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00:00BOOM UP A LITTLE BIT, JORDY
00:18Parker wants to move more dirt than ever before, so these 550s will be the answer.
00:25It all slides nicely when it's brand new, huh?
00:30Perfect.
00:31We can send this bad boy out.
00:37Hey, Parker, you got a copy, Parker?
00:39Hey, what's going on?
00:40Yeah, bro, this 550 is on its way.
00:43I'm just heading over to Sulphur. We had a new toy delivered, so I'm just going to check it out.
00:50I don't know what the fun is in having a dirt moving company if you can't have new equipment.
01:03Gold mining mogul, Parker Schnabel, is sitting in the driver's seat.
01:08Just three weeks into the season, he's banked more than $2 million in gold from his Dominion Creek claims.
01:17Now, he's eager to find out if the gamble he took at Sulphur Creek will pay out.
01:25We ordered oversized buckets. I'm not sure how it's going to like this.
01:30They just started hauling pay out of the pit here at Sulphur, and I'm just making more room for stockpile.
01:36The thing is pretty sweet.
01:38But that's a six and a quarter yard bucket, which is huge for this size machine.
01:42The bigger the bucket, the better.
01:44Absolutely chewing through the ground.
01:52Basically, we're under the gun for time.
01:55The water license here at Sulphur expires soon.
01:58And I don't want to be put in a position where, much like Rick Ness is right now,
02:02where we are desperately waiting and hoping for a license that we need in order to do what we want to do.
02:09Mined since 1898, Sulphur Creek's gold is legendary, with stories of nuggets sitting on the creek bed.
02:20To date, it's paid out $1.2 billion, and Parker's praying there's still big gold in the ground.
02:29I'm definitely worried.
02:31Sulphur is a really tricky piece of ground.
02:33Are we doing all of this on Sulphur at the cost of getting Dominion done?
02:38Like, that's the question that haunts me.
02:45Beautiful new toy!
02:47That only took me 30 seconds!
02:50So far, it's handling this bucket really well.
02:52It looked like you were full extension there.
02:54I was like, wow.
02:55Dude, look at how wide it is compared to the 480.
02:57That's insane.
02:58Yeah.
02:59Nice purchase there, boss man.
03:01Special delivery.
03:03So the big thing, getting you sluicing as soon as we can.
03:08How much time do we have for that?
03:11I was hoping that we could be sluicing within a week.
03:16I'm excited.
03:17Yeah?
03:18I want to get another plant running.
03:20And so that's your guys' challenge.
03:22Yeah.
03:23It's a big one.
03:28They have a nice shiny new excavator.
03:30That should give them some solid reliability.
03:32And hopefully, here in three or four days, we'll have a wash plant banging away at Sulphur.
03:37You know, Brennan, you got a copy.
03:40Dude, you can just hear that clock ticking every minute down here.
03:47We're getting closer to running out of time.
03:49It's a big undertaking.
03:50This six yard bucket will make up for some serious lost time.
03:54Oh, man.
03:55He wants 10,000 ounces.
03:56A good part of that's got to come out of here.
03:58Hell yeah, buddy.
03:59This is a pretty cool treasure hunt to be on.
04:02This property's been hammered so hard.
04:04You get really worried about, man, are we going to move all this dirt?
04:08And at the end of the day, is there going to be nothing left in it?
04:15At Sulphur Creek, Mitch and Brennan are on a treasure hunt.
04:20For the last three weeks, they've been clearing overburden away from a narrow two-acre cut next to the bank of the valley,
04:29searching for gold-rich virgin pay that an old-timer's dredge missed.
04:35Now, down to pay, they need to dig it out and stockpile it at the mouth of the cut.
04:42Then, bring in wash plant Roxanne and fire it up by the end of the week.
04:48This cut is very narrow.
04:54Not a lot of room to work.
04:57We've got all this groundwater that's pouring in on us.
05:00All this material, it's so saturated, we've got to try and dry it up.
05:04You know, then we've got to pile all this up into a pay pile.
05:07The wetter it is, the harder all that is.
05:09The trucks will do better when they're running on dry ground.
05:13This pay that we're hauling here, it's real wet.
05:18Now, it's making one hell of a mess.
05:20Rock truck operators Sean Holcroft and Jordan Grosvenor splashed through the cut, hauling pay dirt.
05:28With the amount of pay we got coming in from the cut, there's not really any place where we can put it.
05:33So we have to drive over the stuff we've already put here, but it was just schlop we hauled in from there.
05:37Man, this stuff sucks, man.
05:45You know, it's hard to even drive through.
05:47Oh, there she goes.
05:50Jordan's truck rolled over.
05:52All right, Mitch, you got a copy, Mitch.
05:54Yeah, go ahead.
05:55I got a truck flipped over here.
05:57Mitch, Jordan.
05:58The box is over.
06:00Not completely, but it's definitely over.
