Gold Rush Season 16 Episode 16

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00:29Transcription by ESO. Translation by —

00:31We've got a lot of sluicing time in so far this season.

00:34Like, the plants are running really well,

00:35but it doesn't mean we can take our foot off the gas.

00:39Parker Schnabel's season is at a critical point.

00:42Two-thirds of the way in, he's banked over $23 million,

00:48but he's spending close to a million a week,

00:51and his gold hauls are slipping.

00:54We've got bobbing the bridge cut.

00:56I'm not worried about it.

00:57Background's been open a while.

00:58It's plugging away.

01:00We've got Mitch with Roxanne on the Indian River.

01:02He's got a good handle on that.

01:07My main concern is the Golden Mile and what we do in there,

01:10because probably most of the gold that we're going to find

01:12is going to come out of there,

01:13but also those pits cannot be left with paying them this year,

01:17and it screws the whole mining plan up if that happens.

01:22So that's my main concern right now,

01:25and I'm probably going to be stepping on Tyson's toes a little bit,

01:29but we just have to stay on top of that.

01:34This season, Parker has foreman Tyson Lee running three wash plants,

01:40with Bob in the bridge cut and Slucifer and Big Red in the Golden Mile,

01:45churning through a combined total of 680 yards of pay dirt an hour.

01:52We have a major problem with the depth of pay,

01:57what's going to happen to us at the end of the season,

02:02and the knock-on effect of what's going to happen to us next year

02:06if we don't get those pits all out, at least out, right?

02:10We don't have to necessarily get them sluiced,

02:13but the dirt can't be in the hole anymore.

02:15Right.

02:16Because if the dirt's still in the hole,

02:17we can't strip the next bite into those pits,

02:20and then it's just like the knock-on effect of all of that

02:22causes like a huge amount of pain and suffering and heartache.

02:26Yeah, sure.

02:27It's just where do we put it that we can sluice it once we start stripping?

02:30I think we should start hauling it out.

02:32We have a lot of big waste sites of gravel, right,

02:34that we could just start making pay piles on top of.

02:37How long do we have to get this done then?

02:39In my mind, we have to get at least half of it out in the next, like, seven days.

02:45And who do I have to get this done?

02:47Your plant crews.

02:48You shut down both sluice for and Big Red.

02:55Parker's mined the Golden Mile for four months,

02:58but with winter fast approaching,

03:00he's behind schedule with over 300,000 yards of pay still left in the cut.

03:07To get it all out, he's gambling on shutting down both wash plants,

03:12which will cost him three-quarters of a million in lost gold each week.

03:18He'll use the plant crews to help haul the remaining pay out into two massive stockpiles.

03:24Then, he can start stripping overburden from a new cut into the mined-out Golden Mile,

03:31while Tyson's crew races to sluice as much of the pay pile before winter hits.

03:40I don't know another option, do you?

03:41I get what you're saying by we don't have to sluice it this year,

03:44but it sucks doing that,

03:45because when have we not sluiced something we've pulled out of a pit?

03:48I know, but when have we had a pit that needed to get stripped into,

03:52and we didn't get the pay out of it?

03:53That's a bigger problem.

03:55Right.

03:55There's no chance of getting anyone from the Indian to come up.

03:58If you absolutely have to, you can talk to Mitch about taking trucks from Ken and Stewart's.

04:03Well, I wish there was another way, but it doesn't seem like there is, eh?

04:05No, there's not.

04:08I don't really see another option,

04:09so I think we're just going to have to bite the bullet.

04:12Well, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but thank you.

04:20Oh, that really breaks Tyson's heart.

04:22He loves wash plants to beat washing.

04:26As do I.

04:29But there's not much you can do about the situation.

04:32We were either going to have a situation like this now,

04:34or a much worse situation in the end of the season.

04:38And I really don't like

04:41over our future selves.

04:45We'd much rather the present than the future.

04:50Hey, Amy, you got a coffee, Amy?

04:52Coffee.

04:53Well, that can be your last scoop there.

04:55We're shutting down both plants.

05:02You know, these plants pull out millions of dollars of gold out of the ground.

05:06It's a big gamble shutting down two wash plants in the middle of the season.

05:10We've never done this before.

05:12So, we've got to focus on getting that pay out of the golden mile, up in massive stockpiles so we

05:18can fire our wash plants back up.

05:21So here we go.

05:22Now we're going to shut her down.

05:31We don't really hope this gamble pays off.

05:35In due time, we'll find out.

05:55We're in the Indian air, banging away.

05:58We're putting in good times listing air through our two boxes, 24 hours a day, so that's all good.

06:05Unlike Parker, Klondike kingpin Tony Beetz is running flat out.

