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It's been about pretty damn close to three weeks going hard here in Raleigh

Valley, and I'm thinking I'm insane.

In a bid to enter the mining big leagues and bank 2 ,000 ounces, Rick

Ness is trying a risky new strategy.

I mean, this was a big gamble, shutting down the water plant during prime time.

All I'm doing right now is...

We're spending money. I'm a few hundred thousand dollars deep at this point, and

we haven't been getting any gold the whole time, so it's just money out the

door.

He's digging out 120 feet of worthless overburden, over a million cubic yards,

in the hopes of hitting the best pay dirt he's ever mined.

It's a ton of dirt to move, but I do believe that the payoff underneath is

to be worth it.

The pay lane.

It's estimated to be 70 feet thick and the size of two football fields.

We've been hauling massive amounts of dirt out of Raleigh Valley night

shift, day shift, basically 24 -7, I guess you would say.

They're down 90 feet and should hit pay after removing the next 30 feet of mud.

By the end of this week, we might be there.

All we've got to do is get Monster Red running, and we can push that thing to

only 300 yards an hour. And we're going to need that because this now is a ton

of dirt to wash.

We are going to turn that wash plant on, and we are not going to cut it off

because we've got to get a lot of materials polluted if we're going to hit

,000 ounces.

If this doesn't work out, I mean, we're going to make nothing.

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.

I'm into something that seems to have awfully big rock in it.

It's not something that I was expecting, not yet. I mean, this seems kind of

more like a boulder layer, like something I would expect at the bottom.

Weird.

Yeah, guys, before I load any more of this out, just chill out for a while.

Do we have time to mess around right now?

I don't know what the hell this is.

It's worth looking at, though.

If I'm being honest, it looks like a pale air to me. This is what we've been

looking for all season in the other areas.

I mean, this looks like this was laid in here by some kind of water event.

Generally, big boulders around here mean pale air, I mean gold.

but it's definitely not where it's supposed to be, not according to the

results and not according to all the data I have.

We're working our way down, and now we've got a mystery here.

But I can't ignore it.

I'm just going to have to test it off the pan or something.

I mean, if there's gold in it, what am I going to do with it? I don't have

Monster Red set up. I don't have...

Anything's set up, and I don't know how much gold there is. Whatever.

I'm just going to test it. Then I'll know.

This is classic Duncan Creek.

Constant curveballs.

This could be enough.

Yeah, this is actually like a really heavy pan. It seems like there's going

be a lot of heavy minerals in here where there's heavy black sand and magnetite

and hematite and stuff like that. It's usually gold.

There's got to be 25, 30 colors in here.

That's probably the best pan I've ever done in my life.

I was not expecting that. That's a lot of gold in a pan, so that changes

everything.

Rick had hit pay dirt 30 feet earlier than he expected.

We've got to run it and get the gold out, but it's not that simple.

I mean, I don't have a wash plant anywhere near here that's set up ready

It's not prepared for it.

I'm going to have to come up with some kind of plan.

I need everybody to stop what they're doing. Let's just meet up and have a

pow -wow.

Stopping in trucks for what?

Honestly, guys, I think we got down to pay here. You notice those boulders

popping out, right?

So I took a pan out of there and...

Probably the best pan I've ever done ever.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, like there was a ton of colors in it.

I did not expect that. That changes things.

Yeah, buddy, I like that a lot. Well, at least we're going in the right

direction then.

It's tough, though. I don't always trust pans. Yeah.

So to be fair, I want to pull 1 ,000 yards out of there and want to run it.

We're just going to run it through Rocky.

Wash plant Monster Red is still in pieces.

Rick must haul the pay dirt to his smaller wash plant, Rocky.

at the other end of the claim.

That's really far up. Might as well run to Milwaukee with it.

I took the side -by -side, and I set the odometer, and if we went around, it's

actually just over 2 1⁄2 miles. Oh, wow.

But, but, we can just push across this valley right here, and that's a mile.

So that's a big difference. Yeah. There's a gap between that cut and the

Rockies. Yeah.

Cuts it way more than half.

To run the pay as fast as possible, Rick plans to build a bridge across the

valley and a new road to haul painter a mile south to wash plant Rocky.

How long do you think it will take to build that? It's pretty deep. It is

deep, but we've got all that material parked right there. If we just start by

pushing it with a dozer and filling the rest with the trucks, we just all get

after it. I bet we can get it finished this afternoon.