06:02It's fine, I'll head up there.
06:06I'm surprised that it took this long for something to happen.
06:12Never a dull moment.
06:15See, they got their tire up on a high point there and rolled her over.
06:21So I get it back on its feet.
06:24You ready, Jordan?
06:26Just put it in neutral.
06:29This thing can flip back over.
06:33Oh, that's heavy.
06:40Try and gently drive forward.
06:45If I honk, stop.
06:50Go ahead and dump that pile right there.
06:56And don't go back that far anymore.
06:58Please and thank you.
06:59Well, it's just a lot of pressure being put on us here.
07:03Having to haul all of this out by the end of the week here.
07:05And sometimes just ends up going sideways.
07:08Everybody's doing everything we can here.
07:12If we fall short on getting this ground sluice and sulfur,
07:15it's going to mean that 10,000 ounces is going to be out the window very quickly.
07:20That's definitely not how Parker wants to start the season off.
07:24Gold prices sky high.
07:40There's no better time than getting gold in the box than today.
07:43We had a super fast start to the season.
07:47So right now all we got to do is keep sluicing.
07:50King of the Klondike, Tony Beetz, is crushing it.
07:55He's been sluicing at his Indian River operation for five weeks.
08:00Already banking 775 ounces of his 6,500 ounce target.
08:07Pusselot right now in the Indian River is our only moneymaker.
08:11So we made sure we keep that going.
08:17Because of Mike, he had an emergency.
08:19We had to fly to Europe for a couple of days.
08:21The lead man is gone, so to speak.
08:23I'm not happy because I need more people in charge.
08:26So we're kind of making Jacob step up,
08:30see if we can mold him up a little bit.
08:32Or I got to do it by myself.
08:36It feels good to be successful up here helping him Tony.
08:43The task that Tony gets me to do every day
08:46puts that more trust and confidence in my work ethic
08:49and what I can do as a person.
08:51Heavy equipment operator Jacob Moore
08:54only joined the Beetz crew last season.
08:57Now he has to step up to acting foreman
09:01and impress the king.
09:03He's put every trust that I never thought
09:05I would ever get up here.
09:06If you're honest and give it your all,
09:08then you get treated like one of them.
09:12Jacob, do you copy?
09:14Yeah, go ahead.
09:15Yeah, in the early forecast there's a lot of ground water.
09:18Yeah, copy that.
09:20Oh, look at all the water in there.
09:23You can't dig pay on the water.
09:25You can't see what you're doing.
09:26We would leave too much gold behind.
09:31Look at all that water.
09:33That ain't gonna work.
09:35That's not good.
09:37No.
09:38You lay that pipe from here to there
09:42and that water shoots off.
09:44Make it pass.
09:45Bingo.
09:46Done.
09:47In an hour or so, I want to see the pump pumping.
09:50Okay?
09:51Sounds good, don't it?
09:53Last week, Tony tasked his crew
09:56with expanding the 13-acre early bird cut
10:00by a further nine acres.
10:03But now spring meltwater is flooding in,
10:07drowning the exposed gold-rich pay.
10:11Tony wants Jacob to bring in a submersible pump,
10:15connect it to a 400-foot-long pipe
10:19and pump out the water
10:21to drain into a mined-out section of the cut,
10:25allowing his crew to get back to hauling pay.
10:29That was a lot of pressure, but I can handle it.
10:33We need to get what Tony wants done
10:35the way Tony wants it done.
10:37I do not want to be on Tony Beach's wrong side.
10:40Don't waste the time.
10:41Just get on with it.
10:43Jacob's first task?
10:46Move in the submersible pump.
10:48I mean, the longer it takes,
10:49the more water we're gonna have to deal with.
10:51So the sooner we cure the problem, the better it is.
10:54But if you're gonna have a foreman,
10:56you better be able to leave him alone
10:58to solve his own problem.
11:00Let's see if Jacob's got the way to take him.
11:04I'm just gonna move it over here
11:05so we can get that pipe hooked up.
11:14We're just gonna get the pump set up,
11:16and get this pipe drug into place
11:17so we can get the water pumped out.
11:19We're gonna go ahead.
11:20Up.
11:21.
11:25I'm gonna see if it'll tilt this way.
11:26Push up on it.
11:27There it's gonna go.
11:28Oh, are you kidding me?
11:29That's .
11:30Try that.
11:31Clips off the side are broken off,
11:32and it's all rusty on the inside,
11:33so you have to have a level and get both of those.
11:34You have to have a level and get both of those.
11:35That's a little bit.
11:36It's a little bit.
11:37It's a little bit.
11:38It's a little bit.
11:39It's a little bit.
11:40It's a little bit.
11:41It's a little bit.
11:42It's a little bit.
11:43It's a little bit.
11:44It's a little bit.
11:45It's a little bit.
11:46Oh, are you kidding me?
11:47That's .
11:52Try that.
