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We're under some pressure in the Yukon and scrambling a little bit to find

ground. Right now, the main tug is on John Reeves' ground.

We're spending a lot of money doing drilling, so we need inclusive results.

To keep his gold mining empire afloat, 27 -year -old mine boss Parker Schnabel

wants to expand his operation into Alaska.

He's gambled $180 ,000 to secure a claim, but he still doesn't know if it

contains the gold he needs.

The thing about Fairbanks that I really like is it's a big district with

millions of ounces of production.

They haven't had a huge amount of exploration in the last 10 or 20 years.

That's a good sign.

The first spot he tested came up short, so Parker's heading to the archives.

to find his next spot.

John has a really extensive archive of information from the early 1900s until

Fairbanks Exploration, which was the big company, quit the business and John

ended up owning it. And he still has all the original maps and drawings, which

shows how thoroughly they explored and mined all of the properties that John

has.

Parker and master driller Liam Ferguson meet with landowner John Reeves and his

son -in -law Drew Langley to investigate a potential lead at Cleary Creek, where

it seems a dredge could have left behind virgin ground.

There's a block of ground right where the dredge number three left off.

We're a little unsure why they stopped and turned around and went back.

the other way is there any way you can find us some of the old drill report for

this zone here yep not a problem it'd be 1940.

okay sounds good so the dredge three

so this is as they were making that turn the corner perfect so this is your

trigger mat this is the trigger mat this really gives us a lot of information

that is pretty clear the dredge was on gold here

39 took out over 30 ,000 ounces.

30 ,000 ounces?

In Dredge 3 in 1939.

That's right along here. That's this edge there. 39 was leading up to this

Yeah. 30 ,000 ounces. Right here.

It looks like they actually pre -stripped the ground. They were

back in there at some point.

They left a lot of good ground up there, basically.

Right up there.

When the Fairbanks Exploration Company shut down dredge number three in 1957,

over two million ounces of gold had been produced, worth almost four billion

dollars today.

But in 1940, for some reason the dredge stopped, turned a corner, and left

22 acres of strict land unmined.

If the pastry continues on this virgin ground,

It could be 15 times richer than Parker's Indian River claims.

There's a lot of things in that. Cut 7 was pretty good, but

marginal cut 8, 9, and 10, which is right on the end before they turned,

very good. There's a lot of gold in it. So that's encouraging for what we're

looking at mining over here.

But it still doesn't help us much with explaining why the dredge turned around.

you know world war ii happening at simultaneous 1940.

well they lost a lot of workers through the war effort as well and uh i mean

there's a lot of different factors that are more than just the gold playing a

part all right this is sweet thanks drew not a problem but we're gonna go see if

we can i guess go make sense of this huh the cleary creek claim is 20

miles outside fairbanks

So I think from about here we have about half a million square feet of virgin

ground. I think I can get along that stripping pile and put a line in now.

That's where we'll start.

Parker's plan is to start where the dredge turned and drill a series of test

holes across the stripped ground it left behind to find out if the old -timers

turned their back on a massive payday.

But first, Liam needs to build a road.

so he can access the area.

The leaves will be falling next, and then we'll be getting snow, so we better

hurry up and find some gold so we can come mining here next year.

Operator Kyle Jacob.

then brings in the million -dollar sonic drill.

Oh, there she goes.

Snow is just walking down.

It's time to find out if Cleary Creek still has gold rich virgin ground.

Over halfway through the mining season, king of the Klondike, Tony Beetz, is

battling to make a comeback after a disastrous miscalculation left him

mine on Indian River.

So far, with only one wash plant running on Paradise Hill, he's mined just over

2 ,000 ounces of gold.

We've got the D11, we've got the 950, we've got a whole pile of rock trucks.

I certainly like the hit rock.

He's now pinning his hopes on white channel pay dirt from the 25 -acre

I've done this for 38 years. I'm not going to retire.

I'm actually going to get as much gold out of the ground, get as much money in

my pocket as I can.

Then our kids don't have to worry about a thing.

Tell me, Tony, you got a copy?

Brad, go for Tony. Brad, go for Tony.

Yeah, feeder keeps shutting down, going, stopping, going, stopping, going,

stopping, leaving long stretches on the belt, MTSA.

Do you want me to shut it down?

Yeah, that don't sound any good.

Shut that feeder off. Shut that feeder off. Yeah, okay. I'll get down here and

shut it down right away.

