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The only thing we can do is just try to make as much money as we can and have a

good war chest built up. They started in Alaska.

After securing new ground in Alaska, 27 -year -old Parker Schnabel is heading

back to the Yukon, with his season now resting on his deepest claim ever, Mud

Mountain.

You know, this season we put a lot of our eggs in the Mud Mountain basket, and

hopefully there's tons of gold in there.

Parker has gambled $4 million on the claim, and the team has already spent 10

weeks tripping and prepping the site.

Everybody over there, they should be cruising on Mud Mountain when I get

So we'll see what ends up happening.

The airstrip cut is done and we can get Big Red packed up and moved over to Mud

Mountain.

Just one piece at a time here.

At Indian River, the moment the crew's been waiting for is finally here.

Wash plant Big Red is ready to take on Mud Mountain.

Here comes the truck, so our timing's real good here.

Test showed Mud Mountain could hold 8 ,000 ounces of gold worth $14

million.

If Parker's new cut delivers, it could be his biggest payday ever.

But so far, what I'm seeing here looks like all the pans have

been poor.

Despite that, Parker's pushed ahead, determined to mine out the cut in just

season.

We've moved Big Red so many times, but this time is different.

We've still got to do a lot of maintenance on Big Red once we get it

Mountain.

And we want this setup to be perfect. It can't just be close, it's got to be

right on the money.

Because we're putting the best dirt we've ever seen through this walk plant.

Now around here today, well, it's kind of like a symphony of heavy machinery.

You just got to have all the right pieces in the right place.

Otherwise, no good.

You know, down here in the good cut, we're nearing the bitter end.

Four miles away at the promised land, plant boss Tyson Lee is down to the last

of the pay in the good cut.

When we fire off Mud Mountain, hopefully it frees up some more people, but you

never know until you're into the thick of it.

We are close.

At the airstrip, Mitch's crew load the 50 -ton, 21 -foot -high taker deck

onto a lowboard.

It looks like it might be a little bit heavy on the right side of the trailer

here, but we won't know until we get it leveled out.

To deliver Big Red to Mud Mountain, they'll have to haul it down an untested

road.

We'll just check the chains, make sure they're tight, and we'll head over

get this thing put back together.

All right, see you over there. Let's do it.

Houdini himself could have made that wash plant disappear that fast.

Let's get this thing heading over to butt down.

We're heading over to what's supposed to be the best dirt we've ever put through

it, so I'm really excited to see what it looks like.

That thing's really slant.

It's done with that thing's leaning.

corner out here, it's going to really want to lean.

Don't stop on any corners with leans. That thing is really swaying.

He's got his hands full right now.

Oh, no.

Go, Steven, go. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Go. Don't stop.

We got the big lean there.

We could have gone a little bit more to your driver's side there.

We made her.

And that's got to be record time.

Everybody killed it today.

Good job. Got so much maintenance to do on the plant. But now this is a big

moment for the company.

Put her together and see what's in all this dirt.

Let's do it. Let's do it.

We've

got

to bang through as much material as we can.

Then that will get us far away to the end of the season.

After failing to secure a license at Indian River, King of the Klondike, Tony

Beach, is gunning for a season total of 4 ,500 ounces.

But his success relies on his only running wash plant, Mike's trommel.

If we're going to be stuck here on the hill, I'll have to keep an eye on the

trommel. So I want to make sure we get as much rocks through the trommel as we

can.

Tony Beach, do you copy, Tony Beach?

Go ahead, Mike.

Yeah, we're here, okay?

Okay.

Hang on. Jeff is down.

Okay, sounds like a plan. Meet you there.

Okay. Can you shut it off, please?

That stuff was basically pure liquid mud.

Can't sluice like that.

Son Mike has run out of dry pay dirt from the wall cut again.

Tony's been battling the soggy cut for weeks.

Each time it floods, the gold -rich white channel pay dirt he's chasing

too wet to run, forcing Tony to deploy a fleet of

excavators to find a dry path further from the plan.

