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My main focus is more and more and more
about finding new ground.

It's a very hard business to continue to
scale.

On Indian River, 26 -year -old mining
prodigy Parker Schnabel has bet his

season on a deep claim with a narrow pay
streak.

It's by far the deepest ground he's ever
mined in the Yukon, but it could also

be the richest.

I think it's a great opportunity.

The gold purity is good over there.

My hope is we find a ton of gold.

Looking at the drilling, it looks like
overall depth should be like 60 feet

deep. At the end of the day, it's just
moving dirt. It is very expensive.

Getting down to pay will take at least
another month and cost over $1 .5

in fuel and crew.

It definitely is quite the gamble.

So far.

Parker's only working wash plant,
Sluicifer, has produced just 84 ounces

airstrip cut, less than half of Lushia's
average.

It's just weird.

It's really strange because the gold is
so consistent when we left there last

fall, and we just picked up where we
left off.

I've gotten a little first clean -up
jitters.

Maybe the finance company will come and
repo all our...

You never know.

It's gold mining.

Parker suspects there's a problem with
how the plant is punching gold.

So he sent in gold recovery expert,
Chris Dumit.

So our last cleanup was 84 houses.

That's not good.

Doesn't come close to paying the bills
and the money we have invested in Mud

Mountain right now.

Chris began his mining career 11 years
ago when he came to Alaska to work as a

carpenter. for the Hoffman crew.

Over the years, he learned to mine.

Chris, welcome up.

In 2013, he joined Parker's crew.

Ain't no vacation.

You know that.

Now, he's one of the best gold recovery
experts in the Yukon.

We move a lot of dirt for a little bit
of gold, and it's too rare, it's too

valuable to lose it.

So we're going to do everything within
our power to capture as much as we can.

What's going on, Chris? What do you
think? Hey, Mitch.

I think we ought to cut that plant down
and see where this gold is going.

Mine is more of a science than it is
just digging.

It's just not a matter of turning the
machine on and turn the water on and

running dirt.

You got to figure it out.

I think this is our problem right here.

See how fine all this gold is?

This is usually where the material hits
first and it catches a coarse gold.

Usually it's one of the best mats, the
first mat.

But what I'm seeing is real fine gold.

It's too much water. It's not letting
the gold settle where it's supposed to.

In Lucifer, water jets wipe gold -rich
material from the pay dirt.

And vibrating screens separate out the
rocks from the fine material.

Then in the sluice rooms, the heavier
gold sinks into thick mud.

Chris thinks excess water could be
forcing gold.

Out the back of the pumps.

There's no real resistance against that
pump.

It's almost level with the wash plant
right now. Normally, water pump's down

a hole, plant's up high. The pump has to
work a lot harder to get the water up

to the wash plant. Right now, it's just
rifling water over here.

So can we shut off some of these spray
bars?

The first spray bar has six outlets on
the bottom. Right. You can put plugs in

those six.

that go directly down, that's the water
that blasts right here at the top.

Okay. So we'll cut that water out.

What if we open the bypass and divert
water from there?

Because it's going to lose a lot of
volume, but we got to start doing

different.

I'm going to plug off the four in the
center here and reduce this water that

have going into the top of the deck
here.

You have to be very careful that we
don't restrict too much water, because

you don't have enough water, the runs
are going to pack, and then the gold

get down in the carpet.

So I've got the bypass valve completely
open. We'll bypass as much water as we

possibly can.

Opening the bypass valve diverts water
from the pump around Sucifer and into

settling pond.

reducing the amount that flows through
the plant.

I'm going to go on over and take a look
and see how we're doing.

Fire it up!

Looking a lot better.

A lot better.

After three hours, costing almost $12
,000, it's Lucifer.

He's back up and running.

Well, Chris, I think it's looking a lot
better.

We won't go into the next setup, but I
think we'll have a happy Parker now.

All that's holding it in there is that
pile of dirt.

And if it came out of the ground, it
would have just been flying around.

The increased pressure in the bypass
hose has caused it to break free

from its foundations.

