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Gold Rush: Alaska - Season 16 - Episode 04: Buzz in the Hills
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00:00.
00:21Boom up a little bit, Jordy.
00:25Parker wants to move more dirt than ever before,
00:27so these 550s will be the answer.
00:32It all slides nicely when it's brand new, huh?
00:35Perfect.
00:35We can send this bad boy out.
00:42Hey, Parker, you got a coffee, Parker?
00:44Hey, what's going on?
00:45Yeah, bro, this 550's on its way.
00:48I'm just heading over to Sulphur.
00:50We had a new toy delivered,
00:51so I'm just going to check it out.
00:58I don't know what the fun is in having a dirt-moving company
01:01if you can't have new equipment.
01:07Gold mining mogul, Parker Schnabel,
01:10is sitting in the driver's seat.
01:13Just three weeks into the season,
01:15he's banked more than $2 million in gold
01:19from his Dominion Creek claims.
01:22Now, he's eager to find out
01:25if the gamble he took at Sulphur Creek will pay out.
01:31We ordered oversized buckets.
01:33I'm not sure how it's going to like this.
01:35They just started hauling pay out of the pit here at Sulphur,
01:38and I'm just making more room for stockpile.
01:42The thing is pretty sweet.
01:43But that's a six-and-a-quarter-yard bucket,
01:46which is huge for this size machine.
01:47The bigger the bucket, the better.
01:51Absolutely chewing through the ground.
01:57Basically, we're under the gun for time.
02:00The water license here at Sulphur expires soon,
02:03and I don't want to be put in a position where,
02:05much like Rick Ness is right now,
02:07where we are desperately waiting and hoping
02:11for a license that we need
02:12in order to do what we want to do.
02:14Mined since 1898,
02:18Sulphur Creek's gold is legendary,
02:20with stories of nuggets sitting on the creek bed.
02:25To date, it's paid out $1.2 billion,
02:29and Parker's praying there's still big gold in the ground.
02:34I'm definitely worried.
02:36Sulphur's a really tricky piece of ground.
02:38Are we doing all of this on Sulphur
02:40at the cost of getting Dominion done?
02:43Like, that's the question that haunts me.
02:50Beautiful new toy!
02:51That only took me 30 seconds!
02:54So far, it's handling this bucket really well.
02:57It looked like you were full extension there.
02:59I was like, wow.
02:59Dude, look at how wide it is compared to the 480.
03:01That's insane!
03:03Yeah.
03:03Nice purchase there, boss man.
03:05Special delivery.
03:07Thank you!
03:08So the big thing,
03:10getting you sluicing as soon as we can.
03:13How much time do we have for that?
03:15I was hoping that we could be sluicing within a week.
03:20I'm excited!
03:21Yeah?
03:22I want to get another plant running.
03:24And so that's your guys' challenge.
03:26Yeah.
03:27It's a big one.
03:32They have a nice shiny new excavator.
03:35That should give them some solid reliability,
03:36and hopefully, here in three or four days,
03:39we'll have a wash plant banging away at Sulphur.
03:47Yo, Brennan, you got a copy.
03:49Dude, you can just hear that clock ticking every minute down here.
03:52We're getting closer to running out of time.
03:54It's a big undertaking.
03:56The six-yard bucket will make up to some serious lost time.
03:59Oh, man, he wants 10,000 ounces.
04:01A good part of that's got to come out of here.
04:03Hell yeah, buddy.
04:04This is a pretty cool treasure hunt to be on.
04:07This property's been hammered so hard.
04:10You get really worried about, man, are we going to move all this dirt?
04:13And at the end of the day, is there going to be nothing left in it?
04:20At Sulphur Creek, Mitch and Brennan are on a treasure hunt.
04:25For the last three weeks, they've been clearing Overburden
04:28away from a narrow two-acre cut next to the bank of the valley.
04:34Searching for gold-rich virgin pay that an old-timer's dredge missed.
04:39Now, down to pay, they need to dig it out and stockpile it at the mouth of the cut.
04:46Then, bring in wash plant Roxanne and fire it up by the end of the week.
04:57This cut is very narrow.
04:59Not a lot of room to work.
