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Gold Rush - Season 16 Episode 11 - Cleaning Up In Vegas
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00:00Troy's been bugging me about his final payment there on Lightning Creek and I
00:24got a hundred ounce of gold in a jar so I'm gonna go pay it to him right now and
00:29kind of get him off my back 44 year old Rick Ness is betting on himself he's
00:37purchasing his second gold mine Lightning Creek expanding his Kino Empire to 3,600
00:45acres of ground
00:48hey Troy good good see ya what's going on yeah I brought you some gold you know I
00:55wasn't trying to jerk you around or nothing so there's a there's a hundred
00:57ounces in there no no I'm assuming there's a hundred ounces in here I'll go
01:04away as soon as you oh yeah yeah I know I know yeah we had no there's a hundred
01:08ounces in there yeah and you know with today's gold prices that's a chunk so
01:11yeah yeah it's looking good yeah this is the final payment you're on your way
01:14so you're off to the races so good luck all right good business as always okay
01:18that's good to have that off my back I always like paying off debts Lightning
01:22Creek we haven't made it we haven't made a payoff yet but I know we will it's it's
01:26an asset for the future and it's an option so it's a good day
01:32for now Rick's new claim is an insurance policy for the foreseeable future he's
01:41focusing his operation on Vegas Valley a spot that paid out nearly 800 ounces last
01:47year but his water license expires in just four months I just really got to hope that
01:55we had our $1,800 goal for running what's left of you know last year's stock pop I know there's a lot
02:01of world there because we need a lot after I spent all that money good news though is that we got the
02:05Vegas Valley water license extended this year it came out of nowhere um but uh but I'll take it you
02:10know right back where we want to be we know the goals there but at the end of the day it's only good
02:14till November so we really got to get as much gold out of out of Vegas Valley as we can because we
02:19don't don't know if we'll be able to come back
02:29got this bag is valid stockpile probably 300 ounces in in this pay pile but we're burning through it
02:37pretty quick Rick's crew are running a leftover pay pile from last year and now have to get
02:44back on pay dirt at the bottom of the cut well I don't really want to shut monster red down now that
02:49we're getting the gold so I I'm gonna go down and talk to Bailey we just need to get to the bottom of
02:54Vegas Valley ASAP what's going on I don't know if you've seen the pay pile but it's going fast and
03:10it always does a week max is what we've got to run through the plant you know and it might be might be
03:17only five or six days with the late start that we're getting it's pretty important that we keep
03:20that plan around so you know I know I hear that in the spring you did you know you did a good job at
03:25Lightning Creek you open that up quick and so I I need you to do the same thing right get back into
03:29Vegas Valley open her up and just do what you do is it realistic to think that you could get pay up
03:34there before that pile's gone I think we can do it build a new road yeah we should be able to for
03:42sure that's uh I mean that's that's what I want to hear if we need another road you work on that yeah
03:48okay you got a week all right let's burn some some teeth good man last year Rick's crew moved a
03:59mountain to open up Vegas Valley digging down a hundred and sixty feet they removed more than
04:07one million yards of dirt before they hit pay over winter Vegas Valley flooded Rick has drained the
04:16water but the road into the cut has washed away now to get back down to the pay layer Bailey must build
04:24a new 500-foot road down to the bottom of the cut and start pulling pay before monster red runs out of
04:32its stockpile to get the job done in a week Bailey needs all three of Rick's working rock trucks
04:42hey Ryan you got a copy oh you want to come over here and take a look at this rock truck it's uh it
05:02won't even turn over yep give me a couple I'll be over sounds good thanks all the lights turn on
05:12everything and you go to start it and don't even turn over all right Kai we'll do some tests on it
05:17we'll get it figured out thanks Ryan's here I'm gonna hop in this truck and while he's fixing that one
05:24so that we can keep the trucks they're on until Ryan can fix the problem Rick's down to just two rock
05:32trucks
05:45you know it's on me but it's on the rock truck drivers too they got to move material just as quick
05:50because I got to you know load them
