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Got a lot going on right now, and
hopefully we're not biting off too much.
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Gold mining genius Parker Schnabel is
planning an audacious move, running two
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mining operations in two different
countries, one in the Yukon and a new
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in Alaska.
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It's really dangerous having that big of
a battle on two different fronts,
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getting people hitting hard.
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It's going to be a real challenge.
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But before resources can be moved to
Alaska, Parker needs his Yukon crew to
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strip a mammoth 90 acres of ground at
the airstrip.
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We have so much ground to get through
that just stripping is the main issue.
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With just how spread out we're going to
be, everybody's going to have to step
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up.
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To ramp up the pressure, Parker's water
license at the airstrip expires at the
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end of the season.
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To maximize his profits, he'll need to
extract every ounce of gold.
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Either that, or it'll stay in the ground
forever.
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We're getting really close to being done
with the keyhole path.
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Crew's working pretty hard to make sure
that the next one's ready.
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Guys, we're almost there.
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After an early start, Parker's wash
plant boss Tyson Lee...
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has pulled out 975 ounces of gold from
the 14 -acre keyhole cut.
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We're getting to the bitter end of the
first cut of the season here. I'm
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out the last bit of pay.
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So these are the last few truckloads,
getting it up to big red. This cut is
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and done with.
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You're good, my horn is again.
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Hey, you're good, you're loaded.
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That's me.
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I feel like I'm keeping up at the
moment, which is good.
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You're doing great.
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I think that's it.
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The last bucket.
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Here we go.
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All righty, guys, time to shut Big Red
down.
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The next step is Easy Street.
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Just upstream from the Keyhole Cut,
Parker's crew have already stripped down
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pay at the 11 -acre Easy Street Cut,
ground they hope can deliver over a
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million dollars in gold.
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We're stripping down here at the
airstrip.
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Everybody's asking why we call it Easy
Street, and I think it's because it's
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only going to get tougher from here.
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To wash gold at the new cut, Parker
needs Big Red moved and running pay dirt
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just 10 hours' time.
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Hopefully we can nail these transitions.
We have so much ground to get through
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that smoothly transitioning from one pit
to the next is going to be a critical
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part of this, and we have a lot of them
to do.
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lose a couple days per plant move. It's
going to throw a wrench in the works for
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the whole season.
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This is going to be on Tyson getting Big
Red moved from the set up it's in to
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the next one because he needs to get
comfortable doing it on his own because
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Mitch is dealing with the stripping
crew.
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Right now it's just Tyson's over there
on his own and we're relying on him to
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able to keep that plant going.
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So we're all done with Big Red here at
this setup. We're ready to get back
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looping with the wash plant and the cut.
Trying to do this myself, so wish me
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luck.
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This is the first time I've set Big Red
up by myself, so we just want to be
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careful not to flip the thing over.
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So it's pretty well concreted into the
ground.
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Stand back!
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Yee -haw!
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So this is probably the sketchiest part
of the whole pole. There's a narrow
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culvert crossing in the road and big red
clips over. That's game over.
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Looking pretty tight.
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I don't know if we're gonna make it!
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The last step is to drag the plant up a
30 -foot ramp to the top of the pad.
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The plant's dug in. When you're building
a wash plant pad, you need compaction.
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That's what we're fighting against right
now.
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The plant's not level.
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We have to level the plant before
everything else is built around it.
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Just need to, like, unbury it now.
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I mean, the plant will do its thing and
it'll probably settle, but it's more the
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sluice runs with the river flowing off
them I'm concerned about.
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Tyson now has just six hours to get the
sluices, pump and generator ready for
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the night shift.
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How's things looking?
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When are you firing up tonight?
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Hopefully. I was hoping to just get it
prepped. I don't know how you do it.
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I just don't want to worry about it.
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I'm worried about stripping.
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That's why I haven't been here.
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No, it's all good.
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You don't have to worry about it.
Thanks, man. Thanks.
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We're dealing with an uncompacted pad,
so we're going to need good water
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distribution, and that involves having a
chute.
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Two years ago, when Tyson set up a wash
plant.
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Where's all this water coming from?
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Water from the sluices undermined the
pad.
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Holy crap!
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And nearly toppled the wash plant.
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Tyson!
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This time he plans to divert the water
runoff.
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with a 35 -foot -long steel chute.
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We've got to get this trough, and we've
got to get it back up to Big Red,
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because there's still hope at Big Red
running tonight.
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Any day we're not floosing means another
day we have to floose into October,
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November.
