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Oh, I'm emotionally drained.

As of right now, I'm screwed.

On this episode of Mine Rescue.

Get up here. A desperate gold miner finds his dreams of riches slipping

We got .2 of an ounce.

It's unsustainable to keep going at that rate.

As his greenhorn family.

In reality, I have no idea what I'm doing.

Struggles to mine.

While he juggles two jobs to survive.

Jared does shift work to help fund this so that we can stay out here. It's a lot

of stress for him.

And the clock is ticking for Freddie and Juan.

The forest fire ripped through here and destroyed everything.

We don't work on hot days because of the risk of fire. But that is costing us

money. As one of the worst wildfire seasons on record threatens to shut them

down. We don't get anything.

Jack, I don't know what we're going to do.

Zero.

I'm hopeful that Freddie and Juan can help us.

I may go check with the fire department, see what the fire restrictions are.

Over the past couple of years, I guess there's been a massive amount of fires

this area.

See you a little later then. See you in a bit.

In the dense caribou mountain forests of British Columbia, Freddie and Juan

receive a desperate SOS from the wildfire -ravaged Gaynor Family Mine, a

location that will soon prove to be one of their most challenging to date.

I'm going to meet with Cheryl, Ray, and Jamie from the sounds of it.

They've been having a little bit of a struggle out here. They have sunk every

last dollar that they have into this operation.

So, really, it's kind of sink or swim.

How you doing? You must be Jamie.

Hi, I am. I'm Juan. Nice to meet you, Juan.

Nice to meet you as well. Hi, Ray. Nice to meet you, Ray. I'm Juan.

I'm Cheryl. Cheryl.

How you guys doing?

Oh, good.

Better now.

Better now that you're on site.

So, Freddie's not here right now. He's just a couple hours behind me. He went

go check with the fire chief to make sure we're okay to do the work we got to

here. Right.

So is it the whole crew?

My husband, Jared, is missing in action. He had to go back to work in Alberta so

that we could be out here to mine.

But he will be back tomorrow.

Inspired by what they saw on Gold Rush, the Gay Nerds began their mining venture

10 years ago.

Jared and I took our kids out camping, and we did some prospecting, and we were

hooked. Over the next two years...

They ran a series of small operations.

As we've gotten more into it and we got more equipment, we're trying to have a

serious go at it.

But in 2024, an opportunity arose at a larger claim when wildfires drove

out the previous miners.

It was just so devastating to them that they weren't able to come back.

We had heard the old timers were getting about an ounce per 20 yards.

But the gold never materialized. Since we've been out here, we've seen roughly

.2 of an out, not really adding up.

To pay the bills, Jared and his stepfather, Ray, have been forced to

jobs, leaving the mining to his inexperienced family.

I get six days off, and I'll spend two days of that six driving, and then I get

to spend four days at the claim mining, and then rinse, repeat.

Ultimately, our goal would be to have everybody in the family out here full

time. But with Jared and Ray having to work this season, the rest of us have to

step up and be more hands -on with helping out at the mine.

In reality, I have no idea what I'm doing.

I'm just trying my best.

Do you have any of the gold that came out of this area? I do. I have some gold

that we found.

Okay.

Well, it's pretty chunky stuff.

Yeah. There's some finds in there.

Do you guys have a goal for what you want to be able to produce here?

Yeah, if we could get half an ounce a day, even 50 ounces, if we could get

season to recover some cost.

Well, the reality is you're running out of time to go out there and hit your

target. I want to do a four -hour test run. Let's get some material through it

and see what we got.

Great. All right, let's do it.

Terry, I assume.

Ready. I appreciate your time this morning. Okay.

Well, it's super high risk. If you take a look at the forest, you can look at

any of the areas around. Our forest is like standing firewood, right?

The 2025 wildfire season is already Canada's second worst on record,

with nearly 1 ,300 fires having scorched British Columbia alone.

40 % of wildfires in B .C. are caused by human error. So one mistake...

can risk lives and livelihoods in an instant.

