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Gold Rush Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan S06E00 The Lost Tapes
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00:03هذا سوف يوميناها بالدمر
00:05هذا هو مرة أمور الأمور
00:05فهي جدد أمور البدرين
00:08لكنني أخبرك أنه مستعده
00:09لأن هناك فوف أمور أمور
00:12أمور أمور
00:14حسناًسى أمور أمور؟
00:15شكراًا لين؟
00:15شكراً ل browse
00:16شكراً شكراً لكم
00:18لدعن ماذا علينا المبنين
00:21سنرون hanging مبنين
00:23بالإمكار من المقتل
00:25تنجوية السياسات من الأشياء
00:28هناك 20 عشر دولة لإتبياء.
00:31يجب لي قد تحديثين من المستطعين أن أمام الأشياء.
00:35أبنينا يجب أن يجب أن يجب أن يجب أن أمام الأشياء.
00:39كلigne جميع!
00:40وكان تكن محيشة إلى سفر.
00:43تمنح الغليات семتعات أن تلك الأشياء التي تجربتون.
00:46أغلب فتشيك السبب المجرمات.
00:48أعطاً كثيراً القصود لأكبر إلى مطلوب موجودة.
00:53تنسى yang يحفل
00:55this might be the one who fight us at the hindquarters
00:57the busted gear
00:59I hope Freddie and Juan have a plan here
01:01sleepless nights
01:02it's been long
01:03it's been a long summer
01:04and even a little mischief
01:10on this episode of mind rescue
01:13I'm not scared to go in there and rip something apart
01:15it was built by a man, we can fix it
01:17Freddie and Juan reflect on their most memorable unseen moments
01:21مجدد بين الجزوجة يشكل محال في المياه
01:25مصد بنفس الشمس
01:26يقضل المعبور من أجل من حياتي
01:30للإعني محال حياتي
01:32وصبحت العام للجلال الإنساني
01:36المترجم للقناة العام
01:37محتاج الأطلاق
01:37نحن نتحق الناس
01:38تستطيع التعليز
01:39يعني رغب
01:50curious of the difficulties we've had over the years,
01:53it's been really rewarding to do what we do.
01:55me and you watch the show together quite a few times,
01:58and we're like what happened to that footage?
02:00What happened to that footage?
02:02There's been a lot of things that we've done
02:04that are just amazing and memorable.
02:06ولكنه يتحدث يوميكم على المرتبط في المشيئ
02:08ربما يتحدث يومي من المشيئ
02:12السعارات المشيئة في المشيئة
02:15يحضر المشيئة في المشيئة نحوه
02:18ويوجده على يوميك وصناعها
02:26في بردشت كولومبيا
02:27فريدي ويوجد فريدي ويوجد مرة قراءة
02:30وهناك عدد فخص تخريب ان تقلت موضوعًا
02:58ماذا تحسن؟
03:00أم أمي
03:00نيد بإعالكم التجهز لدي و أنت تفضل
03:04إذا كانت المت raising الخسر لدي و أنت تجهز هذه الخلافة
03:09ر Cheryl سبقتهم
03:11يند ناطقك على العمر إما في القناة
03:13يсудى اللعية على المساعدة يغلق على المساعدة
03:16من أحمد هذه الناس من التج 위해서 من شهر
03:22لحث يتى في القناة
03:23عندما يوم الانتهم م尽ل
03:23في الباقي آخر يجاد أن تشهر على حصوص
03:33نحن اهلا بهرائك
03:41فسناية جزهيت الخاصة في م الأندötاء في المقبل
03:44دورنا Naiacking
03:47لا تفكر الأول
04:12مرحين انت أشارك.
04:13مرحين اشترك في ذلك.
04:14تغيب.
04:14أنا تشاديكo تشعرين على مباشرة أمي.،
04:15فإننا نحن في نسمية. مهمة
04:18فضح وزقب المغارب مع الصعوبة؟ نعم،
04:26سيكون. عام من
04:27عالمي صعبت مستمعهما؟ بأن هذه
04:29المغاربها... إنه مزيدة.
04:31جدا، إذا كان مستحولها
04:32جدا، فهي صنع هذه الخطأ،
04:34ولكن الآن سيكون مقفلت
04:36منه. نعم. سأجلها جده.
04:39سأجلها.
04:40أصبحت فضلك تقريب أن تساعد المفيد منها.
04:43وإن أفضل دائما لا تفعل dreamed ما يقوم بها.
04:48إنه يحبب إجراء المفيد من مفيد منها.
04:49يحبب أن نزل المفيد من مفيد منها.
04:50دون أعطب أن تحبب إقاد المفيد من من الجوال تحب إلى القدرة.
04:56ثلاث سوف يمكننا تحبط ممحظوظ.
04:58يحبب أن يكون في الأحلام.
05:01سيدون ممحطة.lings
05:03помог وممحطة. فتحفنا
05:05نحن نحن الآن لأ係ل الآن.
