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00:00Boom up a little bit, Jordy.
00:20Parker wants to move more dirt than ever before,
00:22so these 550s will be the answer.
00:27It all slides nicely when it's brand new, huh?
00:30Perfect.
00:31We can send this bad boy out.
00:37Hey, Parker, you got a coffee, Parker?
00:39Hey, what's going on?
00:40Yeah, bro, this 550's on its way.
00:43I'm just heading over to Sulphur.
00:45We have a new toy delivered,
00:46so I'm just going to check it out.
00:53I don't know what the fun is
00:55in having a dirt-moving company
00:56if you can't have new equipment.
01:00Gold mining mogul Parker Schnabel
01:05is sitting in the driver's seat.
01:08Just three weeks into the season,
01:11he's banked more than $2 million in gold
01:14from his Dominion Creek claims.
01:17Now, he's eager to find out
01:20if the gamble he took at Sulphur Creek will pay out.
01:24We ordered oversized buckets.
01:28I'm not sure how it's going to like this.
01:30They just started hauling pay out of the pit here at Sulphur,
01:33and I'm just making more room for stockpile.
01:37The thing is pretty sweet.
01:38But that's a six-and-a-quarter-yard bucket,
01:41which is huge for this size machine.
01:42The bigger the bucket, the better.
01:46Absolutely chewing through the ground.
01:52Basically, we're under the gun for time.
01:54The water license here at Sulphur expires soon,
01:58and I don't want to be put in a position where,
02:00much like Rick Ness is right now,
02:02where we are desperately waiting
02:05and hoping for a license that we need
02:07in order to do what we want to do.
02:09Mined since 1898,
02:13Sulphur Creek's gold is legendary,
02:16with stories of nuggets sitting on the creek bed.
02:20To date, it's paid out $1.2 billion,
02:24and Parker's praying there's still big gold in the ground.
02:29I'm definitely worried.
02:31Sulphur's a really tricky piece of ground.
02:33Are we doing all of this on Sulphur
02:35at the cost of getting Dominion done?
02:38Like, that's the question that haunts me.
02:45Beautiful new toy!
02:46That only took me 30 seconds!
02:49So far, it's handling this bucket really well.
02:52It looked like you were full extension there.
02:54I was like, wow.
02:54Dude, look at how wide it is compared to the 480.
02:57That's insane.
02:58Yeah.
02:58Nice purchase there, boss man.
03:00Special delivery.
03:03So the big thing,
03:05getting you sluicing as soon as we can,
03:08how much time do we have for that?
03:10I was hoping that we could be sluicing within a week.
03:15I'm excited.
03:16Yeah?
03:17I want to get another plant running.
03:19And so that's your guys' challenge.
03:22It's a big one.
03:27They have a nice, shiny new excavator.
03:29That should give them some solid reliability
03:32and hopefully here in three or four days
03:34we'll have a wash plant banging away at Sulphur.
03:42You know, Brennan, you got a copy.
03:44Dude, you can just hear that clock ticking every minute down here.
03:47We're getting closer to running out of time.
03:50It's a big undertaking.
03:51The six-yard bucket will make up to some serious lost time.
03:54Oh, man, he wants 10,000 ounces.
03:56A good part of that's got to come out of here.
03:59Hell yeah, buddy.
04:00This is a pretty cool treasure hunt to be on.
04:02This property's been hammered so hard.
04:05You get really worried about,
04:06man, are we going to move all this dirt?
04:08And at the end of the day,
04:09is there going to be nothing left in it?
04:10At Sulphur Creek, Mitch and Brennan are on a treasure hunt.
04:20For the last three weeks,
04:22they've been clearing overburden
04:23away from a narrow two-acre cut
04:26next to the bank of the valley,
04:29searching for gold-rich virgin pay
04:31that an old-timer's dredge missed.
04:35Now, down to pay,
04:37they need to dig it out
04:38and stockpile it at the mouth of the cut.
04:41Then, bring in wash plant Roxanne
04:44and fire it up by the end of the week.
04:52This cut is very narrow.
04:54Not a lot of room to work.
04:56We've got all this groundwater
04:58that's pouring in on us.
05:00All this material, it's so saturated,
05:02we've got to try and dry it up.
05:04You know, then we've got to pile all this up
05:05into a pay pile.
05:06The wetter it is, the harder all that is.
05:09The trucks will do better
05:10when they're running on dry ground.
05:14This pay that we're hauling, it's real wet.
05:18Now, it's making one hell of a mess.
05:20Rock truck operators,
05:22Sean Holcroft and Jordan Grosvenor,
05:25splashed through the cut,
05:26hauling pay dirt.
05:28With the amount of pay we got coming in from the cut,
05:30there's not really any place where we can put it.
05:33So we have to drive over the stuff we've already put here,
05:34but it was just schloppy hauled in from there.
05:42Man, this stuff sucks, man.
05:45You know, it's hard to even drive through.
05:47Oh, there she goes.
05:50Jordan's truck rolled over.
05:52All right, Mitch, you got a copy of Mitch.
05:54Yeah, go ahead.
05:55I got a truck flipped over here.
05:57Thanks, Jordan.
05:57The box is over.
06:00Not completely, but it's definitely over.
