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Gold Rush Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan Season 6 Episode 6
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00:03if we're not making money we're losing everything within the next week or two
00:08on this episode of mine rescue my main load mine is about 2 500 yards up but we're having
00:17issues with liberating all the gold out a one-of-a-kind hard rock operation unfortunately
00:24we're not running this right now is dead in the water this is kind of what we were planning on
00:30working on as the miners future hangs in the balance we're running a plaster operation down
00:38below i'm about 90 sure that this is failing not one speck in that i mean i'm really concerned now
00:48yeah me too freddie and juan must think outside the box i got well over 180 grand invested in this
01:01we have nothing left to get the gold
01:08well let's see what it shoots oh wow holy cow
01:33there's been a lot of history in this area gold built the state of california that's why california
01:39is here is because of gold you can see some old hard rock shafts on the mountains here one on
01:44the
01:45hills yeah i've seen a couple of them already little outcroppings where they've done some works
01:52this miner's a gentleman named joe he's a hard rock guy and the way he talks he's struggling pretty bad
02:0375 miles east of the pacific coast in southern california the runnells mine sits within a diverse
02:10mountainous desert region from the 1870s this area was renowned for its rich underground gold the
02:19nearby good hope shaft produced over 310 million dollars in today's money and this same good hope
02:27vein runs through miner jeff runnell's small 20 acre claim jeff is here yeah ready nice to meet you
02:35yeah you too sir how you doing juan so this your hard rock operation this is the hard rock operation
02:40my main load mine is about 2 500 yards up but unfortunately since i last spoke to you things
02:47have changed dramatically we're currently not running this right now this is kind of what we were planning
02:54on working on are you not mining anymore or what's going on well i ran out of money for this
02:59up here
02:59okay so we had to shift gears another operation down below and we're running a little bit of plaster
03:06i was seeing gold and it was quick and easy so that's why we moved down there okay a hard
03:12rock
03:12mining is very expensive it is it is how much do you have invested in all your workings here and
03:18all
03:18your all your equipment about 183 000 last year yeah just last year just the last year i'm broke
03:24like literally broke i have nothing left um we're grasping at straws right now if we don't start
03:31making a profit in the next couple of weeks this is all getting packed up put in storage i guess
03:36that
03:36changes a little bit you know yeah we came here thinking we're going to work on this plant are you
03:41getting decent recovery out of the plaster plant right now no we're not retaining the gold that i've
03:48been seeing in the samples do you have any gold we can say that i have a little bit of
03:51gold so this
03:54is about the average size of the placer that's big it's pretty gold that's for darn sure yeah it's nice
03:59real wiry so you're mainly wanting us to help you down there then it's a placer gold right at this
04:06point yeah this is the focus because this is where we're going to gain the fastest capital well you
04:10know right now i think want to go down there and look at your plaster plant that is running yeah
04:13and
04:13then we come up with a game plan what we can do i served in the army from 95 until
04:1906 after several
04:21tours overseas i sustained multiple injuries and then that ultimately led to uh spinal cord surgeries
04:28and i was discharged the gold prospecting was physical therapy to help me get out and walking around and
04:36you know moving to get everything back to somewhat normal over the years gold fever set in and jeff
04:45decided to risk everything to pursue his dream of mining full-time got the cavalry all the kids plus roxy
04:54moving his partner roxy and their seven kids to a house on a rented gold claim we moved out here
05:01and i
05:02started prospecting for hard rock i've put my entire savings into this and financially it just strapped me
05:11so i got to make this work
05:16this is steve one of my dad's real long time surf buddies he's my second man i mean he's my
05:22everything how you doing steve i'm juan hey juan ready good to meet you ready nice to meet you too
05:27this is the plan huh yeah this is the wash plant so what kind of gold like on your last
05:32cleanup the
05:33initial test that steve and i did it was it was showing really good gold the last cleanup we did
05:38it was the eight hour run that was 1.14 grams for for an eight hour or an eight hour
05:43right
05:45okay so we're losing gold somewhere that's not good no it could be material too though yeah could be
05:51the material jeff's gamble is mining the gullies on his claim for placer gold using a wash plant cobbled
05:58together from pieces he already had on site so what we like to do is uh we want to do
06:03a four-hour test
06:04run okay and freddy and i we're just going to stand back watch your guys's process and then uh
