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00:26This time of season right now, I mean, I can tell.
00:28Well, the summer's gone. We're well into the fall, and we have no time for delays anymore.
00:33Four months into the season, Rick Ness is deep in the hole.
00:40I mean, at the moment, we're not even at 500 ounces yet, so we can't afford to be wasting any
00:44more time.
00:46If we don't see some gold soon, there's no way we're going to hit our 1,800 ounces.
00:51Just seven weeks remain in the mining season.
00:55Rick's now spent a million dollars moving a mountain in his Valhalla cut, and he's finally close to hitting the
01:03pay layer.
01:04This whole Valhalla cut here, you know, it's huge.
01:07It's probably the biggest project I've ever taken on up here, and, you know, it's really starting to eat at
01:11me a bit.
01:12If things don't go exactly as they have to go, then I'm broken. Done.
01:17Bailey's got a lot done in the cut. I mean, he's doing a hell of a job down there.
01:20It's looking like any day, we're going to be a town to pay, and we need to get to see
01:24some quick.
01:25We need to see some gold.
01:26The guys are with me on it, I know that, and they've been working their asses off, and that's just
01:30what we're going to stick with,
01:31because if Valhalla pays off, it could be the best decision I've ever made.
01:39Hey, Rick, you got a copy?
01:41Go for Rick.
01:42You can come down to the cut.
01:55Oh, boy.
01:56Well, buddy, I've got some honest opinions.
02:00From there, you can see how it dives right there.
02:03That's the slope, and then it continues there.
02:05But everything from, like, that edge, I dug 25 more feet down,
02:10as far as that thing can go down, and it was just still pure clay.
02:15What do you mean?
02:17No pay.
02:21Rick believes an ancient, dried-out riverbed,
02:25filled with coarse gold,
02:27runs across four miles of his Duncan Creek claims.
02:31The 50-foot pay street is proven to run under Raleigh Valley and then downstream to Vegas Valley.
02:40Rick assumed this pay layer would be at the same 150-foot depth in Valhalla.
02:46But after digging down for over a month, instead of hitting pay dirt,
02:52Bailey has run into a 25-foot clay layer with no gold.
03:04It's all this clay.
03:06Like, where the do we take it?
03:0725 more feet down, that's...
03:09That's too much.
03:10Too much for this year.
03:12There might be rich pay farther down,
03:15but you think about it, we don't know what's down there.
03:17Yeah.
03:21I dug a test hole pretty much just across from that elbow right there.
03:25It's to, like, the edge of that over there.
03:27But it's just clay.
03:28Oh, it's clay all the way to the next cut, man.
03:33It doesn't make any sense.
03:38Sorry that I've got to tell you, but, like, the ground don't lie.
03:42It's all dead zone.
03:47It's a smack to the face, man.
03:49I know we did all this work, but...
03:52It's worth it.
03:54All right, give me a minute.
03:55Yeah.
04:08We have no clue what's underneath this clay,
04:10and we've got to figure out something quick
04:12because time's running out.
04:17Quite a bit going on today.
04:19You know, Rick's doing some soul searching right now,
04:21looking for what he wants to do.
04:23So, a lot of thoughts going through his head.
04:32You know, I really thought that this whole Valhalla cut
04:34was going to be huge for us.
04:35Bailey gets on to this clay layer.
04:37We just have no way to deal with that this year.
04:39It's just not going to work.
04:43I'm out here with seven people trying to move a mountain, right,
04:45to get down to a little spot in the bottom
04:48that's got a bunch of gold in it.
04:52When I wanted to make these big decisions,
04:54that would leave me, by the time I was done with this,
04:57with something that I could hold in that cell
04:59and be able to do what I wanted.
05:01That's the whole reason I'm out here, right?
05:03It's, you know, I want to be mining until I'm 100 years old.
05:06I want to learn this.
05:07I want to do it.
05:08I want to do it right, and I want to be happy after this.
05:11And, you know, now I'll walk away with nothing, you know?
05:16And that's the opposite of the plan.
05:21I wanted to walk away from this with everything.
05:23And, uh...
05:27Yeah.