Let's get on with it. It's not going to build itself.

Anyway, let's do it then.

I don't understand why it's here. We're still

way too high up to be hitting the tail air.

But this, we can't throw it away.

And we just have to work a little harder and a little faster.

I'm not really impressed with what's happening. We're only halfway on that 4

,500 -ounce goal.

Tony Beast is battling to hit his season goal and keep his operation afloat.

This year I had $5 million in the hole, and I'd sure like to hit that target to

come out even this year.

Two -thirds of the way through the season, he has 2 ,500 ounces, just over

what he needs.

Right now we're battling the weather. If the rain's here on the Paradise Hill,

it's very hard to move this pay.

Tony's loosing gold -rich pay from the wall cut through his only running wash

plant, Mike's Trommel.

But heavy rain is flooding the cut and soaking the pay.

If we can get it in the truck and we can get it to the feeder, that's about it.

We are pretty much trying to move wet cement around. That's how bad it gets

there.

It's hard to get in and out of the cuts because it's so slippery.

It costs a lot of time, and so it costs Tony a lot of money.

It's pissing rain again, so give it a couple hours and everything will be a

-pole again.

That's what we've got to deal with. It plumbs in for all. Take a little bit.

So all the water stays on one side.

And unless you drain most of the cuts, we're going to pump all the water out.

And we've got to put a proper drain in the cuts so we can actually get our pay

out of here.

We're dealing with this really stupid, muddy stuff, which needs to be quite

carefully put through the plants.

The wet pay.

It's slowing down the plant.

Unfortunately, it has to run on a very slow feed, which drives me crazy. I just

want to turn this thing up and swing dirt into her.

And it also needs a little bit more time to be washed in the trommel so that we

actually separate the gold from this muddy clay material and it doesn't just

washed out right out the back end.

Kirby, how's it going through today?

Going slow, Kevin.

There better be some good gold in it.

Let's have a look -see today.

Hey,

Cody, we're going to have to cut out.

That kind of sucked.

Well, that worked absolutely like... I tried to get one, but you can't keep up.

You can't. No, not with this. Okay.

Tony Beach mining operation has come to a halt.

A buildup of wet pay in the hopper feeder has forced them to shut down the

plant.

Now the stuff we're putting through is real dewy and all the stuff was flopping

up over the back and piling up real like, like this pile has got that high

about six hours.

So let's get some folks in here with some shovels.

Hey, Tony, this stuff is really gooey. We got a lot of overspill. I had to shut

it down.

There's no time for this.

When you get this piece back up and running, fire it back up so we can run

Because it is nasty crap, okay?

Yeah. Oh, yeah, we don't really have much other option other than jumping

You can get real fancy right here, but you know what?

We can just stop.

Double it.

With all this dirt falling on the tail pulley, it's going to get buried. That

applies weight and pressure, which will slow the belt down, which will cause it

to pile up, which will cause us even more shoveling.

So when the material drops onto the conveyor belt, because this material is

wet and soupy, it's actually just sliding right off the back of the

piling up on our tail pulleys. Come on.

Every minute that this plant's down, we're losing like $25 a minute.

That is pretty good right there, honestly.

Now we've got everything shut out.

Hopefully it doesn't pile up like that again.

We got it.

Okay, now we put our chain across.

That feels good. All right, let's fire up and we'll get you boys back on your

truck.

And go.

After three hours, Tony is back on the gold.

On to the next couple holes.

The most important goal I have is to give my team a future.

40 miles west of Dawson City at California Creek, Fred Lewis is

turn his band of combat veterans into a successful mining operation.

We've been supposed to in a few weeks, but we're falling short.

In order to cover the cost for this season, we need to get a minimum of 100

ounces. So far this season, Fred's hauled in just 40 ounces.

We don't have a lot of time left in the season.

We're going to have to figure something out to up our efficiency and get to that

goal.

You know, we have a lot to do in a very little bit of time, but, you know,

that's what we do. We made a living out of doing the impossible.

It's a little bit of hard work, but that's what I came here to do.

Fred has set down the wash plant to inspect the gold -catching sluice runs.

I like the looks of it.

Looks like it's building up too much.

Only one way to know.

Right now I'm looking at my tailings because the sluice just doesn't look

it's packing right.

