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You know, this season we put a lot of our eggs in the mud mountain basket, and
it's really not paying off like we expected.
Less than a month before winter freezes him out, Parkish Navel sees and hangs in
the balance.
I don't even know if we're going to break even in it, which is a real
Spent a lot of money in there, and everybody told themselves to make it.
Parker spent four months and $4 .5 million getting down to pay dirt at Mud
Mountain, searching for a spot that could hold 8 ,000 ounces of gold.
The piece that's left, though, is the center of the cut where the best
was that Liam did. And so hopefully at 8, 10 ounces an hour, it doesn't take
long to have a really good cleanup.
So there's still hope.
If last week's scale busting 600 ounces is any indication, they may have their
hands in a massive honey hole.
We had an awesome week with Big Red last week. We're just trying to keep that
momentum going. But, you know, we don't know what exactly we're going to find as
we keep going through Mud Mountain. Was that, you know, just one really good
spot or is the rest of it going to run that way? We don't know.
While Mitch Blaschke works through Mud Mountain, Tyson Lee is tasked with
getting through the Promised Land pay dirt before winter shuts him down.
We just started the ugly cuts and the first week is what decides how things
going to go.
You know, this is the last place this wash plant is going to be this season,
I want to make it a good one and make it count.
Are you driving?
Go on. Move your bum.
Move your bum.
I didn't say lie down. I said move.
No, there's not much time to get through this ground.
The pressure's on. The heat's on. We have to get this hay down here.
Slusing may take a cut like this.
Would normally take six weeks.
But winter is likely to hit in less than four.
You know, so far we've been sluicing in the Ugly Cup.
The wash plant pad is looking pretty good. It's the biggest wash plant pad
built this year, and you know, I'm definitely liking it.
First couple of days, it's a little sketchy, but you know, we're almost at
point where the wash plant's not going to go anywhere.
Whoa, whoa, Trace, center down, center down.
Well, the belt stopped, and now it's all backed up here.
We have to shovel to see if we can get the conveyor to work again.
Watch yourself, Tara.
Okay.
Junk.
No? No. Okay.
The belt's just...
Loading up and not spinning so but this is a normal amount of dirt for this
thing to have on it.
I'm going to try it again here.
There's no way this much material should be holding this thing up.
This is a problem we've had happen many times in the past with these conveyors.
All right, does not want to go?
No, no.
Hey, Mitch, you got a copy? Mitch?
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, you can see here, this.
It's one of the ball bearings, so it should be inside that bearing.
There's a whole pile of them right there.
We're going to need to throw some bearings in. We're going to lose
rest of the day shift today, but hopefully we can have it running by day
Hopefully. Yeah.
Alec just ran back to the yard to grab the bearings. What we're going to do
right now is just start breaking everything down.
As soon as we get this apart, we're going to throw those new parts in there
get it back together.
Last time they replaced a bearing on the conveyor, it took four hours.
Precious time they can't afford this late in the season.
Well, it's really important we get this conveyor fixed.
We get sluice for fire back up here before night shift. We can get through
dirt.
This is going to need to be like a pit stop.
What do you think, Alex? Does it look like we have the right ones?
Oh, yeah.
Perfect.
The biggest thing here is just... Time. Alex, do you want to start busting
things apart?
Yep. All right, I'll see you in a few. See ya.
First, they have to remove the drive motor to access the bearing unit.
Oh, yeah.
I wonder if we can just man -bear pick this thing. It's not that heavy.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
And those knees.
Tyson takes the weight of the dry shaft so Alec can remove the bearings.
That'll do there.
We're losing time, and time is money, and the cold weather is only coming.
Howdy, howdy.
We'll get her cleaned up and get it flopped out.
We'll have lots of grease in there, but time is just time. We're out.
That is what's left of that.
Seeing better days.
That's the old dual truck rebuild here.
Throw them back together.
I like that. Oh, yeah, that's what we're looking for right there.
I think we're good.
Come on.
Oh, man.
Nice job.
Yep.
It's loosened.
I can tighten and attach the drive motor.
Don't forget this part.
Lucifer's been down for two hours longer than the last time they replaced a
bearing, costing Parkin nearly $30 ,000 in lost gold.
Here we go.
But they're ready to fire back up.
Moment of truth.
So that was six and a half hours of downtime.