06:05It's fine.
06:05I'll get up there.
06:08I'm surprised that it took this long
06:10for something to happen.
06:12Never a dull moment.
06:15See, they got their tire up on a high point there
06:18and rolled her over
06:20so I can get it back on its feet.
06:24You ready, Jordan?
06:26Let's put it in neutral.
06:29Let's flip back over.
06:38Ooh, that's heavy.
06:43Try and gently drive forward.
06:44If I honk, stop.
06:54Go ahead and dump that pile right there.
06:57And don't go back that far anymore.
06:58Please and thank you.
07:00You know, it's just a lot of pressure
07:02being put on us here,
07:03having a whole load of the s*** out
07:04by the end of the week here
07:05and sometimes s*** just ends up going sideways.
07:11Everybody's doing everything we can here.
07:12If we fall short on getting this ground sluice and sulfur,
07:16it's going to mean that 10,000 ounces
07:18is going to be out the window very quickly.
07:20That's definitely not how Parker wants to start the season off.
07:23Gold prices sky high.
07:40There's no better time than getting gold in the box than today.
07:44We had a super fast start to the season,
07:47so right now all we've got to do is keep sluicing.
07:50King of the Klondike, Tony Beetz, is crushing it.
07:55He's been sluicing at his Indian River operation for five weeks,
08:00already banking 775 ounces of his 6,500-ounce target.
08:08First lot right now in the Indian River is our only moneymaker,
08:11so we've got to make sure we keep that going.
08:17Because of Mike, he had an emergency.
08:19We had to fly to Europe for a couple days.
08:21The lead man is gone, so to speak.
08:23I'm not happy because I need more people in charge.
08:28So we're kind of making Jacob step up,
08:30see if we can mold him up a little bit.
08:33I've got to do it by myself.
08:34It feels good to be successful up here,
08:41helping him with Tony.
08:44The task that Tony gets me to do every day
08:46puts out more trust and confidence in my work ethic
08:49and what I can do as a person.
08:50Heavy equipment operator Jacob Moore
08:53only joined the Beetz crew last season.
08:57Now he has to step up to acting foreman
09:01and impress the king.
09:03He's put every trust that I never thought
09:05I would ever get up here.
09:06If you're honest and give it your all,
09:08then you get treated like one of them.
09:12Jacob, do you copy?
09:14Yeah, go ahead.
09:15Getting the early broadcast,
09:17there's a lot of ground water.
09:18Yeah, copy that.
09:21Oh, look at all the water in there.
09:23You can't dig pay on the water.
09:25You can't see what you're doing.
09:26We would leave too much gold behind.
09:28Look at all that f*** water.
09:34That ain't gonna work.
09:36Oh, that's not good.
09:38No.
09:40You lay that pipe from here to there
09:42and that water's f***ing off.
09:44Make it pass.
09:45Bingo.
09:45Done.
09:46In an hour or so,
09:47I want to see the pump pumping.
09:50Sounds good, don't it?
09:51Last week,
09:55Tony tasked his crew
09:56with expanding the 13-acre early bird cut
10:00by a further nine acres.
10:03But now spring meltwater is flooding in,
10:07drowning the exposed gold-rich pay.
10:11Tony wants Jacob to bring in a submersible pump,
10:16connect it to a 400-foot-long pipe,
10:18and pump out the water
10:21to drain into a mined-out section of the cut,
10:25allowing his crew to get back to hauling pay.
10:30That was a lot of pressure,
10:31but I can handle it.
10:33We need to get what Tony wants done
10:35the way Tony wants it done.
10:37I do not want to be on Tony Beach's wrong side.
10:39Don't waste the time.
10:41Just get on with it.
10:44Jacob's first task?
10:46Move in the submersible pump.
10:48I mean, the longer it takes,
10:49the more water we're going to have to deal with.
10:51So the sooner we cure the problem,
10:53the better it is.
10:55But if you're going to have a foreman,
10:56you better be able to leave him alone
10:58to solve his own problem.
11:00Let's see if Jacob's got what it takes.
11:04I'm just going to move it over here
11:05so we can get that pipe up.
11:14We're just going to get the pump set up,
11:15and get this pipe drug into place
11:17so we can get the water pumped out.
11:24Wiggle it.
11:25Up.
11:29man.
11:30It'll tilt this way.
11:41Push up on it.
11:42There it can go.
11:45Oh, are you kidding me?
11:47That's .
11:51Try that.
11:51Clips off the side are broken off,
11:55and it's all rusty on the inside,
11:56so you have to have a level
11:57and get both pins in.
12:02Ah.
12:06If they were kind of hurry the up,
12:08that would be kind of nice.
12:12It needs to go down more.
12:13Slung it back, that's right.
12:14At Indian River,
12:15Tony has touched on it,
12:16and it's all over here.
12:16Yeah?
12:17These people have no idea
12:18how frustrating this is for me.
12:23Hey, see how the
12:24run?
12:25That idiot is clueless.
12:27I want to see the pump pumping.
12:29It needs to go down more.
12:41Slung it back, that's right.
12:42At Indian River,
12:43Tony has tasked
12:45stand-in foreman
12:46Jacob Moore
12:48with draining the flooded
12:49early bird extension
12:51within an hour.
