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We have a plan and right now we're going to stick to it.

Parker Snable is two months deep into the Yukon mining season.

He's invested most of his crew and two and a half million dollars opening up

ground at the massive mud mountain.

Home to a whopping 8 ,000 ounces, Parker has yet to hit gold.

In a bid to cover his corn, his other claims will lead to up production.

So Parker has a plan.

We're not going to have a successful season unless both wash plants get up

running.

Sluice fruit just got moved down to Stewart's ground, which is good. It's

up. It's loosing and making money. It's washing wrong.

It's doing its part.

Now it's just a matter of getting big red.

fired up at the airstrip, and we need to start getting some revenue in.

The plan is to concentrate his forces at the airstrip cut and pull a total of 3

,000 ounces from the ground.

Leaked from Parker's frenemy, Tony Beach, there are some unique causes to

navigate.

The deal we've got with Tony is a little bit weird on the old royalty front, so,

like, on the ground by the airstrip, and...

15 % on the first 1 ,500 ounces, and then it goes up 5 % every 1 ,500 ounces

after that per plant. I don't understand the rationale behind it. Whatever, I've

argued it for years.

They don't budge on it, so I'm done talking to a wall about it.

To dodge paying the higher royalties, Parker's crew have been tasked with

swapping out the wash plants at the airstrip.

once they hit the 1 ,500 ounces mark.

Tony's thinking that we'd never go to all the extra steps here to play musical

wash plants, but if that's what he was thinking, he definitely doesn't know us

very well.

Last week, wash plant Sucifer hit its target of 1 ,500 ounces at the airstrip.

It was then shut down and moved to the newly opened promised land.

There, a further 1 ,500 ounces must be mined.

to get Park a buck to Mud Mountain.

Our big push right now is to get Big Red over here and get it all set up.

Once it finishes here at the airstrip, we're going to move Big Red over to Mud

Mountain. You know, that's where Brendan and I have done this so many times. We

had a really good system down. Well, obviously, he isn't here with us this

So, I'm going to have to get Tyson trained up. He doesn't have very much

experience with Big Red.

Hey, Tyson, you got a copy?

Yeah, I'm on, too. Hey, this block flat path's looking really good, so let's get

Big Red over here and we'll start putting her together.

Second -year plant bot Tyson Lee has juggled filling Brennan's shoes at the

airstrip and running Sucifer at the promised land.

We need stuff down at the promised land. They need stuff up at the airstrip. You

know I can't.

be over there all day, and if I have to be, then that means I'm not getting

anything done.

Brennan's left the team this year, and it sucks to see him go, but he was co

-form in there for a few years, and it might mean that I get to step into that

role, and, you know, if it gets offered to me, I'll gladly take it on. You know,

trying to do a good job.

Setting up his rookie crew to run while he's away, Tyson heads to the airstrip.

How's it going, Mitch?

Oh, not bad yourself.

Oh, pretty good, thanks.

What excavator were you thinking this time? What we'll probably do here is

trade out for the 750, so we got some horsepower there, and use that to drag

over, and then we can use the 480 to fine -tune everything around it.

Yeah, when I was dragging Lucifer with this thing and did it, but I didn't like

it. Didn't like it, yeah. No, you need that machine with some weight behind it.

We could always drag it down the road with the cat if you wanted to.

I'd rather use 750.

Yeah, there you go.

We've moved it that way a lot, so it works good.

Sounds good, man. I'll see you in a bit. All right, buddy. That'll work. Thanks,

man.

Big Red is definitely my favorite wash plant.

I've been around it a lot of years.

It's nice that he's a younger guy and he's got his ideas and ways that he

to do things.

But it just takes lots of years of experience and lots of doing things

figure out how to do it. In this plant, it's very top -heavy, way more top

-heavy than sluiceper. So you just really got to watch the camber and the

If this plant gets over the edge, it's going to want to keep going that way.

with all this weight up top, how tall this plant is, it's got a pretty good

chance of going over.

All in all, just nice, slow, steady.

And the last thing we want to do is tweak this wash plant. Well, let's go

and get the thing drug over there.