It took from the time we shut down to the time we fired up. And just in time,
night shift is going to be here any minute.
here we go with the first two back up and running and we just got to keep her
that way
This season has been a grind, man. There's only a couple weeks left in the
season, and we need to keep going full throttle to hit our 2 ,000 -ounce goal.
In the mountains above Puno City, Rick Nass is risking his mining future on
Raleigh Valley, a colossal cut 190 feet deep.
But after two months of mining, he's still 30 feet from the best pay, with
the gold per 100 yards.
of anywhere else in the coast.
We hit this gravel layer that's quite a ways above me right now.
I'm in a big panic to get down here to that real good bottom layer of pay,
we're hoping for about 30 to 40 feet of before bedrock.
That is one piece of the puzzle we really need to get us 2 ,000 ounces or
In order to get to the finish line.
I called somebody up. He's always been there for me. He's actually showing up
today. And I'm hoping he brings the energy that we're going to need.
Time's running out for Rick.
You know, this gold mining business, it's make or break your stuff because it
can ruin you. I mean, it can totally ruin you financially.
Being his dad, I mean, I always kind of knew, you know, he was a little bit
adventurous, but I never, I guess, would have guessed.
that he would have been this much of a gambler.
This business, it's a gamble, no matter what they say. I mean, that's my biggest
worry with him doing this.
Rick went out on his own.
It's actually scary, to be honest. But he's got the experience now. He knows
what he's doing. And the end result, hopefully, you know, will be a good
I know he's a little behind in his goal that he got set. And maybe I can help
give him that extra push and try to meet his goal.
Mont de Red.
It's peering through 300 yards of gold -rich pay dirt an hour.
Oh, look at that.
Did you see that? See the sun?
Oh, my God.
Man. Holy, I am impressed. This is one hell of an operation.
Holy. Yeah.
It got a little bigger this year. No kidding.
Wow. I don't even know what to say. It's unreal.
We've got a long way to go.
But we've been, you know, sure you've seen the big pole on the way in. We've
been going very, very deep and, you know, trying to hit this good pay at the
bottom. You know, the stuff that drilled out at 300, 400 yards, we have to get
because with the time we have left, we have to be running that stuff to be able
to hit 2 ,000 ounces.
Wow. That's crazy.
How many people you got working right now?
Uh, eight.
I can't believe what you have gotten done with just eight people.
Yeah, we just spend whoever I can find to fill in where needed.
Everybody's doing two or three jobs. That's just how it's gone.
So, uh, well, I came up here to give you a hand, man, and, uh, I mean, whatever
you need me to do, right, I'm here to help you, whatever you want.
Well, yeah, there's plenty for you to do.
Yeah, well, find me a machine or something, man. I'll jump right into
All right.
Let's do it.
Rick puts his dad straight to work, feeding Monster Red with the low -grade
The amount of time and effort and money that they put in to stripping this
overburden to get to that pay layer is just astronomical.
It's always my goal to make sure that Rick succeeds.
I'll do what I have to to help him. I just hope it pays off for him.
120 feet down in the cut, foreman Brennan Ruholt digs pay.
It's so nice to have an extra set of hands here. We need all the help we can
get right now. And, you know, he's a super positive guy.
Brennan's 700 excavator has lost its lifting power.
God damn it.
Got a coffee there, Rick?
Yeah, go for it.
Hey, buddy, I don't know what's going on with the 700 here. It just seems like
it doesn't have any power anymore. It's big. I don't know.
It's like it's losing pressure or something. I have no idea what it might
here.
Okay, yeah, give me a second.
Hey, Dad, you on the radio?
Yep, I'm here. Go ahead.
Dad, 700 is coming out of the cut.
Do you think you can go take a look at it?
See if you can fix it and see what's wrong with it.
Yeah,
roger that. I'll take a run over there and get a good look at it.
Rick Senior spent 40 years in the family construction business, running,
managing, and fixing heavy equipment.
If my dad can't get that 700 fixed, there's no way we're going to hit our 2
-year -old goal.
The main boom cylinder on the 700 here is fed by those hydraulic tubes to those
hydraulic hoses. Well, one of them tubes has a T on it.
It appears to be fixed from before, but the welds have cracked.
And now we're chasing those cracks with more welds.
