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00:00.
00:21Boom up a little bit, Jordy.
00:23.
00:26Parker wants to move more dirt than ever before,
00:28so these 550s will be the answer.
00:32It all slides nicely when it's brand new, huh?
00:35Perfect.
00:36We can send this bad boy out.
00:42Hey, Parker, you got a copy, Parker?
00:44Hey, what's going on?
00:45Yeah, bro, this 550 is on its way.
00:48I'm just heading over to Sulphur.
00:50We had a new toy delivered,
00:52so I'm just going to check it out.
00:58I don't know what the fun is in having a dirt-moving company
01:01if you can't have new equipment.
01:07Gold mining mogul, Parker Schnabel,
01:10is sitting in the driver's seat.
01:12Just three weeks into the season,
01:15he's banked more than $2 million in gold
01:19from his Dominion Creek claims.
01:21Now, he's eager to find out if the gamble he took
01:26at Sulphur Creek will pay out.
01:29We ordered oversized buckets.
01:32I'm not sure how it's going to like this.
01:34They just started hauling pay out of the pit here at Sulphur,
01:37and I'm just making more room for stockpile.
01:40The thing is pretty sweet.
01:42But that's a six-and-a-quarter-yard bucket,
01:45which is huge for this size machine.
01:47The bigger the bucket, the better.
01:51Absolutely chewing through the ground.
01:57Basically, we're under the gun for time.
02:00The water license here at Sulphur expires soon,
02:03and I don't want to be put in a position where,
02:05much like Rick Ness is right now,
02:07where we are desperately waiting
02:10and hoping for a license that we need
02:12in order to do what we want to do.
02:15Mined since 1898,
02:18Sulphur Creek's gold is legendary,
02:21with stories of nuggets sitting on the creek bed.
02:25To date, it's paid out $1.2 billion,
02:30and Parker's praying there's still big gold in the ground.
02:35I'm definitely worried.
02:36Sulphur's a really tricky piece of ground.
02:38Are we doing all of this on Sulphur at the cost
02:41of getting Dominion done?
02:43Like, that's the question that haunts me.
02:49Beautiful new toy!
02:51That only took me 30 seconds!
02:54So far, it's handling this bucket really well.
02:56It looked like you were full extension there.
02:58I was like, wow.
02:59Dude, look at how wide it is compared to the 480.
03:01That's insane.
03:02Yeah.
03:03Nice purchase there, boss man.
03:05Special delivery.
03:07So the big thing, getting you sluicing as soon as we can.
03:12How much time do we have for that?
03:14I was hoping that we could be sluicing within a week.
03:20I'm excited.
03:21Yeah?
03:22I want to get another plant running.
03:24And so that's your guys' challenge.
03:26Yeah.
03:27It's a big one.
03:33They have a nice shiny new excavator.
03:35That should give them some solid reliability.
03:37And hopefully, here in three or four days, we'll have a wash plant banging away at Sulphur.
03:42Yeah, Brennan, you got a copy.
03:45Dude, you can just hear that clock ticking every minute down here.
03:52We're getting closer to running out of time.
03:54It's a big undertaking.
03:55The six yard bucket will make up to some serious lost time.
03:59Oh, man.
04:00He wants 10,000 ounces.
04:01A good part of that's got to come out of here.
04:03Hell yeah, buddy.
04:04This is a pretty cool treasure hunt to be on.
04:07This property's been hammered so hard.
04:10You get really worried about, man, are we going to move all this dirt?
04:13And at the end of the day, is there going to be nothing left in it?
04:20At Sulphur Creek, Mitch and Brennan are on a treasure hunt.
04:25For the last three weeks, they've been clearing overburden away from a narrow two-acre cut next to the bank of the valley.
04:34Searching for gold-rich virgin pay that an old-timer's dredge missed.
04:39Now, down to pay, they need to dig it out and stockpile it at the mouth of the cut.
04:46Then, bring in wash plant Roxanne and fire it up by the end of the week.
04:57This cut is very narrow.
04:59Not a lot of room to work.
05:01We've got all this ground water that's pouring in on us.
05:05All this material, it's so saturated, we've got to try and dry it up.
05:09You know, then we've got to pile all this up into a pay pile.
05:12The wetter it is, the harder all that is.
05:14The trucks will do better when they're running on dry ground.
05:20This pay that we're hauling here, it's real wet.
05:23Now, it's making one hell of a mess.
05:25Rock truck operators Sean Holcroft and Jordan Grosvenan splashed through the cut, hauling pay dirt.
05:33With the amount of pay we got coming in from the cut, there's not really any place where we can put it.