I'm seeing gold in this sluice, which is bad. If I'm seeing gold that's being

shot out into my tailings pond, that means we're losing gold.

So we've either got to have to fix our feed rate or do something about these

sluices.

It's too much.

That's not good.

We're losing balls.

Really?

It's not catching material the right way. It goes from two feet to four feet.

Blam! There's a lot of force coming out and distributed over a very short

distance. Right now, we need something to take this material gradually. So I'm

feeling like...

a sluice ahead, feeding into these. Oh, we need to add legs.

I want to talk to Buzz about it, see if he feels the same way. Buzz!

Fred brings in Buzz Blago, an experienced Yukon miner.

I don't know as much about welding as you do, but do you think if we add six

feet onto this, you and JB could put something together?

Prefab everything? Yeah. Get it all set up?

Let's get things all cleaned up. Pull these pieces off. That'll be a couple

hours, right?

I think that's what we have to do. I love it.

With his four -foot sluices, Fred's losing gold that's blowing out into

the tailings.

By adding a six -foot extension, the extra riffles could catch all the gold

stop it being lost out the end of the sluices.

It'll be a major game -changer.

for this entire season.

We'll be able to do more yardage, better recovery.

Buzz brought in some sluice box pieces down. We're going to modify them to go

into our current sluice boxes.

These are just pieces of it for now.

Buzz has them at his house.

He has everything known to mankind at his house.

So we're going to cut that in half.

We're going to add 60 on each side.

Adding 36 square foot for the gold to basically travel down and get separated

from the tailing. So that's just more opportunity for it to get trapped and

as opposed to getting washed out.

It's time to unhook the old one and then re -hook the new one.

Everything we're working on is heavy and...

Not easy to move.

All right, Fred.

We are ready.

Right there.

Looking good, guys.

Yeah, we just got her finished up.

Man. So this is like an extra two that should double our yardage.

More than doubling the length of the sluice box should not only fix the gold

loss, but also allow them to run more pay dirt.

So six feet added on to this could put us close to 85 yards an hour.

I want to get this thing fired up and tested.

Yeah, I like it.

Now it's going to come through here and distribute.

The best part we know is the ripples are working.

We want to see these ripples, a little bit of bumps on them. We don't want to

see a flow across with no bumps. We see bumps, we're seeing the right kind of

flow. Okay.

Yeah, it looks great.

Oh, I love it. It's feeding perfect right down it.

All right, I'm going to start feeding.

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

I think it's a good system.

Good job,

guys. Thanks.

Those expenses on that should double the amount of pay we can put through that

plant and stop losing gold. It's something we absolutely had to do.

When it rains there, especially the way it's been raining in some of these cuts,

the material gets so greasy that we're pretty much out of luck.

Torrential rain has turned Tony Beatt's wall cut into a quagmire.

Now Tony is digging a ditch to drain excess water and dry out the wet pager.

Not much use if the material runs out of the back of the truck.

We got to have material that's least you can handle. You can't all tip to the

blue box.

So it's going to have to be half -past dry in order for us to bring it to the

plant.

Anyway, I got that drained a bit. We won't be in there for a week easy.

Got a half a million dollars down the tooth this week.

Tony will have to wait a week for the cut to dry out before he can run the pay

dirt.

And the stockpiled pay at the trommel has now run out.

Okay, Kevin, Kevin, do you copy?

Yes, Kevin, this stuff is turning this way there.

There's no use even trying to run it. So let's shut it down. Yeah, shut it down,

okay? Copy that, copy that.

Every hour the trommel is down costs Tony $1 ,500 in lost gold production.

Hey, Kevin, that all?

Cutler's full of water. That's just a mess.

Oh, it's a... Yeah, mess.

We're running out of time in the season as is, and we don't have time to wait

for pay to dry.

We've got to do something.

But that's going to take a couple of days to dry out.

At Paradise Hill, Tony Beats is battling the floods.

Hey, Kevin, we have still a little piggy bank sitting up high and dry.

Up on top of the hill there, there is a whole slice. That means sitting there

now for a couple of years.

I know you remember it, but it was quite a bit of pain. So let's at least bring

that to the box so we can get a little bit of gold out while we're waiting.

That sounds like a plan.

For years.

The king of the Klondike has been stashing away smaller pay piles for a

day.

