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Gold Rush: Alaska - Season 16 - Episode 07: Surprise Fortunes
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00:14I saw a few bones in the paypal out of a mammoth tusk rib bone I think right rib bone
00:36yeah so things are going really well so far you know we're like coming out of the gate moving
00:42and we're over 2,000 ounces but I'm waiting for something to go massively wrong because
00:48things don't go this smoothly for very long six weeks into the season 30 year old Parker
00:55Schnabel's plan to mine more than 35 million dollars in gold is right on schedule Tyson is
01:04being an animal this year he's done over 1,500 ounces already here on Dominion and then Mitch
01:08is doing a really good job over at sulfur sulfur had over a 350 ounce cleanup last week so that's
01:18crazy Parker's plan includes squeezing every ounce he can out of his sulfur Creek claim
01:24where foreman Mitch Blaschke has been hunting for gold rich pockets the old timers missed you know
01:32it's been full throttle since the beginning of the season here in sulfur trying to get all the work
01:35done before the water license expires just want to make sure that we get what's ours and don't
01:40leave anything behind Mitch is down to just three weeks to get it all done making the job harder
01:49his top dirt mover Brennan rule was recently sent to open ground at their next claim right now we're
01:56threading a bunch of needles with Brandon trying to have the Indian River ready Mitch trying to have
02:01sulfur done before the water license expires we need to get the whole project done reclaimed and be out
02:16how's it going good how are you doing well yeah nice to be getting to the close of
02:22this one we can start the next project yeah holy that's a hole wow very muddy hole
02:39nobody's done any painting in here I'm
02:40guessing not on this upper section we were trying to get it out as fast as we could get her
02:45to the
02:45plant and right well I'll pan some of this just out of curiosity all right well let's see what we've
02:55got
03:32we've got a lot of sluicing to do already this year so there's a lot of sluicing to do
03:40it always turns into a lot bigger project than we think doesn't it I want to stand up there and
03:46look at it
03:54how far does that go straight to this tree right here that's probably where I would go to
04:04you know it's gonna be tight could just have like Brennan come over here that's the best chance that
04:08you've got at getting the pay down here in time and getting it ran that'd be sweet all right I'll
04:13keep you updated over the last six weeks Mitch has dug out all the pay pockets of the two acre
04:20cut
04:20and is sluicing the last of its stockpiled pay but Parker believes the old-timers dredge missed even
04:28more gold and thinks the pastry extends up to the road he wants Mitch to expand the cut by another
04:37two
04:38acres and sluice all of its pay before the water license runs out if Parker's move pays off he could
04:49bank another 500 ounces worth one and three-quarter million dollars just when we thought sulfur here
04:57was coming to a close in typical Parker fashion now he said you know hey I want even more dirt
05:03out of
05:03there we're pushing this project all the way to its absolute limit so I just hoping we can get
05:08everything done here and sluice but it's just messing with our timeline all right the cavalry's here we
05:22could certainly use the help we're here happy to help man to give Mitch a fighting chance Parker
05:33has sent in the big guns so we got five trucks two excavators and the loader feeding the plant we're
05:42on a hot streak right now let's stay with it finish it off and get every speck of gold we
05:47can get out
05:48of here you know everything up here is risk over reward and right now the risk is we got ourselves
05:55a lot
05:55of dirt to move here not much time but Parker thinks it's worth the reward
06:12first gold way of the year you're always hoping for a good one right it could it can set you
06:17know
06:17kind of set the pace for the rest of the year we had the opposite of that a hundred miles
06:22away
06:22Rick Ness is still trying to recover from a major setback after failing to obtain the water license
06:30needed to mine his gold rich Duncan Creek claim the diamond cut on his new claim at Lightning Creek
06:38delivered just seven ounces we're always in a race against time but you know we start having gold
06:45waves like that it just becomes even more and more serious you know there's no way we can make money
06:48off of that but that doesn't mean that we can just you know call it quits here Rick now finds
06:52himself
