Gold Rush- Alaska - Season 16 Episode 01- Records Will Be Broken
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00:00:00Market volatility.
00:00:02Gold stands out.
00:00:04Gold just hit a new record, $3,500 an ounce.
00:00:07And the price of gold has been climbing.
00:00:09This is somewhere that economists believe
00:00:11will continue to be a safe haven.
00:00:13It is more... Tony.
00:00:18Hey, Parker. How's it going, man?
00:00:19Good. How are you?
00:00:21Well, I'm just hanging in there.
00:00:23Yeah? You got some of that tiny, shiny coming in?
00:00:26Yes.
00:00:27Good.
00:00:28It has all the makings of a good season, Parker.
00:00:31Hey.
00:00:32Gold price.
00:00:33Yeah.
00:00:34I don't even like to talk about it or look at it.
00:00:36Me neither, because it should be illegal.
00:00:38That's how high it is, isn't it?
00:00:39Well, then it, like, goes down $300.
00:00:41And I'm like, what's happening?
00:00:42And it's like, oh, it's still up $1,000.
00:00:44Yes.
00:00:45If you want to beef up your piggy bank,
00:00:47well, that'll be the year.
00:00:49Whether I want to say the number or not,
00:00:51because I keep saying it and not hitting it,
00:00:53but, um, no, we're going to have to start doing $10,000 a year
00:00:56for a while now.
00:00:58That's a lot of bucks.
00:00:59You better get with it.
00:01:00Bring it on.
00:01:02You're going big.
00:01:03What do you need to do?
00:01:05Six, six and a half.
00:01:07If we do more, we do more.
00:01:08Yeah.
00:01:09Anyway, that's all the makings of a good year,
00:01:11as long as the price stays there.
00:01:13Yeah, no, it's good to see you.
00:01:15I'm glad you're doing well.
00:01:17Same to you.
00:01:18Hopefully the wars are behind us.
00:01:20Right.
00:01:26Bye.
00:01:27Bye.
00:01:31Tony and I have known each other for, you know, 14 years.
00:01:34That's wild.
00:01:36Like 99% of the time, it's great.
00:01:40That 1% absolutely sucks,
00:01:42and he's like one of the biggest on the planet.
00:01:44But 99% of the time, it's just wonderful.
00:01:49Maybe 95%.
00:01:5516 years ago.
00:01:57Three-fifths of an ounce, which is about $800.
00:02:01A global financial crash caused gold prices to rocket.
00:02:07It's just gold fever.
00:02:09$1,000 an ounce.
00:02:11I'm going to hit you in it.
00:02:13Sparking.
00:02:14Let's find it up.
00:02:15A modern-day gold rush.
00:02:17It's alive.
00:02:18Watch the rocks, baby.
00:02:19But striking it rich proved harder than imagined.
00:02:23That's it.
00:02:24We're done.
00:02:25Now, breaking news on Wall Street with stocks tumbling.
00:02:30Gold and safe havens, they are surging.
00:02:33Gold prices have more than tripled to an all-time high.
00:02:38$3,500 per ounce.
00:02:41We're going gold mining, boys.
00:02:43Hang on!
00:02:46With just six months to cash in.
00:02:50Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:02:51Are we here for a shootout?
00:02:55Top dogs.
00:02:56I don't ask questions.
00:02:57I give orders.
00:02:58Are you going to behave?
00:02:59And underdogs.
00:03:01I'm just a delivery boy.
00:03:02I don't really give a .
00:03:03I just want to get paid.
00:03:04Collide.
00:03:05Alive.
00:03:06I got a job offer from Parker.
00:03:09Look out!
00:03:10And played dirty.
00:03:12Can I trust you on this?
00:03:13Uh, yeah.
00:03:15To hit the jackpot.
00:03:17Holy smokes.
00:03:20That's a hell of a pant.
00:03:21We joke about it being an addiction, but it literally is.
00:03:24Some.
00:03:25You made a mess.
00:03:27Will not survive.
00:03:28Pick me out, somebody to fire.
00:03:30Get rid of it.
00:03:31It sucks, man.
00:03:32It really sucks.
00:03:34Others.
00:03:37Soar to new heights.
00:03:39You guys are killing it.
00:03:42There's nothing like making money off your kid's system.
00:03:45And set records.
00:03:47I was not expecting that.
00:03:49They're the amazing .
00:03:50Yeah.
00:03:522,043 and a half ounces.
00:03:56That's wild.
00:03:57You get a pan.
00:03:58You get a pan.
00:03:59You get a pan.
00:04:00Genuinely, that's insane.
00:04:02The Yukon.
00:04:22North America's last frontier.
00:04:28For over a century,
00:04:29prospectors have scoured these valleys and creeks
00:04:32for life-changing gold.
00:04:36With just a few summer months to make their fortunes.
00:04:41The stars are aligned for us.
00:04:44Gold price is crazy.
00:04:45We've got a ton of ground prepped on Dominion,
00:04:48and we're going to be able to stretch our legs
00:04:51and really run and see what it's made out of.
00:04:54This is the year that we'll find out.
00:04:5630-year-old Parker Schnabel is on the precipice
00:04:59of a career-defining season.
00:05:02The gold mining prodigy, who started out with a crew of two,
00:05:06is now a mining mogul with 60 machines and a 40-person crew.
00:05:11We've got amazing people.
00:05:12And then we have, like, this crazy gold price.
00:05:14And we're dangerously close to things being really good.
00:05:16I just want to go to work.
00:05:17I just want to wash rocks.
00:05:18And, you know, get sluicy-goosey for the tiny-shiny.
00:05:20That's all I want to do.
00:05:21I did not.
00:05:22I have not told you how to do your job one time this whole year.
00:05:24Just 16 years old when he first became a mine boss.
00:05:28I'm pretty young.
00:05:29And it's tough to, you know, I never know if I'm doing the right thing or not.
00:05:31Parker struggled.
00:05:32I'm spending the money here, and I make the calls.
00:05:35To manage his crew.
00:05:36If you can't handle it, you can't handle it.
00:05:39I'm going to go to work.
00:05:41And, you know, get sluicy-goosey for the tiny-shiny.
00:05:44That's all I want to do.
00:05:45I did not.
00:05:46I have not told you how to do your job one time this whole year.
00:05:49Just 16 years old when he first became a mine boss.
00:05:52I'm pretty young.
00:05:53And it's tough to, you know, I never know if I'm doing the right thing or not.
00:05:57Parker struggled.
00:05:58I'm spending the money here, and I make the calls.
00:06:01If you can't handle it, then maybe this isn't the place for you.
00:06:05You are making an enemy out of me.
00:06:07But as the young miner grew.
00:06:10In gold mining, you're only as good as the people you have.
00:06:13He evolved.
00:06:17Oh, yeah.
00:06:18Look at that.
00:06:19Our season starts now.
00:06:21I'll stand behind him any day of the week.
00:06:23With a vision that spawned a gold mining empire.
00:06:27Wow.
00:06:28That's the biggest clean-out we've ever had.
00:06:30And delivered more than $115 million in gold.
00:06:36This does not stop here.
00:06:41I'm losing faith in you guys.
00:06:43But last season.
00:06:46It's been one fight after the next.
00:06:48We're not making money when we're doing it like this.
00:06:51It's frustrating.
00:06:52I know what we were doing was wrong.
00:06:54Parker crashed and burned.
00:06:57Worst clean-up ever.
00:07:02I don't like this feeling.
00:07:04I don't like being a loser.
00:07:06We came up short and it's not going to happen again.
00:07:12This winter I have spent all the money I can get my hands on.
00:07:16Buying equipment and hiring people.
00:07:19It's a challenge.
00:07:21This is kind of uncharted territory for me.
00:07:23So much s*** going on.
00:07:24We just have to hammer down, focus on washing rocks, fill in jars, and everybody's going to have to step up.
00:07:3640 miles southeast of Dawson City lies Parker's Kingdom, an area nearly the size of Manhattan.
00:07:47His main operation is Dominion Creek, land he's bought where he'll run three wash plants to deliver the bulk of his gold.
