Gold Rush Season 16 Episode 16

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00:28Captions by Red Bee Media

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 it's 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 .

10:31It's turning.

10:32That's all that really matters right now.

11:05This is not where we want to be.

11:07You 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

11:31we've had it.

11:33It's a mental game.

11:34You can say that I'm going home, this ain't going to work, or you can put your head down,

11:37work harder and make it work.

11:38We're fighting for our lives.

11:40Sometimes 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

12:01Building.

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

12:09a football field, then sluice it all by the end of the season.

12:15I made the decision to extend the cut.

12:17It'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,

12:24what we've got to work with, there's really no choice.

12:26There's definitely no guarantee, you know, that this is going to work, but there never

12:29is in mining, so it's, you know, we've just got to suck it up.

12:34Rick 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.

12:45Only two jobs today, kitchen in here.

12:47To his mechanic, Ryan.

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

12:52We're struggling.

12:53Nobody likes a rock truck.

12:55If you like a rock truck, you're a liar.

12:57We definitely have been waiting a long time, falling overburdened, just to be able to get

13:02pay out, which 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 assload of dirt to move.

13:17It's definitely bigger than the last time we did Vegas Valley, and I do worry about timing.

13:23If we have one thing go down, something happens at that 750, there's no way we're going to hit

13:271,800 ounces.

13:29Yeah, it is true, man.

13:33You know, this is the we need more rock truck drivers, because being stuck in this rock

13:37truck, when I should be working on equipment, that doesn't make any sense.

13:44After his shift, Ryan sits down with his family, before he leaves with them for a short break

13:51from 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.

14:08But, obviously, we're up here to make a better life for ourselves, and the first two seasons,

14:12we've hit our goal, and 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, we haven't done .

14:25Yeah.

14:26That's kind of scary.

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

14:46It'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, and I don't know if

15:04it'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, just call it

15:14a day and just be back with us, you know?

15:18How many relationships last?

15:20Yeah.

15:21And they don't see each other for six months, so.

15:26You want daddy to keep coming back?

15:30No.

15:31No?

15:41No.

15:42Hey, Rick.

15:43I don't know, I got a bother to me, and I just want to talk to you about it.

15:46Down here at Monster Red.

15:56what's scoop honestly had a long talk with rachel you know i've got to think about my future and

16:02leaving them home alone all the time it's just not easy on them you know that's uh i don't know

16:07i want to be in all different places at once it's tough there's a lot to think about i i

16:13i

16:14i'll tell you this like as far as people goes um you're you're you're i mean lack of a title

16:21i

16:21mean you're my go-to guy out here it's always gonna be in the back of your mind of are

16:26we gonna

16:26see a bonus this year my family relies on it and i always want to make sure there's food on

16:31the

16:31table and that's that's my number one concern i don't i don't take that lightly you know i mean

16:35i never have and i'm not gonna lie i mean we we don't finish this or we don't get to

16:38the bottom

16:39of it or we get to the bottom of it there's no gold this year i don't know how to

16:41survive that

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

16:47uh i think there's a few things that you're gonna have to ponder about

16:51like dude your cut is double now it's a cut man you know this is aggressive we're hoping the money's

16:59in the ground but yeah i i we won't really know it until we get down there but with the

17:04price of gold

17:04doing what it's doing it does not take that much gold to make it profitable all it takes is one

17:09bad

17:10season to to lose everything it's a gamble with the amount of gold we brought in i mean we've all

17:16talked so everybody's got their concerns i'd hate to see this crew change

17:36i know he's been stressed out i get worried that uh he might just call it quits leave us right

17:41now

17:42just bail on us in the middle of the season because he's got a business at home he's got a

17:46family at home

17:46and that's uh that's a lot to leave behind it's all right let's go now as ryan leaves to take

18:01his

18:01family home he has a big decision to make it's been a tough week you know i got to think

18:07about

18:07things at home and think about the things i'm missing and think about the situations i put them in