06:53in deep water he's had to shut down wash plant Rocky but has just one week to pay landowner Troy
07:01Taylor
07:02100 ounces to complete his purchase of Lightning Creek we got to move on we got to strip some new
07:08ground
07:09we've already started that we've moved up the valley we just got to pivot and pivot quick
07:14we're late to the game this season so we had to come into this location it's definitely not as good
07:20ground as Vegas Valley hopefully we can get gold out of here to at least pay the bills everyone's
07:27getting uh pretty beat down when you see low numbers and no gold coming in it doesn't feel too good
07:36it's definitely got a little stressful you know behind the gun here so we're gonna shift over
07:41here and change the odds hopefully start running some pay dirt soon this is definitely uh the beginning
07:48of working our way up the valley for sure you know we need as much uncovered as we can but
07:53uh pretty
07:54much it's just gonna be trial and error we want to make sure that you know this is gonna be
07:59good pay
07:59not garbage Rick's gonna come down to figure out what he wants me to do moving forward look at this
08:13what's thinking Bailey it's like the bedrock's right there and then it goes to sand obviously you don't
08:19want sand but interesting there's no telling what this bedrock might do you probably just have to
08:27follow it yes some of that along the banks looks like pay okay but there's a spot right there where
08:34the bigger rocks look at that big rock right there that's what we want to see nice do you want
08:42that top
08:43gravelly stuff I think so yeah I would say that's the stuff we run bigger rocks should mean bigger deposits
08:52of gold over a hundred and fifty thousand years ago a giant glacier eroded and picked up gold from the
09:00Mount Hinton motherlode a massive ice sheet bulldozed down the valley tearing up the landscape when the ice
09:10melted the gold settled in scattered pockets with the heavy rocks and boulders I like it get the plant
09:18running to start hauling that to plant that'd be great yeah you call this the boulder cut cool
09:23hopefully it's got gold in it okay thanks man yep Bailey's getting on it right here you know they're
09:30doing a good job of getting this stripped off and there's a lot more bigger boulders and stuff in that
09:34ground it just looks more promising so I've got a good feeling about that we're all pretty excited to
09:41run this stuff we'll get this fired up and we'll start pounding dirt through it well right now we're
09:56hauling pay to the plant this pay layer definitely looks you know a lot better than the diamond cut you
10:04know there is big rocks in here and I'm hoping it's gonna be really good
10:21something's going on with the bucket I just not feeling proper it doesn't have any strength trying
10:25to curl right now hey Ryan you got a copy man yeah something's wrong with the 750 for sure okay
10:36hopefully Brian can get down here and figure out what's going on because this is our main machine
10:41that's the only thing that we got down here that glow rock trucks quick enough so right now we're
10:45on a standstill we got a issued with 750 right now I probably got a couple more hours worth of
11:04pay
11:05here if there's no pay at this plant there's no gold in the box so it's pretty crucial to have
11:10that thing back up and running at lightning creek the nest cruise 750 excavator has gone down preventing
11:18them from digging pay dirt from the new boulder cut I'd zip that plate off let's make as much room
11:25as we
11:25can I'll get in there and I'll crack it open all right where is she oh righty okay we've got
11:42a pilot
11:43hose over here that comes from the back main pump and goes all the way up just underneath the cab
11:48that's
11:48chafing pretty bad the 750 excavators bucket moves forward when hydraulic fluid is pumped through a
11:56hose into a cylinder with a piston at 5,000 pounds per square inch the bucket is then forced to
12:04retract
12:04when the cylinder is injected with hydraulic fluid by a second hose Ryan has discovered this hose has a
12:13leak in the body of the excavator near the pump he plans to disconnect the hose and remove it then
12:26replace it with a new one restoring the hydraulic systems full pressure allowing the bucket to once
12:33again pull six yards of boulder painter with each scoop right here yeah go ahead oh yeah you're good
12:52look at this yeah right there so this will get us going get us back in the pay and keep
12:59things rolling
13:02all right I got it all zip tied up we're gonna get our bottom plates on get our top plate
13:06mounted
13:07back and uh Bailey will be there back at it oh baby all right bottom side's good hey Bailey 750's
13:23fixed
