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That's pretty scary.
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I've never done anything like it.
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There's so much dirt that has to be
moved here. If we move the wrong dirt
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all the way down in the wrong spot, I'm
going to go broke.
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Yukon miner Rick Ness is pushing his
operation, quite literally, to the edge.
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That's going to cost pretty much
everything I have.
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So the stakes here are massive.
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But the payoff at the bottom could be
life -changing.
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The deep cut, it turned out to be a
great piece of ground. We did get 130
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out of there, which is great. It's a
good boost for mid -season. It just
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last as long as we'd hoped.
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In the mountains above Plino, Rick is
out to prove he's the heavyweight gold
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miner.
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Halfway through his fourth season, he's
chasing a mammoth 2 ,000 ounces.
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More than he banked in his first two
seasons alone.
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I'm looking at some other sections of my
claims here, hopefully with some great
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gold.
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Tired of scratching for small scores in
patchy ground, Rick wants to find one of
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Keno's infamous hot spots and is
planning his riskiest move yet.
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Hey, Troy.
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Hey, Rick. How are you, man? Rick's
called on two of the most experienced
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of the region,
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landlord Troy Taylor.
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and plaster geologist william labai to
help locate a rich streak thanks for
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coming i've got the two most
knowledgeable people in the valley here
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right now i don't know how to do much
better than that i'm looking to go move
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some different ground here on site
obviously but i just was wondering where
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guys have had some real good luck around
here you know i mean what is really
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significant is this was like a relative
hot spot we had Cleanup after cleanup
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after cleanup, it was kind of like our
glory days. What kind of numbers were
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looking at over here? It was like a week
of probably less than a week of
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sleuthing, and one cleanup we had was
like 450 ounces.
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Oh, wow.
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That's incredible.
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And you're talking about near a million
dollars in less than a week?
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It really doesn't happen very often.
Yeah.
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But I'm just worried about you going
into this ground because we had that
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year in 98 right in here.
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I remember coming up in March 99 to move
over 100 feet of overburden.
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Spent a ton of money in fuel and wages.
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But when we got down to it, we just
didn't have enough volume of pay to pay
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for all the costs of getting down there.
And it was a disaster for us.
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If we had just been 10 yards over
more...
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It would have been a world of
difference. To go down 100 feet and to
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yards make that much of a difference,
that's pretty scary.
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Over 150 ,000 years ago, a glacier
eroded gold from the mother lode.
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When the ice melted, gold settled into
pockets.
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The ancient riverbed, or paleochannel,
lies somewhere over 100 feet beneath the
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surface.
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To find the elusive jackpot, electrodes
will pass current through the ground.
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How quickly it bounces back will reveal
the location of the channel, which could
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contain 3 ,000 ounces of gold worth over
$5 million.
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I can't say enough how scary it is, you
know, having gone through it myself to
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go into that deep ground.
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I admire your determination.
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Well, I appreciate that. And every now
and then you just got to kind of pick
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your balls up and put them on the table
and risk them, I guess.
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Help me get the minimal amount of risk
on my balls here, guys.
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Get up the first line.
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This is the resistivity meter.
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So it's going to be the one that's
actually taking the readings.
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Receiving and reputation now rides on
technology.
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and his expert's ability to decipher
their findings.
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Okay.
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Yeah, it's starting to show the
resistivity values. This looks good so
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We're able to see the silt layer that
turns up quite well.
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We also see the bedrock contact coming
in here.
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And in between, I think, is the paleo
channel.
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What did you find out?
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She's deep, brother. Yeah, how deep?
Well, depending on where you're going
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we've got a bedrock hole here at 210
feet.
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That's a lot.
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You say the deepest I did was about 40
feet, and I don't think anybody's done
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this much, have they? No. We're looking
at over a million yards of overburden
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that has to be moved.
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Wow,
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that's a lot. It really is.
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With just three months left in the
season, Rick has to gamble on whether
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reach pay.
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Otherwise, it's game over.
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Steve, that channel looks clear as day.
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I think it's doable.
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I think I'm ready to pull the trigger.
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I can't wait, man.
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This is a big undertaking.
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Yeah. And I'm glad to have you here with
me this year. I appreciate it, buddy.
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I'm glad you got your homework.
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There's a lot of gold down there, and if
we're going to get it this year, we
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better hit it.
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Sounds good, man. Awesome.
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This is one of the scariest things I've
ever done in mining. This is a dangerous
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game going that deep, but I think that
I've got the right people here to give
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the best shot at doing this right.
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Boy, does it feel good to finally get up
here and get started on the deepest cut
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we've ever done, ever.