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But the chute is a four -mile journey
downstream to where it was last used.
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Parker's really counting on me to get
Big Red up and going, so I'm going to do
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my best to have it running by the end of
the day.
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What the...
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This is the last thing I wanted to see
right now. Our road's washed completely
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out. I'm going to have to pack material
in and get that water going through that
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culvert. It must have just been roaring
through here.
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Move your bum, Jerv.
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Go on.
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Last year we had this happen, and man,
it took six, seven different pieces of
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equipment and people and damn near a
whole day to rebuild this road. And
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time I don't have.
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I could be in serious trouble.
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I've got fuel bills coming in, and I
only have so much money.
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So once that money runs out, we don't
have gold coming in.
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Well, we're screwed.
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I mean, our house is up for grabs on
this. We're walking a tightrope right
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46 miles west of Dawson, in the
wilderness of California Creek, combat
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Fred Lewis is chasing a record 500
-ounce season goal.
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But five weeks in, he's still not mined
a single ounce.
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We're just trying to get the mine site
running so money can start coming in
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instead of going out.
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We've just got to keep pushing and get
to where we need to be to start
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soliciting.
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The long, harsh winter has dealt Fred a
crippling blow.
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A quarter of a mile -long ice sheet has
prevented any mining, along with access
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to any gold -rich pay dirt.
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We're trying to uncover as much as we
can and get this mine site moving.
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Last week, Fred resurrected an ancient
90 -yard -an -hour wash plant.
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Hit it!
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But it's redundant until Fred can dig
down to pay.
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Any attempts so far to melt the ice have
failed.
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so far behind schedule at this moment in
time that we don't have any time to
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wait. So we have to take action and take
control of the creek.
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Hey, Fred, man.
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What's going on?
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Well, this ice has got to go, man. We
don't have any other way to do it, I
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think, but to go up there and try and
make the creek go back where it belongs
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somehow, and that should facilitate
melting the ice on the right side. If we
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can't do that, we really don't have
anything else to get it to go.
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I feel like you've got the skill to do
this.
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I think my best bet is for me to walk
along the berm as you're going up there
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and just spot it for you. All we can do
is try, right? We can't sit here and
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wait. We've got to try.
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Let's pound some of that ice off.
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Okay, let's do it.
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You got me on the radio?
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Yes, I do.
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All right, I'll be on the bank.
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All right.
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Fred's plan is to create a 20 -foot
-long ice dam.
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across the narrowest point of the creek.
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The blockage should divert water onto
the top sheet, helping to melt the ice
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covering the gold -rich pay dirt left
over from last season.
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So we got to try it. It's worth the
risk.
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Hey, Buds, this is probably the fastest
running water at this choke point.
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Yeah.
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It's a little bit risky. If we sink this
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Let's take our time and make sure
nothing bad happens to it, right?
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All right, your tracks are about... Oh,
man, you're almost submerged completely.
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It's not pushing you at all, is it?
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Take this corner a little bit.
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Hey, Buzz, that ice is awful beautiful,
but we're going to have to kill it.
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Sounds like a good plan, doesn't it?
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Oh!
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Wow.
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That's like 20 ,000 pounds of ice in his
throat.
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Yeah!
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Oh, now it's massive.
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The boys hope the ice boulders will
choke the river and divert the water.
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There we go.
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You've got a little bit of ice that's
holding.
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It looks that way.
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Fingers crossed it works.
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I'm going to make a nice jam.
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There we go.
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That's lovely.
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Wow.
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I've got a pretty good ice jam here.
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You know, you're actually getting close
to the top of that ice. If you could get
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it over the top, that would actually
melt it really well.
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Under the excavator.
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Just be really careful.
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So
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there
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goes the ice dam.
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That's not feasible.
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We're going to have to think of
something else.
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This is definitely not going to work.
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Dude, we don't have a backup plan.
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Like, we got nothing.
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Is that what you're telling me?
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We're in this point in time.
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If the frigid wilderness refuses the
coming
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of spring, Fred will fail before he even
gets started.
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It's a crushing blow.
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he may not recover from.
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Hey, man.
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I don't have anything else to throw at
this. I know, sorry. Well, but it's one
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of those things. We're not going to go
home. We're not going to quit.
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I'm going to run out of money.
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It's a possibility, but it's also a
possibility that we're going to hit the
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mother load and walk out of here and be
able to go back and buy Bentley.
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And usually that is all I'm thinking
about, but lately it just seems like
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puppeteer pulling my strings and
making... go wrong, and it's like, how
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you take? How much can you take? And I
just want to cut string.
