1 00:00:25,930 --> 00:00:32,229 When Tony Beach was denied a water license for his Indian River operation, 2 00:00:32,229 --> 00:00:35,210 had to abandon his goal of a 9 ,000 ounce season. 3 00:00:35,690 --> 00:00:38,470 But he's refusing to throw in the towel completely. 4 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,820 We had some decent prey coming out of the 80 -pop. Oh, he was leaving anything 5 00:00:48,820 --> 00:00:49,820 behind. 6 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:56,460 His first move was to open the 80 -pop cut to Paradise Hill, where he's hoping 7 00:00:56,460 --> 00:01:01,180 to grind out more than 1 ,000 ounces in just four weeks. 8 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:08,720 Mike's got to keep that plan set, you know, 24 hours a day. 9 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,560 That takes an awful lot of material. 10 00:01:12,650 --> 00:01:15,790 3 ,000, 7 ,000, 8 ,000 yards a day through this thing. 11 00:01:16,330 --> 00:01:19,090 So that's pretty much a full -time job. 12 00:01:20,790 --> 00:01:22,250 They directed a team. 13 00:01:22,750 --> 00:01:24,870 They rather pull up the socks a little bit. 14 00:01:26,370 --> 00:01:30,210 Because otherwise, we're just quite simply won't be able to find enough 15 00:01:30,210 --> 00:01:31,210 to keep on going. 16 00:01:33,930 --> 00:01:37,590 It's very important that we get all of this out of here now while we still can. 17 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:44,600 Hopefully we can sleeve the gold mining dogs and it'll just be good to us. We 18 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,720 can just get this material run through without any major problems. 19 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,640 Operator Brendan Carr has just been promoted to feeding the plant. 20 00:01:56,780 --> 00:02:02,300 This is my second season up here in the Yukon. 21 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,180 It is hard being. 22 00:02:06,190 --> 00:02:08,030 across the country from your family. 23 00:02:09,669 --> 00:02:12,750 But you gotta do what you gotta do to get by. 24 00:02:15,690 --> 00:02:17,430 Tony's an awesome boss. 25 00:02:17,830 --> 00:02:20,630 Put it this way, if you like it, you're treated awesome. 26 00:02:21,830 --> 00:02:24,350 As long as you don't do no stupid mistake. 27 00:02:53,420 --> 00:02:54,420 Tony, you got a copy, Tony? 28 00:02:54,940 --> 00:02:55,940 Yeah, 29 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,300 we got a pretty big hole in the punch plate of the trommel. 30 00:03:03,220 --> 00:03:08,440 The trommel sips out rock and sends gold -rich material into a distributor, 31 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:14,540 where six suits feed it evenly into the sleuth rooms. 32 00:03:16,060 --> 00:03:22,120 But a hole in the punch plate is letting rocks fall into the chutes, disrupting 33 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,120 the water flow. 34 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,640 and causing gold to flow out of the spaces. 35 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,140 You can put every truck in the yard here. Yeah. 36 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,120 Use one for something. 37 00:03:37,860 --> 00:03:40,060 Can't do much about it. We have to cut it down. 38 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,960 And as much as I don't want to lose anywhere up to eight shifts, there's 39 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,400 we can do about it. We have to fix it because otherwise we're going to end up 40 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:48,400 having more downtime. 41 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,600 Kevin is on the frozen pipe detail, so he has no time. 42 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:02,040 So I think we're going to put some pressure on Brandon, and we'll see if 43 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:07,060 can fix it. Last year, it took four days to fix the punch plate. 44 00:04:07,780 --> 00:04:13,440 But with the poor start to his season, Tony wants Brandon to get it done in 45 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:14,440 that time. 46 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,060 Make sure it's the way you cut them that are easier to put back. Yep, that's all 47 00:04:24,060 --> 00:04:25,060 we got to do. 48 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,800 First, Brandon had to remove the worn out 2 ,300 pound punch plate. 49 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:52,020 and replace it with fixed eight -foot sections. 50 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,700 Then weld the sections together and fix them to the trommel. 51 00:05:06,980 --> 00:05:08,940 Can you whack it here from up there? 52 00:05:09,180 --> 00:05:13,880 Yep. That's a lot of time down, a lot of ground that we could just loosen, 53 00:05:14,060 --> 00:05:15,060 but... Victory! 54 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,120 We're going to try and get it done a little quicker than four days up here. 55 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:22,660 Just one more lap. 56 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,960 Just jammed in there. 57 00:05:46,340 --> 00:05:48,340 Is this boom extended all the way? 58 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,200 I think so. 59 00:05:51,470 --> 00:05:53,390 Can you grab it? See if you can get it by? 60 00:05:57,350 --> 00:05:58,350 Yeah. 61 00:05:59,830 --> 00:06:06,790 By the end of the day, Brandon has removed 62 00:06:06,790 --> 00:06:07,790 the damaged plate. 63 00:06:09,410 --> 00:06:15,590 Six hours into the fix, Tony's already down more than $10 ,000 in lost gold. 64 00:06:20,650 --> 00:06:24,330 When you're down, I mean, you're still spending, you're not making, so it 65 00:06:24,330 --> 00:06:25,470 much goes double up. 66 00:06:26,790 --> 00:06:27,930 It adds up quickly. 67 00:06:40,810 --> 00:06:43,770 The plant is finally up and running. We are sleuthing. 68 00:06:44,850 --> 00:06:45,850 We're gold miners. 69 00:06:46,230 --> 00:06:48,890 I don't feel like we're greenhorns anymore. 