05:01We've got all this groundwater that's pouring in on us.
05:04All this material, it's so saturated, we've got to try and dry it up.
05:09You know, then we've got to pile all this up into a pay pile.
05:12The wetter it is, the harder all that is.
05:14The trucks will do better when they're running on dry ground.
05:19This pay that we're hauling here, it's real wet.
05:23Now, it's making one hell of a mess.
05:25Rock truck operators Sean Holcroft and Jordan Grosvenor
05:29splashed through the cut, hauling pay dirt.
05:33With the amount of pay we got coming in from the cut, there's not really any place where we can
05:37put it.
05:37So we have to drive over the stuff we've already put here, but it was just schlop we hauled in
05:41from there.
05:47Man, this stuff sucks, man.
05:50You know, it's hard to even drive through.
05:52Oh, there she goes.
05:55Jordan's truck rolled over.
05:57All right, Mitch, you got a copy, Mitch.
05:59Yeah, go ahead.
06:00I got a truck flipped over here.
06:01There's Jordan's truck.
06:03The box is over, not completely, but it's definitely over.
06:10It's fine, I'll head up there.
06:13I'm surprised that it took this long for something to happen.
06:17Never a dull moment.
06:20See, they got their tire up on a high point there, and rolled her over.
06:26So, I get it back on its feet.
06:29You ready, Jordan?
06:31Just put it in neutral.
06:34Just like flip back over.
06:43Ooh, that's heavy.
06:47Try and gently drive forward.
06:50If I honk, stop.
06:58Go ahead and dump that pile right there.
07:01And don't go back that far anymore.
07:03Please and thank you.
07:05Well, it's just a lot of pressure being put on us here.
07:08Having to haul all this out by the end of the week here,
07:10and sometimes just ends up going sideways.
07:16Everybody's doing everything we can here.
07:18If we fall short on getting this ground sluice and sulfur,
07:21it's going to mean that 10,000 ounces is going to be out the window very quickly.
07:25That's definitely not how Parker wants to start the season off.
07:42Gold prices sky high.
07:45There's no better time than getting gold in the box than today.
07:49We had a super-fast start to the season, so right now all we've got to do is keep sluicing.
07:55King of the Klondike, Tony Beetz, is crushing it.
08:00He's been sluicing at his Indian River operation for five weeks,
08:05already banking 775 ounces of his 6,500-ounce target.
08:13Pusselot right now in the Indian River is our only moneymaker,
08:16so we've got to make sure we keep that going.
08:22Because of Mike, he had an emergency.
08:24We had to fly to Europe for a couple of days.
08:26The lead man is gone, so to speak.
08:28I'm not happy because I need more people in charge.
08:33So we're kind of making Jacob step up, see if we can mold him up a little bit.
08:38I've got to do it by myself.
08:44It feels good to be successful up here, helping out Tony.
08:49The task that Tony gets me to do every day puts out more trust and confidence in my work ethic
08:53and what I can do as a person.
08:56Heavy equipment operator Jacob Moore only joined the Beetz crew last season.
09:02Now, he has to step up to acting foreman and impress the king.
09:08He's put every trust that I never thought I would ever get up here.
09:11If you're honest and give it your all, then you get treated like one of them.
09:17Jacob, do you copy?
09:19Yeah, go ahead.
09:20Yeah, in the early forecast, there's a lot of ground waters.
09:23Yeah, copy that.
09:26Oh, . Look at all the water in there.
09:28You can't dig pay on the water.
09:30You can't see what you're doing.
09:31We would leave too much gold behind.
09:36Look at all that water.
09:39That ain't gonna work.
09:42That's not good.
09:43No.
09:45You lay that pipe from here to there, and that water shoots off.
09:49Make it pass.
09:50Bingo.
09:50Done.
09:50In an hour or so, I want to see the pump pumping.
09:55Okay.
09:55Sounds good, don't it?
09:58Last week, Tony tasked his crew with expanding the 13-acre early bird cut by a further 9 acres.
10:08But now spring meltwater is flooding in, drowning the exposed gold-rich pay.
10:16Tony wants Jacob to bring in a submersible pump, connect it to a 400-foot-long pipe, and pump out
10:25the water to drain into a mined-out section of the cut, allowing his crew to get back to hauling
10:33pay.
