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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
00:45he's close to breaking his 10 000 ounce goal but is barely ahead of neighbor tony beats 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 um 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
01:24yeah go ahead got a big problem with roxanne got some cracked cross tubes here
01:36all right yeah i'll let mitch know he'll come up and have a look at it with you
01:49hey mitch what's happening man just trying to figure out the best way to get rid of this water over
01:54here
01:56alex just radioed me and there's bigger problems there's a bunch of cracks in the screen deck on
02:03roxanne oh he's up there having a look at it and we're only like what 400 and change away from
02:11hitting
02:11our goal so we'll just have to keep trying to babysit it through the season and then figure out a
02:17plan
02:17yeah on the plus side gold has another record high today that's awesome nuts that's totally crazy
02:24but yeah let's try to keep that thing banging if you don't mind all right we'll go have a look
02:28thanks
02:28man only two years old wash plant roxanne already has cracks in its structural tubes if not fixed
02:39they could break apart and damage the plant putting it out of action for the rest of the season how's
02:45it
02:45going buddy so this whole across tube here is compromised we'd be looking at maybe two days
02:51down time to replace this tube here and that tube there there's no way parker's going to let us turn
02:56this wash plant off for any length of time so probably just pop those screens out weld her up 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
03:07the gold prices right now every one of these mine bosses has the same mentality dude crank them up as
03:12hard as you can get as much material through them to get as much gold yeah for sure thanks buddy
03:17take care mitch
03:23okay that's the guy right there the one i'm after let the music begin
03:32i love my job this is one of the worst tracks that i've seen on the plant that we've actually
03:38uh kept running uh kept running track just keeps going
03:57oh damn it are you still in there
04:07oh hey matt hey i've uh 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 let's see that thing
04:36does that hurt pretty good it hurts beautifully yeah i thought so a 4 000 degree piece of molten metal
04:44flew into alex boot searing his flesh causing second degree burns all right i'm going to flush it with
04:54this and get this burn dressing on there definitely clean that out really well when you get home
05:02yes melted my sock real good put like antiseptic gel on it we'll just keep working i guess
05:10gold star for you buddy yeah right well that's happy to help thanks matt see you there's no one
05:18else here to do this or to help me so just suck it up and keep working oh foot patched
05:25up
05:26alec gets back to welding roxanne and with roxanne back on her feet the crew have a fighting chance
05:34of hitting 10 000 ounces by the end of the week all the welding is done i'm just reassembling the
05:41top deck
05:43and get ready to start sluicing here
05:51fire in the broxanne let's get sluicing
06:17fire in the broxanne
06:18how's your foot doing man i don't feel it right now whatever matt did is really working good
06:23well man thanks for being a trooper there and just patching it up and buckling down and getting it
06:29finished what do you think man will last a week that's a million dollar question right there
06:35no warranty no guarantee but fingers crossed great 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 uh payout out of vegas valley um it's not really it's not really a good thing
07:11this is our last chance that we got to treat it that way it'd be our last chance you know
07:15in the
07:16yukon ever while parker chases down 10 000 ounces rick ness has only just edged past 1 000. his roller
07:25coaster ride of a season has seen him expand his ground and become flush with claims but red tape and
07:33bad luck have backed him into a corner and his weary crew are battling to reach 1800 ounces to earn
07:41their bonuses and secure their future this has been the coldest morning we've had so far
07:47had to fall up and runs real quick before we could fire up
07:51once you see that you know that winter's coming now rick's new vegas valley cut has run out of pay
07:58much quicker than he expected not only is the weather starting to creep in but i mean our paypal's
08:04dwindling fast and it's only a matter 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 the easy option right now would be to
08:26pack
08:26it up you know lick our wounds go home but now we've got to pivot we have to move on
08:32that that's why i
08:33made the decision to you know open up this new last chance cut i don't think anybody's that excited
08:38about opening up a new cut this late in the season but we need more gold and then that's where
08:42it's going
08:43to be at duncan creek rick wants to keep following the vegas valley pay streak upstream and plans to
08:51move north opening the one acre last chance cut before stripping can begin the area must first be
09:01drained by digging a channel to release the water into the mined out vegas valley while it's draining
09:08rick will clear a ridge of trees and loose rocks to make the cut safe to work in finally rick's
09:16crew
09:17must then dig down 40 feet to hit the top of the gold rich pay layer he's praying will save
09:23his 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're ready to cut this
