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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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00:00It's here.
00:00It's here.
00:02Carl ramps up production.
00:04With a nice steady feed.
00:05Guaranteed we'll see more gold.
00:07Yeah.
00:09Guillaume, tell him he has to be under a minute.
00:11What?
00:13Ken pushes his crew hard.
00:15I see misery coming our way.
00:17There's no water.
00:19Guillaume.
00:20Oh, Lord.
00:21There's no color in the box.
00:23And Cam makes a tough decision.
00:25I didn't come here to go deep in the hole.
00:28My life.
00:29Business is business.
00:30Bottom dollar's what counts.
00:32You know there ain't no rest for the wicked.
00:36Money don't grow our trees.
00:38We got bills to pay.
00:40We got mouths to feed.
00:41There ain't nothing in this world for free.
00:44I know we can't slow down.
00:46We can't hold back though.
00:48You know we wish we could.
00:51I know there ain't no rest for the wicked.
00:54Until we close our eyes for good.
00:59I know there ain't no rest for me.
01:00They don't go through the land.
01:01I know there ain't no rest for kings.
01:02Let me go through that spot.
01:03I know there ain't no rest for them.
01:05I can't let you go through them.
01:06I know there ain't no rest for them.
01:07Holy .
01:08Look at the size of rock they put through there.
01:08What?
01:09It didn't go through the flat.
01:10Had to them.
01:11Had to him, it's in the tailing pile.
01:15On Moose Creek, Ken Foy is on rocky ground.
01:22We're behind.
01:23We have maybe six weeks of solution left, and that's pushing it.
01:28Ken's only mined 356 ounces of gold this year.
01:32He's after 1,000 ounces, worth more than $1.3 million.
01:37It's crunch time.
01:39We need to find some gold.
01:40And going into the last six weeks, we pretty much need 100 ounces a week to hit our target.
01:46We haven't even come close to that.
01:48Ken's crew has to pick up the pace.
01:56Guillaume, what's his time?
02:02Tell him he has to be under a minute.
02:05Under a minute?
02:06That's only a two-yard bucket.
02:08Ken's looking for better cycle times, feeding a bucket of paydirt into the beast every 60 seconds.
02:15He should be, like, 30 seconds just over the hopper alone, like, maximum.
02:21Yeah, we can tell him to go faster.
02:22I think the stress is more than ever on Kenny.
02:28Time is running out.
02:31I see misery coming our way.
02:33There are risks to pushing the crew.
02:36The rocky pay could damage the plant if it's not fed into the hopper carefully.
02:40This is some of the rockiest stuff that I've had to put through the plant in the last two years.
02:52Oh, f***.
02:52A boulder on the conveyor stops it dead.
03:07What a mess this is.
03:11It seems to be a big rock somehow fell out of my bucket.
03:16And I made it this far up the conveyor.
03:18That's a big f***, right?
03:21Yeah.
03:22It's a biggie.
03:23You know, small breakdown, big breakdowns, they're breakdowns.
03:26You know, they're costing us money.
03:27Watch yourself.
03:33All right.
03:34Let me see the top here.
03:35I hope she'll move back right away, because...
03:39Holy s***.
03:41Okay!
03:44A little more!
03:45There we go.
03:46Okay!
03:47Forward!
03:50Guillaume and Matt fixed the problem.
03:53We're good.
03:57But Ken is more anxious than ever about reaching his goal.
04:06We're late in the season, and we're falling further and further behind.
04:13Holy s***.
04:16We just hope we can keep our average up in the last month and a half here.
04:20We're going to shut the plan down.
04:38On Sulphur Creek, second generation miner Carl Knudsen is about to get a game-changing piece of equipment.
04:45Carl?
04:47Yeah?
04:48Out of my way.
04:50Just plowing our own way in here.
04:53Yay!
04:54Dad Marty brings the belt feeder he built.
04:57A massive add-on to push more pay dirt through the sluice plant.
05:01When we get the feeder out there, Carl needs to really put the hump on.
05:05Carl's been using an excavator to shovel pay into the plant.
05:09The feeder will speed things up.
05:12We can cram 200 yards an hour through there.
05:14We'll be able to just power through it.
05:16Go, go, go, go, go.
05:18With a nice steady feed, more material going through, guaranteed we'll see more gold.
05:23Ten weeks into the 16-week season, Carl has only mined 388 ounces of gold.