06:11He's already hauled in $19 million in gold and is fast closing in on his 6,500-ounce gold.

06:20But the gold price is exceptional, absolutely zero, nothing to complain about.

06:28We couldn't ask him any better time to be a gold miner.

06:34But in the meantime, never mind.

06:36Gold price is no good if you don't get any gold out of the ground, so to speak.

06:41Mike still doesn't have the thrommel going.

06:44I mean, it seems like every time Mike seems to try to fire up, there's something else wrong with, I

06:50think.

06:55Things like to break consistently.

06:58It's been nothing but a headache this year trying to get going.

07:02I got it going.

07:03It's still going, and I'm going to keep on going, but it doesn't mean I can't ask when the f***

07:08is it going to stop.

07:10At the start of the season, Mike made a pitch to his dad to run his own claim.

07:17You gave Kevin a bunch of help getting him going.

07:19If there's anything you're going to help us with.

07:21There is some opportunities out there.

07:23Let's get these two places here going first, and then we'll talk.

07:26But he spent four months struggling with a skeleton crew.

07:30Mike really wants to impress his father, and that's sometimes a little hard.

07:35And last week, when he finally fired up the thrommel, his plans fell apart.

07:43Dumb f***.

07:44In front of his family.

07:47I can't stand f***ing looking at that.

07:53Helene, you're going to show me all the rollers you put in?

07:56Yes.

07:57If you go up here, I can show you.

08:00So I put five rollers in it.

08:02Hopefully, you don't have the same problem that before.

08:05That should stop anything from kicking over.

08:07Let's see how it works.

08:09Okay, then we'll start it up.

08:12The whole thing hopefully will work this time.

08:28Over the past six seasons, Paradise Hill has delivered almost 20,000 ounces of gold, worth over $70 million.

08:39Now, Mike is ready to run a stockpiled mountain of fabled white channel pay,

08:45if he can just keep the thrommel turning.

08:48All right, here we go.

08:49First bucket going in the thrommel.

08:51Late start, but a late start is better than no start.

08:56Hey, Mike, I thought I heard something moving.

09:01One sec.

09:04Colby, stop.

09:12The belt's tracking over real bad that way.

09:15We got to adjust it.

09:17Okay.

09:19Yeah, we just got to with the belt.

09:21The belt decided to off in the wrong direction.

09:25We're already setting the whole thing up, so I'm not surprised doing this and that.

09:29There's always something going on, right, to get it right.

09:32We're just going to have to keep adjusting until she does start to work.

09:34It's not too big of a job, is it?

09:37No.

09:38It's going to change the moment dirt hits it, Len.

09:41It did move over by about an inch or two by the looks of it.

09:45You want to give it another try?

09:47Yeah.

09:47Start it up.

09:48Yep.

09:49Okay, let's get the show on the road.

09:57Kind of a sight for sore eyes, ain't it?

09:59Oh, finally.

10:01About time.

10:02It's good to get some money out of there, eh?

10:04Yeah.

10:05It'll be nice.

10:11Now we're set up and it should be good for quite a while.

10:14So, I mean, he's proven himself, so it's good for him to get his own shot too.

10:18Same as Kevin, right?

10:20So far, so good.

10:21It's working for now.

10:22I've been having so many one step forward, two step backs that I'm not getting my hopes

10:27up.

10:27I'm not getting excited.

10:28Until I get a week in, I ain't saying shit.

10:31It's turning, that's all that really matters right now.

11:05This is not where we want to be, you know, our goal total is very low.

11:09We're a little less than 500 ounces and we're looking for 1,800.

11:13Rick Ness is gambling on turning his season around on a huge new cut, Valhalla.

11:20But three weeks into the big dig, he's still not hit pay dirt and is burning cash fast.

11:28It's easy to give up out here, it is, you know, especially when it's going wrong, like we've had it.

11:33It's a mental game. You can save up going home, this ain't gonna work,

11:35or you can put your head down and work harder and make it work.

11:38We're fighting for our lives. Sometimes that's where a guy thrives and we'll see this year.

11:42It's a lot to take on, but, you know, I'd raise up for it.

11:47Rick believes Valhalla has 160 feet of overburden that covers a gold-rich pay layer.

11:54He has already dug halfway down, shifting enough dirt to fill over half of the Empire State Building.

12:02Rick still has to remove another 80 feet to hit an area of gold-rich pay the size of a

12:09football field.

12:10Then sluice it all by the end of the season.

12:15I made the decision to extend the cup. It's a risk, no doubt about that.

12:19But, you know, with the amount of time that we've got left in the season and, you know, what we've

12:24got to work with,

12:24there's really no choice. There's definitely no guarantee that this is gonna work, but there never is in mining,

12:30so it's, you know, we've just got to suck it up.