05:34This whole endeavor could be the thing
05:36that makes my entire life great,
05:40or it could be the thing that ruins it.
05:48I can handle it.
05:49I can handle it.
05:50I've been handling it,
05:51but, like, just some days, man, it's just too much.
05:54And I don't talk about it with my guys.
05:55I don't talk about it with anybody,
05:56because if I talk about it, it makes it real,
05:58and then I can't f***ing control it.
06:02It's just not where I thought it would be
06:05when I made the decision.
06:06f***ing, and it's frustrating.
06:08And I don't...
06:08At this time, I'm wondering if it ever is going to be.
06:14f***ing, yeah, I'm f***ing struggling more
06:16than I thought I would.
06:17Damn it.
06:41There's no reason to slow down for me.
06:44Have you ever seen these retired people?
06:46I mean, the biggest thing they have to look forward
06:49with is to walk behind the wife,
06:51go f***ing shopping,
06:53talking about things they could have done
06:55or should have done.
06:56They're dead already.
06:57They just don't know it.
06:58Not me.
07:00Back that f***ing thing up.
07:02Let's go.
07:02King of the Klondike,
07:04Tony Beetz,
07:05is on the verge of breaking records.
07:08There's still almost two months of the season to go,
07:11and Tony is already closing in
07:14on a massive milestone.
07:17We're only, what, 500 ounces away from the target.
07:20Right now, we've got three boxes banging away,
07:23you know, six, 700 yards an hour.
07:25So if anything goes well,
07:27we should hit our 6,500-ounce goal this week.
07:32That is exciting.
07:34Tony has three wash plants running,
07:38sluice-a-lot and find-a-lot
07:39on the Indian River.
07:41And the trommel on Paradise Hill.
07:44To hit his target,
07:46Tony needs his entire arsenal of wash plants
07:49running full bore this week.
07:52Okay, back that thing up quicker.
07:54Let's go, go, go, go, go, go.
07:59At the corner cut,
08:01sluice-a-lot accounts for half
08:03the Indian River's weekly gold production.
08:09My responsibility is while I run this land,
08:12we've got to watch the fines
08:14and the forest tailings that build up,
08:16you know?
08:19There are no guns on the field.
08:22There are no guns on the field.
08:23We've got to shut down.
08:26The drum on the K-data bullet
08:28can fall apart of the stall.
08:30There is no gun.
08:33There is no gun.
08:36There is no gun.
08:37We've got to shut down.
08:39There is no gun.
08:45We've got to shut down.
08:46You can blow up that end pulley and then you get a major jam up and then your runs get
08:52filled and you end up blowing gold out of the boxes because your runs will get full of rocks, eh?
08:57We got to do something about it.
09:00A broken drum pulley on the course tailings conveyor has jammed, taking sluice-a-lot out of action.
09:12You can start digging down there. You know the drill, right?
09:17It's hard to the day though. Didn't think I'd be doing this.
09:23A little bit of a project. We can't just take the drum out. We got to take the whole conveyor
09:28off.
09:29In charge of getting sluice-a-lot back on the gold, Indian River foreman, Cousin Mike.
09:36We're just going to move the whole wasp land to a new spot where it's level.
09:42Sluice-a-lot's tailings conveyor removes coarse waste rocks from the shaker decks, but four months of wear and tear
09:51has sheared its drum pulley from its shaft and the belt no longer turns.
09:56To replace it, Cousin Mike needs to raise the plant with its built-in hydraulic rams.
10:04Then, drag it out with a dozer until it's free from the dirt.
10:09Next, he must remove the conveyor and belt to access the broken drum pulley, then install a replacement, reattach the
10:20belt, and finally fire the plant back up.
10:27I can lift up the flan hydraulically. Every little bit helps as we can get it out of the dirt.
10:34There he goes.
10:39This is just so that when I start dragging, we don't wreck anything.
10:50We'll start hooking up some cables.
11:05You guys get the f*** away from that cable.
11:11If that cable snaps, it'll cut you right in half.
11:15Stay away from it.
11:23Stay away from that cable.
11:26Everyone's cleared.
11:28Tony Beats wants to smash his 6,500-ounce season target this week and needs to get his wash plant
11:36Sluice-a-lot back in action.