06:09we'll go from there awesome let's wash some gravel do it
06:21we got here this morning expected to be working on a hard rock and uh you know got thrown a
06:27curveball
06:28right off the bat i understand where he's going with it because he doesn't have the resources left
06:33to run the hard rock stuff it costs a lot more money to run that with this blaster operation
06:39probably every stream in california has potential to have some amount of gold in it but that doesn't
06:44mean there's good enough gold everywhere to make money
06:55first bucket one
06:57pay dirt is tipped into a homemade hopper where plastic pipe offcuts wash the material across a screen
07:08operator steve uses an old plank of wood to shake the pay out into the sluices below
07:21you know i've been with jeff since he got this place off of running we've worked through thick and
07:28thin from inside to out it would be devastated for this to go away what are you doing puppy hey
07:37pup pup
07:38i came here to help him and if we fail then i'm kind of a failure so hopefully freddie and
07:46juan
07:46can help get us through this dire situation
07:52you know just starting out that uh hopper that he repurposed with that little grizzly on there
07:56it's a bottleneck they've only been running a few minutes and it's already plugged up
08:01there's already a laundry list of things that we can do
08:05i'm gonna take some test bands go to the pay file i'm gonna take a look at the sluice box
08:14i can actually feel down there the ripple itself is above the mat
08:22and it's allowing that material just to blow out of the riffle so
08:26half of that box is not doing anything
08:29with jeff and steve earning so little from their last run freddie checks the quality of their pay
08:36dirt we're just going to take a little from here and take handfuls from all over this pile for this
08:41next pan that way you aren't getting all your material from the same spot
08:49this ought to be fun
09:08not one speck in that see there's no gold in there
09:15nothing so that's a bad sign what even makes this more disheartening is uh jeff's on his last legs
09:24here you know without getting onto some gold and recovering it you know he's pretty much out of
09:30business what you got there well i pan in the pay pile that he's feeding through the plant nothing
09:37i even had my grandpa glasses on nothing even resembles gold in that one right now he's just
09:44wasting money one yeah i think you shut him down fred i think so too honestly hey jeff yeah
09:52we're at two hours right now let's shut it down all right the reason why i've been panning all over
09:58the place i haven't found one single color out of this material not one really not one
10:05you're wasting money on gas diesel labor still think you need to clean this up yeah right and
10:12have a look at it right because who knows you may have had one bucket in there that had some
10:17gold
10:18in it right right all right well we'll get this box cleaned up and see what it see what it
10:24does
10:26thank you sir sorry for being a bear of bad news that's all good thanks
10:31weighing the gold from the test run will give freddian one a larger scale sample of jeff's placer
10:38pay dirt well it's been kind of a weird day that's for dang sure he's no longer running the hard
10:44rock
10:44operation and come to find out that the placer mine may not be viable either so basically right now
10:53worth this property's mercy you know i that that's really all i can say now i'm nervous um
11:04yeah now now i'm pretty nervous
11:08either we're gonna get gold and we're gonna succeed or the next week that runs by we gotta pack up
11:17and i
11:17leave and that'll be it for this
11:38okay a pan and a bowl all right you want pancakes yeah please you want to do just plain and
11:44then you
11:44guys can top it how you want yeah all right ahead of miner jeff's first gold way it's breakfast time
11:51in the runnell's household that test run was horrible yeah like worse i've ever seen i'm just
11:59i'm hoping that they can find a way to fix it you know yeah roxy's uh my fiance of five
12:05years now uh
12:06between the two of us we have uh seven kids together ranging from 19 down to six um you can
12:12use maple syrup
12:13instead she's absolutely my rock she dove into this just head first and has been supporting me the
12:23entire time i would describe jeff as my best friend first of all um and it's been his dream for
12:30a long
12:31time being able to build something that's ours and his and that's something we can leave behind for the
12:39kids and um it just means a lot you want eggs ella yeah you want a little plate financially right
12:49now we
12:49sunk everything we have into this him me steve i mean we're all in it we're a team and
13:00we're going to keep going because we don't quit certainly not
13:11sorry
13:18it is a very real situation
13:21a very very real situation if this doesn't work then we're all back to square one
13:42morning good morning how's it going morning yeah with a looming deadline that could shut down his
13:49mining aspirations jeff braces for the placer gold way you probably didn't sleep last night no not
13:56at all it's your gold dump her in there and let's see what you got sir all right less than