13:24thanks Ryan look at the 750 up and running again which is awesome we got three trucks uh we got
13:34to hurry
13:35up here and uh get that pay to the plant I really need this to work out we all need
13:43this to work out
13:44this is our spot for the summer and uh we need to see we need to get started getting some
13:48mold out of it
13:49I'm not gonna sleep well until I get a whole run out of this ground and if it doesn't start
13:53showing
13:54us gold well you know what good is it you know I'm not full panic mode but I am definitely
14:01got my hand
14:19so far the season went pretty good so happy happy as they say a month and a half into his
14:28season
14:28king of the clonda Tony beats is cashing in on his early bird cut right now we've got loose a
14:36lot going
14:37if it runs don't with it get it going he's already banked over 1,800 ounces of his 6,500
14:45ounce target
14:46and is now opening the corner cut
14:54the corner cut is so big that it's going to take us a while to get down to pay but
15:00we should have
15:00plenty of time to get it all set up and do some serious losing the minute we'll figure it out
15:07voila it might when he has his crommel going well then we'll just see what we can pull off
15:1840 miles away on Paradise Hill pretty busy right now here at Mike's shipping department
15:26turn my way a bit go to get the next one I'm told to get this organized I'm told to
15:32get this ready
15:32I'm told to get this going this is all Indian River I'm just a delivery boy
15:39trouble's not going to happen anytime soon at this rate
15:42he wants to see gold my dad's gonna have to leave me alone and let me do it
15:47at the start of the season you gave Kevin a bunch of help getting him going
15:51so is there anything you're going to help us with
15:54Tony's youngest son Mike made a case for his own claim
15:59there's some opportunities out there let's get these two places here going first and then we'll talk
16:05Tony tasked Mike with getting their Paradise Hill operation running
16:10but two weeks ago I don't know what the going on Tony stole half of his equipment and crew if
16:16he
16:17don't like it I guess that sucks to be him you try to take all my people and then all
16:22my and then
16:23expect me to still run the hill now Mike's Paradise Hill trommel still sits idle and he has no gold
16:33coming in
16:43right now I'm at equipment I can do one project at a time I can sluice I can strip
16:47I do not have any enough to do both which means I ain't gonna be able to run the trauma
16:52here
16:58you know Tony's train of thought right the Indian is the only thing that's producing right now so
17:04that's where he wants to focus on it's a little bit worrisome that he takes your equipment why can't
17:12I start taking back that would go over really well you and I both know that so that's not gonna
17:17happen
17:19so what are you gonna do now do you have a plan B we have a Harold a nice plant
17:24sitting down in
17:25Hester it's basically stupid proof just gotta fuse some pipe hook it up to the pump test the pump
17:32and then I just gotta get an excavator and a loader down there and I could be sluicing that's great
17:38how would you feel to just have your own claim just your stuff no interference with your father
17:44like Kevin I would like it it'd be fun you think that's gonna happen no he's too busy out there
17:51I'm gonna
17:53have a little wager 10 bucks I say it will we can also say 20 bucks you're scared 20 bucks
18:08with that being said I do think you have to go back to work I'll see you later
18:15Mike got a little bit a rough end of the deal here because he doesn't have all the people and
18:20all the equipment but it's it's just the way Tony is it it's he focuses on what's right in front
18:27of
18:27him not what's 60 miles down the road Mike plans to use what little equipment Tony left behind to make
18:37a quick score by sluicing a pile of old-timer tailings that he believes are rich in gold but
18:45first he has to connect the water supply to wash plant Harold I'm gonna be testing out our new fusing
18:53machine here without no water you ain't sluicing at all if Mike can fit through the pipe will fit
19:10it works right now we lift up the pipe so I can line it up my way stop I just
19:22lined them up I'm
19:23tightening them up now I'm waiting for the heating pad to warm up put it in there yep okay that
19:30melts the
19:30pipe so that when I push it together it fuses get ready yeah there we go it's working
19:49I heard thunder pull the tongue bring it over here now it's raining pretty good hold it up try to
19:58cover it so it doesn't get pissed on rain if rain gets into the melted junction air bubbles will form
20:05and the fuse will burst under high water pressure we don't get this fuse together I ain't getting