10:35That was a lot of pressure, but I can handle it.
10:38We need to get what Tony wants done the way Tony wants it done.
10:42I do not want to be on Tony Beach's wrong side.
10:45Don't waste the time.
10:46Just get on with it.
10:49Jacob's first task?
10:51Move in the submersible pump.
10:52I mean, the longer it takes, the more water we're going to have to deal with.
10:56So the sooner we cure the problem, the better it is.
11:00But if you're going to have a foreman, you better be able to leave him alone to solve his own
11:04problems.
11:05Let's see if Jacob's got what it takes.
11:09I'm just going to move it over here, then we can get that pipe up.
11:19We're just going to get the pump set up and get this pipe drug into place so we can get
11:22the water pumped out.
11:29Wiggle it.
11:30Up.
11:41Let's see if it'll tilt this way.
11:46Push up on it.
11:47It's starting to go.
11:50Oh, are you kidding me?
11:52That's .
11:56Try that.
11:58Clips off the side are broken off, and it's all rusty on the inside, so you have to have it
12:01level and get both pins in.
12:07Ah.
12:11If they were kind of hurry the up, that would be kind of nice.
12:16It needs to go down one.
12:18Swing it back this way.
12:21These people have no idea how frustrating it is for me.
12:28Hey, see how the around?
12:30That idiot is clueless.
12:32I want to see the pump pumping.
12:35.
12:41.
12:43I need to go down one.
12:46Swing it back this way.
12:47At Indian River, Tony has tasked stand-in foreman Jacob Moore with draining the flooded early bird extension within an
12:56hour.
12:57Hey, see how the around?
13:00That idiot is clueless.
13:01But the king isn't impressed with how long it's taking.
13:06Jacob's time and Tony's patience are up.
13:10Okay, I'll take over.
13:11Might as well do it myself.
13:13Jacob.
13:15Jacob.
13:16Okay, D6.
13:17Hook around to the pipe.
13:21.
13:25We're going to drag the pipe in.
13:27Pump all of them.
13:28It's that simple.
13:30When I do it, it usually way quicker.
13:33Hold it.
13:34Stay there.
13:37.
13:39Bring the 349 over there.
13:42Get a chain on there.
13:46We'll grab it with a hole.
13:47We'll swing it in place, Andrew.
13:50It's okay, Andrew.
13:52Got it?
13:52Yeah.
13:53And then all we've got to do is hook it together.
13:57Drag it closer if you can.
14:00Okay, you want me to walk it in a bit?
14:02Yeah, please, yeah.
14:04Can you get in and bring the pipe this way more?
14:08Ow.
14:13This thing must be a little egg-shaped maybe, so it doesn't quite fit in.
14:17Jacob.
14:18Yeah.
14:19You got a hammer in the truck?
14:21My truck's over by the red pub.
14:23Get a hammer.
14:24Okay.
14:26So there's going to beat the in there.
14:34The idiot is still trying to get hammered out of his truck.
14:40Oh, what the **** does it take?
14:41Oh!
14:43Give me a rock.
14:44Now.
14:45Give me a rock.
14:46Nailed that close.
14:48Yeah, I know, yeah.
14:52Good hit.
14:54Let's just slide in.
15:00Okay.
15:01I think you got her.
15:06Jacob.
15:07Too late for that.
15:09Fire the pump up.
15:13Finally, after Tony's intervention, the pump can start draining the flooded cut.
15:20They're just hooking up the wires, the fire of the pump.
15:22Good.
15:27And she's sucking.
15:32Good to have a pump in there, draining all the water out of it.
15:37**** in the ass.
15:38Tony's not too impressed.
15:41Definitely know he's not pleased.
15:44Jacob's not impressive.
15:45As far as I'm concerned, everybody is replaceable.
15:48There's a pretty simple deal down there.
15:50If you're too lazy to do it right, well, now you're going to have to do something about it.
15:55So, we'll see.
16:19Just a bit more stress than I was really hoping for this year.
16:23We are kind of hurting for our experienced crew.
16:25Kevin's not coming back.
16:27Kenan's off to Parker's as well.