When it gets a whip and it goes crazy
and somebody could actually get hurt by

the thing.

Think of a fire hose this big around,
right? I mean, it just... Until it's

secured.

Parker's only moneymaker.

It's got down once again.

We're going to sleeve our bypass hose
inside this pipe, and that'll keep it

wanting to walk around, and then we're
going to armor it all up.

It's going to be tough getting it
through. Yeah.

I'm in your way here.

So Tyson's got some really super coarse
tailings, but he's got probably seven or

eight tons of rock on top of that pipe
that's cleaved so it won't get crushed.

We're pretty much at the point here
where we're ready to flash up the pump

see if it works.

Might want to step back.

Fire it up!

Well done, young man.

This looks really nice.

Well, there's no kinks in the hose.

It's solid.

Good boy.

Thank you, boy.

I just want to make it clear, though, if
you spill any nacho cheese into that

excavator, you're going right back in
that truck.

Okay, I'll make sure I don't.

A hundred miles away from the Klondike,
in Keno, Rick Nurse is on Goldrich

Ground.

But he's still working at a reduced
capacity with a skeleton crew.

So I do appreciate you putting in your
stint, Nate. I hope it wasn't too

torturous on you.

Are you sure you just blowed smoke up my
ass?

Nathan Thornton is digging pay in the
480 excavator while Rick loads rock

with the new million -dollar 750.

I mean, the gold's good, and it's coming
in consistent, so that's always good,

but that's just not going to be good
enough this year. I spent a lot of

you know, got some big machines in here.
If I'm going to hit my 2 ,000 goals,

there's going to be more people in here.

We've really got to be running at full
capacity if we're going to get there.

To ramp up production, Rick has rustled
up some new recruits.

It's a little different this year. I'm
having to hire not just friends of mine,

but people that I don't know.

It's a little different feeling.

In the gold room, Heather Foster.

We'll figure it out. We'll get it dialed
in.

Heather learned gold recovery on
Parker's claim.

as Chris Dumit's apprentice.

We're going to see if I can do it on my
own, without Dumit.

I think he's taught me well. We should
be okay.

Turn and turn.

Hard joystick. There you go.

A little touchy.

Yeah. At Watt Plant Rocky, Rick's most
experienced crew member, Brennan Ruholt,

teaches rookie operator Kyle Lawson how
to feed the plant.

So down, down, down, down, down, down.
There you go. Now zoom out.

As you're doing that, try to uncurl that
towards the window. Okay.

There you go.

Do you want me

to keep going?

Yep.

Oh, gosh. Here I am driving all over the
place.

Rick's hometown buddy, Chris Cruz.

puts trainee rock truck driver Leah
Turnbull through her paces.

Don't get to let your tires drop over
into that trend.

I have zero experience in rock truck
driving. I hadn't even stepped foot in

until this morning, so I think I'm doing
pretty good.

I took her along for about five trips
while I drove, and then she drove with

in the cab for like five trips. That's
the way I was taught. I don't know if

that's the right way, but...

My not being in a rock truck for the
next six months depends on her success

there, so I'm really rooting for her.

It's getting a little hot there, girl.

Tell that.

Leah comes from the same town as Rick's
mechanic, Carl Roth.

Carl's been a good friend of mine for
years and keeps inviting me up here.

for a visitor to work, and finally I
decided that this was my year.

I've never really been afraid to try
something out, and once I kind of set my

mind to something, I got to do it, and I
got to do it well.

Real nice, real nice. I'll straighten
out the front of the truck a little bit,

so when you dump, you're not cockeyed.

And you can let her fly right there.

I think I found my replacement in the
rock truck.

I did it.

With his three new crew members, Rick
should be able to run wash plant rocky

100 yards per hour, 24 -7.

What do you think? You feel good? Oh,
yeah. Yeah, I think he'll do great at

Seems cautious.

Yeah. It's great having your crew here.
I mean, these guys all seem to be

fitting in really well.

If I'm going to get double the gold this
year, I need these guys to work out.

So, so far, so good.

Stop! Stop!

