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Gold Rush (2010) Season 16 Episode 07
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00:00I saw a few bones in the pay pile.
00:13Is that a mammoth tusk?
00:17Rib bone, I think.
00:20Right? Rib bone?
00:24I don't know.
00:30Yeah, so things are going really well so far.
00:34You know, we're like coming out of the gate moving and we're over 2,000 ounces,
00:40but I'm waiting for something to go massively wrong because things don't go this smoothly for very long.
00:46Six weeks into the season, 30-year-old Parker Schnabel's plan
00:51to mine more than $35 million in gold is right on schedule.
00:56Tyson is being an animal this year. He's done over 1,500 ounces already here on Dominion.
01:03And then Mitch is doing a really good job over at Sulphur.
01:07Sulphur had over a 350-ounce cleanup last week, so that's crazy.
01:13Parker's plan includes squeezing every ounce he can out of his Sulphur Creek claim,
01:19where foreman Mitch Blaschke has been hunting for gold-rich pockets the old-timers missed.
01:26You know, it's been full throttle since the beginning of the season here in Sulphur,
01:30trying to get all the work done before the water license expires.
01:32Just want to make sure that we get what's ours and don't leave anything behind.
01:38Mitch is down to just three weeks to get it all done.
01:42Making the job harder, his top dirt mover, Brennan Rule,
01:47was recently sent to open ground at their next claim.
01:50Right now we're threading a bunch of needles with Brennan trying to have the Indian River ready,
01:55Mitch trying to have Sulphur done before the water license expires.
01:58We need to get the whole project done, reclaimed, and be out.
02:12How's it going?
02:12Good.
02:14How are you?
02:14Doing well.
02:15Yeah.
02:16Nice to be getting to the close of this one.
02:17We can start the next project.
02:19Yeah.
02:19Holy, that's a hole.
02:22Wow.
02:24Very muddy hole.
02:34Nobody's done any panning in here, I'm guessing.
02:36Not on this upper section.
02:37We were trying to get it out as fast as we could, get her to the plant, and...
02:41Right.
02:41Well, I'll pan some of this, just out of curiosity.
02:48All right, well, let's see what we've got.
02:50Holy smokes.
03:16That's a hell of a pan.
03:17There must be 100 pieces of gold in there.
03:18Wow.
03:19Yeah.
03:20That's pretty wild.
03:23What do you think?
03:25It's worth staying here a little longer and getting that last little bit of pay.
03:29There's gold there, and that's what we're here for.
03:32But we got a lot of sluicing to do already this year, so...
03:34There's a lot of sluicing to do.
03:35It always turns into a lot bigger project than we think, doesn't it?
03:40I want to stand up there and look at it.
03:48How far does that go?
03:52Straight to this tree right here.
03:53That's probably where I would go to.
03:59You know, it's gonna be tight.
04:00Could just have, like, Brennan come over here.
04:02That's the best chance that you've got at getting the pay down here in time and getting it ran.
04:07That'd be sweet.
04:08All right.
04:08I'll keep you updated.
04:10Over the last six weeks, Mitch has dug out all the pay pockets of the two-acre cut
04:16and is sluicing the last of its stockpiled pay.
04:19But Parker believes the old-timer's dredge missed even more gold
04:25and thinks the pay streak extends up to the road.
04:29He wants Mitch to expand the cut by another two acres
04:33and sluice all of its pay before the water license runs out.
04:41If Parker's move pays off, he could bank another 500 ounces,
04:46worth $1.75 million.
04:51Just when we thought sulfur here was coming to a close
04:54in typical Parker fashion, now he's saying, you know,
04:57hey, I want even more dirt out of there.
04:59We're pushing this project all the way to its absolute limit.
05:02So I'm just hoping we can get everything done here in sluice,
05:04but it's just messing with our timeline.
05:06All right, the cavalry's here.
05:17We could certainly use the help.
05:18Whoo!
05:21We're here.
05:22Happy to help, man.
05:25To give Mitch a fighting chance, Parker has sent in the big guns.