18:12i don't know there's a lot going on we've got a lot to think about

18:24so

18:24so you know we got slucifer and big red shutdown

18:44up in the golden mile we have our sluicing crew in trucks in excavators getting that mass volume of

18:52pay in a stockpile parker schnabel's crew has shut down both plants to focus on clearing half the

19:00remaining pay out of the golden mile by the end of the week but foreman tyson fears it will take

19:08longer

19:09and cost even more in lost gold you 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 so we need all

19:21the help we can get

19:29what's up hey mitch you got a coffee mitch yeah dude what's up hey man we're gonna need one of

19:35your

19:35trucks up here at dominion we got a mountain of pay to move dude i only have two trucks it's

19:40gonna leave me with one truck i gotta keep a wash plan going 24 hours a day forman mitch blasky

19:45is running one of parker's remaining two plants still sluicing yeah i know it's not ideal but

19:52this comes from the top so we gotta make it happen here well that's what parker wants like i mean

19:58i

19:58can send sean up there with a truck but like you guys need to get it done as fast as

20:02possible

20:02because this plant's gonna run out of dirt here all righty thanks man unreal dude like yeah make

20:10it work oh you're making it work with hardly anything okay we'll see if you can do it with

20:16a little less yo sean hey man yeah go ahead take that truck up to dominion they got to get

20:25a bunch

20:25of dirt moved down the golden mile and they need everything we got so get up there as fast you

20:29can

20:30just get it done and rip back here yeah i'm on my way parker needs all hands on deck at

20:36dominion

20:37it's not the best thing we can do down here we know we got so much to get through here

20:41bitch ain't too happy about it the crew is so stretched that even parker is helping out in the

20:48golden mile dozing pay into wind roads for the rock trucks to haul to the stockpiles so basically the best

20:58hope we have of kind of staying on target is bringing all the pay out to a big stockpile as

21:04fast as we can so there's a lot going on up here right now it's kind of all hands on

21:10deck it's a

21:12lot of dirt to move up until the last few weeks i thought we've had 10 000 ounces in the

21:17bag i thought

21:18we'd have it by now but um it's proving to be a bit elusive sean in the vital extra rock

21:29truck is only

21:30halfway into the 15 miles of rough mine roads between the indian river and dominion

21:56that's not good i've been hearing this noise and i knew it sounded like a u-joint so this is

22:02going to take some time

22:04hopefully we can get down here and fix this soon enough

22:05all right taylor you got a copy taylor no answer

22:17mitch wasn't too happy about me leaving and you know now parker's not going to be too happy about me

22:22not making it there

22:44right now it ain't gonna be driving ball

22:53well there's no repairing this end of the drive shaft because uh

22:59the yoke here where the u-joint mounts part of its snap clean off that's toast

23:07on the road to dominion mechanic taylor matika is under the gun to fix a rock truck desperately needed

23:15to help parker's golden mile blitz i just got back to dominion we do have a boneyard here

23:22we do have a few options i think they've all been pretty ransacked so i'm 50 50 on my level

23:29of hope for that

23:37this is where i'm most hopeful um this is one from before we ever bought the place

23:43this is the closest i've ever been to it but

23:51the drive shafts obviously been hijacked as well

23:54that's a bad start um if we can't find one we might be in trouble

24:04every hour is super important right now for all of our trucks it's crazy we're running everything 24 7

24:11so we got one more junkyard here it's where things go to die

24:15um it's possible though we gotta never say never you want to come along okay

24:24a lot of this stuff is either just junk or taken off of old machines and i mean like

24:31you got a bunch of coolant pipes here like a lot of it is just failed components as well

24:37but holy look at this

24:43yeah

24:47this means we got a bit of work to do but we can get that truck going so

24:51end of the day today that uh 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

25:06from their indian river operation up here in the golden mile helping tyson out i'm loading some

25:11trucks here just seems to be sucking up every single resource i'm sure if he had a hundred people

25:17here we'd still don't feel like there's enough equipment and machinery well it'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 speed versus meticulousness you try to do both if you uh

