15x11 - Kevin Fires Up

[bunniefuu]

This is a very big day.

Rally valley has paid
off really good this spring

and I thought take some of it,

get Troy paid off, and
own this place outright free

and clear and start a new chapter.

43-year-old Rick ness

is on the brink of
owning his own gold mine.

And it all started back in 2012

I had 1,500 bucks in my bank account

and I drove a $1,500 truck up to Alaska.

When he decided to take a job

with a young gold miner.

Rick's a great guy.

I hired him on

on the basis that he is a good operator.

- Nugget.
- That's a big one?

After breaking away from Parker

to go out on his own...

Right here, guys, is our freedom.

Ready!

Woo!

Rick gambled on buying
a remote piece of ground.

You want your 10% upfront

and you give me a month to get it.

I think... I think we can manage it.

Right on.

Never thought I'd be
spending seven figures

on that chunk of ground.

- But we made it work.
- We got the gold.

Now, after five years,

he's ready to make the
final 250-ounce payment

on the property.

Hey there, Troy.

What's going on?

Here's gold for you.

Well, that's 250 ounces.

Ooh, wee.

We had some really
good days at rally valley,

so I figured I'd come and make
the final payment and be done.

That is a hell of a surprise there.

Ooh, wee.

That seals the deal right there.

It's been a long time coming.

I mean, I have to say
there's a couple times

where I didn't think this day would come.

- Yeah.
- -There've been some rocky roads there.

Yeah.

I bet a lot of money going
towards that my whole career

and it's been one hell of a roller coaster.

- Jeez.
- Yeah. Crazy.

That's great. I'm just
glad that it worked out.

Yeah. I'm tied to this place.

It feels good but it's
also a little overwhelming.

It's a little stressful doing it

with the water license
being unknown and all that.

The timing is terrible.

But I have to trust that that water license

- is gonna come through.
- Yeah.

It's definitely a big issue and you're all in.

Yeah.

All in.

Yeah, I hope you'll get through it.

All right. Appreciate everything, Troy.

Yeah. A deal's a deal, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Hopefully, you don't kick me out.

Not yet.

- This is a big deal.
- I mean, I've been working

towards this day for a long time.

Now here we are. We're
here. Today's the day.

We stuck it out, made it work.

It's a hell of a feeling.

Well, this is it.

And now this is all mine.

I mean, there's millions
of dollars of gold right here

underneath our feet.

Rick is now a Yukon landowner

with 2,000 acres of
prime gold-rich ground,

enough to mine for 50 years.

Once I decided that I was
in this for the long haul,

it was really important for me to
own it rather than just leasing it.

Hopefully, now I can start making a profit

and put money in my bank account.

I mean, it feels good
but it's also a gamble.

I may not get a water license next year.

You know, this is gonna be our
last year here in Duncan creek.

I wanna make it the best year yet.

Gotta keep the gold coming in.

Less than halfway through the season,

Rick's already two-thirds of the way

towards his 1,500-ounce gold.

But his biggest gold-producing cut,

rally valley, is mined out.

We did 900 ounces out of rally valley

in three weeks.

Sad to see it go but we gotta move on.

I just have to focus on
getting the most gold

I can out of the ground.

At least, 1,500 ounces.

Going upstream a little bit.

We got some good pans
out of some ground up there.

We call it the crew cut.

We just gotta get rocky put together.

We're already stockpiling pay,

and we just gotta keep it going

and hope for the best.

One mile north of rally valley

lies the 5.5-acre crew cut.

For the last two weeks,
Rick's crew have been

stripping and digging up pay dirt.

Then they're hauling it 900 feet

to stockpile next to
Rick's second wash plant,

rocky, which has sat
idle for nearly a year.

I think it's time to put some gold in it.

Hopefully, rocky's ready to rock and roll.

Hey. Rick.

Ready to knock the rust off this thing?

- Yeah.
- You got a pile of dirt there to run.

- So get moving.
- Let's do it.

