1 00:00:14,990 --> 00:00:16,570 I saw a few bones in the PayPal. 2 00:00:18,370 --> 00:00:19,850 Out of a mammoth tusk? 3 00:00:21,770 --> 00:00:23,450 Rib bone, I think. 4 00:00:24,710 --> 00:00:26,310 Right? Rib bone? 5 00:00:29,210 --> 00:00:30,210 I don't know. 6 00:00:36,390 --> 00:00:41,070 Yeah, so things are going really well so far. You know, we're, like, coming out 7 00:00:41,070 --> 00:00:43,490 of the gate, moving, and... 8 00:00:43,950 --> 00:00:47,790 We're over 2 ,000 ounces, but I'm waiting for something to go massively 9 00:00:47,790 --> 00:00:49,850 because things don't go this smoothly for very long. 10 00:00:50,930 --> 00:00:57,390 Six weeks into the season, 30 -year -old Parker Schnabel's plan to mine more 11 00:00:57,390 --> 00:01:01,590 than $35 million in gold is right on schedule. 12 00:01:03,090 --> 00:01:07,390 Tyson is being an animal this year. He's done over 1 ,500 ounces already here on 13 00:01:07,390 --> 00:01:10,930 Dominion. And then Mitch is doing a really good job over at Sulphur. 14 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,900 Hopper had over a 350 -ounce cleanup last week, and that's crazy. 15 00:01:18,140 --> 00:01:23,440 Parker's plan includes squeezing every ounce he can out of his Sulphur Creek 16 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,940 claim, where foreman Mitch Blaschke has been hunting for gold -rich pockets the 17 00:01:28,940 --> 00:01:30,220 old -timers missed. 18 00:01:31,690 --> 00:01:34,550 You know, it's been full throttle since the beginning of the season here in 19 00:01:34,550 --> 00:01:37,910 Sulphur, trying to get all the work done before the water license expires. Just 20 00:01:37,910 --> 00:01:41,390 want to make sure that we get what's ours and don't leave anything behind. 21 00:01:43,250 --> 00:01:46,830 Mitch is down to just three weeks to get it all done. 22 00:01:47,570 --> 00:01:53,550 Making the job harder, his top dirt mover, Brennan Rule, was recently sent 23 00:01:53,550 --> 00:01:55,570 open ground at their next claim. 24 00:01:56,060 --> 00:01:58,940 Right now we're threading a bunch of needles with Brandon trying to have the 25 00:01:58,940 --> 00:02:02,680 Indian River ready, Mitch trying to have sulfur done before the water life 26 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:07,140 expires. We need to get the whole project done, reclaimed, and be out. 27 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:17,599 How's it going? 28 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Good. 29 00:02:18,820 --> 00:02:20,080 How are you? Doing well. 30 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,400 Yeah. Nice to be getting to the close of this one. We can start the next 31 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:24,400 project. Yeah. 32 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:26,940 Holy, that's a hole. 33 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:28,700 Wow. 34 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:30,080 Very muddy hole. 35 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,820 Nobody's done any panning in here, I'm guessing. 36 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:42,220 Not on this upper section. 37 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,540 We were trying to get it out as fast as we could, get her to the plant. 38 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,860 Right. Well, I'll pan some of this, just out of curiosity. 39 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,020 All right, well, let's see what we've got. 40 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,740 Smoke. That's a hell of a pan. Must be 100 pieces of gold in there. 41 00:03:24,020 --> 00:03:25,220 Wow. Yeah. 42 00:03:26,180 --> 00:03:27,180 That's pretty wild. 43 00:03:28,260 --> 00:03:29,260 What do you think? 44 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:34,120 It's worth staying here a little longer and getting that last little bit of pay. 45 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:36,300 There's gold there, and that's what we're here for. 46 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,880 We got a lot of sluicing to do already this year. There's a lot of sluicing to 47 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,340 do. Always turns into a lot bigger project than we think, doesn't it? 48 00:03:44,780 --> 00:03:46,560 I want to stand up there and look at it. 49 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:55,780 How far does that go? 50 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,180 Straight to this tree right here. 51 00:03:58,560 --> 00:03:59,940 That's probably where I would go to. 52 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,220 You know, it's going to be tight. I could just have, like, Brennan come over 53 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:10,100 here. That's the best chance that you've got at getting the pay down here in 54 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:11,100 time and getting it ran. 55 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:12,888 That'd be sweet. 56 00:04:12,890 --> 00:04:13,970 All right, I'll keep you updated. 57 00:04:14,970 --> 00:04:20,070 Over the last six weeks, Mitch has dug out all the pay pockets of the two -acre 58 00:04:20,070 --> 00:04:23,590 cut and is sluicing the last of its stockpiled pay. 59 00:04:24,090 --> 00:04:30,710 But Parker believes the old -timer's dredge missed even more gold and thinks 60 00:04:30,710 --> 00:04:33,070 pay streak extends up to the road. 61 00:04:34,370 --> 00:04:40,510 He wants Mitch to expand the cut by another two acres and sluice all of its 62 00:04:40,510 --> 00:04:43,420 before... The water license runs out. 63 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:51,720 If Parker's move pays off, he could bank another 500 ounces worth 64 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,240 $1 .75 million. 65 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,820 just when we thought sulfur here was coming to a close in typical Parker 66 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:03,680 fashion. Now he's saying, you know, hey, I want even more dirt out of there. 67 00:05:03,820 --> 00:05:06,780 We're pushing this project all the way to its absolute limit. 68 00:05:07,060 --> 00:05:10,480 So I'm just hoping we can get everything done here in sluice, but it's just 69 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:11,480 messing with our timeline. 70 00:05:18,380 --> 00:05:19,380 Brother! 71 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,900 All right, the cavalry's here. We can certainly use the help. Woo! 72 00:05:26,130 --> 00:05:27,910 We're here, happy to help, man. 73 00:05:30,330 --> 00:05:35,610 To give Mitch a fighting chance, Parker has sent in the big gun. 74 00:05:36,010 --> 00:05:39,810 So we've got five trucks, two excavators, and the loader feeding the 75 00:05:41,570 --> 00:05:45,990 We're on a hot streak right now. Let's stay with it, finish it off, and get 76 00:05:45,990 --> 00:05:48,090 every speck of gold we can get out of here. 77 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,740 You know, everything up here is risk over reward. 78 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:56,840 And right now, the risk is we got ourselves a lot of dirt to move here and 79 00:05:56,840 --> 00:05:59,500 much time. But Parker thinks it's worth the reward. 