16:29Kind of dropping like flies around here.
16:32Kevin beats second season as mind boss.
16:35He's off to a rocky start, having lost two key members from his skeleton crew.
16:41On a small crew, when people leave, you feel it.
16:452,000-ounce gold seems a little further away now, but at least we're sluicing, so we're still able to
16:51be producing.
16:53We have a bit of pay stockpiled from the links extension, but as soon as that runs out, we're really
16:57going to have to get material out of the pyramid cut.
17:03Kevin's crew has been sluicing stockpiled pay from last season for two weeks, delivering over 100 ounces.
17:12But with the pile fast running out, his crew of five have also been racing to open up new ground
17:19in the three-acre pyramid cut.
17:23It's nonstop for the trucks falling overburden.
17:26The goal is to hit pay in the pyramid cut in time for when the plant is moved and ready
17:32to fire back up.
17:36We're stretching our crew to the limit right now, but it's what we've got to do to keep on going.
17:42We're finishing up the pay around the plant, then we'll move the plant.
17:46But there's going to be a lot more work than I thought it is now without Brennan and Kayden.
17:51With a big plant move on the horizon this week, Kevin's looking to find new recruits.
17:58Me and Faith are working our way through quite a few resumes.
18:01We did find a fairly experienced miner. We'll see him when he shows up and hopefully that works out.
18:11Pretty decent winter, but I'm actually going for the first time in my life.
18:16Swimming in the ocean for the first time in my life.
18:18Veteran gold miner Buzz Legault has had a busy winter.
18:23My teeth all fixed up. It's kind of freaking nice.
18:28Gives me more of a reason to smile now.
18:31I wouldn't really say that I'm smiling more.
18:34I'm just a lot less self-conscious about it.
18:39But Buzz wasn't smiling last year after two seasons working for Rick Ness.
18:46Hey, Buzz, you got a copy?
18:48Their relationship soured.
18:52Hey, Buzz!
18:55There's not a hundred person crew here.
18:56You're a guy on this crew.
18:57You're going to jump in where the you fit in or you're going to go the home.
19:01If you don't want to work with me, then you all go.
19:06Last season, everything that went down was still kind of a hard punch.
19:10You know, it put me and Rick were a lot closer than that.
19:14Time for new things.
19:16I just got a phone call from Kevin and Faith there.
19:20I'm looking for some good hands this season, so you can check them out.
19:27All right. Here we are.
19:36Hey, guys. How's it going?
19:38Not too bad. Howdy, good sir.
19:39Hello there.
19:40Nice to meet you.
19:41Nice to meet you.
19:41You're in your 10,000 lumen smile.
19:46Never lose me at night.
19:47All I can do is keep on smiling.
19:52Thanks for coming to meet us, Buzz.
19:54We do appreciate you showing up.
19:55Though we do get to ask.
19:56I know you're the foreman at Rick's last year.
19:59And clearly you're not going back there.
20:01What's happening?
20:03There's uncertainties over there with this water license and everything.
20:08Life has changed for me.
20:11I need a little more stability in life.
20:16Well, this year I have a little baby on the way, so...
20:20Congratulations.
20:20Yes.
20:22We're down a foreman.
20:24Is that something you might be interested in, or...?
20:26We have a little baby on the way and whatnot.
20:28I don't think that would be a good position for it.
20:33Well, I think we kind of need more of a jack of all trades more than anything else.
20:39From what I've gathered, you know how to run equipment.
20:42You know how to fix things, and you can also weld a little bit.
20:44Yeah.
20:45This might work.
20:48I could be your buzz of all trades.
20:53Yeah.
20:54If it all sounds good to you, welcome aboard.
20:58Perfect.
20:59That was great.
21:00Thank you, guys.
21:01Oh, let's get to work.
21:05That went pretty well, you know.
21:07Working with Kevin and Faith this season.
21:10Seemed like a pretty good couple.
21:12So, excited to see where this goes.
21:27As much as I would like to have all of the focus on Dominion, that's just not really a feasible
21:33option.
21:34There are projects that absolutely have to happen this year, and that is sulfur, so we just have to get
21:39them done.
21:47And sulfur, we're just about ready for the plant move.
