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00:00:00I didn't came here for camping I came here to do a job
00:00:08for us it's been like a curse we're a hot mess
00:00:16Fred and Juan might just run away I think every aspect is a problem we genuinely might be screwed
00:00:26everything is online I have to sell an excavator to eat he never been mining this area as far as I
00:00:37know right we got tailings tailings this is tailings one of the biggest nuggets in the
00:00:44caribou was found out in this property specific where we're gonna be digging have a lot of gold
00:00:49at one time but somebody else has that gold now you know as the old saying goes a gold mine for
00:00:59sale is a hole in the ground with a liar standing above it Freddie Dodge I'd rather have gold in
00:01:09the bank than gold in the mountain and Juan Ibarra not bad for built in the field want to make you
00:01:15rich it turns your dream out here into a reality in the past five years the value of gold has doubled
00:01:24there's a three thousand dollar nugget right there but rookie miners find it more elusive than ever if
00:01:32we don't recover more gold then we could lose everything but there is hope miracles they do
00:01:39happen to turn desperation into fortune Freddie and Juan have one week what you just did this genius to
00:01:47deliver a golden payday they have a future and they know what they need to do
00:01:51well Freddie Raul and Helen are the people we're gonna go help and Raul he's originally from El
00:02:07Salvador roger that I'm glad we worked on my Spanish a little bit before we got here I know lots of cuss
00:02:14words you've taught me a few of them the good ones I taught yeah just don't tell my mom that she'll be
00:02:21upset early summer in the foothills of the caribou mountains in British Columbia and Freddie and Juan
00:02:30are responding to a Hail Mary call from a husband and wife team with a struggling mining operation who
00:02:37have invested over $400,000 so far with no return Raul reached out a little while ago and was telling
00:02:50me he sunk every dollar that he had into the operation he's right at Quenelle Forks so historically
00:02:56there's been 150 years mining in that area a half mile from the Paredes mine where the Quenelle and
00:03:07caribou rivers meet is Quenelle Forks the caribou region's first great gold rush town it's here that
00:03:16European and Asian miners discovered a gold rich valley in the summer of 1859 it produced over a
00:03:24hundred and twenty thousand ounces of gold almost two hundred and eighty million dollars in today's
00:03:31money
00:03:37hello hello how's it going oh my goodness much better that we see you guys
00:03:43I'm Helen hi Helen meet you guys well it wasn't hard to find you at all right off the side of the
00:03:50road so nice how long you guys been out here we came last year and this year we came on board I
00:03:56mean again give it another shot you know we try we try we try and didn't happen so last year was your
00:04:03first year out here and just the two of you that's correct David is our kid he's involved but he only
00:04:08came only two to three weeks in his time off it's good to have your guys expertise on board here we can
00:04:15learn lots off you guys well we'll do the best we can are you guys mining full-time then yeah we're
00:04:21here every day I mean from seven to six prior to us there was somebody else mining this property three
00:04:28years ago and he was getting at least an ounce and a half to two ounces a day he mentioned to me that
00:04:34it was the goal was really good over here really really good mining is it's my passion it's my love
00:04:46my dream for this mine is we can make it as a family business now we got water I'm originally from El
00:04:55Salvador it's in Central America coming to Canada was a second opportunity to start a life two years ago
00:05:04Raul Paredes and his wife Helen staked a 700 acre claim in historic gold country you have to read
00:05:12my French I came to likely because it's still a lot of good gold here we got our own ground because
00:05:20people before me has been getting gold since I came here I've been trying my best it's been testing me to
00:05:28the limits hey Raul I think we need more pressure Helen is been with me since the beginning she's the
00:05:35one to look after the plan and I couldn't do what I do without her the dream of getting into gold mine
00:05:41actually is both for us we started with smaller wash plants and really really enjoyed the process but
00:05:49actually having a big wash plant I'm struggling we call the wash plant the octopus that's the first
00:05:55thing I thought about when I saw this big monster all these tubes going over the place I'm probably
00:06:02in way over my head and we're having constant breakdowns that we haven't been able to really
00:06:08financially support to get things on the right track my situation at this moment is terrible barely
00:06:15make it to pay my rent these months if I don't see something that can change or something like a hope
00:06:21it's not going to happen how much gold did you do last year I'll say probably an ounce and a half
00:06:30we watched probably five or six hundred yards oh that's not good what about this year how much
00:06:38have you ran so far this year probably we've been running 200 yards and how much gold have you got
00:06:43out of 200 yards he probably eight grams
00:06:48yeah that's that's not good no well the old timer he mentioned to me that it was really really really
00:07:00good he said well you know you hope people have the best of intentions but sometimes they're just
00:07:04trying to drop it on you and get it get their investment back yeah what's your gold look like
00:07:08there it is pretty chunky huh yeah nothing real substantial though how much gold do you need per
00:07:18day to make a living ourself we'll be happy with an ounce of gold a day if things don't work out
00:07:25here this is it I'm done what do you have invested in this time and blood and sweat and tears invested
00:07:33in this yeah yeah it's very emotional because we love what we do and the best thing for us to do is
00:07:47what we like to do we come in we want to watch your operation watch it watch a test run and then after
00:07:53that we'll we'll come up with a game plan thank you very much all right let's have a look around
00:07:57your plan okay let's do it save it meeting Raul and Helen immediately you can tell that they're
00:08:03just really sincere humble people but his love and his desire to want to be a miner has gotten to the
00:08:08point where it's not a detriment to his finances they're looking at us as they're hail mary to help
00:08:13them you know kind of pull their mind out of bankruptcy if we don't do what we need to do here
00:08:18essentially Raul and Helen's mining career is over it's your plant huh this is the octopus the
00:08:26octopus all the green hoses yeah last year when you were running were you running this plant that's
00:08:32correct I look at the long term you know hoping that things we're gonna get better recovery some
00:08:38gold well let's fire it up run it okay let's do it
00:08:48one thing's for sure they're in a tight spot I think they're about broke hopefully we can help
00:08:54them you know the plant in itself is an issue you know everything
00:08:58holy that's loud you can hear that screen on the dark side of the moon
00:09:09okay we're rolling
00:09:15start a timer home on them yeah let's get it going
00:09:23first Raul feeds pay dirt into a 10 by 6 foot hopper a vibrating punch plate screens out the large
00:09:33material before the gold-bearing pay falls into Raul's four 10 foot long sluices I'm nervous stressed I want
00:09:44everything to run well but I want it to be realistic to what's happening in our our daily lives it's not
00:09:50running well and they need to see that so they're gonna see why we need a lot of help
00:09:56is that a loose screen in it yeah punch plate it's loose evidently oh way loose side tensioners
00:10:07aren't there they're welded in probably the most ineffective screen I've ever seen the materials