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Yeah, I'm just at the end of my rope,
man.
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We have to keep the trauma going in
order to reach our 5 ,000 -pound goal.
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It's not optional. We have to stick to
it.
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Klondike King, Tony Beetz, is digging
deeper than ever before, opening up two
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monster cuts in the hunt for Paradise
Hill's gold -rich White Channel pastry.
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The cold cuts and the blue cuts are
going to be key out this season.
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It's been a while since we did them that
big. I think they should easily produce
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2 ,500 apiece. They're going to have to
deliver.
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After five weeks fighting deep frozen
ground in both his cuts, Tony's banked
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less than 500 ounces, way short of the
200 ounces a week he needs.
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I'm going to be ripping in here for a
good chunk of the day, probably a good
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chunk of tomorrow, because frozen pay is
just a pain in the ass.
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Tony's entrusted youngest son Mike with
managing the cuts.
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and bringing in the gold.
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Mike, he has a big responsibility this
year. He has to have enough material
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there in order to keep the sluice bars
going.
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But the ground being that frozen, he's
got to rip it with two cuts. He really
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has his job cut out.
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A mechanical balancing act.
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Mike must juggle the nine -acre cold cut
with its foreboding 60 -foot -deep
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frozen pay layer.
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alongside the newly opened six -acre
blue cut, where D11 dozers use ripper
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shanks to expose stubborn permafrost to
sunlight.
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If it doesn't defrost in time, the
stockpile of thawed pay dirt will run
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forcing them to shut down.
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And it's all ripped up, so it all thaws
out, and we have a lot of pay ready to
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lose now.
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The only other machine in Tony's arsenal
powerful enough to dig through frozen
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pay is the $1 .1 million 950 excavator.
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Mike has tasked James Rhino, a beach
crew veteran, with digging out the pay,
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ready to thaw at the pay pile.
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It's pretty frosty in here this morning.
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A lot of frozen ground in here.
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Hey, Tony, you copy?
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James, go ahead. James, go ahead.
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Yeah, this ground is really hard.
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Can we come up with another plan?
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Throw the thing out of there, bring it
to the staging yard, and we'll figure
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something out. Okay.
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We're going to take the boom off the
excavator.
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We're going to put a shorter boom on,
and then we have more power, and it's
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easier to get a bucket full. It should
be a lot more productive.
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Tony's plan is to remove the 950's 28
-foot boom and replace it with a 24
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boom.
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The shorter arm will generate more force
and concentrate digging power.
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We already took the bucket off.
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Now we're going to pull the main boom
pin out.
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Taking charge of the swap is mechanic
Sam Aftonis.
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The pin's stuck in here. It's just being
up.
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What do you got then?
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So, I proceed.
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Pulling that pin out is going to be a
pain in the ass.
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Says who?
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Me.
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James. Yeah.
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Double wrap that half inch chain around
one of those uprights.
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Around them?
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Double wrap it.
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Good. Hook it up, wrap it up. It's not
going to work with the slip hook, is it?
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Oh, really?
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What if you double it up and it doesn't?
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54 and a half, and that is five.
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I'm hoping that pin doesn't jump out of
there, Craig.
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No, that's why he's pulling with the
bucket, not the loader.
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Okay.
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Pull your bucket a bit.
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Pull it, pull it, pull it, pull it. Oh.
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Oh, no, I hooked it up, remember?
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Yeah, I do.
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Get ready for the boom?
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Yeah. Good. Go for it.
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Just put it on the ground. Who cares?
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We got the boom off. Now put this one
on, and then we'll see how far we're
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to get today.
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Okay, lift. Bring it up.
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Let's go. Hook it up.
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Whoa. Put some good pressure on it.
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Let's... Wait, wait, wait.
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Dave, watch my calf.
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Watch the beam.
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Hang it up for a second, Sam.
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Okay. Have a good one.
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Dave, push it over a bit.
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Good. Yeah.
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Okay. Somebody on there? Bingo.
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Safe's over when it's easy.
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Oh, we're in the other side.
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Okay. Take it off. Good enough.
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That went really well.
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Yeah. That was super fun.
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Woo!
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With the 950 back in the blue cut.
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My old girl, I got to get her back in
the dirt.
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It should tear through the concrete hard
frozen ground and keep the trommel fed
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with thawed paydirt.
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It does dig a lot better than that long
boom.
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Just tears through that frost.
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Nice full scoops.
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It actually picks the bucket up, so
that's a nice change.