You ready, Tyson?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, listen to her. Yeah, she's talking.

Woo!

You like the sound of that? She's making up here.

Oh, yeah. She broke free pretty nicely, eh?

Let's just keep it rolling, nice steady pace here.

You gotta watch it when it starts shattering like that. You either gotta

your lift, try and lift a little bit more, or change your speed a little bit.

OMG.

Whoa, whoa, easy, easy, easy. Once it starts doing that, you gotta get it

falling back down.

Try and change your angle, that thing is not happy.

It's definitely stressful, you know, having Tyson moving this watch plant

around.

The last thing we want to be doing is breaking our watch plant.

We're going to rattle this thing apart before we ever get her there like that.

All right, Tyson, let's get your hop in here, man. Let's get this thing up on

top of this watch plant path.

Try and get some height. She's really digging in there with Big Red.

Try and get some height.

Lift her up.

Nice job, Dyson. She's in place. Thanks, Nick. We're one step closer to making

money here.

All right, Dyson, you ready?

Go ahead and get her off the ground.

Okay, stop there.

Stop. Stop.

Not too bad. Not too bad.

Nothing's totaled, so I'm happy.

Well, we just got the sluice runs in a big red here, and that frees me up to go

back down to the promised land.

Quite honestly, we are just not on track to hit our 2 ,000 -ounce goal.

In the mountains above Keno, Rick Ness is a third of the way through the

And he's mined only 500 ounces of gold.

Early, we're running pay for the bacon strip.

It's not the best pace we've ever run. All we can do is just keep hammering as

much pay through the plant as we can, as efficiently as we can.

I mean, I want nothing more than to see my buddies succeed.

Right now, I'm away. My new wife is...

planning our wedding reception for when I get home.

So a nice fat gold bonus to go a long way to having a pretty kick -ass sin dig

for our wedding.

It's a team effort to find the gold that we do, but I just really want to help

Rick get the 2 ,000 ounce, and I really want this to be his best season yet.

After last season's hard work, Rick has set an ambitious goal for Duncan Creek.

We've got the ground here now to run without too much effort.

And we've been focused for the majority of our effort on this real deep ground

because it's going to be an expensive process.

But I'm going to sink everything I own into getting down to that ground.

And if I don't get anything back out of it, I wouldn't say that my margins are

tight. I would say that that's been to me. I might as well go home and pack

everything up.

We'll be able to afford my house.

And I'll never come up to the Yukon again.

700 ounces of gold must be banked before Rick can take a risk on the deeper,

richer ground at Duncan Creek.

Ah, wait.

Water's not supposed to come out of there.

What's going on?

Oh.

Cut the power.

Something's going on in the wash plant. Water and dirt coming out the back where

it shouldn't be.

Bottom lift coming off the tree wash. Doesn't look like it's even there

A gap has appeared between the plant and the pre -wash, letting gold -rich

material flood out.

It's not a big piece of steel, but it's a pretty important one.

It's probably in the tailings pile somewhere.

We'll be shutting down until we fix that.

All the dirt's just coming out of the pre -walk, and it's just falling between

the pre -walk and the plant.

With no mechanic in the team, it's down to Rick to assess the damage.

I think it actually comes off a... Well, there's no obvious, you know what I

mean? There's no obvious, like, strength here. There's no... I mean, I know

there's got to be a piece, you know, that goes over.

Why can't it put together what this is supposed to look like?

For the life of me, I can't remember how this is supposed to look.

Nothing going on in the wash plant. There's water and dirt coming from out

back where it should be.

From Lower Duncan Creek, Rick Ness is in shutdown mode.

I don't see anything.

The whole thing shifted back and down.

Oh, so it's got to be all... There's no piece missing, just the whole pre -wash

moved backwards.

So shouldn't there be pins?

Yeah.

That's why we couldn't find anything up there, like any fresh breaks or

anything. Yeah, we're not missing a piece out of the pre -wash, it's the

pre -wash moved back, because the pins fell out and the whole thing fell

backwards. You'd think that they'd be right here.

