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Yukon Gold Between a Rock and a Hard Place FULL EPISODE Sn 2 Ep 6 Lionsgate TV
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00:00Guaranteed we'll see more gold.
00:02Yeah.
00:04Guillaume, tell him he has to be under a minute.
00:06What?
00:08Ken pushes his crew hard.
00:10I see misery coming our way.
00:12There's no f***ing water! Guillaume!
00:15Oh, Lord.
00:16There's no colour in the box.
00:18And Cam makes a tough decision.
00:20I didn't come here to go deep in the hole.
00:22F*** my life.
00:24Business is business. Bottom dollar's what counts.
00:30Wicked. Money don't grow our trees.
00:33We got bills to pay.
00:35We got mouths to feed.
00:36There ain't nothing in this world for free.
00:39I know we can't slow down.
00:41We can't hold back though.
00:43You know we wish we could.
00:46I know there ain't no rest for the wicked.
00:49Until we close our eyes for good.
01:00Holy f***.
01:00Look at the size of rock they put through there.
01:03What?
01:05It didn't go through the flat.
01:07It had to have.
01:08It's in the tailing pile.
01:10On Moose Creek, Ken Foy is on rocky ground.
01:13We're behind.
01:18We have maybe six weeks of sluice and left.
01:21And that's pushing it.
01:23Ken's only mined 356 ounces of gold this year.
01:27He's after a thousand ounces.
01:29Worth more than 1.3 million dollars.
01:33It's crunch time.
01:34We need to find some gold.
01:35Going into the last six weeks,
01:37we pretty much need 100 ounces a week to hit our target.
01:41We haven't even come close to that.
01:42Ken's crew has to pick up the pace.
01:51Guillaume, what's his time?
01:56Tell him he has to be under a minute.
02:00Under a minute?
02:01That's only a two-yard bucket.
02:04Ken's looking for better cycle times,
02:06feeding a bucket of paydirt into the beast every 60 seconds.
02:09He should be like 30 seconds just over the hopper alone,
02:14like maximum.
02:16Yeah, we can tell him to go faster.
02:18I think the stress is more than ever on Kenny.
02:23Time is running out.
02:26I see misery coming our way.
02:28There are risks to pushing the crew.
02:31The rocky pay could damage the plant
02:33if it's not fed into the hopper carefully.
02:35This is some of the rockiest stuff
02:37that I've had to put through the plant
02:39in the last two years.
02:47Oh, .
02:47You're kidding me.
02:57What the ?
02:58A boulder on the conveyor stops it dead.
03:03What a mess this is.
03:06It seems to be a big rock somehow fell out of my bucket
03:10and it made it this far up the conveyor.
03:13That's a big , right?
03:16Yeah.
03:17It's a biggie.
03:18You know, small breakdown, big breakdowns,
03:20they're breakdowns.
03:21You know, they're costing us money.
03:22Watch yourself.
03:28All right.
03:29Let me see the top here.
03:30I hope she'll move back right away.
03:32Here it goes.
03:34Holy shit.
03:36Okay.
03:39A little more.
03:40There we go.
03:41Okay.
03:42Forward.
03:45Guillaume and Matt fix the problem.
03:48We're good.
03:57But Ken is more anxious than ever
03:59about reaching his goal.
04:01We're late in the season
04:02and we're falling further and further behind.
04:08Oh, late, .
04:09We just hope we can keep our average up
04:13in the last month and a half here.
04:15We're going to shut the plan down.
04:33On Sulphur Creek, second-generation miner Carl Knudsen
04:37is about to get a game-changing piece of equipment.
04:40Carl?
04:41Yeah.
04:43Out of my way.
04:45Just plowing our own way in here.
04:48Yay!
04:49Dad, Marty, brings the belt feeder he built,
04:52a massive add-on to push more pay dirt
04:54through the sluice plant.
04:56When we get the feeder out there,
04:58Carl needs to really put the hump on.
05:00Carl's been using an excavator
05:02to shovel pay into the plant.
05:03The feeder will speed things up.
05:07We can cram 200 yards an hour through there.
05:09We'll be able to just power through it.
05:12Go, go, go, go, go.
05:13With a nice, steady feed,
05:15more material going through,
05:16guaranteed we'll see more gold.
05:18Ten weeks into the 16-week season,
05:20Carl has only mined 388 ounces of gold.
05:24He's aiming for 1,000 ounces.
05:26I want to reach that goal.
05:29All I got to do is put in my time,
05:32and I should be able to get 1,000 ounces.
05:34The new feeder should make a difference.
05:37Yeah, pretty much that.
05:41Woo-hoo!
05:41We made it!
