this *bleep*.

One little tiny piece of gold.

All right, there's something there.

Boom! I told you there's nuggets here.

- It is right there. - Yeah.

No way.

Like right on the surface,

right there with the metal detector.

We got gold.

Looks like a picker to me,

what do you think, Dave?

No, that's pretty cool.

- Well, this is exciting. This is this is a good sign. - Yeah.

You've always told me it's nugget ground.

I haven't ever been on nugget ground.

I'm having a hard time finding the fine gold,

but you throw a few of these in there,

all of a sudden it starts adding up.

So yeah, there's two different gold deposits here,

the upper one where you have more nuggets

and this large one that's on the downthrown

side of the block

alluvial gravel with gold in it.

Let's keep digging just maybe six inches at a time.

As you scrape it back, I'll pan it for the fine stuff.

We just keep metal detecting for the big stuff.

And then eventually we come in here and do a bulk sample.

We got gold.

- We got some gold. - Yeah!

95 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

Keep digging, Nathan.

Dave and Nathan prospect at the Shirley Bar mine

on the hunt for season-saving gold.

Right now, great sign. We found a nugget.

Now we've got to keep looking for the finer gold.

That's what we need to prove the ground.

Especially up here,

we can't be satisfied with mediocre ground.

We're too far away from the city,

so it's got to be great ground.

Now, Aryn found one nugget there,

but you know, one nugget ain't going to make a season.

All right, so this is all fresh gravel.

- This is virgin. - This is virgin.

Now we're just trying to find fine gold.

You can't count on nuggets.

Pull a sample out of this.

We got a little one there.

One, two, three four, five,

six, seven pieces of gold.

Aryn has got us in a pretty good spot right now,

it's looking better.

This pay layer is thick.

That's a thicker pay layer, yeah.

Set up and do a bulk sample.

Get it, boys. Get it done, Nathan.

With a test area decided.

The equipment list, showed rock trucks

and loaders and excavators.

Dave, Lance, and Nathan

head to the north of the claim

to check out the existing operation.

Well, that's no good.

There's the loader that we're supposed to run and...

Well.

Oh, boy!

One wheel off. The other one is flat.

Well, we had an equipment list.

We assumed that things were available and running.

There's absolutely no way

we can run a bulk sample with these two equipment.

This one is bad, too.

She is missing a whole turbo.

What?

Next up for inspection, the excavator.

This isn't fixable.

I mean, you would put too much money into it.

You don't leave like this *bleep* laying around like that.

This is not experienced miners at all. I mean, this is *bleep*.

I mean, to leave stuff like this

is it's disrespectful to anybody.

I wouldn't do this to my damn worst enemy.

It's pointless.

The only thing that works around here is these *bleep* mosquitoes.

We got a problem here.

No motor and gearbox, guys.

This is a pretty good indication

that things weren't going well out here.

If your equipment is in this kind of shape,

the money wasn't getting back to repairs and maintenance.

With the vehicles and the trommel beyond repair,

Dave is left with one excavator

and no way of running a larger test on the ground.

So we've got to find something that works around here

so that we can run a bulk sample.

You know what, this might work.

What if we just dug a trough

and run water down it and feed it in there?

There is some wedges.

Pretty primitive, but, you know, we're doing like the old timers.

Pitch the rocks off by hand, run some water down it,

see if there's gold.

Ground sluice, it's the only thing we can come up with.

Old timers used ground sluices

to catch gold

by feeding pay directly into water fed sluice boxes

built into the hillside.

The old timers made fortunes this way,

but the process was wasteful and inefficient

and sometimes lost up to 50 percent of the gold.

I... you know,

I'm sorry we're having to do this.

You know, I haven't been here in a while.

You're doing awesome, but I wish

we had a wash plant for you and pumps and everything.

Well, thanks. We saw the equipment list

- that's what we made all of our plans off of. - Yeah.

And then when we get out here...

Completely different and you were just as surprised

as I was getting out here and not seeing anything here.

So I put my entire life savings into this claim.

I'm to the point where I want it to work,

and I think Dave is the best chance for that.

If we just ran the material in an operational way,

I think there is actually a chance for it to...

finally pay off.

With my knowledge of the property

and experience here over the last five years,

I want to help him find gold.

We need ground.

You need a mining crew, it might work.

