All language subtitles for 7x08 - The Goldilocks Claim

[narrator]
Gold mining prodigy...

[Parker] And that's
three million dollars
right there on the table.

...Parker Schnabel is
searching for his next
big score...

[Parker] This is wild.

[bleep] yeah!

[narrator] ...deep in
the jungles of Brazil.

There's a huge amount
of conflict over mining.

The only way to understand
is to come here and see it.

That is [bleep] cool.

And if there is a opportunity
for us to invest,

then I wanna look
at those opportunities.

Look, look,
that's [bleep] gold.

[man] Look at these bad boys.

I did get fitted
for a bulletproof vest though.

That's a first.

[narrator] Previously on
Parker's Trail...

[Parker] Brazil's always been
on my radar.

It's a huge
gold producing country.

This is wild.

[narrator] ...Parker
investigated illegal mining.

[man 2 speaking
other language]

[Parker] Slingshot.

-[slingshot fires]
-[Parker] [bleep].

Oh, he's firing at us now.

[narrator] ...uncovered
billions of dollars
of undiscovered gold

deep in the Amazon...

The lowest end
of the estimate in my mind is,
like, 600,000 ounces.

[narrator] ...and toured
multimillion dollar
hard rock mines.

[Danny] Parker's in love.

Fallen for
the hard rock industry.

I would hate to guess
what this place is worth.

[speaking other language]

[narrator] Now, he's in
the gold miner's paradise
of Peixoto...

You could probably produce
four tons of gold per year.

They've produced
more plaster gold

than the entire Yukon.

[narrator] ...trying to get
a piece of the action.

We're always looking
for ground.

[Larissa] For 50 hectares,
six million yards.

Going all out here
has the most chance
of success.

But the amount of risk
that you take on is insane.

I hate when the road is, like,
[mimics bumping] like...

-[Danny] Oh, yeah.
-Washboard.

-[Danny] Yeah.
-Washboard?

You know what a washboard is?

[Diego] What,
for washing cloth?

That's what the road is.

If you go fast,
It's quite aggressive.

If you go slow...

-Also quite aggressive.
-[both laugh]

[Diego] Yeah.

[narrator] At the end
of a six-week prospect,

Parker has just days to find
an investment opportunity

in the Peixoto region.

We made a very good decision
to go to Peixoto.

They have a more organized,
more robust co-op.

Also you see land reclamation,

and I think Parker
is interested in the area.

Peixoto is probably
one of the better areas
we've ever been to.

Just, like, the sheer volume
of gold being mined,

the grades of the ground.

Wow.

But in the value of land
around here,

I think it might make
the entry barrier
a lot higher.

And trying to get going mining
might be difficult here.

You know,
what is the right approach?

Do you come down here
and just, like,

try to team up with somebody
that's already mining?

I don't do partners,

but I might have to
do partners for this.

[narrator] After walking away
from an expensive land deal,

the local mining co-op
gives Parker another lead
20 miles outside of town.

What's the name of this dude
we're gonna see today?

-[Diego] Uh, Michael.
-Martin?

Oh, Michael.

[narrator] The São Mateus mine

sits in the heart of Peixoto's
gold-rich river basin.

[Diego] We're running
out of time,

we're coming
to the end of the trail,

and I can tell
there's some anxiety
in the team.

I don't wanna have
my expectations too high
about that place,

because we haven't been there.

But it's our last resource,

so hopefully
it is the right place.

[Parker] Seems
like we're here.

-I think you need a raincoat.
-[Danny] Yep.

[Larissa speaking Portuguese]

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

-[Danny] Michael?
-Michael.

[Danny] Gilberto?

[Larissa in English]
He's saying
you're very welcome

and you can feel yourself
at home

and pretty much do
whatever you want.

[Parker] Obrigado.

[speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English] Ah,
he's saying that this is

a small scale,
family-run business.

-So, he's the father,
he's the son.
-[Parker] Gotcha.

How long have they been here?

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
His father came
to Mato Grosso to be a miner.

And then that's why
they're here today.

Three generation
businesses, yeah.

Gotcha.

[narrator] In 1980,

Gilberto's father was one
of the first miners

to break ground in the region.

At the age of 15,

Gilberto joined his dad
and raised his three children,

including his son Michael,
on the property.