Go see what the matter with the feeder, I guess.

That's all we need.

Let's go have a look.

Tony calls in his eldest son and mechanic, Kevin, to investigate.

It's going to be anywhere but over here.

Oh, yeah, that's it right there.

The sprocket is no longer a sprocket. It is now an idler. I mean, the teeth that

grab the rail ain't there no more. She's smooth.

No wonder she's skipping.

Now, that means she's pretty.

Bare minimum, we'd have to replace that sprocket.

The feeder loads pay onto the conveyor, leading to the trommel.

But after 25 years, the teeth on the driver's sprockets have worn smooth, and

the belt is slipping.

What do you got, Gavin?

The feeder's slipping like a... I think those sprockets are right gone.

Another thing we're going to do about it, we're going to rip the part. Oh, we

don't have any other choice.

We're not going to roll that back together. I mean, I'd rather be fluting,

mean, you've got to do your maintenance.

It's been in there for years.

It's time to put in a new one.

So, we're going to rip the part out, put that new one together, slam it back in,

off we go.

Removing the feeder is a labor -intensive process.

The first step is to cut it free from the hopper.

Hopefully we get it done quick, get back up and running and get back to the

gold.

Yeah, I got another tab here too that's welded.

Is there another weld over there?

Then they have to drag the hopper out.

Nothing but problems.

Headaches. Tony's a smart man. He can be a little tough sometimes, but he'll

just make it work and do whatever he asks.

Michael B. C. Gobby, Michael B. C. Gobby. Let's go, let's go, let's go.

Mike! Let's go!

This is going to be a long day.

We're all going to take a step back and take calls.

Every hour they're not losing.

Tony loses $2 ,700.

With the hopper out,

they now need to detach the 30 -foot long conveyor before they can even get

the feeder.

Make those swings, lift it up, keep it going, lift it up, keep it going, Mike.

Swing it that way a little bit.

Mike loads the conveyor onto the 500 horsepower Oshkosh military tank

transporter.

Let's see what you get, Mike. Let it down, down there.

Not too bad.

Now we're just going to have to take the feeder out, I guess.

I was thinking of having an excavator behind it and shoving it from the top.

got the rails on there, right? So they slide right off.

Get up there, bingo.

Mike uses an excavator to push the feeder free.

Focus on the inside out.

Thank you. Meanwhile...

Kevin uses a pipe layer to pull.

Okay, Mike, who's that?

Keep it going, Mike.

More, more, more.

Keep it coming, keep it coming.

Good, Kevin. That's all the weight you got.

It's always harder to take it out than it is to put it back.

This thing is... We don't have any other parts on site.

It takes nine hours to remove the feeder.

And Tony now has to wait three days for the replacement sprocket to arrive.

We've got to get sluicing.

That's where the money comes from.

You know, just because things are down doesn't mean the bills don't keep

This, I guess, is what you'd call putting all your eggs in one basket.

Two -thirds of the way through his season,

Rick Ness is taking the biggest gamble of his mining career.

We're trying to get 2 ,000 ounces this year, and I think it's going to pay off

huge. And if it doesn't, we're going to go down in blaze of glory unlike

anybody's ever seen.

He stops loosing to concentrate all his resources on opening up a monster cut.

The 190 -foot deep.

Rally -valley, but if he's not running pay dirt in three weeks, there won't be

time to get the gold out before winter hit.

It's a bit of a gamble.

I hope it works out.

I did the math on it. I've got three trucks running. I need at least 600

truckloads a day.

There's just no way to get those kind of numbers with one ship.

Our best thought attitude is adding a night crew.

Morning, pal.

Morning, Richard.

I'm trying to be a scientist and do math.

And what are you thinking? We're looking at over a million yards overburned

here. And at the moment, I think we've only moved about 300 ,000.

So at that rate, we're not going to be sleuthing this year.

Jesus Christ, that's a lot of dirt. Yeah. So what are you thinking?

Well, we're going to have to do a night shift.

If we want to sluice this year, that's the only way. So I kind of need you to

step up and be the night foreman.

Well, I'm excited, man.

I'll definitely do that for you. We can get it stripped in three weeks.

That could be the difference between us going home with profit, you with gold in

your pocket, or not.

I'll do my best I can for you, and hopefully we can conquer this with a

pee. All right.

Buddy, thanks. I'll get some sleep and I'll pee tonight, all right? Sounds

man.

