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Gold Rush - Season 16 Episode 22 -
The Gold Ceiling
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00:19Winter is here and you know we have very limited time left now and we're really
00:27close to the goal but this time of year everything's pretty near its breaking point 31 year old Parker
00:34Schnabel is closing out the busiest season of his life running 24-7 for six months and it's paying off
00:44he's close to breaking his 10,000 ounce goal but is barely ahead of neighbor Tony Beetz Mitch is
00:53busy running the stripping program in the midst of you know trying to keep Roxanne running and
00:58starting our next pit on the Indian River for next year and then Tyson is just you know fighting to
01:05keep the three plants on Dominion running to hit his goal this week Parker's cranking up his four
01:15wash plants to run even more pay dirt just got to keep keep these wash plants running yeah go ahead
01:26got a big problem with Roxanne got some cracked cross tubes here all right yeah I'll let Mitch know he'll
01:38come up and have a look at it with you hey Mitch what's happening man just trying to figure out
01:53the
01:53best way to get rid of this water over here I like just radioed me and there's bigger problems there's
02:01a bunch of cracks in the screen deck on Roxanne oh he's having a look at it and we're only
02:08like what
02:09400 and change away from hitting our goal so we'll just have to keep trying to babysit it through the
02:16season
02:16and then figure out a plan yeah on the plus side gold has another record high today that's awesome
02:23nuts that's totally crazy but yeah let's try to keep that thing banging if you don't mind all right
02:28we'll go have a look thanks man only two years old wash plant Roxanne already has cracks in its
02:36structural tubes if not fixed they could break apart and damage the plant putting it out of action for the
02:43rest of the season how's it going buddy so this whole cross tube here is compromised we'd be looking
02:50at maybe two days downtime to replace this tube here and that tube there there's no way Parker's
02:56gonna let us turn this wash plant off for any length of time so price pop those screens out welder
03:01up the
03:02best you can hopefully it's got enough life left in it to get to the end here oh yeah if
03:06you look at
03:06the gold prices right now every one of these mine bosses has the same mentality dude crank them up as
03:12hard
03:12as you can get as much material through them to get as much gold yeah for sure thanks buddy take
03:17care of Mitch okay that's the guy right there the one I'm after let the music begin I love my
03:32job
03:34this is one of the worst tracks that I've seen on the plant that we've actually kept running
03:43track just keep going
03:57oh damn it are you still in there oh
04:08hey Matt hey I've hurt my foot pretty bad I need some medical attention here
04:18okay thank you
04:27all right up there buddy I'm hanging in there Matt
04:32see that thing does that hurt pretty good it hurts beautifully yeah I thought so a 4,000 degree piece
04:43of molten metal flew into Alex boot searing his flesh causing second-degree burns all right I'm gonna flush it
04:54with this and get this burn dressing on there definitely clean that out really well when you get home yes
05:02felt in my sock real good put
05:05like antiseptic gel on it we'll just keep working I guess gold star for you buddy
05:11yeah right oh well that's happy to help thanks Matt see you there's no one else here to do this
05:19or to help me so I just suck it up and keep working oh foot patched up Alec gets back
05:27to welding Roxanne and with Roxanne back on her feet the crew have a fighting chance of hitting 10,000
05:35ounces by the end of the week all the welding is done I'm just
05:41reassembling the top deck and get ready to start sluicing here
05:47I'm just reassembling the top deck and get ready to start sluicing here
05:51firing up Roxanne
05:54here we go
06:03let's get sluicing
06:18how's your foot doing man I don't feel it right now whatever Matt did it's really working good
06:23well Matt thanks for being a trooper there and just patching it up and buckling down and getting it finished
06:30what do you think man will last a week
06:32that's a million-dollar question right there
06:34no warranty no guarantee but fingers crossed
06:39great job buddy we're washing rocks
06:53well here we go last bucket hey Vegas Valley
07:00we're finally right to the very end here
07:05we got the last payout out of Vegas Valley it's not really certainly a good thing this is our last
07:12chance that we got to treat it that way it'd be our last chance in the Yukon ever
07:16while Parker chases down ten thousand ounces Rick Ness has only just edged past
07:23one thousand his roller coaster ride of a season has seen him expand his ground and become flush with claims
