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(Transcrito por TurboScribe.ai. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) We have very high expectations, and people need to meet those expectations.

So we need to recognize that there's a certain portion of people that won't meet those standards.

And if we have people that are dragging the team down, then, like, that needs to be dealt

with, right?

In his ruthless pursuit of a record $35 million season, Parker Schnabel only wants the best

of the best, and one person is lagging behind.

It's never easy trying to let somebody go, but everybody needs to be a team player, and

this guy is not.

So we have no choice but to say, sorry, you don't fit here.

You don't work.

Hello, Taven.

Before your shift starts tonight, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind popping to the office

here.

I'd like to see you.

Yeah.

Okay, great.

Thanks.

Bye-bye.

Parker's mine manager, Nona Loveless, has called in Taven Peterson, a loader operator

in his second year at Dominion.

Hello, how are you?

Good.

Yeah, unfortunately, we're going to have to let you go, Taven.

You just have a really **** attitude for this place.

You just are very much a know-it-all.

When I asked you to do something, you thought you were doing it better, and that just doesn't

work around here.

No, I'm sorry.

I thought I was trying to help.

I've given you ample weeks of opportunity to do what is asked of you, and you still

do it Taven's way.

I thought I was doing it.

And then you boast about how many loads you can get in an hour.

Who does that?

I wasn't trying to boast.

I was just saying, like, I did the count.

I was proud of it.

Taven, what am I telling you?

See, right now, that's exactly what you're doing.

I know, but-

You're doing, no, no, but your apps, no, but no, you're not, because you're not listening

to what I am saying.

I was trying to think ahead.

Well, you're not thinking ahead, bud.

You're not.

You're falling behind because you're not listening.

So, you can pack up and head on out.

Thanks.

I did the best I could.

Yeah, attitude just, it doesn't fly around here.

I mean-

I understand that now.

Yeah, well, I tried telling you how many times.

If my boss, my senior, tells me to do something, guess what?

I think it would still be beneficial if that was-

See?

See?

You're still, you're still, I let you go, and you're still telling me that you're right.

Get out of here.

Honestly, go.

I don't even want, I don't even want, go, go.

Get out of here.

I don't understand the logic behind it, and I think if they had the time to sit down with

me and understand, or hear my side out, that it would make a lot more sense to them, but

this is sad.

We've had a bit of turnover this year.

We've been hiring and firing.

Working here is not easy, and we have a lot to do, and you need good people that you can

count on.

We're, like, at a pretty decent point in the season and starting to pick up momentum.

We've got four wash plants running.

If we can keep the wheels on the bus, you know, we're in a very good place, but it's

going to take a lot of effort and work on everybody's part in order to make that happen.

Halfway through the season, Parker's already banked over $18 million worth of gold.

But recently, plant breakdowns and spotty ground have seen his gold numbers slow down

to less than 500 ounces a week.

The old way, we need improvement.

If it continues like this, we're in real trouble.

I trust all our managers.

We have a really good group of people, and at Dominion this year, Tyson is definitely

doing a really good job.

I have the three wash plants moved and up and running here at Dominion.

It's wild because of how busy this place is right now.

There's a lot going on.

We got all our stakes in the fire right now, so hopefully it doesn't bite us in the ass.

After Taven's firing, Dominion's foreman, Tyson Lee, is down a loader operator.

Now he needs to train up a new hire to feed wash plant Bob.

I have some time to spend with India and get her feeding the wash plant.

India's been in a loader for five, six days now, and now it's about time she learns how

to feed a plant.

Working in the loader, in all honesty, is pretty difficult.

In the bridge cut, rookie India Greenhalgh has less than a month's gold mining under

her belt.

You know, I've left one job that I'm actually pretty good at, to start in a job that I know

nothing about.

It's not an easy thing to do, but I want to be good at this.

I don't just want to be okay.

I want to be awesome.

While this is India's first season mining, it isn't her first rodeo in the Yukon.

For four years, India worked behind the camera with the Gold Rush film crew.

Historically, I've worked on Tony's claim, but I did do one stint on Parker's claim,

and that's how me and Tyson met.

Hi.

Oh, thanks.

You know, I remember when she first came to site here, I saw her right then and there,

and I thought, oh, I've got to get to know her.