Building it
from the ground up,

now the mine brings in
nearly six million dollars
in gold a year.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[speaking Portuguese]

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
It's the first day
we've been in the rain really.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
They seem like nice guys.

-[Danny] Yeah, they do.
-[Larissa] Yeah, they do.
Both of them.

-Very big area.
-Yeah.

[Diego] It's big.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
What's the size of the area
they have here to mine on?

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English] Oh, wow.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
That's an area
they're working right now,

and this is alluvial gold.

[Parker] When they're doing
alluvial mining,

do they hit hard rock veins?

Sometimes they find
the hard rocks.

That's probably where
the vein of the gold is.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[narrator] The D'Souzas
have the equivalent

of 380 football fields
left to mine

in an area that has a mixture
of both hard rock
and plaster deposits.

Billions of years ago,

volcanic eruptions
left hardened gold-rich veins
in the Earth here.

Some of these
were eroded by waterways,

carrying tiny fragments
of gold across the landscape.

But some hard rock veins
laden with gold remain below.

An opportunity
Gilberto and Michael
are just beginning to explore.

[Larissa]
So, they're doing the,
their own drilling.

There, they have
all the area up there
to get the hard rocks.

The interesting thing here
is just the amount of ground.

I'm just amazed by the size
of the areas

that we've seen
that are being mined.

Normally, gold follows
a bit of a pay streak.

And it's generally not
thousands of feet wide,

which piques my interest.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
You can tell it's, like, got
a lot of iron and stuff in it.

[narrator] To get a read
on the ground,

Parker takes a test pan
from the heart
of the pay layer.

[Parker] Oh, yeah.

[speaking Portuguese]

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[speaking English]

[Parker] I have 50 color pan.

-[Danny] Seriously?
-Yeah. I'm just amazed.

It seems like there's a lot
of gold in this area.

[narrator]
For ground to be good,

Parker wants to see
at least ten gold flakes.

This pan has five times
that amount.

You want reliability
in scale, right?

Those are the two things
you want.

Any business wants
those two things, right?

Seems like
they've got that here.

At least what I can...
My first impression is that.

That stuff has a lot
of clay in it, right?

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English] They...
They have clay all over it.

[Parker] It's a
[bleep] mess, I bet.

It's 'cause
the ground conditions
are so bad.

Is there normally
a lot of gold in the clay?

[Michael speaking Portuguese]

[narrator] When heavy gold
settles into a clay layer,

the sticky material
traps the gold,

making it nearly impossible
to break free.

All the material goes
to the sluice box over there
on top,

and he's inviting us to check
the sluice box there.

[Danny] Yeah, I think
we should go and have a look.

[narrator]
Gilberto and Michael

use a traditional
hydraulic system,

using high pressure water
to break down the thick
pay dirt

into a gold-rich slurry.

Then pumping it up to sluices

where the gold
falls into the box.

[Parker] The bigger problem is

-that this stuff's still
not getting broke up, right?
-[Diego] No.

[Larissa] Yeah, the-- the--
When there is a lot of clay,

the recovery rate
is not that good.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[narrator]
Because the gold-rich clay

runs right off the boxes
into the waste pile,

it could be losing
the D'Souzas up to 15%
of their yield

and millions of dollars
a year.

That's a nightmare
for any wash plant.

It just clogs them up
and makes 'em very inefficient

because the gold gets stuck
to all of the clay

and then the clay goes
all the way through the plant

and the gold ends up out
the other end of it.

[Parker] Dealing with
that clay is pretty difficult.

So, I don't know
how you deal with that.

[Parker] That clay
is terrible, huh?

[narrator] In Peixoto,

Parker is checking out
the São Mateus mine,

but has run into a problem.

Some of the nastiest material
I've seen at a mine site.

-[Larissa] Really?
-Yeah.

[narrator] Up to 15%
of their yield
may be lost to clay,

a notorious gold thief
that traps small flakes,

making recovery
almost impossible.

[Parker] Everywhere
has its drawback.

You don't have the
permafrost to deal with,
which is a positive.

And so, yeah,
you get a year-round business,

but you probably don't really,

because days where it just,
like, rains day after day
after day,

and probably they shut down.

[speaking Portuguese]

[narrator] But miners Michael
and Gilberto have a solution.

Ah, they have a wash plant.
It's over there.

