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I'm just looking at resumes because we're going to do 10 ,000 outfits this

And we have a lot to do, so you need good people that you can count on.

The truth is, somebody can write a really good resume and be terrible.

30 -year -old Parker Schnabel is leaning on his crew like never before.

After years of running the cuts himself, he's testing his top lieutenant's

ability to lead.

Mitch and Brennan are getting sulfur ready to go. We'll have their wash plant

firing up there very soon.

We have two wash plants already running here on Dominion.

Bob and Lucifer.

Two weeks into the season, and with only 400 ounces, Parker wants his 40 -person

crew firing on old cylinders to bring in a big haul this week and put him on

track. for his 10 ,000 -ounce season goal.

We do have a big crew this year, you know, a bunch of new people.

Tyson has a lot of training to do.

People need to understand what the expectations are and when they're doing

things wrong, and if they can't correct it, then we need to get rid of it, which

is always a challenge.

Parker's given me more and more responsibility this year from last year.

probably about three times as much.

We have so many new people, and with Parker still expecting more than double

productivity as last year, that's a large ask from a lot of new people.

Parker's charged rising star Tyson Lee with overseeing the huge Dominion Creek

operation, where two cuts are already producing gold, the bridge cut and the

recently opened Golden Mile.

which Parker believes could deliver big numbers if the crew keeps it running.

Hopefully the new people have an understanding of what we expect and what

need out of them here as a mining outfit.

And we're figuring out their caliber.

Right now we have Michael digging pay down by Bob in the bridge cut.

The cut's looking hella nice.

Clearly, Parker's not around. He's going for a big season this year. Besides his

operations, that's massive.

New recruit Mike Thompson is a veteran gold miner with years of experience

operating heavy machinery.

I did five years at a neighbor mine.

Parker offered me this job.

Very hard to say no to.

Tyson's also relying on another new hire to keep the bridge cut gold coming in.

I have Amy learning how to run loader right now. She's feeding Bob, and I want

to throw a bunch of stuff at her with the wash plant.

I have zero, zero mining experience.

So for the last three days, I have been doing some training, and today is my

first day on my own.

Going from being a teacher just a month ago, it's going to be a big transition.

Greenhorn Amy Lee traded a career as a science teacher to become a gold miner.

Taylor and Tatiana are my besties.

Tatiana actually trained me in a rock truck, which was amazing. We had such a

good time.

And then on day two, they just let me loose on my own, and that was that.

After proving herself, Tyson is putting Amy in charge of one of the most

important jobs, feeding pay dirt into the wash plant.

How's it going, Amy?

Good, you? Pretty good.

Good. How are you finding things?

Now that I've gotten over a little bit of the fear after a couple hours, it's

getting better.

That's good.

I'd like to do a once -over of the plant with you and just kind of give you some

things to look at. So there's this tail drum up here. So you can see how it's

nice and clean? Yeah. That's how it should always be.

Yeah. If the belt walks left or right, that can be an issue. When you're

the wash plant, a rock gets stuck.

on the belt and i've had it cut the belt clean in half like a razor blade before

yeah if you think something is wrong yeah just shut it down okay let's run up

here yeah open this rip on this that's the breaker then run up there open the

bypass close the main any questions not at this moment this is fun yeah let me

just absorb you absorbed it all still a little bit like holy Yeah.

Oh, you'll get it.

All righty.

Go make us some gold. Okay. Have fun.

When you think of all the responsibility you have and you're the sole person

watching the plant, it plays on your mind a little bit.

Really happy with Amy.

Can't wait to see what she can do this season.

Hey, Tyson, you on here, Tyson?

Yep, go ahead.

Hey, I got a pretty big up here. Can you come have a look?

I'm getting flooded out.

I'm on my way.

Last thing I want to do is tell Parker that the cut's flooded and we got to

Bob down.

Man, that's a lot of melt water.

That's not what I needed, man.

We have a lake in here.

We spent so much time getting the bridge cut drain.

It's getting flooded out again. The water's backing up the ditch line of the

cut.

