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in the frozen north seven down on their luck miners are back for a second gold mining season
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this year it's make or break we need six figures out of this season we'll do good we don't i'm done
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they are back bigger and better than ever just as they got started they had to leave the claim
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i own porcupine creek but even without a claim to mine they refuse to give up their
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dream followed me and my dad at the end of the earth we'll get the gold now the hoffmans are
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playing catch-up they need a new gold claim and fast we don't get land we're gonna have mutants
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it's time to pack up and go as the hoffmans hunt new land fred rips their old claim apart and just
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across porcupine creek 16 year old parker schno puts his elders to shame in the quest to strike it rich
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today was a good day
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in porcupine creek southeast alaska
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the new claim owner gets to work 10 days into the 150 day mining season
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woohoo
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let the game begin
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that's the kota boys against the hoffmans
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24 hours after taking over porcupine creek from the hoffmans dakota fred fills in their holding
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pond
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Tight game, folks.
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But the Dakota mine wins.
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Yeah!
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To strike it rich at Porcupine Creek,
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Fred plans on doing things very differently this season.
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Last year, Todd and Jack disagreed on how to mine Porcupine Creek.
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Todd planned to dig for a pastry.
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On this claim, there's a pastry cagoule.
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Until Jack convinced him to dig for nuggets
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at the bottom of an ancient waterfall called a glory hole.
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I know what I'm doing.
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But in one season, they found just 14 ounces of gold worth a measly $20,000.
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This year, Fred's going back to Todd's original plan.
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This is the glory hole from this vantage point.
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We intend to move that out about another 75 feet or so.
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The way Jack dug to get down as deep as possible, totally wrong.
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Instead of digging down to bedrock like Jack did last year,
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Fred will dig horizontally, clearing the first 20 feet of dirt.
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He can then process the gold-rich pastry
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he thinks runs across the entire claim.
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To move this much pay dirt, Fred needs a new road.
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He'll build one right over the Hoffman's old holding pond.
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Fred is gambling that his radical claim will pay off, big time.
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I'd be highly embarrassed, highly embarrassed
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that I don't wind up with at least 100 ounces of gold out of this place.
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Meanwhile, after a 600-mile drive from Porcupine Creek,
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the Hoffmans and their crew arrive in Dawson City.
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They have no claim to mine 10 days into the season.
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If they can't find land in the gold-rich Klondike soon,
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their second mining season could be their last.
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Oh, what a day, you know?
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Yeah, we're finally here.
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It's like midnight, and it's still bright out.
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That's how far north we are, man.
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We're way north. We're up in the Klondike now.
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So this is sweet.
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Last time I was here, it was all snowy.
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This is not the first time the Hoffmans have been to Dawson City.
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They're back for a reason.
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Back in the off-season,
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the Hoffmans ventured north into the Klondike.
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This is double or nothing.
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They got lucky and found virgin ground
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in one of the richest gold fields in the world.
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This is drop-dead killer claim.
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To mine it, they spent $40,000
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on the only wash plant they could find,
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a machine that separates gold from dirt.
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Well, that's it, huh, Wayne?
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It looks like it's in pretty decent shape.
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At the last minute, they lost the Klondike claim,
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but not their new wash plant.
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Four months after buying it,
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they're back at Wayne Fisher's yard,
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desperate to set up for this season.
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I think we did good.
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Piece of cake, yeah.
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It'll work.
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Those have pretty decent belts on them.
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Can we start it and stop it real quick?
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Okay.
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All right.
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We'll know.
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The Hoffmans set to fire up the wash plant
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for the first time in a long time.
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This has sat there six years in one place,
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so nothing's been ran in at least that long,
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maybe even longer.
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Todd needs to salvage their second mining season.
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To keep the dream alive,
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the wash plant has to work.
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We'll find out.
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Just real quick.
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Tanker, start.
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Shut it down!
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After running for just seconds,
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it's clear Todd's new wash plant
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needs a major overhaul.
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One of the motors might not be hooked up right.
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I'm trying to figure it out.
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Unfortunately for the crew,
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the broken motor is not the only thing wrong.
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A working wash plant separates the gold from the dirt.
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Todd's has a conveyor belt
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that feeds gold-bearing material into the wash plant,
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but it needs a new belt and replacement rollers.
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After leaving the conveyor,
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the material falls onto screens where it is washed.
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But the plant's water pump and pipes are broken.
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Finally, any gold is caught in trays of hydraulic riffles.
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Todd's riffles are in bad need of repair.
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For crew mechanic James Harness,
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it's not a quick fix.
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There's a lot of bad welds,
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a lot of rusty parts that are ready to fall apart.
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It needs to be gone through,
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not only just for safety,
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but so we don't have to fix it every day.
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Season's short.
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We want to get going as fast as we can,
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so the issue is time.
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Todd heads into town,
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leaving the crew behind to start the repairs
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and to question their future.
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Right now, we don't have a claim to mine at.