05:05فإن الم NASA فقط فأرن فآني أستطيع أن تكون هذا تسرياً دوني.
05:07فإن المس اللحظة ستكون قدام سفيدة من جوابًا في هذا التسرياً
05:11وي ستكون قدام ب atau إذن سيكون ذلك الالتسري.
05:14النطقق الرئيسي تكتشرك و incorrectا في التسريع والتسريع إلى ثمين.
05:18لكنني تحيد الأضع وanقي لا أسكتهم.
05:22ثم تحيد الأضاء.
05:23لا تحيد الأضاء.
05:23حيث.
05:27الحلو اللحظة التي نظرته في التسريع لنا ستعلقها
05:31وتحدي الأشبrike بغير للتحديد.
05:34قد يكون لديه
05:36احسن لديك
05:38ملحة كثير من الخدر
05:40اصدق البداية
05:48احسن الطائق
05:52ولكن هذا الالتجرف
05:54وليس لديتت hungry
05:55حتى يمتر بالدم
06:01هناك
06:05جيدًا
06:07سيسته
06:08هذا المفرس الوصف يستطيع الطرل
06:11لجاء المضال لتجتمع لكما سوداء
06:15متى جداً لكما س police
06:16لأشبار حل القرية
06:20سيكونوا معاً
06:22بعض الأشخاص
06:23لا تتقلون زوجنا شخص
06:23إنه ليس مليعين
06:25يزوجون فورد
06:25لا تتقلون
06:26شخصوه
06:27صعباً
06:33المترجم الآن لأنه لكم أتمام نتهيك
06:35فردان والتعافي
06:36كلامنا سيحفت جدًا
06:38ح posedه
06:38ثم البعض
06:40يعني فيض رجال نتخلح
06:42ديوران
06:44شكرا أممم
06:45شكرا أممم
06:46كانت عمل جدًا
06:48لأنها تأتي
06:50وإنها حتش
06:51آب الوافعة
06:52أممم
06:52دستور أممم
06:53المسيطة
06:53من الضع نتخل
06:54فقط
06:57ليست فيها
06:58المترجم للقناة المترجم للقناة
07:30إنه يجب أن يشت baru ACC obtained
07:32ط gewenk Age
07:32miles Damen
07:32ويجب في الظ 달
07:36أجر أن تعود
07:39الذين ان كل موعة
07:40خليش
07:41سأل الإعلان
07:54فريديان وون
07:55تجربة الأمر في صفحة الشخصة
08:25موسيقى
08:25لكن من يحب ممكن
08:27،ζالك مع الجزء
08:29،طعدي وتوجد
08:30،فهدي والوان
08:31في واضح ضح أوجود
08:33حقًا
08:35معنا واحد
08:36موسيقى
08:41نعم
08:42إنه ليس لقوة
08:50موسيقى
08:51alright, well you're the expert
08:53we need a pad that's 12 feet long
08:57the concrete base is too small to provide a solid foundation for the new table
09:03to here, that long, and about 8 feet wide
09:07lets yank it out, we'll pour a new one
09:11a plan Peter doesn't like
09:13creating water here and tearing my up already
09:18I hope it works out, a little nervous
09:21يننزل مهانجة الصغاد يشلي يكون هناك تبير этих حماية
09:25وللك
09:57pues
09:58صغر
09:58تحرك
10:04ثم
10:05صغر
10:05لدي
10:08لدي
10:09جيب
10:09صغير
10:09صغر
10:09بشيئ
10:11بشيئ
10:11صغر
10:11طيال
10:12صغر
10:15لدي
10:18ون
10:19كان
10:19لدي
10:20فقط كفية لا ينزللζون مصيرا من جيد حالة
10:23كنه سيكسي لا أعلم
10:24بالدارات محلوبة
10:26Vera سلوسيا على 80أرات موهر
10:30لا نحن ذلك
10:32ونحن نبيل يتسللل
10:34ونحن vedere hunter
10:34ونحن رجل جيدة
10:35لأنه يتأكيد
10:37العودة اليد
10:42نحن نقطة 0.23%
10:444.3
10:466.84
10:494.84 ounces.
10:504.84.
10:52Yeah, baby!
10:53Yeah!
10:54That's a hell of a lot better gold than that first test.
10:56A massive 600% increase.
11:00Here's your gold, guys.
11:01Now you're talking some serious money.
11:02Decent, you know.
11:04Sure enough, they went out there.
11:05That's the best gold they've ever seen.
11:07We're coming from a point of love, right?
11:08Or from a position that we're genuinely trying to help them.
11:11And so it's kind of a balancing act. It really is.
11:14But a little tough love doesn't always save a miner from themselves.
11:20It's all hands on deck to stop a mini disaster in this unseen moment.
11:25Stop! Stop!
11:27When Jeff leaves his bag on the track of the excavator.
11:31Jeff starts driving down the road.
11:33I take off running?
11:34Yeah.
11:36Hey, hey, hey!
11:37You're trying to stop him. Everyone's trying to honk at him.
11:40Nope.