00:10:14being screened too big right now they're not classifying their material can't have proper
00:10:19concentration without proper classification classification is when a screen or punch
00:10:26plate divides out large rocks allowing the smaller gold-bearing dirt to run into the plant's sluices
00:10:33all packed all back
00:10:42the sluice boxes are absolutely just in rough shape what going wrong here well that's a lot going wrong
00:10:56there we go you know in order to be able to get this operation into a position where they could be cash
00:11:02positive every aspect of this process needs to be worked on
00:11:05we just lost water we just lost water that's not good we gotta need you with the pump shut her down
00:11:21coming out of the cap oh it looks like a trap every day something happen there's been like a curse
00:11:30I wish we could have done the four hours but that's what we got well let's pull the mats huh
00:11:40pump cap out of action after just one hour Raul and Helen are forced to shut down and pull the mats
00:11:51you know it's disappointment because I put my heart and soul in this
00:11:56I just wanted to look at this material you're running it just doesn't look good
00:12:02I'm going to tap a couple pans of it and see uh what we see in it
00:12:08this is right out of the pay file the stuff they're running through the plant
00:12:16are you guys testing at all as you're mining like panning much or
00:12:22I've had more time out here I'll pan more yeah it's the most important thing though
00:12:28no it'll get you too busy fixing stuff yeah wait what are you looking for
00:12:34I'd like to see 20 colors 20 colors yeah
00:12:38nothing no gold not a color that's not good sorry guys no that's good to know
00:12:47I had a guy that came up to me and he say you want to make a quick dollar right away
00:12:56right away in a week you'll have five grand 10 grand whatever you know he said to me
00:13:02come down here and I even ask him man I say are you for sure anyway it is what it is I guess
00:13:12sometime it is my fault because nobody put a gun on my head and tell me to do it right I did it
00:13:17I took the wrist and that's dead the gold
00:13:21Raul's got a big heart and he wears it on his sleeve you know he's the good guy so you hate
00:13:31giving people news they don't want to hear right
00:13:35the difficult part about this rescue is we're starting from scratch you know the ground that
00:13:41they have we know has no gold the plant has to be re-engineered I'm a little nervous about being
00:13:46able to get it done in time and more nervous about trying to find better ground
00:13:49getting out here and meeting Raul and Helen you can tell right right from the beginning they're great
00:14:12people they are great you know the way that Raul speaks and he's very compassionate and very
00:14:17emotional you can tell he's a real caring person yeah but I think his desire and his motivation to
00:14:22mind kind of trumped going out there and actually testing and figuring out what was there before he
00:14:28committed no that's the problem with listening to hearsay you know everyone has a story about how
00:14:33the ground is so great grab a gold pan grab a test plant grab a high banker whatever you know test it
00:14:40yourself I'm really hoping that we can deliver on this with ready
00:14:43moment of truth good morning good morning good morning how are you doing in British Columbia
00:14:55after a cracked pump cap shortened their test run to an hour Raul Paredes and his wife Helen have the
00:15:03gold they cleaned from their mats when we need that you know it's not going to be a good thing
00:15:08holy cow very sad well it's not weighable yep can't buy a can of soup with that Raul and Helen need to
00:15:20make an ounce of gold a day to run their plant and pay back their investors he had a thousand dollars
00:15:27worth of expenses for 50 cents worth of gold if you were getting you know a quarter ounce for you
00:15:33know for the day that that's still a death but that's a really quick death yes that doesn't even
00:15:38cover the fuel that it cost to start the equipment so where do we go from here we can fix your plant but
00:15:44we need to go look at your ground we need more understanding and more more information more information
00:15:49about the ground all righty sounds like a plan thank you thank you that's probably one of the
00:15:56worst gold waves we've ever had there's no way they're ever going to be able to pay back their
00:15:59investment or their investors mining like that unfortunately Freddie and I were not miracle workers
00:16:05the gold that's in the ground it's in the ground so it puts a lot more stress on Freddie and myself
00:16:10to be able to go out and perform and do something good for these people
00:16:13hey well what's going on let's not waste any more time down here and I think it's actually I think
00:16:24it's a really good lesson you got to do that testing before we set up these elaborate setups and
00:16:32then find there's no gold we believe a few people maybe it was no true I always listen to other people
00:16:42maybe I'm doing something wrong I think that imagination runs a little bit too wild we gotta get wiser at how
00:16:52we mind to get these depths cleared up because we're getting too old to play this game this way
00:16:58oh good we'll figure it out
00:17:05Raul's a very determined person he's met challenges in his life most human beings shouldn't have to go
00:17:15through he came to Canada to escape the situation that was happening in El Salvador I came as a
00:17:24political refugee in 1991 by that time in El Salvador there was no democracy in 1979 El Salvador plunged into
00:17:38a 12-year civil war that saw over 75,000 people die at the time Raul worked at a Jesuit university
00:17:53one fateful day the Salvadoran army raided the building he worked in I took 10 minutes early for
00:18:01lunch and that's when the incident happened they murdered six Jesuit priests their housekeeper
00:18:08mother and her daughter everybody that was at that moment in the building was murdered they didn't get me
00:18:17known as the Jesuit massacre it's one of the most high-profile religious crimes in modern Latin
00:18:26American history my dad came up to me one day and he said you know what I don't want to live with my
00:18:33conscience that tomorrow they found you on the road dead the next day at 7 30 in the morning I was in a
00:18:40plane and I wasn't good that was it that's the last time I ever see my family it was tough for me to leave
00:18:49my country I came to this country with seven dollars in my pocket didn't know how to speak English coming to
00:18:57Canada was a second opportunity to start a life it's been tough for me I have to find a goal
00:19:04what are you thinking on the plant buddy well the plan itself Fred you know we have a lot of issues
00:19:20I can see why they named it the octopus yeah we call this the screen right yeah there's a screen
00:19:25here's the the hopper feeder that they have yep first and foremost most of the racket that we're
00:19:30hearing is that punch plate that they have that's one of the loudest screens I've ever heard is not
00:19:34installed properly but more important than that the punch plate is too big way too big we've got two
00:19:39inch rocks going down this looks so I think what we may have to do is I'll build new punch plates
00:19:44okay what about the sluices one right now there's no room for gold the material it's blowing it out
00:19:50of the box I'm going to pull everything out Fred getting rid of those those three or four runs that
00:19:54he has and just make two runs yep and then what I'd like to do is put one of our distribution boxes in
00:19:59there our standard shoot where it comes out has a splitter and then it perfectly divides that material
00:20:05between the two runs yeah those are the three big key things that I need to get done on that plant
00:20:09but more important than the plant if you don't have gold to put to the plant
00:20:13it means nothing right yeah well I'm gonna go prospecting honestly I think we could use a
00:20:18little help what if we bring Alex and Travi in yeah I think that would be better let's go do it