I have no dry dirt to load Douglas, which kind of sucks.

Annoying.

Because on the hill we have to run a volume steady.

if we're going to get those ounces.

We got all the equipment that you need. We got all the play laying ready we

need. I'm just going to get Kevin over there and see what we can improve here.

What do you think, Kev? The weather being so... Yeah. We keep having to hop

cut to cut. Yeah. You know, one gets full of water, we got to go to another

Yeah, yeah. Anyways, the excavators rattling back and forth takes forever.

could speed that up a little.

You know, I have something in mind that just may speed that up, Kevin. What's

that? Whether you go from a half an hour to five minutes. Well, let's run over

and have a look. I think we have just a toy in the yard, okay?

Okay.

Okay, Kevin.

Oh, yeah.

We built this one for the BC Trommel, remember?

Mm -hmm.

But why couldn't you put an excavator on that?

Yeah, that could be throwing up for anything we want to throw on there. I

that if we put the excavator on the beam, turn around, put the bucket in the

back of a ruck truck, right off, you go from a half an hour to five minutes.

Yeah, see no reason why that shouldn't work.

I'll get a loader to put it on the road, then we'll test it out.

Sounds good.

We'll give it a try.

Tony built the dolly to transport a 10 -ton trommel.

But it's never been used for a 78 -ton excavator.

Hey, Gavin, there you got me. Let's go.

The concept?

Balance the excavator on the dolly.

Secure the bucket in a rock truck.

Then haul the excavator with the truck at up to 15 miles an hour, more than

times its normal speed.

Let's get this thing on the road. Let's go and try.

Rightio.

Operator Ruby Mahoney brings in the rock truck.

Let's go.

Okay, take it away.

Get the thing out of here.

Now keep on going, Ruby.

At Paradise Hill, Tony is testing a dolly to haul excavators around the

We tried. That didn't work. We're going to rip off the tailgate.

I'm going to try again.

If it works, he'll be able to move the machines to the pay dirt faster and keep

on the gold.

Daughter Monica brings in an older model of rock truck without a tailgate.

I think that's going to work good. All right, now let's keep on going.

That's pretty cool.

Doing way better than I thought she was going to.

That did work. That's all I wanted.

Tony puts the dolly straight to work, pulling excavators around the cut, where

they can start digging dry white channel pay to feed the trunnel.

This way, we can move our excavators back and forth so much quicker. Cut that

time down to five minutes, and here you go.

So we've got to find a way to squeeze some more gold out of this puppy.

And that's what's going to be refining our operation, learning from our

mistakes, and getting better.

Special Forces medic Fred Lewis has invested his life savings into a new

operation in the Yukon.

But over halfway through the season, he's only sluiced for six weeks.

We're averaging about 8 to 9 ounces a week, which honestly is nowhere near our

goal. We need to be pulling 10 ounces a week. So in order for us to get to where

we need to be to our minimum 100 ounce goal, we're going to have to pick it up

somehow.

Right now we're crawling, so we're going to transition to a walk phase soon, but

at the end of the season we need to be running.

And that's just the name of the game. That's how gold mining goes.

You can't keep up, you get left behind.

The pressure that I feel to make this happen is immense.

Infantry scout sniper Stuart McKenzie, in his second season mining with Fred,

digging out fangs.

I've been working for pretty much 40 days straight.

What keeps me going for this whole amount of time is that people nowadays

working just to get by, and that's not what I want for my family. I can't

express how much that this needs to pan out.

No pun intended.

Been a lot. Yes.

Fred's son, Christopher Parker, who trained as a cavalry scout, sucks

the planet.

But the one thing that motivates me with all of this is just getting money.

Because without money, we can't do this.

Space morale amongst everybody is pretty good.

Special Forces Sergeant Rick Douglas.

feeds the plant.

