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Last spring, seven down on their luck miners return to the frozen north.
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Let's rock and roll.
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To hunt for gold.
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Let's head back on!
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The hopman crew was heading for failure once again.
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A three-blut, sweat and tears.
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The crew ducked deep.
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And pulled game-changing gold from the Klondike Dirt.
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Holy smokes, let's get it.
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And a half out of this, guys.
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Now, for the first time in two long seasons,
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the hopman crew has a chance to turn a real profit
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and become legitimate bullsmen.
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Hey, you know what? This is not a game.
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The question is, can they do it?
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Stop.
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Right there.
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The season's over.
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Down south at Porcupine Creek,
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the Dakota Boys just may have hit the jackpot
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in the nick of time.
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Just act with gold.
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And across the creek,
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17-year-old Parker Schnabel has one more chance
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to seek the big nugget line.
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There's nothing in this dirt.
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I don't know what the line will do.
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Up at Court's Creek in the Klondike.
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It's the end of September.
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The other miners have packed up for winter
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and are long gone.
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To turn a profit for the first time in two seasons,
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the hopman crew desperately needs new painter.
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But winter is tightening its grip.
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Here's his frozen heart as a rock.
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But I want to get to that hundred ounce mark.
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Well, they're going to know until dry.
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That's right.
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To that or pack up and go home,
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I'm not quite ready to do that yet.
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With the last four months,
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the hopman crew has fought to strip gold rich pay gravel
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from their plane.
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This is a whole nother ball game.
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After clearing over 13,000 yards in Cut 1,
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they stripped another 8,000 yards in Cut 2.
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That's the Cut 2 right here in a pile.
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The first two cuts produced 81 and a half ounces of gold
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worth 130,000 dollars.
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Now, Cut 3 is their only chance of hitting their 100 ounce gold.
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But the ground is rock solid.
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Dave, get us fricking at least two or 300 yards dirt out here.
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That'll put us over the top.
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You're going to give it a best try.
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Leave it all on the field.
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I keep it a best try.
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We're going to do 300.
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It's cold.
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The ground is frozen.
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Give me fricking 300 yards out here.
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Come on.
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Look at this.
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I can only do what I can do.
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Minutes solid.
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I mean, if the gold is there, I'll do it.
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I'll hit you a couple of yards.
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Okay.
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Okay, to push it.
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You went this far.
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Look at what you do with that thing.
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300 more yards.
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You're going to do what you can do.
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I mean, I can't push it.
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I don't care.
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I'll push that those are doing its limit then.
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You do it.
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You do it.
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You're equipment.
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Do your best.
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Okay.
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Your gold mine is about pushing and, uh, overcoming.
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You know, either love it or you, or you just kind of,
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you want to get out of here.
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Some of my guys want to get out of here.
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The Hoffman crew has beaten the odds this season.
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Covering their running costs.
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But this year, the crew is dead set on making real money.
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If they can, they will prove themselves as gold mines.
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Get to 100 out of this means just as much to me as everybody else.
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You might even be more to me.
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Oh.
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I just don't like the idea.
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This little doser.
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I mean, I'm just letting that track roll man.
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But Todd said he wanted gravel out of here.
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So I'm doing the best I can.
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Still doser is designed to push.
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Stir.
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Ground like.
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Solid eyes.
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Oh.
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Hey.
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Man, it's done.
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I knew it.
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Gosh.
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Dang it.
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Get out of the way.
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Hey, you know what?
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This is not a game.
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This is not a game.
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I just destroyed a $60,000 piece of machinery.
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I'm not playing any games.
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Just back off.
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But leave me alone.
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We're done, Farber.
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Sit.
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What happened?
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I told you I can't take the doser to failure like that.
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It's done.
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I blew a seal.
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Stop right there.
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Come here, buddy.
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I'm not going to get to 100.
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We can't get to it.
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No, stop.
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Hey, calm down.
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Calm down, Dave.
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Seal went out, Todd.
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I was baby and his best I can.
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We're done.
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We'll figure out how to get that pay up there and run it.
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And we'll just try it.
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We'll see.
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Whatever we get, we get.
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You know what?
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We get 90.
