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Yeah,
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it's to you.
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Stay in it.
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He raised me 70.
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I'll call you.
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Threes and fours.
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Can anybody beat a queen high?
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An ace high.
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Mitch Scott's your pair of eight.
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Mitch's pot.
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There you go.
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That was my loan to you. Thank you,
Brad. Appreciate that. I'm confused by
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tactic of you guys not letting me win.
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All right. Well, welcome to the day in
the life.
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Currently trying to get my money back
from these guys.
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On this gold rush.
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I think we need more GoPros on the
windscreen.
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We ride shotgun with Parker Schnabel.
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This is him, unmarked grave.
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As he reveals what it takes to run a
multi -million dollar mine.
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It caused me to be a bad manager.
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It pushed a lot of really good people
away.
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Well, we left on term and make the
choice.
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Posing down the business scares me a
lot. I'm just going to make a decision.
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That could determine the fate of his
season.
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Those are your old friends.
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Is that the Hoffman?
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Your bet.
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Don't be scared.
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20.
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Show them, Brennan.
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A pair of twos.
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A pair of aces.
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First hand, I've won.
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We need some more fuel to more. I
thought you'd let me win.
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In the land of the midnight sun, Parker
and his lieutenant are locked in a late
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night battle.
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And summer just doesn't want to show up
this year. No, it's been cold, hasn't
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it?
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You gonna buy a house one of these days,
or what are you thinking?
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Um, I don't know. I never really have
gotten that bothered about, like,
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down. I bet you Nancy would love a
couple grandkids.
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I don't know. I'm pretty good at scaring
women off.
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I wouldn't know what it'd be like to go
back into the dating pool, honestly, so.
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A lot of overburden.
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bless my grandpa's heart like literally
one of the last conversations that we
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had was in the hospital and he was like
i feel so bad for you because you're
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always gonna have to wonder why the girl
you're with is with you he definitely
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wished that you had just like met
somebody before you had money you know
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mean he was coming at you with the truth
i would just hate to be like scrooge
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mcduck it's like i can have my like
swimming pool full of gold and live
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It happens when it happens, right?
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I wouldn't rush it. I wouldn't rush, no.
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The part of it that I struggle with is,
like, on a personal level, what am I
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doing all of this for?
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Up until the last few years, survival of
the business model that I was focused
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on, I didn't really put any sort of,
like, meaningful effort into anything
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Yeah. I don't know how it plays out,
but, like, I just keep getting older.
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Well, we all do.
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And I do want kids.
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I actually think it would be a blast to
have them up here. A lot of those things
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when you quit looking is when it
happens, you know?
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A different look at all the gold mines,
and then you went all over the world
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looking for where to mine.
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Where were we going to go solution? And
it was in your own backyard.
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So he wants to marry one of us. Python,
I actually have a ring in my pocket.
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Okay,
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one more card.
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Read them and weep.
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We'll go big until I'm dead.
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Okay. Do it all.
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They called you.
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Trip 10.
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I got a six and an eight.
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You got a straight.
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Mitch is the winner.
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That's more like it.
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All right, guys.
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Tomorrow's my day off. But y 'all have
work tomorrow.
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Yep.
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Sorry to keep you out until the wee
hours of the morning. Have fun.
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Let's get this show on the road.
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We got a busy week ahead of us here.
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The next morning, Parker's crew get to
work chasing his 10 ,000 -ounce seasoned
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target. Time to make some gold. That's
why there's 24 hours in the day.
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While Parker does absolutely nothing.
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Hey, Bose.
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There's the boy I'm looking for.
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How are you?
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I'm good. How are you? Good.
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My manager, Nona Loveless, oversees the
day -to -day logistics of Parker's
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massive operation.
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How are you feeling after last night?
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Hurrah.
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I'm drinking some tea and detoxing.
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Well, I'm going to try to give you a
break from the pit, but that just ended.
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Oh, yeah. What you got for me?
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I feel bad. But anyway, we need the next
project for the stripping crew. Okay.
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They could be done today, as early as
today, so I just wanted to make sure
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they're not just twiddling their thumbs.
Yeah, no, that's not an issue. The
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stripping crew exposes the pay dirt that
keeps Parker's wash plants fed.
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To keep gold flowing, Parker must choose
their next project in his mining
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empire. That decision could result in
millions in gold.
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Or... falling short of his seasoned
target. I'll go check in with everybody
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see who needs help.
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When do you need to know about the
stripping crew?
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By the end of the day, for sure. And
also, we need some gold sold.
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We need some cash in the bank. We do.
Okay, I can do that. I can do both those
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things. Thank you. We'll see you later.
I'll get on it and get back to you.
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Right across three locations, Parker's
10 ,000 -acre operation.
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consists of over 60 machines, three wash
plants, and close to 40
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employees, costing over $100 ,000 a day
to run.