12:52Hey, see how the
12:53run?
12:55That idiot is clueless.
12:57But the king
12:57isn't impressed
12:59with how long
13:00it's taking.
13:01Jacob's time
13:02and Tony's patience
13:04are up.
13:05Okay, I'll take over.
13:06Might as well do it myself.
13:08Jacob.
13:11Jacob.
13:11Okay, D6,
13:12hook it onto the pipe.
13:20We're going to drag
13:21the pipe in,
13:22pump all of it.
13:23It's that f***ing simple.
13:25When I do it,
13:26it usually way
13:26the f***ing quick.
13:29Hold it.
13:30Stay there.
13:32Andrew,
13:32do you copy?
13:34Bring the 349 over there.
13:37Get a chain on there.
13:41We'll grab it with the hole,
13:42we'll swing it in place,
13:43Andrew.
13:45It's okay, Andrew.
13:47Ready?
13:47Yeah.
13:48All we've got to do
13:49is hook it together.
13:52Drag your claws
13:53pressure if you can.
13:54All right.
13:56Okay, you want me
13:56to walk it in a bit?
13:57Yeah, please, yeah.
13:59Can you get in
14:00and bring the pipe
14:00this way more?
14:03Ow.
14:08This thing must be
14:09a little egg-shaped,
14:10maybe,
14:10so it doesn't quite fit in.
14:12Jacob.
14:13Yeah.
14:14You got a hammer
14:15in the truck?
14:16My truck's over
14:17by the red pump.
14:18Get a hammer.
14:19Got it.
14:21So there's going to
14:22beat the f***ing in there.
14:30Idiot,
14:30they're still trying
14:31to get a hammer
14:32out of his truck.
14:35Oh, what the f***ing
14:36does it take?
14:36Oh!
14:38Give me a rock.
14:39No.
14:40Give me a rock.
14:41Nail that close.
14:43Yeah, I know, yeah.
14:44Dude.
14:44Good hit.
14:50That's just slide in.
14:56There you go.
15:02Jacob.
15:02Too late for that.
15:04Fly the pump up.
15:08Finally,
15:09after Tony's intervention,
15:11the pump can start
15:12draining the flooded cut.
15:14They're just
15:15hooking up the wires,
15:16the fire at the pump.
15:18Good.
15:23And she's sucking.
15:27Good to have a pump
15:28in there,
15:29draining all the water
15:30out of it.
15:32f***ing in the ass.
15:33Tony's not too impressed.
15:36Definitely know
15:36he's not pleased.
15:38Jacob's not impressive.
15:40As far as I'm concerned,
15:41everybody's replaceable.
15:43There's a pretty simple
15:44deal down there.
15:45If you're too lazy
15:46to do a ride,
15:48well,
15:48now you're going to have
15:48to do something about it.
15:50So,
15:50we'll see.
15:51just a bit more stress
16:16than I was really hoping
16:17for this year.
16:17We're all kind of hurting
16:19for our experienced crew.
16:20Benen's not coming back.
16:22Caden's off to Parker's
16:23as well.
16:24Kind of dropping
16:25like flies around here.
16:27Kevin Beatt's second season
16:29as Mind Boss
16:30is off to a rocky start,
16:32having lost two key members
16:34from his skeleton crew.
16:37On a small crew,
16:38when people leave,
16:39you feel it.
16:402,000-ounce gold
16:41seems a little further away now,
16:43but at least we're sluicing,
16:45so we're still able
16:46to be producing.
16:48We have a bit of pay
16:49stockpiled from the Lynx extension,
16:51but as soon as that runs out,
16:52we're really going to have
16:53to get material
16:54out of the pyramid cut.
16:59Kevin's crew
17:00has been sluicing
17:00stockpiled pay
17:02from last season
17:03for two weeks,
17:05delivering over 100 ounces.
17:07But with the pile
17:08fast running out,
17:10his crew of five
17:11have also been racing
17:13to open up new ground
17:14in the three-acre pyramid cut.
17:18It's nonstop for the trucks
17:20falling overburden.
17:21The goal is to hit pay
17:23in the pyramid cut
17:24in time for when the plant
17:26is moved
17:27and ready to fire back up.
17:31We're stretching our crew
17:32to the limit right now,
17:33but it's what we've got to do
17:35to keep on going.
17:37We're finishing up
17:38the pay around the plant,
17:39then we'll move the plant,
17:41but there's going to be
17:42a lot more work
17:43than I thought it is now
17:44without Brennan and Caden.
17:46With a big plant move
17:48on the horizon this week,
17:50Kevin's looking
17:51to find new recruits.
17:53Me and Faith
17:54are working our way
17:55through quite a few resumes.
17:57We did find
17:58a fairly experienced miner.
17:59We'll see him
18:00when he shows up
18:00and hopefully that works out.
18:01Pretty decent winter,
18:08but I'm actually going
18:09for the first time
18:10in my life.
18:11Swimming in the ocean
18:11for the first time
18:12in my life.
18:13Veteran gold miner
18:15Buzz Legault
18:16has had a busy winter.
18:19My teeth all fixed up.
18:21It's kind of freaking nice.
