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We were going to do 9 ,000 ounces this year. Half of that was supposed to come

out of the Indian River.

The money invested there is huge.

We had seven cuts here stripped, ready to go. So this will probably take $10

million of land to be picked up. Four or five thousand ounces for sure.

For two long years, Klondike kingpin Tony Beats has been trying to unlock his

gold -rich ground on Indian River.

It all kicked off with shocking news in 2019.

We don't have a water license.

They have to leave.

Denied a water permit, he tried the following year.

Worked. Sucked. Now we're right back to square one.

After two failures, he applied again this year, only to be crushed once more.

So, no license.

This season is pretty well down to two.

In a major pivot, Paradise Hill has become Tony's main earner.

In a bid to hit the elusive 4 ,500 ounces, Tony's running 350 yards an hour

white channel pay through Mike's trommel.

We've had a relatively successful season, but I'm disappointed that we

get into the Indian and reach that 9 ,000 ounce goal.

But the king hasn't given up on his prized Indian river yet.

Yep. Hi, Tony.

Tony's hired an expert to advise on a new application.

We took soil samples. We did a small vegetation inventory.

I'm completely encouraged by what we saw. I have 95 % confidence that this

license should and will be issued.

That would be awesome because it is a lot of money at stake.

After three long years, Tony now believes that a new license is imminent

in no mood to waste any more time.

If we do get a license in the Indian River, we're going to have to get this

trommel up and rolling because we've got a pretty late start.

I've got the 50 -ton train coming up, so we're going to lift this thing up and

put it on the truncheon.

It would be nice to get this trommel finished so we can put it out in the

River.

To be ready to sluice the Indian River claims, Tony's breaking out the 40 -foot

B .C. trommel.

Tony, do you have coffee?

Len, go ahead.

I got stuck on the hill.

Okay, I'll be right there.

We got a truck and a crane stuck halfway to the hill.

We're going to go down there and have a look, see what the situation is. Because

every time we got something stuck on the hill, we better pay attention.

So what happened, Len? I heard a bang, and I didn't have any traction anymore.

And then I had a look under it, and the oil came out of it. So I noticed it

cracked from one side to the other side of the airbox.

So it seized completely.

The 20 -degree hill is the worst possible place to break down, as the

Kenworth truck combined weigh just shy of 100 tons.

Mike, do you copy? Mike, do you copy?

All right, go ahead.

Can you bring that D -11 over to the hill? Bring the D -11 over to the hill.

I mean, this hill has always been dangerous.

You know, you always run a chance of something breaking, something.

You just never know.

Good. Okay, I'll get in the back.

Get Mike to tighten it up, Len.

Okay, Mike, slowly, slowly tighten it. Slowly, slowly, then Len can let the

brakes off.

Ripper shank up a little bit.

Good. Roll it in a bit more.

Good. Hold.

Okay, I want everybody in front of the cab.

Everybody in front of the cab. Nobody behind the load going up the hill. You,

get in the pickup truck. Get at them.

Of the cable snaps, chain brakes, you just never know. We always take as many

precautions as we can pulling up this hill.

You ready?

Yeah. Pull it. Go.

It seems to be going up the hill all right.

I'm always glad when it's up on top.

As soon as we get it there, we'll unload it, and let's put that drum in place.

Now we start working on the drum.

It's always nice to go safe and up on top of the hill.

The gold at Mud Mountain is definitely looking better, but we've already blown

the budget out the window.

So we'll see.

Hopefully the gold continues.

With just four weeks left of the season, 27 -year -old Parker Schnabel has

finally found gold at Mud Mountain.

His team are now in a race to cash in before season's end.

Trying to get this stuff ready.

As we've been working our way through Mud Mountain, the gold's been getting

better.

It looks like this downstream end of it, just as the last piece that we strip,

seems to have the best gold.

I probably should know better than trying to rest most of your season on

cut, but who knows?

Maybe it's there, maybe it's not.

With so much at risk, Parker needs a steady earner.

And he has it in the form of rookie plant boss Tyson Lee, who's running

land ground four miles away.