I'm thinking that 8 -inch culvert's not big enough. Oh, yeah.

We need to rattle your hoe over and dig up this road. We got that big old

culvert up there, so let's throw that puppy in.

Let's get this water out of here.

We got to get this water out, because right now, the only pay we can truck to

Bob is in this square.

If it's flooding out, Bob's going to shut down.

As the 114 -acre bridge cut thaws, meltwater seeps into its drainage

where it is then channeled through an 8 -inch culvert under Bob's only access

road. But the narrow culvert is overwhelmed by the volume of meltwater,

the ditches to overflow and flood the cut.

To stop the flood, Mike must dig up the access road and replace the small

culvert. with a much larger 36 -inch culvert, then rebuild the road to wash

plant Bob.

I'm going to take the small little 8 -inch culvert up and let the water go.

If I don't hurry up and get this water figured out, Bob's going to run out of

paint. That's bad news.

You ain't producing, you ain't producing.

Here comes some water, boys.

Go get this culvert. The only thing I got kicking around here, so hopefully I

can do the job.

Throw her in.

There.

Bend it.

There's one way to put a culvert in.

Let's see if this bank falls out on me.

That could suck, eh?

This is sketchy, man. Anybody bring some extra undies?

I can safely say that Calvert's in place.

I'm pretty proud of this. I feel pretty good.

Mike, save the day.

That was fun. That was exciting.

Nice work, Mike. Yeah.

She's working.

Right on.

Got that done. Tyson's happy.

Pretty proud of myself.

Pretty happy. It was like, what, an hour? Hour and five minutes. We got her

done.

Well, you know, Michael, sure.

Stepped up to the plate and saved the day. He got that culvert in.

Got all the water leaving us.

He executed it perfectly.

We just got to keep the gold coming in.

Gold prices are up there, so we decided to get with the program right off the

bat. We were the first ones pushing in the Yukon.

The early bird cut is done, so now we're going to expand it.

Ten miles southwest, King of the Klondike, Tony B., has already mined out

his first cut, hauling in 632 ounces of his 6 ,500 -ounce

target.

After a hot start on his Indian River claim, Tony's nearly out of pay dirt,

and he needs to open more ground at the early bird cut, fast.

100 feet wide all the way to the other end so they can take all this gravel,

load it up, dump it in the old cut.

So we can get people on the go down here.

Just like Parker, Tony's also relying on a crew of new recruits to get the job

done.

We're going to have another 40 more people this year, so you've got to make

with whatever you can get and then hope it turns out okay.

Well, this is my first year here. Who wouldn't want to come to the Yukon and

work? I love it here. I love the chaos.

We've got a lot of equipment packed in here, weaving together.

Rock truck drivers Tyler Swan and Sam Moore are part of an all -new crew

with getting the early bird extension down to pay in just one week.

I'm pretty new to gold mining. I've only been at this for a little over a month

now.

and there's very rarely a dull moment.

Tony's approach?

Throw the newbies in at the deep end and hope they can swim.

Get the f*** out of the way and get that other rock truck out of the way so this

will get out of the way.

Make some room.

I mean, you got two trucks if they can't find their own way.

This rock truck will get back in there.

Andrew, make sure he doesn't drive over.

See, you know what I mean?

The bucket is over there. Chuck is way over there.

You see where the bucket is, young fella?

Look at me.

Me? How come you never answer your radio?

I've got all my charges for it, sir.

Don't. Okay, get him a radio.

Crazy. Just crazy.

I want you underneath the bucket.

There you go.

It was pretty far.

on training here.

And then off into the deep end can be a little bit stressful.

Back it up a bit, back it up a bit.

Pretty tight spot we're working in. We've got a bit of a bend to turn around

here.

Now we're all in this together.

And you have eyes on everything.

Sam has just toppled one of Tony's essential $300 ,000 rock trucks.

Jacob, I'm going to need some help.

Jacob, do you copy? Jacob?

Jay, do you copy, Jacob?

Yeah, go ahead.

My truck sort of tipped over here. My box gave way under the bank.

We're going to need some help.

