We have very high expectations, and people need to meet
those expectations.
So we need to recognize that there's a certain portion
of people that won't meet those standards.
And if we have people that are dragging the team down then,
like, that needs to be dealt with, right?
[narrator] In his ruthless pursuit of a record $35-million season,
Parker Schnabel only wants the best of the best,
and one person is lagging behind.
It's never easy trying to let somebody go,
but everybody needs to be a team player,
and this guy is not.
So we have no choice but to say,
"Sorry, you don't fit here. You don't work."
Hello, Tayvin.
Before your shift starts tonight, I was wondering
if you wouldn't mind popping to the office here.
I'd like to see you.
Yeah.
OK, great. Thanks.
Bye bye.
Parker's mine manager, Nona Loveless, has called in
Tayvin Peterson, a loader-operator
in his second year at Dominion.
[Nona] Hello, how are you?
[Tayvin speaking]
[Nona] Good.
Yeah, unfortunately, we're going to have
to let you go, Tayvin.
[Tayvin speaking]
[Nona] You just have a really [bleep] attitude for this place.
You just are very much a know-it-all.
When I asked you to do something,
you thought you were doing it better.
And that just doesn't work around here.
[Tayvin speaking]
[Nona] I've given you ample weeks of opportunity to do
what is asked of, and you still do it Tayvin's way.
[Tayvin speaking]
[Nona] And then you boast about how many loads you can get
in an hour. Who does that?
[Tayvin speaking]
[Nona] Tayvin, what am I telling you?
See, right now, that's exactly what you're doing.
You're doing...
No, no, but you're--
No, but no, you're not, because you're not listening
to what I am saying.
[Tayvin speaking]
[Nona] Well, you're not thinking ahead, bud.
You're not.
You're falling behind because you're not listening.
So you can pack up... and head on out.
Thanks.
[Tayvin speaking]
[Nona] Yeah, attitude just, it doesn't fly around here.
- I mean... - [Tayvin speaking]
[Nona] Yeah, well, I tried telling you how many times?
If my boss, my senior, tells me to do something, guess what?
See? See?
You're still-- you're still-- I've let you go,
and you're still telling me that you're right.
Get out of here! Honestly, go!
I don't even want-- I don't even want-- go!
Go! Get out of here.
[somber music plays]
[Tayvin] I don't understand the logic behind it.
I think if they had the time to sit down with me, and...
understand or hear my side out,
that it would make a lot more sense to them, but...
[sighs deeply]
This is sad.
[whirring]
[Parker] We've had a bit of turnover this year.
We've been hiring and firing. Working here is not easy,
and we have a lot to do, and you know, you need
good people that you can count on.
We're like, at a pretty decent point in the season
and starting to pick up momentum.
We've got four washplants running.
If we can keep the wheels on the bus, you know,
we're in a very good place, but it's going to take
a lot of effort and work on everybody's part
in order to make that happen.
Halfway through the season, Parker's already banked
over $18 million worth of gold.
But recently, plant breakdowns and spotty ground have seen
his gold numbers slow down to less than 500 ounces a week.
[Parker] The gold weighs needs improvement.
If it continues like this, we're in real trouble.
I trust all our managers.
We have a really good group of people.
And at Dominion this year,
Tyson is definitely doing a really good job.
[Tyson] I have the three washplants moved
and up and running here at Dominion.
It's wild because of how busy this place is right now.
There's a lot going on.
We got all our stakes in the fire right now, so...
hopefully it doesn't bite us in the ass.
After Tayvin's firing, Dominion's foreman, Tyson Lee,
is down a loader-operator.
Now he needs to train up a new hire to feed washplant Bob.
[Tyson] I have some time to spend with India,
and get her feeding the washplant.
India's been in a loader for five, six days now,
and now it's about time she learns how to feed a plant.
Working in the loader, in all honesty, is pretty difficult.
In the Bridge Cut, rookie India Greenhalgh has
less than a month's gold mining under her belt.
You know, I've left one job that I'm actually pretty good at,
starting a job that I know nothing about.