This time of year, we're making a huge push to grab every ounce of gold that we

can.

That kind of stirs Tyson still plugging away. It's going fast, you know, the bad

cut.

I think Ken's a little off on the naming of his cuts.

It's a good cut.

Did not do so good.

The bad cut is doing better than the good cut.

And the ugly cut, I don't know. You never know until it's in the jar.

Lucifer's going to be done in the bad cut and looking to move to the ugly. And

the ugly is far from ready. So there's a lot of work to do, a lot of dirt to

move.

You know, this year we've been stretched thinner than any other year.

And that's because of Mud Mountain and it being 60 feet deep.

The ugly cut is almost double the size of the bad cut.

With winter fast approaching, Tyson will have to double his production rate.

So, he's come up with a radical new plan.

As long as Parker agrees.

Hey man, how's it going?

Good, how are you? Pretty good, thanks.

What's going on?

This next plant pod setup I was thinking of setting Lucifer up, so...

You know, normally we have the wash plant pad height being the same height

the wash plant.

Thinking of setting the wash plant up on a pedestal.

Let's say this is our wash plant pad, right? And this is where the wash plant

would normally sit.

I want to kind of stick it out here so the fines can travel around.

The only comment I would have is if you were going to have undermining issues,

but if you've got lots of nice big coarse bedrock, then...

I trust your judgment.

Right on. And whatever you can do to stay as self -sufficient as possible is

best thing for us because we're spread so thin, as you well know.

I'm thinking if things work out the way I think it will, we should be able to

get away with three guys on days and two on nights down there.

That'll free up another guy to be in a truck.

I'm not going to say you're on your own down there, but act like you are until

you really need help.

Right on.

I'll go get to her.

Thanks, man.

In a normal setup, tailings from the wash plant build up, meaning the crew

to continually clear them.

Tyson's plan is to use 40 ,000 tons of material to build a mega pad, allowing

the fine tailings to fall away from the plant, saving on time and crew.

Normally it takes us about a week to build the wash plant pad, and we started

yesterday.

Well, the pressure's on.

And now we're at the point where we can get this. Holy, this thing has some

gremlins in it.

My other hose down because it's doing a parts regen. This one's on the fridge.

ECU failure.

Communications failure. Now it won't move.

And now it just died.

Yeah, keep... Come on, Jerv.

Let's go.

It's a massive blow.

Without the powerful 700 excavator, finishing the 60 -foot -high megapod

take days.

The shutdown has already cost Tyson five hours.

Absolute mess on top of the batteries here.

How's it going, Tay?

Want me to get Dumit's canoe for you?

Yeah, we might need it.

Is there any chances of it running tonight, Tay?

No way. No? No way.

You have to probably use one of the other hoes. Okay.

With the 700 out of action, Tyson is forced to finish the pad using the

smaller 480.

You know, normally we use the 750 or the 700.

A lot bigger than a 480, but I guess I got to make do with the 480.

Final bucket.

Get ready to shut her down.

All right, Tyson, you got a copy?

Go ahead, Marty.

That's the last bucket here, buddy. We're ready to shut her down.

Yes, we'll shut her down now, Laurie.

Sluicifer will now lie idle until Tyson can finish the new mega pad.

That's it.

Bad cut's done.

I still have to build the pad.

So the beginning of the season went really well. I was thinking we were

a stride. The last couple weeks have been nothing short of disaster.

At California Creek, Special Forces medic Fred Lewis has mined just half his

-ounce season goal.

We're not even coming close to hitting our low -end goal at this point. If this

continues and Sandra and Jorg are definitely not happy with what we're

in.

Fred needs to find a way to ramp up his goal production.

before winter arrives.

Right now we're kind of, we've got to figure out how to get ourselves to where

we're not.

As hard as we've been pushing this season, it's been a struggle.

We've really outgrown our equipment. We are pushing everything to the max every

day, including ourselves.

Now Fred's landlords, Jorg Lotz and Sandro Fritzi, have arrived to check if

is hitting his pre -agreed targets.

What's up, guys?

How's it going, Fred?