05:31So we've got five trucks, two excavators, and the loader feeding the plant.
05:36We're on a hot streak right now.
05:38Let's stay with it, finish it off,
05:40and get every speck of gold we can get out of here.
05:44You know, everything up here is risk over reward.
05:47And right now, the risk is we got ourselves a lot of dirt to move here,
05:51not much time.
05:52But Parker thinks it's worth the reward.
06:07First gold way of the year, you're always hoping for a good one, right?
06:11It can set, you know, kind of set the pace for the rest of the year.
06:14We had the opposite of that.
06:15A hundred miles away, Rick Ness is still trying to recover from a major setback
06:22after failing to obtain the water license needed to mine his gold-rich Duncan Creek claim.
06:28The diamond cut on his new claim at Lightning Creek delivered just seven ounces.
06:36We're always in a race against time.
06:38But, you know, we start having gold ways like that,
06:40it just becomes even more and more serious, you know.
06:42There's no way we can make money off of that,
06:44but that doesn't mean that we can just, you know, call it quits here.
06:46Rick now finds himself in deep water.
06:49He's had to shut down wash plant Rocky, but has just one week to pay landowner Troy Taylor
06:57100 ounces to complete his purchase of Lightning Creek.
07:01We've got to move on. We've got to strip some new ground.
07:04We've already started that. We've moved up the valley.
07:05We've just got to pivot and pivot quick.
07:09We're late to the game this season, so we had to come into this location.
07:14It's definitely not as good ground as Vegas Valley.
07:17Hopefully we can get gold out of here to at least pay the bills.
07:22Everyone's getting pretty beat down.
07:24When you see low numbers and no gold coming in, it doesn't feel too good.
07:31It's definitely getting a little stressful being a little behind the gun here.
07:34So we're going to shift over here and change the odds.
07:38Hopefully start running some pay dirt soon.
07:41This is definitely the beginning of working our way up the valley for sure.
07:46You know, we need as much uncovered as we can, but pretty much it's just going to be trial and error.
07:51We want to make sure that, you know, this is going to be good pay and not garbage.
07:56Rick's going to come down to figure out what he wants me to do moving forward.
07:58Look at this.
08:08What are you thinking, Bailey?
08:09It's like the bedrock's right there and then it goes to sand.
08:13Obviously you don't want sand, but...
08:17Interesting.
08:19There's no telling what this bedrock might do.
08:21You're probably just going to have to follow it.
08:23Yes.
08:24Some of that along the banks looks like pay.
08:27Okay.
08:27But there's a spot right there where the bigger rocks.
08:31Look at that big rock right there.
08:33That's what we want to see.
08:35Nice.
08:37Do you want that top, gravelly stuff?
08:40I think so.
08:42Yeah, I would say that's the stuff we run.
08:43Bigger rocks should mean bigger deposits of gold.
08:49Over 150,000 years ago, a giant glacier eroded and picked up gold from the Mount Hinton motherlode.
08:58A massive ice sheet bulldozed down the valley, tearing up the landscape.
09:04When the ice melted, the gold settled in scattered pockets with the heavy rocks and boulders.
09:10I like it.
09:13Get the plant running and just start hauling that to the plant, that'd be great.
09:15Yeah.
09:16You call this the boulder cut?
09:17Cool.
09:18Hopefully it's got gold in it.
09:19Okay.
09:20Thanks, man.
09:21Yep.
09:23Bailey's getting on it right here.
09:25You know, he's doing a good job of getting this stripped off and
09:27there's a lot more bigger boulders and stuff in that ground.
09:29It just looks more promising, so I've got a good feeling about that.
09:35We're all pretty excited to run this stuff.
09:37We'll get this fired up and we'll start pounding dirt through it.
09:40Well, right now we're hauling pay to the plant.
09:53This pay layer definitely looks, you know, a lot better than the diamond cut.
09:58You know, there is big rocks in here and I'm hoping it's going to be really good.
10:02Something's going on with the bucket.
10:17I'm just not feeling proper.
10:19It doesn't have any strength trying to curl right now.