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Go for it.
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We get 90.
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And that's what it is.
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You know, I said it was done.
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Good luck.
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Hey.
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Hey, come here.
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Take the season's over.
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Dave.
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Get back here.
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South at Porcupine Creek.
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The Dakota boys are also hunting their last gold of the season.
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Soon, the Alaskan winter will force them out.
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You ready to go this morning?
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Let's go get it done.
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Let's get it fired up.
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It's been one week since their last delivery of fuel.
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I'm a bit empty there.
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Yeah, it's a little close.
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Definitely a little close.
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All right.
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We're right at the end now.
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That's probably got enough for about a day or two.
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And that's about it.
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I just don't have the cash to buy another tank of fuel.
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We're down to the wire right now.
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We're down to the wire.
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Over the last three weeks, the Dakota boys have been pulling great bedrock dirt from the bottom of their 80 foot pit.
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There's gold dripping off that stuff.
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So don't spell a drop of it.
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They found 68.2 ounces this season worth nearly $110,000.
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The last clean out of gray dirt yielded almost 18 ounces.
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$28,000 were in just two days of running.
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The Dakota boys need to run as much of this gray dirt as possible.
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Like the Hoffman, they have covered their costs.
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And now they want something to show for their long hard season.
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But time is not on their side.
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All right.
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For another day or two here, we have to try and watch that fuel real close.
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See how much gold we can get out in the ground.
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And let's show it time that we have.
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Well, again, getting in the sub-footstop now.
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I definitely great material folks.
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That is definitely great material.
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All right.
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That's what I want to see.
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Hey, dust.
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Check this out.
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Uh, something's a padding is changing here.
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See that gray stuff?
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Down at the end of the water line, way down there.
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It's gone from 4 feet above that water down there to about 8 feet above that water.
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So just 4 feet, that probably means that the bedrock also makes a bend right there.
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My thoughts exactly.
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Brett believes the gray material at Porcupine Creek sits on bedrock.
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If this material is rising, so is the bedrock under the 270 excavator.
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Fred could be on top of an ancient waterfall.
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And potentially millions of dollars in gold trapped in the pit,
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or glory hole at the bottom.
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You know what, I think we might be close to that waterfall.
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There you go right here.
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There I say glory hole.
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Last season, Jack and Todd spend five months trying to get
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down to the glory hole at Porcupine Creek.
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Now, Fred's seeing signs that he's very close.
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This is the rock.
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It's kind of a blue green looking.
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When you see that, you know it's associated with gold here.
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But the Dakota boys are almost out of time.
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And these, to get to the glory hole goal.
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I'm just going to sit here and dig the rest of this stuff tonight.
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Wash it and rock, young man.
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Sounds good to me.
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Winter is closing in on the Alaskan Goldfields.
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At the big nugget mine,
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Harper Schnubbel's father Roger is digging 50 feet down in a test hole
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near the top of Smith Creek Hill.
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It's nice time I got here to help out.
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So far, Parker is only found 34 ounces of gold worth around $55,000.
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He has to find a new pastry before the season ends
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to save the big nugget mine.
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His 91-year-old Grand Pod John is checking on progress.
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Hey boss, nice to see you up here.
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I hope so.
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This dirt is kind of 15 feet below the last test that we took.
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This is probably the last few buckets we'll take out of Smith Creek this season.
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After Grand Pod John's heart attack, Parker once again took over control of the mine.
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The real priorities to find out what's at Smith Creek.
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I'll find out what's up here.
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He's in the same hole on Smith Creek Hill.
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But struck out.
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Now, he's digging even deeper in the same test hole.
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If there's gold on Smith Creek, he thinks it lies close to Bitrock.
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It seems like it's digging a little bit tougher than it was before.
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Can you feel it?
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They're growing closer.
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Dad, are you starting to hit innocent boulders?
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It's mostly clay, I think.
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This stuff, like it's clay in rocks.
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It's like there's a big rock in it.
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And I don't think that we've seen any of that before.
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Okay.
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We're just going to throw it all away though, right?
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No.
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Or are you going to take this?
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To the plant.
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Pardon me?
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I'll talk to you for a second.