00:07:5525 miles northwest, he'll send a satellite crew to Sulfur Creek to hunt for pockets of gold left behind by the old timers.
00:08:07Running the enormous operation will cost Parker $100,000 each day.
00:08:15But if he's successful, he could bring in more than $35 million in gold this year.
00:08:22What's happening, man?
00:08:26How are you guys?
00:08:27Yo, yo.
00:08:28Doing good, how are you?
00:08:29Not too bad.
00:08:31Welcome to my map room.
00:08:33Very nice.
00:08:35Swear it all happens, eh?
00:08:37How was your winter?
00:08:38It was good.
00:08:40I was a bum for the most part.
00:08:45To execute his master plan, Parker's counting on his trusted lieutenants, Mitch Blaschke and Tyson Lee.
00:08:53We're gonna do 10,000 ounces this year.
00:08:59Like, we keep talking about it, but we actually have to just do it.
00:09:03So, we're gonna run four plants this year.
00:09:07Wow.
00:09:09Trying to run four wash plants, it's like, we were all over the place last year trying to cover our bases and like, we're gonna be spread out.
00:09:17You know how it is when that happens.
00:09:19Yeah.
00:09:20I know, I know that there's gonna be a lot of challenges.
00:09:22I'm, I'm not, I don't disagree with you.
00:09:26Tyson, I need you on Dominion, running the whole operation.
00:09:30Right.
00:09:33So, good luck.
00:09:35Thanks.
00:09:36I'll need it.
00:09:38I don't know what's gonna come out of sulfur, and it's gonna be a difficult project, so I need you to go over there, Mitch, and get that sorted out first.
00:09:45We only have a partial season on the water license, so we need to get it done in a hurry.
00:09:52All right.
00:09:53Parker's sulfur water license, a permit to pull water from creeks to wash gold, expires in just 10 weeks.
00:10:01After that, he can't mind the claim.
00:10:05What kind of crew do we have to get this done?
00:10:08We've hired a bunch of new people.
00:10:11Okay.
00:10:13One big thing is people who can't do their job, we need to fire.
00:10:17We want to have the best of the best.
00:10:19But you guys are the ones that are gonna be able to make this happen or not.
00:10:23It's brutal, right?
00:10:24It's gonna be a stressful year for you two.
00:10:32Yeah.
00:10:35I know it's a bit of a daunting task, but, like, I'm excited.
00:10:38It'll be exhausting.
00:10:39Yeah.
00:10:40No days off.
00:10:41You just had six months off.
00:10:43Yeah.
00:10:47Thanks for coming back.
00:10:48Yeah.
00:10:49I appreciate having you guys here.
00:10:51I'm looking forward to this season.
00:10:52Yeah, for sure.
00:10:53Thanks, man.
00:10:54There's a lot of work to do.
00:10:58There's a lot of gold to find.
00:11:00Now it's up to Mitch and Tyson to get the job done.
00:11:05Hopefully.
00:11:09The job will get done.
00:11:10Hopefully it's the two of them that does it, is what I mean.
00:11:17Things are already starting off a little bit different here.
00:11:20Parker made it very clear that, you know, everybody's got to pull their weight,
00:11:23and then some.
00:11:24We got no room for air.
00:11:26Last year, Mitch was in charge.
00:11:29This year, it's gonna be on my shoulders.
00:11:32Last year, I was managing one wash plant.
00:11:34This year, gonna be managing three.
00:11:37So, no cups.
00:11:38We've got to find a ton of gold.
00:11:40Tyson's first mission is to start pulling in gold on Dominion's bridge cut.
00:11:52The crew has spent two years mining this spot with mixed results.
00:11:57Now, Parker's season rides on it, delivering big.
00:12:03But there's a problem.
00:12:05Over winter, water flooded the cut.
00:12:08And the gold-bearing pay dirt is buried under three feet of solid ice.
00:12:14I'm in the 250.
00:12:15Got Michael in the 390.
00:12:16Coming to work for Parker, it's kind of the dream come true.
00:12:19I like the way he runs his outfit.
00:12:20His gear's really nice.
00:12:21I'm in the 250.
00:12:22Got Michael in the 390.
00:12:26Coming to work for Parker, it's kind of the dream come true.
00:12:44I like the way he runs his outfit.
00:12:46His gear's really nice.
00:12:52We got Amy here.
00:12:53First truckload ice heading out of the cut.
00:12:55First of many.
00:12:57This is my first time driving a rock truck.
00:13:02Before they can get to pay dirt, Tyson's crew needs to shift over 25,000 tons of ice.
00:13:14I think realistically, how the hell are we going to do all this in a week?
00:13:26Right now, I'd like to be setting up the wash plant and firing it up today.
00:13:30But we're a long ways away from that.
00:13:41How are things going?
00:13:43Well, man, the ice is a lot thicker than we thought, eh?
00:13:46Yeah, there's a lot of ice in here.
00:13:48And it's really rotten.
00:13:50Mm-hmm.
00:13:51So what's your plan?
00:13:52Just keep building piles, trucking off this ice.
00:13:56Right.
00:13:58Okay.
00:13:59We have extra trucks in the yard, no?
00:14:02You got any more people?
00:14:04Any more iron you can give us?
00:14:06I don't know.
00:14:07Okay.
00:14:08Thanks, dude.
00:14:09No worries.
00:14:10See ya.
00:14:11If by the end of the week, I don't have the ice out of this cut from the wash plant going, we'll have failed my first task first week of the season.
00:14:26Parker just wants the ice out and the wash plant going, the long and short of it.
00:14:43I don't really want to spend money trucking ice, but we really don't have much of an alternative, so we're just going to have to suck it up.
00:14:58We need to get sleuthing.
00:15:00That's going to be what makes or breaks the season.
00:15:03Yeah, here we go.
00:15:28I can't believe we're sleuthing as early as we are.
00:15:31We started the season early, but we want to keep that up.
00:15:36Everybody's in their eyes.
00:15:38Ten miles south at Indian River, King of the Clondon, Tony Beetz, is already two weeks ahead of his rivals.
00:15:47We're giving a , and the gold prize is in our favor.
00:15:50We were losing days for two weeks.
00:15:53We got the early bird cut.
00:15:55It was all top ground, so that was awesome.
00:15:57Tony's hoping for a quick score from the 13-acre early bird cut.
00:16:02If the gold price stays where it is, and we lose most of the summer like we did last year, then,
00:16:09me, you're going to make enough money to set up three generations.
00:16:14When there's opportunities there, grab it.
00:16:18Forty years ago, Tony and wife Minnie left the Netherlands to seek their fortune in the Yukon.
00:16:26All we have was 300 bucks.
00:16:28I work 14 hours a day, every day.
00:16:31From nothing, Tony grew a $60 million mining dynasty.
00:16:37I'm trying to build a future for my kids.
00:16:40They've got to take over.
00:16:41They're going to have to run the circus all by themselves.
00:16:49Piece of .
00:16:50I've never, ever, never, ever had that much horse here before.
00:16:55Until two years ago.
00:16:57There's six, seven million in the hole.
00:16:59When the business descended into chaos.
00:17:02Have I ever seen the up? Then I'm looking at it.
00:17:04His family fractured.
00:17:06He's running it into the ground.
00:17:09He told me this cut was going to be mine.
00:17:12Oh, really?
00:17:13Yeah.
00:17:15Feeling a little shafted.
00:17:17I shot down a plant.
00:17:20You just quit.
00:17:21You got to be kidding me.
00:17:23Every time.
00:17:27I'll tell you one thing.
00:17:28I won't give up that easy.
00:17:31But the Klondike King pulled his family together.
00:17:35Our kids are really stepping up this year.
00:17:38Keeping son Mike and daughter Monica working for him.
00:17:42I appreciate everything you're doing to help me.
00:17:44Anything for family, Monica.
00:17:45But giving eldest son Kevin the chance to set up his own operation.
00:17:50How's that sound to you?
00:17:51That sounds very, very nice.
00:17:54By the end of last season.
00:17:55The more you make, the better we like you make.
00:17:58The Beats had reeled in a record 5,777 ounces.
00:18:04Worth $14.4 million.