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It's going to be a little bit different
getting used to having trucks closer to
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you because you're going to have to keep
them nice and tight to be able to reach
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them, but I like the way it digs.
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We're going to have a lot better time
keeping up with trucks and moving a lot
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more dirt with this thing.
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I'm getting a bit stressed out because
we're so spread out and there's so much
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to do.
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At Parker Schnabel's Astrid Cut, they're
racing to mine out 90 acres of ground
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in just a single season.
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With this water license expiring and so
much ground to get through, we're having
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to really just plow hard into getting
everything as opened up as we can.
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We don't have another season after this,
but the water license, everything has
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to be sluiced.
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Nearly all of Parker's crew are focused
on stripping, leaving plant boss Tyson
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Lee running solo as he bids to get Big
Red running before night shift takes
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in just three hours' time.
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You know, we're just so strung out on
guys this year that no one's had time to
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come down here and see how the roads
are.
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Tyson needs to collect a metal chute to
help disperse water from Big Red's
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sluice run.
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But a washed -out road?
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has hampered his progress.
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If these roads weren't washed out, Big
Red would be running right now.
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This is the last stoop here.
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It's a quick bush pick, good enough to
get our chute, and hopefully I'll come
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back in time that the road's still here.
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So here we are, finally at our chute.
This thing looks like something you'd
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in a scrapyard, but it definitely makes
everything go that much smoother.
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Found our chute.
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Now we just got to get it upstream.
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Let's go.
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With the chute on site, the finishing
touches can commence.
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We just got to get this bank armored up.
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There is two metric tons of water going
to be flowing over these loose runs.
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Hey, you know, Big Red's all set to go.
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First scoop of Easy Street going in.
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All right, boys, showtime. Let's go.
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Let's do it.
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You know,
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I'm really happy I could find the
diverter trough and get it up here.
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You guys, you can help really saving our
ass right now.
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I'll just stand down here and take a
look at Big Red and see how she's
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I see Mitch is up here doing his rounds,
so I want to see what he thinks of my
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setup.
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What's happening?
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How's it going?
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It's looking really good.
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How's our bank doing?
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The bank's holding up nice. Looks good.
Good job, man. Thanks, Mitch.
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Big Red is alive and back on the gold.
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Tyson has proved himself and the race is
on to mine out the airstrip.
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before season's end.
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If you're going to reach that 5 ,000
-ounce goal, you've got a lot of work to
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do. Having the 950 in there, that makes
a hell of a difference.
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At Paradise Hill, Tony's trommel is
running 300 yards an hour of white
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pay dirt.
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Keeping it fed requires a constant flow
of thawed pay dirt from the two monster
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cuts.
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00:25:47,020 --> 00:25:49,100
We're running out of good thought hay
right now.
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Damn hoes are loading trucks like crazy,
man. They're tearing up that dirt.
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In the cold cut, Ruby Mahoney is taking
her first turn in the 950 excavator.
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A lot shorter, eh? It's so weird!
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With its new, shorter boom.
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We have a new boom from the 950.
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It's about five feet shorter than it.
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the one we had before, and it'll be a
little bit more faster and a little bit
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more powerful than what it should be.
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00:26:27,540 --> 00:26:30,220
I don't mind driving a rock truck.
Everyone's in well.
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00:26:31,020 --> 00:26:36,160
Tony's nephew, known as Cousin Mike, is
in a relationship with Ruby.
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He's loading his rock truck.
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When I do it for too long, it gets
boring, but...
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I get to work with Ruby, which is nice.
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00:26:44,210 --> 00:26:47,810
Sometimes you just want to hang out with
your girlfriend.
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00:26:48,230 --> 00:26:55,090
It definitely helps that I have somebody
to go home to at the end of the day
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that understands everything that we go
through throughout the day.
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00:27:01,290 --> 00:27:07,370
So I came to the Yukon to mine for gold,
and I ended up finding a diamond.
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00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,260
What are we trying to accomplish here,
babe?
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00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:20,120
Sorry, what was that?
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00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,620
Oh, what was that?
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00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:34,900
Working to dig up frozen pay, Ruby has
crashed the Beats 950 excavator into
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cousin Mike's rock truck.
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00:27:38,580 --> 00:27:39,920
Kevin, do you copy Kevin?
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00:27:45,450 --> 00:27:48,770
The end of my excavator clips the corner
of the rock sack.
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00:27:49,130 --> 00:27:54,870
And unfortunately, I bent out of the
door. And I feel absolutely horrible
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it.
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00:28:05,150 --> 00:28:06,150
Now.