Is Leo okay?

Where is he? Is he out of the truck?

Yeah, you're already out.

Yeah.

Stop here.

It was scary.

All right.

Just stopped in time.

Leah crashed her truck into the 20 -foot
-deep tailings pond.

I'm tired, aren't I?

Is it really, really bad?

Yeah, it's really bad.

We're not laughing about this. No, it's
not laughable.

Just another few feet, and she could
have been drowned in the quicksand -like

silt. that fills the pond.

I built that pond.

It's a goddamn settling pond full of
filth. It's an endless pit.

Hey, shut the plants out. Everybody get
over to the sailing pond. We're about to

lose a truck.

Now Leah's faith.

Rick needs to rescue his half -million
-dollar rock truck.

I mean, I've flipped a thousand of these
things back over, but I've never had

one quite sitting like this.

We'll talk. I'm sorry. I just... I know.
I was just nervous. I didn't mean to

laugh. We'll just talk. We'll just talk
after we get this thing out, okay?

Literally the worst case scenario right
now. Like, hire new people, train them

up in a rock truck, and then watch them
on the ground.

This thing almost has to come straight
back, though. Yeah. I don't see how I'll

save this thing.

You just leave that there. I'll unroll
that quick as much as I can. Then I'll

two dots down.

Watch out!

The 45 -ton load of dirt is causing the
truck to sink into the fine silt of the

pond.

You know, if that cab goes in the water,
then the engine's under water, the

cab's under the water, like that truck
will be done. You just have to be real,

real easy and gentle on this.

See, that's empty, you know?

It's going to have to be.

Get someone in the cab now, because I'm
running out of power to lift here.

I'm going in.

Work with me when you go through these.
You're super slow, okay?

Yeah! Woo!

I was worried my weight might make a
difference except

for over into the water.

You're just water weight. It'll balloon
down.

It was close.

It would have been a lot worse.

I need to talk to Leo. Where is he? Is
he in the truck?

I don't take pleasure in firing people
or letting people go or having to make

those decisions.

I don't want to have anybody get hurt.
No, and it's your site, it's your job,

it's your livelihood.

I 100 % get that.

Sorry,

I didn't mean to cry. It's okay. If
there's any way that we can fix it, I

the seriousness of it, I really do. I'd
really, really love an opportunity to

actually get to know you and work hard
for you and not have this happen again.

And please, really do think about it.

Okay. And I think I can do it, and I
think I can be safe and not... Okay.

All right. Give me a little time.

Okay. Great.

Just go and relax.

No, don't film me, please.

Not a good time.

We got another cutoff on running.

So now all we've got to do is go to the
Indian River.

King of the Klondike, Tony Beats, has
spent more than $5 million on new

equipment, preparing to mine 2 ,800
acres of gold -rich ground on the Indian

River.

We spend a lot of money on equipment to
go there, so we really like to go over

there and make our money back.

But over three weeks into the season,
The equipment is still sitting idle

because his water permit has yet to be
issued.

We still got no license for the Indian
River.

We're talking about two and a half,
three million dollars a month that we're

getting. Also meaning that the later we
get the license, the harder it's going

to be to get to a 9 ,000 ounce gold.

So the sooner it comes in, the better
it'll be.

Until the license comes through, Tony's
only source of gold.

It's done Mike's 30 -year -old trommel
on Paradise Hill.

And I mean, we like to run this smooth,
because in the meantime, this carrying

the whole company, right?

Mike should be floating here full -time,
24 hours a day. You know, that'll keep

us afloat.

Lots of ripping, lots of dirt moving.

Mike digs pay in the 8 -acre nugget cut.

So much dirt.

Lots of nuggets.

Lots of nuggets.

Veep's family friend, Ruby Mahoney,
loads rock trucks.

We're sending you some pretty good pay.
How's it looking over there?

And our high school buddy, Megan
Gordette, feeds a trommel.

Looking pretty good, actually.

With 200 yards of pay dirt an hour.

We've been friends for years, so it's
awesome with us working together now.