20:17no water to Harold yeah that's gonna be good the rain seems to be stopping you guys can take it
20:30off
20:31before Mike can test if the fuses will hold he needs to connect the pipe to the pump across the
20:38creek
20:40lift it up in the air
20:46yeah it's looking good
20:50excellent that's good Zach
20:52pull it in
20:59okay next steps to put the suction in chain this up trying not to get hit in the face with
21:04a bucket
21:04because it's not on my bucket list to do
21:19pipes are all hooked up fused together all I have to do is test fire the pump make sure everything's
21:40working good
21:43enough water that's good that's lovely I love it I'm firing up
21:56everything's working
21:59we're scooping the Harold here we go
22:06for the first time this season Mike is on the gold nice finally get this thing going got it there
22:38man it was brutal there's no way we would have made this happen without the trucks and extra help up
22:44here but we are finally down to pay and we're gonna load that the trucks and haul it down to
22:49Roxanne
22:50at Sulphur Creek Mitch Blaschke has hit pay in the first section of the new two-acre extension
22:57now his crew is in a race to sluice it all before the water license runs out in less than
23:05three weeks
23:09he's in the last section of the new one he's in the last section of the new one
23:09oh
23:11loader operator Sean Holcroft is feeding the new pay through wash plant Roxanne
23:18Parker he's got some deadlines going so we really got our bust our balls here and get moving
23:23I got this little 220 loader things a little ancient still able to wash rocks with the plant but she's
23:29a bit of a rough ride
23:30I have my second year down here now a big step up for me a little bit more responsibilities they're
23:36letting me do a lot more it's pretty awesome to have this opportunity I really love it
23:46I don't know what the going on with this thing
23:50looks like we got the brakes locking up
23:55let's take half loads
23:58oh my
24:01painful man
24:05getting a low hydraulic oil board in here
24:11okay Mitch it's uh it's 220 here it's up real bad I guess they got no power barely making it
24:19up this ramp
24:19there's no way I'm gonna be able to keep up with this even at 100 yards an hour
24:24this is not what we need right now
24:31unfortunately you know 220 being down right now we're gonna shut Roxanne down
24:35shutting down Roxanne could mean losing over $8,000 an hour
24:42Parker has all these ambitions and things he wants us to do this season but we got one old loader
24:48out here
24:48and right now we're not sleucing
24:51to fix the loader Mitch calls in mechanic Taylor Matika
24:58I've got an alarm for low hydraulic oil you can see there's nothing on the sight glass
25:04with the machine running
25:06the transmission oil was way high
25:09it should be at the bottom of the sight glass here
25:11we're way over full
25:13so what caused this is the parking brake
25:16and it's got a piston inside with seals that release the parking brake
25:20these seals have failed and the parking brake is dragging
25:23and it's filling the transmission with hydraulic oil
25:29I'm just gonna pull the drain plug on the transmission here and we'll let her buck
25:35there it goes
25:38hopefully it's just the seals but if it's uh
25:41if a piece of got between the piston and the housing we might have a piston
25:45and uh that's gonna that's gonna be a huge problem
25:49the 220 loader's parking brake is spring-loaded and controlled by hydraulic pressure
25:56to access the brake Taylor will first cage it by using three bolts that compress the springs
26:03releasing the brake and securing the piston to the brake cover
26:07he will then remove the 16 bolts that hold the cover in place and lift off the caged parking brake
26:14piston
26:15Taylor can then remove and replace the damaged seals before reinstalling the brake
26:21uncaging the springs and refilling the hydraulic oil allowing the parking brake to function properly
26:30we're just buzzing the parking brake out here we've got it caged with these three bolts
26:38there we go
26:39we'll take it out put it on the back of my truck
26:41hopefully this thing is not because we can't afford a downloader
26:47you can see here there's no real damage to the piston but the parking brake seal is completely we need
26:52to replace it
26:54Sean was right to give me a shout right away we'll swap the seals out and put this thing back
27:00together
27:00let's get started
27:03we'll peel these seals off
27:07we're at the assembly stage now just putting these seals in
27:10hey Taylor you got a copy Taylor
27:13yeah go ahead
27:14how's it going over there man
27:16um we're putting new seals in the parking brake right now