11:41Keeps on going.
11:46Ah, this is what happens when you don't pay attention to your stuff.
11:51Unfortunately, I left my bag sitting on the track.
11:53And when I jumped in the cab to move it out of the way, I forgot.
12:00I guess my phone's done.
12:03My wife won't like that.
12:07There's lunch.
12:09Squished sandwich.
12:10Banana all squished.
12:12Coming up, Freddie reveals never-seen prospecting secrets.
12:17So, Freddie, this is what we've got for maps.
12:19And a few hair-raising twists along the way.
12:23There are ghosts here.
12:24There's strange things happening.
12:36We've done a lot of traveling, Juan. How many miles do you think we've done?
12:40Ooh, over 100,000 miles.
12:42At Juan's workshop, Freddie and Juan unpack their favorite unseen moments.
12:48All the way from Alaska, Canada, all the way down to-
12:50The East Coast.
12:51East Coast.
12:52North Carolina.
12:52Arizona.
12:53You know, everything in between.
12:54We've done it all.
12:56Remember that July in British Columbia?
12:58British Columbia, yeah.
12:58I think between our trucks, our trailers, and the film crew's vehicles, I think it was 17 tires.
13:06Yeah, we lost tires almost daily.
13:08Ian, here's your tire back. You can put it on yourself. Next time, don't hit rocks, okay?
13:13Thanks, vlog.
13:14They're going through the same trail as we are.
13:16Right.
13:16There's a lot of challenges. You know, accidents.
13:19Like you hitting that turkey last year that blew your front windshield out.
13:22Well, you know, yeah.
13:23I'm going into Canada, and all of a sudden, a 20-pound turkey comes through my front windshield.
13:29Lucky it didn't kill you.
13:30Yeah, luckily it didn't.
13:31I know you love turkey, but that's a little bit much, huh?
13:34It was more than I could chew, Fred. It was way more.
13:38But seriously, some of these mines, there's very, very little room for error to get in and out of.
13:43We've taken our trucks into, really, places we probably shouldn't take them.
13:46But, you know, it's all in the name of trying to help people out.
13:53In 2024, in British Columbia, Freddie and Juan find they need a rescue themselves saving a mountaintop gold mine.
14:01Hi, guys.
14:02How you doing?
14:03Good to be here.
14:04Miners Travis and son Andrew need help to upgrade their plant to catch fine flood gold.
14:10At this rate, a fast food job would be paying you a lot more.
14:14I appreciate the harsh honesty of things, for sure.
14:22That's right, Fred.
14:23But in this unseen footage, the route out of the mine proves harder than the rescue itself.
14:30But a four-wheel drive, Juan, it's getting a little muddy.
14:33We've got to hug this side as best we can.
14:35One of the places that I really wish that it was a flying access was Travis.
14:39Yeah, those corners.
14:41Freddie and Juan need to navigate a steep mountain pass with a 600-foot unprotected drop into the Frasier River.
14:49It was raining for a couple of days, right, you know?
14:51Uh-huh.
14:51The road was slick.
14:54Whoa, whoa, whoa!
15:04The road just collapsed, gave way.
15:07Our trailer's ready to go over.
15:09As I'm starting to turn my trailer, that axle caught in there and started pushing that bank out and almost
15:15rolled the trailer.
15:15Yeah, it would have been a mess.
15:17We're to the point where a butterfly lands on that downhill side.
15:21It's going down.
15:24You can see that hitch is twisting.
15:25That's the only thing that's keeping that trailer from going over.
15:29We're going to have to get a piece of equipment up there to try to lift the back end of
15:31that trailer up and get it back on the road.
15:34Unable to get themselves out.
15:36Here comes Travis.
15:38Miner Travis Allen comes to the rescuer's rescue.
15:44Can you get around the axle anywhere?
15:48You want to go ahead? Lift up a little bit.
15:56It was a little tight there for a minute, you know?
15:58But without an excavator in that situation, we'd have been in deep, deep trouble.
16:04You came to help me.
16:06You came to help me, you ended up helping us.
16:08And that's A-OK in my books.
16:15You know, we've got to have our tools.
16:16You know, if we don't have our tools in our truck, it really limits what we can do.
16:19But over the years, there's been several different situations where we couldn't bring our trucks.
16:23We had to make do with what we had.
16:24You know, we make a makeshift service truck out of our little side-by-side.
16:27Still don't have all the tools that you really want or need.
16:30Because at the end of the day, it reduces really what we're able to produce.
16:34Yep.
16:38On our rescue to the remote Alaskan wilderness, Freddie and Juan leave behind their tools of the trade in this
16:46unseen footage.
16:48I know it's a fly-in situation, but what else do we know about it?
16:52I know that there's three guys out here that have been mining and changing their stuff around for quite a
16:57few years.
16:57And I don't think they've made a tremendous amount of money.
17:01But really, all I know is you can't drive there.
17:04How small are these planes, Freddie?
17:06Yeah, they're small planes, Juanjo.