It's not an easy thing to do, but I want to be good at this.
I don't just want to be OK. I want to be awesome.
While this is India's first season mining,
it isn't her first rodeo in the Yukon.
Hi, Tony!
For four years, India worked behind the camera
with the "Gold Rush" film crew.
[India] Historically, I've worked on Tony's claims, but I did do
one stint on Parker's claim,
and that's how me and Tyson met.
Hi.
[Tyson] Oh, thanks.
You know, I remember when she first came to site here,
and I saw her right then and there, and I thought,
"oh, I've got to get to know her."
[India] Whilst this is very different, there was no real option for me
having a boyfriend that lives in Canada.
A gold mine is definitely not a place that I thought I was
ever going to find love, but here I am.
I am loving it, quite frankly.
I'm loving love.
Cheers.
- [India] Hi, babe. - [Tyson] How's it going, babe?
[India] Yeah, good.
So watch what I do when I'm...
going to throw a scoop in the hopper.
So you want to get nice and straight
with the hopper first.
And then start lifting. Same thing as a rock truck,
when you're loading a rock truck.
You want to come in...
and then you want to aim for the middle of the target.
See how I'm not spilling any material off the back,
not spilling any material off the front?
[India] Yeah.
And then when my bucket is dumped all the way,
I'm lowering my boom, lowering my center of gravity.
When you're running to the back of the cut like this,
keep in mind there's no one up at the plant right now.
You're the one watching it, right?
From way back here, I'm looking at the belts,
making sure there's material going up them,
making sure nothing looks askew,
making sure the tailings conveyor is going.
Yeah, that makes sense.
You see something, hit the breaker and run up
and open the bypass and close the main.
- [banging] - [India] Agh!
- What? - Smacked my head.
Well, don't smack your head then.
You're not a bobblehead. [Tyson chuckles]
Just watch next time.
[rumbling softly]
[Tyson] [bleep]!
That is not good.
See how that material is not moving?
Do not ignore that. Jump out.
It's clogged.
Stand back and watch me this time.
The hopper feeder is clogged with pay,
stopping it from getting to the plant.
[Tyson] OK, back in the loader.
So that's why it's really important...
- [India]...to watch. - [Tyson] Yeah.
- OK, your turn. - OK.
- I'll be on miner two. - [India] OK.
[dozer rumbling]
[Tyson] Go up.
Up.
So just get nice and square with the feeder first.
It's nerve-racking.
There's small adjustments. Straighten out.
Keep going. You're fine.
Start booming up. Boom up.
[India] Am I straight? Am I straight?
Boom up. Boom up faster.
Stop moving forward. Boom up.
Now slowly start dumping.
Once you've cleared the hopper, boom down,
so boom down now.
Yeah, it's good there.
It's really nerve-racking, actually.
I've got the world's driest mouth.
[chuckles]
Nice.
[sighs deeply]
[India] It's a lot harder than it looks.
[Tyson] Keep doing this for another four months.
[India laughs]
[Tyson] All righty.
I'm going to go.
Bye-- I'll be back.
She's all yours.
[India, unsteady] OK.
It's very much on me to make sure that this plant is running
as it should be.
[Tyson] Parker wouldn't have offered her the job if he didn't think
she could do it.
Hopefully, in the upcoming days, she'll be able to feed
the plant, run the plant, shut down the plant,
and know how to problem-solve around the plant.
[thrilling music plays]
We got less than 500 ounces on the season right now,
and that's not nearly enough.
Well, we're back in Vegas Valley, and that's where
we know the good gold is.
So we got to get back down to the paydirt.
Three months in, Rick Ness's season
is finally on the upswing.
Last week, we got a good result from the last cleanup,
but that was the end of the stockpile.
We didn't get down to pay like we planned on.
I mean, there's a lot to do.
There's a big road to build, and there's no more pay to run.
And yeah, we need to switch up the plan right now if we're
going to get back to the pay in Vegas Valley quickly.
Rick's crew has finished building the road
to the bottom of Vegas Valley.
But now Rick faces another problem.
There's a lot of slop in there.