The thrill behind it is you work harder and hopefully it pays off in the long

run. That's the gold fever and that's the rush from gold.

And no matter what gets in our way, we'll be ready.

Over by the creek.

So many little wonky parts on this machine.

Fred's wife, Kara, is cleaning concentrate from the wash plant's past

a gold cube to recover fine gold and nugget.

Today I'm supposed to get this bucket completely finished all the way through

this cube.

Hopefully catch some gold in there, but it's getting pretty clogged.

That's not good. It's clogging this easy.

It's definitely not working the way it's supposed to.

When the cube gets clogged, there is nowhere for gold to settle, and the gold

washes back out into the river.

That's not good.

Our whole season rests on this little pretty janky water pump, janky

I don't know. It doesn't make sense. There has to be a better way.

It's losing half our gold.

I remember thinking it was slow last season, and we had not even a fraction

the amount of pay dirt that we're running this season.

I'm frustrated. I'm just going to take it. I'm going to turn it off.

I'm going to go talk to Fred, because this doesn't work. There has to be a

different solution.

Fred! We have it, staff.

Of course we can.

That gold cube, it's not going to cut it.

I'm barely putting anything in it, and it's already clogged. And it's like

are falling out, the water pump's not working, everything else, on top of the

fact it's slow as hell.

The problem is I spent most of our budget getting the equipment that we

besides the recovery because I figured we'd just limp through the gold cube for

the rest of the season. But that's what you do, and it doesn't work. Not

everything works that way. I'm running bare bones right now. These guys are

buying their own fuel and food. Like, I'm not even providing any of that

See what you can find. Do the research. See what you can find as far as some

sort of better piece of equipment for me to use. We'll go with the most cost

-effective, and we might just have to bite the bullet and finance a little bit

more. This is getting me so nervous.

I just, again, it makes me sick. You might not think it's in the budget, but

we're going to have to pull it out of somewhere, and you're going to have to

figure it out. Like, that's all we can do.

If we could get a good recovery system, that would boost our

productivity, and it's going to give us a lot more gold in the end.

Fred headed to Dawson City on the hunt for a new gold table.

Right now, I'm on my way to see Joel. Joel is the gentleman that fabricated

wash plant. He created a gold room based on a recovery device called the Rayla

Zot. It's a very good recovery system for this type of gold.

Right now, I'm worried about losing gold, and that's what we're doing.

It needs to up our game and our recovery. It's going to save us an

hours every time we clean up, and we're going to lose way less gold.

Always working, Joel. How you doing? Yeah, good, Fred. How you doing? I was

hoping I could get a look at that gold recovery system you said you had. Yeah,

it's just over here. We can have a quick look at it.

Oh, this is nice.

The custom -built gold recovery system was designed by a local miner 35 years

ago.

Vibrating riffles and hydraulics separate gold from the concentrate.

Man, I'm going to tell you, this blows my mind at how efficient this could be.

Yeah, that self -feeding hopper makes it easy. You just, you know, put four

pails of dirt in it and almost walk away.

That is really cool.

It does look pretty expensive.

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of work hours in this thing and, you know, a

brand new seat can, fully, you know, light, heat, and it's priced

So, cost figure, at a guess, give or take a few.

It'll be about 30k.

Okay. All right. Well, I like what I've seen, but my budget's not huge.

So that may be something we need to talk about.

I don't know if maybe we could work a deal out on some kind of a royalty or a

payment. I don't know how you work.

Yeah, I mean, possibly. I'm open to it. It'd have to be something we'd have to

discuss. Okay. If Fred can land a deal, he'll need to return to Dawson City with

a trailer to collect the gold rune.

I think the most important thing now is to put my head together on the budget,

and then we can go from there.

Sounds good, man. Sweet. Really appreciate your time. Nice to do

you. Yeah, I really do too. Hope to help you get back to work.

Now the million -dollar question.

Is there enough gold in this ground to make this cut worthwhile?