09:38water through yeah i think we should be good to go all right well just make sure you take it
09:44easy
09:45sounds good
09:52the water over there we got to cut it through the bank over here we're going to slowly just crack
09:56it
09:56down there and let it uh let that water run out and dry out her 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 all right well yeah we'll just let it drain for a bit
10:20then we'll
10:21uh get back to digging sounds good man vegas valley's done and uh it's very late in the season
10:28but we got another cut to open up and we wanted 1800 ounces and this is the first step so
10:34we'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 this is our second biggest excavator
10:51to have it back now is a big deal so we'll be getting the last chance cut open up in
10:56no 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 these trees are really close to the
11:10edge
11:10right at the top of the last chance cut then once i get these trees you know move back i'll
11:15be feel
11:15a hell of a lot better about barely being underneath that's where the pay is then moving closer to the
11:19bank there they go wrong way i enjoyed that one center over the edge you feel pretty tough with a
11:28chainsaw knocking trees down but that's nothing compared to knocking trees down with a 70 ton excavator
11:36i can't have them falling down i was trying to get some work put the tree
11:46damn it oh i saw oil squirt too
11:55yeah
11:59oh he definitely got hydraulic leak
12:04hey ryan hey man can you meet me up by the 700 i uh i hooked the tree with the
12:09hydraulic line
12:11all right thanks
12:14just got this thing back running
12:23hey man what's up oh it looks like a seal pretty i i hooked it on a tree line and
12:30i heard something i heard something hissed and then i saw some spray so at least it's not the hose
12:35yeah yeah that needs to be fixed let me grab my glasses
12:52that's why i hate this
12:56just left loose like that stupid bull
13:15so that's the thing i'm going to get the
13:15mechanic ryan kent has been hit in the face with hydraulic fluid while fixing rick's 700 excavator
13:26that's fine let's just get it done
13:34yeah and spit that seal right out yeah you can see it it's damaged
13:39it's taking the coupler off it holds the hydraulic lines right now
13:42you can see where the o-ring actually pushed out
13:45it might already been loose who knows but i know with me hitting it on the tree didn't help it
13:49so
13:51all right slide it
13:55so there's your two different seals this one's just seen her days
13:59pull it out and then we'll just slide it in just tighten these bolts down and
14:05should 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 in business
14:23looks good good to go yeah nice man
14:30we've got no leaks
14:34everything seems back to normal we got lucky with this one we are back in business
14:57it's got 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
15:07that they say something that i've never done in 40 years of mining
15:13tony do you copy tony could you come have a look at the corner cut with me
15:20tony beats has already banked more than 35 million dollars and after his bumper 1 000
15:28ounce gold haul last week the king of the klondike is in striking distance of 10 000
15:35ounces and edging in front of parker but there's a problem how's it looking mike this corner cut is
15:45uh almost done so 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 here then huh doesn't look like it
16:03let's come up with the plan so that we can run both plants till the end the early bird cut
16:09it
16:09pretty good in the beginning 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 does this today we got to keep on going until
16:21the
16:21bitter end why not what the hell right on the indian river tony has opened up more ground than ever
16:29before and he's reaped the rewards his twin wash plants running in the massive corner cut have
16:38consistently delivered huge gold waves but now its pay is running out and he has to go in search of
16:46another rich spot tony will start his treasure hunt next to some of his richest ground of the year
16:53the early bird cut where he's praying the gold rich pay continues
17:01we are a little bit of a fishing expedition i'm gonna go and poke around see if i can get
17:10it down to
17:10ground i mean down there i don't know what that is looks like gravel let's see if that it's gonna
17:19continue
17:25whoa what the is happening i got lucky that we're taking here for 15 minutes and i'm running into some
17:35nice gravel so it's pretty much a no-brainer to get the hell in ahead i mean it is laying
17:42right there in
17:43gravels 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 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 truck load 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 his quick down to pay by the end of the week do you see me just back underneath
18:54me barion
18:59the bigger the truck the bigger the load the more you get done
19:07i'll just throw a fourth one in it just for good measure what's one more right power load this ball
19:16the 50 ton truck seems to take another bucket full maybe i'll buy more 50 ton trucks hey that's an
19:24idea
19:28there's a lot of dirt in the back of the truck like it's crazy
19:55you coming back with a full load
19:56it's too heavy like it was at 66 tons
19:59so it couldn't dump
20:03now why is that 50 tonner coming back
20:08hey darian why do you coming back with a full load
20:26Rushing to get his new cut down to pay, Tony has overfilled Darien's 50-ton rock truck.