[speaking Portuguese]

[in English] Which
we're going to see.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
He's inviting us
to check the wash plant.

[Danny] Oh, cool.

Yeah, let's have a look.

[Parker] This ground is good,

but the material
has a pile of clay in it.

Let's go check
this wash plant out.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Danny] [bleep].

Oh, my [bleep],
that's massive.

[Parker] Yeah,
this is [bleep] huge.

[narrator] At just a year old,

this is the D'Souzas'
gigantic, hand built,
25-ton wash plant.

-[Danny] It's got a trommel
and a shaker deck.
-[Parker] Looks like it.

What's the name in Portuguese?

[Larissa speaking Portuguese]

[narrator] The first
and biggest of its kind
in the region,

the Blue Dragon can process
130 yards of dirt an hour

and recovers 25% more gold

than traditional
sluice methods.

[Danny] That is ridiculous.

[Parker] Is it all right
if I have a look around it?

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
Do your thing.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
It's like an agitator?
Is that what he's saying?

-[Larissa] Uh, it's, uh,
it's a crusher for clay.
-[Parker] Or is it a crusher?

-So they can catch the gold.
-[Parker] Gotcha.

But effectively they're, like,

crushing the material
before it goes to the trommel.

[narrator] To release the gold
from the clay layer,

the Blue Dragon
has an unusual setup.

First, the shaker deck
and spray bars

begin to break down the clay.

Then, it is pushed
into a one-of-a-kind crusher

where six swinging
70-pound hammers

break up larger chunks
into a paste.

This paste travels
into a trommel,

where it is washed
and broken down further.

Finally, a gold-rich slurry
is run across the sluices

where the heavy gold
is trapped

as the clay is washed out
the back.

[Danny] Who built it?

-[Larissa] They built
themselves, yeah. Yeah.
-[Danny] No way.

[Danny] I cannot believe
that they've made this
all themselves.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
He watched the, the show

and Parker's Trail
in New Zealand.

-[Danny chuckles] Oh, yeah?
-[Larissa] And he got
inspired by it.

-[Danny] Really?
-Yeah, really.

[Danny] Who would've
thought that? That's mental.

Don't fall off.

-You know what happened
in Canada. [laughs]
-[Diego] Yeah.

-[Danny] Parker?
-[Parker] Yeah.

They saw the New Zealand show

and got inspired
to build this.

-[Parker] Oh, yeah?
-[Danny] Isn't that mad?

[Parker] Yeah.

It's definitely pretty unique.

Never seen a plant with, like,

a crusher in line
and then a sluice box

with a trommel in between.

What's your thoughts?

What's your initial thoughts
of it?

It's just an expensive piece
of kit.

I mean, I understand
what they're trying to do,

but I'm just trying
to figure out if this is
the best way to do it.

But without seeing it run
and seeing the material,

it's very difficult.

I'd like to see it run.

Do they have some
of the material that has,

like, clay in it here to run?

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker] Perfecto.

[narrator] The clay pay dirt
must be loaded into trucks
from the pit

and driven two miles
to the plant.

Which dirt do they want?

-The stuff in the pile?
-[Larissa] The stuff
in the pile.

-It's basically clay.
-Okay.

I like how he sits there,
you know, like,

relaxing in the excavator.

[Danny] The king
on his throne.

[truck beeping]

[Danny] Here we go.

[Parker] [bleep]
rough material.

Our wash plant would just
plug up instantly.

It wouldn't even make it up
out of the feeder.

You can tell the conditions
are really, really hard.

Operating heavy equipment here
must be very, very difficult.

[Diego] Yo, [bleep].

The dump truck,
it is stuck in the mud.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[narrator] As well as
trapping gold,

the sticky clay
takes a heavy toll
on equipment.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Diego in English]
Inside the bucket
could be a solution.

[Danny] Oh.

[bleep] hell.

-Nice.
-[Larissa] He's doing it.

-He did it.
-[Danny] Wicked.

[Parker] Curious to see
how the wash plant handles
that stuff.

It is really hard to believe

that they can run
that kind of material at all.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Danny in English] Here we go.

Whoa!

Holy [bleep].

First bucket going in.

-Absolute beast.
-It is a blue monster.

My first impressions are...

Like, I understand
what the problem
that they're dealing with.