How are you doing, sir?

Good. Let me show you guys the cut we just opened up and what we're down to as

far as pay. Yeah, okay.

How many yards did you have done at this point?

Right now, we just crossed 6 ,000 yards.

Total? Total, as a team, from the day we started.

You remember what's in the contract?

It's 35 ,000, so... Yeah, that's... Whoa, you're far away.

Yeah. You don't want to wait 20 years until this creek is done.

A real miner, a good miner, an experienced miner, they would have done

in a week. You know, you want to be feasible and you want to earn some

and with machinery this size, you won't earn much money.

This is not a sandbox, you know.

Stripping is the key to the success of this.

To come to the point, in order to come back next year, you need bigger

now, this fall, not next year.

Fred, you're missing.

A big dozer here. Let's be honest.

Okay. I can do that. I can work on that.

We hope so.

With only his two small excavators, Fred's been running just 1 ,000 yards a

week. A bigger dozer could move dirt three times faster.

It's a simple matter of numbers, and Fred isn't hitting his.

For them to make money on this operation, we need to be putting a lot

material through our plant and giving them a lot more gold in the end. So they

want better.

And if we want to stay here, we want this to be our home for the next four or

five seasons, we're going to have to perform, we're going to have to find

equipment, and we're going to have to do what they want.

Hey,

Tony, this is Fred. How you doing?

So my claim owners are kind of putting an ultimatum on me to step up my

production a little more.

That would entail me finding larger equipment, and I'm not finding anything

locally.

We're looking for a D8 or a D9.

All right.

I really appreciate it, Tony. Thank you.

Yep. Bye.

Well, that was a strikeout.

Brandon. Hey, friend. What's going on?

Oh, just fixing, you know. How's it been?

Good. You? Oh, man. Actually, not good.

Neighboring mine boss, Brandon Clayton.

Also leases ground from Jorg and Sandro.

Sandro and Jorg came over and kind of put an ultimatum on me, where they're

like, we need more from you if you're going to stay here. Oh, no. We've gotten

to a point up there where our equipment's just scraping away. We're

250, 250 yards through the plant a day. So if we had a dozer, obviously a dozer

would solve 99 % of our problem.

Brett, I really wish I could help.

I'm stretched right now as it is trying to run just a day shift.

I'm pulling 900 on one shift with the trauma right now.

And we're at the point where we're struggling as well to try and get it up

enough to make a full day, right? Right.

I'm short a hole right now. I need one with the plant. I need one stripping.

Maybe if I can use another hole, like one of yours, and then I can give you my

dozer. Yeah, I think that's something we can work on.

Maybe there's a way we can work together.

So what are you trying to say?

If we could somehow figure a way where I could get used to some of your bigger

equipment over here, I think there may be a kind of a middle ground we could

come up with where we just consolidate our equipment to where it helps us both.

Like a partnership?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You know, I've got Buzz. I can run our night. Yeah. I think

it's a good idea, actually, Fred, really, if you think about it.

I mean, I'm only running 12 hours a day, and...

We're getting to the time when it's starting to freeze, so I want to run 24

hours. Basically, we have to to keep my plant going and not freezing overnight.

We can't run two plants at once. That's the only issue. I would be willing to

pull that plant completely, put it on reserve up there, and run your plant.

And we'll pull from my area, your area, just get dirt around this season.

And we could just split the goal 50 -50.

Split 50 -50.

I think we got a deal. I'm down with it. Give me the courtesy of running it by

my guys, see what they think, and then we'll just move from there.

The partnership could allow the pair to sluice three times as much pay dirt.

If the Claytons' massive trommel can run 24 -7, it'll get Fred one step closer

to hitting Sandro and York's goal.

But only if Fred's crew agree.

It boils down to numbers. If we combine forces, like, really partnered with

Brandon and started pulling our pay over to his plant, we're going to be able to

put up to 1 ,800 yards a day through his plant. Yeah. Right. And we're putting

300 through ours.

The only downside that I see is their equipment's down, like, all the time.

That would be my concern. Because, you know, they break down, too.

The other risk is we end up hating each other.