21:50We're going to get rock sand.
21:52Parker's trying to give us the best of the best for what we have to do here.
21:56At Sulfur Creek, Brennan and Mitch have identified what they believe are gold hotspots and stockpiled the pay dirt.
22:06Now, it's finally time to start sluicing.
22:09Well, we're ready to haul rock sand down to sulfur, so we're going to go build some wash plant.
22:18You know, early in the season like this, the roads are in the worst shape of the whole year.
22:23Come on, baby. Come on, come on.
22:27This is the sketchiest thing we have done in a long time.
22:31We got soft roads, wash plant that's top-heavy, and we're in a rush.
22:35The 25 miles of dirt road from Dominion to Sulfur is closed all winter.
22:43Opened just six weeks ago, it is still thawing out.
22:48Oh, you almost hit that tree.
22:53Rock sand is big and robust, and we throw rocks at it all day long, but we're clipping the trees.
23:00And all it's going to take is grabbing onto some wiring or a hose, and we're going to have a
23:04wash plant that's not going to want to do what it needs to do.
23:07Check this branch out.
23:12I think we're taking some risks here.
23:20Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
23:26Oh, there went our internet.
23:30Our wash plants have internet on them, which is very handy.
23:34This one now does not.
23:37We're too remote here to have the radios reach back to camp.
23:41We are going to need a new dish here.
23:49All right, we got rock sand where it needs to live.
23:52We're going to run back, grab a sluice run, and start putting this thing together.
23:56There we have it.
24:00We're going to build a little pad and pull this thing off as quick as we can.
24:03We just got to get her off in one piece, standing up straight.
24:11I like it. It looks good.
24:15Next, Mitch collects the plant's sluice runs from Dominion.
24:19The purpose of the sluice runs being wide is if you put more through the wash plant faster.
24:25The problem with that is when you've got to move it.
24:32You can see I'm having to drive down the middle of the road.
24:35If something's driving the other way, we're going to be in trouble.
24:38Last thing we're going to be doing is backing up on these roads, Miles.
24:43Just got to slow down here.
24:48It's so narrow here, and these trees are big.
24:51And this thing is clipping things on the sides.
24:54You can hear the branches breaking behind us here.
24:58We are just threading a needle right now.
25:08Yeah.
25:13Oh, we got something coming off the back there.
25:17These roads are so rough, this trailer is vibrating so much.
25:24We're not stopping on the middle of these hills.
25:25We'll have to go back and get it.
25:31Jacob, you got a copy?
25:33Yeah, go ahead.
25:35Jacob, we are missing some of the iron and some of the carpets.
25:38See what all you can find.
25:49Load all these guys up.
25:50Don't have to go that far.
25:52Get them back as fast as possible.
25:54Just put them back in the runs.
26:03Right on, buddy. Give her.
26:05It's just going to pull the sluice runs off here.
26:08Build a wash plant.
26:11Well, man, we're looking pretty good here.
26:13What do you say we bring in the next piece of the puzzle?
26:25Yeah, yeah, we got clearance here.
26:30Right now, we got our hopper feeder and the conveyor in place.
26:34The plant's leveled.
26:35The sluice runs are set.
26:36So we just got to hook up our water line here
26:38and we're going to be ready to start sluicing.
26:43Here we go.
26:44We got Roxanne firing up right now.
26:51This is our first scoop going in here.
26:53And we got three wash plants up and running.
27:00What's up?
27:01How are we?
27:02Looking good.
27:03Nice job making that work in time.
27:05I was like, there's no way this is going to work.
27:08I mean, dude, it came together pretty nice.
27:10Good job.
27:12This project was supposed to be 1,000 feet.
27:14Now it's 2,000 feet.
27:15There's more to go.
27:16Yeah, 3,000.
27:17Four!
27:36Jacob, he could have, of course, hurry up a little bit,
27:38but then it's never fast enough.
27:41Doesn't make the way it ain't even.
27:44He's got to keep that sluice box going all week.
27:47I don't care if that is at 6 in the morning or 12 o'clock at night.
27:51We'll get the over there and make it run.