11:53Clips off the side are broken off,
11:55and it's all rusty on the inside,
11:56so you have to have a level and get both pins in it.
12:06If they were kind of hurry the up,
12:08that would be kind of nice.
12:12I need to go down one.
12:14Swing it back that side.
12:17These people have no idea
12:18how frustrating this is for me.
12:23Hey, see how the around?
12:25That idiot is clueless.
12:27I want to see the pump pumping.
12:39I need to go down one.
12:41Take it back that side.
12:42At Indian River,
12:44Tony has tasked stand-in foreman Jacob Moore
12:48with draining the flooded early bird extension
12:51within an hour.
12:52Hey, see how the around?
12:54That idiot is clueless.
12:56But the king isn't impressed with how long it's taking.
13:00Jacob's time and Tony's patience are up.
13:04OK, I'll take over.
13:06Might as well do it myself.
13:08Jacob.
13:10Jacob.
13:11OK, D6, hook it onto the pipe.
13:13We're going to drag the pipe in, pump all of them.
13:14It's that simple.
13:15When I do it, it usually way too quick.
13:16Hold it.
13:17Stay there.
13:18Andrew, do you copy?
13:19Bring the .
13:20349 over there.
13:21Get a chain on there.
13:25We'll grab it with the hole.
13:26We'll swing it in place, Andrew.
13:27It's OK, Andrew.
13:28It's OK, Andrew.
13:29You got it?
13:30Yeah.
13:31All we've got to do is hook it together.
13:38Drag it closer if you can.
13:40OK.
13:41You want me to walk it?
13:42OK.
13:43You got it?
13:44Yeah.
13:45And all we've got to do is hook it together.
13:46Drag it closer if you can.
13:48Oh, OK.
13:49OK.
13:50You want me to walk it?
13:51OK.
13:52I'm going to walk it.
13:53We're going to go.
13:54OK.
13:55Hey, you want me to walk it in a bit?
13:57Yeah, please, yeah.
13:59Can you get in and bring the pipe this way more?
14:03Ow.
14:08This thing must be a little egg-shaped, maybe,
14:10so it doesn't quite fit in.
14:12Jacob.
14:13Yeah.
14:14You got a hammer in the truck?
14:16My truck's over by the red pump.
14:18Get a hammer.
14:19OK.
14:21So there's going to beat the in there.
14:25Hey, dude, they're still trying to get hammered out of his truck.
14:32Oh, what the **** does that take?
14:37Oh!
14:38Give me a rock.
14:39No.
14:40Give me a rock.
14:41Nail that close.
14:42Yeah, I know, yeah.
14:44Good hit.
14:49Let's just slide in.
14:56You got her.
15:02Jacob.
15:03Too late for that.
15:04Try the pump up.
15:08Finally, after Tony's intervention,
15:11the pump can start draining the flooded cut.
15:15They're just hooking up the wires, the fire of the pump.
15:18Good?
15:23And she's sucking!
15:28It's good to have a pump in there,
15:29draining all the water out of it.
15:32****, yeah.
15:33Tony's not too impressed.
15:36Definitely know he's not pleased.
15:39Jacob's not impressive.
15:40As far as I'm concerned, everybody is replaceable.
15:43That is a pretty simple deal down there.
15:45If you're too lazy to do a ride,
15:47well, now you're going to have to do something about it.
15:49So, we'll see.
15:51Just a bit more stress than I was really hoping for this year.
15:53We are kind of hurting for our experienced crew.
15:54Gwen is not coming back.
15:55Caden's off to Parker's as well.
15:56Just a bit more stress than I was really hoping for this year.
16:01We are kind of hurting for our experienced crew.
16:04Gwen is not coming back.
16:05Caden's off to Parker's as well.
16:06We are kind of hurting for our experienced crew.
16:07Gwen is not coming back.
16:08Caden's off to Parker's as well.
16:09Kind of dropping like flies around here.
16:10Balm Sril.
16:11Kevin Beatt's second season as mind boss is off to a rocky start,
16:12having lost two key members from his skeleton crew.
16:14On a small crew and people will lose,
16:15to the squad we're out for in the big life.
16:16So, the team is trying to get up,
16:18and the team that will win for us.
16:19Caden is not coming back.
16:20It's going to be interesting to me.
16:21Oh, yeah.
16:22It's going to be hard.
16:23It should be improving.
16:24It's going to be good to see that the team is now,
16:25it's a big ol'стро and will win.
16:27Just a bit more stress than I was really hoping for this year.
16:29We are kind of hurting for our experienced crew.
16:33Gwen's not coming back.
16:34Caden's off to Parker's as well.
16:37On a small crew, when people leave, you feel it.
16:402,000-ounce gold seems a little further away now,
16:43but at least we're sluicing, so we are still able to be producing.
16:48We have a bit of pay stockpiled from the Lynx extension,
16:51but as soon as that runs out, we're really going to have to get material out of the pyramid cut.