80 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,060 First gold weight of the year. 81 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:18,500 You're always hoping for a good one, right? It can kind of set the pace for 82 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:19,279 rest of the year. 83 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:20,620 We had the opposite of that. 84 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:26,880 A hundred miles away, Rick Ness is still trying to recover from a major setback 85 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:32,880 after failing to obtain the water license needed to mine his gold -rich 86 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:33,880 Creek claim. 87 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:40,800 The diamond cut on his new claim at Lightning Creek delivered just seven 88 00:06:41,390 --> 00:06:45,610 We're always in a race against time, but we start having gold waves like that, 89 00:06:45,650 --> 00:06:47,170 it just becomes even more and more serious. 90 00:06:47,390 --> 00:06:50,150 There's no way we can make money off of that, but that doesn't mean that we can 91 00:06:50,150 --> 00:06:51,270 just call it quits here. 92 00:06:51,610 --> 00:06:54,270 Rick now finds himself in deep water. 93 00:06:54,830 --> 00:07:00,530 He's had to shut down wash plant Rocky, but has just one week to pay landowner 94 00:07:00,530 --> 00:07:05,970 Troy Taylor 100 ounces to complete his purchase of Lightning Creek. 95 00:07:07,070 --> 00:07:09,710 We've got to move on. We've got to strip some new ground. We've already started 96 00:07:09,710 --> 00:07:11,910 that. We've moved up the valley. We've just got to pivot and pivot quick. 97 00:07:14,410 --> 00:07:18,350 We're late to the game this season, so we had to come into this location. 98 00:07:19,290 --> 00:07:21,790 It's definitely not as good ground as Vegas Valley. 99 00:07:22,170 --> 00:07:24,990 Hopefully we can get gold out of here to at least pay the bills. 100 00:07:27,010 --> 00:07:32,170 Everyone's getting pretty beat down. When you see low numbers and no gold 101 00:07:32,170 --> 00:07:33,890 in, it doesn't feel too good. 102 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,660 It's definitely getting a little stressful, you know, behind the gun 103 00:07:39,660 --> 00:07:42,840 we're going to shift over here and change the odds. 104 00:07:43,340 --> 00:07:45,140 Hopefully start running some pay dirt soon. 105 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,540 This is definitely the beginning of working our way up the valley for sure. 106 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:55,100 You know, we need as much uncovered as we can, but pretty much it's just going 107 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:56,100 to be trial and error. 108 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,860 We want to make sure that, you know, this is going to be good pay and not 109 00:07:59,860 --> 00:08:03,420 garbage. Rick's going to come down and figure out what he wants me to do moving 110 00:08:03,420 --> 00:08:04,420 forward. 111 00:08:09,620 --> 00:08:10,620 Look at it. 112 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:13,900 What you thinking, Bailey? 113 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,740 It's like bedrock right there. 114 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:17,600 And then it goes to sand. 115 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,520 Obviously, you don't want sand, but... Interesting. 116 00:08:24,260 --> 00:08:27,220 There's no telling what this bedrock might do. You probably just have to 117 00:08:27,220 --> 00:08:28,220 it. Yes. 118 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,800 Some of that along the bank looks like pay. 119 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:34,580 Okay. But there's a spot right there with a bigger rock. 120 00:08:35,659 --> 00:08:37,179 Look at that big rock right there. 121 00:08:38,570 --> 00:08:39,590 That's what we want to see. 122 00:08:39,950 --> 00:08:40,950 Nice. 123 00:08:41,850 --> 00:08:43,730 Do you want that top, gravelly stuff? 124 00:08:44,670 --> 00:08:45,670 I think so. 125 00:08:46,890 --> 00:08:48,550 Yeah, I would say that's the stuff we run. 126 00:08:48,770 --> 00:08:52,750 Bigger rocks should mean bigger deposits of gold. 127 00:08:53,530 --> 00:09:00,270 Over 150 ,000 years ago, a giant glacier eroded and picked up gold 128 00:09:00,270 --> 00:09:02,190 from the Mount Hinton Motherlode. 129 00:09:02,450 --> 00:09:05,890 A massive ice sheet bulldozed down the valley. 130 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,620 tearing up the landscape. 131 00:09:09,020 --> 00:09:14,660 When the ice melted, the gold settled in scattered pockets with the heavy rocks 132 00:09:14,660 --> 00:09:15,660 and boulders. 133 00:09:17,460 --> 00:09:20,340 I like it. Get the plant running. That'd be great. 134 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,260 You call this the boulder cut? 135 00:09:22,540 --> 00:09:25,460 Cool. Hopefully it's got gold in it. Thanks, man. 136 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:26,760 Yep. 137 00:09:28,780 --> 00:09:31,440 Bailey's getting on it right here. Doing a good job of getting it stripped off. 138 00:09:32,220 --> 00:09:34,980 There's a lot more bigger boulders and stuff in that ground. It just looks more 139 00:09:34,980 --> 00:09:37,260 promising, so I've got a good feeling about that. 140 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,080 We're all pretty excited to run this stuff. 141 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,200 We'll get this fired up, and we'll start pounding dirt through it. 142 00:09:57,260 --> 00:10:01,980 pay to the plant let's pay there jeffy looks uh you know a lot better than uh 143 00:10:01,980 --> 00:10:06,500 the diamond cut you know there is big rocks in here i'm hoping it's going to 144 00:10:06,500 --> 00:10:06,960 really good 145 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:21,380 something 146 00:10:21,380 --> 00:10:24,980 going on with the bucket it's not feeling proper it doesn't have any 147 00:10:24,980 --> 00:10:26,020 trying to curl right now 148 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:30,680 Hey, Ryan, you got a copy, man? 149 00:10:30,940 --> 00:10:31,599 Go ahead, baby. 150 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,340 Yeah, something's wrong with the 750 for sure. 151 00:10:33,620 --> 00:10:35,540 Okay. All right, man, give me just a minute and I'll be over. 152 00:10:36,140 --> 00:10:40,240 Hopefully, Ryan can get down here and figure out what's going on because this 153 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,120 our main machine. That's the only thing that we got down here that can load rock 154 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,880 trucks quick enough. So right now, we're on a standstill. 155 00:10:59,340 --> 00:11:02,280 We've got issues with 750 right now. 156 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,120 I've probably got a couple more hours worth of pay here. 157 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:10,080 If there's no pay as is planned, there's no gold in the box. So it's pretty 158 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,000 crucial to have that thing back up and running. 159 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:18,660 At Lightning Creek, the Neskruz 750 excavator has gone down, preventing them 160 00:11:18,660 --> 00:11:21,860 from digging pay dirt from the new boulder cuts. 161 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:26,740 I'd zip that plate off. Let's make as much room as we can. I'll get in there 162 00:11:26,740 --> 00:11:27,860 I'll crack it open. 163 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:34,100 All right. 