05:52oh for sake now what did you do
06:19we'll shut the truck off your hydraulic tank just fell off not a good day to be a rock truck after a
06:29second rock truck craps out Bailey's left with just one truck to build the road I'm just sitting here
06:38burning fuel his hopes of finishing the Vegas Valley Road before they run out of pay are getting slimmer by
06:46the hour dude that's bad yeah it's bad he's lucky those six bolts up there holding otherwise he would
06:52have just ran the tank over and it would have been bad here's your three bolts right here somehow every
06:58one of those sheared off I don't think it's driver abuse by any means I just think either these were coming loose and once one came loose the other started moving loose
07:11these are the original trucks I started with about seven years ago I don't see any damage tank's fine
07:20but I don't recommend we run it
07:22it's just another hit it's not good we got rock trucks now we got a hell of a lot of dirt to move out of Vegas
07:29Valley so hopefully Ryan can get it fixed quick and get back to business
07:33my goal this season I was going for about six and a half thousand ounces things are actually going really well we're really banging off the hours and we're really running the yardage
08:02and we're getting quite a few ounces of gold out of the ground
08:05midway through his season the king of the Klondike has already banked half his season target
08:1311 million dollars worth of gold
08:16Indian River we got two boxes going running 24 hours a day we are almost finished listing pay out of the river cut so I need the corner cut opened up
08:28to keep up momentum he's now opening the corner cut which he believes holds up to 20 million dollars worth of gold
08:46the corner cut in the Indian right now is a big cut I don't think I've ever had one this big I'll bet you this thing is three full claims
08:58right now we're doing a lot of stripping and right now it takes too long to load a truck so we got to fix that up
09:04Tony's in a rush to get down to pay dirt because at the river cut his double wash plant setup is churning through pay at record speed
09:16if the river cut is done before he's pulling pay from the corner cut Tony will have to shut down
09:22Tony will have to shut down the speed things up down there now we take the biggest accident we've got 950
09:30and bring it to the Indian River and with a 950 that takes less than a minute to load a rock truck
09:37but the other ones that takes two bigger hole double production pretty simple there's just one problem
09:46the 950 is currently at Paradise Hill being used by son Mike's crew Michael D copy Michael D copy
09:56go ahead go ahead I need that big an excavator
10:00sakes that 950 is a beautiful piece of equipment I'm actually very angry about this the 950 is a bulk hauler
10:10I was hoping to get loose but that's not gonna happen this is more wasted time Mike is whining because I steal all his equipment
10:19I need that excavator he's losing out on that one
10:23to hold the 950 40 miles from Paradise Hill to the Indian River Tony's crew need to first remove the boom and stick
10:33then load them along with the body onto two heavy-duty low boys
10:39now we're pulling the main stick pin out and then all the weights off that
10:48we'll be able to flip the boom up swing it around and pull the next piece
10:59give her a good pull
11:04went out of alignment there a little bit
11:09hey no bucket don't do that just back up
11:16just ask you guys to get out of the way because it might break here
11:22stand back
11:23holy
11:24the excavator shifted a little bit and that pinched on the pin
11:29so I think the press might be the option for this
11:34so I'll hang this thing from my crane and I can pressure this up with the hydraulic pump
11:40and it's got quite a bit of force to help pull that pin out
11:43I'm gonna be irritated by it taken this long but nothing I can do to change that
12:00we've broken it loose there where it was pinched up so we're just gonna give it a try with the loader speed things up
12:06lift the boom out of its place set it down walk the 950 on a trailer and away it goes
12:27when Tony's around it definitely kicks everybody into gear it's uh
12:34you don't want to be standing around with your hands in your pockets when Tony's around here
12:39as I'm standing around with my hands in my pockets
12:43looks like the boys did a good job
12:46now we'll load up the body put it on the rail
12:48and then down the road we go
12:52after losing 16 tons removing the stick and boom
12:56the 950's body still weighs 84 tons
13:01regular trailer you just walk it on chain it down and away it goes
13:04this one you gotta block up underneath the excavator