18:23Gives me more of a reason
18:24to smile now.
18:25I wouldn't really say
18:27that I'm smiling more.
18:29I'm just a lot less
18:31self-conscious about it.
18:34But Buzz wasn't smiling
18:36last year
18:37after two seasons
18:39working for Rick Ness.
18:41Hey, Buzz,
18:42you got a copy?
18:43Their relationship
18:45soured.
18:47Hey, Buzz!
18:50There's not a hundred
18:50person crew here.
18:51You're a guy in this crew.
18:53You're going to jump in
18:53where the you fit in
18:54or you're going to go
18:54the f*** home.
18:56If you don't want
18:57to work with me,
18:58then f*** you all.
19:01Last season,
19:02everything that went down
19:03was still kind of
19:04a hard punch.
19:05You know,
19:06it put me and Rick
19:07were a lot closer
19:07than that.
19:09Time for new things.
19:11I just got a phone call
19:12from Kevin and Faith
19:14there.
19:15Looking for some
19:16good hands this season
19:18so I can check them out.
19:22All right.
19:22here we are.
19:31Hey, guys.
19:32How's it going?
19:33No, too bad.
19:33Howdy, good sir.
19:34Hello there.
19:35Nice to meet you.
19:36Nice to meet you.
19:36You're in your
19:3710,000-lumen smile.
19:41Never lose me at night.
19:42All I can do
19:43is keep on smiling.
19:44Thanks for coming
19:48to meet us, Buzz.
19:49We do appreciate
19:49you showing up.
19:50Though we do get to ask,
19:51I know you're the foreman
19:52at Rick's last year,
19:54and clearly you're not
19:55going back there.
19:56What's happening?
19:56There's uncertainties
19:59over there
20:00with this water license
20:01and everything.
20:03Life has changed for me.
20:06I need a little more
20:08stability in life.
20:11Well, this year
20:12I have a little baby
20:13on the way, so.
20:15Congratulations.
20:15Yes.
20:17We're down a foreman.
20:18Is that something
20:19you might be interested in,
20:20or just a baby
20:22on the way and whatnot?
20:23No, I don't think
20:24that would be
20:24a good position for it.
20:28Well, I think we kind of
20:30need more of a jack-of-all-trades
20:32more than anything else.
20:34From what I've gathered,
20:35you know how to run equipment,
20:37you know how to fix things,
20:38and you can also weld
20:39a little bit.
20:40This might work.
20:43I could be your buzz
20:44of all trades.
20:45It all sounds good to you.
20:51I'm welcome aboard.
20:53Perfect.
20:54Sounds great.
20:55Thank you, guys.
20:56Let's get to work.
21:00That went pretty well,
21:02you know, working with
21:03Kevin and Pete this season.
21:05Seemed like a pretty good couple.
21:07So excited to see where this goes.
21:15As much as I would like
21:23to have all of the focus
21:25on Dominion,
21:26that's just not really
21:27a feasible option.
21:29There are projects
21:30that absolutely have to happen
21:31this year,
21:32and that is sulfur,
21:33so we just have to get them done.
21:42In sulfur,
21:43we're just about ready
21:44for the plant, dude.
21:45We're going to get rock sand.
21:47Parker's trying to give us
21:48the best of the best
21:49for what we have to do here.
21:51At Sulfur Creek,
21:53Brennan and Mitch
21:54have identified
21:55what they believe
21:56are gold hotspots
21:57and stockpiled the pay dirt.
22:01Now, it's finally time
22:03to start sluicing.
22:05Well, we're ready
22:05to haul rock sand
22:06down to sulfur,
22:07so we're going to go
22:08build some wash plant.
22:09You know, early in the season
22:14like this,
22:15the roads are in the worst
22:16shape of the whole year.
22:18Come on, baby.
22:19Come on, come on.
22:22This is the sketchiest thing
22:24we have done
22:25in a long time.
22:26We got soft roads,
22:27wash plant that's top-heavy,
22:29and we're in a rush.
22:30The 25 miles of dirt road
22:33from Dominion to Sulfur
22:35is closed all winter.
22:38Opened just six weeks ago,
22:40it is still thawing out.
22:43Oh, you almost hit that tree.
22:48Rock sand is big and robust,
22:50and we throw rocks
22:50at it all day long,
22:51but we're clipping the trees.
22:55And all it's going to take
22:56is grabbing onto some wiring
22:58or a hose,
22:59and we're going to have
22:59a wash plant
23:00and it's not going to want
23:00to do what it needs to do.
23:02Check this branch out.
23:07I think we're taking
23:08some risks here.
23:15Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
23:24Oh, there went our internet.
23:26Our wash plants
23:26have internet on them,
23:27which is very handy.
23:29This one now does not.
23:32We're too remote here
23:33to have the radios reach
23:35back to camp.
23:36We are going to need
23:38a new dish here.
23:44All right, we got rock sand.
23:46Where it needs to live,
23:47we're going to run back,
23:48grab a sluice run,
23:49start putting this thing together.
23:50There we have it.
23:51We're going to build a little pad
23:56and pull this thing off
23:57as quick as we can.
23:58We just got to get her off
23:59in one piece,
24:00standing up straight.