17:09Me and you will fill one up.
17:10That's for damn near.
17:12Oh, man.
17:15Known for brutal winters,
17:16temperatures in the Taukeetna Mountains, where the Bush Creek boys work, can drop to minus 46 Fahrenheit.
17:25And vehicle access is often limited to a dangerous ice road during winter months.
17:32It's going to be the hottest day of the year, they say, Fred.
17:34But a heat wave forecast changes priorities for Juan.
17:38I packed pretty light.
17:40I was going to take a hood, a hard hat, I was going to take that fan.
17:44You aren't taking any tools, but going to take a fan.
17:47I get hot at night when I sleep.
17:50You're serious?
17:51Yeah.
17:51All fan, you want, oh.
17:54Yeah, with my hat.
17:55Here you go.
17:57You didn't even bring spare underwear that time, but you brought your fan.
18:01Here we go.
18:03You know, like I told you, Freddie, I sleep in the nude and I run hot.
18:05So, you know, I had to bring my fan.
18:07That's why I brought my blinders.
18:10All right, Fred, let's load up.
18:13Okay, is this all the gear you got?
18:15This is.
18:15Okay, well, let me load her up and we'll get going here.
18:18Mike, I'm going to be honest with you.
18:19I might have lied about my weight a little bit.
18:21I'm not 185.
18:26Now, I expect you a man of honor, right?
18:28You didn't fib about your weight, did you?
18:29I didn't tell you.
18:32Okay.
18:44Got her, Mike.
18:45You got her, buddy.
18:46Great, sir.
18:47You did good.
18:49Are you ready?
18:50How's it going?
18:51Dennis, I have sailed, Mike.
18:52Dennis.
18:52With limited tools, Freddie and Juan scavenged the site for parts to upgrade the Bush Creek Boys' plant.
19:00We need to put a damper in here.
19:03Okay.
19:04Good call.
19:07Juan, we used some of this old carpet for a damper.
19:10Okay.
19:10What else do we need?
19:11Some screws?
19:12Yeah.
19:13We did a lot of stuff at Bush Creek for not having, you know, the majority of our tools.
19:17Yeah.
19:19Wow.
19:20Wow.
19:214.13.
19:214.13.
19:23That's massive.
19:24At Bush Creek, it was still over 80% increase.
19:27That was.
19:28The tools we took is what you and I could actually fit in the airplane.
19:31It was pretty minimal.
19:32And the fan.
19:33Yeah.
19:34Obviously the fan.
19:35That was an important thing, Fred.
19:37You don't know.
19:50When we go to a new mine site, you know, a lot of times there's so many things going on
19:53that need repair.
19:55It's overwhelming.
19:55Inside Juan's workshop, Freddy and Juan reveal insightful unseen moments and challenges that give a deeper look at what it
20:05takes to save minds.
20:07We actually have to sit there and figure out what's going to give them the best recovery, you know, best
20:11bang for their buck.
20:12So sometimes we go in there and like, hey, we have to concentrate on these things.
20:15I know that's an issue, but we can't deal with it.
20:17We don't have enough time.
20:22In Washington State, Freddy and Juan are up against the clock to revive a mining dream in steep decline.
20:32Freddy, good morning.
20:33How are you doing?
20:34This is Corey.
20:34This is my partner.
20:35Yeah.
20:36Nice to meet you, Corey.
20:36Good morning, Juan.
20:37Both Levi and Corey.
20:39They were good.
20:39Tremendous workers.
20:40Hard work.
20:41To be out there breaking rock by hand the way they were doing it, crushing it down, then putting it
20:45in a truck, taking it down to the hammer mill.
20:48It was a lot of work.
20:49To reduce the time wasted driving the pay to the processing level, Freddy and Juan design an impressive pipe system
20:57to funnel crushed ore down into the mill.
21:01But first, they need to get the pipe to the site.
21:04You had to build a whole trailer just to get all the material up to the top.
21:07So the trailer had to be long enough for the pipe, yet light enough to pull behind an ATV, because
21:12we couldn't get our trucks in there.
21:14But as this unseen footage reveals, sometimes it takes everyone on the team to make it happen on time.
21:21It's great to have Travis and Alex helping us at times.
21:25Without Travis and Alex, I don't think we could do the amount of work that we do.
21:29Hello.
21:30Oh, hey guys.
21:31Happy to see you guys.
21:32Build foreman Travis Stockman and operator Alex Voigt are Freddy and Juan's reliable duo, called upon when the rescuers need
21:41extra muscle.
21:42Right now I'm cutting out the parts that we're going to use to build the pipe trailer.
21:45We're going to weld these on like this to hold the pipe, strap everything down, hook it up to an
21:50ATV, and hopefully make it up to the mine site.
22:01One trailer done.
22:02Thanks for your help, buddy.
22:03Of course.
22:04Looks fantastic.
22:07And Travis the same way.
22:08Travis the same.
22:09A lot of people don't see that, you know, behind the scenes.