Whilst this is very different, there was no real option for me having a boyfriend that

lives in Canada.

A gold mine is definitely not a place that I thought I was ever going to find love, but

here I am.

I am loving it, quite frankly.

I'm loving love.

Cheers.

Hi, babe.

How's it going, babe?

Yeah, good.

So watch what I do when I'm going to throw a scoop in the hopper.

So you want to get nice and straight with the hopper first, and then start lifting.

Same thing as a rock truck, when you're loading a rock truck.

You want to come in, and then you want to aim for the middle of the target.

See how I'm not spilling any material off the back, I'm not spilling any material off

the front.

And then when my bucket is dumped all the way, I'm lowering my boom, lowering my centre

of gravity.

When you're running to the back of the cut like this, keep in mind there's no one up

at the plant right now.

You're the one watching it, right?

From way back here, I'm looking at the belts, making sure there's material going up them,

making sure nothing looks askew, making sure the tailings conveyor is going.

Yeah, that makes sense.

If you see something, hit the breaker and run up and open the bypass and close the main.

What?

Smack my head.

Well, don't smack your head then.

You're not a bobblehead.

Just watch next time.

That is not good, see how that material is not moving?

Do not ignore that.

Jump out, jump out.

Stand back and watch me this time.

The hopper feeder is clogged with pay,

stopping it from getting to the plant.

Kate, back in the loader.

So that's why it's really important.

The watch.

Yeah.

Kate, your turn.

Okay.

I'll be on mine or two.

Okay.

Up, up.

Up.

So just get nice and square with the feeder first.

It's nerve-racking.

Just small adjustments.

Straighten out.

Keep going. You're fine.

Am I straight? Am I straight?

Zoom up. Zoom up faster.

Stop moving forward. Zoom up.

I'll slowly start dumping.

Once you're clear of the hopper, boom down.

So boom down now.

Yes, good there.

It's really nerve-racking, actually.

Like the world's driest month.

Nice.

It's a lot harder than it looks.

You've been doing this for another 4 months.

Alrighty, I'm going to go.

Bye, I'll be back.

She's all yours.

Okay.

It's very much on me to make sure

that this plant is running as it should be.

Parker wouldn't have offered her the job

if he didn't think she could do it.

Hopefully in the upcoming days,

she'll be able to feed the plant, run the plant,

shut down the plant,

and know how to problem-solve around the plant.

We've got less than 500 ounces on the season right now,

and that's not nearly enough.

We're back in Vegas Valley,

and that's where we know the good gold is,

so we've got to get back down to the painter.

Three months in,

Rick Ness' season is finally on the upswing.

Last week we got a good result from the last cleanup,

but that was the end of the stockpile.

We didn't get down to pay like we planned on.

I mean, there's a lot to do.

There's a big road to build,

and there's no more pay to run,

and yeah, we need to switch up the plan right now

if we're going to get back to the pay

in Vegas Valley quickly.

Rick's crew has finished building the road

to the bottom of Vegas Valley,

but now Rick faces another problem.

There's a lot of slop in there.

The whole cut's flooded with silty, muddy s***.

We're going to have to move it all

before we get back to the paint,

but getting it out of here is painful.

We've got an idea.

It's kind of a cheap way to move dirt,

and we tried this last year in Raleigh Valley.

We actually had some success with it,

and we're going to try it again.

I think we learned stuff last year,

so we've got the monitor.

We're going to drop that into Vegas Valley

and get that slop out of there and get back on the gold.

At Vegas Valley,

Rick's crew has built a narrow road

to the bottom of the 200-foot deep cut.

Now they've discovered the pay layer

they reached last year is covered

in six feet of thick sludge.

Rick's solution?

Bring in a high-powered water monitor

to blast the sticky sludge,

breaking it down to a runny slurry,

then suck it out with a 12-inch water pump

revealing the gold-rich pay layer underneath.

♪♪

Hey, guys, it's time to fire this thing up

and get to pay.

Hey, Chris, fire that pump up.

Let's go.

All right, starting the pump now, Rick.

♪♪

All right, here it comes.

♪♪

We got the monitor in place now.

Use that to wash all that silt over to our pump,

and hopefully we have the pay clean

in maybe a day or two.

We got a new guy here, Chris.

He's working that monitor.