11:39All right, out we go.
11:46Cable's tight.
11:54I already know it is now.
11:56It's heavy cooling.
12:05I'll have a look at it.
12:07The plant free from the dirt, Tony can now inspect the broken tailing's conveyor.
12:15How's it going, gentlemen?
12:16See you got it out of the dirt?
12:18Can I make an old guy crawl underneath this f***?
12:21How are you?
12:22What the f***?
12:23Hi.
12:24If he can't do that anymore, he shouldn't be here.
12:26Oh, f***, boy.
12:27What the f*** are you finding over there?
12:29The tail pulling is toast.
12:31I found a new one.
12:32Let's see if it fits.
12:34On each side, we got a plate.
12:36So we have to disconnect that plate, take it off.
12:40No, just rip the f*** out.
12:41It's built for it.
12:42But I wouldn't want to screw around in the back here either.
12:46Hurry up!
12:56Let's do some lifting, and then we can swing it out.
13:07Len, can you walk ahead a little bit?
13:09Walk forward?
13:17You're free.
13:20Maybe walk another four feet?
13:24I'll lift it up till it's free.
13:26And try and keep it on the top that I don't hit anything.
13:29Okay, good there?
13:34Yeah, eh?
13:35Yep, we're good there.
13:37Well, that was pretty successful.
13:44Yeah, that's good.
13:48Watch your toes.
13:50Watch your toes.
13:52He's out.
13:54Yeah, so we finally got this bastard out.
13:57As you can see, it's ripped here all the way around.
14:01We'll first try to put the new pulley in,
14:04getting back to sluicing as soon as possible.
14:06If the shaft is wide enough and everything,
14:08and hopefully that all works out.
14:12The other one is 56,
14:14and this one is 68.
14:18Uh-oh.
14:20The one I brought is a little bit smaller.
14:23Uh-oh.
14:27That's not going to work.
14:29So we need a new plan.
14:30We like to hit a season goal,
14:32so that plan's got to be up and running
14:35in order to achieve that.
14:36Until we come up with something else,
14:38sluice lot ain't going to be running.
14:59The gold in the ground is the gold in the ground,
15:01but it's a lot of dirt to get through.
15:06It's just extremely frustrating.
15:09Heading into the home stretch of the season,
15:13Parker Schnabel's 10,000-ounce gold target
15:16is in danger of slipping from his grasp.
15:20We just need to keep the sluicing hours up.
15:22We're going to be hard-pressed to get through that pit this year
15:24if we don't have wash plants running.
15:27So we just hit 10,000 ounces.
15:29We've got to sluice all of it.
15:33Last week...
15:34We shut down both sluice for Ann Big Red.
15:36Parker shut down two wash plants
15:39to dig out the last of the pay dirt from the Golden Mile.
15:42We have a major problem.
15:44The dirt can't be in the hole anymore.
15:46We could just start making pay piles.
15:51While the crew continues to dig out pay,
15:55Parker wants to get one of the plants back up and sluicing.
16:00So we've built two big pay piles.
16:02Big Red's ready to move next to one of the big piles
16:05that we've got of pay.
16:06But now Tyson's taken some time off.
16:09Timing's not great.
16:11Well, that's a wrap for me right now.
16:13I drive to the airport and fly home to my sister's wedding.
16:17While I'm gone, one of the major things
16:19that really have to happen is moving Big Red.
16:23With Tyson being gone, Brennan's filling in for him,
16:26and Brennan's going to get that plant moved.
16:28This is the first kind of major wash plant thing
16:33that Brennan's been in charge of,
16:36so we'll see how badly he can screw it up.
16:40It's on Brennan now.
16:42Shouldn't take more than a ship.
16:46Hopefully I remember how all the pieces go together here.
16:49Despite being a seasoned dirt mover,
16:53Brennan Ruo hasn't moved Big Red in five years.
16:57Moving a plant's always a big responsibility,
16:59and it does always give me a bit of anxiety,
17:01if I was to be honest with you.
17:03We have two pay piles that are the size of Mount Everest
17:06here to get through.
17:08So it's all a massive race against the clock right now.
