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I'm just trying to figure out

if we can just sluice everything.

Two extremely tiny pieces.

I'm depressed.

Some gold needs to start coming out of the ground,

and I'll come out of my state of depression.

Four weeks in, Parker Schnabel's season

is starting to unravel.

He made a strategic decision to sluice top gravels,

dirt with inconsistent gold concentration,

through his four wash plants.

But so far, it's not paying off.

Delivering just 820 ounces towards his 13,000-ounce goal.

I mean, it's dog [bleep],

but to waste it means

dedicating a lot more resources in here in the short term.

We don't really have any spare...

capacity to move so much dirt.

That adds quite a burden onto the trucking crews,

so we might just sluice it all.

Let's just eat it as quick as we can, get through it.

We're here to gamble, so we may as well gamble.

There's starting to be some pretty good rock

coming out of here,

so that's a good sign.

But one thing we can't control-- double whammy of

fuel prices being very high

and gold prices going down sucks.

They're down $500 from their peak.

It's very simple-- gold price goes down, company goes broke.

With the gold price dropping $500 per ounce

in the last five weeks,

Parker needs to hit the higher-pay gold layer soon,

and is praying this is the week it changes over.

Parker's got a huge gold total, and he's hoping for

4,000 ounces of that to come out of the Quagmire Cut.

And that is a huge ask of this ground.

Rocksand's first cleanup was definitely a disappointment.

You know, 26.8 ounces,

hopefully this one's a little bit better.

In Parker's Quagmire Cut, foreman Mitch Blaschke is doing

his second cleanup on Rocksand.

Real excited to see what kind of gold we got on

that pile over there.

The hydraulic oil?

That's not good. Well, let's go have a look.

A hydraulic hose has burst,

leaking oil over the sluices

directly under the shaker deck.

We're just trying to determine

where the oil is coming from, where the leak is.

So, I'm going to turn it on here real quick

while Bill has a look.

- You ready, buddy? - OK.

Here we go.

That is why you wear safety glasses.

Yeah.

So, the hose was just obviously rubbing on a piece of the frame

and it wore through the hose.

And when the pressure come on it-- it blew.

The reason this is a bad thing is because hydraulic oil can

make the gold want to float.

And we're here to catch it, not to make a big, oily mess.

So, this is going to be quite the process for Chris to try

and get all this cleaned up.

We're going to take the tanks back to the gold room.

- I can soap them there. - OK.

And clean the tank without getting oil all over the ground

here and contaminating this machine.

- OK. - I got soap coming.

So, before we fire back up, we're going to soap

the whole thing and run a bunch of water through it...

- Thank you. - ...so that we're trying to

prevent as much as we can when we fire back up.

Wash plant Rocksand has a sluice box directly under

its shaker deck that is moved up and down

by a hydraulic system.

When its hose burst, it sprayed oil all over

the gold-rich concentrate,

contaminating the wash plant

and the captured gold.

To get sluicing again, Bill will replace

the broken hose.

Then Mitch will decontaminate the wash plant with

soap and water until all traces of the hydraulic oil

have been removed.

One little drop of oil just causes all kind of chaos.

We have a lot of drops.

We got our new hoses.

Got them made back at the shop. Boys made them for me.

New hose, crimped some new ends on.

So, we'll get these in place. We'll get Mitch up and running here.

It's an easy fix, but causes a lot of...

a lot of downtime. And downtime is money lost.

Biggest concern we have right now, we got a...

We got some oil to clean up.

You know, the good thing is it's a vegetable base.

So, it's not bad for the environment, but it is

bad for floating the gold down the runs.

Everything is in the clamps or spacing.

So, we shouldn't have this issue again.

This is gonna be a good fix.

Well, there we go.

The process now...

is to try to get all the oil

covered in some soap so that when the water hits it,

it'll flush it down through.

So we're going to go ahead and fire up our water pump

here, start running some water through Rocksand.

We've got some soap.

We're going to start spraying this thing down, give it a good

car wash here, and she'll be back good as new.