164 00:11:34,340 --> 00:11:35,460 Way here. 165 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:41,180 All righty. Okay. 166 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,640 We've got a pilot hose over here that comes from the back main pump and goes 167 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,020 the way up just underneath the cab that's chafing pretty bad. 168 00:11:50,020 --> 00:11:55,800 The 750 excavator's bucket moves forward when hydraulic fluid is pumped through 169 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:01,400 a hose into a cylinder with a piston at 5 ,000 pounds per square inch. 170 00:12:01,980 --> 00:12:06,800 The bucket is then forced to retract when the cylinder is injected with 171 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,500 hydraulic fluid by a second hose. 172 00:12:10,820 --> 00:12:16,240 Ryan has discovered this hose has a leak in the body of the excavator near the 173 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:17,240 pump. 174 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:27,840 He plans to disconnect the hose and remove it, then replace it with a new 175 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,240 restoring the hydraulic system's full pressure. 176 00:12:31,750 --> 00:12:37,490 allowing the bucket to once again hold six yards of boulder pay dirt with each 177 00:12:37,490 --> 00:12:38,490 scoop. 178 00:12:46,710 --> 00:12:48,110 Right here? Yeah, go ahead. 179 00:12:48,590 --> 00:12:49,590 Oh yeah, you're good. 180 00:12:52,690 --> 00:12:53,569 Look at this. 181 00:12:53,570 --> 00:12:54,710 Yeah, right there. 182 00:12:55,890 --> 00:13:00,050 So, this will get us going, get us back in the pay, and keep things rolling. 183 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,180 All right, got it all zip -tied up. 184 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:08,540 Gonna get our bottom plates on, get our top plate mounted back, and Bailey will 185 00:13:08,540 --> 00:13:09,540 be back at it. 186 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:10,900 Oh, baby. 187 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:17,820 All right, bottom side good. 188 00:13:18,780 --> 00:13:19,880 There you go. Perfect. 189 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:23,720 Hey, Bailey, 756. 190 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,760 We've got the 750 up and running again, which is awesome. 191 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:34,100 We've got three trucks. 192 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,100 We've got to hurry up here and get that pay to the plant. 193 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,960 I really need this to work out. We all need this to work out. This is our spot 194 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,800 for the summer, and we need to get some gold out of it. I'm not going to sleep 195 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:54,060 well until I get a whole run out of this ground. If it doesn't start showing us 196 00:13:54,060 --> 00:13:57,160 gold, well, what good is it? 197 00:13:57,460 --> 00:13:58,800 I'm not full panic mode. 198 00:13:59,130 --> 00:14:03,990 But I definitely got my hand over the panic button. 199 00:14:20,050 --> 00:14:23,130 So far the season went pretty good. 200 00:14:23,410 --> 00:14:25,430 So I'm happy, happy as they say. 201 00:14:26,110 --> 00:14:32,340 A month and a half into his season, King of the Klondike, Tony Beef, is cashing 202 00:14:32,340 --> 00:14:34,180 in on his early bird cut. 203 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:44,760 He's already banked over 1 ,800 ounces of his 204 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:49,440 6 ,500 -ounce target and is now opening the corner cut. 205 00:14:58,640 --> 00:14:59,640 to get down to play. 206 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:05,320 But we should have plenty of time to get it all set up and do some serious 207 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,780 listening. The minute we'll figure it out, voila. 208 00:15:09,220 --> 00:15:13,780 But Mike, when he has his trommel going, well, then we'll just see what we can 209 00:15:13,780 --> 00:15:14,780 pull off. 210 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:21,400 Forty miles away, on Paradise Hill. 211 00:15:22,580 --> 00:15:23,740 Pretty busy right now. 212 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:25,560 Here at Mike's shipping department. 213 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:27,600 Turn my way a bit. 214 00:15:28,740 --> 00:15:29,860 So we got the next one. 215 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,520 I'm told to get this organized. I'm told to get this ready. I'm told to get this 216 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,060 going. This is all Indians River. 217 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:36,400 I'm just a delivery boy. 218 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:40,820 Problem's not going to happen anytime soon at this rate. 219 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:45,360 You want the gold? My dad's going to have to leave me alone and let me do it. 220 00:15:47,180 --> 00:15:51,340 At the start of the season, you gave Kevin a bunch of help getting him going. 221 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:53,460 So is there anything you're going to help us with? 222 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,820 Tony's youngest son, Mike, made a case. 223 00:15:58,080 --> 00:15:59,080 for his own claim. 224 00:15:59,380 --> 00:16:02,700 There's some opportunities out there. Let's get these two places here going 225 00:16:02,700 --> 00:16:03,760 first, and then we'll talk. 226 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,800 Tony tasked Mike with getting their Paradise Hill operation running. 227 00:16:10,340 --> 00:16:14,800 But two weeks ago... I don't know what the f*** is going on. Tony stole half of 228 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,180 his equipment and crew. 229 00:16:16,460 --> 00:16:18,900 If you don't like it, I guess that sucks to be him. 230 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,900 You try to take all my people and then expect me to still run the hill? 231 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:33,360 Now. Mike's Paradise Hill trommel still fits idle, and he has no gold coming 232 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:34,360 in. 233 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:37,180 Hey, what's going on? 234 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:41,760 What's the problem? 235 00:16:43,340 --> 00:16:46,440 Right now I'm at equipment I can do one project at a time. I can loose, I can 236 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:51,460 strip. I do not have enough to do both, which means I'm going to be able to run 237 00:16:51,460 --> 00:16:52,460 the trommel here. 238 00:16:52,540 --> 00:16:53,540 You will not. 239 00:16:57,930 --> 00:17:00,630 You know Tony's train of thought, right? 240 00:17:01,010 --> 00:17:05,490 The Indian is the only thing that's producing right now, so that's what he 241 00:17:05,490 --> 00:17:06,490 to focus on. 242 00:17:08,609 --> 00:17:11,130 There's a little bit of worry that he takes your equipment. 243 00:17:11,670 --> 00:17:12,990 Why can't I start taking it back? 244 00:17:13,869 --> 00:17:17,670 That would go over really well. You and I both know that, so that's not going to 245 00:17:17,670 --> 00:17:18,670 happen. 