Let's do it, boys.

Test results indicate the crew cut

should produce the 40 ounces a week.

Rick needs to hit his season gold.

In this 330,

it's definitely struggling a little bit.

What's going on over there?

Man, this thing... The
power is not working.

This thing's blown up.

You know what... Hey,
hey, hey. Shut it down.

Shut it down right now.

Shut it down. It's smoking.

Holy.

Is that oil dripping right there?

I could smell it in the cab.

Well, you know what happens when oil

comes out the exhaust. Two things.

You got something going
on with the exhaust valve

or we got a turbo blown.

Me.

That's bad. That's real bad.

Look at all the oil down here.

- Did it all leak?
- Yeah.

It's pouring.

All right. I'MMA grab a couple tools

and I just wanna check something out.

Right now, it's looking like,

you know, a major problem.

This wash plant, it's got
a tiny little pre-wash on it.

That's the only machine that
I've got that's small enough

to be able to hit that.

I'll jump up there and see what we got.

How's it looking?

Worst-case, the turbo is down.

Yeah, there's your metal there.

It's.

We ain't gonna have no turbo on site.

That's for sure. The nearest it's gonna

come from is elsewhere.

All right. Well, if you can get it off the pile

and then start making some calls.

But, more likely, it looks like
we ain't sluicing for a while.

It's so close. All it had
to do is get right here.

So close.

Me.

King of the klondike,
Tony beets, is full throttle

at both his Indian river

and paradise hill claims.

10 weeks into the season,

his family empire has
mined over 2,500 ounces,

more than $6 million in gold.

But one family member is yet to deliver.

Tony's eldest son, Kevin,
struck out on his own,

leasing ground from his
dad on scribner creek.

Now, he's weeks behind
on his royalty payments.

To help Kevin get on the gold,

Tony hauls in key pieces of equipment

his son needs to get sluicing,

a conveyor and hopper feeder.

I didn't know you knew how to drive

a truck anymore, Tony.

A.

Not bad, yeah.

Yeah. Barely.

It is definitely coming along.

Yeah.

Thank you, man. That is appreciated.

One more step closer to sluicing.

Not overly happy with
where we're at timeline-wise.

It always just seems to
be one thing, one thing,

one thing, one thing.

You know, at this point in the season,

our thousand-ounce gold

is looking less and less likely.

Still gonna try though. Still gonna try.

Our next step is do a bit more hauling

so we can finish off our pad.

Hopefully, by the end of this week,

the plants will be sitting
over there on the pad

so we can put in dirt through the.

Before Kevin can get sluicing,

his crew needs to dig out
coarse material from a nearby

hillside on his plain,

truck it to his links cut,

and finish building a massive

400-foot-long, 30-foot-high pad.

He will then bring in his new wash plant

to sit on top.

Install the conveyor and hopper feeder

next to a mountain
of stockpiled pay ready

to fire up by the end of the week.

Right now, I'm stripping off the hillside.

We're running all the
material to finish this berm.

The 700 broke down
for the 900th time here.

Had to bring the d10
down and start pushing this

rock down to Matt.

We're definitely under the g*n here.

The sooner that plant's
running, the better.

We're all hands on deck.

I got Matt out here.

Hunter, jaser in the rock trucks.

Looks like I'm missing somebody here.

Ash, you having coffee?

Hey, do you know
where ash is out here?

Yeah, I just seen her.

She was having a cigarette break.

For sakes.

Every time.

I gotta go find her.

I need her in the rock truck.

I got so much work to do
and it's driving me mental.

I'm here to mine gold, not to babysit.

I've just shown up and I'm excited to go

move some dirt and get us some gold.

Three weeks ago,
Brennan's friends ash Phillips

and fiance Matt kiefer...

Fancy seeing you up here.

Joined Kevin's crew.

But immediately...

She does the dumbest.

Ash butted heads

with rock truck driver hunter canning

I'm gonna get irritated, okay?

Literally, disrespectful as hell.