All righty, here we go!

- That'll work. - Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Look at that.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, look at that. I like it.

You just brought a whole new meaning to washing the rocks.

Rocksand is all fixed up here. It's gotten the bubble bath.

We're ready to get back washing rocks.

Here we go.

After a five-hour shutdown, Rocksand is back on the gold.

Let's throw some dirt out of here.

You're going to have the cleanest rocks

in the Yukon. - Perfect.

Yeah.

Yeah, that should be doable, I think.

Of course.

Come on.

- Yeah. - No sweat.

We will.

I'll get the D11 and tow it over there.

King of the Klondike, Tony Beets,

is chomping at the bit.

After water issues

and a massive stripping operation

in the Midas Cut set him back,

last week's gold haul of 440 ounces proved

the new cut has been worth the wait

and brought him within striking distance

of rival, Parker.

We're dragging it to the other side of the property.

I have to go right through camp.

There's no other way. It's a little bit narrow there.

Give it a kiss for good luck.

- Let's do this. - All right.

Let's go.

Wash plant Find-A-Lot has sat idle

at Tony's old Corner Cut all winter.

Nick needs to drag the 45-ton plant

two and a half miles northwest

down a treacherous single-track dirt road

through Tony's tightly packed Indian River camp,

then over a narrow bridge to its final position

next to Sluice-A-Lot in the Midas Cut,

where he has to get at running pay by the end of the week.

Everything OK, Cody?

[bleep] yeah!

It's new for me, dragging such a big thing

behind the cab.

This plant cost over a million dollars.

I don't want to have it stuck in a ditch...

or tip over.

We had some rain last night, so that didn't help.

The roads are some places very muddy.

So, yeah, we might also get stuck

if we don't watch it.

Having moved safely down the dirt track,

Nick now needs to maneuver

the 32-foot-wide plant through camp.

It's very narrow over here.

We've got a motorhome and a mobile home

on the other side. It's fitting by millimeters.

The motorhome is fine, I think.

I didn't touch it.

Was close enough, though.

I have to get around the corner, and with

so much weight behind the CAT,

it's hard to steer this thing.

So, uh...

I got sea...

sea cans on one side, and I got trucks on the other side.

I have to be a little bit careful over here,

so I don't hit anything.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that was close.

I thought I would have a little bit more space to come through,

but this was a close one.

Now we're going for the bridge.

That's the next narrow spot we have to go through,

so we'll see how that goes.

Whoa, wait, [bleep]! Hold on!

Wait a second!

It's just too narrow to get this sluice plant

through there, so I'll better dig this out.

Tony's brother Nick has smashed wash plant Find-A-Lot

into a bank.

Gonna dig this dirt bank out of the way so we can

keep on going. That's all downtime.

That's all time we didn't sluice, so no good.

We're late by four, five weeks already.

We got our first sluice box going, so we want to get

our second sluice box going.

We're good to go.

We should be home free, start [bleep] pumping

down the road again,

get this thing set up to start sluicing.

Yeah, we're good. We're going.

That was a little bit of excitement.

It didn't fit, we dug it out.

[bleep], we're back in business. Let's go.

Well, that's it. That's our final...

spot where she will sit for a while.

We'll hook her up to the water, let her go,

wash some rocks, make our 13,000 ounces, right?

Right now, we're so far in the season, and I mean,

haven't even sunk a bucket into the ground yet.

A hundred miles away,

Rick Ness is hanging on by a thread.

Vegas Valley is where we...

could be, should be right now, mining.

Now, all I can do is look at it.

In this little area right here, we've taken over

a couple thousand ounces out of here,

which is a lot of [bleep] money. It's a lot of gold.

And there's more in here, too.

Rick's not even allowed to run the stockpile of pay

from last season.

This is our stockpile from, you know, the end of last year.

We couldn't get it all through, so it was like, "Well, at least

we'll have a nice spot to start in the spring."

There's a good two days of running here.

But there's hope.