00:18:09That sure is a hell of a lot better than last year.
00:18:11It is not a time to sit back and enjoy.
00:18:17It is a time to get your sh** together and get out there in the morning and make things happen.
00:18:23You owe that to the next generation.
00:18:25People can have money.
00:18:27People can have a lot of things.
00:18:29But kids and grandkids, there's something that if you don't have that, you don't have very much.
00:18:34Tony believes his claims could deliver a jaw-dropping 6,500 ounces this season.
00:18:45Worth more than $22 million.
00:18:48Hey guys.
00:18:50Hello there.
00:18:51How's she looking?
00:18:52Well, she's...
00:18:53Yellow.
00:18:54Got yellow stuff.
00:18:56Good thing we started early, Mike, huh?
00:18:57Yeah.
00:18:58When the sun is shining, you're better ready to make some hay.
00:19:01Yeah.
00:19:02Right?
00:19:03Especially at this price.
00:19:04There you go.
00:19:05Is Tony already sluicing?
00:19:08He's the first to weigh out his gold.
00:19:11I can always get more gold.
00:19:13I cannot always get this price.
00:19:16So let's wait and have a look at it.
00:19:19All right.
00:19:20Ready, set, go.
00:19:27Let's wait and have a look at it.
00:19:28At Indian River, Tony Beetz is gambling on an early season score to cash in on record-high gold prices.
00:19:37There.
00:19:38Ready, set.
00:19:39Let's go.
00:19:40He's already sluiced nearly half of the early bird cut.
00:19:4450, 60, 70.
00:19:46Which he's counting on to deliver at least 300 ounces.
00:19:5190, 260, 290, 300.
00:19:56Wow.
00:19:58360, 390, 417 and 56.
00:20:06Ain't that a beaut?
00:20:08That's pretty amazing.
00:20:10In just two weeks, the Beetz have pulled in one and a half million dollars.
00:20:16I'd say it's a record for us.
00:20:18That justifies as to what the we're doing.
00:20:20That's a lot of money right there.
00:20:23If we can keep this up, we go.
00:20:26So, how have you planned out this summer?
00:20:30Mike, you're going to be on the hill as usual.
00:20:33Monica, it would be nice if you could oversee in the gold room cleaning the gold.
00:20:38Sounds good to me.
00:20:39But I was thinking, you gave Kevin a bunch of help getting him going.
00:20:44So is there anything you're going to help us with?
00:20:46There is some opportunities out there.
00:20:47Let's get these two places here going first and then we'll talk.
00:20:52Not making any promises until I have that in place.
00:20:55Right?
00:20:56I'm okay with that.
00:20:57You?
00:20:58There you go.
00:20:59So all hands on deck.
00:21:00We gotta go.
00:21:02I'm very interested to see what Tony was talking about in terms of other opportunities.
00:21:15I think it's really cool that Kevin has gone out on his own, but Michael's been out here since he was 12.
00:21:25Mike's really chomping the bit to do more things.
00:21:29Big picture goals.
00:21:30I would like my own mind, but right now it's not a priority.
00:21:33I have a bunch of other I have to get done.
00:21:35We'll see.
00:21:37Mike and Monica, they'll be acting about getting started for themselves.
00:21:42But right now we're busy other places, so they're just going to have to hang in there for a little bit.
00:21:48Anyway, I never had that much gold that early.
00:21:51A great start to the season.
00:21:58One hundred miles away, in Keno, Rick Ness...
00:22:15Yeah, that's a big pile of dirt.
00:22:17...is sitting on a pile of gold at his Duncan Creek claim.
00:22:22I would say there's probably pretty damn close to 400 ounces sitting there, and right now that's worth over a million dollars.
00:22:29And it's ready to go. Our plant's sitting right there.
00:22:33The bad news is, is we still don't have a water license, and we can't touch this.
00:22:38It blows my mind.
00:22:40Rick's water license, essential to mining, still hasn't come through.
00:22:46Until he gets it, he can't mine Duncan Creek.
00:22:50I almost don't even know if I should do this.
00:22:54I'm thinking it would make me...
00:22:56I'm thinking it would satisfy me.
00:22:57I'm thinking it would probably just make me more mad.
00:23:08Oh, .
00:23:09That's outrageous amount of gold in one pan.
00:23:11I don't even know what the emotion is right now.
00:23:14Normally I see a pan like that, and I hit the f***ing roof.
00:23:18This is, uh...
00:23:20That's unbelievable.
00:23:23And we can't touch it.
00:23:31Hit the bot patch!
00:23:34Rick Ness...
00:23:35I expected growing pains, but this is f***ing outrageous.
00:23:37...is a fighter...
00:23:40Booyah!
00:23:41...with a small crew of buddies...
00:23:44...paying them out each season from his haul.
00:23:48Here's one of those for each of you guys.
00:23:50You guys earned it.
00:23:51...a miner for 13 years.
00:23:53What?
00:23:54I know.
00:23:55He's had highs...
00:23:56That's like an ounce right there.
00:23:57F*** them! F*** everybody! F*** yourselves!
00:23:59...and lows.
00:24:01No! No, no, no!
00:24:03I don't know what else to do right now.
00:24:05It's getting out of control.
00:24:06...always on the brink of losing it all.
00:24:09That's one last farewell kick in the balls.
00:24:13But last season...
00:24:14This is it.
00:24:15Now this is all mine.
00:24:17...he bought his own ground.
00:24:19Let's go!
00:24:20Vegas Valley, here we go.
00:24:22Woo!
00:24:23Yeah!
00:24:24...hit the jackpot...
00:24:25...and reeled in $4.5 million in gold.
00:24:29That's it.
00:24:30I did it.
00:24:31I've got some bad news.
00:24:33...only to be gut-punched.
00:24:35We've got a big problem with the water license being approved.
00:24:39And I can't guarantee you'll have the license next year.
00:24:43Without the water license, you can't mind.
00:24:50Now, Rick must find a way to pull a rabbit out of the hat again.
00:25:00What's up, dudes?
00:25:01How about you?
00:25:02Nice crutches.
00:25:03Yeah, you like Jose?
00:25:05Good start.
00:25:06With nowhere to mind, only half Rick's crew has made it back for now.
00:25:12Well, you guys have seen it all.
00:25:15You've seen the good.
00:25:16You've seen the bad.
00:25:17You've seen the opportunity.
00:25:19You've seen the setbacks.
00:25:21It's a mess right now.
00:25:24It's not just us.
00:25:25I mean, there's a lot of people getting screwed.
00:25:27There's no one shutting the door right now saying that, you know, your water license is never coming in.
00:25:31It's just tied up.
00:25:35So what are we doing here with no water license?
00:25:37It's not the only pile of gold out here, and that's why you're here.
00:25:40We just have to find another one.
00:25:43But it's not going to be on this ground.
00:25:48And you know what?
00:25:49Gold prices are $1,000 more an ounce than when we left here last year.
00:25:53I mean, that's insanity.
00:25:55This is not the year to quit.
00:25:56No.
00:25:58We need 1,800 ounces this year.
00:26:02Yeah, I know that things seem down, but you know what?
00:26:05We are here, and I am going to find us a spot.
00:26:07At the end of the day, that's what we're going to do.
00:26:10But if this water license comes through at any point this summer, you bet your ass I want to move us back here.
00:26:15I mean, you haven't let us down yet.
00:26:18All right.
00:26:19All right.
00:26:20Hopefully, Rick understands what he's doing here, and hopefully, like, wherever we're going, it's going to be good.
00:26:28I want to start moving some dirt.
00:26:30These guys have stuck with me through a lot, and glad to see they're sticking with me through this.
00:26:34We will find a place to mine, and we're going to make it work.
00:26:36I want to make it work.
00:26:37I want to make it work.
00:26:38I want to make it work.
00:26:40Okay.
00:26:43Uh, Chelsea, you ready?
00:26:44Ready.
00:26:45Kayden.
00:26:46You ready?
00:26:47Yep.
00:26:48Ready.
00:26:49All right then, folks, Screen Rack is turning on.
00:26:51First time for the season.
00:26:53Let's go!