14:02a gram like
14:03yeah doesn't look like much
14:12oh
14:14half a gram
14:15for two hours
14:19it's actually probably twenty dollars worth of gold with the black sand yep if we're going to keep
14:24on running this then you're just yeah working to lose money that's what you're doing big time
14:28right the two-hour test run cost 150 dollars in fuel meaning running the wash plant has put jeff 130
14:36bucks out of pocket in a full day's run the max he could make on the material he's running is
14:4380
14:44you know either way it's very unsustainable you know that as well as yeah i know i got kids i
14:51got
14:51a feed that that don't that don't do it no you're actually taking food out of their mouth to mine
14:57right
14:57now can't be doing that you know i think the biggest thing that we're going to have to do here
15:02is prospecting there's only one way to find out if there's enough gold in there and that let's get
15:06after it okay
15:10it don't look good it doesn't look good on me it doesn't look good on steve
15:16it's pretty and one they're our last hope i mean this is it
15:22well right now there's really no point for wanting myself to start a game plan
15:26or doing any fixes until we find out if there's gold left in the ground
15:29we got to prospect the rest of jeff's land and see if we can't turn around the situation here
15:39just trying to read a few things here yeah for sure
15:43it just doesn't look natural to me
15:47i'm about 90 sure that this is tailings i'm guessing 1800s tailings old waste piles from
15:58previous placer mining means jeff's spring beds or draws have been almost entirely mined out
16:05i mean i'm really concerned now
16:10yeah me too
16:14you got some plaster but it's super low grade
16:18figure well five dollars a yard on this if we run 80 yards and then we can make that difference
16:23up
16:24doesn't matter though because it's still not even close to being enough you know a little tough love
16:28you're gonna have to get the gold fever out of the equation because numbers are numbers
16:34you know a few dollars worth of gold per yard is going to get him by which is wrong you
16:41know the
16:41price of fuel the price of parts so forth you're still going broke right this is done getting the
16:48water huh yep basically you know the plaster is gone and what plaster has left that he like we ran
16:57in
16:57that first test worthless need to get with juan put our heads together and see where we go from here
17:03you know and see where we go from here and see what's the place that looks good
17:14awesome thank you that looks good that looks really good
17:16gracias gracias muy amable
17:20what scares me is he thinks his money is with the placer but the plaster was completely worthless
17:27we're kind of in a tight spot here yeah and we'll have so many days here well
17:33why don't we prospect the hard rock as well because that's his dream right and
17:40if there's gold you know maybe we can figure a way to be able to do it and get
17:42the gold out without breaking the bank I think that's a good idea one I might
17:52call a friend of mine and bring him in he's got some technology that might be
17:57very helpful okay I'm gonna run up to his hard rock mill let's really figure out
18:01what's there and see what we can do to make some improvements on it let's do
18:05it buddy do it you want to know something this is flipping hot for a gringo a little
18:11rough huh
18:16coming up
18:19this whole mountain range produced for millions of dollars in gold let's see what it shoots Dave
18:26oh wow
18:40how's it going Dave hey Fred how you doing on the runnels claim in the shadow of California's
18:46legendary Good Hope mine Jeff this is Dave a friend of mine we've known each other for a
18:51couple decades now Freddy's hard rock expert Dave Emsley arrives on site to prospect Jeff's
18:58underground shaft let's have a look at the vein structure up there yeah over at the hard rock mill
19:07site Juan turns his attention to the state of Jeff's hard rock plant in a Hail Mary hope of making
19:14the
19:14runnels mine fully operational again cameras away wore out working properly rocks are fed into a
19:24hopper and then crushed using these steel hammers in a mill so inside we got this rotating assembly that
19:30has the hammers hanging on to it the centrifugal force pushes those hammers out and it starts
19:34breaking up that material till it can finally fall through the screen but if you look at these these
19:40are the old hammers you can see how wore out they are the material doesn't break up as quickly we're
19:46gonna have to do better than that a few thousand feet up the mountain well here it is Dave look
20:01at that nice Dave holds the
20:03key to unlocking Jeff's hard rock gold a state-of-the-art $50,000 XRF gun so this is an
20:12x-ray spectrometer it's a
20:13radioactive emitting device but we can take this machine point at a rock pull the trigger it sends
20:19an x-ray out and what reflects back will tell us what minerals are in the rock what metals are
20:24in the
20:24rock so for example if I shoot a watch shows me percentage of gold percentage of silver etc instantly
20:33what normally takes 72 hours to do can be done inside of a minute lead the way Jeff the whole
20:42point by