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Brennan. And the 475 Dozer clears
overburden into previously mined ground.
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Rick's lean crew normally shifts 60 ,000
yards a week.
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Now, they'll have to move over 100 ,000,
all before winter sets them down.
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But for now at least, the crew have a
goal.
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There's so much dirt to do here, so I'll
have some fun here in the 475.
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Hopefully we'll put a huge stint in it
and we'll get down to pay and we can run
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some before the end of the year.
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We're doing it.
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Calling the rally valley.
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We're calling it that because by the
time we're done here, it's going to be
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hell of a valley.
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This is the deepest I've ever gone for
gold by far, but the payoff at the
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could be life -changing.
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The glory hole is done.
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80 peppers still running. But of course,
that is going to run out. So I got some
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ideas as to where to go because we're
going to have to keep these goat
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toadstools up.
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Otherwise, we're not going to reap our
coal this year.
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Yukon legend Tony Beetz ticked off his
season with a major error.
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He invested millions on mining equipment
for his Indian River claim, only for
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the water license to be declined.
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It's a blow he's yet to recover from.
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We invested five million bucks this
winter and nowhere to go but Paradise
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So we got to think where we got some
decent ground to mine.
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So I'm going to do a look at this one
spot over there that we're thinking of
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opening up.
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We found it last year a bit already and
never got to it.
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Hey, Mike D. Carvey, Mike D. Carvey.
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Where is it?
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Yeah, that's all right.
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Do they make me come behind the drum,
please?
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Yeah, on the way.
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We're going to have to open up more
ground, and we're going to have to do it
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reasonably quick.
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With the 80 -puck cut almost out of pay,
Tony's identified a 25 -acre patch of
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ground between it and the nugget cut.
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So. I think that if we take that whole
chunk out and the piece behind, then
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there should be a couple million bucks
in there.
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That always was good ground before, and
it is the right white channel, but we
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have all this black muck sitting there.
It's worrisome.
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Sitting deep within Paradise Hill, the
white channel pay layer was created by
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ancient river of glacial runoff.
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It's given Tony the best pay dirt he's
ever mined.
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If the layer continues between the two
cuts, it could hold $3 million in gold.
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But before he can test it, he has to
shift 100 feet of overburden, and the
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around the bottom is too soft for a
dozer or rock trucks.
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Well, you ain't going to be, at this
point in the year, you ain't going to be
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able to get lemon up there.
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Mike and Tony's plan is to bring in a
powerful water cannon known as a monitor
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to blast away the mud whilst an
excavator clears overburden from the top
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cut.
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I always liked the monitor.
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You couldn't move that dirt any deeper.
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For 150 years, miners have used water
jets to excavate soft ground quickly and
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cheaply.
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A monitor can throw 185 ,000 cubic feet
of water per hour with a velocity
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of 150 feet per second.
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To open the inaccessible new wall cut,
Tony sees it as his secret weapon.
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Hey, Mike.
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Straight ahead, folks.
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A 175 -horsepower pump will feed the
monitor.
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Hey, lift it up, Mike.
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Drive that pump right up to the wires.
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Put the hook over top, then swing it in
place.
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Give them wires a life, so watch out for
it.
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Okay, walk underneath him.
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Keep it going.
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Watch yourself. All the way.
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Okay, Mike, bring it in.
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Okay, lower down.
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Down, down, down.
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Okay, just take the hook off until he
puts it on the other side. Okay, good.
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There you go, Mike. Boom down and get
yourself some distance, okay?
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Up, up, up, up.
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Up she goes.
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Hey, Mike!
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Down, down, down.
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Go the wrong way. Hey!
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Mike! What's up?
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Hold it, Mike. Give me that, the cable.
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Okay, boom it down a bit more, boom it
down a bit more.
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Walk it straight ahead, huh?
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Idiot. Straight ahead, folks.
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Okay, Mike, bring her in.
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Lift it up.
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Did you hear her call him?
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Idiot? Yeah.
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Well, once in a while you got to remind
people, you see.
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Bring her in, bring her in.
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Walk her. Hold it right there.
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You go ahead. We got to hook that up and
then we'll slap this together, okay?
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They must now run 200 feet of hose to
feed the monitor.
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Guys, move it on.
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Hit that thing.
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We'll open up the wells and we'll have
water.
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D. Garvey, Brandon D. Garvey.
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Open up the big valve, close the bypass,
Brandon, please.
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Oh, let's see what it does.
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The monitor blasts a worthless
overburden with nine gallons of water a
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sending the runoff one mile downstream
and filtering it out through Tony's
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settling ponds.