On Indian River, Parkers foreman Mitch and the rest of the crew are eager to

start chewing through pay dirt at Mud Mountain.

Well, we are ready to finally do this. We got Big Red set up here. Here we go!

This is the first dirt from Mud Mountain going through Big Red.

Yeah, I don't know if you're the first year guy being tasked with operating Big

Red. It's such high stakes at Mud Mountain here. It's definitely

Rookie miner Justin Fraser feeds the plant for the first time at Mud

Still running and we're making it work.

And so far so good. We just got to keep it up.

It's super hectic and everybody's feeling the pressure.

Supposed to be a really rich cut, so hopefully it also lives up to that

expectation.

It's a real good feeling. It's all hands on deck here. You just got to act so

fast because Parker's supposed to be back today.

It's been raining a lot.

So the road got super slick and gross and pothole -y. It definitely slows you

down.

We're going into the fall and conditions are getting pretty brutal.

That along with Mud Mountain and hauling out muddy pay all over the place.

Hey, Mud.

Hey, Mitch. Want a coffee?

Yeah, man, what's going on?

I'm running some pretty sloppy material right now.

And I'm struggling trying to get this pay through the flat.

Yeah, man, I know it's nasty down here. We're getting clogged up. It's making a

mess everywhere.

Well, just hang tight. Give me a minute. I'll do that. Thanks.

Shut it down!

Mud Mountain is fighting back, and Big Red is shut down.

Following heavy rainfall, mud is now slopping down the 60 -foot -high walls

the cut, making the pay dirt on the floor wet.

Parker is due to return any day.

Mitch moves fast to solve the problem with operator Shane Gallop.

We've got it.

fix the problem of the mud oozing out into the cut and I think the only way to

fix this issue is dig some bedrock, get the pay off the sides and then we'll

make a nice berm to catch that mud and then that way as we're digging over on

that side of it it's just going to be nice clean and dry and then this cut

actually calm down and be a lot easier. You can actually move forward instead of

two steps backwards. Exactly.

The sooner we get a wall in here, contain this mud away from the center of

cut, the better off we're going to be.

Stop mud seeping into the cut.

Mitch and Shane will use two 480 excavators to shift the pay from the

edges.

Then, build a barrier to protect the cut from further slopping.

Hello, Mitch.

Block the ramp just up here.

Yeah, Roger that.

lots of things stacked against us here and when it rains well all that mud

a mess and that's what we're dealing with right now just trying to get a

on it oh

yeah we got a problem here right now the bucket should be lowering

and it's not come on baby

What that tells me is we have an issue with our accumulator.

When these go flat, the machine can act really erratic because it doesn't have a

nice, smooth, constant pressure.

So we're going to grab an accumulator and swap it out on this thing and see if

it fixes this problem here.

Mitch's only hope of drying out the clutch and getting Big Red running

Parker returns rides on finding a replacement part in the boneyard.

If this accumulator fixes our problem, this is going to be great. But if it

doesn't fix our problem, we're going to have to dive in deeper.

So what I've got here is the accumulator, and this helps keep your

stabilized. So we're going to spin this guy off here, and we're going to take it

over to the other machine and change it out. Get us back going here.

Surprising the difference that such a small piece can make and something we've

learned over the years. If this isn't right, well, you're going to wish it

Here we go.

Really hoping this fixes all of our problems here.

We will find out.

That's more like it.

We got it.

You know, Mud Mountain's been a struggle from the start, and I am probably more

mentally drained than I am physically here, just trying to keep the train on

track.

And we're done here.

We've taken the bedrock here, we've built this berm, and the whole length of

this, it's holding all this mud back, which is working really well out here.

cut, it's nice and mud -free.

So, probably should have been done a lot sooner, but better late than never.

It has that berm all finished up, which means straps are hauling up much tire

material here for us to slew.

Definitely make things easier up here at Big Red.

What's happening, man?

Slide your back.

This looks good.