70 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:57,080 At California Creek, in the remote Yukon wilderness, Special Forces medic and 71 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:01,300 second -year mine boss, Fred Lewis, is finally watching rock. 72 00:07:04,940 --> 00:07:08,840 Coming into the season, we had big high hopes, but I've got to tell these guys 73 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:11,240 that this season is going to be different than the last season. 74 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,120 You know, it's a little nerve -wracking, that being virgin ground. The ground is 75 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:17,140 good. I've tested it. 76 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:25,080 The test holes Fred dug at the start of the season contains just under two 77 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,080 ounces of gold. 78 00:07:26,660 --> 00:07:32,300 It means this 92 -acre claim, far away from the easier ground in the Klondike, 79 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,360 could hold over 2 ,000 ounces. 80 00:07:37,860 --> 00:07:42,660 This is the week Fred has to prove he has what it takes to find it. 81 00:07:43,260 --> 00:07:47,260 At this point, I've got to give these guys a purpose, and so on, that I can be 82 00:07:47,260 --> 00:07:48,640 the guy to turn them into gold miners. 83 00:08:02,620 --> 00:08:08,300 I'm extremely tired right now. I've been working probably 35 days straight now, 84 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,080 and we could still potentially go home empty -handed. 85 00:08:15,940 --> 00:08:20,900 Rookie Miner and Special Forces Sergeant Rick Douglas joined the team three 86 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:24,700 weeks ago, and he's already starting to run low on patience. 87 00:08:28,060 --> 00:08:31,620 Were there some frustrations as far as not having the plant here? 88 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:33,240 Absolutely. 89 00:08:34,020 --> 00:08:37,299 Because that's what we came here to do and we weren't doing it. 90 00:08:38,780 --> 00:08:41,960 But the good news is the plant is running. 91 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,700 We honestly believe we can still have a good year. 92 00:08:47,420 --> 00:08:49,440 as long as we keep running. 93 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:58,080 This is definitely learning process for me, and most everybody. 94 00:08:58,460 --> 00:09:04,020 We all have that military background, and we're all used to going wrong on us. 95 00:09:05,260 --> 00:09:12,000 Like that rock that looked like a smaller rock, and now it's a 96 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,900 huge frickin' rock stuck in the damn top. 97 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,300 Will you jump over and shut the water off? I just had a huge rock drop down in 98 00:09:22,300 --> 00:09:23,219 the hopper. 99 00:09:23,220 --> 00:09:24,220 Roger. 100 00:09:27,060 --> 00:09:31,500 Fred spent his last $25 ,000 fixing up this rented wash plant. 101 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:38,660 A boulder this size could destroy it and end Fred's season before it's even 102 00:09:38,660 --> 00:09:39,660 begun. 103 00:09:50,510 --> 00:09:52,830 We had to shut down. We had a big rock kind of go into the hopper. 104 00:09:55,350 --> 00:09:56,910 Okay. Emergency shut off. 105 00:09:57,110 --> 00:09:59,530 Every minute this plants down, it doesn't do us any good. 106 00:10:01,530 --> 00:10:04,870 As I say, we don't get discouraged, but we'll just fix the problem, get back up 107 00:10:04,870 --> 00:10:05,429 and running. 108 00:10:05,430 --> 00:10:06,990 Yeah. Do what we got to do. 109 00:10:07,230 --> 00:10:08,790 Let's do it. Time is money. 110 00:10:11,450 --> 00:10:14,170 So I'm going to end up hooking a chain up to it. 111 00:10:15,010 --> 00:10:19,250 Use the 220 to lift it up and put it down so that... 112 00:10:19,550 --> 00:10:24,650 we don't cause any damage to the plant see if you can dig under right here or 113 00:10:24,650 --> 00:10:29,530 even there yeah if we can get it under we can get chris to at least pull it out 114 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:52,600 Keep going. 115 00:10:53,340 --> 00:10:54,800 All right, hold up for a second. 116 00:10:55,860 --> 00:10:57,140 You've got space underneath. 117 00:10:58,860 --> 00:11:00,120 Bring that over that. 118 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:01,320 Perfect. 119 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,140 So you're going to take it up and over. 120 00:11:23,819 --> 00:11:24,980 Okay, now go. 121 00:11:25,220 --> 00:11:26,220 Go, go, go. 122 00:11:40,580 --> 00:11:42,960 You, sir, are the master of nozzle change. 123 00:11:46,020 --> 00:11:47,980 That right there could have ended our thesis. 124 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,240 Very, very easily. 125 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:51,920 I'd be really surprised if that doesn't happen again. 126 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:53,120 Oh, yeah. 127 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,880 Finally, I can get back to work. 128 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:08,120 Fred's wife and mine manager, Cara, is due to start her shift. 129 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:16,740 I'm still learning the excavator. It's not perfect, but hopefully I can just 130 00:12:16,740 --> 00:12:20,820 as much hay down that trommel as I possibly can. 131 00:12:35,980 --> 00:12:38,500 If gold mining was easy, we'd all be millionaires. 132 00:12:39,860 --> 00:12:45,340 A quarter of a mile west, the only other miners out on California Creek are the 133 00:12:45,340 --> 00:12:50,460 Clayton brothers, 21 -year -old Brandon and 19 -year -old Brady. 134 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:59,120 Daddy started six years ago. He stayed home now. Brady and I have been up here 135 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:00,820 every year trying to make a go of it. 136 00:13:02,180 --> 00:13:04,200 When they arrived here in 2016, 137 00:13:05,070 --> 00:13:10,890 California Creek had barely been touched for over 100 years, as miners left the 138 00:13:10,890 --> 00:13:13,790 area to chase the easier gold in the Klondike. 139 00:13:16,570 --> 00:13:19,670 Grab that small pry bar. Where is it? Right there. 