13:07and then lift up the trailer and then pray that it lifts up the hole high enough to drive it
13:13Darren is gonna take the mainframe and I'll take this one
13:16get the thing out of it
13:26Tony sets off first transporting the boom and stick
13:35Darren follows behind with the body of the 950
13:38got a little late but that's okay
13:42got a little late but that's okay
13:45got a little late enough what they say right
13:48well we'll get it there and then we'll put it together
13:51and then yeah
13:53let's go to work
13:54let's go to work
14:17hey dad and D copy dad and D copy
14:19Tony beats is hauling his 950 excavator from Paradise Hill
14:36to Indian River
14:38but 20 miles out he's lost contact with driver Darren
14:41D copy
14:42D copy
14:44Tony beats is hauling his 950 excavator from Paradise Hill
14:49to Indian River
14:51but 20 miles out he's lost contact with driver Darren
14:55sometimes you get higher up and a bit more of a straight line
14:59sometimes you get lucky
15:01that you can reach them
15:06so I gotta have a look see what's happening
15:12hey Darren are you on that one Darren are you on that one
15:16I wonder if we should ask these people to drive me down the hill
15:28so I can have a look at what you got
15:33we blew an airbag on the trailer
15:35it's not going to be an easy fix
15:37let's see what he's got
15:38let's see what he's got
15:46it's a fetching
15:51if we stick airbags on the needle
15:53is it going to make a difference
15:55I don't think so
15:57still like probably 40,000 kgs on the back
16:00what I'm thinking of doing is
16:02there's somebody to start walking
16:04Tony's only option
16:05walk the excavator
16:08which has a painfully slow top speed of 2.7 miles an hour
16:12the 20 miles to Indian River
16:15delaying his plan to get to pay in the corner cut
16:19start walking
16:21sometimes you just have no choice
16:23Tyson was going to pull a stripping crew out of the bridge cut to come do fine tannings and I was like man just throw me in a hoe and I'll buy you a couple shifts
16:36Parker Schnabel is back in the saddle with his eyes on a 10,000 ounce 35 million dollar prize
16:37I still enjoy getting in machinery but I just don't have the time to do it anymore
16:39my job has changed massively
16:41and I still enjoy getting in machinery but I just don't have the time to do it anymore
16:44my job has changed massively
16:45and um
16:47it's important that I do what I think is the most critical issue at hand and
16:48and
16:50it's just at the same time to do it
16:53just as long as I get to my job
16:54I'm doing what I'm doing
16:56it's important that I do what I think is the most critical issue at hand
16:57prize. I still enjoy getting in machinery, but I just don't have the time to do it anymore.
17:03My job has changed massively, and it's important that I do what I think is the most critical issue
17:12at hand, and it's just that the size the company is now, that never is like, oh, I need to be in
17:18that piece of equipment doing that job. Midway through the season, Parker is closing in on 5,000
17:25ounces, half his season gold. The biggest issue that we're going to have, I think, which is the only
17:32thing I'm really worried about, is having enough sluicing capacity. There's a lot of sluicing left
17:38to do. For the first time ever, Parker is running four wash plants, Big Red, Slucifer, and Bob at
17:49Dominion Creek, while Roxanne works at Ken and Stewart's on the Indian River, where Parker
17:55needs to produce 2,000 ounces, a fifth of his season gold. At the Indian River, there's definitely,
18:03you know, a massive amount of dirt moving that needs to happen. If we don't focus on that,
18:10we don't meet the target.
18:17Foreman Mitch Blaschke is away for the next two days. So it's all on acting foreman Brennan
18:25Rueau to keep the gold rolling in at Indian River.
18:30We're trying to get him a massive pay pile, so that way we have time to take care of other
18:36things. So the work has never stopped. We've got to keep everything rolling down here as
18:41efficient as possible.
18:46We've just got to keep this plant running. We've got a lot of pay to chew through here,
18:51and as long as we keep it going, we'll all have nice happy bonuses at the end of the year.
19:06Why isn't that shaker deck going?
19:34Got a copy?
19:36Hey, buddy. What's going on?
19:38Hey, man. The shaker deck just stopped going.
19:42You've got to be joking me.
19:44Jenny's on. Breaker's on.
19:46Nothing happens.
19:48OK, buddy. I'll get us some mechanics as quick as they can.
19:57I do not want to see that plant down. We have way too much ground to get through here.
20:02They need to be down here to make any pay pile.