05:37So we have to drive over the stuff we've already put here, but it was just schlop we hauled in from there.
05:42Man, this stuff sucks, man.
05:50You know, it's hard to even drive through.
05:52Oh, there she goes.
05:55Jordan's truck rolled over.
05:57All right, Mitch, you got a copy, Mitch.
05:59Yeah, go ahead.
06:00I got a truck flipped over here.
06:02It's Jordan's.
06:04The box is over, not completely, but it's definitely over.
06:07I'm surprised that it took this long for something to happen.
06:16Never a dull moment.
06:19See, they got their tire up on a high point there and rolled her over.
06:25So I get it back on its feet.
06:28You ready, Jordan?
06:30Just put it in neutral.
06:33Just flip back over.
06:40Ooh, that's heavy.
06:46Try and gently drive forward.
06:50If I honk, stop.
06:54Go ahead and dump that pile right there.
07:00And don't go back that far anymore, please and thank you.
07:05Well, it's just a lot of pressure being put on us here.
07:08Having to haul all the out by the end of the week here,
07:10and sometimes it just ends up going sideways.
07:15Everybody's doing everything we can here.
07:18If we fall short on getting this ground sluice and sulfur,
07:21it's going to mean that 10,000 ounces is going to be out the window very quickly.
07:25That's definitely not how Parker wants to start the season off.
07:28Gold prices sky high.
07:45There's no better time than getting gold in the box than today.
07:49We had a super-fast start to the season, so right now all we've got to do is keep sluicing.
07:55King of the Klondike, Tony Beetz, is crushing it.
08:00He's been sluicing at his Indian River operation for five weeks,
08:05already banking 775 ounces of his 6,500-ounce target.
08:12Pusslop right now in the Indian River is our only moneymaker,
08:16so we've got to make sure we keep that going.
08:22Because of Mike, he had an emergency.
08:24We had to fly to Europe for a couple of days.
08:26The lead man is gone, so to speak.
08:28I'm not happy because I need more people in charge.
08:31So we're kind of making Jacob step up, see if we can mold him up a little bit.
08:37I've got to do it by myself.
08:40It feels good to be successful up here, helping out Tony.
08:49The task that Tony gets me to do every day puts out more trust and confidence in my work ethic
08:54and what I can do as a person.
08:56Heavy equipment operator Jacob Moore only joined the Beetz crew last season.
09:02Now, he has to step up to acting foreman and impress the king.
09:08He's put every trust that I never thought I would ever get up here.
09:11If you're honest and give it your all, then you get treated like one of them.
09:17Jacob, do you copy?
09:19Yeah, go ahead.
09:20Yeah, in the early forecast, there's a lot of ground waters.
09:23Yeah, copy that.
09:25Oh, , look at all the water in there.
09:28You can't dig pay on the water, you can't see what you're doing.
09:31We would leave too much gold behind.
09:37Look at all that water.
09:39Well, that ain't gonna work.
09:40Ah, that's not good.
09:43No.
09:44You lay that pipe from here to there, and that water shoots off.
09:49Make it pass.
09:50Bingo, done.
09:51In an hour or so, I want to see the pump pumping.
09:54Okay?
09:55Sounds good, don't it?
09:56Last week, Tony tasked his crew with expanding the 13-acre early bird cut by a further 9 acres.
10:09But now, spring melt water is flooding in, drowning the exposed gold-rich pay.
10:15Tony wants Jacob to bring in a submersible pump, connect it to a 400-foot-long pipe, and pump out the water to drain into a mined-out section of the cut, allowing his crew to get back to hauling pay.
10:33That was a lot of pressure, but I can handle it.
10:38We need to get what Tony wants done the way Tony wants it done.
10:42I do not want to be on Tony Beach's wrong side.
10:44Don't waste the time, just get on with it.
10:48Jacob's first task?
10:50Move in the submersible pump.
10:52I mean, the longer it takes, the more water we're going to have to deal with.
10:56So the sooner we cure the problem, the better it is.
10:59But if you're going to have a foreman, you better be able to leave him alone to solve his own problem.
11:04Let's see if Jacob has got what it takes.
11:07I'm just going to move it over here, then we can get that pipe up there.
11:11We're just going to get the pump set up and get this pipe drug into place so we can get the water pumped out.
11:29Wiggle it.
11:30Up.
11:41Let's see if it'll tilt this way.
11:46Push up on it.
11:47It's starting to go.
11:50Oh, are you kidding me?
11:52That's .
11:56Try that.
11:58Clips off the side are broken off, and it's all rusty on the inside, so you have to have it level and get both pins in.
12:07Ah.