16:59Kevin's crew has been sluicing stockpiled pay from last season for two weeks,
17:04delivering over 100 ounces, but with the pile fast running out,
17:10his crew of five have also been racing to open up new ground in the three-acre pyramid cut.
17:18It's non-stop for the trucks, falling overburden.
17:21The goal is to hit pay in the pyramid cut in time for when the plant is moved and ready to fire back up.
17:31We're stretching our crew to the limit right now,
17:33but it's what we've got to do to keep on going.
17:37We're finishing up the pay around the plant, then we'll move the plant,
17:41but there's going to be a lot more work than I thought it is now without Brennan and Caden.
17:46With a big plant move on the horizon this week,
17:50Kevin's looking to find new recruits.
17:53Me and Faith are working our way through quite a few resumes.
17:57We did find a fairly experienced miner.
17:59We'll see him when he shows up, and hopefully that works out.
18:06Pretty decent winter, but I'm actually going for the first time in my life.
18:11Swimming in the ocean for the first time in my life.
18:13Veteran gold miner, Buzz Legault, has had a busy winter.
18:18My teeth all fixed up.
18:21It's kind of freaking nice.
18:23Gives me more of a reason to smile now.
18:26I wouldn't really say that I'm smiling more.
18:29I'm just a lot less self-conscious about it.
18:34But Buzz wasn't smiling last year,
18:38after two seasons working for Rick Ness.
18:41Hey, Buzz, you got a copy?
18:43Their relationship soured.
18:46Hey, Buzz!
18:50There's not a 100-person crew here.
18:51You're a guy on this crew.
18:53You're going to jump in where the you fit in,
18:54or you're going to go the home.
18:56If you don't want to work with me, then you all go.
19:01Last season, everything that went down,
19:04it's still kind of a hard punch.
19:06You know, it puts me in a crew a lot closer to that.
19:09Time for new things.
19:11I just got a phone call from Kevin and Faith there.
19:14We're looking for some good hands this season,
19:18so you can check them out.
19:22All right.
19:23Here we are.
19:31Hey, guys.
19:32How's it going?
19:33No, too bad.
19:34Howdy, good, sir.
19:34Hello there.
19:35Nice to meet you.
19:36Nice to meet you in your 10,000-lumen smile.
19:41Never lose me at night.
19:42All I can do is keep on smiling.
19:47Thanks for coming to meet us, Buzz.
19:49We do appreciate you showing up.
19:50Though we do get to ask,
19:51I know you're the foreman at Rick's last year,
19:54and clearly you're not going back there.
19:56What's happening?
19:56There's uncertainties over there.
20:00There's a lot of license and everything.
20:03Life has changed for me.
20:06I need a little more stability in life.
20:11Well, this year, I have a little baby on the way.
20:14Congratulations.
20:16Yes.
20:17We're down a foreman.
20:19Is that something you might be interested in?
20:21Or just a little baby on the way and whatnot.
20:23No, I don't think that would be a good position for me.
20:28Well, I think we kind of need more of a jack-of-all-trades
20:32more than anything else.
20:34From what I've gathered,
20:36you know how to run equipment,
20:37you know how to fix things,
20:38and you can also weld a little bit.
20:40Yeah.
20:40This might work.
20:43I could be your buzz of all trades.
20:45Oh.
20:49If it all sounds good to you,
20:51I'm welcome aboard.
20:53Perfect.
20:54Sounds great.
20:55Thank you, guys.
20:56Oh, let's get to work.
21:00That went pretty well, you know?
21:02Working with Kevin and Faith this season.
21:05Seemed like a pretty good couple.
21:08So excited to see where this goes.
21:10As much as I would like to have all of the focus on Dominion,
21:26there's just not really a feasible option.
21:29There are projects that absolutely have to happen this year,
21:32and that is sulfur,
21:33so we just have to get them done.
21:35In Sulfur, we're just about ready for the plan to move.
21:45We're going to get rocks and Parker's trying to give us the best of the best
21:49for what we have to do here.
21:51At Sulfur Creek,
21:53Brennan and Mitch have identified
21:55what they believe are gold hotspots
21:57and stockpiled the pay dirt.
22:01Now,
22:01it's finally time to start sluicing.
22:05Well, we're ready to haul rock sand down to Sulfur,
22:07so we're going to go build us a wash plant.
22:13You know, early in the season like this,
22:15the roads are in the worst shape of the whole year.
22:18Come on, baby.
22:19Come on, come on.
22:20This is the sketchiest thing we have done in a long time.
22:26We got soft roads,
22:27wash plant that's top heavy,
22:29and we're in a rush.
22:31The 25 miles of dirt road
22:33from Dominion to Sulfur
22:35is closed all winter.
22:38Opened just six weeks ago,
22:40it is still thawing out.
22:43Oh, you almost hit that tree.