Rick's brought in a mining engineer, Adam Mickey,

to assess Duncan Creek and draw up a plan to get him

permission to mine.

Hey, how you doing? Must be Rick.

I'm Rick.

- Adam. - Adam, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming.

- Yeah, no problem. - Adam, you made it.

- Nice to see you. - Good to see you.

- Yeah. - Glad you made it out here.

Maybe we'll start at the top, start at Rally Valley first.

- Yeah, that works. - OK.

Give you the nickel tour.

- Yeah. - All right.

- I'll follow you. - Cool.

I don't like this.

Last season, Rick's crew were mining 200 feet down

in Vegas Valley.

I'm just wondering if it's too dangerous.

Hey, Bailey, finish loading.

I don't know what I was thinking, man.

Let's get the [bleep] out of here.

With the cut unstable, in the off-season,

mining authorities shut down his operation.

We cannot mine until we employ an engineer

on this site. - That's bad.

That's really bad.

We have no people and we can't mine.

So this is the upstream side of Rally Valley here,

kind of the very first deep cut that we did.

I think if we get over this berm here,

we can kind of see down,

down into it pretty well.

- Part of the job, billy-goating everywhere. - Yeah.

Rick's pulled out almost 3,000 ounces

of gold from Rally Valley.

For me, the biggest thing, I want to continue mining this

at some point, or mining up to it at least,

but how can we do that?

What's the elevation from water to the top?

Have you measured it?

From basically the road level to bedrock was,

I think it was 205 feet.

You can't put anybody down here at risk.

I can definitely see them wanting you to have a plan to

not do this again on a future cut, so...

- Sure. - And then we can come up with a plan

for reshaping the slope

in a way that that doesn't compromise a worker's safety

up there. And then a monitoring program

to assess and make sure

nothing's about to fail. - OK.

Like, look for tension cracks, look for signs of

slope instability. - Yep.

It all depends on what is going to satisfy them,

but it could be in a week to get something approved or it

could take a little bit longer if have to do

more detailed analysis for them.

This isn't meant to stay open forever.

It's meant to stay open long enough for you to

get the gold out and then move on. - Yeah.

The shorter-term goal here is to get mining this year.

It's going to be difficult to deal with this, but this might

be able to just be left as-is for now and then see if,

like, at least get you back working on other locations.

Sure, and that would be the best-case scenario.

Yeah, because that's exactly what we're looking to do.

Start a fresh cut, stay far enough away from this,

no worker safety problems... - Yeah.

...and deal with this and, you know,

whenever you have to. - Yeah, yeah.

I think maybe you've got to see when I can have a meeting

with the inspector, get things moving on, call it

lower-risk areas, where you're not doing cuts like this.

So, safety overrides everything else.

Yeah.

Well, that's the thing, too, is that we've got a stockpile

sitting there as well that we, you know, from the end of

last year, it's got pretty good gold in it that we'd like to

get in the-- get through the plant as well.

Shouldn't prevent you from washing

if you're not touching these areas. - Sure.

Yeah, and then we worry about this as a thing to be ready for

next year if that's kind of what you're thinking.

Yeah, exactly.

- I appreciate your help. - Yeah, well, it's short season.

Yeah. And you know that, so I'm glad.

Yeah.

Adam now has to submit a mining plan to

the authorities and hope it's enough for Rick

to start mining again.

There are over-steepened slopes that definitely could

have a risk of failure.

It all depends on what is going to satisfy the inspectors.

You know, this could go either of two ways.

Either this could be the actual real start

of us mining, or it could be the end.

Parker said he wanted a wash plant a week.

And we've delivered. We have three running

on Dominion and Mitch is set up

and running at Ken and Stuart's.

So, you know, we just got to keep them going now is

the biggest thing.

In charge of Parker's three Dominion plants,

foreman Tyson Lee is pushing through

top gravels to reach the gold-rich

pay dirt beneath.

You know, sluicing more material

just puts more demand on everything.

More demand on people, more demand on the equipment.