05:43But just moving the 30-ton contraption
05:45off the flatbed truck is a challenge.
05:48Hitting it off is going to be just brutal.
05:53When we put it on,
05:54the thing was so heavy it broke the deck.
05:57I freaking feel tippy as all.
06:02Push, Carl.
06:03Push, push.
06:08Nice and gentle.
06:09That's a lot of weight on just those two tires.
06:12Carl, hup, hup.
06:13We're off those plates.
06:14We'll move those plates now.
06:16They build a makeshift bridge
06:18to get the feeder onto solid ground.
06:21Okay, there we go.
06:22That's as far as we need to go.
06:24Phew!
06:28Here we're going.
06:29Get off my T1.
06:30Don't bend that shit.
06:35There she be.
06:37Woo-hoo!
06:38Now, Carl and Marty have to connect
06:40the feeder to the sluice plant.
06:46Looks good.
06:51Ready?
06:51Yeah.
06:52The feeder's here.
06:54It's here.
06:55The sluice!
06:57I'd like to see it run some material
07:10as soon as it runs great
07:12for half a day or whatever.
07:15Double shift that.
07:16Carl needs to keep that dirt
07:18going to the plant
07:19as many hours as they can.
07:21Keep it rolling.
07:22Sluice, sluice, sluice.
07:24But the feeder is untested.
07:26If it doesn't run right,
07:27it could be more trouble
07:28than it's worth.
07:29The potential to break down
07:31and not get the right amount
07:33of feed that we want out of it,
07:34that's the gamble.
07:36Look at this little gold factory, eh?
07:39Sweet!
07:40Woo-hoo!
07:41That's good!
07:41Ha-ha!
07:42Straight on!
07:43Yeah!
07:51On remote 10-mile creek...
07:53Oh, yeah.
07:55We need a payday.
07:56Alberta farmer-turned-miner
07:58Cam Johnson checks in on Edgecut,
08:00the second of his two claims.
08:03So, strip that, rip that,
08:05we'll be good to go.
08:06Yeah.
08:07Cam's brother-in-law, Dennis,
08:09runs Edgecut.
08:10But 10 weeks into the season,
08:12he's fighting tough bedrock
08:13beneath the water's surface.
08:15We got through our first layer,
08:16but then we hit permafrost.
08:18So, this ground has been frozen
08:20for many years.
08:22There is gold there,
08:23but we're ripping teeth
08:24off our buckets,
08:25breaking pins.
08:27Cam's running out of time
08:28to get a total of 450 ounces
08:30from his two mines this season.
08:33Ah!
08:33The frozen bedrock at Edgecut
08:37refuses to give up the gold.
08:40The bedrock right now
08:41is really, really fractured
08:43and really, really hard.
08:47Me and Cam,
08:48we come up here with limited funds,
08:50big dreams, big hopes.
08:52We're not on the gold
08:53that we anticipated.
08:54We're not on the gold
08:55that we panned.
08:56Dennis searches for a spot
08:58where the permafrost
08:59isn't as bad.
09:00Scratching the bedrock, baby!
09:07She's hard!
09:12Very hard!
09:25Always something!
09:27Every day, something!
09:30She's shaking.
09:32The sluice plant's bump
09:33is shaking wildly.
09:37Oh, Lord.
09:40What the f***?
09:45There's always a little vibration,
09:47but nothing like this.
09:50The plant,
09:51the hydraulic pump
09:51went down on her.
09:52We've got to come up
09:53with some ideas.
09:54If Cam and Dennis
09:55can't fix it,
09:57they won't be able to sluice.
09:58Pull this cap apart
10:00and have a look.
10:07Oh, yeah, that's the problem.
10:09That key will throw
10:10that thing all the s***.
10:12And that's not good.
10:14The extra vibration
10:16is due to this key weight
10:18and it's doing this.
10:20And with that,
10:21at 10,000 RPM,
10:22it's not good.
10:23Yeah, no,
10:23we don't want to put that in again.
10:25We're taking the challenges
10:27as they come
10:28and we're fixing the problems
10:29as they come
10:29and we're trying to absorb
10:30the stress the best we can.
10:32You got her.
10:33Some days,
10:34it's almost too much to handle.
10:36I don't give up.
10:37I can't give up.
10:37No, I don't either.
10:39They put the pump
10:40back together.
10:43Are we go for test?
10:44Let's go, brother.
10:45Dennis.
10:46It's like that, bitches.
10:52The vibration is minimal now
10:55versus the extreme before.
10:58God, like,
10:58you couldn't even read this.
11:03We're going solution.
11:06All we've got to do
11:07is feed the monster now.