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We're fixing this up.
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We may be fixing it up for nothing
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unless Todd finds a claim.
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I'm just kind of watching my clock here,
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waiting and hoping that he's coming back
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with some good news for this team.
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Already 10 days into the 150-day mining season,
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the Hoffmans have to act fast to find a claim,
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or their dream of striking it rich will die.
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After losing Porcupine to Dakota Fred,
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Todd spent the 24-hour journey up to the Klondike
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on the phone with claim owners.
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I need any mine owner that wants to do a 10% lease.
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All right, man, thanks.
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Say a little prayer that we can find a home.
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Copy that.
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I will find us a place.
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Now, Todd follows up leads in Dawson City.
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Hello?
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My name's Todd Hoffman.
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I wanted to know if you had a claim
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that you might not be mining yourself.
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But finding a good claim up here is not easy.
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Gold is more valuable than ever,
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and there's a full-fledged gold rush in the Klondike.
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Last year, $52 million in gold
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was pulled from the ground here.
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The competition for good claims on virgin ground is fierce.
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14 phone calls later, Todd finally gets a break.
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That's a good sign.
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All right, man, we'll look at it and talk terms.
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Thank you.
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It sounds like we got something here
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that is definitely worth looking at.
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600 miles south, on the road to Porcupine Creek,
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a young miner is on his way to an important meeting.
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I'm on my way to go see Fred.
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I think that this visit will kind of set the stage for the summer.
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You know, I'm hopeful that we can be on good terms all summer.
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Last summer, 16-year-old Parker Schnabel
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worked with his 91-year-old grandfather
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at the Big Nugget Mine,
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just across the creek from Porcupine.
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But this season, John Schnabel is retiring.
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I've been doing it for 45 years.
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Parker will take over as the new boss of Big Nugget.
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Ten days into the season,
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John is de-winterized
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and the mine is ready for his grandson.
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Parker is just finishing up 11th grade.
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Pretty excited to get out of here.
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On his way to his claim,
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he drops by Porcupine Creek.
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Not too much.
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Getting through school.
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All right, you just got done with school?
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Yeah.
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I hear rumors you're going to play over here
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with your grandpa's mind.
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Yeah.
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So what are you going to do about gold this year?
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I'm going to find it.
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Is that all?
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How much?
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You don't have any idea?
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Wow.
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Fred, you need to be a little more diplomatic.
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Sometimes I just say what I feel.
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Sometimes that gets you in trouble.
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We'll see you later.
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You got a good plan there.
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Good luck, young man.
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We'll see, huh?
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I'm not going to say to Fred,
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I think I'm going to get more gold than you.
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But I think we both kind of take it
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as a challenge to beat each other, you know?
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Back up in Dawson City,
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the Hoffmans head out to check an available claim.
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I just hope this is it
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because the guys are really apprehensive,
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you know?
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Yeah, I know.
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And I don't blame them.
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This is the end of the road.
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We don't make it here.
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We don't make it.
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Oh, my God.
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We're done.
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Back in town,
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the crew discusses the situation.
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Porcupine's gone,
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and we're up here with nothing.
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I don't know what to do.
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I just wondered what Todd was thinking
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when he brought us up here.
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What was I thinking by following him?
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We're working on a piece of equipment,
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and we have nowhere to go.
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I'm afraid we're wasting our time.
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I tell you what,
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I can't stick around here much longer, though.
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This is getting ridiculous.
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Well, crap, we don't even know where we're going.
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I mean, I'm kind of thinking we give him a time limit.
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If he can't find a place,
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it's time to pack up and go.
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Coming up, reinforcements arrive,
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giving Dakota Fred a big boost.
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Goldzilla, man.
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And for the Hoffman crew,
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it's decision time.
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Gamble on a claim in the Klondike,
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or quit and go home.
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I'm asking you guys to trust me again.
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Did they show you any gold?
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Their mining season hangs in the balance.
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Oh, crap!
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11 days into the mining season,
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the Hoffman crew still has no gold claim.
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Instead of making money every day,
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they're losing it.
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If Todd doesn't come back with a claim,
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I think that's when we would just turn around and go home.
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But 30 miles away,
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Todd and Jack Hoffman are on their way
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to check out some promising land.
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Holy crap!
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This is the big leagues here.
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Oh, my God.
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Look at that.
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Oh, yeah?
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Grilling rig.
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They're getting prepped.
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They're about ready to sluice.
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We're going to have to up our game
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a little bit more than where we're at.
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The gold mines here are bigger
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than anything the Hoffmans have ever seen.
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Into the second week of the season,
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these mines are already running,
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churning out millions of dollars of gold.
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Is that it?
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That is it.
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As I see here, though,
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that is tailing.
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Just tailing.
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I don't know.
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I hope not.
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I didn't plan on tailings.
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I thought we had some virgin ground.
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There's no virgin ground in sight.
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This claim is covered in tailings,
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rocks left over from previous mining.