12:11If they were kind of hurry the up, that would be kind of nice.
12:17It needs to go down one.
12:18Swing it back this way.
12:22These people have no idea how frustrating it is for me.
12:28Hey.
12:29See how the around?
12:31That idiot is clueless.
12:33I want to see the pump pumping.
12:35.
12:41But the king isn't impressed with how long it's taking.
12:42Jacob's time and Tony's patience are up.
12:43Okay, I'll take it.
12:44I'll take it.
12:45I'll take it.
12:46I'll take it.
12:47I'll take it.
12:48I'll take it.
12:49I'll take it.
12:50I'll take it.
12:51I'll take it.
12:52Jacob.
12:54Jacob more, with draining the flooded early bird extension within an hour.
12:58Hey.
12:59See how the around?
13:01That idiot is clueless.
13:03But the king isn't impressed with how long it's taking.
13:07Jacob's time and Tony's patience are up.
13:10OK, I'll take over.
13:11Might as well do it myself.
13:13Take up.
13:15Take up.
13:16OK, D6, hook around to the pipe.
13:25We're going to drag the pipe in, pump all of them.
13:28It's that simple.
13:30When I do it, it usually way quicker.
13:33Hold it.
13:34Stay there.
13:37Andrew, do you copy?
13:38And bring the 349 over there.
13:42Get a chain on there.
13:46We'll grab it with the hole.
13:47We'll swing it in place, Andrew.
13:50It's OK, Andrew.
13:52Got it?
13:52Yeah.
13:53And then all we've got to do is hook it together.
13:58Drag it closer if you can.
13:59Oh, OK.
14:01OK, you want me to walk it in a bit?
14:02Ah, yeah, please, yeah.
14:04Can you get in and bring the pipe this way more?
14:07Ow.
14:12This thing must be a little egg-shaped, maybe,
14:14so it doesn't quite fit in.
14:16Jacob.
14:17Yeah.
14:18You got a hammer in the truck?
14:20My truck's over by the red pump.
14:22Get a hammer.
14:23OK.
14:24So there's going to beat the in there.
14:27Hit the in there.
14:34Hey, dude, they're still trying to get him out of his truck.
14:40Oh, what the does it take?
14:41Hello?
14:42Give me a rock.
14:43Now.
14:44Give me a rock.
14:45Nail that close.
14:46Yeah, I know, yeah.
14:47Good hit.
14:48That should slide in.
14:49There you go.
14:50Jacob.
14:51Too late for that.
14:52Fire the pump up.
14:53Finally, after Tony's intervention, the pump can start draining the flooded cut.
14:59They're just hooking up the wires, the fire of the pump.
15:00Good.
15:01There you go.
15:02Buddy, you got her.
15:03Jacob.
15:04Too late for that.
15:05Fire the pump up.
15:06Finally, after Tony's intervention, the pump can start draining the flooded cut.
15:19They're just hooking up the wires, the fire of the pump.
15:22Good.
15:23Man, she's suckin'!
15:28I bet you suck it.
15:32It's good to have a pump in there,
15:34draining all the water out of it.
15:37it, yeah.
15:38Tony's not too impressed.
15:41Definitely know he's not pleased.
15:44Jacob's not impressive.
15:45As far as I'm concerned, everybody is replaceable.
15:48It is a pretty simple deal down there.
15:50If you're too lazy to do it right,
15:53well, now you're going to have to do something about it.
15:55So, we'll see.
15:58We'll be with you.
16:19Just a bit more stress than I was really hoping for this year.
16:23We are kind of hurting for our experienced crew.
16:25Wennens not coming back.
16:27Caden's off to Parker's as well, kind of dropping like flies around here.
16:32Kevin Beatt's second season as Mind Boss is off to a rocky start, having lost two key members
16:39from his skeleton crew. On a small crew, when people leave, you feel it. 2,000-ounce gold
16:46seems a little further away now, but at least we're sluicing, so we're still able to be producing.
16:52We have a bit of pay stockpiled from the Lynx extension, but as soon as that runs out,
16:57we're really going to have to get material out of the pyramid cut.
17:04Kevin's crew has been sluicing stockpiled pay from last season for two weeks, delivering over
17:11100 ounces. But with the pile fast running out, his crew of five have also been racing to open up
17:18new ground in the three-acre pyramid cut. It's nonstop for the trucks hauling overburden.
17:26The goal is to hit pay in the pyramid cut in time for when the plant is moved and ready to fire back up.
17:36We're stretching our crew to the limit right now, but it's what we've got to do to keep on going.
17:42We're finishing up the pay around the plant, then we'll move the plant.