07:31but red tape and bad luck have backed him into a corner and his weary crew are battling to reach
07:38eighteen hundred ounces to earn their bonuses and secure their future
07:43this has been the coldest morning we've had so far
07:47had to fall up and run real quick before we could fire up
07:51once you see that you know that winter's coming
07:53now Rick's new Vegas Valley cut has run out of pay much quicker than he expected
08:00not only is the weather starting to creep in but I mean our PayPal's dwindling fast and it's only a
08:06matter of time I mean we're down to days and weeks now
08:11with just two weeks left to get over 700 ounces Rick is hoping for a massive final payday from Vegas
08:19Valley to take the stress off his new cut the last chance
08:24the easy option right now would be to pack it up you know lick our wounds go home but now
08:29we've got a pivot
08:31we have to move on that that's why I made the decision to you know open up this new last
08:35chance cut
08:36I don't think anybody's that excited about opening up a new cut this late in the season but we need
08:41more gold and then that's where it's going to be
08:44at Duncan Creek Rick wants to keep following the Vegas Valley pay streak upstream and plans to move north opening
08:53the one acre last chance cut
08:57before stripping can begin the area must first be drained by digging a channel to release the water into the
09:05mind out Vegas Valley
09:06while it's draining Rick will clear a ridge of trees and loose rocks to make the cut safe to work
09:14in
09:14finally Rick's crew must then dig down 40 feet to hit the top of the gold rich pay layer he's
09:22praying will save his season
09:25and he wants it all done before the last of his stockpiled pay runs out
09:34you got a copy there Bailey yeah go ahead Ricky what do you figure that you ready to cut this
09:38water through
09:40yeah I think we should be good to go all right well just make sure you take it easy sounds
09:45good
09:52the water over there we got cut it through the bank over here we're gonna slowly just crack it down
09:56there and let it
09:58let that water run out and dry out a new cut
10:07there it goes
10:12how's she looking bud looks nice and slow to me I like it
10:15yeah it looks like it's a good pace
10:19all right well yeah we'll just let it drain for a bit then we'll get back to digging
10:23sounds good man Vegas Valley's done and it's very late in the season but we got another cut to open
10:29up and we wanted 1800 ounces and this is the first step so we're moving on
10:37to help him on his quest to open the last chance Rick hops into the rebuilt 700
10:46the 700 has been down you know the bulk of the season here it's our second biggest excavator to have
10:52it back
10:52now is a big deal so we'll be getting the last chance cut open up in no time
10:57after the 700 broke down earlier in the year Rick spent 50 grand on a complete engine rebuild
11:04and can finally put it to work for the first time this season
11:08these trees are really close to the edge right at the top of the last chance cut
11:11and once I get these trees you know move back I'll be feel a hell of a lot better about
11:16Bailey being underneath
11:17that's where the pay is then moving closer to the bank
11:20there they go wrong way
11:24I enjoyed that one since they're over the edge
11:27you feel pretty tough with a chainsaw knocking trees down but that's nothing compared to
11:31knocking trees down with a 70 ton excavator
11:36I can't have them falling down I was trying to get some more
11:38I can't even hear that in
11:40what's up
11:42what the tree
11:46damn it
11:47oh I saw an oil squirt too
11:55yeah
11:59oh he definitely got a hydraulic leak
12:03hey Ryan
12:05hey man can you meet me up by the 700 I uh
12:08I hooked the tree with the hydraulic line
12:11alright thanks
12:13damn it
12:14just got this thing back running
12:23hey man
12:24what's up
12:25oh it looks like a sealed spray
12:27I hooked it on a tree line and
12:30I heard something
12:31I heard something hissed and then I saw some spray so
12:33at least it's not the hose
12:35yeah that needs to be fixed
12:39let me grab my glasses
12:51oh
12:51oh
12:52oh
12:52that's why I hate this
12:53oh
12:57oh
12:57oh
12:57oh
12:57oh
12:57oh
13:01oh
13:01oh
13:01oh
13:01oh
13:06oh
13:07oh
13:07oh
13:15mechanic ryan kent has been hit in the face with hydraulic fluid while fixing rick's 700 excavator
13:25sorry in the face man let's just get it done
13:34and spit that seal right out yeah you can see it it's damaged it's taking the coupler off it holds
13:40the hydraulic lines right now you can see where the o-ring actually pushed out might already been
13:46loose who knows but i know with me hitting it on the tree didn't help it so slide it
13:55so there's your two different seals this one's just seen her days pull it out and then we'll just