12:33Rick has just six crew, and he's thrown everyone into trucks to help move the mountain of overburden.

12:42From his cook, Heather...

12:44Oh, you know, just killing it. Only two jobs today, kitchen in here.

12:47...to his mechanic, Ryan...

12:50You know, I'm in a truck. We're struggling.

12:52Good one. Nobody likes a rock truck. If you like a rock truck, you're a liar.

12:57We definitely have been waiting a long time of hauling overburden just to be able to get payout,

13:03which is kind of a pain in the ass.

13:05We could always have a couple more trucks.

13:09Hey, Ryan.

13:10So what's your thoughts on Rick's plan for this expansion here?

13:15I think we've got an ass load of dirt to move.

13:17It's definitely bigger than the last time we did Vegas Valley,

13:20and I do worry about timing.

13:23If we have one thing go down, something happens at that 750,

13:26there's no way we're going to hit 1,800 ounces.

13:29Yeah, it is true, man.

13:33You know, this is the . We need more rock truck drivers

13:35because being stuck in this rock truck when I should be working on equipment,

13:39that doesn't make any sense.

13:44After his shift, Ryan sits down with his family before he leaves with them.

13:50for a short break from the claim.

13:52You want to learn how to drive a rock truck?

13:54Yeah.

13:56Sold.

13:57Sold.

13:57I'll tell Rick, we'll get you your paperwork and get you going.

14:01You've been gone quite a few months, so it's been pretty hard back home.

14:06Still, it's tough.

14:07But, obviously, we're up here to make a better life for ourselves.

14:10And, you know, the first two seasons, we've hit our goal,

14:13and it's helped us in life.

14:14So, you know, this one here, this is going to be a struggle.

14:17So, it's kind of a, I don't know, touch-and-go subject.

14:21With how much gold we've brought in this year, we haven't even done .

14:25Yeah, that's kind of scary.

14:27You know, I guess that's another question.

14:28It's kind of, you know, I mean, how do you feel to continue?

14:32You do, like, miss out on everything at home, like.

14:35Oh, yeah.

14:35I don't know, just everything.

14:48It's tough.

14:50It's tough.

14:51Yeah, I mean, we haven't had a summer in three years.

14:54Yeah, like going to the lake, or just, like, vacations, or just, like, anything.

15:00Obviously, we rely on the gold bonus to, you know, that's what we're working for,

15:04and I don't know if it's there.

15:05And, right now, we're barely cutting the bills, so.

15:08I just wonder, you know, at what point do you just, like, have to, I don't know,

15:13just call it a day, and just be back with us, you know?

15:18How many relationships last, and they don't see each other for six months, so.

15:26You want Daddy to keep coming back?

15:30No.

15:31No?

15:41Hey, Rick.

15:43I don't know.

15:44I just want to talk to you about it.

15:46Down here at Monster Red.

15:56What's the scoop?

15:58Honestly, I had a long talk with Rachel.

16:00You know, I've got to think about my future and leaving them home alone all the time.

16:04It's just not easy on them.

16:05You know, that's a, I don't know.

16:07I want to be in all different places at once.

16:09It's tough.

16:11There's a lot to think about.

16:12I, I, I, I'll tell you this.

16:15Like, as far as people goes, you're, you're, you're, I mean, lack of a title.

16:21I mean, you're my go-to guy out here.

16:22It's always going to be in the back of your mind of, are we going to see a bonus this

16:27year?

16:28My family relies on it.

16:29And I always want to make sure there's food on the table.

16:31And that's, that's my number one concern.

16:33I don't, I don't take that lightly.

16:35You know what I mean?

16:35I never have.

16:36And I'm not going to lie.

16:37I mean, we, we don't finish this or we don't get to the bottom of it or we get to

16:39the bottom

16:40of it.

16:40There's no gold this year.

16:40I don't know how to survive that.

16:43And that's when it starts with your head, especially when you're in a rock truck all day.

16:46Ah.

16:48I think there's a few things that you're going to have to ponder about.

16:51Like, dude, your cut is double now.

16:54It's a cut, man.

16:56You know, this is aggressive.

16:57We're hoping the money's in the ground, but yeah, I, we won't really know it until we

17:02get down there.

17:03But with the price of gold, doing what it's doing, it does not take that much gold to

17:07make it profitable.

17:08All it takes is one bad season to, to lose everything.

17:12It's a gamble with the amount of gold we brought in.

17:15I mean, we've all talked, so everybody's got their concerns.

17:20I'd hate to see this crew change.

17:36I know he's been stressed out.