22:44The rock sand is big and robust,
22:50and we throw rocks at it all day long,
22:51but we're clipping the trees.
22:55And all it's going to take
22:56is grabbing onto some wiring or a hose,
22:59and we're going to have a wash plant
23:00that's not going to want to do what it needs to do.
23:02Check this branch out.
23:07I think we're taking some risks here.
23:14Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
23:24Oh, there went our internet.
23:26Our wash plants have internet on them,
23:28which is very handy.
23:29This one now does not.
23:32We're too remote here
23:33to have the radios reach back to camp.
23:36We are going to need a new dish here.
23:44All right, we got rock sand
23:46where it needs to live.
23:47We're going to run by and grab the sluice run
23:49and start putting this thing together.
23:52There we have it.
23:55We're going to build a little pad
23:56and pull this thing off as quick as we can.
23:58We just got to get her off in one piece,
24:00standing up straight.
24:06I like it.
24:07It looks good.
24:10Next, Mitch collects the plant's
24:12sluice runs from Dominion.
24:14The purpose of the sluice runs being wide
24:17is if you put more through the wash plant faster.
24:20The problem with that is
24:22when you've got to move it.
24:27You can see I'm having to drive down
24:28the middle of the road.
24:30If something's driving the other way,
24:31we're going to be in trouble.
24:33Last thing we're going to be doing
24:34is backing up on these roads, Miles.
24:39Just got to slow down here.
24:40It's so narrow here.
24:44These trees are big.
24:46And this thing is clipping things on the sides.
24:49You can hear the branches breaking behind us here.
24:53We are just threading a needle right now.
24:56Oh, we got something coming off the back there.
25:12These roads are so rough.
25:14This trailer is vibrating so much.
25:15We're not stopping on the middle of these hills.
25:21We'll have to go back and get it.
25:26Jacob, you got a copy?
25:28Yeah, go ahead.
25:30Jacob, we are missing some of the iron
25:32and some of the carpets.
25:33See what all you can find.
25:35Load all these guys up.
25:45Don't have to go that far.
25:47Get them back as fast as possible.
25:49Just put them back in the runs.
25:58Right on, buddy.
25:59Give her.
26:00It's just going to pull the sluice runs off here.
26:03Build a wash plant.
26:04Well, Matt, we're looking pretty good here.
26:08What do you say we bring in the next piece of the puzzle?
26:20Yeah, yeah, we got clearance here.
26:25Right now, we got our hopper feeder
26:27and the conveyor in place.
26:29The plant's leveled.
26:30The sluice runs are set.
26:32So we just got to hook up our water line here
26:33and we're going to be ready to start sluicing.
26:38Here we go.
26:39We got rock sand firing up right now.
26:46This is our first scoop going in here.
26:49We got three wash plants up and running.
26:55What's up?
26:56How are we?
26:57How are we?
26:57Looking good.
26:58Nice job making that work in time.
27:01I was like, there's no way this is going to work.
27:03I mean, dude, it came together pretty nice.
27:06Good job.
27:07This project was supposed to be 1,000 feet.
27:09Now it's 2,000 feet.
27:10There's more to go.
27:11Yeah.
27:123,000.
27:12Score!
27:13Jacob, he could, of course, hurry up a little bit, but then it's never fast enough.
27:35At Indian River, with Cousin Mike still away, Tony has no choice but to give stand-in foreman Jacob Moore a second chance to step up.
28:01I do have worries for what Tony will think.
28:04I wanted to show him that I can make decisions and do stuff on my own without his need to be there and oversee everything.
28:17This big boy is Tony, a money maker, so the pressure is on to get him gold.
28:22Cousin Mike is not around right now, so Jacob has kind of taken over.
28:27A lot of responsibility.
28:29It must be stressful for him.
28:31The watchman really doesn't sound good.
28:40Something's definitely wrong in there.
28:43Shouldn't be any sound like this.
28:50Jacob, you could be Jacob.
28:52I think I'm going to shut down the watchman.
28:53I heard a big, loud noise in there.
28:56Yeah, I heard a few outside of it.
28:58Noise coming from the plants.
29:18We're going to check it out and see what's going on up here.
29:20At Indian River, stand-in foreman Jacob has shut down Tony Beat's only running wash plan, Sluice-A-Lot, to investigate mysterious noises coming from inside the shaker deck.
29:36I have suspicions it's probably down here where all the bolts and everything's bolted together.
29:41Means I'll have to crawl in here.
29:43Hopefully nothing's broken.
29:45Oh, there's our issue.
29:49Everything is cracked.
29:51That is not good.
29:53We can't run this at all.
29:55This plant will just shake itself in the little itty-bitty bits out the tailings.
29:59I'm lucky that we caught it when we did before I cut too bad.
30:02Slide, lift it up so we can get the shoot out because the shoot is cracked as well.
30:08I don't know how to get this shoot out so we can have two welders going at the same time.