140 00:13:22,190 --> 00:13:28,590 Last year, Brandon and Brady mined 226 ounces of gold with a small crew, 141 00:13:28,870 --> 00:13:31,630 proving California Creek's potential. 142 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,700 The gold's in the ground. We know it's good. 143 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,640 We're young people in the game, you know, and trying to prove ourselves. 144 00:13:42,460 --> 00:13:48,160 Now they've brought in a massive homemade trommel, hoping for an even 145 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,160 hole this year. 146 00:13:49,740 --> 00:13:52,660 We've already been in tough times. We clawed ourselves out of it. 147 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:55,240 It's been hard. I won't lie. 148 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,960 I want to be able to do this for the rest of my life, like this in my 149 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:02,300 I love gold mining. 150 00:14:02,830 --> 00:14:03,850 Absolutely love it. 151 00:14:06,230 --> 00:14:11,150 With the aim of maximizing the trommel's potential, they've called in a favor. 152 00:14:12,450 --> 00:14:16,130 Six weeks ago, they lent their neighbor Fred a dozer. 153 00:14:16,690 --> 00:14:22,390 Brandon, this is Freddy Dodd. In return, they've asked for an introduction to 154 00:14:22,390 --> 00:14:26,390 gold recovery expert Freddy Dodd and Wanabara. 155 00:14:27,650 --> 00:14:30,990 You know, if Freddie and Juan give me advice, I take it. They've helped a lot 156 00:14:30,990 --> 00:14:34,750 people. It's helped me every time. Our sluice plant there, we're really only 157 00:14:34,750 --> 00:14:37,230 utilizing like a quarter of our sluice box. 158 00:14:37,630 --> 00:14:41,490 The gold's coming down the two runs, and the other ones are whitewashing, and 159 00:14:41,490 --> 00:14:42,409 it's packing. 160 00:14:42,410 --> 00:14:45,370 Like, it's pretty tight. So you're making a right -hand corner. Yeah, 161 00:14:45,370 --> 00:14:49,030 right. Yeah, we've tried multiple things. Trying to get an even feed? 162 00:14:49,030 --> 00:14:52,450 get an even feed, and it just hasn't worked for us. Do you guys think you 163 00:14:52,450 --> 00:14:53,510 come over and have a look? 164 00:14:57,010 --> 00:14:58,210 No, this is Dirt Devil. 165 00:14:58,730 --> 00:15:00,070 Dirt Devil. Dirt Devil, yeah. 166 00:15:00,310 --> 00:15:01,950 My little sister came out with it. 167 00:15:03,370 --> 00:15:05,590 She's a beast, don't want to? Yeah, I like it. 168 00:15:05,970 --> 00:15:06,970 You built it yourself? 169 00:15:07,090 --> 00:15:09,710 Ah, yeah, we built it at home there for three years. 170 00:15:10,070 --> 00:15:11,630 It's all made out of scrap steel. 171 00:15:12,270 --> 00:15:14,590 With an old propane tank, huh? That's what it is, yeah. 172 00:15:17,170 --> 00:15:18,670 Hey, Brady. Hey, how's it going? 173 00:15:19,430 --> 00:15:20,510 Not too bad, and you? 174 00:15:21,230 --> 00:15:23,990 Everything that you guys have done out here, you know, this trommel that you 175 00:15:23,990 --> 00:15:26,370 built. I'm impressed by all of it. Yeah? I really am. 176 00:15:26,910 --> 00:15:30,590 We just don't have a lot of money to buy things new, right? 177 00:15:31,890 --> 00:15:37,950 Back in 2014, when the Alberta economy kind of crashed, our company ended up 178 00:15:37,950 --> 00:15:42,850 going broke, and we have quite a bit of debt. You know, it didn't go away. We 179 00:15:42,850 --> 00:15:47,030 still have it, and we're trying to make our way out of it. So what's your guys' 180 00:15:47,130 --> 00:15:48,109 long -term goal? 181 00:15:48,110 --> 00:15:50,810 I'd love to see it flourish and just help. 182 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:57,900 us and our family kind of get back on track and and just uh not have to like 183 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:02,460 wake up and worry every day how are we going to pay this or how are we going to 184 00:16:02,460 --> 00:16:08,920 do this and it's tough to me that's that's huge man that's commendable that 185 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:13,380 guys are willing to take on that responsibility and do what you've done 186 00:16:13,380 --> 00:16:17,860 you well guys let's get to work huh okay let's do it well let's run her for 187 00:16:17,860 --> 00:16:18,980 eight hours and see what it does 188 00:16:22,390 --> 00:16:27,570 Freddie and Juan start by running a test to see how the trommel performs in its 189 00:16:27,570 --> 00:16:28,570 current state. 190 00:16:32,550 --> 00:16:34,310 Look at the size of those rooster tails. 191 00:16:34,510 --> 00:16:36,170 They're going to be losing gold for sure. 192 00:16:38,490 --> 00:16:40,250 Bring your water down a little bit. 193 00:17:00,170 --> 00:17:05,630 After eight hours, the test is complete. 194 00:17:14,550 --> 00:17:18,730 You're making water and material make a 90 degree corner without controlling it, 195 00:17:18,829 --> 00:17:21,930 right? Right. So that's why it's loose, loose, packed. 196 00:17:23,270 --> 00:17:27,329 So you have to take control of your water and your material and you have to 197 00:17:27,329 --> 00:17:29,070 it do what you want it to do. 198 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,960 So what we'd like to do is build a beef boot in there. And your riffles, they're 199 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:35,959 all built too tight. 200 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:37,020 So we've got to fix it. 201 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:43,820 The pay is being channeled to the left of the sluice box, where slow -moving 202 00:17:43,820 --> 00:17:50,200 water is compacting the Hungarian riffles with fine material, so gold is 203 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:51,200 to settle. 204 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:57,080 And to the right, excess water is washing gold straight out of the 205 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:06,280 To create an even flow, Freddy and Juan will fit a V -shaped chute, dividing the 206 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,460 pay dirt and water equally across the two channels. 207 00:18:13,020 --> 00:18:19,620 Then widen the riffles and add expanded metal below to catch even more gold. 208 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,900 They ran 720 yards of pay dirt in their eight -hour test. 209 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:32,300 We got a couple big days ahead of us here, but we're going to hammer it out 210 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:33,940 get it done and go from there. 