Leaving foreman Brennan

to deal with a warring crew.

- I want this squashed...
- I just... - right now.

And questioning whether ash

is pulling her weight.

Game will be over if
this keeps happening.

I don't give a

I'm not putting up with this anymore.

Ash?

Hey, big guy.

We gotta talk about some stuff.

You have been a friend
of mine for a long time

but work's work.

I don't wanna call anybody lazy.

When laboring comes,
they're not doing something,

- every time.
- I'm not

I'm not asking you to
work 20 hours a day

but when we're out there
doing it, let's just hustle.

Instead you have to
go to camp all the time.

Literally?

- You got this, that, and the other thing.
- -Literally?

I didn't come over here
to get my a*s chewed.

Yeah, but I'm explaining
to you why I'm in frustration.

I didn't come over here

- to get my a*s chewed.
- Okay. Well, I'm telling you

and you don't listen.

Brennan, I've been moving dirt

for 20 years, you know?

I've heard your experience level forever.

I know what you're
capable of. So show me.

- I wanna see it.
- Brennan

- I watch this...
- actually, yesterday, Brennan,

- I rolled up. Brennan...
- I want you

- I rolled up yesterday.
- -I don't wanna hear your excuse.

You don't wanna hear it?

- No, I don't.
- -You don't wanna hear it?

I'm out of here.

You got a copy, Matt?

Ash, were you calling me?

You guys' radio is not
working with each other.

I can relay if you'd like.

No.

Had it.

Like I don't have time for this.

Brennan and I have
been friends for four years.

Like what the is wrong?

I'll go home.

Ooh, I wonder what happened.

Matt's coming.

Sit and watch the show, I guess.

Hey, what happened?

I'm done.

- What happened?
- -I'm going back to alberta.

- I'm leaving.
- No, you're not.

- Yeah, I am.
- -Get in the truck, darling.

No, I won't.

I'm taking you up to camp. Come on.

Pissed me off.

I think this is quitting.

She left work.

What's up?

Just had a little altercation with ash

down in the cut there.

It's not the first time this has happened

and it's not... you know, it's unfortunate,

but I'm just... I'm at my wit's end.

All right.

We need to figure some out.

Yeah.

Matt and I have had enough
and now I'm going home.

Alberta-bound.

Heartbroken a little bit.

We were up here to try
and make enough money

for down payments on a house.

It's all for nothing, really.

I've got basically no
regrets besides the fact that

maybe I should've kept my mouth shut.

Down in alberta,

if somebody gives me the
grief that I've been given,

I can go punch them in the head.

I know no one will be,

you know, disappointed in us

when we get home, but you still feel like,

you know...

You feel like it's

they've got Brennan now
and two rock truck drivers.

So good luck.

Our decision was to let Ashley go.

Matt was given the option to stay,

but, realistically, we knew

he's probably not going to.

This is a little stressful with the timing

but we got a plant to move.

We gotta get sluicing. We got bills to pay.

So we're still gonna go at it without them.

At the links cut, down two crew,

Brennan now faces a herculean task

to finish the wash plant pad.

We're in a situation here, you know?

The heat has just got turned way up.

But we're here to mine gold.

We're not here to argue and fight

and play Dr. Phil all day.

This is the first time
that we've tried to run

three plants at once.

And really the success
of the season depends

on us being able to do it
and keep three running.

But it's a pretty tall order.

Nearly halfway through the season,

Parker schnabel is
hoping to turn a corner

with three wash plants

set to run nonstop for a full week.

This place has gotten pretty hectic.

There's just a lot going on everywhere,

you know, managers and operators

and mechanics and
Chris in the gold room.

They're all doing their part to try to keep

the wheels under it but it's tough.

Parker needs his three-plant blitz

to get him out of a massive hole,

having banked just a tenth

of his 10,000-ounce season gold.

In the long cut,

Roxanne is racing through prime pay dirt.

At the bridge cut,

big red is sluicing top layer pay gravels.