The boom arm is operated by four hydraulic cylinders powered by
pressurized fluid.
fed to the cylinders through hoses connected by a t -joint the t -joint is
cracked causing the 700 to lose power to get it back in action rick senior will
patch the cracks with welds this is just a quick fix to get it back
to work but uh if there's any oil in that crack at all it ain't gonna seal up
you know without draining the whole system Just kind of keep an eye on it
weld on it because there's so much grease and oil in there, I'm worried
fires.
Big Rick has joined us. I mean, perfect timing.
I can run anything here.
I think my chances are improving again to 2 ,000 ounces.
I mean, it certainly can't hurt.
The material is so light I blew a hole in it and now it's worth it.
Before it was such a hairline crack so I thought if I could chase it real quick
with a weld and seal it up but it popped out and started blowing
oil.
Now I got a hole bigger than I had before so we're probably looking at
day away from being able to use it.
We're looking at a challenge right now that many people would probably turn
from. These guys are changing combat, and we're not going to stop until we're
gold.
Fred Lewis has mined 71 ounces towards his 100 -ounce season goal.
So we've teamed up with the Claytons to save both of our seasons. You know, it's
thinking outside the box, and it's solving the problem.
Fred has joined forces with neighboring miners, Brandon and Brady Clayton.
We're putting all of our money on their good pay. Would this team up with the
Claytons? We've really stepped up our game.
Brad has shut down his own small wash plant, and the two crews have combined
manpower and equipment, both running pay through the Claytons' trommel 24 -7 at
90 yards an hour and splitting the gold 50 -50.
You know, the collaboration, I like it. I can tell everybody is trying not to be
the weakest link.
There's no time for slack, that's for sure.
All of us are former military guys, but gold mining is all new.
This is a chance of a lifetime and fun and challenging and all that, but
enough gold to be able to go home with and have it worth being here.
Well, this is probably the worst weather we've had since we got here. I filled
my rain barrel. It's 55 gallons. And I filled it in one night on my RV. So it
rained a lot.
Fred, you got a copy?
This is Fred.
Hey, Fred, we need you down or cut as soon as possible. We got an issue down
here.
Roger that. I'll be right there.
That doesn't look good.
That's a lot of water.
Oh, no.
What the hell are we going to do about that?
Overnight, rain has burst a berm, and Brandon now has a river running through
his cut.
I don't know, man. I don't think we can pull payout on my side.
I think we've got to resort to your side.
Pulling from over there until this is accessible again? Yeah.
Throw everything we've got at your side.
What we've got over there is only averaging 0 .6, 0 .7, so we're going to
to pull a hell of a lot more dirt to pick up for this two -ounce -a -hundred
stuff.
The pain Brandon's cut delivers three times as much gold as Fred's.
We ain't pulling from here. No.
So we go to my side.
I'll get my guys focused. You get your guys focused. We'll get it done.
We need a little more yards now, though. Let's do it.
See you later, Fred. See you, man.
You know, this really sucks bad.
Right now, the high quality pay is underwater.
So the big gamble we played is to come out here, put us right back on our
ground.
To maintain production, Fred will have to deliver three times as much pay to
Clayton's wash plant, Dirt Devil.
That means he needs to find a quicker way to truck the pay.
At this point, I'm going to have to look at my operation and see if there's ways
I can speed up my feed. I don't think there's anything we can do with the
equipment we have.
So I'm going to have to figure something out here.
i don't really know what to do but something has to be done gonna have to
outside the box here
all right
we're gonna move our wash plant out we're gonna pull it okay pull it
why pull more pay and run more pace we're gonna make this road efficient
We can pull a lot more pay out of here with this method, I think. No more
backing the rock trucks up.
Exactly. We've got to pull our plant to get access to our pay.
And we'll just drag it to the pad that we created over there for the turnaround
spot, and we'll just park it there.
So that's the call.
Hopefully we won't regret it.
You guys good? Yeah, yeah.
All right.
Golden.
At the moment.
there's a single track running from fred's cut to the clayton's wash plant
fred's idea is to create a loop by hauling his wash plant out of the way
and then building a second half mile long road this will allow the rock
trucks to circulate and speed up delivery of pay to the plant
all right guys This is probably the most dangerous part we have, moving this
wash plant. We'll have two guys ground guiding up, making sure nothing's going
on with the plant. We'll watch the conveyor.
Then you can just worry about moving it.
All right, let's do it. All right.