10:21Hey, Ryan, you got a copy, man?
10:25Go ahead, Bailey.
10:26Yeah, something's wrong with the 750 for sure.
10:28Okay.
10:29All right, man.
10:29Give me just a minute and I'll be over.
10:30Hopefully, Ryan can get down here and figure out what's going on.
10:34Because this is our main machine.
10:36That's the only thing that we got down here that can load rock trucks quick enough.
10:39So, right now we're on a standstill.
10:54We got issued with the 750 right now.
10:57I've probably got a couple more hours worth of pay here.
11:00If there's no pay at this plant, there's no gold in the box.
11:03So, it's pretty crucial to have that thing back up and running.
11:07At Lightning Creek, the Neskru 750 excavator has gone down,
11:12preventing them from digging pay dirt from the new boulder cut.
11:18I'd zip that plate off.
11:19Let's make as much room as we can.
11:21I'll get in there and I'll crack it open.
11:28All right, where is she at?
11:34All righty.
11:36Okay.
11:37We've got a pilot hose over here that comes from the back main pump
11:41and goes all the way up just underneath the cab.
11:43That's chafing pretty bad.
11:45The 750 excavator's bucket moves forward when hydraulic fluid is pumped through a hose
11:51into a cylinder with a piston at 5,000 pounds per square inch.
11:57The bucket is then forced to retract when the cylinder is injected with hydraulic fluid
12:03by a second hose.
12:06Ryan has discovered this hose has a leak in the body of the excavator near the pump.
12:17He plans to disconnect the hose and remove it, then replace it with a new one,
12:23restoring the hydraulic system's full pressure, allowing the bucket to once again haul six yards
12:30of boulder pay dirt with each scoop.
12:33Right here?
12:42Yeah, go ahead.
12:44Oh yeah, you're good.
12:48Look at this.
12:48Yeah, right there.
12:49So this will get us going, get us back in the pay, and keep things rolling.
12:58All right, I got it all zip tied up.
13:00Gonna get our bottom plates on, get our top plate mounted back,
13:02and Bailey will be back at it.
13:05Oh, baby.
13:11All right, bottom side's good.
13:14There you go.
13:14Perfect.
13:17Hey, Bailey, 750's fixed.
13:19Thanks, Ryan.
13:25We got the 750 up and running again, which is awesome.
13:28We got three trucks.
13:29We got to hurry up here and get that pay to the plant.
13:37I really need this to work out.
13:38We all need this to work out.
13:39This is our spot for the summer, and we need to start getting some gold out of it.
13:44I'm not going to sleep well until we get a whole run out of this ground.
13:46And if it doesn't start showing us gold, well, what good is it?
13:52You know, I'm not full panic mode, but I am definitely got my hand over the
13:58I'm not going to panic mode.
14:15So far, the season went pretty good.
14:18So happy happy, as they say.
14:21A month and a half into his season, king of the clunder, Tony Beetz, is cashing in
14:28on his early bird cut.
14:30Right now, we just lose a lot going.
14:32If it runs, don't with it.
14:34Get it going.
14:36He's already banked over 1,800 ounces of his 6,500-ounce target and is now opening the corner cut.
14:49The corner cut is so big that it's going to take us a while to get down the pay.
14:55But we should have plenty of time to get it all set up and do some serious losing.
15:00The minute we'll figure it out, voila.
15:04With Mike, when he has his crummel going, well, then we'll just see what we can pull off.
15:0940 miles away on Paradise Hill.
15:16Pretty busy right now.
15:18Here at Mike's shipping department.
15:20Turn my way a bit.
15:22Let's go to the next one.
15:25I'm told to get this organized.
15:26I'm told to get this ready.
15:27I'm told to get this going.
15:29This is all Indian River .
15:30I'm just a delivery boy.
15:31The trouble's not going to happen anytime soon at this rate.
15:37If he wants to see gold, my dad's going to have to leave me alone and let me do it.
15:42At the start of the season.
15:44You gave Kevin a bunch of help getting him going.
15:46So is there anything you're going to help us with?