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Mikey is going to start throwing dirt,
and then we can play some real havoc to
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blow this top of the hill.
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Now we're really moving so much, you
see.
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We're just over halfway through the
season, and it's been an uphill battle.
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There's a lot going on. You know, it's
definitely a lot busier than we've ever
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been, and bigger projects than we've
ever taken on right now.
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Eight years ago, Alaska native Parker
Snabel arrived in the Yukon in a quest
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knowledge and to seek his fortune.
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He's now mined $60 million worth of
gold.
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But out here...
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You're only as good as your next mine,
and he's running out of ground.
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You can bite tooth and nail to be more
productive, or you can go out and find
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ground that's twice as good.
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Now we're on to a good piece of ground
in Alaska, and border restrictions look
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like they're easing, so I'm heading over
there now.
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Parker calls in right -hand man and
foreman Mitch Barkey.
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Hey, man. What's happening?
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What's on your mind?
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I'm pretty anxious about the reserve
we've got, and I'm going back over to
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Alaska and figure out where the future
for us is. We're going to need it
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we've been motoring through ground here.
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We're chopping through ground like
crazy.
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Hopefully you can just pound out those
700 ounces from the strip and get big
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right up to Mud Mountain. It's a real
priority.
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Go find us some ground, and we'll keep
everything motoring here.
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That's my priority.
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Best ground we can find.
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Perfect.
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Everybody's got things here under
control.
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You know, for me, it's much more urgent
to find some new targets in Alaska.
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That means, you know, Mitch and Tyson
have to be on their game here. And
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hopefully everybody can, you know, work
together and get the jobs done.
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Oh, yeah.
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Welcome to the... At the promised land.
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Plant boss Tyson Lee runs hundreds of
yards of gold -rich pay through Wash
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Plants Lucifer.
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All I know is Parker is heading to
Alaska.
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Last year when Parker was gone, you
know, and it was a struggle every day.
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definitely a lot more pressure on Mitch
this year.
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Two and a half miles upstream, Mitch
runs Big Red in the airstrip.
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All the responsibilities of this mine
site are getting dumped on my shoulders.
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And we got a lot going on right now.
It's a lot of pressure and a lot to deal
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with.
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Right now, our focus is just finishing
things up here at the airstrip and
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obviously getting Big Red moved over to
Mud Mountain.
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Partridge wants 700 ounces out of this
cut.
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Hopefully, we got a lot of gold to show
him when he gets back.
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Running a mine is more than just moving
dirt and sleuthing for gold.
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While Parker's away, it's down to Mitch
to not only get 700 ounces out of the
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airstrip, he must also help Tyson at the
promised land.
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A clean -up will help Mitch determine if
they're on target.
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Well, there's some gold in it. You can
see up here, a little bit down there,
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nothing amazing. And from what I've been
seeing, I mean, it's not looking like
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we're going to hit that 700 ounce
target.
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It's definitely a concern here.
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Well, you can't add gold to it. No.
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Exactly.
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Well, we'll just have to wait and see
what we have.
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How's it looking? I'm halfway through it
until it's all done.
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I can't tell you, but you're not going
to... There's no way. No.
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I don't know why Parker was thinking of
Zone 3 to have 700 in it. If we got any
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chance of getting any more out of Zone
3, it's just going to have to be bigger.
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But can you go any bigger?
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The road's right there, and we could
probably go over another, you know, over
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100 feet down that whole side.
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Oh, my.
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Do you think you'd open that road up
before that pad's ready at Mud Mountain?
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don't know, man. It's going to, I mean,
stretch us even thinner than we already
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are. But one way to find out.
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Mitch's plan is to extend the airstrip
cut at the edge of Zone 3 by digging up
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the access road.
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A 110 -foot -long strip of virgin ground
under 15 feet of overburden.
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where Mitch hopes to find the gold he
needs.
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The only way we've got a fighting chance
at getting 700 ounces here out of Zone
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3 of the airstrip is to make it a little
bigger.
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It's a big call.
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Opening up more ground means keeping Big
Red on the airstrip.
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If the road extension doesn't have
enough gold...
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Vital weeks of sluicing on Mud Mountain
would be wasted, pushing Parker deeper
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into debt.
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Where our road is, it appears that it's
never been mined, so right now we're
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digging out the roadway, hoping we find
some really good gold underneath it.
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On Paradise Hill, Tony Beats has gone
old school to uncover a hidden hoard
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the best pay dirt he's ever mined.
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But between him and a three million
dollar bounty, it's a thick layer of
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If you have the ground open, ready to
sluice, just get the money in the bank,
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you know.