27:18thank god it was just the seals and we had them in stock
27:20give us about an hour and a half two hours and this thing will be up and running
27:24all right man we'll uh be ready for it
27:26Mitch is chomping at the bit to get this thing up and running
27:29then it's just you know race against time to get this thing back together
27:34it's all good
27:46fill it with transmission oil we can be back to making money
27:52transmission is full parking brakes reassembled resealed everything's hooked up
27:59lay down good boy
28:11i'm going to take it down to sean so they can go fire up roxanne
28:20oh yeah buddy thanks man
28:23five hours after shutting down and forty thousand dollars of gold production lost
28:29roxanne is back in the game
28:32washing rocks roxanne shaking getting that gold
28:38now we got roxanne on a uh good clip here it's sluicing along very nicely we're pushing this
28:44project here at sulfur all the way to its absolute limit we're getting through it but
28:50we're not out of the woods yet
29:17we understand we're not mining vegas valley it's it's difficult we're not mining vegas valley
29:21it's up for us to prove that there is something here it's going to be non-stop it's not going
29:26to
29:26be uh it's not going to be an easy season i think this will be our toughest season with rick
29:31rick's crew is sluicing pay dirt from the new boulder cut which they hope will finally deliver some gold
29:40we're going to probably work our way up this valley probably all season hopefully uh you know the
29:45farther we go or the more that we run the better it looks guys i need you all to come
29:52meet me at the
29:53all the way down here i want ollie there
30:19what's going on
30:21i got some news
30:41what's going on
30:43i got some news
30:47we got a water license on lower duncan really yes
30:52yeah yeah that's actually really good dude got something for you guys
31:11we got the news today from the attorney they granted an extension until november 2025 we can go
31:17break ground vegas valley start draining it we can get gold from vegas valley this year was that a
31:21verified email the verified email okay good yeah yeah we 100 have a water license a land use permit
31:29and everything at lower duncan in just four years rick's claim on lower duncan paid out nearly 6 000
31:36ounces but after losing the water license he had to abandon it including a pay pile that could contain
31:44more than 1.4 million dollars in gold we've already got a pile up there ready to run and you
31:51know
31:52we can actually run that now so what does that mean for this deal well that's a good point because
31:58we can't just walk away from this i promised troy another 100 ounces to buy lightning creek
32:03i'm not just going to pull 100 outside of here and give it to troy and walk away you know
32:07we've got to
32:07pull some serious gold out of here but this is really good news i don't even think you've seen the
32:12best out of vegas valley yet no and i'm hoping we haven't seen the best out of this yeah you
32:16know i think
32:17our future is really bright i've got a lot to figure out but we've got a water license and we
32:21are going back to vegas valley this is cause for celebration yeah guys all right
32:27you know in my head right now i'm very happy there's a lot going on right now it's like one
32:36extreme to the other right we had no water license now we've got a water license in two spots you
32:40know
32:40i want to just run to vegas valley i know the gold's there but i've got obligations on lightning
32:44creek you know i owe troy 100 ounces you know that's that's a quarter million dollars so
32:47there's a lot to figure out but at the end of the day this is good news
33:08it's nice to be finally solution it's been a long time coming
33:11at paradise hill despite a lack of equipment mike is determined to prove to his dad
33:18that he can bring in the gold just careful not to overload it
33:25it's nice to get this going it's exactly what i wanted closer and closer every time
33:50that's going to get fixed before we can keep going
33:58i'm going to lift this up take these off so i can get this little orange piece here
34:02and i can check the rubber
34:08if you open the excavator i'll wrap it around we'll just lift it
34:21yeah because these are coming off like butter
34:27my gasket's ripped completely yeah she ripped right apart
34:32my only two rubbers i got too small or weave it too big
34:39we can make that work though you know what i mean cut holes we're gonna have to around with this
34:51what we're gonna do is mark out all the holes and then we'll just push the bolt holes through
35:02then i'm gonna cut and yeah that bolt will fit through it
35:08yeah there should be 12.