17:12Every minute that a plant shut down,
17:14it's that many ounces of gold not getting washed.
17:17Parker wanted this thing to loosen tonight,
17:20and I want to make that happen.
17:24But I do want to prove myself here.
17:35You guys are good with all this?
17:37Yeah.
17:37I was hoping to have it moved and set up today
17:39and washing rocks for night shifts.
17:41Is your pad ready?
17:43Yeah.
17:44Better be.
17:50Don't break my wash plant.
17:53He looked at you, not me.
17:55I should be looking at you.
17:56I first.
17:57Don't break my wash plant.
17:58I can't promise you that.
18:04Hopefully these guys can get a wash plant moved.
18:07Hey, pal, we're ready to move this plant here.
18:10Mechanic Alec Kelly helps Brennan move Big Red one mile
18:15to the far end of the Golden Mile.
18:18Oh, this thing doesn't corner like a passenger car.
18:22The main body of Big Red weighs 50 tons
18:27and clocks in at 21 feet high.
18:41Come on.
18:43Come on.
18:58Plant off the low boy.
19:00Brennan must drag it into place on its new pad.
19:07Make sure the plant comes up, sort of square enough
19:10so we're not twisting like you've had here.
19:17Favor that side of the bank
19:18and then sort of, like, walk sideways and out.
19:20To leave enough room
19:22for Big Red's massive feeder belts,
19:25Brennan must maneuver the plant
19:27to the edge of the pad
19:28by dangling his 58-ton excavator
19:32over the 50-foot drop.
19:34Feeling better about that?
19:36Yeah, now just walk here, far track, down into it.
19:39How close am I?
19:41Ah, like two feet.
19:43Am I going to drop hard?
19:47Should be okay.
19:48Just lower your boom down as you go.
19:54You can just push yourself back, too, if you want.
19:56It'll dig in.
19:57There you go.
20:01It sure sucks having Tyson gone here
20:03right in the middle of a plant move like this.
20:08Yeah, it's definitely feeling a little steeper
20:10than I thought it was.
20:18Here we're coming and stop there.
20:25That does look a little gnarly, eh?
20:26Yeah, not bad.
20:28You guys better make sure you remind Parker
20:30because he looked at me and said,
20:31are you sure you finished your pad?
20:32Yeah.
20:33Dude, a lot of prep saves a lot of time.
20:35We've still got a little ways to go here,
20:37but I think you got her lined up pretty good.
20:40Next step, bring in the feed conveyor
20:43that delivers the gold-rich pay dirt to the plant.
20:47We can start folding up our radio stacker.
20:50Let's see if these cross things are looking good.
20:57Hmm.
20:59That definitely won't last the rest of the year,
21:01that's for sure.
21:04This clip here, that clip there,
21:07and that one down there are toast.
21:10And all it takes is one bad clip to rip,
21:14and then the whole belt could be garbage.
21:17The metal clips that hold the 200-foot-long belt together
21:22are nearly destroyed.
21:27And we've got four seams in pretty s*** condition.
21:29So what is that?
21:30What are you trying to tell me here?
21:31I'm really wanting to hang a belt on this guy.
21:34Are you serious?
21:35So we have one seam.
21:36We'll have more uptime for later
21:39throughout the cold season.
21:41Well, how long is this going to take?
21:42If I can get it to the yard, probably six, eight hours.
21:45Have it buttoned up.
21:46This f***ing sucks, man.
21:47I told Parker I'd have this f***ing thing moved
21:49in sluice and by night shift.
21:51It's really f***ing weird night shift the next day.
21:55Already near the end of the shift,
21:58replacing the belt crushes Brennan's timeline.
22:03F*** is that pissed me off.
22:06You know, that's a lot of sluice time loss.
22:08That'll be a 24-hour period of no rocks getting run.
22:11Those piles are just too big to f***ing have a minute of downtime,
22:14let alone 24 hours of it.
22:26Right now, sluice lot is down.
22:29So I've got to figure out something, improvise something.
22:32If there's anything to get that sluice box back up and going.
22:36On the brink of breaking through his season goal,
22:40one of Tony's top moneymakers, sluice lot,
22:44has been shut down by a broken tail pulley.