The whole cut's flooded with silty, muddy [bleep].
We're going to have to move it all
before we get back to the pay.
But getting it out of here is painful.
I've got an idea. It's a cheap way to move dirt.
And we tried this last year in Rally Valley.
We actually had some success with it.
And we're going to try it again.
I think we learned stuff last year.
So we got the monitor.
We're going to drop that into Vegas Valley and get that slop
out of there and get back on the gold.
At Vegas Valley, Rick's crew has built a narrow road
to the bottom of the 200-foot deep cut.
Now they've discovered the pay layer they reached last year
is covered in six feet of thick sludge.
Rick's solution?
Bring in a high-powered water monitor
to blast the sticky sludge,
breaking it down to a runny slurry.
Then suck it out with a 12-inch water pump,
revealing the gold-rich pay layer underneath.
[machine clanking]
Hey, guys, it's time to fire this thing up and get the pay!
Hey, Chris, fire that pump up! Let's go!
All right, starting the pump now, Rick.
[pump revs up]
[Rick] All right, here it comes.
[heavy swooshing, splatting]
We have the monitor in place now.
We can use that to wash all that silt over to our pump
and hopefully have the pay clean in maybe a day or two.
We got a new guy here, Chris. He's working that monitor.
We need all the manpower we can get right now.
We got a long ways to go.
I have to pay close attention to what I'm doing here.
Rick's brought in new operator, Chris Lalonde,
for the season's second half push.
With room for just one excavator at the bottom of
the pit, clearing the sludge is Chris's shot to prove himself.
[Chris] I'm originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta.
I have spent the last five or six years traveling around,
doing different jobs. And now I'm here.
I feel like it's going good.
They are trusting me to try and do this task alone.
[squelching]
It appears I'm losing my battle at this moment.
The water level should continuously drop.
Now it's increasing in my pond,
Guys, it looks like the pump doesn't move the sludge.
The pump is failing to suck out the slurry, and now...
there's an even bigger mess.
For some reason, it's stuck.
I don't know if we sucked up a bunch of mud.
I don't know what the deal is,
but it ain't [bleep] working. That, I know.
Shut it down!
- [Ryan] Am I good? - [Kyle] Yeah.
[Ryan] I'm gonna have to back up.
[Kyle] That's good.
[Ryan] Uh...
All we have is a steel plate with holes welded into it.
So when we're washing all this muck down in here, it easily
can get plugged up as soon as any rocks, any silt,
anything gets stuck in this.
At Vegas Valley, Rick's crew is battling a thick layer
of sludge to reach the gold-rich pay.
But a plugged pump has brought the operation to a standstill.
[Ryan] All right, well, we could...
find or build a basket.
It's gonna give us a lot more area for suction,
and then it's where we don't have any problems
with anything clogging.
To get the pump sucking again, mechanic Ryan Kent plans
to build a new intake basket with bigger screens,
reducing the risk of blockages.
[cranking]
- Looks heavy. - [Kyle] Yeah.
[Ryan] Three dudes to move a plate.
[chuckling]
Right now, we're going to look for some material
to build a basket.
We do have a bunch of punch plate.
We could cut it out and weld a square together.
Looks like Kyle may have found a box over there.
- 10 inch on it? - [Kyle] Yeah.
We need a 12-inch.
Get rid of this.
- I'll make those work. - [Kyle] I got it.
[banging]
[Ryan] Look at that!
Once we torch this off,
we'll weld the other one right to it.
To fit the basket to the pump's 12-inch hose,
Ryan first replaces the flange.
[Ryan] We got to build our own [bleep].
That's what we're going to do.
Let's see if we can get her up this direction.
Damn, you guys are strong.
Your moms must be proud.
The main piece we need is this Victaulic right there.
[hissing]
Hit it with a hammer, see if it'll break free.
Yeah!
Now what we're gonna do is put a bead around it.
Good enough. She'll serve her purpose now.
[machine humming]
Hopefully, that's the quick fix we need to be able to get that
muck out of there and get down to pay.
[thrilling music plays]
OK, we need this basket to work.