15:48Tony's youngest son, Mike, made a case for his own claim.
15:54There is some opportunities out there.
15:56Let's get these two places here going first and then we'll talk.
16:00Tony tasked Mike with getting their Paradise Hill operation running.
16:05But two weeks ago.
16:07I don't know what the **** is going on.
16:08Tony stole half of his equipment and crew.
16:11If he don't like it, guess what?
16:13Sucks to be him.
16:15You try to take all my people and then all my **** and then expect me to still run the hill.
16:20Now, Mike's Paradise Hill trommel still sits idle.
16:26And he has no gold coming in.
16:31Hey, what's going on?
16:36What's the problem?
16:38Right now I'm in equipment.
16:39I can do one project at a time.
16:40I can sluice, I can strip.
16:42I do not have enough to do both.
16:44Which means I ain't going to be able to run the **** trommel here.
16:47No, you will not.
16:50You know Tony's train of thought, right?
16:56The Indian is the only thing that's producing right now.
16:59So that's what he wants to focus on.
17:03It's a little bit worrisome that he takes your equipment.
17:06Why can't I start taking **** back?
17:09That would go over really well.
17:10You and I both know that.
17:12So that's not going to happen.
17:14So what are you going to do now?
17:15Do you have a plan B?
17:16We have Harold, a nice plant sitting down in Hester.
17:21It's basically stupid proof.
17:23Just got to fuse some pipe, hook it up to the pump, test the pump.
17:27And then I just got to get an excavator and a loader down there and I could be sluicing.
17:30That's great.
17:31How would you feel to just have your own claim?
17:36Just your stuff?
17:38No interference with your father?
17:39Like Kevin?
17:40I would like it.
17:42It'd be fun.
17:42You think that's going to happen?
17:44**** no.
17:45He's too busy out there.
17:46You want to have a little wager?
17:5110 bucks, I say it will.
17:53We can also say 20 bucks.
17:56You're scared?
17:5820 bucks.
18:03With that being said, I do think you have to go back to work.
18:06I'll see you later.
18:07Mike got a little bit of a rough end of the deal here because he doesn't have all the people and
18:15all the equipment, but it's just the way Tony is. He focuses on what's right in front of him,
18:23not what's 60 miles down the road.
18:27Mike plans to use what little equipment Tony left behind to make a quick score by sluicing
18:34a pile of old-timer tailings that he believes are rich in gold.
18:40But first, he has to connect the water supply to wash plant Harold.
18:46So I'm going to be testing out our new fusing machine here without no water.
18:49You ain't sluice at all.
18:53If Mike can fit through, the pipe will fit.
18:57Spread your wings and fly, Mike.
19:04It works.
19:09Right now, we lift up the pipe so I can line it up.
19:14My way.
19:16Stop.
19:17I just lined them up.
19:18I'm tightening them up now.
19:19I'm waiting for the heating pad to warm up.
19:22Put it in there.
19:23Yeah, okay.
19:24That melts the pipe so that when I push it again, it fuses.
19:30Get ready.
19:32There you go.
19:34It's working.
19:44I heard thunder.
19:46Pull the tongue, bring it over here.
19:50Now it's raining pretty good.
19:52Hold it up.
19:53Try to cover it so it doesn't get pissed on rain.
19:55If rain gets into the melted junction, air bubbles will form and the fuse will burst under high water pressure.
20:04If we don't get this fuse together, I ain't getting no water to herald.
20:13Yeah, that should be good.
20:22The rain seems to be stopping.
20:24You guys can take it off.
20:25Before Mike can test if the fuses will hold, he needs to connect the pipe to the pump across the creek.
20:33Lift it up in the air.
20:41Yeah, it's looking good.
20:45Excellent.
20:45That's good, Zach.
20:46Pull it in.
20:52Cut.
20:52Next step is to put the suction in.
20:56Chain this up.
20:58Try not to get hit in the face with a bucket because it's not on my bucket list to do.
21:02The pipes are all hooked up, fused together.
21:16All I have to do is test fire the pump, make sure everything's working good.