Are there any fire restrictions right now?

Not right now, but when you guys are out, if you're grinding, welding, just

the risk.

Yeah. Water is your best friend. Get the trees limbed up as high as you can

reach, 10 feet or higher, because if a fire does come through, it just stays on

the ground and it just rages through.

Well, thank you for your time. Thanks so much for coming by.

Okay, well, let's do it.

Back on the Gaynard mine, the first two -hour test run begins.

You're in a whirl, eh?

First bucket.

Ray loads Paynard into the four -foot hopper that feeds a ten -foot trommel.

which washes pay into an 18 -foot sluice box below, where the gold should be

recovered. We can't continue running like this. It's costing us more money

what we're getting in return.

No!

Everything just plugged up solid.

All the material's stuck in there.

That's not good.

They have to go in there.

The material gets stuck in the hopper, so they're having to sit up there and

wash it all down manually.

So it's not a very efficient way to run.

The stakes at the Gaynert mine are shared by the entire family.

So we don't know if it's running well or running terrible or what we need to

make it better.

Jared's parents, Ray and Cheryl, invested $100 ,000 of their own money

operation. We sold our house in Alberta, came out here, we spent that money, put

it all into the mine, and really haven't gotten anything out of it yet.

We're old enough to retire now, but we can't retire.

We've got a mortgage now.

Every weekend I get in the summertime, I'm back here. The rest of the time I'm

at my other job driving a truck.

This is going to be our last chance out here, our last kick at the cat.

Let's take a look inside the trunk.

There's not enough water pressure to be able to wash the paint down into the

trunk. There's actually holes in the spray bar we're pushing water out the

That splint is way too violent, has way too much water.

I'm going to do a little panning. I just want to check the material that they're

bringing to the plant.

You know, honestly, it doesn't look that special to me, but I just want to take

a look, see what's in there.

Not even a piece of gold, not even one speck.

I'm worried that the material that he's pulling out isn't really pay.

Shut down on you? Yeah.

Why don't we just go ahead and call it? It's been about an hour.

Yeah, we can shut it down.

I think we shut it down right now. We'll regroup and figure out what we can do.

Let's pull it out.

Right now I am feeling a little bit disappointed.

Yeah, you bet.

Our test didn't go as smooth as we had hoped.

But I'm still hopeful.

I have to go to my full -time job. I won't be back here for five days, and

hoping that this could possibly be my full -time job. But right now you have

pay the bills.

Miners in general are kind of hopeful and gambling type, but sometimes we need

to give them tough luck. Coming into a mine site where everything has an issue

is frustrating.

There are safety issues, the pay doesn't look great, and honestly the plant's

not running good either.

Coming up. There are three part -time jobs to pay for your gold mining. It's

unsustainable. I'm going all in, now or never. That was a road.

Let's see what lives right there.

Holy moly.

Wano! Later that afternoon, at the Gay Nerd's Caribou Mine.

Let's see what's going on.

Let's go check it out.

Freddie arrives for the cleanup.

Hello, ladies.

Hello. The mine crew is now down to Jamie and mother -in -law Cheryl.

This is Freddie. Freddie, Cheryl, and Jamie. Hi.

How's it going here? Great to meet you. Hi, nice to meet you. Jamie?

We're sure glad you're here. How's the cleanup going?

Going good.

I'm done.

Well, let's get it weighed up.

Well, here we go, Freddie.

Yeah. Moment of truth.

The gainers need at least .06 ounces from the test run to hit their half

-per -day goal.

.02.

Less than a third of what they need per day.

That's pretty sad.

It's sad.

Maybe it's lucky you broke at one hour, because every hour you're running,

you're throwing money away. Yeah, right, and we don't want that.

Well, what we want to do is we're going to go back, put our heads together, and

come up with a plan for you guys.

Thanks, Freddie and Juan. You're welcome.

I'm a little worried now after seeing the amount of gold.