Now, he wants to tap into one that sits in between the wall and nugget cuts.

But there's no way to get to it.

Are we going to get in there? Do we have to build a road or what?

Well, bring a D -11 in, whatever it takes to get in there.

If we've got to bring in tailings, we bring in tailings. If we bring a D -11,

bring a D -11.

Whatever it takes, let's get the...

We have pay just back here that we need to get to. So we're building a road over

top of all this because with all the weather we've been having, all the rain

stuff, it's been making everything just slop.

To get to the stockpile of dry pay on top of the hill, Tony must build a half

-mile haul road using mud capped with coarse tailings to provide a solid way

in for his fleet of rock trucks.

I mean, just how it goes down there on the hill over the range, it kind of...

Can you hear me?

Yeah, I can hear you.

So, how's the day going?

Boring. Very, very boring.

How's the day going?

It's slow, you know, going in circles.

So, is today a podcast day? Is it a music day? Is it an audiobook day?

It's a podcast day. Podcast.

Great, great. I love it. I love it.

Yeah, what are you listening to?

My sad, sad thoughts.

in front of the dozer. Keep her coming.

Good. Dump her.

Try the truck. Come downhill. Come downhill.

Stay on the left side of the pile. Stay on the left side of the pile.

We have to lay roads in. If you lose a highway, stay down there.

Just by building roads so you can get into these trucks.

Ladies and gentlemen, I think that is just about it.

Anyways, it'll be a couple days of twisting in here. Let's get it out of

while we can.

Run to Trumbull and make a couple of bucks.

It's always good to leave piggy banks here and there.

You may never know when you need it.

I have them everywhere.

It was always nice.

They have a couple of spots that you can go through and get a quick buck.

Okay, fire up. Copy that. Copy that.

I am currently about to feed plants with the first bucket from...

piggy bank that tony has sent me and it's very exciting because it's very

dirt it's dry it's not too and it actually goes where i want it so you

off the hopper rain brings everybody down so

i think we're all much happier that the plant's up and running and we can

actually be sleuthing let's get some gold in the box

This valley has been separated by this drain here.

We're building a bridge so we can get that pain down to Rocky.

In Raleigh Valley, Rick and his crew have paused stripping to build a short

to his wash plant, Rocky.

We're just about done here, so we should be able to put it to the test.

But this is going to slow us to get down to where we're actually trying to go.

To test run an unexpected layer of bonus dirt.

I wasn't prepared for there to be a pay layer in the middle of all this

tripping, but might as well lose it and see what's there.

The whole idea with Rally Valley here is to get Monster Red up and running by

the time that we reach the pay layer on the bottom. But Monster Red's not ready,

and we are not at the bottom, but we are already at a pay layer.

I panned it. It seems pretty good, but I want to run a test on it on our little

plant.

If I could get 1 ,000 yards along the mile track of that plant, and we run it,

they test it, I think that there might be gold in this layer, but the only way

we're going to know is if we run it through the plant and see what we got.

I'm going to finish this bridge, we're going to haul it up, we're going to run

it, and hopefully we're going to find a lot of gold.

I'm super excited to see what this holds in store.

I never really expected it to be an event, folks, and it's definitely got

moments. This is great.

But did you expect smoke on your butt's hole?

No, I never ever once thought I'd ever get that.

Kind of a bonus for you then, huh, bud?

Oh, you betcha.

Well, you've been hauling ass, bro.

Hauling ass.

Then we're going to haul ass on getting some pay to the plant, and then we're

going to haul ass on running it, and then we're going to haul ass on cleaning

up and seeing if it's worth it.

And just to clarify, we're going to full ass the hauling ass, not half ass the

hauling ass.

We don't have half anything.

What do you say there, guys? That's the last load? I think we're ready to rock

and roll. I think this row's done.

Now, to the 1 ,000 -yard tag.

Kruze and Nathan haul the pay across the new bridge and then a mile to the wash

plan.

We're going to run it all today.

If we run 1 ,000 yards, if there's at least 10 ounces in it, then that's going

to tell me that it's worth running.

We should be looking at stretching the ridge here.

Okay, you guys ready to fire this thing up?

All right, let's do it.

We're loading the plan with the excavator. The bucket on it's about a

dirt. He's dumping in it with every bucket.

He's doing about 100 buckets an hour.