246 00:17:19,010 --> 00:17:21,510 So what are you going to do now? Do you have a plan B? 247 00:17:22,829 --> 00:17:25,369 We have a Harold, a nice plant to send down in Hester. 248 00:17:26,430 --> 00:17:27,470 Basically stupid proof. 249 00:17:27,930 --> 00:17:31,250 Just got to refuse some pipe, hook it up to the pump, test the pump. 250 00:17:32,490 --> 00:17:35,110 And then I just got to get an excavator and a loader down there, and I could be 251 00:17:35,110 --> 00:17:36,150 sleuthing. That's great. 252 00:17:38,090 --> 00:17:43,510 How would you feel to just have your own claim, just your stuff, no interference 253 00:17:43,510 --> 00:17:45,170 with your father, like Kevin? 254 00:17:46,090 --> 00:17:47,390 I would like it. It would be fun. 255 00:17:47,670 --> 00:17:48,830 You think that's going to happen? 256 00:17:49,530 --> 00:17:51,590 No. He's too busy out there. 257 00:17:52,690 --> 00:17:53,990 Want to have a little wager? 258 00:17:55,790 --> 00:17:57,110 Ten bucks, I say it will. 259 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,880 We can also take 20 bucks. 260 00:18:00,860 --> 00:18:01,860 You're scared? 261 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:04,480 20 bucks. 262 00:18:07,860 --> 00:18:10,940 With that being said, I do think you have to go back to work. 263 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,600 I'll see you later. 264 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:20,100 Mike got a little bit rough end of the deal here because he doesn't have all 265 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:21,100 people and all the equipment. 266 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,940 But it's just the way Tony is. 267 00:18:24,540 --> 00:18:27,340 He focuses on what's right in front of him. 268 00:18:27,790 --> 00:18:30,650 not what's 60 miles down the road. 269 00:18:32,050 --> 00:18:37,930 Mike plans to use what little equipment Tony left behind to make a quick score 270 00:18:37,930 --> 00:18:43,530 by sluicing a pile of old -timer tailings that he believes are rich in 271 00:18:44,450 --> 00:18:49,250 But first, he has to connect the water supply to wash plant Harold. 272 00:18:50,770 --> 00:18:54,670 So I'm going to be testing out our new fusing machine here. Without no water, 273 00:18:54,750 --> 00:18:55,750 you ain't sluicing at all. 274 00:18:57,770 --> 00:19:00,030 If Mike can fit through, the pipe will fit. 275 00:19:02,430 --> 00:19:04,210 Spread your wings and fly, Mike. 276 00:19:08,030 --> 00:19:11,270 It works. 277 00:19:14,530 --> 00:19:17,490 Right now we lift up the pipe so I can line it up. 278 00:19:19,390 --> 00:19:20,390 My way. 279 00:19:21,010 --> 00:19:23,870 Stop. I just lined them up. I'm tightening them up now. 280 00:19:24,570 --> 00:19:26,490 I'm waiting for the heating pad to warm up. 281 00:19:27,340 --> 00:19:29,060 Put it in there? Yep. Okay. 282 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:33,260 That melts the pipe, so that when I push it together, it fuses. 283 00:19:34,620 --> 00:19:35,620 Get ready. 284 00:19:36,860 --> 00:19:37,860 There you go. 285 00:19:41,820 --> 00:19:42,820 It's working. 286 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:50,300 I heard thunder. 287 00:19:51,060 --> 00:19:52,520 Pull the tongue, bring it over here. 288 00:19:55,340 --> 00:19:56,740 Now it's raining pretty good. 289 00:19:57,150 --> 00:19:57,949 Hold it up! 290 00:19:57,950 --> 00:20:00,030 Try to cover it so it doesn't get pissed on rain. 291 00:20:00,410 --> 00:20:06,290 If rain gets into the melted junction, air bubbles will form, and the fuse will 292 00:20:06,290 --> 00:20:08,050 burst under high water pressure. 293 00:20:14,250 --> 00:20:17,770 If we don't get this fuse together, I ain't getting no water to Harold. 294 00:20:25,590 --> 00:20:26,590 Yeah, it'll be good. 295 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,100 The rain seems to be stopping. You guys can take it off. 296 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:36,800 Before Mike can test if the fuses will hold, he needs to connect the pipe to 297 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,260 pump across the creek. 298 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:41,860 Lift it up in the air. 299 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,220 Yeah, looking good. 300 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,340 Excellent. That's good, Zach. 301 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:53,720 Pull it in. 302 00:20:58,909 --> 00:21:01,210 Cut! Next step is to put the suction in. 303 00:21:01,810 --> 00:21:05,950 Chain this up. Try not to get hit in the face with a bucket because it's not on 304 00:21:05,950 --> 00:21:07,330 my bucket list to do. 305 00:21:19,810 --> 00:21:21,470 Pipes are all hooked up, fused together. 306 00:21:21,770 --> 00:21:25,670 All I have to do is test fire the pump, make sure everything's working good. 307 00:21:43,470 --> 00:21:44,690 Enough water. That's good. 308 00:21:45,370 --> 00:21:46,630 Lovely. I love it. 309 00:21:47,790 --> 00:21:49,110 I'm firing up. 310 00:21:56,010 --> 00:21:57,010 Everything's working. 311 00:21:59,430 --> 00:22:01,390 First scoop into Harold. Here we go. 312 00:22:06,870 --> 00:22:11,850 For the first time this season, Mike is on the go. 313 00:22:13,950 --> 00:22:15,550 Nice to finally get this thing going. 314 00:22:15,750 --> 00:22:16,750 Got it there. 315 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:43,340 It was brutal. There's no way we would have made this happen without the trucks 316 00:22:43,340 --> 00:22:44,560 and the extra help up here. 317 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:49,280 But we are finally down to pay, and we're going to load that in the trucks 318 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:50,280 haul it down to Roxanne. 319 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:56,940 At Sulphur Creek, Mitch Blaschke has hit pay in the first section of the new two 320 00:22:56,940 --> 00:22:57,940 -acre extension. 321 00:22:58,660 --> 00:23:04,980 Now, his crew is in a race to sloop it all before the water license runs out in 322 00:23:04,980 --> 00:23:06,220 less than three weeks. 323 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:08,760 Holy... 324 00:23:10,929 --> 00:23:17,050 Loader operator Sean Holcroft is feeding the new pay through wash plant Roxanne. 325 00:23:18,190 --> 00:23:22,630 Parker, he's got some deadlines going, so we really got to bust our balls here 326 00:23:22,630 --> 00:23:26,870 and get moving. I got this old 220 loader, things a little ancient. 327 00:23:27,150 --> 00:23:30,250 Still able to wash rocks with the plant, but she's a bit of a rough ride. 328 00:23:30,690 --> 00:23:32,850 I have my second year down here now. 329 00:23:33,150 --> 00:23:36,490 A big step up for me, a little bit more responsibilities. They're letting me do 330 00:23:36,490 --> 00:23:37,289 a lot more. 331 00:23:37,290 --> 00:23:38,910 It's pretty awesome to have this opportunity. 332 00:23:39,610 --> 00:23:40,610 I really love it. 333 00:23:46,410 --> 00:23:48,630 I don't know what's going on with this thing. 