It's unsustainable to keep going at that rate. You know, you'd have to get two

or three part -time jobs to pay for your gold mining.

It's not good to see that it's costing us more money to get that gold out of

ground than the pay. So I don't have a gold mine budget anymore.

It's gone.

So what's the deal with the bucket being in the hopper? The machine broke down.

So we weren't able to finish the test run.

Driving in here, it looks like there's a lot of equipment that might not run.

I don't think any of it runs ready. So one of the things I'm really worried

about, we've got to get a machine coming out here because we have to do

prospecting. Because the material they brought to the plant was absolute

garbage. The hopper is another issue, and it should be feeding itself. Instead

of someone up there babysitting it in the sluice, it's completely inadequate.

It's too narrow. It could be a foot wider.

How'd the spray bar do, Juan? Not good, Freddy.

There's actually holes in the spray bar where it's actually pushing water out

the side of the trommel. There's safety issues that I want to address, like the

stairs going up.

Yeah, okay.

Really, all this is for naught unless we can find some material that's worth

running. Exactly right. That'll be my first goal.

All right.

To transform the mine into a profitable operation, a three -inch water jet will

be mounted at the back of the hopper to break up the pay.

and drive it into the trommel. Then, inside the drum, a new spray bar will be

added to the existing thread to wash gold -bearing material into the sluice.

finally, the sluice box will be widened an extra 12 inches to boost capacity by

50%.

After a 600 -mile drive from the oil fields, Jamie's husband, Jared, returns

the mine.

Morning. Baby. Hi, baby.

I missed you. I missed you.

How's it going?

Um, it's not looking good.

I hope they can help.

I got into gold mining 10 or 11 years ago just because it looked really cool

watching Gold Rush.

We went out to this old fella's claim on the Fraser River.

First, we had a pan, and we panned it, and my eyes lit up. Oh, man, look at

that. That's when gold fever sunk in.

It's a real thing.

But mining is amazingly expensive, and things are pretty tight. I can't

pouring money in every year.

It's now or never.

How we doing? Hi, guys.

How you doing? Good. I'm Juan. Jared.

Nice to meet you, Jared. Freddie.

Pretty nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, Jared.

Well, we put our heads together.

You know, we came up with a few ideas for the plant. One of the first things

that we want to do is focus on that hopper.

We're going to put a jet in the back so that material can get fed down into the

trommel. Inside the trommel itself, put a whole new spray bar in there. Then we

want to build a new sluice box.

Okay. The intention is we're going to actually run a little more material when

we have that spray bar in the back of the hopper.

And in order to do so, we've got to have that wider box. Okay.

Yeah, I need to go prospect on this. Yeah.

Because everything I see here is tailings. Yeah.

So we're thinking $5 ,000 in materials.

But the excavators that you have here, none of them are up to par. We found

somebody that had an excavator that we could borrow for a few days, but we have

to pay for transport.

And that'll be about $3 ,000.

Okay. So all in, it's going to be $8 ,000.

That's a lot of money, I know.

I think we can do that.

Well, deal then. Deal.

I appreciate it, guys.

Thanks, Freddie.

You're welcome. You're very welcome. Thanks, Juan. You're very welcome.

Freddie.

That was pretty awesome meeting Freddie and Juan. I was giddy like a schoolgirl.

8 ,000 is a pretty big hit, but I don't see I have much of a choice to do it. If

I want to continue, I have to do this.

I wonder if we can figure out why the ignition stops working.

To help get the mine on track.

Am I pulling on it? Yeah, that's the one you're pulling on.

Jared's called in his mechanic brother, Sandy, to work on their stricken

excavator. I'm going to be here on the mine helping Jared get some of these

machines running as best I can.

Pull that wire again.

With all the time and money that Jared's put into this, I would just really love

to see it succeed.

I think that goes to the starter.

Okay. Go turn the key.

Okay, ready?

Hey, thank you, guys.

Next, Juan spots a fault with one of the other excavators.

