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Oh, me.

Parker has pulled me off a loader.

He really needs help organizing this Alaskan trip.

In true Parker style, he's left all of this to the very last minute.

He's super busy here. Like, this operation alone is so much going on,

there's so much dirt to move out there.

We were understaffed and yeah, it's just chaotic.

So, I can understand. It's clearly fallen to the back of his mind.

But yeah, it can't keep falling by the wayside, because there is a lot to do,

and zero time.

I hate being in this situation but...

...seems like I constantly find myself in this kind of situation.

Ten weeks into the season,

it's crunch time for 27-year-old Parker Schnabel.

He's stripped over half the massive 90-acre airstrip...

...and is now mobilizing his new Alaskan operation.

Well, everything for Alaska's starting to come together,

except kind of the main component, the wash plant.

We ordered one when we were in New Zealand.

But then, a little after that,

I changed wet screens before putting it in,

because I wanted them the same as our other plants.

And caused it to be fairly late.

Later than we anticipated or wanted.

This Alaskan project is, you know, important for us

down the road for our future and...

we gotta find a wash plant.

So, we'll go out and see what we can find.

And if we can find something that works for us, and works for the owner, then, um...

...could be in business.

Or... not.

Parker needs to be mining in Alaska this season,

or risk losing a 100 ounce, $180,000 down payment.

- Hey, Tyson. - How's it going, guys?

So, Mitch and I are heading over to Alaska.

- Okay. - Just for a couple of days.

You know, Parker gone, myself gone, that's gonna leave you

to wrangle the reins there.

- Or crack the whip or whatever you wanna do, but... - Yeah.

...we gotta keep the dirt flying, right?

Well, I hope you guys find what you're looking for in Alaska,

and get some boots on the ground.

- And get a game plan together for... - We'll be fine.

You're the one I'm worried about.

Well, hopefully, you can keep the rubber side down, Tyson.

Yeah, I'll do my best.

- All right, I'll meet you down the airstrip? All right. - Sounds good, man.

All right. Let's get the hell out of here.

I'm hoping I can prove to Mitch and Parker that

I can have this under control, and they can go off to Alaska

and get things squared away there.

Potentially, secure a future for the mine.

'Cause we're running out of ground in the Yukon.

My visa's come through...

...for The States.

So I'm excited to go to Alaska.

But I just, yeah, I don't know about leaving here.

They just need as many people as possible.

It goes forward and backwards, amazing!

Bad spot.

Like, hang on. I got myself into a pickle.

Stand-in foreman, Tyson Lee

needs to keep Sluicifer and Big Red running side-by-side...

...and hit a target of 450 ounces,

$800,000 of gold,

by the end of the week.

It's all hands on deck, you know, I mean...

Poor Tyson. He's got his hands full running this whole operation by himself.

And we're falling behind on everything.

So I told him I'll help him out whenever and wherever I can.

I don't know if I'm doing any good, but I know I'm not doing any damage.

Oh, shoot.

I think I just piled all that dirt where I gotta dig a ditch.

Yeah, I got here at the start of May.

Uh, it's been fun. Never run equipment before.

New hire Jacob McClure

is clearing discarded tailings for both plants.

And keeping an eye out for any problems.

Yeah, it's definitely not the easiest thing

to keep up with the tailings right now.

Oh,.

Shut it off!

Wanna grab the pry bar and a shovel?

Oh, the pre-wash jammed up on us.

So, just gotta get 'er cleared out.

Big Red's pay dirt conveyor has overloaded the shaker deck.

Unwashed rocks are overflowing into the distribution box below,

blocking the sluices.

The only way to clear it is to shut down the shaker deck,

and remove the blockage manually.

Good thing I was close.

But just gotta get her freed up...

...and back to washing her off.

Wanna pass me that shovel?

Tyson is off to a bad start.

Every hour that Big Red is not washing pay dirt

costs almost $4,000 in lost gold production.

- Wanna close the main? - Close the main.

You know, this just goes to show how much is going on around here.

The day-to-day basis is...

It's a lot for one guy to keep his eyes on.