11:08It's a race here
11:15against time
11:16and so you just do
11:17the best you can
11:18and try and beat it.
11:28Hey, Matt.
11:29So do you have
11:30a good headlap
11:31for tonight?
11:32Oh, no, I don't.
11:33I had one in my trailer.
11:35I didn't even think about it.
11:368 p.m. on Moose Creek.
11:38Ken sluices around the clock.
11:40We're down on our sluicing
11:42and need to utilize
11:44every hour we have left
11:45to try to get
11:46every flake we can.
11:47Top hand Matt
11:48draws the night shift.
11:50All right.
11:52Tonight is my first
11:53night shift this season.
11:55Rock and roll.
11:56The endless daylight
11:57of summer is gone.
11:59It will be dark
12:00in a few hours.
12:01Matt, everything else
12:03is ready.
12:03You can fire up.
12:04Matt has 800 cubic yards
12:06of pater to sluice
12:08before morning.
12:12Hopefully we have
12:13enough dirt.
12:26But as Matt
12:27starts his shift...
12:28You guys!
12:30Theo!
12:31There's no water!
12:33What's the...
12:35Matt!
12:36Oh, man,
12:37where's the water?
12:39For sakes!
12:41You guys!
12:42Theo!
12:43There's no water!
12:46What's the...
12:47Matt!
12:48Water shortage
12:49on Moose Creek.
12:50Oh, man,
12:51where's the water?
12:53For sakes!
12:54You're both standing there
12:55and there's no water!
12:56Ken's pump just quit.
12:59He can't sluice without it.
13:03Oh, f***!
13:04The pump fell off
13:06the jack holding it up,
13:07yanking the intake pipe
13:09out of the water.
13:11What's your plan?
13:13Have Matt take me
13:14out there in the bucket.
13:16Breakdowns are our worst enemy,
13:18keeping us from getting gold.
13:20Right from the start to finish,
13:22we need to sluice, sluice, sluice.
13:23Ken clears debris
13:25from the intake.
13:38That's it.
13:39Good to go.
13:40They build a base
13:41out of rocks
13:42to hold up the pump.
13:44At least it's an easy
13:45cheek fix.
13:50I don't know.
13:50It's pretty solid, actually.
13:52The stack of rocks
13:53is more stable
13:54than the thin jack.
14:03We're sluicing again.
14:06Matt is on his own now.
14:09Matt restarts his shift
14:10to sluice through the night.
14:14Bye-bye, Matsky.
14:16Hopefully, a bunch of gold
14:18in the box in the morning.
14:19Keep hoping.
14:20That's all we can do.
14:26On Sulphur Creek,
14:28it's the end of day one
14:32of sluicing with the new feeder.
14:34We're good.
14:35But there's a problem.
14:50Completely blew that roller
14:52right out.
14:53It's not supposed
14:54to be like that.
14:56Carl and Marty
14:57waste no time
14:58getting to the fix.
15:00Okay, towards you.
15:01Oh, dirty dog.
15:06Things break down.
15:08And you've got to know
15:09how to deal with it
15:10on the spot.
15:12Carl grabs
15:13a replacement roller.
15:15Stick it through the hole.
15:17Come back.
15:19Here.
15:21That.
15:22Voila!
15:23My old man.
15:24He's 50-something years old
15:26and he's still putting in
15:2714, 15-hour days
15:29every day.
15:31He's just
15:31one of the hardest workers
15:33I've ever seen.
15:35I mean,
15:36it's not rocket science
15:37or anything.
15:37We all get up,
15:38go to work,
15:40and get up
15:40and do it again
15:41the next day.
15:41It's just what you do.
15:43Okay.
15:44With pay
15:48piling up.
15:49Want to get the loader
15:50going and chuck
15:51some dirt in there?
15:52Sure.
15:53They're ready
15:53to get the feeder
15:54back up and running.
15:59Turn that on.
16:04Get out of the way,
16:05Lenny.
16:07Here it comes.
16:08The new roller's working.
16:10Looks good.
16:12And they're sluicing again.
16:14Having more control
16:15of the material
16:16that goes through the plant,
16:17it just gets a better
16:18recovery for gold.
16:20You never know
16:20how you're going to
16:21hit that mother load.
16:31We're going sluicing.
16:33I mean,
16:33that's what we're here for.
16:34At Edgecutt
16:35on 10 Mile Creek.
16:37It is crunch time.
16:38We're down to six weeks.
16:40We've got to get her out
16:41and get her now.
16:42Dennis tries a new weapon
16:44in his battle
16:44with frozen bedrock.
16:46The ground is so hard
16:47that tie your teeth
16:48kind of act like
16:49little mini rippers.