Hopefully, it's the right decision

and we don't regret it.

That doesn't look right.

In the Airstrip Cut,

mechanic Alec Kelly oversees

wash plant Golden Goose.

Hey, Liam, we'll shut the plant down here

and take a look at this.

Let's take a peek.

- It looks like it moved. - Oh, it has.

It's moved a lot.

We have movement between our interface

of the bearing here and the shaft.

That's the movement. Try that.

Take a look.

We're gonna have to replace the shaft, which involves

a complete teardown.

The Golden Goose's conveyor drum is wobbly.

The rotating shaft driving the drum has come loose.

If left unchecked, this will lead to the conveyor belt

tearing itself apart.

To fix it, Alec will loosen the belt,

remove the gearbox and drum assembly,

then replace the head drum,

re-tension the belt, and fire up the plant,

and get back on the gold.

Going up.

Bringing the conveyor down into service mode here.

Gets it closer to the ground where we can

actually work on it.

That's pretty well our entire day.

It's just changing out that whole brick of parts.

I'm just pulling up to Goose here.

Last thing we need is this plant turning off.

The hell is going on here?

Oh, welcome to the land of broken equipment.

- What happened? - We got...

our shaft and bearing interface problem here.

For [bleep] sakes.

Basically, we got to tear the whole thing apart.

How long do you guys think?

- Today at least. - [bleep].

All right, I'll get out of your guys' hair, try and get it back

running as soon as possible, but you guys know that, so.

Yeah, come on, Jarv. Let's go.

Sucks the plant's down and hopefully they can

get this thing back up and running.

Hey, Liam!

- Let's get this lifted! - Winch up.

Now, we just toss the box off.

Winching up this side.

- Yep. - Winching up.

- Oh, here we go. - It's coming out.

Well, I'm not going to get in the way of this thing.

It probably weighs a good 400 pounds.

Just let me know when to stop.

Nice and careful now. Easy.

- You're almost out. - Going up?

Yeah. Get the [bleep] out of my wash plant.

There you go.

Drop her down.

Yeah, just drop her down next to the new one there.

- Yeah. - Whoo!

I think that was the easy part.

Putting this new drum in is going to be a fight.

And then I'll need to pull the belt out to give us

as much room as possible to slide in the new drum.

It's going to be ugly trying to get it in.

Careful.

I've never done this before.

We don't have an owner's manual to figure out how to

do this, so we're just figuring it out as we go.

One shot.

Coming down.

Hey! We're resting on the far side.

We can slide it right into the frame slots there.

Winching down.

This is going good, boys and girls.

We're almost in.

Look at this.

- Nice. - We're in place.

- Look at that. - Whoo!

- Beautiful. - Throw some bearings on,

we're back in action.

- Hurrah! - Hurrah!

- Gearbox on. - Here we go.

We're unfolding.

It's a dinosaurus erectus.

- We're done. - We're done.

Fire it up.

Nice work, fellas, looks like you got her back together.

- We're ready to hit go. - [bleep] yeah, well, let's do her.

- Sweet. - Hit the genny.

- Nice work. - Nice work, Liam.

I'm gonna hit the water, throw some rocks in it.

The plant's been down for only four and a half hours,

but it still cost Parker

over $16,000 in lost gold production.

First scoop going back in.

You know, it's really good that those guys

got that fixed up.

And we're back sluicing up here at Goose.

Hopefully that's it for issues for a while, because we need

some steady gold coming in.

At the Midas Cut, Tony Beets is eager to get

a second wash plant sluicing.

Find-A-Lot's pump is already set up next to the intake pond.

Next step, attach the output hose to the pump that will

supply water to the plant.

Go down a little bit more.

OK.

Nope.

Other way.

- Yeah, there you go. - Oh, yeah.

OK, whoa, whoa, whoa.

OK, we're in a good spot there now.

Are we good?

Now, Tony's crew need to drag the output pipe

to Find-A-Lot.

Tony's only money-making wash plant lies in the path of

the water pipe that will supply Find-A-Lot.