20:06Brennan calls in father and son mechanics, Bill Horton and Justin Dreesen, to investigate the breakdown.
20:15The overload protection is shutting it down. Why? We're not sure yet.
20:19So we've got to just start testing wires and find out if there's an overload on a certain wire, a certain leg. Lost the check.
20:32We went through all the wiring. We pulled a lot of the connections apart, put them back together.
20:38OK, Jess, let's give her a whirl maybe. We'll put these covers back on and we'll try some dirt through it.
20:43OK. Ready? OK. Yep.
20:52Bill tests the flow of electricity, measured in amps, driving the shaker motor.
20:58Well, right now she's shaking, so the amperage is a little bit higher than we wanted. We're at 42, 43 range. We only really want to be at 35.
21:11Right now everything is running.
21:18I'm pretty happy right now, so I'm just hoping this happiness can last all day.
21:30Failed again.
21:32Is that water coming out of the bearing?
21:39I think we finally found the cause of the problem.
21:45OK, you're good, you're good, you're good.
21:47We have a hole right through. Dirt's been in there quite a while, so those bearings will be toast.
21:53Pull up and pull this shaft out. It's sick.
21:56Roxanne's shaker deck gets its rocking motion from a rotating shaft inside a metal cylinder with counterweights at each end.
22:07Bearings reduce friction as the shaft spins.
22:11Over time, a rock has worked its way under a guard plate, and after years of vibrating in the same spot,
22:18the rock has worn a hole into the cylinder, letting in water and dirt, partially seizing the bearings.
22:27To fix the problem, the bearings have to be removed, the shaft pulled out, the hole welded shut, the shaft reinserted,
22:38and new bearings fitted before it can be fired up and start sluicing again.
22:43Bill and Justin begin by removing the bearings.
22:51Glad my knee wasn't under that.
22:54There's brass in the water.
22:56Oh, yeah, the bearings are done.
22:59You want to swing it out, and I'll wind it down.
23:03OK. OK, ready?
23:04Uh-huh.
23:10The process is repeated on the other side.
23:14We got it.
23:16Next, they pull out the 2,000-pound shaft.
23:21You're going to pick now, so go ahead.
23:24There we go, buddy.
23:36We got a shaft out on the ground.
23:38Every hour, the plant is down.
23:41Parker is losing over $4,000 in gold production.
23:46We got a lot of work ahead of us right now, and we really don't have time for it.
23:50Any downtime is going to kill us right now, you know, and that's what scared me.
23:55Hopefully, we'll have it fixed, so when Mitch is back, we're running full kill.
23:59Downtime's the biggest killer this time of year.
24:01We're running what's left of the stockpile from last season.
24:07It's nice that we had that, but it's going to run out soon.
24:09Rick Ness is chasing a potential $1 million payout from a stockpile,
24:15while his crew race to get to pay at the bottom of Vegas Valley before it runs out.
24:20The linchpin in the plan? Rebuilding the road that descends 50 feet into the pit.
24:24chasing a potential $1 million payout from a stockpile,
24:28while his crew race to get to pay at the bottom of Vegas Valley
24:33before it runs out.
24:35The linchpin in the plan?
24:37Rebuilding the road that descends 50 feet into the pit.
24:41I made a promise to Rick that I can do this road
24:43and try to get down here as quick as we can.
24:45And I'm worried that we're not going to make it down on the pay,
24:47and, you know, they're going to run out of pay before I can get there.
24:50With just one rock truck at his disposal,
24:54Bailey's chances of getting the job done are slim.
24:58You know, right now, with no trucks, it's not helping us get down there.
25:02Now is crunch time, and we need to get moving.
25:05And I don't want to fail Rick.
25:09Kai just went to go start his truck and said everything powers up,
25:12but when he turns the ignition, he's got nothing.
25:15Mechanic Ryan has been struggling to get two downed trucks
25:19back up and running and has finally made a breakthrough.
25:24Basically, what somebody's done here is they have spliced the igniter wires on the relay together.
25:33Basically, what that igniter wire does, it sends a signal down to the relay on the starter
25:37and tells the starter, hey, it's time to engage.