10 hours, we could have our 1 ,000 yards run.

I'm nervous, honestly, because if this works out, that's more of an opportunity

to get more gold this year.

But if it's not, then it's just a waste of time, and time's not on our side

right now.

10 hours and 1 ,000 yards of dirt later.

Rick calls time on the test.

Two pickers in there.

Man, it's tough to say. I hate guessing.

You know, there's chunky gold in there. There's fine gold.

There's gold in it, so it was the right decision to run this.

Get it out of the box, get it across the table, see what we got.

The test cleanup is done.

I'm dying to see the results.

It cost me a day of tripping, but you know what? If the gold is good, I'm

to want to run it.

But I don't have Monster Red set up.

At Duncan Creek, it's time to see if Rick's decision to halt tripping and run

1 ,000 -yard test has paid off.

Hey, Heather.

Hello.

Got to wait up.

You're going to weigh it up.

Oh, yeah. You got cleaned up.

I don't weigh it. That's your job. Yeah.

Oh, it feels kind of heavy.

Ah, boy.

This is a unique problem here.

A unique problem for a gold miner to have, finding bonus gold.

Yeah.

Wow, is it enough gold? That's the problem.

I know it sounds, but it sounds silly.

What a terrible problem for a gold miner. I know.

Man, that's going to be so close.

It looks good.

Yeah. For 1 ,000 yards.

Looked pretty close to what we've been doing.

To be worth running, the test must deliver at least 10 ounces.

Oh, wait.

It's over 14.

14 .02 ounces.

That's shy of an ounce and a half per 100 yards. I mean, that's just as good

anything we've run this year.

Yeah, it's better than it should have been and what was supposed to be

overburdened.

So what are you going to do?

I don't know what I'm going to do.

Well, we can't throw it away.

No. Obviously.

But I don't see, I don't know how we're going to run it. I don't know how we're

going to run it at all.

Well, I've got a lot of decisions to make. So thanks, Heather.

You're welcome.

Well, I've had worse problems. I mean, I am holding a pan of gold.

But at the same time, you know, this ground's good, but I know what we're

for at the bottom is better.

You know, probably twice as good.

If Rick decides to run this good pay dirt now, without Monster Red, he risks

running out of time to reach the super -rich pay layer at the bottom of Rally

Valley.

So... I can't throw us away.

I'm not set up to run it. I don't have the time to run it. I don't have the

people to run it. I don't have everything.

I got a lot to figure out right now.

Right now the pressure is on. We're firing on all cylinders.

We need 100 ounces.

At California Creek.

Fred's digging pay dirt in the far end of the cut. The better we get at this

equipment, the faster we're able to move, the faster we're able to put pay

into the plant, the more gold we're going to go home with. So, efficiency,

efficiency, efficiency.

Longer sluices on his wash plant mean he's supercharged his operation to run

yards an hour.

It's all about being successful and about being efficient.

Right now, the name of the game is get all the pay.

Scout sniper Stuart feeds the hopper. I do think the military, what it provided

for us, was the means to not quit.

I definitely miss home. I miss my family immensely.

But right now, this is where I need to lead to secure our future.

And Green Beret Rick is on double duty clearing tailings.

Yeah, I'm jumping from the rock truck to V -O and doing a self -load.

And then turn around and drive the truck back up, dump it, come back down.

That plant can take a lot of pay.

And we have been busting our ass to stay up with it.

I'm jumping out now and getting in the truck and head back around.

If we ever did make it rich off gold mining, then we definitely put our dues

This season...

Has been one of the most mentally tough things I've had to do in a very, very

long time.

I got a problem with the plant.

Oh. Run, old man, run.

Okay, I'm cutting you down.

Boy, I can see it from here.

Haley, this got built up too far.

Caused the extra weight in the flutes run.

and caused it to collapse.

I was feeding. I thought that everything was, like, on point.

I had no idea that that was like that.

The new sluices are putting more material into the pond now, and just add

I couldn't get it out of there fast enough, and it was nothing but just

to sustain with me driving the rock truck also.

Running twice the pay dirt has doubled the material flowing through the sluice

runs. causing the fine tailings to quickly back up and break the box off

plant.

After it fell, water kept flowing, and any gold just right out the chute it

goes. Yesterday, all along that ridge right here where this gap is now before

fell, there was just a line of gold in there. Yeah, it was beautiful.