16:51I've got to try everything.
16:54Hopefully that helps
16:54a little bit.
16:56Ten weeks into the season,
16:57Dennis hasn't managed
16:58to scrape up enough gold
17:00to cover his expenses.
17:02I need anything
17:03I can get right now.
17:04I've got some pretty big bills
17:06to pay.
17:06I'm running out of time.
17:08Mine hand Chase arrives
17:10for his 12-hour night shift.
17:13If we had time on our side,
17:15which we do not have,
17:16I would take the more
17:17cautious approach.
17:19So Dennis is going for broke.
17:21Personally,
17:22my gut is telling me
17:23our old run
17:24coming down out of the hills
17:25is right here.
17:26And it deposited a shitload
17:27of material down here.
17:29I'm hoping.
17:31Yeah.
17:31We were absolutely
17:32not prepared to run
17:33into the permafrost.
17:34But I'm going to give it
17:36120%.
17:37I don't pull the gold.
17:39I don't pull the gold.
17:39It won't be from a lack of trying.
17:41Little chat soon.
17:43It's a gamble.
17:44It could make or break a guy.
17:47Ready to fire up,
17:48ready to sluice.
17:49From what I can feel so far,
18:06I'm about to get into
18:07a little bit of a tight spot.
18:09Hopefully I can break up
18:10that bedrock overnight.
18:11But we'll see.
18:13It looks like it's going
18:14to be a battle for me.
18:196 a.m.
18:23on Moose Creek.
18:25Last I was Matthew's
18:26first night, Chef.
18:28I guess we're going to
18:29head down there
18:29and see what's left of him.
18:32Top hand Matt
18:33sluiced through the night.
18:36Let's go.
18:38How was your first night?
18:40You all right, man.
18:41I never had any problems
18:42with anything.
18:46No problem with the belt,
18:48trouble,
18:48everything was pretty good.
18:49Everything was good.
18:50Everything worked.
18:51Everything was good
18:52for me all night.
18:53Right on.
18:59Right now,
18:59it's working well.
19:00Go on and roll.
19:01Let it roll.
19:03Matt heads off
19:03to get some sleep.
19:05Mine hand Martin
19:06takes the hot seat.
19:11Holy f***.
19:12It really hurts me
19:13to watch that.
19:14He's not dumping that fast.
19:16What is his times?
19:17He's not dumping fast enough
19:20to him?
19:20Oh, f*** no.
19:21I've been trying to hammer
19:22it through Guillaume's mind,
19:24stop for five seconds
19:25and measure the guy's time.
19:28Martin is definitely
19:29the slower pace guy.
19:31We need to put the stuff
19:32through way faster.
19:35Martin picks up the pace,
19:37sending more Rocky Pater
19:38through the plan.
19:39chaos on Moose Creek.
19:57F*** me.
19:59What happened?
20:01I got like a big f*** rock jam
20:03and there's a hole
20:04about that big
20:05in the trommel.
20:06Holy s***.
20:08The big rocks
20:09tore a hole
20:10in the trommel,
20:10dumping an avalanche
20:11of tailings
20:12all over the runs,
20:14burying any gold
20:15underneath.
20:17F***ing thing.
20:17Makes me just
20:21cringe.
20:23Especially when
20:24there was gold
20:24in the box.
20:26Guillaume inspects
20:27the damage
20:27to the trommel.
20:30If the cannon
20:31keeps losing now,
20:32we're going to have
20:32to fix it now.
20:37There's a few plates
20:38at the end of the drums
20:39that came right off.
20:41S***.
20:41so it allows
20:42the rock
20:43to go through.
20:45Bunch of gaps
20:46and s***.
20:48Guillaume quickly
20:48welds the repair
20:49in the trommel.
20:51Is that good enough?
20:52Let's get sluicing!
21:01But this latest setback
21:03still costs Ken
21:04valuable sluicing time.
21:06We're down
21:07to the last six weeks
21:08and I see the target
21:11getting further
21:12and further away.
21:13You had to say
21:14something, eh, today?
21:15Did I say anything?
21:17Oh, you said,
21:17man, we've actually
21:18been sluicing really
21:19steady the last few days.
21:21Did I say that?
21:22You did say that.
21:23I don't recall.
21:23I'm sorry for cheering up.
21:26They can be happy,
21:26just don't say
21:27nothing about it.
21:28On 10 Mile Creek,
21:44Chase spent the night
21:47sluicing at Edgecutt.
21:48Last night I got on
21:50in about 325 yards.
21:53Bedrock slowed me down
21:53last night too.
21:54The tiger teeth
21:56didn't help.