25:39It looks like somebody's put in a couple of splices, cut the wires off,
25:42and decided that was going to be an easy fix.
25:46So what we'll do is fix their splice and see if it starts.
25:53No big deal.
25:54All good.
26:06Halfway there.
26:07We'll get the wire fixed.
26:09This truck fires up.
26:11It looks like we got our hands pulled at the next one, though.
26:13This tank right here is hydraulic and then brake fluid.
26:22The three mounting bolts right up top have completely sheared off.
26:26Years of abuse.
26:27The bolts, you know, they'll sit there and wear and wear and wear,
26:30and eventually you hit one good bump, and there's plenty of them out here,
26:34and now that tank is down.
26:35So I'm going to need to lift this up and press it in.
26:39Try to get my main spacers and bolts put in up here that connect to the frame.
26:43Once we get this up and in position, we're three bolts in.
26:48All the other equipment is way up on the hill, so no need to bring more manpower down here.
26:54I'll just try to wing her.
26:55I'm the only mechanic on the crew.
26:57It's a lot of stress.
27:02What a brace.
27:03I think it might work.
27:05This one's it.
27:08Done.
27:09That's good.
27:10All right, that's it.
27:12Everything's bolted down.
27:13This truck's ready to hit back on that monster cut.
27:17Bailey, you got a copy?
27:19Yeah.
27:20Hey, man, good news.
27:21We got that hydraulic tank remounted up, so it's going to be another truck in your rotation.
27:25Yeah, Ryan, that's great, man.
27:27I'll be able to finish this off a lot quicker now.
27:31All three trucks now back in the field,
27:34Bailey has a fighting chance of finishing the road before the stockpiled pay runs out.
27:40Hey, Rick, you got a copy?
27:52Copy, copy.
27:54Yeah, we're almost out of pay here.
27:56Is that all the pay that's left right there, that little pile?
27:59Probably five more buckets, not even.
28:01You guys got to open your eyes somewhere else or something.
28:05We're going to make a decision here and figure out what the hell we're going to do.
28:10We need some pay up here pretty soon, or we're going to be shutting down the plant.
28:17Bailey, give us an update on what's going on down there.
28:19Well, this is going to take a lot longer than expected, and the truck's being broken down.
28:25It's way too much work down here.
28:30That's great.
28:31That's it.
28:33Didn't make it.
28:35We didn't want to have to shut it down, but that's where we're at.
28:38We're out of pay right now.
28:39With only 190 ounces so far this year, Rick's forced to shut down while the crew continue to build the road.
28:51Hit the bypass.
28:52And pray the stockpile pays out big enough to keep it in business.
29:00That's not a good feeling shutting down Monster Red this time of year,
29:03especially when we don't know when the next round of pay is coming.
29:05We've got a lot of work to do to get the 1,800 ounces, to tell you that.
29:09When do you think that 950 will come in?
29:30Have you heard yet?
29:31Needed today.
29:33Needed yesterday.
29:34At Indian River, Tony Beat's crew are in desperate need of the Monster 950 to help strip the corner cut.
29:46It's been a long and slow journey to get this to the Indian River.
29:49Into his eighth hour, driving the 950 to Indian River, after the low boy carrying it broke down,
29:58Tony's grandson, 18-year-old Egan.
30:01It's nice to be getting involved with it all.
30:04It's my fifth year, running equipment.
30:06I can run a little bit of everything.
30:08Mostly excavator, though.
30:10Morning, Egan.
30:14Morning.
30:15How are you today?
30:17Good.
30:17Are you ready to go to work?
30:19Sure.
30:21Since the age of 13, Egan has learned the ropes running machinery under Tony's watch.
30:28If you like this kind of stuff, someday you might be a gold miner, too.
30:33It's the youngest operator we've got, and he's f***ing near the best operator on an excavator we have.
30:42It's kind of nice to see a third-generation miner.
30:45That's something to be proud of, I think.
30:47Before he can deliver the 950 to Indian River, Egan has one final obstacle.
30:55Looks like we're catching up to Egan.
30:59So, you made it, Egan?
31:01Yeah.
31:01Long, slow drive.