How do our screen decks look, Alex?

Yeah, no, it's still all there.

We should be back up and running here momentarily.

Just gotta clear out all this debris so this thing sits flush.

- Yeah, how much do you want the main open? - All the way.

And this should be pretty good to go.

I'm gonna get back to what I was doing and...

- ...you can get back to feeding the beast. - Sweet.

Everyone clear?

There's just a lot of going on.

I came over to take a look at Big Red, and good thing we did,

'cause it piled up pretty much as we got here, so...

...we got her cleared out, got her back running.

It's time to get back to work.

Well, right now we're loading and washing the excess clay

We got a long way to go yet.

But we're making good progress and couldn't be happier.

Deep in the Yukon wilderness,

the Clayton brothers are desperately trying

to turn their family fortunes around

by hitting it big gold mining.

We gotta have good cleanups to keep going

because we're using the gold we find

to buy more fuel.

So, if we have clean up, then, we're basically in a tough spot.

Short on cash, the Claytons plan to mine hotspots along the creek,

creating a pay-as-you-go road to Golden Acres,

ground they hope will deliver their 500-ounce season gold.

This is a booster seat.

It is... I think it's just memory foam in a pillow case.

But it does work for short people like me.

See? Makes me nice and boosted.

I can see now.

The brothers' 16-year old sister, Janae

trucks pay from Brandon at the S-bend cut,

a third of a mile down the creek road,

to where Brady is feeding pay into their wash plant, Dirt Devil.

It's definitely stressful being up here,

just having to make money

to keep things running and keep things running at home.

My whole family works really hard.

The Clayton family are living on a knife edge.

Ten weeks into the season,

they've mined just under 12 ounces of gold.

They now need ten ounces every week

to keep their gold mining dream alive.

If we don't get ten ounces, we're done.

Which, that's not good.

We need to keep things running to keep things running at home.

To speed up production,

they've just taken delivery for an old 336 excavator

from their family construction business.

We wanna wipe that 500 ounce season gold right off the face of this planet.

We'll have that trommel down to Golden Acres before we know it.

It's kind of full speed ahead now.

We're up and running now.

So far so good.

Why the am I losing power?

What the?

Uh, Bran, you got a copy?

Yeah, Brady. Go ahead.

Yeah, the 336 is down. There's something wrong with the engine.

What are you doing?

Well, I noticed it started bogging.

No power, and then I spun,

and noticed all the black smoke coming out of the exhaust.

At California creek, the Claytons are at a standstill.

- Need help? - Um, you wanna grab me a hammer?

After being on site for only two days,

their second excavator is down.

Willing to bet my life it's a turbo.

Which is...

...news because they're not cheap.

They're not fun to put in and it just means down time. So...

The turbo uses high pressure exhaust gases

to send compressed air into the engine cylinders.

Without it, the excavator is dead.

It just sucks that this had to happen up here,

where we're not a hop, skip and a jump away from a parts store,

we're more of a week away.

Well, pipe's off.

I don't know anything about turbo repairs.

Well, the turbo ain't working. It doesn't spool.

We'll just wait till Brandon comes back.

- Okay. - 'Cause he's.

What a happy camper he'll be.

I think the turbo's.

Let's have a look.

It does wiggle up and down a tad, like, the bolt.

Well, a tad is okay.

It doesn't slide.

Can you put your hand in that way,

and see if it spins one way,

and I'll see if it spins on this side?

This should just spin freely.

Is it turning there or no?

No, it's not moving.

I don't know what it means.

It means that we're waiting and our extra hull was supposed to help us out.

But now, we're just back to square one.

The Claytons are now down to just one working excavator.

But it's up the creek, digging pay.

Hey, Brady, I got a plan.

Yeah? About what?

We're gonna put the 349 on double duty.

Loading a rock truck and feeding the plant.

So, you want this thing walking a kilometer back and forth?

- When it only does three miles an hour? - Yeah, well...

I don't know what else to do. You got another plan?

No, but I'm just saying like, that's gonna be hard on the rails...