334 00:23:50,750 --> 00:23:52,930 Looks like it's got brakes locking up. 335 00:23:55,570 --> 00:23:56,710 Let's take half load. 336 00:23:58,330 --> 00:23:59,330 Oh. 337 00:24:01,550 --> 00:24:02,550 Gainful, man. 338 00:24:04,890 --> 00:24:07,070 Getting a little hydraulic oil born in here. 339 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:18,460 Yeah, Mitch, it's 220 here. It's up real bad. I guess they got no power, barely 340 00:24:18,460 --> 00:24:19,480 making it up this ramp. 341 00:24:19,820 --> 00:24:22,760 There's no way I'm going to be able to keep up with this, even at 100 yards an 342 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:23,760 hour. 343 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:26,060 This is not what we need right now. 344 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:35,720 Unfortunately, with 220 being down right now, we're going to shut Roxanne down. 345 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:39,000 Shutting down Roxanne could mean losing. 346 00:24:39,530 --> 00:24:42,170 Over $8 ,000 an hour. 347 00:24:42,590 --> 00:24:46,870 Parker has all these ambitions and things he wants us to do this season, 348 00:24:46,870 --> 00:24:49,710 got one old loader out here, and right now we're not sleuthing. 349 00:24:51,730 --> 00:24:56,490 To fix the loader, Mitch calls in mechanic Taylor Matejka. 350 00:24:58,390 --> 00:25:01,890 I've got an alarm for low hydraulic oil. You can see there's nothing in the 351 00:25:01,890 --> 00:25:02,890 sight glass. 352 00:25:04,530 --> 00:25:08,990 With the machine running, the transmission oil was way high. 353 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:11,340 It should be at the bottom of the sight glass here. 354 00:25:11,740 --> 00:25:13,040 We're way over full. 355 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,900 So what caused this is the parking brake. 356 00:25:16,380 --> 00:25:20,700 And it's got a piston inside with seals that release the parking brake. These 357 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:24,620 seals have failed and the parking brake is dragging and it's filling the 358 00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:26,000 transmission with hydraulic oil. 359 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:33,960 I'm just going to pull the drain plug on the transmission here and we'll let her 360 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:34,960 box. 361 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:43,320 Hopefully it's just the seals, but if a piece got between the piston and the 362 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:48,160 housing, we might have a piston, and that's going to be a huge problem. 363 00:25:49,380 --> 00:25:54,380 The 220 loader's parking brake is spring -loaded and controlled by hydraulic 364 00:25:54,380 --> 00:25:55,380 pressure. 365 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:02,400 To access the brake, Taylor refers cages by using three bolts that compress the 366 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,880 spring, releasing the brake and securing the piston to the brake cover. 367 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:13,140 We will then remove the 16 bolts that hold the cover in place and lift off the 368 00:26:13,140 --> 00:26:14,960 caged parking brake piston. 369 00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:21,180 Taylor can then remove and replace the damaged seals before reinstalling the 370 00:26:21,180 --> 00:26:26,560 brake, uncaging the springs, and refilling the hydraulic oil, allowing 371 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,740 parking brake to function properly. 372 00:26:30,340 --> 00:26:34,260 We're just buzzing the parking brake out here. We've got it caged with these 373 00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:35,260 three bolts. 374 00:26:38,540 --> 00:26:42,280 there we go we'll take it out put it on the back of my truck hopefully this 375 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:48,580 thing is not because we can't afford a down loader you can see here there's no 376 00:26:48,580 --> 00:26:52,760 real damage to the piston but the parking brake seal is completely we need 377 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:58,320 replace it sean was right to give me a shout right away we'll swap the seals 378 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:04,720 and put this thing back together let's get started we'll peel these seals off 379 00:27:07,670 --> 00:27:10,350 We're at the assembly stage now, just putting these seals in. 380 00:27:10,950 --> 00:27:12,270 Hey, Taylor, you got a copy, Taylor? 381 00:27:13,710 --> 00:27:14,669 Yeah, go ahead. 382 00:27:14,670 --> 00:27:15,750 How's it going over there, man? 383 00:27:16,410 --> 00:27:19,410 We're putting new seals in the parking brake right now. Thank God it was just 384 00:27:19,410 --> 00:27:22,990 the seals and we had them in stock. Give us about an hour and a half, two hours, 385 00:27:23,070 --> 00:27:24,070 and this thing will be up and running. 386 00:27:24,170 --> 00:27:26,430 All right, man. We'll be ready for it. 387 00:27:26,790 --> 00:27:29,610 Mitch is chomping at the bit to get this thing up and running, and it's just, 388 00:27:29,650 --> 00:27:31,590 you know, race against time to get this thing back together. 389 00:27:33,950 --> 00:27:34,950 It's all good. 390 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,200 Fill it with transmission oil. 391 00:27:47,420 --> 00:27:49,260 We can be back to making money. 392 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:53,840 Transmission's full. 393 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:55,940 Parking brake's reassembled, refilled. 394 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:57,640 Everything's hooked up. 395 00:27:59,460 --> 00:28:00,460 Lay down. 396 00:28:01,220 --> 00:28:02,220 Good boy. 397 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:14,140 We're going to take it down to Sean so they can go fire up rock done. 398 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:22,499 Yeah, buddy. 399 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:28,920 Thanks, man. Five hours after shutting down and $40 ,000 of gold production 400 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,720 lost, Roxanne is back in the game. 401 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,860 Washing rocks, Roxanne shaking, getting that gold. 402 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:43,460 We got Roxanne on a good clip here. It's loosening along very nicely. We're 403 00:28:43,460 --> 00:28:47,100 pushing this project here at Sulphur all the way to its absolute limit. 404 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,380 We're getting through it, but... 405 00:28:50,020 --> 00:28:51,180 We're not out of the woods yet. 406 00:29:18,250 --> 00:29:22,190 We understand we're not mining Vegas Valley. It's different. It's up for us 407 00:29:22,190 --> 00:29:23,650 prove that there is something here. 408 00:29:23,930 --> 00:29:25,110 It's going to be nonstop. 409 00:29:25,350 --> 00:29:28,370 It's not going to be an easy season. 410 00:29:28,690 --> 00:29:30,770 I think this will be our toughest season with Rick. 411 00:29:31,710 --> 00:29:37,730 Rick's crew is loosing pay dirt from the new boulder cut, which they hope will 412 00:29:37,730 --> 00:29:39,290 finally deliver some gold. 413 00:29:40,110 --> 00:29:43,350 We're going to probably work our way up this valley probably all season. 414 00:29:43,470 --> 00:29:47,410 Hopefully, the farther we go or the more that we run, the better it looks. 415 00:30:18,990 --> 00:30:19,990 What's going on? 416 00:30:21,810 --> 00:30:22,810 I got some news. 417 00:30:40,990 --> 00:30:41,990 What's going on? 418 00:30:43,810 --> 00:30:44,810 I got some news. 419 00:30:47,630 --> 00:30:49,230 We got a water license on Lord Duncan. 