31:04Anyway, creek is over there.
31:06Just drive right through it, and we'll see you in camp in a bit.
31:09What do you think?
31:10Yeah.
31:10All right.
31:11Give a s***.
31:18He does never cross the river.
31:24Don't stop.
31:25You've got to keep on going.
31:27Because otherwise, you don't want to get stuck.
31:31Tony Beat's grandson, Egan, is almost done with his epic 10-hour journey
31:46to deliver the family's 950 excavator to the corner cut on the Indian River.
31:52We'll get it there eventually.
32:07Slow and steady.
32:08We'll get it there eventually.
32:08Slow and steady.
32:08He can drive her up.
32:25He can drive her up.
32:26Keep her coming.
32:33The young fella did pretty damn good.
32:35That'll be good, Egan.
32:40Leave it right there, Egan.
32:41That'll be good.
32:43Good job.
32:44Took a while, huh?
32:46Yeah.
32:46The most boring job you probably had in a while.
32:49Yeah.
32:50Perfect.
32:51Let's go.
32:51Now, two days behind schedule, Tony needs the 950 reassembled and in the corner cut, fast.
33:03It's here.
33:04Put the f***ing thing together.
33:05Ready to go.
33:07Finally, the 950 arrived from Paradise Hill.
33:10Tony said to put it together as fast as possible because we had a lot of trouble to get it over
33:14here.
33:14This piece is just shy of 21,000 pounds.
33:30It's going in.
33:33Whoa!
33:37Just a tiny bit more.
33:39Whoa!
33:39That's good there.
33:41She is all the way home.
33:42Someday, everybody gets lucky, huh?
33:44Yes!
33:46The boom is connected.
33:48So now we're going to connect the thing.
33:56Yeah!
34:00Yeah, it's ready.
34:02Oh, yeah!
34:03Oh, yeah!
34:05Yeah!
34:05That's her!
34:06There we go.
34:09Fire!
34:09Fire!
34:09Fire!
34:10Fire!
34:12For the last step, Tony and Egan attach the 10-yard bucket.
34:18I'm six feet six, so you can see how big it is.
34:21Are you really six foot six, Lance?
34:22Not really, but that's what the girls like, isn't it?
34:27Well, the 950's got a 10-yard bucket on it, so this is our biggest one.
34:32Three buckets, and you got a truck full.
34:34So Egan is a pretty good operator.
34:38Hold it right there.
34:39Put your boom down.
34:41Perfect, almost.
34:42Good.
34:42Hold it right there.
34:47Anyway, that bucket went down good, huh?
34:49Yeah.
34:49Piece of cake.
34:51Now I hit a hooker in there.
34:52Bingo.
34:53Done.
34:53So the bucket is on, take it in the cut, and then we'll just start loading some trucks with it.
35:02So let's see how many buckets it takes versus the 349.
35:08I mean, by the time I drop three buckets in this 40-ton truck, the truck is full.
35:13So you should be able to load this truck by how many minutes, instead of two minutes to load the truck.
35:20Off you go.
35:21Done.
35:23Tony's race to open the corner cut is now in overdrive.
35:30That's his speed things up.
35:32Now you're moving some dirt.
35:46Things have been going really good down here at Ken and Stewart's.
35:50You know, Parker has big goals for this season.
35:54There's just a lot of sluicing that's got to happen if we're going to get all this done in time.
35:58At Parker Schnabel's Indian River Claim, Foreman Mitch Blaschke is back from a couple of days away.
36:07Why aren't we sluicing?
36:09To discover Roxanne isn't sluicing thanks to its bearings failing.
36:15Well, buddy, that's not the way we want to see a wash plant.
36:19It's not the way I wanted you to come back either.
36:21And I leave for two days to go see the family and come back and you got a broken wash plant, buddy.
36:26I know.
36:27We just need to try and get everything set up the best we can so once we start this thing we can just get rolling.
36:32Why'd you break it?
36:34It wasn't me, buddy.
36:34How do you like it?
36:40We got our bearing housings all ready and then hopefully they're going to drop right in.
36:44Having removed the shaft from Roxanne, mechanics Bill and Justin turned to fitting the new bearings into the housing.