14:01slide it in just tighten these bolts down and should be able to get it right back in action
14:08start it up yeah make sure we're not going to leak okay
14:13if it doesn't leak we're business
14:23looks good good to go yeah nice man
14:30got no leaks
14:34everything seems back to normal we got lucky with this one we are back in business
14:57it's getting late in the day the weather is holding up so we're going to try to keep all four
15:02plans
15:02going if that is the case we're likely to hit 10 000 ounces by the end of the week
15:07this is something that i've never done in 40 years of mining
15:13don't need to copy tony could you come have a look at the corner cut with me i'm on my
15:18way
15:19tony beats has already banked more than 35 million dollars and after his bumper 1 000 ounce gold haul last
15:29week the king of the klondike is in striking distance of 10 000 ounces and edging in front of parker
15:39but there's a problem how's it looking mike this corner cut is uh almost done
15:47so um we got to figure something out because we don't want to run out of pay
15:53so we're not going to have enough of the season there then huh doesn't look like it
16:03let's come up with a plan so that we can run both plants till the end the early bird cut
16:09it pretty
16:09good in the beginning but it might be an option move one plant over there see if there's anything
16:16that we can strip and still sluice the gold price as is today we got to keep on going until
16:21the bitter end
16:22why not what the hell right on the indian river tony has opened up more ground than ever before
16:30and he's reaped the rewards his twin wash plants running in the massive corner cut have consistently
16:39delivered huge gold waves but now its pay is running out and he has to go in search of another
16:46rich spot
16:48tony will start his treasure hunt next to some of his richest ground of the year the early bird cut
16:55where he's praying the gold rich pay continues
17:01we are a little bit of a fishing expedition
17:06i'm gonna go and poke around see if i can get it down to ground
17:12i mean down there i don't know what that is looks like gravel let's see if that it's gonna continue
17:25whoa what the is happening
17:27i got lucky there taking here for 15 minutes and i'm running into some nice travel
17:37so it's pretty much a no-brainer to get the hell in here i mean it is laying right there
17:42in front of
17:43you gravels a light brown dirt with small rocks are a strong indication there's good gold here
17:51and tony's found some just six feet below the surface we're gonna strip this out because i like to have
17:58this down by pay by the end of the week okay guys somebody bring that 950 over here and they
18:09bring me
18:09two trucks make sure one of them is the 50 tonner to strip the early bird extension quicker and avoid
18:16shutting down a plant tony brings in his monster 950 excavator capable of moving 10 tons of dirt with
18:25every bucket three buckets two truckload bingo you make something happening that way and to shift all
18:31that dirt fast an a40 rock truck and his new toy the a50 with its seven ton increase in payload
18:40today
18:41tony got me in the a50 for the first time it's awesome man like it just looks so futuristic you
18:47know
18:49he wants us to cut down to pay by the end of the week
18:52do you see me there's back underneath me barion
18:59the bigger the truck the bigger the load the more you get done
19:28there's a lot of dirt in the back of the truck like it's crazy
19:56it's too heavy like it was at 66 tons so it couldn't dump
20:03now why is that 50 tonner coming back
20:08hey darian why are you coming back with a full load
20:20hey darian why are you coming back with a full load i can't dump it's too heavy
20:26rushing to get his new cut down to pay tony has overfilled darian's 50 ton rock truck
20:33it's what it's too heavy to dump i can't dump it
20:39it goes back there with a truck and face it downhill and then it'll dump
20:51down to pay by the end of the week
21:09he'll be back on track to hit 10 000 ounces the corner cut could be done in a week i
21:16want to have
21:17this cut ready if it turns out good then we just keep on sluicing until the very end
21:37i thought we'd have 10 000 ounces right now but um
21:44it's proving to be a bit elusive we need to press those wash plants a hell of a lot harder
21:50in a herculean effort to get 430 ounces and hit 10 000 by the end of the week
21:58parker is pushing his crew and wash plants hard
22:03with parker's decision to run the absolute piss out of the wash plants so we can hit our gold total
22:10i got big red running a little hot so it's definitely putting a lot of stress on the
22:17plants and whatnot but you know it's not my call i'm just here to do my job and keep parker
22:26happy
22:26out of the week
22:35oh
22:38belt stop
22:39Oh, my God.