They found its way back today, but those pins could have been gone for weeks.

The plant can't run until the missing 9 -inch steel pins are replaced.

Cruzy, can you come down to the plant, please?

With no mechanic, it's up to Chris to fix the plant.

What's going on up there, guy?

Yeah, the whole pre -wash fell back.

You just need to make some pins, right?

Yeah. I mean, there's no pins in sight. They could have been gone for weeks.

Nothing's actually broken. We just have missing pieces. So we need to find some

things to put back in there and put back into place.

But it is downtime.

We don't need that.

I can't afford anything right now.

With a breakdown like this, I mean, probably only be a few hours, but these

things add up, man.

Every single one of them is just making it harder and harder to hit 2 ,000

ounces.

Just got a piece of round stock for a new pin.

We found another one that we can use.

Luckily,

I have the welding experience because nobody else seems to be very well versed

in welding.

Rick must now reposition the pre -wash factor within touching distance of the

shaker deck.

Cruisy, I count on him. It takes care of the machine. It takes care of the

plant. He's kind of turned into a bit of a utility guy for me, and that's really

nice. I couldn't be happier with how that's working out.

Hey, guide me and make sure I'm lifting her straight.

Listen, team, lift it up and this is the only watch point we've got running

right now. It needs to be running again by the end of the day, so I can't piss

up. That'll make it a big repair, so got to be very careful here.

Start going up and I'll see what happens.

Okay.

Up towards me.

that way a little bit.

All right, keep coming towards me.

All right, I'll come down.

Hold it right there.

And just like that.

Tins are in.

Well, as far as breakdowns go, that was too bad.

Nice work.

Thanks, pal.

You know, we can never afford to have the plant down. Luckily, this time was a

pretty easy fix. We got it going quick, but there's not a whole lot of time left

on that plant before some serious rebuilding.

Our watch plant's finally here. It's been a long road getting that bad boy

to this claim, but it is here.

In the remote Yukon wilderness.

Fred Lewis and his crew are nine weeks in.

But only now are they about to fire up their new 60 -yard -an -hour walk plan.

I'm excited to just get it in place and just start moving dirt.

Put it to work.

Yeah. Still a month behind, but we're going to get caught up real quick.

If we just take that work ethic that we have, you know, from the military and

everything else, come out of here pretty rich, man.

I feel like a whole misfit team has just gotten their momentum. We have a solid

crew, and we're doing this for a better life because of the sacrifices we're

making right now.

To get his wash plant finally tuned to catching gold, a favor has been called

in. Where is this camp supposed to be, Freddie? Well, he said it was 45 miles

out of Dawson.

Answering the call is gold recovery expert Freddie Dodge and mechanical

Juan Ibarra.

There's the little plant right there, Freddie.

Not set up to run, is it? Not at all.

How's it going, Fred?

You guys made it!

How's it going?

Good, how you been?

You know,

honestly, we figured you'd be running by now.

We're about a month behind.

You don't have much of the season left, really.

No, but we're looking at this in positive light as we put a lot of work

this season to get it ready. We might have a short season.

We've got pay waiting.

We've got the equipment. We've got the manpower.

These last couple of really important steps that it's great that you guys come

now. I can't wait for you guys to see it.

Have you seen these kiwi plants before?

All still green.

So those will last the entire season. We don't have to worry about any screens

going bad.

It's simplified compared to what we had last season. I like it.

Well, so this is the plant. I'd really love to show you guys the claim. I've

really been itching to show you guys the claim. Yeah, let's take a look at it.

Let's take a look at it. It's a bit of a walk.

So this will be our last pond.

But this is probably where we'd have to pull our water from before we could

recycle.

So right here, we're developing our second pond.

I've got some pillars, and we're going to raise it up to be about this level

eventually once we get enough rock.

My advice to you is you've got multiple issues.

Well, we're looking at the amount of water in your creek.

And you don't have enough water to run your plant.

It's a glorified ditch is what you've got going on here.

This is a mud puddle.

