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00:00BOOM UP A LITTLE BIT, JORDY!
00:16BOOM UP A LITTLE BIT, JORDY!
00:21Parker 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 coffee, Parker?
00:39Hey, what's going on?
00:40Yeah, bro, this 550 is on its wave.
00:44I'm just heading over to Sulphur. We have a new toy delivered, so I'm just going to check it out.
00:49I don't know what the fun is in having a dirt moving company if you can't have new equipment.
01:02Gold mining mogul, Parker Schnabel, is sitting in the driver's seat.
01:07Just 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.
01:24We 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.
01:37The thing is pretty sweet.
01:39But that's a six and a quarter yard bucket, which is huge for this size machine.
01:43The 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, and I don't want to be put in a position where, much like Rick Ness is right now,
02:03where 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.
02:30I'm definitely worried.
02:32Sulphur 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!
02:49So 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.
03:04So 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?
03:19I want to get another plant running.
03:20And so that's your guys' challenge.
03:22Yeah.
03:23It's a big one.
03:24We have a nice shiny new excavator.
03:25That should give them some solid reliability and hopefully here in three or four days we'll
03:34have a wash plant banging away at Sulphur.
03:37You know, Brennan, you got a copy.
03:38Dude, you can just hear that clock ticking every minute down here.
03:47We're getting closer to running out of time.
03:50It's a big undertaking.
03:51The six yard bucket will make up to 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.
04:00This is a pretty cool treasure hunt to be on.
04:02This property's been hammered so hard.
04:05You 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
04:27to the bank of the valley, searching 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.
04:52This 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.
05:15This 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.
05:32So we have to drive over the stuff we've already put here, but it was just schlop we hauled in from there.
05:37Yeah, this stuff sucks, man.
05:38You know, it's hard to even drive through.
05:39Oh, there she goes.
05:40Jordan's truck rolled over.
05:41All right, Mitch, you got a copy of Mitch?
05:42Yeah, go ahead.
05:43I got a truck flipped over here.
05:44Thanks, Jordan.
05:45The box is over, not completely, but it's definitely over.
05:50It's fine, I'll get up there.
05:51I'm surprised that it took this long for something to happen.
05:55Never a dull moment.
05:56See, they got their tire up on a high point there, and rolled her over.
06:02So I get it back on its feet.
06:04You ready to go?
06:05I got a truck flipped over here.
06:06I got a truck flipped over here.
06:07It's Jordan's.
06:08The box is over, not completely, but it's definitely over.
06:10It's fine, I'll get up there.
06:11I'm surprised that it took this long for something to happen.
06:13Never a dull moment.
06:15See, they got their tire up on a high point there, and rolled her over.
06:20So, I get it back on its feet.
06:23You ready, Jordan?
06:26Let's put it in neutral.
06:29Just flip back over.
06:38Ooh, that's heavy.
06:42Try and gently drive forward.
06:45If I honk, stop.
06:50Go ahead and dump that pile right there.
06:55And don't go back that far anymore.
06:58Please and thank you.
07:00You know, it's just a lot of pressure being put on us here.
07:03Having to haul all this out by the end of the week here,
07:05and sometimes just ends up going sideways.
07:11Everybody's doing everything we can here.
07:13If we fall short on getting this ground sluice and sulfur,
07:16it'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.
07:23Gold prices sky high.
07:27There's no better time than getting gold in the box than today.
07:30We had a super fast start to the season, so right now all we've got to do is keep sluicing.
07:36King of the Klondike, Tony Beetz, is crushing it.
07:39He's been sluicing at his Indian River operation for five weeks,
07:44already banking 775 ounces of his 6,500-ounce target.
07:54The first lot right now in the Indian River is our only moneymaker.
07:58operation for five weeks, already banking 775 ounces of his 6,500-ounce target.
08:07The first lot right now in the Indian River is our only moneymaker, so we made
08:12to make sure we keep that going.
08:16Because of Mike, he had an emergency. We had to fly to Europe for a couple days.
08:21The lead man is gone, so to speak. I'm not happy because I need more people in
08:26charge. So, we're kind of making Jacob step up, see if we can mold him up a
08:32little bit. I've got to do it by myself.