17:46But there's going to be a lot more work than I thought it is now without Brennan and Caden.
17:51With a big plant move on the horizon this week, Kevin's looking to find new recruits.
17:58Me and Faith are working our way through quite a few resumes.
18:02We did find a fairly experienced miner. We'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.
18:15Swimming in the ocean for the first time in my life.
18:18Veteran gold miner Buzz Legault has had a busy winter.
18:23When my teeth all fixed up, it's kind of freaking nice. It gives me more of a reason to smile now.
18:31I wouldn't really say that I'm smiling more. I'm just a lot less self-conscious about it.
18:39But Buzz wasn't smiling last year after two seasons working for Rick Ness.
18:45Hey, Buzz, you got a copy?
18:49Their relationship, sour.
18:51Hey, Buzz!
18:55There's not a 100-person crew here. You're a guy in this crew.
18:57You're going to jump in where the you fit in, or you're going to go home.
19:00If you don't want to work with me, then you all, you know?
19:06Last season with everything that went down, it's still kind of a hard punch.
19:10You know, it puts me and Rick a lot closer to that.
19:14Time for new things.
19:16I just got a phone call from Kevin and Faith there.
19:19You know, looking for some good hands this season, so I can check them out.
19:24All right. Here we are.
19:36Hey, guys. How's it going?
19:37No, too bad. Howdy, good, sir.
19:39Hello there.
19:40Nice to meet you.
19:41Nice to meet you in your 10,000-lumen smile.
19:46Never lose me at night. All I can do is keep on smiling.
19:49Thanks for coming to meet us, Buzz. We do appreciate you showing up.
19:55Though we do get to ask, I know you're the foreman at Rick's last year,
19:59and clearly you're not going back there. What's happening?
20:02There's uncertainties over there with his water license and everything.
20:08Life has changed for me.
20:11I need a little more stability in life.
20:14Well, this year I have a little baby on the way, so...
20:19Congratulations.
20:20Yes. Thank you.
20:22We're down a foreman. Is that something you might be interested in, or...?
20:25We're a little baby on the way and whatnot. I don't think that would be a good position for it.
20:33Well, I think we kind of need more of a jack of all trades more than anything else.
20:39From what I've gathered, you know how to run equipment, you know how to fix things,
20:42and you can also weld a little bit.
20:45This might work.
20:48I could be your buzz of all trades.
20:54It all sounds good to you. I'm welcome aboard.
20:58Perfect.
20:59Sounds great. Thank you guys.
21:01Oh, let's get to work.
21:05That went pretty well, you know, working with Kevin and Faith this season.
21:10Seemed like a pretty good couple.
21:12So, excited to see where this goes.
21:27As much as I would like to have all of the focus on Dominion, that's just not really a feasible option.
21:33There are projects that absolutely have to happen this year, and that is Sulphur, so we just have to get them done.
21:40In Sulphur, we're just about ready for the plant move. We're going to get rocks in.
21:51Parker's trying to give us the best of the best for what we have to do here.
21:55At Sulphur Creek, Brennan and Mitch have identified what they believe are gold hot spots and stockpiled the pay dirt.
22:06Now, it's finally time to start sluicing.
22:09Well, we're ready to haul rock sand down to Sulphur, so we're going to go build some wash plant.
22:18You know, early in the season like this, the roads are in the worst shape of the whole year.
22:22Oh, come on, baby. Come on, come on.
22:27This is the sketchiest thing we have done in a long time.
22:31We got soft roads, wash plant that's top heavy, and we're in a rush.
22:36The 25 miles of dirt road from Dominion to Sulphur is closed all winter.
22:43Opened just six weeks ago, it is still thawing out.
22:48Oh, you almost hit that tree.
22:53Rock sand is big and robust, and we throw rocks at it all day long, but we're clipping the trees.
23:00And all it's going to take is grabbing onto some wiring or a hose,
23:03and we're going to have a wash plant that's not going to want to do what it needs to do.
23:07Check this branch out.
23:12I think we're taking some risks here.
23:20Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
23:29Oh, there went our internet.
23:30Our wash plants have internet on them, which is very handy.
23:34This one now does not.
23:37We're too remote here to have the radios reach back to camp.
23:41We are going to need a new dish here.
23:49All right, we got rock sand where it needs to live.
23:52We're going to run back and grab a sluice run and start putting this thing together.
23:55There we have it.
24:00We're going to build a little pad and pull this thing off as quick as we can.
24:03We just got to get her off in one piece standing up straight.
24:11I like it.
24:12Looks good.
24:15Next, Mitch collects the plant's sluice runs from Dominion.
