I told you where to put your sluice, over here.
Everybody's telling me to put it like this.
After weeks of butting heads...
You've been stepping on my toes the whole project.
No, I haven't.
...and unexpected setbacks...
...the Hoffmans are looking forward.
Is that what I think it is?
- I think it's a drift, isn't it? - Yeah.
But with just the Holy Roller running,
they'll need Hunter's second plant
to hit their $1.75 million target.
We're firing the Black Pearl, everybody clear.
Will the Black Pearl's maiden run
help them sail towards their season-long
1,000-ounce gold?
- It's rolling. - She rolls.
Look at that little patch of gold right there.
That's money in the bank.
Or will it sink them?
Sparky, you've gotta talk to me.
Hey, we got water gushing out in the pan.
You gotta be kidding me.
With the Holy Roller's current gold production
well short of the 100-ounce average
the Hoffmans are aiming for this week.
And the Black Pearl, one part shy of being operational,
Hunter and Framer set out to find it.
Two running plants will mean double the production.
Last piece of the wash plant,
we're really close
I honestly didn't think we were gonna be able to get this far.
To get the Black Pearl to this point,
Hunter and his team had to cut the wash plant into three pieces
to transport it 80 miles across an unforgiving road.
I look good over here. How are you guys looking?
And then reassemble the 80,000-lb behemoth on site
with limited parts and tools.
That's it!
We got stuff done we didn't think we were gonna be able to.
It's a big plant, requires a lot of water.
You know it didn't come with a pump.
If I don't have enough water, I can't run it at all.
So, I called Nate.
He's been a huge lifesaver for me this season.
And he called around. He found me a pump,
and I'm hoping that this is gonna be just enough
to get us enough water for the Black Pearl.
There she is.
Right now, it's my only option
and, uh, we're gonna see if we can make it work.
- Hunter, man, what's going on? - How's it going?
- How are you? - Good to see you.
- Good. - There she is.
So we pulled it off.
- Yeah, it's no Barco pump, you're right. - No.
But do you know what it takes to find a pump in Nome?
- This one's gonna cost you. - Yeah, I figured.
Do you know any specs on this, like the water?
You're gonna have to dial in. Depends on what you got for nozzle.
But it's gonna work.
- They've got a suction line too. - Okay.
So that will marry up right here.
You're gonna have to change your discharge phalange,
but other than that, I mean, it's self-priming, it's a good pump.
It should be everything you need right now.
I mean, right now, beggars can't be choosers.
I don't really have too many options.
- You wanna crank it up? - Yeah.
- You hold the Murphy switch. - Yeah.
- The only downside is it's a small pump. - Yep.
So you might struggle with water supply a little bit
Well, Hunter, what do you think? You want it?
Hey, well it runs, and it's a pump, so...
- It's a pump. - It's better than what I had, so...
- All right, let's get it loaded. - Let's do it.
You know, your Achilles' heel in mining is your water.
You have to have enough water to make the sluices work properly.
We need this to run, so we'll see what happens.
- All right, are you ready? - Yeah.
These are the last pieces I needed to get the Black Pearl running.
I got a pump, so I'm hoping this weekend
we'll get everything wrapped up.
All right, what do I owe you?
We'll talk later. Just get that plant running.
If it all works out, maybe I can pay you in gold.
I never turn down gold, you know.
We're both involved in this thing now.
- You've had to help me so many times, you know. - Exactly.
Actually I'm a little bit nervous.
It's a good pump, but it's old.
It's a last-minute deal.
Hopefully this thing runs like it's supposed to.
There we go.
That's it, let's roll.
- Nate, thanks for saving my ass again. - Any time, bud.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
You know, hopefully in a day or two we're up and running.
We're coming out nice and clean. They look good.
Back at the mine,
the Holy Roller hits its midday stride
as it processes material.
Last week was really, really good.
Big picture, we're still way behind where we need to be.
We just plain and simple need to get more gold.
We need 100 ounces a week to hit our goal.
Ten-four, will do, Todd.
I need Hunter to get the Black Pearl up and running.