00:26:54ready yep ready all right then folks screen jack is turning on first time for the season let's go
00:27:10first scoop of pay going in for the season
00:27:12at scribner creek just like his father tony second year mine boss kevin beats is ahead of the pack
00:27:30feels really good to lose this early especially after last year it's it's nice to see it running
00:27:37so you want to look at some iron do you can we have this one last season with a little help from dad
00:27:48three two one
00:27:53kevin plunged his life savings into his own operation this is a big gamble so me and faith have to make
00:28:00this work that's looking really nice kev so excited bud overall i think it's a pretty good day
00:28:07but almost from the get-go i'm trying to help you here and you're talking over me tempers flared
00:28:16it's not fun to work with until foreman brennan ruo took control of the crew you don't want to hear it
00:28:24i want this to be squashed right now and the cuts yes finally
00:28:37helping them score let the big old beautiful a big payday yay money it's nice to be in the upswing honestly
00:28:46we made the right call of getting away from tony's i'm feeling really good about this year i think
00:28:55we're off to a strong start which is good because we have a big goal this year 2000 ounces
00:29:02figure may as well go double what we did last year aim big and with gold prices being as high as they
00:29:06are if there's any time to have a good big year for gold totals it is this year kevin's mission this
00:29:14year is to double his gold target and cement his place as a mine boss in his own right so our mining
00:29:22plan we left ourselves a p-bank last year that way we have money coming in from day one
00:29:32so day one sluicing this is gonna hopefully continue on well
00:29:37last year i was pretty frustrated out here with how much we're shutting down but brennan he knows what
00:29:46he's doing oh it's nice i'm getting back it's always good to have returners who know how things run
00:29:54and you know you can rely on and brennan should be showing up soon
00:29:57oh it feels good to be back in the yukon this feels like my second home
00:30:16howdy stranger how's it going guys how's it
00:30:19right on we're wondering where the you're at nice to see you pal
00:30:22so what's up we're starting to wonder we haven't heard from you in a bit so yeah um
00:30:32um
00:30:35i ended up getting a phone call there that i wasn't expecting to get
00:30:43um of another job offer um
00:30:46um and uh it was a pretty good job offer so i've leaned towards taking that position
00:31:04who offered you the job well parker ended up calling me there which i was completely not expecting
00:31:11the job that i wanted to get back to you know what i wanted to get back with parker
00:31:21it was not you know there's just a few things in the offer that really
00:31:24aligned to what my future where i kind of see myself being in some goals
00:31:28that i have set you know what i mean no
00:31:34i wish he at least told us earlier so that we can plan
00:31:36if i had have known a lot sooner i would have said it a lot sooner right
00:31:44uh there's not really much we can offer you to get you back here this year i guess
00:31:48huh i've kind of already agreed to it
00:31:57well thank you for stopping by telling us some wrestling okay guys
00:32:00well you guys have a wicked season we'll see ya see ya
00:32:09well then
00:32:12two thousand ounces without the foreman is going to be
00:32:15a bit more of a project then isn't it it is going to hurt to find someone with brennan's
00:32:19experience that you can rely on if they're good they've got a job
00:32:25maybe we should go poaching too
00:32:26hmm
00:32:45we're down to the last bit of ice here in the bridge that once we get that out of here
00:32:50that means i can start getting bob ready to sluice
00:32:55three days into his ice moving marathon tyson's under the gun
00:33:02parker's given me and i've taken on more than i've ever taken on working here before
00:33:09can i do it i don't know but am i willing to find out yeah it could have cost him my job
00:33:15a hundred percent but i hope it doesn't
00:33:20if it does i'll be flipping burgers come visit me at the drive-through
00:33:25and yes i will be spitting in them
00:33:27a 25-mile drive northwest i'm down here at sulfer just trying to get this cut opened up
00:33:39this cuts 2 000 feet long they got probably uh big enough to land a small airplane on
00:33:50for a lot of miners this would be their whole season with multiple people working on it and
00:33:54right now i'm down here jumping from the dozer to the excavator back and forth ripping
00:34:00mitch has a two-acre strip to mine out in just 10 weeks before parker's water license runs out
00:34:08if he fails he'll be forced to leave gold behind the time frame down here is definitely my biggest
00:34:14concern this water license is getting closer to expire by the minute and yet i'm the only one down here
00:34:24so we got here oh hey man what's up oh much my friend how are you oh busy good to see you pal come on
00:34:48i'll give you one oh just don't let nobody don't tell anybody yeah keep that off the radio
00:34:58what's your plans well parker poached me he sent me up here to come to work with you
00:35:05no way man yeah buddy all right he said to me specifically you and mitch work so good together i want
00:35:13to get that band back together that's exact words out of his mouth dude that's awesome yeah i
00:35:17can't believe you didn't tell me brennan and mitch it's a loud scoop yeah we're mining buddies on
00:35:28parker's scribner creek claim yeah nice work yeah you too man they became co-foremen that is perfect
00:35:37and a bromance blossomed are we good what a nice feeling brennan hurry up you've had five days to get
00:35:45this done sakes you're in charge or are you not in charge until five years ago when brennan quit
00:35:53after falling out with parker so over this man dude we've moved a lot of dirt in this year let me tell
00:36:02you what we got more than ever i could certainly use some help well that's what i'm here for you
00:36:08can jump in the dozer we just got to rip this edge i'm going to start throwing everything back
00:36:12okay well i'm excited buddy
00:36:21time to boost some dirt
00:36:22dude it's unreal to have you back here christmas came early
00:36:33all the years i've been gone i've missed working with you every day of it buddy oh you're probably
00:36:38back because you heard we got taco tuesday you didn't mention you guys got a really good cook
00:36:44so that was a big plus for me oh that looks like parker
00:37:02how's it going hey welcome back thanks pal okay the whole sulfur project is kind of an interesting
00:37:10one because it's really hard to see what is pay and what is waste what you're really looking for
00:37:17is virgin banks or like virgin um sections this to me looks like virgin still right so you're forced
00:37:29to pan your way through it and see what's going on this is totally different type of mind in this see
00:37:36three quarters of a century ago old timers used a dredge to mine sulfur creek pulling out more than
00:37:461.2 billion dollars in gold but in its wake it left a mystery floating in a self-made pond the dredge
00:37:57traveled its way down the valley sluicing from one side to the other but above the water line the high
00:38:05banks were out of reach so gold was left untouched and where the dredge turned it covered up pockets
00:38:14of gold rich virgin ground with worthless tailings making sulfur a potential treasure trove of hidden gold
00:38:25if they can find it it's just going to take some time to figure out like i would be panning pretty
00:38:32constantly perfect sounds good to me okay
00:38:42we got so much water coming through here we got all this material we need to start moving it over
00:38:47but we need it dry if we start just working this it's just going to get wetter and wetter
00:38:53we're not dredging so i want to just focus on the ditch here
00:38:57yeah okay i mean i agree with you but i just what about parker you know yeah but i mean if we just
00:39:04start digging in here we're going to be working underwater despite parker's rush to find the gold
00:39:11mitch ignores his orders to pan and decides to dig a ditch to drain the water the first thing we got
00:39:18to do and we're going to do is get rid of this water all right it's going really good
00:39:31i've got the ditch you know all the way to the top end of this cut which was 2 000 feet long
00:39:37and the cut's starting to drain out
00:39:38out at sulfur creek mitch has defied parker's orders to hunt for virgin hot spots and is ditching
00:39:48instead parker's planning on coming down today and doing some panning here but we got a lot of
00:39:54material that's still got to be moved here before it's ready to help parker have a look at this and
00:39:59see what he wants to do
00:40:10just hoping to have all this ready by now
00:40:16what the are you doing well this is not good what's happening
00:40:23i thought you might need some panning but i take it not right now yeah most important thing just
00:40:33trying to get rid of the water here so we can actually move the dirt we got a pretty good system
00:40:38down we're just trying to get that corner cleaned out and then we'll be be ready for it
00:40:46there's a lot of work to do here i mean i just got brendan yesterday so
00:40:53there are two options find some virgin ground or else you can leave
00:41:09okay that's a waste of time
00:41:23you know gold can buy a lot of things but it can't buy patience and the higher the prices go
00:41:31uh you know the less of that there seems to be around here
00:41:35parker wants things done in a certain way in order and i get that it's his business it's his company
00:41:41you know i've moved a lot of dirt up here and you know i'm confident in what i'm doing got the ditches
00:41:47down we got the cut drain in and you know my opinion that's the right move i just wasted two hours
00:41:58we just need to get panning
00:42:03it's my first week back on the job haven't worked for parker for over five years now
00:42:08and you know he's already pissed off well this is the type of that made me leave the last time
00:42:25a hundred miles east we have to pull the trigger on something otherwise we're gonna miss this whole
00:42:30season still waiting for his water license and desperate for somewhere to mine rick's on his way
00:42:36to prospect new ground at a nearby claim lightning creek you can go to any mine out here and listen
00:42:43to the guy tell you how much gold's on the property but which one's telling the truth not a single one
00:42:48of them so if we're gonna get any answers up there it's gonna be our own rick's mining in the keno