00:20:22sure on Raul's plant nicknamed the octopus oversized rocks jam the system and pack the sluices one will
00:20:34fabricate two teardrop hole punch plates to screen out oversized pay then to give the plant a
00:20:43chance to collect every speck of fine gold one will reduce the sluices from four to two to better
00:20:50control the water flow and design a two-way v-shoot distribution box to spread the pay between them to
00:21:00allow the sluices to flow evenly Freddy's main mission will be to decode 150 years of old-timer mining to track
00:21:10down a pocket of gold that will save Raul and Helen's operation
00:21:14we're a bit nervous we did a little bit of figuring out while you were running we saw a lot of issues a
00:21:24lot one of them is that you're screening too big right so we're gonna pull what you have out build a
00:21:29whole new top deck and then we're gonna build a new system to go on the side to actually tension the
00:21:33the screens into the screen nice your sluices are not good yeah it's just it's too too messy what
00:21:41we're gonna do we're gonna do two two traditional sluice boxes but before the sluice boxes we're
00:21:45gonna actually put a distribution box in so both runs are gonna get equal amount of material and
00:21:50water and we'll fix that pump cap for you right essentially we're gonna rebuild the whole wash plant
00:21:55wow so it's no longer gonna be an octopus we're gonna have to rename it um and then Freddy is gonna try to
00:22:01dedicate most of his time to prospecting because you're gonna be out there you know pounding the
00:22:05pavement trying to find some decent ground well you've got a lot of property here but there's
00:22:09been a lot of people on it before you everything I see is tailings right so we've got multiple
00:22:14things going on here that are fighting against us right now so we need to go punch a bunch of holes
00:22:19okay yeah it's a lot of work we talked as well so we're gonna charge you anything yeah you know
00:22:28considering where you guys are at and everything you got going on we understand your guys financial
00:22:32situation and both Freddy and I have been very blessed so um we're happy to do it for for nothing
00:22:38you know material and labor we're just gonna pick up the tab on it oh wow that's amazing you guys we
00:22:43can't thank you enough hopefully down the road we can do something different if not not not the end of
00:22:48the world yeah I appreciate very much the help from you guys you know I mean it's this this is our
00:22:55life there is hope for us to continue what we love to do it deal then yeah because you don't want
00:23:02you to remember I'm blessed to have Freddie I'm blessed to have one but they can see that we're
00:23:08struggling and hopefully he can find good material for us it's not over yet so we're gonna have a new
00:23:14plan maybe some gold to put in it these guys are a pickle for lack of better words so hopefully fingers
00:23:24crossed we can find them some gold for their future coming up there was a lot of gold right
00:23:32here it's now in somebody else's bank account you can tell by the look right here the whole thing's
00:23:37built off we're gonna run out of time on this one you know this has really turned into a show
00:23:41what we're trying to do here is learn before Freddie attempts to find Raul new ground he must seek
00:24:02advice from a local expert I kind of consider myself a redneck geologist but I don't know this area so the
00:24:10more knowledge I can get from somebody that's grown up here that's mine here that's worked here that
00:24:15knows the geology of the area is gonna be a great benefit for one and myself how's it going not too
00:24:25bad Elf right right nice to meet you Elf this is pretty cool old steam shovel I've never seen one of
00:24:33these in real life I've seen them you know in pictures and in books took a whole crew to run
00:24:39this one gold fever has been here since the 1800s question for you over rules across the valley there's
00:24:48most of this gold in the surface they said it was a mile deep here I imagine yeah yeah it's unbelievable
00:24:55so when you start mining here 1980 nice so when gold spiked gold spiked that we all got the fever we
00:25:02all come running out here I didn't move here until 96 so 44 years huh yeah off and on now this is one of
00:25:11the better nuggets I got that's my souvenir from gold oh that's beautiful yeah absolutely beautiful
00:25:17that's one of the prettiest nuggets I've ever seen yeah with the courts like that so over the decades
00:25:25you mind here you know was it up and down very and a lot more down than up actually yeah do you think
00:25:33the gold's the same over it rolls it's crazy place to mine you just think you're on it nice on a
00:25:39channel yeah cuts right off the gold's here and then it's shifts over here the river's coming up and
00:25:45down and moving around and yeah but here we've had two glaciation periods yeah and moved it around
00:25:51everything up they're the world's biggest bulldozer that's for sure the ground's very erratic you'll hit
00:26:00good but you'll be a lot of poor in between there's still gold around here to be found I'm sure about
00:26:06that you got to get through all the lean dirt to get to the good dirt you know you put it in my head
00:26:12that it's spotty right yes that's right bulk testing is the way to do it that's what I recommend
00:26:17yeah I really appreciate your help see you later sir yeah thank you gold mining essentially it's a
00:26:25treasure hunt the guys that were here before us they took most of the treasure but there's got
00:26:32to be some gold left here
00:26:41so this is where the magic happens
00:26:45back at the parade is mine one begins to fix the wash plants cracked pump cap that brought the
00:26:51first test run to a standstill you got an issue with the pump over time pressure changes in the
00:26:59pump creates weakness in the metal known as fatigue cracks which eventually buckle the cap oh it looks
00:27:06like it's cracked so how long does it take to build something like this we should be able to get it done in
00:27:14about a half an hour that fast but I'm expecting that in minutes one 25,000 degree laser cuts the pump cap
00:27:28pieces out of a three gauge steel sheet well that was absolutely amazing I've never seen anything like
00:27:37it that worked out good huh yeah it did well let's put it together real quick ready I can see how
00:27:45amazing it is I have the proper tools on site because if we're not running we're not making money
00:27:55what's it like working with Raul he doesn't give up easy most days we just have a blast but it does
00:28:02have its challenges when you're with your partner 24-7 that you can have disagreements but we believe
00:28:11in a more positive outcome in mining than what we've been experiencing you know
00:28:19Raul and I met each other about 13 years ago on a dating application we just kind of had it it was cute
00:28:28long black hair the sexy accent and I thought okay I'll bite Raul was first offered a job in the Yukon
00:28:39gold mining he fell in love and then a couple years later I also helped on that journey and I thought
00:28:46okay this is that this is our lifestyle after 13 years we have our tests but most of the time it's a
00:28:56beautiful journey together Raul has my back at every step um I love him hola got her down Fred let's see if
00:29:07it fits good as you don't want another and seal looks pretty good we can try it there it is perfect
00:29:16with this cap we don't have to be too worried about the pressure we put on that
00:29:26I'm proud of what we did there it seems like it's working out only somebody like Juan couldn't
00:29:37make it that fast for us so we're we're good I'm happy
00:29:42these are the maps of Raul's claims and he's got roughly 700 acres here with five days to put Raul
00:29:59on the gold Freddy plots out his prospecting plan it helps to have an aerial view sometimes right you can
00:30:06definitely tell you know this lower area where we're at right now has been hit hard that meant