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We're banging lots of dirt in front of
the monitor this way.
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That monitor will take that load of dirt
away. There you go. Gone.
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That was right.
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I was all getting through this now.
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It's actually fun still to me.
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I would put it this way. I think we are
winning at this point.
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I don't mind doing this at all.
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Go ahead.
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I just lost all pressure.
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What's happening with that monitor?
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Oh, just lost all pressure. It just
stopped.
295
00:23:00,090 --> 00:23:04,570
Any chance of getting the wall cut
stripped before the AT pup runs out?
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They're slipping away.
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See that?
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The throttle handle broke off. If the
engine does not run at full RPMs, then
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don't get enough water pressure at the
end of the monitor.
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The thing is, you've got to hold the
throttle handle there. Since I've spring
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-loaded, you've got to put something to
hold it down there.
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00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:43,480
Hey, Brandon D. Copy, Brandon D. Copy.
Bring me two zip ties, bring me two zip
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ties. Yeah, like right...
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How can I think?
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Think. Yeah, I'll be over there in a
second.
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Like we cannot wait for something to
show up here welded, nor can you wait
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new part. I need that water now.
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I got some zip ties.
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Okay, we'll try.
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Yeah, that's the one.
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For now, this will get us by just fine.
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We'll see how much pressure we got.
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Bingo. Talking business?
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Yeah, I think I am.
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With a couple of cheap zip ties.
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Tony's multi -million dollar operation
is back up and running.
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In mining, that's what you call
improvising. Make a thing run and off
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the biggest risk I've ever taken.
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00:25:13,020 --> 00:25:19,320
Rick Nurse is taking the gamble of his
life by attempting to mine gold from the
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190 -foot -high Raleigh Valley.
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00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:28,040
This is definitely a gamble, but it's a
gamble in a different way. The gold is
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there. The biggest part of the gamble is
if we can get down to it in time.
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00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,580
Rick and his crew have just three months
to move over a million yards of dirt
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before winter puts them down.
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If they don't get to sleuth, it could
spell disaster.
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00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:50,710
Rick's best shot at getting to the gold
in time is the monster 475 dozer.
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We've got a lot of dirt here to move and
a lot to move quick, and that dozer is
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definitely the machine to do it.
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The 475 has a 20 -foot wide blade that
moves twice as much dirt in one putt
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as a loaded rock truck.
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00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:13,640
Things built to move mountains and, you
know, things pretty sweet.
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00:26:16,660 --> 00:26:20,560
You know, Brennan's moving a ton of
dirt, you know, 60 yards at a time he
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in with that dozer.
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00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:23,760
Moving dirt.
335
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,000
That's not good.
336
00:26:45,420 --> 00:26:46,660
Hey, Rick, you got coffee?
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00:26:47,340 --> 00:26:48,340
Yeah, go for it.
338
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,520
There's some weird sensor going off on
the dash here, and the power kind of
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00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,660
keeps going up and down. Like, it's
almost derating itself here.
340
00:26:56,100 --> 00:26:57,100
All right.
341
00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,120
It's not fun not having a mechanic here.
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00:26:59,380 --> 00:27:02,900
Very frustrating, you know. We had
someone here that's trained to do the
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00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:06,880
-bang -boom, done, and we're back at the
racing, but that's not the case.
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00:27:11,690 --> 00:27:15,190
And the future of his season has hit a
massive roadblock.
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00:27:15,590 --> 00:27:19,690
The timing couldn't be worse. We're just
about to open the biggest, deepest cut
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I've ever done in my life.
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00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:24,290
We need that machine.
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00:27:32,210 --> 00:27:35,290
Every second, the 475 isn't pushing
dirt.
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00:27:36,050 --> 00:27:38,370
We're going to have just enough time to
pull this off.
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It's piling on debt.
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00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,200
So I've got a mechanic here, and
hopefully we lose as little time as
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00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,560
because literally time is precious right
now.
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00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,700
Rick calls in local mechanic Rob Bailey
in the hope he can get the monster
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machine back up and running.
355
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,160
So what do you think it is, buddy?
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00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,920
There's so many things that could be
wrong with it, yeah.
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00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,900
There's a ton there to move in. We're
going from...
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00:28:11,210 --> 00:28:16,170
Trying to open up a huge pay date to,
you know, possibly going bankrupt here.
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00:28:16,170 --> 00:28:18,590
we don't have that machine, I'm going to
be in trouble.
360
00:28:18,830 --> 00:28:20,410
It's becoming a big problem.
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00:28:26,650 --> 00:28:30,970
If it's this wiring, that's relatively
cheaper to fix.