24:06I like it.
24:07Looks good.
24:08Next, Mitch collects the plant's
24:12sluice runs from Dominion.
24:14The purpose of the sluice runs
24:16being wide
24:16is if you put more
24:17through the wash plant
24:18faster.
24:20The problem with that is
24:22when you've got to move it.
24:27You can see I'm going to drive
24:28down the middle of the road.
24:30If something's driving the other way,
24:31we're going to be in trouble.
24:32Last thing we're going to be doing
24:34is backing up
24:34on these roads, Miles.
24:38Just got to slow down here.
24:43So narrow here,
24:44and these trees are big.
24:46And this thing is clipping
24:47things on the sides.
24:49And here, the branch
24:50is breaking behind us here.
24:53We are just threading
24:55a needle right now.
25:02Oh, we got something
25:09coming off the back there.
25:12I think these roads are so rough,
25:14this trailer's vibrating so much.
25:19We're not stopping
25:19on the middle of these hills.
25:20We'll have to go back and get it.
25:26Jacob, you got a copy?
25:28Yeah, go ahead.
25:30Jacob, we are missing
25:31some of the iron
25:32and some of the carpets
25:33and see what all you can find.
25:44Load all these guys up.
25:45Don't have to go that far.
25:47Get them back as fast as possible.
25:49Just put them back in the runs.
25:58Right on, buddy.
25:59Give her.
26:00It's just going to pull
26:01the sluice runs off here.
26:03Built wash plant.
26:06Well, man, we're looking
26:07pretty good here.
26:08What do you say we bring
26:09in the next piece of the puzzle?
26:20Yeah, yeah, we got clearance here.
26:25Right now, we got our hopper feeder
26:27and the conveyor and the conveyor in place.
26:29The plants level,
26:30the sluice runs are set.
26:31So we just got to hook up
26:32our water line here
26:33and we're going to be ready
26:34to start sluicing.
26:38Here we go.
26:39We got rock sand firing up right now.
26:46This is our first scoop going in here.
26:48We got three wash plants up and running.
26:50What's up?
26:55What's up?
26:56How are we?
26:57Looking good.
26:58Nice job making that work in time.
27:01I was like,
27:01there's no way this is going to work.
27:03I mean, dude,
27:04it came together pretty nice.
27:06Good job.
27:07This project was supposed
27:08to be 1,000 feet.
27:09Now it's 2,000 feet.
27:10There's more to go.
27:11Yeah.
27:123,000.
27:12It's more!
27:13Jacob could, of course,
27:33hurry it up a little bit,
27:34but then it's never fast enough.
27:36Doesn't make the way I need them.
27:39He's got to keep that sluice box going
27:41all week.
27:42I don't care
27:43if that is at 6 in the morning
27:44or 12 o'clock at night.
27:46We'll get the f*** over there
27:47and make it run.
27:48At Indian River,
27:50with Cousin Mike still away,
27:52Tony has no choice
27:55but to give stand-in foreman
27:57Jacob Moore
27:58a second chance
28:00to step up.
28:02I do have worries
28:03for what Tony will think.
28:04I wanted to show him
28:05that I can make decisions
28:06and do stuff on my own
28:08without his need to be there
28:10and oversee everything.
28:12This big boy
28:18is Tony moneymaker,
28:19so the pressure is on
28:21to get him gold.
28:22Cousin Mike
28:22is not around
28:23right now,
28:25so Jacob
28:26has kind of
28:26taken over.
28:27A lot of responsibility.
28:29It must be stressful for him.
28:31The watchman really
28:38doesn't sound good.
28:40Something's definitely
28:41wrong in there.
28:43Shouldn't be any sound like this.
28:50Jacob, you can pick it, Jacob.
28:52I think I'm going to shut down
28:53the watchman.
28:53I heard a big, loud noise in there.
28:55Yeah, I heard it too.
28:57I'll say it out.
29:17Noise coming from the plants.
29:18We're going to check it out
29:19and see what's going on up here.
29:22At Indian River,
29:24stand-in foreman Jacob
29:26has shut down
29:27Tony Beat's
29:28only running wash plan,
29:30Sluice-A-Lot,
29:31to investigate
29:32mysterious noises
29:33coming from inside
29:35the shaker deck.
29:36I have suspicions
29:37it's probably down here
29:38where all the bolts
29:39and everything's
29:40bolted together.
29:42It means I'll have to
29:42crawl in here.
29:44Hopefully nothing's broken.
29:47Oh, there's our issue.
29:50Everything is cracked.
29:52That is not good.
29:54We can't run this at all.
29:56This plant will just
29:57shake itself
29:57into little itty-bitty bits
29:58out the tailings.
30:00Lucky that we caught it
30:01when we did
30:01before I cut too bad.
30:05Slide, lift it up
30:06so we can get the shoot out
30:07because the shoot is cracked
30:08as well.
30:10I'll get this shoot out
30:11so we can have two welders
30:12going at the same time.
30:14All right,
30:15I'm just going to
30:15put my feet on it.
30:19Woo-hoo!
30:20It's heavy.
30:21There's a problem.
30:23The bolt rattled out
30:24and caused it
30:25to get violent
30:26and crack.