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Unfortunately, Parker's trying to take
the day off, but there's no such thing
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around here. There's always something
that comes up.
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The stripping crew is a very important
part of our operation.
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For the most part, they don't go on
camera.
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They're like the special forces team
that all can run any piece of equipment
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the mine site.
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They just get done.
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So we need to figure out what it is that
they need to get done next.
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I think we need more GoPros on the wind
stream. At least four more at a minimum.
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To determine where to deploy the
stripping crew.
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Parker must visit each of his three
lieutenants and assess their operations
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person. I don't want to pit managers
against each other and create a fierce
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level of competition inside the company.
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But in the short term, it's more
efficient.
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People always want help.
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And it's like trying to figure out who
actually needs it and who can go on
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own.
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First stop?
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the cuts on his flagship Dominion Creek
property.
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Parker's biggest project, Dominion,
should account for over two -thirds of
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10 ,000 -ounce target.
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Tyson's doing really well this year.
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Dominion slated to do 7 ,000 ounces or
something, and right now that's all his
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domain. Big responsibility for sure.
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We're up here for seven months a year,
working hard every day.
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Overseeing the entire Dominion Creek
project is veteran miner Tyson Lee.
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Pretty green at the mining aspect of
things.
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Starting as a rock truck driver.
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Right now I'm letting Tyson run through
the fur.
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Yee -haw!
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Tyson has battled his way up the ranks.
You can't just tell the boss what he
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wants to hear. You have to tell him what
needs to be done.
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Before becoming one of Parker's most
trusted pit bosses.
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If I can take anything off your
shoulders, I need people that I can
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Tyson's one of the top ones.
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What's up?
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How's it going?
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Oh, good. How are you?
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Pretty good.
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It's a big pit.
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that is 300 yards both ways so the
stripping crew is just about done with
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project maybe by the end of today but i
want to talk to you about just like i
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know you have a lot of stuff that you
haven't gotten to right yep just hoping
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throw up enough pay those guys can come
down here and start trucking into our
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wash plant we can rip this ditch we can
get our area excavated out Definitely
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going to hit frost on this side, I would
imagine.
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It would be really nice to get all of
this stuff done.
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Yeah. Just get all your ditches in, get
all your plant pads set up.
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You've definitely got a lot going on.
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Having already brought in nearly 2 ,000
ounces, giving Tyson the stripping crew
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would allow Parker to keep Dominion on
schedule, but might cause Parker's other
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claims to fall behind.
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Let me talk to Brennan and Mitch as well
and see what they have going on.
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And then... Is it a battle for people
between us or... No, it's not a battle.
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I'm just going to make a decision.
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Okay.
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Who's the better salesman, right?
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Come here.
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Is she going to get back up? No.
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All right. See you, man.
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Good luck with your dog. Thanks.
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You know, I was surprised to see him
here this morning.
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I guess that's a miner's life, right?
You don't really get a day off.
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Last night at the poker game, Parker was
talking about settling down, putting
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down some roots, getting a partner, and
we really never have time to talk about
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stuff like that.
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If you put your whole life into moving
dirt, and there's no more dirt to be
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moved, then what's next?
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You know, is Parker ready for that big
lifestyle change? That I don't know.
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Tyson had a good couple of points about
how much help it would be to have some
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extra hands in, you know, the pits that
we're doing this year. But we'll see
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what everybody else does.
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Having heard Tyson's case for Dominion,
Parker will visit two more mines before
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he makes a decision on where to spend
his elite stripping crew.
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a little slow this morning, yeah.
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But we need to know where to put the
stripping crew.
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Despite it being his day off, Parker's
working. He's on his way to cash in
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But before that, he's traveling between
his cuts to determine which to strip.
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Every yard we sleuth has about four or
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five yards of stripping.
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And so if you're sleuthing 400 yards an
hour, if you aren't stripping 2 ,000
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yards an hour, you're falling behind.
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Right now I'm just going to see Brennan
here at Kennan -Stewart so that we can
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start making some decisions.
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The lease with Kennan -Stewart has
always been an important one to me
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is a lot of ground that can keep the
company going into the future for quite
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some time.
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To hit Parker's 10 ,000 -ounce goal,
Kenan Stewart needs to produce at least
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,000 ounces, but so far it's produced
nothing, and the cut is still not down
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to pay dirt.
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I've been away from Parker and his crew
for the last two seasons.
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In charge of getting the pit ready for
sluicing is veteran miner Brennan Ruhl.
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I'm with my original Gold Rush family,
and I'm back with them again.
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Can't wait to see the little yellow
flakes on the sluice box.
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After joining Parker's crew 10 years ago
and quickly proving himself as an
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expert operator.
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If anybody wants to go home, they can go
home.
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Disagreements with Parker drove Brennan
to quit. Since
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then, tempers have
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cooled.