35:12it's a little scabby but it'll work
35:15for the bush fix gasket to work it must form a tight seal between the two metal flanges
35:21a little bit more my weight there we go if we do this and it works it should last until
35:27forever
35:33hey that's my butt
35:38let her down
35:45that's tight this should all work
36:09hey now carby hop in the water let's get going
36:13finally uh getting this done
36:14but now we'll be happy to get any gold so i'm gonna grab every ounce of gold i can out
36:19that dirt
36:20between me and colby we should be able to get this thing going
36:23this will be running for the rest of the season
36:34this will assist me to do that
36:35mike beets
36:36maybe dreaming of his own clondight kingdom but there is already a crown
36:41he wears proud
36:44According to everyone, I'm the king of around,
36:46so this should be nothing new.
36:50Go chase the beaver.
36:52No, no, no!
36:54You make me do it.
36:58So I leave you guys alone for what, two minutes,
37:01and then you're around again?
37:02Let's go!
37:03Nah, it's around.
37:22Whoa!
37:23Oh, yeah!
37:24Nice glasses.
37:25Thanks, man.
37:27How are you? No fire?
37:29No, it's too hot for that.
37:30It's hot. Summer finally got here.
37:32Yeah, it came fast.
37:34It was a smart move to pivot from a diamond cut.
37:36There's no way we can make a living off it,
37:38and, you know, I like the spot that we moved to.
37:41It's definitely looking better in every way.
37:44There's boulders there.
37:45Yeah, it is nicer material compared to that stuff
37:47that we just dug out at the start of the diamond cut.
37:50So we're on the right track.
37:52Yeah.
37:52Well, I guess maybe we should weigh up the gold.
37:55Rick's previous spot, the diamond cut,
37:58produced just 7.35 ounces.
38:02Now he's hoping the new boulder cut
38:05will deliver at least 30 ounces for its run time.
38:09There, count it out.
38:131, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 18, 20, 22, 22.35.
38:29Worth $78,000.
38:33Definitely an improvement.
38:35We've got to look at it that way.
38:37Three times better.
38:38Yeah.
38:40I mean, obviously, that water license coming in is huge.
38:43But a lot of decisions come with that, you know.
38:46There's a lot of pieces that have to fall in,
38:47you know, fall into place.
38:49What's going through your head?
38:50Tough it out here?
38:51I mean, we're going to have to go back to Vegas Valley.
38:54I mean, I want to.
38:57And maybe at the end of the day,
38:58this is just not the happening spot right here.
39:02We can't abandon this place.
39:04I did buy it.
39:05But the one thing that I can say is that we can't afford
39:08to just shut this down while we're, you know.
39:10We've got to take advantage of all the sluicing hours we can get.
39:12How many gold ways do we say there can be improvement
39:14before we finally say we need to get our asses back to Vegas Valley?
39:18At the end of the day, I owe Troy, you know,
39:20100 ounces on this ground.
39:21So we can't just walk away from it right now.
39:24It's the only spot we're getting gold from.