00:42:53mountains has been boom or bust the unpredictable ground almost bankrupted him six years ago until
00:43:02he hit the honey hole at duncan creek we do our own testing and see what we find and you know we can
00:43:08trust that rick's found gold on his duncan creek claim in two spots now he's hoping the pay streak
00:43:17extends to the lightning creek claim eight miles upstream near the gold mother load at mount hinton
00:43:26lightning creek is owned by rick's old landlord troy taylor ah there he is
00:43:37hey guys hey troy how's it going good to see you good to see you hey troy yeah welcome to lightning creek
00:43:43we're ready to hit the ground running get some gold out of the ground six seasons ago our deal is
00:43:5110 percent yep for 100 ounce minimum rick leased duncan creek from landowner troy taylor
00:43:59that's nice looking gold there rick then cut a handshake deal to buy the claim thanks rick appreciate
00:44:06that gambling millions of dollars i'm sure you're happy to see that on the promise of a gold bonanza
00:44:13holy this is your last chance it was a rocky ride but finally the deal was done
00:44:24bar one crucial detail i have to trust that that water license is going to come through yeah you're all
00:44:32in yeah all in it was on troy to get the water license for rick but now that it hasn't come through
00:44:42he might have other ground for rick to kick the tires on looks like you've done a little bit of
00:44:46work here right a little bit yeah dad and i did some sluicing last september so yeah just you and your
00:44:53dad pretty much yeah just dad and i but what was the gold like i mean is it decent or yeah it was decent
00:44:59the gold is good here we had some good results last fall dad and i did some testing and uh we're pleased
00:45:05lightning is just like upper duncan in the sense that it's flowing through a canyon hopefully gold
00:45:12has been flushed out of those canyons like upper duncan into this main valley how much overburden is
00:45:17on top of like it's not bad it's just uh so it's about five feet of of muck and sand and
00:45:24right to pay then yeah that's it yeah and i would just take about 15 feet and uh then we get into another
00:45:31it's kind of like a false bedrock and that's where i would stop for now so the the pay layer was 15
00:45:36feet yeah that's more than i expected i know that we're not the only ones fighting this water license
00:45:42stuff this year what's the deal with this one here how many more years are on it yeah that's a good
00:45:47question we this is good till 2028 so you got a few more years here and we do and why give us the option
00:45:55i mean it's just you know why aren't you doing it well i feel bad about this whole water license
00:46:05thing so i want to give you a shot here and dad and i can step aside for a year if you want to
00:46:13you want to go here so there's no cost on your royalty yeah there's no uh it's a lot less risk for us
00:46:19so yeah and they don't sound like a salesman but there is other people that have been
00:46:24calling me over the winter so
00:46:28but and i i've been holding on to this for you so i i'm hoping that we can work something out yeah yeah
00:46:36you know i mean i i can i trust you on this all right yeah we've been what six years now together so
00:46:46so yeah i think uh i mean i just there's no been no no shortage of surprises out here
00:46:54i can't wait too much longer dad and i are going to keep mining or get somebody else in here so
00:47:00no i understand that we got the trauma here today so we get some testing done and try to make a
00:47:06decision as quick as we can so let's do it
00:47:10it's definitely getting harder to trust people out here you know gold's at a premium water licenses
00:47:16are rare as can be the vultures are circling troy he always seems to have the answer when i don't
00:47:23so it's uh you know it's a win-win for troy troy
00:47:27we need this to work out because we need to get somewhere to go mining and we need to quit
00:47:49still waiting for his water license
00:47:51rick ness has to move his operation and is hoping new ground at lightning creek will be worth it we've
00:48:00already done a couple of test holes but i want to do one more here that's a lot of big bullies out of
00:48:06this could be nice stuff troy taylor has already stripped a section down to pay dirt so rick's making
00:48:15spot checks on the stripped ground he'll run two square yards of pay and is looking for at least a
00:48:22gram from the run by the sounds of troy that you know it's looking pretty good here but i have kind
00:48:28of some doubts here but at the same time i i really hope this is going to turn out for us
00:48:32that should be a good enough speed yeah for sure yeah i'll go get the water going okay
00:48:54hey ricky we're ready for you to throw some in if you want i'll give her a shot this bucket's kind
00:48:59of big i'll probably make a mess
00:49:10washing the rocks really nice so hopefully it gives us good breeding
00:49:19that's the last of the dirt i'd say we got our test done yeah we'll have to clean it up and then
00:49:23get the hell out of here and wait see what we got
00:49:25shut her down clean her up yeah man okay let's do it
00:49:32it doesn't have to be hot but it's got to be hot enough for us
00:49:36let's go
00:49:48oh hello hello back at camp the fate of rick season rests on the results of the lightning creek test
00:49:56some nice pickers in the yeah if the gold is good it could be the lifeline he needs
00:50:05what's your ground like down there it's pretty shallow um seems like only about
00:50:10an average of about five feet overburden maybe a little bit more and then a solid 15-foot thick
00:50:15pay layer well that's pretty good that's a really good you know ratio i don't expect it to pay out like
00:50:20vegas valley but but who knows shall we see if it's even worth it we shall away from gold all right
00:50:31i don't think i've ever weighed up this small amount of gold but let's get it all in there
00:50:34rick wants at least a gram from his two-yard run
00:50:53oh we got 0.525 on there
00:50:56just half what rick was hoping for so was it worth it
00:51:07no
00:51:12we're gonna be sitting here with our hands out no place to buy it we're screwed
00:51:26we had a super fast start to the season we have cleanups and a couple bucks in the bank
00:51:35a hundred miles away tony beats has already banked 1.5 million dollars in gold
00:51:43there's more pressure on mike this year i mean mike has been running paradise hill like it's his but it's
00:51:49not his it's still mine so maybe we'll have to do something with him he wants a piece of the action
00:51:55too once he has the hill up running well then we'll just see what we can pull off
00:52:04tony's mining operation is split between two claims indian river where he's already sluicing pay
00:52:11from the early bird cut and 40 miles away paradise hill the core of the family business for over 30 years
00:52:20hey mike how are you oh good yourself don't complain
00:52:36last year i was back and forth a bit but this year you won't see very much of me you got lots to do
00:52:41here i know but i got quite a pile going on in the indian too but this gold price if we don't get on it
00:52:47boy i tell you let's get it on the go get down the play door this week that seems a little excessive
00:52:57oh really step up to the plate yeah make some money so i can spend some more how's that
00:53:05don't worry dad i'll help you with that okay anyway mike i uh i can't shoot sit around there like you
00:53:12do i gotta go to work well if you did your job better you'd have more time yeah off mike i'm leaving
00:53:17see you later catch you later dad yeah i love you too
00:53:25my gold do my job well and get the results my dad wants so i'm gonna get as much gold as i can this year
00:53:32because with the prices as they are you're a moron if you don't take advantage of that
00:53:40while tony's based at indian river he's giving mike sole charge of paradise hill
00:53:47entrusting him with a nine-man crew to supersize the super pit more responsibility more authority
00:53:55well i want to focus on stripping before i get sluicing so that i can just when i get sluicing i don't stop
00:54:02over the last three years the beats family has cleared out nearly four million tons of worthless
00:54:12overburden creating an 18-acre super pit the cut is home to the klondike's fabled white channel pay
00:54:22concentrated gold washed down directly from hard rock deposits
00:54:27so far it's produced over 4 000 ounces of gold worth 15 million dollars this year mike plans to extend
00:54:38the cut by nearly 50 percent opening up eight more acres of ground tony wants the first acre down to pay
00:54:47by the end of the week we're gonna have a whole whack load of stuff opened up so we have a lot of work ahead of us
00:55:04my dad bought six new trucks we're gonna strip strip strip strip strip strip
00:55:09another year of paradise is glad to be back we got brand new rock trucks just hauling overburden from
00:55:17the cut we're trying to expand to get down to the gold bearing pele a d11 dozer rips and pushes the
00:55:26worthless waste dirt called overburden to two excavators which load it into rock trucks haul it 2 000 feet away
00:55:36and dump it on the waste pile hopefully get sluice in here in paradise soon get that gold coming in
00:55:59guys guys guys we got a problem we got a problem the cat truck has flipped the cap of the cat truck has flipped
00:56:06oh i'm stuck in here you're right on the edge
00:56:20oh
00:56:24i'm stuck in here
00:56:25oh my i honestly don't want to touch it you're right on the edge at paradise hill a brand new
00:56:38750 000 rock truck has flipped with driver graham trapped inside the cab hanging on the edge of a 200
00:56:47foot drop this side is just
00:56:52i wish mike could hurry up because if the bank starts to go this is not the circus i signed up for
00:56:57do i still have all my windows you still have all your windows yes
00:57:11the exhaust and hoses are pretty pulled too oh my hood breaking our new truck right away
00:57:20here it's slowly dropping more and more which is a little nerve-wracking
00:57:26uh as long as you get me pulled out of here before i flip okay well you can't get out too big
00:57:35hey mike
00:57:47well what the is he still in there yeah
00:57:51he won't fit through that window you could double its size you wouldn't fit rescue him for
00:57:55it's supposed to be pinned charge kick out the window make him stand on the steering wheel stick
00:58:05his head out of the window kick the thing in that way his eyes and ears and everything be fine
00:58:11get his fat ass out okay you ready graham i guess so
00:58:25okay
00:58:41okay you can try climbing up the seat there
00:58:50well
00:58:50Now, it feels good to be out, but still a little shaky.