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terms in i think we just started losing
communication between one another not it
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was definitely a big thing we've got a
bunch of projects to do but
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i'm not sure which one to focus on so
you are going to have a wash plant here
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soon yeah and with gold price where they
are we're just going to hammer on the
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sleuthing gotcha that makes sense we
could start in here quite soon right Not
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really in that centre section.
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There's a big frozen spot still, and, I
mean, we've been working ditches and
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working ditches and pulling saw, so...
But we're falling behind on a stripping.
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Holding potentially 20 % of Parker's
season goal, frozen ground means
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cut is off track for sluicing.
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I need help.
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That's the challenge that I've got right
now. We can hopefully catch back up.
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with falling behind on the stripping
throughout the summer.
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Okay.
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Some big rock in here.
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I'm excited to see down there because
I've never seen such big rock on the
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Indian River myself.
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And hopefully there's a bunch of gold up
there.
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I hope so.
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What else you got on the go today? I've
got to go to town and sell some gold.
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Oh, nice.
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Pay you guys.
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Hate that.
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Okay, well, that sounds good. I'm going
to keep ditching here so you have fun in
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town. I'll be waiting for my paycheck.
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Thanks, Brennan. Thank you.
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Sending Brennan the stripping crew would
help accelerate his sluicing timeline,
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but there's still one more site to
visit.
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That right there is definitely the hard
part of Parker's job because all of us
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can use an abundance of every piece of
equipment here to get the scope of the
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work done that he sets out every year.
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You know, I feel stressed out. I can get
out here in the cut just running a crew
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that he owns.
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I don't have to worry about new
equipment, mechanics, paying all the
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new wages.
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That's a lot to get thrown into at
whatever he started out. What was it, 14
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years old or something? So I'm sure
there's always a stress, but it isn't
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conveyed to the crew anymore like it
used to be, and it's super awesome to be
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part of that.
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A lot of my job is figuring out where
the next ounces are and trying to
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the ones we mine, right?
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I am pretty financially motivated, and I
analyze decisions in my life based
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on the financial impact of them.
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I don't think it's a good thing.
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Was your grandpa like that?
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I don't know.
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He wasn't when I knew him.
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But that was in his 80s and 90s.
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People change in their 80s and 90s.
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My grandpa dying, I was very well
prepared for it.
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He was so old.
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But Dozer dying was so brutal. My dog.
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He wasn't that old.
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He was only eight.
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He's actually buried just around the
corner here.
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I've also got a new member of the team
to introduce.
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Don't you?
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During Parker's second year in the
Yukon... Come on, buddy. Don't run away.
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Do you not like gold mining?
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Come on. He brought a 12 -week -old
puppy to the mine site. What's wrong?
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Huh?
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A lab in German Shepherd, Mick.
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Dozer was Parker's constant companion.
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I gotta work there, man.
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Over the next eight mining seasons.
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Sometimes I wish I was a dog.
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Until passing away two years ago.
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I don't think I've ever walked over to
where I buried him.
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And the ground was frozen, so Jordan had
to bring me a...
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dozer and an excavator to rip the ground
to be able to bury him. I don't even
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know. Well, I know I'll find the spot,
but it's just up here.
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Go say hi.
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This is him.
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Unmarked grave.
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I always meant to have a headstone made
for him.
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Why'd you pick this spot?
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Oh, he just had a good view of the
valley.
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It felt like it was a nice spot.
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Yeah, he was a good dog.
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Coming up, I'll wait for her to warm up.
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Parker, cash is in. Normally you bring
in more than that.
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Oh, no.
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Today was kind of supposed to be a day
off for me,
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but by the end of the day I kind of have
to have an answer about where the
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stripping shirt needs to go next.
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Past midday, and Parker is still trying
to determine which cut his stripping
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crew will work on next.
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Right now, I'm just going to speak
proper.
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Last stop is Parker's newest project,
Sulphur Creek.
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Bought last year, Sulphur delivered over
700 ounces of gold.
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This season, Parker needs double that
number.
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to hit his 10 ,000 -ounce goal.
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Sulphur is important to do, but I kind
of wanted to get a temperature check on
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Mitch and see how he's doing.
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In charge of the Sulphur Creek project
is one of Parker's longtime crew
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Mitch Blaschke.
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I remember working for Parker when he
was a bit younger there, and, man, it
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people coming and going, and they were
going faster than they were coming.
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starting as a young mechanic.
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How's it going?
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I'm looking forward to a good season and
whatever it takes to get the job done
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and get some gold in the box.
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Mitch is now one of Parker's most valued
miners.
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As soon as we get this thing finished
up, you're going to head downtown with
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and try and pick up some chicks?
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Yeah, that's what I need.
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And their relationship has had both
highs... You are a hell of a leader.
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...and lows.