30:27Yeah, we're going to
30:28take the welders
30:28down here.
30:30Sluice-A-Lot's
30:31shaker deck
30:32has two screens
30:34that separate waste rocks
30:36from gold-rich pay dirt.
30:38The waste rocks
30:39move towards
30:40a tailing chute
30:41that funnels them
30:43onto a conveyor
30:44and ejects them
30:45into a waste pile.
30:47But some of the bolts
30:49connecting the chute
30:50to the deck's steel frame
30:52have fallen out,
30:53making it unstable,
30:55leading to the chute
30:56constantly hitting
30:57and cracking
30:58the deck's frame.
31:00Jacob plans to weld
31:02the cracks,
31:03replace the old chute,
31:05bolt it back into place,
31:07and get the wash plant
31:09up and sluicing again.
31:13Where do you want
31:13it at to weld?
31:14Right here,
31:15it looks perfect.
31:16I noticed this crack here,
31:17another crack here,
31:19and here as well.
31:21A couple of seconds, man,
31:22could have been a big change
31:23in what we're doing today.
31:24Yeah, you're lucky.
31:26Because I'm going to actually
31:27do an inside weld first,
31:29because then when I grind,
31:30oh, there's my weld,
31:31I get 100% out of it.
31:32JV's still working on the crack.
31:42Just doing the last weld here.
31:52All done.
31:54Chief has the cracks
31:55all done on the plant.
31:58We've been down for four hours now.
32:00We've got to put this chute on.
32:02We've got the cracks
32:03walled up on it,
32:04and I was going to get
32:05back in place.
32:07Mason's up there
32:07putting the bolts in for me.
32:09Here, I'll give you a hand.
32:14Getting there, buddy.
32:21Yeah, that's the last bolt.
32:22I'll tighten them up
32:23and get to go.
32:26Yeah, go ahead.
32:27Tony, just call him.
32:28He wants to know
32:29if we are sluicing.
32:30We will be here
32:31in like 20 minutes,
32:32half hour talk.
32:33Fire of action.
32:37You're all done up there?
32:39Yes, sir.
32:41Tony's coming out here.
32:43It would be nice
32:44to have rocks coming
32:45out the tailings
32:45and gold in the box
32:46when he shows up.
32:48I'm going to hop in the hole
32:49if you want to fire
32:49everything up for me.
32:50Okay.
33:00It looks good now.
33:06We can sort out a problem
33:07without Tony being here.
33:08I think it looks good
33:09on Jacob as well.
33:11We're sluicing.
33:12We're making money,
33:13and that means everybody's happy.
33:15Everything went very well.
33:16Everything was fixed
33:17in a timely manner.
33:18We're back in action,
33:18and hopefully we're good
33:20from here on out.
33:21Well, what's up?
33:29Oh, the plant was all cracked.
33:30We got it all welded up,
33:31and the back's loose,
33:32and nothing's good.
33:33Still washing rocks.
33:35Awesome, Jacob.
33:35Good job, man.
33:36Yeah, take care, Tony.
33:37Great to be back sluicing.
33:38Yeah, see you later.
33:39Okay, thank you.
33:43He was down a couple hours,
33:44but I would have been down
33:45a couple hours, too.
33:46You can only weld so fast,
33:48so, no, it's all good.
33:51I think Jacob,
33:52he's got what it takes.
33:54My cousin Mike is in there.
33:55I mean, there's Jacob
33:57that automatically takes over.
33:59It's not rocket science.
34:09Since we're done
34:09on the floor here,
34:10we are moving the plant
34:12to a new location
34:13on the wayside over there.
34:15Three miles away
34:16at Scribner Creek,
34:18Tony's eldest son, Kevin,
34:20has run out of stockpiled pay
34:22and is preparing
34:24for the biggest plant move
34:25of his fledgling career.
34:28We're going to have
34:28so much space
34:29for our fine tailings
34:30and our coarse tailings.
34:31Down here,
34:32we only had 20 feet
34:33we could fill up.
34:33On top of the wayside,
34:34that's going to be
34:35100, 120 feet to fill up.
34:37These are on the equipment.
34:39Shorter trips.
34:42Kevin wants to haul
34:43his 35-ton wash plant
34:45from its current pad
34:47at the Link's Cut
34:48with an excavator
34:50down a 20-degree slope.
34:54Maneuver it
34:54around a tight corner.
34:56Then drag it 400 feet
34:59up a steep 30-degree incline
35:02to its final sluicing location.
35:04It is going to be
35:09a little bit further away
35:10from the Pyramid Cut,
35:11but as soon as we're done here,
35:13we're going to have
35:13to go upstream,
35:14and we're going to be
35:15way closer to the upstream cut,
35:16so a bit of future-proofing.
35:19Now we just got to
35:20make it happen.
35:20I'd like to get everything
35:25up and running.
35:26Not to Russia,
35:27but we're trying to Russia.
35:29Kevin puts new recruit,
35:31Buzz,
35:32straight into the hot seat.
35:34All right.
35:38This is going to be
35:38one of the first big projects
35:39Buzz is going to do for us
35:41since he came on site,
35:42so we've got high expectations
35:43and high hopes.