39:25Does he care where the 100 ounces comes from?
39:27Because I'm telling you now,
39:28you're going to get 100 ounces a lot quicker.
39:30You do the math.
39:31It doesn't make sense to hit 1,800 ounces by the end of the season.
39:33You know, it's going to take a while to get Vegas Valley ready.
39:36So the minute we're able to sluice down there,
39:37we will go there.
39:38That's a promise.
39:39I think we should go there now.
39:41Well, that's too bad.
39:43I think there's gold here.
39:47I hope you're right.
39:48Definitely the pressure's going to be on, man.
39:54Thanks, guys.
39:55I appreciate it.
39:56Yeah, this gold way was better than last week,
39:58but it's not as good as what lower Duncan could be.
40:01There could be 400 ounces in that pay pile.
40:03So, you know, for us to try to reach 1,800 ounces,
40:06we need to be down there right away.
40:08Well, the gold total for the week, 22.3 ounces.
40:10Yeah, three times is good.
40:12But the exciting thing is we got the water license extension
40:14back on Duncan Creek.
40:15So we go back to Vegas Valley, which is huge news.
40:18Now, everybody's just arguing on when.
40:20They want to go there immediately, but the timing's just not right.
40:22You know, it's going to take a few days to get that ready,
40:23and I'm not willing to stop getting gold from Lightning Creek
40:26until it is ready.
40:27So we're going to stick it out here, and we'll be back in Vegas Valley soon.
40:40Hello.
40:41Hey, guys.
40:42Hey, guys.
40:42How are you?
40:43Here. How are you?
40:44Good.
40:45Yes.
40:45Good, good, good.
40:47Have a seat.
40:51I've been here pretty much all week.
40:53Sluicing away in the early bird cut there.
40:55Doing very well, actually, I think.
40:57Busy stripping, corner cut.
41:00So I've been going to stick quite well.
41:02How about you guys?
41:04Yeah, I set up Harold.
41:06Yeah.
41:06We, uh...
41:07Did some old-time entailings, didn't we?
41:09Might as well Sluicing, it's sitting there.
41:11Oh, really?
41:12Perfect.
41:12Anything you get is bonus.
41:14I mean, if the price is off today,
41:16rather than throwing it away, that don't make no sense.
41:18Did it show anything?
41:20Well, there's a little bit.
41:22Could I better count it quick, I guess, huh?
41:24I'll pour slow.
41:26There were one, two, three, four.
41:30And a five.
41:31And a six.
41:32And a seven.
41:33Eight.
41:34Nine.
41:35Ten.
41:36Eleven.
41:36Twelve.
41:37Thirteen.
41:38Fourteen.
41:40Fourteen point.
41:41Two eight.
41:42Worth nearly $50,000.
41:45It all adds up.
41:46It all adds up.
41:48I'm proud of you.
41:49That is a good little venture.
41:52So you want to see what comes from the Indian?
41:54Okay, what have we got?
41:55So far, the early bird cut
41:58is averaging 270 ounces a week.
42:01Michael, ready to count?
42:0510, 30, 40, 50, 100, 110, 120, 170, 190, 200, 210, 250, 260, 270, 280, 290, 310, 320, 330, 340,
42:24350, 390.
42:25Are you making the four?
42:28No.
42:28No?
42:29It's 398.18.
42:32Worth almost $1.4 million.
42:36But I mean, you didn't make four.
42:37Oh, my .
42:39Bringing the beat season total to over 2,300 ounces.
42:44So that's not bad.
42:46You said at the beginning of the season that there were maybe some opportunities for Mike
42:49as soon as he started getting gold out of the hill.
42:52So what's happening with that?
42:55No.
42:56No, no, no, no, no.
42:57You got to get the thrommel going.
42:58That's where the real gold is going to come from.
43:01That's all.
43:01Let's do it.
43:02Just go bring me some more.
43:06Okay.
43:07See you later, guys.
43:08Yep.