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I don't want to mine right here.
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Todd and Jack search out the claim owner.
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I don't want to see you.
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I don't want to see you.
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I don't want to see you.
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I don't wanna see you.
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I don't want to see you.
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Did you hear Greg?
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Yes, Todd?
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Hey, I'm Todd.
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Entend it.
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Hey, good to meet ya!
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is this is it looks like I'm pretty much worked worked over huh I tell you
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what if you guys got time we could just take a little walk and I can show you
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do it yeah here on Quartz Creek yeah this is where I would go what I'm going
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to show you Greg takes the Hoffman's away from the tailings to the other side
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of his claim to Quartz Creek everything from this side in fact maybe even back
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a few feet has never been touched by any kind of machine ever what yes never
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urging ground all this in this side is virgin ground the dredge couldn't get it
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and it's never had a machine on it sitting next to Quartz Creek is a giant
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dredge that worked its way through this valley between 1935 and 1950 its
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revolving chain of buckets scooped up seven million cubic yards of dirt into
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its internal wash plant the dredge extracted gold worth over a billion
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dollars today the tailings were left in its wake but at the edge of the valley
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there's only a few feet of soil down to bedrock not enough dirt for the dredge
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buckets to mine these strips of virgin ground called side pay may still hold
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millions in gold claim owner Greg McNeil is offering this ground up for lease you
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know the offer would be there ten percent off the top before any expenses any fuel
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anything's paid
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normally ground like this is tested before a lease is signed but with their season
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slipping away and their crew ready to quit Todd and Jack are running out of options
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you know I know that we were all screwed up last year if we don't get some land and I
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mean quick the guys are gonna we're gonna have mutiny on the bounty we have no place
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else to go but here yeah while the Hoffman's decide whether to risk their future on quartz creek
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600 miles south at the big nugget mine 16 year old Parker Schnabel starts his first day as the man in
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charge thanks grandpa Parker is now responsible for the mine his grandfather ran successfully for 25 years
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but for the last three years the claim has barely broken even Parker's in a position now to where he has
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to make the mind make a profit to stay in business so if he doesn't turn a profit this year we won't run
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next year Parker has a plan to turn the mine around
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my grandpa mine this bench up here he mined it 20 years earlier they've got about a hundred ounces in
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just a couple of weeks this is all the tailings from that big two weeks Parker is confident that 20
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years later his modern machinery can extract gold from the tailings his grandfather threw away decades
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ago if their sluice box caught 50% of the gold and they got a hundred ounces then then there would
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be another hundred ounces here so we're gonna give a crack at it today a hundred ounces of gold is worth
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over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars Parker fires up the 330 excavator to begin clearing the
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undergrowth next he stockpiles bucket loads of freshly dug tailings that then get dumped into the wash plan
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material is washed off the rocks falling through the shaker while big boulders are discarded
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the spinning trommel separates gold dirt under quarter of an inch from the remaining gravel
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this gold bearing material then passes through the trommel screens into sluice boxes below because gold is
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19 times heavier than water it sinks to the bottom of the sluice box but after only 30 minutes of running
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right out that heavy
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Parker's wash plant shuts down without warning
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he checks the generator the source of power to the wash plant it's dead
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there's nothing I can do up here really could talk to my grandpa
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we shut down huh I guess we stopped luckily his grandfather has not yet left the mine Parker needs
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his years of experience there's somewhere in the circuitry there's a bad terminal connection and we lose
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the voltage I would order a new regulator we had this problem about 10 years ago what was it we put a new
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regulator on it and it worked yeah been running for the last 10 years okay no problem I guess
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the regulator maintains the right voltage coming out of the generator Parker heads into town to order a new
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one it's a bad first day for the new boss of the big nugget mine first thing we're doing is losing
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money and not running any dirt it could be a problem in July of 1897 boatloads of gold rich miners docked in
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San Francisco over the next six months 100,000 men headed north in the Klondike gold rush many turned back or died on
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the way only 40,000 completed the epic Trek North up in the Klondike the short mining season is already
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12 days old the Hoffman crew overhauls their new wash plant while they wait for Todd and Jack to return
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from their hunt for a new claim Todd and Jack are here
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well guys hey what's up found it I cut a deal we got it we got ourselves a mine
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really guys we got ourselves a virgin ground so Todd we went to porcupine believing there was gold I know there was gold but we didn't get any of it I know what's to say that this mine is going to pay
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did they show you any gold I mean here's the deal taking his word for it my gut feeling is good that's where I'm going I've already shook on it that's our home I feel I feels right
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I'm asking you guys to trust me again and you know what there's every possibility I can be wrong but I mean if at some point we got to trust somebody somewhere
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we don't have much time
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I think we can do it what do you guys think I haven't seen the lay of the land up there but right here we're running out of time already
