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(Transcrito por TurboScribe. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) This time of season right now, I mean, I can tell the summer's gone.

We're well into the fall and we have no time for delays anymore.

Four months into the season, Rick Ness is deep in the hole.

I mean, at the moment, we're not even at 500 ounces yet, so we can't afford to be wasting

any more time.

If we don't see some gold soon, there's no way we're going to hit our 1,800 ounces.

Just seven weeks remain in the mining season.

Rick's now spent a million dollars moving a mountain in his Valhalla cut, and he's finally

close to hitting the pay layer.

This whole Valhalla cut here, you know, it's huge.

It's probably the biggest project I've ever taken on up here and, you know, it's really

starting to eat at me a bit.

If things don't go exactly as they have to go, then I'm broke, I'm done.

Bailey's got a lot done in the cut, I mean, he's doing a hell of a job down there.

It's looking like any day we're going to be down to pay, and we need to get this loosened

quick.

We need to see some gold.

The guys are with me on it, I know that, and they've been working their asses off and that's

just what we're going to stick with because if Valhalla pays off, it could be the best

decision I've ever made.

Hey, Rick, you got a copy?

Going for Rick.

You can come down to the cut.

Oh, boy.

Well, buddy, I've got some honest opinions.

From there, you can see how it dives right there, that's the slope, and then it continues

there.

But everything from like that edge, I dug 25 more feet down as far as that **** thing

can go down, and it was just still pure clay.

What do you mean?

No pay.

Rick believes an ancient dried-out riverbed filled with coarse gold runs across four miles

of his Duncan Creek claims.

The 50-foot pay streak is proven to run under Raleigh Valley and then downstream to Vegas

Valley.

Rick assumed this pay layer would be at the same 150-foot depth in Valhalla, but after

digging down for over a month, instead of hitting pay dirt, Bentley has run into a 25-foot

clay layer with no gold.

Dude.

It's all this clay, like where the **** do we take it?

25 more feet down, that's too much for this year.

There might be rich pay farther down, but you think about it, we don't know what's

down there.

Yeah.

I dug a test hole pretty much just across from that elbow right there, to like the

edge of that over there.

But it's just clay.

Oh, it's clay all the way to the next cut, man.

It doesn't make any **** sense.

Sorry that I gotta tell you, but the ground don't lie.

This is all dead zone.

It's a smack to the face, man.

I know we did all this work, but it isn't worth it.

All right, give me a minute.

Yep.

We have no clue what's underneath this clay.

We gotta figure out something quick, because time's running out.

Quite a bit going on today.

You know, Rick's doing some soul searching right now, looking for what he wants to do.

So a lot of thoughts going through his head.

I really thought that this whole Valhalla cut was gonna be huge for us.

Bailey gets on this clay layer, we just have no way to deal with that this year.

It's just not gonna work.

I'm out here with seven people trying to move a mountain, right?

To get down to a little spot in the bottom that's got a bunch of gold in it.

When I wanted to make these big decisions, that would leave me, by the time I was done

with this, with something that I could hold in that cell and be able to do what I wanted.

That's the whole **** reason I'm out here, right?

It's, you know, I wanna be mining until I'm 100 **** years old.

I wanna learn this, I wanna do it, I wanna do it right, and I wanna be happy after this.

And now I walk away with nothing, you know?

And that's the opposite of the plan.

I wanted to walk away from this with everything.

And yeah, this whole endeavor could be the thing that

makes my entire life great, or it could be the thing that ruins it.

I can handle it.

I've been handling it, but there's some **** thing about it that's just too much.

And I don't talk about it with my guys.

I don't talk about it with anybody, because if I talk about it, it makes it real.

And then I can't control it.

It's just not where I thought it would be when I made the decision.

And it's frustrating.

And I don't, at this time, I'm wondering if it ever is gonna be.

And I'm struggling more than I thought I would.

Damn it.

There's no reason to slow down for me.

If you've ever seen these retired people, I mean, the biggest thing they have to look

forward is to walk behind their wife, go **** shopping, talking about things they could

have done or should have done.

They're dead already.

They just don't know it.

Not me.

Pack that **** thing up.

Let's go.

King of the Klondike, Tony Beetz is on the verge of breaking records.