21:57The less buckets
21:57we get, the less yards
21:59we get through
21:59and the less amount
22:00of gold we can get through.
22:01Dennis arrives at the mine.
22:04Permafrost at bedrock level
22:05is blocking him
22:06from getting to the gold.
22:08All boils down to the gold.
22:10We have everything in place
22:11but not.
22:13You know, losing sleep over it.
22:20No gold.
22:22Holy kick in the nuts.
22:24Well, I was hoping
22:24to see better color, buddy.
22:26It's not panning out.
22:28No.
22:29It may hit, but...
22:31Yeah, disappointed.
22:32But I'm not giving up hope.
22:34We really need to put
22:35the big girl panties on
22:36and suck her up
22:37and get her done.
22:38We are way behind now.
22:40If I can't pay my bills
22:41not enough gold.
22:49Dennis heads to camp.
22:57Where mine boss
22:59and brother-in-law Cam
23:00jigs gold from Donovan Cut.
23:02His other claim.
23:04I have two gold mines
23:05that both have to produce gold
23:07and, you know, ultimately
23:08I stand holding the bag.
23:11You made her.
23:12That goes the better, huh?
23:16How's everything going?
23:17Good.
23:18I'm pretty happy.
23:19Can I look?
23:20Yeah.
23:21Those are almost nuggets.
23:22Well, there is a bunch of nuggets.
23:25You know what it's like
23:26when you do the nugget picking thing?
23:28No.
23:29I haven't had that pleasure yet.
23:31Yeah.
23:31My turn's coming, though.
23:32How much was there?
23:34There was nothing there.
23:36No gold.
23:37Okay.
23:39Cam's getting good gold
23:40from the Donovan site,
23:41but Edge Cut is looking like a bust.
23:45I'd like to see a big payday, though.
23:48Yeah.
23:48I feel bad for Dennis,
23:51but it's just how long
23:52can you continue doing something
23:54that doesn't work.
23:58If Dennis can't break through
24:00the frozen bedrock soon,
24:02his gold mining dream
24:04may be over.
24:05On Moose Creek...
24:14That's in Sleuthan right there.
24:16Ken comes to the cut
24:17to do a cleanup
24:18after 60 hours
24:19of Sleuzing the rocky pay.
24:21Today is a crucial day.
24:23Get a cleanup done.
24:25Got a few hours on it.
24:27The ground's been hard on the beast,
24:29and Ken hasn't seen much gold.
24:33Moose Creek would help a lot
24:34if it'd just pay us,
24:35the old bitch, you know.
24:36It'd be nice if she just gave it up.
24:43That's pretty damn good.
24:46Look at that.
24:47Whoa!
24:48I might get a hard on.
24:51Hey, Guillaume!
24:53Holy shit.
24:54Oh!
24:55Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
24:58You see?
24:59Nice one!
25:01Moose Creek just gave up
25:02a half-ounce nugget.
25:03It's definitely, like,
25:05the biggest nugget I've, like,
25:07we've found on this creek so far.
25:08Woo-hoo!
25:09We're on a thunder roll.
25:10I'll do the jig!
25:13The main challenge about mining,
25:15look at this shit,
25:16to find a reason to keep fighting.
25:18It's like a cow moose.
25:19All that's missing is antlers.
25:21A cow moose.
25:21It's a cow moose.
25:22It's a nugget from Moose Creek.
25:24Yeah.
25:24What the f**k?
25:27Just throw it back in the dirt.
25:30A lot of f**k!
25:32That's the tenth one to make sure.
25:35You know, when you find a big nugget,
25:37it's a good prize.
25:38It's, you know,
25:40like winning the spelling bee,
25:41I guess,
25:41is a little trophy for you.
25:43That didn't come for free.
25:46The gold looks good.
25:47That is gorgeous.
25:49But the real test
25:50will be when it hits the scales.
25:52Holy shit.
25:53You know, it's hard not to get excited
25:55when you see the mats like that.
25:56That looks really, really good.
25:58But Guillaume has something else
26:00to be excited about.
26:02Tomorrow, my wife and my two kids
26:04are coming to camp.
26:06Oh, is she coming home?
26:07Yeah.
26:07It's tough for Guillaume.
26:09He's got a family.
26:10I'm going to head in.
26:11Okay.
26:11But, you know,
26:13the mining should come first.
26:15You want to fire up the pump?
26:16He's ready to go.
26:20Every time I see my family,
26:22I'm always the happiest man,
26:23of course.
26:24That's a joy I could not
26:25replace by anything.
26:38That's it.
26:39On Sulphur Creek,
26:40the new feeder Marty built
26:43is running strong.
26:46Yeah.