00:58:59Yeah.
00:59:00Glad it didn't go over the edge fully.
00:59:02That's wow.
00:59:06Could be fired, could not be, depending on the mood.
00:59:09Hey, Mike, put it on the grass.
00:59:12To set the 36-ton truck back on its wheels,
00:59:15Tony and Mike use the 520-horsepower D10 dozer,
00:59:22while the 480 excavator holds the box in place
00:59:26to stop it dropping over the edge.
00:59:29I thought we'd pull the .
00:59:34Pull it.
00:59:36Keep it going, keep it going.
00:59:42Perfect.
00:59:45I'm very sorry, Sony.
00:59:49I know, and not really thinking anything I do about it,
00:59:52because you're on the frost, and they're slippery.
00:59:55I still feel bad, since it's a brand new truck.
00:59:57Well, that doesn't matter how the happens, my man.
01:00:00I was expecting him to be a little bit more aggravated.
01:00:04I flipped one of the new ones.
01:00:06There's no use firing people at his neck,
01:00:09because when you fire somebody, there's two people that lose.
01:00:12I lose an employee, he loses his job.
01:00:15It's too bad we had to break the window,
01:00:18but so it is, I guess, right?
01:00:20Yeah.
01:00:21The hood be f***ed, the fender all be f***ed,
01:00:23the railing all be f***ed.
01:00:25Nobody hurt, that's always a big thing.
01:00:27Yeah.
01:00:28For Mike, it's now a fight to hit pay dirt
01:00:32by the end of the week with one less truck,
01:00:35and show Tony he can run Paradise Hill on his own.
01:00:39It's enough horse s***.
01:00:42If you want to prove yourself, I suggest you get rid of it.
01:00:45Brennan and I are trying to get as much ground
01:00:58opened up down here at Sulphur as possible.
01:01:01At Sulphur Creek, Mitch and Brennan have finally drained the cut
01:01:05and exposed what could be their first hidden pay pocket.
01:01:10How far did the dredge get over here, figure out what's left for us?
01:01:16Now, they're ready for Parker to pan.
01:01:19Hopefully we got something for him to look at.
01:01:22Old Parker likes to see the gold and, you know, he wants it now.
01:01:27Like this, to me, looks virgin.
01:01:34I really don't know what to expect.
01:01:40I'm just going to show Mitch.
01:01:54One pan out of the downstream edge of your ditch.
01:02:01Holy smoke.
01:02:06That's why we're doing this.
01:02:08Wow.
01:02:10And that's pretty exciting.
01:02:13Find it again.
01:02:14Yeah, hopefully there's more of that.
01:02:18That was a really good pan.
01:02:20I just need to get a wash plant in here and find out if it mines like it pans.
01:02:2625 miles southeast at Dominion Creek.
01:02:31We got the ice out of the bridge cut.
01:02:33We got pay stacked up.
01:02:35Now it's time we get sluicing.
01:02:37Tyson is on the clock.
01:02:39Parker wants wash plant Bob sluicing by the end of the day.
01:02:44I haven't talked to Alkalemia.
01:02:46There will be no waiting.
01:02:49Parker has made that abundantly clear.
01:02:56How's it going, guys?
01:02:58We're ready to run dirt.
01:03:00Um...
01:03:02The hopper's going to be the main holdup for Bob starting.
01:03:07The pre-wash hopper feeder?
01:03:09Yeah.
01:03:10This feed chain system is f***ed.
01:03:12This plant can't run without it.
01:03:14F***, man.
01:03:16It would have been nice if you told me that.
01:03:18The feed chain system, which drives the wash plant's pre-wash conveyor, is broken.
01:03:25And the mechanics want to install a new one.
01:03:28Parker, he wants Bob running today.
01:03:32There's no getting around to this right now.
01:03:35Yeah.
01:03:36F*** me.
01:03:38Let's get at it.
01:03:40We got a lot of work to do.
01:03:42Mr. Justin.
01:03:43Hey, boys.
01:03:44Mr. Bill.
01:03:45Gentlemen.
01:03:46What's going on?
01:03:47We brought a, uh, rush-rush project.
01:03:49At Dominion Creek, Parker's mechanics are hustling to fix the feed chain system on Bob's
01:04:04pre-wash conveyor.
01:04:05All right.
01:04:06Well, let's get this thing unloaded and get at it because it ain't going to fix itself.
01:04:19The pre-wash conveyor moves paydirt into the shaker to be washed.
01:04:25The motor, which turns the conveyor's front drive shaft, is connected via a small chain
01:04:32and sprocket.
01:04:33But over time, the chain tightened, pulling the shaft inwards, breaking apart the sprocket
01:04:40and bearings.
01:04:41To fix this design fault, the mechanics will remove the small chain and sprocket, fit a
01:04:49new front drive shaft, and align the motor so it sends power directly to the shaft.
01:04:56Chain is up.
01:05:01There we go.
01:05:06Let motor come out of there nice and easy.
01:05:09Okay.
01:05:10We're laughing.
01:05:15This is the final fit.
01:05:18There we go.
01:05:23Perfect.
01:05:28Right.
01:05:29So that, that is it.
01:05:32Copy Alec.
01:05:34Go for Alec.
01:05:37You are ready to roll, my friend.
01:05:40Sweet.
01:05:41We'll come grab it.
01:05:46Wide load coming through.
01:05:51Well, look at this.
01:05:56You guys pulled it off.
01:05:58What do you say we can get Bob running?
01:05:59Keep it coming.
01:06:00Lift it up a little bit.
01:06:01Whoa there, buddy.
01:06:03There it goes.
01:06:04You're in.
01:06:05Beautiful.
01:06:06Sweet.
01:06:07Everything's in place.
01:06:08Okay.
01:06:09You guys ready?
01:06:10Yep.
01:06:11Yep.