I'm really going to be putting the pressure on Brennan.

You know, although he does have several years of experience now, we're not going

to let him think that that gets him a free pass.

I really need him to work out.

I want to shoot high. I mean, I'm taking on the role of night shift foreman and

the steps in the right direction of trying to move up the ladder.

To justify Rick's trust.

Brennan Ruots needs to hit 300 loads by the end of the night.

Come from working at Parker's, we always find a lot of gold and I know what it

takes to get there, but Parker and I were not getting along so much the last

years, so I was walking on eggshells 90 % of the time.

After leaving Parker's claim last season, he's determined to prove he can

the pressure here.

Rick and I are on the same page, so if I've been trying to...

and show to them that I care about what's going on.

I want us all to have a successful season and be ready to come back next

with a smile on our face.

What's going on here?

Hey Brandon, I think my truck is messed up.

There's something going on here. I gotta check it out.

Are you serious right now?

Yeah, we got an axle blowing over here, Brandon.

Is there anybody up here to help you?

We can't afford the truck to go down right now. Unbelievable.

Damn it.

That would kind of suck because we don't have time for this to be down right

now. Three raw trucks, one down.

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

The 34 -ton truck is not only out of commission, it's also blocking the path

the waste site.

Been down for the last 45 minutes.

Every load we miss is a load that's hard to get back.

With time ticking, Brennan needs the stranded truck moved.

The rear axle bushing that holds it to the front here fell apart.

Power can't get to the back wheels because the drive shaft isn't attached

axle.

You want to grab that, buddy?

So Brennan orders his crew to remove it.

Okay, Nick, you think if we just put that box down you'll be able to limp it

there? Yep.

Okay, buddy.

We'll get this thing rolling and get back to work.

With only a few hours of a shift left, Brennan pushes his two remaining trucks

to get as close to Rick's 300 -load target as they can.

How'd you go, buddy?

Well... Not as good as we wanted. We didn't get our 300 loads in.

At least truck went down last night there. Are you serious?

This is not a good start.

No. I don't know what's up with these trucks. I know they've got a lot of

on them, but it's just like every time we're in a crunch, we have to deal with

the breakdown.

Yeah. No, I understand that. I'm not trying to give you... Hopefully it's a

quick fix and, you know, we get back all the trucks running and I'm going to get

to it because I definitely got to get through the other dishes.

Okay. Sounds good, buddy. I'll see you tonight. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean You need to be hitting that 300 loads per shift like it has to

happen if we're gonna get down to pay in three weeks That's the only way to do

it. Hopefully in the future our luck changes

Patrick Nabel is raping to find new ground in Alaska to secure the future of

mining business.

The ground here is a lot deeper than in the Yukon.

And, you know, where we think that 40 or 50 feet is really deep, you know, in

Alaska, that's the shallowest ground around.

And a lot of the ground that we'll be looking at is 100 plus.

Definitely put the pressure on doing good exploration and making sure you

what's in the ground before you.

lose much money.

For the past three days, drill operator Kyle Jacobs has been sinking a series of

100 -foot deep holes, searching for gold -rich virgin ground at Dredge Corner.

For the ground to pay off, he needs at least 150 milligrams of gold in each

hole.

But so far, he's found just 30 milligrams.

Hey,

Kyle!

That's weird.

At 60 feet, far sooner than expected,

The drill hits bedrock.

This shallower ground could explain why

the dredge turned back.

Parker and Liam take the drill sample back to the gold room to assess it

further.

Alright, so this is the bottom of the hole we drilled.

There's no pay layer in the sample.

There's nothing in there. We're going broke.

I don't think this is bedrock.

It's too shallow.

What do you think we should do?

I think it's worth going back, drill some holes, and turn what we've seen

All right. That seems like a good call.

Liam suspects that the hard layer they've hit could just be rock, with pay

gravel and the real bedrock hidden underneath.

Where's all the gold at, Doze?

Where's all the gold at?

If Liam's wrong, Parker stands to lose thousands of dollars drilling worthless

ground.

And we're finding 10 to 15 feet of gravel below the rock.

Usually you don't have to gravel below bedrock, so it's kind of weird to drill.

What's up, dude?

Just hanging out with the Doze men.

You finding any gold?

No.

He's not a very good gold -picking dog.

Well, we've been finding some pretty interesting stuff here, too. Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

At first, we thought we were drilling. We drilled through a big boulder that

just floating, and then we started seeing it again on another hole.