20:33It's too heavy to dump.
20:36I can't dump it.
20:39Go back there with the truck and face it downhill, and then it'll dump.
20:44Okay.
20:51Yeah, dump it like that, Darien, that's your horse.
20:57There you go.
21:01He's a smart guy, you see?
21:02He knows all the tricks.
21:04If Tony can get his new cut stripped and down to pay by the end of the week, he'll be
21:10back
21:10on track to hit 10,000 ounces.
21:13The corner cut could be done in a week.
21:16I want to have this cut ready.
21:19If it turns out good, then we just keep on sluicing until the very end.
21:37I thought we'd have 10,000 ounces by now, but it's proving to be a bit elusive.
21:47We need to push those wash plants a lot harder.
21:50In a Herculean effort to get 430 ounces and hit 10,000 by the end of the week, Parker is
21:59pushing 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
22:10total, I got Big Red running a little hot.
22:14So it's definitely putting a lot of stress on the plants and whatnot, but you know, it's
22:20not my call.
22:21I'm just here to do my job and keep Parker happy.
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23:23So 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.
23:35Yeah.
23:35We need a bit more overlap, like from this head drum
23:39into this rock box so 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, which
24:02is usually planted with those power wheels,
24:05was 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 is getting under the wash plant's radial stacker
24:27and coating the inside of its belt, which is then traveling up to the drive pulley's head drum,
24:34making it slip, stopping pay from being fed into the plant.
24:39Moving the hopper feeder's conveyor forward would solve the problem, but it would require time
24:46and an excavator they don't have.
24:49Alec's quick but risky fix is to inch the 120-foot radial stacker back by three inches so it sits
24:58further underneath the feeder conveyor,
25:00stopping the axle.
25:01Stopping the pay getting under the belt.
25:03First, he'll raise the top end of the radial stacker up and use its weight to generate downforce onto the
25:12axle.
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, it could topple over and cause a disaster.
25:29Have you ever done this before?
25:31This is completely experimental.
25:33Seems like the only option we got.
25:34All right, let's give it a go.
25:36See what happens.
25:36All right.
25:43So, it's called 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, there could be a possibility where it tips completely over,
26:02so we're putting our prayers to the gods right now.
26:06Okay.
26:07That's off.
26:08Other side's also off.
26:11Okay.
26:12Now the exciting part.
26:16Oh, my God.
26:18It's moving so much.
26:22I'm raising up the radial stacker now with the gull-wings off the ground.
26:29And these wheels are moving slowly, which is letting me know that we are, indeed, checking our progress.
26:40My heart's in my throat right now, watching this thing move back and forth, knowing that it could top blow
26:46over.
26:48Got, like, half an inch!
26:54All right, we got our height.
26:55Then I'm going to lower the stacker, which 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?
27:16It looks pretty good to me.
27:17Okay, yeah, we got the weight back on the stabilizer legs.
27:21I can roll these duallys, so I'm just going to go say hi to Brother John and see if we've
27:24moved 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, it 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.
27:41Great job.
27:41Woo!
27:48Oh, this is a stacker.
27:54Let's get it.
27:59Woo!
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.
28:19Everything is running smooth, and now the main focus is to keep the wash plants running and hit our 10
28:26,000-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.
28:45We're getting on with this water and that kind of mud.
28:48Determined to reach 10,000 ounces this week, Tony is racing to get down to pay in an extension to
28:57the early bird cut.
28:58But his stripping crew have hit groundwater, flooding the cut and making it unminable.
29:07Well, do we pump it or did sit there?
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 sing.
29:20Get the new guy over there.
29:22Hey, Sean, do you copy? Sean, do you copy?
29:24Can you get over there, please?
29:25Okay.
29:26We need to do some dissing 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, which lies between his new extension and
29:41an 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 I'm at, Sean, doing here now.
30:06It's just a little bit of water maintenance that we got going on over here.
30:10You know how new guys are.
30:12You got to 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 , what a mess.
30:54Full of dirt.
30:56You got to 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.
31:05Go get that 349, and you can just keep ditching with that, and 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.