00:30:12there was quite a bit of gold here right but I can see on here and I could see visually on the ground
00:30:17that river used to be up there and before that it was up there right so I don't know if it's been mined
00:30:23but that's where we need to start Freddie aims to follow what looks like an old river channel and has
00:30:29identified three promising locations with the first in the north one thing Raul didn't do here is
00:30:38prospect his property so he's kind of up the river without a really good paddle right now but that
00:30:45doesn't mean there's not hope left here this area has produced a tremendous amount of gold the easy
00:30:50stuff's probably gone but there's still a lot of gold around here we just gotta find it
00:30:55in the next valley to Raul and Helen's property the famous bullion pit mine is a lasting legacy to the
00:31:06incredible richness of the ground from 1892 this placer mine was operational for 50 years and pulled out
00:31:15over a hundred and seventy five thousand ounces of gold worth 400 million dollars in today's money
00:31:25right now these guys are in the desperate spot every ounce of gold every speck of gold we can help
00:31:37them get means everything to them so basically the pressure is on me now we gotta find mineable ground
00:31:46that's fairly easy to get to to put money in his pocket or they won't be mining very long you said you
00:31:54had to sell your house to keep mining yes at one point we decide to sell our own house we always knew
00:32:00that was a gamble you haven't paid any bills I'm just going in death every year more and more and more
00:32:07and more one big deal is you need to do some testing on your own let's say you want to buy this piece of
00:32:15property and the owners got all this paperwork from years past sometimes that doesn't matter in gold
00:32:23mining though if the gold's not there don't trust what they've got wrote down most of the time unless
00:32:29you really know the people you know trust what your own eyes tell you get in there and do some sampling
00:32:34that's right you can work your hands to bloody nimble's and uh still not make any money
00:32:41trying to figure out what's going on with the creek
00:32:53is that the same creek that goes into your mind now yes freddie has identified a section of ground
00:33:06he believes was once part of the quenelle river a major tributary for the famous gold rush fraser river
00:33:13of the caribou district see now this is truly a bench
00:33:18seeing this is too steep to hold gravels here so here's the bench but i don't know how much of it's
00:33:27been hit over millions of years a bench is formed when an ancient river carves its way down a mountain
00:33:35as it changes course it leaves gravels that could be rich in gold
00:33:40freddie hopes that this area if not hit might give raul some high grade pay they've knocked all the
00:33:52trees down all these trees are you know a couple decades old it's just hard to tell what's been
00:33:59played with so let's get an excavator up here and punch some holes and see what we see see what's
00:34:05tailings and what's not because with everything grown on it where we're standing did they mine this
00:34:10and then backfill it or you know yeah okay we'll do that you know there's hope he's throwing me a
00:34:18life jacket so i won't drown hopefully it can change my life the old timers hit it hard it looks like you
00:34:27know they hit it hard probably in the 30s and in the 80s and in the 90s so there's a lot on the line
00:34:32for these guys a lot
00:34:34how's it going guys how are we doing good in british columbia alex and travis arrive at the
00:34:56parade's mine site to provide some extra muscle bring your gloves gloves and a third welding truck
00:35:03it's kind of scary when you two say you need a third welding truck all right guys let's get it
00:35:08guide me for my tips down a little bit with freddie focused on the prospecting mission
00:35:20alex and travis helped one with raul's new sluices
00:35:23so this loose box looks really wide but it's actually two sluice boxes in one we're going to
00:35:31put a center divider in it and then we're going to have two runs that are two and a half feet wide each
00:35:35for that plant to run efficiently it has to have a five foot box we'll build one box and split it down
00:35:41the middle you know if we ran just one big box there was no guarantee that you get an even flow
00:35:46but by being able to put it down to two and a half foot each stream we're able to concentrate it a
00:35:51little better and actually get better recovery with a smaller box one will remove the over
00:35:57complicated octopus hose feed system and install two custom-made 10-foot sluice boxes to better capture
00:36:04gold
00:36:05hot this is perfect welding weather you know when it's over 100 degrees it's perfect to weld in
00:36:19uh it really makes it enjoyable
00:36:21i'm really hoping that freddie going up there and taking a look at the cut might kind of open up some
00:36:28options for raul and helen that's a lot we just got to keep our nose to the grindstone keep on working
00:36:33right now let's go
00:36:35here's the bench i'm gonna punch one over here you want to try one here yeah to the north of raul's
00:36:52claim freddie digs deeper into the first location he's identified this would have been a gold bearing
00:37:00bench in this area but looking at it i can't tell if what we're standing on has been a mine or anything
00:37:06we're just gonna have to look around here and uh start punching some holes and see what the material
00:37:11looks like
00:37:20thank you
00:37:28it's tailings
00:37:31it's tailings
00:37:32this is uh this is well the old timer he mentioned to me that he did two yards of a bucket over there
00:37:42and it was really really really good he said i don't know if i believe whoever he bought this place from
00:37:48everything's tailings there is no point to every rock here has been washed there was a lot of gold right
00:37:53here it's now in somebody else's bank account but if there is a 10-foot square area here number one
00:37:59it's not going to be enough to mine and number two finding it that's like finding a needle in the hay
00:38:06start right where your track go out trying to find a little sliver of something the more time goes by the
00:38:11more worried i've become
00:38:15stop but it's reality
00:38:19just right now i don't have the answer where
00:38:31so cut this punch plate's going to probably take a little over an hour and a half each plate
00:38:44back at juan's build site as the rescue crew continues to work on the sluices
00:38:50juan and david kick off the wash plant's punch plates so the design that we're doing on this is
00:38:56a teardrop design it's something that freddie and i've used in the past that way the material when
00:39:00it goes over the top of the screen has a chance to relieve itself and also we leave a little bit
00:39:04bigger that way if there is the odd chance of that bigger nugget it still has a chance to be able
00:39:08to make it through fixed onto the hopper's screen deck the plates will allow gold bearing material
00:39:16through into the sluices be careful
00:39:22that looks good david that's probably plenty
00:39:32you know as uh as when we put that in as the material goes over the top of it it'll wear it out
00:39:37so it'll push all that out it's not a big deal how come the teardrop design you know that's a design
00:39:42that we've kind of done over the years it starts out about a quarter of an inch and goes to half an inch
00:39:47it's pretty effective for when you screen material oh awesome so quick question for you how'd you get
00:39:51involved in all this my parents come out and uh mine every year so i just i come out and help whenever
00:39:59i can i i really enjoy it i love the prospecting of gold mining sticking the shovel in the ground
00:40:08and into the pan and see what what's going to come up david spends his time between his role as a
00:40:16firefighter and his passion for mining and has become a key asset to raul and mom helen's operation
00:40:24i am a very hands-on type of person you give me a book i'm horrible at the book but they give me a