And while that's happening,
I need to put the best pay dirt I can
through the Holy Roller,
and just keep grinding as much gold as we can get.
We got a limited amount of pay dirt right now.
We will run out eventually
if we do not find some more quick.
But at the end of the day we need the mother lode.
We wanna hit it.
I have pulled straight up to you, port side in.
Perfecto. Thanks.
Across the claim on the ancient riverbed cut,
Andy and the rest of the crew work to keep the plant fed.
We had a lot of high hopes coming into this season,
and we still do.
But we have a long ways to go.
We wanna get 1,000 ounces,
so I'm gonna keep stripping pay,
just keep going.
Holy crap.
It's just solid ice, the side of that hill.
That is really cool.
And it shows we're on the gold.
Hey, Todd, if you've got a second, come down here to the cut
I've got something to show you.
That's 10-four.
Holy crap, look how big that sucker is.
Is that what I think it is?
- I think it's a drift, isn't it? - Yeah.
That's a tunnel.
It's a big tunnel.
I've exposed an old drift.
When the old timers were in there
digging with pick and shovel
this had to have been really rich ground
for these guys to be doing this all by hand.
What Andy has unearthed are the remains
of what's known as a miner's drift.
A subterranean tunnel built wide enough
so that several miners could pan long sections
of promising pay dirt well below the surface.
For the miners who worked this claim 100 years ago,
this was laborious backbreaking work
done with the technology of their time,
which was mostly pickaxes and shovels.
It looks like this drift filled up with water and soil,
and it froze.
We've been digging into it from the side.
That don't look like a little hole.
That was, like--
It's like a family of miners could go in it.
If you find a tunnel
or a guy picked his way through,
we take this very, very serious.
And when we've ever found any of these,
it's always been the best gold we ever had.
So, the old timers, they had to go for big gold
because gold was only 20, 30 bucks an ounce.
So the amount of gold that they had to dig up by hand,
was unbelievable.
Hey, Thurber, come on down. I want you to have a look at this.
An old pale.
There's some more stuff up there. What is that?
Dude, they were living up in here.
This was probably full of gold.
You fill this up with gold and then take it out...
I don't know.
The old timers, they investigated.
They started a little tunnel,
if it started paying off,
they made a bigger tunnel, and a bigger tunnel.
And either that guy was a fat guy like me,
or he had a hell of a lot of gold in there.
- I'll go with the gold. - Yeah, me too.
Thurber, see that tunnel?
That's crazy.
I need you to take a sample of that.
- You can see where he was carving in. - Yeah.
- You see how he made his tunnel wide? - Sure.
- He was lugging that stuff directly on the side. - Yep.
It's kinda cool. A hundred-plus years ago,
someone walked around with that bucket
and for whatever reason, they stopped there.
We're gonna continue on.
So... it kinda gets you.
If you don't get it, it's kinda hard to explain
but, you know, why did they quit?
Did they die out here?
I mean, it's such a huge story.
To be part of it...
...yeah. It's pretty big
I could go up right here.
Every time that we've ever been in this gray layer,
it's got a lot of gold in it.
Based on previous signs and this color soil,
Andy and Thurber suspect the miner's drift
could yield just north of three ounces per 100 yards.
Yeah, that's just crazy.
I couldn't believe it when I started opening it.
Yeah, it's kinda eerie.
- Okay, I'll go freeze my hands somewhere. - Okay.
- This is the fun part. - Yeah.
But also when the gold table turns from green to gold it's good.
Okay.
We're just kind of chomping at the bit to see what's going on.
What I'm doing is I'm screening it.
We rinse everything off. We get a true test.
If you throw rocks before you wash them
they probably have gold on them.
That's how you want your rocks to look
after they go through the trommel. Clean.
If they're dirty, they've got gold on them still.
You've gotta remember, you got two handfuls of dirt.
If you see any gold, it's probably very rich.
Wow, wow, wow.
Holy crap.
Wow, wow, wow.
Holy crap.
So Thurber just took a little sample,
just outside of the drift.
So I'm gonna go take a look.
- What? - I think I know why they were there.