There's still almost two months of the season to go.

And Tony is already closing in on a massive milestone.

We're only about 500 ounces away from the target.

Right now, we've got three boxes banging away, you know, six, 700 yards an hour.

So if anything goes well, we should hit our 6,500 ounce goal this week.

That is exciting.

Tony has three wash plants running.

Sluice-A-Lot and Find-A-Lot on the Indian River and the Trommel on Paradise Hill.

To hit his target, Tony needs his entire arsenal of wash plants running full bore this week.

OK, back that thing up quicker.

Let's go, go, go, go, go, go.

At the corner cut, Sluice-A-Lot accounts for half the Indian River's weekly gold production.

I've got my responsibilities while I run this land.

I've got to watch the fines and the forest ailings that build up, you know.

See the metal separating from the edge of the drum?

And that's not good.

You can blow up that end pulley and then you get a major jam up

and then your runs get filled and you end up blowing gold out of the boxes

because your runs will get full of rocks, eh?

We got to do something about it.

A broken drum pulley on the coarse tailings conveyor

has jammed, taking Sluice-A-Lot out of action.

You can start digging down there.

You know the drill, right?

F***ing start of the day, though.

Didn't think I'd be doing this.

A little bit of a project.

We can't just take the drum out.

We got to take the whole conveyor off.

In charge of getting Sluice-A-Lot back on the gold, Indian River foreman Cousin Mike.

We're just going to move the whole wash plan to a new spot where it's level.

Sluice-A-Lot's tailings conveyor removes coarse waste rocks from the shaker decks.

But four months of wear and tear has sheared its drum pulley from its shaft

and the belt no longer turns.

To replace it, Cousin Mike needs to raise the plant with its built-in hydraulic rams.

Then drag it out with a dozer until it's free from the dirt.

Next, he must remove the conveyor and belt to access the broken drum pulley.

Then install a replacement, reattach the belt and finally fire the plant back up.

I can lift up the plant hydraulically.

Every little bit helps if we can get it out of the dirt.

There it goes.

It is just so that when I start dragging, we don't wreck anything.

We'll start hooking up some cables.

Dalton, do you copy, Dalton?

Go ahead, go ahead.

Everybody clear?

You guys get the f*** away from that cable.

If that cable snaps, it'll cut you right in half.

Stay away from it.

Stay away from that cable.

Everyone's clear.

Tony Beets wants to smash his 6,500-ounce season target this week

and needs to get his wash plant sluice a lot back in action.

All right, off we go.

Notice now it's heavy pulling.

I'll have a look at it.

The plant free from the dirt.

Tony can now inspect the broken tailings conveyor.

How's it going, gentlemen?

See you got it out of the dirt.

You're going to make an old guy crawl underneath this?

What the f***?

Hi.

If he can't do that anymore, he shouldn't be here.

Oh, f*** off.

What the f*** are you finding over there?

The tail pulley's toast?

I found a new one.

Let's see if it fits.

On each side, we got a plate.

So we have to disconnect that plate, take it off.

No, just rip the f*** out.

Just build for it.

But I wouldn't want to screw around in the back here, either.

Hurry up.

Okay, I'll loosen this one up, Len.

Yeah.

Let's do some lifting and then we can swing it out.

Len, can you walk ahead a little bit?

Walk forward.

You're free.

Maybe walk another four feet.

I'll lift it up till it's free.

And Brian, keep it on the top that I don't hit anything.

Okay, good there.

Yeah, we're good there.

Well, that was pretty successful.

Yeah, that's good.

Watch your toes, watch your toes.

He's out.

Yeah, so we finally got this bastard out.

As you can see, it's ripped here all the way around.

So we'll first try to put the new pulley in.

Getting back to sluicing as soon as possible.

If the shaft is wide enough and everything, and hopefully that all works out.

The other one is 56.

And this one is 68.

Uh-oh.

The one I brought is a little bit smaller.

Uh-oh.

That's not gonna work.

So we need a new plant.

We like to hit the season goal.

So that plant's got to be up and running in order to achieve that.

Until we come up with something else, sluice lot ain't gonna be running.

The gold in the ground is the gold in the ground.