We started calling ourselves the Dream
Team. Tony didn't know what he was going

to get carrying us together.

Tony's daughter Monica is on maternity
leave, so it's up to son Kevin to keep

the Dream Team's floosing and the
business afloat. With Monica away right

we're going even more directions than
before.

It's nuts these days.

Awesome. Good.

So as you can see, we've got a little
hole here.

That material could be going in the box.
Anything that falls, we're not going to

catch until we dig it all up in three
years.

The distributor, which feeds the sleuth
runs, has worn through.

Good thing I was here because nobody
else would have noticed that.

We'll do a quick fix for now, get it
done proper in a bit.

Oh, this is very complicated engineering
we're doing right now.

That's about as quick as you can get,
I'd say.

Probably a bit extra, but that works.

This will allow us to keep going for a
little bit, and if it doesn't hold, I'll

put a bigger stick in there.

It's going to work.

It's not proper.

Pretty, but you know what?

It's going to work. It's better than it
was.

Do you have a hole in the distributor?

Yep. Had it kind of stick in there, so.

It's a disaster in here.

Never know what.

We got leaks everywhere in the
distributors.

And if they keep around, put the stick
in there and a piece of silicone, we're

off course going to be down all night.

Shut up.

I see we're on short now.

The water lies in.

But we've got troubles down here, and
that has to get fixed. It's as simple as

this. When the plant ain't running, we
ain't getting no gold, means we ain't

getting any money.

So I think we should open it up so Kent
can have a look inside, and then we can

see as to what we want to do with it.

Tony orders welder Kent Simonson to head
up the hill and get his trommel back on

the gold fast.

We'll have to patch this piece up with a
chunk of angle.

Hurry up.

Yeah, let's go. Let's make this
happening.

It might look a little patchy in places,
but I think it'll hold better than the

stick.

Tony, I think we're, I think the
distributor's done. It's looking pretty

Pull it up.

After four hours put down, Costing over
$14 ,000 in lost gold,

Tony's only operating wash plant is back
in business.

We don't want any more big shutdowns.
Hopefully we'll be able to run all of

we've done.

And if not, we'll make it through
somehow.

I just want to get the stupid mud out of
this stupid hole.

On Indian River.

Parker's naively two -thirds of the way
through stripping his deepest ever

claim, Mud Mountain.

He's invested over a million dollars so
far, and every day adds another $50 ,000

in fuel and crew costs.

It's definitely a lot of dirt to move.
It's going to take everything we've got

for sure.

We'll get it done.

Maybe. I don't know. We'll give it a
field college try.

A mile away at the airstrip cut,
Parker's only operating wash plant,

is catching gold again after Chris
Dumit's tune -up.

We're trying to keep up with Sluicifer,
and it's definitely chewing through all

this thawed ground.

Foreman Mitch Plasky and plant boss
Tyson Lee build a stockpile of gold

pay.

You know, Mud Mountain, every day that
goes by, it's costing more and more

money. And Lucifer is finally up and
going, and it's nice to finally be

Parker's bank account back looking a
little happier.

Loader operator Tatiana Costa feeds
Lucifer 220 yards of pay dirt an hour.

I love running the loader. You know,
it's rock, truck, it's fun.

But yeah, no, my thing is the loader.

Such a good time, and it's just class
-based. I love it.

Tyson, Tyson, please, can you come here?
The pot is being flooded.

Right

now,

our settling pond has cut a trench under
the mud.

It's cut the thawed mud out.

Now it's flooding into our cut like
crazy.

The increased water from the bypass hole
has filled the 28 million gallon

settling pond and breached the berm.

If the cut floods, Parker's only source
of thawed pay dirt will be shut down for

weeks.

It's coming in like a...

River, man. It's cut a channel right
underneath all the mud.

Our whole system is going to be
underwater here in a matter of minutes

don't get this plugged off.

I'm going to smash that GoPro if it's
not moved in the next 10 seconds.

It's flooding.

While Tyson plugs the brief, Mitch tries
to find a way to drain the rapidly

flooding coat.

Let's see what we got going over here.