22:48We tried ordering one,
22:49but now we're talking about a week or two.
22:51You cannot be f***ing down for two weeks.
22:53We have to come up with something.
22:55Certainly with all the crap we have,
22:57we can bag, steal, borrow some f***ing thing
23:00in order to keep on going.
23:08Let's have a peek.
23:10This one there.
23:12I was looking at that one.
23:14Here, this one.
23:17Nice and thick.
23:19Is the inside 17 and a half?
23:22Oh, that might be.
23:23Even if it's not quite, that'd be fine, too.
23:2717.
23:28That'd be just perfect.
23:29That would never break again, eh?
23:31I don't think so.
23:34F***, yeah.
23:35What do you think, Hoekstra?
23:36I think it's a nice pipe.
23:38Oh, boy.
23:40Okay.
23:40You're too f***ing proud.
23:42I think she'll do perfect.
23:43Shimm it, gentlemen.
23:45Well, it's against it.
23:46Yeah.
23:47Perfect.
23:48Perfect.
23:48We should have this plan going before the end of the day.
23:52After finding a pipe approximately the same diameter as the busted drum,
23:58cousin Mike and Lynn need to cut it to size.
24:02Knock this out, weld it on, bingo.
24:04Have a boost fix.
24:05A couple hours, they'll have the f***ing thing welded up already.
24:09I like it.
24:10I think it'd be good.
24:11You gotta do a boost fix today.
24:13Okay.
24:14Okay.
24:16Okay.
24:17All right.
24:18Over there.
24:22First, what we're gonna do is remove the side plate from the drum.
24:38So, I just gotta clean that up so that we got a clean surface to weld on.
24:43That will make a more solid weld, too, for the new drum.
24:52All right.
25:04Now we have to line it up a little bit.
25:15Everything looks nice and straight.
25:19It's gonna be a heavy pull.
25:22Double the weight of the old drum.
25:25Cousin Mike must now install the new pulley on the conveyor to find out if it will work.
25:34If we can side it in, we can drop one side in, right?
25:36Try it.
25:37Yeah.
25:37Beautiful.
25:39Okay.
25:40Okay.
25:41Now lift the other end up, eh?
25:43Okay.
25:44Okay.
25:45Okay.
25:48Okay.
25:52Can we put a chain on that?
25:53Yeah, I'll put a chain on this one, too.
25:57Yeah, I'll slide it your way.
26:04Okay.
26:06That drum looks good.
26:07I'm very happy with how that looks.
26:10Oh, yeah!
26:14We are pretty much ready.
26:16Conveyor belt's done.
26:17Hanging back in the plant, and we're getting pretty close to it looking like a wash plant again.
26:30There it is.
26:31No one move.
26:32No one move.
26:32See how that goes.
26:34We're in.
26:34All right.
26:35We're in there now.
26:36Right on, boys.
26:37So, uh, all we gotta do now is just get it bolted up.
26:40We're in business.
26:48Perfect.
26:49We won't get old enough to wear that out.
26:52Hopefully, we'll get enough to get our season goal in this week, but we'll see.
26:57It looks pretty good.
26:59We'll be there for years and years.
27:22Back to full capacity.
27:25Tony's in the hunt for his 6,500-ounce gold target.
27:29So, what do you think?
27:30I'll give you a warranty of 10 years.
27:32How about that?
27:33Okay.
27:33Then I'll be back in 10 years.
27:35Stay, huh?
27:36Okay.
28:02Well, plant's set up.
28:03Water line's in.
28:04And we're just waiting on Alec to get the radial stacker down here.
28:07Massive pay pile that the trucks keep adding to daily.
28:10So, we need to get through that.
28:11After moving the bulk of Big Red in one shift, stand-in foreman Brennan Ruo is itching to get back
28:19sluicing Golden Mile Payne.
28:23Just keep buttoning a few things up here.
28:25Keep busy until he shows up with that.
28:27So, I want to be washing rocks here as fast as possible.
28:32Stopping Brennan from firing up, a busted 200-foot conveyor belt.
28:39I know Brennan was really hoping to get Big Red moved in one day, but I've already slowed that timeline
28:45down to get it figured out.