And down at Ken and Stewart's,

wash plant Bob is churning
through reliable ground.

It's a lot of moving parts trying to keep all

the rock trucks running
and wash plants maintained,

and now it's just a matter

of how long can we sustain this?

We're here at the bridge cut.

We're hopefully getting
into some better pay.

And Tatiana and Michael
are trucking it to me to sluice.

I'm hoping it's got some better gold.

It hasn't really been
looking too good this year.

To supercharge his production

at the bridge cut... Keep
the pay coming, woman.

Parker's brought in the big g*ns,

two a60s,

the biggest rock trucks on his mine site.

With being so behind,
there's a lot of pressure

coming from Parker, and definitely

having the 60s out here
make a huge difference.

The amount of dirt we
can move during the day

is almost double, the a40s.

So they're very, very handy.

The a60s hold 20 tons more dirt

than their little sister, the a40.

Over a thousand tons more pay a day.

- Just at big red.
- Just dumping.

We really gotta hurry
up and get things done.

No.

Tatiana, your tailgate.

What about it?

Your a*s is hanging down.

Your tailgate's broken.

Okay. I'm gonna take it to Taylor to fix it.

We definitely don't need
this to happen right now.

My tailgate is broken.

I need to get back out
there as soon as possible.

- What are you guys hauling?
- -We're just hauling some gravel.

You wanna just pull
that thing right off of there

- and send it back to work?
- Yeah. That's a good idea.

- All right. Let's do this.
- Sounds good.

Right now is pretty crazy times.

It's the most trucking we've ever done

since I've been here.
We've got machines down

in the yard, and every time
something like this comes,

it just slows us down.

We're gonna yank it off, put it to the side,

send it to work.

Away we go.

The tailgate stops pay
from leaking out the back.

- We still looking good?
- Yeah.

And with the trucks
needed back in the cut,

mechanics Taylor and
janko, tear off the tail

and risk running the a60 without it.

There you go, bro.

Beautiful.

When we get a minute,
we'll straighten it out,

and put it all back together nicely.

- Okay. All good?
- All good.

Me and janko banged
this thing out in record time.

Sounds good. Thank you.

All right.

Babe, I'll see you later.

Let's go.

Parker is gonna be super stoked

that this thing is out in the cut again.

I'll just keep cycling them out

and we'll just try, always play catch-up.

Once in a while during
the day I see Taylor,

and it just brightens up my day.

I met Taylor scuba diving in Indonesia.

No idea he was the one.

Taylor moved back to Canada.

I followed him and I
guess the rest was history.

I can't believe

they got Tatiana out here already.

I'm trying to fix this dump site a bit.

They're running out of spots to dump.

The 60 is flipped.

Taylor, do you have a copy, Taylor?

Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, the new guys flipped the 60.

It looks pretty bad.

- Woo.
- And we really don't have time for this

at the bridge cut, Parker schnabel's crew

is racing to rescue a
flipped a60 rock truck

hanging over a 50-foot drop.

We just got a soft
bank and the dump body

flipped over on its side.

Making Taylor's mission tougher,

the a60 weighs a colossal 50 tons.

The problem right
now is we've got the box

slightly elevated.

I don't want the excavator
pulling on the box with the...

With the cylinders extended.

We're just kind of at
risk of bending a cylinder

or snapping a bolt off at the base of it

which will destroy the cylinder anyway.

So we're gonna just try
and make some clearance

by pulling on the frame a little bit

and, lower the box.

You can fire it up.

Yup.

It's just a bit more rigid with
the box all the way down.

The a60 has two hydraulic cylinders,

which extend to tip
the box and dump dirt.

All right. We good?

Okay. Watch yourselves,
guys, just be careful.

If Taylor destroys one,

the a60 will be out for weeks.

Okay. That didn't work.

The tires are buried pretty hard

into the one side there,

so there's quite a bit of resistance.

I'm just gonna see if I can
get the forks in the box here

and start to get this
machine rolled over a little bit.

