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What do we got there?
Over on our truck.
Looks like old Tony must be back in town.
Wonderful.
That's the boundary as far as I can tell online. I went and measured everything
and mapped it. I just knew that you had two and a half of the things, so I just
took two and a half down.
King of the Klondike, Tony Beats, is moving back to Indian River.
He's been gone over two years.
His first order of business, re -establish foundries.
All right, yeah, because I do want to make sure that before we start here that
that ditch is in the right spot. I think it is.
So if you think it's not, then tell me. If you feel like that's in the wrong
spot, then let's have that conversation.
I'll let you know. Okay.
The problem is that we're running out of ground tomorrow.
26 -year -old Parker Snavel started the season in a race to find new Klondike
ground.
But the only climb available is deeper than any he's ever mined before.
Five weeks in, and a million dollars out of pocket, he's not even halfway down
to pay dirt.
The big push right now is my fountain.
I'm a little nervous if this cut does go well, just because it's going to be a
very expensive one. But there's a lot going on.
We could have like 50 people working right now.
We'd still be behind, I think.
And so Mitch is scrambling to get some more ground opened up at the airstrip.
One mile northwest, foreman Mitch Blaschke keeps the gold coming in.
To pay for Parker's gamble on Mud Mountain, he must mine the last 22 acres
the airstrip cut, leased from Tony Beats.
Yeah. Hey, man. How's it going?
Good, how are you? Not bad. Look, like, with Lucifer being the only plant that's
making any money right now, I don't want you to get spread too thin, so I'll
handle the stripping at...
Mud Mountain and dealing with those guys.
If you want to just take on the airstrip and try your best to keep the plant
running 24 -7 and gold coming in, you've got a lot of bills to pay, and I've got
a lot of money to spend stripping.
I mean, Mud Mountain's a huge project, and definitely we're spending some
so we'll try and make some here. Yeah, you're the only one getting any bills
paid. No pressure.
All right, sounds good. Thanks, dude.
Airstrip produced quite a bit of gold for us last season, and with all the
that's getting dumped into my mountain, Parker was thinking, hey, this would be
a pretty easy way to make a quick buck.
Hey, Tyson, you got a copy?
Go ahead.
Things don't seem to be getting any easier around here.
I don't even think the Yukon knows what it's going to do when it comes to
weather. It, like, decides minute by minute.
The same thing we have in Vancouver. If you don't like the weather, wait five
minutes.
I walked outside my trailer this morning and saw the snow falling.
Definitely not what we need right now. We had an extremely cold winter in the
Yukon and actually had a 100 -year record snowfall.
And it looks like that's not giving up just yet.
After the spring thaw, the temperature has again dropped below freezing.
We're trying to keep up with sluiceper.
Right now, it's going through 3 ,000 yards of material per 12 -hour shift.
We've got to get a stockpile so we have enough cater to keep running 24 hours a
day. So Tyson and I are both running excavators here, bailing material as
as we can.
But obviously not having Brennan here this year has put a lot of stress on
everybody.
That season's done.
Mitch is performing Brennan rule.
jumped ship to team up with Rick Ness.
Now, what flanked boss Tyson Lee is Mitch's right -hand man.
I've told you not to do it that way.
But they have history.
If you're telling me you're cool with that set up right there, you need to
rethink your game, man.
Brennan and Mitch were a hand in hand with each other until...
This will definitely put a lot more pressure on me this year.
Hey, Tyson, hopefully we'll have enough to keep this wash plant going, because
it's definitely getting a little skinny over here. We're going about scoop for
scoop for a bit.
Don't say that too loudly, Mitch. The wash plant might hear you.
Mitch and Tyson are making the piles, and I'm scooping
and bringing them back to the feeder.
Operator Tatiana Costa feeds 220 yards of pay dirt an hour.
Every day we were spending just trying to get pay and start getting the gold
and get money, money in the pocket.
Coming off the teeth, that's the frost right there that we're fighting.
Frozen stiff, my friend.
Nothing's thawing out today.
If anything, it's getting more froze.
It's definitely a struggle.
Just trying to keep up here, but the stockpiles, they're pretty much all
We're not producing enough material here to keep up with the log flap.
Not only is the frozen pay a challenge to dig out, it then has to defrost
being processed.
Hey Mitch, so I'm probably just going to leave this right here and let it thaw a
little longer because I'm not getting all the pay on it here.
I see you've still got some froze up low spots there too, huh?