I mean, what kind of season do we want?

That's the question. Do we want to scrape by and pull 100 ounces and hope

Sandra and Jorg see that as our best?

Or do we want to prove to them if we had bigger equipment, Brandon, this is the

difference. I don't want to go home saying, yeah, we scraped it by.

I want to go home with our heads held high in a pocketful.

You know, it's a little bit risky, but I really think this could save our

season, guys.

As long as we're running pay.

and pulling gold, then we're good.

I don't want to have another season where we go home with Jack.

All right, guys, we good with this? Yeah, man.

All right,

let's get it then. Let's get this work done and move forward.

Brandon's crew and Fred's misfits have assembled to form one united team.

Working with the Claytons, it's pretty good to get the does here. It really

helps with the stripping. They're planted on good yards, so teaming up

is really going to help our end of the season goal.

I'm feeling really good about the collaboration, and things that we might

have, they bring to the table, and what they don't have, we bring to the table.

So I think it's a really good relationship.

The only way I'm going to prove to Sandro and yours, and to my investor,

can do this on a larger scale than the team with Brandon. Right now, we're

to show what we're made of.

A paradise hell, the beats are moving metal.

I'd like to bring it to the Indian River.

That is a chance we may get an license this year. If we do, at least we'll have

this trommel laying there and ready to go.

I'm going to lift the trommel up.

And then we'll slide the skid out.

Then after we slide the skid out, we'll load that on a trailer.

And then we'll come back in with another trailer.

And we'll just put the crumple on that one.

Okay, tighten the cables, gentlemen.

Tighten the cables.

More, more, more, more, more, more, more. Hold it right there.

Okay, gentlemen, give it a try. See what they can do.

Lift the thing up, lift the thing up.

Good. All right, Dad.

Come on, I got you.

Come on, I got you.

Okay.

Good.

We're all in there, Mike.

Good. Good.

Good job.

Keep her coming. Keep her coming. Good.

Yeah. I want two over on this side and I want two over here.

Monica, I think we got enough.

Hold it right there. Okay, Mike, down.

Down, down, down, down. Down, down.

Okay, Len, let it out. Len, let it out, please.

Good. Hold it right there.

That's all you can do, Kevin.

With the 10 -ton BC trommel secured, it's time to haul it the 40 miles to

River.

Moving equipment's always pretty tough.

Anyway, we'll get this one set up down the hill.

We're going to get the other one loaded, and then two trucks in the river. Off

they go.

So we got a problem on the way. We got a skid on the way.

We have a little dozer.

So today, nicely cruising. Road looks good.

And we'll drop them off and...

TV can make it home for supper, I guess.

After a lot of time, we made it down here.

It actually feels good to be back here for a minute.

So we're going to drop off the load, turn and burn, as they call that.

You know what?

Lucifer coming to an end in the bad cut. It's my responsibility to get this pad

set up.

At the ugly cut, plant boss Tyson Lee's operation has been down for 24 hours as

he builds an ambitious new pad.

Well, there goes the last rock truck load of grizzly tailings. The plant

done. We can drag Lucifer over here and start on the ugly.

Tyson's banking on the elevated pad to accelerate his production rate.

But first he must move Sluicifer up the steepest ramp he's ever built.

Right now we're just hooking up the cables, and we're going to drag

over to the wash plant pad we built. It's looking pretty good over there.

Just got to get her up there safely.

The 700 was having issues.

Alex figures it's electrical, so we're going to have to make it work with the

480.

You know, it's kind of like trying to move a dump truck with a two -door

It would be nice to have the 700 to move this thing because right now I'm

struggling to pull it and 700 would just move it like none other.

I think where we're going to really struggle is going to be pulling it off

pod and getting it turned.

It'll be interesting to see how Tyson gets the plant up here and swings it

around. He'll definitely be on the sides of it. And that's a dirt

slump, so that's about as steep as it's going to get.

Well, it's going to be a foot at a time.

Now, as you can tell, the 480 is really struggling to pull this thing up.

Just got to get her to the top of this hill and spin it a little.