17:37I get worried that, uh, he might just call it quits.

17:41Leave us right now.

17:42Just bail on us in the middle of the season.

17:43Cause he's got a business at home.

17:45He's got a family at home.

17:46And that's a, that's a lot to leave behind.

17:56And it's all right, let's go.

17:58Now, as Ryan leaves to take his family home, he has a big decision to make.

18:04It's been a tough week.

18:06You know, I got to think about things at home and think about the things I'm missing and

18:10think about the situations I put them in.

18:12I don't know.

18:13There's a lot going on.

18:14Got a lot to think about.

18:41You know, we got Slucifer and Big Red shut down up here.

18:45Up in the Golden Mile, we have our sluicing crew in trucks, in excavators, getting that

18:50mass volume of pay in a stockpile.

18:54Parker Schnabel's crew has shut down both plants to focus on clearing half the remaining

19:00pay out of the Golden Mile by the end of the week.

19:05But foreman Tyson fears it will take longer and cost even more in lost gold.

19:13You know, right now, we're stretched so thin up here at Dominion.

19:16Although we have a lot of resources, we have a lot of the work up here.

19:20So we need all the help we can get.

19:29Hey, Mitch, you got a coffee, Mitch?

19:32Yeah, dude, what's up?

19:33Hey, man, we're going to need one of your trucks up here at Dominion.

19:36We got a mountain of pay to move.

19:38Dude, I only have two trucks.

19:40It's going to leave me with one truck.

19:41I've got to keep a wash plant going 24 hours a day.

19:44Foreman Mitch Blaschke is running one of Parker's remaining two plants still sluicing.

19:51Yeah, I know it's not ideal, but this comes from the top, so we've got to make it happen here.

19:55Well, that's what Parker wants.

19:57I mean, I can send Sean up there with a truck, but you guys need to get it done as

20:02fast as possible

20:02because this plant's going to run out of dirt here.

20:05All righty. Thanks, man.

20:07Yeah.

20:07Unreal, dude.

20:08Like, yeah, make it work.

20:11Oh, you're making it work with hardly anything?

20:14Okay.

20:15We'll see if you can do it with a little less.

20:19Yo, Sean.

20:20Hey, man.

20:20Yeah, go ahead.

20:22Take that truck up to Dominion.

20:24They got to get a bunch of dirt moved down the Golden Mile, and they need everything we got.

20:27So get up there as fast as you can.

20:30Just get it done and rip back here.

20:31Yeah, I'm on my way.

20:34Parker needs all hands on deck at Dominion.

20:37It's not the best thing we can do down here.

20:39We know we got so much to get through here.

20:41Mitch ain't too happy about it.

20:43The crew is so stretched that even Parker is helping out in the Golden Mile, dozing pay into wind roads

20:52for the rock trucks to haul to the stockpiles.

20:55So basically, the best hope we have of staying on target is bringing all the pay out to a big

21:02stockpile as fast as we can.

21:06So there's a lot going on up here right now.

21:09It's kind of all hands on deck.

21:11It's a lot of dirt to move.

21:13Up until the last few weeks, I thought we've had 10,000 ounces in the bag.

21:18I thought we'd have it by now.

21:21But it's proving to be a bit elusive.

21:26Sean, in the vital extra rock truck, is only halfway into the 15 miles of rough mine roads between the

21:35Indian River and Dominion.

21:39What the is that?

21:46Chuck's not going nowhere.

21:50Oh, man.

21:57That's not good.

21:58I've been hearing this noise, and I knew it sounded like a U-joint.

22:01So this is going to take some time.

22:04Hopefully, we can get down here and fix this soon enough.

22:09Taylor, you got a copy?

22:10Taylor?

22:12No answer.

22:17Mitch wasn't too happy about me leaving, and now Parker's not going to be too happy about me not making

22:22it there.

22:44Right now, it ain't going to be driving at all.

22:53Well, there's no repairing this end of the drive shaft, because the yoke here where the U-joint mounts, part

23:02of it's snapped clean off.

23:04That's toast.

23:07On the road to Dominion, mechanic Taylor Matika is under the gun to fix a rock truck desperately needed to

23:15help Parker's Golden Mile Blitz.

23:17I just got back to Dominion.

23:19We do have a boneyard here.

23:21We do have a few options.

23:24I think they've all been pretty ransacked, so I'm 50-50 on my level of hope for that.

23:37This is where I'm most hopeful.

23:40This is one from before we ever bought the place.

23:43This is the closest I've ever been to it.

23:50But the drive shaft's obviously been hijacked as well.

23:54That's a bad start.

23:56If we can't find one, we might be in trouble.

24:04Every hour is super important right now for all of our trucks.