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I'm not very happy with you. Matt!
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For that kid being such a genius, some
days he's a moron.
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Hi. How's it going? Good. How are you?
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Not too bad.
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Just got done with cleanup, doing a
little maintenance.
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How'd your cleanup look?
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There's some gold in it.
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It's just really hard to tell. Some of
it was sitting on the top.
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We'll know a lot more when Chris gives
us some numbers.
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How are you doing?
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Good. Sorry for keeping you up so late.
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All right, that was pretty fun.
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That was fun.
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This pile's going to go in a hurry.
Yeah.
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Especially when you turn your feed rate
up a bit. What I'm worried about here
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is, like, this pile being gone before we
have that stripped and they're able to
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start hauling pay down to it.
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Gotcha. We're just trying to keep it
going, but it'd be really nice if we
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have some more trucks down here. Just to
try to make it by the time your water
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license runs out.
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Exactly.
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Sulford Creek is historically gold
-rich.
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But Tucker's water license expires this
season.
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If Sulphur isn't mined out this year, he
may lose any remaining gold forever.
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I'll see what we can do. I'm supposed to
go talk to Nona again, so I can chat to
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her as well.
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All right. Thanks, dude. No problem,
man.
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This project just keeps expanding.
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And with that, you need more resources
with the time frame that we're working
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against here.
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You know, I've talked to Parker. He's
learned a lot about dealing with people
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and problems over the years. And he's
certainly grown up a lot. You know, you
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hear Parker talking about wanting to
have a family.
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And I think Parker would make a good
dad. Who knows? Maybe one of these days,
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you know, our kids will be out here
playing together or moving dirt and
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gold.
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One of the fun things about the job, you
get to a size and...
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It reminds me of, like, those, like,
World War II movies when you've got all
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the little, like, battalions and the
army on, like, the big map, and they're,
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like, pushing them with those little,
like, craps sticks.
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Brennan has way too much on his plate on
the Indian River right now.
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Mitch could use another truck or two.
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Tyson could use another truck or two.
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I don't know what I want.
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I really don't know.
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I usually like a bit more time to make a
decision.
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Before making the call on where to send
his tripping crew, Parker takes a detour
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to the Indian River.
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This is the stretch of Indian River that
we spent most of our time cutting our
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teeth on.
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Up by our old camp is where we started,
you know, with Little Blue that I bought
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from Todd Hoffman, and then Big Red, and
Goldzilla, and then Lucifer.
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Over the last decade, Parker mined an
astonishing 60 ,000 ounces from
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claims on the Indian River.
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In the early days, I was scared to death
of failing.
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I had the sense that nobody cared
whether we succeeded or failed, which
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totally wrong.
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And it caused me to be a very bad
manager and very...
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negative towards the people around me,
and it pushed a lot of really good
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away.
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Like most things, I had to learn the
lessons the hard way.
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This is our old camp on the Indian
River, and I just wanted to peek inside
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and see what kind of shape it's in. I
haven't been in it in three years.
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Maybe even three.
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came with an existing campsite, making
his old camp obsolete.
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00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:05,880
Well, that is outside.
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00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,300
Yeah, we stayed here for nine years.
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00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:18,940
We mined here for like 11 years, but the
first two years we stayed somewhere
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else.
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Definitely brings back a lot of
memories.
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00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,340
It's been gnarly in here, isn't it?
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Let's get out of here before we get
black mold in our lung.
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00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:36,500
This was home from the time I was 18
until two years ago.
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Twelve years, almost.
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00:25:40,140 --> 00:25:42,060
I stayed on that hill in a well site.
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Moving trailers this remote cost tens of
thousands of dollars, and with nowhere
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to put them, Parker has simply
mothballed the Indian River camp until
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needed.
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00:26:05,310 --> 00:26:06,310
Now it's lunchtime.
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00:26:10,810 --> 00:26:11,810
See ya.
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00:26:14,070 --> 00:26:16,770
Coming up. A lot of dreamers out there.
Who's that?
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Those are your old friends.
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00:26:20,170 --> 00:26:21,310
Is that the Hoffmans?
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00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,400
It's getting a fair bit busier. There's
a lot going on up here.
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00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:47,620
And so we're trying to hit the ground
running with a NAC project.
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His day nearly done.
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00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:56,520
Parker still needs to sell gold in
Dawson City and make a decision on his
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stripping crew's next project.
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When we get, like, the main section of
Dominion Mined out, I really don't know
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what the company looks like.
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For a mining company the size we are,
that's a little bit scary.
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The idea of closing down the business
scares me a lot. The idea of being here
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for another 20 years scares me a lot.
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Now I'm going to see Chris.
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00:27:26,350 --> 00:27:28,090
I worry about Chris a bit.
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00:27:29,070 --> 00:27:31,550
You know, he's got some health issues.
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As an aging man.