Your pin on your cylinder for your bucket's actually ready to...

come out so the pin itself has this little plate that holds the pin in place

it's broke off so we can uh knock that pin back where it needs to be and get on

it's extremely important that this excavator works correctly uh without it

there's no mining so it's got to be tough for you to work a full week in the

the oil field then come out here and work at the mine site huh all that

all that time and 2 000 kilometers a week and then

trying to forget about the stresses out here so I can focus on my job at work.

And Jamie, you know, the first day that we did a test run, it was kind of cool

to see her that she actually just jumped right in there and wanted to be a part

of it. Yeah, we had up to 300 head of goats at one time.

That's a lot of work, and she'd be in there wrestling goats with me, holding

them down so we can give them injections.

Yeah, Jamie's always been one to give her. Yeah, once she knows how to do it,

she's going to give it 100%, and she'll probably really excel at it too, I'm

sure.

At the end of the day, you can enjoy your time with your family. And I think

lot of people would kind of strive to try to do that one day, right?

You're that close to doing it. Yeah, we are.

You're that close.

Well, let's finish this up, huh?

Yeah, sounds good to me. Let me try to open this up just a little more.

Pop right in.

That's good news. That's good.

Thanks, Juan.

So hose on and then pass you the hose?

Yeah.

Excavator's fixed.

Juan begins work on the wash plant's new water chute.

I cut a hole right here. We're going to put that jet on the back of the hopper,

and we'll put a diverter plate. So he's going to wash all that material down

into the trommel.

Go towards you a little bit.

Toward us? Come out a bit? Yeah.

Right there.

So I got the jet all done. I got the deflector plate on there.

So now when that material piles up, this will push it all into the trommel. It's

going to actually increase their production by a lot because now they'll

to feed it instead of having to be up here and washing it down by hand.

This will do it all.

Oh, cool.

We got the job done, but the reality is Freddie and I still have a lot to do

here.

Well, you want to show me where you got that paid? Sure. They ran on the first

test there?

Yeah, just up here.

In British Columbia, Freddie starts his gold sleuthing at the mine's old cut.

So they mined right in here last year?

Yeah. I was told they were getting good -sized nuggets out of it, so I thought,

well, that sounds good.

But there just wasn't enough.

We got .02, not enough to pay anything.

Something was weird about that.

Mm -hmm. Yeah.

Don't trust what they told you.

Unless you really know the people. Trust what your own eyes tell you. Okay.

But I can see what you were chasing there.

That red stuff.

Yeah. A lot of times those surface red layers are red because they are the

surface gravel, and they got oxygen to them, which allows iron to rust, right?

So usually your surface gravels don't carry much gold.

Okay. The rest of it's tailings. That's been stacked up there by somebody that

was in here before.

In 1858, discoveries on the Fraser River ignited the Caribou Gold Rush.

Strikes at nearby Williams Creek in Barkerville made fortunes with over 3 .8

million ounces, worth over $12 billion in today's money.

Old -timers say the claim Jared is working produced more than 1 ,800 ounces

gold in the 90s, valued today at over $6 million.

One way to tell your entailings is there's no rhyme or reason to the rock.

Virgin material that got laid in there by water, all your flat rocks are laying

flat for the most part.

Entailings, everything's just haphazard. You know, how it was dumped. It's never

been reworked by water. So that's one of the quickest ways to tell.

Let's go look for some virgin ground, huh? All right.

What I think we need to do is find a little bit of elevated ground and look

down, see what we can see.

This is all tailings.

This is all tailings on this side, too.

Let's have a look from this high point.

Well, this isn't a great feeling.

Thought I had something down here.

Well, you can see that gravel face over there? Yeah. Well, to me, that looks

like glacial till.

Glacial till is the debris left behind by a glacier.

Thousands of years ago, millions of tons of ice bulldozed its way through the

valley, crushing rocks into fragments and freeing the gold inside.

As the glacier melted back, the gold was left scattered throughout the ground.