25:44overextend in one you fail in the other

25:50all right that's her every truck on site we're uh we're needing down to the golden mile so we need

25:57that get this thing up and up and running asap tyson's gonna be super stoked we got this thing going

26:06hey tyson i'm here now uh heard you got some pay to be moved i thought you were taking the

26:11day off

26:11man didn't think i'd see you today hell yeah brother we'll get her done man that's awesome it's what we

26:18need to get this project done tyson now has a shot to get half the pay out by parker's end

26:25of week

26:26deadline hopefully we can pull it off

26:41come on let's get to it at the valhalla cut rick's only mechanic ryan has left with his family to

26:52think

26:52through his mining future and his remaining five crew are racing to get down to pay yeah i'm excited

27:00uh finally see some gold out of valhalla this sounds stupid as but uh it's valhalla we're gonna get some

27:09valhalla gold here soon buddy right

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

27:21situations

27:22and and not the amount of people that's necessary is surprising like it's more surprising it's amazing

27:28it's gonna work i usually know the gold's gonna be there i've started to learn to trust my gut out

27:32here and so far it's paying off

27:39rock truck sucks today roads are rough

27:47what the was that

27:50that didn't sound good

27:58hey buddy what's up i think my drive shaft's uh the rear one let's take a look

28:07it's the rear drive shaft yeah she's

28:14oh rick you're a copy yeah go ahead buddy yeah this uh this truck it looks like i blew the

28:20rear

28:20drive shaft uh she's gonna be down for a bit while kaya and i try and figure this out and

28:24see if we got

28:25the car parts you're kidding me what 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 i'm glad he showed me how to do it

28:46because here we

28:47are without ryan so we need to get on somehow what was the other one kaya 17 no uh eight

28:56or uh 18 ratchet

28:57wrench yeah i got that and a 19 regular wrench we just have to pull a drive shaft off put

29:04the new

29:04one on and it should be ready to rip

29:11yeah it really sucks uh not having ryan here especially when like this goes wrong and we

29:16are already down a truck

29:23there we go it appears to have worked kai

29:29yeah it's definitely not uh what we want to see a truck down and only have two working you know

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

29:43we might have to grind this other bolt off

29:46so

29:55you done i will be in a sec you got your socket no hold on

30:03Well, that's tightened.

30:04Yeah.

30:05Yeah.

30:07Oh, .

30:08That hurt.

30:28I'm just trying to fix this rock truck,

30:30and it just seems like today's one of those days

30:32where nothing's going right.

30:35Especially after I broke a rock truck.

30:36I had a fitting fail on the airline,

30:38so then I got covered in dust and ,

30:40but whatever.

30:41It is what it is.

30:43Well, we've taken the truck apart

30:45as 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

30:59without taking the risk that I something else up on here.

31:04Oh, .

31:06That's just more bad news

31:07that I don't need right now.

31:09We'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

31:15that we'd be without a mechanic,

31:17it's all coming true.

31:34We're in it.

31:34We're hitting it hard.

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

31:37Now it's nice.

31:38It's fine.

31:38It's good.

31:40The trommel is going through dirt faster

31:42than I even thought it would.

31:43It's almost scary.

31:44At Paradise Hill,

31:46with the trommel now eating through

31:48the gold-rich white-channel pay

31:50at over 350 yards an hour,

31:54Mike is digging pay dirt in the super pit,

31:57racing to stay ahead.

31:59I guarantee you, my plant alone

32:01does what two, three of those macons

32:04my dad has does.

32:06The trommel goes through it like wild.

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

32:19If there's no water running through the trommel here,

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

32:23What the ?

32:24What the ?

32:39For the f***ing safe.

32:52Yeah, Mike.

32:53Can 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, pipe busted off, still pumping water, it's a big

33:02mess.

33:02Almost washed out the pump, it'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

33:16sure is encouraging the behaviour.

33:20The hose just ripped itself off, probably because all the weight from the water and

33:25pressure from up top just created enough pressure to rip the hose right off.