Yeah, this whole piece needs to be going over again.
Yeah.
Land of frost out here.
This isn't working.
Hey Tatiana, you got a copy?
What of?
Yeah, hey, that's going to be the last scoop.
We got to get some material stockpiled here, so let's go ahead and we're going
to turn off the shaker deck as soon as it clears.
That's the last one.
Okay.
It's crazy to be thinking that this is what normally shuts us out at the end of
the season, not the beginning.
Lucifer is Parker's only working wash plant.
Every hour down costs almost $4 ,000 in unmined gold.
Look at the weather here. It's cold. The ground isn't thawing like we need it
to.
We just don't have enough thawed pay to be able to keep things running here 24
hours a day.
So we're just going to run it on a night shift.
During the day, we're going to remove every bit of thaw that we can, stockpile
it so we can try and get enough.
material to be able to run this thing 24 hours a day again.
And, you know, we're not going to have as much gold at the end of the week.
We need sunshine and warm days here to buy out some of this ground.
It's going to be pretty interesting this week.
anxiously waiting if we're going to get a license to go to the Indian River.
In his 40 years at the Klondike, Tony Beats has snatched up over 350 gold
-rich claims.
The Indian River is amongst the most profitable.
But before he can cash in, he needs a water license.
Tony's only working wash plant is at the Nugget Cut on Paradise Hill.
The final decision on Indian River is due in four days.
The piggy bank is in the river.
So, I don't say every day counts, but in reality, you're really a duck.
To get a step ahead, Tony's moving his monster machines to the Indian.
First up, the $1 .1 million 950 excavator, the biggest in the Yukon.
Everyone of us got 950.
We can't put it on a rack of a low boy for 100 tons.
So that's why I bought this thing. Now I think it's time to try it out.
See if this thing starts up. How do you start it?
At $100 ,000, the rear -steer Columbia low boy is a gamble due to its age.
This low boy, this old, was built in 1965.
I happened to see this trailer on the auction sale, and I decided...
that for us moving stuff back and forth to the Indian River, we needed a bigger
low boy.
The 950 excavator weighs 100 tons and is too wide for a standard low boy.
If we can load up the 950 on this and bring it down to the Indian River
having to take it apart, that would be bonus.
Because, you know, by the time we take out the counterweight, take out the
bucket, boom, stick.
and load her back up, that's a lot of commotion. It would be so nice if we can
just drive her on, eyeball her down the road, drive her off, and go to work.
It turns three -day operation into a one -day one. Yeah.
This contraption is supposed to steer it, so we'll just see what it'll do.
For the yard's heavy load specialists, youngest son Mike beats an old hand Len
Hoekstra. This is their first time driving a rear steer.
So now let's go drive into the yard, make a turn in the yard and come back up
here. Okay, Mike, jump up there, fire up.
Len drives, bingo.
Unlike a standard low boy,
The Columbia has steering at the front and rear.
Powered by a hydraulic motor and manually operated by levers, it makes
Lowboy more maneuverable than a fixed axle rig on the treacherous mountain
and requires precise coordination between driver and brakeman.
See?
Go. Slow down.
Len, slow down.
Slow down.
Len, slow down.
I can't adjust that fast.
Stop. Stop.
Stop.
He doesn't have a radio. What do you got?
He's going, like, faster than I can barely adjust in time.
I'll tell him to slow down.
I have to drop it again, otherwise he can't correct it quick enough.
Yeah.
That looks pretty good, Mike, though, eh?
Oh, yeah. I have time to adjust.
Not bad, but when he's going 30, 40, I cannot keep up.
Slow down.
He keeps going way too fast. I cannot adjust fast enough.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
He
has
a bad habit of picking up speed.
A hundred grand down on a piece of aging kit, Tony needs his team to start
coordinating their efforts.
Next time we'll park him on the back, you go like that.
That's the only way. Yeah, I thought you were playing around a little.
I could.
And then I saw that you were... Then you figured out you couldn't see it,
looking a little bit scared, so I thought... I'm scared.
I'm holding on like, God damn it!
Anyway, you know what, Mike?
We'll stick Len in the doghouse over there, and then you can get driving.
Yeah, just remember, no barking.
Okay. Okay, gentlemen, let's do it.
It's time to put the aging Columbia to the test with the 100 -ton 950.
Mike, swing once your ass in. Yeah, keep it going.
Don't you be slim.
I will put a teeth in the ground, Mike, so you don't slide off.
Put the bucket up front there.