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the race is on to get to the gold
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as the crew repairs the wash plants water pipes Dave Turin measures for the new conveyor belt that will feed dirt into the wash plant
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we can build this to a certain extent and then we need the parts hopefully they'll be here tomorrow
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the Hoffman crew is behind and losing money with every passing day
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but now they have a real chance at striking it rich in the Klondike
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600 miles south at Porcupine Creek
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Dakota Fred is also scrambling to get mining
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to build a new road over the Hoffman's old holding pond he moves tons of dirt
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a lot of gold is going to come up this road probably going to be plated on the tracks by the time we get done
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but Fred is doing the work of three men his crew hasn't arrived yet
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they are still prepping their mining equipment down in North Dakota
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with the road finished there is nothing else Fred can do
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sometimes I do wish I had help
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Fred's claim isn't the only one at a standstill
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across the creek at the big nugget mine power is the problem
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I was hoping to get up here and hit the ground running run the plant
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but that's not quite happening
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Parker Schnabel finally has the new regulator for his broken generator
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it should get their wash plant up and running
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but he needs his crew to install it
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oh well we'll get going sometime today hopefully
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Grandpa John has Parker's crew repairing the road to the claim
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it's clear that Parker isn't really the boss of the big nugget mine just yet
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I'm just confused because I thought last night I told
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I thought I made it pretty clear that the plan was to run the plant
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I thought Gary was going to meet me up here
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everything's screwed up
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I have to have this figured out this morning
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like as in 20 minutes ago
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I'll go get the man with the toolbox
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relax
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he's awful impatient
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young people think that they can do everything in a big hurry
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but you have to get older to slow down a little
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in the Klondike
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the Hoffman crew works tirelessly to replumb their wash plant
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they need to hire a truck to haul their old 20,000 pound wash plant up to their new claim
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the 45 mile road from Dawson City to Quartz Creek rises 4,000 feet over King Solomon's Dome
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transporting a heavy load on this winding dirt road is treacherous
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this is kind of a big deal
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this is kind of a big deal
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I'm heading over to see like the only trucker that will bring our equipment
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over the pass and down into our gold mine
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on the outskirts of Dawson City lives Tom Fenton
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hey are you Tom?
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yeah I am
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you Tom? I'm Todd
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how you all doing?
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good
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oh I'm hanging in there
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oh
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good
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I got a question for you
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you're the only guy that'll go up and down those big hills
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I'm the only guy
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you're the man huh?
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no I'm just the only guy
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okay
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I have a list about as long as my arm of other people
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the gold mining crews spread throughout the Klondike keep trucker Tom Fenton a busy man
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do you want to do the plant on Monday?
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Tom has only one free day to haul Todd's wash plant in the next two weeks
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and uh if it's raining
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I ain't going
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Roger
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no problem
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alright man
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thank you
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see ya
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Tom's limited availability means Todd's wash plant has to be ready in just two days
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but it's still in pieces
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all the other guys are up in the hills running right now
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so
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I want to go up there
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I want to dig gold
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the guys will be you know on my back
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I don't care
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I don't care
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we need gold
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we need to get it fast
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so
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wish me luck
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Dawson City
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the Klondike
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the Hoffman crew has fitted their wash plant with a new screen to filter gold bearing material
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and new water pipes
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they have made good progress
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but every day the Hoffman crew spends making fixes is another day lost
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the wash plant has to be hauled to their new claim on Quartz Creek in just two days
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you want to talk to me?
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dude I know time is an issue and we're trying to get things done in a hurry but I just don't feel we're ready to take that thing up there
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we have the shop here we've got tools we've got the things we need
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once we get up there it's going to be twice as hard to work on
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thing is I can only get this trucker a Monday so it's now or never
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I don't want to take it up there in pieces because we'll lose half the stuff on the way up there
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I booked them with this guy we got to go
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can you live with that?