So it might be okay.

There we go.

Yeah, we're lowering the box.

It looks like we've got the box down,

which is a huge bonus.

So I'm gonna get John to just grab on

and he should be able

just to pull it over now safely.

Yeah, you're good, bro.

There we go.

Voila.

That went nice and smooth.

Right now we've got
two 60s running full time.

It's Paramount that we
keep these machines

just moving dirt.

I can head back to the yard now

and deal with all the other.

Well...

At Duncan creek, Rick ness' crew

are stockpiling pay dirt
next to wash plant rocky.

Rocky has sat idle for two days

after the only excavator
with a bucket small enough

to feed it blew a turbo.

I'm sure if we're stressed, Rick's even,

it's probably 10 times worse for him,

not having gold coming in right now.

I mean, we're not making money,

we're just burning fuel.

So he needs to get something
figured out here fairly quick.

What?

What the is going on?

That is a nice unit.

I brought the new machine here.

This 250 is gonna take place of our 330.

We will end up fixing it, I'm sure,

but it's gonna be a
long time getting parts,

and we couldn't afford to wait that long.

This machine right now
gets us back on track,

gets us back on the gold.

Look at the showcase.

Turn it around, girl!

I'm saving the day, guys!

- Look at this little beauty.
- Yeah.

What are the chances this
little guy would be available?

So every time we blow a
turbo, we get a new machine?

No.

No, no.

Yes.

But this was the quickest
way to get us back running.

I'd say money well spent right.

Well, are you gonna
put the first bucket in,

we're gonna fire it
up? What do you want?

Yeah, I'll get it up there.

Let's go.

Sounds good.

All we got to do is add dirt, baby.

We're back on the gold.

And here we go!

Back in business, boys.

He seems happy up in there.

Attaboy.

We'll get what we can out of here

and hopefully it's good.

Climb it, feed it.

This is the life.

Everybody's excited about
having three plants going.

We need to get as much gold as we can,

but I don't think

they've taken into consideration

that I'm a one-man operation.

In a three-pronged attack for more gold,

Parker schnabel is running three plants

in three different locations.

And the pressure is
falling squarely on one guy.

Everything has to be
cleaned in the gold room.

I can't do that.

I just... I just can't.

Why have a third plant
if you can't keep it clean?

Gold cleaning guru, Chris doumitt,

is on his way to Roxanne

for yet another sluice box cleanup.

Right now, I don't think all the coffee

and the cigars in the world is gonna help.

And if I create a bottleneck,
it's gonna jam up everything.

It's gonna cause horrific problems.

Gonna get these tanks lit up real quick.

We did big red yesterday.

We're doing Roxanne today.

Bob's tomorrow.

It's just... it's too much.

This is awful physical work.

I'm not getting any younger.

My back's not getting any better.

I'm gonna get this thing loaded up

and blast off, all right?

I told Parker

I would stay on the job

until either it's not fun anymore

or I can't do it anymore.

We're getting very close

to the "I can't do it anymore."

I hate to ask Parker for help

with all the stress he's under,

but I don't see an alternative.

This is not gonna be fun.

- Hey, Chris.
- Hey, youngster.

- How you doing?
- Busy.

Yeah, looks like it.

This is big red.

Roxanne's on the truck ready to process.

I've got to do Bob tomorrow.

I can't keep up.

You know, I don't

I don't know what to
tell you, but I need help.

Right. Yeah.

But you know what?

With two plants, I could do it,

- but we're scattered.
- Yeah.

Bob's this way and red's that way.

And I hate to be
whining and complaining,

but this is reality.

I can't do three.

Well, the problem that I have is like,

I'm willing to lose people from the field...

Yeah.

And get somebody you trust in here.

So, who comes to mind?

Damien would be awesome.

Yeah, that's not happening.

Yeah.

Tomo, tomo would be great in here.

Tomo would be really
good, but he's busy.

Tatiana maybe.

She's like one of our top operators.

Yeah.