Good. You can put it down anywhere, Mike. Just put it down like that.
Good.
That's close enough.
Good, gentlemen.
You're up front. The other one in the back.
Off you go.
I mean, we don't have to chain it down.
It's just a test of an eight going anywhere.
Basically, all we want to do is test it out.
See how it feels, see how it goes.
You guys ready back there?
Yeah, go.
We'll see the heavy pull.
Oh, yeah, okay. See the wheels turn there? Yeah. See how cool that goes?
See how tight that turns?
I mean, on back wheel steering, it makes a hell of a difference, you know,
doesn't it?
They ought to create a hell of a lot of drag.
So far, I'm trying to impress the way it goes.
It was built in 1965.
Everything works.
I mean, it's... Amazing.
That test went well. There was a couple of hiccups there steering -wise, but the
guys did well.
So I think they shouldn't have any problem bringing it to the end yet.
There's so much that needs to be done right now.
In the Yukon wilderness, 40 miles from Dawson City, lies California Creek.
Ex -Special Forces medic Fred Lewis has gambled everything on setting up a new
operation.
My job today is going to be removing this overburden and trying to get down
that hay gravel so we can get to mining.
But four weeks in, And Fred's mined less than two ounces.
And has just received news that most of his crew from last season won't be
rejoining him.
Pretty big bombshell dropped by my guys. You know, I knew that a few of them
wouldn't make it up here this season because the Yukon's a huge commitment.
most of my team is out. And now the ones that are coming aren't here.
It's just me and JB.
Two Green Berets. And JB is not a miner.
The only crew member on site.
is new mechanic, ex -Green Beret, J .B. Mayer.
Hey, J .B., J .B. How are you, copy?
Hi, Fred, it's J .B.
I'm just getting ready to get this whole punch down to bedrock end up. Just
can't help but think about the fact that we're out here running this mind
-buying belt, man.
Yeah, it's just the two of us, isn't it?
The two of us have got to figure out right now...
how to get this mine site up and running as quick as possible so we're pulling
in gold here and get moving right now though uh so we're gonna have to make
do with it and uh get this done tests revealed the best pays on the north side
of the claim but it's underneath a huge pile of overburden we've got this
massive pile that has to go
Last year, Fred's neighbors stripped overburden from the south side of the
to the north, leaving a 50 -foot pile of worthless dirt on the very
part of the cut Fred believes is rich in gold.
He must now get the excavator on top of the pile to move the overburden and
expose the pay beneath.
It looks even worse from up here.
This terrifies me.
But, JB, you used to drive tank.
That's more challenging than it looks. Well, don't take this the wrong way. I
don't want to watch.
As long as I don't turn these tracks sideways and start doing that number
I don't even want to know. All good. Sliding straight down was all right. I
don't even want to know.
Good luck.
to is all this overburden that was pushed up wasn't pushed far enough
So we're losing a lot of our pay.
So all this soil needs to be pushed up. In order for that to happen, he's going
to have to get the excavator up on top and start pulling it up.
Got a gun.
Come on. Let me climb this hill.
M1 Abrams, armored personnel carrier.
M88 recovery.
All of them track operated.
That was what I did for several years.
Come on, baby.
This is what happens when you tell a Green Beret to get to the top of the
He's going to get to the top of the hill.
I don't know if I would do that.
Getting it so doggone close.
Come on. Don't slide. Don't slide.
Reach out far.
Reach out far. Yeah, yeah.
Quickly. You're starting to slide. Get her down.
There we go. There we go.
Jump.
Come on,
baby. We're going to get this daggone thing.
Even for an ex -Green Beret, driving 28 tons of excavator up a steep bunk proves
daunting.
We're going to get an excavator up here so we can start doing his work.
Green Berets never quit.
Roger that.
That's got a good grip right there.
There we go. There we go. You're so close, dude.
I think I'm down.
Oh, yeah, baby.
All right, Jamie. You did it, man. I thought you were going to kill yourself.
Oh, my goodness. That was a wild ride.
I need a break.
I got to get my heart rate down. Because I'm proud, dude. That took a lot. That
was pretty good operating right there. That was cool, man.
I'm going to let you get to work.
Yep. Sounds good. Let's do it. All right, brother.
Hey, buddy.
That's your last scoop there. We're going to shut her down.
It's just over.
It's just about 7 a .m. We've run for the last 12 hours and we're pretty much
out of paint.