If it doesn't, we're going to be kind of [bleep] ourselves
on time here.
[thrilling music resumes]
There she goes.
We got our new basket back in.
Ready to fire.
[motor powers up]
[sloshing]
That water is dropping pretty quick.
Yeah, it looks like the cage is working.
[Chris] Yeah.
Suction's working, pump's working.
We are one step closer to getting back to pay.
100 miles west...
[Tayvin] Well, I guess I'm starting a new chapter in my life
and going to look for some work.
I don't want to be going home because I love gold mining
and can't afford to go home yet.
After being let go from Parker's crew, Tayvin Peterson
is gunning for a fresh start.
Right now I'm just looking around, seeing who's willing
to hire a new gold miner.
Going to somebody's gold mine and just knocking on the door.
So I guess we're here.
Hope this goes well.
Hello, how's it going?
My name is Tayvin Peterson, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you. Pull up a chair.
What can we do you for?
I heard you were mining up here and I was wondering
if you guys were looking for employees or if you guys are
pretty stacked up on operators?
There are some opportunities here.
Currently right now, the big thing we're
on the lookout for is rock truck operators and loader operators.
What is your time on those things?
So this will be my fourth season mining.
I really enjoy everything about gold mining,
and I'm really willing to learn.
Last year, Parker had me a rock truck, and...
Were you at Parker's this year for the first little bit?
[Tayvin] Yeah.
Invited me back for another season, but things weren't
going good, and then Nona really, like, fired me.
I'm not sure why.
[suspenseful music plays]
All right.
OK.
Uh...
But I was on Sluicifer before, for those two weeks.
I started right off on the plant on night shift,
so they must have a little bit of faith in me.
That is a feather in your cap, so to speak,
because I'm always looking for more people
who have experience feeding the plant.
OK, this might work out for both of us, honestly.
But if we're gonna hire you, one of the first places
we're gonna throw you is night shift at the plant.
So...
if you're up for that...
That's great. That's what I'm looking for.
[Kevin] Perfect.
So for now, I'd say you're hired.
Thank you so much!
I appreciate this.
You gave a good vibe, so let's roll those dice, see how it
works out for both of us. - [Tayvin] Thank you so much.
That was awesome! Got hired.
And I'm super excited to start
working for a smaller crew again.
And the work that I do will get noticed a lot more.
He didn't work out there. He might work out here.
Only way we're going to find out is, well,
try him out.
Having struggled for crew and gold all season,
second-year mine boss Kevin Beets is slowly
turning a corner.
It was tough at the start of the year to lose both
Brennan and Kayden.
And now Buzz is gone to go have a baby.
But we brought in some new crew
and we're making it [bleep] work.
Only thing you can do.
Going into the second half of the season, I'm still
optimistic that we're going to be successful.
I don't know if we're going to be as successful as I want it
to be, but we're still going for a 2,000-ounce goal.
We still want to get that.
Two weeks ago, with his Pyramid Cut mined out,
Kevin broke ground on the new seven-acre Sphinx Cut.
With everything now riding on the new ground, Kevin's already
down to pay and feeding it through the washplant.
[Kevin] I am hoping that Sphinx Cut going to pay off better
than Pyramid Cut has been.
It's really important that we hit our weekly target.
We're aiming for 100 ounces a week, and to get there,
we've got to be running 24/7.
For his first night shift of the season, Kevin pairs
new hire Tayvin with veteran miner Rick Johnson.
[Rick J.] Tayvin, copy Tayvin.
[Tayvin] Copy, copy. What's up, Rick?
[Rick J.] How's things going at your end?
[Tayvin] Uh, things are going really good over here.
To keep the plant sluicing through the midnight sun,
Tayvin has to feed 24 loads of paydirt an hour.
[Tayvin] Right now I'm just running the plant on night shift.
We got a small crew going right now, me and Rick.
So we gotta...
just make sure we're staying consistent and keeping
everything fed, and make sure we're getting rocks washed
while we can.
Really enjoying it here.
I already got put on the washplant,
which I'm really excited about.