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we don't have much choice
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alright
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stick with it
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hauling a rickety old wash plant up to Quartz Creek
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could end in disaster
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the journey could lead to weeks of repairs
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but like I said time is an enemy
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we have to be out of here and not have this stuff up there
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so I guess we have to roll with it
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600 miles south at Porcupine Creek
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Dakota Fred has finished his new road
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it's day 14 of the mining season
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but Fred can't begin to mine Porcupine his way
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without his crew or his mining equipment
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luckily Fred isn't alone for much longer
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his crew winds their way up to the claim in an 18-wheeler loaded with supplies from North Dakota
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oh y'all are a sight for sore eyes
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good to see you man
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take care
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Paul is Fred's business partner
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Dustin is Fred's son
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and Darren is their truck driver and rigger
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told you I'd get up here one way or another
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what do they do hide you in a sleeper or something
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put you in a cargo
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put you in a little boxes for her man
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stuck you in a box
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what do y'all got on here
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oh man I didn't even look
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the crew has brand new mining equipment
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including a container full of tools
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a pump
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and a new clean-out trommel to extract the gold
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wow
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goldzilla man
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that's goldzilla
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Dakota Fred and his crew
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can finally get down to the business of pulling millions in gold
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out of Porcupine Creek
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what do y'all think
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let's start mining
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let's go
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get the water coming
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across the creek at Big Nugget Mine
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Parker Schnabel's crew installs the new regulator on the wash plant's generator
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those bolt
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the bolt meter on the left there
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when he turns the knob
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we want that to adjust
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see he's turning it down
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it works
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you turn the thing and the voltage
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goes up and down
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see it's holding steady at 484
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and with the 480 volt system
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so
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with the generator up and running
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they power up the wash plant
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I think we should run about two hours
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and if it's still running then
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we'll probably be good
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so
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I'll go feed the plant
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and we've got water
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so
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once again
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the marker feeds his grandpa's 20 year old tailings
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into the plant
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you know we put the part in
513
00:30:58,540 --> 00:30:59,540
I did everything I could
514
00:30:59,540 --> 00:31:00,540
so
515
00:31:00,540 --> 00:31:01,540
now you just gotta wait
516
00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:02,540
it's tough
517
00:31:10,540 --> 00:31:11,540
we got 20 minutes so far
518
00:31:11,540 --> 00:31:12,540
so
519
00:31:12,540 --> 00:31:29,540
in about 20 minutes we'll start getting a little more confident and about an hour after that we'll be pretty sure we fixed it
520
00:31:29,540 --> 00:31:36,540
two weeks into the 150 day mining season
521
00:31:36,540 --> 00:31:39,540
Parker Schnabel's mine is fully operational
522
00:31:39,540 --> 00:31:41,540
hopefully there's a pile of gold sitting in there somewhere
523
00:31:41,540 --> 00:31:56,540
at the big nugget mine in southeast Alaska
524
00:31:56,540 --> 00:31:59,540
Parker Schnabel's generator is back up and running
525
00:31:59,540 --> 00:32:02,540
then you turn it up and it goes up
526
00:32:02,540 --> 00:32:07,540
15 days into the 150 day mining season
527
00:32:07,540 --> 00:32:10,540
he is closing in on his first clean out
528
00:32:10,540 --> 00:32:12,540
as the new boss of the big nugget mine
529
00:32:12,540 --> 00:32:14,540
Parker is sitting on top of the world
530
00:32:14,540 --> 00:32:20,540
he has visions that he's going to make thousands of dollars every day and I hope he's right
531
00:32:20,540 --> 00:32:25,540
Parker shut down the wash plant
532
00:32:25,540 --> 00:32:31,540
but leaves the water running to push any remaining gold through the machine and into the Schnabel's sluice box
533
00:32:31,540 --> 00:32:35,540
it's the first clean out of dirt that I've picked out I guess
534
00:32:41,540 --> 00:32:47,540
what he'll do now is work it around and get it down to about a pan full of dirt
535
00:32:47,540 --> 00:32:52,540
as they work the water into the dirt the lighter material washes away
536
00:32:52,540 --> 00:32:58,540
only the heaviest material including any gold stays in the sluice box
537
00:32:58,540 --> 00:33:00,540
see those nuggets right there? wait
538
00:33:00,540 --> 00:33:04,540
so there's a few nuggets sitting right up top there
539
00:33:04,540 --> 00:33:13,540
the nuggets in the sluice box are an early indication that Parker's plan just might work
540
00:33:13,540 --> 00:33:19,540
he won't know for sure if running his grandpa's discarded tailings has paid off
541
00:33:19,540 --> 00:33:22,540
until he can pan all of the wash plant dirt
542
00:33:22,540 --> 00:33:26,540
the reason I'm here is I ran this dirt a long time ago
543
00:33:26,540 --> 00:33:30,540
with a real primitive system of sluice, just a sluice box
544
00:33:30,540 --> 00:33:33,540
and we threw away lots of gold
545
00:33:34,540 --> 00:33:36,540
he's trying to be conservative and say it's half time
546
00:33:36,540 --> 00:33:38,540
we're hopefully as a thousand dollars
547
00:33:38,540 --> 00:33:44,540
less than a half mile away at Porcupine Creek
548
00:33:44,540 --> 00:33:48,540
Dakota Fred and his crew rush to unload their gold mining equipment
549
00:33:48,540 --> 00:33:50,540
bring your bucket over here Fred
550
00:33:50,540 --> 00:33:53,540
but a container weighing 25,000 pounds
551
00:33:53,540 --> 00:33:56,540
forces them to think through their next move
552
00:33:56,540 --> 00:33:59,540
I trust his abilities to run and operate machinery
553
00:33:59,540 --> 00:34:01,540
on everything out here pretty much
554
00:34:01,540 --> 00:34:04,540
so I have faith that he's not going to get me killed
555
00:34:04,540 --> 00:34:08,540
one on each side, you got one right there, huh?
556
00:34:26,540 --> 00:34:27,540
you alright?