08:38It feels good to be successful up here, helping him Tony. The task that Tony gets
08:46me to do every day puts out more trust and confidence in my work ethic and what
08:49I can do as a person. Heavy equipment operator Jacob Moore only joined the
08:55beats crew last season. Now, he has to step up to acting foreman and impress the king.
09:03He's put every trust that I never thought I would ever get up here. If you're honest and
09:07give it your all, then you get treated like one of them.
09:10Jacob, do you copy? Yeah, go ahead.
09:15Yeah, copy that.
09:19Oh, look at all the water in there. You can't dig pay on the water. You can't see what you're
09:25doing. We would leave too much gold behind.
09:28Look at all that water. That ain't gonna work.
09:36Oh, that's not good.
09:38No. You lay that pipe from here to there and that water shoots off. Make it pass. Bingo. Done.
09:46In an hour or so, I want to see the pump pumping. Okay? Sounds good, don't it?
09:52Last week, Tony tasked his crew with expanding the 13-acre early bird cut by a further nine acres.
10:03But now spring meltwater is flooding in, drowning the exposed gold-rich pay.
10:11Tony wants Jacob to bring in a submersible pump, connect it to a 400-foot-long pipe,
10:19and pump out the water to drain into a mined-out section of the cut,
10:25allowing his crew to get back to hauling pay.
10:30That was a lot of pressure, but I can handle it.
10:33We need to get what Tony wants done the way Tony wants it done.
10:37I do not want to be on Tony Beach's wrong side.
10:39Don't waste the time. Just get on with it.
10:43Jacob's first task? Move in the submersible pump.
10:47I mean, the longer it takes, the more water we're going to have to deal with.
10:51So the sooner we cure the problem, the better it is.
10:55But if you're going to have a foreman,
10:56you better be able to leave him alone to solve his own problems.
11:00Let's see if Jacob's got what it takes.
11:04I'm just going to move it over here,
11:05so we can get that pipe up.
11:06We're just going to get the pump set up and get this pipe drug into place,
11:17so we can get the water pumped out.
11:18I'm just going to move it.
11:24Wiggle it. Up.
11:36See if it'll tilt this way.
11:41Push up on it.
11:41It's starting to go.
11:45Oh, are you kidding me?
11:51Try that.
11:53Clips off the side are broken off,
11:54and it's all rusty on the inside,
11:56so you have to have a level and get both pins in.
11:58If they were kind of hurry the up, that would be kind of nice.
12:12It needs to go down more.
12:13Swing it back this way.
12:17These people have no idea how frustrating this is for me.
12:23Hey, see how the around?
12:25That idiot is clueless.
12:27Clueless.
12:27I want to see the pump pumping.
12:39It needs to go down more.
12:40Swing it back this way.
12:42At Indian River, Tony has tasked stand-in foreman Jacob Moore
12:48with draining the flooded early bird extension within an hour.
12:52Hey, see how the around?
12:55That idiot is clueless.
12:56But the king isn't impressed with how long it's taking.
13:01Jacob's time and Tony's patience are up.
13:05Okay, I'll take over.
13:06Might go do it myself.
13:08Jacob.
13:09Jacob.
13:09Okay, D6, hook it onto the pipe.
13:21We're going to drag the pipe in, pump all of them.
13:23It's that simple.
13:25When I do it, it usually way too quick.
13:29Hold it.
13:29Stay there.
13:30Andrew, do you copy?
13:32Bring the 349 over there.
13:37Get a chain on there.
13:41We'll grab it with the hole.
13:42We'll swing it in place, Andrew.
13:45It's okay, Andrew.
13:46Get it?
13:47Ready?
13:47Yeah.
13:48And then all we've got to do is hook it together.
13:53Drag it closer if you can.
13:56Okay, 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.
14:03This thing must be a little egg shape, 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.
14:19Okay.
14:21So there's going to beat the in there.
14:30Hey, dude, they're still trying to get
14:31hammered out of his truck.
14:33Oh, what the does it take?
14:36Hello?
14:38Give me a rock.
14:39No.
14:40Give me a rock.
14:41Nail that close.
14:43Yeah, I know, yeah.
14:47Good hit.
14:50Let's just slide in.
14:56You got it.
15:01Jacob.
15:02Too late for that.