Everybody's been super welcoming and teaching me lots
and showing me how they do things around here,
which I really appreciate.
I take a lot of pride in what I do, and I want to be
on a winning team, so I feel like...
I need to prove myself a little bit.
I just definitely don't want to get fired again.
[rumbling]
Ugh...
We're coming to our end at night shift,
but the pace here is a little bit slower,
and I'm still getting used to it.
I'm trying my best.
[adventurous music plays]
[heavy rattling]
Oh, [bleep], there's no pay on the conveyor.
[thrilling music plays]
[motor winds down]
[intriguing music plays]
[Tayvin] Looked like it might have been the hopper, I think.
I'm gonna go check it out.
Oh, my [bleep]!
Oh, man, that's a big rock.
At Scribner Creek, 10 hours into his first night shift
for Kevin Beets, new hire Tayvin
has shut down the washplant.
[suspenseful music plays]
[bleep] sakes. What now?
Chelsea March and Tyler Potter from the day shift arrive early
to help clear the blockage.
[Tayvin] It looks like a big rock got through the grizzlies.
I don't know how they managed to make their way
through the grizzlies, this [bleep] big,
and the grizzlies are this [bleep] big.
[Tayvin] I think we're gonna have to get that big rock chained up
to the grizzlies. - [Rick J.] Oh, yeah.
So use the power of the grizzlies to remote
lift it enough at least to get the dirt out.
- [Tayvin] Loosen up, hopefully. - [Rick J.] Yeah, exactly.
[Tyler] Go on the top.
[Tayvin] Beauty.
[Tyler] Tayvin's going to jump in there, poke around.
We're going to run the chain through the top and wrap
the grizzly bars with the chain, and we'll try
and give her a little jiggle, see if we can pop it out
inside the feeder.
The grizzly bars on the feeder screen out large boulders
to protect the washplant from damage.
But months of wear and tear have bent them out of shape,
creating holes.
A large rock has fallen into the hopper,
blocking its feed conveyor.
The crew's quick fix?
Dig out a tunnel underneath the 100-pound boulder.
Wrap a chain around it.
Then attach the chain to the grizzlies and use
its hydraulic ram to lift and free the rock.
[Tyler] Here's the other side, Tayvin.
Pull that.
[Tayvin] OK.
[bleep] downtime, ugh.
- [Tyler] Get out of here. - [Tayvin] Yeah.
[Tyler] Drop the grizzlies back down,
and hook it to the grizzlies,
and try and pull it up.
[thrilling music plays]
- Keep tapping it up. - Yeah.
[heavy rattling]
[dramatic music plays]
[Tyler] Down, down, down.
[rattling]
Good, man.
[Tayvin] [bleep] down!
- [boulder crashes] - [rattling]
[Tayvin] Did it break the chain?
[Tyler] Nope. Might have wiggled off.
Chels, can you turn the feeder on a little bit?
- Oh, yeah, that's coming. - [Tayvin] Yup.
That's about as big as they come.
[Tyler] I got to get her going again.
[triumphant music plays]
[Tyler] The rock's out, plant's running again.
Little chaotic, but plant's going,
so that's what counts.
- [Kevin] Hey, Tayvin. - Quite the jam up last night.
Big rock slipped through the grizzlies.
[Kevin] I see you got it out. How'd that go?
So we ended up tying a chain to the grizzlies
and wiggling it up. - Good job, man.
- [Tayvin] Thank you. - [Kevin] Well...
sounds like you had enough excitement for today,
so you may as well go and get some [bleep] sleep.
[Tayvin] Enjoy the day.
[Kevin] Sounds like Tayvin had a little excitement
for his first night shift.
Lifting the rock with the grizzly bars, good plan.
So yeah, not bad for his first night.
[wings flapping]
[rumbling]
So I'm running Bob, and I have been doing now for quite
a few days,
which means I'm down here all by myself.
Obviously, I've got to keep Bob fed.
I've got to make sure that Bob doesn't [bleep] up.
With me being such a rookie, it kind of terrifies me,
but I've got to learn these things at the end of the day.