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With this material.
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You can't push it.
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Starting as Parker's wash plant expert
at age 61.
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We have gold puddle after gold puddle
after gold puddle. Oh, now.
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00:27:49,950 --> 00:27:55,530
A back injury forced Chris Dumit to
become the gold room guru.
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You've cleaned a lot of gold down here.
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And Parker confidant. You're not going
to sign this, are you?
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serving an oldest crew member.
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00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:16,760
He's still good at his job,
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00:28:16,780 --> 00:28:20,100
and he's a very important part of the
mine site.
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I don't want to do it without him.
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00:28:31,540 --> 00:28:34,500
Hello. Hey, Parker. How's it going?
Good. How are you? Good.
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Busy. Do you have some gold for me? I
do.
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00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,760
I'm going to bring that into town. And
are you going to come with me, Gertie?
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00:28:40,980 --> 00:28:41,980
Yeah. Ooh.
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00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:43,360
Ooh.
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00:28:43,780 --> 00:28:46,880
You're twisting my arm. I'll go. But
there's something other than gold I want
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00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,340
show you. All right. I've been messing
with.
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00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,000
So I made that gold coin for you last
year. Yeah.
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00:28:56,340 --> 00:29:01,120
And I was thinking, if we made small
ones, they'd be a lot more affordable.
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00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,000
That's cool.
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00:29:04,140 --> 00:29:05,140
Last year.
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00:29:05,230 --> 00:29:06,430
Caesar Parker.
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00:29:06,710 --> 00:29:07,710
It's novelish.
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00:29:07,890 --> 00:29:09,890
I know how you like old Roman coins.
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00:29:10,730 --> 00:29:16,850
Chris started experimenting with casting
custom gold coins as a gift for Parker.
444
00:29:17,070 --> 00:29:19,710
Thank you, Chris. You bet. I hope it
brightens your day.
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00:29:22,230 --> 00:29:23,810
This one's a little bit lighter.
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00:29:24,510 --> 00:29:25,950
About a quarter of an ounce.
447
00:29:26,210 --> 00:29:27,430
It has a P on it.
448
00:29:27,670 --> 00:29:28,670
Oh, wow.
449
00:29:28,750 --> 00:29:31,550
So I'm trying different thicknesses for
different weights.
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00:29:32,350 --> 00:29:34,390
Because a quarter ounce, you're still...
451
00:29:34,650 --> 00:29:35,650
900 bucks.
452
00:29:36,050 --> 00:29:39,170
Yeah. The thinner they get, the harder
they already cast.
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00:29:39,470 --> 00:29:40,790
But if we had, like, a crack?
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00:29:41,330 --> 00:29:43,270
Yeah, with a stamp, you can make any
size.
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00:29:43,610 --> 00:29:44,870
You know, like they do coins.
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00:29:45,090 --> 00:29:46,049
Right.
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00:29:46,050 --> 00:29:47,510
Do you think people would buy this?
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00:29:47,870 --> 00:29:48,769
I think so.
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00:29:48,770 --> 00:29:51,950
I mean, it's gold. It's an investment,
right? And the cool thing about it is
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00:29:51,950 --> 00:29:55,710
it's just, like, straight out of the
ground, and you can ship it straight to
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00:29:55,710 --> 00:29:57,510
people who are buying it, like retail.
462
00:29:57,810 --> 00:30:00,090
Right. I like that. That's cool.
463
00:30:00,570 --> 00:30:01,570
Very neat.
464
00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:04,040
But I like that it's rock.
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00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:05,260
Okay.
466
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,260
Good. Rustic in the carpentry trade.
It's like pirate gold.
467
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:10,520
Rustic.
468
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,000
We're getting a lot of interest for
Parker's Gold, probably some of the most
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00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,540
famous gold on the planet.
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00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,860
So we're going to work on different
ideas to see if we can't make it
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so that everybody has a chance to own
some of Parker's Gold.
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00:30:25,340 --> 00:30:29,500
And speaking of that, we're going to run
off to town and sell some gold and see
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00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:30,960
if we can't keep this company going.
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00:30:38,380 --> 00:30:40,720
To sell his gold in Dawson City,
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Parker must drive more than 50 miles
over rough mining roads through the
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00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:53,360
historic gold fields that were once home
to thousands of hopeful miners during
477
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:54,360
the gold rush.
478
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:03,780
Can't make you wonder what the death of
the person of all these hills, all this
479
00:31:03,780 --> 00:31:04,940
ground, go.
480
00:31:05,180 --> 00:31:07,400
I bet there's gold right here.
481
00:31:08,590 --> 00:31:11,010
I think people explored all over the
place.
482
00:31:11,290 --> 00:31:14,750
There was tens of thousands of people up
here wanting to gold mine.
483
00:31:14,990 --> 00:31:18,730
Yeah. So they just went to every creek
around and started digging holes.