21:21I have enough water, that's good.
21:40That's lovely.
21:41I love it.
21:43I'm firing up.
21:51Everything's working.
21:54First scoop into herald.
21:56Here we go.
22:02For the first time this season, Mike is on the gold.
22:09Nice to finally get this thing going.
22:11Got it there.
22:21Man, it was brutal.
22:34There's no way we would have made this happen without the trucks and the extra help up here.
22:39But we are finally down to pay, and we're going to load that in the trucks and haul it down to rock sand.
22:46At Sulphur Creek, Mitch Blaschke has hit pay in the first section of the new two-acre extension.
22:54Now, his crew is in a race to sluice it all before the water license runs out in less than three weeks.
23:01Holy .
23:06Loader operator Sean Holcroft is feeding the new pay through wash plant Roxanne.
23:13Parker, he's got some deadlines going.
23:15So we really got to bust our balls here and get moving.
23:18I got this little 220 loader.
23:21This thing's a little ancient.
23:22Still able to wash rocks with the plant, but she's a bit of a rough ride.
23:26I have my second year down here now.
23:28A big step up for me.
23:29A little bit more responsibilities.
23:30They're letting me do a lot more.
23:32It's pretty awesome to have this opportunity.
23:34I really love it.
23:42I don't know what the going on with this thing.
23:46Feels like you got the brakes are locking up.
23:51Let's take half load.
23:53Oh my .
23:56painful, man.
24:00Getting a low hydraulic oil board in here.
24:02Hey, Mitch.
24:08It's 220 here.
24:10It's up real bad.
24:11I guess they got no power.
24:13Barely making it up this ramp.
24:14There's no way I'm going to be able to keep up with this, even at 100 yards an hour.
24:18This is not what we need right now.
24:26Unfortunately, with 220 being down right now, we're going to shut Roxanne down.
24:31Shutting down Roxanne could mean losing over $8,000 an hour.
24:37Parker has all these ambitions and things he wants us to do this season, but we got one old
24:42loader out here, and right now we're not sleucing.
24:45To fix the loader, Mitch calls in mechanic Taylor Matika.
24:53I've got an alarm for low hydraulic oil.
24:56You can see there's nothing on the sight glass.
24:57With the machine running, the transmission oil was way high.
25:04It should be at the bottom of the sight glass here.
25:07We're way over full.
25:08So what caused this is the parking brake.
25:11And it's got a piston inside with seals that release the parking brake.
25:15These seals have failed, and the parking brake is dragging, and it's filling the transmission with
25:20hydraulic oil.
25:21I'm just going to pull the drain plug on the transmission here, and we'll let her back.
25:34Hopefully it's just the seals, but if a piece of got between the piston and the housing,
25:39we might have a piston, and that's going to be a huge problem.
25:45The 220 loader's parking brake is spring-loaded and controlled by hydraulic pressure.
25:52To access the brake, Taylor will first cage it by using three bolts that compress the springs,
25:58releasing the brake and securing the piston to the brake cover.
26:03He will then remove the 16 bolts that hold the cover in place and lift off the caged parking brake
26:09piston.
26:11Taylor can then remove and replace the damaged seals before reinstalling the brake, uncaging the springs,
26:18and refilling the hydraulic oil, allowing the parking brake to function properly.
26:25We're just buzzing the parking brake out here. We've got it caged with these three bolts.
26:33There we go. We'll take it out, put it on the back of my truck. Hopefully this thing's not
26:37because we can't afford a downloader. You can see here there's no real damage to the piston,
26:45but the parking brake seal is completely we need to replace it. Sean was right to give me a shout
26:51right away. We'll swap the seals out and put this thing back together. Let's get started.
26:56We'll peel these seals off. We're at the assembly stage now, just putting these seals in.
27:05Hey, Taylor. You got a copy, Taylor?
27:07Yeah, go ahead.
27:09How's it going over there, man?
27:11We're putting new seals in the parking brake right now.
27:13Thank God it was just the seals and we had them in stock.
27:15Give us about an hour and a half, two hours, and this thing will be up and running.