15:03Fire the pump up.
15:08Finally, after Tony's intervention, the pump can start draining the flooded cut.
15:15They're just hooking up the wires, the fire of the pump.
15:17Good.
15:18Good to have a pump in there, draining all the water out of it.
15:32Yeah.
15:33Tony's not too impressed.
15:34He's definitely not always not pleased.
15:39Jacob's not impressive.
15:40As far as I'm concerned, everybody is replaceable.
15:43So there's a pretty simple deal down there.
15:45If you're too lazy to do it right, well, now you're going to have to do something about it.
15:50Well, we'll see.
16:02Just a bit more stress than I was really hoping for this year.
16:18We're all kind of hurting for our experienced crew.
16:20We're all kind of hurting for our experienced crew.
16:20Benen's not coming back.
16:22Caden's off to Parker's as well, kind of dropping like flies around here.
16:26Kevin Beat's second season as mine boss is off to a rocky start, having lost two key members from his skeleton crew.
16:37On a small crew, when people leave, you feel that 2,000-ounce gold seems a little further away now,
16:43but at least we're sluicing, so we're still able to be producing.
16:48We have a bit of pay stockpiled from the Lynx extension, but as soon as that runs out,
16:52we're really going to have to get material out of the pyramid cut.
16:56Kevin's crew has been sluicing stockpiled pay from last season for two weeks, delivering over 100 ounces.
17:07But with the pile fast running out, his crew of five have also been racing to open up new ground in the three-acre pyramid cut.
17:18It's nonstop for the trucks falling overburden.
17:22The 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, but it's what we've got to do to keep on going.
17:35We'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, Kevin'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. We'll see him when he shows up and hopefully that works out.
18:01Pretty decent winter, but I'm actually going for the first time in my life, swimming 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. It's kind of freaking nice. Gives me more of a reason to smile now.
18:26I wouldn't really say that I'm smiling more. I'm just a lot less self-conscious about it.
18:34But Buzz wasn't smiling last year after two seasons working for Rick Ness.
18:40Hey, Buzz, you got a copy?
18:42Their relationship, sour.
18:46Hey, Buzz!
18:50There's not a 100-person crew here. You're a guy on this crew.
18:52You're going to jump in where the you fit in or you're going to go home.
18:55If you don't want to work with me, then you all go.
19:01Last season, everything that went down is still kind of a hard punch.
19:05You know, it puts me and Rick are a lot closer than that.
19:09Time for new things.
19:11I just got a phone call from Kevin and Faith there.
19:15Looking for some good hands this season, so you can check them out.
19:22All right, here we are.
19:31Hey guys, how's it going?
19:33Not too bad. Howdy, 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. All I can do is keep on smiling.
19:47Thanks for coming to meet us, Buzz. We do appreciate you showing up.
19:50Though we do get to ask, I know you're the foreman at Rick's last year,
19:54and clearly you're not going back there. What's happening?
19:57There's uncertainties over there with his water license and everything.
20:01Yeah, life has changed for me.
20:07I need a little more stability in life.
20:11Well, this year I have a little baby on the way, so...
20:14Congratulations.
20:15Yes.
20:16We're down a foreman. Is that something you might be interested in or...
20:20Yeah, no. Maybe on the way and whatnot. I don't think that would be a good position for it.
20:26Well, I think we kind of need more of a jack-of-all-trades more than anything else.
20:34From what I've gathered, you know how to run equipment, you know how to fix things,
20:38and you can also weld a little bit.
20:39Yeah.
20:40This might work.
20:43I could be your buzz of all trades.
20:49It all sounds good to you. I'm welcome aboard.
20:53Perfect.
20:54Sounds great. Thank you guys.
20:56Oh, let's get to work.
21:00That went pretty well, you know, working with Kevin and Faith this season.
21:05Seemed like a pretty good couple, so excited to see where this goes.
21:10As much as I would like to have all of the focus on Dominion, that's just not really a feasible option.
21:29There are projects that absolutely have to happen this year, and that is sulfur, so we just have to get them done.
21:40And sulfur, we're just about ready for the plant to move.
21:45We're going to get rock sand. Parker's trying to give us the best of the best for what we have to do here.