24:07It's crazy.

24:08We're running everything 24-7.

24:11So we got one more junkyard here.

24:13It's where things go to die.

24:16It's possible, though.

24:17We've got to never say never.

24:20You want to come along?

24:21Okay.

24:24A lot of this stuff is either just junk or taken off of old machines and s**t.

24:30I mean, like, you've got a bunch of coolant pipes here.

24:33Like, a lot of it is just failed components as well.

24:37But holy s**t.

24:39Look at this!

24:41Ha, ha, ha, ha!

24:44F**k, yeah.

24:47This means we've got a bit of work to do, but we can get that truck going.

24:51So end of the day today, that thing will be moving dirt.

24:59Taylor's rock truck fix can't come soon enough for Brennan Rule, who's also been drafted in from their Indian River

25:07operation.

25:08Up here in the Golden Mile, helping Tyson out.

25:11I'm loading some trucks here.

25:12Just seems to be sucking up every single resource.

25:15I'm sure if he had 100 people here, we'd still don't feel like there's enough equipment and machinery.

25:20It's just crazy busy.

25:22So I really need that truck running.

25:27We'll get this truck up and running, hell or high water.

25:35It's a pretty delicate balance.

25:38Speed versus meticulousness.

25:40You try to do both.

25:42If you overextend in one, you fail in the other.

25:50All right.

25:52That's her.

25:54Every truck on site, we're needing down to the Golden Mile.

25:57So we need to get this thing up and running ASAP.

26:00Tyson's going to be super stoked we got this thing going.

26:06Hey, Tyson, I'm here now.

26:09I heard you got some pay to be moved.

26:10I thought you were taking the day off, man.

26:12Didn't think I'd see you today.

26:14Hell yeah, brother.

26:15We'll get her done, man.

26:16That's awesome.

26:17It's what we need to get this project done.

26:20Tyson now has a shot to get half the payout by Parker's end of week deadline.

26:27Hopefully we can pull it off.

26:41Come on.

26:42Let's get to it.

26:45At the Valhalla cut, Rick's only mechanic, Ryan, has left with his family to think through his mining future.

26:54And his remaining five crew are racing to get down to pay.

26:59Yeah, I'm excited to finally see some gold out of Valhalla.

27:03This sounds stupid as .

27:05It's Valhalla.

27:08We're going to get some Valhalla gold here soon, buddy.

27:11Right.

27:16My life is on the line here, but the amount of dirt that these guys can move with not ideal

27:21situations and not the amount of people that's necessary is surprising.

27:27It's amazing.

27:28It's going to work.

27:29I usually know the gold's going to be there.

27:30I've started to learn to trust my gut out here, and so far it's paying off.

27:39The rock truck sucks today.

27:41The roads are rough.

27:46What the was that?

27:50That didn't sound good.

27:58Hey buddy.

27:59What's up?

28:01I think my drive shaft's the rear one.

28:04Let's take a look.

28:07It's the rear drive shaft.

28:09Yeah, she's .

28:14Oh, Rick, you're a copy.

28:16Yeah, go ahead, buddy.

28:18Yeah, this truck, it looks like I blew the rear drive shaft.

28:21She's going to be down for a bit while Kaia and I try and figure this out and see if

28:25we've got parts.

28:26Are you kidding me?

28:27What the is going on out there?

28:33Limp this thing into the yard, I guess.

28:41I've done this one other time and it was with Ryan.

28:44I'm glad he showed me how to do it because here we are without Ryan.

28:50So, we need to get on some of them.

28:53What was the other one, Kaia?

28:5517?

28:55No, 18 ratchet wrench.

28:58Yeah, got that.

28:59And a 19 regular wrench.

29:01We just have to pull the drive shaft off, put the new one on and it should be ready to

29:06rip.

29:11Yeah, it really sucks not having Ryan here, especially when like this goes wrong and we are already down a

29:17truck.

29:23There we go.

29:24It appears to have worked, Kaia.

29:30Yeah, it's definitely not what we want to see a truck down and only have two working.

29:35You know, I'm here sitting waiting for trucks and you know, three is barely enough and two is definitely not

29:40enough.

29:43We might have to grind this other bolt off.

29:55You done?

29:56I will be in a sec.

29:58You got your socket?

30:00No, hold on.

30:03Well, that's tightened.

30:04Yeah.

30:05Yeah.

30:07Oh, that hurt.

30:28I'm just trying to fix this rock truck and it just seems like today is one of those days where

30:32nothing is going right.

30:35Especially after I broke a rock truck, had a fitting fail on the airline.

30:39So then I got covered in dust and .

30:40But whatever.

30:41It is what it is.