22:11He's the guy that's staying there with us late at night, welding, getting there early in the morning to get
22:15things lined up.
22:18Travis actually, before working for us, he was working underground blasting rock.
22:29It's a blessing to have guys like that that we know we can rely on.
22:32It is.
22:34This is a steep, sharp turn, Freddy.
22:37This might be the one that bites us in the hindquarters right here.
22:41I'll have to admit, that mine was a pain in the butt to work on.
22:44It really was.
22:45You could barely fit a wheelbarrow in there.
22:50Let's pick it up.
22:52Yeah.
22:57Go ahead, Freddy.
23:01Thank you.
23:03After putting that pipe system in, it streamlined that whole operation.
23:06So it was a big improvement.
23:08Mm-hmm.
23:09Probably 50 times the amount of gold you had in the first run.
23:12I mean, that's amazing.
23:14When we hit the ground, a lot of times we hit the ground blind.
23:17Yeah.
23:17You know, we've talked to them over the phone.
23:19Maybe they've sent us some pictures.
23:21But until you actually get on the ground, you don't know a lot of the stuff.
23:24And really, I think the challenge is, Fred, you or myself, I'm not scared to go in there and rip
23:28something apart.
23:29You know, it was built by a man.
23:30We can fix it.
23:31But when it comes down to it, can we get the team together and actually get them more gold?
23:35That's right.
23:40In Arizona, Freddy and Juan reunite a fractured crew before their season washes away.
23:47We are so happy you guys came out.
23:49Man.
23:50It's been a struggle since we started.
23:52The monsoon season is here.
23:54We're getting shut down every day just about right now.
23:56There's not a time in the monsoon season where we're not shut down because of lightning.
24:02$800,000 in the hole.
24:05Flash floods have ripped through the desert and decimated their claim.
24:09Last year, the rivers are overflowing.
24:11Everything was gone.
24:13Whoa.
24:14It was catastrophic for us.
24:16Completely at the start of it.
24:18But in this unseen footage, the wash plant fixes have to wait while Freddy and Juan perform a more personal
24:26fix.
24:26With the Kennedys, they were homesick.
24:28Yeah.
24:28You know, all the time away from family and constantly getting shut down by floods is really tough on them.
24:34So we're making a really big Cajun boil here.
24:37Far from home and team morale low, Freddy comes up with a plan to unite the Kennedy crew.
24:44I've got sausage and shrimp going in here.
24:46And I made the seasoning that I mixed together out of a bunch of different seasonings.
24:51And we'll have one heck of a feast if my seasoning's any good.
24:54That's their food of choice.
24:57You know, it's crawfish and Cajun seasoning and stuff where they're at in Texas.
25:00So I figured, well, let's throw a little time and money at it.
25:04Who would have thought Freddy Dodge, not only a mining guru, fabrication expert, but a chef as well.
25:11Simple chef.
25:12I'm good at this, brisket, ribs.
25:16Ribs. Damn good at ribs, too.
25:17Yeah.
25:18They're coming, Fred.
25:19Yeah.
25:20Hope you guys are hungry.
25:22I think it was a great move.
25:23Felt more like a family that way.
25:25Yeah.
25:25Everybody gets together over food.
25:26He can bond definitely over food.
25:28Yeah.
25:28So had a great time.
25:30So you were telling me the other day that you loved crawfish boils.
25:34Oh, yeah.
25:34Texas.
25:35Oh, look at that.
25:36See how this Colorado boy does crawfish.
25:39Try this out.
25:40There you go.
25:41Let's throw some more of those on there.
25:43Absolutely.
25:44Definitely smells like I'm closer to home.
25:47He's done a good job.
25:48Oh, yeah.
25:49How's the seasoning?
25:51Perfect.
25:51Well, that seasoning's damn good, man.
25:53Cheers, guys.
25:55Cheers, gentlemen.
25:57Thank you.
25:58Over the years, we've both taken that role of being a therapist.
26:01I've got plenty of issues of my own, so I don't need to be giving out advice, but sometimes
26:06it does help when we've been in a similar situation and we can give them our take on it.
26:10Exactly.
26:11Hey, this is what we did, or this is the situation I had.
26:13A lot of times the mines we help, they haven't had the opportunity to be at hundreds of mines
26:18like yourself and myself right over time.
26:24Team morale back on track.
26:26The rock sheet's working good.
26:28The Kennedys combine for a final push to save their season.
26:33We've never ran that much yardage.
26:35This could be a big game changer here.
26:380.61.
26:400.61.
26:41Wow.
26:41That's awesome.
26:42Worth over $1,000, the Kennedy crew quadruple their gold recovery.
26:48You guys want to be able to pay back your investment.
26:50Yep.
26:50Actually be able to make a little bit of money out here instead of it just being a boys trip.
26:54Right.
26:54And that's going to make it a possibility.
26:55So the combination of the fixes and better ground, they're still plugging along down there.
27:01What it boils down to, Freddie, is we grow to know and appreciate the people that we work with.
27:05We make friends.