28:48Looks like it's still me, myself, and I here for this project.
28:51There's no spare hands to help.
28:54Come on, Sash.
28:54So, Alec will need to think outside the box.
28:57This is to help feed the new conveyor belt into the frame of the unit.
29:04Just like that.
29:06String this guy out.
29:08Cut the old one off.
29:10Rip the old belt out this way.
29:11The rope gets caught in the frame.
29:13Tie the new belt onto the rope.
29:15Going through that snatch block.
29:16Pull on the rope.
29:17New conveyor belt goes in.
29:19That's how we get it assembled.
29:22We'll cut this in half and rip it off.
29:28That's in half.
29:29Start pulling.
29:44That's a long belt.
30:01Oh, we've got the old belt pulled out of the conveyor frame.
30:05Worked really nicely.
30:07Get my rope back here.
30:09And then pretty well reverse the procedure.
30:11Tie the new belt onto this rope end and drag it through again with the truck.
30:17Get this roll freed up.
30:18Lay it out next to the mighty zoom boom.
30:22Next, Alec unspools the 5,500 pound roll of fresh belt.
30:35This is perfect.
30:42Brand new belt.
30:45So I have to make sure that I don't cut the belt too short.
30:48I don't cut it too long.
30:52I hope this is the right place.
31:02You can't tie knots.
31:04Tie two.
31:05Done.
31:06Hook the other end of that rope up to Mr. Truck and sort of drive out that way.
31:11And this guy should feed in nicely.
31:13To pull the new belt onto the conveyor and avoid snagging or ripping the new rubber, Alec has devised a
31:22unique solution.
31:24Got a snatch block here just to direct the rope travel somewhere away from the path that our new belt
31:32will be taking to get into the conveyor.
31:34So we're not driving over top of ourselves.
31:37Got everything rigged up.
31:39There we go.
31:59There we go.
32:17Well, we got our belt together.
32:19I'm really satisfied.
32:20The guys are itching for it, and he's going to take the white Kenworth there
32:23and hook it up to this guy here, and take it to Brennan.
32:27A day behind schedule.
32:29Brennan finally has the radial stacker back
32:32and is ready to test Alec's belt fix.
32:38This is the moment of truth.
32:40Here we go.
32:48This is the moment of truth.
32:51Testing.
32:55Woo!
33:00Well, should we hit the shaker and get some dirt thrown at it?
33:03I think so.
33:06Well, I'm super happy to see the dirt going through Big Red again,
33:09and I just hope Parker's isn't happy.
33:1324 hours behind schedule, Big Red is back sluicing Golden Mile pay dirt.
33:25You're washing rocks!
33:27Yeah!
33:28Day late and a dollar short, Brennan.
33:30That's normal.
33:31I'm more than a dollar short.
33:34What do you mean?
33:35You've got 80,000 yards of top gravel sitting there.
33:39Thank you guys for getting this thing rolling.
33:41Yeah, you bet.
33:41No problem.
33:41It's a nice setup.
33:42Super clean.
33:44I'm very happy right now.
33:47We're going to have a hope in hell in getting through this pile,
33:50and all the rest is going to come this way.
34:11It's just clay.
34:12Nothing but clay.
34:14It's got me by surprise right now.
34:15It's just not...
34:16I just wasn't ready for that, you know?
34:17Come up with a new plan.
34:19Rick Ness is reeling from a gut punch.
34:23After spending a month and a million dollars,
34:26he's hit a dead end at Valhalla.
34:30Now, he's expecting a visit from an old friend.
34:35Hey, Rick.
34:36Look at this.
34:36How's it going, man?
34:37Good, buddy.
34:38How you doing?
34:38Pretty good living the dream.
34:40Oh, yeah.
34:41Good to see you.
34:42How you doing?
34:43I'm good.
34:44How are you?
34:44I'm great.
34:45We were in the area.
34:46I had to pick up a rock truck.
34:47Had to look at the rock truck this morning.
34:49Yeah, rock trucks.
34:49I could use some of those.
34:50I got 30 of them, and I need more.
34:52Yeah.
34:52The price of gold is good.
34:54Everything is running good.
34:55The price of gold is good.