But it's a lot of dirt to get through.

It's just extremely frustrating.

Heading into the home stretch of the season,

Parker Schnabel's 10,000-ounce gold target is in danger of slipping from his grasp.

We just need to keep the sluicing hours up.

We're gonna be hard-pressed to get through that pit this year if we don't have wash plants running.

So to hit 10,000 ounces, we've got to sluice all of it.

Last week...

We shut down both Slucifer and Big Red.

Parker shut down two wash plants to dig out the last of the pay dirt from the Golden Mile.

We have a major problem.

The dirt can't be in the hole anymore.

We could just start making pay piles.

While the crew continues to dig out pay,

Parker wants to get one of the plants back up and sluicing.

So we've built two big pay piles.

Big Red's ready to move next to one of the big piles that we've got of pay.

But now Tyson's taken some time off.

Timing's not great.

So that's a wrap for me right now.

I drive to the airport and fly out to my sister's wedding.

While I'm gone, one of the major things that really have to happen is moving Big Red.

With Tyson being gone, Brennan's filling in for him.

And Brennan's going to get that plant moved.

This is the first kind of major wash plant thing that Brennan's been in charge of.

So we'll see how badly he can screw it up.

It's on Brennan now.

Shouldn't take more than a shift.

Hopefully, I remember how all the pieces go together here.

Despite being a seasoned dirt mover, Brennan Ruhl hasn't moved Big Red in five years.

Moving a plant's always a big responsibility.

And it does always give me a bit of anxiety, if I was to be honest with you.

We have two pay piles that are the size of Mount Everest here to get through.

So it's all a massive race against the clock right now.

Every minute that the plant's shut down, it's that many ounces of gold not getting washed.

Parker wanted this thing sluicing tonight, and I want to make that happen.

But I do want to prove myself here.

You guys are good with all this?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was hoping to have it moved and set up today and washing rocks for night shifts, so.

Is your pad ready?

Yeah.

Better be.

Don't break my wash plant.

He looked at you, not me.

I should be looking at you first.

Don't break my wash plant.

I can't promise you that.

Hopefully, these guys can get a wash plant moved.

Hey, pal, we're ready to move this plant here.

Mechanic Alec Kelly helps Brennan move Big Red one mile to the far end of the Golden Mile.

Oh, this thing doesn't corner like a passenger car.

The main body of Big Red weighs 50 tons and clocks in at 21 feet high.

Come on.

Plant off the low boy.

Brennan must drag it into place on its new pad.

Make sure the plant comes up sort of square enough so we're not twisting like it had here.

Favor that side of the bank and then sort of like walk sideways and out.

To leave enough room for Big Red's massive feeder belts,

Brennan must maneuver the plant to the edge of the pad

by dangling his 58-ton excavator over the 50-foot drop.

Feeling better about that?

Yeah, now just walk your far track down into it.

How close am I?

Like two feet.

Am I gonna drop hard?

Should be okay.

Just lower your boom down as you go.

You can just push yourself back too if you want, it'll dig in.

There you go.

It sure sucks having Tyson gone here right in the middle of a planned move like this.

Yeah, it's definitely feeling a little steeper than I thought it was.

Keep it coming and stop there.

That does look a little gnarly, eh?

Yeah, not bad.

You guys better make sure you remind Parker because he looked at me and said,

are you sure you finished your pad?

Doing a lot of prep saves a lot of time.

We've still got a little ways to go here but I think you got her lined up pretty good.

Next step, bring in the feed conveyor that delivers the gold-rich pay dirt to the plant.

We can start folding up our radial stacker.

It's crossed, things are looking good.

That definitely won't last the rest of the year, that's for sure.

This clip here, that clip there, and that one down there are toast.

And all it takes is one bad clip to rip and then the whole belt could be garbage.

The metal clips that hold the 200-foot long belt together are nearly destroyed.

And we've got four seams in pretty sh** condition.

So what is that?

What are you trying to tell me here?

I'm really wanting to hang a belt on this guy.

Are you serious?

So we have one seam, we'll have more uptime for later.

Through the, throughout the cold season.

Oh, how long is this going to take?

If I can get it to the yard, probably six, eight hours.

Have it buttoned up.

Sucks, man.