01:06:12Yep.
01:06:13Well, here we go.
01:06:14Let's fire bomb up.
01:06:15Take your decks on.
01:06:16Here goes the prewash offer.
01:06:17Here goes the prewash offer.
01:06:18There goes the prewash offer.
01:06:19Come on.
01:06:20There it goes.
01:06:21You're in.
01:06:22Beautiful.
01:06:24Sweet.
01:06:25Everything's in place.
01:06:27Okay.
01:06:28You guys ready?
01:06:29Yep.
01:06:30Yep.
01:06:31Well, here we go.
01:06:33Let's fire bomb up.
01:06:34It's fireball, Bob.
01:06:39Take your necks on.
01:06:42Here goes the pre-wash offer.
01:06:49It's spin.
01:06:56Here goes the first scoop of the season.
01:07:04The pre-wash conveyor delivers pay dirt to the plant.
01:07:09Water jets blast the gold and fine dirt off the rocks.
01:07:14A shaker deck vibrates a set of screens to separate out the larger rocks,
01:07:21while the smaller gold-bearing material washes down into two 14-by-10-foot sluices,
01:07:29where the riffles and mats catch the gold.
01:07:34Beautiful sight right there, Liam.
01:07:37First wash plank going on Dominion.
01:07:39That is a beautiful sight.
01:07:41With three days' sluice time before the end of the week,
01:07:45Tyson's on the gold.
01:07:47Parker's big push for 10,000 ounces is on.
01:07:52Bob's got a lot of ground to get through this here.
01:08:04Miners across the Yukon are gathering at Dawson City for the Klondike Placer Mining Association meeting.
01:08:14The KTMA warn a glut of unprocessed water licenses is putting livelihoods at risk.
01:08:19What a joke.
01:08:23Desperate to start his season, Rick is in Dawson to meet the Klondike Placer Mining Association,
01:08:30a local union working with miners with no water licenses.
01:08:34My back's against the wall.
01:08:37I've been up to my elbows in this, you know, in this whole water license stuff.
01:08:41It sucks, man. It really sucks.
01:08:43The state of the industry is not too great.
01:08:45A lot of people in the exact same bonus me with the water license and all that.
01:08:49I'm hoping that the KTMA, maybe they know when these are going to get approved.
01:08:53Give me some kind of reason to stick with Duncan Creek.
01:08:55You know, without it, I don't know what the hell we're going to do.
01:08:57Hey, that's somebody I know.
01:09:00What's going on, buddy?
01:09:02How you doing?
01:09:03I'm okay. How are you, man?
01:09:04I'm all right. Better than you.
01:09:06Yeah?
01:09:07I've heard what's going on.
01:09:08Oh, man.
01:09:09There's a lot of people that are pretty screwed up by it.
01:09:12And the thing is, the forces that are against the mining
01:09:15have so many tactics to stall things, and it's death by delay.
01:09:20Yeah.
01:09:21That's just absolutely right.
01:09:22Right?
01:09:23Just shoot me in the head. Don't give me a slow death.
01:09:25Yeah.
01:09:26But let's see what they do in the meeting,
01:09:27and then why don't I buy you a 20-foot beer afterwards?
01:09:30I appreciate that, man.
01:09:31All right.
01:09:33Let's just go in this meeting and see what they say and go from there.
01:09:45Something's got to give.
01:10:02Yeah, I've had enough of that.
01:10:04Big waste of time.
01:10:06It gets us nowhere.
01:10:07It's just a bull , you know?
01:10:08Like, well, whose ass do I put my fist up to get some results here?
01:10:12And maybe I'll be done.
01:10:13Who knows?
01:10:14Who the knows at this point?
01:10:15Probably gonna go have a beer.
01:10:16Maybe 10.
01:10:18In Dawson, with no breakthrough on his water license,
01:10:22Rick's hopes of mining this season...
01:10:25Best seat in the house!
01:10:26...hang by a thread.
01:10:28Whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:10:29What's up?
01:10:30Good to see you, buddy.
01:10:31Good to see you.
01:10:34You know, the last time we were together was 14 years ago.
01:10:39Really?
01:10:40You think that was the last time I was still young?
01:10:42That's a long time ago.
01:10:46I remember, I was like, I think Tony Beetz is like the coolest guy in the world.
01:10:51And I want to be like Tony.
01:10:55It'll be a long time, but you know what?
01:10:56Been good years, right?
01:10:58Yeah.
01:10:59Every year I have more fun.
01:11:00Good for you.
01:11:02It takes a lot to get me jealous, but when I roll by, you have so much equipment running.
01:11:06Yeah.
01:11:09So, how's Rick?
01:11:11You having fun?
01:11:13No.
01:11:14The KPMB has gotten us nowhere.
01:11:16Basically, we can't touch Duncan Creek.
01:11:18Ooh, that's not very good.
01:11:19No, it's kind of a slap in the face.
01:11:22Do you have that other block of ground?
01:11:25Lightning Creek?
01:11:26Yeah.
01:11:27Well, I don't have it.
01:11:29It's Troy's, so it's a lease.
01:11:31But he's like a pretty reasonable landlord.
01:11:33He is.
01:11:34And you know-
01:11:35They're not like me.
01:11:36Yeah.
01:11:38I wasn't going to say that, but yeah.
01:11:41And you've done like one test or a bunch of tests?
01:11:43We did a few tests there.
01:11:45Not very happy about it, but there's a license there for three years.
01:11:50That's pretty good.
01:11:52But I'm not sure if there's a lot of gold in it.
01:11:56But I mean, you have one thing going for you, and that is like gold price is so good.
01:12:00Good.
01:12:01No, I hear you.
01:12:02But this is definitely a gamble.
01:12:04Oh, .
01:12:05Gold price is excellent.
01:12:07If you're lucky enough to have a license, hurry the up, mine the out of it, and leave.
01:12:13That's it.
01:12:14You just got to get out there and wash as many rocks as you can.
01:12:18Get the over that and make it work, Rick.
01:12:23You're right.
01:12:25Make some money.
01:12:26Oh, yeah.
01:12:28Hope it goes well.
01:12:30Well, I've got to run.
01:12:32I've got a dog that needs to walk.
01:12:35Parking it was fun.
01:12:36Rick.
01:12:37It's great to see you guys.
01:12:38Me too, for sure.
01:12:39There you go.
01:12:40Hey, let's not wait another 14 years, huh?
01:12:41Yeah.
01:12:43I've known Rick for 15 years.
01:12:46He was there for all the years where I was just, like, scared to death of going broke.
01:12:50I was scared to death of people taking advantage of me.
01:12:53I was scared to death of Tony kicking me off the ground.
01:12:56This business eats you alive if you're not ready for it.
01:13:00With Rick, I could definitely see him losing everything and leaving the gold fields broke.
01:13:11But I could also see him building an empire.
01:13:14And I really hope that he's successful.
01:13:17I do.
01:13:19I cut my teeth out here with Parker.
01:13:21I've known Tony since the day I walked into the Klondike.
01:13:24And they've always had good advice, and I'd be foolish not to take it.
01:13:28I've got Lightning Creek as an option right now.
01:13:30And we're going to take that option.
01:13:31We're going to run with it.
01:13:44I'd like to remind all rock truck drivers and the hoe operator working in the cut.
01:13:48Keep going.
01:13:49Keep skimming her off.
01:13:50Strip, strip, strip, strip, strip, strip.
01:13:53After a disastrous start managing Tony's Paradise Hill claim, Mike Beetz is racing to get down to pay.
01:14:01Mike's doing the best with what he's got, but we need to move this dirt.
01:14:05Get to the gold.
01:14:06Get to the pay.
01:14:08Our guys are doing real good.
01:14:10We're moving a lot of dirt.
01:14:12Some of this , like right here, this has gone very far from the pay.
01:14:16It's so many rocks.
01:14:17That's usually a good indicator that's good stuff.
01:14:23If you want to drive in, I can grab my Kubota because it makes its way in.
01:14:26Ah, let's walk.
01:14:28Looks like you need it.
01:14:33Mike, do you copy Mike?
01:14:35Yeah, go ahead.