That hillside right there, you know, it's not really structured with the main

hill. There's a chance that's a glacial moraine. A moraine is where the glacial

till has become piled up to form a ridge where gold is more likely to be

concentrated. You can see right down below us here, and you've got the road

there that could be good.

Who knows? There's only one way to find out, though.

Freddie's hunch?

An old -timer's road which cuts through the glacial moraine outcrop.

could hold virgin pay.

At one time there was a lot of gold here, but they gutted this valley.

Maybe there's some pockets of virgin ground onto the road that nobody took

gold out of. Hopefully we can do a little bit of potholing and try to

things out.

Make sure we're not right on yet.

In the mine's boneyard, Juan and Jamie construct a new 18 -foot sluice, which

will help them recover more gold.

Kind of push to where you want it, more or less. Then you push in, twist to the

right, let go of it, and it locks.

Want to try this one real quick?

The magnets grip the steel like a clamp, keeping it square at 90 degrees.

Is mining something that you really enjoy or that you really want to do?

Yeah, it is. And when my kids can come out, that's even better.

Wyatt is just about 21, and Morgan is almost 19.

Doesn't seem like you're old enough to have kids that age.

Well,

there is a story.

I had Wyatt when I was 20, and then on my 21st birthday, I was diagnosed with

relapsing -remitting multiple sclerosis, and I was told if I wanted to have more

kids. I needed to do it because the medication I was about to start could

complications during my pregnancy.

Yeah, you kind of take your priorities. You wanted to have kids, so you went for

it. Yeah. I get that.

I would have never known that she had health issues with her motivation and

work ethic.

But, you know, it just shows that she really has the drive and she's committed

to doing this mine.

We should probably get back to work then, huh? Yeah. All right.

I came to look at the spot.

We can stay to the side there and at least get a trench in here and see what

looks like.

Okay.

On the other side of the claim, Freddie locates a spot to test under an old

mining room for virgin pay. Maybe they didn't touch it, so let's see what lives

right here.

Okay.

Hey, Juan, you got a copy?

Go ahead, Freddie.

I see that excavator showed up.

Yeah, 10 -4. Do you want me to bring it on down to you?

Yeah, if you wouldn't mind.

With the Gaynor's unreliable excavators, Freddie and Juan truck one in that can

dig to almost 30 feet.

What do you think, buddy?

Sweet machine.

Thanks for bringing it down.

Yeah. This is a huge machine.

That's awesome.

See if I'm tall enough to get in this guy.

My hope here, this was their road when they dug these pits beside us. This was

the only spot I could see that we could have a look at in the time period we're

here.

Well, let's try that level.

Okay.

Zero. Not a color in it.

That's disappointing.

Yeah. Really disappointing.

I just had a chat with Freddie.

There might not be ground there, basically.

What I want to do is get some material from down deeper in here and then have a

look at it from a greater depth.

At the Gaynard Mine, Freddie rolls the dice on one last option, finding gold at

bedrock. Well, this is definitely virgin material.

I just don't know how much of it's here.

We're down to bedrock here? Yep.

we took those pans about five to six feet right but now we're down 12 feet or

okay so let's uh i got some in the bucket there let's pan it and see what's

it when i pan i like to take you know not just the same spot

yeah i'll pick around through that material so we get a little bit more

scientific test

Holy moly.

That's stuff dreams are made of right there.

I'm absolutely amazed that Freddie was able to find something in here. I'm

hopeful there's a few thousand yards of material there.

This is incredible.

Well, that is what I wanted to see. We'll run a second test and see what's

it.

How's it going, guys?

Good, how are you guys? Good, doing good. With 24 hours left before the

test, Juan enlists Jared and brother Sandy to help with the next pick.

If you guys could help Freddie and I, we need to get that spray bar out of the

trommel. See if we can break it loose here on this end to get it unthreaded.

good with that? Yeah. Awesome. Thanks, guys.

So the problem with the old spray bar, it was actually pushing water outside of

the trommel, and it really wasn't cleaning the material properly.