21:51At Sulfur Creek, Brennan and Mitch have identified what they believe are gold hotspots and stockpiled the pay dirt.
21:59Now, it's finally time to start sluicing.
22:04Well, we're ready to haul rock sand down to sulfur, so we're going to go build some wash plant.
22:13You know, early in the season like this, the roads are in the worst shape of the whole year.
22:17Oh, come on, baby. Come on, come on.
22:22This is the sketchiest thing we have done in a long time.
22:26We got soft roads, wash plant that's top-heavy, and we're in a rush.
22:31The 25 miles of dirt road from Dominion to Sulfur is closed all winter.
22:38Opened just six weeks ago, it is still thawing out.
22:43Oh, you almost hit that tree.
22:48Rock sand is big and robust, and we throw rocks at it all day long, but we're clipping the trees.
22:55And all it's going to take is grabbing onto some wiring or a hose,
22:59and we're going to have a wash plant that'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.
23:12Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
23:24Oh, there went our internet.
23:26Our wash plants have internet on them, which is very handy.
23:29This one now does not.
23:32We're too remote here to have the radios reach back to camp.
23:36We are going to need a new dish here.
23:42All right, we got rock sand where it needs to live.
23:47We're going to run by and grab a sluice run and start putting this thing together.
23:51There we have it.
23:55We're going to build a little pad and pull this thing off as quick as we can.
23:58We just got to get her off in one piece standing up straight.
24:01I like it. Looks good.
24:10Next, Mitch collects the plant's sluice runs from Dominion.
24:14The purpose of the sluice runs being wide is if you put more through the wash plant faster.
24:20The problem with that is when you've got to move it.
24:23You can see I'm having to drive down the middle of the road.
24:30If something's driving the other way, we're going to be in trouble.
24:33Last thing we're going to be doing is backing up on these roads, Miles.
24:39Just got to slow down here.
24:43So narrow here, and these trees are big.
24:46And this thing is clipping things on the sides.
24:48I can hear the branches breaking behind us here.
24:53We are just threading a needle right now.
25:09Oh, we got something coming off the back there.
25:12Now these roads are so rough, this trailer's vibrating so much.
25:19We're not stopping on the middle of these hills.
25:20We'll have to go back and get it.
25:26Jacob, you got a copy?
25:27Yeah, go ahead.
25:30Jacob, we are missing some of the iron and some of the carpets.
25:33See what all you can find.
25:44Load all these guys up.
25:45Don't have to go that far.
25:46Get 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.
26:06Well, man, we're looking pretty good here.
26:08What do you say we bring in the next piece of the puzzle?
26:10Yeah, yeah, we got clearance here.
26:25Right now we got our hopper feeder and the conveyor in place.
26:29The plants level, the sluice runs are set.
26:31So we just got to hook up our water line here and we're going to be ready to start sluicing.
26:35Here we go.
26:39We got rock sand firing up right now.
26:46This is our first scoop going in here.
26:48And we got three wash plants up and running.
26:50What's up?
26:55How are we?
26:56Looking good.
26:57Nice job making that work in time.
27:00I was like, there's no way this is going to work.
27:03I mean, dude, it came together pretty nice.
27:05Good job.
27:06This project was supposed to be a thousand feet.
27:08Now it's 2,000 feet.
27:10There's more to go.
27:11Yeah.
27:113,000.
27:13Spore!
27:31Jacob could, of course, hurry it up a little bit, but then it's never fast enough.
27:36But because of Mike, the way it ain't even.
27:38He's got to keep that sluice box going all week.
27:42I don't care if that is at 6 in the morning or 12 o'clock at night.
27:46But get the over there and make it run.
27:48At Indian River, with cousin Mike still away, Tony has no choice but to give stand-in foreman
27:57Jacob Moore a second chance to step up.
28:01I do have worries for what Tony will think.
28:04I want to show him that I can make decisions and do stuff on my own without his need to be there
28:09and oversee everything.
28:17This big boy is Tony, a money maker, so the pressure is on to get him going.
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.
28:37The watchman really doesn't sound good.
28:40Something's definitely wrong in there.
28:43Shouldn't be any sound like this.
28:50Jacob, you can pick it, Jacob.
28:51I think I'm going to shut down the watchman.
28:53I heard a big, loud noise in there.