22:53Liam, Alec, you got a copy?
22:57Yeah, go for Liam.
22:58Hey, man, I'm going to need you to come up to Big Red.
23:12John, what happened?
23:13Radial stacker quit on me, buddy.
23:16Oh, it looks like we got a super slimy belt here.
23:20It gives no friction to the belt,
23:22so when it makes its way up to the head drum,
23:25the head drum will just spin there.
23:28Why we're getting so much mud on the inside of the conveyor.
23:32Maybe it's just not coming in far enough.
23:34Yeah.
23:35We need a bit more overlap,
23:37like from this head drum into this rock box
23:40so the material doesn't stack up here.
23:42This hopper is buried in material left and right.
23:46So what do you think?
23:46We got to move the radial stacker back?
23:48Yeah.
23:49We have hydraulics on this.
23:50I can just run the hydraulics a bit
23:52and sort of like inchworm it back a bit.
23:54How do you inchworm a radial stacker?
23:58The stacker is going to have to be up in the air.
24:00And then as long as the axle end,
24:02which is usually planted with those power wheels,
24:04was free to come towards this plate,
24:09the radial stacker would effectively move backwards.
24:12And now it's top heavy and unsettled.
24:15If it wants to roll away with the conveyor up like that,
24:17like who's to say it's not going to fall over to?
24:18It's definitely risky.
24:21Pay dirt from Big Red's hopper conveyor
24:24is getting under the wash plant's radial stacker
24:27and coating the inside of its belt,
24:29which is then traveling up to the drive pulley's head drum,
24:34making it slip,
24:36stopping pay from being fed into the plant.
24:40Moving the hopper feeder's conveyor forward would solve the problem,
24:44but it would require time and an excavator they don't have.
24:48Alec's quick but risky fix is to inch the 120-foot radial stacker back by 3 inches
24:56so it sits further underneath the feeder conveyor,
25:00stopping the pay getting under the belt.
25:03First, he'll raise the top end of the radial stacker up
25:08and use its weight to generate downforce onto the axle.
25:12Then, by lifting the axle's gull-wing brake wheels off the ground,
25:18he hopes to inch the stacker back towards the feeder conveyor.
25:22But if he loses control,
25:25it could topple over and cause a disaster.
25:29Have you ever done this before?
25:31This is completely experimental.
25:32Seems like the only option we got.
25:34Let's give it a go.
25:35See what happens.
25:36All right.
25:43Let's call that our line in the sand there, yeah.
25:46If it goes south, well, it was nice knowing you.
25:48Yeah, you too, buddy.
25:49All righty.
25:50I'm pulling up the wheels here, so maybe stand back a little bit.
25:55It's a little nerve-wracking.
25:57As soon as he lifts those gull-wings up,
25:59there could be a possibility where it tips completely over,
26:02so we're putting our prayers to the gods right now.
26:06Okay, that's off.
26:08Other side's also off.
26:11Okay, now the exciting part.
26:16Oh, my God.
26:18It's moving so much.
26:23I'm raising up the radial stacker now
26:25with the gull-wings off the ground.
26:28And these wheels are moving slowly,
26:31which is letting me know that we are indeed checking our progress.