I do want to see what this does for gold.

I've never seen one of these, you know, so...

This is a first for us too.

Dave's plan,

use the sluice from the broken down wash plant

and run 25 yards of dirt

to discover if enough fine gold exists

to make Shirley Bar profitable.

That's good.

This is most redneck thing I think I've done so far as gold mining,

but that's how the old guys did it.

Just not with a metal box.

Bunch of lumber.

Alaska, it's rough, rough living,

it's hard on everything,

but I believe Alaska is part of our future.

So when the going gets tough, we dig in.

To ground sluice any dirt, the team must have water.

Well, we need a pump.

You think we can get this thing to run?

- You ready? - Yeah.

Yeah!

I'll be damned!

The success of Dave's Alaska prospect

now rests on the 25 yard bulk test

from his bush fixed ground sluice.

Here we go. Got some water.

And it's good.

This thing right here, we've got no...

wash plant, no grizzly.

We're just basically running it straight down the sluice box.

This is the first time I've ever done anything like this just on the dirt.

It's really critical that we find gold

and we find it fast, because...

If this doesn't work, we're screwed.

Oh, nice.

Shirley Bar up in Alaska,

that's all we have us, boys.

That's it.

If we don't mine this year,

it means we're not going be paying bills for next year.

That's not an option.

Oh, it's starting to look that way.

To be this far into the season with no place to go,

it sucks, but that's mining.

There's highs, there's lows,

it's always a risk, it's always a gamble

but the successful ones keep pushing forward.

This has a been one of the more difficult prospects I have ever done,

partly because kind of stressed,

prospecting when we should be mining.

At the remote Shirley Bar mine,

Dave Turin is on a season launching prospect.

Alaska is a huge risk, it's a gamble,

but that's what we do.

Now, a 25-yard bulk test of pay

will determine if Alaska is the place the team stakes

this season's mining operation.

We are so far north here that,

it's got to have a great gold.

You know, it's been a wild prospect so far.

Rough time trying to get things going.

We're innovating, inspired by the old timers.

If they could do it, we can do it.

To put this together with what we have out here,

really resourceful, creative

and they really put their heads together and we're sluicing.

And here we are.

It's basically old time ground sluicing.

Look at that wash those rocks.

All right.

That's it.

Not bad, Nathan. Not bad at all, people.

We did it, boys.

Dave cleans up from the make or break test.

Me being able to come on the front side...

It's good. That's what I want to do.

I want to be a well-rounded individual.

I don't want to just be a mechanic all my life.

I want to have an operation one day.

That's the dream.

There you go.

Let's see what we got.

You know, I like Alaska,

it has plenty of water.

It's got a lot going for it.

- It's just so far out here. - Oh, it is.

The cost of fuel is just enormous.

It's going to be hard to get a crew up here.

Look how many people failed here.

We have to do something different to be successful.

I don't think we're going to hit 25 bucks a yard, but...

So I'm the one that thinks that looks less,

so we'll find out who's right.

- You ready? - Yeah.

Weigh it up.

One, two, three,

we're over six,

seven grams.

So we're going to take 7.02 times 60.

60 bucks a gram.

- Divided by 25. - Yeah.

16.84.

Almost $10 a yard short

of Dave's break even number of 25.

- This was the best we found. - I know.

Pretty weak.

Let's...

Let's be straight up honest, we found gold.

But we're so far north here that...

we've got to have great gold.

My guys are like, where are we going to mine?

And they need to tell their families where we're going to mine.

And I've got no answers.

So at some point I got to make a decision.

That's what you all think that it's just *bleep* easy.

Look at all the people around here

and I make a wrong decision

and I bring everybody up here, get excited

and then I *bleep* up and we pull 100 ounces.

Hmm.

That's real.

Big decision,

big decision.

His job depends on it. His job depends on it.

Millions of dollars,

millions of dollars riding on this decision.

If I *bleep* this up,

that's what I got to look at.

That's what's going on in here.

Can't get too emotional.

I've got to make business decisions.

Hey, Aryn, you got a minute.

Hey, Dave. Of course.

Yeah.

So we did our bulk sample.

We wanted to share with you what we found and...

and what we think.

It's a big decision to move up here and...

I mean...

we're going to pass.

I've got to go over 600 or 700 ounces.

And to do that,