05:29He's aiming for 1,000 ounces.
05:31I want to reach that goal.
05:34All I got to do is put in my time, and I should be able to get 1,000 ounces.
05:39The new feeder should make a difference.
05:42Yeah, pretty much there.
05:46Woo-hoo!
05:46We made it!
05:47But just moving the 30-ton contraption off the flatbed truck is a challenge.
05:55Hitting it off is going to be just brutal.
05:58When we put it on, the thing was so heavy it broke the deck.
06:02It freaking feels tippy as all.
06:04Push, Carl.
06:08Push, push.
06:13Nice and gentle.
06:14That's a lot of weight on just those two tires.
06:17Carl, hup, hup.
06:18We're off those plates.
06:19We'll move those plates now.
06:21They build a makeshift bridge to get the feeder onto solid ground.
06:26Okay, there we go.
06:27That's as far as we need to go.
06:29Oh, phew.
06:32Here we're going.
06:34Get off my T1.
06:35Don't bend that shit.
06:40There she be.
06:42Woo-hoo!
06:43Now, Carl and Marty have to connect the feeder to the sluice plant.
06:55Looks good.
06:56Ready?
06:57Yeah.
06:59The feeder's here.
07:00It's here.
07:01It's sluice!
07:14I'd like to see it run some material.
07:16As soon as it runs great for half a day or whatever,
07:19double shift that.
07:21Carl needs to keep that dirt going to the plant as many hours as he can.
07:26Keep it rolling.
07:27Sluice, sluice, sluice.
07:29But the feeder is untested.
07:31If it doesn't run right, it could be more trouble than it's worth.
07:34The potential to break down and not get the right amount of feed that we want out of it,
07:39that's the gamble.
07:41Look at this little gold factory, eh?
07:44Sweet!
07:45Woo-hoo!
07:46That's good!
07:46On remote 10-mile creek.
07:58Oh, yeah.
07:59We need a payday.
08:01Alberta farmer turned miner Cam Johnson checks in on Edgecutt, the second of his two claims.
08:07So, strip that, rip that.
08:09We'll be good to go.
08:10Yeah.
08:11Cam's brother-in-law, Dennis, runs Edgecutt, but 10 weeks into the season, he's fighting tough bedrock beneath the water's surface.
08:19We got through our first layer, but then we hit permafrost.
08:23So, this ground has been frozen for many years.
08:27There is gold there, but we're ripping teeth off our buckets, raking pins.
08:32Cam's running out of time to get a total of 450 ounces from his two mines this season.
08:37The frozen bedrock at Edgecutt refuses to give up the gold.
08:44The bedrock right now is really, really fractured and really, really hard.
08:52Me and Cam, we come up here with limited funds, big dreams, big hopes.
08:57We're not on the gold that we anticipated.
08:59We're not on the gold that we panned.
09:01Dennis searches for a spot where the permafrost isn't as bad.
09:07Scratching the bedrock, baby.
09:13She's hard.
09:17Very hard.
09:30Always something.
09:32Everything something.
09:35She's shaking.
09:37The sluice plant's bump is shaking wildly.
09:42Oh, Lord.
09:50There's always a little vibration, but nothing like this.
09:55The plant, the hydraulic pump went down on her.
09:57We've got to come up with some ideas.
09:59If Cam and Dennis can't fix it, they won't be able to sluice.
10:04Pull this cap apart and have a look.
10:05That can fit perfectly.
10:13Oh, yeah, that's the problem.
10:14That key will throw that thing all the shit.
10:17And that's not good.
10:18The extra vibration is due to this key weight and is doing this.
10:24And with that, at 10,000 RPM is not good.
10:27Yeah, no.
10:28We don't want to put that in again.
10:30We're taking the challenges as they come, and we're fixing the problems as they come, and we're trying to absorb the stress the best we can.
10:37But some days, it's almost too much to handle.
10:41I don't give up.
10:42I can't give up.
10:42No, I don't either.
10:43They put the pump back together.
10:48Are we going for tests?
10:49Let's go, brother.
10:50Dennis.
10:51It's like that, bitches.
10:57The vibration is minimal now versus the extreme before.
11:03Yeah, like you couldn't even read this.
11:08We're going sluice.
11:09All we've got to do is feed the monster now.
11:19It's a race here against time, so you just do the best you can and try and beat it.