This is going to turn into a milkshake. The second you have a milkshake here,

it's going to go to your plant, right? Yeah. You're pulling the water out of

here. So it's going to go to your plant, plug up all your screens, plug up all

your riffles.

This water is going to silt up on you so fast, you'll literally only have a few

hours of sluicing before you'll have to shut down.

So what do you guys think the solution is?

So this road right here, what's this road for?

This is our original road.

We're the only road we had access on in the beginning, but now we have access on

the side. Now we have access on the side. So can we eliminate this road?

And just really widen this pond out. You do not have enough water. And then

you're going to need another pond below this one to clarify your water even more

before you put it in the creek. Right now, you don't have jack for water

storage.

Freddie and Juan's plan is to move the access road in the middle of the claim

feet over to the other side.

They'll dig three ponds to allow silt from the wash plant to settle.

providing clean water for souping and ensuring no soup is discharged

into the creek.

That's the only way you're going to actually be able to run.

And we're not trying to give you news, but... No, no, no. This is why I had you

guys here. We're like, well, we'll run it and we'll see how long it's going to

last and we'll adapt, but... It's going to last about four hours.

That's nowhere near enough.

Because right now you're... Okay.

Well, it's great having Freddie and Juan here.

However, they've given us a list of tasks to do that are going to take us

another week and extremely frustrating.

It is what it is. They think we need more ponds. I'll dig more ponds, but

now I got to get this loosened.

It's a pain in the ass considering that we are like literally done.

Well, mount this down so I can get Christopher back here. Yeah. And we'll

get him to come up to here.

and drop you one more load in that. And what do you want done with that? Well,

first, build the dam up so you can finish it, and then make this nice and

smooth, and then look and see if the water level is high enough. If not,

it up another foot.

Yeah, okay.

Because right now we're trying to get the mine running. So let's get this

Okay.

It's a blow to the team, who must now race to make the changes.

Fred's son, Christopher, is wary of how his dad will react.

It's just a bunch that we have to deal with.

And so he's on his back with Frankie today.

Dealing with Fred when he gets like this is difficult because he won't listen to

anyone. And he always has it in his head that he's right, especially when he's

angry. Hey!

Taking you guys almost 45 minutes to load.

Christopher, get at least two loads out there. At least.

We just gotta...

Figured it out.

Without this bomb, we can't run.

What's happening, man?

What's going on?

We got Big Red sitting on his wash plant pad there, just putting everything

together. What's he planning for water?

It's a long ways from where Lucifer... Like where Lucifer had... Yeah, yeah. We

don't have enough water line to get.

from that pond and that water source to where Big Red is now.

Right. So my thought was, you know, recirculating in zones one and

two.

So we'll need to flood that area.

So what's the best way to charge the pond?

Well, we've been fighting all season to keep zones one and two dry.

Right. I mean, remember at the start of the year when the... wall blue out there

what would it take to dig through that section or is it just going to bleed in

pretty quick well i mean it's a band -aid with it's barely hanging on over

if we go over there and help it i think it'd probably start coming in there

pretty good it sounds like that's going to be the fastest from my standpoint

you're under a lot of time pressure because big red

have an appointment with Mud Mountain that is going to come up in a hurry.

And you need to try to pound out 1 ,500 ounces down there at the airstrip and

then get that plant moved.

Okay.

Mitch is betting on water from Sluicifer's old pond, having leaped

patch that burned.

To release it, he'll dig down in the hope of tapping into the groundwater.

and using it to flood the mined out cut, providing a pond to feed Big Red.

Now at the start of the year we had an issue with water leaking in from our

settling pond.

Right now we're just going to remove the material that we used to plug this.

To help flood the cut, Mitch brings Tyson back to the airstrip.

So in the spring, we stripped this cut.

When we were stripping it, we pushed into an old pond. So essentially what

trying to find is the toe of the pond.

We're looking for a lot of water flow here.

When I plugged this off, it was flowing like a river.

That's more like it.

That's what we're looking for.

With the water source now unplugged, it's just a question of time

and letting nature take its course.

Hey, Mitch, you got a copy, Mitch?