24:19The purpose of the sluice runs being wide is we can put more through the wash plant faster.
24:25The problem with that is when you've got to move it.
24:32You can see I'm having to drive down the middle of the road.
24:33If something's driving the other way, we're going to be in trouble.
24:38Last thing we're going to be doing is backing up on these roads, Miles.
24:43Just got to slow down here.
24:48So narrow here, and these trees are big.
24:51And this thing is clipping things on the sides.
24:54You can hear the branches breaking behind us here.
24:56We are just threading a needle right now.
25:13Oh, we got something coming off the back there.
25:17Now these roads are so rough, this trailer's vibrating so much.
25:20We're not stopping on the middle of these hills. We'll have to go back and get it.
25:31Jacob, you got a copy?
25:32Yeah, go ahead.
25:35Jacob, we are missing some of the iron and some of the carpets.
25:38See what all you can find.
25:39I'll load all these guys up. Don't have to go that far.
25:52Get them back as fast as possible.
25:54Just put them back in the runs.
26:03Right on, buddy. Give her.
26:05It's just going to pull the sluice runs off here.
26:08Build a wash plant.
26:09Get them back.
26:11Well, Matt, we're looking pretty good here.
26:13What do you say we bring in the next piece of the puzzle?
26:25Yeah, yeah, we got clearance here.
26:30Right now, we got our hopper feeder and the conveyor in place.
26:34The plant's leveled. The sluice runs are set.
26:36So we just got to hook up our water line here,
26:38and we're going to be ready to start sluicing.
26:43Here we go. We got rock sand firing up right now.
26:51This is our first scoop going in here.
26:53And we got three wash plants up and running.
27:00What's up?
27:01How are we?
27:01Looking good.
27:03Nice job making that work in time.
27:05I was like, there's no way this is going to work.
27:08I mean, dude, it came together pretty nice.
27:10Good job.
27:12This project was supposed to be 1,000 feet.
27:13Now it's 2,000 feet.
27:15There's more to go.
27:16Yeah.
27:163,000.
27:17Four!
27:36Jacob could, of course, hurry up a little bit, but then it's never fast enough.
27:40I've been with Cousin Mike, the way I need him.
27:44He's got to keep that sluice box going all week.
27:47I don't care if that is at 6 in the morning or 12 o'clock at night.
27:51We'll get the over there and make it run.
27:53At Indian River, with Cousin Mike still away, Tony has no choice but to give stand-in foreman,
28:02Jacob Moore, a second chance to step up.
28:06I do have worries for what Tony will think.
28:09I wanted to have shown him that I can make decisions and do stuff on my own without his
28:14need to be there and oversee everything.
28:16This big boy is Tony, money maker, so the pressure is on to get him gold.
28:27Cousin Mike is not around right now, so Jacob has kind of taken over.
28:32A lot of responsibility.
28:34It must be stressful for him.
28:42The watchman really doesn't sound good.
28:45Something's definitely wrong in there.
28:47There shouldn't be any sound like this.
28:55Jacob, you can keep it, Jacob.
28:56I think I'm going to shut down the watchman.
28:58I heard a big, loud noise in there.
29:01Yeah, I heard it too outside of it.
29:15The noise coming from the plants.
29:23We're going to check it out and see what's going on up here.
29:25At Indian River, stand-in foreman Jacob has shut down Tony Beat's only running wash plan,
29:35Sluice-A-Lot, to investigate mysterious noises coming from inside the shaker deck.
29:41I have suspicions.
29:42It's probably down here where all the bolts and everything's bolted together.
29:45It means I'll have to crawl in here.
29:49Hopefully nothing's broken.
29:50Ah, there's our issue.
29:54Everything is cracked.
29:56That is not good.
29:58We can't run this at all.
30:00This plant will just shake itself in the little itty bitty bits out the tailings.
30:04I'm lucky that we caught it when we did before I cut too bad.
30:10Slide lifted up so we can get the chute out because the chute is cracked as well.
30:15I'll get this chute out so we can have two welders going at the same time.
30:19All right, I'm just going to put my feet on it.
30:24Woohoo!
30:25It's heavy.
30:26There's a problem.
30:27The bolt rattled out and caused it to get violent and crack.
30:31Yeah, we're going to take the welders down here.
30:35Sluice-a-lot's shaker deck has two screens that separate waste rocks from gold-rich pay dirt.
30:43The waste rocks move towards a tailings chute that funnels them onto a conveyor and ejects them
30:50into a waste pile. But some of the bolts connecting the chute to the deck's steel frame have fallen out,
30:58making it unstable, leading to the chute constantly hitting and cracking the deck's frame.