Since I've been here, Tyson, when we go back home
of an evening, he's like an army sergeant or something.
He's like, "What do we do when there's something wrong
with the plant? What do we do? What do we do?"
And I'm like, "I run for the generator.
I hit the three-phase breaker."
And then he's like, "What's next?"
And I'm like, "I hit the bypass."
And he's like, "Good!"
[laughs]
[heavy thudding]
I just heard a big crash,
which is, yep, there goes big rock.
If they make it out onto the belt, I've got to make sure
that they go all the way up and into the washplant.
If they don't go all the way up and into the washplant,
that means they could be stuck on the belt somewhere.
[heavy thud]
[suspenseful music plays]
Two miles away...
[Tyson] So, you know, right now the plant pad up here
in the Golden Mile seems to be coming along pretty good.
[phone chimes]
Hang on a sec, guys.
[mumbling indistinctly]
[ominous chord strikes]
[thrilling music plays]
I don't know what's going on, but I just got a text
from India saying, "Help!"
Come on, Jarv.
The dog that appears out of nowhere.
Go on.
[ominous music plays]
[India] Oh, [bleep]!
Oh, there's a big jamming on the belt.
I've just had to shut down Bob.
[bleep]! I mean, look at this.
There's a massive rock.
Humongous.
I really hope that's not [bleep] up the belt.
At the Bridge Cut on solo shift running washplant Bob,
rookie loader operator India
has shut down with a jammed-up conveyor.
Every single minute counted,
so please try and get rid of all of it.
OK, here's Tyson.
[Tyson speaking]
[India] Can you turn the water off?
I couldn't turn it all the way off.
[suspenseful music plays]
[sloshing stops]
Right.
OK.
[Tyson speaking]
[India] OK.
That should be able to move that.
Wanna jump down?
Well, it's like two huge rocks.
There's like one underneath that as well.
[Tyson] Oh, yeah.
[intriguing music plays]
Jump down for a sec.
OK.
[Tyson] Watch yourself.
I'm going to be throwing a massive rock off this side.
Watch yourself.
[crashing heavily]
[India] All right.
[Tyson] OK, I'll go get the shaker going.
[motor powers up]
[gushing heavily]
[India] I hope for no more rock jam-ups today.
Thank you so much for coming to help out there.
[Tyson] Nice work, India.
India did really well.
She caught it before it turned into a massive pile of dirt,
because that's what happens.
All in all, I don't think that
was too much of a bad shutdown for Bob here.
And I'm glad that I broke my shutdown virginity in a way
that nothing was damaged and nobody was hurt.
I definitely think I gave Tyson a little bit of a heart attack
there with that text.
Hopefully Tyson's heart is OK.
[chuckles]
[calm music plays]
Looking at it, like, I can see the difference from
our start point to now, and things are looking...
pretty peachy right now.
I guess that's as low as she'll go.
In Vegas Valley, another new hire has been working alone.
Chris Lalonde has finally cleared the sludge
from the bottom of a tight spot.
You guys just want to swing on
down and come have a look at the progress I've made?
[Rick] Just gonna check out.
Looks good down there.
You did a killer job on it.
- Yeah, it looks pretty clean. - Has it been fun?
Fun.
Fun to sit in a machine and re-familiarize.
It hasn't been fun, don't lie.
[Rick laughs]
Yeah, I think we just get the trucks in here and see
what we can get out.
Let's get the gold.
[Kyle] Ready, Bailey?
Yeah, come on down.
Let's see what this is going to do.
Sounds good.
[Bailey] Trying to get one truck in, one truck out.
It's definitely not just drive-in, drive-out
kind of situation.
You've got to back down all the way in here.
To haul pay from the bottom of the 200-foot-deep valley,
Kyle and Chris have to take turns reversing their trucks
down a narrow single-track with steep banks.
[Bailey] It's finally the first scoop into Kyle here.
What's it looking like from down there, Bailey?
Yeah, it's pretty tight.
And you know, in this position, we need more room for sure.
[crumbling]
[Rick] I don't like this.