36:53When they stick, it is a major catastrophe.
36:56But there's an issue.
36:58The bearings are about 1,000th of an inch larger than the housing and won't slide into place.
37:06Let's do this.
37:10It's going to be hot.
37:12To make them fit, Bill and Justin first freeze the bearings, shrinking them in size before heating the housing to 450 degrees.
37:24You heat up your housing, which will make it expand, and then you cool your bearing, which will make it contract.
37:30In doing that, you can buy yourself enough space to drop this in.
37:34You've got about 15 to 20 seconds to try and get that bearing in before it starts to warm up and expand.
37:43It is a one-shot deal.
37:45It's always stress because a one-wrong move will cost us a $5,000 bearing.
37:51If this doesn't work, Roxanne could be out of action for weeks and cost Parker millions in lost gold.
38:00Yeah, we're almost there.
38:03Okay, I'll shut this one off.
38:06You can keep that one going.
38:07Okay.
38:21There we go.
38:34There's one, little buddy.
38:37This one is successful, and that's how we like to do them.
38:42Now you can see it thawing.
38:46One more.
38:46One more.
38:51Well, little buddy, it's a happy day.
39:06And you can have your freezer back.
39:08Yeah, groceries are coming tomorrow, so.
39:10Yeah.
39:17Hell yeah.
39:19You know, out of all the years we've been doing this, this is probably one of the biggest breakdowns we've ever had on a wash plant.
39:26And, you know, it's taken a lot of time here to pull this thing apart, fix it, get it all back together.
39:31The bearing is seated safely.
39:36Tarps coming off.
39:38The big question is, how's she going to shake?
39:41She's all you.
39:42I get to do the honors.
39:44You can.
39:45Here we go.
39:46Here we go.
39:53Sounds good.
39:54Sounds good.
39:55Sounds nice and quiet.
39:57This wash plant is ready to go.
39:59The shaker deck looks great.
40:10The sluice runs are running really nice here.
40:12So I think Roxanne is back as good as new.
40:14And we got ourselves a mount of painter.
40:17Time to get through it, turn it into some gold, make up for some lost time.
40:20After two days down and losing over $200,000 in production, Roxanne's back in the game and can keep delivering for this week's gold wave.
40:32Nice job, man.
40:36Nice job, man.
40:47How's four wash plants treating you, Chris?
40:50Oh, it's a little bit hectic.
40:52I'm curious to what it's going to be like when you get a full week's run with no breakdowns.
40:58Dude, yeah.
40:59I can't leave you alone for five minutes, man.
41:02My toe's still black from that rock you threw at it.
41:07Surprisingly, that's the first time we've had any sort of problem like that in 13 years.
41:13That was definitely one of the biggest.
41:15We are very fortunate to have really good mechanics here.
41:19Yeah.
41:19Well, it sounds like you guys had all the fun we needed for the week because things up here went just fine.
41:25Nothing to report.
41:28Well, Roxanne has a few hours on it down at Indian River.
41:32In their first week of running four plants, the crew hauled in 669 ounces.
41:3920, 30, 40.
41:42Ooh.
41:4349.6.
41:46Got to run to make gold, man.
41:48Yeah.
41:49At least there's something.
41:51Now, the gold from Dominion Creek.
41:55Bridge cut, Bob.
41:56Let's see how it did.
41:5820, 40, 60, 100, 130, 140, 147.05.
42:07That's not bad.
42:09Yeah.
42:09Then we got the golden mile.
42:11This is the two plants, right?
42:12Well, here we go.
42:13Next, the combined gold from Slucifer and Big Red.
42:1760, 100, 130, 160, 230, 232.05.
42:28Yeah.
42:28Dang.
42:29This week, we have 428.7 ounces.
42:33Worth just over $1.5 million, but over 200 ounces less than last week's haul.
42:40Last week, we had 669.85 ounces, significant drop.
42:46Yeah.
42:47But the season total, though, is 5,350.25.
42:52Wow.
42:53So we broke the halfway mark.
42:56That's good.
42:57We're up and running.
42:57Yeah.
42:58It's just going to be nice to get four plants going full-time.
43:02Yeah.