30:13All right, I'm just going to put my feet on it.
30:15Woohoo!
30:16It's heavy.
30:17There's a problem.
30:18The bolt rattled out and caused it to get violent and crack.
30:25Yeah, we're going to have to take the welders down here.
30:29Slusalot's shaker deck has two screens that separate waste rocks from gold-rich pay dirt.
30:37The waste rocks move towards a tailings chute that funnels them onto a conveyor and ejects
30:44them into a waste pile.
30:46But some of the bolts connecting the chute to the deck's steel frame have fallen out,
30:53making it unstable, leading to the chute constantly hitting and cracking the deck's frame.
30:59Jacob plans to weld the cracks, replace the old chute, bolt it back into place,
31:07and get the wash plant up and sluicing again.
31:12Where do you want it at to weld?
31:14Right here, it looks perfect.
31:15I noticed this crack here, another crack here, and here as well.
31:20In a couple of seconds, man, it could have been a big change in what we're doing today.
31:24Yeah, you're lucky.
31:26Because I'm going to actually do an inside weld first.
31:28Because then when I grind, oh, there's my weld.
31:30I'll get 100% out of it.
31:35JB's still working on the crack.
31:38Just doing the last weld here.
31:43All done.
31:44The chief has the cracks all done on the plant.
31:45We've been down for three or four hours now.
32:00We've got to put this chute on.
32:02We've got the cracks wobbled up on it.
32:04Now it's going to get back in place.
32:06Mason's up there putting the bolts in for me.
32:08Down here.
32:09I'm going to be a hand.
32:13Getting there, buddy.
32:20Yeah, that's the last bolt.
32:21We've got to tighten them up.
32:23We're good to go.
32:25Yeah, go ahead.
32:26Tony just called.
32:27He wants to know if we are sluicing.
32:29We will be here in like 20 minutes, half hour top.
32:32Fire of action.
32:33You're all done up there?
32:38Yes, sir.
32:41Tony's coming out here.
32:42So it would be nice to have rocks coming out the tailings and gold in the box when he shows up.
32:47I'm going to hop in the hole if you want to fire everything up for me.
33:04It looks good now.
33:05We can sort out a problem without Tony being here.
33:07I think it looks good on Jacob as well.
33:10We're sluicing.
33:11We're making money, and that means everybody's happy.
33:14Everything went very well.
33:15Everything was fixed in a timely manner.
33:17We're back in action, and hopefully we're good from here on out.
33:27Well, what's up?
33:28Oh, the plant was all cracked.
33:30We got it all welded up, and the back's loose.
33:31Nothing's good.
33:32Still washing rocks.
33:33Awesome, Jacob.
33:34Good job, man.
33:35Yep.
33:36Take care, Tony.
33:37Great to be back sluicing.
33:38Yep.
33:39All good.
33:40Okay.
33:42He was down a couple of hours, but I would have been down a couple of hours, too.
33:46You can only weld so fast.
33:48So, no.
33:49It's all good.
33:50I think Jacob, he's got what it takes.
33:53When Cousin Mike is in there, I mean, just Jacob automatically takes over.
33:58It's not rocket science.
34:00Since we're done on the floor here, we are moving the plant to a new location on the wayside over there.
34:14Three miles away, at Scribner Creek, Tony's eldest son, Kevin, has run out of stockpiled pay and is preparing for the biggest plant move of his fledgling career.
34:27We are going to have so much space for our fine tailings and our coarse tailings.
34:31Down here, we only have 20 feet we could fill up.
34:33On top of the wayside, that's going to be 100, 120 feet to fill up.
34:37Easier on the equipment, shorter trips.
34:40Kevin wants to haul his 35-ton wash plant from its current pad at the lynx cut with an excavator down a 20-degree slope.
34:53Maneuver it around a tight corner, then drag it 400 feet up a steep 30-degree incline to its final sluicing location.
35:04It is going to be a little bit further away from the pyramid cut, but as soon as we're done here, we're going to have to go upstream, and we're going to be way closer to the upstream cut, so a bit of future-proofing.
35:18Now we've just got to make it happen.
35:23I'd like to get everything up and running.
35:25Not to Russia, but we're trying to Russia.
35:28Kevin puts new recruit, Buzz, straight into the hot seat.
35:33All right.
35:37This is going to be one of the first big projects Buzz is going to do for us since he came on site, so we've got high expectations and high hopes.
35:43My hopes.
35:48Get on the cables, and then let's get ready.
35:51We're going to hook up the plant and drag that into position.
35:56Definitely don't want to flip that plant over.
36:00That'll be a season-ender for sure.
36:08Faith, can I get you on the pin?
36:10This is the only plant we got.
36:12If this is damaged, we're stuck in the water, so to speak.
36:15Hopefully this move goes smoothly.
36:17All right.
36:18Everything's hooked up.
36:19I guess it's time to pull Buzz.