557
00:34:27,540 --> 00:34:28,540
yeah
558
00:34:28,540 --> 00:34:33,540
Darren, the crew's rigger, takes the lead
559
00:34:33,540 --> 00:34:36,540
we're going to walk around to the other side of the container in the trailer
560
00:34:36,540 --> 00:34:39,540
and we're going to lift up on the bottom end over there
561
00:34:39,540 --> 00:34:41,540
as soon as it clears the truck
562
00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:44,540
I'm going to go ahead and pull out from underneath it
563
00:34:44,540 --> 00:34:47,540
alright, step back folks, we got a turn here
564
00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:50,540
Darren rigs one side of the container to the excavator
565
00:34:50,540 --> 00:34:53,540
so that the truck can simply pull away
566
00:34:53,540 --> 00:34:55,540
looks like that plan will work fine for me
567
00:34:55,540 --> 00:35:00,540
looking good Fred
568
00:35:00,540 --> 00:35:02,540
yay
569
00:35:02,540 --> 00:35:05,540
so far so good
570
00:35:05,540 --> 00:35:08,540
we got it down, no problems
571
00:35:08,540 --> 00:35:12,540
15 days into the season
572
00:35:12,540 --> 00:35:15,540
the Porcupine crew is ready to mine for gold
573
00:35:15,540 --> 00:35:16,540
alright
574
00:35:16,540 --> 00:35:20,540
meanwhile, just outside Dawson City
575
00:35:20,540 --> 00:35:24,540
Tom Fenton arrives to haul the Hoffman's broken down wash plant
576
00:35:24,540 --> 00:35:27,540
to their new claim
577
00:35:27,540 --> 00:35:30,540
the crew has worked day and night
578
00:35:30,540 --> 00:35:33,540
but the wash plant is far from finished
579
00:35:33,540 --> 00:35:35,540
we'll have to take it up there in pieces
580
00:35:35,540 --> 00:35:37,540
hope that it works, won't be able to test it
581
00:35:37,540 --> 00:35:39,540
and it's a mess
582
00:35:39,540 --> 00:35:42,540
with only one shot at the move
583
00:35:42,540 --> 00:35:47,540
the Hoffman crew has no choice but to make the remaining fixes on the claim
584
00:35:47,540 --> 00:35:51,540
45 miles out in the Yukon wilderness
585
00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:54,540
it's a little premature but you know what
586
00:35:54,540 --> 00:35:56,540
we booked the trucker, we're going
587
00:35:56,540 --> 00:35:58,540
let's go get in the truck, let's load up
588
00:35:58,540 --> 00:36:06,540
first, they have to get the 20,000 pound wash plant onto the trailer
589
00:36:06,540 --> 00:36:08,540
the trailer
590
00:36:12,540 --> 00:36:13,540
the trailer's up here
591
00:36:13,540 --> 00:36:15,540
and this plant's down here
592
00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:18,540
and all you're lifting it with is what they call a bra
593
00:36:18,540 --> 00:36:20,540
and it's a cable
594
00:36:24,540 --> 00:36:26,540
I hope he doesn't flip it over
595
00:36:26,540 --> 00:36:29,540
Tom's winch drags the wash plant towards the low boy
596
00:36:29,540 --> 00:36:32,540
but the old machine is aging
597
00:36:32,540 --> 00:36:34,540
and not structurally sound
598
00:36:41,540 --> 00:36:42,540
if it falls over
599
00:36:42,540 --> 00:36:46,540
it could easily end the Hoffman's second season of mining
600
00:36:46,540 --> 00:36:48,540
before it even starts
601
00:36:48,540 --> 00:37:06,540
up in the Klondike
602
00:37:06,540 --> 00:37:10,540
the Hoffman's wash plant is getting winched onto a trailer
603
00:37:10,540 --> 00:37:14,540
it needs to make the trip to their new claim in Quartz Creek
604
00:37:14,540 --> 00:37:16,540
but it weighs 20,000 pounds
605
00:37:16,540 --> 00:37:18,540
if it fails
606
00:37:18,540 --> 00:37:20,540
their mining season will be in jeopardy
607
00:37:20,540 --> 00:37:21,540
easy, easy
608
00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:22,540
enough
609
00:37:22,540 --> 00:37:23,540
stop
610
00:37:29,540 --> 00:37:30,540
ah
611
00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:31,540
hold up Tom
612
00:37:37,540 --> 00:37:38,540
did it make it?
613
00:37:40,540 --> 00:37:43,540
oh and it rolled right over like that
614
00:37:43,540 --> 00:37:46,540
how'd that other side look?
615
00:37:46,540 --> 00:37:47,540
pretty good
616
00:37:47,540 --> 00:37:48,540
yeah
617
00:37:48,540 --> 00:37:52,540
he's got it on the trailer
618
00:37:52,540 --> 00:37:54,540
it looked a little sketchy
619
00:37:54,540 --> 00:37:55,540
but I mean oh my gosh
620
00:37:55,540 --> 00:37:56,540
he got her on there
621
00:37:56,540 --> 00:37:57,540
what can you do?