26:40My heart's in my throat right now,
26:42watching this thing move back and forth,
26:45knowing that it could top blow over.
26:48Got like half an inch.
26:54All right, we got our height.
26:55Then I'm going to lower the stacker,
26:57which should increase the distance.
27:02That's good.
27:04The gull-wings back on the ground here.
27:11As for level side to side, do you figure we're pretty good?
27:15It looks pretty good to me.
27:17Okay, yeah, we got the weight back on the stabilizer legs.
27:20I can roll these dually.
27:22So I'm just going to go say hi to brother John
27:23and see if we've moved the amount we need to.
27:27What did we end up getting, John?
27:30Yeah, three, three and a half.
27:33As long as the material doesn't pile up here,
27:36it shouldn't get into the belt.
27:37It shouldn't get with stuff up there.
27:38Yep.
27:39So let's fire up.
27:40Great job, guys.
27:40Great job.
27:41Woo!
27:49Rose stacker.
27:54Let's get it.
28:00Woo!
28:05It's looking a lot better for where the material's landing.
28:09The plant has helped a lot.
28:11Are we winning?
28:13Looks like it's running really good.
28:14Nice.
28:17We got Big Red running again.
28:20Everything's running smooth.
28:21And now the main focus is to keep the wash plants running
28:24and hit our 10,000-ounce goal.
28:39It looks like a mess, huh?
28:42That's a lot of water, isn't it?
28:43Yeah, that doesn't look funny at all.
28:45You can't f***ing on with this water and that kind of mud.
28:49Determined to reach 10,000 ounces this week,
28:53Tony is racing to get down to pay in an extension to the early bird cut.
28:58But his stripping crew have hit ground water, flooding the cut and making it unminable.
29:07Well, do we pump it or that's it?
29:10Well, why don't we do both?
29:12Make it this, put it in the culvert, put it in the pump, get the water down in the old
29:16ponds, get it over it.
29:19Let's see. Get the new guy over there.
29:22Hey, Sean, do you copy? Sean, do you copy? Can you get over there, please?
29:25Okay.
29:26We need to do some ditching over there, so get over there, would you?
29:30Let's clean the s*** up.
29:33To drain the flooded cut, Tony will dig a ditch through the road,
29:38which lies between his new extension and an already mined out section of the early bird cut.
29:45Then, install a culvert and pump that will drain flood water from the new cut into the old cut.
29:53Finally, rebuild the road and get his plan to hit Paydirt by the end of the week back on track.
30:03So what are Matt, Sean, doing here now?
30:05It's just a little bit of water maintenance that we got going on over here.
30:10You know how new guys are. You gotta test them out.
30:14He looks to be doing just fine to me.
30:18It's my first day working for Tony Beats out in the Yukon and very first time ever gold mining.
30:26Still a bit nervous, but we're getting there.
30:29If you don't have tough skin, you're not ready for this industry.
30:39Sean, Sean, Sean, Sean, stop.
30:43Look at me!
30:46Shut her down for a minute.
30:50Holy s***, what a mess.
30:54Full of dirt.
30:56You gotta be careful digging it out of here.
30:58You don't rip your electrical apart.
31:01It's not good.
31:04Sean, you just leave this here, go get that 349, and you can just keep ditching with that,
31:09and then we can get this machine fixed.
31:11Sounds good.
31:16Operator error right there.
31:18You should have been able to see it in the mirror here.
31:20F***ing idiot.
31:22Every minute of downtime is no good because it all equates to lost gold.
31:29This f***ing is gonna drop.
31:34There she goes.
31:37Sean in the 349.
31:40Hopefully he doesn't f*** that up at all.
31:42Here's Tony.
31:48What's that panel, do you hear it on the back?
31:50That panel's off to 700.
31:59I'll get out and talk to you.
32:03So that panel's off to 700.
32:06Who is that?
32:07That and Sean guy.
32:08The new one?
32:09Yeah.
32:10But he should go home for a day for that one?
32:11Yeah.
32:13It'll make your life easier.