27:06You know, we want to do the best we can for them.
27:08So, you know, it definitely gets really personal.
27:10When we're there, we're committed, we want to get it done.
27:14Not only do we want to get it done, but we want to see them be successful.
27:16That's right.
27:16And that's why we're there.
27:17We want to truly help.
27:29Almost every place we've visited, there's a bunch of work that we do that never gets shown.
27:33Something that takes two days to fix, you know, makes two minutes of television.
27:37Yeah.
27:37Freddie and Juan return to Mine Rescue's unseen footage.
27:42One of the biggest things that we do that honestly is kind of underrated is prospecting.
27:46Mm-hmm.
27:46You're able to read the ground, see what's going on, and figure out where we need to prospect.
27:55To rescue a pair of Arizona prospectors in a legendary gold region, Freddie and Juan go into overtime in their
28:03hunt for better ground.
28:04What's your goal for this year?
28:06We would love to be at 50 ounces this year.
28:09This is the goal that we want to be able to run at.
28:11This year, we've barely done over an ounce.
28:15Really?
28:17To get them back on the gold, Freddie needs to identify the best pay on their 120-acre claim.
28:24So, Freddie, this is what we've got for maps.
28:27And in this unseen footage, we discover the real work can take much longer to get the job done.
28:33So, where are we at on here?
28:34Where the dot is.
28:36Okay.
28:36Yep.
28:37That's the famous King Tut Mine right here.
28:40The King Tut Mine sits alongside a string of hard rock mines above Jamie and Christine's claim.
28:48Discovered in the 1930s, the mine produced hundreds of ounces of gold a week.
28:53It definitely had gold.
28:55People were here before.
28:56So, you know, that could go one way or the other.
29:00Yep.
29:00And some of this older stuff can be good.
29:03Some of it can lead you astray because people were trying to sell some of the mines, right?
29:08Right.
29:08So, they would amplify how much gold they got or so forth and so on.
29:13That makes sense.
29:13So, we'll do our own testing and we'll do our own looking.
29:16Okay.
29:17What I think we need to do is find a little bit of elevated ground.
29:20Okay.
29:20Uphill, right, like towards that King Tut Mine.
29:23Okay.
29:24And look down, see what we can see.
29:26All right.
29:26That sounds great.
29:27The more information we get on an area, especially an area we've never been to before, you know, that's all
29:33the better.
29:34Regardless of what we hear or what we're told, we do our own research and you have to do that.
29:38Exactly right.
29:44Let's walk down here.
29:47See, that's all tailings.
29:48This is all tailings.
29:52This is actually the most important thing.
29:54You can have the best wash plant in the world.
29:57You can have the best operators in the world.
30:00But if you don't have the gold in the ground or if you're digging in the wrong spot, you know,
30:05you ain't gonna make it.
30:06Right.
30:07There's a lot of stress on us because, sure, there's gold in the area, so the gold should be there.
30:12The glaciers did a lot of weird things.
30:14Yeah.
30:14Streams moved.
30:15Trying to read tailings from virgin ground.
30:18That's where a lot of these guys get in trouble, too.
30:20Exactly.
30:22Out on the desert draws, Freddie hunts for old-timer workings.
30:26There's a few ways we can tell it's tailings.
30:29One, the sides.
30:31And two, do you notice what plant life is missing here?
30:35Joshua's.
30:36Yep.
30:37Everywhere else is those Joshua trees, right?
30:40Right.
30:40Except right here.
30:41All right.
30:42Except where they mined.
30:43There might be gold left in their tailings.
30:45I'm sure there is because, you know, they had crude methods.
30:49They didn't have water.
30:50They were using dry washers.
30:51But at the same time, would you want to run the stuff that somebody else has already run once
30:56and taken half the gold out of or run virgin stuff with all the gold in it?
31:00So that's what we're looking for is virgin material with all the gold in it.
31:05Just really valuable for me to go out with Freddie and have him teach me these things directly
31:10so I can, you know, be a bigger part of that part of our operation.
31:15It wasn't that we just showed up and boom it.
31:17We actually did every step of the process.
31:19Wash plant fixes complete.
31:21Oh, perfect.
31:22Too much.
31:23I like it.
31:24All right.
31:24You like it?
31:25I do.
31:26Freddie weighs the gold from the second test.
31:30Well, there's a half an ounce right there.
31:31Exactly a half an ounce.
31:33There's your gold.
31:33There's still more in there.
31:35Keep going, Freddie.
31:36Keep going.
31:371.25.
31:38Exactly.
31:39An ounce and a quarter.
31:40Oh my gosh, you guys.
31:43Holy cow.
31:45With everything we did there with Jamie and Christine, I think it was a little over a
31:48400% increase in gold there.
31:50It was tremendous.
31:50It made them from not making a living to making the darn good living.
31:54Yeah.
31:54We've talked about it over the years that you've got to treat mining.
31:57It's a business venture and you've got to treat it as such.
32:00One of the situations that we've ran into over the years is sometimes people get in there
32:04and they get so focused on it.