I'm going to go work on the other wash plant. Have fun, man.

Copy that.

Come on, baby.

There we go.

Oh, yeah, we got water.

We've got our pond filled up, our water pump pumping water.

The generator's warming up here. We're going to turn on the breaker and get

belts spinning.

All right, it's going to be showtime here in a sec.

There we go, we got power.

All the belts are spinning.

Big Red is coming to life.

All right, here we go. First scoop of Big Red this year. Let's do this. Let's

get that gold.

what we've been waiting for.

Here comes the dirt.

Finally, nine weeks into his season, Parker has Big Red and Lucifer

running together.

Here we are.

Come on, Garth.

Home sweet home.

Hey, Shane, everything's looking really good up here at the Shaker Deck, so just

keep the dirt coming.

Awesome, buddy. I'll keep feeding the bees.

I can smell the gold in this stuff.

It smells like money, baby.

At Lower Duncan Creek, Rick Ness and his skeleton crew are still running

hundreds of yards of gold -rich pay dirt through their trusted wash plant.

The problem with that is we've all had to chip in and try to make it work, and

having Carl here would be a lot better than it all being passed to me.

Pretty big shoes to fill.

Everybody's wearing a lot of hats these days.

Looks like a lot of big rocks in the plant.

That shouldn't be getting through.

Cold. Even though there's a lot of water in there, I can see big holes in the

deck.

Once again, Rick Ness has ground to a halt.

Holes in his steel screen deck are allowing rocks to drop into the sluices.

Well, it's not like a typical, you know, watch plant where you can just replace

the screen. It was modified for this ground, which is great because it'll

all the boulders.

But it's going to have to take out and put a new one in, right?

You know, it's a huge job.

This plant really needs to keep going for a couple of weeks at least.

Right now it doesn't look like it wants to go a couple hours.

Let's throw a band -aid on and keep running it.

Half -miner, half -mechanic Chris Cruz is tasked with getting the plant back up

and running.

That's the problem right there.

Oh!

I mean, obviously we've got a problem here. It's letting in too big a rock and

holes, so I'm thinking we should just go all the way across with it.

Yeah, you know like this seems pretty good on the outside and the first six

inches Yeah, and that would you know something to tie into there same on that

side Yeah, come in six inches and give us a little bit of We're not losing all

of that surface area Yeah, the screen that's worn. Oh, we knew that I just I

Don't want to shut it down yet. This is a big job to replace

The plates will cover the holes with welded steel plates, preventing larger

rocks from getting into the wash plant.

But it comes at a cost.

When we put patches in, we lose the surface area of the punch plate.

So there's potential of gold going right out the end of the top deck.

I'm a bit concerned about our loss of surface area on the punch plate by

covering up with a solid plate.

Rick made that call, and it's his call to make, so we'll go with it.

Every minute that we're not fluking means every minute we're not catching

so time is of the essence.

My body feels like I'm about 10 days away from being 50.

As you can see, it fit in here perfectly the way I needed it to.

It's time for me to clean up my mess and get back pouring dirt in this thing.

I'm just glad to be up and running again.

You know, all this downtime is hurting us bad.

It's all adding up. It's hurting our chance of hitting 2 ,000 ounces.

Hopefully, Cruze is well pulled together. Otherwise, we're...

With any luck, my patches don't come flying out the end right away.

All right, so our ponds are looking pretty good. Right now I've got

Freddie digging out our tailings pond. That sounds pretty nice, okay?

You got a booster seat?

At California Creek, Fred Lewis and his self -styled band of misfits are

battling back once again.

In just four days, they've created a three -pond system under the expert

guidance of Freddie Dodd and Juan Ibarra.

So right now, we've got our lower half of this long pond at the right level.

It's right at max.

We've got our dams up. Our water's holding really well.

We've got definitely enough water to circulate through our plant at this

I feel that we have succeeded in all of our tasks, and it's time to get mining.

Mechanic J .B. Mayer. Just swing around. I'll keep an eye on the back there.

And local operator Buzz Lago moves a new 13 -ton wash plant into position.