We need all the manpower we can get right now.

We got a long ways to go.

I have to pay close attention to what I'm doing here.

Rick's brought in new operator, Chris Lalonde,

for the season's second half push.

With room for just one excavator

at the bottom of the pit,

clearing the sludge is Chris's shot to prove himself.

I'm originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta.

I have spent the last five or six years

traveling around doing different jobs,

and now I'm here.

I feel like it's going good.

They are trusting me to try and do this task alone.

♪♪

It appears I'm losing my battle at this moment.

The water level should continuously drop.

Now it's increasing in my pond.

Guys, it looks like the pump doesn't move the sludge.

The pump is failing to suck out the slurry,

and now there's an even bigger mess.

For some reason, it's stuck.

I don't know if we sucked up a bunch of mud.

I don't know what the deal is,

but it ain't working, and that I know.

Shut it down!

Am I good?

Yeah.

I'm gonna have to back up.

That's good.

Uh, all we have is a steel plate with holes welded into it,

so when we're washing all this muck down in here,

it easily can get plugged up as soon as any rocks,

any silt, anything gets stuck in this.

At Vegas Valley,

Rick's crew is battling a thick layer of sludge

to reach the gold-rich pay,

but a plugged pump has brought the operation to a standstill.

All right, well, we could find or build a basket.

It's gonna give us a lot more area for suction,

and then it's where we don't have any problems

with anything clogging.

To get the pump sucking again,

mechanic Ryan Kent plans to build a new intake basket

with bigger screens, reducing the risk of blockages.

Looks heavy.

Yeah.

Three dudes to move a plate.

Yeah.

Right now, we're gonna look for some material

to build a basket.

We do have a bunch of punch plate.

We'd cut it out and weld a square together.

It's like Kyle may have found a box over there.

10-inch on it?

Yeah.

We need a 12-inch.

Get rid of this.

I'll make those work.

I got it.

Look at that.

Once we torch this off, we'll weld the other one right to it.

To fit the basket to the pump's 12-inch hose,

Ryan first replaces the flange.

We got to build our own...

That's what we're gonna do.

See if we can get her up this direction.

Damn, you guys are strong.

Your moms must be proud.

The main piece we need is this big talk right there.

Hit it with a hammer, see if it'll break free.

Yeah!

Now what we're gonna do is put a bead around it.

Good enough.

She'll serve her purpose now.

Hopefully that's the quick fix we need

to be able to get that muck out of there and get down to pay.

We need this basket to work.

If it doesn't,

we're gonna be kind of f***ing ourselves on time here.

There she goes.

We got our new basket back in.

Ready to fire?

That water's dropping pretty quick.

Yeah, looks like the cage is working.

Yeah.

Section's working, pump's working.

We are one step closer to getting back to pay.

100 miles west.

Well, I guess I'm starting a new chapter in my life

and going to look for some work.

I don't want to be going anywhere.

I'm going home because I love gold mining

and can't afford to go home yet.

After being let go from Parker's crew,

Taven Peterson is gunning for a fresh start.

Right now I'm just looking around,

seeing who's willing to hire a new gold miner.

Going to somebody's gold mine

and just knocking on the door.

So I guess we're here.

Hope this goes well.

Hello, how's it going?

My name's Taven Peterson, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Pull up a chair.

What can we do you for?

I heard you were mining up here,

and I was wondering if you guys were looking for employees

or if you guys are pretty stacked up on operators.

There are some opportunities here.

Currently right now, the big thing we're on the lookout for

is rock truck operators and loader operators.

What is your time on those things?

So this will be my 4th season mining.

I really enjoy everything about gold mining,

and I'm really willing to learn.

Last year Parker had me a rock truck.

Were you at Parker's this year for the first little bit?

Yeah, he invited me back for another season,

but things weren't going good,

and then Nona really, like, fired me.

I'm not sure why.

All right.

But I was on Slucifer before for those 2 weeks.

It started right off on the plant on night shift,

so they must have a little bit of faith in me.

That is a feather in your cap, so to speak,

because I'm always looking for more people

who have experience feeding the plant.

Okay, this might work out for both of us, honestly.

But if we're going to hire you,

one of the first places we're going to throw you

is night shift at the plant.

So if you're up for that.