32:06Tunnel vision.
32:06Yeah.
32:07I've got to do this.
32:07I've got to do that.
32:08Then they overcomplicate the process and at the end of the day they end up losing more
32:11gold.
32:12And spending so much more money.
32:14Yeah.
32:14I knew a guy, he would sluice 21 hours straight before he'd do a clean up because he thought
32:18it was lucky.
32:20You remember the Adams family, Freddie?
32:21I do.
32:22The Homestead family.
32:23Great group of guys.
32:24You know, they had the whole family working at the mine site.
32:26They were superstitious too.
32:32In Canada's caribou gold fields, Freddie and Juan unearthed the spirit of the mountain
32:38in their search for lost gold.
32:41We have four generations of gold miners here and my grandfather was a gold miner as well
32:45so that makes five.
32:47Freddie and Juan's rescue is plagued by a faulty conveyor.
32:52Whoa, whoa, whoa!
32:53Shut it down!
32:53Shut it down!
32:54Hey!
32:55Don't, don't start the conveyor.
32:57It's bound up.
32:58Conveyors that are a blessing or a curse.
33:01But as this unseen footage shows, it wasn't the only thing cursed on the site.
33:07Because our neighbor was saying that there are ghosts here.
33:13They're holding the gold, he's saying.
33:15It's actually serious.
33:16Strange things happening in this area.
33:18Huh.
33:19Gold miners have always held deep superstitions about ghosts and spirits.
33:25Strange noises, cave-ins, and shadows in the mines were often blamed on restless souls guarding hidden treasures.
33:34When I was working underground over the years, there was a lot of guys that were really superstitious.
33:39Mm-hmm.
33:39Some of their rituals that they would do and everything else.
33:42He says they'll find a channel, and it's a really good channel.
33:46They've tested it, it's amazing.
33:47The next day they start mining it, nothing there.
33:49We have to mine the channels we find the day we find them, or else the next day all the
33:54gold's gone.
33:54Are you serious?
33:55Apparently it's because of the ghosts.
33:57The ghosts came and just took it all that night.
34:01Not really superstitious at all, but in the mining industry as a whole, there's a lot.
34:05It's not ghosts, though, it's leprechauns.
34:07That's what I believe, those stinking leprechauns.
34:09Those little Irish leprechauns, you know, they're out there stealing gold.
34:15Unfazed by supernatural tales, Freddie gets to work on the cursed conveyor.
34:21It's hot, boy.
34:22But while trekking down a bearing, local miner Stephen Keen doubles down on the ghostly tales.
34:30Rumor has it that a lot of Chinese miners died in this area.
34:34Yeah.
34:35You know, I mean, in 40 years, I mean, you're gonna have fatalities, eh?
34:40Yep.
34:41Even if you are only using a pick and shovel, eh?
34:43Well, I better get back over and get to work.
34:46I really appreciate your time, sir.
34:47Well, that's okay.
34:49I'm just waiting for permits anyway, so.
34:51There you go.
34:52Thanks for helping us out.
34:55Well, let's start the test, huh?
34:57Let's do it.
34:58Conveyor demons banished.
35:00That's working damn good up there, Freddie.
35:02and a second test run complete.
35:05There's some good chunks in there.
35:07The atoms weigh up the gold.
35:101.93.
35:12Hey, that's better.
35:13Almost two ounces.
35:14That's better.
35:15Well, you must have made those ghosts happy.
35:17Yeah, that's good.
35:18Nice.
35:19Coming up.
35:20Oh, throw that away.
35:21That's nothing.
35:22That was a gold nugget.
35:23I'm just joking.
35:25You have to re-mine the whole pile to find that nugget.
35:40That's some of the stuff that we've collected over the years.
35:43In Nevada, Juan shares his collection of memorable gold with master prospector, Freddie.
35:50Where's the fine gold from?
35:51That's Colorado right there.
35:52That's about 94%.
35:54Yeah.
35:55Missy Yukon stuff here.
35:5682.
35:57Yeah, you can tell.
35:58You know, you look at the color difference, huh?
36:00Yeah.
36:00More silver in it.
36:01Yeah.
36:03Where are these nuggets from, Juan?
36:04That one came from Alaska.
36:06Okay.
36:06That's that Papua New Guinea nugget we traded for a long time ago.
36:10It's weird, you know, looking at all the gold, but you still remember unique pieces.
36:15Yeah, absolutely.
36:16That's beautiful stuff, Juan.
36:17Thank you, Freddie.
36:18You know what the crazy thing is?
36:19You helped capture most of all this.
36:22I hate letting gold get away.
36:31I think a lot of the fun that we have, Fred, is the banter that you and I have between
36:34each other.
36:35Whether it's in person or on the radio.
36:37Those were tough men and women back then, Fred.
36:39Come out here with barely what they had on their backs and provisions in their horse.
36:44They kept provisions in their horse?
36:48I think of it as, like, you can kind of gauge a friend if you're able to talk to them
36:52and just talk crap to them.
