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(Transcrito por TurboScribe.ai. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) We've got a lot of sluicing time in so far this season, like the plants were running

really well, but it doesn't mean we can take our foot off the gas.

Harker Schnabel's season is at a critical point.

Two-thirds of the way in, he's banked over $23 million, but he's spending close to a

million a week, and his gold hauls are slipping.

We've got Bob in the bridge cut, I'm not worried about it, background's been open a while,

it's plugging away.

We've got Mitch with Roxanne on the Indian River, he's got a good handle on that.

My main concern is the Golden Mile and what we do in there, because probably most of the

gold that we're going to find is going to come out of there, but also those pits cannot

be left with paying them this year, and it screws the whole mining plan up if that happens.

So that's my main concern right now, and I'm probably going to be stepping on Tyson's toes

a little bit, but we just have to stay on top of that.

This season, Harker has foreman Tyson Lee running three wash plants, with Bob in the

bridge cut, and Slucifer and Big Red in the Golden Mile, churning through a combined total

of 680 yards of pay dirt an hour.

We have a major problem with the depth of pay, what's going to happen to us at the end

of the season, and the knock-on effect of what's going to happen to us next year if

we don't get those pits all out, at least out, right?

We don't have to necessarily get them sluiced, but the dirt can't be in the hole anymore.

Because if the dirt's still in the hole, we can't strip the next bite into those pits,

and then it's just like the knock-on effect of all of that causes a huge amount of pain

and suffering and heartache.

Just where do we put it that we can sluice it once we start stripping?

I think we should start hauling it out.

We have a lot of big waste sites of gravel, right, that we could just start making pay

piles on top of.

How long do we have to get this done then?

In my mind, we have to get at least half of it out in the next, like, seven days.

And who do I have to get this done?

Your plant crews.

You shut down both Sluiceford and Big Red.

Parker's mined the Golden Mile for four months.

But with winter fast approaching, he's behind schedule with over 300,000 yards of pay still

left in the cut.

To get it all out, he's gambling on shutting down both wash plants, which will cost him

three quarters of a million in lost gold each week.

He'll use the plant crews to help haul the remaining pay out into two massive stockpiles.

Then he can start stripping overburden from a new cut into the mined-out Golden Mile.

While Tyson's crew races to sluice as much of the pay pile before winter hits.

I don't know another option.

Do you?

I get what you're saying by we don't have to sluice it this year, but it sucks doing that

because what if we don't sluice something we pulled out of a pit?

I know, but when have we had a pit that needed to get stripped into and we didn't get the

pay out of it?

That's a bigger problem.

Right.

There's no chance of getting anyone from the Indian to come up.

If you absolutely have to, you can talk to Mitch about taking trucks from Ken and Stewart's.

Well, I wish there was another way, but it doesn't seem like there is, eh?

No, there's not.

I don't really see another option, so I think we're just going to have to bite the bullet.

Well, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but thank you.

That really breaks Tyson's heart.

He loves wash plants to be washing, as do I, but there's not much you can do about the

situation.

We were either going to have a situation like this now or a much worse situation in the

end of the season, and I really don't like ... over our future selves.

Much rather ... the present than the future.

Hey, Amy, you got a copy, Amy?

Copy.

Well, that can be your last scoop there.

We're shutting down both plants.

You know, these plants pull out millions of dollars of gold out of the ground.

It's a big gamble shutting down two wash plants in the middle of the season.

We've never done this before, so we've got to focus on getting that pay out of the Golden

Mile, up in massive stockpiles, so we can fire our wash plants back up.

So here we go.

Now we're going to shut her down.

Holy ****.

You know, I really hope this gamble pays off.

In due time, we'll find out.

We're in the Indian air, banging away.

We're putting in good times, listening in to it.

Two boxes, 24 hour a day, so that's all good.

Unlike Parker, Klondike kingpin Tony Beetz is running flat out.

He's already hauled in $19 million in gold, and is fast closing in on his 6,500 ounce gold.

The gold price is exceptional, absolutely zero, nothing to complain about.

We couldn't ask for any better time to beat a gold miner.

But in the meantime, never mind.

Gold price is no good if you don't get any gold out of the ground, so to speak.

Mike still doesn't have the trommel going.

I mean, it seems like every time Mike seems to try to fire up, there's something else **** wrong with, I think.

Things like the brake, consistently, it's been **** nothing but a headache this year trying to get **** going.

I got it going, it's still going, and I'm going to keep on going, but it doesn't mean I can't ask when the **** is it going to stop.

At the start of the season, Mike made a pitch to his dad to run his own claim.

You gave Kevin a bunch of help getting him going. Is there anything you can help us with?

There's some opportunities out there. Let's get these two places here going first, and then we'll talk.