26:47Working good.
26:48With a feeder,
26:49it's just so steady
26:50and you get a better recovery
26:52for gold.
26:53But Carl has a new problem.
26:56Water has seeped into the cut.
26:58Oh, it's pretty fucking soft over here.
27:07Stripping has to stop.
27:09If Carl can't get the cut drained fast,
27:11he'll run out of pay for the feeder.
27:15Oh.
27:16This is rough.
27:20Okay.
27:21Yeah.
27:21For what you plan here,
27:24just pump it over
27:25and then eventually the two inch
27:27can keep up to the water.
27:30Well, but it's not a trash pump.
27:32That is.
27:33If you think it's going to do it,
27:35give it a try,
27:36but let's quit talking about it
27:38and put the two inch in.
27:40I guess.
27:41Carl's out there
27:42to take care of the details.
27:44All the little things.
27:45Can't let that back up.
27:47He's got to deal with it.
27:48I've got this three inch hose.
27:51Throw this over the end.
27:53Okay.
27:56Doesn't seem too happy
27:58with what I'm doing, I guess.
27:59Just the feeling I'm getting from him.
28:01But whatever.
28:03Get at her.
28:06Okay.
28:12They hook up Carl's two inch pump.
28:16Not a whole lot of water.
28:18But it has little effect.
28:21There's a little bit of a problem.
28:23Whether he's my son or not,
28:24the performance is piss poor.
28:27Holy f***.
28:35Got a whole lot of water.
28:37Whether he's my son or not,
28:39the performance is piss poor.
28:41On Sulphur Creek.
28:43I think you're pissing in the wind here.
28:46The two inch pump Carl's using
28:48to drain the cut
28:49is not up to the job.
28:50Wishful thinking
28:51that the little gas job
28:52he was going to do it.
28:54Carl's been proving to his dad
28:55that he can run the mine.
28:57But this screw up
28:58isn't helping his case.
28:59My dad doesn't put up
29:00with a whole lot of s***.
29:01So it may seem like he's on my case
29:04and trying to tell me what to do.
29:05But really, it's just being a dad.
29:07That's all.
29:08He would hope you would learn
29:09from your mistakes.
29:10You'll probably become
29:11a better miner.
29:13I don't know,
29:13that friggin' four inch over there
29:15is picking up with the loader
29:17and bring it over here,
29:18clunk.
29:19It's pumped out instantly
29:20and it's done.
29:23Marty one, Carl zero.
29:25Marty one thousand, Carl zero.
29:28Well, I'm done.
29:29I won't be out tomorrow.
29:30I got too much to do.
29:36Carl takes Marty's advice
29:38and gets the four inch pump.
29:40We're going to put it over there.
29:50I got to pump out that water
29:52or we won't be able to sluice.
29:55Holy s***.
29:57Why is the s*** grease spraying out?
30:00It's been hold and greased
30:01until now.
30:05Stupid little mess-ups.
30:09Son of a b***h.
30:11So that seal failed.
30:13It just heats up
30:14and burns the seal out.
30:17So it'll spit the grease out.
30:19Carl swaps out the seal.
30:22Everything works better with lube.
30:24Now hopefully we'll get it pumping.
30:30And solves the problem.
30:37That's the sound of success.
30:38Look at the window.
30:54Look at the mountains.
30:56Maybe we'll see an animal.
30:57You think you're going to see an animal, really?
30:59Well, maybe.
31:00On Moose Creek,
31:02Guillaume takes a much-needed day off.
31:04Hi, Rose.
31:09I am married to Moose Creek,
31:10but I have a family.
31:13It's my thing.
31:14I know.
31:14I made for you.
31:15Of course.
31:16See, look, right here.
31:17I know.
31:18I look at them every day.
31:20Taking care of my family,
31:21spending time with them
31:22is really important.
31:23Something I really value.
31:25A little crowded,
31:26but the extension's kind of cool
31:27to hang out.
31:28Just a little.
31:29My life is built on gold.
31:32There is no milk or bread.
31:33Backroom?
31:34If there's no gold.
31:3515 years of this,
31:37I ain't no hubby.
31:38I'm not collecting butterflies.
31:40I'm catching gold.
31:42But right now,
31:44I have something else to take care of.
31:45Guillaume sneaks away.
31:48So right now,
31:48I'm up to something.
31:50Probably my most important task of the week.
31:53Okay, what do I need first?
31:55He made a promise
31:56he has to keep.
31:57Green blankey
31:59or blue.
32:02Alexis, for the last six months,
32:04she's been really into fairies.
32:08I have a chair.
32:11A month ago,
32:11I told her that I had found
32:13a fairy house
32:14as I was walking
32:16through the bushes.