Mitch and Tyson are not gonna be happy

if Tatiana comes out of the field.

Well, it's not fun anymore.

If I... if I leave...

You're not allowed to retire.

We'll just... We'll take Tatiana.

Tatiana?

Yeah.

Perfect. Thank you so much.

Appreciate it, buddy.
Thank you so much.

Sure. No worries.

Yeah.

Now I can breathe a little bit.

We'll just start training her up.

It's gonna help tremendously.

- All right. Thanks, Chris.
- Okay. Thank you.

I think Tatiana is a good call.

She gets it. I need somebody who just...

They're doing it the way
it's supposed to be done.

I don't have to worry about it anymore.

Finishing up the plant,

getting that all set so we
can plop it down into position.

Now we're almost at
the actual getting gold

part of gold mining, about time.

Three days behind schedule,

Kevin's small crew is
finishing the massive pad

to house the wash plant.

It's just the three of us.

Three men, wolf pack.

Things are moving a lot more smoothly.

People are happier

because we don't have
to deal with Matt and ash.

And I am really glad that that's over

and done with.

Everything right now is
a race to get the plant up.

We've been waiting for
this day for a really long time.

The big milestone is
just having that wash plant

on our pad, smiling.

And hopefully next week,

we start washing rocks
and can do our first clean out

and finally see some gold.

Off we go.

Finally gonna sit on top of the giant berm

or cross or a cut.

Brennan's gonna hook
up to this thing with the 480

and then yo ink, off he goes.

- Well, buddy.
- Almost.

We're almost there.

I really can't wait for this plant.

We'll get this bad boy hooked up,

and then we'll have
you guide me into place.

- It's a little narrow.
- Yeah.

You wanna do just
constantly keep an eye

to those sluice runs right there, faith?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Be careful.

Yeah.

Okay. Are we ready to rock?

Sexy, let's put it in place.

Yeah, faith, there it goes.

This is a big moment for both of us.

Watching this thing gonna
be dragged onto the pad.

Very excited to start washing rocks.

Yeah. Look at that.

There we go.

Smooth as butter.

It's like we knew what
we were doing or what?

Little bit.

That went quick.

We're looking pretty square there, kev.

You can see both pontoons, hey kev?

I just... I can't see the right-hand side

just cause my bucket's blocking it.

Start turning now?

I think so, yeah.

Still look good in the back end, faith?

That's good.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

How much can I hug that bank?

You got about that much.

Million dollars of work
and effort all lining up.

We're about to line this
up to the center of that ramp

so that the conveyor would line up.

A bit more.

Come on.

Good. Okay.

Stop.

What a good day to see this on the pad.

Delightful.

This is like the milestone of the season.

Here we are.

Winning.

Pulling through with
the broken equipment,

pulling through by losing staff.

Like, been an awesome job.

For sure, I appreciate that very much.

- Yeah.
- Thank you.

Can we jump out and take a look and...

- Yeah.
- See what we think?

Man, this plant's cool.

- Bada bing.
- Yeah.

Good job, guys.

What's up?

Hello, nacho!

Boy, hello, buddy.

- Hello.
- Hello, hello.

Hello. What's going on?

- How's your day?
- Good.

I got some news.

I talked to Parker today

and Chris really needs
a hand at gold room.

So it sounds like I'll be
working in the gold room

for the rest of the season.

- Congratulations.
- Thanks.

So far, it's been awesome.

We just finished to do the cleanup.

- Yeah, it's cool.
- All right.

Just make sure you wear
pants with big pockets to work.

- For the gold.
- To the future.

- What's going on?
- Hey, guys.

- Of course, you.
- Awesome.

Jason?

You know, it's great to
have rocky running, man.

Yeah, you're doing really good.

It's the end of Rick's first week

as a Yukon claim owner.

Can't wait to get this going.

Rick's dropped 250
ounces to buy out the claim

and splashed out on
a brand new excavator.

Now, he needs his new
hotspot, the crew cut,

to deliver big gold.