So, he's shut it down and will now raise it using

built-in hydraulic jacks, providing a 24-inch gap beneath

so the 12-inch pipe can be dragged under and connected

directly to Find-A-Lot, getting the second plant

fired up by the end of the day.

So, we're gonna hook an excavator to this end

and pull the pipe all the way through?

- Yeah, that's the idea, yeah. - OK.

As wash plant Sluice-A-Lot jacks up,

the pressure shifts to Nick's second-in-command,

Andrew Moran, to start moving the pipe.

We'd better hurry up, but don't break anything,

so we have to be careful, but...

- Take it slow. - Yeah, there we go.

- No, go, go, go, go, go! - Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going,

keep going.

You ready, Andrew?

Yeah, go ahead.

OK, just slowly pull her towards you, OK?

OK, lift her up higher. Lift her up higher.

OK. Yeah, keep pulling,

keep pulling. Swing to the left.

Swing to the left.

Keep pulling.

Keep her pulling.

Oh, that is going very nice like this.

Yeah, keep her going, Andrew.

Perfect, man, perfect.

Slowly, steady.

Go a little bit to the right, maybe.

Swing a little bit to the right.

Yeah, OK.

Whoa!

I'd like to have a look on the other side.

I'll be there. I actually don't know

what's happening because I can't see [bleep].

There's buckets in my way.

Very [bleep] up.

OK, pull it tight again.

Yeah, keep on going, keep on going.

Keep on going. OK, hang on.

There is a hole in that pipe, I see now.

No question about that.

While hurrying to set up their second wash plant,

the Beets crew has busted open the plant's water pipe.

- Well, that pipe is [bleep]. - Is it?

- Yeah, it is. - On this, like, from me?

Yeah, from you, yeah.

I'll take the blame for that one.

- Sorry about that, Nick. - Just pull...

nice and slowly again.

Hang in, Andrew. Hang in.

That's good.

There, I'll show you where you [bleep] up.

- Yeah? - Sorry about that, Nick.

Hey, Cody, fire up the pump.

OK, get her going.

Nick fires up Sluice-A-Lot to get the gold flowing,

but still needs to fix Find-A-Lot's pipe.

No, not yet. We have a hole in a water pipe.

Yeah, will do and then we got her up and running.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah?

I can go do that, Dad.

Tony's 36-year-old son, Mike, has left his operation at

Paradise Hill to take charge of the pipe fusing.

I am the expert when it comes to fusing.

I'm not saving my dad. I'm just saving him a [bleep] headache.

Most people around here aren't as experienced

with this as I am.

We're going to cut this about the length of

the connecting piece. I'm going to fuse that.

I'm going to slide it over, hook it all up.

It's good to go.

First, Mike removes the damaged section of pipe.

We just got the pipe cut, and all we gotta do is get

the fusing machine in here, and I can get started.

He then clamps the two ends into place to ensure

they are perfectly aligned.

I'm shaving it off so it's smooth, so when I melt it,

it connects. It's a clean, good connection.

A 400-degree heater plate melts the two ends,

and finally, they are pressed and fused together.

Once this is fused, they can be connected

up to there, and then the pump can deliver water to the plant.

Pull it up.

Yeah.

Now it's fused. My dad can get sluicing.

Start it up.

OK, Jasmine, keep feeding the plant.

We have two plants running side by side now,

which is good. It's always a nice sight.

Hopefully, the two of them run flat out and there's no issues,

and we can just make lots of money this year.

There's one more step in the right direction.

There's number two running.

Let's go, go, go, go!

The gold prices keep dropping.

I mean, that just means more gold that we have to get to

make this a successful season.

And, you know, we're running out of time.

Rick Ness's entire Duncan Creek mining operation

is still at a standstill.

But if his engineer can get a mining plan approved

by the authorities, he can start sluicing

a pile of pay dirt from last season.

Adam, our engineer, he's going to be calling me

in a little bit. He's got an answer

on whether or not we can go forward,

so I'm nervous as hell about it.