That looks pretty good, Buzz.

Got it? Woo!

Clevis, Clevis, and then we'll be able to lift from that point, right? How's it

going, guys?

Hey, good morning, good morning.

Well, is there anything we can help you guys with? We're here.

You need a sandwich or something? I can make some sandwiches.

Pretty good at that.

Well, we get, you know, it's critical, you know, we get these sluices off

without bending them, dropping them.

We'll give you guys a hand. We can do that.

That thing is nice.

About a thousand bucks.

Oh, wow.

You're just going to do about one point then?

All right.

All right. Straight up, boom up.

I mean, that's a pretty cool chain setup.

It's something that we look at, for me, I look at for having for next year.

Right now, I mean, this is the beginning of everything.

Let's get mining. That's why we came here. I love it. Yeah, that thing's

cool. You got those stud wrenches?

Oh, yep. They're over here.

It isn't going to fit, Juan, I don't think.

We're flat tight against here, metal to metal. And I understand that. Well, I

think the design is we've got to lift it up, put it in it, and then the pressure

itself locks that edge in. When we kink up, it's going to throw us farther back.

Does that lip we're on, does it go on the inside?

It could be.

Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

It's got a design where there's no room for forgiveness there. It's very tight.

Yeah. Oh, oh!

That's it right there.

Go right there.

When I pin this this way, put pressure against it. Pull on your side, if you

would, a little bit.

Step, push.

Got her? Got her, huh?

Next one?

Kind of a pain in the ass.

Well, this next one should go a little easier now that we know how it goes,

All right, we got her.

This is a pretty exciting time because this is our moment of truth. If this

thing's going to actually work or not, this is make or break.

It's taken two months of complications, frustration, and back -breaking work.

But finally, Fred Lewis is ready to start washing for gold.

It's not about coming out here.

and just mining. It's about coming out here, making a statement, and pulling as

much gold as we possibly can.

Well, everything's hooked up, huh? Yep.

Perfect.

Hey, Misfits, let's rally over here on the wash plant.

Everyone's really excited to actually, like, come down here and do some work

and, like, just pulling a lot of gold out of the ground.

All right, guys.

Here we go. Fire it up, guys.

All right.

Let's get some gold.

This is like when you walk out the tunnel right before the game and you get

feeling and get all pumped up and then the whistle blows.

A little nervous.

This is what the whole season's been about.

And there she is.

All right,

send the water.

by filling up and heading your way.

This right here is where it's all about.

Now we're gold miners.

This is the big deal.

How's it feeling Stuart?

We're up and running.

Now put your fingers in there.

Right?

Your pack's working that gold zone.

Go on.

You're going to have to slow your feed down.

Okay.

This will not handle 60 yards an hour. I think 41, huh?

General, would I think it's 40?

Hey, let's cut our feed rate in half.

What? Cut it in half. Huh?

We're going to cut it to one every two, see how that goes.

There's no use in stripping it, digging it, hauling it, feeding it.

If you're losing the gold, right? Right.

This is what happens when you put your head to something and you work your ass

off.

Yeah, rough week, huh?

Well,

I'm glad. I still have a good attitude about it, too, but that's not fair.

Rocky's been so rock solid for us for the last couple years, and we've abused

it, and it's showing.

I think it was down more than it ran this week. We can't afford too many

like this.

I don't know if you want to hit 2008.

Here's the thing. It's going to get to the point where we're going to have to

address it. We all know what it needs, but we all know that we can't afford to

really set it down.

What do you do, right?

All I have to say is a bummer of a week.

But there is some gold.

We weighed up.

I didn't even try to hide it from you guys.

All right.

We got... To reach his 2 ,000 -ounce

target, Rick needs 105 ounces every week.

Even if it was what it was last week, we're still in the same boat.

Yeah.

It's not getting us to 2 ,000 ounces.

You got an eye on some other ground?

I know there's ground here, but I'm taking my time, but we're going to have

pull the trigger on something soon.

Perfect.

Thanks again, guys.

Well,

it was a tough week, but, you know, the team pulled through.