34:56I see what you and Parker are doing,
34:58and I'm just like, man, am I missing something?
35:01Depths that we're going, though, I don't know.
35:02That's getting a little out of hand for such a small crew,
35:04but every now and then we'll hit some clay band
35:06and that mess.
35:07You need a lot of trucks, Rick.
35:08Yeah, we need a lot of trucks.
35:09Yeah, and for that, you need some of that gold stuff.
35:12Funny how that is.
35:12That's right.
35:13We should just go look at it.
35:14There you go.
35:15Let's ride the race car.
35:16How's that?
35:19It's got no brakes right now.
35:20Well, who cares?
35:21Oh, .
35:33Holy, that's a hell of a hole, pal.
35:35Yeah.
35:42Wow, wow, wow.
35:46That's pretty scary, young man.
35:50See, this is bedrock we're staying on right here.
35:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:52And it goes down like that.
35:55I'll have to come up with a new plan for that, but...
35:57And how many feet did you sluice, 10, 15?
35:5950.
36:0050?
36:0150 feet.
36:0150, you sluice to 50 feet?
36:03Yep.
36:04Well, that's not all wrong with it.
36:05Yeah, for the plus side for us.
36:06Yeah, 3 to 1, 3 to 1 ratio.
36:08Yes, yes.
36:09Any drill holes?
36:11No.
36:12Vegas Valley, we opened up last year, and this is where the channel went down, and we got
36:17all that out of there.
36:18And there's still a chunk in there?
36:19Yeah, there's a chunk in there.
36:21If you attack something like this, yeah, 10, 15 trucks, if not 20, go like hell.
36:26To really, yeah, to really open it up.
36:28Yeah.
36:29That'd be something.
36:30I can't afford that, so...
36:33Nice project, pal.
36:34Yeah.
36:35I like it.
36:36It won't be until we get to the bottom, right?
36:37That's pretty much it.
36:39Yeah.
36:46How did it go?
36:47You learn anything new?
36:49Well, you've got a hole going down there.
36:52But it is 150 down to 50 feet.
36:56So...
36:56That's not bad.
36:57In order to do this, you know, you should go in big.
37:01A lot of equipment.
37:02As we talked about, put a pile of in there.
37:05Yeah.
37:05It's not a way to go.
37:06But it takes lots of money.
37:07That takes lots of gold.
37:12It's worked so far, you know.
37:14We've definitely stayed alive, but this one's got me worried.
37:19Right a few bucks going in there before you get it, right?
37:21Yeah.
37:22Yep.
37:23Kind of tough.
37:25That's what's got me worried the most is, you know, I was hoping to be, at this point,
37:29pay this off and start really putting the money away.
37:30And now it's turned into, can I survive until I can start putting the money away?
37:35Yeah.
37:37Now, you don't want to become a seller.
37:39Do I or do I?
37:40I don't know.
37:41Sometimes I'm wondering.
37:42Well...
37:43Well, put a price on the table.
37:48But me, put a price on the table?
37:50Yeah, put a price on the table.
37:52Then, you know.
37:55Then you don't have no worries.
38:16Would you sell this?
38:18At Duncan Creek, Rick's just had a bombshell buyout offer, dropped by the king of the Klondike.
38:27I would be serious, interesting, because I like these kind of projects.
38:32If you want to discuss that, I don't want these guys around.
38:40At current prices, Rick's four miles of Duncan Creek claims could contain over $50 million of gold.
38:57I appreciate you stopping by.
38:59It's always good.
39:01Nice to see you.
39:02It's good to see you.
39:03Yeah.
39:06Rick, good luck.
39:07Catch you later, man.
39:08Yep.
39:28It's a weird situation to be in right now, just with what Tony said.
39:32That just kind of, I mean, kind of hit me in a way.
39:37I mean, obviously, I know what I got here.
39:39I know the value of it.
39:44It just seems like, at this point, taking the money and running is just, is it really smart, or is
39:54it contrary to what I set up here to do, you know?
39:57It's a number with seven zeroes on it gets thrown in your face, like, it's hard to say no one
40:05of that, too.