43:02Which is going to be hard to do, you know.
43:05We won't leave Brennan home alone anymore.
43:07Yeah.
43:09All right.
43:09Thanks, guys.
43:10Good job, you guys.
43:11Let's double this next week, eh?
43:13Right.
43:13Sounds good.
43:16How we're going to manage to have as much uptime as we can with this many wash plants running,
43:21you know, that's going to determine our gold total at the end of the year because we have
43:25tons of ground open.
43:27So the whole name of the game is keeping wash plants running, and this week is a pretty poor
43:32example of that.
43:33But I don't think it's, you know, I don't think it's like a systematic issue on our part.
43:39Um, I think we'll be able to keep things running.
43:42We'll see.
43:51Hello.
43:53Ready?
43:54Yeah, we're ready.
43:55How are you guys ready?
43:59The 950 finally got here.
44:02Well, that long walk, let's put it that way.
44:04It was Egan that walked it.
44:05Little is pretty good yet, too.
44:07My dream is to see all my kids operate on one big line.
44:12You've got problems, lady.
44:15Okay, Monica, can you bring any gold?
44:18Rivercut, we're in all week, so there should be some gold to show for Sluicealot first.
44:23Sluicealot first.
44:2510.
44:26Tony's two-plant blitz on the Rivercut churned through pay without stopping.
44:32And last week, Sluicealot delivered 297 ounces alone.
44:36290, 300, 319, 06.
44:43That's not bad.
44:44That's a nice little hole.
44:45Now, should we see a find-a-lot, found-a-lot, more gold?
44:47Sure, do it.
44:48Pour in.
44:49Let's see what you got.
44:50Brand new plant, find-a-lot, produced 84 ounces of gold from two days running last week.
44:5730, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 120, 160, 180, 200, 240, 280, 300, 330, 339.68.
45:15With just two plants, Tony's hauled in 658 ounces, worth over two and a quarter million dollars.
45:24It's his biggest gold way of the season, and brings his total to 3,939 ounces.
45:32That's a lot of bucks today.
45:34I don't have no problems getting rid of it.
45:37When's the last time you got a new shirt?
45:39This morning.
45:40I think everybody should go back to work.
45:42I think I'm going to have a nap.
45:44You go for it.
45:45That pay pile was huge.
45:57Yeah, it was.
45:57Rick thought 400 ounces was going to come out of that pay pile, so.
46:00You know, we only got 110 ounces last week, but maybe we'll get a little bit more this week.
46:06So, Bailey, how did you do with getting pay this week?
46:09There is no pay this week because someone had to keep breaking trucks so I couldn't reach my goal.
46:15You have one job.
46:16It's to drive trucks, not break them.
46:17It was a task that, you know, I thought I could accomplish, but at the end of the day, there's a lot more material there than I expected.
46:23There you can see.
46:24Oh, you guys are cozy.
46:25What's going on, Rick?
46:26I've snuggled right in.
46:27What's up, dudes?
46:28After pivoting back to Vegas Valley, Rick's eager to find out how much gold was left in the pay pile from last season.
46:37So, the nice thing is that it did not quite fit in the one flash.
46:41So, there's 100 ounces there, and we got a bunch in here.
46:45Here we go.
46:4610, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, we're at 110, 120, 135, 140, 147.4.
47:09Nice.
47:10Ooh.
47:11Rick's weekly total is 247, worth $866,000, his biggest gold weigh of the season.
47:24That's way better.
47:25One week, that's good.
47:27That's shy of 400, but not by much.
47:29No.
47:30Rick's season total is now 437 ounces.
47:35You've obviously proven that there's gold in the bottom of that hole.
47:39Bailey just needs to dig that out.
47:41We've got to get to pay, get to it quick, get to it safely.
47:44We've been there before, but...
47:45Yeah.
47:46We've always finished strong.
47:47Yeah.
47:48You guys know what it's going to take.
47:49A lot of work, but I know you're up for it.
47:51Thanks for trusting us.
47:52Absolutely.
47:53Thanks for trusting me.
47:54Cheers.
47:54Cheers.
47:55Man down.
47:58Man down.
47:58Cheers.
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