Looks like there's an old stream bed
here, and I don't know if the water

at one point ran this way or if there
was water running from this direction to

it, but maybe we can do something with
it.

There's no time to survey the stream
bed, so Mitch will dig a ditch to

it to the Indian River, pump flood water
into the channel, and hope the gradient

flows down towards the river.

700 here with tiger teeth on it.

These are the most aggressive teeth we
have for this bucket.

Use it to try and chew through this
permafrost.

It's so much easier if this drowns the
sod.

Come on, baby.

If this doesn't work, I really don't
know where to go with this.

30 minutes after the burn briefs.

Any minutes I got?

It's plugged off a little bit. It's
deepened through other spots now, but

there's not a hell of a lot of water
coming at you anymore.

How's your trench looking? Do we have
flow to the river yet?

We got a completed trench, so all we
need now is water.

Where the ancient stream bed meets the
cut, Tatiana holds the pump above the

flood water.

We want to raise it up so our pump's
not...

Sitting in a pond.

Don't move. I'm going to climb over.

Right now, Tyson's going to hook a chain
up to our suction line.

You good, buddy?

Far from good.

If Brennan was here, I'd definitely have
Brennan hooking the chain up today.

He would find a reason not to.

Want to try and fire that up there?

Come on.

Mitch's gamble has paid off.

The ancient stream bed flows down to the
river.

At this rate, the cut will be dry in two
hours.

Man, I got to say, that's one of the
closest calls we've ever had.

We've never had the firm let go like
that before.

If we wouldn't have got that sealed up
that quick, this whole thing would be a

swimming pool right now.

So, let's go get some dry clothes and
hit her again.

time to get going on Paradise Hill.

We really need every spectacle that we
can get. It's looking great on my end.

Hopefully we get some big nuggets out of
her.

While Tony Beats waits for a license so
he can start mining on Indian River, his

dream team runs Nugget Copay through
Mike's 40 foot trommel.

There's like 30 plus of us working here
right now.

if we're not making gold and actually
running it to the plant then no one's

going to be able to get paid and that
would suck just try to move dirt as

efficiently and quickly as you possibly
can and keep the plants running and just

try not to lose your mind because it is
fun but it's also insane

The chute's pissing material.

Hey, Tony. Hey, Tony. The chute's
leaking pretty bad.

You've got to be kidding.

Okay, I'll be on my way down there.

The chute that carries material from the
trommel down to the recently repaired

distributor is losing gold where past
repairs have worn through.

It's another case of quick fixes coming
back to haunt the beats.

Now, last year, we laid steel.

Instead of welding those in, we did a
quickie. We put in bolts.

Now, of course, all that material
flowing over the bolt heads, it's like a

grinder. So those wear out and hole,
hole, hole, hole.

That's the price you pay for not doing
it right.

Shut up!

We're more of a nightmare than a dream.
No, we're the nightmare squad.

Tony has to drag six of his crew off
other jobs to help replace the huge 40

-foot steel base.

Every hour the plant is shut down costs
$3 ,600 in lost gold.

Did you type that already so somebody
can stack it so we don't have to hold

Nope. You did the same on this side
already?

Perfect. This year we do it in the
proper way. Once in a while you have to

some maintenance.

It sucks, but it's the way it is.

Okay, can I have a welder over there?

Now they must weld the new base into
position.

Okay, I want to see somebody in it
welding, like now, so to speak.

I need more welding cable there so I can
get three welders on the go.

With your decision to become a welder,
don't blame it on me.

This is the money maker. Now we have to
start closing.

I don't like no paycheck.

It takes six hours to complete the job.

Everything's ready to go now, so let's
turn it on, get some gold.

Hey, Tony. Hey, Tony. Plant's fired up.
It's running.

I see no leaks. Everything looks good.

After a 10 -hour shutdown costing $36
,000, Megan Gordette

and Ruby Mahoney A back -sluicing.

To become the dream team once again,
they must now run the plant non -stop

the rest of the week.

There's really not a whole lot of time
to waste.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no
time to waste.