We could have easily lost four or five ounces.

we can get down in there and recover.

I know I'm not 100 % lost, but, yeah, a good percentage is gone.

If Fred came down here and saw this, he would be pissed.

Tensions are high right now. It just sucks to be out here, to have, you know,

the final stretch of the season, and then something like this happen.

I don't know. Had I seen it, I definitely would have adjusted.

I'm going to try to get a hold of Fred to let him know what's going on.

Fred, this is Chris. Go ahead.

Something happened down at the mine site.

Rick and Stuart were eating the plant, and the sluice box basically just fell

down.

The person who was on tailings wasn't cleaning up, and the person who was

didn't know that there wasn't someone down there cleaning up, so the small

tailings, they were backing up into the sluice boxes, and there was just so much

weight on the sluice box.

that the loose box fell down.

So you're telling me the wash plant's currently not in operation?

Yeah, we did lose a bunch of gold.

I don't have time to be over there right now. I'm pulling pay.

Freaking Bush Lake. Make sure they clean up everything that was spilt.

Repurpose it, put it back in the pile, and fix everything they broke.

Got it? Right on that.

You know, I totally get it. These guys are tired.

Mistakes will happen, but...

That sluice box breaking was a major malfunction in communication on our

have a lot of standards for my misfits.

We need to be better than that. That one mistake cost us $10 ,000. Easy.

I'll take full responsibility for this. I'm the most senior person on the crew

with the most experience as I was working, so it's kind of on me.

And this was a big deal, you know what I mean? Like, you know, in other

operations that they're pulling 100, 200 ounces, you know, a clean out, this

would just be, you know, pennies to them. But to us, it's not.

JB and Buzz re -hang the boot box.

Oh, yeah, that looks good.

And Rick and Stuart scoop up the tailings, which are now full of the gold

lost.

We're pulling the fine tailings from the tailings pond and recovering them, and

we'll run them back through later on.

I've got to let my guys fix their own mistakes.

I'm not here to micromanage. I'm not here to baby anyone.

I'm here to make miners out of these guys, and when you make a mistake,

got to fix it yourself.

Four hours later, they're ready to fire up the wash plant again.

I hope this is a lesson to understand how much we have to pay attention to.

All right, well, we'll adjust fire as a team. We'll come together. We'll have a

meeting. We'll make sure everybody understands when you're up there.

Talking to that guy.

And talking to that guy. Yep.

I think right now you guys just keep it running, and we won't make that mistake

ever again. Yep. Feed the beast, man. Feed the beast.

Good job.

Got to put her high vids on. She's on the claim officially, so safety first.

At California Creek, Fred Lewis is training the newest member of the

crew. Is she smelling for gold?

Where's the gold?

Where is it?

Shoeshine, I want you to bark for the positive one.

Which one's positive?

Come on, Shoeshine. I just taught you this.

Is it red?

Just tell me. How proud are you of yourself?

How proud are you of yourself? You know what negative and positive is.

Shoeshine, you going to run the loader? No.

The dozer?

Excavator. All right, Shoeshine, let's go.

You know, Shoeshine's 12.

You say you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Mine's driving an excavator.

Good girl.

Where are you going? Take a nap?

All right. I'll be over here working.

Rick Ness is facing a tough call.

Run the new pay dirt through his 100 -yard -an -hour wash plant, Rocky, or

until he can run it through Monster Red.

Hey, buddy. Three times faster.

Is Brendan here? Oh, yeah, there he is. Oh, yeah. Good.

Back when we wait.

Hey, buddy.

How's it going? Nice to see you.

So I'm sure you guys are probably wondering how it went.

Yeah, what is it? Well, yeah, what is it? 14 ounces out of 1 ,000 yards.

That's 1 .4 for hundo. That is.

That's north of what we look for to run. So are we going to run that then?

Actually, we're not.

That sucks.

That's better than what we've been running all year, though. I know.

And we haven't been sluicing for how long?

A few weeks.

Does it still make sense to run it right now?

No one wants to run that dirt through the plant more than I do, but you know

what I mean? I have to get Monster Reds running.

And it's going to slow us down if we run it. And we're just going to stockpile

it. Okay.

There's going to be more gold in the box if we stick to the original plan. Yeah.