36:20We'll have the rest of us spotters, but just be careful.
36:23Let's go.
36:29We have movement.
36:31This will be a good test of Buzz's upper weight skills.
36:34This is Kevin's running with you, so we don't want to scratch the paint on this puppy.
36:41I'm just watching that our runs are not scraping on the ground at the end.
36:49If they're too close, they'll rub on the ground, and they might rip off.
36:53We need to do a lot of your car work, so.
36:54close.
37:01close.
37:03We're just scraping them right now.
37:08Oh, man.
37:10This isn't gonna work.
37:12Stop. Stop.
37:14Don't try and lift it up like that.
37:17Let the tension off the cable.
37:18We're raising the sluice around so they don't drag on the ground.
37:22Case in point.
37:26We pay three quarters of a million dollars for the wash plant, so we really don't want to it.
37:32Chute's lifted up.
37:33We shouldn't have any other problems for the pool.
37:38We got some weight on this plant here.
37:41Parting is digging in a little bit.
37:44Making it a little bit difficult for the accelerator to move.
37:51Now we pull it up the hill until its final wrestling squad, hopefully for the season.
38:07Oh, no. It's flipping.
38:11Yep. Stop. Stop.
38:12That's not gonna work. Your ass ends already off the ground.
38:18I don't think it's gonna do it.
38:21I guess the wash plant might be a bit too heavy with the angle and the hill.
38:25Damn it.
38:27We'll get something with twice the weight.
38:29Four times the power.
38:31Alrighty.
38:32We bring that D-10 over here.
38:33See you play.
38:34The 63-ton D-10 dozer is 10 tons heavier than the 480 excavator and has three times the pulling power.
38:47Let's get the dozer lined up and, well, that's gonna move it, guaranteed.
38:51Well, let's make her happen, eh?
38:52Better.
38:53Better.
38:57Everybody got communication.
38:59I need your services ready.
39:00Yeah, we got 100 tons of you. We're going somewhere.
39:10Well, we'll get the hard part taken care of.
39:13Working here with Cameron did get to be a lot more diversified than most places.
39:20It's been kind of nice, you know.
39:24This is our final steps here.
39:29Ah, perfect.
39:31Went up the hill nice.
39:34Oh, yeah.
39:36Good job, Buzz.
39:37Didn't even have to break a sweat.
39:38Step one.
39:39Done.
39:41Now that it's all in place, the next thing is to do a bit of repairs and take a bit of extra time.
39:46We shouldn't have to move this year or next year.
39:49We have so much space for tailings and that way this summer we can just run, run, run.
39:54I am very happy with that.
39:56Yeah.
40:00So can you walk the pipe, young fella?
40:06Tony Beetz runs a tight ship and his crew members need to be able to walk a fine line.
40:14I said can you walk the pipe or can you walk the pipe?
40:18The pipe?
40:20Right?
40:22I enjoy this kind of .
40:25So why don't I?
40:30Hi, guys.
40:31Hello.
40:32Hello.
40:33Hey, guys.
40:34Bring some more gold.
40:35Whoa.
40:36Whoa.
40:37So what is new in the Indian River?
40:38Jacob had to step up.
40:39We had to cut that was flooded.
40:40So we had to f*** around with that.
40:41Pump, pump, pump, pump.
40:42And then we had the screen deck.
40:43Had some cracks in it.
40:44With cousin Mike away, stand-in foreman Jacob ran Tony's only producing wash plant, sluice-a-lot.
41:01So how many days?
41:02We sluiced for seven days.
41:03Minus the couple of hours that you were down.
41:04Yeah.
41:05So it's not a full week.
41:06Sluice-a-lot has been averaging 192 ounces a week.
41:09Pour in there.
41:10Let's go.
41:1110, 40, 80, on the 10, on the 10, on the 10, 60, 230, 250, 250 ounces, .7.
41:38Worth $878,000.
41:39That's not bad.
41:40No, it's going on with it.
41:41Only days.
41:42Hey, does that put us over 1,000 ounces?
41:43Yeah, 1,025.
41:44So it's getting nice that we got Jacob up and going because now that Mike isn't there,
41:45it's nice to have.
41:46Mm-hmm.
41:47It seems to be doing pretty well.
41:48Yeah.
41:49Yeah.
41:50It seems to be stepping up.
41:51It's good to see.
41:52Absolutely.
41:53With that being said, you should pack it back up and go do what you all do best.
42:06Okay, we'll see you guys later.
42:08Later, guys.
42:09That adds up nicely this early in the season, doesn't it?
42:12Yeah, it doesn't take months, eh?
42:13No.
42:14And with the gold prize of this, it's a lot of money.
42:17Usually when this time of year, we just get started.
42:23Three miles east at Scribner.
42:27It's the end of Buzz's first week with Kevin and Faith.
42:31How are you fitting in so far?
42:33I don't know.
42:34You guys tell me.