32:14Yes, sir.
32:19After sending rookie operator Sean home, Tony takes over in the 349 to finish the ditch and install the culvert.
32:29Let's send the operator home for the day because same story as always.
32:35If you want to come right, I guess you have to do it yourself.
32:40So let's grab the culvert out.
32:43Let's grab the culvert.
32:45We don't have enough time left this season to around, so we got to get going.
32:53That thing guy put me must have it.
32:58That'd be good enough.
33:01Go around there for whatever.
33:03All right, this don't happen to feel like it.
33:07You want me to grab that pump?
33:09Yes, please.
33:10Because they're running around in the food and water down there.
33:16In just 90 minutes, Tony has got his new cut drying out.
33:22And he's back in the chase to catch Parker.
33:31It looks pretty damn good.
33:32It looks to me that there's going to be plenty of pay to keep on going.
33:52Well, it's definitely a big race here, trying to get down to that pay as quick as we can, keep
33:56that plant running.
33:59And the plant shuts down, you know, completely freeze and we won't be able to fire up the plant again.
34:04Rick and his crew are battling to hit pay in their new cut, a last chance, before the stockpile from
34:10Vegas Valley runs out and they are forced to shut down Monster Red.
34:15Yeah, it looks like we got a scoop or two left here.
34:19It's not good.
34:22The pay pile is dwindling pretty quick here.
34:25I don't even know if it's a pile anymore.
34:29Bailey, you got a copy?
34:32Go ahead for Bailey.
34:34Hey, we're almost, uh, we're getting pretty low on pay here.
34:38You got any kind of time frame when you think you're going to get any up to the plant?
34:42Well, I don't know how low it is, but it's going to be a couple of days on my end
34:47before I can send anything.
34:51We don't got a couple of days left up here. We'll end up having to shut it down.
34:56Yes, that's it. You know, nothing that we can do here.
35:03Here we go. Last bucket of pay. Going to the plant now.
35:16That's it. That's all we got.
35:27We shut it down now. There's nothing else to run.
35:31Shut it down today and hopefully it's not for the last time this season.
35:35If freezing winter temperatures arrive before they hit pay in the last chance,
35:40Monster Red will be too frozen to fire up, putting even more pressure on this week's Goldway.
35:50It's always impossible to tell just when we're pulling mats how good it's going to be.
35:54We need it to be great.
35:56So fingers crossed we, we can find greatness to save this season.
36:03Well, Bailey's still a couple of days away from pay.
36:05If the weather decides to change and freeze up, we're going to be in trouble.
36:10We get a couple more good cleanups and we're set.
36:13I mean, the gold is really good right now.
36:15We'll hit 1800 to get out of here with these guys getting what they earned and us coming back next
36:19year.
36:21Hopefully we get a few more good days and we get to run again, but who knows?
36:42Oh, hi. Hey, Rick.
36:43Hey, Rick.
36:46Holy , Rick, that looks like a lot of gold.
36:48Yeah, so that's the last of the gold from Vegas Valley though.
36:52It's a shame we don't have any more to put.
36:54That's where we're at.
36:56It'd be easy to go home, but you know, we'd be f***ing next year.
36:59Your bonuses and the future of this company, that's basically what we're fighting for right now.
37:04Alright, let's weigh some gold.
37:06Let's do it.
37:07Find out how we did.
37:08Last week, Rick and his crew pulled 430 ounces of gold.
37:14Their biggest haul ever.
37:15But they are still more than 700 ounces short of the 1800 Rick needs to pay their bonus and secure
37:24his mining future.
37:26Ready?
37:27Well, 200.
37:30Yeah.
37:32And we'll see what we add to that.
37:35Here she comes.
37:37Ready?
37:37Okay.
37:4110, 20, 30, 35, 50, 58, 59, 69, 80, 90, 97, 98, 102.27.
37:56Nice.
37:58302.27.
37:59302.27.
38:00Yeah.
38:01Nice.
38:02Nice f***ing number.
38:03Sweet.
38:03Worth $1,148,000.
38:09So what's that?