31:05Jacob plans to weld the cracks, replace the old chute, bolt it back into place,
31:12and get the wash plant up and sluicing again.
31:15Where do you want it at to weld?
31:19Right here, it looks perfect.
31:21I noticed this crack here, another crack here, and here as well.
31:26A couple of seconds, man, could have been a big change in what we're doing today.
31:29Yeah, you're lucky.
31:31Because I'm going to actually do an inside weld first, because then when I grind,
31:34oh, there's my weld, I get 100% out of it.
31:37JB is still working on the crack.
31:48Just doing the last weld here.
31:57All done.
31:57The teeth has the cracks all done on the plant.
32:02We've been down for four hours now. We've got to put this chute on. We've got the cracks
32:08walled up on it. Now it's going to get back in place.
32:12Mason's up there putting the bolts in for me.
32:13Here, I'll come with your hand.
32:19Getting there, buddy.
32:26Yeah, that's the last bolt. I've got to tighten them up and be good to go.
32:31Yeah, go ahead.
32:31Tony just called. He wants to know if we are sleuthing.
32:35Uh, we will be here in like 20 minutes, half hour talk.
32:37Fire of action.
32:42You're all done up there?
32:43Yes, sir.
32:46Tony's coming out here, so it would be nice to have rocks coming out the tailings and gold in the box when he shows up.
32:53I'm going to hop in the hall if you want to fire everything up for me.
33:01It looks good now. We can sort out a problem without Tony being here. I think it looks good on Jacob as well.
33:16We're sleuthing. We're making money and that means everybody's happy.
33:19Everything went very well. Everything is fixed in a timely manner. We're back in action and
33:24hopefully we're good from here on out.
33:25Hello, what's up?
33:33Oh, the plant was all cracked. We got it all welded up and the back's loose.
33:37Not as good?
33:38Still washing rocks.
33:39Awesome, Jacob. Good job, man.
33:41Yeah, take care, Tony.
33:41Great to be back sleuthing.
33:43Yeah, see you later.
33:44Okay, thank you.
33:48He was down a couple hours, but I would have been down a couple hours too.
33:51You can only weld so fast, so no, it's all good.
33:56I think Jacob, he's got what it takes.
33:58When cousin Mike is in there, I mean, just Jacob automatically takes over.
34:03It's not rocket science.
34:11Since we're done on the floor here, we are moving the plant to a new location on the wayside over there.
34:20Three miles away at Scribner Creek, Tony's eldest son, Kevin, has run out of stockpiled pay
34:28and is preparing for the biggest plant move of his fledgling career.
34:33We're going to have so much space for our fine tailings and our coarse tailings.
34:36Down here, we only had 20 feet we could fill up.
34:38On top of the wayside, that's going to be 100, 120 feet to fill up.
34:42Easier on the equipment, shorter trips.
34:47Kevin wants to haul his 35-ton wash plant from its current pad at the lynx cut with an excavator.
34:55Down a 20-degree slope, maneuver it around a tight corner.
35:01Then drag it 400 feet up a steep 30-degree incline to its final sluicing location.
35:11It is going to be a little bit further away from the pyramid cut.
35:16But as soon as we're done here, we're going to have to go upstream.
35:19And we're going to be way closer to the upstream cut.
35:21So a bit of future-proofing.
35:24Now we just got to make it happen.
35:25I'd like to get everything up and running.
35:31Not to Russia, but we're trying to Russia.
35:34Kevin puts new recruit, Buzz, straight into the hot seat.
35:38All right.
35:43This is going to be one of the first big projects Buzz is going to do for us since he came on site.
35:46So we've got high expectations and high hopes.
35:49Turn on the cables, and then let's get ready.
35:57We're going to hook up the plant and drag that into position.
36:02Definitely don't want to flip that plant over.
36:05That'll be a season-ender for sure.
36:14Faith, can I get you on the pin?
36:16This is the only plant we got.
36:17If this is damaged, we're stuck in the water, so to speak.
36:20Hopefully this move goes smoothly.
36:23All right, everything's hooked up.
36:24I guess it's time to pull Buzz.
36:26We'll have the rest of us spotters, but just be careful.
36:29Let's go.
36:35We have movement.
36:37This will be a good test of Buzz's upper-weight skills.
36:42This is Kevin's monument here, so I don't want to scratch it.
36:45The paint on this puffy.
36:48I'm just watching that our runs are not scraping on the ground at the end.
36:55If they're too close, they'll rub on the ground, and they might rip off.
36:58Beating to a lot of your car work, so.
37:03Close.