Yeah, for sure. I'll be in touch.

All right. Good.

At Indian River,

Tony's racing to extend his cut down to Pave.

Before Washplant's loose -a -lots pay pile runs out.

But rookie driver Sam has flipped his rock truck, bringing the operation to a

halt.

The game plan is to go up, use the 480 if it'll pull it, and hook onto the high

point of the box and pull it back over on the right side up.

All right, let's go flip this truck over.

Rushing to the rescue is heavy equipment operator Jacob Moore.

All right,

everything went smooth and properly done.

We're back on the road now, so hopefully we didn't lose too much time.

I feel a little bit stressed about what Tony will think.

Do you solve a favor and do that one more time and then get out of here?

You know this couple down there, you do it once, you're in. You do it twice,

you're out. So pay attention, would you please?

I'm definitely back in the corner at this point. I've got all this ground

just finished paying off, and no water I can be able to mine it, and it's just

like they're taunting me.

Really, this has left me with no other choices but to move on.

100 miles east of Tony, Rick Ness hasn't mined a single ounce of gold.

Forced to abandon a pile of pay and the richest ground he's ever mined at his

Duncan Creek claim, Rick's committed his entire operation.

to gamble on new land.

At the end of the day, I had to make a deal with Troy in Lightning Creek.

I have to do something before we lose out on that even.

There's people snooping around for ground with license on it everywhere,

can't afford to wait any longer.

Last week, I'm here to make a deal.

Rick met with landowner Troy Taylor.

15 % royalty payment.

We're going to do a 100 -ounce payment, and we can get started on there right

away. Made a handshake deal to lease Lightning Creek.

and moved his entire mining operation eight miles northwest.

Well, we're at Lightning Creek.

We're going to go and hit this as hard as we can.

This year, you know, gold price is once again record high. So we've got about

100 ounces a week to get by the end of the year. We're going to get to 1 ,800

ounces, so we've really got to get a move on.

We've broken ground down at Lightning Creek.

Plenty of challenges ahead of us. It's a new ground we've got to learn.

Time to get on some gold.

Rick opened the diamond cut and is depending on his crew to locate the

of gold -rich paper in this notoriously unpredictable area.

The down cut's definitely going at a good speed.

But at the start of any cut, it takes some time to get prepped up.

This ain't bad, but it may seem frivolous that we're just moving dirt

A to point B, but this is what we need to do.

Efficiency is key.

Not going to lie, this is a good day.

I just want to make sure I'm keeping up with the pace, because at the end of the

season, I want a big gold bonus. So, you know, whatever it takes to get down to

pay and start moving it, that's what I'll do.

What the... Hey, Ricky, can you hear me?

Sorry.

I think we're down to pay.

Guy, get over here.

Look at that.

You ever seen pay dirt?

Pay dirt? That's what it is right there.

Boulders and gravels.

Pay dirt is gravelly and rocky, gold -bearing material that lies beneath the

waste topsoil known as overburden.

That's it with the gold in it.

Right. Yeah. Look at it. That looks good.

That whole floor down there, that's the pay dirt we're looking for. That came

quick when we don't have to go down 150 feet, eh?

Just in this area right here is bigger than it gets down. I know, I know.

exciting. And that should make for quick stripping.

And then we've got below that.

According to Troy, anywhere is 12 to 15 feet of pay. Yeah.

So put the overburden where it wants to go and lost a good amount of pay to

explode here in no time.

Let's get back on the gold.

Let's do it.

We're already down to pay. You know, I'm not used to that. We're used to going

100 -some feet through overburden just to get to it, and it's nice that it's so

shallow here.

Bailey's doing a great job.

Trucks are moving dirt.

Sun's out.

Good day.

With the team on the pay layer.

Rick tasks the crew with stripping the entire diamond cut.

Compared to, like, Rick's plane, it's a huge difference because we're moving

about 160 feet worth of overburden, and then over here, you know, 5 feet.

It's my first time seeing pay.

Once we get that through the sluice box and through the plan, it'll be good to

see the actual gold.

While the team works, Rick takes a moment to make his handshake deal with

official. And sign the lease.