30:43Well, we've taken the truck apart as far as we can take it.

30:46We're just not licensed mechanics.

30:48It's just everything's a mess.

30:52Hey, Rick, you got a copy?

30:54Go for Rick.

30:56Without Ryan, I'm about as far as I can get without, you know, taking the risk that I something else

31:02up.

31:03On here.

31:04Oh, .

31:05I'm kidding.

31:06That's just more bad news that I don't need right now.

31:08You know, we're so far away from an 1,800-ounce target.

31:11It's a nightmare without Ryan here.

31:12I know that right now.

31:14I knew the chances were good that we'd be without a mechanic and it's all coming true.

31:34We're in it.

31:34We're hitting it hard.

31:36We're going, going, going.

31:37So now it's nice.

31:38It's fine.

31:38It's good.

31:40The trommel is going through dirt faster than I even thought it would.

31:43It's almost scary.

31:44At Paradise Hill, with the trommel now eating through the gold rich white channel pay at over 350 yards an

31:53hour, Mike is digging pay dirt in the super pit, racing to stay ahead.

31:59I guarantee you, my plant alone does what two, three of those macons my dad has does.

32:06The trommel goes through it like wild.

32:17Hey Colby, Colby, it's racing here.

32:19There's no water running through the trommel here.

32:21I think we might have to shut it down.

32:23What the ?

32:24What the ?

32:39I'm safe.

32:52Yeah, Mike, can you get here as soon as you can?

32:54The line blew off the pump.

32:56Made a big mess here in the lower yard.

32:58Pipe busted off.

32:59Still pumping water.

33:01It's a big mess.

33:03Almost washed out the pump.

33:04It's a good thing we caught it when we did.

33:11If I can actually start sluicing steady for more than two hours, I don't drink, but this sir is encouraging

33:18the behavior.

33:20Hose just ripped itself off.

33:22It probably because all the weight from the water and pressure from up top just created enough pressure to rip

33:28the hose right off.

33:29So now I have to disconnect this whole thing.

33:32I'm going to have to move a check valve, reset up this whole thing.

33:36And then I'm going to have to weld the solid steel line.

33:41No more around.

33:43I want a solid pipe.

33:45Because every time something blows off, it's costing me so much time.

33:52And I am so absolutely sick of with this thing.

34:00We've got to pick this up.

34:02We're going to lift the check valve.

34:08Pick that thing up.

34:09Get that out.

34:10Watch fingers.

34:12Oh, that might be the problem.

34:15Don't touch nothing yet.

34:17Shut it off.

34:18It's on backwards.

34:22The check valve was on backwards.

34:24So here, come here.

34:26I'll show you.

34:27The check valve, by design, is a stop water coming one direction, right?

34:35So, if it's not like this, and it's facing this way, the check valve don't stop except the pump from

34:41pumping.

34:42The trommel is set up 100 feet high on the hill.

34:47To protect the pump below from any water backflow, they installed a check valve.

34:53But it was put on backwards, and the pump's 1,500-gallon-per-minute output built up enough pressure to

35:00blow the plastic pipe off and crack it.

35:03Mike needs his crew to put the check valve on the correct way and replace the cracked pipe with a

35:11new metal section to the pump so he can get back sluicing again.

35:15If we can take a pipe like this, and you just cut a section out of it, and then it

35:21already has the two ends, right?

35:23Yeah.

35:25Why don't we take this one?

35:39We're going through the process, trying to figure out the angles, and then once we get it where we need

35:44to be, then we'll get a better picture of it.

35:47There's no real mathematical equation.

35:49You're just doing it by fit and feel, basically.

35:52It just takes time.

36:01Oh, you stupid .

36:03Here we go.

36:04I think we got it.

36:05Okay.

36:05Throw the clamp on.

36:08It's on, right?

36:10Your honor?

36:10Yeah.

36:11Okay.

36:12No way.

36:13Didn't breathe.

36:14It's on now.

36:15Oh, it'll be amazing.

36:17You know that it's rigid, or it's going to hold the pressure.

36:20Mike will be happy back sluicing and making money at the hill.

36:25And Tony will probably be happy too, and one big happy family.

36:33Let's get things started and get sluicing.

36:37Ready?

36:50I don't think there's anything left that can break down.

36:52Everything that could break down broke and is now fixed, so we should be good for the rest of the

36:58season, hopefully.

37:01I'm not the biggest fan of not producing gold, so now I'm just going to sit there and watch that

37:05thing spin to make sure nothing goes wrong, and we will be nothing but sluicing.

37:34All right.

37:35What's up, dude?

37:36Good to see you.

37:38After taking some time off with his family, mechanic Ryan Kent is back.