31:20idiot.
31:22Every minute of downtime is no good because it all equates to lost gold.
31:28This is going to drop.
31:34There she goes.
31:37Sean in the 349.
31:40Hopefully he doesn't that up at all.
31:42Here's Tony.
31:48What's that panel do you have on the back?
31:50That panel's off to 700.
31:59I'll get out and talk to you.
32:03Yeah.
32:04Seven panels off to 700.
32:06Who is that?
32:07Sean guy.
32:08The new one?
32:09Yeah.
32:10We should go home for a day for that one?
32:12Yeah.
32:13Make your life easier.
32:14Yes, sir.
32:16Beep beep!
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.
32:34If you want it on right, I guess you have to do it yourself.
32:40So let's grab the culvert though.
32:43Let's grab the culvert.
32:45We don't have enough time left this season to f*** around, so we gotta get going.
32:53That thing got put me must have it.
32:58That'd be good enough to f*** around there for whatever.
33:03I just don't happen to feel like it.
33:07You want me to grab that pump?
33:09Yes, please.
33:10Okay.
33:10Because they're running around in the foot of water down there.
33:16In just 90 minutes, Tony has got his new cut drying out, and he's back in the chase to catch
33:25Parker.
33:31It looks pretty damn good.
33:32It looks to me that there's going to be plenty of pay to keep on going.
33:52It's definitely a big race here, trying to get down to that pay as quick as we can, keep that
33:57plant running.
33:59When 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 timeframe 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 days left up here.
34:53We'll end up having to shut it down.
34:56Yes, that's it.
34:57You know, nothing that we can do here.
35:03Here we go.
35:04Last bucket of pay.
35:06Going to the plant now.
35:16That's it.
35:17That's all we got.
35:27Shut it down now.
35:29There'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, Monster Red will be too frozen to
35:43fire 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.
35:55We need it to be great.
35:56So fingers crossed we can find greatness to save this season.
36:03Well, Bailey's still a couple days away from pay.
36:05If the weather decides to change and then 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 1,800 to get out of here with these guys getting what they earned and us coming back
36:19next year.
36:21Hopefully we get a few more good days and we get to run again.
36:24But who knows?
36:42Oh, hi.
36:43Hey, Rick.
36:44Hey.
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, but that's where we're at.
36:56It'd be easy to go home, but, you know, we'd be next year.
36:59Your bonuses and the future of this company, that's basically what we're fighting for right now.
37:03All right, let's weigh some gold.
37:06Let's find out how we did.
37:08Last week, Rick and his crew pulled 430 ounces of gold, their biggest haul ever.
37:16But they are still more than 700 ounces short of the 1,800 Rick needs to pay their bonus and
37:24secure his mining future.
37:26Ready?
37:27Well, 200.
37:30Yeah.
37:31All right.
37:32And we'll see what we add to that.
37:35Here she comes.
37:36Ready?
37:38Okay.
37:4110, 20, 30, 35, 50, 58, 59, 69, 80, 90, 97, 98, 102.27.
37:56Nice.
37:57Awesome.
37:58302.27.
37:59302.27.
38:00Yeah.
38:01Nice.
38:02Nice number.
38:03Sweet.
38:04Worth $1,148,000.
38:09So what's that?
38:10That puts us at 1,379.65.
38:13Making up ground quick.
38:15Yeah.
38:15Yeah.
38:16Rick needs 420 more ounces to hit 1,800 and send everyone home with gold.
38:24But he still hasn't hit pay in the last chance cut.
38:27Yeah.
38:28I mean, weather's changing.
38:29Yeah.
38:30We're down right now, not running.
38:32If you shut it down, you might never start it back up.
38:34Yeah.
38:34Next week, this could be snow.
38:35Yeah.
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.
38:47Yeah.
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.
39:21Hello.
39:22Hi.
39:23Hello.
39:24How are you guys?
39:26Nice coffee cup.
39:28That's a huge size coffee cup.