Then we realized it wasn't actually just a rock. It was actually a false bedrock

with gravel below it.

How would that happen?

It's probably slide rock coming down off the hill.

Thousands of years ago, a seam of rock slid off the hillside, covering what

could be a layer of gold -rich pay.

Over the years, dirt was deposited above it.

When the old -timers stripped this ground, they may have believed the slide

was bedrock and abandoned it.

I mean, it's a good thing that these guys know what they're doing because,

hitting that slide rock, a lot of people would be like, oh, we're on bedrock,

but it looks like there's some gravel underneath it.

There's more gravel than we previously thought, so that's good.

Gravel doesn't make any money, though.

It needs to be gravel with gold in it.

I'm not just putting the mining season on the line for this. This is literally

the mining career.

If this doesn't work out, my guys, you know, they're going to lose their bonus

and I'm going to be done mining.

That's how serious this is.

At Raleigh Valley, Rick Ness is less than halfway to hitting gold -rich pay

dirt, 120 feet down.

He needs to start loosing within three weeks.

I split everybody in half. I've got four people running at night, four people

during the day. And we're just going straight down in this cut. We'll be

spending three weeks without gold coming in and doing nothing but burning fuel,

spending money, moving dirt. And it's all for the hope of a big payday down

here.

After a rock truck broke down on Brennan's night shift, Rick's running

two -thirds of his fleet.

I haven't had a full -time mechanic all year, which is insane to me. But we've

kept things rolling.

If I've got machines go down and we're down for days or weeks or whatever, or

even a day, I can't afford it. So I did manage to get Torsten back here.

20 -year -old apprentice mechanic Torsten Petersen needs to replace the

bushing and refit the rock truck's axle and drive shaft.

They've already lost a good 50 loads, so we've got to get this truck up and

going for them as quick as possible.

Without the boot being in there and doing its job, this thing's just like a

giant paperweight sitting in the middle of Illinois doing nothing.

Great to have Torsten back.

Hopefully we can get this truck back up and running today, and we'll be back on

track.

Back a bit.

Other way.

This. Other way.

Other way. Keep going. Keep going. Stop.

After four hours, Torsten and operator Nathan Thornington... Are you done yet?

Are off.

...are ready to see if their fix has worked.

Really? Then how come you're still under there? Yeah. You're distracting me.

I am not.

You thought, like, mechanics were multitaskers.

Shut up.

We're back with three trucks.

We're not going to hit our 300 votes today.

It's just not going to happen. We're going to be at about 280, which is just

unacceptable. Unfortunately for Brennan, he's picking up the slack tonight and

really hoping he's up to it.

doing a big help for making up lost time we have a lot less distractions we just

get here we load we load we load we load and uh you know if we don't have any

breakdowns they know it's achievable

Everything seems to go good until it doesn't. And now I hit this hard ground

again.

God damn it.

Hey, Riley, you got a coffee, bud?

What? You got a coffee, Brian? Just hit some hard ground again here, and it's

just, I can't even dig it with these tiger teeth.

We hit some glacial till.

You know, it's like a mud, but a very hard pack of gravel.

It might as well be frozen, but it's not, and it just is very, very abrasive.

The only machine that can rip the glacial till is the 475 dozer.

Okay, well, I've got to get cracking here and get ripping in the dozer, so

going to switch Riley out.

But this 900 -horsepower beast costs $5 ,000 in fuel a day.

With no money coming in, it's a big decision.

What you need to be able to do is sink quick on your feet, especially at

nighttime, you know. We cannot afford to lose any loads at all or time if we

want to get down 150 feet just to get to pay.

The one deadly weapon we have this year is this 475.

I mean, this thing, Coach Mountain.

And Rip Mountain.

This thing's worth its weight in gold for what we got to do.

With the glacial tail being torn out by the dozer, they can get back to loading

overburden with the 700.

Hey, Ricky.

How's it going, buddy?

Good, buddy.

323 loads. You did it?

Yeah. Yeah, you're my man.

There's that weird hard layer. Is this a... Yeah, I don't get it. Like, I

thought this was all going to be soft and fluffy and be motor and through.