On Parking Mabel's airstrip cut, what plants Lucifer could be running hundreds
of yards of gold -rich pay dirt.
I wish I had enough dirt right now that I could have this plant running 24 -7,
but that's just not in the cards yet.
With the ground still frozen and the plant running at just half capacity,
Foreman Mitch Blaske was forced to shut down the day shift.
The cost to his boss?
$140 ,000 in lost gold and wanzing.
What's happening, Tyson?
How's it going, Mitch?
Oh, it's a fight down here, I'll tell you what.
Yeah, man, we have to figure something out. They need the ground to thaw,
otherwise they can't mine it.
Yeah, I know. We can't keep up with it right now, so... Parker's made it really
clear he doesn't want to turn it off.
The only thing we can do here is kind of totally change our mining game plan.
We were originally going to do this in three setups, right?
Yeah. And we've got it split through here.
This is one. This was going to be two.
And then number three is all back in here.
I really think if he wants to keep it running, the only thing we can do is
in here to cut two.
and start trucking strips off, I mean, just all the way around the outside and
probably have to come across the whole floor, depending on how much thaw there
is, and just start hauling that over to set up one.
So instead of taking it in three bites, we're pretty much going to be making
zone one and two one zone?
I mean, we just need more surface area, right? Yeah. Because if we're only
getting a couple inches of thaw a day and this isn't enough, this is going to
double the amount.
Mitch's plan is simple.
He's divided the airstrip cut into three zones.
Each has been stripped of overburden, and as they're mined, he'll move the
plant to keep it close to the pay.
Zone 1 is frozen, so only one inch of pay per day can be mined.
To compensate, Zone 2 is opened to expose more ground to the sun.
Although they'll get enough thawed pay to the plant, It'll mean double the
runs, wasting time and fuel.
Parker doesn't want to wait.
Yeah. So if you just want to start, let's start pulling material off cut
We'll get the trucks down there, and we'll just start trucking it over.
And hopefully we can get enough there to keep sluice for running.
Other than that, it's sit and wait.
And you and I both know that doesn't work for Parker.
It's up to us to put some gold on the table.
Sounds good. Thanks, man. Yep.
We've got all hands on deck down here at the airstrip today.
And when I say that, I mean it. We've even got Parker Schnabel himself in a
truck out here moving material and trying to get ahead of this thing down
I think one of the toughest things about mining is definitely just being away
from home.
My daughter's a year and a half now, and the only time I get to see her is about
right before she goes to bed is when I get back to the yard, get some reception
there, and then maybe we'll make a phone call. So it's definitely not the same
as being together.
The quicker we get through all this ground means the sooner I can get home
wife and daughter.
We've been scratching around all morning, and we've been able to pull
thawed hay.
We've got a stockpile here. We're ready to fire sleuths if we're back up.
I've lost.
The crew have enough dirt stockpiled to run slucifer 24 hours a day.
We've worked on getting all the frozen areas exposed so we can get this ground
thawed and get it through the wash plant.
I tell you what, it's a good feeling to be washing rocks and making some money.
We need everyone on the same page and everyone working as a team. And that's
exactly what we're doing right now.
Get that gold in the jar.
I'm thinking by Friday we can have most of this going to be done.
We just need to go full steam ahead and push as hard as we can.
On his 92 -acre claim, Fred Lewis and Green Beret J .B. Mayer battle on alone,
clearing a mountain of overburden.
J .B. and I are just going to have to tag team off each other and get this
In three days, they stripped half the area tests showed had the best cold.
The entire ground is frozen.
This is going to take me forever.
This is the entire season. I'm going to have to do this to every piece of ground
I have.
Should I go a little deeper?
Nope.
Hey, JB, I need you to come over here. We got a major issue.
Roger that, Fred. I'm in, ref.
Good.
Man, oh, man.
Check this out. This is permafrost.
This is definitely not frost.
Well, the biggest problem is the 220.
This is to feed our wash plant.
Yeah. It doesn't have the power to get through this ice. Wow.
And my thought was we'd just get all this overburden out, but it's taking me
long. I mean, it's solid ice, dude. Look at that.
Holy cow.
This is the enemy right now.
Wow. I mean, this ain't frost, bro.
This is like three feet of ice.
Yeah. This is permafrost.
I'm looking at this right now like a bank vault that we have to crack because
it's all over and we can't get it to end. I'm not kidding you. I can hear you
just slamming that ice, man. That's incredible.
I mean, we need a dozer.
And the only thing I can think of is...