Yeah, it's not gonna be easy.

But we'll all go load some trucks and let's, uh...

- ...start hauling. - Yeah, okay.

Brandon's plan?

Use the excavator at the S-bend to stockpile pay dirt.

Then, walk it a third of a mile upstream

and use it to feed Dirt Devil.

Plan's to do double duty.

Um, it's our only option.

It's just gonna put a lot of wear and tear on the 349.

But it is what it is,

and it's hopefully gonna pay off.

So, Megan, are you cooking up there yet?

Hey, Ruby. Oh, yes.

Freaking hot today. How you doing over there?

Yeah, I had a little cloud cover there for a minute.

And I like, jumped for joy in my seat.

Did you actually jump, though?

I did a very excellent seat dance.

That's awesome.

The Beets crew is running pay dirt from two of the deepest cuts

ever mined at Paradise Hill:

The Blue Cut and the Cold Cut.

Nearly halfway through the season,

Tony Beets has mined 906 ounces of gold,

less than a fifth of his season goal.

To make up for lost time,

the crew are stockpiling a recently thawed pay layer

and running the trommel at max speed.

We try to get out as much pay as quickly as possible.

It's just, you know, a constant race against time.

And, you know, this trommel chews through at least,

I would say, 300 yards an hour.

Oh,.

No, no, no!

Kevin, do you copy? Kevin?

I need you over here at the plant.

I looked over at the valves and there's a huge tear.

So, we have a piece of the belt here that got caught and ripped

from all the way over there, about 15 feet.

Pretty much all we can do with a fix like this.

You can't really patch it.

I mean, a waste of time, so...

And we don't have a belt to switch out with this one.

So, like, we got one option.

The belt has tracked over a lot.

Like, it's really running on that side.

And that's probably why something got caught.

I think I pretty much got everything trimmed that I need to.

Okay. Away with you.

Ah, all right. Now, I'll run the belt,

get the adjustment back to normal,

go from there.

Ruby's gonna fire it up, get the ball turning.

We're just gonna see how it tracks this way, that way.

Make some adjustments in the back.

I need to adjust my belt a hair and a half.

Chunky.

So, we fixed the rip in the belt but she's still tracking over.

That's probably 'cause we got some roller.

This is not good.

So, not only our roller is ,

but our impact bed is as well.

Where the hopper feeder meets the conveyor,

a steel and rubber impact bed absorbs the impact force

of large rocks as they hit the belt.

But hard running has worn away the shock absorbing rubber,

allowing the full force of rocks to hit the belt,

damaging the rollers,

causing the belt to track over and rip.

Yeah, as you can see...

...she's worn down to the heart of plastic.

Can't of the belts.

So, the impact bed's got some wear and tear in it.

It's time to replace it.

It's gonna mean a shutdown,

but if we don't replace it now,

it's gonna something up.

And then we're gonna have to do a lot more work.

I got two out already, you can see.

Well, no. No.

Mm-hm. I know. I know.

Yeah.

All right.

- Here it is. - Hello.

We're gonna need some replacement parts.

Could you ship it to me ASAP?

Yeah, if that's the fastest, then that's the fastest.

Okay. All right. Thanks.

Bye.

- All right. - What's the word?

Um, so he says the fastest he can get here is three to four days.

Holy.

Yeah.

With their only working wash plant now down,

a four-day delay due to the supply chain crisis

could cost the Beets a quarter of a million dollars.

Because we didn't have parts on site.

This is why I keep trying to get Tony to have stuff

ready on site.

It does put a lot of extra pressure on me

when we're just waiting on parts.

'Cause, you know, half the time, it ain't fix it,

it's having the to fix it.

When I come down Gold Stream, what turn... What left turn do I make?

After a 300 mile flight to Fairbanks,

Parker and Mitch are on a hunt for a turnkey wash plant

and are chasing their only lead.

I don't like renting wash plants, or borrowing wash plants.

They just, they take a beating and they take a lot of maintenance,

and it's never worked out well when I've seen them get leased to other people.

Yeah.

There's a wash plant.