Well,

there's one thing that I've learned as a
miner.

You're only as good as the crew.

At Lower Duncan Creek, Rick Ness is
running Wash Plant Rocky at 80 %

running 100 yards of gold -rich pay dirt
an hour.

I need people right now, you know. We've
got a lot bigger gold this year.

You know, and I'm having a really hard
time finding people to come out here and

work. Three days ago.

New recruit Leah Turnbull crushed her
rock truck into the tailings pond.

Rick must now decide if he should cut
her loose.

So how does it feel being back in the
truck after your, let's call it a less

than stellar parking job?

How about that?

I'm a little nervous, to be honest, and
happy to get a little bit more

training.

So now do you know where you got a spot
picked out?

Okay, so I'm feeling straight, but
there's a pile of rock behind me. Does

look like it's going to affect me, or am
I pretty straight?

No, that's off.

There's your center line.

Start backing up. We've got to get
somewhere.

Real nice, real nice, and you can let
her fly right there.

Hey, Cruzy, can you come up here for a
second?

Yeah, give me about four minutes. I'll
be right there.

What's up, guy?

What do you think about Leah? Well, I
mean, obviously I have some skin in this

game.

But, I don't know, when you're down here
all day, like, she shows signs that

she's getting it. I know that she wants
to be good at this.

Yeah. She really does.

I mean, there's some things that started
clicking in her head for sure.

Right now, I'm going with my gut and I
should fire her. I mean, the way she

rolled that thing drove it right into
the tailings pond. You know how bad that

could have been.

Believe me, I know. I mean, I'm no
stranger to tipping over rock trucks. We

that. I'm still here.

I've rolled them too, man. I've rolled
them too. But that, that right there,

know, drove right through a berm.

Yeah, I get it.

I mean, obviously you're the boss. It's
your call. But we really do need

somebody in that truck.

I vote for second chance.

Yeah.

I don't know what to do. I mean, I need
her in a truck, but I also can't afford

her making another mistake like that.

I got some thinking to do.

Thanks, man. Let me know.

I know I screwed up and really worried
that I'm not going to be able to stay. I

don't want to get fired.

It's not really in my hands anymore. I
just got to wait and find out what Rick

decides.

Hey, how are you feeling?

Yeah, well, I've kind of cooled down a
bit, given it some thought.

I don't feel like I was too hard on you,
but I think I'd

like to give you a second chance, but I
don't want you to look at this as, like,

a free pass. Like, I want to make very
sure that you understand how serious

was.

I don't know if it's, like, I wouldn't
say it's probation, but I guess it

actually kind of is probation.

I really want you to, you know, keep
your head down, learn, and, you know,

that you're serious and that you
respect, you know, the dangers around

Like, that's going to be really
important.

I really appreciate that. Fair enough?

Yeah.

Well, I'm super relieved I get to stay,
and I know I can do this, and I don't

want to let Cruzy down because I know
he's looking forward to getting out of

truck. So, yeah, it's been a tough first
week.

Come on, Jack.

Come on.

I'm paradise hell.

Well, you'd better feed her some more.

Yeah, you'd better go feed her.

Sounds like an employee. She's whining
already.

Right. Three generations of beets gather
for the gold way.

Mike, it's weighed down by gold.

That's badass.

So what, from the trommel this week
only, I guess, huh?

Oh, yeah, it's taken down, so.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Still no license, though, but, I mean,
at least we're getting some.

This week, while he's been waiting for
his Indian River license, Tony's only

gold has come from the nugget cut.

It's a good thing my trommel's running,
otherwise I'd get up the creek and I

wouldn't be. My goal.

Anyway, so, let's see what we got.

10, 20.

Tony needs 475 ounces a week to hit his
9 ,000 ounce season goal.

50, 60, 70, 80, 90.

100, 110, 120, 123

.38.

Roughly an ounce an hour, eh?

That's a lot of yards per ounce, but
that's what we're going to get.

So what's that make our season total
now?

461 .63.

That's still a long ways away from a
goal of 9 ,000, huh?