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00:28:31,730 --> 00:28:35,570
But we've got a million wires under
there, and there's no way to remember
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00:28:35,570 --> 00:28:36,570
one is which.
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00:28:37,030 --> 00:28:40,210
I'm just blowing all the dust, as much
dust as I can out.
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00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,540
And hopefully, that'll fix our problem.
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00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,900
We'll lob test drive it and hopefully we
don't get any bad pressure readings.
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00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,640
We'll know once we run it for sure.
368
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,760
Okay, I'll jump in there and get it
going.
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00:29:00,580 --> 00:29:01,580
Here you go.
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00:29:32,490 --> 00:29:38,390
The Yukon, the difference between
success and failure, is measured by a
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particle that can take down a $500 ,000
dozer.
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00:29:44,850 --> 00:29:47,430
That was perfect at the end of the day.
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00:29:51,430 --> 00:29:56,590
With a bunch of this ground done, we
could get down to pay and run a bit here
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before the end of the season.
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00:30:01,670 --> 00:30:03,110
We got lucky on this one, man.
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00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:06,490
I think this is going just about as good
as it can at the moment.
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00:30:07,250 --> 00:30:10,890
I mean, if we're going to hit our 2 ,000
-ounce goal, we've got to get to the
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00:30:10,890 --> 00:30:13,210
bottom of this, and this 475 is going to
get us there.
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00:30:13,410 --> 00:30:15,250
So, onward to the goal.
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00:30:36,650 --> 00:30:40,730
It's really important that we get this
extension done here as fast as we can.
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00:30:41,010 --> 00:30:47,130
On the almost depleted estric cut, Big
Red has been down for three days while
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00:30:47,130 --> 00:30:49,810
Mitch searches for gold under the old
access road.
383
00:30:50,390 --> 00:30:55,870
The pressure is definitely on today for
us to get down to St. Peter, get it
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through a wash plant and see if we can't
get to that 1 ,100 houses.
385
00:31:00,530 --> 00:31:01,530
Hey, Mitch.
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00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:04,879
What's happening?
387
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,820
My excavator went down. Great, now we're
screwed.
388
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,740
Have you got anything else you can do
down there in the meantime?
389
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,800
No. That's your next thing?
390
00:31:13,620 --> 00:31:14,780
That's the only other.
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00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:16,340
Gotcha.
392
00:31:16,460 --> 00:31:17,980
I'll have to come down and take a look
at it.
393
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:19,320
It's always something.
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00:31:21,940 --> 00:31:25,900
Tyson's only excavator is situated all
the way over at the promised land.
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00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,400
So Mitch is forced to abandon the estric
cut.
396
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,480
Lots to do and not enough hours in the
day.
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00:31:34,110 --> 00:31:37,690
You know, this is a struggle. If I could
spend the whole day down here at Big
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Red, well, we can get that where it
needs to be.
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00:31:41,250 --> 00:31:44,370
But that means things are going to stop
over here at Ken's Ground.
400
00:31:44,670 --> 00:31:48,210
You know, that's part of being a
foreman. You got to, you know, go to
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00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:50,890
biggest problem is. And right now that
seems to be everywhere.
402
00:32:05,550 --> 00:32:07,850
Well, with any of these problems, you
just have to work through them.
403
00:32:08,650 --> 00:32:09,650
Just takes time.
404
00:32:09,850 --> 00:32:11,930
Just all time that's lost.
405
00:32:15,790 --> 00:32:17,770
No, she ain't going to go.
406
00:32:18,570 --> 00:32:19,990
That starter is done.
407
00:32:25,090 --> 00:32:29,350
The starter's probably just started its
last start here, which means we're going
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00:32:29,350 --> 00:32:31,270
to have to pull this out and get a
replacement in here.
409
00:32:32,910 --> 00:32:35,090
It's the nightmare scenario for Mitch.
410
00:32:36,370 --> 00:32:42,750
Every hour Big Red is down, he loses
over $3 ,000, and his final dig at the
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00:32:42,750 --> 00:32:44,390
airstrip falls further behind.
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00:32:45,350 --> 00:32:52,310
At the same time, Lucifer is at risk of
a shutdown if Tyson's excavator can't
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be fixed to stockpile pay.
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00:32:55,210 --> 00:32:58,330
The biggest thing that we run into is
just...
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00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,760
having enough time in the day. You know,
we're always trying to get every
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00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,700
minute, every hour we can of sleuth time
because that's how you get good
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00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:08,360
cleanups. That's how you have a lot of
gold at the end of the season.
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00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,540
We're spread 50 -10, amen?