[rattling]
[crackling]
It's just not right, you know?
I'm just wondering if it's too dangerous.
I do take the safety of my crew very seriously.
You have to keep it safe.
I had a visit from some inspectors.
They have the power to shut me down.
If mine inspectors visited the claim and judged
Vegas Valley at risk of landslide,
Rick could be shut down for the season.
[Rick] [bleep]!
Hey, Bailey, finish loading.
I don't know what I was thinking, man.
Let's get the [bleep] out of here.
[Bailey] Are you sure?
Pull it out of there. Let's move on.
Well, I guess that's it for this now.
I was really focused on the gold down there
because we need it, and I wasn't fully
appreciating how this was actually going to look.
We need to get this set up better.
We're not ready for this.
To make Vegas Valley safe to mine, Rick will have to expand
the bottom of the pit to make more room, which could take
weeks and delay him getting on the gold.
[bleep]
We'll probably get a little bit of gold out of it.
It ain't gonna be much,
but it did not take long to see that that wasn't too dangerous.
[intriguing music plays]
- [Kevin] Hey, guys. - Hey, guys.
[Kevin] How it goes?
- [Chelsea] Good, how are you? - [Kevin] So tired.
[Chelsea] Yeah. I feel you.
It's the end of Kevin's first week running 24/7,
and he's invited crew members Tyler and Chelsea
to see if it's paid off.
[Kevin] All that work for this little bit of [bleep].
- Cool to see it all cleaned up. - [Chelsea] Yeah.
So how's Tayvin been working out on night shifts?
So far, so good. Keeps the plant running, so...
[Kevin] Yeah, I mean,
the priority number one is keeping the plant going 24/7,
which we've been doing pretty good at it,
as you can see. - Yeah.
[Kevin] For the amount of work that we do, it doesn't look like
a lot, but for the price of gold right now, that's...
Well, it makes a real difference.
Probably pretty all right, yeah.
Let's weigh it up and find out exactly how good
we've been doing. - [Tyler] For sure.
This is Kevin's first gold weigh for two weeks,
and his first from his new Sphinx Cut.
He's expecting to see at least 200 ounces.
[Chelsea] 10, 20...
50, 70...
100, 120...
158.
- [Kevin] Second jar. - [Tyler] Yup.
[Chelsea] 160, 170, 180...
200, 230, 240...
250.245.
- [Faith] That's pretty cool. - [Tyler] Yup.
Two weeks of running nonstop. That's always nice.
- [Chelsea] Yeah. - It's nice, yeah.
Worth $876,000,
Kevin's best gold weigh of the season,
taking his total to 583 ounces,
over $2 million in gold.
[Kevin] It goes to show that the effort we're putting in
is paying out. - [Tyler] Absolutely, yeah.
Maybe we should get back to it.
See you guys in a little bit?
- [Chelsea] Cool, sounds good. - [Tyler] Sounds good.
- [Faith] See you, guys. - [Kevin] See you.
[Faith] That's a really good gold weigh.
250 ounces, that's not bad at all.
[Kevin] No, no, that's pretty nice.
I mean, as long as we keep a good crew going,
and Tayvin fits in with everyone,
helps us keep going 24/7,
get us closer to that 2,000-ounce goal.
Yeah.
[crackling]
- [Rick] What's up, guys? - What's going on, Rick?
[Rick] Nice fire.
So how's your first week been there, Chris?
Happy to be here.
Your crew's a great crew. Trying my best.
Appreciate you being here. No, it's good to have you.
Rick Ness and his crew
battled all week to get down to Vegas Valley pay,
but Rick was only able to run two truckloads
before calling time on the dangerous pit.
Do we know what those two rock trucks got us?
[Rick] Yeah, actually-- it doesn't look like a lot,
but that's an ounce.
- [Ryan] Pretty good. - That's really good.
That's almost Rally Valley numbers.
Right now our total's at 437.46.
We're not, uh...
adding a whole bunch to it, but that brings us to 438.46.
We got a long ways to go. Yeah.