27:19All right, man. We'll be ready for it.
27:21Mitch is chomping at the bit to get this thing up and running. Then it's just, you know,
27:24race against time to get this thing back together. It's all good.
27:41Fill it with transmission oil. We can be back to making money.
27:47Transmission's full. Parking brakes reassembled, resealed.
27:51Everything's hooked up. Lay down. Good boy.
28:06I'm going to take it down to Sean so they can go fire up Roxanne.
28:16Oh, yeah, buddy. Thanks, man.
28:19Five hours after shutting down and $40,000 of gold production lost,
28:25Roxanne is back in the game.
28:27We're washing rocks. Roxanne's shaking.
28:31Getting that gold.
28:32Now we got Roxanne on a good clip here. It's sluicing along very nicely.
28:38We're pushing this project here at Sulphur all the way to its absolute limit.
28:42We're getting through it, but we're not out of the woods yet.
28:46I'm sorry for today, I'm trying to work on the 알고 Argh blah blah blah.
28:56I'm sorry.
28:58I'm sorry for that.
28:58I'm sorry.
29:00I don't need a new idea.
29:01I'm sorry for that.
29:01I'm sorry for that.
29:02I'm sorry for that.
29:02I've never been able to walk on the coast here yet.
29:04But I'm sorry for that.
29:04I'm sorry for that.
29:05I'm sorry.
29:05I'm sorry for that.
29:06I'm sorry for that.
29:07we understand we're not mining vegas valley it's different it's up for us to prove that
29:18there is something here it's going to be non-stop it's not going to be uh it's not going to be an
29:23easy season i think this will be our toughest season with rick rick's crew is sluicing pay
29:29dirt from the new boulder cut which they hope will finally deliver some gold we're going to
29:35probably work our way up this valley probably all season hopefully uh you know the farther we go
29:40or the more that we run the better it looks guys i need you all to come meet me at the lay down here
29:49i want all of you there
30:05what's going on i got some news
30:36what's going on i got some news
30:42we got a water license on lower duncan really yes
30:47yeah yeah that's actually really good news got something for you guys
30:51we got the news today from the attorney they granted an extension until november 2025. we can go
31:12break ground vegas valley start draining it we can get gold from vegas valley this year was that a
31:16verified email the verified email okay good yeah yeah we 100 percent have a water license a land
31:23use permit and everything at lower duncan in just four years rick's claim on lower duncan paid out
31:30nearly 6 000 ounces but after losing the water license he had to abandon it including a pay pile
31:38that could contain more than 1.4 million dollars in gold we already got a pile up there ready to run
31:46and you know we can actually run that now so what does that mean for this deal
31:52well that's a good point because we can't just walk away from this i promised troy another hundred
31:56ounces to buy lightning creek i'm not just going to pull a hundred ounce out of here and give it to
32:00troy and walk away you know we've got to pull some serious gold out of here but this is really good news
32:06i don't even think you've seen the best out of vegas valley yet no and i'm hoping we haven't seen
32:10the best out of this yeah you know i think our future is really bright i've got a lot to figure
32:14out but we've got a water license and we are going back to vegas valley this is cause for celebration
32:19yeah guys all right
32:27you know in my head right now i'm very happy there's a lot going on right now it's like one extreme to the
32:31other right we had no water license now we've got a water license in two spots you know i want to just
32:36run to vegas valley i know the gold's there but i've got obligations on lightning creek you know i owe
32:40troy 100 ounces you know that's that's a quarter million dollars so there's a lot to figure out but
32:44at the end of the day this is good news
33:03that's nice to be finally solution it's been a long time coming
33:06at paradise hill despite a lack of equipment mike is determined to prove to his dad that he can
33:15bring in the gold just careful not to overload it
33:20it's nice to get this going it's exactly what i wanted closer and closer every time
33:26oh
33:27uh we got a gasket blowing out on this pump shut it down
33:35close the bypass
33:45ah
33:47pain in the ass yeah but that's got to get fixed before we can keep going
33:52going to lift this up take these off so i can get this little orange piece here and i can check the
33:58rubber
34:03if you open the excavator i'll wrap it around we'll just lift it