27:53At Indian River, with cousin Mike still away, Tony has no choice but to give stand-in foreman Jacob Moore
28:03a second chance to step up.
28:06I do have worries for what Tony will think.
28:09I wanted to show him that I can make decisions and do stuff on my own without his need to
28:14be there and oversee everything.
28:22This big boy is Tony, a money maker, so the pressure is on to get him gold.
28:27Cousin Mike is not around right now, so Jacob has kind of taken over.
28:32A lot of responsibility.
28:34It must be stressful for him.
28:42The watchman really doesn't sound good.
28:45Something's definitely wrong in there.
28:47Shouldn't be any sound like this.
28:55Jacob, you could be Jacob.
28:57I think I'm going to shut down the watchman.
28:58I heard a big loud noise in there.
29:01Yeah, I hear too, all day out.
29:22Noise coming from the plants. We're going to check it out and see what's going on up here.
29:27at indian river stand-in foreman jacob has shut down tony beat's only running wash plan sluice a
29:35lot to investigate mysterious noises coming from inside the shaker deck i have suspicions it's
29:43probably down here where all the bolts and everything's bolted together means i'll have
29:47crawl in here hopefully nothing's broken oh there's our issue everything is cracked
29:57that is not good we can't run this at all this plant will just shake itself in the little
30:02itty bitty bits out the tail end i'm lucky that we caught it when we did before i cut too
30:07bad
30:10slide lift it up so we can get the shoot out because the shoot is cracked as well
30:15i'll get this shoot out so we can have two welders going at the same time all right i'm just
30:20gonna
30:20put my feet on it she's heavy there's a problem the bolt rattled out and caused it to get violent
30:31and
30:31crack now we're gonna take the welders down here sluice a lot shaker deck has two screens that
30:39separate waste rocks from gold rich pay dirt the waste rocks move towards a tailing shoot that funnels
30:47them onto a conveyor and ejects them into a waste pile but some of the bolts connecting the shoot to
30:55the
30:55deck steel frame have fallen out making it unstable leading to the shoot constantly hitting and cracking
31:03the deck's frame jacob plans to weld the cracks replace the old shoot bolt it back into place and get
31:13the wash plant up and sluicing again where do you want it at to weld like right here looks perfect
31:20i
31:21noticed this crack here another crack here and here as well a couple of seconds man could have been a
31:28big
31:28change in what we're doing today yeah you're lucky because i'm gonna actually do an inside weld first
31:33because then when i grind oh there's my weld i get 100 out of it jv is slower down the
31:43track
31:47just doing the last weld here
31:57all done the piece has the cracks all done on the plant uh we've been down for four hours now
32:05we're
32:06gonna put this shoot on we got the cracks wobbled up on it now it's gonna get back in place
32:10mason's up
32:12there putting the bolts in for me down here i'll come with your hand
32:18get in there buddy
32:26yeah that's the last bolt you know if you tighten them up and you're good to go
32:30yeah go ahead tell when he just called he wants to know if we are sleuthing
32:35uh we will be here in like 20 minutes half hour talk
32:38fire of action you're all done up there yes sir
32:46tony's coming out here so it would be nice to have rocks coming out the tailings and gold in
32:51the box when he shows up i'm gonna hop in the hall if you want to fire everything up for
32:55me
33:09it looks good now we can sort out a problem without tony being here i think it looks good
33:14on jacob as well for solution we're making money and that means everybody's happy everything went
33:20very well everything is fixed in a timely manner we're back in action and hopefully we're good from
33:32here on out hello what's up oh the plant was all cracked we got it all welded up and backs
33:37loose and
33:37not as good still washing rocks awesome jacob good job man yeah take care tony great to be back
33:43okay thank you he was down a couple hours but i would have been down a couple hours too you
33:52can only
33:52weld so fast so no it's all good i think jacob he's got what it takes when cousin mike is
34:00in there
34:00i mean there's jacob that automatically takes over there's not rocket science
34:13since we're done on the floor here we are moving the plant to a new location on the wayside over
34:19there
34:20three miles away at scribner creek tony's eldest son kevin has run out of stockpiled pay
34:27and is preparing for the biggest plant move of his fledgling career we're going to have so much