This 480 is not liking this kind of abuse.

I wonder how much you trust those cables.

Because if he's loaded up like that and they pop, the excavator could even just

go upside down right over it. Yeah, that's quite a drop there.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Have a look at that!

or ornaments for Parker's table?

Proof, if proof were needed, about the stresses at play when trying to move a

-ton wash plant.

That goes to show how heavy this wash plant is. Oh, yeah.

I thought we'd... the wash plant.

The shackle, I can live with that.

Take two!

Okay, your stick's almost full out.

Curl your bucket.

You got her.

Here she comes.

Please don't come at me, wash plant.

Almost at the bottom.

Looks all good.

So right now, we're just trying to spin the flucifer and make sure it ends lined

up with the trough I've made. Because if it doesn't, it's going to be a fight

trying to move it side to side.

Oh.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Well, guys, she's in place.

Yeah. Good work, guys.

Good work in the excavator. That's some professional level stuff right there.

That hill on that side, that was impressive.

Thanks, man.

Yeah. Let's get back at her.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Sluciper's now ready to start running hundreds of yards of gold -rich pay

You know, we got Sluciper in place, level, banks in place. As you can tell,

there's a lot of drop for fine tailings to go and...

Yeah, definitely high up there.

Here we go, here starts the ugly cut.

That was the first scoop right there.

You know, I'm actually really, really excited that it's happening.

Whereas right now we'd be able to eke out 100 ounces, we're going to probably

triple that and come out with like 300. So hopefully we'll be able to, you know,

make us all a little bit of money, a little bit of gold.

At California Creek, Fred Lewis has shut down his wash plant and teamed up with

neighbor Brandon Clayton.

And decommissioning Mount Pesuvius. We are moving our pay pile, what's left of

it, over to Brandon's plant.

He's put the D9 dozer to work ripping pay in hope of running at least 9 ,000

yards a week through Brandon's wash plant.

The method team is still pretty green at mining, so I'm just double -checking

our cuts, making sure that we're not too deep.

We're taking enough.

and we're not leaving anything behind.

Fred. Hey, Fred.

Good morning, man.

How's it going?

Not too bad.

What's happening?

You guys asked us to kind of step it up as far as production goes. To get bigger

equipment, right? Yeah, so I met with Brandon and just talked about what

we were having, and it kind of dawned on us. I've got too small of equipment.

Right now, he's got too big of equipment.

So we decided to go at it together.

I hope this will work out. You know, before we had two mining operations, and

now it's one mining operation.

It's a little risky for both of us. But I think if we work together and

communicate, I think you guys will see a huge production increase from this.

Because obviously he's got the bigger capacity.

But with our small equipment and with our extra guys, we can help his plant

24 hours a day.

and get that high yardage and shoot for 1 ,800 yards a day.

We will see when is the time.

You have to prove yourself in a few days.

Yep. We will be here soon and check out what you're doing.

I felt like Brandon and I made a great decision, and I thought that it was the

best possible choice for us going forward, but now it seems a lot more

risk. It seems like Sandro and Jorg are really going to expect big numbers.

Teaming up with Brandon is kind of a last resort if we're going to be able to

really pull the season off. We'll finish the season, but I don't want to limp

through the finish line.

I want to come out victorious with a gold medal.

Warren, what's up?

JV, I got a problem, man.

Blew a tire.

I got a puncture in the right side.

Clayton crew operator Warren Binney has blown a tire on the loader being used to

feed the plant.

Yeah, that's it there, yeah. Right there. That's a pretty big hole.

It's either the shale rock that split it or maybe a piece of metal in the

tailings or something like that.

So that's our only loader, you know what I mean? That's a key piece of equipment

that we need.

To make sure that the plant's running so it's stopping us from processing the

pay. If this keeps happening, then we're not going to meet our quota. It's going

to be a mess.

So what do you got? Let's see.

Good deal. That looks great.

JB and his new comrades must patch the tire in double quick time.

And there it is.

Push the tire down again so we can get that ring on.

Gotcha, gotcha.

It's going now.

Yeah, it's even going now.