20:42bringing Dave in is to pinpoint you know the hotter spots in that vein system up there fingers
20:48crossed that we find something that's worthwhile for Jeff in there and we can save his home and his
20:53livelihood but you know it's all a gamble
21:04so this is the main working area the main ore bodies on the the left hand side stretches in
21:13that's a decent size vein well I think we ought to uh do a little bit of testing on it
21:18let's see what it
21:18shoots Dave what about this piece of nothing good on that one how deep back should you go oh probably
21:35three or four hundred feet the inherent problem with hard rock is it's never consistent in veins you know
21:44they pinch and they swell and they get richer and they get poorer so you can go two feet it'll
21:49be
21:49completely different try the center of the vein there yeah we're seeing some silver copper some
22:06nickel lots of iron when we get some of the base metals in there that's a good sign there's gonna
22:10be
22:10gold percent presence as well so that's showing about 30 grams a time 30 grams a time yeah that's
22:16a good sign 30 grams translates to three thousand two hundred dollars a ton a fully functioning hard
22:24rock operation could process around 40 tons a day bringing in up to six hundred and forty thousand dollars
22:32per week so that's shooting about 40 grams a ton right now the most accurate way is actually to
22:38take a pile of dust and see what we get on the dust so that's showing about four ounces a
22:45ton right now
22:47this whole mountain range like historically and produced millions of dollars of gold so this
22:53vein complex is gonna be offshoot to that the trick is is just getting it out of the ground right
22:57it's a
22:58time-consuming and expensive process it is blasting ore from the rock takes investment Jeff doesn't have
23:04so for now the gold remains trapped in the mountain there's an ore pile on the outside of the mine
23:11let's
23:12look at it but Freddie's got one more place to test this is all the recent stuff that I pulled
23:20out from
23:21the mine when we cleaned it out okay historical is on the all on the right that looks historic okay
23:26yeah the waste tailings pile are unprocessed from the 1800s when old timers blasted then dumped lower
23:34grade ore all right well let's take a couple samples and see what we can get it's going to be
23:39a mix of
23:39stuff an old ore pile was too low grade for the old timers but at today's gold price it may
23:46have
23:46enough gold in it to make it worthwhile this is showing 19 grams so half an ounce oh wow so
23:58that's
23:58that's good with gold at $3,200 an ounce this mixed-grade old-timers waste pile could be worth millions
24:07you
24:08can literally just shovel it up right now crush it grind it table it and who knows once you run
24:15this it
24:15may bankroll you enough that you can get the rest of this stuff going awesome you don't want to find
24:22out there are decent values that's kind of a godsend because even on a smaller scale I think Jeff can
24:28get
24:28by and he can also go a bit larger scale once he gets some money in his pocket and now
24:33you know I
24:33need to go make a game plan with Juan get our ducks in a row and figure out exactly what
24:38we need to do here
24:51how are we doing Jeff how's it going with just 48 hours to get Jeff making enough gold to save
24:57his
24:57family home Freddie and Juan pivot on an accelerated plan we're gonna turn this into a kind of a two
25:04part thing we know you can't afford to run your hard rock operation right now so we're gonna get a
25:08small hard rock plant going we're gonna put a sluice box under it you can actually start getting the
25:13ore get some money together ultimately hard rock mining is the big boy mining you know it takes a
25:18lot of money a lot of equipment to be able to extract the gold this little plant is gonna get
25:22some money together get you back up to the mill site awesome oh wow that's amazing to set Jeff up
25:30on a ladder to success Freddie and Juan will take on a two-stage build first they'll replace Jeff's
25:38placer plan with a small low-cost hard rock plant made from Jeff's on-site pilot milk or crusher a
25:46small
25:46sluice box will sit underneath custom-built for lighter hard rock gold Jeff can use this setup to work
25:55through the easy to reach old-timers or and gather the capital he needs to fund his main hard rock
26:02push
26:03one will then set him up for that future by swapping out the worn hammers on the main hard rock
26:09plant with
26:11custom-built brand new ones that can easily break down the ore and free the gold so after hearing you
26:19have seven kids and then you're a vet Freddie and I we came to the agreement that we want to
26:23do this
26:23you know for you guys for free yeah pro bono you really appreciate that that that beats a lot man
26:32Freddie and Juan you know they know my ultimate dream is going back to my hard rock mine and
26:37everything that they're doing is going to put us towards that goal so I'm excited to pull that
26:42whole ore pile down and run it it's going to be a huge game changer you know we started with
26:48plan A
26:48and then we went to plan B and now we're on plan F it's time to get rolling
27:13got it in the race to save miner Jeff Runnell's home and mining dream we're gonna bag this stuff up