34:34space for our fine tailings and of course tailings down here we only have 20 feet we could fill up
34:38on
34:39top of the wayside that's going to be 100 120 feet to fill up ease on the equipment shorter trips
34:47kevin wants to haul his 35 ton wash plant from its current pad at the lynx cut with an excavator
34:55down a 20 degree slope maneuver it around a tight corner then drag it 400 feet up a steep 30
35:05degree
35:06incline to its final sluicing location
35:13it is going to be a little bit further away from the pyramid cut but as soon as we're done
35:18here we're
35:18going to have to go upstream and we're going to be way closer to the upstream cut so a bit
35:22of future
35:23proofing now we just gotta make it happen
35:29i'd like to get everything up and running not to russia but we're trying to russia
35:34kevin puts new recruit buzz straight into the hot seat all right
35:43this is going to be one of the first big projects buzz is going to do for us since he
35:46came on site so
35:47got high expectations and high hopes
35:53turn on the cables and then let's get ready we're going to hook up the plant and drag that into
36:00position definitely don't want to flip that plant over that'll be a season ender for sure
36:14okay can i get you on the pen this is the only plant we got if this is damage we're
36:18stuck in the
36:19water so to speak hopefully this move goes smoothly all right everything's hooked up i guess it's time
36:25to pull buzz we'll have the rest of us but just be careful let's go
36:34we have movement this would be a good test of buzz's operating skills
36:42this is kevin's money with yourself i don't want to scratch the paint on this puppy
36:48i'm just watching that our runs are not scraping on the ground at the end
36:55if they're too close they'll rub on the ground and they might rip off
36:59you didn't do a lot of your car work so close
37:08we're just scraping them right now
37:13oh man this is even a word stop stop don't try and lift it up like that
37:22let the tension off the cable we're raising the sluice around so they don't drag in the ground
37:27case in point
37:32we pay three quarters of a million dollars for the wash plant so we really don't want to
37:36it
37:38chutes lifted up we shouldn't have any other problems for the pool
37:43i got some weight on this plant here
37:48part is digging in a little bit making it a little bit difficult for the excavator to move
37:56and now we pull it up the hill until it's final resting spot hopefully for the season
38:16yep stop stop
38:19that's not gonna work your ass ends already up
38:23i don't think it's gonna do it i guess the wash plant might be a bit too heavy with the
38:29angle
38:29and the hill damn it we'll get something with twice the weight four times the power
38:35all righty we bring that d10 over here see you play
38:42the 63 ton d10 dozer is 10 tons heavier than the 480 excavator and has three times the pulling
38:51power let's get the dozer lined up and well that's gonna move it guaranteed well let's make her happy
38:58better
39:02everybody got communication and your services ready
39:08yeah we got
39:11100 tons of you we're going somewhere
39:16well look at the hard part taken care of
39:20working here at camden get to uh be a lot more diversified in most places it's been kind of nice
39:29these are our final steps here
39:34uh perfect
39:37went up the hill nice oh yeah good job buzz didn't even have to break a sweat step one done
39:46now that's all in place the next thing is to do a bit of repairs and take a bit of
39:49extra time we
39:51shouldn't have to move this year or next year we have so much space for tailings and that way this
39:56summer we can just run run run i am very happy with that yeah
40:10okay you walk the pipe young fella tony beats runs a tight ship and his crew members need to be
40:17able to
40:18walk a fine line i said can you walk the pipe or can you walk the pipe right i enjoy
40:28this kind
40:31so what
40:43hi guys hello hello hey guys bring some more gold
40:50whoa so what is new in the indian river jacob had to step up we had the cut that was
40:55flooded
40:56so we had to around with that pump pump pump pump and then we had this green deck had some
41:01cracks in
41:02it with cousin mike away stand-in foreman jacob ran tony's only producing wash plant sluice a lot
41:11so how many days we sluiced for seven days minus the couple of hours that you were down so it's
41:17not a
41:17full week sluice a lot has been averaging 192 ounces a week
41:27foreign let's go 10 40 80 on the 10 on those end 60 230
41:41250 250 250 250 ounces 0.74 worth 878 000
41:49dollars that's not bad no going on with it only days hey does that put us over a thousand ounces