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Roger is part owner of the mine.
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He's not impressed by Parker's plan to run clay-rich material.
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Parker has lost $35,000 already this season.
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His dad doesn't want to throw good money after bad.
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I'm concerned because Parker's not finding any color where we're at.
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You have to ask yourself, is all this for not.
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Parker's spending a lot of money of yours to try to find gold.
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When you start committing yourself to that kind of an expense,
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you have to do it on the faith that you're going to find a pretty good chunk of gold down there.
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That's pretty deep hole.
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It just doesn't make sense that it's just like unending.
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Right.
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It just, I can't help but think that at some point we have to find the bottom.
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Roger Schnubble doesn't want to dig any deeper.
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Without proof there's gold on Smith Creek.
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That's got me nervous.
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Definitely.
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About running out of money running out of time.
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It's just Smith Creek's been something that we've talked about for years.
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We have to figure out what's up here.
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Parker takes fresh dirt from over 50 feet deep in the test hole down to the wash plan.
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The future of big nugget rests on this one final cleaner.
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Up at Quartz Creek in the Klandai.
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Todd and mechanic James Harness inspect the broken D8 doser that Dave Turen stranded in Cut 3.
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Now crap.
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He thinks the seal blew in this piston that holds the track tight.
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That should be all the way out.
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I know.
273
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Will you be able to tell by looking in there?
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Maybe.
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Oh man, this is not good.
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Everything's gone.
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Internally the piston is lost the oil because the seal went out.
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It's got to come apart.
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This thing's wasted and there's nothing we can do.
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Come on, we were right here for the winter.
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Alright, thanks James.
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Sorry man.
283
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A seal has split inside the piston that tightens the doser's track,
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rendering the D8 useless.
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With only days left in their season,
286
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James's diagnosis is a worst case scenario.
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We may have to replace the whole undercarriage on that thing.
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It's a huge job.
289
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It's not feasible to even try.
290
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It's done.
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Dad!
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Those were dead.
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I'm out of material with the plant and not to.
294
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I don't believe it.
295
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Well, believe it.
296
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Well, there's absolutely no more band aids.
297
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Nothing we can do.
298
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Oh crap.
299
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Sorry, Dad.
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You gotta have a pair of balls, you know?
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That's it.
302
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I just wanted to tell you.
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Okay.
304
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The Huffman crew wants to make a profit for the first time
305
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and leave Courts Creek as successful gold miners.
306
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Jack isn't ready to go home just yet.
307
00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,000
Sometimes you have to just do it yourself.
308
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Be quiet, you're quiet, you know, but I don't like that.
309
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I don't accept it.
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I did take that very good.
311
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You know what?
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He wants to go over there and dig me some pager.
313
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Hey, tell if you can get it, I'll run it.
314
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Everybody is a good keep trying.
315
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Don't make it.
316
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But if they quit, they can't make it.
317
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I know where the brick and gold is.
318
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We get a couple ounces out of this.
319
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Push it over to the hundreds.
320
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I can see the gold sparkling in a jack.
321
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I hope so.
322
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And a point road that I broke it up and passed I can.
323
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We'll find out.
324
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Okay, Todd, I'm coming with the first bucket off the country.
325
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Reaching their 100 ounce gold will confirm this crew as gold miners.
326
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Jack works hard to scrape up over 300 yards of pay grab.
327
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Chris stockpiles it at the wash plan ready to run.
328
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But after two hours, even Jack and his beloved 400 can dig no further.
329
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Yeah, I think that's it.
330
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That's too close.
331
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We did our best.
332
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Maybe just that little bit.
333
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We ran out of here.
334
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It's got our, enough balances to put us over the 100 bark.
335
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I hope so.
336
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Fort Gipin Creek, southeast Alaska.
337
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After 12 hours, the Dakota boys are still running material through their deraille.
338
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They're in a race against the Alaskan winter.
339
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I do an air dusting.
340
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Doing good.
341
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It got real dark out in, isn't it?
342
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With every scoop, Fred gets closer to the gloryhold
343
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that a loop of Jack Huffman last season.
344
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Woo!
345
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Man, that's the hard part.
346
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Yeah.