Like, they have
a bunch of clay

that they're trying
to break up, um...

Their approach
to dealing with the clay
with the big crusher.

A lot of it just won't
break up at all, and, um...

And I guess putting it
through one of those
might do it, but...

I don't know.

The actual pay material
that has the gold in it

looks like
it's pretty well-washed.

It's hard to get trommels
to split cleanly.

He was saying
that 80% of the gold,

-they cut it up there...
-Right.

[Larissa] ...and here is,
like, remaining 20%.

[narrator] After
an hour's running

to see if the Blue Dragon
lives up to its name,

Parker and crew check
the sluice mats for gold.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[in English] Super fine.

[narrator] The very fine
dust-like gold

proves the Blue Dragon
can catch tiny specks

deeply embedded in the clay.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
They, sometimes,

they probably will get
some 28, 30 grams per hour.

[narrator] Thirty grams
is around $2,000
worth of fine gold.

Got a piece of gold, Dan.

There it is.

Wow.

Really interesting, huh?

I think the impressive thing
about this wash plant

is the fact that it can
process material that's, like,

really, really claggy.

Like, really stuck together.

So, it would appear that
they've done a good job.

Seems to work pretty well.
I'm really impressed.

Especially considering
you guys built it
all from yourselves

and from, from scratch.

No, I'm-- I, I'm, I'm,
I'm just impressed.

[Parker] It being stationary,

their material must come
from a long ways away
to get here.

And that's a pretty big
expense, right?

[narrator] With just over
48 hours left

to make a deal
in the placer mining
mecca of Peixoto, Brazil,

Parker is kicking the tires
at the São Mateus mine

with its $200,000
clay-beating wash plant.

[speaking Portuguese]

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[in English] Yeah,
they totally agree with you

because they also see
there's a problem.

Obviously, Gilberto
and Michael here

have a real desire to improve
their recovery rate,

improve their efficiency,
and run a good operation.

And I love that.
A lot of thought
went into this plant.

Well, it's a pretty
ingenious solution,

albeit big and cumbersome
in terms of, like,

it pretty much has to be
in a stationary setup,

um, which I don't like.

[narrator] Despite
working well
to break down the clay,

Gilberto and Michael
must truck pay dirt

over two miles
to the stationary plant

at a cost of around
half-a-million dollars a year.

The system that they're using,

trucking stuff long distance
is just a cost that seems
unnecessary.

[speaking Portuguese]

[in English]
People are annoying,
is that what he's saying?

-[Diego] Yes.
-[laughs]

[speaking Portuguese]

[in English] A lot of places
use trommels

that are floating on a barge

and feed them
with an excavator
from the land.

And so, they'll sit
on the bank and dig
the dirt out of the bank

and put them in the trommel
that's on a boat.

And then they just
move the pond with them.

Um, has he seen
that kind of system before?

[narrator] Three years ago...

Now, this is our
floating plant.

My [bleep], check that out.

[narrator] ...Parker went
on a wash plant
reconnaissance mission

where he learned about
the Kiwi floating trommel.

These plants are the most
efficient way of mining.

Like a mining typewriter.

[narrator] The trommel
floats in the cut,

moving itself
as it chases the gold.

[man] It's
a two-person operation.

-Two?
-[man] Yeah,
two just run it nicely.

[Parker] And no dump trucks?

It's very cool to see.

[narrator] A system like this
could save the family
a fortune

in fuel and increase profits.

This ground seems
really well-suited
for that style of mining.

And so it might be worth
looking into that system.

So that they can kind of
get the efficiency
of a system like this

without having to
move the material

in dump trucks all the way
over here, right?

You basically have
something like this,

right in the cut.

Most of them have
only two people on them.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
No dump trucks, no loaders,

no tailings, no nothing.

[Larissa] Uh,
he agrees with you.

That could be a good system.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English] Everybody
has to go to the lab.

Yeah. Let's go check it out.

They've got
a massive wash plant.

They're doing hard rock.

They're doing placer mining.

Inevitably, Parker's
gonna be impressed
by all of that.

Let's go and see how much gold

they're getting
out of the ground.

[speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
I could work here.

[Danny] You could work here?

Yeah, [bleep] yeah.

-Really?
-[Parker] Yeah. Why not?

This is nice.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
This is the gold room.