27:21here okay his partner Steve has enlisted local reinforcements to help move the old-timers or down
27:30the mountain the old-timers left a lot behind so hopefully we should be able to generate enough
27:38funds to get the other plant up and running all right we're ready all right Steve here comes
27:56down below let's go measure that real quick it's a full team effort to create the small hard rock
28:03plant that can process the old-timers or so what I was thinking here yeah as we pull this off
28:10okay
28:11this dry shoot uh-huh right then our sluice box is going to go underneath Jeff's repurposed mini pilot
28:20mill will crush the rocks to powder releasing the gold which will fall into Juan's brand new sluice box
28:27below welding the top rail for the sluice box you can't run before you walk ultimately this little
28:38plant allows Jeff to be able to get his finances together save his home and eventually get back up
28:43on the middle side it looks good Juan thank you Freddy all welded out it's now Freddy's job to fit
28:54out the
28:55small plant sluice for hard rock I'm gonna put this as a baffle plate right here like this so that
29:04water
29:04is gonna hit it okay that'll spread that for us if we were to just shoot it in it would
29:10just go
29:11right down the box right blow it out golden hard rock is lighter and notoriously hard to catch by slowing
29:19and spreading the water flow the baffle plate will encourage the fine gold to drop into the box that'll
29:27get her having these guys out here right now just the labor and the cost alone was way out of
29:32our budget
29:33to even remotely come up with anything of the sort and the fact that they're doing it pro bono it's
29:39just a godsend the small hard rock plant should generate some income in the short term but in the
29:46cut trailer Juan looks to Jeff's long-term future the hammers that Jeff has are completely wore out
29:53though we're gonna build him a set Juan will lay the groundwork on Jeff's main hard rock plant by
30:00replacing the worn down hammers with brand new ones that can crush the hard rock ore and release the
30:07gold right now it's just a chunk of steel but once we weld the arm on to it and drill
30:12the hole it's
30:13gonna be hammer for the hammer mill part of what Freddie and I do is give people the tools for
30:19their
30:19future and that's what we're doing you know we're getting his little plant set up so we can test but
30:24ultimately we're giving them the tools that he needs to get his big plant running and then create
30:27a future for himself and his family this is a jig we'll put the hammer and then the arm and
30:35then we
30:35can drill it and weld it all in one we'll have one jig to be able to build them all
30:39so they're all
30:39uniform and so that way in the future Jeff can build his own hammers as well a jig acts like
30:45a 3d
30:46template for each of the 16 hammers giving Jeff a way to replace his own in the future and saving
30:53him thousands of dollars there you go on the test sluice build Jeff is on carpet duty Freddie gave me
31:09a
31:10really good tip and that was to singe all the edges if you look right here when you cut it
31:15it gets
31:16real loose and what happens over time is it it starts peeling apart and unraveling so what I did was
31:22I singed it around all four edges so that way it'll last a lot longer well we're gonna get our
31:32wedge system
31:33in here our lockdown system for these ripples fingers crossed everything comes together and we get
31:39back on track and we start making money so that's what it's all about well here's the test sluice so
31:51it's all ready to go water systems hooked up it's all welded out beneath the baffle plate Freddy's
31:59placed three different size riffle systems to maximize the chance to catch the smaller lighter hard rock
32:06gold it changes the speed of the water and the velocity and that also helps you know drop a little
32:13more gold out that really fine gold beautiful yeah this is gorgeous let's uh get it over there get it
32:21set
32:27okay
32:28that'll work right now what we're doing is we're putting the the test mill in place put the sluice under
32:35it
32:36and then uh we'll get that all kind of dialed in and we should be ready to go tomorrow morning
32:43to fire it up
32:48come down a little more Jeff perfect
32:59come down hard there we go perfect absolutely perfect
33:08ahead of tomorrow's test wands pulled in a last minute favor to supercharge the small hard rock plant
33:16i see a big boy toy i'm excited this 2900 psi mb crusher bucket can pulverize up to seven tons
33:26of rock an
33:27hour making quick work of jeff's newly stockpiled old-timers ore i figure the the smaller we can get
33:35it now the more of it you can run through your little your little plant yeah that'll be it'll it'll
33:39go through a lot easier pre-crushing will not only make jeff's small hard rock plant run faster
33:54it'll also leave them a stockpile of crushed material when freddie and juan have gone you know
34:00jeff's kind of in a tight spot here so freddie and i are really doing all we can to try
34:04to
34:04leave them in a good position to hopefully get ahead
34:13so tomorrow we're going to fire up this smaller hard rock plant