With this new one, it's going to allow us to be able to concentrate that water

where it needs to be and get that material water.

Stick that in there.

Nope.

Heavier body.

Yeah, get up there.

We're putting these pipe nipples on so we can reduce the water flow so we have

nice even flow across the whole bar to get a good wash.

And I'm using the end of the old spray bar so that way we know that we have the

right thread pitch to be able to screw it back onto the plant and we know it's

going to fit.

This is an awesome new spray bar.

Wanded excellent.

You going to start throwing her in?

Yeah, I think so.

Oh, okay.

This is heavy.

Mine's light. I got the heavy side for sure. Yeah, I'm sure.

Okay, let's let her down.

We're going to see if this side's heavier.

This side's way easier. It's the same.

Oh, look at that. It's tight.

It's like we're professionals or something.

Hi, Freddy.

How's it going?

Going good.

Right now, you got a little bit of a safety issue here. There's no stair

in the frameworks on them. Yeah. So I was repurposing your old ripples.

We'll tack them in. Why don't you try that?

You're going to start it, click, and then go about an eighth of an inch, and

then you stack your dimes, okay? Okay.

So we stack one, we stack two.

Stacking dimes means making each weld smooth and round, just like coins in a

stack. Just stack nine dimes. Nine.

Okay, this is the last weld right there.

Stack those dimes.

Get a little closer.

There you go.

You got it. Did I? Yeah.

Thanks, Freddie.

You're welcome.

I feel pretty good. Freddie said I did okay. I think this skill is really

important to have out here.

If Jared and Ray are gone and we need something welded, then I can do it.

We're making a wider sluice box to give them more area for that gold to fall out

so we can spread that material out wider. It's going to be a lot more

sluice box than the one they had.

With hours remaining on the final day of Fix -It and the critical sluice

unfinished, the Gaynards get a welcome surprise.

Ray's taken the afternoon off to lend a hand.

Ray is incredibly hardworking. He is gone most of the days during the week,

he tries to make up for the week he wasn't here.

He just goes and goes and goes and goes.

How's it going, guys? Good?

We're here to help.

You guys want to cut some riffles? We do. Yeah.

So our sluice is 35 1⁄2.

Right now I'm just getting this fairly close to the pitch. We'll have it in the

sluice box.

That way when I weld the ears on for these jacks, I can get them straight up

down.

The jacks will make the sluice adjustable for the type of pay they are

Well, I'll finish.

It's looking good.

Let's get her up at the plant.

Right now, it's all hands on deck.

We're going to get this thing in, get this test run done, and head on to the

next mine.

I'll riffle this up.

Okay, so we're going to put it in like shingles.

Sluice build complete.

Freddie gives a quick tutorial to mechanic brother Sandy on how to

So now we take our miner's moth. We don't overlap this stuff.

Okay, now grab one of our heavy ripples.

So we'll go right up to the top with that one.

Done.

You can start walking that end this way.

We good? Still all right.

Last task before the test run, the sluice installation.

Oh, we're going under that? Yeah. Okay.

Oh, we're golden.

We've learned a ton since Freddie and Juan showed up here.

Words can't express the gratitude I have for those guys right now.

What do you say? Let's start a test run. All right. Let's watch them rock, guys.

Let's run.

Overall, the fixes were great.

And we know we got virgin material here.

We'll just run a second test and see what happens.

What do you think, guys?

Looks like we're ready to run.

So why don't we do a two -hour test run, don't we? Yeah. I'm excited to see how

she runs now. In British Columbia.

All right, let's do it.

It's the moment of truth at the Gaynard Family Mine.

There's a lot at stake here for us with everything, so I'm hoping with the

improvements, the sluice and the spray bar, that we should improve, and I'm

really excited to see what's in the box after we run.

Make some gold.

First bucket.

So far, everything looks great.

Already it's more material than we were running the first go -round, huh?

Awesome, awesome.

Now we're not having to stay up there, hose it all down. It's washing itself

down.