[narrator]
The family operation

separates the fine gold
by hand-panning

100 pounds
of concentrate a day

in a homemade pool.

[Parker] A lot of work.

[Danny laughs]
You could say that.

Why does it look so nice?

They have so much gold
that they're putting tile

-around their settling pond.
-[Larissa] Yeah, yeah,
it's very nice. Yeah.

[speaking Portuguese]

[in English]
Gold is so special,

so they need a special place
to work with it.

[speaking Portuguese]

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[in English] First,
they don't have to
deal with contamination.

And second, because he saves
money with that.

So, win-win situation.

[narrator]
It's a labor intensive,

but environmentally friendly
process.

[Parker] How long
has he been doing this?

Looks like a while.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[in English] Yeah, I can tell.

Pretty impressive.

[speaking Portuguese]

[in English] How'd he
let his brother trick him

into having this job?

[speaking Portuguese]

[all laughing]

[Larissa in English]
How old were you
when you started?

Probably, like, nine.

Nine? [chuckles]

Yeah, I grew up mining
with my grandpa.

[Larissa speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English] He knows
you from the-- from the show.

So he saw you
with your grandpa.

Yeah. He was a good old boy.

[Danny] There it is.
Look at that.

A little globule of gold.

So fine.

A real opportunity
to be able to see somebody

who isn't using mercury,

who's being successful
down here

in a way
that Parker recognizes.

He appreciates the way
they're going about
their business.

It's really exciting.

The next step,
you're gonna
dry the material,

then they wait,

and then they melt it.

And then, it's done.

-[Parker] Whoa.
-[Danny] Oh, wow!

Look at that.

-[Parker] That's
a lot of gold.
-[Danny] Amazing.

Look at that.

A golden omelet.

[narrator] This pan
is from three days' running.

[both speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
There's some gold nuggets.

[Danny] Oh, look at that.
It's a beauty.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

-[Larissa in English] You
weigh it, yeah, you weigh it.
-[Diego] Weigh it.

[Parker] You want me to do it?

[Danny] 1.463.

[Parker] What is that
in ounces? Um...

47 ounces?

100 grand.

[Danny] 100 grand? Wow.

[narrator] At over an ounce
an hour,

this ground is
almost as good
as Parker's in the Yukon,

without the added costs
of removing permafrost.

Very cool. I love this.

Wow.

Mad, innit?

Liquid gold, right?

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Danny in English]
Look at that.

Wow! It doesn't look real.

[Diego] Whoa.

[Parker] That's pretty
impressive.

Decent ground.

Is it all right
if we come back tomorrow?

[Larissa] Yeah.
If we come back tomorrow,

he'll show us some samples
of the hard rock exploration.

[Parker] Sweet.
That'll be great.

Today was one of
my favorite days

that I've had on a gold mine.

Some of the friendliest
gold miners I've ever met.

They have a hard rock prospect

and they have a diamond drill
and they're drilling...

hard rock.

Nobody in the Yukon does that.

You know,
hard rock is not something
that placer miners dabble in.

I'm just amazed at
what they take on.

I would actually love
to come spend a few months

here, um, with them.

[Danny] Here he is.

-[Larissa] Hey.
-[Danny] Guten morgen.

-It's hot.
-Insanely hot.

[narrator] Parker has just
48 hours left in Brazil

to decide whether
he wants to strike a deal
at the São Mateus mine,

part of the Peixoto
mining cooperative.

[Parker] One of the things
that attracts me to this area

is just that kind of
level of organization.

I do think that having
a strong cooperative
makes a big difference.

Yeah, same.

[Danny] Gilberto's mine,
more than any other,

has it made you think
that it's possible to get
something done out here?

I'd like to.

This place reminds me
a lot of the Yukon,

and the ground seems decent.

See, there's no
permafrost here.

I mean,
that costs you a few quid
in the Yukon, doesn't it?

Yeah, probably half our cost.

Wow. [chuckles]

Well, we're going
back there today.

I might try today

to see if something can work,

and, uh, we'll take
some angle at it.

[Danny] Well,
maybe we should
think about...

Get ourselves together
and hit the road, huh?

-[Larissa] All right.
-I'm down.

[narrator] Before pitching
Michael and Gilberto...

-[Parker speaks Portuguese]
-[Gilberto
speaking Portuguese]

[narrator in English]
...Parker wants more detail

on another side
of their operation, hard rock.