11:33Hey, Matt.
11:34So do you have a good headlap for tonight?
11:37Oh, no, I don't.
11:37I had one in my trailer.
11:40I didn't even think about it.
11:418 p.m. on Moose Creek.
11:43Ken sluices around the clock.
11:45We're down on our sluicing and need to utilize every hour we have left to try to get every flake we can.
11:52Top hand Matt draws the night shift.
11:55All right.
11:57Tonight is my first night shift this season.
12:00Rock and roll.
12:01The endless daylight of summer is gone.
12:04It will be dark in a few hours.
12:05Matt, everything else is ready.
12:08You can fire up.
12:09Matt has 800 cubic yards of peter to sluice before morning.
12:17Hopefully we have enough dirt.
12:18But as Matt starts his shift.
12:33You guys, Gio, there's no water.
12:39It's a mat.
12:42Oh, man, where's the water?
12:44For sakes.
12:46You guys.
12:47Gio, there's no water.
12:51It's a mat.
12:53Water shortage on Moose Creek.
12:55Oh, man, where's the water?
12:57For sakes, you're both standing there and there's no water.
13:03Ken's pump just quit.
13:04He can't sluice without it.
13:08Oh, f***.
13:09The pump fell off the jack holding it up, yanking the intake pipe out of the water.
13:16What's your plan?
13:18Have Matt take me out there in the bucket.
13:20Breakdowns are our worst enemy, keeping us from getting gold.
13:25Right from the start to finish, we need to sluice, sluice, sluice.
13:29Ken clears debris from the intake.
13:43That's it.
13:44Good to go.
13:45They build a base out of rocks to hold up the pump.
13:49At least it's an easy cheek fix.
13:55I don't know.
13:55That's pretty solid, actually.
13:57The stack of rocks is more stable than the thin jack.
14:08We're sluicing again.
14:11Matt is on his own now.
14:13Matt restarts his shift to sluice through the night.
14:19Bye-bye, Mattski.
14:21Hopefully, a bunch of gold in the box in the morning.
14:24Keep hoping.
14:25That's all we can do.
14:31On Sulphur Creek,
14:33it's the end of day one of sluicing with the new feeder.
14:39F***, we're good.
14:40But there's a problem.
14:55Completely blew that roller right out.
14:58It's not supposed to be like that.
15:01Carl and Marty waste no time getting to the fix.
15:04Okay, towards you.
15:07Okay.
15:08Oh, dirty dog.
15:11Things break down.
15:13And you've got to know how to deal with it.
15:15On the spot.
15:17Carl grabs a replacement roller.
15:20Stick it through the hole.
15:22Come back.
15:24Here.
15:24Look at that.
15:27Voila.
15:28My old man.
15:29He's 50-something years old,
15:31and he's still putting in 14, 15-hour days every day.
15:36He's just one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.
15:40I mean, it's not rocket science or anything.
15:42We all get up, go to work,
15:45and get up and do it again the next day.
15:46It's just what you do.
15:48Okay.
15:49With pay piling up...
15:54Want to get the loader going and chuck some dirt in there?
15:57Sure.
15:58They're ready to get the feeder back up and running.
16:03Turn that on.
16:09Get out of the way, Lenny.
16:12Here it's come.
16:13The new roller's working.
16:15Looks good.
16:17And they're sluicing again.
16:19Having more control of the material that goes through the plant,
16:22it just gets a better recovery for gold.
16:25You never know how you're going to hit that mother load.
16:36We're going sluicing.
16:38I mean, that's what we're here for.
16:39At Edgecutt on Ten Mile Creek...
16:42It is crunch time.
16:43We're down to six weeks.
16:45We've got to get her out and get her now.
16:47Dennis tries a new weapon in his battle with frozen bedrock.
16:51The ground is so hard that...
16:53Tie your teeth kind of act like little mini rippers.
16:56I've got to try everything.
16:58Hopefully that helps a little bit.
17:01Ten weeks into the season,
17:02Dennis hasn't managed to scrape up enough gold
17:05to cover his expenses.
17:06I need anything I can get right now.
17:09I've got some pretty big bills to pay,
17:11and I'm running out of time.
17:13Mine hand Chase arrives for his 12-hour night shift.
17:18If we had time on our side, which we do not have,
17:21I would take the more cautious approach.
17:24So Dennis is going for broke.