Brandon has a dozer. I think we're going to have to go meet the neighbors, man.
Maybe convince him to let us borrow it. Sounds good.
We'll make it happen.
We got it, dude.
Brown.
You know, not going to lie, right now I'm pretty pissed off.
We don't have the right tools to hit this creek.
And I've got to crawl to the neighbors and hopefully win over some hearts and
minds. But at this point, this is my only option. I'm not letting this ground
declare war on me.
I'm not fighting back.
Hey. Hey.
22 -year -old Brandon Clayton has mined the ground next to Fred's claim for the
last five years.
Maybe you could help me out a little bit. Yeah, sure, no worries. Right now,
big question I have is permafrost. Okay.
Seems to me that that place is completely frozen. You're froze out.
Not happening, but I see you have a dozer. I do. I do have a dozer, yeah.
So, I hate to be the neighbor that comes and asks for a favor right off the bat,
but...
Maybe you guys would let us borrow it.
Now, I don't have a good budget. Right.
I don't want to be a freeloader.
So I'm kind of along the lines of thinking of a bartering system or
can help you guys out with.
Well, I could use your rock truck probably here and maybe we could do some
trading and figure it out. I could definitely offer my rock truck if you
let me use your dozer.
I'll help you out if you help me out. That's perfect.
Sounds like a deal to me. Sounds like a deal. Appreciate it, brother.
There we go.
All right, pretty cool. This is pretty much saving my day right now.
The D8 has a five -foot ripper shank designed to tear through concrete.
Coming home, Davey.
Hey, I see you. Yeah.
Look what I got.
Woo -hoo.
He's letting us borrow it.
We're going to owe him some stop and return.
That's a B.
We only have it for a few days, so you and me. Let's make it happen. We're
to be working nonstop.
We got 24 hours of daylight, so.
Exactly. I'm going to get to work. All right, right on.
Right now, we're severely short -handed.
A mine site's not meant to be run by two dudes.
We can't do this all alone.
We need to get some guys up here. We tried to throw a quick right hook with
thermos rod, but we're coming back swinging.
Now two's going to us, and we're going to keep throwing punches.
Pretty stoked to be out here right now with my boys, A .B., two dream berets,
running a mine site. No big deal.
This is how it's supposed to be.
Go, go, go, go. You know this thing is a trouble.
Preparation as far as everything goes to Scribner, to the Indian.
Good, stop.
Drive forward.
Tony Beats is on the brink of reopening his Indian River operations, a move that
could earn him $10 million this season.
In anticipation of his permit, Tony's sending his big machines to the claim.
Right in the center, eh?
Wouldn't have done it any better.
I don't know how much piece of equipment we're going to move.
We already got three hose and engine.
There are three rock trucks already in the engine.
So it keeps adding up and adding up.
Until Tony says it's enough.
Glenn, Shane, on air.
Okay, see you down there.
Tony, do you copy?
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Hey, you want to come to the office? We need to call the water board.
Okay, we can do that.
After two years waiting for his license, it's the moment of truth.
Okay, you guys stay outside for a while.
Okay, come in.
So, no license.
This season is pretty well down the tube down there.
What did they say?
Rewrite a whole bunch.
Dance permitted.
Lord.
No, that's not good, right?
Because that thing, that put everything.
By the time they rewrite, redo, redo, bingo.
Three, four months has gone by.
Removing all that equipment as well.
That's not what was in the plan. No. I mean, it's going to make a difference on
the ounces that we're going to get out of the ground this year. Well.
Because that is millions and millions and millions of pounds. I know.
There's a whole season's losing. They're sitting there stripped, done.
I know.
Well, and we'll talk to the kids.
I mean, they're going to be disappointed as well.
Anyway, what does this mean for us?
We are, of course, not going to meet our goals of 9 ,000 ounces. That ain't
happening. Yeah.
You know.
Bye.
Boys for a record season.
Tony's plans are now in tatters.
We're leaving the Indian River again.
We seem to do that every year.
So to be sure, and I wanted to get a license down there so we can stay here
make some real money.
Because there's big money laying out there. There's big money laying out
We've broken up all the permafrost we need. That's no longer an issue, which
fantastic.
Three days ago, Fred Luce and his one -man crew hit dreaded permafrost,
them to borrow a dozer with a five -foot ripper shank.
Now four acres of pay is ready to run.
Really good of Brandon to let me use it.
Definitely was not expecting to get this much work done in this short period of
time with this dozer. So this is an absolute game changer.