I told Parker that I'd have this thing moved in Sluice and by night shift.

It's really your night shift the next day.

Already near the end of the shift, replacing the belt crushes Brennan's timeline.

Because that pissed me off.

You know, that's a lot of Sluice time loss.

That'll be a 24-hour period of no rocks getting run.

Those piles are just too big to have a minute of downtime, let alone 24 hours of it.

Right now, Sluice load is down.

So I gotta figure out something, improvise something.

If there's anything to get that Sluice box back up and going.

On the brink of breaking through his season goal.

One of Tony's top moneymakers, Sluicelot, has been shut down by a broken tail pulley.

We tried ordering one, but now we're talking about a week or two.

You cannot be down for two weeks.

We have to come up with something.

Certainly with all the crap we have, we can beg, steal,

borrow some thing in order to keep on going.

Let's have a pick.

This one.

Yeah.

I was looking at that one.

Here, this one.

Nice and thick.

Is the inside 17 and a half?

Oh, that might be.

But even if it's not quite, that'd be fine there.

17.

That'd be just perfect.

That would never break again, eh?

I don't think so.

Yeah.

I think it's a nice pipe.

Boy, OK.

You're the **** crowd that thinks you'll do perfect.

Shim it, gentlemen.

Well, against it.

Yeah.

Perfect.

Perfect.

We should have this plan going before the end of the day.

After finding a pipe approximately the same diameter as the busted drum,

Cousin Mike and Len need to cut it to size.

Knock this out, weld it on.

Bingo.

Have a boost fix.

A couple hours, they'll have the **** thing welded up already.

I like it.

I think it'd be good.

We got to do a boost fix today.

All right.

Over there.

First, what we're going to do is remove the side plate from the drum.

So he's got to clean that up so that we got a clean surface to weld on.

That will make a more solid weld too for the new drum.

All right.

Now we have to line it up a little bit.

Everything looks nice and straight.

It's going to be a heavy pull.

Double the weight of the old drum.

Cousin Mike must now install the new pulley on the conveyor to find out if it will work.

If we can slide it in, we can drop one side in.

Try it.

Yep.

Beautiful.

Okay.

Now lift the other end up.

Can we put a chain on that?

Yeah, I'll put a chain on this one too.

Yeah, I'll slide it your way.

Okay.

That drum looks good.

I'm very happy with how that looks.

Oh yeah.

We are pretty much ready.

Conveyor belt's done.

Hanging back in the plant and we're getting pretty close to it looking like a wash plant again.

There it is.

Don't move, don't move, don't move.

We're in.

All right, we're in there now.

Right on, boys.

So all we got to do now is get it bolted up and we're in business.

Perfect.

We won't get old enough to wear that out.

Hopefully we're getting enough to get a season goal in this week, but we'll see.

It looks pretty good.

We'll be there for years and years.

Back to full capacity, Tony's in the hunt for his 6,500 ounce gold target.

So what do you think?

I give you a warranty of 10 years.

How about that?

Okay, then we'll be back in 10 years.

Well, plant's set up.

Water line's in and we're just waiting on Alec to get the radial stacker down here.

Massive pay pile that the trucks keep adding to daily.

So we need to get through that.

After moving the bulk of Big Red in one shift,

stand-in foreman Brennan Rouault is itching to get back sluicing Golden Mile pay.

Just keep buttoning a few things up here.

Keep busy until he shows up with that.

So I want to be washing rocks here.

As fast as possible.

Stopping Brennan from firing up a busted 200-foot conveyor belt.

I know Brennan was really hoping to get Big Red moved in one day,

but I've already slowed that timeline down.

Gonna get it figured out.

Looks like it's still me, myself and I here for this project.

There's no spare hands to help.

Come on, Sash.

So Alec will need to think outside the box.

This is to help feed the new conveyor belt into the frame of the unit.

Just like that.

String this guy out.

We'll cut the old one off.

Rip the old belt out this way.

The rope gets caught in the frame.

Tie the new belt onto the rope, onto that snatch block.

Pull on the rope.

New conveyor belt goes in.

That's how we get it assembled.

We'll cut this in half and rip it off.

That's in half.

Start pulling.

It's a long belt.