We've been busy, man. I bet.

Well, we were able to finish the airstrip while you were away, so that's

done. We got some mud knot and tater going through Big Red.

Good. All right, well, I mean, I'm here. Is there anything I can do to help out?

Well, right now we're supposed to have our night shift here and I got no

operator, so I was going to run back to camp and see if they slept in or where

they're at.

All right, I can hop in until they show up. Now, if you can keep the plant

running, that'd be awesome.

I hope they didn't pull a runner.

Good to see you. You too.

There we go.

It feels good to be back, you know, but it'd be making money because most of our

costs this year are in... Mud Mountain, and we're going to find out if he pays

off.

How you been?

Good, man, good.

Fred Lewis has returned to Dawson City with local operator Buzz Legault to

collect a custom -built gold room, which he's agreed to rent for $10 ,000.

Can I open her up and see what we're looking at?

Yeah. It is that new car smell.

Heck yeah, it's ready to roll.

All right, let's get it done.

Wait, let's get it done.

All right, it's up.

All right, buds, if I say stop, stop immediately, please.

All right, moving.

Here we go.

Crossing under the wires now, you're good.

Do you come three inches, three inches?

Right there.

Right there.

That's it.

That's a little ass, Eddie.

Freaking me out, too.

That's not good.

This thing weighs so much as it pushed down, it's lifting up our trailer hitch.

Fred Lewis is preparing to transport a three and a half ton custom -built gold

room to California Creek.

Looking at this trailer hitch, there's almost no weight on it. I can lift it

with two fingers. I can lift the entire trailer.

So there's a severe imbalance enough that if we're driving and this latch

decides not to work, poof, the gold room's gone.

And if we lose the gold room, we're not getting it back. So we just got to

figure out how we're going to make sure it's secure.

He's had an idea.

What you got?

Take that heavy crack out of the way so we can fly that can up.

To balance the container, Fred and Joel removed the headache rack, a frame

between the cab and the trailer.

Okay, let it come down.

Whoa!

Okay, you're up.

Okay, let me know when to stop.

I think we're good, man.

It's definitely got a tongue weight.

Well, it's up to you guys. Chain it down, and I'll leave you guys to that.

Yep, you got it.

Thanks, Joel.

Thanks, bud. Good luck with it, eh? Yeah, we'll see you soon. Talk to you

Chain,

check, chain, check, chain, check, and chain, check.

If this thing falls off or anything, it's... Not because we didn't put enough

chains on.

You ready?

I'm ready.

All right, let's do this.

I'm going to pucker the whole time.

Fred and Buzz must now cross the Yukon River and drive the finely calibrated

Gold Room over 40 miles up the top of the World Highway to California Creek.

I don't like getting on this little boat with this big truck.

Stay steady.

I'm excited to set this thing up, though, man, because it's going to up

recovery rate by probably 30 or 40 percent. There's old room potential for

stuff.

And this thing is shifted.

We're right here on the edge. If this thing shifts anymore and comes off, the

weight will be balanced really horribly and this thing could tip.

So it's shifted about that much.

Just tighten this one up and keep on going, man.

We're almost there.

Tighten this chain to make sure it's as tight as it can be. So hopefully it

won't shift anymore because it falls off.

So now I guess we're going slower.

Buzz, this truck sounds like a train.

It sounds like it's about to explode.

I'm nervous, man.

Well,

the next part is

that deep down.

Once off the highway.

They have to navigate a two and a half mile dirt trail down to the claim.

Sure it's going to stay on that trailer, right?

Well, it's going to stay on the trailer.

Not sure this trailer is going to stay on the truck.

Oh, you made it.

I made it through the hardest part.

Okay, I'm going to breathe now.

This is fantastic, dude.

We're going to get this thing set up probably tonight. I'll get it set up on

shift. It'll be perfect, dude. I think that we're not going to be losing gold

for one.

It's going to break our cleanup time from 22 hours to about two.