Hopefully next week we do a little bit
better.

It's not that we didn't have a lot of
money.

So let's see if we can get some more
gold out of the ground this week.

Get things started.

See what we can come up with.

Have you wrapped it up?

That's rolled up.

Thank you.

Bye, children.

Bye -bye.

I wasn't planning on drinking this
weekend, but I'm feeling like 35 beers

we go down tonight.

At Lower Duncan Creek.

Hey, shooter.

Oh, buenos dias, guy.

The original four members of the Ness
crew gather for the Gold Way.

Well, I mean, it's good having some new
blood in here, you know, some new

people. Oh, yeah, for sure.

I'm tired of looking at just you guys.
Yeah.

That being said, we've all got to be,
you know, the four of us, we've got to

extra cautious and extra aware this week
coming up, you know, and make sure that

everybody stays safe.

This week, what plant Rocky had to be
shut down when Leah Turnbull crushed her

rock truck?

I thought that truck was going over.

And nobody's perfect, I mean.

We all know what I did last year.

I've done both.

We were giving her a second shot.

We're going to need all the help we can
get if we're going to get to 2 ,000

ounces, right? Yep.

Speaking of that, let's see how much
closer we are here.

To hit his 2 ,000 -ounce season target,
Rick needs to average 105 ounces a week.

This bottle's heavy, so that means we're
all doing something right.

Last week, he only banked 90.

You ready?

20, 40,

50, 70, 80.

What?

92 .48. Holy cow.

Awesome.

Worth over $165 ,000.

That's more than last week.

Makes sense. We added more people. We
got more done.

We're sweet.

Clicking on the heels of 2000.

Fantastic, man.

I believe that's what people call an
upward trend.

Rick is back on track.

to hit its season goal.

I mean, obviously, more people means
more dirt through the wash plant equals

more gold. I mean, the ground's
consistent, and that's a good thing.

Unfortunately, we're running low on
ground in the creek cut, so we're going

have to open up something new.

But as of right now, it's looking good.
Right on.

At Scrivener Creek, the Snable crew
assembles for the Gold Way.

How's it going, man? Good to see you,
young man.

What's up?

We were just talking about our week.

Yeah.

This week, Parker spent $350 ,000
stripping at Mud Mountain,

bringing his total spend to $1 .4
million.

He needs Wash Plants Lucifer to bring in
over 180 ounces.

just to break even.

Last week, it bunked 84.

We had to fight for this stuff. It
wasn't just an easy down.

We had to make some adjustments, cut the
water back, really trying to fine -tune

it, and it seems to be running a lot
better. And we did see gold in the upper

mats. You want to see the rest of it?

Yeah, I want to see how we did.

Okay, here we go. Ready, Mitch?

It's going to go quick. All right. 20,
40, 50, 70,

80, 100, 140, 150, 160,

180, 220, 250, 300, 330,

337 .45.

Worth over $600 ,000.

I like that a lot better. Yeah, that's a
lot better.

That's four times what we got on our
first cleanup.

A little more hours.

Triple or quadruple the gold. Yeah, we
like them an ounce an hour if it's free.

You know, so if you can keep that plant
running.

Keep your mouth shut.

Don't be saying that too loud. That
thing will hear you.

It's got a mind of its own. You shut
your mouth.

No problem there.

Sounds like a plan. I'll pack this stuff
up and we'll go get something to eat.

Chris, nice clean job as usual.

Mitch, thank you for taking care of
business out there. No worries.

Pay some bills. I was going to open a
better bottle of wine, but you have them

in the safe and I don't know the code.

I'm getting out of here.

We had a really good week this week. I
mean, last week was an embarrassment and

this just proved it.

Everything that we have done, everything
that we have progressed to be now is

all laying on the line in Mud Mountain.

That's the scary part.

We just got 337 ounces of gold.

It's given us a total of over 400
ounces.

It doesn't come close to paying the
bills and the money we have invested in

Mountain right now.

We haven't even started soliciting it
yet.

So we've got a long ways to go.

If we can keep this up, we'll be paying
some bills.