347
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Horse graduates is trying to get one bucket of material out of there.
348
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They've freed the pump stuff.
349
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Pumping right now.
350
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On the DRocker.
351
00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000
Just check the canal.
352
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We probably ran out of water.
353
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,000
Negative.
354
00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,000
I can see the canal.
355
00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000
It's full of water.
356
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,000
Oh, crap.
357
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000
Engine is running.
358
00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000
Engine is running.
359
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I'll be right there.
360
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,000
The pump is spewing water.
361
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,000
No water is making it to the wash plan.
362
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:30,000
Oh.
363
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,000
Looks like we've busted a seal, Fred.
364
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000
Holy cow.
365
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000
Look at all the palm water.
366
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000
You're leaking like a seal.
367
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000
Some of the f***.
368
00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:49,000
I mean, that is a critical piece of equipment right there.
369
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,000
Well, they can't fix a seal out here.
370
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,000
No damn way.
371
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,000
You've got to separate the pump and the motor.
372
00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,000
Come on.
373
00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000
We can't get any parts to fix this.
374
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:05,000
I could probably fix it, but we talking for maybe five days.
375
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000
Especially out here in the field.
376
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:12,000
So you think this is the end?
377
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000
I don't know what else to say.
378
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000
Well, that's the end of the season.
379
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000
This water looks like.
380
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000
I really hate to tell you that.
381
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000
Well.
382
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but.
383
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I'm sorry.
384
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There's no quick fix in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness.
385
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Fred is out of time.
386
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000
Winter is about to freeze, porcupine creek.
387
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000
The busted pumps signals the end.
388
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:53,000
Just as the Dakota boys were finally close to discovering porcupine creeks glory hole
389
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and potentially millions in gold.
390
00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:00,000
To shut down right now, just really is a let down.
391
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,000
We got into some really good stuff.
392
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,000
They could have been pots of gold in there.
393
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,000
We're going to just think about it all.
394
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:18,000
Win the law.
395
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,000
Less than a mile away at the big nugget mine.
396
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000
Parker has stock filed the dirt.
397
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,000
His father Roger dug up on Smith Creek Hill.
398
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:33,000
There's just 16 yards of material to run through the wash plan.
399
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000
I'm nervous. This is last task.
400
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,000
This afternoon, I'm going to talk to my dad and grandpa about Smith Creek.
401
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,000
And if there's nothing in this dirt, I don't know what the line will do.
402
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:50,000
I'm scared.
403
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:55,000
Gary Grogan fires up the wash plan.
404
00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:00,000
It's the first time Parker has run clay-rich ground this season.
405
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:06,000
Gary pushes hard to keep the wash plan running smoothly.
406
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,000
The clay sticks together really tight.
407
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,000
You can see how to get the dirt filled up on the pan.
408
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000
It'll probably stay like this in the whole run.
409
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,000
Because I was looking at the material and brought down.
410
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:26,000
It's got a lot of clay mixed in with this.
411
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:31,000
The final test of Smith Creek dirt last just 45 minutes.
412
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:38,000
We're done.
413
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000
Beautiful. Gary works water into the dirt.
414
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:46,000
Only the heaviest material, including any gold, should stay in the sluice pan.
415
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:52,000
The whole future of the mine rests on this final material bearing gold.
416
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,000
We don't see a thing yet.
417
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000
It doesn't look like there's anything at it.
418
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,000
If there's more than half an ounce, we probably would know by now.
419
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000
It's too bad about this.
420
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000
Yeah.
421
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,000
Depressing.
422
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000
In confusing.
423
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000
Yeah.
424
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,000
That's down 35 feet.
425
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000
We haven't hit bedrock yet.
426
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000
I don't know.
427
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000
I don't think there would be some gold in it.
428
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000
I don't know what it means.
429
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000
Right.
430
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,000
But there's still one area of the wash plant.
431
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,000
Parker hasn't cleaned out.
432
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,000
What the f***?
433
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,000
Actually something right here.
434
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000
This is the little suits.
435
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000
It's fed out of the jig.
436
00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:01,000
Wow.
437
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000
There's quite a bit in here.