Ridiculous.

I'm kind of reading through it, and I just don't like some of the stuff I'm

seeing.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, Z, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Z.

Why don't you come over here, and I'll show you something.

You going to make me read?

No, I've got an updated agreement with Troy.

He's given himself an awful lot of power, I think.

Well, how it works is that I have to submit my mining plan to him, and then

decides how it works, right?

It says that he shall have access to the equipment and or personnel at his

discretion. Well, to me, that means, yeah, on a Tuesday, he'd come and shut

the soothbox.

I think it's a bit of an overreach.

Don't you? I always assumed when you leased the ground that you get to do

whatever you want.

Like how your mining plan is. And this sounds like you signed a lease and then

he has all the power. I don't know what the angle is there. I don't know if

there is an angle.

At this point, I'm waiting to stumble around a corner and find him like this.

Like, whoa.

You know what I mean? Like that gets your wheels turning, right?

Let's just read over the contract a little bit more.

We're down here. We'll keep plugging away.

Yeah, yeah. No, like I said, I appreciate it. Keep my head on straight.

sure that this deal is in our favor.

Keep on trucking. Keeps everyone here. Thanks, buddy. All right. We'll talk to

you. See you at dinner. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Even

when

I'm not producing gold now, I'm on the hook for $20 ,000 a month.

The more I look at this, the more I'm saying it's not.

Chance in hell I'm signing this. I don't know why he's putting all this section

there. It's just not sitting right with me.

I've worked with Troy for a while, and I trust the guy, but it's fishy that I

just paid him off, and now we're going back, and suddenly he's got more ground

for us, and I'm paying him again.

I'm kind of thinking he might be using my lack of options to turn things in his

favor.

Rick has already spent over $40 ,000 in fuel and wages.

mining Lightning Creek.

But it could be all for nothing.

I'm trying to stay calm, but I'm getting pretty riled up about it because I'm

already down there working.

I've got money into this. I've got guys down there. I've got equipment down

there.

And I'm not stopping.

But I'm not fine with it. So he's going to have to change his way of thinking

because that's...

Right now we have two wash plants running.

They have a little bit of time to do a lap of going into the bridge cut,

checking on Bob, making sure everyone's doing all right.

At Dominion, Tyson Lee is maxing out Lucifer on the Golden Mile.

And in the bridge cut, he has new operator Mike digging out Hayden.

I want to prove to this crew that I'm capable and I can do the job. Whatever

they throw at me, I definitely have the taste for that gold fever.

While Greenhorn Amy, in charge of running wash plant Bob, feeds 250 yards

pay an hour.

I am making sure that I am keeping a constant flow of pay dirt going up

the conveyors and also making sure they're not getting clogged up.

or many other things that I'm sure...

Oh, this doesn't look good. What happened?

It's all clogged up at the top.

I just saw rocks shooting from the side.

There's a rock jammed in somewhere, like up against our chain drive that caused

it to not want to spin.

But first things first, get all the dirt off the belt.

Tyson suspects wash plant Bob has rocks lodged in its hopper feeder's internal

conveyor chains, stopping the mechanism from moving pay dirt toward the shaker

deck. leading to it piling up.

The solution?

Dig out the hopper feeder, removing all rocks lodged in the chain conveyor.

Then, clear any rocks from the Super Stacker's belt rollers and start the

up again.

Yeah, we just want to... Clear it out?

Yeah. Because if we fired the Super Stacker up, they'd be flying around like

popcorn. Okay.

He'll get sucked down into the tail drum and slice the belt. Okay.

You did a great job, though, Amy. Thanks.

What happened?

This chain bind up on something? Like a rock got stuck in the chain drive. Okay.

Did we pick anything up?

I don't know.

We're just trying to shovel it out to make sure that the belt's all good.

You can see there's a lot of big rock on the conveyor belt itself.

Give me that shovel.

Watch out. Okay.

Look at the bottom of that belt.

You know, it's serious when Parker shows up and...

Jumps into action.

Tail drums packed. Pull it.