35:44Get on the cables,
35:49and then let's get ready.
35:52We're going to hook up the plant
35:53and drag that into position.
35:57Definitely don't want to
35:58flip that plant over.
36:00That'll be a season-ender for sure.
36:09Faith, can I get you on the pin?
36:11This is the only plant we got.
36:12If this is damaged,
36:13we're stuck in the water,
36:14so to speak.
36:15Hopefully this move goes smoothly.
36:18All right.
36:19Everything's hooked up.
36:19I guess it's time to pull Buzz.
36:21We'll have the rest of us
36:22spotters,
36:22but just be careful.
36:24Let's go.
36:30We have movement.
36:32This will be a good test
36:33of Buzz's operating skills.
36:37This is Kevin's money,
36:38because I don't want to scratch
36:40the paint on this puppy.
36:43I'm just watching
36:44that our runs
36:45are not scraping on the ground
36:46at the end.
36:50If they're too close,
36:52they'll rub on the ground
36:53and they might rip off,
36:54leading to a lot of retard work,
36:55so...
36:55we're just scraping them right now.
37:05Oh, man.
37:10This is even a work.
37:12Stop.
37:12Stop.
37:14Don't try and lift it up like that.
37:17Let the tension off the cable.
37:19We're raising the sluice around
37:20so they don't drag on the ground.
37:21Jason, point.
37:27We pay three quarters
37:28of a million dollars
37:29for the wash plant,
37:30so we really don't want to
37:31it.
37:33Chute's lifted up.
37:34We shouldn't have any other
37:35problems for the pool.
37:39We got some weight
37:40on this plant here.
37:43Parts are digging in a little bit,
37:46making it a little bit difficult
37:48for the excavator to move.
37:51Now we pull it up the hill
37:53until its final resting spot,
37:55hopefully for the season.
38:08Oh, no.
38:08It's flipping.
38:10F***.
38:11F***.
38:12Yep.
38:12Stop.
38:12Stop.
38:13Oh, F***.
38:14That's not going to f***ing work.
38:16Your ass ends already up the ground.
38:18I don't think it's going to do it.
38:21I guess the wash plant
38:22might be a bit too heavy
38:23with the angle and the hill.
38:25Damn it.
38:27We'll get something
38:28with twice the weight,
38:29four times the power.
38:31All righty.
38:32We'll bring that D-10 over here.
38:33See you play.
38:34You can put the wash.
38:37The 63-ton D-10 dozer
38:40is 10 tons heavier
38:42than the 480 excavator
38:44and has three times
38:45the pulling power.
38:46Let's get the dozer lined up
38:49and, well,
38:50that's going to f***ing move it, guaranteed.
38:52Well, let's make her happen, eh?
38:53Better.
38:57Everybody got communication
38:58and your services ready?
39:04Yeah, we got
39:05100 tons of f***ing,
39:07we're going somewhere.
39:08Well, we'll get the hard part
39:13taken care of.
39:15Working here in Canada
39:16to get you
39:17to be a lot more diversified
39:19than most places.
39:21It's been kind of nice, you know?
39:24These are our final steps here.
39:29Stop.
39:30Perfect.
39:32Went up the hill nice.
39:34Oh, yeah.
39:36Good job, Buzz.
39:37Didn't even have to break a sweat.
39:38Step one.
39:39Done.
39:41Now that it's all in place,
39:42the next thing is to do
39:43a bit of repairs
39:43and take a bit of extra time.
39:45We shouldn't have to move
39:47this year or next year.
39:48We have so much space
39:50for tailings,
39:50and that way this summer
39:51we can just run, run, run.
39:54I am very happy with that.
39:56Oh, yeah.
39:56F***, yeah.
39:57So can you walk the pipe,
40:06young fella?
40:07Tony Beetz
40:08runs a tight ship,
40:10and his crew members
40:11need to be able
40:12to walk a fine line.
40:15I said,
40:15can you walk the pipe
40:16or can you walk the f***ing pipe?
40:18The f***ing crapes?
40:22I enjoy this game.
40:26So what?
40:27Hi, guys.
40:40Hello.
40:40Hello.
40:41Hey, guys.
40:41Bring some more gold.
40:44Whoa.
40:44Whoa.
40:45So what is new
40:46in the Indian River?
40:48Jacob had to step up.
40:49We had to cut that was flooded,
40:51so we had to f*** around with that.
40:53Pomp, pum, pum, pum.
40:54And then we had the screen deck,
40:56got some cracks in it.
40:57With cousin Mike away,
41:00stand-in foreman Jacob
41:02ran Tony's only producing wash plant,
41:05Sluice-A-Lot.
41:06So how many days?
41:07We sluiced for seven days.
41:09Minus the couple of hours
41:11that you were down,
41:12so it's not a full week.
41:14Sluice-A-Lot has been averaging
41:16192 ounces a week.
41:19Worth $878,000.
41:44dollars. That's not bad. No, it's going on with it. Only days. Hey, does that put us over a thousand
41:50ounces? Yeah, 1,025. So it's kind of nice that we get Jacob up and going because now that Mike
41:56isn't there, it's nice to have. It seems to be doing pretty well. Yeah. Yeah. You're stepping
42:01up. It's good to see. Absolutely. But that being said, you should pack it back up and go do what
42:06you all do best. Okay, we'll see you guys later. Later, guys. That adds up nicely this early in
42:12the season, doesn't it? Yeah, it doesn't take months, eh? No. And with the gold prize of this,
42:17it's a lot of money. Usually when this time of year, we just get started.