419
00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:15,500
Exactly.
420
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,080
It all needs to be done and we only have
so many machines and so many people.
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00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,080
We're good to go.
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00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,020
So when I holler, I have to just hold
it. Hopefully it'll start cranking and
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00:33:31,020 --> 00:33:32,300
catch and then just let off.
424
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:35,960
Go ahead!
425
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000
Nailed it!
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00:33:43,580 --> 00:33:47,240
Now that I have the 480 back, I can get
back at her.
427
00:33:48,820 --> 00:33:52,480
But, you know, right now at the air
skirt, Mitch is going to be in a tough
428
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,200
Only so much one guy can do in a day.
429
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:06,240
After losing four hours to repairs,
Mitch gets back to clearing overburden.
430
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,179
I'm out here trying to get some more
material up. We're able to get it
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00:34:11,179 --> 00:34:14,900
the wash plant quick. You know, it could
be the difference of hitting our mark
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00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:16,580
here, getting 700 ounces.
433
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,600
But we're not down to pay dirt yet.
434
00:34:22,650 --> 00:34:27,270
Striking a balance between helping
others and helping yourself is key to
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00:34:27,270 --> 00:34:28,270
a smooth operation.
436
00:34:30,650 --> 00:34:34,530
The biggest struggle is just machines
and people. We just don't have enough
437
00:34:34,530 --> 00:34:37,929
people, and it's really tough to move a
lot of material.
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00:34:38,350 --> 00:34:41,730
So we're going to cross our fingers and
hope there's no more problems.
439
00:34:42,909 --> 00:34:44,690
Hey, Mitch, you got a copy? Mitch?
440
00:34:46,190 --> 00:34:47,429
Yeah, go ahead. What's up?
441
00:34:47,870 --> 00:34:49,590
Hey, man, 460.
442
00:34:50,389 --> 00:34:51,630
Down here, it's Lucifer.
443
00:34:53,219 --> 00:34:54,760
My radio is breaking up. What was that?
444
00:34:55,260 --> 00:34:58,880
Hey, man. I have things pretty well
under control down here at Lucifer. Do
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00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,180
need to hand up a big red at all?
446
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,540
Yeah, we got lots going on over here.
Definitely head on over this way. Okay.
447
00:35:05,740 --> 00:35:07,180
Sounds good, man. I'm on my way.
448
00:35:09,780 --> 00:35:12,820
You know, Mitch and I are running two
separate plants. We're running two
449
00:35:12,820 --> 00:35:16,700
separate cuts. But at the end of the
day, it's one company, one team, one
450
00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:19,860
one goal. And the goal is to get as much
gold out of the ground as we can.
451
00:35:20,590 --> 00:35:24,690
You know, I thought I'd try to get him
in the hand and see if we can get him
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00:35:24,690 --> 00:35:25,690
caught up.
453
00:35:29,990 --> 00:35:32,510
So awesome to see Tyson came up.
454
00:35:42,230 --> 00:35:44,230
It's nice seeing those trucks rolling
that quick.
455
00:35:46,190 --> 00:35:47,350
Happy as a pig in...
456
00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:03,070
But, man, it's just such a great
feeling. We've got everything swinging
457
00:36:03,070 --> 00:36:04,070
down here.
458
00:36:04,850 --> 00:36:08,430
You know, you're getting something done,
man. You can literally move a mountain
459
00:36:08,430 --> 00:36:10,270
of dirt in one day, in one shift.
460
00:36:15,310 --> 00:36:16,810
Hey, Justin, you got a copy?
461
00:36:17,270 --> 00:36:18,270
Oh, yeah.
462
00:36:18,850 --> 00:36:24,710
Hey, man, I got the first scoop of the
Airstrip Road Extension piled up here if
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00:36:24,710 --> 00:36:26,130
you want to start sending it through
that wash plant.
464
00:36:26,570 --> 00:36:27,570
Right on.
465
00:36:53,140 --> 00:36:57,240
I can't believe how much dirt we've
moved in. You know, it's just crazy to
466
00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:01,340
that at the start of the day here, we
had a road right next to where that cut
467
00:37:01,340 --> 00:37:06,600
was. And, well, you look over there now,
and now we've moved a mountain of dirt
468
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:07,600
here.
469
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,560
You know, it's just so good for morale.
470
00:37:09,860 --> 00:37:13,500
Everybody in the crew, you know, just to
see how much you can get done when
471
00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:14,640
everything's rolling real smooth.
472
00:37:30,430 --> 00:37:32,750
Are you not impressed with life?
473
00:37:33,950 --> 00:37:35,050
There you go.