Oh, let's just get the big ones out of there.

Let's climb down when Parker's done doing Parker things.

I think we're good to go. Nice work.

I'm climbing down. You're still up there. Generator's getting fired up.

You want some dirt?

Hey, Parker, you want some dirt?

Yeah.

I'm so out of shape.

Fire it up.

We're ready to flew.

I'm so happy that.

I was able to spot it right away and shut it down because there were so many

rocks that were jammed up in the belt.

How's Amy doing? She dealt with that well. Yeah, definitely. She did it

how we showed her. Yeah.

All right, be on the flip side. See ya.

Amy's doing wonderful.

Couldn't have done anything better, really.

The bar is set high.

With the gold price out there, it doesn't take long to make a small

to speak.

So, make hay when the sun shines, I used to say.

At the early bird extension, Tony is battling to open his new ground before

only running wash plant, Sluicelot, runs out of pay.

We lost a bit of stripping time.

We have to get the early bird extension cut ready.

Just stay ahead, stay ahead, stay ahead.

But he's dealing with a batch of rookies who are struggling.

I bet you out of all the trucks that are driving around there and everything,

none of them still have a clue as to what is happening. Some have it, some

never get it. So I was going to snoop around for a second.

I'm back here today, and I am...

Really glad Tony didn't fire me.

Tony has his eye on Greenhorn Sam, who flipped his rock truck earlier in the

week. I'm still on pretty thin ice.

You feel like anything could get you fired if you're not careful.

With the clock ticking, Tony has brought in experienced truck driver, Mason

McIntyre, to help out.

The conditions down here are pretty floppy right now.

Big ruts, which is hard to drive in sometimes for some people.

You've got to adjust to the conditions.

Some people catch on really quick and are used to it, and some people just

catch on at all, and that's how mistakes happen.

That can be quite dangerous, honestly, if you can't run something like this,

which is not simple, but a lot more simple than another piece of equipment.

Oh, somebody dumped her.

You people, it's going to be a mess.

I'll be right over there and have a look at it, okay?

Don't move.

You people, it's going to be a mess.

I'll be right over there and have a look at it. At Tony B's early bird cut,

another $300 ,000 rock truck has flipped.

What was it?

What happened, Mason?

Got a little soft.

A little soft down there or what? Yeah, a little bit.

Experienced driver Mason McIntyre has flipped his first truck.

Okay, I'll scoop it out. You can own the cap. Let's get the f***ing thing out of

there, okay?

Okay.

Tony uses the 480 excavator to empty the rock truck's box of dirt and push it

upright.

Part of me is happy to see that it happens to other people besides me, but,

I mean, I feel for the guy. It's pretty unpleasant when the box flips over on

your rock truck.

Hey Mason, drive ahead a bit.

Right off.

See you later, man.

Thank you, Tony.

That's my first truck I tipped over.

It was a little scary.

Tony was pretty relaxed. I think I had the luck because I'm here my second

season.

Tony's crew are back in the race.

to get down to pay before sluice -a -lot runs out.

If you want to do X amount of ounces a year, you need X amount of people, so

you'd rather put up with some more, I suppose.

But sometimes it's not that easy, especially when it costs money. I mean,

turn trucks over.

But sometimes you wonder what the heck you're doing.

I asked Troy to come down and meet me here.

I'm basically going to tell him that his contract is booked.

I mean, I don't know what he wants me to do with this.

I'm not budging off that ground, and I'm not signing this, so we need to come to

some kind of compromise.

After moving his crew to a new claim on Lightning Creek,

Rick Ness has called a meeting with landlord Troy Taylor to negotiate the

of the lease.

Hey, Troy. Hey, Rick.

How you doing? Good. Good to see you.

We got to put some signatures on paper and make it legal.

There's no way.

I have gotten over the contract and a lot of things that I don't like.

It says that you have the right to change the mining plan at any time.

You can pull my equipment and my personnel when you see fit.

There's an awful lot of power going in your hands here.

I mean, I would like to think that our last contract went pretty smooth.

I think it's coming down to a trust thing. And, you know, for me right here

this contract, it looks like you don't trust me at all.