Both Legault will drag Fred's wash plant 50 yards out of the cut and up a steep
bank to clear the route.
It's only 12 tons.
I know, right?
Yay! All right, that's it, Buzz. Good job.
Fred and his crew then start building the loop road.
And after six hours, it's complete.
We're done.
We are done. We now have access to all the pay we need access to, and we can
it over to Brandon's side really quickly now. We'll be sending trucks in one
way, getting filled up with pay dirt, and coming out the other way. If we can
keep that up, we'll hit those numbers we're looking for, and this will be a
move.
There is just no way I'm going to be able to keep up with scaling for this
thing. We can wave 2 ,000 hours and you can buy that for 10 ,000.
At Duncan Creek, Rick Messer's Vypal 700 excavator is down with a cracked
hydraulic line.
He's come up with a workaround, but it's slowing him down.
Rick? Drop down to 750 for me, and we choose a 330 up there to do tailings. As
long as we can keep this gold rolling up to the plant, that's the only thing
that matters.
My 700's got, you know, a four and a half yard bucket on it, and, you know, a
330 is barely even a yard size bucket. So, you know, four times the amount of
scoops.
To keep Monster Red running.
Rick needs to clear over 400 tons of tailings every hour.
It's going to take me 30 goddamn buckets to a rock truck.
Rick Senior is racing to get the 700 back in service.
I thought my days of playing mechanic were over a long time ago, but I guess
not.
Just now that I'm up here looking closer, they got wells on.
Both sides of this T up and down and a back Disaster it's well
on top of well on top of well on top of well When he welded the T joint on the
700 he burnt a hole through it He now needs to drain the hydraulic fluid
before he can try to weld it again
Hopefully we can get the oil out of the system, because oil will not allow you
to weld.
We're running 300 yards an hour, and we're producing a lot of payload.
So if my dad can't get that 700 fixed in June, it's almost a guarantee that
we're going to have to turn it down to 300 yards an hour. No oil.
That's awesome.
Now that we have evacuated the oil out of that tube there, We've got a lot
better fighting chance of sealing up with weld, but we're not fighting the
This will be a miracle if it does.
All right, so now I'm going to fire it up.
After three hours of welding, it's the moment of truth.
If the welds don't hold, the 700 is out of action.
And Rick will have to slow down the plant.
First things first, we'll just watch for a leak as it idles. And if it leaks
when it idles, then we're really... If it doesn't, then we'll run it up. We're
going to run the boom up in the air and just hit the stop.
And then I'll put quite a bit of pressure on it and see what it does
Looking really, really good. Really good. And I put full pressure on her,
open. We got the 700 repaired here, and we got to get it back in the cut.
If we have any hope of meeting that 2 ,000 -ounce goal, this thing's got to be
in the cut.
After two days, the 700 is back up and running.
So nice that my dad was able to get that 700 back up and running. Having someone
like that around is just invaluable.
I wish I could afford my dad.
but just to have them here for a couple of weeks, man, it's so nice, especially
at the end of the season.
We don't have a lot of time to be messing around, so luckily we're back up
target, and hopefully that 2 ,000 -ounce goal is within reach.
If things don't pick up, we're at pretty high risk of not beating last season.
That's a good thing we've got such good people out there. We've got a great
group of mechanics. We've got great managers.
They're keeping things running and doing a really good job.
Everybody's going to step up. There's lots of people stepping up. And they
certainly don't need me running on my site.
Parker Schnabel has had a streak of successful seasons.
But this season...
Distrusted lieutenants have their work cut out for them.
Right now I have Tatiana feeding the plant froggy digging pay and I'm doing
forest tailings.
At the ugly cut, Tyson Lee is under pressure to keep the gold coming in.
You know we only have a certain amount of days of sleuthing left and every
minute counts right now.
Loader operator Tatiana Koster.
Feeds Lucifer 240 yards of pay dirt an hour.
We currently only have one loader, so I'm really trying
to do all I can to be nice and easy with this loader to make sure we do not
break down because that will be catastrophic right now.
Hey, Tyson, you got a copy, Tyson?
Go ahead, Peter.
There's something wrong with the plant. If you could come over here and have a
look. I'm on my way.
Something's wrong with our pump.
You got a copy, Alec?
Yeah, go ahead.
What's going on, Alec?
So, we're not getting as much water out of the water pump as we should be.