211 00:18:35,340 --> 00:18:38,500 You guys are great. You know what? I'm glad we're here. Thank you, Freddie. 212 00:18:40,980 --> 00:18:42,860 Well, weigh her up. Okay. 213 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:44,059 That's four. 214 00:18:44,060 --> 00:18:48,840 The total gold collected will help Freddie and Juan gauge how much they can 215 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,260 improve the trommel's performance. 216 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,940 4 .10 for eight hours. 217 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:01,240 half ounce an hour but yeah you know i figured we'd probably get you another 15 218 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:06,120 percent more goals on the recovery and on the recovery side yeah okay that's 219 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:10,340 what i think we can do should we go get to work or what do you think yeah let's 220 00:19:10,340 --> 00:19:11,940 go get some steel let's do it 221 00:19:38,450 --> 00:19:44,150 At Paradise Hill, Tony Beetz's operation has been shut down for 24 hours. 222 00:19:45,210 --> 00:19:50,210 And he's pushing his team to get back to sluicing 80 puck pay dirt in record 223 00:19:50,210 --> 00:19:51,210 time. 224 00:19:53,790 --> 00:19:57,570 Just getting it ready and prepped so we can weld the new punch plate in. 225 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:09,280 Tony loses $40 ,000 every day they're down, and he wants them running again by 226 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:10,280 night shift. 227 00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:15,960 They use a pipe ladder. 228 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,060 They're probably not smart enough, huh? 229 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:21,300 Drive that thing. 230 00:20:21,540 --> 00:20:23,840 You mean the pipe ladder? Yeah, I mean the pipe ladder. 231 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:28,260 Park it over here, and then every time you let them in from the top, in from 232 00:20:28,260 --> 00:20:29,260 top, in from the top. 233 00:20:29,580 --> 00:20:32,440 Get it? That makes it so much simpler, gentlemen. 234 00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:36,080 I'll go grab the pipe layer. You want to pull this out? 235 00:20:45,580 --> 00:20:49,100 You can't put an old hat on young shoulders. 236 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:54,060 So first you let them figure it out, then you point out something, then you 237 00:20:54,060 --> 00:20:56,840 them how to do it right, so the next time you won't have to do that. 238 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,460 And I'll bet you'll speed it up ten to one. 239 00:21:04,270 --> 00:21:05,270 below it. 240 00:21:06,750 --> 00:21:13,130 Unlike the crane, the pipe layer can pick up and plate material in a 360 241 00:21:13,130 --> 00:21:14,130 circle. 242 00:21:18,510 --> 00:21:23,050 So with the pipe layer we have a lot more reach when you just spin on the 243 00:21:23,050 --> 00:21:25,410 and keep grabbing sheets and throwing them in. 244 00:21:26,370 --> 00:21:30,890 In the middle of that they make life a lot easier and a lot quicker. 245 00:21:54,510 --> 00:21:57,750 Pretty good that we got it done in two days instead of four days. 246 00:21:58,370 --> 00:22:01,250 We can all get back to work and start boosting again. 247 00:22:01,650 --> 00:22:02,650 Wow. 248 00:22:04,750 --> 00:22:05,930 So you got it all whipped? 249 00:22:06,470 --> 00:22:07,510 Yeah, we're finished. 250 00:22:07,990 --> 00:22:08,990 Good. 251 00:22:09,350 --> 00:22:10,470 Went quick too, huh? 252 00:22:10,750 --> 00:22:12,310 Yeah, quicker than last year. 253 00:22:12,510 --> 00:22:13,510 Two and a half days. 254 00:22:13,530 --> 00:22:19,090 Awesome. I'm happy with that. So far, the thing up. I mean, downtime costs 255 00:22:19,090 --> 00:22:20,090 too. 256 00:22:23,690 --> 00:22:29,470 Brandon Carr has reskinned the trommel two days faster than last year, saving 257 00:22:29,470 --> 00:22:36,050 Tony around $85 ,000 and putting his season back on track. 258 00:22:36,910 --> 00:22:38,550 That's a good day. 259 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,860 Right now, the name of the game is just to keep this up, keep the plant moving. 260 00:22:55,140 --> 00:23:00,760 At California Creek, Fred Lewis and his inexperienced crew are in the middle of 261 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,140 their first week of sluicing. 262 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,920 Keep putting pay through the sluice and getting gold out the other end. 263 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:14,700 To keep the operation running smoothly, Fred is leading from the front, digging 264 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:15,880 pay dirt from the cut. 265 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,020 You know, the best part about these guys is their experience is their hunger. 266 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:26,140 They want to learn. They want a purpose, and they want something in life to grab 267 00:23:26,140 --> 00:23:29,340 onto. When you're trying to do something like this, you've just got to 268 00:23:29,340 --> 00:23:33,400 understand you're starting to scratch, and people are going to make stupid 269 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,580 mistakes. You've just got to try to learn from them and move forward as a 270 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:54,800 Damn it. 271 00:23:57,420 --> 00:24:02,320 Hey, guys, I just threw a track on this excavator, so I'm going to need some 272 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,320 help over here right away. 273 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:06,580 This is a big headache right here. 274 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:11,360 Fred turns to former U .S. Army mechanic J .B. 275 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:12,940 to manage the fix. 276 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:20,100 We have a tanker -worth nightmare in the military, and that's a throwing track. 