420 00:30:49,810 --> 00:30:50,810 Really? Yeah. 421 00:30:52,270 --> 00:30:53,330 Yeah. Yeah. 422 00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:54,870 That's actually really good news. 423 00:30:55,270 --> 00:30:56,270 Got something for you guys. 424 00:31:11,790 --> 00:31:15,330 We got the news today from the attorney. They granted an extension until 425 00:31:15,330 --> 00:31:16,330 November 2025. 426 00:31:16,390 --> 00:31:19,930 We can go break ground in Vegas Valley, start draining it. We can get gold from 427 00:31:19,930 --> 00:31:21,790 Vegas Valley this year. Was that a verified email? 428 00:31:22,130 --> 00:31:29,110 A verified email, yes. We 100 % have a water license, a land use permit, and 429 00:31:29,110 --> 00:31:30,310 everything at Lower Duncan. 430 00:31:30,510 --> 00:31:36,710 In just four years, Rick's claim on Lower Duncan paid out nearly 6 ,000 431 00:31:37,090 --> 00:31:41,350 But after losing the water license, he had to abandon it. 432 00:31:41,580 --> 00:31:47,780 including a pay pile that could contain more than $1 .4 million in gold. 433 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,360 We already got a pile up there ready to run, and, you know, we can actually run 434 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,300 that now. So what does that mean for this deal? 435 00:31:57,180 --> 00:32:00,340 Well, that's a good point because we can't just walk away from this. I 436 00:32:00,340 --> 00:32:02,700 Troy another 100 ounces to buy Lightning Creek. 437 00:32:03,620 --> 00:32:06,040 I'm not just going to pull 100 ounces out of here and give it to Troy and walk 438 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:06,759 the f*** away. 439 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,640 You know, we've got to pull some serious gold out of here. 440 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:10,800 But this is really good news. 441 00:32:11,290 --> 00:32:14,850 I don't even think you've seen the best out of Vegas Valley yet. No, and I'm 442 00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:17,510 hoping we haven't seen the best out of this. You know, I think our future is 443 00:32:17,510 --> 00:32:18,449 really bright. 444 00:32:18,450 --> 00:32:21,370 I've got a lot to figure out, but we've got a water license that we are going 445 00:32:21,370 --> 00:32:22,370 back to Vegas Valley. 446 00:32:22,830 --> 00:32:23,830 This is cause for celebration. 447 00:32:24,470 --> 00:32:25,590 Yeah. All right, guys. 448 00:32:26,550 --> 00:32:27,550 All right. 449 00:32:28,670 --> 00:32:35,330 You know, in my head right now, I'm very happy. There's a lot going on right 450 00:32:35,330 --> 00:32:38,070 now. It's like one extreme to the other, right? We had no water license. Now 451 00:32:38,070 --> 00:32:40,350 we've got a water license in two spots, you know. 452 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,220 I want to just run to Vegas Valley. I know the gold's there, but I've got 453 00:32:43,220 --> 00:32:46,020 obligations on Lightning Creek. You know, I owe Troy 100 ounces. You know, 454 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,160 that's a quarter million dollars. So there's a lot to figure out, but at the 455 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:50,160 of the day, this is good news. 456 00:33:08,010 --> 00:33:09,570 It's nice to be finally solution. 457 00:33:09,810 --> 00:33:10,930 It's been a long time coming. 458 00:33:11,430 --> 00:33:18,070 At Paradise Hill, despite a lack of equipment, Mike is determined to prove 459 00:33:18,070 --> 00:33:21,130 his dad that he can bring in the gold. 460 00:33:21,630 --> 00:33:23,250 Be careful not to overload it. 461 00:33:25,070 --> 00:33:28,890 It's nice to get this going. It's exactly what I wanted. Closer and closer 462 00:33:28,890 --> 00:33:29,890 time. 463 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:40,960 Hold the bypass. 464 00:33:49,940 --> 00:33:50,940 Ugh. 465 00:33:51,340 --> 00:33:52,760 This is going to be a pain in the ass. 466 00:33:54,060 --> 00:33:56,720 Yeah, but that's got to get fixed before we can keep going. 467 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,020 I'm going to lift this up, take these off so I can get this little orange 468 00:34:02,020 --> 00:34:03,320 here, and I can check the rubber. 469 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,340 If you open the excavator, I'll wrap it around. We'll just lift it. 470 00:34:21,060 --> 00:34:22,760 Yeah, because these are coming off like butter. 471 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,380 My gas gets ripped completely. 472 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,159 Yeah, she ripped right apart. 473 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,380 My only two rubbers I got are too small or even too big. 474 00:34:39,909 --> 00:34:42,250 You can make that work, though. You know what I mean? 475 00:34:42,830 --> 00:34:43,830 Cut holes. 476 00:34:44,630 --> 00:34:45,969 We're going to have to around with it. 477 00:34:50,850 --> 00:34:54,130 What we're going to do is mark out all the holes, and then we'll just push the 478 00:34:54,130 --> 00:34:55,130 bolt holes through. 479 00:35:01,890 --> 00:35:05,350 Then I'm going to cut, and yeah, the bolt will fit through it. 480 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:09,680 Yeah, there should be 12. 481 00:35:12,420 --> 00:35:14,340 A little scabby, but it'll work. 482 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:20,660 For the bush pick gasket to work, it must form a tight seal between the two 483 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:21,740 metal flanges. 484 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:23,800 A little bit more on my way. There we go. 485 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,880 If we do this and it works, it should last and hold forever. 486 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,080 Hey, that's my butt. 487 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:39,600 Let her down. 488 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:46,400 That's tight. 489 00:35:46,660 --> 00:35:47,780 This should all work. 490 00:36:13,169 --> 00:36:14,510 Finally getting this done. 491 00:36:14,910 --> 00:36:18,290 My dad would be happy to get any gold. So I'm going to grab every ounce of gold 492 00:36:18,290 --> 00:36:19,310 I can out of that dirt. 493 00:36:20,590 --> 00:36:22,950 Between me and Colby, we should be able to get this thing going. 494 00:36:23,610 --> 00:36:25,450 This will be running for the rest of the season. 495 00:36:34,790 --> 00:36:38,850 Mike Beetz may be dreaming of his own Klondike kingdom. 496 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,060 But there is already a crown. 497 00:36:41,340 --> 00:36:42,480 He wears proud. 498 00:36:43,860 --> 00:36:47,080 According to everyone, I'm the king of crowns, and this should be nothing new. 499 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,400 Go chase the beaver. 500 00:36:53,280 --> 00:37:00,080 You make me... I leave you guys alone for, what, 501 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,200 two minutes, and then you're crowned again? 