40:08I've never really been one to get pushed out of something when I wasn't ready for it, but maybe I
40:13shouldn't be looking at it that way.
40:14I don't know.
40:31I don't know if that's a joke anymore.
40:48Yeah, I'm not going to have an answer today either, so I got a lot to think about.
40:51I don't know if that's a joke.
41:22Tyson has returned from his sister's wedding was there any good drama at your
41:26wedding no no boring no one pretty good man it's not a real wedding without at
41:32least one fist fight how did big reds move go Brennan I wish you near there
41:38with us but we got it all set up I had a delay though with that belt the radio
41:42stacker there and he's like I need to change the belt and I tried arguing with
41:46you don't want to be the guy that goes to them at midnight and be like hey
41:50remember that belt and it's like minus 10 out the one you wanted to change like
41:56yeah but yeah they're not it went really smooth thanks for filling in while Tyson
42:04was gone nice work man yeah thanks hope to make you proud there yeah Tyson you
42:09want to see what Bob did sure I think that says Bob on there doesn't it oh yeah
42:13let's see how the bridge cut did first up Parker's wash plant Bob
42:18over the last two months it's been consistently averaging a hundred and
42:24fifty ounces 40 80 100 130 142.7
42:39yeah Bob's been pretty boring next up Roxanne running pay dirt from Kenan
42:46Stewart's where last week it pulled in 123 ounces all right Roxanne 60 100 120 130 134.3
43:05that's not bad finally big red sluicing the first pay dirt from the golden mile in two weeks here we
43:15go big red 10 20 30 40 40 40.25
43:27well you know Brennan you didn't get a full week right you're just getting started so it's a start yeah
43:32no for sure last week we had 306.25 ounces this week it's 317.25 worth 1.1 million dollars
43:43so we picked up 11 ounces and season total 7365.8 ounces
43:52this crawling towards 10 000 ounces is painful at this pace Parker will fall short of his 10 000
44:01ounce goal we were racing earlier this season well I don't know how much I told you guys but there
44:07is a
44:07new plant showing up so we should be able to slam through some yardage and so hopefully that makes a
44:12difference hopefully you're ready for a good push we'll see
44:26so we went and fish the drink I told him but if for some reason or another he wanted to
44:32partner up but he
44:33wanted to sell the joint yeah we could go over there and dig a hole I suppose maybe we'll send
44:39you the
44:40key now Mike yeah yeah
44:47so you're gonna weigh some gold up or what we're almost at 6 000 ounces our goal is 6500
44:52on this to break through his season target six weeks ahead of schedule Tony needs his three wash
44:59plants to deliver 507 ounces okay let's do it pour it in there first up sluice a lot running pay
45:08dirt from
45:09the Indian River's corner cut 18 23 30 up to 40 50 coming up 60 going once going twice 70
45:1980 84.76
45:25we might as well see to stay at home then two days
45:29you made it sound like an auction once going twice yeah I'll take it anyway so what do you got
45:34next should we do find a lot now find a lot ran all week long also sluicing corner cut pay
45:42I'll count a lot
45:4310 20 30 40 50 70 80 90 110 130 140 148 148.96 oh you got more 150 170
46:02100 200 220 230 250 270 278.18
46:13we're getting very close to that season goal pretty nice little haul isn't it
46:17Arsenal really want to know what the trommel brought in be interesting to see what we get out of the
46:21hill
46:22to hit tony's season goal mike's trommel needs to bring in 144 ounces y'all ready for this
46:3210 20 30 40 50 70 80 90.
46:44100 110 110 120 120 130 150 60 70 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260
46:59260 262.14 there's a good million bucks on the table guys tony has hauled in a weekly total of
47:08625
47:1025 ounces and that gets us over our season goal there you go over our goal tony now has a
47:20total of 6
47:216 6 6 6 18 ounces worth a stunning 23 million dollars
47:35기가 jung jeżeli there we still have a month or so left here so are we gonna up our goal
47:43we'll do the best we
47:44can, and we'll see how far we get.
47:46You and I have to go back to the hill.
47:48You're in a bossy, aren't you?
47:50You'll love me.
47:51You'll love me.
47:52I am not so sure.
47:53Hey, look at it.
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