01:14:37We're down to pay here.
01:14:39Do you want to come check it out?
01:14:41I'll be there in a minute.
01:14:44A little bit of clay in it, but it's got the rocks.
01:14:49It'll be a fat chunk, huh?
01:14:52Let's grab a pan.
01:14:59Now what if I forgot how to pan?
01:15:02It'll be .
01:15:03Give me a rock.
01:15:07Where would you like it?
01:15:08Right there.
01:15:10Thank you, sir.
01:15:30Look at that.
01:15:32A good pan.
01:15:36Nice, fine stuff.
01:15:38As fine as frog hair, as they say, but that's on the top anyway, right?
01:15:44But we can sluice that, Mike, eh?
01:15:45Oh, yeah.
01:15:46Without a question.
01:15:50We hit pay in Paradise Hill.
01:15:53The Indian sluice lot is doing a good job.
01:15:56So everything is looking up.
01:15:57Everything is looking pretty good.
01:15:59We are in business.
01:16:01Perfect.
01:16:09We're back.
01:16:11Hold on.
01:16:12Before Tyson cleared all the ice, Parker turned the bridge cut into a racetrack.
01:16:20Oh, .
01:16:21Oh, .
01:16:34Just push on the front a little bit.
01:16:36Come on.
01:16:37Get in there.
01:16:43Cody, get in there.
01:16:45Cody, get in there.
01:16:46.
01:16:47Every light on the dash is on.
01:16:48You know any good mechanics?
01:16:49Dude, they're gonna kill me if they find out why this happened.
01:17:04Don't tell anybody.
01:17:05We're down a foreman.
01:17:15But I think being as set up as we are now, it is doable.
01:17:20And, well, we are gonna try.
01:17:22Tony's eldest son, Kevin, has been running his Scribner Creek mine for a week, relying more on operator Caden Foote.
01:17:31This is the earliest I've started sluicing in a season.
01:17:35But I feel like it's gonna be a bit of a struggle without Brennan.
01:17:40He was an all-around great foreman.
01:17:44We really gotta, as a team, come together so we can get as much out as we can.
01:17:56Hey, man.
01:17:57Cut some yellow .
01:18:00Hi, guys.
01:18:01Hey, Marty.
01:18:02Hey, guys.
01:18:03How's it going, pal?
01:18:04How are you?
01:18:05Not too bad.
01:18:06Kevin leases the ground from Tony and pays a 10% royalty on any gold he finds.
01:18:14So, your second year on your own, how are you feeling about that?
01:18:18You gonna cross it?
01:18:21Honestly, I'm feeling pretty good.
01:18:23Ready to roll this year.
01:18:24You don't have to buy this, buy every thing, right?
01:18:27Yeah.
01:18:28Yeah.
01:18:29So, that's gotta make a lot easier start this year.
01:18:32It definitely is a lot nicer to hit the ground running.
01:18:34What's happening with Brennan?
01:18:36Well, we didn't know he was showing up, and then he finally came and talked to us.
01:18:42He told us that he wasn't coming back.
01:18:44It would've been nice if he would've let you know that in the winter.
01:18:47It would've been nice, for sure.
01:18:48Yeah.
01:18:49That's people for you again.
01:18:50That's people for you.
01:18:51Oh, yeah.
01:18:52So, who gives a .
01:18:53Next.
01:18:54That's how it goes next.
01:18:58Uh, Tay, you had a nice early start.
01:19:00And have some gold coming out of the ground right away.
01:19:03Yeah.
01:19:04What's your gold?
01:19:05My gold is $2,000.
01:19:07And we already have a little bit of chunk of gold at the start of the season.
01:19:11So, that's nice.
01:19:13You maybe think we can weigh it up?
01:19:15All right.
01:19:16Are we ready?
01:19:17Kevin ran his stockpiled pay for one week at Scribner Creek.
01:19:2215, 20, 30, 40, 50, 57.04.
01:19:39$200,000 in gold, $60,000 more than the same amount was worth last season.
01:19:48And that's how many hours?
01:19:4970.
01:19:5070 hours.
01:19:51So, it's a little bit less than...
01:19:52So, I announced now.
01:19:53Yeah.
01:19:54Yeah.
01:19:55It's still nice.
01:19:56Oh, yeah.
01:19:57That's better than zero.
01:19:58Oh.
01:19:59This year cash in, so you may as well get with it.
01:20:01Right?
01:20:02Yeah.
01:20:03You know?
01:20:04Okay, woman, let's get the out of here.
01:20:05Let's go.
01:20:06We have to work, so we'll talk to you guys later.
01:20:09Okay.
01:20:10Ladies and gentlemen, don't work too hard.
01:20:11Bye.
01:20:12Bye.
01:20:13Catch you later.
01:20:14Bye.
01:20:15Bye.
01:20:16Bye.
01:20:17Bye.
01:20:18Bye.
01:20:19Bye.
01:20:20Bye.
01:20:21Nice to see this yellow stuff this early in the season.
01:20:23I'm sure the folks would be happy for us, too.
01:20:25But the big thing we're looking for right now is the foreman.
01:20:29We'll get hiring and something will show up.
01:20:35Nice little haul, I mean, it's a good start.
01:20:38That's a couple bucks, huh, royalty-wise?
01:20:40Royalty-wise, yeah.
01:20:43There's nothing like making money of your kids, is there?
01:20:52What's happening?
01:20:53How's it going, man?
01:20:54Going good.
01:20:55Good.
01:20:56It's been a while since we've done one of these.
01:20:58Yeah.
01:21:01Pig cat!
01:21:02Hey, he is back!
01:21:05How's it going?
01:21:06Welcome back.
01:21:07Yeah, thank you.
01:21:08It's good having you back.
01:21:09And there's a lot to do this year, so we need all the help we can get.
01:21:12Definitely.
01:21:13It's the end of the first week of what could be a game-changing season for Parker.
01:21:19This is the year, huh?
01:21:21Yeah.
01:21:22We need to just f***ing shove dirt down those wash plants' throats, huh?
01:21:28It's a long road to 10,000.
01:21:33Tyson's got Bob running right now in the bridge cut.
01:21:36Sulfur's drying out a little bit.
01:21:40We've got the trucks upstream there stripping.
01:21:42And that's going all right?
01:21:43Yep.
01:21:45Are you ready, T?
01:21:47Let's check it out, Dumit.
01:21:48This is Mr. Bob.
01:21:50This is your first plant.
01:21:51Well, here we go.
01:21:52All eyes are on Tyson's first run from the bridge cut.
01:21:57Last season's payouts were unpredictable.
01:22:00Parker's looking for at least 100 ounces from three days' sluicing.
01:22:0510, 20, 40, 60, 80.
01:22:15Going to break 100.
01:22:17There we go.
01:22:18100, 120.
01:22:25125.8.
01:22:29Nice.
01:22:30Very nice.
01:22:31Worth over $440,000.
01:22:37Looks like it was worth getting that ice off.
01:22:39Yeah.
01:22:40We're on the board.
01:22:42Yeah.
01:22:44That's definitely a good start, but we have a long ways to go.
01:22:47So, I hope everybody's ready to buckle in.
01:22:52All right.
01:22:53Thank you, guys.
01:22:55Do it again next week.
01:22:57The cat is back.
01:22:58Meow.
01:22:59Meow.
01:22:59Meow.
01:22:59Meow.
01:23:00Meow.
01:23:00Meow.
01:23:00Meow.
01:23:01This season, we're really going to be hopping.
01:23:05Hopes are high, and I think we've got a good shot at making our 10,000 ounces this year.
01:23:10I think this year we've got the right recipe.
01:23:13You know, we've got really good people here.
01:23:16It's probably the best chance we'll have at doing the five figures.
01:23:20It's going to be a ball buster of a season for the boys, though.
01:23:22Meow.
01:23:22Meow.
01:23:22Meow.
01:23:22Meow.
01:23:23Meow.
01:23:23Meow.
01:23:24Meow.
01:23:24Meow.
01:23:25Meow.
01:23:25Meow.
01:23:26Meow.
01:23:26Meow.
01:23:27Meow.
01:23:27Meow.
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