277 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,940 Nothing broke. It just came off. 278 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:28,080 And the reason it came off here is we got fractured bedrock, heavy bedrock, 279 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:33,440 if you're on it at an angle, and you slide down, and it can grab the track, 280 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,360 then that's exactly what happened. It threw a track. 281 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:44,280 The pain on a bicycle, the best way to describe it, the tension is off, so now 282 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,480 it's just a matter of stretching a chain over the frocket, except this chain 283 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,860 weighs much, much more than a bicycle chain. That's the problem. 284 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:58,160 We're going to have to get Kara down here in the other excavator. Yeah, with 285 00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,160 220? Check it out. 286 00:25:01,380 --> 00:25:02,440 How's she going to get by? 287 00:25:02,780 --> 00:25:04,720 You're going to have to come down the back. You're going to have to come 288 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:05,379 the back. 289 00:25:05,380 --> 00:25:07,400 Hey, guys, we're going to have to shut the plant down. 290 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,080 Kara! 291 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,160 Kara Lewis is feeding the plant with the only other excavator. 292 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:19,400 Fred has no choice but to shut down while she helps with the track fix. 293 00:25:23,030 --> 00:25:24,810 Now you're going to have to go through that water. 294 00:25:27,610 --> 00:25:29,550 Well, freaking dandy. 295 00:25:35,530 --> 00:25:37,430 We are so behind right now. 296 00:25:37,970 --> 00:25:40,070 It'd be nice if I could come to work and just do my job. 297 00:25:41,190 --> 00:25:44,570 All right. I feel like there's too many chefs in this kitchen. I got some work 298 00:25:44,570 --> 00:25:45,369 to do. 299 00:25:45,370 --> 00:25:48,090 Sorry. I take full responsibility. 300 00:25:50,850 --> 00:25:51,850 Tracks pop off. 301 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,780 Plants go down all that happens is you just let it roll off your back and keep 302 00:25:55,780 --> 00:25:59,160 moving But right now we're starting to get a little bit frustrated that plant 303 00:25:59,160 --> 00:25:59,960 needs to be running 304 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:06,740 How 305 00:26:06,740 --> 00:26:12,080 deep is that right there? 306 00:26:47,310 --> 00:26:48,310 There we go. 307 00:26:55,790 --> 00:26:56,709 Are you okay? 308 00:26:56,710 --> 00:27:00,430 I was like, I better put my thing down because I feel like it's about to drop 309 00:27:00,430 --> 00:27:01,430 off a ledge. 310 00:27:07,430 --> 00:27:08,890 All right, now hook it on it too. 311 00:27:09,470 --> 00:27:10,870 Curl up a little bit. 312 00:27:12,050 --> 00:27:15,570 All right, let's get out of the way. 313 00:28:02,409 --> 00:28:04,070 I knew that was going to happen. 314 00:28:07,310 --> 00:28:11,670 Gains and tow ropes under pressure will snap, which is why we got these and 315 00:28:11,670 --> 00:28:12,670 reflexes, I guess. 316 00:28:13,990 --> 00:28:15,590 We're close as hell now, man. 317 00:28:16,990 --> 00:28:19,370 I know we should be able to do it with just the bucket now. 318 00:28:20,050 --> 00:28:23,590 It's sort of a weird, fun aspect to playing with big toys. 319 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,100 Solving problems with me. 320 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,880 Even though it sucks to be losing money while we're not working. 321 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,680 Yes! All right! 322 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:39,899 Are we on? 323 00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:40,900 Yeah! 324 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:42,240 Bam! 325 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,060 All right. We got it. We got it. Think we're set? Yeah. 326 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,660 Heck yeah. Let's do this. Find some gold! 327 00:28:49,180 --> 00:28:51,340 All right. I'm going to have to jump up there and... 328 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,500 Run as many buckets as possible, as quick as possible, without jamming stuff 329 00:28:58,520 --> 00:28:59,520 You ready to roll? 330 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,360 Get this thing back up and running. 331 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,020 You know, it's great to have the watch plant up and running. 332 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,300 It's really good to be putting pay dirt through and getting gold out. 333 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,180 Next time you see us, we're going to have a handful of gold. 334 00:29:27,950 --> 00:29:31,190 Just help us line it up, huh? Get her on there, get her tacked on. Yeah, 335 00:29:31,230 --> 00:29:32,230 perfect. 336 00:29:34,450 --> 00:29:40,350 Next door to Fred's operation, Freddy Dodge and Juan Ibarra are two days into 337 00:29:40,350 --> 00:29:43,150 overhaul of the Clayton brothers' homemade water plant. 338 00:29:46,090 --> 00:29:47,170 Bigger gap than I thought. 339 00:29:50,750 --> 00:29:52,130 The V -suit's built. 340 00:29:52,430 --> 00:29:55,090 We're going to back Juan's truck up over by the plant. 341 00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:59,620 Then I'll back up the V -suit, take it in, and we'll start getting it in place. 342 00:30:02,460 --> 00:30:03,740 Are we clear on your side? 343 00:30:03,940 --> 00:30:04,940 Yeah, we're good, yeah. 344 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,620 My safe up one. 345 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,420 No, I won't this time, Freddie. 346 00:30:13,220 --> 00:30:19,920 The truth is, if this trommel isn't running, they're not 347 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,580 catching gold in the sluice. If they're not catching gold in the sluice, they're 348 00:30:22,580 --> 00:30:23,580 not making money. 