What's up, guys?

This week has been expensive.

Why the silence?

You're usually carrying
those big jars with you.

Yeah.

You didn't bring nothing.

Yeah, the gold actually fit in my pocket.

Jeez.

It's that bad.

- Is that for real?
- Yup.

Well, let's weigh this up.

Three, four.

Six, seven, eight, 10.23...

Worth just $25,000.

Yippee.

Sluicing for three days,

Rick falls short of the 43
ounces a week he needs

to hit his 1,500 ounce target.

That doesn't even cover the fuel costs.

First week owning this place,

not very good result.

Pretty hard to stomach coming
off of what we did last week.

I think we probably did that in an hour.

Yeah, that's record highs to a record low.

It's always a gamble
switching to new ground.

You know, you can do testing,
sampling, blah, blah, blah.

I was hoping for a lot better than that.

Nobody wants to go backwards,

and we've still got damn
near 600 ounces left

to get to our 1,500 ounce goal.

Doing that the rest of the year,

it's not even gonna break
us another 100 ounces.

Nope.

That ain't good,

but it wasn't an easy week either.

We still have some dirt there to run.

Got to keep rolling with it, so.

- I'm in.
- Yeah,

and I'll keep feeding
rocky as long as I have to.

Right on.

I'm gonna go see if I
have my safe big enough

to fit all this gold in.

Thanks, guys.

- See ya.
- Yeah, no problem.

- Yeah.
- Don't trip.

Yeah, that's the tough one right there.

Came from a week
where we did 400 ounces,

and this week we did 10.

All I can say is I know that
we can do better, obviously,

and we will.

Those hundreds of little things.

That's what makes and
breaks in the gold room.

Yeah. Keeps me on my toes.

Let's see what we got.

It's time to find out if Parker's gamble

to run three plants can
turn his fortunes around

and edge him closer to
his 10,000 ounce gold.

How was your week?

It was good.

Man, I didn't think it
would be this much work

keeping three wash plants going.

Yeah.

Taylor's been a busy man this week.

- He has.
- Yeah.

We're putting a lot of miles

on the trucks this year.

Even my truck, with these three plants,

they're so spread out.

Fortunately, I've got Tatiana now,

because without her,

there's no way I could keep up.

- Yeah. It's been awesome.
- Right.

So thank you so much.

Now we're down to good operators.

Good, that'll give us
even a better chance

at catching up.

Well, with the three plants,

are we pulling in good gold?

Well, we can throw some gold
on here and see what we got.

Here's your machine,
big red at the bridge cut.

With all the plants running,

Parker's hoping to blow past

his highest weekly gold haul this season

of 303 ounces.

Here we go, 10, 20, 40, 70, 74, 74.9.

Sake. We do all this work.

What a pain in the a*s.

Well, all I can say is

thank you for the gold price.

Yeah, you get the big thermos, buddy.

All right. Let's see how
Roxanne did this week.

Roxanne was sluicing
dominion's long cut.



We're gonna make 200?

- 207.40.
- Nice.

There we go.

- Yeah.
- Not bad.

Yeah.

When you put that with
what big red did there,

- like almost 300.
- Yeah.

We're almost at one wash plant's worth.

Shut up.

And then we got good old Bob.

Parker's expecting
Bob at Ken and Stewart's

to deliver 300 ounces a week.





Well, there it goes.



We almost had a 600 ounce week.

We're pretty close.

For the week, we got 586 ounces.

Worth almost one and
a half million dollars.

Parker's best cleanup all season.

So that gives us a
season total of 1,693.2,

so almost 1,700 ounces.

Roxanne's doing great.

Bob's doing outstanding.

If red gets in that groove,

we'll have a chance of getting caught up

to where we should be.

Got a long ways to go.

- Yup.
- All right.

- Thank you, guys.
- Gentlemen.

- Later.
- Okay.

Three wash plants running,

the best cleanup of the season.

Now we just got to keep it happening.