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So yes, you can.
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Back at the wash plant.
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00:28:12,270 --> 00:28:14,870
The stockpile requires constant
replenishing.
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00:28:15,290 --> 00:28:20,230
If the 950 remains out of action, the
trommel will be forced to shut down,
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costing the Beats $3 ,000 an hour. There
we go.
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00:28:33,030 --> 00:28:38,210
That should be attached.
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00:28:38,990 --> 00:28:41,730
Also, that should also be attached.
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00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,140
It hid here.
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00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,580
You can see where the paint has come
off, causing this piece here to, boom,
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00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,860
snapping all four bolts off cleanly.
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00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,200
The impact sheared off the bolts holding
the hydraulic valve body that controls
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all the hydraulic systems on the $1 .1
million machine.
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00:29:02,140 --> 00:29:05,260
Hydraulics is what drives the entire
machine. Without the hydraulic system
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00:29:05,260 --> 00:29:08,900
sealed, you can't fire it up in any
capacity to move it or anything.
403
00:29:12,650 --> 00:29:16,550
It is one of our biggest excavators. It
is always important to have it fixed.
404
00:29:17,250 --> 00:29:18,970
We don't have time for any of this
downtime.
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00:29:20,950 --> 00:29:21,950
Is everyone good?
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00:29:23,030 --> 00:29:27,230
This unit that I pulled off here, bolts
are sheared off entirely.
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00:29:27,730 --> 00:29:29,710
We got the right bolts, but longer.
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00:29:30,730 --> 00:29:35,530
And we're going to see if I'm able to
modify these ones enough to make them
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00:29:35,530 --> 00:29:36,530
until we get the proper ones.
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00:29:36,890 --> 00:29:38,350
Well, can all of it be worse?
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00:29:38,690 --> 00:29:40,730
I know we have bolts on order, but...
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00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:47,920
We need the 950 back in production ASAP,
so I'll make some that'll work.
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00:29:49,020 --> 00:29:54,760
Kevin will fashion a fix by cutting half
an inch off the bolts in the hope they
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still secure the valve body in place.
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00:29:58,060 --> 00:30:00,140
Essentially, it needs to be about half
an inch shorter.
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00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,100
That turned out pretty well.
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00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,600
Yeah, perfect.
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00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:17,720
We're laughing.
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00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,520
Okay, this is the last bolt.
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00:30:20,140 --> 00:30:23,720
And she's hooking up the hoses, and then
she's done.
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00:30:24,540 --> 00:30:25,540
Time to fire it up.
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00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:35,260
It doesn't look like anything's leaking.
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00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:37,660
You ready to go back to work?
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00:30:38,460 --> 00:30:40,400
The 950, back up and running.
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00:30:41,150 --> 00:30:46,210
Ruby can return to digging pay before
the stockpile runs out of the trommel.
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00:30:46,590 --> 00:30:51,910
Well, Ruby probably feel like, well,
that girl always gives it 110%. If you
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00:30:51,910 --> 00:30:53,330
an idiot on there, he's okay.
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00:30:53,570 --> 00:30:57,670
You should have paid attention, right?
But with Ruby being there so long, she's
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00:30:57,670 --> 00:30:58,670
always so cautious.
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00:30:58,970 --> 00:31:02,630
What the f*** are you going to do about
it? I mean, life goes on.
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00:31:02,890 --> 00:31:08,690
I've worked for Tony for six years, and
this is my first big mistake.
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00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:15,660
You know, I try to do the best of my
ability and try to pay as good attention
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00:31:15,660 --> 00:31:16,660
everything as I can.
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00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,580
I'm probably going to be overly cautious
with that for a while.
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00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,640
So right now I'm trying to break up some
ice to get the creek diverted back to
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where it needs to be going.
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00:31:39,550 --> 00:31:45,170
To frozen California Creek, Fred Lewis'
crew are battling the glacial -like ice
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00:31:45,170 --> 00:31:48,030
sheet that's locked them out from mining
gold.
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00:31:49,210 --> 00:31:53,330
We're trying to get down to dirt to pull
gold from, but the ice isn't stopping
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00:31:53,330 --> 00:31:54,670
us from getting what we need to get
done.
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00:31:55,250 --> 00:32:00,890
Front of center in the 220 excavator is
Fred's stepson, Chris Parker.
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00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,200
Whoa, holy.
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00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:12,740
Like, what is that?
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00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:14,600
Is that what I think it is?
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00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,340
Yo, Freddie, come check this out real
quick, man.