That's great. That's what I'm looking for.

Perfect.

So for now I'd say you're hired.

Thank you so much. I appreciate this.

You gave a good vibe, so let's roll those dice,

see how it works out for both of us.

Thank you so much.

That was awesome.

Got hired, and I'm super excited

to start working for a smaller crew again,

and the work that I do will get noticed a lot more.

He didn't work out there, he might work out here.

Only way we're going to find out is we'll try him out.

Having struggled for crew and gold all season,

second-year mine boss Kevin Beetz

is slowly turning a corner.

It was tough at the start of the year

to lose both Brendan and Kayden.

And now Buzz is gone to go have a baby.

But we brought in some new crew, and we're making it work.

Only thing you can do.

Going into the second half of the season,

I'm still optimistic that we're going to be successful.

I don't know if we're going to be as successful as I want it to be,

but we're still going for our 2,000-ounce goal.

We still want to get that.

Two weeks ago, with his Pyramid Cut mined out,

Kevin broke ground on the new 7-acre Sphinx Cut.

With everything now riding on the new ground,

Kevin's already down to pay and feeding it through the wash plant.

I am hoping that Sphinx Cut is going to pay out

better than Pyramid Cut has been.

It's really important that we hit our weekly target.

We're aiming for 100 ounces a week,

and to get there, we've got to be running 24-7.

For his first night shift of the season,

Kevin pairs new hire Tavin with veteran miner Rick Johnson.

Tavin, copy. Copy, copy. What's that, Rick?

To keep the plant sluicing through the midnight sun,

Tavin has to feed 24 loads of pay dirt an hour.

Right now I'm just running the plant on night shift.

We've got a small crew going right now, me and Rick.

So we've got to just make sure we're staying consistent

and keeping everything fed

and make sure we're getting rocks washed while we can.

Really enjoying it here.

Already got put on the wash plant, which I'm really excited about.

Everybody's been super welcoming and teaching me lots

and showing me how they do things around here,

which I really appreciate.

I take a lot of pride in what I do,

and I want to be on a winning team,

so I feel like I need to prove myself a little bit.

I just definitely don't want to get fired again.

Uh...

We're coming to our end at night shift,

but the pace here is a little bit slower,

and I'm still getting used to it.

I'm trying my best.

Oh, there's no pay on the liquid layer.

Looks like it might have been the hopper, I think.

I'm going to go check it out.

Oh, my...

Oh, man, that's a big rock.

At Scribner Creek,

10 hours into his first night shift for Kevin Beetz,

new hire Tavin has shut down the wash plant.

For ***'s sakes, what now?

Chelsea March and Tyler Potter from the day shift

arrive early to help clear the blockage.

Looks like a big rock got through the grizzlies.

I don't know how they managed to make their way

through the grizzlies of this ***'s bag

and the grizzlies are this ***'s bag.

I think we're going to have to get that big rock

chained up to the grizzlies.

Oh yeah, so use the power of the grizzlies

to remote and lift it enough at least to get the dirt out.

Loosen up, hopefully.

Yeah, exactly.

Go on the top.

Beauty.

Tavin's going to jump in there, poke around.

We're going to run the chain through the top

and grab the grizzly bars with the chain

and we'll try and give her a little jiggle,

see if we can pop it out inside the feeder.

The grizzly bars on the feeder screen out large boulders

to protect the wash plant from damage.

But months of wear and tear have bent them out of shape,

creating holes.

A large rock has fallen into the hopper,

blocking its feed conveyor.

The crew's quick fix,

dig out a tunnel underneath the 100-pound boulder,

wrap a chain around it,

then attach the chain to the grizzlies

and use its hydraulic rim to lift and free the rock.

Use the other side, Tavin.

Pull that.

Okay.

F***ing downtime. Ugh.

Oh, bro. Yeah.

We'll drop the grizzlies back down

and hook it to the grizzlies and try and pull it up.

Keep tapping it up.

Did it break the chain? Nope.

Might have wiggled off.

Charles, you gonna turn the feeder on a little bit?

Oh, yeah, that's coming.

Yep.

That's about as big as they come.

I gotta get her going again.

The rock's out, plant's running again.

Little chaotic, but plant's going, so that's what counts.

Hey, Tavin.

Quite the jam up last night.