So that's huge.

And it's on now. If there's gold here, it's going through this. It's going to

caught. Yeah.

One more step.

Good job, dude.

I want to make sure that they keep that feeder turned up, because if not, then

we're losing yardage every hour, meaning we're getting less gold every hour.

So let's go and have a peek.

At Paradise Hill, Tony Beast is running gold -rich white sandal pay through his

only working wash plant.

You know what? I don't think there's enough gravel coming out of the back of

that thing.

Kevin, do you copy? Kevin, do you copy?

Kevin, do you copy?

The

feeder

is running 200 yards of pay

an hour. To stay on target, Tony needs at least 350.

running at half power, we only got one trommel going.

This thing is going to have to run flat out 24 hours a day if we're going to

reach our goal.

Because at half speed, that ain't never going to happen.

Hey, Mike. Hey, Des.

The feeder is on six, Kevin said.

So how can we speed that thing up?

Get more pay to the plant.

Yeah, well, that is easy. We've got the trucks, we've got the material.

What's the matter with the way...

I'm going to do it right now. You got a bit of a bottleneck right there to come

up the hill. So what do you want to do about it?

Maybe put another road in?

Where would you want to put that?

Well, you have a hillside right next to it. You can make a road right down that

side. So they can come up that one, dump, and then drive right down the

one. They don't have to do no hard turns. The faster the trucks get here,

faster they can put the brake dirt down.

Good enough.

Put the road in, and then we'll see what we get out of that.

Sounds like fun.

Fix this bottleneck here.

This will solve our problem with trucks not being able to pass.

A bottleneck in the road is slowing down Tony's trucks, preventing them from

delivering pay to the plant quickly and forcing the crew to run the plant at a

slower speed.

Mike's solution?

A new road and a one -way system.

So by making two roads, one where they go up and one where they always go down,

you could have a nice road to settle the bottleneck.

So hopefully that'll help.

get more and more pay to the plant so we can start solucion at a proper speed

mike

has the road all figured out so let's have a look and see what the boys are

doing beautiful

The more we turn up the feeder, the more yardage we're going to run through the

trommel. And that, at the end of the day, equals more gold in the box. So

turn the plan up.

There we go. On 10.

All right, looks like we did a good job.

Trommel should be running on 10.

Rock trucks are not having a bottleneck anymore. It does speed things up. So at

the end of the day, we should really get some more gold on the goldways, you

would think.

Perfect. Good job.

What do you think, Chris?

On Indian River, Mitch has shut down Big Red after its first week running at Mud

Mountain.

We got a little bit of gold here.

Real chunky. We do.

That's looking pretty good, man.

It's doing its job. There is some gold in it.

I say we clean it, see what we got. Yeah, for sure.

Let's get her locked in. We'll fire her back up. All right. It sounds like a

plan, man.

Oh, this looks pretty good.

Right? This is better than what I thought. I thought we were going to get

janky, rickety things.

Come on, babe. Babe, it's you.

At California Creek, Fred shows Kara their new gold room, the system that

save them time and increase their gold recovery.

I dump it in there. Yep. Full on. Full on dumper.

Concentrate from the plant is fed into the hopper.

A vibrating screen deck separates out waste material.

Then the concentrate flows over hydraulic ripples with a pulsating base,

traps the gold.

Now literally all you do, stand here, turn on the centrifuge, watch those

red bars.

All right, so that's pretty much it. So you got it?

Why don't you go ahead and run the rest of that material?

Yeah. Steady feed.

Do what you were taught and you'll be good to go.

Run the rest of that.

All right.

Love you.

Love you.

I'm really excited about the new machine. I think Fred did an awesome job

getting it. This is definitely what we needed.

It's an entire stick I'm going to save every single day.

I couldn't be more thrilled about it.

All right, guys, this is a big week. We had Kara in the gold room this week, so

we'll probably have a little bit more gold than last time.

It looks good.

It looks really good.