Mmm-hmm.

At least it's not a trommel.

- Hi, Wayne. - Hey, Parker.

Local miner Wayne Peppler has just finished reconditioning

this 150-yard-an-hour shaker deck.

So, I hear you're interested in a wash plant, or looking for one.

Yeah, so we ordered one that's being built now,

but it's gonna be, like, super late.

- Mm-hm. - Like, hopefully ends up before the season's over.

But because of that, we're looking for something

that's gonna be a stop-gap for us.

Yeah, well, here she is.

We can go through it and look at it and see what you think. And...

Sweet, yeah. Let's check it out.

We're running inch and a half, half inch on Big Red,

it works really good.

This looks like one inch top panels, here.

Parker must decide if it's worth gambling his Alaskan season

on this untested wash plant.

Uh...

I'm gonna check it out in the mouth, here.

Framework up top looks good.

Plant's in really good shape.

- Yeah, it hasn't seen much dirt. - No.

Parker, you found the trap door?

Yeah.

So, I re-drilled all the hydraulic refills.

I cleaned them out, I blew them out.

We've tried to make it work with hydraulic refills before

but it's just always been...

- Problematic? - Just a million things could go wrong, you know?

Could probably use some fine tuning.

And we definitely have to probably change a few things.

Are you planning on using this plant this year?

- No. No. - Gotcha.

I have family. A five-year old.

Remodeling a house.

So, I guess the big question then is,

what your interests are in terms of,

do you wanna like, lease it out to us...

Like, are you interested in leasing it out to us,

or are you looking at selling it, or what's your...

I think I'd be interested in leasing it.

What's uh... What's this thing going for?

Is it a monthly plan, a weekly? How do you rent it?

Uh, by the yard? What's the...

By the yard? I like by the yard.

Well, it just has to be real, real cheap if it's by the yard, right?

Like, what's your thoughts?

You're not gonna use the plant enough to really wear it out.

You're just gonna use it to, you know, buy you some time.

And it's gonna work out the bugs for me,

it's not gonna wear out the plant.

Ultimately, it's a win-win.

Yeah, and we would probably need the plant for...

...six weeks, I would guess?

You can use it as long as you want.

You know, maybe even the next year.

Okay. The last time we rented a plant,

you know, I think we paid like, 25 grand a month for that plant.

And I'm sure that we can find somewhere, you know, in that range,

or hoping.

Well, whatever you need.

You know, I think we're probably gonna come to a good solution. So...

- Something that works for everybody. - Mm-hm.

All right, well, I'll get back with Mitch,

and we'll have a chat with each other about like,

what we're thinking and what's going on.

Mm-hm.

Well, I mean, I really wish that the plant you'd ordered was here and ready.

- Yeah. - 'Cause renting something kind of just feels like

- wasting money. I don't know, like... - I know.

- I think it's a pretty good looking plant. - Yeah.

I would think that Wayne would be pretty reasonable when it comes to price,

it sounds like.

Like, I don't think he's expecting us to be like, some, like...

...walk off into the sunset with a duffel bag full of cash,

'cause he got you and I to agree to some stupid...

All in all, I mean, I think it's, you know, probably work out for everybody,

'cause we can make some improvements on that thing

- and make it a lot better than what it is. - Yeah.

He'll have a proven wash plant that's been out washing rocks.

Yeah, and hopefully we'll have a bunch of gold in our pocket.

Yeah, and I mean, you know that any time you fire something up,

you're gonna have to work some bugs out of it. Right?

- All right, well this is a good option for us. - All right. Sounds good.

Wash plant secured,

Parker is now one stop closer to mining in Alaska.

All right. Sweet.

Has it got a name?

Not yet. I figured I'll let you guys do that.

You're gonna be the first ones running it.

- So, um... - Oh, yeah.

Dude, what do you think? I mean, it's long and red. Like...

It's like Red Rocket here.

I mean, I don't know. We'll come up with something good, but...

First thing comes to mind.

You know, the plant's been down for two days now.

The 349 down there loading trucks.

We're unable to wash.