We're not getting the goal numbers that we need, but, you know, without these

guys, it could have been a hell of a lot worse.

We are going to have to figure out something else, though, because at this

we are not going to get our 2 ,000 ounces.

Looking pretty good.

Is that gold?

I was really starting to get a little worried. You know, last season, it still

weighs very heavily on my mind. It makes it all worth it. You know, I'm not up

here wasting my time watching my daughter grow up on FaceTime and, you

pictures.

So I'm really excited that this is finally coming together.

At California Creek, with the help of Freddie George and Juan Ibarra, Fred

Lewis' moment of truth is finally here.

Last bucket Stewart.

We're about to shut down.

Oh yeah, there's gold in here.

Oh nice gold.

We'll pan her for it. We're just trying

to verify that we're actually catching gold.

So I'm going to pan it down.

There's some gold.

I'm already seeing it.

Look at that.

That's a pretty pan. I'll take it. I'll take it all day.

Yeah.

That's about the biggest pan we had last season times ten.

Pass us around. Get your first look at Yukon Gold. Let's check it out.

Man, look at that. Don't fall over.

Good thing of beauty, man.

Let this motivate you. This is why we're in the Yukon. Yeah, guys. Now we just

got to buckle down and put her to the end.

You and your team should be really proud. You know, we helped you a little

with suggestions, but you guys did this on your own. And here you are. You're

producing gold.

And you know what? I am really proud of my team. Yeah.

Well, I appreciate everything you guys have done to make us better. Good for

again, Fred. Really appreciate it. Take care, man. Bye, buddy. We're trying to

make a statement to the point where Greenhorns can come together with our

background, learn something immensely difficult, and make it profitable.

We got six ounces last season. I believe wholeheartedly our first cleanup.

Could be life -threatening total.

Come hell or high water, the misfits are coming out on top.

Hey, the old timer.

How are you, Chris?

At Scribner Creek, claim owner Ken Tatlow arrives to weigh the first gold

the ground he leases to Parker.

So, how you been?

Good, good.

The plant boss, Tyson Lee.

Hey, Tyson. Hey, T -Bird, how you doing, buddy?

Pretty good, you doing? Good, good.

And foreman, Mitch Blushke.

What's happening?

Hey, Mitch. Hey, Mitchell.

They're here for the first double goldway of the season.

I think you guys did a great job.

Setting up Big Red. I mean, you know, Mitch, you and Brennan always did it.

you guys and those excavators worked with one unit. It was just amazing. But

Tyson, you stepped right up.

I mean, it's great.

Well, this is our first cleanup on your ground, Ken.

That'll be exciting.

Yeah, yeah. Haven't seen any for a while.

To match last season, both plants need to average

235 ounces.

So if you want to rattle off some numbers, I'll pour it out.

Three, third, 40, 50.

Slow down.

90, 100, 110, 130, 150, 180,

206, 208 .75.

Not bad, old dog.

Set for 40 hours.

No. A lot of hours to make that happen.

You're missing a zero. Yeah, I know.

Well, that's what you have.

Mitch, on this third cut, we're hoping to get, what, 1 ,500 ounces out of the

thing? We need 1 ,500 to match what Lucifer did.

Here we go. We got 20, 40, 50, 80 hunters.

Now to find out if Big Red can match Lucifer.

180, 200, 220, 240.

Keep her going.

250.

That's all I got.

263 .8.

All right, let's go at it.

Worth nearly $475 ,000, Big Red has got

Parker back up to speed.

Well, it's nice to see that Big Red remembers its job there. Put that on top

what we got out of Sluicifer. Makes for a good week. It does. Really good week.

We got 472 .55 ounces.

Great week. Great week.

Our season total is 2 ,070.

So we broke 2 ,000 ounces.

And good job on both those setups.

The plants are in really nice shape.

Let's try and make it happen again next week. Yeah, do it again.

Do it again and again and again.

You know, it's so awesome that we have Big Red and Sluicepur both set up and

running. They both had good weeks.

But now the struggle begins.

The challenge of keeping them both running is giving me no room for error.