34:18after you have a horrible test run the first time i mean obviously there's going to be some
34:21nervousness now so i'm confident in the ore but there's always that nervousness
34:27yeah that's the last bucket and all we got to do is run it now
34:48it's the critical final day of the runnels rescue yeah from that and that's a new one
34:58so before running the final test juan installs the hammers on jeff's main hard rock plant
35:05jeff doesn't have the money to be able to run that plant right now but he's got what he needs
35:09as far as the parts so when he can afford to actually get up here he can start going after
35:14that underground gold so considering everything you've been through with hard rock mining obviously
35:19you have a love for it yeah yeah i mean i was taught growing up that you just work you
35:26just you
35:26just push through it and do it and uh never asked for help ever and so when i finally reached
35:33out and to have you guys come out it was a humbling experience for me sometimes you know regardless
35:37of how stubborn and proud we are you know sometimes we do need help hopefully we're able to
35:42get that little plant going get you a little bit of gold coming in it's kind of a catalyst to
35:46get
35:47this going oh absolutely there it is what do you think we uh fire up the generator and try it
35:52out
35:52yeah yeah let's fire it on all right cool look at that that's really good that's doing a really
36:18good job crushing that material yeah it's a it's amazing what a new set of hammers will do yeah
36:24well cool man let's get back down there huh awesome thank you appreciate it
36:36fire it up let's fire it up let's do it
36:46at the base of the mountain the final two-hour test run on the old-timer's ore pile begins
36:52first bucket here we go let's see what this door carries jeff feeds the pre-crushed ore into the pilot
37:01mill crushing where two rollers grind it further into a fine dust this then falls into freddie's
37:10customized sluice where the lighter gold should drop out into the riffles
37:19it's pretty much going to make or break it so it's pretty important that we get gold
37:29that's good
37:34small scale right now jeff needs to run that smaller plant make some gold get out of the hole that
37:39he's
37:39in it'll work good for him there's a little bit of gold right there right there yeah let's keep going
37:52there's been a lot of throwing at us this week but we're getting it done
38:02let's make up the last bucket
38:03last bucket jeff
38:15fingers crossed eh 10 i hope so freddie
38:24i'm curious i'm one yeah i'm a little nervous though yeah me too well you got the gold i do
38:31let's weigh it up don't let it blow away yeah all right
38:452.7 grams
38:49that's not terrible no what do you got there you think we ran two yards yeah that's right about
38:54there it's about five times what we got the first one a little over five times
38:58yeah yeah at this rate jeff and steve can make around 1.5 ounces of gold a week with the
39:06test
39:06plant worth five thousand dollars you know in reality you know that that adds up yeah absolutely
39:15sure it's not a high production plant but it's putting out gold absolutely
39:195 000 a week that's going to save our house you know it's going to save me financially in the
39:26short
39:26term if you live lean and mean and save your money that throw that money into your production
39:32plant up there once jeff can get his main plant up and running it can process 56 tons per day
39:38giving him an earning potential of over 33 000 a week a number that will rise exponentially
39:46once he can blast the higher grade vein from the underground shaft well we better get on the road
39:51gentlemen great working with you yeah here's your gold thank you sir now it's time to just generate
39:57that capital get that big plant and start cranking with everything that freddy and juan did for us
40:03the dream's going to continue and we're going to push through we're going to make it take care guys you
40:09too i'll follow you up buddy jeff was right on the verge of shutting down i mean within days or
40:16weeks and uh
40:18what we've done here is we've given in the skills and tools for the future so now he can provide
40:24for
40:24his family so we can ride out of here uh with our head cycle hey juan and freddy this is
40:36jeff out here
40:37in uh paris california we're finally starting to turn a corner right now we're still in the house we brought
40:43some of the equipment over juan the jig he made for us was essential everything's running pretty
40:49good hammers are doing their hammers it's allowing us to make our own hammers we are using the sluice
40:57we found a high-grade vein that is putting out about two ounces or more a ton i mean this
41:03vein that
41:04we hit is probably the biggest strike that this property's ever seen in like a hundred years
41:1150 to 60 pound sample we're going to crush it up right now so the potential is great now we
41:17just
41:18got to get it all out of there the plan now once we build up capital is to bring my
41:23bigger hard rock
41:24equipment down that we can run the volume we should be doing well over 80 grand a month
41:30we want it freddy it's much appreciated
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