We're losing valuable sluice time but...

There's no other option. If we wanna get to 500 ounces this season,

we gotta try and keep washing.

The Clayton brothers are battling to keep their mining season alive.

Down to just one excavator,

20-year old Brady has been digging pay dirt for two days.

We were thinking, We finally got the other excavator up here,

we're actually gonna be getting ahead,

and not falling behind like we have been.

But no. It just kicked us right in the teeth again.

Here we go.

Sister Janae trucks the pay dirt from Brady to the plant

to build up a pay pile.

It is what it is.

Making money.

Hey, Brady, you could probably bring that 349 up.

We have a good chunk of pay here.

We might as well start running now.

Okay, sounds good. I'll be right there.

Good. I'll start walking up now.

Okay.

Brady must walk the excavator a painful three miles per hour

back to the wash plant

and start loading pay as they chase a ten ounce weekly goal.

Finally running dirt. I mean, we've been piling up for a while.

And Brandon just gave me the go-ahead to

drive back up there and start feeding Dirt Devil.

I will get the plant warmed up.

There she goes!

- Oh... - Oh, what the is going on with the hull?

What?

Hey...

- Oh... - Oh, what the is going on with the hull?

- What? - Hey!

Hey! Are you overheating? Hey, are you overheating?

Oh, you're blowing something out there.

Just swing to me so I can get up there.

You're blowing antifreeze or something.

No, no, no, like, the other way.

Must've blew a line.

Warren, shut the drum off.

- Is that coolant? - Yeah.

Kill it.

Oh, yeah. It's the hose.

The Clayton brothers are up the creek without an excavator.

If they can't fix it, their season could be over.

We just noticed some mist in the air.

And the main coolant line on the hull here broke.

This is a vital, vital component of the cooling system. So...

Yeah, when this blows, doesn't take long for the motor to overheat,

and possibly blow,

So, I'm so glad we caught it when we did.

We're gonna have to take that line off the 336.

- Is it the same size? - Yeah.

Oh.

Their only option to save their season

is to cannibalize the coolant hose

from their other broken down excavator.

Brandon and Warren up there, they're gonna take the main coolant line off of this thing

and then we're gonna go to the 349, put all the parts in there.

Luckily, they're interchangeable.

- One side off. - Yeah, okay. You should be good then.

You know, I was a little scared. I mean,

if this thing goes down, then we truly are.

And we got lucky it was just a blown hose.

- And we even got luckier that it was... - Matched with 336?

Yeah, that it matched with 336. So...

Okay, let's go fire it up and see if she leaks.

- Ready? - Yeah.

Clear.

Guys, good to go.

Rod cap can go on. Pass me that.

- Doesn't look like it's leaking. - No, sir!

- Looks good. - Okay, well let's go haul some pay.

Hell, yeah.

You know, that was a close one.

We caught it just before it overheated.

And luckily, the 336 has the same hose.

It couldn't have gone any smoother actually.

Great day.

We're gonna use the crane to lift the belt up.

Gives us a bit more play when we're trying to slide in these frames.

After four days' downtime,

the new impact bed and rollers for the Beets' conveyor belt

have finally arrived.

Ah! Up we go. Pull!

Now to change these rollers, throw in the new ones.

Hopefully, we should be ready to roll shortly.

Go for Kevin.

Tony has always been somewhat of a control freak.

He likes to be in charge. He likes to micromanage.

That has not changed.

It'd be a little bit of more... hands off approach would be appreciated.

But, old dogs, new tricks.

Sometimes it takes a while.

So, now...

...gonna yank up the frames...

...bolt those in place,

stick the rollers back in, let the belt down.

Now we just have to put the rollers in.

Yep.

Well, it's looking good.

It's looking good.

Okay, and that's the last one in.

We just have to tighten the bolts and bear down.

Get the rolling.

Rollers in.

Now for the shock absorbing impact bed.

Got most of them in already. Just a few more to go.

And then, we get the sluicing again.

Beautiful.

Well, we're down...

We're down quite a few days waiting on the, uh, new ones to come in.