00:40:31piece of equipment i can run that all day i also bring energy to the team
00:40:39bills that gotta be paid and the job i have is very secured but if the gold was stable and consistent
00:40:48i come out here and help mom and i will kiss they absolutely deserve it
00:40:55hold on watch your fingers
00:41:00i thought it'd be lighter with all those holes in it but it's still pretty heavy they're not light are
00:41:05they you want to get these guys set up with a slag hammer to start poking all those
00:41:08out okay yeah i can do that very good
00:41:26this is your property that's correct now this property almost go up to the caribou river
00:41:32back out on the hunt for gold and after one failed prospect freddie moves on to his next location
00:41:39in the middle of the bench formation people that we bought the property yeah we find a few colors and
00:41:46uh he said to me well you can start from there i mean we run some yeah we find colors but nothing
00:41:56nothing nothing nothing to make us uh super rich none of this looks good to me this is just what
00:42:03they dug out when they made the pond when they dig a pile out like that and then they don't sluice it
00:42:08when they have a plant set up in here that tells you a story right
00:42:12looks like they were going broke and they took the quick going broke way and got out
00:42:25it was our own life savings money maybe it was my fault to listen to other people
00:42:32the lesson that i learned you know is do your own testing because it's very tough to learn it this
00:42:40way you can see that the old timers haven't done much the modern people haven't done much and there's
00:42:46a reason because from what i see so far there's not much gold in the ground up here like the old saying
00:42:54goes a gold mine for sale there's a hole in the ground with a liar standing above it
00:43:13this is a real horrible part of the day in british columbia facing an uncertain future helen
00:43:20struggles to pay bills it's overwhelming like we've got people that we need to pay back then we've
00:43:29got our regular bills like our rent and all our fuel for the equipment the reality is we need to get
00:43:36into that gold like yesterday we've made a ton of mistakes definitely identifying the ground
00:43:45you've got to be on the gold and then that wash plant is too much it's too complicated i wish i had
00:43:55been armed with the information that perennial won give us before i started this journey i would be way
00:44:03wiser and probably still have a lot more money in my pocket lead the way raoul let's go look at this up
00:44:17there okay after drawing a bust at the first two locations freddy is down to his last option a patch
00:44:25of ground to the south of raoul's claim 50 yards from his main cut we're just gonna have to look around
00:44:31here and see if there's any any ground that's still minable the old timers hit it hard so trying to
00:44:38read this i can't see into the ground but i know one thing's for sure we're under not options fast
00:44:49let's keep looking around huh yes sir
00:44:58this is tailings
00:45:01see the tailings here tailings there
00:45:09hang on one second
00:45:14i like the look of this stuff
00:45:19you like this stuff yeah it's better than anything else i've seen that isn't tailings
00:45:23okay see how the rocks are shingled in there uh-huh see the difference of material looks compared to what
00:45:29you were digging right yeah i don't know how much of it's here though we need to find out what's under
00:45:34here under here yeah let's see what we got this may be your last chance pretty i'm gonna get on the
00:45:41excavator okay i'm very excited freddy's discovered what he believes to be virgin ground surrounded by tailings
00:45:50i'm kind of a little excited to know that maybe there is a pocket of gold over there and change my life
00:45:56hang on one second bro oh you don't have to go that far not that far no just scrape the face
00:46:09just scrape the face from right there down okay you'll have to back up
00:46:22okay now reach out and scrape it don't take the whole hill down that may be the only virgin material
00:46:33we got what did you see freddy
00:46:50you know it looks good
00:46:55take a snapshot in your brain of how this material in the bank looks right
00:46:58i want to show you something in this hole you can tell it's virgin material because
00:47:05just the way it's laying in there in nature that rock right there right when it's in a stream system
00:47:12isn't going to stand up like that is it water is going to hit it it's going to fall over
00:47:17so that tells us once upon a time water flowed through here and uh help concentrate the gold
00:47:23so in the future you know look for this and uh look for your shingled rocks i will
00:47:32let's keep punching a hole down hopefully it gets you enough gold in your pocket where you can uh keep
00:47:37going well the past two days have been kind of a a real pain in the butt for lack of better words
00:47:47you know look here you know it doesn't look good look there it's all been mine all tailings but
00:47:53there's a little glimmer of hope because we just found some virgin material over here
00:47:57and it looks good to me just leave it right there ro
00:48:06what's your opinion
00:48:08so there's definitely a division on what's going on here we've got two types of material in there it
00:48:17could be spotty ground we got uh tailings and virgin ground we're in a situation do you go broke fast
00:48:25or do you go broke slow so we need to test that material and see if it's worth digging it up
00:48:31yeah yeah bulk test is way better than a gold pan instead of doing you know 10 gold pans let's do
00:48:3810 000 gold pans and see what lives in it let's get this thing knocked out we're running out of time
00:48:50last season one of the guys he left the trommel over here the chain broke down
00:48:56to bulk test the new material freddy eyes up a broken down test trommel he's seen in raul's bone yard
00:49:03what do you think i like it fred i like the idea what's the test trommel huh this is a trommel have
00:49:10you used it we washed two yards then scenes went sour the master link it broke
00:49:17the another issue that had it doesn't have a spray bar in the trommel the motor run yes it does
00:49:26we had it to start just with a rope here yeah okay but yeah it runs what we might be able to
00:49:31do here is even if i do another section of sprockets and then we'll put a spray bar in it get these two
00:49:38tied into one manifold so we have one pump feeding the whole system instead of multiple pumps yep
00:49:43five times cheaper to run than the main wash plant raul will be able to use this trommel on
00:49:50every piece of promising ground it's a big weight on our shoulders freddy and i want to do the most
00:49:55that we can here to help raul and helen and uh that looks like it's going to be us having to work
00:49:59on their test trommel and also on their main plant so it's really a two-in-one rescue and that's a lot of
00:50:05work to provide raul a way to bulk test his spotty ground juan will resurrect the test trommel with
00:50:13a new spray bar then design a bespoke manifold to maintain uniform water pressure throughout the system
00:50:23to keep gold bearing pay moving through the plant they'll add a custom-made sprocket and chain
00:50:30to efficiently rotate its drum and add freddy's signature riffles in the sluice to catch fine gold
00:50:41these were uh something that they added onto the trommel to be able to guide the chain but they
00:50:45didn't really work so we're going to pull this complete assembly off and build a whole new assembly for
00:50:49it that was a better one the sprockets can actually be a two-piece sprocket that we've
00:51:01weld on the outside of this drum that way it can actually turn the trommel
00:51:10okay fred i'm going to be spinning this for a second
00:51:16what i'm doing is i'm just getting it lined up and i'm about ready to start welding it to the
00:51:19drum we want to make sure that it's perfectly aligned with the drive sprocket so that way when