34:16yeah because these are coming off like butter
34:22my gasket's ripped completely yeah she ripped right apart my only two rubbers i got too small or weave it
34:31too big
34:35you can make that work though you know what i mean cut holes we're gonna have to around with this
34:41what we're gonna do is mark out all the holes and then we'll just push the bolt holes through
34:57then i'm gonna cut and yeah that bolt will fit through it
35:00yeah there should be 12
35:07it's a little scabby but it'll work for the bush fix gasket to work it must form a tight seal
35:15between the two metal flanges a little bit more of my weight there we go
35:19if we do this and it works it should last until forever
35:23hey that's my butt
35:34let her down
35:34that's tight this should all work
35:50it should be able to get this thing going
36:08finally uh getting this done
36:10but now we'll be happy to get any gold so i'm gonna grab every ounce of gold i can out that dirt
36:15between me and colby we should be able to get this thing going
36:18this will be running for the rest of the season
36:23so
36:30mike beats may be dreaming of his own klondike kingdom but there is already a crown he wears proud
36:39according to everyone i'm a king around so this should be nothing new
36:42so chase the beaver
36:48you make me
36:53so you i leave you guys alone for what two minutes and then you're around again let's go
36:58nice around
37:17whoa oh yeah nice glasses thanks man how are you no fire no it's too hot for that it's hot summer
37:26finally got here yeah it came fast it was a smart move to pivot from a diamond cut there's no way we
37:32can make a living off it and uh you know i like the spot that we moved to um it's definitely looking
37:37better um in every way there's boulders there yeah it is nicer material compared to that stuff that
37:43we just dug out at the start of the diamond cut so we're on the right track yeah well i guess maybe
37:48we should weigh up the gold rick's previous spot the diamond cut produced just 7.35 ounces
37:57now he's hoping the new boulder cut will deliver at least 30 ounces for its run time
38:04all right count it out
38:09one two five seven eight nine ten twelve
38:16eighteen twenty twenty two
38:19twenty two point three five worth seventy eight thousand dollars
38:28definitely an improvement we gotta look at it that way three times better yeah
38:35i mean i obviously what that water license coming is huge um but a lot of decisions come with that you
38:40know there's a lot of pieces that have to fall in you know fall into place what's going through your
38:44head tough it out here i mean we're gonna have to go back to vegas valley i mean i want to and
38:52maybe at the end of the day this is just not the happening spot right here
38:58we can't abandon this place i did buy it but the one thing that i can say is that we can't afford to
39:03just shut this down while we're you know we got to take advantage of all the sluicing hours we can
39:07get how many gold ways do we say there can be improvement before we finally say we need to get
39:11our asses back to vegas valley at the end of the day i owe troy you know 100 ounces on this ground so
39:17we can't just walk away from it right now it's the only spot we're getting gold from does he care
39:20where the 100 ounces comes from because i'm telling you now you're going to get 100 ounces a lot quicker
39:25you do the math it doesn't make sense to hit 1800 ounces by the end of the season you know it's going to take a
39:29get vegas valley ready so the minute we're able to sluice down there we will go there that's a
39:34promise i think i think we should go there now well that's too bad i think there's gold here
39:42i hope you're right definitely the pressure's going to be on man
39:49thanks guys i appreciate it yeah this gold way was better than last week but it's not as good as
39:54what lower duncan could be there could be 400 ounces in that pay pile so you know
39:59for us to try to reach 1800 ounces uh we need to be down there right away well the gold total for
40:04the week 22.3 ounces yeah three times is good but the exciting thing is we got the water lines
40:08extension back on duncan creek so we go back to vegas valley which is huge news now everybody's just
40:14arguing on when they want to go there immediately but the timing is just not right you know it's going
40:17to take a few days to get that ready and i'm not willing to stop getting gold from lightning creek until
40:21until it is ready so we're gonna stick it out here and we'll be back in vegas valley soon