42:36Been kicking off a lot of projects pretty quick.
42:39Seen problems in fixing them, so I think overall fitting in pretty good.
42:42I'm curious.
42:43How is it compared to working with Rick?
42:45Very different.
42:46Very different.
42:47Very different?
42:48Very different.
42:49How different?
42:50Very.
42:51Just different.
42:52Well, that's good to hear, Buzz, because, like, with Caden and Brennan leaving, I was
42:57starting to worry that, well, we were doing something wrong and just didn't know.
43:02This is the last of our piggy bank cut, so we have a little bit of gold to weigh.
43:07Well, not a bad looking amount.
43:09Not too bad.
43:10It's time to weigh the last of Kevin's stockpiled pay.
43:16Kevin ran for three days before moving the wash plant.
43:19One for the money, two for the show.
43:21Let's go.
43:23Two, six, 10, 18, 26, 38, 47, 28, 50, 56.590.
43:39It's pretty good.
43:40Yeah, that's not too bad.
43:42Worth?
43:43$198,000.
43:46It's encouraging for everything else we're going to run.
43:49Definitely there's gold in the ground.
43:51So what does that put our total at for the year so far?
43:53Currently, we're sitting at 162.09.
43:56So a wild little ways to the 2,000 ounces.
43:59A little ways to go.
44:01I mean, of course, we want to get sleuthing as soon as possible.
44:04We've got some work to do with the plant, so it's going to take a little bit of time,
44:08but ideally, we'll get going ASAP.
44:10Hopefully, by the end of the week, we can start sleuthing the pyramid cut,
44:13see what treasures it's got.
44:15It's not running.
44:16We're not getting any gold, so.
44:17That's right.
44:18Unfortunately, the plant stops, but the bills don't.
44:20Well, having internet on the trucks this year is like a lifesaver.
44:34Except for me, I'm like, I need to get a hold of it.
44:37Like, the other day when I was trying to get a hold of you, I'm like, call you, and you don't answer.
44:40And I'm like, where is this ?
44:46It's that look right there.
44:47I had a dream last night.
44:48It's telling Mitch.
44:49I was like, I don't know what the I was stressed out.
44:52I woke up sweaty.
44:53He's telling me about that dream.
44:54His cheek was like touching my, his stubble was rubbing my face.
44:57He almost caught me.
45:02How does it feel to make it into Brennan's dreams?
45:04Oh, man.
45:05I want to haunt all four of you.
45:07You know, what's it like working for Parker?
45:09Well, there's the dreams and the PTSD, but other than that, it's great.
45:14Three wash plants up and running.
45:17It's Parker's first triple-gold way of the season.
45:21KT, you ready?
45:22Yeah.
45:23Look at that sluice for here.
45:24This is a two-hander.
45:25See how the Golden Mile did this week.
45:27Last week, the Golden Mile produced 152 ounces.
45:32Here we go.
45:3420, 60, 80, 120, 140, 180.
45:41We're going to break two, 200, 210, 220, 222.3.
45:48Worth $778,000.
45:53Sick.
45:54That is nice.
45:55Anyway, we got Mr. Bob.
45:57Come on, Brennan.
45:58The bridge cut is averaging 150 ounces a week.
46:0320, 40, 80, 90, 130, 40.
46:09Yeah.
46:10170.
46:11Oh, yeah.
46:12190.4.
46:14Worth $666,000.
46:18Sick.
46:19Nice.
46:20Finally, Parker will discover if his gamble to chase gold left behind by the old timers at sulfur will pay out.
46:29We got to do sulfur, Mitch.
46:31We need it.
46:32We've been spending money like it's going out of style.
46:35First run of sulfur here.
46:36We got 20, 40, 90, 110, 114.8.
46:50That's actually really good for the hours you ran.
46:52Yeah, I mean, we just got the plant set up.
46:54Yeah.
46:55And that material was like the first cut off.
46:57Oh, I thought it was going to be terrible.
46:59I thought you were going to have like 20 ounces.
47:01Wow, that's a lot of gold for one week.
47:03Yeah.
47:04Yeah.
47:05Yeah, we had a really good week.
47:06Well, we had, for this week, it was 527 and a half ounces for the week.
47:11Dang.
47:12Yeah.
47:13Worth over $1.8 million.
47:18For the season so far, it's 1,235.4 ounces.
47:24Sweet.
47:25Which is about 1,100 ounces ahead of where we were this time last year.
47:28Nice.
47:29All right.
47:30Thanks, guys.
47:32Keep it up.
47:33Let's get back out there, man.
47:34Let's do it.
47:35Yeah.
47:36Good job, boys.
47:38It's really nice to have three plants up and running.
47:39Mitch and Brendan are doing a good job over at Sulfur getting that opened up.
47:42So, I'm excited to see what it can do in a full week of running.
47:45It's pretty sweet.
47:46We're going to do some serious damage this year.
47:49Bosco!
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