474
00:37:35,270 --> 00:37:37,910
I have a smile at least. Yes, there is.
475
00:37:39,450 --> 00:37:45,390
Two months ago, after being denied a
license on the Indian River, King of the
476
00:37:45,390 --> 00:37:49,290
Klondike Tony Beats has been jumping
from cut to cut at Paradise Hill.
477
00:37:50,470 --> 00:37:55,330
His new site has yet to hit pay, so it's
time to see how the last of the gold
478
00:37:55,330 --> 00:37:57,370
from the 80 Pop measures up.
479
00:37:57,740 --> 00:37:58,840
So how'd it go this week?
480
00:37:59,380 --> 00:38:02,680
A little bit out of there.
481
00:38:03,060 --> 00:38:05,020
That 80 -pup keeps things on the go.
482
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,240
Why don't you weigh it up, see how much
we got this week.
483
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,000
Everybody ready?
484
00:38:10,220 --> 00:38:11,220
Yes, we are.
485
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:12,800
Three, two, one, boom.
486
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:15,640
Ten.
487
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:16,920
Twenty.
488
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:18,840
Five, thirty.
489
00:38:19,340 --> 00:38:24,080
So far, the 80 -pup cut has paid out 180
ounces a week.
490
00:38:25,140 --> 00:38:26,140
Ninety.
491
00:38:26,859 --> 00:38:32,020
100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150,
492
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:36,340
154 .76.
493
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:43,220
Worth $278 ,000, bringing Tony's total
to 1
494
00:38:43,220 --> 00:38:45,260
,815 ounces.
495
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,040
It's not amazing. It's not amazing.
496
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,640
Hey, we haven't had anything this year
that's been amazing. Not really, no.
497
00:38:52,820 --> 00:38:54,960
We're sitting a little over 1 ,800 now.
498
00:38:55,450 --> 00:38:58,630
There's still a long ways away from
where we want to be. Yeah.
499
00:38:58,890 --> 00:39:00,290
Yeah, that's the ways we go.
500
00:39:00,530 --> 00:39:03,750
Yeah. I mean, a guy always wants more,
needs more.
501
00:39:04,010 --> 00:39:06,790
But sometimes you're going to have to
make do with what you get out of the
502
00:39:06,790 --> 00:39:07,569
ground, too.
503
00:39:07,570 --> 00:39:10,910
You cannot worry about it. You can only
do as much as you can.
504
00:39:11,450 --> 00:39:13,730
And by that, you will come out ahead.
505
00:39:14,070 --> 00:39:15,070
Believe me.
506
00:39:15,850 --> 00:39:18,290
The product we're after doesn't spoil.
507
00:39:18,610 --> 00:39:20,330
Words of wisdom from Tony B.
508
00:39:33,549 --> 00:39:38,250
At Scribner Creek, it's time to find out
if Mitch's decision to dig the access
509
00:39:38,250 --> 00:39:40,130
road has paid off.
510
00:39:40,470 --> 00:39:43,710
Well, you're the new guy. Yeah, well, we
have to play catch up. New guy?
511
00:39:43,950 --> 00:39:44,950
Yeah, you're the new guy.
512
00:39:45,090 --> 00:39:46,009
Hey,
513
00:39:46,010 --> 00:39:49,370
come on. How you doing, buddy? Oh, you
know, another day, another dollar. How
514
00:39:49,370 --> 00:39:50,089
you doing?
515
00:39:50,090 --> 00:39:51,009
Good, man.
516
00:39:51,010 --> 00:39:52,310
But things are going good, yeah?
517
00:39:52,770 --> 00:39:56,770
Yeah, I mean, well, that all depends on
what you tell us here. I don't want to
518
00:39:56,770 --> 00:39:58,230
jinx us or anything, but yeah.
519
00:39:58,530 --> 00:40:00,730
You know, we just need to hit that 700
-ounce target.
520
00:40:01,550 --> 00:40:04,630
you know, move Big Red over to Mud
Mountain. And you're doing good down
521
00:40:04,650 --> 00:40:05,509
huh, T?
522
00:40:05,510 --> 00:40:07,350
I'm glad I could help Mitch out for a
couple.
523
00:40:08,750 --> 00:40:15,110
So far this season, Parker and his crew
have reached 2 ,800 ounces.
524
00:40:16,370 --> 00:40:19,990
Just half of their total this time last
year.
525
00:40:22,050 --> 00:40:23,110
152 .1.
526
00:40:25,030 --> 00:40:27,730
Worth $273 ,000.
527
00:40:28,790 --> 00:40:29,910
That's not bad. No.