00:51:23it runs it runs true the true we can get it right now when we're setting it up the better it's
00:51:27going to run in the long run put the clamp on it then bring the piece of chain over here and we'll
00:51:31do the same thing over here fun times freddy fun fun
00:51:40with the chain connected to the trommel's drive system there you are can you let go of it one
00:51:46takes the drum for a spin starter up
00:51:59how did that get far off and i went right on my line
00:52:04let's see it's built off in this it is it's not built square no the base for the motor that runs the
00:52:11trommel is welded on out of line i'm just gonna have to readjust this is gonna slow me down the
00:52:17whole thing's built off yeah and you can tell by the look right here they got a quarter inch
00:52:22difference from here to here yeah i'm gonna cut the motor off and shift the whole thing i have to
00:52:27that's the only only way i can get it close yeah it is we genuinely might be screwed so really the
00:52:34pressure's on now we have a lot more work than what we originally anticipated because we're gonna run
00:52:40out of time on this one it's always something mo on at the parade he's mine in british columbia
00:52:57um whomever built this you know they had great intentions but uh unfortunately they didn't know
00:53:01how to read a measuring tape after fixing up the test trauma freddy and juan discover the motor's mount
00:53:08is off center i assumed things were square and straight you know the gearbox the way they had
00:53:13it set up uh it wasn't perpendicular to the drum which created a lot of problems but uh that's how
00:53:20it goes we're just gonna have to make it up somewhere what you think you got something figured out
00:53:27something else pops out and bites right in the ass
00:53:34so are we still square on your sprocket down there yeah pretty square okay that's good yeah let me weld it
00:53:40right there we're good
00:53:46i like it freddie someone built that in their garage they had the best of intentions they tried hard
00:53:56but uh unfortunately nothing was right but i'm really happy the way it turned out
00:54:02okay we're gonna lift this up with just two days to go one puts the main wash plant on hold
00:54:21to carry on with the work on the test trommel i think it's hot travi next up fabricate its main
00:54:29spray bar this is going to be the end of the trauma right here right around there it's going to turn
00:54:35um this way to the left it's going to be a left-handing turn but what we're going to do is since the
00:54:40material is going to turn to the left it's going to be piled up right here that's about where the
00:54:43material is going to start sliding actually right about here i want this coming out at a 90 right here
00:54:48that way it can curl over so reality is the spray bar should be spraying roughly right there
00:55:01okay put some more lube on there freddie yeah we'll throw some on here
00:55:04where's our soap after adding the drums brand new spray bar freddie uses bubble soap to ease the hoses
00:55:12onto the trommel your little bubbles work pretty yep it's still pretty tight on tiny bubbles okay well
00:55:21let's move this to its new home coming up after 24 hours work on the test trommel it's finally ready
00:55:31for the bulk test doing good alice looking good there's the trommel unreal wow well thank you very
00:55:50much you know i mean this is well we are here to help you buddy thank you very much we're here to help
00:55:55you i really appreciate it let's run the bulk test see what's in it okay we'll do that freddie fair enough
00:56:14freddie's plan run 50 buckets of pay through the trommel to get a dollar per yard result first bucket
00:56:25so far so good it's clean
00:56:41watch i'm going to turn the water up a little bit more okay
00:56:47right now the bulk test is going pretty good between the sluice box the way it's running the trommel's
00:56:53doing an excellent job scrubbing and washing the material and the drive system's doing great
00:56:58so i couldn't be happier hopefully there's going to be gold in the sluice box when we're done
00:57:07it's working well enough for us to do a bulk test right we got water flying all over the place and
00:57:12it's not ideal but i need a shower anyway
00:57:16we got one plant done fred the test plant one more to go huh i don't know who built this plant but
00:57:28they shouldn't build anything ever again the design and the concept is pretty good just their execution
00:57:34wasn't great yeah i'm gonna get back to welding okay see you in a bit
00:57:41last bucket okay
00:57:53well let's see what we got it shut the trommel off bro
00:57:56i'm excited to see what is in there this is it this means everything to me this test
00:58:06after running a 50 bucket bulk test
00:58:09one of us thank you sir freddie cleans up the mats
00:58:24so this is roughly five yards of material row yes there's gold in it that's for sure
00:58:30so we've got one two four
00:58:3816 17. well there's well over 20 colors there 21 but there's a few more wow
00:58:47this is the most i ever seen you know i mean since i've been here we might not even weigh it
00:58:52we may just eyeball it have a look at it
00:58:54so 20 a yard wow this is amazing since i've been in this claim is the most gold i ever seen in
00:59:06only five yards from that little piece freddie was the one that discovered that
00:59:12in just one five yard test freddie recovers more than 10 percent of what raul has found all season
00:59:20but i tell you what if it was gold was everywhere it wouldn't be worth much would it all right now
00:59:26it's twenty three hundred dollars an ounce so every one of those specs count
00:59:30just got to help catch more of it at the plant i don't know i'm very excited very excited to see gold
00:59:36there's some material to run right there 20 25 a yard it looks good i mean that that's pretty good pay
00:59:43one oh that's pretty good out of five yards 20 some dollars a yard that's a hell of a whole lot
00:59:51better than what we saw last time three specs that's a huge improvement fred from not being
00:59:55able to pay the the gas bill to start the water pump to actually being able to maybe make some money
01:00:00there that's exciting freddie i'm actually excited about that so we're gonna go run those old timer
01:00:06tailings see if it's worth running we'll do a side-by-side comparison okay and see what that does
01:00:12all right buddy see you in a bit waddle freddie's found some ground but uh the pressure's still on
01:00:17we still got a lot to do we still have to install everything and uh do a test run so we're out of
01:00:22time makes it tough
01:00:27we still have to do a test run at the parade's mine time to have a look at it huh to make a
01:00:44comparison freddie runs a second bulk test on the old timer tailings which surround the pocket of pay
01:00:50the old timers didn't have pumps they didn't have heavy equipment but you do now let's see what gold
01:00:58if any lives in this this 50 buckets yeah so we're apples to apples helen
01:01:10what are you looking at now there's not nearly as much black sand in it it's no good black sand
01:01:17is a highly mineralized material and often an indicator of gold that's a bad thing see we got
01:01:25some gold there yep but not much how's it looking well you can see the one on the right here helen
01:01:31we're figuring that's right around 20 dollars a yard okay okay now here's those old timer tailings
01:01:37it's probably got 10 percent the amount of gold right you can run 20 you can make money on 20. yeah
01:01:44two go broke the bulk test confirms the old timer tailings are not worth running and in order to be
01:01:52profitable raul must focus solely on the virgin ground do you think there is more there's more of
01:01:58it in the bank up there right yeah but it's just hard to get to yeah so what i think we do is get this
01:02:04pond drain we look at the walls of this pond here and we'll start there right thank you freddie and let's
01:02:10make some stuff happen thank you start to have this glimmer of hope it's just super amazing and