- It's pretty good. - Pretty good?
Dude, look at how big the gold is,
how much there is.
Look at all that.
If you start here, I'm not even gonna count them.
There's just gold all through here.
Some bigger pieces. That one there,
you'd drop it in the pan it will actually make noise.
- That's a picker. - Yeah.
Holy smoke.
In all of the years of thousands of pans that we did in the Yukon,
I've never seen gold like that.
I can't wait to run this stuff.
This is crazy good.
The Black Pearl is really close.
It's gonna be one of life's delicious moments
when we see this thing running, so...
The Black Pearl's new pump is now set in place,
bringing the plant one step closer to its first fire up.
Whoo!
- Got it! - Yeah!
- Ready? - Now we just stick this baby together.
Finally got the pump.
The last thing we need to do is hook up the water line
and send water up to the plant.
We had a smaller pump,
but we're not really experienced with that pump.
I'm hoping that because of the water line being a little bit bigger,
we have a little more volume to get us enough water for the Black Pearl.
But we won't know until we get this whole thing hooked up.
As long as this gets done, everything else falls in place.
If you don't have water, you don't have a plant.
Ready?
I am nervous. This is a lot of work.
I don't know any other kids in their early 20s
that have taken on a project like this,
and completely rebuilt,
you know, the biggest trommel that we've ever seen basically.
Most of the people here don't think I'm gonna be able to do it,
but, you know, I'm too committed to back out now
and I'm really just trying to prove to myself
that I can get this thing running.
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on! Turn it this way.
You know, I've got a lot of responsibility
to actually get this plant running.
It's gonna be a huge piece
to us actually getting to our goal, I think, so...
All right, that's it! Let's go.
You can't stop the Black Pearl, baby.
Across the mine,
Andy scratches pay at the miner's drift.
Enlisting Dakota and Cub to transport it to the plants.
Hey, Dakota...
Yeah.
It's Papa here.
This will light a sluice box up.
Big mistake.
Never tell us that.
Probably shouldn't have said that to us.
Nowhere is stuff gonna light up.
Oh, yeah.
It doesn't matter.
It's all going to the same place.
Getting some pay up to the Black Pearl.
So here it is, our first tons of pay.
I think this stuff's pretty rich.
Once we've got a little pile going,
I'm gonna call the excavator up from here.
We'll fire up.
And I don't know how this plant's gonna run it,
but we'll know by the end of the day.
This is dope. It smells good.
- Have we got all the hoses hooked up? - Yep.
The motor, everything is supposed to be dialed.
Yeah, everything looks dialed. Chain is set, rollers is set.
- Yep, I think we're good. - Yeah, it looks pretty good, bro.
Okay.
After four weeks of construction,
the Hoffmans have the Black Pearl rigged
and ready to run gold for the first time.
So, I wanted to have everybody up here because...
You guys know how much work me and Sparky have put into this.
A lot of you guys helped on this.
I really, genuinely, appreciate it.
I know this is my 10th summer mining,
but I think that this summer I probably learned more
than every other season maybe combined.
So, I don't know how well it's gonna run.
I haven't put any dirt through it, but, you know,
I thought it would be cool for everybody to be here
for us to fire it up and kind of have this moment together, so...
You know, Hunter, I'm real proud of you guys.
I came up and helped you a little bit,
but, you know, you did it all.
And just even getting that drum on there
is a chore in itself.
I'm excited. You guys put in a lot of work,
a lot of late nights,
a lot of welding,
but you did it.
It was a huge task.
I think that it's gonna get us, you know, to our goal.
It's a proven wash plant.
It's simple. It's built really tough.
I don't know. We won't know till we fire it up,
but I think I have a feeling that she's gonna work good.
- I say we fire this thing up. - Let's do it.
I wanna see the fat girl run.
All right, let's turn this baby.
Hunter, you're calling the shots.
How do we do this?
Who does what?
Well, I was gonna have Framer get on the pump.
I was gonna get on the motor,
and then everybody else just get somewhere safe.
Okay, let's go.