Trying to expand the tire so it actually forms a seal, which we got it now.

Let's get her back on our loader.

You can start washing rocks again. I think you had a holiday today.

And that's on there.

Hey, NASCAR does it a whole lot faster.

Three hours of downtime has only intensified the pressure on Fred.

to prove his risky alliance can bear fruit.

You know, this took way longer than we wanted it to, but the best thing I took

out of today is I'm seeing my guys work with Brandon's guys, seeing fifth bump.

Everyone's stressed, and it's not what we want to be doing, but we're doing it

together, and that's what keeps me happy.

At Mud Mountain, there's a different sort of holdup, one that foreman Mitch

Blaschke was happy to instigate.

So normally we go four days between cleanups. This has only been two days

and you see the gold already piling up in all the riffles.

So it's time to do a cleanup.

This is a good problem to have.

So this is just a, what, two -day run? Yeah, this is just two days.

This mat here, look at that.

That's just one handful.

You just pick the chunks up off the carpet like that.

This is the stuff we've been waiting on.

And it looks like the wait was worth it.

Hi,

family. Hi, guys.

Hola. Hola. Buenos dias.

There's a baby.

There's a baby on the table. We have lots of babies on the table, it seems

Like every time.

So, this week went pretty good, huh?

Yeah, loading that trowel went good. We had some trouble bringing the crane up

the hill, though.

I don't know what happened to the truck, but that's sure going to cost a lot of

money. Oh, yeah. I thought it was slick. I haven't priced it out yet, but the

gears were laying on the ground, so that's not going to be cheap. Which

are we talking about? One of our 500 winch tractors. Oh, Lord.

Good thing you had that 11 up on the hill close so we could drag it up.

Other than that, it was pretty uneventful, really. Yeah, I know.

Dropped the trailers in the Indian, and bingo, it can sit there.

License we will get, and the tram will be ready to go.

And so, in all that commotion, you're still sluiced all week, right?

Oh, yeah.

Perfect. Old faithful never stops.

No, that thing just keeps on rolling. That thing does fine.

Anyway, so what do you guys want to do? Wait and see what we got there with.

To reach his 4 ,500 -ounce season goal, Tony needs 370 ounces a

week. You ready, Mike?

Oh, yeah. Are you ready?

Let's do the thing. Chicken wing. Three, two, one, go.

Four.

Five. Ten.

Forty. Fifty.

Seventy. Hundred.

One -twenty. One -sifty. One -seventy. Two -hundred. Two -ten.

250, 260, 300.

Keep going.

306 .98.

Worth over $550 ,000.

That wasn't a bad week, though.

They're over 300 again, so that's nice.

I think so.

But at least, you know, we have something to look forward to next year.

we get back into the Indian next season.

These gold ways should double on us, and the goal we had set, having both

properties on the go, was not out of line.

But like a wise man always says, don't count it until it's dried and weighed.

That's correct, but we'll get to that point.

But on that note, we need to head out.

I leave it.

Well, guys, you ready for this one?

Oh, yeah.

At California Creek.

I think it was a big gamble. A little nervous because Andrew and Jorg, they

didn't necessarily say, I want you to team up with my other operation.

It's Fred's first gold way since partnering up with Brandon's crew.

Hey, Jorg, how's it going? Oh, yeah, good. Good. How are you? Good. Andrew,

are you doing?

And the claim owners are back to find out if the deal paid off.

So how's it going here?

I'm really glad you guys came today.

This is our first real go -away together.

So Fred, in the contra, they were 35 ,000 yards.

How many did you run at this point? We ran 6 ,200 yards.

6 ,200, yeah. And I guess it's an improvement of the yard that you did

right? We're doing 90 yards an hour still. We're just running day and night

Yeah, yeah. So more hours per day. That's right. And it's good.

But for sure we are very curious what the result.

Yeah. Can we see some numbers? Do you have some numbers to show? We got some

numbers. You guys ready?

Yes. Scales over here.

Before they joined forces, Fred and Brandon averaged a combined 19 ounces.

All right, guys. Stansby, you want to call it out?