Rick's season total is worth $1.5 million, and if he can hit
Vegas Valley's riches, he should be on track
for his 1,800-ounce goal.
There's a considerable amount of gold left in there,
for sure, and at least the two truckloads told us that.
We're not gonna abandon it, but it's just, right now,
knowing, should we be expanding Vegas Valley
so that it's easier to get?
There's a lot of things that need to be extra done to it.
The hole's getting smaller and smaller.
You get trucks in there. You got to do a lot of work.
Everybody busted their asses to get to that little spot.
I know.
They're gonna be obviously ready to tackle again,
but you're going to need a solid plan.
I'm going to do my best to...
to try and figure this out,
but I hope that you guys are on board too, you know what I mean?
So as long as you got a game plan,
probably all [bleep] game.
[Rick] Appreciate it.
Rick faces a tough decision.
Spend weeks expanding Vegas Valley
or find a new spot to mine.
Well, it's a small amount of gold, but it's an ounce.
It tells us there's a lot of gold down there.
We need to get it, but I need to come to a decision
on how to do it. We're going to expand,
or what the hell are we going to do?
There's a lot to think about,
but a decision has to be made.
- [Brennan] Hello. - [Tatiana] Hello.
What up?
At Dominion, Parker's crew gathers to find out if running
all four washplants has reversed last week's slump.
[Mitch] How'd your week go?
Well, I tell you, with four plants running,
it's hopping down here.
How about you guys?
Yeah, we had some stuff happen.
A couple days ago, India messages me,
and all I get is "help," exclamation mark.
- No context. - [Tatiana] Oh, no.
[Tyson] When I get there, and she was up shoveling on the conveyor,
I'm like, "You can't do that." Like, "That is not cool."
Like, "You have to say 'the washplant's down,'
"or 'a loader's got a flat tire,'
"or 'there's a bear in the cut,'
because I could not get there fast enough."
She's like, "What did you want me to do? I was shoveling."
[Brennan] Oh, my God.
I'm like, "Well, [bleep] text, like, three more words."
[all laughing]
- "Help, I'm shoveling." - Yeah, like...
[laughing]
Well, you want to see how Roxanne did, Mitch?
[Mitch] Yeah, buddy, how did we do?
First, from Ken and Stuart's claim that's averaging
130 ounces a week.
All right, Roxanne.
[Mitch] Here we go.
30, 60, 90...
130...
yeah, keep going... 140, 150.4.
- [Parker] Nice. - [Doumitt] Yeah.
That's an improvement over last week.
- The Golden Mile. - [Tyson] Golden Mile.
- And that's for both plants? - [Doumitt] Yes.
Next, gold from Sluicifer and Big Red on Dominion Creek,
which last week delivered 232 ounces.
[Tyson] We've got 20, 40...
120, 140, 160...
200, 230, 250...
251.55.
- Nice. - [Doumitt] Yeah.
Deadly.
Tatiana will now give you the Bridge Cut.
Finally, gold from washplant Bob,
averaging 170 ounces a week.
[Brennan] 10, 20, 30...
60, 80...
103.7.
[Doumitt] Down from a little bit.
Bob's been a bit depressing,
to be honest. - [Doumitt] Yeah.
Like for a pit that we stripped like 40 feet
of dirt off of the top of.
[Doumitt] I don't know if you really get into that good pay yet or not.
[Parker] There's a lot of low-grade pay.
Hopefully it'll come back up somewhere.
Well, last week we had 428.7 ounces.
This week, 505.4.
Not bad.
Our season total, 5,855.9,
so, we're going forward.
It'd be nice if we went forward a little faster,
but we're getting there.
Yeah, we just have to keep plugging at her.
[Doumitt] Yeah.
An 80-ounce increase on last week's total,
and with gold at record-high prices,
Parker's mined over $20 million,
more cash than he's ever made in one season.
- [Parker] All right. - Keep it up, you guys.
- [Parker] Thanks, guys. - You bet.
- Excellent job, as always. - [Doumitt] Thank you.
- We try to keep it clean. - [Parker] That is super clean.
[Doumitt] Yeah.