349 00:30:24,350 --> 00:30:27,170 We got to get this done as quick as possible, get them back up and running. 350 00:30:38,290 --> 00:30:44,410 We're going to get this put in and welded up. 351 00:30:46,050 --> 00:30:50,410 Words can't really describe how cool it is working with the great guys that I'm 352 00:30:50,410 --> 00:30:52,870 here with and learning more. 353 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,860 From talking to them and just being around them. 354 00:30:57,820 --> 00:31:03,420 Little to no time. We'll be flying through dirt, getting gold, and everyone 355 00:31:03,420 --> 00:31:04,420 be happier than hell. 356 00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:09,720 We're hoping to do 500 ounces this season, and that's a big number in gold. 357 00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:13,100 Perfect. We'll close it in there. What do you think? 358 00:31:13,340 --> 00:31:14,340 You betcha. 359 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:16,980 It's a good thing I'm so petite. 360 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:22,520 A little more. 361 00:31:25,379 --> 00:31:28,400 Perfect. Not the tightest spot I've ever been in, but it's tight. 362 00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:36,980 Looking sexy. 363 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,660 Huh? Looking sexy. Way sexier, huh? Yeah. 364 00:31:40,060 --> 00:31:41,860 I feel like a piece of meat at times. 365 00:31:42,940 --> 00:31:44,680 A sexy piece of meat, huh? 366 00:31:56,140 --> 00:31:58,700 We still have a lot of work to do in our sluice box. 367 00:31:59,660 --> 00:32:03,140 There's some worrying going on. We're not making any money right now. Bills 368 00:32:03,140 --> 00:32:07,080 don't go on pause, so definitely worrying about it for sure. 369 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,340 So these are kind of like a Hungarian ripple. 370 00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:19,420 We spaced them out a bit more, made them a bit longer. 371 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,580 I think they'll be very efficient, very easy to clean. 372 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,720 And just, it'll help paint our boxes yellow. 373 00:32:30,580 --> 00:32:31,680 Oh, go this way. 374 00:32:34,060 --> 00:32:35,060 There you go. 375 00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:39,520 So we got our nugget riffles up top that are going to catch most of your gold, 376 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,420 but they're going to let a lot of that fine stuff go by. 377 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:49,120 So these guys, these lighter riffles, these are good at catching that fine 378 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,760 You got a different height to it. 379 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,160 So we're going to put one section, just one, in across here. Okay. 380 00:33:00,420 --> 00:33:01,420 There you go. 381 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:02,760 Quick and easy. 382 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:03,800 Yeah. 383 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:05,440 Well, 384 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,360 let's run her for eight hours and see what it does. 385 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,740 Yeah, let's get this dirt devil fired up, huh? 386 00:33:13,940 --> 00:33:14,940 Yeah, let's do it. 387 00:33:15,340 --> 00:33:17,120 Fire up the pump, man. I'm going. 388 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:39,500 how much better that water is. 389 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,960 We don't have those roots or tails anymore. 390 00:33:50,180 --> 00:33:55,300 The next eight hours will show if Freddie and Juan's fixes have worked and 391 00:33:55,300 --> 00:33:57,780 the Claytons are on track for a record season. 392 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,540 I'm stoked right now, man. 393 00:34:04,740 --> 00:34:07,500 The first couple of buckets are going through the trouble. 394 00:34:07,980 --> 00:34:11,940 We're going to head over to the box and see what it looks like, but it's looking 395 00:34:11,940 --> 00:34:12,940 good so far. 396 00:34:14,940 --> 00:34:15,940 Perfect, Lotto! 397 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,100 I can feel it. It's perfect. 398 00:34:21,260 --> 00:34:23,560 Well, look how even the boxes are running, guys. 399 00:34:23,820 --> 00:34:24,820 Yeah, very nice. 400 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,580 I mean, it's pretty even all the way across. 401 00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:30,880 Well, keep running it. Okay. All right. 402 00:34:34,980 --> 00:34:36,679 Well, I tell you what, so no. 403 00:34:37,020 --> 00:34:38,020 Long few days. 404 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,320 And I honor myself. We're both flat fired. 405 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:46,940 But at the same time, watching that thing run, it's running even. 406 00:34:47,380 --> 00:34:49,900 It's running good. The ripples look great. 407 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,699 So we'll find out if Gale doesn't lie. 408 00:34:58,100 --> 00:34:59,100 All right, guys. 409 00:35:00,780 --> 00:35:03,240 I think it's time to christen the plant. All right. 410 00:35:03,790 --> 00:35:07,230 Do we even have a name for it yet? It's got to mean a lot. It's got to have 411 00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:11,030 something to do with overcoming adversity. 412 00:35:12,050 --> 00:35:13,650 What's the synonym for redemption? 413 00:35:16,530 --> 00:35:17,530 Vindication. 414 00:35:18,090 --> 00:35:19,470 Vindication sounds good. Vindicator. 415 00:35:19,990 --> 00:35:21,090 The Vindicator. 416 00:35:23,530 --> 00:35:24,530 Nope. 417 00:35:29,910 --> 00:35:31,630 I dub thee the M .M. 418 00:35:31,850 --> 00:35:32,850 Vindication. 419 00:35:38,990 --> 00:35:40,390 Indicate my checkbook. 420 00:35:43,490 --> 00:35:44,570 I'll get back to work. 421 00:35:48,030 --> 00:35:48,570 At 422 00:35:48,570 --> 00:35:57,950 California 423 00:35:57,950 --> 00:36:03,710 Creek, Brandon and Brady Clayton are eager to see the results of the new test 424 00:36:03,710 --> 00:36:04,710 their trommel. 