And so I'm kind of wondering why I trust this, you know?

Yeah, I get that.

It's nothing personal.

It's just since the last agreement, things have changed so much.

The water licenses these days, if there's any blemish, if you are doing

wrong, maybe you weren't here on a day that something's going sideways, it will

be reflected on me. It could result in getting my water license revoked.

I want to keep mining, so I have to have some teeth in this agreement.

I can kind of see where you're coming from, Troy, but I don't believe that

level of supervision is necessary.

I mean, I don't want to feel like I'm looking over my shoulder all the time,

that's why I brought this.

You know, off the bat, that's the 100 ounces that I owe you as the minimum

royalty on this deal, and I'd be willing to give that to you up front right now

today and get rid of this.

Oh, boy.

From my perspective, if I don't have some control in the agreement, that's

I've got. I can't back up on that. I just can't.

I understand it's got to be a tough one, tough pill to swallow.

What if I buy it?

That's the big one for me.

I would need another 200 ounces on top of it. So 300 ounces total?

Yeah.

It's just too much.

I get that ground is at a premium with a water license right now, but it's a lot

of money on the line, and I won't be squeezed. It's just not going to happen.

How about I get you another 100 ounces?

That's 200 ounces total, and then we call that good.

I'm still responsible for the water life until I get paid.

As you know, I'm still on the hook. How about by the end of the month, and then

we part ways?

This is gone, your name's off it, I take over the ground.

In a month?

In a month.

Your liability's gone, you're paid.

Rick, that's a lot of gold to produce in a month. You've got a lot of stuff to

do. If that's what it's going to take to mine this ground my way, that's what

we're going to do.

I'll make it happen.

Well, I like your determination.

Let's do it.

Call good?

Yeah. All right.

Deal done.

Well, we don't need this anymore.

Rick Ness has just purchased another 1 ,600 acres of land for $700

,000 in gold.

I'm not sure what I just did.

I think I came out on top.

Gold prices are higher than ever, but right now it seems that a ground with a

water license on it is even harder to find.

He owns it. It's all his.

So I hope it's good ground, and I wish him the best.

The guys are probably going to question it. This ground is... We haven't even

fluked it yet, but we did test it. We know there's gold. So I need to get this

ground. I need to get this going. This was the only way I thought how to do it.

Woo!

We've hired a lot of people this year. I'm Ethan.

I'm Raya.

I'm Jordan.

They've come with a range of skills.

I've milked cows my whole life.

Demolition side of things.

I was a line coach before this. The revolving door of new people is not

stop this year. New recruits have come from far and wide.

I went for a motorcycle ride 3 ,500 kilometers from home to find Parker.

Hello. Hey, Parker.

You're Steve, right? Yes, yes. Good to meet you. I heard that you just showed

on a motorcycle.

Yeah, it's sitting at your office.

I saw it there. And I was like, today is not the day for tourists.

And then Nona found me and was like, oh, he's in the loader.

No, I've been running equipment for 30 years, and I've always dreamed of coming

up here doing this.

Do you have, like, work clothes and stuff?

This is it.

It's, like, literally in his writing clothes.

Glad to have you on board. Can you take a picture?

Here you go, Steve.

They'll be around at the early bird extension cut for a while. So they're

to check, see if they're down to pay.

At the early bird extension, Tony is panning to see if his crew has

hit pay.

Usually we look for gold in the pan.

You know, we don't watch rocks for the fun of it.

Huh? There is no way.

Hey, Jacob, do you copy? Jacob, do you copy?

What? Okay, bring them guys in and they're doing some panning and a cut.

Morning, gentlemen.

Morning.

In case you're wondering, we're looking for gold.

Look at that. So that's pay dirt to me.

You know, are you looking at that?

Not exactly. No, that don't surprise me. Okay, I see that. Okay, well, there you

go. Yeah, that's what it's all about, Sam.

That actually looks very nice.

There's lots of colors in there.

It looks good.

Circles up at the top. Yeah.

I'd say this cat is ready to be going in the sluice box, eh?