43:08Bye.
43:10I do hope Tony will honor what he said to Mike because he's been working very hard
43:15to get this all sorted out.
43:16So he should get them set up.
43:19Honestly, Mike really deserves it.
43:22The frustrating part is I think I have a better chance of learning to breathe through
43:26my ass than I have them going out on my own.
43:28Whatever.
43:37What's up?
43:38Yo, yo.
43:40Well, how did we do this week, Chris?
43:42Roxanne's just chugging away.
43:44Man, that was an unreal pan down there at Sulphur.
43:46That pan was probably one of the best ones we've ever seen.
43:49It's up there.
43:50Top 10.
43:52I hate saying anything.
43:53I don't want to jinx anything, you know?
43:55Yeah.
43:55I'm pretty good at that.
43:56Thanks.
43:59How's your juggling act going?
44:01You know, it's keeping me busy, that's for sure.
44:04We're going to start out with you with Bob.
44:06How's that?
44:07Sure.
44:08Let's see how Bob did this week.
44:09Big Bob.
44:10At Dominion Creek, Tyson's been running wash plant Bob in the bridge cut where it's averaging
44:17170 ounces a week.
44:20Here we go.
44:21We got 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 160, 180, 188.4.
44:36Nice.
44:37Not bad.
44:38That's a good weight.
44:39So Bob's chugging along.
44:41Brendan, you want to do a slucifer here?
44:43Go for it.
44:44All right.
44:45Slucifer, in the golden mile, is pacing 200 ounces a week.
44:5020, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 150, 180, 200.
45:01Holy .
45:04232.1.
45:07Wow.
45:08Holy .
45:09Yeah.
45:10Nice.
45:10That's pretty cool, isn't it?
45:12That's a good week for Dominion.
45:14420 ounces or something?
45:16That's a good number.
45:21And then there's Roxanne Mitchell.
45:23Whew, she looks heavy.
45:25Let's see what we got here.
45:27All right.
45:28Ready to rip.
45:30Ready?
45:30Yep.
45:31Now it's time to find out if Parker's move to extend the cut at sulfur will pay out.
45:3850, 100, 150, 200.
45:45Oh, yeah.
45:46Keep going.
45:48250.
45:50A little bit more.
45:56300 right on the dot.
45:58Plus this.
46:00We have another one.
46:01Ooh.
46:02It looks like it's got a little in there.
46:04Ready?
46:04All right.
46:05We're going to keep adding to her.
46:07There's another 40, 80, 100, 106.5.
46:23406.5 ounces.
46:25Okay, yeah.
46:27Yeah, man.
46:28Yeah, that a boy.
46:29Mitch, go ahead and take everything up there.
46:32Whew.
46:32With just one plant, Mitch has nearly matched Tyson's two-plant run.
46:40Dude, that's a lot for one week.
46:42Yeah, so this week our total is 827 ounces.
46:48Sick.
46:49Is that crazy or what?
46:52I was not expecting that.
46:55827 ounces at record prices is worth $2.89 million, the most cash Parker's ever banked in one week.
47:09That's Parker's happy face.
47:12There we go.
47:13800 ounces, dude.
47:14You got to be happy about that in a week.
47:17Hell yeah.
47:18I just hope we can keep it up.
47:20There's still so much season left.
47:22Good way to start it, though.
47:23That's a good way to start it.
47:24Yeah.
47:25Thank you, guys.
47:25Cool.
47:26I'll bag this stuff up.
47:27We've all got to do.
47:28See what you got to do.
47:31After several years of just moving from the Indian River and getting set up and a lot deeper ground on
47:36Dominion,
47:36it's taken a long time of, like, stripping and prep.
47:40And finally this season, like, I don't want to jinx it, but it's looking really good.
47:47We're coming out of the gates running, so hopefully we can just keep that up, right?
47:51And then sulfur is just killing it.
47:57I yeah ...
47:58Julian for the AD deals.
48:00Well done.
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