01:02:19hopefully we can start paying our bills and have a forward direction
01:02:27raul drains the pond by cutting away the berm wall to see if the pay pocket extends further
01:02:33i'm very excited that freddie found us this little piece of ground that you know was hiding from us
01:02:41in this corner i would like to see what is in there and and go from there right
01:02:54so
01:03:04travis you want to plug in that other welder and start welding this other box out
01:03:08yeah sounds good with the ground found and 24 hours to go before the final test run
01:03:18one races to finish fixes for the main plan
01:03:23so this is the beginning of the v chute you can see the outline of it the material is going to get
01:03:27funneled into the v chute concentrated in the center so it's even and then what we're going to do is we're
01:03:32going to have a splitter right here and then this one will come over to this side drop into the left hand
01:03:36sluice box and this will have a downspout over here for the right hand sluice box the reason we're
01:03:40doing this is because right now the way he's running the box is one's getting a lot of material one's
01:03:45getting nothing and so it's not effective at all the v chute will separate material equally to the sluices
01:03:53allowing them to capture fine gold
01:03:5514 by 14 right there then i need the 47 by 14 that one perfect there's a tremendous amount of
01:04:11calculations figuring out where it's going to go how it's going to sit we still got a tremendous
01:04:15amount of work to do we're only halfway through this we're going to get this all jigged up and then
01:04:19we'll finish welding it out fortunately i have travis here with me so we're able to get a lot more done
01:04:24uh with the time we have but we better get back to it thank you trap
01:04:36hey raul
01:04:40i'll give you all the time in the war for you but
01:04:43out on the claim raul's drained the pond next to the pocket of pay
01:05:00this is all good pay call this is good pay i had a feeling that that pay continued through there
01:05:07right yeah you can't see through muddy water wow at twenty dollars a yard freddy's find could stop
01:05:16raul and helen from going broke it looks like it's going back into this hillside but it's just hard to
01:05:22get to once you get these tailings off the top somebody made a mess for you up there yeah so it's
01:05:27going to be a bit of work to get to it yeah this is all good pay bro yeah like uh that's tailings
01:05:37there you don't want to take any of that i'd follow it back first and then i'd plop those tailings out
01:05:44of there you know get it all cleaned up this way away from the hill that way you can throw those old
01:05:49timer tailings over the top without worrying about you know covering up good pay that's right but you can
01:05:55see even here right we got pay yeah in there so just look for those shingled rocks thank you very
01:06:03much old timer tailings are stacked on top of virgin material which will need to be dug out with
01:06:11precision so that the pay is not diluted start digging some of this material over here and get it
01:06:20stockpiled to run dig away wow got good news freddy found a really nice spot over there bro i'm so
01:06:33excited it's the first smile i had all day is when i seen that i got something to look forward
01:06:41in the future that i can continue my passion for gold mining
01:07:02at the parade's mine site with hours to go the rescue crew races to complete the final fixes
01:07:09basically we're out of time everything we've had to do here from prospecting to uh
01:07:16getting that test trauma going it's got to be all hands on deck now because literally our hourglass is
01:07:22damn near to empty are we taking out all of the sluices all of the sluices he won them out
01:07:30but he said i mean we're just preparing the job for him so once we take all these sluices out it's not
01:07:36going to be an octopus anymore is it it's not going to be an octopus we're going to have to come up with
01:07:40a different name you guys that's right maybe an oyster because oyster oyster has pairs so they got value
01:07:47okay let's do it get at her raoul's mission strip down the old plant in preparation for the new sluice runs
01:07:56and distribution box yeah we don't want to damage into these beams because we don't know what um one's
01:08:06going to be using right yeah so let's not um damage anything okay i couldn't do what i do without helen
01:08:14she's a key in this operation without her i couldn't do it
01:08:18she's the one to look after the plan and we start this adventure together and hopefully we end up
01:08:27together and hopefully we can be winners together hey you guys want to move out of there please
01:08:33yeah i guess just stack them all over here this way yay there's got one down three to go
01:08:40i gotta go more that way so when i lift it up i'm not pushing it this way i gotta let me know you're
01:08:51my eyes buddy i can't really see from here okay nice and slow raoul watch the chain
01:08:57all right let's unhook that chain nice job raoul oh good
01:09:15now for the rebuild
01:09:20pull on that rail the crew prepares to weld in the v shoot box
01:09:26into raoul and helen's plan today's gonna be a big day we're completely out of time luckily we
01:09:31have enough help here travis and alex are here to give us a hand still got a lot to do but we're
01:09:35getting closer the custom-made v shoot needs to sit tightly under the hupper the only way freddie
01:09:44can weld it in is from the inside of the five foot long box this is really gonna suck i'll be right
01:09:53over here huh i'll be right over here if you need me where's that grinder alex alex i need you what's
01:10:06up yeah hand me that grinder would you grinder thank you i'm gonna get fried in here
01:10:17it's comfy in here
01:10:31so we'll slide it in through the front here and then we'll we'll walk it over all right right above
01:10:36freddie on the shaker deck juan and travis install the new punch plates all right to me a little bit
01:10:44what we're gonna do is we're gonna get the punch plate lifted in place we're gonna have to get
01:10:47one side tacked in and then we'll have to push down the other side so we can get that bow in it
01:10:51and be able to tension the plates all right let's get the work
01:10:55push this side down hard are we tight tight hold horse
01:11:09thank you travi no problem so we thought we're gonna have to use a bottle jack to add pressure
01:11:14to push the plate down but after a while and i stood on it there was enough weight between the two
01:11:18of us build a thinner down called her good enough one and travis's body weight bush fix is enough to
01:11:27tension and weld the punch plates into place i guess that means we need to go on a diet
01:11:42as the material comes down it can come over and it's not going too far over where it can't get
01:11:46screened so that way it'll still hit the the holes it still heal the holes yeah it'll still get the
01:11:51perforations nice you've done an amazing job here juan wow i get pretty emotional this just means a lot
01:11:58to me i mean this is this is my life i appreciate that you're giving me the tools that i can go and
01:12:04start start all over again honestly it's been a pleasure you know and you came to canada with nothing
01:12:10you know you started a mine and you know this is yours and and to me that's you know that's
01:12:17that's the sign of somebody that's put a lot of effort a lot of time and a lot of heart into what
01:12:21they do you know not everybody does that so i totally understand that that you know the story
01:12:29because my family's done it as well and you know they gave me the opportunities to to be the person i am
01:12:34now it's our pleasure it's our pleasure don juan no te preocupes y para ver a alguien que
01:12:42has sacrificado tanto para estar aquà para tratar tener una mejor vida es un placer para nosotros
01:12:50para ayudarte muchas gracias don juan claro no bendiga igualmente gracias don juan pues hay que
01:12:56ponernos las pilas no para terminar esto hey alex yes sir can you hand me my stinger i have no idea