The fan was not quite spinning and the crankshaft was basically slipping on the
belt. And I noticed that stall in here.
You can see like it's been wearing all night. Literally the belt just coming
apart on us.
Lucifer's 10 -inch water pump is powered by a generator.
A fan cools the engine.
But the fan belt is worn so thin it's no longer spinning the fan.
And the engine is overheating.
We actually don't have a backup water pump.
And it's pretty concerning, seeing as we've got a whole cut to sluice there.
What's that?
It's one of the plant pumps giving us some green.
I'm wondering if they have a different pump line around that can steal and put
into play.
No, the motor is pretty much shot on that other backup one.
See the sand belt on it?
It's slipping and kind of overheating on us, so we need a new belt or a
different pump.
And you're going to lose four hours of sleuthing if we have to send someone to
town? Yep.
The four -hour return trip to Dawson for the new fun belt will cost Parker over
$17 ,000 in downtime.
Okay.
I'll get on this. Thanks, man. Yeah.
Yeah, I need to call in a favor.
When can you be here?
It can't afford for us to drag on any longer than it has to.
Right now all I know is we have a wash plant that isn't running.
What'd you do, Jordan?
Went to get belts as quick as I could.
Nope.
I didn't expect you back this fast.
Alex, now just swap the belts out.
Sounds good. And you can put it back on mine. Right on.
Thanks, man.
No worries.
Well, Jordan just flew in a helicopter with the parts for the pump, so belt's
$20, delivery $2 ,000.
Hard of a thawing, eh?
Yep, it's starting to go into the groove there.
It's getting a little tough, but yep, it's going.
There, how's that?
We got her. Nice.
All clear and tight on this side. You happy, Jordan? Yep.
Once that's all set and good.
Well, it's losing!
Good man, Jordan!
After just two and a half hours...
Give her, feed her, John.
Wasp plant's Lucifer is back up and running.
You got rocks?
Oh, yeah.
We can go off the water.
Chartering the helicopter cost Parker $2 ,000.
But reducing his downtime by three hours has saved him over $10 ,000.
It's what we like to be doing right now. I'm out here pulling pay, getting it
sent out to the wash plant, going through the wash plant and making us
This plant is hungry when it's running.
It needs to be fed.
At California Creek, Fred Lewis is digging low -grade pay from his cuts
to stay on track for his season goal.
His crew needs to get three truckloads of pay an hour to the Clayton's watch
plant.
We have no other choice but to simply just run Fred's material right now. It's
lower cost tracer of gold.
For us to really do really well this season, it's important for us to get
down where the better gold is. I'm just lucky that I was paired with Fred
because we were able to actually keep running.
I'm pretty much the best rock truck driver here, which is pretty sad because
rock truck is pretty easy.
Recently, we joined up with Clayton. It's kind of a risky move.
A lot of their vehicles go down, and a lot of guys just don't see it. Canyon
Isles is the way Fred wants it to.
With all the heavy rainfall that we've been getting, Brandon's cut won it
completely. So now, we're only willing to pay for our cut.
Sometimes you've got to rev up the engine to get it to start going, but
now it's just not doing it.
I don't think this is going to get resolved anytime soon.
You're kind of just wasting film at this point.
Pretty frustrating, yeah.
Hey, JB.
Can you take a look at the rock truck?
Sure. What's wrong with it?
No matter how much I rev the engine, the bucket wouldn't go up.
Mechanic J .B. Meyer fixed tanks in Iraq during the first Gulf War.
It looks like some massive hydraulic leak underneath the hood there from
somewhere.
It's so far underneath the cab and so hard to get to that it's a pretty major
fix. This could be the season for that rock truck.
That's what it could end up being.
Pretty much it might be done.
He's going to take it apart. We're going to get the part number.
See if we can get that part rushed.
Not what we needed.
Oh, yeah. You got it.
It's got a bad spot in it. Right there. Yeah.
We'll take this to the auto parts store, and they'll make the lines like that
and be done with it, put it back in.
JB heads to town to get the part he needs.
But it's a six -hour round -trip.
We're down at the rock truck, and the pay pile is looking pretty damn small.
I probably have 35 buckets of pay before I run out.
Right now, I'm running a little bit slower.
If you give them a little more time, they need to pick up space because...
I don't want to have to shut this plant down.
Looks like Fred's fleet is basically falling apart on us. We're behind right
now. Pays not coming to the plant as fast as we want it.