438
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000
Gary.
439
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000
That's...
440
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,000
Wow.
441
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000
That's, like, not bad at all.
442
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000
That's not bad at all.
443
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,000
You know, the way that clay packed into the pan and in the shoe.
444
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,000
That might have some to do with it.
445
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,000
The clay in the test material clogged up the pan.
446
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,000
The key gold catching area on Parker's wash plant.
447
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:32,000
This forced gold and black sand to wash over the top of the clay and down through the duplex jig.
448
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,000
Where it was caught in the jig's sluice box.
449
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000
That's definitely a big change.
450
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000
And everything was clean.
451
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000
So that's how it today.
452
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,000
That's how it today.
453
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,000
Yeah.
454
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,000
Okay.
455
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000
Well then...
456
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,000
Well, we've got some big news.
457
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000
Yeah.
458
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000
After months of failure.
459
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,000
Park has finally found gold on Smith Creek Hill.
460
00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000
There's gold out there.
461
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000
And I'm willing to bet my next summer on this dig.
462
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:07,000
I mean, this could secure the future of the mine.
463
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:23,000
At Court's Creek in the Klandai, the Hoffman crew is running the 300 yards of frozen
464
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000
Peter Jack Scrape from Cut 3.
465
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000
It's their last chance to find 100 ounces of gold.
466
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,000
A gold that will prove this crew as profitable miners.
467
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000
The basket is good, guys.
468
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000
Coming down to the wire.
469
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,000
Hey, plants looking good.
470
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000
Got a few iceballs coming through.
471
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000
Not some two large yet.
472
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000
That's tough.
473
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,000
Keep an eye on our butt.
474
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000
Here you got it.
475
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:55,000
Safety officer Jimmy Thurber sees chunks of frozen ground in the dirt.
476
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000
That could cripple the wash plant.
477
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,000
But Todd still has 50 yards of cup 3-pater to run.
478
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,000
If I pulled up, I found short on the sand.
479
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000
So everything.
480
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000
I got to run everything.
481
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:14,000
Iceballs, basketballs, dirt balls, they're all going in here.
482
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000
I don't want to have any regrets going to go home.
483
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000
Look at the size of that iceball.
484
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,000
That's big.
485
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000
Coming up the end.
486
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,000
Oh, no way.
487
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000
The ice chunks pass through.
488
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000
With any gold, still stuck inside.
489
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000
A lot of money right there in those iceball.
490
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,000
Yeah.
491
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,000
Yeah, I didn't take too many of these things to make it out.
492
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,000
The last bug right here.
493
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,000
Shut it down.
494
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000
How's it look, Thurber?
495
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:03,000
Every last grain of gold this season is in the wash plant's ripples.
496
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,000
Hey, the beauty.
497
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,000
Right there.
498
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000
That's gold.
499
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000
Lug it up.
500
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,000
Wow.
501
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:15,000
Oh, the cut 3 dirt just might hold enough gold to get the crew to their 100-ounce gold.
502
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000
That one's full.
503
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,000
That one's full.
504
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000
That one's full.
505
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000
That one's full.
506
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000
That one's full.
507
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000
That one's full.
508
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,000
That one.
509
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,000
That one.
510
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,000
That one.
511
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,000
That one.
512
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,000
There.
513
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000
There.
514
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,000
All of there.
515
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,000
There's gold in that one.
516
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,000
Real heavy.
517
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,000
I would say that this far down.
518
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,000
That's the best we've seen so far.
519
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:44,000
The Hoffman's need 18.5 ounces from this final cleanup.
520
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,000
If they can get enough gold to actually make money,
521
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:52,000
these men will have finally proved themselves as gold miners.
522
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000
I'd really like to say 100 ounces.
523
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000
Ballinate everything that we've done here.
524
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,000
I could hold my head high when I go home.
525
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,000
Down in Alaska.
526
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000
The big nugget mine is shut down.
527
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:14,000
Three generations of shnubbles meet to decide the future of the mine.
528
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000
This is what we got off the pan this morning.
529
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000
It almost was.
530
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000
And then I went down below the jig.
531
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,000
And that's what we got out of a little slew.
532
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000
That's pretty nice.