But he spent four months struggling with a skeleton crew.

Mike really wants to impress his father, and that's sometimes a little hard.

And last week, when he finally fired up the trommel, his plans fell apart in front of his family.

I can't stand **** looking at that.

You going to show me all the rollers you put in?

Yes, if you go up here, I can show you.

So I put five rollers in it. Hopefully you don't have the same problem than before.

That should stop anything from kicking over.

Let's see how it works.

Okay, then we'll start it up.

The whole thing hopefully will work this time.

Over the past six seasons, Paradise Hill has delivered almost 20,000 ounces of gold, worth over $70 million.

Now, Mike is ready to run a stockpiled mountain of fabled white-channel pay, if he can just keep the trommel turning.

All right, here we go. First bucket going into the trommel.

Late start, but a late start is better than no start.

Hey Mike, I thought I heard something moving.

One sec!

Moby, stop.

The belt's tracking over real bad that way. We got to **** adjust it.

Okay.

Yeah, we just got **** with the belt. The belt decided to **** off in the wrong direction.

We're already setting the whole **** thing up, so I'm not surprised it's doing this and that.

There's always something going on, right? To get it right.

We're just going to have to keep adjusting it until she does start to work.

It's not too big of a job, is it?

No.

It's going to change the moment dirt hits it, man.

It did move over by about an inch or two by the looks of it.

Want to give it another try?

Yeah.

Start it up.

Okay, let's get this show on the road.

Kind of a sight for sore eyes, ain't it?

Oh ****, finally. About time.

It's good to get some money out of there, eh?

Yeah, it'll be nice.

Now it's set up and it should be good for quite a while.

So, I mean, he's proven himself, so it's good for him to get his own shot too.

Same as Kevin, right?

So far, so good. It's working for now.

I've been having so many one-step forward, two-step backs that I'm not getting my hopes up, I'm not getting excited.

Until I get a weekend, I ain't saying ****.

It's turning, that's all that really matters right now.

This is not where we want to be, you know, our goal total is very low.

We're a little less than 500 ounces and we're looking for 1,800.

Rick Ness is gambling on turning his season around on a huge new cut, Valhalla.

But three weeks into the big dig, he's still not hit pay dirt and is burning cash fast.

It's easy to give up out here, it is, you know, especially when **** going wrong like we've had.

It's a mental game.

You can save up going home and thinking it'll work, or you can put your head down, work harder and make it work.

We're fighting for our lives.

Sometimes that's where a guy thrives and we'll see this year.

It's a lot to take on, but, you know, I'd raise up for it.

Rick believes Valhalla has 160 feet of overburden that covers a gold-rich pay layer.

He has already dug halfway down, shifting enough dirt to fill over half of the Empire State Building.

Rick still has to remove another 80 feet to hit an area of gold-rich pay the size of a football field.

Then, sluice it all by the end of the season.

I made the decision to extend the cut.

It's a risk, no doubt about that, but, you know, with the amount of time that we've got left in the season

and, you know, what we've got to work with, there's really no choice.

There's definitely no guarantee that this is going to work, but there never is in mining,

so we've just got to suck it up.

Rick has just six crew and he's thrown everyone into trucks to help move the mountain of overburden.

From his cook, Heather...

Oh, you know, just killing it. Only two jobs today, kitchen and here.

...to his mechanic, Ryan.

I'm in a truck. We're struggling.

Nobody likes a rock truck. If you like a rock truck, you're a f***ing liar.

We definitely have been waiting a long time of hauling overburden just to be able to get pay out,

which is kind of a pain in the ass.

We could always have a couple more trucks.

Hey, Ryan.

So, what's your thoughts on Rick's plan for this expansion here?

I think we've got an ass load of dirt to move.

It's definitely bigger than the last time we did Vegas Valley, and I do worry about timing.

If we have one thing go down, something happens with that 750.

There's no way we're going to hit 1,800 ounces.

Yeah, it is true, man.

You know, this is the s***. We need more f***ing rock truck drivers

because being stuck in this f***ing rock truck when I should be working on equipment,

that doesn't make any f***ing sense.

After his shift, Ryan sits down with his family before he leaves with them for a short break from the claim.

You want to learn how to drive a rock truck?

Yeah.

Sold.

Sold. I'll tell Rick, we'll get you your paperwork and get you going.

You've been gone quite a few months, so it's been pretty hard back home.

It's tough.

But, obviously, we're up here to make a better life for ourselves.

And, you know, the first two seasons we've hit our goal, and it's helped us in life.

So, you know, this one here, this is going to be a struggle.

So, it's kind of a, I don't know, touch and go subject with how much gold we've brought in this year.

We haven't even, we haven't done s***.