36:53And that's what we do.
36:54We constantly just give each other a hard time.
36:56But that's, you know, that's who we are.
36:57Yeah.
36:58So what do you think of my new vest this year, Juan?
37:01All right.
37:01It looks a lot like the one last year, Fred.
37:04Oh, no.
37:04No, no, no.
37:05I need that.
37:06It's my good vest.
37:08You tore my Velcro off.
37:11Yeah, I was ready to come off.
37:12Oh, I'm done for the day.
37:14Yeah.
37:14A friend is a fellow who thinks everything is grand.
37:17A friend is one that knows our faults and doesn't give a damn.
37:19Exactly right.
37:23Just in case I didn't say good morning.
37:25Thank you, sir.
37:25You're welcome.
37:26Really sweet of you.
37:27Such a sweet guy, Fred.
37:29Thanks.
37:31One of my favorite things that never got shown was up in Valdez with Clay Strickland.
37:41On a mission in the Alaskan outback to help hobby miner Clay Strickland, mischievous
37:47friends Freddy and Juan turned tricksters.
37:51Clay, nice to finally meet you.
37:52Yeah.
37:53With upgrades to his 12-foot trommel and new sluice box, Freddy and Juan transformed Clay's
38:01operation.
38:02Look at that.
38:04That's perfect.
38:05It's classified the way it should be.
38:07That's it, man.
38:08That's four hours.
38:15But in this previously unseen footage, while Clay and his daughter Cersei prepare to clean
38:21up the gold, in a moment of mischief, Freddy turns from prospector to prankster.
38:28Remember I had that nugget from New Guinea that friend gave me?
38:31Mm-hmm.
38:31And I was just being a smart aleck.
38:33I put it in their little sluice box because there wasn't any nuggets on their claim.
38:43Hey, Dad.
38:44Yeah.
38:44What's this?
38:45Oh, throw that away.
38:46That's nothing.
38:48Yeah.
38:49She picked it up, his daughter.
38:50She waged it.
38:51She did it, too.
38:52I didn't do it.
38:52I'm just joking.
38:54It was a gold nugget.
38:54That was a nugget.
38:57Really?
39:00Nah, I'm sorry.
39:01Are we serious?
39:01Yeah.
39:03No way.
39:03Yeah, that was...
39:04Really?
39:05I'm sorry.
39:06It was a big one, too.
39:08It was a big one.
39:09He told me he brought it away.
39:11I didn't think you were going to do it.
39:14Oh, no.
39:17I honestly didn't think she was going to listen, but now she's like, oh, yeah?
39:20I'm like, yeah, it's just junk.
39:21She tosses.
39:22I'm like, oh, crap.
39:24You know, joke backfired.
39:27Joke backfired.
39:29I was doing what I was told, okay?
39:32I shall give it to my father.
39:34I found it.
39:35Oh.
39:37Oh, you're talking.
39:40I have to re-mine the whole pile to find that nugget.
39:43Yeah, I kind of felt bad after that.
39:45I'm like, oh, man, we lost it.
39:47That was only like a half-ounce nugget.
39:48Yeah, you know, what's a half-ounce amongst friends?
39:511,500 bucks.
39:52No big deal.
39:53Smart, Alec.
39:54Yeah.
39:57With Freddy's nugget firmly back in his pocket,
39:59the results of the second test are weighed.
40:070.61.
40:08Dang, that's a double click.
40:10Yeah, we got some gold.
40:12For me, one of the most satisfying things on a rescue
40:15is when we do that final gold play.
40:17And we're actually able to see the culmination of all the work
40:20we did, whether it was prospecting or the work on the plant.
40:23We actually get to see a physical number.
40:25Especially, you know, when you double it for them
40:27or four times.
40:28That's the icing on the cake.
40:30Yeah.
40:31That's over twice as much gold in four hours
40:33as you did the first time.
40:34This is a life-changing event here.
40:36You know, with what we saw at the end of that run,
40:38it was dang good.
40:39It was really good.
40:42Take care, guys.
40:43Bye.
40:44Thanks.
40:46You and I have been very fortunate in our careers.
40:48We have.
40:49and the simple fact that we get to go out and share a little bit of that with other people.
40:53Mm-hmm.
40:53We want to do this 100% free.
40:54That changes my life.
40:56Ha, ha, ha.
40:58Holy cow.
40:59Our knowledge, our experiences, help them along their journey.
41:03Let them learn from our mistakes.
41:05I'm glad I didn't eat any bean burritos last night,
41:07so I'm going to be in this tube for a while.
41:09My lease is nice and tight back here.
41:12I'm feeling a little sick.
41:13Ready?
41:13Are you?
41:13Yeah.
41:14What makes it exciting is the unknown.
41:17Got to have some fun along the way.
41:19Right now, more than ever, there's a ton of money to be made if you're mining gold.
41:23Yep.
41:23What do you say? Should we head out?
41:24Let's do it, buddy.
41:25Let's do it.
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