38:10That puts us at 1,379.65.
38:13Making up ground quick.
38:15Yeah.
38:16Rick needs 420 more ounces to hit 1,800 and send everyone home with gold.
38:23But he still hasn't hit pay in the last chance cut.
38:28I mean, weather's changing.
38:29We're down right now, not running.
38:31You shut it down, you might never start it back up.
38:33Yeah.
38:34Next week, this could be snow.
38:36What's the challenges at the end of the year, man?
38:38Oh, yeah.
38:38Honestly, all we need is a little luck with the weather, because I know you can get to the
38:41bottom of that cut.
38:41I know we can get that pay run.
38:43Yeah.
38:43We just need a bit of time.
38:45Well, I say cheers to Bailey.
38:47Oh, yeah.
38:52It's all on you.
38:53Thanks, guys.
38:54Thanks, guys.
38:56Well, that's another good gold way.
38:58I mean, when we get the plant running, we make up ground quick.
39:01You know, it's good ground.
39:02We just have to fight hard to get to it.
39:04And right now, it's all in the last chance cut.
39:20Hello.
39:22Hi.
39:23Hello.
39:24How are you guys?
39:26Nice coffee cup.
39:28That's a huge-sized coffee cup.
39:31The corner cut's pretty big, but it's looking a little empty.
39:34Yeah, it does.
39:36We are, uh, scratching the last bit out of it.
39:39We still got some pay left in the early bird cut.
39:42I would really love to take that out there, too, but with the price of gold right now,
39:47we're pretty silly to quit.
39:49How's things going on the hill?
39:51Harold literally is, like, no headache.
39:53When I go through that thing, it's like, you lift up the hydraulic riffle, and you just
39:57see gold everywhere.
39:58Nothing wrong with that.
40:00Trauma's been running 24-7.
40:01That plant...
40:03Just eats the...
40:04Eats it.
40:04It's called the Trom-Nom-Nom-Nom.
40:08Hey, Monica, should we weigh some gold?
40:10Yes.
40:11Who wants to start counting?
40:13I'll count.
40:14The Beetz family need more than 700 ounces to reach 10,000.
40:20So this is Slusalot.
40:22Okay.
40:24Okay, 10, 20...
40:26Slusalot has been running the last of the pay in the corner cut.
40:30100, 130, 140, 150, 180, 190, 192.42.
40:41It's a little bit less than the last time. How come?
40:45I mean, we're getting to the end of the cut, and then we're starting to pick a leftover.
40:49I think that'll basically have something to do with it.
40:53So this is for Find-A-Lot.
40:55All right.
40:56Find-A-Lot has also been churning through the remaining corner cut pay.
41:0170, 80, 90, 110, 120, 140, 160, 180, 182.06.
41:14Well, not as good as last week. This one is a little bit lower there.
41:18Same stuff, same cut.
41:20Right? Same stuff, same cut.
41:21I mean, it's not that we run any more or less.
41:24Tony's twin plants at Indian River bring his total to just over 9,640 ounces.
41:33Well, that was all the Indian River gold. It's time for hill gold.
41:36Very cool. Let's see what Harold's got.
41:4010, 20, 30...
41:42Harold has been running pay from the Hester cut.
41:4590, 100, 120, 132.6.
41:52Less gold as the last time.
41:55It might just ran in the patch.
41:56It might end up just getting diluted because we're running through whatever is there.
42:00With three of his wash plants delivering less gold than last week,
42:05Tony is still more than 200 ounces short of 10,000.
42:12This is from the trommel? Yep.
42:19Nice.
42:21All right, Mike, can you see?
42:23Yeah, go for it.
42:2810, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90.
42:34150, 160, 200, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260.
42:40280, 290, 3, 310, 330, 340, 350, 370, 380, 390, 400, 410, 420, 430.
42:55There you go. That's what you do.
42:57The Beats family passed 10,000 ounces for the first time ever with a total of 10,212, worth over
43:08$38,800,000.
43:12That's actually pretty good.
43:14But yeah, that's a pretty big thing.