622
00:37:57,540 --> 00:37:59,540
the wash plant is secure
623
00:38:00,540 --> 00:38:01,540
for now
624
00:38:01,540 --> 00:38:02,540
going around those corners
625
00:38:02,540 --> 00:38:04,540
that's the thing that really scares me
626
00:38:04,540 --> 00:38:07,540
Tom Fenton has 20,000 pounds of shaker
627
00:38:07,540 --> 00:38:09,540
strapped to his trailer
628
00:38:09,540 --> 00:38:11,540
and a treacherous journey ahead
629
00:38:11,540 --> 00:38:12,540
we're following a trucker
630
00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:13,540
with a top heavy wash plant
631
00:38:13,540 --> 00:38:14,540
but that's it
632
00:38:14,540 --> 00:38:15,540
you know we're moving in
633
00:38:15,540 --> 00:38:16,540
we've got our wash plant
634
00:38:16,540 --> 00:38:17,540
we're going in
635
00:38:17,540 --> 00:38:19,540
the Hoffman's convoy
636
00:38:19,540 --> 00:38:20,540
hits the road
637
00:38:20,540 --> 00:38:21,540
to their new home
638
00:38:29,540 --> 00:38:31,540
it's a 45 mile journey
639
00:38:31,540 --> 00:38:32,540
from Dawson City
640
00:38:32,540 --> 00:38:33,540
to their gold claim
641
00:38:33,540 --> 00:38:36,540
it's like driving on a bunch of marbles
642
00:38:36,540 --> 00:38:38,540
on a cookie sheet
643
00:38:42,540 --> 00:38:44,540
they summit King Solomon's Dome
644
00:38:44,540 --> 00:38:47,540
and head down into the Quartz Creek Valley
645
00:38:51,540 --> 00:38:53,540
there's a mine right down there in that valley
646
00:38:53,540 --> 00:38:56,540
alright let's go on into the promised land
647
00:38:56,540 --> 00:39:03,540
with a 20,000 pound load behind him
648
00:39:03,540 --> 00:39:05,540
Tom Fenton has to control his speed
649
00:39:05,540 --> 00:39:07,540
where the top heavy wash plant
650
00:39:07,540 --> 00:39:09,540
could fall off at any turn
651
00:39:09,540 --> 00:39:12,540
this hill is basically straight down
652
00:39:12,540 --> 00:39:15,540
I can hear his engine revving up
653
00:39:15,540 --> 00:39:18,540
Tom's an experienced Klondike trucker
654
00:39:18,540 --> 00:39:21,540
and uses a low gear to stay in control
655
00:39:21,540 --> 00:39:25,540
he negotiates the 4,000 foot descent
656
00:39:25,540 --> 00:39:27,540
to the claim with no problems
657
00:39:30,540 --> 00:39:31,540
the Hoffman's new wash plant
658
00:39:31,540 --> 00:39:33,540
survives the trip
659
00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:38,540
meanwhile at the big nugget mine
660
00:39:40,540 --> 00:39:42,540
Parker Schnabel weighs his first gold
661
00:39:42,540 --> 00:39:44,540
to kick off the season
662
00:39:44,540 --> 00:39:45,540
he made the risky decision
663
00:39:45,540 --> 00:39:48,540
to run his grandpa's 20 year old tailings
664
00:39:48,540 --> 00:39:50,540
I like my gold golden brown
665
00:39:50,540 --> 00:39:53,540
now he finds out if it's paid off
666
00:39:53,540 --> 00:39:56,540
see how fine that stuff is
667
00:39:56,540 --> 00:39:59,540
weighing the gold has been his grandfather's
668
00:39:59,540 --> 00:40:02,540
evening ritual for 25 years
669
00:40:02,540 --> 00:40:04,540
now it's Parker's turn
670
00:40:04,540 --> 00:40:05,540
it's a big day for me
671
00:40:05,540 --> 00:40:07,540
I must be doing something right
672
00:40:07,540 --> 00:40:10,540
for my grandpa to put this much faith in me
673
00:40:10,540 --> 00:40:11,540
it's quite an honor
674
00:40:11,540 --> 00:40:13,540
because he's an amazing man
675
00:40:13,540 --> 00:40:16,540
really well he is a hero
676
00:40:16,540 --> 00:40:18,540
but that's what he's always been
677
00:40:22,540 --> 00:40:24,540
three-fifths of an ounce
678
00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:25,540
which is about
679
00:40:25,540 --> 00:40:27,540
eight
680
00:40:27,540 --> 00:40:28,540
eight hundred dollars
681
00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:30,540
we only ran four hours
682
00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:31,540
so
683
00:40:31,540 --> 00:40:33,540
I think we're gonna have a good week next week
684
00:40:33,540 --> 00:40:36,540
if every day is as good as his first
685
00:40:36,540 --> 00:40:39,540
Parker will make over $200,000
686
00:40:39,540 --> 00:40:42,540
during the five month mining season
687
00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:46,540
ten times what the Hoffman's made last year