Which is a shame. That is a lot of ounces we did not catch,

just 'cause we weren't running.

Yo!

I just got the last one in. Went pretty slick.

They're really, relatively, pretty easy to take in and out. So...

Very nice.

Sounds good.

Perfect. Okay!

Miss Ruby, Miss Ruby?

- Go ahead. - Ready to rock and roll?

I'm ready whenever you are.

Okay, let's do this thing.

See a conveyor.

Damn, let's go.

Back up and running, the pressure is on.

To make up for lost time, Tony needs his cuts to deliver big gold.

It is necessary for us to keep up with maintenance and keep everything going.

But being down, we are just hemorrhaging money.

We got a short season to sluice.

But hopefully, that maintenance lets us go even longer.

Hello.

Hey, baby. Can you pound it?

Where's Uncle's nose? Where's his nose?

- Ooh, there you go. Say bye! - Pow! Bye bye!

Yeah, there you go.

Perfect.

Here's the old girl that's for sale.

D9.

Let's check it out.

They want $150,000 for this thing.

Looks like its spent some time by the ocean.

Or a fire.

Come on, baby.

So, right now, Parker's pushing some dirt here with this old CAT.

There's lots of things on a machine like this that can go wrong.

You don't wanna buy yourself a problem.

Dude, this thing wails!

Okay, well, we have a bulldozer.

Not the one we want. But the one that chose us.

Dude, you got so many different bulldozers.

Do you need this to complete the collection?

We're playing Bingo.

In the game of Bulldozer Bingo we're missing the D9.

And then, when you get them all, you just go, "Dozer!"

Like, "We got 'em!"

- Hi, guys. - Hello!

Hello!

Uh...

Must be nice.

- Whenever I bring it, I have to get it myself. - I know.

I actually noticed that as well.

But I was like, I wasn't gonna say anything.

The Beets family have been down nearly four days

waiting for spare parts for their trommel.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And commenting.

What do you think, honey? Should we weigh up some gold?

- Mm. - "Mm." Yeah.

To hit his 5,000 ounce target,

Tony needs over 300 ounces a week.

10, 20, 30,

50, 60, 90,

100, 130, 140,

150.

161.86.

Worth: Over $290,000.

That takes us over the 1,000 ounces.

But that's still 4,000 ounces away from the goal.

It's a long ways away so, we've got to step it up.

You know, I just finished cleaning the gold.

We need ten ounces to keep going.

And I've seen a lot of cleanups in my day

and this one's gonna be pretty close.

So, we'll see what the scale has to say.

- Hey, guys. - Hey.

Here's the gold weigh for the week.

- Kind of a tough week, eh? - Yeah, I know.

It was a really tough week. I mean, we fought with breakdowns.

336 went down.

I never suspected the 336 would be an organ donor.

I mean, we had it for what, five days?

Uh, two.

- Two days it was? - Yeah.

Holy . I thought it was longer than that.

me.

All in all, I think we had a pretty tough week.

So, I think we should...

We need to see ten ounces if we wanna keep going.

And, uh, we don't get ten ounces, I don't know what to say.

Might just have to pack up and go home.

But we only ran for two days, so it's gonna be a pretty nip and tuck clean out, for sure.

So, guys, well, I think we should weigh 'er out.

Yeah, I agree.

See what we got.

- it's the moment of truth, guys. - Here we go.

One, two, three, four...

five, six, seven...

eight, nine...

10.53.

Worth: Over $18,000.

Holy , man. That's close, man.

- Oh, yeah. - Yeah. man.

You know what, guys? It's a low number.

It's right on the borderline.

But we gotta remember, we only ran two days.

So, that was pretty good for two days.

- Yeah. - Look at what we've fought, fought with all week.

- And we still got ten ounces. - Yeah.

Can you imagine if we could stay running all week?

It'd be at least double.

Only running two days of the Aspen,

and doing double duty with that,

I mean, the Aspen could pay off.

500 ounces is absolutely tangible.

Well, guys, good job. We survived another week.

- Yeah. Yeah, let's get her done. - Sounds good.