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00:32:22,580 --> 00:32:23,580
What's up?
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00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,280
Look where my bucket is.
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00:32:26,220 --> 00:32:27,220
What am I looking at?
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00:32:28,260 --> 00:32:29,260
Let me go look.
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00:32:33,980 --> 00:32:34,980
Oh, wow.
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00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,600
Sports, sports, sports, sports, sports.
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00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:40,520
Look, look.
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00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:41,760
It's a vein.
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00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,360
Wow. Give me your headset. We've got to
get buzzed over here, like, right now.
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00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,560
Buzz, buzz. This is Fred. I need you to
come to the 220 ASAP. Looks like we may
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00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,620
have found a quartz vein.
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00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,960
A quartz vein indicates gold deposits
could be close by.
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00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,040
This is a big -ass quartz vein. I don't
know how big it is, but it goes all the
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00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,040
way at least to here.
460
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,240
Well, it looks good, right?
461
00:33:05,940 --> 00:33:08,220
But look, it's also got a lot of iron in
it.
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00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,820
Yeah. All that brown, all that iron, so
that means there was a lot of heat that
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00:33:12,820 --> 00:33:13,820
forced this up.
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00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:20,620
Millions of years ago, magma containing
gold forced its way up through faults in
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the Earth's crust.
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00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:27,160
It cooled and crystallized into veins of
quartz and gold.
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00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:34,460
If Fred's small quartz vein is rich in
gold, it could indicate a season -saving
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00:33:34,460 --> 00:33:35,460
find.
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00:33:36,540 --> 00:33:37,680
And possibly...
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00:33:38,110 --> 00:33:42,230
even lead to him finding the mother lode
at California Creek.
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00:33:42,830 --> 00:33:46,490
Doesn't look like it continues much more
here. It might go underneath, but it's
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00:33:46,490 --> 00:33:47,429
going that way.
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00:33:47,430 --> 00:33:49,170
Yeah. Right with this bedrock.
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00:33:50,110 --> 00:33:51,190
What do you think, Buzz?
475
00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:58,690
We'll try to pulverize some of the steel
there and put some signs, right? Check
476
00:33:58,690 --> 00:33:59,289
it out.
477
00:33:59,290 --> 00:34:02,590
You and Chris want to gather up some
rock, put it in his bucket?
478
00:34:03,290 --> 00:34:05,450
Good find. Hey, really good find.
479
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,300
Hey, Buzz, where do you want me to take
all this?
480
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,500
That's a pretty good sample there. Let's
take that on up. We'll bring it to the
481
00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:18,500
gold room.
482
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:19,920
Drag that.
483
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,239
You're going to accurately pull out
gold. We don't just mine the entire
484
00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:27,920
We use these signs to get us to it.
485
00:34:31,620 --> 00:34:34,060
To tease out any potential gold.
486
00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:35,320
All right, safety first.
487
00:34:35,580 --> 00:34:38,040
Fred plans to pulverize the hard rock.
488
00:34:39,790 --> 00:34:42,530
with five -pound solid steel ball
bearings.
489
00:34:44,310 --> 00:34:45,949
They're going to break up just about
anything.
490
00:34:47,530 --> 00:34:49,870
All right, you guys ready?
491
00:34:50,690 --> 00:34:52,570
Sure. See how loud this is going to be.
492
00:34:57,430 --> 00:34:58,830
We get out of here.
493
00:34:59,150 --> 00:35:00,250
Feel the cold pressure.
494
00:35:02,370 --> 00:35:03,370
Do your work.
495
00:35:04,370 --> 00:35:07,790
If we crush that up and there's not a
worthless pile of rock and there's even
496
00:35:07,790 --> 00:35:08,790
speck of gold.
497
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,420
The paint could have a hell of a lot of
gold in it.
498
00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:22,320
After an hour being crushed and bullied
by the steel balls, it's time to check
499
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,320
the material.
500
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:24,760
Let's go do it.
501
00:35:30,540 --> 00:35:31,660
That's fine. We got a catch?
502
00:35:31,980 --> 00:35:32,980
Yeah.
503
00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:34,900
Oh!
504
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,120
Yeah.
505
00:35:37,790 --> 00:35:39,630
I did a better job with my hammer.
506
00:35:41,110 --> 00:35:44,170
I was kind of hoping we'd pull this
thing open. There'd be a bunch of powder
507
00:35:44,170 --> 00:35:47,130
there. I know there are certain ways
that we can do it.