29:17Noise 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 plant,
29:30Sluice-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.
29:44Hopefully nothing's broken.
29:45Ah, there's our issue.
29:50Everything is cracked.
29:52That is not good.
29:54We can't run this at all.
29:56This plant will just shake itself in the little itty-bitty bits out the tailings.
30:00Lucky that we caught it when we did before I cut too bad.
30:05Slide lifted up so we can get the shoot out because the shoot is cracked as well.
30:10I'll 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.
30:20This is heavy.
30:21There's a problem.
30:23The bolt rattled out and caused it to get violent and crack.
30:27Yeah, we're going to take the welders down here.
30:29Slusalot's shaker deck has two screens that separate waste rocks from gold-rich pay dirt.
30:38The waste rocks move towards a tailings chute that funnels them onto a conveyor and ejects them 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.
31:00Jacob plans to weld the cracks, replace the old chute, bolt it back into place,
31:07and get the wash plant up and sluicing again.
31:13Where do you want it at to weld?
31:14Like, right here, it looks perfect.
31:15I noticed this crack here, another crack here, and here as well.
31:21A couple of seconds, man, could have been a big change in what we're doing today.
31:24Yeah, you're lucky.
31:25Because I'm going to actually do an inside weld first, because then when I grind, oh, there's my weld,
31:30I'll get 100% out of it.
31:37JB is still working on the crack.
31:43Just doing the last weld here.
31:52All done.
31:54The teeth has the cracks all done on the plant.
31:57We've been down for four hours now.
32:01We're going to put this chute on.
32:02We've got the cracks walled up on it.
32:04Now it's going to get back in place.
32:07Mason's up there putting the bolts in for me.
32:09Down here, I'll come give you a hand.
32:14Getting there, buddy.
32:21Yeah, that's the last bolt.
32:22I'll just tighten them up and get good to go.
32:26Yeah, go ahead.
32:26Tony just called.
32:28He wants to know if we are sleuthing.
32:30We will be here in like 20 minutes, half hour talk.
32:33Fire of action.
32:37You're all done up there?
32:38Yes, sir.
32:41Tony'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.
32:48I'm going to hop in the hole if you want to fire everything up for me.
32:56It looks good now.
33:06We can sort out a problem without Tony being here.
33:08I think it looks good on Jacob as well.
33:10We're sleuthing.
33:11We're making money and that means everybody's happy.
33:15Everything went very well.
33:16Everything was fixed in a timely manner.
33:17We're back in action and hopefully we're good from here on out.
33:21Hello, what's up?
33:28Oh, the plant was all cracked.
33:30We got it all welded up and the back's loose.
33:32Nothing's good.
33:33Still washing rocks.
33:35Awesome, Jacob.
33:35Good job, man.
33:36Yeah, take care, Tony.
33:37Great to be back sleuthing.
33:38Yeah, see you later.
33:39Okay, thank you.
33:43He was down a couple hours, but I would have been down a couple hours too.
33:46You can only weld so fast, so no, it's all good.
33:51I think Jacob, he's got what it takes.
33:54When cousin Mike is in the air, I mean there's Jacob that automatically takes over.
33:58It's not rocket science.
34:04Since we're done on the floor here, we are moving the plant to a new location on the wayside over there.
34:15Three miles away at Scribner Creek, Tony's eldest son, Kevin, has run out of stockpiled pay
34:23and is preparing for the biggest plant move of his fledgling career.
34:28We're going to have so much space for our fine tailings and our coarse tailings.
34:31Down here, we only had 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.
34:42Kevin wants to haul his 35-ton wash plant from its current pad at the links cut with an excavator,
34:50down a 20-degree slope, maneuver 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,
35:13we'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.
35:19Now we just got to make it happen.
35:20I would like to get everything up and running.
35:26Not to Russia, but we're trying to Russia.
35:29Kevin puts new recruit, Buzz, straight into the hot seat.
35:33All right.
35:38This is going to be one of the first big projects Buzz is going to do for us since he came on site,
35:41so we've got high expectations and high hopes.
35:48Turn on the cables, and then let's get ready.
35:52We're going to hook up the plant and drag that into position.
35:57Definitely don't want to flip that plant over.
36:00That'll be a season-ender for sure.