502 00:37:02,660 --> 00:37:03,660 Let's go. 503 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:04,680 Ah, it's... 504 00:37:24,859 --> 00:37:25,859 Thanks, man. 505 00:37:27,620 --> 00:37:28,780 How are you? No fire? 506 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:30,380 No, too hot for that. 507 00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:31,359 It's hot. 508 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,380 Summer finally got here. Yeah, it came fast. 509 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,320 It was a smart move to pivot from a diamond cut. There's no way we can make 510 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:38,320 living off it. 511 00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:41,240 I like the spot that we moved to. 512 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:45,720 It's definitely looking better in every way. There's boulders there. Yeah, it is 513 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:49,540 nicer material compared to that stuff that we just dug at the start of the 514 00:37:49,540 --> 00:37:50,319 diamond cut. 515 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:51,960 So we're on the right track. Yeah. 516 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,340 Well, I guess maybe we should weigh up the gold. 517 00:37:55,480 --> 00:38:01,260 Rick's previous spot, the diamond cut, produced just 7 .35 ounces. 518 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:08,440 Now, he's hoping the new boulder cut will deliver at least 30 ounces for its 519 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,200 time. All right, count it out. 520 00:38:14,020 --> 00:38:18,840 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12. 521 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:27,480 18, 20, 22, 22 .35. 522 00:38:29,380 --> 00:38:32,140 Worth $78 ,000. 523 00:38:33,660 --> 00:38:34,660 Definitely an improvement. 524 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:36,760 You've got to look at it that way. 525 00:38:36,980 --> 00:38:37,980 Three times better. 526 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:39,120 Yeah. 527 00:38:39,820 --> 00:38:42,620 I mean, obviously, that water license coming in is huge. 528 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:45,260 But a lot of decisions come with that, you know. 529 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,260 There's a lot of pieces that have to fall into place. 530 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,000 What's going through your head? 531 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:51,320 Tough it out here? 532 00:38:51,740 --> 00:38:56,560 I mean, we're going to have to go back to Vegas Valley. I mean, I want to. 533 00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:00,420 And maybe at the end of the day, this is just not the happening spot right here. 534 00:39:02,740 --> 00:39:07,140 We can't abandon this place. I did buy it, but the one thing that I can say is 535 00:39:07,140 --> 00:39:09,880 that we can't afford to just shut this down while we're, you know. 536 00:39:10,460 --> 00:39:13,140 We've got to take advantage of all the solution hours we can get. How many gold 537 00:39:13,140 --> 00:39:16,800 ways do we say there can be improvement before we finally say we need to get our 538 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:17,840 assets back to Vegas Valley? 539 00:39:18,270 --> 00:39:22,590 At the end of the day, I owe Troy, you know, 100 ounces on this ground. So we 540 00:39:22,590 --> 00:39:24,910 can't just walk away from it right now. It's the only spot we're getting gold 541 00:39:24,910 --> 00:39:28,190 from. Does he care where the 100 ounces comes from? Because I'm telling you now, 542 00:39:28,290 --> 00:39:31,690 you're going to get 100 ounces a lot quicker. You do the math, it doesn't 543 00:39:31,690 --> 00:39:34,210 sense to hit 1 ,800 ounces by the end of the season. You know, it's going to 544 00:39:34,210 --> 00:39:37,410 take a while to get Vegas Valley ready. So the minute we're able to swoosh down 545 00:39:37,410 --> 00:39:40,750 there, we will go there. That's a promise. I think we should go there now. 546 00:39:41,230 --> 00:39:42,330 Well, that's too bad. 547 00:39:43,750 --> 00:39:44,750 I think there's gold here. 548 00:39:46,850 --> 00:39:47,910 I hope you're... All right. 549 00:39:48,250 --> 00:39:49,610 Definitely the pressure's going to be on, man. 550 00:39:54,230 --> 00:39:55,770 Thanks, guys. I appreciate it. 551 00:39:56,250 --> 00:39:59,650 Yeah, this gold wave is better than last week, but it's not as good as what 552 00:39:59,650 --> 00:40:03,210 lower Duncan could be. There could be 400 ounces in that pay pile. 553 00:40:03,550 --> 00:40:07,470 So, you know, for us to try to reach 1 ,800 ounces, we need to be down there 554 00:40:07,470 --> 00:40:08,388 right away. 555 00:40:08,390 --> 00:40:12,170 Well, the gold total for the week, 22 .3 ounces. Yeah, three times as good. But 556 00:40:12,170 --> 00:40:15,050 the exciting thing is we got the water life extension back on Duncan Creek, so 557 00:40:15,050 --> 00:40:16,050 we go back to Vegas Valley. 558 00:40:16,849 --> 00:40:17,769 Huge news. 559 00:40:17,770 --> 00:40:19,630 Now everybody's just arguing on when. 560 00:40:20,030 --> 00:40:22,630 They want to go there immediately, but the timing's just not right. It's going 561 00:40:22,630 --> 00:40:25,350 to take a few days to get that ready, and I'm not willing to stop getting gold 562 00:40:25,350 --> 00:40:28,910 from Lightning Creek until it is ready. So we're going to stick it out here, and 563 00:40:28,910 --> 00:40:30,250 we'll be back in Vegas Valley soon. 564 00:40:40,690 --> 00:40:44,630 Hello. Hey, guys. Hey, guys. How are you? Here. How are you? Good. 565 00:40:45,090 --> 00:40:46,090 Good, good, good. 566 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:48,880 Have a seat. 567 00:40:51,580 --> 00:40:55,360 I've been here pretty much all week, sluicing away on the early bird cut 568 00:40:55,460 --> 00:40:57,200 Doing very well, actually, I think. 569 00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,680 Busy stripping the corner cut. 570 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,660 So I've been doing actually quite well. How about you guys? 571 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,000 Yeah, I set up Harold. 572 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,840 Yeah. We did some old -time entailings, didn't we? Might as well sluice it 573 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:10,638 sitting there. 574 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:11,640 Oh, really? 575 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,910 Perfect. Anything you get is bonus. 576 00:41:14,150 --> 00:41:17,410 I mean, if the prize is off the day, rather than throw one of the way, that 577 00:41:17,410 --> 00:41:19,350 don't make no sense. Did it show anything? 578 00:41:19,950 --> 00:41:21,150 No, there's a little bit. 579 00:41:21,650 --> 00:41:24,570 I better count it quick, I guess, huh? I'll pour slow. 580 00:41:26,450 --> 00:41:28,010 There we go. One, two, three, four. 581 00:41:30,330 --> 00:41:31,330 And a five. 582 00:41:31,470 --> 00:41:33,390 And a six. And a seven. Eight. 583 00:41:33,890 --> 00:41:35,370 Nine. Ten. 584 00:41:35,830 --> 00:41:36,890 Eleven. Twelve. 585 00:41:37,470 --> 00:41:38,470 Thirteen. 586 00:41:38,650 --> 00:41:39,650 Fourteen. 587 00:41:40,110 --> 00:41:42,150 Fourteen point two eight. Worth. 588 00:41:42,590 --> 00:41:44,070 Nearly $50 ,000. 589 00:41:44,970 --> 00:41:47,090 It all adds up. It all adds up. 590 00:41:47,970 --> 00:41:48,970 I'm proud of you. 591 00:41:49,630 --> 00:41:51,190 That is a good little venture. 592 00:41:52,410 --> 00:41:54,170 So you want a few counts from the Indian? 593 00:41:54,390 --> 00:42:01,230 Okay, what do we got? So far, the early bird cut is averaging 270 ounces a week. 594 00:42:01,570 --> 00:42:02,570 Michael, ready to count? 595 00:42:04,990 --> 00:42:11,850 10, 30, 40, 50, 100, 110, 120, 170. 596 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:19,040 190, 200, 210, 250, 260, 597 00:42:19,340 --> 00:42:25,540 270, 280, 290, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350, 390. 