But what we're going after is down below, right? And that's better. I know

is. We got, what, 25, 30 more feet to go?

Yeah, a couple of lifts. Yeah.

Get it.

Yeah, it actually feels like we're getting close, though. I know.

Let's just keep going, man. We're still close.

Right? Yep.

Yep, down to the bottom.

Well, we still got a long ways to go, so we should get at it.

Yeah, get the night crew. Let's go. It's not going to move itself.

All right, guys. I think this was definitely a learning week for us.

After a week of operator errors and shutdowns, the misfits are ready to

the gold.

Wash plant went down, we lost our sluices.

I believe this goal wave is going to reflect that.

But I feel like the way you guys came around that was absolutely awesome.

By the time I came, you guys had it fixed.

And I think we know now we've got to watch those sluices, we've got to watch

that tailings pile, and it will actually help us work better as a team.

To hit their target of 100 ounces, Fred's team needs a weekly average of

10 ounces of gold.

All right, Rick, you want to call this one out?

Okay.

All right, guys.

You ready?

One, two, three, four, five.

Come on.

Six.

Six. Six.

6 .2.

On the dot.

Worth nearly $11 ,000, but way below what they need to reach their goal.

So, guys, that, I mean, if you look at this, you can tell there aren't a lot of

heavies in here.

It's mostly fines. There's some chunks.

This represents what we caught.

I think what we lost is about three to four ounces.

I wouldn't say this is a representation of our ground at all. Right. This is

just the area we made.

Right. So...

I don't want to cry about it because I still see gold in the pan, and I still

see us mining, and we're doing pretty well. So we just need to not make those

mistakes again, obviously. And we now know that there are consequences to our

mistakes. Yeah.

Pretty big one.

It is what it is. We're going to make mistakes.

We're new. We're learning, and we don't know that watch plant, but I think we're

fighting it.

We'll make it up. Yep. Yep. I feel like we'll make it up.

Definitely. Good to know that I can rely on you guys to fix problems when I'm

not there. Kind of a test.

And you guys passed, so I really appreciate that. So you guys are killing

Be proud of that. On that note, back to work, guys.

You know, right now I've got mixed emotions. I'm not happy about the amount

gold we got, but I am ecstatic about the team. We lost gold, yes.

We could have lost a hell of a lot more.

They're proving themselves as a team, they're proving they're learning, and

they're proving they have massive potential to be gold miners.

And Fred's, you know, he's being a leader right now, and he understands

just no point in beating, you know, a dead horse or whipping us even more.

already pretty down on ourselves for it.

So we've got to get moving.

We've got to get moving.

We'll pay through the plant.

Otherwise, you know, this is all for nothing.

I'll take the lock and move forward, and we'll fix our... And we won't let it

happen again.

Hi, guys.

Hey. Hi, family. How are you?

Hope you got more than none.

By the way, there's more.

Don't scare me, will you?

So, how was this week, guys?

What do you ask me?

This week was so weak, Mike?

No, with the paint being so wet and you can't cover through there.

It's kind of done with the rain. How long were we down for?

What, two, three days?

That sounds about right, yeah.

We spend most of our time building roads trying to get into the bay. At least we

get some gold out of the ground, but that weather is slowing us down like you

wouldn't believe.

Yep. Anyway, that's all piggy bank gold. And seeing as we did get some gold,

maybe somebody wants the weight.

Sure, as long as I don't have to count.

Oh,

come on.

You were slow this morning.

It's fine.

It's fine.

To stay on track.

For his 4 ,500 -ounce goal, Tony needs his piggy bank to deliver 237

ounces of gold.

Ready? Yeah.

40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 110, 120,

130, 140, 160.

170, 190, 200.

204 .72.

Worth almost $370 ,000.

That's pretty good for us being shut down for a couple of days.

That's not too bad for the time we've been down.

That goes to show it's worth trying to get that weight through.

Really, it's still okay.

As we get into the season, it just seems like it's a lot harder to get it out.

Hi. Oh, you know, when I was 12, you know, it was worth it. Well, there you

Still features in the game, no question. Hi.

This brings Tony's seasoned gold total to 2 ,663 ounces.

It's only a month and a half left, and we've been getting fairly decent gold

lately. So I think, yeah, the 4 ,500, it should be doable.

Starting to look good. Hi. Yeah.

You agree?

Yeah.

Glad you do.