533
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,000
That's what you dug out in the hole.
534
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,000
Yeah, a 45 minute test out of Smith Creek.
535
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,000
That's really encouraging.
536
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,000
Smith Creek will have bigger gold left.
537
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,000
I'll be done.
538
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,000
It's pretty impressive.
539
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000
They found the half ounce of gold.
540
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000
Worth nearly $1,000.
541
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,000
55 feet down in Parker's test hole.
542
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:56,000
To get at the gold at deep, Parker will have to excavate thousands of yards of dirt on Smith Creek Hill.
543
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000
And he'll need a lot of money.
544
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,000
Something Parker doesn't have.
545
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:06,000
I think that if he's going to mind Smith Creek,
546
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000
I would think that he needs at least front money,
547
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000
a minute of a hundred, preferably 150,000 bucks.
548
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:18,000
Do we want to invest the money to get down even to that elevation?
549
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000
To me, I do.
550
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,000
I see two bigger risks, a two small reward.
551
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000
I understand your position.
552
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000
Do you have an opinion about that?
553
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,000
Well, I don't care about the money,
554
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,000
because I can't take it with me.
555
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000
Might as well spend it while I'm here.
556
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000
Are you saying you want to fund the mine next year?
557
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000
Well, really to give it a try.
558
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000
I'll fund it for 50% of the gold.
559
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,000
We get all of it.
560
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,000
I'll take it.
561
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000
It's been an uphill battle,
562
00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,000
but Parker has proved there's gold at Smith Creek Hill.
563
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:05,000
Now he has his grandfather's support to continue hunting for the pastry,
564
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,000
with just days remaining in his first season as the boss.
565
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,000
Parker managed to keep the big nugget mine in business.
566
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,000
The U.S. federal government has a stock pile of over 8,000 tons of gold,
567
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000
worth more than $450 billion.
568
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:27,000
That is just under one ounce of gold for every man, woman, and child in America.
569
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000
At Porky Pine Creek in Southeast Alaska,
570
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000
the Dakota boys run their clean-out trommel one last time.
571
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,000
With their pump broken and de-rockers shut down,
572
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,000
they load the last process dirt of the year.
573
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000
Here we go.
574
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000
Down, almost the last bucket.
575
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,000
Hey, just run it down.
576
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000
Don't work lean out.
577
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Don't work trommel.
578
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000
Don't want to lose boxes.
579
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000
I asked in.
580
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000
Before their pump busted a seal,
581
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,000
the Dakota boys were convinced they were close to the Porky Pine Creek glory hole,
582
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000
and millions in gold.
583
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
That's really good.
584
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000
Really good.
585
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,000
Hey Fred.
586
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,000
What do you think?
587
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,000
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
588
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000
Very nice there, doesn't.
589
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000
Just packed with gold.
590
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,000
He's digging it right spot at the very end.
591
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:43,000
The great material from the bottom of the pit is full of gold,
592
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,000
but the question is how much?
593
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,000
Fred desperately needs to turn a real profit.
594
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Three months ago, he lost his home in North Dakota to floods.
595
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,000
Well, I'm spending most of my savings on this operation.
596
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000
After about 50 pounds,
597
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,000
basically we broke even this year.
598
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,000
By a wind up with 75 ounces,
599
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,000
I'd be happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy.
600
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Now, here it goes.
601
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000
Gold folks.
602
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000
After four hours of panic,
603
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,000
they are finally ready to add the gold to their season's total.
604
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000
Are we ready for the mall in a crew?
605
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Right.
606
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,000
Wow.
607
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000
80.4 ounces.
608
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Feel that.
609
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
That's a lot of gold.
610
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Man.
611
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000
The final cleanup is 12.2 ounces.
612
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,000
The Dakota Boys Season Total is now 80.4 ounces,
613
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000
or 128,000 dollars.
614
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000
After their running costs,
615
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,000
they clear 30 ounces or 48,000 dollars.
616
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,000
I really pushed myself to make sure that we did this right.
617
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Well, I appreciate it.
618
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,000
I always have, maybe sometimes some days,
619
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000
I didn't say it.