688
00:40:46,540 --> 00:40:49,540
and enough to keep his grandpa's mine in business
689
00:40:49,540 --> 00:40:51,540
you know I'm in charge now
690
00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:52,540
and he's not
691
00:40:52,540 --> 00:40:56,540
I hope that he doesn't lose motivation to keep going
692
00:40:56,540 --> 00:40:59,540
because that's the worst thing that could happen this summer
693
00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:03,540
I could walk away from the mine in a heartbeat
694
00:41:03,540 --> 00:41:06,540
if it meant keeping my grandpa around
695
00:41:20,540 --> 00:41:22,540
At Quartz Creek
696
00:41:22,540 --> 00:41:25,540
45 miles south of Dawson City
697
00:41:25,540 --> 00:41:28,540
the Hoffman crew arrives at their new home
698
00:41:28,540 --> 00:41:29,540
this is it guys
699
00:41:29,540 --> 00:41:32,540
this is our claim right here
700
00:41:32,540 --> 00:41:34,540
I guess this is home
701
00:41:34,540 --> 00:41:36,540
it doesn't really look like it
702
00:41:36,540 --> 00:41:37,540
but apparently it is
703
00:41:37,540 --> 00:41:39,540
this is weird looking
704
00:41:39,540 --> 00:41:40,540
I don't know
705
00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:44,540
there is lots of tailings here
706
00:41:44,540 --> 00:41:49,540
I think someone may have chocolate coated some dog poo here
707
00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:53,540
no one likes what they see
708
00:41:53,540 --> 00:42:00,540
but Todd quickly takes them over to see the virgin ground across Quartz Creek
709
00:42:00,540 --> 00:42:02,540
those tailings that you saw
710
00:42:02,540 --> 00:42:03,540
okay
711
00:42:03,540 --> 00:42:05,540
those came from that old dredge right there
712
00:42:05,540 --> 00:42:08,540
in the 1950s
713
00:42:08,540 --> 00:42:14,540
the dredge mined what today would be over a billion dollars in gold out of this valley
714
00:42:14,540 --> 00:42:19,540
if the ground across Quartz Creek was untouched by the dredge
715
00:42:19,540 --> 00:42:22,540
their new claim could hold a fortune in gold
716
00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:24,540
they never could get up to our claim
717
00:42:24,540 --> 00:42:28,540
that virgin ground over there has never been touched
718
00:42:28,540 --> 00:42:31,540
all through the gold rush all through all this time
719
00:42:31,540 --> 00:42:35,540
we're gonna frickin do this
720
00:42:35,540 --> 00:42:38,540
cuz we're gonna go right over there and we're gonna kick some straight butt
721
00:42:38,540 --> 00:42:39,540
don't give up
722
00:42:39,540 --> 00:42:40,540
okay
723
00:42:40,540 --> 00:42:41,540
and I know we've had troubles
724
00:42:41,540 --> 00:42:44,540
last year we had a horrible season
725
00:42:44,540 --> 00:42:46,540
we've lost a lot of money
726
00:42:46,540 --> 00:42:48,540
we've had blood sweat and tears into this
727
00:42:48,540 --> 00:42:49,540
okay
728
00:42:49,540 --> 00:42:52,540
if you guys got the cojones
729
00:42:52,540 --> 00:42:56,540
let's team up again and really hit it hard 100%
730
00:42:56,540 --> 00:42:59,540
we will not have another chance at this
731
00:42:59,540 --> 00:43:02,540
we represent the best country in the world
732
00:43:02,540 --> 00:43:03,540
that's where we live
733
00:43:03,540 --> 00:43:05,540
that's where we were born
734
00:43:05,540 --> 00:43:08,540
and people have died for the freedoms that we have
735
00:43:08,540 --> 00:43:09,540
so who's with me
736
00:43:09,540 --> 00:43:11,540
we can do it
737
00:43:15,540 --> 00:43:18,540
my expectations just shot through the roof
738
00:43:18,540 --> 00:43:19,540
this is cool
739
00:43:19,540 --> 00:43:20,540
this is really exciting now
740
00:43:20,540 --> 00:43:22,540
Todd came through once again
741
00:43:22,540 --> 00:43:23,540
woo
742
00:43:23,540 --> 00:43:24,540
here we are
743
00:43:24,540 --> 00:43:25,540
all right
744
00:43:25,540 --> 00:43:26,540
we gotta start
745
00:43:26,540 --> 00:43:28,540
my guys have been kicked in the teeth
746
00:43:28,540 --> 00:43:31,540
and they followed me and my dad to the ends of the earth
747
00:43:31,540 --> 00:43:33,540
we'll get the gold
748
00:43:33,540 --> 00:43:37,540
we just have to keep the faith
55868
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