425 00:36:09,580 --> 00:36:10,580 That ought to be enough. 426 00:36:15,460 --> 00:36:16,460 Let's puke, guys. 427 00:36:16,580 --> 00:36:18,620 Let's lance in the sluices, huh? Okay. 428 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:30,960 All downstream here. 429 00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:35,880 So these are working. You see the change, right? So it caught most of it 430 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:36,880 first part of the change. 431 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,460 You seeing gold over there too? 432 00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:40,700 Yeah, you betcha. 433 00:36:41,020 --> 00:36:42,100 Right through here. 434 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,120 Even in this one. 435 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:45,980 Every box has gold now. 436 00:36:46,620 --> 00:36:48,300 My food looks good, huh? 437 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:49,640 Delicious, huh? 438 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,420 Are we eating good tonight or steak? We're eating steak tonight. 439 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:54,880 But he's buying. 440 00:36:55,420 --> 00:36:56,640 Again? Again. 441 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,120 I can't really wipe a smile off my face right now. 442 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:03,080 Bueno. 443 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:04,580 Bueno. Good job. 444 00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:09,200 Well. Like Juan and myself always say, you see it in the box, but the scale 445 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,840 doesn't lie, right? Let's clean it up. See what we got? 446 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,080 Yep. 447 00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:18,880 Microwave there, Juan. Let me get it going, Brady. 448 00:37:21,620 --> 00:37:24,940 The first test produced 4 .1 ounces of gold. 449 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:32,420 Well, you guys do the honors. Weigh your gold. Brady, give her a go. I'll count. 450 00:37:32,580 --> 00:37:33,580 All right. 451 00:37:36,780 --> 00:37:39,180 Come on, Brady. Pour it just right. Come on. 452 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:44,500 Two. 453 00:37:45,260 --> 00:37:46,260 Three. 454 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,620 Four. Just passed the old one. 455 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:50,100 Five. 456 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,560 There you go. Six. 457 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,640 6 .73. 458 00:37:55,660 --> 00:37:57,220 6 .73. Nice. 459 00:37:57,540 --> 00:37:58,540 Great on. 460 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,720 That's a good guy. That's very good. That's awesome. 461 00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:02,279 That's awesome. 462 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,720 That's almost an ounce an hour. 463 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,860 $12 ,000 worth of gold from an eight -hour run. 464 00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:16,480 Altogether, you know, we're from 4 .10 to 6 .73. 465 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,240 So that's 65 % total increase. 466 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:27,120 Those numbers are huge for us. That helps us and the family just catching up 467 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:31,600 bills and making payroll, buying food, fuel, park. 468 00:38:32,190 --> 00:38:33,190 No, 469 00:38:33,530 --> 00:38:34,530 I don't know. I don't know. 470 00:38:36,190 --> 00:38:37,310 I'm excited for you guys. 471 00:38:39,110 --> 00:38:43,890 Over the course of a season, the changes made by Freddie Dodge and Wanabara 472 00:38:43,890 --> 00:38:47,690 could get them a quarter of a million dollars more in gold. 473 00:38:51,950 --> 00:38:55,190 Yeah, I can't thank you guys enough. I really appreciate it. Not a problem. You 474 00:38:55,190 --> 00:38:58,030 guys are great. Love working with you guys. Having you guys out here was 475 00:38:58,030 --> 00:39:00,810 unbelievable. Unbelievable. 476 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:07,020 We just can't thank you guys enough. We have a Freddie Dodge signature loose 477 00:39:07,020 --> 00:39:10,760 box. I'm going to take this before you drive away with it. We're not keeping 478 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:11,760 that? No. 479 00:39:13,180 --> 00:39:14,900 Okay, thank you guys. 480 00:39:15,140 --> 00:39:16,140 Take care, guys. 481 00:39:16,740 --> 00:39:17,220 These 482 00:39:17,220 --> 00:39:24,840 guys 483 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,680 really deserve it. This family deserves it. 484 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,640 Their family's gone through some tough times financially. 485 00:39:30,540 --> 00:39:35,560 So us coming in here and really helping them out, that's more money in their 486 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:36,560 pocket. 487 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,080 Freddie and Juan's work they just did is absolutely amazing. 488 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,700 By the end of the season, we're going to have about 30 % more gold. 489 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:46,780 That's huge for us. 490 00:39:56,380 --> 00:39:57,840 A paradise hill. 491 00:39:59,930 --> 00:40:04,650 It's time for Tony Beach to find out if the 80 popcorn is paying out. 492 00:40:08,210 --> 00:40:10,230 Now that punch plate was toast, man. 493 00:40:10,650 --> 00:40:16,130 We were actually very lucky to have a new punch plate in the yard because 494 00:40:16,130 --> 00:40:17,730 months to get the next set. 495 00:40:18,130 --> 00:40:22,290 So what did it take us? Two days to fix it for the boys to live it out? Yeah, 496 00:40:22,290 --> 00:40:23,290 basically two days. 497 00:40:23,930 --> 00:40:27,430 You know, all these little, like, two days here, one day there, half a day 498 00:40:27,530 --> 00:40:30,030 Those have been adding up, hey? 499 00:40:31,790 --> 00:40:36,110 But at least the pond supply is in, right? But not having any in the river, 500 00:40:36,110 --> 00:40:40,030 course. We better keep this crumple dry, you know. 501 00:40:40,450 --> 00:40:44,770 And we better start looking at opening up some new ground, because I don't 502 00:40:44,770 --> 00:40:47,210 that 80 puppers are going to carry us through the season. 