Okay.

Give you guys an idea as to what we're after.

Yeah. Let's go and get some more. Yes, sir. You bet.

Seeing that pan of gold with some gold in it was nice.

I've had a few mistakes coming in here, but, you know, seeing the gold makes it

worth it.

We have a lot of people that have never even been in an airplane. They come up

here, never mind the piece of equipment, but somehow you're going to have to

make it work.

And as long as you get some gold in your pocket, then on the end of the day,

it's all worth it.

Hello, family.

Hey, guys. How are you?

Good. How are you?

Get that pail out of the table. Holy crap.

Bring it over here, Michael.

After a turbulent week at Indian River,

Tony is ready to weigh the gold from the early bird cut.

How's your new crew doing?

Well, green horns, you know, come with troubles.

We tipped the odd rock truck box here and there.

Jacob had to rescue one the other day. I mean, you got the same thing on the

hill, right?

You get new people, you got the same old problems. Most mine are returnees, so.

Yeah. Yeah, well, that's lucky because then you don't have to have that crap.

Do you want to see the fruits of your labor?

Last week.

The early bird cut delivered 214 ounces.

You ready, Mike?

Yep.

10, 20, 30, 60, 70, 80, 100,

110, 120, 130, 140,

142 .14.

Worth. nearly half a million dollars, bringing Tony's total to 774

ounces.

But it's a drop in production.

If Tony is going to hit his 6 ,500 -ounce goal, his extension of the early

cut will have to deliver a big improvement.

So we're still a little ways off from our goal.

Still pretty early.

We'll get there.

But I think everybody should go back to work.

Sounds good. Why don't you guys go make us some more money?

Okay, thank you. See you, Mike.

Bye. Yeah, bye. Don't go away mad, guys.

Love you.

Yeah, bye.

Where's Chris?

He didn't hear us. Chris.

Oh, his new hearing aids really don't work.

Sorry, I'm late.

No, you're fine.

Anything crazy happen down on your end?

Just lots of dirt. Yeah? Yeah, just trying to stack everything up. Yeah,

really limited on space.

It's very tight up there.

Mitch and Brennan have been tripping ground at Sulphur Creek.

While at Dominion, Tyson's kept two wash plants flusing with new crews.

You got a new plant operator, Amy?

Yep. How's she doing?

She's doing really good, yeah. Is she? Going from being a school teacher to a

loader operator, so that's definitely the change of pace for her.

But, yeah, she's doing really good.

Is it, though?

If she was, like, a kindergarten to fifth grade, it's probably not that much

different.

I have to talk really slow to these guys so they understand me.

Don't eat the crayon.

Two plants running, though, all week.

Yeah, two plants. You got two plants, man. You're responsible for both of

Here we go, slucifer.

Wash plant slucifer's been running in the Golden Mile all week, and Parker's

hoping to see an uptick from last week's 112 ounces.

Let's see how the Golden Mile did.

10, 30, 40, 70, 80, 100 ounces.

120, 130, 150, 152 even.

Worth over $530 ,000, a 35 % increase from last

week. Perfect.

That's a lot better. A lot better. Picked up a few ounces over last week.

Definitely.

Working some kinks out.

Yeah. Next up, Bob at the Bridge Cut, which is averaging 143 ounces

a week.

We got 30, 50, 80, 100, 120, 140,

150, 156 .2.

Worth almost $550 ,000.

Wow, that was close, Dave. Yeah.

Those two plants are four ounces off each other. Just a couple ounces off of

each other. That's weird. Yeah, that's crazy.

This week, we got 308 .2 ounces.

which gives us a season total of 707 .9.

Tyson has nearly doubled their season total.

You know, last year at this time we were talking about 10 ,000 ounces and we

were all thinking it was pretty doable.

Are we thinking we're going to do it this year?

You're too early to ask that question.

You guys need to get on the board now.

Yeah, we'll do it.

Hopefully next week there'll be three pans lined up there. There will be.

Right.

Sounds like we don't got a choice.

No.

All right. Have a good one.

Thanks, Chris.