620
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,000
But I guarantee that I always felt it.
621
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000
Eight ounces of gold.
622
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,000
Dustin gets 10% of the take.
623
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
There you go.
624
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,000
Thank you, Fred.
625
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,000
All right.
626
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Hopefully we're told enough of this.
627
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
And I appreciate it.
628
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Thank you.
629
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
After a year plagued by breakdowns,
630
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000
the Dakota Boys managed to turn a profit
631
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,000
in their first mining season at Porcupine Creek.
632
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,000
In the final days,
633
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000
they found their richest ground.
634
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,000
When you feed a yellow stuff coming out of that ground,
635
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,000
that's the proof in the puddle.
636
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,000
It's a...
637
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000
Forty-bond Great.
638
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,000
600 miles north at Porcupine Creek.
639
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,000
Todd and Jack Hoffman are deep into their final clean-out of the season.
640
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,000
Reaching their goal of 100 ounces,
641
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000
will mean this cruise first real payday.
642
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,000
To do it, they'll need their largest clean-out ever,
643
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000
18 and a half ounces.
644
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000
This is better concentrate than what we've had in the past.
645
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000
It's a lot better.
646
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,000
Right there.
647
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000
Yeah, it's about 25% roll.
648
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Oh, pretty thick band of gold.
649
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000
But I don't know if it had 18 and a half-thousand...
650
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:38,000
Gosh, getting them come down to the wire.
651
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,000
While Todd and Jack run the last scoops of concentrate
652
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000
through the gold table,
653
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000
the crew gathers ice blocks,
654
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000
the wash plant couldn't break down.
655
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Jim Thurber has a plan to extract every last flick of gold
656
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,000
from the cut-three pay gravel.
657
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,000
It's a little crazy trying to melt it,
658
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000
but it's about the only way we're going to be able to tell.
659
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Stand back to it.
660
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000
All right.
661
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Woo!
662
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Hi!
663
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
It's a great idea, sir.
664
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,000
Definitely worth a couple hours of time
665
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000
to go through this, hopefully.
666
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000
It's going to help the total.
667
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
That's why I didn't do that.
668
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000
It's really hot, steamy rock.
669
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
It looks like getting the cereal.
670
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,000
I mean, you think there'd be some in there.
671
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,000
After torching, every ice block they can find,
672
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Thurber pans the steaming ground.
673
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000
Oh, my word.
674
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000
I can't believe what I'm looking at.
675
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000
That's dropped dead, fantastic.
676
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Back in the gold tin, Jack shuts down the machine.
677
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Yeah, I want to see this one.
678
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000
There's a kip it up.
679
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000
And the gold from the torched ice blocks pays off.
680
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,000
Well, there's about an ounce in here.
681
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:08,000
And I'm going to need it, I think.
682
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,000
Thurber's plan could have netted another $1,600.
683
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:17,000
Jack and Todd gathered a total up their gold one last time.
684
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,000
You ready?
685
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,000
Yep.
686
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000
If their last clean out is 18 and a half ounces or better,
687
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000
they'll reach their goal.
688
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000
With a hundred ounces of clandite gold,
689
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,000
these men can finally call themselves gold miners
690
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000
after two long seasons.
691
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Jack, seven, nine.
692
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000
This is our final total.
693
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
I'll see you later.
694
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:48,000
Right now, seven, eight, eight, eight, three, eight, four, eight, five.
695
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Court's Creek, the clandite.
696
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Todd and Jack Hoffman are about to reveal their gold total to their crew.
697
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,000
To make real money this season,
698
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,000
they need 18 and a half ounces from the last clean out
699
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000
to hit their 100 ounce gold.
700
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,000
It wasn't like we thought about 12 ounces.
701
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000
That was it.
702
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,000
12 ounces?
703
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Yeah.
704
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
Brings is up to 93.
705
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,000
You know, so we pulled up short.
706
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,000
But it's not going to be a shame to have.
707
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,000
We aren't going home with our hands hanging or anything like that.
708
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,000
You know, you could be proud of yourselves.
709
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000
I'm real happy with that.
710
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000
It represents a lot.
711
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,000
You know, I know.
712
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,000
I know we set that goal.