37:45Oh, man.

37:47Oh, .

37:50How'd the week go?

37:52You know, I'm not going to lie.

37:55I'm pretty nervous.

37:56I knew that it would be good for you to go home, but you start thinking about things.

38:00You know, at a certain point, while you were gone, because, you know, I overthink everything, and I'm just like,

38:03man, I think he's probably going to see what he's missing.

38:05And I'm a bit worried he might just call it quits and just bail on us.

38:10Yeah, I mean, so if I'm going to be staying, I mean, it's like, how much longer can we move

38:15dirt and not see gold?

38:16And, you know, on top of that, and it's a gamble.

38:20What are we at?

38:21400?

38:22Just shy of 500.

38:23I'm not going to lie to you, most of it's gone.

38:27I rely on that when I go home.

38:29Yeah.

38:29And if we strike out this year, that's the hard part of telling Rachel of, hey.

38:35You know, I'd sell everything to give you guys, you know, make sure that you guys were paid, because that's,

38:40I give a .

38:41You guys are never going to walk out of here over, and I'll make sure, no matter what happens, that'll

38:45never happen.

38:46But, you know, I need you to trust me, and I need you here, obviously.

38:49Right now, we've got less than two weeks, I'd say, before we have to be Sleucin'.

38:53We're set up to roll, like, we got the water, we got everything, like, we're going to flog that thing.

38:57And you guys all put your faith in me before, and I just need it one more time, right?

39:01Yeah.

39:07It doesn't happen without you, and that's just a fact, right?

39:10We survived a week without you, but, man, like, we'd never survive the rest of the season without you.

39:14That's a fact.

39:15That's pumping your tires.

39:16I appreciate that, man, I do.

39:19So...

39:21Yeah, you've got me.

39:23All right, brother.

39:24I got you.

39:25I've always got you guys.

39:27Yeah, we've got everything we need to be successful.

39:29I think so.

39:35Man, it was great having some time off with my wife and daughter.

39:39It really gets you thinking about things, and coming back here, just wondering our direction,

39:45wondering if I have a future here, wondering what we're doing.

39:47But having the chance to sit and talk to Rick and have him actually open up to me means a

39:51lot.

39:52You know, he's got a game plan.

39:53He's got our backs.

39:55He's never going to let us down.

39:56He's going to do everything he can.

39:57So, when I came back, I didn't know if I was going to stay.

40:01But after that talk, I think Rick's got me forever.

40:18At the beginning of the week, when you said 50% of that cut has to be owner there, I

40:22thought it was going to be pretty tough to do.

40:24But with the extra truck, it definitely helped out, so thanks, man.

40:26No worries, yeah.

40:27Yeah.

40:28Good job.

40:29So you think you'll be able to grind through that, that pay pile?

40:32Hopefully.

40:33It's pretty big.

40:34Yeah.

40:36It's definitely the biggest pile of pay we've ever put up, but we've never really done that before.

40:42It's just that the timing's really bad, you know?

40:45Each week, our goal numbers are going down and down, and then to shut down two plants like that is

40:50like...

40:50Yeah.

40:52There's no good way to deal with it.

40:54It's just the lesser of two evils.

40:58So there isn't much this week, Dumit?

41:01Yeah.

41:02Well, with everything that's going on with the two plants, you're not going to have a great deal.

41:05I don't even want to be here for this gold way.

41:08It looks pretty depressing, not going to lie.

41:10Yeah.

41:11All right, here we go.

41:14First up, the Golden Mile.

41:17Before the shutdown, it averaged 240 ounces of gold a week.

41:23Is that it?

41:24That's all that's in the jug, man.

41:2553.65.

41:28Two plants.

41:29That's depressing.

41:30Yeah.

41:31They got to run to make gold.

41:33Well, Tyson, since you're already up...

41:35Yeah?

41:36In the bridge cut, wash plant Bob is averaging 156 ounces every week.

41:44100.

41:47129.05.

41:51Not great, but not terrible.

41:53Yeah.

41:53Triple digits.

41:54Can't argue with that, right?

41:56One plant versus two.

41:58Pulls off double the amount.

42:00And then old truckless Roxanne, huh?

42:02Yeah.

42:03Let's go.

42:04Finally, Roxanne, which last time delivered just 76 ounces.

42:09I'm going to break 100.

42:12I'm going to break 100.

42:13123.55.

42:15That's not bad.

42:17No.

42:18Not for the ground you're on?

42:19The pay does not look great.

42:21Just super sandy.

42:22Yeah.

42:22No, looking at the dirt, that doesn't look bad.

42:24So, last week was 433.4 ounces.

42:29This week, it's 306.25.