I think this test run's going pretty good so far.

fixes are off above and beyond what I could have ever expected.

But we've all learned a ton with Freddie and Juan here.

Tomorrow's Gold Way will determine whether or not we stay here.

Sluice is running pretty decent.

Yeah, it's not bad. By adding this extra wide boot box, it allows us to run more

material.

When you put material into the plant, it's got to go somewhere, right?

We don't want it building up where it's coming up the sluice box.

So you've got to take care of it.

Sandy's going to get that crack hole here where he can take care of the

tailings.

Yeah, sounds good.

Get my granny glasses on.

Yep, she's got gold in her.

There's definitely some mustard in this box. Hey, Jamie.

Come have a look, dude. Lots of fine stuff.

Get in there.

Oh, yeah.

There. a little bit bigger here over here nice work mr dodge i think this has

significantly improved that's the biggest piece i see but all through here

gold so yeah get her cleaned up and we'll meet you in the morning all right

you guys in the morning i'm thrilled to see a light at the end of the tunnel

i'm more excited than i can express the word

How's it going, guys?

Good. How are you doing today? Good. They're all cleaned up? Yep.

This is what we ended up with.

Better than what we had in the first.

I guess we'll see.

All the rumor is, and the testings have shown that this might be the ground that

we've needed all this time.

I think we've got good ground now. I think we're going to do well.

During our first test run, it was a .02.

That was for a one -hour run. So on the final test run... We did two hours, we

would have gotten .04, which is still only $100 worth of gold for two hours.

Your goal right now is about half an ounce daily, right? Yeah.

Let's see what we got out of two hours. Yeah.

.33, third of an ounce.

Almost three times what they need to hit their daily goal. That's really great,

guys.

That's a massive increase. You know, and the great thing is that now you're

actually on decent ground that's actually virgin instead of going through

tailings that we were doing in the beginning. And with the plant running

it is, we're able to run a lot more material.

But you've got to keep prospecting because that whole mine's tailings

right? Yeah.

Who knows what's under them? I'll be able to recognize those tailings a

better now. Yeah.

You actually have a real possibility of making this work. Yeah, we can work with

this. You kind of mentioned to me earlier that eventually this is

you want to do as a family, right?

Well, with gold like that, that's no longer a dream.

That actually could be your reality.

Yeah, that's amazing.

I think if we can keep this up, I won't have to be a mechanic anymore.

Oh, you still will be.

Mechanic at a gold mine.

There's lots of gold in this area, so look around.

Don't run tailings.

Thank you very much.

Thanks a lot, you guys.

You're welcome.

Thank you. It was amazing to ride around with Fred and learn some stuff.

They're leaving me with hope for my future, so I'm chomping at the bit to

out there and get the rest of that pile run.

Well, you guys take care. We've got to hit the road. Bye. My confidence has

skyrocketed. I'm able to do things that I wasn't able to do before, so I'm

really grateful for that. Jared really wants it to be kind of a family mind.

Now he has that option.

I really enjoyed working with this family. They stepped up.

I taught Jared how to spot the difference between tailings and virgin

That's a biggie, because if you run tailings, you go broke. You know, the

the limit for him now.

Hey, Freddie and Juan, thank you for this season and everything that you guys

taught us.

We ran the rest of that virgin material from under the road the next day. We

ended up with...

Just about an ounce from it. But I'll be honest, we're not going to go back to

the same claim.

With the amount of tailings, it was such a big risk to go after it. Ray and I

actually bought our own claim.

That's something like 600 acres of our own now. And with the knowledge I got

from Freddie, I'm confident I'll be able to go out there and prospect that.

Really gave me a taste of stepping up and the things that I learned from

Freddie, like learning how to weld, stacking dimes. I'll never forget that.

I'm going to get her to weld up the exhaust on the excavator. Anything that

breaks, if I need any welding done.

So the future's looking good.

Confidence is high. We're not giving up. Thank you again.

Yeah, thanks, guys.