17:26Personally, my gut is telling me our old run
17:29coming down out of the hills is right here.
17:30And it deposited a shitload of material down here.
17:34I'm hoping.
17:36Yeah.
17:36We were absolutely not prepared to run into the permafrost,
17:39but I'm going to give it 120%.
17:42I don't pull the gold.
17:44I don't pull the gold.
17:44It won't be from a lack of trying.
17:46We'll chat soon.
17:48It's a gamble.
17:49It could make or break a guy.
17:52Ready to fire up, ready to sluice.
17:54From what I can feel so far,
18:11I'm about to get into a little bit of a tight spot.
18:14Hopefully I can break up that bedrock overnight,
18:16but we'll see.
18:18It looks like it's going to be a battle for me.
18:246 a.m. on Moose Creek.
18:30Last I was Matthew's first night, Chef.
18:33I guess we're going to head down there
18:34and see what's left of him.
18:37Top hand Matt sluiced through the night.
18:41That's good.
18:43How was your first night?
18:45You all right, man.
18:46I never had any problems with anything.
18:51No problem with the belt, trouble,
18:53everything was pretty good.
18:54Everything was good.
18:55Everything worked.
18:56Everything was good for me all night.
18:58Right on.
19:03Right now it's working well.
19:05Go on and roll.
19:06Let it roll.
19:08Matt heads off to get some sleep.
19:10Mine hand Martin takes the hot seat.
19:16Holy f***.
19:17It really hurts me to watch that.
19:19He's not dumping that fast.
19:21What is his times?
19:22He's not dumping fast enough to him?
19:25Oh, f*** no.
19:26I've been trying to hammer it through Guillaume's mind.
19:29Stop for five seconds and measure the guy's time.
19:33Martin is definitely the slower pace guy.
19:36We need to put the stuff through way faster.
19:40Martin picks up the pace,
19:42sending more Rocky Pater through the plant.
19:44Oh, my f***.
19:52Oh, my f***.
19:53Oh, my f***.
19:54Chaos on Moose Creek.
19:58F*** me.
20:04What happened?
20:06I got like a big f*** rock jam,
20:08and there's a hole about that big in the trauma.
20:11Holy f***.
20:12The big rocks tore a hole in the trommel,
20:15dumping an avalanche of tailings all over the runs,
20:19burying any gold underneath.
20:21F***ing thing.
20:25Makes me just f***ing cringe,
20:28especially when there was gold in the box.
20:30Guillaume inspects the damage to the trommel.
20:35If we cannot keep sluicing now,
20:37we're going to have to fix it now.
20:42There's a few plates at the end of the drums
20:44that came right off.
20:46Shit.
20:46So it allows the rock to go through.
20:50Bunch of gaps and shit.
20:53Guillaume quickly welds the repair in the trommel.
20:56Is that good enough?
20:57Let's get sluicing!
21:00But this latest setback
21:08still costs Ken valuable sluicing time.
21:11We're down to the last six weeks,
21:14and I see the target
21:16getting further and further away.
21:18You had to say something, eh, today?
21:20Did I say anything?
21:22Oh, you said, man,
21:23we've actually been sluicing really steady
21:25the last few days.
21:26Did I say that?
21:27You did say that.
21:28I don't recall.
21:28I'm sorry for cheering up.
21:31They can be happy,
21:31just don't say nothing about it.
21:33On 10 Mile Creek,
21:53Chase spent the night sluicing at Edgecutt.
21:56Last night I got on in about 325 yards.
22:01Bedrock slowed me down last night, too.
22:03The tiger teeth didn't help.
22:05The less buckets we get,
22:06the less yards we get through,
22:07and the less amount of gold we can get through.
22:09Dennis arrives at the mine.
22:12Permafrost at bedrock level
22:13is blocking him from getting to the gold.
22:16All boils down to the gold.
22:17We have everything in place but that.
22:20You know, losing sleep over it.
22:28No gold.
22:30Holy kick in the nuts.
22:32Well, I was hoping to see better color, buddy.
22:34It's not panning out.
22:36No.
22:37It may hit, but...
22:39Yeah, disappointed.
22:40But I'm not giving up hope.
22:42We really need to put the big girl panties on
22:44and suck her up and get her done.
22:46We are way behind now.
22:48If I can't pay my bills,
22:50not enough gold.