43:17That's a lot of money.
43:18That's a lot of bucks, Mike.
43:20They say that's $2 million bucks on the table.
43:23Yeah, I've been running 24-7, man.
43:25Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
43:27We could do that for a while, couldn't we?
43:31So, we did over 10,000 ounces.
43:35We've never done so much in a season.
43:3810,000 ounces, that's pretty nice.
43:40That doesn't mean we're gonna quit.
43:43I think I can beat Parker.
43:45Let's go to the bitter end, guys.
43:47It means no use quitting while you're ahead.
43:49That's the game, right?
43:50Okay gentlemen, we'll get some more.
43:52Okay?
43:54Okay.
43:55It's not a bad summary.
44:03What up?
44:05Not saying it was a rough day, but that's our second cup.
44:10Parker and his crew have produced more than 9,500 ounces of gold this season
44:16and need just over 430 to hit his 10,000-ounce gold.
44:23Man, we've thrown a lot of rocks at those plants this year.
44:25It's getting rough out there trying to keep those plants going.
44:28We found some big cracks in Roxanne this week.
44:31It shows down here when you guys have problems out there.
44:35It's a week is what you're saying.
44:39If we don't hit our 10,000-ounce gold, it's because the plant breakdowns.
44:44I know you guys are putting a lot of dirt through them, so there is gonna be wear and tear.
44:49Just gotta keep them going.
44:51We're running out of time.
44:52We're running out of time real quick.
44:53Yeah, it's starting to get pretty cold, huh?
44:56Yeah.
44:57This, I think, would be the key week if we don't get some good numbers.
45:02So we can throw some gold on the scale and see how we did.
45:05Yeah, let's do it.
45:07All right.
45:08We got the bridge cut.
45:10Here we go.
45:14Wash plant Bob has been averaging 147 ounces a week in the bridge cut.
45:21120, 127.35.
45:25Not bad.
45:26Okay, Mitchell.
45:28Let's see what Roxanne can add to it.
45:30We got 40.
45:32Roxanne has been sluicing pay from pit 2 at Parker's Indian River Claim.
45:38Come on, keep going.
45:39120, 133.9.
45:44Nice.
45:45There you go.
45:47So what are we looking for here?
45:48We need a little over, what, 200 to hit our target?
45:51200, yeah.
45:52Yeah.
45:53So this is the golden mile.
45:55We got a couple of them here.
45:57Ready?
45:57Yeah.
45:58See how Goose and Big Red did.
46:00Got 40, 80, 120, 130, 140.
46:06Don't slow down, doom it.
46:10There we go, 200.
46:12Sick.
46:14220, 258.15.
46:17Yeah!
46:18Woo!
46:19That's awesome.
46:22Good job, guys.
46:24For the first time ever, Parker has hit 10,000 ounces in a season worth an incredible
46:33$38,341,000.
46:38Good job, Todd.
46:40That would be .
46:41One more of them.
46:42I was rinsing the tank from the golden goose.
46:44I found the weirdest thing.
46:48The goose laid its first egg, you guys.
46:52Exactly one ounce.
46:53There you go.
46:55We got our golden egg for 259.15.
47:00That's cool.
47:01That's actually hilarious.
47:04Last week, we had 627.25 ounces.
47:09This week, 520.4 for a season total of 10,089.85 ounces.
47:20Sick.
47:21Nice.
47:22We did it.
47:22Good job, guys.
47:23And, you know, we've got a little bit of time left in the season.
47:26So, I think we should just keep sleucing.
47:30And, you know, we had a 10,000-ounce goal last year, too, and didn't hit it.
47:35So, let's make up for a little lost time.
47:37Keep at her.
47:38But, thank you, guys.
47:39Yeah.
47:40Thank you, man.
47:41With just one week to go, Parker now trails Tony by 120 ounces.
47:48I do like smashing through goals, and it's a very cool milestone for us.
47:54So, we'll just keep going and see what happens.
47:58I'm so sorry tonight.
47:59Yeah.
48:01I can do it.
48:01Yeah.
48:01You
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