Hello?

What's going on? Don't leave me hanging.

What's the news here? We got good news or bad news?

So common sense?

All right.

We should talk about, yeah, the long-term plan

and all that stuff.

I mean, I'm just happy we can start.

Like, I can go outside and start right now.

Finally.

Yeah, I wanted to, um,

no, I just-- waiting on the word.

Hell yeah. [bleep].

Oh, you made my day.

All right, thanks, buddy.

We can go mining, and that's all I need to know.

Time to go get to work.

The deep-walled cuts are off-limits for now,

but Rick wastes no time getting back on the gold.

I don't feel anything but good about firing up right now.

I mean, it's been waiting around for this, and this is

the latest in the season, I think, that we've ever

gotten started sluicing, but it is what it is.

We'll deal with it, you know.

At least we're gonna get some gold today.

Here we got water.

Two, one, go.

Bingo. [bleep].

There we go. We're making power.

We're just going to switch it on.

Bingo.

It's been a while since we've been shut down,

and we're good to go. It's exciting.

It's an exciting day.

That's the noise we like to hear.

It's loud, it's annoying,

but it means we're getting gold.

We're off to the races now,

and I just gotta appreciate that fact, you know.

We gotta open up new ground.

I'm gonna need more crew for that.

We got work to do, and we got a long ways to go,

but we're gonna make it.

We should be able to see our first gold of the season.

After two days of sluicing,

Rick has run through his entire stockpile of leftover pay

and shut down Monster Red

for his first cleanup this season.

I see little specks in there. There's a... oh,

look at that.

I think I got one here.

Oh, yeah.

Another guy.

Well, that's the first piece of gold of the season.

Let's keep that one. That's the lucky-- that's the lucky one.

Nice. Hopefully he's got buddies in there.

Oh, yeah, looky there.

Got another.

He does have a buddy.

Hopefully we get a decent amount of gold out of this.

That's it. Clean up and see what we got.

That'll be hopefully enough gold to pay the bills

and keep us, give us a little jump-start, keep us going here.

And there's gold in the box, so there's a reason to

smile tonight. We got gold.

Hello.

How's it going?

A scale? That's exciting.

- No fire. - No fire, no people.

Yeah, no [bleep], dude.

The first gold weigh of the season.

I mean, what, did we run two days?

So it's not a lot, but...

Yeah, a couple days running,

and we have permission to mine now.

Oh, that's the big thing.

Well, that's the end of the pay pile, and we don't know

what else is coming in.

It's true, but we have the ability to go mining,

and I was starting to wonder if we were gonna be able to do that at all.

So, I mean, I'm happy.

Here we are, we've got gold right away,

and what more can you ask for? - Just more gold.

Starting to feel like mining.

So, yeah, better late than never.

- Yes. - We're getting there.

Well, what do we get?

Let's check it out. All right.

Haven't handled gold in a while.

All right, let's see what we got.

We got

5, 10,

20, 25, 31,

32, 33...

33.40.

Worth over $150,000.

- Hmm, it's something, though. - It's a solid start.

Yeah, especially with being so late getting going.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

That keeps us alive. I mean, I think that

that should give us confidence to go

into whatever's next.

That's a step in the right direction.

You know, I guess that's the way to look at it,

and you know, we've got gold.

We've got the ability to mine, and now we just need

a spot to go and some people,

and then we get more gold.

All we gotta do is go get after it.

- Let's do it. - Hell yeah.

A little less than we thought it would be,

but something's better than nothing, so I'm happy with it.

A week ago, we weren't going to be able to mine,

and here we are. We've got some gold.

- A future. - We've got the go ahead to mine.

We've just got to go do it.

And that's what we're going to do.

- Age before beauty. - Thank you, ma'am.

- You're older than I am, buddy. - Yeah, come here, Nick.

Come here.

- Aw, my favorite uncle, eh? - Hi.

So what did you guys do this week?