Yeah, that's kind of scary.

You know, I guess that's another question is, you know, I mean, how do you feel to continue?

You do, like, miss out on everything at home.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know, just everything.

Yep.

I got to go quick, Ryan.

It is, it's tough.

Yeah, I mean, we haven't had a summer in three years.

Yeah, like going to the lake, or just, like, vacations, or just, like, anything.

Obviously, we rely on the gold bonus to, you know, that's what we're working for, and I don't know if it's there.

And right now, we're barely cutting the bills, so.

I just wonder, you know, at what point do you just, like, have to, I don't know, just call it a day and just be back with us, you know?

How many relationships last?

Yeah.

And they don't see each other for six months, so.

You want Daddy to keep coming back?

No.

Hey, Rick.

I don't know, I got s*** bothering me, and I just want to talk to you about it.

I'm down here at Monster Red.

What's the scoop?

Honestly, I had a long talk with Rachel.

You know, I've got to think about my future, and leaving them home alone all the time, it's just not easy on them.

You know, that's, uh, I don't know.

I want to be in all different places at once.

It's tough.

There's a lot to think about.

I, I, I, I'll tell you this, like, as far as people goes, um, you're, you're, you're, I mean, lack of a title, I mean, you're my go-to guy out here.

It's always going to be in the back of your mind of, f***, are we going to see a bonus this year?

My family relies on it, and I always want to make sure there's food on the table, and that's, that's my number one concern.

I don't, I don't take that lightly, you know what I mean?

I never have, and I'm not going to lie, I mean, we, we don't finish this, or we don't get to the bottom of it,

or we get to the bottom of it, and there's no gold this year.

I don't know how to survive that.

And that's when it starts f***ing with your head, especially when you're in a rock truck all day.

Uh.

I think there's a few things that you're going to have to ponder about.

Like, f***, dude, your cut is double now.

It's a f***ing cut, man.

You know, this is aggressive.

We're hoping the f***ing money's in the ground, but, yeah, I, I, we won't really know it until we get down there.

But with the price of gold doing what it's doing, it does not take that much gold to make it profitable.

All it takes is one bad season to, to lose everything.

It's a gamble with the amount of gold we brought in.

I mean, we've all talked, so everybody's got their concerns.

I'd hate to see this crew change.

I know he's been stressed out.

I get worried that, uh, he might just call it quits, leave us right now, just bail on us in the middle of the season.

Because he's got a business at home, he's got a family at home, and that's, uh, that's a lot to leave behind.

It's...

All right, let's go.

Now, as Ryan leaves to take his family home, he has a big decision to make.

It's been a tough week.

You know, I got to think about things at home and think about the things I'm missing and think about the situations I put them in.

I don't know. There's a lot going on. Got a lot to think about.

So, you know, we got Slucifer and Big Red shut down up in the Golden Mile.

We have our sluicing crew in trucks, in excavators, getting that mass volume of pay in a stockpile.

Parker Schnabel's crew has shut down both plants to focus on clearing half the remaining pay out of the Golden Mile by the end of the week.

But foreman Tyson fears it will take longer and cost even more in lost gold.

You know, right now, we're stretched so thin up here at Dominion.

Although we have a lot of resources, we have a lot of the work up here, so we need all the help we can get.

Puppy Mitch?

Yeah, dude, what's up?

Hey, man, we're going to need one of your trucks up here at Dominion. We got a mountain of pay to move.

Dude, I only have two trucks. It's going to leave me with one truck. I got to keep a wash plant going 24 hours a day.

Foreman Mitch Blaschke is running one of Parker's remaining two plants still sluicing.

Yeah, I know it's not ideal, but this comes from the top, so we got to make it happen here.

Well, if that's what Parker wants, like, I mean, I can send Sean up there with a truck, but you guys need to get it done as fast as possible because this plant's going to run out of dirt here.

Alrighty. Thanks, man.

Unreal, dude.

Yeah, make it work. Oh, you're making it work with hardly anything? Okay. We'll see if you can do it with a little less.

Yo, Sean. Hey, man.

Yeah, go ahead.

Take that truck up to Dominion. They got to get a bunch of dirt moved out of the Golden Mile, and they need everything we got, so get up there as fast as you can. Just get it done and rip back here.

Yeah, I'm on my way.

Parker needs all hands on deck at Dominion. It's not the best thing we can do down here. We know we got so much to get through here. Mitch ain't too happy about it.

The crew is so stretched that even Parker is helping out in the Golden Mile, dozing pay into wind roads for the rock trucks to haul to the stockpiles.

So basically, the best hope we have of kind of staying on target is bringing all the pay out to a big stockpile as fast as we can.