22:57Dennis heads to camp.
23:05Where mine boss and brother-in-law Cam
23:08jigs gold from Donovan Cutt,
23:10his other claim.
23:12I have two gold mines
23:13that both have to produce gold,
23:15and, you know, ultimately,
23:17I stand holding the bag.
23:19You made her!
23:20That goes for better, huh?
23:24How's everything going?
23:25Good.
23:26I'm pretty happy.
23:27Can I look?
23:28Yeah.
23:29Those are almost nuggets.
23:30Well, there is a bunch of nuggets.
23:33You know what it's like
23:34when you do the nugget picking thing?
23:36No.
23:37Oh, yeah.
23:37I haven't had that pleasure yet.
23:39Yeah.
23:39My turn's coming, though.
23:40How much was there?
23:42There was nothing there.
23:44No gold.
23:45Okay.
23:46Cam's getting good gold from the Donovan site,
23:49but Edge Cutt is looking like a bust.
23:51Kind of like to see a big payday, though.
23:56Yeah.
23:56I feel bad for Dennis,
23:59but it's just how long can you continue doing something
24:02that doesn't work?
24:04If Dennis can't break through the frozen bedrock soon,
24:10his gold mining dream may be over.
24:13On Moose Creek...
24:14That's in Sleuthin' right there.
24:24Ken comes to the cut to do a cleanup
24:26after 60 hours of sleuzing the rocky pay.
24:29Today is a crucial day.
24:31Get a cleanup done.
24:33Got a few hours on it.
24:35The ground's been hard on the beast,
24:37and Ken hasn't seen much gold.
24:39Moose Creek would help a lot
24:42if it'd just pay us, the old bitch, you know?
24:44It'd be nice if she just gave it up.
24:51That's pretty damn good.
24:54Look at that.
24:55Whoa!
24:56I might get a hard on.
24:59Hey, Guillaume!
25:01Holy shit!
25:02Oh!
25:03Oh!
25:03Oh!
25:03Oh!
25:04Oh!
25:04Oh!
25:04Oh!
25:04Oh!
25:05Oh!
25:05Oh!
25:05Oh!
25:06Oh!
25:06Oh!
25:07Oh!
25:07Nice one!
25:08Moose Creek just gave up a half-ounce nugget.
25:11It's definitely, like, the biggest nugget
25:13I've, like, found on this creek so far.
25:15Woo-hoo!
25:16We're on the thunder roll.
25:17I'll do the jig!
25:20The main challenge about mining...
25:22Look at this shit!
25:23...to find a reason to keep fighting.
25:25It's like a cow moose.
25:26All it's missing is antlers.
25:27It's a cow moose.
25:28It's a cow moose.
25:29It's a nugget from Moose Creek.
25:30Yeah.
25:32What the...
25:33It's throwing back in the dirt.
25:35That's the...
25:36That's the tenth one to make sure.
25:39You know, when you find a big nugget,
25:40it's a good prize.
25:41It's, you know, like, winning the spelling bee,
25:42I guess, is a little trophy for you.
25:44That didn't come for free.
25:45The gold looks good.
25:46That is gorgeous.
25:47But the real test will be when it hits the scales.
25:48Holy shit.
25:49You know, it's hard not to get excited when you see
25:50the mats like that.
25:51That looks really, really good.
25:52It's really good.
25:53It's really good.
25:54It's really good.
25:55It's really good.
25:56It's really good.
25:57It's really good.
25:58It's really good.
25:59It's really good.
26:00It's really good.
26:01It's really good.
26:02You get excited when you see the mats like that.
26:04That looks really, really good.
26:06But Guillaume has something else to be excited about.
26:10Tomorrow, my wife and my two kids are coming to camp.
26:13Oh, is she coming home?
26:14Yeah.
26:15It's tough for Guillaume.
26:16He's got a family.
26:17I'm gonna head in.
26:18Okay.
26:19But, you know, the mining should come first.
26:22You wanna fire up the pump?
26:23He's ready to go?
26:24Every time I see my family, I'm always the happiest man, of course.
26:31That's a joy I could not replace by anything.
26:46That's it.
26:47On Sulphur Creek, the new feeder Marty built is running strong.
26:51Yeah.
26:52Working good.
26:53With a feeder, it's just so steady, and you get a better recovery for gold.
27:00But Carl has a new problem.