Well, we moved Find-A-Lot,

so it's on its final destination.

So last year you had the son, and now you've got the father.

How's that?

You do seem more comfortable just, like, leaving

when Nick's here.

Tony's crew ran Midas Cut pay through both plants,

but only cleaned out Sluice-A-Lot.

So maybe we should see what we have this week.

Sounds good. Who's going to count?

- I'll count. - OK, ready?

Last week, it delivered over 440 ounces.

50, 70, 80,

90, 100, 120, 150,

160, 170...

190, 220, 230,

260, 290,

310, 340, 360,

380, 400, 410,

420...

426.58.

Worth almost $2 million.

That's not bad.

That'd be cool.

That makes your grand total 867.56.

- OK, bye. - Bye.

For the first time this season, Tony has overtaken

his rival by 47 ounces.

Yo, yo!

Parker needs this to be the week his numbers

start to climb.

Well, that was quite the week.

Yeah.

Had to give old Rocksand a bubble bath there

after blowing that hydraulic hose on the cleanup.

- How did it go down here? - Miserable.

We ran all our equipment with soap, obviously, and then went

back and cleaned everything again.

One drop of oil down here just raises havoc.

Yeah, well, at Goose this week, I pulled up to the plant

and I saw Alec and Liam had the head drum folded right up.

- On the elevator? - Yeah.

Our numbers running this top gravel and stuff,

they've just been pathetic.

We really haven't really hit it good yet.

Yeah, well, we'll run out of gravel at some point.

Let's hope it's before we run out of money.

- Yeah. - Well, you want to see how Rocksand did, Mitch?

- Yeah, bud. - Yeah.

All right.

To reach its 4,000-ounce season goal, Rocksand needs to

deliver around 200 ounces a week.

Last week, it was less than 27.

He's got a big jar there, a big thermos.

- Yeah. - Yeah, it's a trick.

You can see the way he's holding it.

It looks pretty light.

We got 7, 20,

30, 40...

50 ounces, dead on.

Ugh.

- Not much. - That's depressing.

OK, tie this to Goose with your downtime.

So far, Goose's average gold production is 136 ounces.

Let's see if we manage to find anything this week.

Here we go.

10, 30,

50, 70,

81.9.

- That's actually not terrible. - Yeah.

- And with the downtime you had... - Yeah.

...you probably could have got into triple digits.

But, I mean, it's better than wasting it.

Yeah, for sure.

Well, he's got a giant thermos there, so--

He's moving it around like it weighs nothing.

Well, look at this guy.

He's been moving gold for how many years?

Ready? Here we go.

See how Bob did in the Bridge Cut.

Bob's weekly average is 56 ounces.

We've got 20, 30, 40.

Is that it?

- That's all she got, man. - 48.6.

- They're all consistently bad. - Yeah.

Last and least, Big Red.

Here we go.

Big Red is averaging 45 ounces.

See if it improved. We got 10, 30,

40, 45,

53.8.

And the bleeding doesn't stop there.

At least we're consistent, because last week we had

230 ounces.

This week we have 234.3 ounces.

Worth just over a million dollars.

We need that per plant.

So our season total is 1,054.35 ounces.

This time last year it was 2,034.

This week last year our weekly cleanup was 808 ounces.

Jeez.

We started out really hot and good last year.

Not this year.

No, this year's been really [bleep].

It's been difficult.

Yeah, I mean we're creeping up on the need to do, like,

a thousand ounces a week at a certain point.

- Yeah. - We have 12,000 ounces to go.

Gonna have to start changing pretty soon to even

get on track. - Yeah, that's...

You know, slow turn in a big ship.

I don't know what to say.

Parker's gold total is now ahead of Tony's,

but by just 200 ounces.

There's just not a lot of gold in the dirt.

All the plants are still chewing through a lot of

top gravel and that's one of the problems.

So, it just puts pressure on the back end of the season to

actually get through all of the main pay.

But the cleanups are going to get better at some point.

If they don't, we're in real trouble.

But they will.