42:25Three miles east at Scribner, it's the end of Buzz's first week with Kevin and Faye.
42:32How are you fitting in so far? I don't know. You guys tell me.
42:37Been kicking off a lot of projects pretty quick, seeing problems and fixing them. So I think
42:41overall fitting in pretty good. I'm curious. How is it compared to working with Rick?
42:46Very different. Very different? Very different.
42:49How different? Very. Just different.
42:54Well, that's good to hear, Buzz, because like with Kaden and Brennan leaving, I was starting
42:57to worry that while we were doing something wrong and just didn't know.
43:03This is the last of our piggy bank cut. So I have a little bit of gold to weigh.
43:08Not a bad looking amount. Not too bad.
43:10Yeah. It's time to weigh the last of Kevin's stockpiled pay.
43:16Kevin ran for three days before moving the wash plant.
43:20Waiting for the money, two for the show. Let's f***ing go.
43:23See me. It's 10, 18, 26, 38, 47, 28, 50, 56.590.
43:39It's pretty good.
43:40Yeah, that's not too bad.
43:42Worth $198,000.
43:47It's encouraging for everything else we're going to run. Definitely there's gold in the ground.
43:51So what does that put our total at for the year so far?
43:54Currently, we're sitting at 162.09. So a wild ways to the 2,000 ounces.
44:00A little ways to go.
44:01I mean, of course, we want to get sluicing as soon as possible.
44:04We've got some work to do with the plant, so it's going to take a little bit of time.
44:08But ideally, we'll get going ASAP.
44:10Hopefully, by the end of the week, we can start sluicing the pyramid cut.
44:14See what treasures it's got.
44:15It's not running. We're not getting any gold.
44:17That's right.
44:19Unfortunately, the plant stops, but the bills don't.
44:21Having internet on the trucks this year is like a lifesaver.
44:35Except for me, I'm like, I need to get a hold of it.
44:37Like the other day when I was trying to get a hold of you, I'm like, call you, and you don't answer.
44:41And I'm like, where is this?
44:46It's that look right there.
44:48I had a dream last night.
44:49I was like, I don't know what the f*** I was stressed out.
44:52I woke up sweaty.
44:53He's telling me about that dream.
44:55His cheek was like touching my, his stubble was rubbing my face.
44:58He almost caught me.
45:02How does it feel to make it into Brennan's dreams?
45:05Oh, man. I want to haunt all four of you.
45:08You know, what's it like working for Parker?
45:09Well, there's the dreams and the PTSD, but other than that, it's great.
45:15Three wash plants up and running.
45:17It's Parker's first triple gold way of the season.
45:21K.T., you ready?
45:23Yeah.
45:23I've got a sluice for here.
45:25This is a two-hander.
45:25See how the Golden Mile did this week.
45:27Last week, the Golden Mile produced 152 ounces.
45:33Here we go.
45:34We've got 20, 60, 80, 120, 140, 180.
45:41We're going to break two, 200.
45:43Nice.
45:44210, 220, 222.3.
45:49Worth $778,000.
45:53Sick.
45:54That is nice.
45:56Anyway, we've got Mr. Bob.
45:58Come on, Brennan.
45:58The bridge cut is averaging 150 ounces a week.
46:0420, 40, 80, 90, 130, 40, 170.
46:12Oh, yeah.
46:13190.4.
46:15Worth $666,000.
46:19Sick.
46:20Nice.
46:21Finally, Parker will discover if his gamble to chase gold left behind by the old-timers
46:28at sulfur will pay out.
46:30We've got to do sulfur, Mitch.
46:32We need it.
46:32We've been spending money like it's going out of style.
46:35First run of sulfur here.
46:37We've got 20, 40, 90, 110, 114.8.
46:48That's actually really good for the hours you ran.
46:53Yeah, I mean, we just got the plant set up.
46:55Yeah.
46:55And that material was like the first cut off.
46:58Oh, I thought it was going to be terrible.
47:00I thought you were going to have like 20 ounces.
47:02Wow, that's a lot of gold for one week.
47:04Yeah.
47:04Yeah.
47:05Yeah, we had a really good week.
47:06Well, for this week, it was 527 and a half ounces for the week.
47:12Dang.
47:12Worth over $1.8 million.
47:19For the season so far, it's 1,235.4 ounces.
47:25Sweet.
47:25Which is about 1,100 ounces ahead of where we were this time last year.
47:29Nice.
47:30All right.
47:31Thanks, guys.
47:32Keep it up.
47:33Let's get back out there, man.
47:34Let's do it.
47:35See ya.
47:36Good job, boys.
47:37It's really nice to have three plants up and running.
47:39Mitch and Brandon are doing a good job over at sulfur getting that opened up.
47:42So, I'm excited to see what it can do in a full week of running.
47:46It's pretty sweet.
47:47We're going to do some serious damage this year.
47:51Bosco!
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