Did you have to rip it all? Yeah, I did a little bit. Threw Riley in the hole

quick, kept them going, and I got that gozer going and it helped. But everybody

was on their game last night. You had to get out of the excavator and you still

hit three over 323. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, buddy. I can't wait to see what's at the bottom of this. A lot of

dirt. Yeah. All right. Having Brennan on the team this year just keeps paying

off, man. I love it. You know, when he stepped up to be a night foreman, I knew

he'd knock it out of the park. You know, last night he made up for the loads

that we missed during the day shift, and that's what I'm going to need to do for

the rest of the year. So we still got a lot of dirt to get down and pay.

But we'll get there.

After a three -day wait, the new sprocket for the Paradise Hill Trommel

arrived. This is a good day.

So far, the shutdown has cost Tony Beach almost $200 ,000 in lost gold.

You're not losing, you're not making money.

If you ain't making money, that means all you're doing is spending it.

Once the replacement part is lowered into position...

They have to fit the feeder truck onto the new sprocket.

What does it look like, Cody?

Move it all?

Move the bit.

Tony, you copy Tony?

Copy.

You want to come take a look at this?

pulled tight but it still won't line up with the sprocket.

The steel

rail needs to locate precisely

on the sprocket teeth.

We measured between top to top and it was an eighth of an inch difference than

the front.

It's not gonna happen because you got this one is in that one is now in and

one is barely.

And then those I lay up on top. And you got one in the bottom that was in too.

So the whole thing is out.

This ain't good.

They probably didn't cut it right.

Sprockets on the new gear, they don't match the rail.

Meaning that when you turn it, instead of fitting in

these pockets here, they sit on the sprocket seat.

So that's no good. We're going to have the exact same problem in a week.

What we're going to do is build up a set of old idlers and then cut off the

sprocket from the front, turn that on the back, and we're just going to have

Mickey Mouse it to make this thing go.

The old drive sprockets on the feeder wore smooth, causing the track to slip.

But at the other end, the idler sprockets, with no load on them, And

intact. So Tony wants to swap the idlers with the drive sprockets.

Now, now, this is supposed to be quick.

It takes seven hours to complete the swap.

Hopefully we can get back to losing soon.

It's a temporary fix, but one Tony hopes will last until the end of the season.

Looks a lot better than it did before.

Yeah, right. Much better.

But it's all back together.

They made everything fit, everything worked out pretty nice, made it look

So now all that's left to do, take the feeder, put it back where it belongs,

a wire on it, and start sluicing.

Because, you know, if you don't sluice, you get no gold, you get no money,

right?

Okay, Mike, lift it up.

Mike takes the weight of the feeder on the pipe layer.

while Kevin uses the excavator to pull it back into position.

If everything goes smoothly, we'll have a smooth night.

Okay, Kevin, pull it a little bit, pull it a bit.

Keep on pulling, Kevin.

Keep on pulling.

Pull it in, pull it.

Yes.

Things are going pretty smoothly so far, but you know what?

A guy should never praise the day until the evening.

The 30 -foot conveyor is then bolted back onto the feeder.

How old did I die?

Yeah, I put bolts in it, down and over. That went very, very well, gentlemen.

I always feel like any downtime is too much downtime because we've got to

produce the season short enough as is.

So it would be very nice to see this running again.

If the fix works, it will save weeks of downtime waiting for replacement parts.

If you're happy with it, fire the thing up. Okay.

Brad, you ready to put some dirt on there? Let's get going.

All right, finally up and running.

Everything should work. I mean, we fixed all the mechanical stuff and

it should work out.

Let's see if it spins.

Beautiful. We have life and movement.

That stockpile we got here, I bet you they could see it from space if they

looked real close.

And our side pieces seem to be working. Lovely.

Good to see it moving again. It means we're making money again. Instead of

spending it. But to stand any chance of hitting his 4 ,500 -ounce season goal,

Tony is going to have to mine around the clock.

Good to see the thing is running again.

I mean, we've been down for about five days.

But you know what?

Because that thing ran perfectly for 25 years, so you really can... You've got

to do some maintenance at some point, and it has one hour.

Anyway, we all flew things. Life is good.

Is that the result?

Brennan, can I talk to you for a bit? All right.

You're fired.

Rick Ness is over halfway to reaching pay, and he has some news for Brennan

Rult. So, no, you're not fired.

Okay, good.

You and I both know the severity of what we're up against in Valley Valley.

Yeah, it's pretty big. I think it's big.

Yeah. And we're going to have to have eyes and ears in there at all times

because one mistake, we're not going to make it. No. Coming in here, I said I

wasn't really looking for a foreman. Mm -hmm.