484
00:31:19,070 --> 00:31:20,470
There were that many people, huh?
485
00:31:20,850 --> 00:31:21,950
During the gold rush?
486
00:31:22,170 --> 00:31:22,989
Yeah. Yeah.
487
00:31:22,990 --> 00:31:25,410
You're not aggressively looking for
ground, are you?
488
00:31:25,870 --> 00:31:32,870
No. There are very few properties that
are big enough to appeal to us now.
489
00:31:33,170 --> 00:31:37,930
There's more available for the mob and
pop operation than there is ours.
490
00:31:38,430 --> 00:31:40,910
And there's little operations sprouting
up all over the place.
491
00:31:41,210 --> 00:31:42,210
Yeah.
492
00:31:47,210 --> 00:31:48,210
Oh, yeah.
493
00:31:50,630 --> 00:31:52,510
A lot of dreamers out there. Who's that?
494
00:31:57,530 --> 00:31:58,530
Oh, yeah.
495
00:32:00,310 --> 00:32:01,450
Those are your old friends.
496
00:32:04,190 --> 00:32:05,210
I know this plant.
497
00:32:06,220 --> 00:32:07,800
Is that the Holy Roller? Yeah.
498
00:32:09,540 --> 00:32:12,520
16 years ago. Feels like I'm coming
home.
499
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,060
Todd Hoffman moved his first wash lamp
onto his claim in Alaska.
500
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,600
Looks like a big piece of junk.
501
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,000
Under the watchful eye of his young
neighbor, Parker Schnabel.
502
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,660
The Holy Roller.
503
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:32,820
After investing in a new trommel, Todd
lost a 100 -ounce bet with Parker to see
504
00:32:32,820 --> 00:32:38,220
who. could mine more gold in a season.
Not easy to do, hand 100 ounces out.
505
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:39,720
Here you go, Parker.
506
00:32:39,940 --> 00:32:43,020
And ultimately, retire from gold mining.
507
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,460
A lot of dreamers. A lot of dreamers.
508
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,000
Takes you back 100 years, doesn't it?
509
00:32:54,260 --> 00:32:55,600
Wonderful run into that guy.
510
00:32:56,660 --> 00:32:58,320
That actually looks like a pretty nice
plant.
511
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:00,980
I don't know. Looks like a piece of junk
to me.
512
00:33:03,950 --> 00:33:05,470
Let's go to town and sell some gold.
513
00:33:16,630 --> 00:33:17,630
Come here.
514
00:33:20,550 --> 00:33:26,990
There's an old cabin right here with a
big old -time safe that's like got the
515
00:33:26,990 --> 00:33:28,110
doors blown off of it.
516
00:33:28,550 --> 00:33:30,870
I've always wondered what the story is
behind that.
517
00:33:32,430 --> 00:33:35,050
It reminds me of a story that my grandpa
told me.
518
00:33:37,430 --> 00:33:40,750
This mining operation on Porcupine Creek
in the 30s.
519
00:33:41,750 --> 00:33:44,730
They had this big sluice box and they
had just done a big cleanup.
520
00:33:45,450 --> 00:33:47,250
Got the gold that night.
521
00:33:48,230 --> 00:33:49,490
Manager's dead in his house.
522
00:33:51,710 --> 00:33:53,910
They go to open the safe and the gold's
gone.
523
00:33:55,510 --> 00:33:56,630
Nobody can find the gold.
524
00:33:57,170 --> 00:33:59,690
And the company goes bankrupt because
they can't pay their bills.
525
00:34:00,590 --> 00:34:02,410
To the best of my knowledge, that's a
true story.
526
00:34:04,350 --> 00:34:05,350
Pretty cool, huh?
527
00:34:21,929 --> 00:34:25,770
I never really liked to have too much
gold on site, and we've also got a lot
528
00:34:25,770 --> 00:34:26,609
bills to pay.
529
00:34:26,610 --> 00:34:28,489
To keep his operation going.
530
00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:31,090
Parker's cashing in some gold.
531
00:34:31,570 --> 00:34:37,330
Okay, let's do it. Before he makes his
final decision on where to send the
532
00:34:37,330 --> 00:34:38,288
stripping crew.
533
00:34:38,290 --> 00:34:42,750
Normally you bring in more than that. I
do normally bring in more than the start
534
00:34:42,750 --> 00:34:43,750
of season.
535
00:34:43,850 --> 00:34:48,449
Darren Hunter is the premier gold buyer
for Klondike Miners.
536
00:34:49,010 --> 00:34:50,550
Gotta wait for a warm -up.
537
00:34:51,250 --> 00:34:53,949
Processing millions in gold every year.
538
00:34:54,690 --> 00:34:56,350
So, how's the season going so far?