37:07Close.
37:08We're just scraping them right now.
37:10Oh, man.
37:17Stop, stop.
37:19Don't try and lift it up like that.
37:22Let the tension off the cable.
37:23We're raising the sluice around so they don't drag on the ground.
37:28Case in point.
37:28We pay three quarters of a million dollars for the wash plant, so we really don't want to it.
37:38Chute's lifted up.
37:39We shouldn't have any other problems for the pool.
37:41We got some weight on this plant here.
37:48Part two ends digging in a little bit.
37:51Making it a little bit difficult for the excavators to move.
37:54Now we pull it up the hill until it's final resting spot, hopefully for the season.
38:12Oh, no, it's flipping.
38:16Yep, stop, stop.
38:17All right.
38:19That's not going to work.
38:20Your ass ends already off the ground.
38:22I don't think it's going to do it.
38:26I guess the wash plant might be a bit too heavy with the angle and the hill.
38:32We'll get something with twice the weight, four times the power.
38:36All righty.
38:36We'll bring that D-10 over here.
38:38See you play.
38:42The 63-ton D-10 dozer is 10 tons heavier than the 480 excavator and has three times the pulling power.
38:52Let's get the D-10 lined up and, well, that's going to move it guaranteed.
38:56Well, let's make her happen, eh?
38:58Better.
39:02Everybody got communication.
39:04I need your services ready.
39:09Yeah, we got 100 tons of you.
39:13We're going somewhere.
39:16Well, look at the hard part taken care of.
39:20Working here in Camden did get to be a lot more diversified than most places.
39:25It's been kind of nice.
39:30These are our final steps here.
39:34Perfect.
39:35Went up the hill nice.
39:39Oh, yeah.
39:40Good job, Buzz.
39:41Didn't even have to break a sweat.
39:43Step one, done.
39:46Now that it's all in place, the next thing is to do a bit of repairs and take a bit of extra time.
39:50We shouldn't have to move this year or next year.
39:53We have so much space for tailings and that way this summer we can just run, run, run.
39:59I am very happy with that.
40:00Oh, yeah, yeah.
40:10So can you walk the pipe, young fella?
40:12Tony Beetz runs a tight ship and his crew members need to be able to walk a fine line.
40:19I said can you walk the pipe or can you walk the pipe?
40:23All right, the , right?
40:27I enjoy this kind of , so what?
40:44Hi, guys.
40:44Hello.
40:45Hello.
40:45Hey, guys.
40:46Bring some more gold.
40:49Whoa.
40:49Whoa.
40:50So what is new in the Indian River?
40:53Jacob had to step up.
40:54We had the cut that was flooded, so we had to around with that, pump, pump, pump, pump.
40:59And then we had the screen deck, had some cracks in it.
41:02With cousin Mike away, stand-in foreman Jacob ran Tony's only producing wash plant, Sluicealot.
41:11So how many days?
41:12We sluiced for seven days.
41:14Minus the couple of hours that you were down, so it's not a full week.
41:18Sluicealot has been averaging 192 ounces a week.
41:28Pour in there.
41:28Let's go.
41:2910, 40, 80, on the 10, on those end, 60, 230, 250, 250 ounces, .74.
41:45Worth $878,000.
41:49That's not bad.
41:51No, it's going on with it.
41:52Only days.
41:53Hey, does that put us over 1,000 ounces?
41:55Yeah, 1,025.
41:57So it's kind of nice that we get Jacob up and going, because now that Mike isn't there,
42:01it's nice to have.
42:02Mm-hmm.
42:02It seems to be doing pretty well.
42:04Yeah.
42:04Yeah.
42:05It's going to be stepping up.
42:06It's good to see.
42:07Absolutely.
42:07With that being said, you should pack it back up and go do what you all do best.
42:12Okay, we'll see you guys later.
42:13Later, guys.
42:15That adds up nicely this early in the season, doesn't it?
42:18Yeah, it doesn't take months, eh?
42:19No.
42:20And with the gold prize of this, it's a lot of money.
42:23Usually, when this time of year, we just get started.
42:30Three miles east, at Scribner, it's the end of Buzz's first week with Kevin and Faith.
42:37How are you fitting in so far?
42:39I don't know.
42:39You guys tell me.
42:42Been kicking off a lot of projects pretty quick, seeing problems and fixing them,
42:46so I think overall, fitting in pretty good.
42:47I'm curious.
42:48How is it compared to working with Rick?
42:51Very different.
42:52Very different?
42:53Very different.
42:54How different?
42:55Very.
42:56Just different.