36:09Faith, 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.
36:18All right. Everything's hooked up.
36:19I guess it's time to pull Buzz.
36:21We'll have the rest of us spotters, but just be careful.
36:24Let's go.
36:30We have movement.
36:32This will be a good test of Buzz's upper-weighted skills.
36:35I'm just watching that our runs are not scraping on the ground at the end.
36:51If they're too close, they'll rub on the ground, and they might rip off.
36:53Leading to a lot of your tire work, so...
36:57close.
36:58close.
37:02We're just scraping them right now.
37:05Oh, man.
37:09This is equal to work.
37:11Stop. Stop.
37:12Don't try and lift it up like that.
37:17Let the tension off the cable.
37:19We're raising the sluice around so they don't drag on the ground.
37:23Case in point.
37:27We pay three quarters of a million dollars for the wash plant,
37:30so we really don't want to it.
37:33Chutes lifted up.
37:34We shouldn't have any other problems for the pool.
37:36We've got some weight on this plant here.
37:43Partions digging in a little bit.
37:46Making it a little bit difficult for the excavator to move.
37:51Now we pull it up the hill until its final resting spot,
37:55hopefully for the season.
38:06Oh, no, it's flipping.
38:11Yep. Stop. Stop.
38:14That's not going to work.
38:15Your ass ends already off the ground.
38:18I don't think it's going to do it.
38:22I guess the wash plant might be a bit too heavy with the angle and the hill.
38:27We'll get something with twice the weight.
38:29Four times the power.
38:31All righty.
38:32We'll bring that D10 over here.
38:33See you play.
38:36The 63-ton D10 dozer is 10 tons heavier than the 480 excavator
38:44and has three times the pulling power.
38:47Let's get the dozer lined up and, well, that's going to move it, guaranteed.
38:51Well, let's make her happy, eh?
38:53Better.
38:57Everybody got communication?
38:59Your services ready?
39:04Yeah, we got...
39:06100 tons of you.
39:08We're going somewhere.
39:11Well, we'll get the hard part taken care of.
39:15Working here with Cameron, it'll get to be a lot more diversified in those places.
39:20It's been kind of nice, you know.
39:25These are our final steps here.
39:29Stop. Perfect.
39:30Going up the hill nice.
39:33Oh, yeah.
39:35Good job, Buzz.
39:37Didn't even have to break a sweat.
39:38Step one, done.
39:40Now that it's all in place, the next thing is to do a bit of repairs and take a bit of extra time.
39:45We shouldn't have to move this year or next year.
39:48We have so much space for tailings, and that way this summer we can just run, run, run.
39:54I am very happy with that.
39:55Oh, yeah.
39:56Yeah.
40:04So 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?
40:20Right?
40:22I enjoy this kind of .
40:26So what?
40:39Hi, guys.
40:40Hello.
40:40Hello.
40:41Hey, guys.
40:41Bring some more gold.
40:42Whoa.
40:44Whoa.
40:45So what is new in the Indian River?
40:48Jacob had to step up.
40:49We had the cut that was flooded, so we had to f*** around with that.
40:53Pump, pump, pump, pump.
40:54And then we had the screen there, got some cracks in it.
40:57With cousin Mike away, stand-in foreman Jacob ran Tony's only producing wash plant, Sluice-A-Lot.
41:06So how many days?
41:07We sluiced for seven days.
41:09Minus the couple of hours that you were down, so it's not a full week.
41:13Sluice-A-Lot has been averaging 192 ounces a week.
41:19We're in there, let's go.
41:2510, 40, 80, under 10, under 10, 60, 230, 250, 250, 250 ounces, .74.
41:40Worth $878,000.
41:44That's not bad.
41:46No, it's f*** going on with it.
41:47Only days.
41:48Hey, does that put us over 1,000 ounces?
41:50Yeah, 1,025.
41:52So it's kind of nice that we got Jacob up and going, because now that Mike isn't there,
41:56it's nice to have.
41:57Mm-hmm.
41:57It seems to be doing pretty well, yeah.
41:59Yeah.
42:00It should be stepping up.
42:01It's good to see, absolutely.
42:02With that being said, you should pack it back up and go do what you all do best.
42:07Okay, we'll see you guys later.