40:29hello hey guys hey guys how are you here how are you good yes good good have a seat
40:46i've been here pretty much all week sluicing away on the early bird cut there doing very well actually i
40:52think busy stripping the corner cut so being going actually quite well how about you guys yeah i set up
40:59herald yeah we uh did some old time in tailings didn't we might as well sluice it's sitting there
41:05oh really perfect anything you get is bonus i mean if the prize is off the day rather than
41:11throwing it away that don't make no sense did it show anything well there's a little bit
41:16a little bit better counted quick i guess huh i'll pour slow there were one two three four
41:25and a five and a six and a seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fourteen point two eight
41:37worth nearly fifty thousand dollars it all adds up it all adds up i'm proud of you that is a good
41:45little venture so you want to see what comes from the indian okay what do we got so far the early bird
41:52cut is averaging 270 ounces a week michael ready to count
42:0010 30 40 50 100 110 120 170 190
42:08200 210 250 250 260 270 270 280 290 310 320 330 340 350 390
42:21making the four no no no it's 398.18 worth almost 1.4 million dollars but i mean you didn't make four
42:32oh my bringing the beat season total to over 2300 ounces so that's not bad you said at the beginning
42:41of the season that there were some maybe some opportunities for mike as soon as you started
42:45getting gold out of the hill so what's happening with that no no no no you gotta get the thrombo growing
42:53that's where the real gold is going to come from but that's all there's to it just go bring me some
42:58more okay see you later guys yep bye i do hope tony will honor what he said to mike because he's been
43:09working very hard to get this all sorted out so he should get him set up honestly mike really deserves it
43:18the frustrating part is i think i have a better chance of learning to breathe through my ass than i
43:21have i'm going on my own whatever what's up yo yo well how'd we do this week chris roxanne's just
43:37chugging away man that was an unreal pan down there at sulfur the pan was probably one of the best ones
43:43we've ever seen it's up there top 10. i hate saying anything i don't want to jinx anything you know yeah
43:50i'm pretty good at that how's your juggling act going you know it's keeping me busy that's for
43:58sure i'm gonna start out with you with bob how's that sure let's see how bob did this week big bob
44:06at dominion creek tyson's been running wash plant bob in the bridge cut where it's averaging 170 ounces a week
44:14here we go we got 20 40 60 80 100 120 160 180 188.4
44:31nice not bad that's a good weight so bob's chugging along brendan you want to do a slucifer here go for it
44:39all right slucifer in the golden mile is pacing 200 ounces a week 20 40 60 80 100 120 150 180 200
44:57holy 232.1
45:00wow holy yeah nice that's pretty cool beautiful that's a good week for dominion 420 ounces or
45:10something that's a good number
45:16and then there's roxanne mitchell oh she looks heavy see what we got here ready ready yep now it's time to
45:27find out if parker's move to extend the cut at sulfur will pay out 50 100 150 200 oh yeah keep going
45:44250 a little bit more
45:46300 right on the dot plus this we have another one it looks like it's got a little in there ready
45:59all right we're gonna keep adding to her there's another 40 80 100
46:11106.5
46:16406.5 ounces okay yeah yeah yeah yeah that's a boy mitch go ahead go ahead and take everything up
46:26there with just one plant mitch has nearly matched tyson's two plant run
46:35two that's a lot for one week yeah so this week our total is 827 ounces
46:44sick is that crazy or what i was not expecting that 827 ounces at record prices is worth 2.89
46:56million dollars the most cash parker's ever banked in one week that's parker's happy face
47:05there we go 800 ounces dude you got to be happy about that in a week oh yeah i just hope we can
47:14keep it up but there's still so much season left good way to start it that's a good way to start it
47:19thank you guys cool i'll bag this stuff up we've all got to do
47:26after several years of just moving from the indian river and getting set up and a lot deeper ground
47:31on dominion it's taken a long time of like stripping and prep and finally this season
47:37like i don't want to jinx it but it's looking really good we're coming out of the gates running so
47:43hopefully we can just keep that up right and then sulfur is just killing it
48:13so
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