Go ahead. Now remember, guys, this is only half a bar.

Don't get too excited.

Okay, two, three. Oh, there's the big gun nugget. Four, five.

9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23. Wow.

25, 30.

Some more.

37.

Holy cow. 38 .66.

Worth just under $70 ,000.

More than double the amount both crews were getting before.

Fred's half share of 19 .33 ounces.

It's his biggest ever gold hole.

That's pretty good for you as well, right? Yeah, I'm happy with that, yeah.

What about you guys?

If we keep going like that, yeah, every five days.

Yeah, and I believe if we get everything dialed in, we'll be doing better than

that. I think this is just the beginning, I think.

Already you doubled your production. I can't say that it's bad.

Right. Now if you double again, it's even better, right?

So, yeah, it looked your idea was okay, staring and getting together with

Brandon. We were a little bit skeptical, but, yeah, if you do it, like, in this

way, it's good.

All right, guys, well, I think we should get him back to work. Yeah, I think we

go back, start hauling, and keep washing. Keep going.

Sounds good.

At the beginning, I was kind of skeptical about this merging, the two

between Brandon and Fred.

But what I saw today, I really like it.

I mean, it looks like the guy, they work together, they collaborate very well,

and the production is not bad at all. Actually, there is an increase.

So I would say I'm pretty happy, definitely.

I feel like they saw the potential. They see that this is just the beginning,

right, and we're going to get better.

We doubled our yardage in five days of running, which is freaking amazing if

ask me.

But these goalways will get bigger, and that's really all that matters.

What's going on, Chris? Hey, Mitch. How's it going, man? Oh, not too bad.

Good to see you, buddy. You too.

Hey, T -Bird. How you doing, man?

Not much, you?

Cleaning gold.

Yeah? Nonstop.

But you've been busy this week. You got Sluiceford moved over to the new wash

plant pad. She's tall.

Yeah, man. It's up there.

Difficult getting it in place. Nice to see it up there and hopefully don't have

to mess with tailings too much.

That should be one solid wash plant pad.

Oh, yeah, man. It was nuts. I'm looking forward to the cleanup here, Dumit.

Hopefully there's some gold in it.

Well, you want to see what we got?

Time to find out if the last of the bad cut lived up to its name.

Take your guess, Parker.

What do you got?

192, based on how he's holding it.

10, 20, 40, 60, 130,

160. It's over.

200,

220, 240, 250, 277 .05.

That was way off. Worth just under half a million dollars.

That's a good cleanup.

Yeah, no kidding.

It's your last of the bad cuts, so now we got to see what the ugly cut's going

to do, right? Yeah.

Hopefully not hold up to its name. All right. This is the first of Big Red.

Parker spent over $4 million getting down to pay in Mud Mountain after drill

results showed it was four times richer than any other Indian river ground.

I see you got two pans, Dumit, so what are you trying to tell me?

My scale goes up to 400 ounces.

With the way Mud Mountain has been going, right here, you guys, is 400

ounces.

Well, that's a good way to start.

That's the first thermos.

400 on the dot. This is plus the 400.

Let's see what we got on top of 400.

20, 40, 100.

130, 180, 196 .6.

For a total of 596 .6 ounces in one week. That's incredible.

Worth over $1 million.

We've been busy down here. Let's put it that way.

I mean, just last week, Big Red had its best week ever, and it just popped it.

This is the best week.

of Red's history from day one.

It's just wild how much effort and stripping went into it and how fast

getting through it. Every hour of sluicing probably represents $1 ,000

stripping or something, right? Or $2 ,000 worth of stripping. For the week,

guys, believe it or not, it's 873 .65 ounces. Jeez.

Worth over $1 .5 million.

Parker's Biggest Gold Way.

I never thought after last week we'd top what we just did, but it's a matter of

if it'll hold out for long enough to make it worthwhile.

Let's do this again next week. Yeah, let's do it again a few more times. A

more times, yep.

We'll try.

Good job, guys. All three of you. Have a good week.

So how many rounds of golf did you miss? Yeah, exactly.

I didn't always have to work every day.