You know, you have proved yourself, and things have changed a bit.

So that's why I'm kind of hoping that, you know, I can ask you to step up, be

the foreman, you know, when I'm not around, and take that responsibility on.

Sure, man. I'd love to do that. Yeah.

Yeah, that's awesome.

It's a no -brainer for me. I mean, it's been great having you here this year.

You know, I've been able to rely on you.

And, you know, I think this is a perfect time.

Appreciate that, man.

Yeah.

I'm definitely excited, and I'll do my best for you, so thank you.

I've got a lot of work ahead of me.

Yeah, you do. We all do. You sure you don't want a minute to think about it?

No.

I hope I'm ready for it. You're ready.

When I came here, you know, I didn't know what to expect, and so far it's

the best move I've ever made.

Super happy, and now Rick's asked me to step up and be the foreman in Raleigh

Valley, and, you know, I honestly couldn't be happier.

But I've got a lot of work ahead of me, so I'm going to get my ass to bed.

and get up and get ready to conquer the day tomorrow.

How are y 'all?

I'm surviving.

I exist.

How did it go this week?

Not worth it.

Well, that's nice.

What'd you do?

What'd you break?

Oh, the feeder finally went.

Wow. I noticed that it was, mm -hmm, mm -hmm, mm -hmm.

It was slipping.

Oh, yeah. I crawled underneath.

I was sure there was teeth.

There was nothing.

Cool. It was amazing. It was still turning. It was heated down and all

Like, so far, we had quite a bit of downtime.

Yeah, I was going to hurt the totals on the end of the season a little bit, but

what the hell are you going to do about it?

Cool. So my child is expiring, and I want to see how much gold you got.

Tony Beats has only sluiced World Cup White Channel pay for two days this

He needs 237 ounces to hit his goal.

10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70,

80, 90, 100.

Keep going.

No dice, Mike.

I'll die.

I know.

$105 .24.

Worth almost $190 ,000.

For less than half of their weekly target.

100 ounces isn't great, but we're making a wage worth our total? Are we still a

long ways off?

We're a long ways off.

We're still quite a ways off. We're a ways off. A long ways still.

Let's not complain about it. A lot of people will be happy to have it. Hey,

every little ounce counts.

With that being said, I think everybody should leave and go to work.

What about you? I think we did it every time. Why don't you get the f*** out of

here? Because this is my house. I can work from home.

Can I work from home? Nope. Can I work from home? I can work from home. Nope.

Nope. I can hold mechanical hands. I can work from home.

I don't even need an internet and computer. That's all I need. If this is

house,

which one do I take? I take all of them.

That looks hard.

It is difficult.

Whoa. You're like a pro, man.

Parker and master driller Liam Ferguson have drilled 30 test holes at Dredge

Corner.

All right, Parker, this is one of those holes that I was talking about that had

a stump for a while, but turns out there's a layer of false bedrock that's

coming off the hill and bearing the gravel.

So we're kind of hoping that maybe the old -timers just hit that first layer

stopped.

Well, I'm surprised that you guys found that, really.

It took a few holes. Like, it's pretty easy to just, like, hit bedrock and...

Yeah, so we... Oh, bedrock, cool. Move on.

Is there any gold in any of this?

Parker needs at least 150 milligrams of gold per hole to make the ground viable.

We hit in one hole, 26, 30, and then it just

pretty consistently seemed to hit 135, hit

virgin, 187.

187.

Oh, yeah.

Oh,

yeah, look at that.

Cool. That one's not bad.

Yeah, it's about 200 overall.

At 200 milligrams per hole, Dredge Corner is potentially 10 times richer

Parker's claims at Indian River.

Look at that nug.

Dude, you hit a nug.

That's better than all the other projects that you've done with me.

There's more gold in this ground. It makes it easy.

With a payday that could be worth over $11 .5 million, Parker has found

his Alaskan ground.

It's looking promising. Go home and pack your bag.

Thanks, dude.

See you, Parker.

Yeah, it's good to see some gold coming out of the drilling.

You know, Liam and I have drilled a lot of ground that has no gold in it or not

enough to go mining.

And it's nice to finally be like, I want some stuff that's really productive,

like 6 ,000 ounces drilled out so far, and there's some healthy profit in

Of course, I always want more.

So I figure back to the Yukon.

Make sure we're making enough money to pay for all of it.