So there's a lot going on up here right now. It's kind of all hands on deck. It's a lot of dirt to move.

Up until the last few weeks, I thought we had 10,000 ounces in the bag. I thought we'd have it by now, but it's proving to be a bit elusive.

Sean, in the vital extra rock truck, is only halfway into the 15 miles of rough mine roads between the Indian River and Dominion.

What the f*** is that?

Truck's not going nowhere.

Oh, f*** man.

That's not good.

I've been hearing this noise and I knew it sounded like a U-joint. So this is going to take some time.

Hopefully, we can get down here and fix it soon enough.

Taylor, you got a copy? Taylor?

No answer.

Mitch wasn't too happy about me doing this.

Now Parker's not going to be too happy about me not making it there.

Right now, it ain't going to be driving f*** at all.

There's no repairing this end of the drive shaft because the yoke here where the U-joint mounts, part of it's snapped clean off. That's toast.

On the road to Dominion, mechanic Taylor Matica is under the gun to fix a rock truck desperately needed to help Parker's golden mile blitz.

I just got back to Dominion. We do have a bone yard here. We do have a few options. I think they've all been pretty ransacked, so I'm 50-50 on my level of hope for that.

This is where I'm most hopeful. This is one from before we ever bought the place. This is the closest I've ever been to it.

The drive shaft's obviously been hijacked as well.

That's a bad start. If we can't find one, we might be in trouble.

Every hour is super important right now for all of our trucks. It's crazy. We're running everything 24-7.

We've got one more junk yard here. It's where things go to die. It's possible though. We've got to never say never.

You want to come along? Okay.

A lot of this stuff is either just junk or taken off of old machines and s***. You've got a bunch of coolant pipes here. A lot of it is just failed components as well.

But holy s***. Look at this!

This means we've got a bit of work to do, but we can get that truck going. End of the day today, that thing will be moving dirt.

Taylor's rock truck fix can't come soon enough for Brennan Rule, who's also been drafted in from their Indian River operation.

I'm up here in the Golden Mile helping Tyson out. I'm loading some trucks here.

He just seems to be sucking up every single resource. I'm sure if he had 100 people here, we'd still not feel like there's enough equipment and machinery.

It's just crazy busy, so I really need that truck running.

We'll get this truck up and running hell or high water.

It's a pretty delicate balance.

Speed versus meticulousness. You try to do both. If you overextend in one, you fail in the other.

Alright, that's her.

Every truck on site, we're needing down to the Golden Mile, so we need to get this thing up and running ASAP. Tyson's going to be super stoked we got this thing going.

Hey Tyson, I'm here now. I heard you got some pay to be moved.

I thought you were taking the day off, man. Didn't think I'd see you today.

Hell yeah, brother. We got her done, man.

That's awesome.

It's what we need to get this project done.

Tyson now has a shot to get half the pay out by Parker's end of week deadline.

Hopefully we can pull it off.

Let's get to it!

At the Valhalla Cut, Rick's only mechanic, Ryan, has left with his family to think through his mining future.

And his remaining five crew are racing to get down to pay.

Yeah, I'm excited to finally see some gold out of Valhalla. This sounds stupid as ****.

It's Valhalla! We're going to get some Valhalla gold here soon, buddy.

**** right!

My life is on the line here, but the amount of dirt that these guys can move with not ideal situations

and not the amount of people that's necessary is surprising.

It's more than surprising, it's amazing.

It's going to work, I usually know the gold's going to be there.

I've started to learn to trust my gut out here and so far it's paying off.

The rock truck sucks today. The roads are rough.

What the **** was that?

That didn't sound good.

Hey, buddy.

What's up?

I think my drive shaft's ****, the rear one.

Let's take a look.

It's the rear drive shaft.

Yeah, she's ****.

****.

Oh, Rick, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, buddy.

Yeah, this truck, it looks like I blew the rear drive shaft.

She's going to be down for a bit while Kai and I try and figure this out and see if we got parts.

Are you **** kidding me? What the **** is going on out there?

Limp this thing into the yard, I guess.

I've done this one other time and it was with Ryan.

I'm glad he showed me how to do it because here we are.

Without Ryan.

So, we need to get **** done somehow.

What was the other one, Kai? A 17?

No, an 18 ratchet wrench.

Yeah, got that.

And a 19 regular wrench.

We just have to pull the drive shaft off, put the new one on and it should be ready to rip.

Yeah, it really sucks not having Ryan here, especially when **** like this goes wrong and we're already down a truck.

It appears to have worked, Kai.

Yeah, it's definitely not what we want to see a truck down and only have two working.

I'm here sitting, waiting for trucks and three is barely enough and two is definitely not enough.

We might have to grind this other bolt off.

You done?

I will be in a sec.