528
00:40:31,780 --> 00:40:32,780
Okay, Mitchell.
529
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,660
Hopefully there's a lot of gold in that
pan.
530
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,080
Well, hopefully, yeah.
531
00:40:37,380 --> 00:40:43,440
Mitch needs Big Red to produce 350
ounces a week to keep up with the costs
532
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,920
stripping Mud Mountain and to hit
Parker's 700 -ounce target.
533
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,260
220, keep her going.
534
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:52,860
That's all I got right there.
535
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,200
281 .55.
536
00:40:56,260 --> 00:40:58,220
Worth half a million dollars.
537
00:40:59,660 --> 00:41:03,880
Oh, that's it. You know, if we didn't do
the road extension, man, I think we'd
538
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,160
come up way short. But your next cleanup
is going to be critical.
539
00:41:07,420 --> 00:41:13,320
Yeah. But I think you made a really good
call on opening up that road.
540
00:41:13,820 --> 00:41:17,060
I think Park would be proud of the way
you guys handle these things, right?
541
00:41:19,420 --> 00:41:21,520
Well done, young man. All right. Nice
job.
542
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,080
Good job. Good job.
543
00:41:23,660 --> 00:41:25,780
We'll see you next week. All right.
544
00:41:28,170 --> 00:41:33,190
You know, by doing that road extension,
it got us a lot closer to where we need
545
00:41:33,190 --> 00:41:34,190
to be.
546
00:41:34,630 --> 00:41:38,690
You know, I mean, we're definitely a
team around here, but we got a long ways
547
00:41:38,690 --> 00:41:39,690
go.
548
00:42:05,109 --> 00:42:08,010
So were you excited to finally get that
475, bro?
549
00:42:08,370 --> 00:42:11,850
Man, to be on top of that high wall, it
was something I've never got to do
550
00:42:11,850 --> 00:42:13,010
before. I was pretty sweet.
551
00:42:13,790 --> 00:42:16,650
That thing can move a mountain in a
hurry, holy.
552
00:42:17,210 --> 00:42:19,890
Yeah, I'm glad you just blew her up
there, man. You do.
553
00:42:20,410 --> 00:42:23,530
I would have just cut my phone off and
went into hiding.
554
00:42:24,110 --> 00:42:27,110
I mean, you know that something's that
much money, it scares the f*** out of
555
00:42:27,110 --> 00:42:31,380
you. That could cripple a guy's season
right there, and that's not what I would
556
00:42:31,380 --> 00:42:34,780
want to have on my shoulders. Well, I
appreciate that, and I, too, am glad it
557
00:42:34,780 --> 00:42:37,220
was just a sensor. I don't need to be
having a heart attack over myself.
558
00:42:37,860 --> 00:42:41,420
Here goes the piggy bank like this until
you find that gold, and then you can
559
00:42:41,420 --> 00:42:47,280
balance it out. Yeah, the piggy bank
will be pawned after 17 before we start
560
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:48,880
filling it back up again.
561
00:42:49,420 --> 00:42:51,040
You going to count the numbers there?
562
00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:52,300
Yes. Let's do it.
563
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,180
This will be the final payout from the
deep cut.
564
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,880
Brennan, can you even read the numbers?
Yep. Okay.
565
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:03,840
Over halfway through the season, Rick
hits just shy of 700 ounces.
566
00:43:05,300 --> 00:43:09,680
10, 25, 35, 45,
567
00:43:10,660 --> 00:43:16,740
60, 70, 80,
568
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,760
82 .8.
569
00:43:20,900 --> 00:43:22,340
That's not a bad number.
570
00:43:22,780 --> 00:43:29,700
worth nearly $150 ,000, bringing Rick's
fees in total to 770
571
00:43:29,700 --> 00:43:30,700
ounces.
572
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,520
Nice. I can take one of those. 82 .80.
Everybody?
573
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:37,360
Everybody? High five? High five?
574
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:43,720
Yeah, I mean, 82 .80, another good
number, especially looking at the people
575
00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:44,720
got here, not much.
576
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,260
But, you know, we are still going for 2
,000 ounces.
577
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:49,780
All bets ride on Raleigh Valley.
578
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,740
And whether they can move a million
yards of dirt in just three months.
579
00:43:54,140 --> 00:43:55,640
It's time to stop.
580
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,600
I think we're done with the small
potatoes here. Yeah. We're going on to
581
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,060
things. Time to start swinging for the
fences with Rally Valley.
582
00:44:03,220 --> 00:44:05,640
Because we're going to have some big
numbers to put up at the end of the year
583
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:06,640
here.
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