508
00:35:47,470 --> 00:35:50,290
I really like what they did in Papua New
Guinea. It just took a long time.
509
00:35:50,590 --> 00:35:55,090
All they did, they had a solid pipe
inside of a pipe with a base in it, so
510
00:35:55,090 --> 00:35:58,150
nothing got out. They threw the rock in
there, and then they just smashed it by
511
00:35:58,150 --> 00:36:00,110
hand. Bam, bam, bam.
512
00:36:02,210 --> 00:36:06,010
Fred's new plan is to construct a low
-tech rock crusher.
513
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:11,260
he first encountered whilst on a gold
prospecting mission with Parker in the
514
00:36:11,260 --> 00:36:12,620
jungles of Papua New Guinea.
515
00:36:14,460 --> 00:36:18,420
We're basically going to find, like this
right here, we're going to find a pipe.
516
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,160
We're going to make it so it has a floor
and another pipe that's going to go
517
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,580
inside of it and crush it just like a
post pounder.
518
00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:42,480
All right, so I've only done this once.
Yeah? Start, yeah.
519
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:03,640
With brute force succeeding where
mechanical power failed, it's time to
520
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,180
the quartz vein running through his
claim is gold heavy.
521
00:37:08,610 --> 00:37:14,530
If it is, Fred could have hit the
motherlode, and the surrounding ground
522
00:37:14,530 --> 00:37:16,410
be the richest on California Creek.
523
00:37:23,970 --> 00:37:25,030
I'm seeing gold, buddy.
524
00:37:26,050 --> 00:37:27,770
Yeah, no, there's gold in there. There's
gold.
525
00:37:31,210 --> 00:37:32,210
Wow.
526
00:37:32,930 --> 00:37:34,170
And a piece there? Yeah.
527
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:35,578
And a piece there.
528
00:37:35,580 --> 00:37:36,620
A piece up top right there.
529
00:37:36,820 --> 00:37:37,759
And a piece there.
530
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,600
Yeah. I mean, that was a handful.
531
00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:42,560
I know. We got three colors and a lot of
little fine stuff.
532
00:37:42,820 --> 00:37:46,400
This is the first gold we found this
season. That tells us there's a vein
533
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,660
carrying gold running up the middle of
our claim.
534
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:50,960
Yeah.
535
00:37:51,740 --> 00:37:52,940
I needed this.
536
00:37:53,460 --> 00:37:54,980
I'm hurting. I know, man.
537
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,840
That's just the way that this profession
is, I've noticed.
538
00:38:00,830 --> 00:38:03,950
The highs are high and the lows are
really, really low.
539
00:38:04,270 --> 00:38:05,209
You ain't lying.
540
00:38:05,210 --> 00:38:08,910
This is about the best I've felt this
season. We have a source producing the
541
00:38:08,910 --> 00:38:09,910
gold.
542
00:38:10,730 --> 00:38:15,470
The potential that there could be a
quartz vein that has gold -bearing
543
00:38:15,470 --> 00:38:19,670
through it kind of fires us up a little
bit, and it's just given us a little bit
544
00:38:19,670 --> 00:38:23,170
more fuel to keep exploring this creek
and find out where it is because the
545
00:38:23,170 --> 00:38:26,810
source is somewhere, and it's coming
from somewhere, and we're going to find
546
00:38:48,260 --> 00:38:54,140
After a week battling frozen ground, the
Beats family gather to find out if
547
00:38:54,140 --> 00:38:55,620
their hard work has paid off.
548
00:39:09,580 --> 00:39:10,379
Hard to.
549
00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:11,380
Well,
550
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,920
if you didn't buy that last year, we'd
be in big trouble this year.
551
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,560
So, anything else exciting happen?
552
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,380
Where we were trying to squeeze by
Cousin Mike in a rock truck.
553
00:39:22,980 --> 00:39:25,040
There wasn't quite enough room.
554
00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:29,220
Well, I bet you thought it was awful.
Oh, she did.
555
00:39:29,620 --> 00:39:32,000
At least he can.
556
00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:35,360
Well, it's almost good. Oh, yeah.
557
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:40,720
So, with that being said, we should
probably pour some gold. Yeah. Yeah.
558
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:41,880
let's do this thing, folks.
559
00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:49,560
Tony has less than 500 ounces in the
bank and needs over 200 a week to hit
560
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:50,780
,000 -ounce goal.
561
00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:52,100
Three, two, one, let's go.
562
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,400
15.
563
00:39:58,420 --> 00:39:59,420
65.
564
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,260
75. 85.