33:29So now I have to disconnect this whole thing, I'm going to have to move a check valve, reset

33:35up this whole thing, and then I'm going to have to weld a solid steel line.

33:41No more around.

33:43I want a solid pipe, because every time something blows off, it's costing me so much time and

33:53I am so absolutely sick of with this thing.

34:00We've got to pick this up, we're going to lift the check valve.

34:08Pick that thing up, get that out, watch fingers.

34:12That might be the problem.

34:15Don't touch nothing yet, shut it off, it's on backwards.

34:22The check valve was on backwards.

34:25So here, come here, I'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

34:41the pump from pumping.

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

34:59pressure to blow the plastic pipe off and crack it.

35:04Mike needs his crew to put the check valve on the correct way and replace the cracked pipe

35:10with a new 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

35:21has the two ends, right?

35:23Yeah.

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

35:39Going through the process, trying to figure out the angles, and then once we get it where

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

35:47There's no real mathematical equation, you're just doing it by fit and feel, basically.

35:52It just takes time.

36:03There we go.

36:04I think we got it.

36:05Okay.

36:05Throw the clamp on.

36:08Come, it's on there.

36:10You're on there?

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.

36:34Let's get things started and get this loosened.

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.

36:55So we should be good for the rest of the season, hopefully.

37:01I'm not the biggest fan of not producing gold.

37:03So now I'm just going to sit there and watch that thing spin to make sure nothing goes wrong,

37:08and we will be nothing but sluicing.

37:35What's up, dude?

37:36Good to see you.

37:38What's up, buddy?

37:39Good to see you.

37:39After 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.

37:54I'm pretty nervous.

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

37:59You know, at a certain point, while you were gone, because, you know, I overthink everything.

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

38:05And I'm a bit worried.

38:06He 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, it's a gamble.

38:19What are we at?

38:21400?

38:22Just shy of 500.

38:23I'm not going to lie to you.

38:24Most of it's gone.

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

38:29Yeah.

38:30And 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 are paid because that's,

38:40I give a ****.

38:41You guys are never going to walk out of here and **** over it.

38:43I'll make sure, no matter what happens, that'll never 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 sluicing.

38:53We're set up to **** roll.

38:54Like, we got the water.

38:55We got everything.

38:56Like, 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.

39:08It 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.

39:21So, yeah, you've got me.

39:23**** me, buddy.

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.

39:58So, when I came back, I didn't know if I was going to stay.

40:02But 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 on there, I

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

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

40:26So, thanks, man.

40:26No worries.

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.

40:39But we've never really done that before.

40:42It's just the timing is really bad.

40:44You know, each week our goal numbers are going down and down.

40:48And then to shut down two plants like that, it's like, eh.

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.

41:11All 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.

41:2653.65.

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.

41:35In 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.

42:14123.55.

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, no, 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.

42:57We just need to cough up another three somewhere.

43:00Somewhere.

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

43:05Pretty close, yeah.

43:07Yeah.

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

43:10Yeah, I don't like the direction we're heading when each week it's a little bit less, a little bit less.

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

43:17Yeah.

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.

43:34Alrighty.

43:36Next week, a lot of sluice in.

43:37Hopefully, more gold.

43:38Lame.

43:39Lame.

43:40Lame.

43:40Yep.

43:43Crank them up.

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 it.

44:05That's actually huge.

44:07Every mat.

44:09Use that for a tooth cap.

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

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

44:19I'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.

44:46That's exciting.

44:48And I sit here or I'm in the office.

44:51I 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.

45:01I'm doing 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 of

45:08it.

45:08That would be really cool.

45:11Let's do Slusalot.

45:12Okay, Porter.

45:13Let's see what we've got.

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

45:42Do you find a lot?

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 do we got next?

46:08Strommel?

46:09Yep.

46:10Ta-da!

46:11Michael, I'm excited.

46:13It's the first gold we added 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 trommel 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?

47:44Because we said he would be able to do his own thing 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 and see later.

47:54Sounds like a plan.

47:55Talk to you later.

47:56Yep.

48:01We'll see you later.

48:01Bye.

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