I'm happy with that gold weigh. We got the numbers that we needed

to get to next week.

And the gold mining season continues.

So, T, you had a little excitement this week, huh?

Yeah, it was pretty busy, trying to keep two wash plants going in the Bear Cut.

And Big Red, uh, had a little mishap.

- Forgetting the tailings? - Forgetting to do the course tailings,

and it piled up into the...

- Hey, hey. - Hey. Hey, hey.

- What up? - How you doing, man?

Parker and Mitch are back from Alaska.

How you doing, Mitch?

Just in time to see if Tyson has proven himself

as a stand-in foreman.

- How was Alaska? - It was good.

- Yeah. - Guys get some stuff figured out on the wash plant?

- Yeah. - We found us a wash plant.

- I think so. - Really?

- Yeah. - What kind?

Oh, it's just a nice, little screen.

- Yeah, screen deck? - Yeah.

- Well, that's a major hurdle right there, huh? - Oh, for sure.

Well, it wasn't too disastrous here while you guys were gone.

I know, I was going to say, how'd things go?

We had a fairly good week. You wanna see?

Yeah, let's check it out.

Let's do it.

- Which one is Red? - Uh, the silver.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry, Tyson, I'm taking your job.

You can have 'er.

Tyson is chasing a 450-ounce gold.

So, we got 10, 20, 30, 60...

90, 100...

130, 150.

- 200, baby. - 160, 180, two hundy.

- Go ahead, Mitch. - 251.9!

- Oh, yeah. - Yeah, huh?

- Your baby's runnin', huh? - All right. I like it.

- Oh, come on. - Your baby's running.

Big Red did it.

251.

- This is Sluicifer. - Come on, come on.

- We have a 500 ounce bet. - All right.

- All right. 20, 50, 100. - Come on.

150, 160, 180,

200, 230, 240,

250, 280, 290, 300.

323.55.

So, where are we at for the week?

This week, we have 575.45 ounces.

Worth: Over $1 million.

- Yeah, well done. - Is that the best cleanup of the season so far?

We'll do it again.

- Whoa! - T, that's your baby, buddy.

- That was nice. - Well done, man. Well done.

- Good job, Chris. - Yeah.

Well, thank you.

- Very nice, dude. Very nice. - Let's leave.

All right.

Let's go look at wash... We can buy that wash plant now.

We don't need to be here, obviously.

For the season, it's 2,928 ounces.

Well, man, to think that between last week and this week,

- 1,000 ounces. - Yeah.

That's pretty sweet. If we can keep that rate going, we'll be looking good. But...

...now, the biggest thing is just keeping dirt ahead of these things.

When you look at the area we're getting through in a week with those two plants,

at the yardage they're at, we're just like...

I mean, roughly, like, 10,000 yards in 24 hours, right?

We're sluicing it pretty quick.

Just so you guys know, I'm gonna start spending a lot more time in Alaska,

um, 'cause I gotta get that ball rolling.

I don't know what my time split's gonna be.

It's impossible to say.

But, um, you guys have this under control.

What do you want me to do?

'Cause I know at the start of the year, you talked about

me going over there and helping you with that, man.

As much as we still got ahead of us here,

I think we got a lot to deal with.

I don't want to spread you guys too thin.

And I think that you spending any more time away from here

would do that, don't you think?

Definitely.

Well, we'll just focus on this.

I mean, our goal for the season's to get through all the ground.

And we're making headway on it, the gold is starting to come in,

so, hopefully, we can keep that up.

See where we land.

All right. Let's go eat some dinner.

- Let's do it, man. - You guys got it under control.

- Thanks guys. - Later!

- You got this? - Yep. I got her.

I love a parade.

- You need a hand? - No, I got it.

No, I'm all good. Yeah. Good to see gold coming in.

It's gonna be hard to maintain that.

But we pretty much have to.

You know, just keep those two plants running.

And so, this is the breadwinner.

We need to get this ground done.

We know it's producing gold.

Alaska might be hit and miss.

You know, let him throw the dice. We'll work.