41:55yeah 1025. so it's kind of nice that we get jacob up and going because now that mike isn't there
42:01it's nice to have it seems to be doing pretty well yeah yeah he's stepping up it's good to see
42:06absolutely but that being said you should pack it back up and go do what you all do best
42:12okay we'll see you guys later later guys that adds up nicely this early in the season doesn't it
42:17like yeah it doesn't take months no and with the gold prize it is it's a lot of money usually
42:23when
42:24this time of year we just get started
42:30three miles east at scribner it's the end of buzz's first week with kevin and faith
42:37how are you fitting in so far i don't know you guys tell me been kicking off a lot of
42:43projects
42:44pretty quick seeing problems and fixing them so i think overall fitting in pretty good i'm curious
42:48how is it compared to working with rick very different very different very different how different
42:56just different well that's good to hear bus because like with kaden and brennan leaving i was
43:02starting to worry that well we were doing something wrong and just didn't know this is the last of
43:08our piggy bank cut so i have a little bit of gold to weigh a bad looking amount not too
43:15bad it's time
43:17to weigh the last of kevin's stockpiled pay kevin ran for three days before moving the wash plant
43:25one for the money two for the show let's go see it's 10 18 26 38 47 28 50 56
43:41.590
43:44it's pretty good yeah that's not too bad worth 198 000 it's encouraging for everything else we're going
43:53to run that'll definitely there's golden so what does that put our total at for the year so far
43:58hey we're sitting at 162.09 so a while of the ways to the 2 000 ounces a little ways
44:06to go i mean of
44:07course we want to get sluicing as soon as possible we've got some work to do with the plant so
44:11it's
44:12going to take a little bit of time but ideally we'll get going asap hopefully by the end of the
44:17week we can start sluicing the pyramid cut see what treasures it's got it's not running we're not
44:21getting anti-gold so yeah that's right unfortunately the plant stops but the bills don't
44:31well having internet on the trucks this year is like a lifesaver except for for me i'm like i need
44:41to get a hold like the other day when i was trying to get a hold of you i'm like
44:44call you and you don't
44:45answer and i'm like where is this that look right there i had a dream last night it's tell a
44:54bit
44:54so he's like i was like i don't know what the i was stressed so i woke up sweaty he's
44:59telling me
44:59about that dream his cheek was like touching my his stubble was rubbing my face he almost caught me
45:07how does it feel to make it into brendan's dreams man i want to haunt all four of you
45:12you know what's it like working for parker well there's the dreams and the ptsd but other than
45:18that it's great three wash plants up and running it's parker's first triple gold way of the season
45:26kt you ready yeah it's lucifer here this is a two-handed golden mile did this week last week
45:33the golden mile produced 152 ounces here we go 20 60 80 120 140 180 we're gonna break two 200
45:48nice 210
45:49220 220 222.3 worth 778 000. sick that is nice anyway we got mr bob come on brennan the
46:04bridge cut is
46:06averaging 150 150 ounces a week 20 40 80 90 130 40 170 oh yeah 190.4 worth 666 000
46:23100 000. sick nice finally parker will discover if his gamble to chase gold left behind by the old
46:32timers at sulfur will pay out we got to do sulfur mitch we need it we've been spending money like
46:39it's going
46:39out of style first round of sulfur here we got 20 40 90 110 114.8
46:55that's actually really good for the hours you ran yeah i mean we just got the plant set up yeah
47:00and
47:00that material was like the first cut off oh i thought it was gonna be terrible i thought you're
47:05gonna have like 20 ounces wow that's a lot of gold for one week yeah yeah yeah we had a
47:11really good
47:11week well we had for this week it was 527 and a half ounces for the week yeah worth over
47:211.8 million
47:23dollars for the season so far it's 1235.4 ounces sweet which is about 1100 ounces ahead of where we
47:33were this time last year nice all right thanks guys thank you keep it up let's get back out there
47:39man let's do it yeah good job boys thank you it's really nice to have three plants up and running
47:44mitch and brennan are doing a good job over at sulfur getting that opened up so i'm excited to see
47:49what
47:49it can do in a full week of running it's pretty sweet we're going to do some serious damage this
47:54year
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