713
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,000
The Huffman crew didn't hit their 100 ounce gold,
714
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,000
but they have only failed by the standards they set themselves.
715
00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:00,000
Turning a profit of $40,000 in just their second season
716
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,000
should still earn them the respect of the clandite gold miners.
717
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
I'm happy with it, Jack.
718
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,000
I'm proud of what we did.
719
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000
93 ounces.
720
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,000
That's a lot of gold.
721
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,000
I never thought I'd seen 93 ounces.
722
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
I think we did good.
723
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000
That's awesome.
724
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
A little bit of an increase over last year.
725
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Things could have been different.
726
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,000
Things could have changed.
727
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Those were could have lasted one more day,
728
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
but we gave it our best shot.
729
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000
But I wanted to get 100 ounces for you, Dad,
730
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
but it's a ball best we could do right now.
731
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,000
I want to think.
732
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,000
I'm happy with it.
733
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,000
You know, you guys are best friends.
734
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000
Anybody can watch.
735
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000
Thank you.
736
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,000
You know, there's nothing else to say.
737
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
In only their second season money,
738
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:52,000
the Huffman crew has found $150,000 in gold.
739
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Seven times more than their rookie season.
740
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,000
At dawn the next day, Jack gives each man
741
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000
his share of the gold.
742
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,000
Hey, I have some things for you, guys.
743
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Little jars are really clean.
744
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Five ounce jars.
745
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:16,000
It comes up to right today at about $8,000.
746
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Yeah.
747
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
They.
748
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Games.
749
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,000
Grig.
750
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Briss.
751
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Thanks, sir.
752
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,000
I like to make it 10 to 15 times what that is.
753
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Next season.
754
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
You deserve a whole lot more.
755
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000
Good luck.
756
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,000
Thanks.
757
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Travel safe, huh?
758
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000
Very good.
759
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,000
The Huffman crew has battled the clondike for five months.
760
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000
They're going home with five ounces or $8,000.
761
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:52,000
It's the first real payday for these men in two long seasons.
762
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
They're no longer rookie miners.
763
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000
They're gold miners.
764
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000
This is my gold.
765
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,000
What I worked in Toilver.
766
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,000
And we've overcome a lot.
767
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Hey, we got a roll, man.
768
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,000
King.
769
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,000
They get some gold from Jack.
770
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
They give this hold.
771
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,000
They'll maybe next season we hit it big.
772
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Well, we felt short of a gold that we set.
773
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:26,000
But I don't feel any shame in our 93 and a half ounces.
774
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,000
With things freezing up, we could have done a lot worse.
775
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000
We could have been 40 ounces short compared to a few.
776
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000
Ready?
777
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,000
There you go.
778
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,000
We've gained some respect.
779
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000
We used some guys around here.
780
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,000
That when we came in, they thought, you know, here comes the clowns.
781
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,000
And we showed them that we can learn how to do things right.
782
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000
We're almost full time miners now.
783
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000
We now have gold.
784
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,000
These guys are fighting a financial fight.
785
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,000
But they actually are going home with enough
786
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,000
that they can make their payments at home.
787
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Nick here.
788
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,000
We're win.
789
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,000
We're going to win.
790
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Good job, guys.
791
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,000
We take some serious bot this year.
792
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Next year, we're going to do a big time.
793
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000
Prone of everybody.
794
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000
We'll be back.
795
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:37,000
I'm happy.
796
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000
Very happy.
797
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000
Of what we did and how we did it.
798
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:50,000
If I need to go home and prepare straight, kick, ass next to you.
799
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Because I'm going to get 1,000 ounces from season three.
800
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,000
Okay.
801
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:04,000
Let me about 1.3 to 1.5 million dollars.
802
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,000
I'm going to freaking show you like that.
803
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000
I'm Christopher Doyle, Executive Producer of Gold Rush.
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This time on the Gold Rush After Show,
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they have some Facebook questions.
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What music do you guys like?
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The old air supply music.
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I like that.
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Oh, you did.
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I don't care.
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It can love out enough in it all, though.
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Watch the Gold Rush After Show at discovery.com slash Gold Rush After Show.
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