I would love to find
an avenue into
hard rock mining.

Gilberto does both
placer and hard rock,

and I see a huge amount
of opportunity here.

[speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa speaking Portuguese]

[Gilberto speaking]

[Larissa in English]
He'll show us some samples

-of the hard rock
exploration he's doing.
-[Parker] Oh, nice.

Oh, wow.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[in English] It's a sample
of rocks

that he drilled
in a mining pit
he has up there.

[Parker] Gotcha.

Did he have this done himself?

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English] Oh, wow.

[narrator] These preliminary
core samples were taken

using a diamond drill
from 500 feet below ground.

Here, crystallized quartz
and gold veins

pushed from
the Earth's center
crisscross the claim.

Each core shows a ratio
of how much gold

may be in the ground
per ton of rock.

[Parker] How were the results?

[speaking Portuguese]

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English] Great.
They found three gold veins.

Begins from 46 meters deep.

[narrator] If the samples
are accurate,

there could be
over $100 million

worth of hard rock gold
under the São Mateus mine.

[Michael speaking Portuguese]

[in English] They still
have 15, 20 years
of gold production...

-Oh, wow. Right.
-[Larissa] From
the deposits that they count.

That's impressive.

They've got a lot going on.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

-[Larissa in English]
A lot of work
-[Parker] Yeah.

Yeah. [speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English] Keep--
keeps you out of trouble.

They're the only gold miners
I've ever met

that are gold mining,
building their own--

all their own equipment

and doing diamond drilling
for hard rock.

You know,
I'd love to get involved

and want to have
that conversation with him.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
He's saying we could
go check the lab

to talk business.

This place
is the complete package.

They're doing placer mining,

and they're doing exploration
all on their own land.

And I think Parker
really, really wants to
be a part of that.

Part of my job has to be
looking at other areas,

finding what
the best opportunities are.

We just bought Dominion.

It only bought us five years.

And that will go by very fast.

[speaking Portuguese]

[in English] The truth is,
showing up to a place
like this

with a bunch of money
and trying to go big fast

is the worst thing
you could do.

I think the way
into this place

is with a very small amount
of money

and a lot of sweat equity.

There's some things
that money doesn't buy.

And I want
their opinion on this.

And I know I keep beating
the drum on this,

but, like,
the most efficient system
is a floating plant.

If we could bring that system

and that kind of
technology here,

I would be really
interested in, like,
building one.

[speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English]
The nicest thing
about that system

is it's only two people,

and that would require
no dump trucks.

You'd be doing two ounces
an hour, or 65 grams.

[narrator] Parker's proposal

is to build a custom
floating wash plant

at a cost of around $250,000.

Then, test it on the mine site

for a cut of the gold profits.

He believes the system
would almost double

Gilberto and Michael's
gold production

to around $4,000 an hour.

[Michael speaking Portuguese]

[in English] Do they have
a piece of ground

that we can prove
that it'll work on?

[speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English] Ah,
you can sit and talk.

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

-[Diego] He wants,
but out of camera.
-Ah.

Well, let's kick all them out.

We're off. We're out of here.

[Parker] I'm not scared
of being told "no".

That doesn't bother me.

I hate the idea of,
like, being old

and feel like I didn't take

the most interesting
opportunities,

and the most exciting route.

[Danny] They don't want
that filmed.

Is this thing going?

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
Ah, They grow fish here.

[speaking Portuguese]

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Danny] Go, Diego.

-[man speaking Portuguese]
-[Gilberto speaks]

[Larissa in English] Oh,
I love tambaqui.

[Larissa gasps]

[all laughing]

[Larissa speaking Portuguese]

[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]

[Parker in English] I was just
telling Chris Doumitt
about this area.

-[Danny] Oh, yeah.
-Without me even talking
about the fish, he's like,

"Yeah, but how's the fishing?"

-[laughs] Really?
-[Parker] I just
sent him that video

and he's like, "Sign me up."

[laughs]

[Danny speaking]

I'm not sure.
I'm not sure what he's doing.

[narrator] As the film crew
wait outside...

[Frederique] Parker's
real interested
in this ground,

and I think he wants to maybe
set up a deal with them.

[narrator] Parker attempts
to cut a deal

to bring a floating wash plant
to the D'Souza mine.