539
00:34:57,330 --> 00:35:00,710
What do you have right now? You have six
cleanups a week?
540
00:35:00,950 --> 00:35:03,150
We do three, then a day off, then three.
541
00:35:03,690 --> 00:35:04,690
Right.
542
00:35:04,850 --> 00:35:06,650
And is it sulfur you said, Parker? Yeah.
543
00:35:11,210 --> 00:35:12,210
Way finer.
544
00:35:12,650 --> 00:35:13,650
99 .8?
545
00:35:15,110 --> 00:35:18,470
What did we bring sulfur in at? Do you
remember, Parker? 80. Yeah.
546
00:35:19,550 --> 00:35:21,950
So then you're right on target, 79 to
81.
547
00:35:22,310 --> 00:35:28,800
Darren. determines the cash value based
on the daily spot price per ounce and
548
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:29,820
the gold's purity.
549
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:37,120
At 80 % pure, Parker's 99 .8 ounces is
worth over a quarter
550
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:38,340
of a million dollars.
551
00:35:38,860 --> 00:35:42,680
That's the purity of every creek around
here? This is actually a pretty cool
552
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:43,680
thing, yeah.
553
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,940
Those are the purities of every creek.
554
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:50,140
Some of those go back to the gold rush
because some of them haven't been mined
555
00:35:50,140 --> 00:35:51,140
since.
556
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,080
So those purities would be back from
then.
557
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:54,520
This is cool.
558
00:35:55,580 --> 00:36:02,000
All raw gold in the Yukon has small
amounts of other metals, like silver,
559
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,600
in. Also, you can get it in this, Chris.
560
00:36:05,020 --> 00:36:07,120
Oh, great. There we are.
561
00:36:10,580 --> 00:36:14,460
Little Pike Mine is property. We made
the book. We're in the book in 2023.
562
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,460
They employ the best gold room
attendants.
563
00:36:20,899 --> 00:36:22,820
The most humble gold cleaner.
564
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,180
Yeah, most humble gold room guy in the
whole Yukon.
565
00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:31,200
Always the cleanest gold I get, Chris.
566
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:32,718
Well, thank you.
567
00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:34,280
You're welcome. It's always the
cleanest.
568
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,400
Perfect. Thank you very much, and I will
put that in your account. Perfect.
569
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:47,620
Thanks a lot. See you later. Good to see
you. All right. We can go back to work.
570
00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:49,260
Yep. Or we can go to the casino.
571
00:36:51,150 --> 00:36:53,870
I know what we should do. I know what
we're going to do.
572
00:37:01,270 --> 00:37:07,230
Casinos and dance halls have sprung up
in every gold rush boom town in history.
573
00:37:07,510 --> 00:37:08,510
You got your girdies, partner.
574
00:37:08,730 --> 00:37:10,850
And Dawson City is no exception.
575
00:37:13,070 --> 00:37:14,049
How's it going?
576
00:37:14,050 --> 00:37:17,190
Cool. The iconic Can -Can dancers.
577
00:37:17,820 --> 00:37:23,180
And professional gamblers were masters
at parting the miners from their hard
578
00:37:23,180 --> 00:37:24,180
-earned gold.
579
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,200
No,
580
00:37:31,980 --> 00:37:36,360
no, I'm not doing that. No, I'm sorry, I
can't.
581
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,840
Now turn around, take what your mother
gave you, then turn back around, big
582
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:41,840
finish!
583
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:43,440
Excellent!
584
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:45,800
Aren't they incredible?
585
00:37:48,940 --> 00:37:49,980
Oh, I should have split them.
586
00:37:50,780 --> 00:37:51,780
Thank you.
587
00:37:52,020 --> 00:37:54,080
You missed our poker game last night.
588
00:37:54,780 --> 00:37:55,780
Did you win?
589
00:37:56,340 --> 00:37:57,340
No, I lost.
590
00:37:57,980 --> 00:37:59,100
Brandon and Mitch won.
591
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,840
No. It was Brandon, Mitch, Tyson, and I.
592
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,760
We were up way too late, but it was
good.
593
00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:06,900
To a good season.
594
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,780
To a good season. To a good season.
Cheers.
595
00:38:10,020 --> 00:38:11,020
Cheers.
596
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:14,680
Oh.
597
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,080
16. Yeah.
598
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:18,360
Woo -hoo.
599
00:38:19,020 --> 00:38:22,860
Who would you guys talk about during a
poker game? Talk about having kids.
600
00:38:23,140 --> 00:38:25,520
Yeah? Are you thinking about baby
making?
601
00:38:26,980 --> 00:38:32,060
I think you'd make a hell of a dad,
that's for sure. I know you would.
602
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,280
I don't actually feel like I'm in that
big of a rush, but it is the one thing
603
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,280
that's missing.
604
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,600
For sure.