39:31Corner 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 we still got some pay left in the early bird
39:42cut
39:42i would really love to take that out there too but with the price of gold right now okay we're
39:47pretty silly to quit how's things going on the hill harold literally is like no headache when
39:54i go through that thing it's like you lift up the hydraulic riffle and you just see gold everywhere
39:58nothing wrong with that trauma's been running 24 7 that plant just eats the eats it it's
40:05called the traum nom nom no hey monica should we weigh some gold yes who wants to start counting
40:13i'll count the beets family need more than 700 ounces to reach 10 000. so this is a sluice lot
40:21okay
40:24okay 10 20 sluice lot has been running the last of the pay in the corner cut 100 130 140
40:33150
40:36180 190 190 192.42
40:42it's a little bit less than the last time how come i mean we're getting to the end of the
40:46cut
40:47and then we're starting to pick a leftover i think that'll basically have something to do with it
40:53so this is for find a lot all right find a lot has also been churning through the remaining
40:59corner cut pay 70 80 90 110 120 120 140 160 180 182.06
41:13well not as good as last week this one is a little bit lower than same stuff same cut
41:21i mean it's not that we're running any more or less tony's twin plants at indian river
41:26bring his total to just over 9 640 ounces well that was all the indian river gold it's time for
41:35hill gold
41:37let's see what harold's got
41:42harold has been running pay from the hester cut
41:4590 100 120 132.6
41:52less gold as the last time
41:54it might just ran in the patch
41:56it might end up just getting diluted because they were running through whatever is there
41:59with three of his wash plants delivering less gold than last week
42:04tony is still more than 200 ounces short of 10 000
42:12this is from the trommel yeah
42:19nice
42:21all right mike can you see yeah 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
43:03with a total of 10 12 12 worth over 38 million eight hundred thousand dollars
43:13that's actually pretty good but yeah that's a pretty big thing that's a lot of money that's a lot
43:18of bucks mike they say that's that two million bucks on the table yeah i've been running 24 7 man
43:24yeah that's pretty awesome we uh we could do that for a while couldn't we so we did over 10
43:33000
43:33ounces we've never done so much in a season 10 000 ounce that's pretty nice that doesn't mean we're
43:41gonna quit i think i can beat parker let's go to the bitter end guys i mean no use quitting
43:48while
43:48you're ahead that's the game right okay gentlemen we'll get some more okay okay it's not a bad summer
44:03what up not 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 and need just over 430
44:20to hit his 10 000 ounce goal man we've thrown a lot of rocks at those plants this year they're
44:26it's getting rough out there trying to keep those plants going we found some big cracks in
44:29rocks and this week it shows down here when you guys have problems out there it's weak is what you're
44:36saying if we don't hit our 10 000 ounce goal it's because the plant breakdowns and i know you guys
44:45are
44:45putting a lot of dirt through them so there is going to be wear and tear it's got to keep
44:49them going
44:50we're running out of time running out of time real quick yeah it's starting to get pretty cold huh
44:55yeah this i think would be the key week if we don't get some good numbers so we can throw
45:03some
45:03gold on the scale and see how we did yeah let's do it all right we got the bridge cut
45:09here we go
45:14wash plant bob has been averaging 147 ounces a week in the bridge cut 120 127.35
45:25not bad okay mitchell let's see what roxanne can add to it we got 40. roxanne has been sluicing pay
45:34from
45:34pit 2 at parker's indian river claim come on keep going 120 133.9 nice there you go so what
45:47are we
45:47looking for here we need a little over what 200 to hit our target 200 yeah yeah so this is
45:54this is the golden
45:54mile we got a couple of them here ready yeah let's see how goose and big red did got 40
46:0180 120 130 140
46:06don't slow down doom it there we go 200 200 220 258.15
46:21good job guys for the first time ever parker has hit 10 000 ounces in a season worth an incredible
46:33$38 million 38 million 341 000. good job todd thank you
46:40i was rinsing the tank from the golden goose i found the weirdest thing
46:48the goose the goose laid its first egg you guys exactly one ounce there you go we got our golden
46:56egg
46:57for 259.15 for 259.15 that's cool that's actually hilarious
47:04last week we had 627.25 ounces this week
47:12520.4 for a season total of 10 089.85 ounces sick we did it good job guys and um
47:24you know we've got a
47:25little bit of time left in the season so i think we should just uh keeps loosen and um
47:32you know we had a 10 000 ounce goal last year too and didn't hit it so let's make up
47:36for a little lost
47:36time keep at her but thank you guys yeah thank you man with just one week to go parker now
47:44trails tony
47:45by 120 ounces i do like smashing through goals and it's a very cool milestone for us
47:54so we'll just uh we'll keep going and see what happens
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