42:33Worth $1,071,000.

42:38The third week in a row, Parker's numbers have fallen.

42:42We've lost a lot of gold.

42:44Of course, you got the two plants shut down.

42:46There's things going on, right?

42:48Our season total, 7,048.55 ounces.

42:53We did break the 7,000 mark.

42:56We just need to cough up another three somewhere.

43:00Somewhere.

43:02Is this our worst week of the season?

43:05Pretty close, yeah.

43:06Yeah.

43:08It's like our season's going backwards.

43:10Yeah.

43:11I don't like the direction we're heading when each week it's a little bit less, a little

43:14bit less, you know.

43:15And this was a bad jump, over 100 ounces.

43:18Yeah.

43:18All right.

43:19Well, we'll get those plants back up and running.

43:21Much better to deal with this now than in September, though.

43:24Great.

43:25Yeah.

43:25When it gets cold, you don't want to be dealing with those problems.

43:28Hopefully, we can make up for it on the back end.

43:30Yeah.

43:31Hopefully, it's a late fall and a warm fall.

43:33Yeah.

43:34All righty.

43:36Next week, a lot of solution, hopefully more gold.

43:38Lame.

43:39Lame.

43:40Lame.

43:40Yep.

43:43Crank them up, guys.

43:44Crank them up.

43:45Will do.

43:45See you doing it.

43:57Gentlemen.

43:58Gentlemen.

44:01Holy .

44:02That's a big one.

44:03I've never seen.

44:04We've.

44:05That's actually huge.

44:07Every mat.

44:09Use that for a tooth cap.

44:13The shovel has been the bait of my life this year.

44:16But she does do good work when she gets the ground.

44:18I've been getting them a good big old nuggies on a ton of little gold.

44:23It's turning out to be quite nice.

44:26After nearly four months of setbacks, Mike's trommel is finally producing gold.

44:34Hi.

44:35Hi, guys.

44:35How are you?

44:36Hey, folks.

44:37Fantastic.

44:40So, Mike, I saw the trommel turning when we come into the yard this morning.

44:44Yeah.

44:44It's been going for three days.

44:46So, yeah.

44:47That's exciting.

44:48And I sit here, or I'm in the office, I can hear the trommel go.

44:52It's kind of nice.

44:54Sound of money, lady.

44:55Nothing wrong with it.

44:56About time.

44:58Yeah, I'm kind of proud of what you've been doing, dude.

45:01Doing my best.

45:02Absolutely.

45:04Now that we've got three boxes going, it'd be nice to see what kind of gold we get out

45:08of it.

45:08That would be really cool.

45:11Let's do Sluisalot.

45:12Okay, Porter, let's see what we got.

45:15Sluisalot has been mining Indian River's corner cut, where it's averaging 300 ounces

45:21a week.

45:22That's 120, 160, 170, 180, 200, 220.48, 220.48.

45:34Well, it seems like you're kind of getting a little dry spot there, but...

45:39Yeah, it's okay.

45:40Some days are good, some days you get a little less.

45:43Do you find a lot?

45:44Puh-puh-puh-puh.

45:46Find a lot is also mining the corner cut, averaging 250 ounces a week.

45:5370, 80, 90, 100, 140, to 10, to 14, to 16, to 18.76.

46:04That's not bad.

46:06So many.

46:07So what we got next?

46:08Trommel?

46:09Yep.

46:10Ta-da!

46:11Michael, I'm excited.

46:13It's the first gold we are at Trommel this year.

46:15Let's do it.

46:16And that's three days only.

46:1920, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 110, 121.56.

46:30Mike's Trommel has brought in $425,000 in gold, bringing the season total to 5,992 ounces, just

46:44500 ounces short of Tony's gold.

46:47So that's kind of nice.

46:50Yeah.

46:51For three days, that's pretty good.

46:53Where do you start, Mike?

46:54Mm-hmm.

46:55Can we keep that up?

46:57There you go.

46:58So now that the trauma's going, you said there'd be other opportunities?

47:09Well, hang on, some things are coming up, so we'll see what develops.

47:14Right?

47:20Okay.

47:21In the meantime, you're going to be super busy here anyway.

47:25Okay.

47:29We'll see you guys later.

47:36I'm happy for Mike that he's got the trauma going, because it was pretty frustrating for

47:40him.

47:40Oh, I'm sure it was.

47:41What are we going to do about his deal, because we said he would be able to do his own

47:45thing after he got the plans going?

47:47Leave it with me or I'll come up with something.

47:49Sounds good.

47:51You should go to work.

47:52I'll go to my own sandbox in the end.

47:54Sounds like a plan.

47:55Talk to you later.

47:56Yep.

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