503 00:40:47,710 --> 00:40:49,190 Especially if we have to keep ripping it all. 504 00:40:50,730 --> 00:40:53,950 But we did manage to get some gold again, didn't we? A little bit. 505 00:40:57,130 --> 00:41:03,690 To hit his 4 ,500 ounce season goal, Tony needs 237 506 00:41:03,690 --> 00:41:04,690 ounces a week. 507 00:41:04,870 --> 00:41:08,070 50, 150, 70, 508 00:41:08,410 --> 00:41:13,830 178 .38. 509 00:41:15,310 --> 00:41:17,910 Worth $320 ,000. 510 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,100 but over 60 ounces short of his weekly target. 511 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,720 It'd be nice to break 200 in one of these days. 512 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,140 What happened to the good old days? You get 500 or something. 513 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:35,780 You dug all those holes up? 514 00:41:36,140 --> 00:41:40,060 Oh, that's what happened. Always coming back to your next best hole. 515 00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:42,100 I guess. 516 00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,260 Anyway. Yeah, I'm going to go back out there and see what's happening. 517 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:47,500 Someone around here has to. 518 00:41:47,980 --> 00:41:49,520 What the hell do you think we had you for? 519 00:41:49,820 --> 00:41:51,340 It's not the good looks, Mike. 520 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:52,940 I thought I was an accident. 521 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:55,280 Bye, 522 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:56,500 guys. 523 00:41:57,740 --> 00:41:59,720 I'm carrying out the most present cargo. 524 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,260 We were down for a good two days. 525 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:10,380 So then it goes where he wasn't too, too bad. No, but I mean... Because you did 526 00:42:10,380 --> 00:42:11,700 lose 48 hours. 527 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:16,380 I know. But still, it would be nice if it's a little bit better because it's 528 00:42:16,380 --> 00:42:17,380 like... 529 00:42:17,569 --> 00:42:20,250 It covers the cost right now. That's about it. 530 00:42:20,790 --> 00:42:21,790 Yeah. 531 00:42:39,710 --> 00:42:40,710 Is it light? 532 00:42:41,730 --> 00:42:42,770 It was, Steve. 533 00:42:44,490 --> 00:42:46,570 How many green berets does it take to start a fire? 534 00:42:49,330 --> 00:42:55,010 After 11 weeks of sweat and sacrifice, Fred Lewis gathers his rookie crew for 535 00:42:55,010 --> 00:42:57,390 their first official gold wave of the season. 536 00:43:00,110 --> 00:43:01,750 You know, it's been a pretty tough week. 537 00:43:02,050 --> 00:43:05,970 I kind of look back at this week as really being a bad week, but we've 538 00:43:05,970 --> 00:43:06,970 a lot. 539 00:43:07,410 --> 00:43:11,270 Breakdowns and wash plant going down, and we're still pulling gold in. 540 00:43:13,770 --> 00:43:19,190 The hard work we put in, the hard work we're going to put in, is for this gold 541 00:43:19,190 --> 00:43:25,770 that we're about to see. And I know Stuart and Kara, you guys, I don't even 542 00:43:25,770 --> 00:43:28,150 what we're going to call it. We dragged ourselves through last season. 543 00:43:28,530 --> 00:43:32,670 But I think that's behind us. I think we've seen gold on this ground. 544 00:43:33,290 --> 00:43:37,050 And the numbers weren't high as far as the yardage we ran last week. 545 00:43:37,590 --> 00:43:38,650 But we ran. 546 00:43:38,990 --> 00:43:43,090 We did. We ran. Compared to last season, we ran a lot. 547 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,780 And we're going to keep running until the pay is gone. 548 00:43:48,540 --> 00:43:52,180 I don't feel like we're greenhorns anymore. 549 00:43:52,380 --> 00:43:55,300 I feel like we're mining. And I feel like we're overcoming obstacles every 550 00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:56,300 freaking day. Oh, yeah. 551 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,100 I just want to go see how much it is. 552 00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:02,420 Yeah, let's do it. 553 00:44:03,020 --> 00:44:05,140 I know I'm going to need a drink after. 554 00:44:05,660 --> 00:44:06,680 I'm ready to see this. 555 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,100 All right, guys. 556 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,320 We got six ounces last season. 557 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:19,020 That's it. Yeah. We worked our asses off with six ounces. And I'm really hoping 558 00:44:19,020 --> 00:44:22,240 this is 5 .5 ounces or higher. Okay. 559 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,000 Otherwise, we're losing money. 560 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,000 Great. 561 00:44:26,540 --> 00:44:28,480 Are you guys ready? Oh, hell yeah. 562 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:30,280 I'm nervous. 563 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,780 All right. One. 564 00:44:49,930 --> 00:44:50,828 Six. Come on, baby. 565 00:44:50,830 --> 00:44:52,050 Keep going. Keep going. 566 00:44:53,250 --> 00:44:55,250 Seven. Seven. Eight. 567 00:44:55,750 --> 00:44:57,070 Come on, keep going. 568 00:44:57,850 --> 00:44:58,850 That's awesome. 569 00:45:01,270 --> 00:45:02,690 8 .4 ounces. 570 00:45:03,470 --> 00:45:05,490 Worth $15 ,000. 571 00:45:06,670 --> 00:45:10,210 Fred's first significant haul as a mine boy. 572 00:45:11,410 --> 00:45:14,890 Holy crap. I think my pulse just went up like a million. 573 00:45:15,690 --> 00:45:17,090 What we just did. 574 00:45:17,940 --> 00:45:22,680 Was we put a relatively crappy week, turn it into more than last season. 575 00:45:23,660 --> 00:45:24,660 What a week. 576 00:45:24,940 --> 00:45:30,240 We made money this week. I don't even have to say anything else. I'm so 577 00:45:30,820 --> 00:45:32,740 So this is the beginning of our future. 578 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:34,500 Cheers, everybody.