And I'm not going to lie, it pretty much saved our season.
Job done.
What's up? What is up, JB?
We're getting it done, man.
How fun is this, huh? Two dudes and a mine all by ourselves.
It's awesome.
But I think, like, we've definitely gotten a good handle of this, but we
more men.
Yeah. I've got two guys I'm working on getting up here.
I don't know if you remember Stuart from last season. Yeah, yeah. Pretty much
the only guy that's coming back this year.
Okay, yeah.
He's a really great dude, probably one of my most loyal friends, hard worker.
Yeah. Then I'm bringing my son up, Christopher.
He's 21, just got out of the Army. Okay. Kind of has a tip on his shoulder.
He's a hard worker.
Yeah, he's got a lot to learn. Can he take orders from you? That's the
Yeah, I don't know. But I feel like push him a little bit, give him some
leadership skills, and give us a chance to work as a family too. It's kind of
cool. Yeah, I look forward to meeting him. You're going to like him. You're
going to like him. But I'm going to try to mobilize these guys and get them up
here as soon as possible.
Yeah, man. Good deal. All right.
Are you on a golf ball hunt?
How you doing, young man?
Fine. Fine?
This dude here on a golf ball hunt.
Might as well hit him a ball, huh?
At Scribner Creek, the naval crew gathers for the weekly gold weigh.
What's happening, boys? Hey, Mitchell.
Howdy. How's it going?
I guess it all depends on how much gold you tell me we have.
That's going to depend on how good we're doing. Yeah.
Let's go weigh some gold.
Sounds good.
Let's see what you got.
With Mud Mountain still not stripped, Parker is dependent on the gold Mitch
Tyson mined from the airstrip cut.
But due to the lack of pay, the plant was down for 36 hours.
Why don't you go ahead and count it out, Mitch.
All right.
So we're hoping for over 200 with our runtime.
All right, we got 20, 30,
100, 120, 150, 180,
200, 220, 234
.60.
Worth over $420 ,000 and beating the season average by
23 ounces.
Well, that's not bad. No, I like it being consistent.
That's good. Like exactly 2 .2 ounces an hour.
Almost.
And that's roughly what we were doing last year.
Yeah.
That's some good -looking gold, Chris.
You guys make it up. I just clean it. So another 230 ounces in this cleanup.
What's that take us to for the season?
So we're about 656 .45 ounces.
Nice. We're getting there.
You guys, I know you're battling. I was trying to remember when the last time I
sat in a rock truck was.
And it made me miss being in machines a bit.
That was pretty awesome when you jumped in there.
It helped, man. We needed it. All righty. Thanks, guys. Thank you.
You know, over 200 ounces.
And, man, we had some struggles this week. Lots of frozen ground. We had all
hands on deck.
We even had Parker Snowball himself out in a rock truck. And if that's what it
takes to put gold on the table, that's what we're going to do.
What's the news? What's happening? No, there's no news.
I want a license.
We have to redo all things.
Seriously? Seriously.
So there's no going to the Indian River. There's no use.
I mean, here we are waiting two years.
There's been millions of dollars gearing up.
And, I mean, we said we won't never get the same amount of gold here. The piggy
bank is Indian River.
No question.
Right? It's meant to be.
Maybe it's meant to be. Who knows?
Yeah.
Can we weigh some gold, please?
We got this much.
Nothing much broke, did it? We got a full week running?
Yep. His 9 ,000 -ounce goal is history.
But just to pay for the equipment he bought, Tony needs over 200 ounces a
You all ready?
Let's see what you got, man.
10, 20, 40, 50, 70, 80, 90, 100,
120, 130, 160, 180, 190,
200, 210, 220, 225,
227 .34 troy ounces.
Not too gabby. Not too bad.
Worth over $400 ,000.
And 100 ounces more than last week.
Like Dad says, barely nothing.
A little more, but he'll pay some bills.
I mean, does it make a dent in the butt? Not really.
Yeah, it makes a little dent.
Anyway, 9 ,000 ounces, that's not a long way away, of course.
But I mean, if we can get a couple hundred a week here.
I mean, we're far from being down and out, so we'll just give it a meal.
Yep. We'll come with some plans. We'll drive around, pick a couple spots.
There's lots of places we wanted to go. Oh, yeah. And stuff like that, so
let's... Make it happening? Poke around the hill, make it happening.
Get out, so to speak.
Okay, we'll see you guys in... Later.
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