32:19I'll put a little flower in there.
32:21No footprint.
32:23That fairy house has to be there.
32:25Lexi, come.
32:27Come and have a look.
32:29Hey, what's that orange thing over there?
32:32See that?
32:33I don't see nothing.
32:34Where?
32:34Look, right there.
32:36What?
32:37There's a light.
32:38No way.
32:39Whoa!
32:40No way.
32:41What's there?
32:42Cool!
32:43This is a fairy house.
32:46What?
32:46Look it!
32:48There's even a chair.
32:49There's a little bowl on this.
32:51This is amazing.
32:52This is amazing.
32:53This is crazy.
32:55Wow!
32:57Well, that is awesome!
32:59The welding fairy was a success.
33:02She's the best in the world.
33:04She's an awesome builder, too.
33:07I guess she is.
33:10I got stuff on the go.
33:12The biggest of all,
33:13being my family.
33:15If I stop thinking that,
33:16I don't find the purpose of all this.
33:18on Ten Mile Creek.
33:33F*** my life.
33:35Mind boss Cam arrives to check the mats.
33:40The fate of Edgecut hangs in the balance.
33:48I'm not loving it right now.
33:53I'm kind of hating it.
33:55Oh, s***.
33:56There's no colour in the box.
33:58Frustrating as s***.
34:00Oh.
34:01After ten weeks of mining,
34:03the gold still isn't there.
34:06That ground has thrown me
34:08for so many loops this year already
34:10and not getting nothing.
34:12Well, I didn't come here
34:14to go deep in the hole.
34:15And I don't like it.
34:16And neither do you.
34:20He's my brother-in-law.
34:21But you know what?
34:22Business is business.
34:24Bottom dollar's what counts.
34:26If I pan it and I see grey colour
34:28and then I mine it and there's no gold,
34:31like, what the hell?
34:32No gold means Cam has a difficult
34:34business decision to make,
34:36regardless of family ties.
34:39Dennis' job is to pull gold
34:40out of the ground and, you know,
34:42ultimately, he shouldn't be here
34:44if he can't.
34:46Dennis, our backs are against the wall.
34:50And there's nothing you can do about it
34:52except just shut the edge plant down.
34:57Dennis, our backs are against the wall.
35:00On Ten Mile Creek,
35:02frozen bedrock has kept Cam
35:04and Dennis' edge cut
35:05from giving up the gold.
35:07And there's nothing you can do about it
35:08except just shut the edge plant down.
35:13Go home and regroup.
35:16Is this a today thing?
35:17Would be nice.
35:19It's a tough call for Cam to make
35:21and tougher for Dennis to hear.
35:23I got a headache.
35:33Oh, I know.
35:34I hear you.
35:36All it is is a decision
35:37at a crossroads.
35:40That's the reality of it.
35:42It's survival for us.
35:47This is just right now,
35:49this very second of
35:50what will get us out of a heck of a bind.
35:54What's the other option?
35:56Is there one?
35:57Not really.
35:59F*** my life.
36:00I can't.
36:06I can't say no.
36:08Edge cut is done for the season
36:10and so is Dennis.
36:12His dream is over.
36:15I need to soak it up.
36:17I haven't even figured it out yet.
36:20That's all I can do.
36:23It was the best solution
36:24to what we were up against.
36:30On Sulphur Creek...
36:32We'll shut it down.
36:35Carl shuts down the plant
36:37for a cleanup.
36:38Where are my buckets?
36:40He's been sluicing for 10 hours
36:42since he pumped out the cut.
36:44Now he'll find out
36:45how much of a difference
36:46the new feeder is making.
36:48This will be a good test
36:49to see how much gold
36:50it's actually recovering.
36:55Should have let the water
36:56run a little longer.
36:57Lots of material here.
36:58The feeder pushes more pay
37:00through the plant.
37:02So Carl's looking for
37:03better gold recovery
37:04as a result.
37:06I hope to see
37:06a little more gold.
37:08I'm going to figure that out
37:09right now.
37:13Nothing too exciting.
37:15Wait until I pound out
37:16all the dirt
37:16and then we'll see.
37:19Then we'll see
37:20how excited I am.
37:23So far it looks better.
37:24I don't know how much better
37:25but kind of excited.
37:28Carl heads back to camp
37:31to put his gold
37:32on the scale.
37:37Moment of truth.
37:4522 ounces.
37:4822 ounces.
37:50Oh yeah.
37:51That's $29,000
37:52bringing Carl's season total
37:54to 410 ounces.
37:56More than half a million dollars
37:58in gold.