The proposal
that Parker just put

to Gilberto and Michael

is our last opportunity
to get something stamped
on the table.

A two-man floating dredge
would be perfect here,

but only if we can find
the right piece of land.

Hopefully he'll say yes,

but, uh, that's what
we're about to find out,
I guess.

[Frederique] We're good
to go back in.

[Parker] Gilberto said no
to a floating plant.

I'm not really surprised.

You know, we talked
a little bit off camera

about the gold they're finding

and their gold miners.

If they have ground
that has gold in it,

they're gonna
mine it themselves.

[narrator] But
the door is still open
to a future deal.

And a big one.

[speaking Portuguese]

[Larissa in English]
'Cause he's saying that,

if he... He goes
in business with you
and do a project here,

it'll be, like,
a mega operation.

Hopefully,
someday in the future,

he calls me up
and we have
a project together.

I'd... I'd come down
here in a heartbeat.

Well, at a minimum,
I do want him to come up
to the Yukon

and bring some of his family

so I can return the favor,

'cause they've been
the best hosts.

[speaking Portuguese]

[in English] I think
that would be--

it would be really fun.

Obrigado.

[Danny in English]
Where have you
brought us, Parker?

It's gorgeous.

A little treat
for our last night
in the country.

It looks lovely, though.
It's beautiful.

[Larissa] Mmm-hmm.

[Parker] In all the years
that I've been, you know,

traveling around the world,
looking at ground,

Peixoto is the most
interesting one we're found.

I do really feel
coming to a place like this

would be a really
fun adventure.

I mean, for me,
that's kind of
what mining is all about.

Oh, look, a capybara.

They're so cute.

Look at him just sat there.

[Larissa] They're
just chilling.

[Danny] Awesome.
What should we do then?

Here by the pool?

[Danny] Should we
go to our rooms,
get ourselves...

-[Larissa] Yeah.
-Spick and span

-and then meet down here?
-If you want.

With Gilberto
not doing a deal, I think,

he doesn't need
anything from us.

What this means for me,
I don't know.

Setback's part of the process.

But guaranteed way
to fail is to not try.

Shall we have a beer?

-[Larissa and Diego] Yes.
-Let's go.

[phone ringing]

Oh, I just gotta
take this real quick.

Hello.

How's it going?

-[Larissa and Diego] Good.
-It was nice to be in some
normal clothes, isn't it?

-[Larissa] Exactly, right?
-Really nice.

-He's on the phone.
-Yeah, he's on the phone.

Coming to this trip,
I had a goal

that was, like,
be more boots on the ground

and understand the reality
of the gold mining industry
in Brazil.

And I think it was
100% successful.

This trip has been
the most amazing experience

I had in my life.
Really, for real.

[Danny] Cheers, mate.

-[all cheers]
-Whoa, I've got the fullest.

That was a trip and a half.

One to remember forever.

[Parker] No,
it was a good trip.

You all did well.

[Danny] How about you, Diego?

How was the trip for you?

[Parker] It kinda sucks.

But I'm still talking
to the co-op.

That's who I was just
on the phone with.

-[Danny] Nice.
-[Larissa] Really, Parker?

[Danny] Mate,
that is incredible.

[Parker] You know,
if there's an opportunity

to make something happen
down here, I will.

We might be building
a mine site in Brazil
next winter.

-Who knows?
-Who knows?

Thank you guys, it's been--
Yeah, it's been great.

-Really. Yeah,
it's been amazing.
-It's been amazing.

[Danny] One of the major
purposes of this trip

was to see whether or not
if there was
any other opportunities

for him to kind of
expand his empire
and... we found it.

The reason for my call.

I'm trying to plan
a trip back here.

Overall, the trip was good.

Got some leads
on some exciting areas

in Peixoto, which
I'm really interested in.

I'll probably come here
in the next few months

with, you know,
four or five people.

Now, it's just
a matter of seeing

if we wanna start
another operation

halfway around the world.

But the only way
to find out is to try.

All right, well,
I'll start putting
a timeline together

and keep you in the loop,

and... and we'll
make it happen.

All right.
Thanks, Tatiana. Bye.

For the people that want it,

there's a huge amount
of opportunity

in gold mining here.

I don't know
what the odds are,
but I like the challenge.