598 00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:27,320 Making the four? 599 00:42:27,620 --> 00:42:28,840 No. No? 600 00:42:30,020 --> 00:42:35,200 398 .18. Worth almost $1 .4 million. 601 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,080 But, I mean, you didn't make four. 602 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:38,480 Oh, my. 603 00:42:39,260 --> 00:42:41,600 Bringing the beat season total. 604 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,240 to over 2 ,300 ounces. 605 00:42:44,620 --> 00:42:45,620 So that's not bad. 606 00:42:45,820 --> 00:42:48,920 You said at the beginning of the season that there were maybe some opportunities 607 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,760 for Mike as soon as he started getting gold out of the hill. 608 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:53,660 So what's happening with that? 609 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:57,980 No. No, no, no, no. We've got to get the thrombo growing. 610 00:42:58,220 --> 00:42:59,920 That's where the real gold is going to come from. 611 00:43:00,980 --> 00:43:03,320 That's all that's good. Just go bring me some more. 612 00:43:06,700 --> 00:43:07,720 Okay, see you later, guys. 613 00:43:07,940 --> 00:43:08,940 Yep. Bye. 614 00:43:10,540 --> 00:43:14,920 I do hope Tony will honor what he said to Mike because he's been working very 615 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,880 hard to get this all sorted out, so he should get them set up. 616 00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:21,080 Honestly, Mike really deserves it. 617 00:43:22,620 --> 00:43:26,040 The frustrating part is I think I have a better chance of learning to breathe 618 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:27,780 through my ass than I have of going out on my own. 619 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:29,120 Whatever. 620 00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:38,399 What's up? 621 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:39,400 Yo, yo. 622 00:43:40,029 --> 00:43:41,370 Well, how did we do this week, Chris? 623 00:43:41,650 --> 00:43:43,330 Brock Dan just chugging away. 624 00:43:44,310 --> 00:43:47,830 Man, that was an unreal pan down there at Sulphur. That pan was probably one of 625 00:43:47,830 --> 00:43:48,890 the best ones we've ever seen. 626 00:43:49,630 --> 00:43:51,170 It's up there. Top ten. 627 00:43:51,970 --> 00:43:55,750 I hate saying anything. I don't want to jinx anything, you know. Yeah, I'm 628 00:43:55,750 --> 00:43:56,750 pretty good at that. 629 00:43:59,430 --> 00:44:01,070 How's your juggling act going? 630 00:44:01,330 --> 00:44:03,250 You know, it's keeping me busy, that's for sure. 631 00:44:04,450 --> 00:44:07,290 We're going to start out with you with Bob. How's that? Sure. 632 00:44:07,750 --> 00:44:09,310 Let's see how Bob did this week. 633 00:44:09,790 --> 00:44:15,450 Big Bob. At Dominion Creek, Tyson's been running wash plant Bob in the bridge 634 00:44:15,450 --> 00:44:19,310 cut, where it's averaging 170 ounces a week. 635 00:44:20,310 --> 00:44:26,170 Here we go. We got 20, 40, 60, 80, 636 00:44:26,470 --> 00:44:33,150 100, 120, 160, 180, 188 637 00:44:33,150 --> 00:44:34,150 .4. 638 00:44:36,050 --> 00:44:38,930 Nice. Not bad. That's a good weight. 639 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:40,940 So, Bob's chugging along. 640 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:42,940 Brendan, you want to do a slucifer here? 641 00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:44,560 Go for it. All right. 642 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:49,940 Lucifer, in the Golden Mile, is pacing 200 ounces a week. 643 00:44:50,180 --> 00:44:56,560 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 150, 644 00:44:57,100 --> 00:44:59,060 180, 200. 645 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:02,640 Holy. 646 00:45:03,780 --> 00:45:05,260 232 .1. 647 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:08,600 Wow. Holy. 648 00:45:09,180 --> 00:45:11,340 Yeah. Nice. That's pretty cool, isn't it? Beautiful. 649 00:45:12,140 --> 00:45:13,660 That's a good wig for Dominion. 650 00:45:14,220 --> 00:45:15,520 420 ounces or something? 651 00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:17,120 That's a good number. 652 00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:23,120 And then there's Roxanne Mitchell. 653 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:24,580 She looks heavy. 654 00:45:25,820 --> 00:45:27,040 Let's see what we got here. 655 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:28,760 Ready to rip. 656 00:45:30,060 --> 00:45:35,860 Ready? Yep. Now it's time to find out if Parker's move to extend the cut at 657 00:45:35,860 --> 00:45:37,520 Sulfur will pay out. 658 00:45:39,620 --> 00:45:44,960 50, 100, 150, 200. 659 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:46,440 Oh, yeah. Keep going. 660 00:45:48,860 --> 00:45:50,900 250. A little bit more. 661 00:45:56,300 --> 00:45:57,880 300 right on the dot. 662 00:45:58,380 --> 00:45:59,380 Plus this. 663 00:46:00,020 --> 00:46:01,100 We have another one. 664 00:46:01,420 --> 00:46:03,040 It looks like it's got a load in there. 665 00:46:04,060 --> 00:46:06,200 Ready? All right. We're going to keep adding to her. 666 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:13,120 There's another 40, 80, 100, 667 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:17,860 106 .5. 668 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,120 406 .5 ounces. 669 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:26,360 Okay, yeah. 670 00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:28,440 Mitch, 671 00:46:29,140 --> 00:46:31,420 go ahead and take everything up there. 672 00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:34,500 With just one plant. Mitch. 673 00:46:35,050 --> 00:46:38,150 has nearly matched Tyson's two -plant run. 674 00:46:40,270 --> 00:46:42,450 Dude, that's a lot for one week. 675 00:46:42,750 --> 00:46:47,810 Yeah, so this week, our total is 827 ounces. 676 00:46:48,450 --> 00:46:51,590 Sick. Is that crazy or what? 677 00:46:51,890 --> 00:46:53,390 I was not expecting that. 678 00:46:55,290 --> 00:47:02,030 827 ounces at record prices is worth $2 .89 million, 679 00:47:02,590 --> 00:47:04,390 the most cash. 680 00:47:04,900 --> 00:47:07,160 Parker's ever banked in one week. 681 00:47:08,860 --> 00:47:10,400 That's Parker's happy face. 682 00:47:11,780 --> 00:47:12,780 There we go. 683 00:47:13,340 --> 00:47:16,480 800 ounces, dude. You've got to be happy about that in a week. 684 00:47:17,220 --> 00:47:21,760 Yeah. I just hope we can keep it up. There's still so much season left. 685 00:47:22,380 --> 00:47:24,480 Good way to start it, though. That's a good way to start it. 686 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,100 Thank you, guys. Cool. I'll bag this stuff up. We've all got to do. 687 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:35,100 After several years of just moving from the Indian River and getting set up and 688 00:47:35,100 --> 00:47:39,220 a lot deeper ground on Dominion, it's taken a long time of stripping and prep. 689 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:46,780 And finally this season, I don't want to jinx it, but it's looking really good. 690 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,560 We're coming out of the gates running, so hopefully we can just keep that up, 691 00:47:49,620 --> 00:47:50,620 right? 692 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,660 And then sulfur is just killing it.