27:03Water has seeped into the cut.
27:06Holy .
27:08It's pretty soft over here.
27:11Oh .
27:14Stripping has to stop.
27:16If Carl can't get the cut drained fast, he'll run out of pay for the feeder.
27:23Oh.
27:26This is rough.
27:28Okay?
27:29Yeah.
27:30For what you plan here.
27:31Just pump it over, and then eventually the two inch can keep up to the water.
27:36Well, but it's not a trash pump.
27:39It is.
27:40If you think it's going to do it, give it a try.
27:43But let's quit talking about it and put the two inch in.
27:47I guess.
27:48Carl's out there to take care of the details.
27:51All the little things.
27:52Can't let that back up.
27:54He's got to deal with it.
27:56I got this three inch hose.
27:58Throw this over the end.
27:59Okay.
28:01Doesn't seem too happy with what I'm doing, I guess.
28:06Just the feeling I'm getting from him.
28:08But whatever.
28:09Get at her.
28:11Okay.
28:16They hook up Carl's two inch pump.
28:22Not a whole lot of water, but it has little effect.
28:27There's a little bit of a problem.
28:30Whether he's my son or not, the performance is piss poor.
28:34Holy .
28:42Got a whole lot of water.
28:44Whether he's my son or not, the performance is piss poor.
28:48On Sulphur Creek.
28:50I think you're pissing in the wind here.
28:53The two inch pump Carl's using to drain the cut is not up to the job.
28:58Wishful thinking that the little gas job he was going to do it.
29:01Carl's been proving to his dad that he can run the mine.
29:04But this screw up isn't helping his case.
29:07My dad doesn't put up with a whole lot of shit.
29:09So it may seem like he's on my case and trying to tell me what to do.
29:13But really, it's just being a dad.
29:15That's all.
29:16He would hope you would learn from your mistakes.
29:18You'll probably become a better miner.
29:20I don't know, that friggin' four inch over there.
29:23You're picking up with the loader and bring it over here, clunk.
29:26It's pumped out instantly and it's done.
29:29Marty one, Carl zero.
29:32Marty one thousand, Carl zero.
29:35Well, I'm done.
29:36I won't be out tomorrow.
29:38I got too much to do.
29:43Carl takes Marty's advice and gets the four inch pump.
29:47We're going to put it over there.
29:58I got to pump out that water or we won't be able to sluice.
30:02Holy .
30:04Why is the grease spraying out?
30:07It's been holding grease until now.
30:09Stupid little mess ups.
30:17Son of a bitch.
30:18So that seal failed.
30:20It just heats up and burns the seal out.
30:24So it'll spit the grease out.
30:26Carl swaps out the seal.
30:28Everything works better with lube.
30:31Now hopefully we'll get it pumping.
30:33And solves the problem.
30:38That's the sound of success.
30:43Look at the window.
30:44Look at the mountains.
30:45Maybe we'll see an animal.
30:46You think you're going to see an animal, really?
30:47Well, maybe.
30:48On Moose Creek, Guillaume takes a much needed day off.
30:50Hi Rose.
31:15I am married to Moose Creek, but I have a family.
31:20It's my thing.
31:21I know.
31:22I made for you.
31:23Of course.
31:24See, look, right here.
31:25I know.
31:26I look at them every day.
31:27Taking care of my family and spending time with them is
31:30really important.
31:31Something I really value.
31:32A little crowded, but the extension's kind of cool to
31:35hang out.
31:36Just a little.
31:37My life is built on gold.
31:39There is no milk or bread if there's no gold.
31:43Fifteen years of this, I ain't no hobby.
31:45I'm not collecting butterflies.
31:47I'm catching gold.
31:50But right now, I have something else to take care of.
31:53Guillaume sneaks away.
31:55So right now, I'm up to something.
31:57Probably my most important task of the week.
32:00Okay, what do I need first?
32:02He made a promise he has to keep.
32:05Green blankie for blue.
32:10Alexis, for the last six months, she's been really into
32:13fairies.
32:16I have a chair.
32:18A month ago, I told her that I had found a fairy house.
32:23As I was walking through the bushes.
32:26I'll put a little flower in there.
32:29No footprint.
32:31That fairy house has to be there.
32:33Lexi!
32:34Come.
32:35Come and have a look.
32:36Hey, what's that orange thing over there?
32:39You see that?
32:40I don't see nothing.