42:08Later, guys.
42:10That adds up nicely this early in the season, doesn't it?
42:13Yeah, it doesn't take much, eh?
42:14No.
42:15And with the gold prize of this, it's a lot of money.
42:18Usually, when this time of year, we just get started.
42:25Three miles east, at Scribner, it's the end of Buzz's first week with Kevin and Faith.
42:32How are you fitting in so far?
42:34Well, I don't know.
42:34You guys tell me.
42:37Been kicking off a lot of projects pretty quick, seeing problems in fixing them,
42:41so I think overall, fitting in pretty good.
42:43I'm curious.
42:43How is it compared to working with Rick?
42:46Very different.
42:47Very different?
42:48Very different.
42:49How different?
42:50Very different.
42:51Just different.
42:54Well, that's good to hear, Buzz, because with Caden and Brennan leaving,
42:57I was starting to worry that we were doing something wrong and just didn't know.
43:03This is the last of our piggy bank cut, so we have a little bit of gold to weigh.
43:08Not bad looking amount.
43:10Not too bad.
43:11It's time to weigh the last of Kevin's stockpiled pay.
43:15Kevin ran for three days before moving the wash plant.
43:20One for the money, two for the show.
43:22Let's go.
43:23It's 10, 18, 26, 38, 47, 28, 50, 56.590.
43:39It's pretty good.
43:40Yeah, that's not too bad.
43:42Worth?
43:43A hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars.
43:46It's encouraging for everything else we're going to run.
43:49That'll definitely lose 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.
43:57So a wild ways to the 2,000 ounces.
44:00A little ways to go.
44:01I mean, of course, we want to get sluicing 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 sluicing the pyramid cut,
44:14see what treasures it's got.
44:15It's not running.
44:16We're not getting any gold, so.
44:17Yeah, that's right.
44:18Unfortunately, the plant stops, but the bills don't.
44:32Having internet on the trucks this year is like a lifesaver.
44:35Except 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,
44:40and you don't answer.
44:40And I'm like, where is this ?
44:47It's that look right there.
44:48I had a dream last night.
44:49It's tell a bitch.
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.
44:55His cheek was like touching my, his stubble was rubbing my face.
44:58He 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.
45:08You know, what's it like working for Parker?
45:09Well, there's the dreams and the PTSD, but other than that, it's great.
45:15Three wash plants up and running.
45:17It's Parker's first triple gold way of the season.
45:21KT, you ready?
45:23Yeah.
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.
45:33Here we go.
45:3520, 60, 80, 120, 140, 180.
45:41We're going to break two, 200, 210, 220, 222.3.
45:49Worth $778,000.
45:53Sick.
45:54That is nice.
45:56Anyway, we got Mr. Bob.
45:58Come on, Brennan.
45:59The bridge cut is averaging 150 ounces a week.
46:0320, 40, 80, 90, 130, 40, 170.
46:12Oh, yeah.
46:13190.4.
46:15Worth $666,000.
46:19Sick.
46:20Nice.
46:21Finally, Parker will discover if his gamble to chase gold left behind by the old timers at
46:28Sulfur will pay out.
46:30We got to do Sulfur, Mitch.
46:32We need it.
46:32We've been spending money like it's going out of style.
46:35First run of Sulfur here.
46:37We got 20, 40, 90, 110, 114.8.
46:50That's actually really good for the hours you ran.
46:53Yeah, I mean, we just got the plant set up.
46:54Yeah.
46:55And that material was like the first cut off.
46:58Oh, I thought it was going to be terrible.
47:00I thought you were going to have like 20 ounces.
47:02Wow.
47:02That's a lot of gold for one week.
47:04Yeah.
47:04Yeah.
47:05Yeah.
47:05We had a really good week.
47:07Well, we had it for this week.
47:08It was 527 and a half ounces for the week.
47:12Dang.
47:13Yeah.
47:15Worth 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.
47:29Nice.
47:30All right.
47:31Thanks, guys.
47:32Keep it up.
47:33Let's get back out there, man.
47:34Let's do it.
47:35Yeah.
47:35Good job, boys.
47:37It'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.
47:46It's pretty sweet.
47:47We're going to do some serious damage this year.
47:51Bosco!
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