We're trying to keep Deer Devil fed, and it's just not working out.
Eight hours after the Rook truck broke down... I had to go to town to get the
hydraulic lines.
JB's ready to test the new hydraulic hose.
We got smoke.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
It's been slowing us down. We need every vehicle we can.
So we got it up and running. Big, big relief.
Big relief, and we're ready to go pull some more pace.
taking all of our pay.
Both rucksacks running full bore, taking the pay over here. It's a big plan.
It's pretty exciting.
What's up, guys?
At California Creek, Brandon Clayton's high -grade cut was flooded out.
So the only gold at this weigh -in comes from Fred Lewis' lower -grade pay dirt.
We had a lot of problems this last week, but it's not stuff we really could have
prevented. I mean, Brands Creek overflowing. Yeah, that's right.
What are we going to do about that? The equipment problems.
That's mining. So I feel like we're working really well together.
Yeah, I think so. So I guess it's time to see what it is, huh? Fred's talking
about it too much. Let's put it on there. Put it on the plate.
All right, here we go.
Fred and Brandon will split the gold 50 -50.
One, two, three, four.
To hit his 100 -ounce season goal, Fred needs at least 9 .4 ounces every week.
13, 14, 15, 16, 28, 30.
30 .865.
Fred's dare is 15 .43 ounces, worth $28 ,000.
Not bad, right?
Not bad at all. I'm happy as a goat with this. I know it's less than our last
collaboration week, but I think this is a bigger victory because of all we had
to fight to get this. I think we've already beat the odds.
Hell yeah, we have.
Fred's total now stands at 87 ounces.
13 short of his 100 -ounce season goal.
We're knocking on that door of our season goal.
We can get back out there and start washing and hauling and get us there.
I think he means like right now.
Oh, hello, guys.
Brian, don't look so excited.
I'm tired. It's been a long week. Oh, I know.
We still got a big jar of gold, though.
Looks pretty hefty.
Wow.
What the heck is in that? Those are all your welding rods for fixing that hole.
Yeah, it's all kind of bad. You just get here and it'll throw you right in the
hydraulic. I break it down and he gets to fix it.
So you're still happy you came?
I did not expect to be working a 12 -hour shift the minute I got here.
But, you know, I mean, it is what it is.
Well, I appreciate that.
Well, I appreciate that.
Well,
should we see what this week laid out to?
To reach his 2 ,000 -ounce target, Rick must average 250 ounces a week.
We got 30, 40, 70, 90, 120.
Still coming.
Jesus.
122 .31.
Worth $220 ,000.
Less than half of what he needs.
But the deeper they go into Raleigh Valley, the better the gold.
I know you guys are getting tired, but we've got some weeks left.
And I know you're all up for it, right? I just want to get to the bottom of
that. No.
They're going to be bigger and bigger, man. We're going to need two, three
Let's go double the pan, boys.
I'm in.
Thanks a lot, guys. Yeah, you bet.
Hey there, youngster. What's happening?
What was your day?
Oh, not too bad. I mean, I didn't have to have a helicopter fly parts in for
water pump, so.
Don't get used to it, Tyson.
You want to see your ugly cut? You better take an ounce out of there
it's going to the helicopter company.
First cleanup of the ugly.
The promised lands of the cuts, the good and the bad, average 200 ounces a week.
40, 60.
80, 100, 108 .15.
It's not bad for a first cleanup.
Worth almost $195 ,000, but half the average for the promised land.
So Mitch, you had a smoking week last week, right?
Next up, Mud Mountain, where last week Mitch Blaschke hauled in a season's best
600 ounces of gold.
Oh, I got to know, Chris.
Did we beat it again?
Well, I'll tell you what. You have another two -pan week.
Is that yummy looking or what? That looks very nice.
So there's your 400.
Okay.
And you got another big thermos out, so I'm feeling pretty good.
Want to count this one, Mitch?
Here we go. Here we got 10.
30, 40, oh, is that all you got in there?
45 .45.
Yeah. You know, you can't break records every week, man. So 445 .45.
Worth over $800 ,000.
450 ounces in a week, man. Yeah. You really can't complain.
Yeah, you can.
See you guys for the season.
It's 6 ,657 .85.
We're gaining on last season. That's good. All right. Well, let's finish
Let's do it. Cheers.
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