42:59Well, that's good to hear, Buzz, because with Caden and Brennan leaving,
43:02I was starting to worry that, well, we were doing something wrong and just didn't know.
43:08This is the last of our piggy bank cut, so we have a little bit of gold to weigh.
43:13Not a bad looking amount.
43:15Not too bad.
43:16It's time to weigh the last of Kevin's stockpiled pay.
43:21Kevin ran for three days before moving the wash plant.
43:25One for the money, two for the show.
43:27Let's go.
43:30See you.
43:3010, 18, 26, 38, 47, 28, 50.
43:4056.590.
43:44It's pretty good.
43:45Yeah, that's not too bad.
43:47Worth $198,000.
43:52It's encouraging for everything else we're going to run.
43:54That'll definitely, there's gold in the ground.
43:56So what does that put our total at for the year so far?
43:58All right, we're sitting at 162.09.
44:02So a wild ways to the 2,000 ounces.
44:05A little ways to go.
44:06I mean, of course, we want to get sluicing as soon as possible.
44:09We've got some work to do with the plant, so it's going to take a little bit of time.
44:13But ideally, we'll get going ASAP.
44:15Hopefully, by the end of the week, we can start sluicing the pyramid cut.
44:19See what treasures it's got.
44:20It's not running.
44:21We're not getting any gold, so.
44:22Yeah, that's right.
44:23Unfortunately, the plant stops, but the bills don't.
44:26Well, having internet on the trucks this year is like a lifesaver.
44:40Except for me, I'm like, I need to get a hold of it.
44:42Like the other day when I was trying to get a hold of you, I'm like, call you and you don't answer.
44:45And I'm like, where is this ?
44:51It's that look right there.
44:52I had a dream last night.
44:54It's tell a bitch.
44:54I was like, I don't know what the I was stressed out.
44:57I woke up sweaty.
44:58He's telling me about that dream.
45:00His cheek was like touching my, his stubble was rubbing my face.
45:03He almost caught me.
45:07How does it feel to make it into Brendan's dreams?
45:09Oh, man.
45:10I want to haunt all four of you.
45:13Yeah, what's it like working for Parker?
45:14Well, there's the dreams and the PTSD.
45:17But other than that, it's great.
45:20Three wash plants up and running.
45:22It's Parker's first triple gold way of the season.
45:26KT, you ready?
45:28Yeah.
45:28That's Lucifer here.
45:30This is a two-hander.
45:30See how the Golden Mile did this week.
45:32Last week, the Golden Mile produced 152 ounces.
45:38Here we go.
45:3820, 60, 80, 120, 140, 180.
45:46We're going to break two, 200.
45:48Nice.
45:49210, 220, 222.3.
45:54Worth $778,000.
45:57Sick.
45:57That is nice.
46:00Anyway, we got Mr. Bob.
46:03Come on, Brennan.
46:04The bridge cut is averaging 150 ounces a week.
46:0820, 40, 80, 90, 130, 40, 170.
46:16Oh, yeah.
46:17190.4.
46:20Worth $666,000.
46:24Sick.
46:25Nice.
46:26Finally, Parker will discover if his gamble to chase gold left behind by the old timers at
46:33Sulphur will pay out.
46:35We got to do Sulphur, Mitch.
46:37We need it.
46:37We've been spending money like it's going out of style.
46:40First run of Sulphur here.
46:42We got 20, 40,
46:4790,
46:49110, 114.8.
46:55That's actually really good for the hours you ran.
46:58Yeah.
46:58I mean, we just got the plant set up.
46:59Yeah.
47:00And that material was like the first cut off.
47:02Oh, I thought it was going to be terrible.
47:05I thought you were going to have like 20 ounces.
47:07Wow.
47:07That's a lot of gold for one week.
47:09Yeah.
47:09Yeah.
47:10Yeah.
47:10We had a really good week.
47:12Well, we had it for this week.
47:13It was 527 and a half ounces for the week.
47:17Dang.
47:17Yeah.
47:20Worth over 1.8 million dollars.
47:24For the season so far, it's 1,235.4 ounces.
47:29Sweet.
47:30Which is about 1,100 ounces ahead of where we were this time last year.
47:34Nice.
47:34All right.
47:36Thanks, guys.
47:37Keep it up.
47:38Let's get back out there, man.
47:39Let's do it.
47:40Yeah.
47:40Good job, boys.
47:42It's really nice to have three plants up and running.
47:44Mitch and Brendan are doing a good job over at Sulphur getting that opened up.
47:47So I'm excited to see what it can do in a full week of running.
47:51It's pretty sweet.
47:52We're going to do some serious damage this year.
47:55Bosco!
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