You guys ready for some weight?

To reach his season goal of 100 ounces, Fred needs 10 ounces

a week.

One, two, three, four, five, six,

seven.

8, 9, 10, 11!

11 .48!

Worth over $20

,000, almost double their entire season total last year.

I saw a nugget in there.

Yeah, that cool clunk that hit there. I heard it, like right off the bat. Oh,

yeah, look at that. It's 11 .48, so we're getting there. We're getting

We're getting gold consistently now. We're dialing in our operation.

We're getting more efficient as a team.

So I think our gold count is going to keep going up.

All right, guys. We should put this back in there. You came, you saw gold.

Now get back to work. Good job, team.

Moving up either up were good.

Yep. Now later, moving normally out again.

After we cleared up that bottleneck, Mike pointed out. Yep. Get the trucks.

Mike had a good idea, moving the road over. And then you notice that the

excavators take too long to go from cut to cut to cut to cut.

Oh, we have to try the dolly out.

Yeah, that was fun.

That was fun. Well, it's not that we reinvented the wheel, but it sure does

to. How about we weigh all that gold up because I want to see what you did.

To reach his season goal of 4 ,500 ounces, Tony needs 290 ounces a

week. The king of the Klondike is hoping the White Channel pay hot streak

continues.

Let's do it. Let's do the thing.

60, 80, 100, 150, 160, 200, 240.

250, 260, 280, 300.

313 .70.

That's pretty good, huh? Worth over $560 ,000.

It's their highest weekly total so far this season. It's about time we get

something decent.

Must have done something right, right?

Yeah. I mean, things are running good.

Cats are open. So, we'll get there.

Maybe we can reach our season total yet.

As long as we get the same gold out of the ground, we should be doing pretty

nice.

What

up,

what up?

Hey, man.

Howdy. Hey, man. How's it going?

Welcome back, young man.

At Scrivener Creek, it's time to find out if Mud Mountain has finally

But first, the final gold from the good cut on the promised land.

You've been on Sluicifer all week, Ben.

Yes, sir. This is it, T -Bird. You ready?

Here we go, last of the good cut. Hopefully it paid off.

20, 40, 80, 120.

150, 180, 200, 260. Yeah, keep her coming.

300, 310, 317 .4. Very nice.

Worth $570 ,000.

I should leave again.

That's a good run.

That's a really good run, yeah.

Next up, the first Mud Mountain Gold.

You look at all the troubles we've had to get to this point.

All the hours we put on the dozers, everything it took to get all that mud

moved. We got Big Red over there set up. Finally got some pay gravels through

it. Was there any gold in it? Well, here you go. You want to count it? Yeah.

What do we got here?

Parker is hoping that Mud Mountain will deliver 10 ounces per hour of run time.

Five times what he usually gets from his other Indian River cuts.

40. It wasn't very full. 60. I don't like your angle that you're already at.

-oh. 100.

120.

160.

165 .45.

Worth almost $300 ,000.

Well, that's not bad, actually, considering how much bulk we ran.

Yeah. I mean, that's over 2 ounces an hour for the week, but, I mean, is it

times better?

We won't know until we get into the heart of it a little bit. I mean, for an

initial run, not bad. If we didn't have to move 60 feet of mud, it would be

great. Not a bad first cleanup, man.

So hopefully next week it's a little bit better.

Yeah.

Let's hope so.

But actually, we had 482 ounces for the week. That's not bad at all. No.

And for our season total now, it's 4251.

So we're getting there, obviously, behind last season.

Let's not worry about last season. Let's worry about this season and just get

what we can get.

That's a lot of gold we're going to have to find in a short period of time.

Well, it should be at the mountain.

According to drill reports, there should be a ton of gold in there.

Literally a ton.

We're all retiring after this.

All right. Well, we'll do it all again.

Well done, man.

See you, Doug.

Go have some dicks. Thanks,

Dumit. See you, Parker.

Later!