37:59I believe that feeder
38:00helped us catch more gold.
38:02We did gamble a little bit
38:04setting it up
38:04in the middle of the season
38:05but it's there.
38:07It's set up now
38:07and it's doing great.
38:09Getting heavier.
38:10Carl has to get
38:12600 ounces of gold
38:13in the next six weeks
38:14if he's going to reach
38:16his 1,000 ounce season goal.
38:18That's a lot of hours
38:19in the next month
38:20and a half
38:21of Sleucin.
38:23You just got to think
38:24positive man.
38:25I'm going to get all the gold
38:26out of that kite.
38:27Dawson City.
38:41In town selling gold.
38:43Open for 1 million ounces.
38:51You're the one.
38:52Hey, Ken.
38:53Ken brings gold
38:54from a 60-hour cleanup
38:56of the rocky pay dirt
38:57on Moose Creek.
38:58So it's picking up, eh?
39:00Pretty flaky gold.
39:02It's weird.
39:02We're getting into
39:03some really rough-looking gold.
39:05It's not as smooth as it was.
39:08Nice day for me
39:09to kind of...
39:09at least gold's high.
39:11Shifting gold prices
39:12are a wild card
39:13in the gold mining game.
39:16Price of gold goes up.
39:17That means
39:17we're making more money per hour.
39:19So it's a good thing.
39:21You want to go to Peter?
39:22Ken's gold is melted
39:26into a bar.
39:42The thing that brings me
39:43to gold mining
39:44is the chance.
39:46The chance of getting rich.
39:49We'll see what we got.
39:57In Dawson City,
39:58Ken's about to see
39:59if running his crew
40:0024-7
40:01got him more gold.
40:02It's about
40:1062 ounces.
40:13Right on.
40:14She's right where
40:15she's supposed to be.
40:1762 ounces.
40:18That's over $82,000.
40:23I think that's my highest
40:24price of the year so far.
40:26It's actually the biggest sale
40:27for the price of gold
40:29that I've had all summer.
40:30We'll do some paperwork
40:31and we'll send money
40:32in your account.
40:34Right on.
40:35I can pay some bills.
40:3762 ounces brings
40:38Ken's season total
40:39to 418 ounces
40:41worth $557,000.
40:45Right on, man.
40:46I appreciate it.
40:47Ken is almost halfway
40:48to his 1,000-ounce goal.
40:51But there are only
40:51six weeks left
40:52in the mining season.
40:54I think miners
40:55are a different breed.
40:57You know,
40:57you have to be able
40:58to take a risk.
41:01You put the trust
41:02of what you've learned
41:03all through these years
41:04to work.
41:04And when you see it pay off,
41:06then, you know,
41:07you feel good.
41:14On 10 Mile Creek,
41:16it's game over for Dennis.
41:18I'm packing up,
41:19pulling out.
41:20I'm done for the season.
41:21He couldn't break through
41:22the frozen bedrock
41:24at Edgecutt,
41:24so Cam shut it down.
41:26Now, Dennis is going
41:28home to Alberta.
41:29It sucks to be
41:30going home early,
41:31but I'm just going to,
41:33you know, suck it up
41:34and do what's best
41:35for everybody.
41:37Yeah, I got my dog.
41:38I got my gun.
41:39I just need my riverboat,
41:40and I'm out of here.
41:42Just stopping
41:43at the Donovan cut,
41:44I'm going to say goodbye
41:45to the boys.
41:47Cam's pushing dirt
41:48in his one remaining mine,
41:50working to save his season
41:52after Edgecutt failed.
41:53Hey!
41:58Brother?
42:00I'll take you down there, bud.
42:01Give me a ride?
42:02I'll give you a ride.
42:03Good luck, guys.
42:05Dennis has been doing
42:06an awesome job.
42:07It's just crappy ground
42:08that weighs on a person,
42:11but you know what?
42:12Just have to make a change here.
42:13I'll take the higher road.
42:15And this is which route we chose.
42:17Take the higher road.
42:18Less traveled.
42:19I'm going to come up,
42:32give you a hug.
42:33This is the part
42:34I don't know with snow, buddy.
42:36Love you.
42:39It's going to be okay.
42:40We'll do it.
42:42Go get it.
42:42I'm out.
42:56Cheers.
42:58Go get that shit.
43:00I will.
43:03I'm sad to see him go.
43:05I'm going to miss him here.
43:06He's been with me all season.
43:08I just have to suck it up
43:09and do it.
43:11We got commitments.
43:12I'm going to pull the gold.
43:13I'm going to make sure
43:14those things happen.
43:15You just look for hope.
43:17Pray that it goes well
43:18and do the best you can.
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