32:41Where?
32:42Look!
32:43Right there!
32:44What?
32:45There's a light.
32:46No way.
32:47Whoa!
32:48No way.
32:49What's there?
32:50Cool!
32:51This is a fairy house!
32:53What?
32:54Look it!
32:55There's even a chair.
32:57There's a little bowl on this.
32:59This is amazing.
33:00This is crazy.
33:02Wow!
33:03Well, that is awesome!
33:06The welding fairy was a success.
33:09She's the best in the world.
33:12She's an awesome builder, too.
33:14I guess she is.
33:17I got stuff on the go.
33:19The biggest of all, being my family.
33:22If I stop thinking that, I don't find the purpose of all this.
33:30On 10 Mile Creek.
33:31F*** my life.
33:32Mind boss Cam arrives to check the mats.
33:47The fate of Edgecut hangs in the balance.
33:51I'm not loving it right now.
33:52Kinda hating it.
33:53Oh, shit!
33:54There's no colour in the box.
33:55Frustrating as shit.
33:56Oh!
33:57After 10 weeks of mining, the gold still isn't there.
34:00That ground has thrown me for so many loops this year already, and not getting nothing.
34:06Well, I didn't come here to go deep in the hole, and I don't like it.
34:23And neither do you.
34:25He's my brother-in-law, but you know what?
34:30Business is business.
34:31Bottom dollar's what counts.
34:33If I pan it, and I see grey colour, and then I mine it, and there's no gold, like, what the hell?
34:39No gold means Cam has a difficult business decision to make, regardless of family ties.
34:46Dennis' job is to pull gold out of the ground, and you know, ultimately, he shouldn't be here if he can't.
34:52Dennis, our backs are against the wall.
34:57And there's nothing you can do about it except just shut the edge plant down.
35:03Dennis, our backs are against the wall.
35:07On Ten Mile Creek, frozen bedrock has kept Cam and Dennis' edge cut from giving up the gold.
35:14And there's nothing you can do about it except just shut the edge plant down.
35:19Go home and regroup.
35:22Is this a today thing?
35:25Would be nice.
35:26It's a tough call for Cam to make, and tougher for Dennis to hear.
35:31Oh.
35:39I got a headache.
35:40Oh, I know.
35:41I hear you.
35:42All it is is a decision at a crossroads.
35:47That's the reality of it.
35:49Huh.
35:51It's survival for us.
35:54This is just right now, this very second of what'll get us out of a heck of a bind.
36:00What's the other option?
36:02Is there one?
36:03Not really.
36:04My life.
36:05I can't.
36:06I can't say no.
36:07Edge cut is done for the season.
36:08And so is Dennis.
36:09His dream is over.
36:10I need to soak it up.
36:11I haven't even figured it out yet.
36:13That's all I can do.
36:14It was the best solution to what we were up against.
36:35On Sulphur Creek, Carl shuts down the plant for a cleanup.
36:46Where are my buckets?
36:48He's been sluicing for 10 hours since he pumped out the cut.
36:52Now he'll find out how much of a difference the new feeder is making.
36:56This will be a good test to see how much gold it's actually recovering.
37:00Should have let the water run a little longer.
37:05There's lots of material here.
37:06The feeder pushes more pay through the plant.
37:09So Carl's looking for better gold recovery as a result.
37:13I hope to see a little more gold.
37:15I'm going to figure that out right now.
37:20Nothing too exciting.
37:22Wait until I pound out all the dirt and then we'll see.
37:26Then we'll see how excited I am.
37:30So far it looks better.
37:32I don't know how much better, but I'm kind of excited.
37:37Carl heads back to camp to put his gold on the scale.
37:45Moment of truth.
37:5322 ounces.
37:5622 ounces.
37:57Oh yeah.
37:58That's $29,000.
38:01Bringing Carl's season total to 410 ounces.
38:04More than half a million dollars in gold.
38:07I believe that feeder helped us catch more gold.
38:10We did gamble a little bit setting it up in the middle of the season.
38:13But it's there.
38:14It's set up now.
38:15And it's doing great.
38:17Getting heavier.
38:19Carl has to get 600 ounces of gold in the next six weeks
38:22if he's going to reach his 1,000-ounce season goal.
38:25That's a lot of hours in the next month and a half of Sleucin.
38:31You just got to think positive, man.