565
00:40:03,790 --> 00:40:04,790
120.
566
00:40:05,710 --> 00:40:06,710
130.
567
00:40:07,390 --> 00:40:08,390
140.
568
00:40:09,250 --> 00:40:10,850
150. 160.
569
00:40:15,150 --> 00:40:17,090
162 .42.
570
00:40:19,170 --> 00:40:21,950
Worth nearly $300 ,000.
571
00:40:27,590 --> 00:40:31,270
That's a little less than normal, but I
guess with the material that we had.
572
00:40:31,670 --> 00:40:34,860
Yeah. Let's have to make up for it next
time, I guess.
573
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:35,919
But you know what?
574
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,740
It's better than nothing. Better than
nothing at all.
575
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:39,560
Sluicing every day.
576
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:41,780
Anyway, that ripping goes good.
577
00:40:42,220 --> 00:40:45,460
But you're going to have to stay ahead
with that in order to keep sluicing,
578
00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:46,399
don't we?
579
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,400
Okay, good enough. Okay, good. Well
done.
580
00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:50,560
We'll talk to you guys later.
581
00:41:14,350 --> 00:41:17,390
Hey, T -Bird. How's it going, Dumit?
Good. How are you doing, buddy? Pretty
582
00:41:17,390 --> 00:41:18,390
good, thanks.
583
00:41:24,490 --> 00:41:27,230
Well, we finished one. We started
another.
584
00:41:27,570 --> 00:41:29,170
Thank you guys for getting that pit
done.
585
00:41:29,430 --> 00:41:31,210
That's one of many.
586
00:41:31,570 --> 00:41:32,570
Yeah.
587
00:41:33,610 --> 00:41:39,010
And, Tyson, you got your first big
experience there of moving Big Red.
588
00:41:39,270 --> 00:41:40,270
Yeah.
589
00:41:41,410 --> 00:41:42,610
What do you think about Big Red?
590
00:41:43,010 --> 00:41:46,590
Different. It's a lot easier getting it
where you want it. It's kind of fun,
591
00:41:46,590 --> 00:41:48,610
like, every move having to be spot on.
592
00:41:48,850 --> 00:41:51,350
You even had it pointing in the right
direction the first time, huh?
593
00:41:51,870 --> 00:41:52,870
Yeah.
594
00:41:53,450 --> 00:41:54,790
Good for you, T.
595
00:41:55,390 --> 00:41:57,070
You want to see how the keyhole finished
up?
596
00:41:57,310 --> 00:41:59,570
Let's do it. Why we're here, dude, we
want to see some gold.
597
00:42:00,370 --> 00:42:01,370
Keyhole, right here.
598
00:42:01,550 --> 00:42:02,550
I'll take this one.
599
00:42:02,970 --> 00:42:06,850
All right, so this is the last flue some
Big Red did before he moved it.
600
00:42:08,190 --> 00:42:09,190
All right.
601
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:17,260
20, 40, 60, 80, 100,
602
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,280
120, 140,
603
00:42:21,140 --> 00:42:23,780
150. Keep going.
604
00:42:26,220 --> 00:42:28,280
174 .05.
605
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,680
Worth over $310 ,000.
606
00:42:33,940 --> 00:42:35,160
That's not bad.
607
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,180
I mean, when you look at the amount of
runtime it had. Exactly.
608
00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:42,480
So the big question, Chris, so that's
two days of running at the keyhole cut,
609
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:47,940
finishing that off, 174. How did we do
at Easy Street with two days of running?
610
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,740
Well, there's not a lot of hours on this
thing, right? Yeah.
611
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,500
Here we go. Oh, no.
612
00:42:53,780 --> 00:42:56,940
One. Tipped a long ways before anything
came out.
613
00:42:58,340 --> 00:43:05,340
30, 35, 38, 40, 55 .8.
614
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,620
Worth a clean $100 ,000.
615
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,580
So for the week, it's 229 .85.
616
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,640
And for the season, we just broke 1
,200. 1 ,204 .45.
617
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,840
That wasn't a bad week, though, when we
moved the wash plant. Yeah, yeah. And
618
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,500
what? Total of four days running.
619
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,220
All this going on. I think we did okay.
I think we did good.
620
00:43:31,580 --> 00:43:33,140
We got a long way to go.
621
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:34,480
All right, Chris.
622
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:36,120
Thank you for that.
623
00:43:36,340 --> 00:43:37,780
Yep. See you next week.
624
00:43:38,140 --> 00:43:39,140
Thanks, man. Thanks, Chris.
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