01:13:11i think you're laying on it buddy yeah i can't turn my own head around in here
01:13:17beneath juan and raul freddy finishes welding in the five foot v chute
01:13:22i'm not like freddy freddy can fit into tight places um i don't think i could have done that
01:13:32when i was five hot in here oh i bet
01:13:38it was already 100 degrees in here before i started welding on this plate
01:13:43now the plate's a couple hundred degrees how long was i in that thing uh you're in there for a solid
01:13:50hour well i was a tight fit in there that's for sure and hot and you know without something on the
01:13:56back of your hood you get the reflection off the steel that goes in there and it flash burns your
01:13:59eyes i can feel it right now they're like itchy so wasn't any fun but at the same time it had to be done
01:14:12good you're doing good keep coming
01:14:15the last step of the wash plant fix no more install the 10-foot sluices perfect here you go buddy thank
01:14:27it was a tremendous uh undertaking and i honestly didn't think we were going to get it all done
01:14:33i'm hoping that this plant is going to work properly and we do the final test run because
01:14:36raul and helen they've put a lot of trust and confidence in us there you go and we want to deliver
01:14:44you gotten a little bit of uh time with your drone fred not much crashed a couple times
01:14:54one mile from helen and raul's claim is the bullion pit mine which was hydraulic in the 1870s
01:15:01using huge water cannons well one time at home i uh piled up a drone into a pile of black sand
01:15:08from cleanup really got in the motors and everything just completely destroyed it what drone is this
01:15:13number four or five six thanks freddie you've gotten better no i haven't went through the
01:15:23widespread trees instead of the narrow ones you didn't want to go to the narrow gap huh if there
01:15:26was only one tree i could find a way to hit it how's that looking oh wow definitely bigger than it
01:15:32looks from the ground here a lot bigger than what it looks like i think i read they mined out about
01:15:3622 million tons of gravel yeah that's quite a bit there's a lot of material there well like you said
01:15:41freddie you know there's a reason they mined all that material must have been pretty decent gold
01:15:55you ready guys let's fire it up run let's do it start the pump thanks starting the pump
01:16:02at the parade's mine with the pump cap and large wash plant fixed
01:16:07and new pay found raoul helen and david start the second test
01:16:16day eight no more hour we're good i'm very excited this is my day i've been waiting for this
01:16:25for a long long time how's it look looks really good in here fred yeah
01:16:37first bucket there you go started the timer
01:16:43the stockpiled pocket of pay will keep the plant running for an hour
01:16:48enough time for freddie and juan to assess their fixes on the big plant
01:16:55the difference is amazing now it's even it's running beautifully
01:17:00it looks good the plant before there would be no way i could even hear you but now the plants actually
01:17:10running pretty decent so far the material coming off the end looks really clean so i couldn't be happier
01:17:18the new fitted punch plates screen out the worthless rock
01:17:21well the v-shoot looks good the sluice looks good the punch plates
01:17:33juan's custom-made steel v-shoot separates material evenly allowing gold-rich pay to settle in the riffles
01:17:41much better yeah that's good hopefully things can change for the better and be able to
01:17:56to pay the people that i own money pay my bills and doing what i love to do
01:18:03be everything to me will mean everything the whole world right
01:18:11i can see tailings in that pay they're feeding into the plant
01:18:15that's not good that's really going to water it down
01:18:18freddie has identified old-timer tailings mixed in with the virgin pay
01:18:24lowering the value of the material last bucket raul
01:18:32part of it was tailings we diluted it a little bit huh yeah we probably lost quite a bit of gold
01:18:44probably 50 percent of it yeah i would imagine that yeah
01:18:49let's clean it up yeah let's do it
01:19:02hello guys moment of truth guys how we doing how does that look good good well we got gold there
01:19:15weighable amount yeah but there's some issues we wanted to talk to you about
01:19:20there was a lot a lot of tailings in it let's say our pay was diluted 50 percent so when when you
01:19:25start you know following that channel you need to make sure that you just take the pay layer and
01:19:29you've seen what we did with that test trommel right yeah we've got a gram of gold out of that
01:19:33out of five yards yeah it's going to be a huge improvement when when you actually get in there
01:19:37and actually run straight pay you're going to see a night and day difference you ready yes we're ready
01:19:44there goes nothing excited the first test run produced just 50 cents worth of gold
01:19:520.03 0.03 guys after an hour running 30 yards of dirt raul and helen make almost 70 worth of gold
01:20:11you know 0.03 out of one hour run it's gold it's here honestly i see hope there it's a heck of an
01:20:18improvement from the first gold weight yeah we're happy now you know you have some decent ground on
01:20:22the on on the property to run and stay in that pay channel yeah stay in those shingled rocks but there
01:20:28should be enough material here to get your pockets lined with a little bit of money but in the future
01:20:33you're going to have to find more ground and then two now you have a proper test plant that you can take
01:20:39anywhere to do testing and your your wash plant is working amazingly it's running really well it's going
01:20:44to pay off you know you're in a spot where you can make some money 200 improvement oh yeah
01:20:50somebody was 2 000 well thank you very much you guys uh give us hope i mean if it wasn't for you guys
01:20:59we wouldn't be here we wouldn't be here you're very well you guys changed our life it's no longer
01:21:05the battle that it was we're off and running well guys we've got another mind to go to so it's been an
01:21:12absolute pleasure yeah thank you i'm proud of what we did here even if raul and helen don't stay on
01:21:17this property or they mine it out they've got the tools and the knowledge to go somewhere else and
01:21:23have a lot better start than they've had here senor senor don juan the hope that freddy and juan has
01:21:31given us priceless i'm on my way i'm feeling really awesome right now for the future of our mining this
01:21:39is going to be really exciting please let us know how you get on definitely yeah i do for anyone i love
01:21:46you and we can't thank you enough you've changed our our world honestly i feel that these fixes and
01:21:54what we've done here for them it's gonna it's gonna be life-changing you know i'm happy that we
01:21:59have the opportunity to come out here and help them it's great to meet people that need the help
01:22:03and that when they receive the help they're they're truly appreciative and they definitely are that
01:22:17after freddy and juan left we found it was going to be way too difficult for us to get to the dirt
01:22:24with the current equipment that we have so we decided to move on to find their grounds
01:22:29the gold isn't so difficult to get at we did a lot of testing for the trommel i couldn't be any more
01:22:39happy because without that trommel i wouldn't be telling you what i'm telling you i found the ground
01:22:47if we run a day on this page and this is being conservative we should be just over the three
01:22:54thousand dollar mark a day pretty phenomenal freddy and juan have really breathed so much new life into
01:23:04the future of our gold mining and we're so excited for next year to get um started and see what's in
01:23:11that ground bills are gonna get paid we'll be able to make some money as an income i did everything as
01:23:19they told me and it was good it was good i'm happy i'm counting the days for next year
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