38:32I'm going to get all the gold out of that cut.
38:34Dawson City.
38:35In town selling gold.
38:36Open for 1 million ounces.
38:39Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
38:40Ha, ha, ha, ha.
38:41Good one.
38:42Hey, Ken.
38:43Ken brings gold from a 60-hour cleanup of the Rocky Pay Dirt on Moose Creek.
38:49So it's picking up, eh?
38:50Yeah.
38:51Pretty flaky gold.
38:52It's weird.
38:53We're getting into some really rough-looking gold.
38:56In out of the city.
38:57A 23.
38:58A 24.
38:59Yeah, thank you for those supermoders.
39:00Ken brings gold from a 60-hour cleanup of the rocky paydirt on Moose Creek.
39:06So it's picking up, eh? Pretty flaky gold.
39:09It's weird. We're getting into some really rough-looking gold.
39:13It's not as smooth as it was.
39:15Nice day for me to kind of at least gold's high.
39:18Shifting gold prices are a wild card in the gold mining game.
39:23The price of gold goes up, that means we're making more money per hour, so it's a good thing.
39:29Do you want to go to Peter?
39:33Ken's gold is melted into a bar.
39:50The thing that brings me to gold mining is the chance.
39:54The chance of getting rich.
39:59We'll see what we get.
40:03In Dawson City, Ken's about to see if running his crew 24-7 got him more gold.
40:11It's about 62 ounces.
40:23Right on.
40:24She's right where she's supposed to be.
40:2562 ounces.
40:26That's over $82,000.
40:29I think that's my highest price of the year so far.
40:33It's actually the biggest sale for the price of gold that I've had all summer.
40:38We'll do some paperwork and they'll send money in your account.
40:41Right on.
40:42I can pay some bills.
40:4362 ounces brings Ken's season total to 418 ounces worth $557,000.
40:55Ken is almost halfway to his 1,000-ounce goal, but there are only six weeks left in the mining
41:01season.
41:02I think miners are a different breed.
41:04You know, you have to be able to take a risk.
41:08You put the trust of what you've learned all through these years to work.
41:12And when you see it pay off, then, you know, you feel good.
41:23On Ten Mile Creek, it's game over for Dennis.
41:26I'm packing up, pulling out.
41:27I'm done for the season.
41:29He couldn't break through the frozen bedrock at Edgecutt, so Cam shut it down.
41:34Now, Dennis is going home to Alberta.
41:37It sucks to be going home early, but we're just going to, you know, suck it up and do
41:42what's best for everybody.
41:44Yeah, I got my dog.
41:45I got my gun.
41:46I just need my riverboat and I'm out of here.
41:50Just stopping at the Donovan Cut, I'm going to say goodbye to the boys.
41:54Cam's pushing dirt in his one remaining mine, working to save his season after Edgecutt failed.
42:02Hey!
42:03Brother?
42:04I'll take you down there, bud.
42:05You can give me a ride?
42:06I'll give you a ride.
42:07Good luck, guys.
42:08Dennis has been doing an awesome job.
42:09It's just crappy ground.
42:10That weighs on a person, but you know what?
42:11Just have to make a change here.
42:12I'll take the higher road.
42:13And this is which route we chose.
42:14Take the higher road.
42:15Less traveled.
42:16I'm going to come up and give you a hug.
42:17This is the part item about snow, buddy.
42:18Love you.
42:19Love you.
42:20It's going to be okay.
42:21It's going to be okay.
42:22We'll do it.
42:23We'll do it.
42:24We'll get it.
42:25We'll get it.
42:26We'll get it.
42:27We'll get it.
42:28We'll get it.
42:29We'll get it.
42:30No.
42:31The best.
42:32I'm going to do it.
42:33Okay, see?
42:34It's going to be okay.
42:36I'm going to come up and give you a hug.
42:39This is the part item about snow, buddy.
42:43Love you.
42:44It's going to be okay.
42:46We'll do it.
42:47We'll get it.
42:55We'll get it.
42:58I'm out.
43:02Cheers.
43:06Go get that shit. I will.
43:10I'm sad to see him go. I'm gonna miss him here.
43:14He's been with me all season. I just have to suck it up and do it.
43:18We got commitments. I'm gonna pull the gold. I'm gonna make sure those things happen.
43:22You just look for hope. Pray that it goes well
43:26and do the best you can.
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