605
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:43,240
I think that was probably one of the
scariest moments of my life, when I
606
00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:44,240
became a dad.
607
00:38:44,740 --> 00:38:45,738
I bet.
608
00:38:45,740 --> 00:38:46,800
I would be scared.
609
00:38:47,820 --> 00:38:49,080
Should I split the nines?
610
00:38:49,820 --> 00:38:51,380
This is such a bad idea.
611
00:38:51,980 --> 00:38:53,680
10, 20.
612
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,960
Yeah, I think we're better gold miners
than we are gamblers, Parker.
613
00:38:58,540 --> 00:39:00,300
Don't tell Nona about this. Kevin, no.
614
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:02,560
But I'm glad you're back.
615
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:03,880
Yeah.
616
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,560
I think this is the year that I really
felt my age.
617
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:07,880
Yeah? Yeah.
618
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,460
I get up here and I feel so much better.
I feel so much healthier.
619
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,260
I'm ready to go. I'm ready to rock and
roll.
620
00:39:14,990 --> 00:39:19,630
I don't think that anybody else should
tell you what is best for you.
621
00:39:20,450 --> 00:39:21,450
Thank you.
622
00:39:21,550 --> 00:39:25,510
I wasn't planning on talking to you
about this, but... Like, you understand
623
00:39:25,510 --> 00:39:29,630
risks of being up here. Yeah. We're far
away from a hospital. Oh, I see what
624
00:39:29,630 --> 00:39:31,750
you're saying. Like, that's your
decision to make.
625
00:39:31,990 --> 00:39:33,970
Yeah. I don't want to be a liability.
626
00:39:34,470 --> 00:39:36,050
You're not a liability. I don't care.
627
00:39:37,390 --> 00:39:40,350
You die on the mine site, we'll just
bury you in a tailings pile. Yeah.
628
00:39:40,910 --> 00:39:41,990
And I would be...
629
00:39:42,350 --> 00:39:45,230
Totally happy. They put me in fine
tailings, not cores.
630
00:39:45,830 --> 00:39:50,890
I just don't want you to ever feel like
that's something that is an issue for
631
00:39:50,890 --> 00:39:52,370
me, for you to be here.
632
00:39:52,590 --> 00:39:53,590
Okay.
633
00:39:53,970 --> 00:39:58,410
I said it years ago, and as long as I
can, and as long as it's fun.
634
00:39:59,150 --> 00:40:00,150
Yeah. Right?
635
00:40:01,150 --> 00:40:02,770
We won one. Yeah.
636
00:40:03,410 --> 00:40:04,410
Let's go.
637
00:40:05,990 --> 00:40:06,990
Decline.
638
00:40:07,890 --> 00:40:08,910
Is that your wife?
639
00:40:09,630 --> 00:40:10,630
Nona.
640
00:40:12,049 --> 00:40:15,030
Oh, I do owe her an answer about a few
things.
641
00:40:15,570 --> 00:40:16,570
I got to run.
642
00:40:17,770 --> 00:40:18,770
Hello?
643
00:40:19,290 --> 00:40:22,210
It's the end of the day. I haven't heard
back from you on the stripping crew.
644
00:40:22,310 --> 00:40:24,310
Where would you like them to go?
645
00:40:25,430 --> 00:40:28,490
We're going to keep the stripping crew
at Dominion to help with all the
646
00:40:28,490 --> 00:40:29,490
that need to get done there.
647
00:40:29,710 --> 00:40:30,790
Okay. Dominion it is.
648
00:40:31,770 --> 00:40:34,810
Dominion, the number one priority. We
have to take care of this here.
649
00:40:35,330 --> 00:40:39,090
To stay on target for his 10 ,000 -ounce
season.
650
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:44,720
Parker's decided to keep his stripping
crew focused on the flagship Dominion
651
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:45,720
Creek property.
652
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,000
Did you sell the gold today? Because we
need that.
653
00:40:48,740 --> 00:40:50,360
Yeah, of course I sold the gold.
654
00:40:50,580 --> 00:40:52,620
And money will be in the account
tomorrow.
655
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,240
Hope you had a great day off. Talk to
you later.
656
00:40:55,740 --> 00:40:56,740
Good night.
657
00:40:58,260 --> 00:41:01,220
So yeah, bit of a busy day, but not too
bad.
658
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,340
Nice to hang out with Chris in town.
659
00:41:05,620 --> 00:41:07,420
That doesn't happen too often, actually.
660
00:41:07,930 --> 00:41:09,650
We chose the day well.
661
00:41:11,790 --> 00:41:16,030
And, um... Hi.
662
00:41:17,210 --> 00:41:18,210
Bosco?
663
00:41:18,510 --> 00:41:19,510
You good?
664
00:41:20,010 --> 00:41:21,010
Good night.
665
00:41:21,090 --> 00:41:22,090
Night, boys.
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