So this whole Black Pearl situation,
down deep I'm excited for Hunter
but you're looking at a wash plant that's 30 years old,
and it's been collecting rust at least for the last seven years.
It's a little bit of a Frankenstein.
If it doesn't work, we just cannot afford that.
We're already behind on that 1,000-ounce goal.
I really am going to lose money
if we don't get maybe a couple hundred ounces through this plant.
I'm not a mechanic,
but I just know that this key needs to be turned.
So, we're firing the Black Pearl. Everybody clear.
Is everybody clear? Clear.
We are all clear, Hunter. Everything looks good.
So this is the moment right here.
Dude, is this thing even gonna roll?
- It's rolling. - She rolls, yes!
She rolls!
Framer, fire the water.
All right, ready to fire.
Hunter, do you want me to run it up?
There it goes.
We got water!
Hey, Framer, bring the pump all the way up. Full rpm.
All right. I'm gonna run it up a little bit.
How's the box, Thurb?
, Sparky.
Yes, dude, we got this. We got this.
Come here, come here. Give me a hug.
I feel really good.
This whole summer we've been at war with this thing,
and I finally am feeling a victory right now,
so, I'm like, I can't even believe that we got to this point.
Hey, Jack, what do you think?
- It worked, man. - Dude, this thing's gonna be a beast.
I didn't know if it was gonna happen, but it did.
They got it here and they got it together
and everything's welded up.
You know, I'm proud of them.
What do you think, Jim?
I think you got it, brother.
Hey, come here, Hunter. Give me some.
All right.
You got it in the water. Your plant's running.
This is a big moment for Hunter. I'm really proud.
I really hope that this thing runs good
because I wanna see him have some pay off.
The payoff will be the gold in the box.
If we can end this thing good, and end this thing positive,
and come out of this with the gold that we need,
then, you know what, this is gonna be a win.
Throw some dirt in it. We'll see it go.
I wanna see some dirt go through it.
Let's go, baby!
First bucket of dirt for the Black Pearl, right here.
- All right, first bucket! - First bucket!
First bucket of dirt, yeah!
Nice.
So far it looks good.
I'm not feeding it slow either.
I'm just throwing it through here.
This plant won't be able to catch bigger nuggets than the Holy Roller.
The Holy Roller was built for a Rocky train in Colorado.
The Black Pearl's built for, you know,
the stuff up here in Nome.
Different material, it has a lot of clay in it.
The Black Pearl has all kinds of stuff welded inside
basically to break the material up.
It is two different styles.
It's official, it's game on.
- How about we get our plant running? - All right, let's go.
We're running out of daylight, and we're gonna fire back up.
Let's go run some dirt right now.
We stopped down to watch the Black Pearl run,
now we've gotta get the Holy Roller running as well.
- Everybody clear? - Yep.
- Ready to go? - Yeah, bring up the water.
It's gonna be the first time
both plants are up and running.
We're running double the dirt right now
because this could actually get us to 1,000 ounces.
With both plants capable of running
at least 300 yards of pay per hour,
the Hoffmans are now processing twice as much dirt,
potentially doubling their results.
It's a great day. We're running two plants.
We're running the miner's drift,
which is we believe is really good gold.
If it is good gold,
hopefully we can catch up on our goal.
We're not gonna reach it without both plants.
That's money.
Okay, I'm gonna do my last scoop. Just stand by.
Get it full, baby.
So, we ran for the first time.
We got a couple hours in.
I've been running this thing pretty hard.
So, we're getting some good dirt to the plant.
Everything looks really good, like, the thing's spinning consistently.
The sluice box is working good.
The tailings are coming out clean.
But, this plant, it hasn't ran in seven years,
so I want to make sure everything's dialed in,
and actually catch gold before it gets dark, so...
I'm hoping we get to see a little bit of gold tonight,
um, we'll be ready to shut down.
I'm on the bypass.
Dial the pump all the way down.
Yeah, we're good up here. You can kill it whenever.
We're gonna catch these big nuggets.
How's the barge looking, fellas?
It's like we've got a little bow in the riffles there,
but, like, none of its packing.
Oh, none of these are packed. That's good.
Here you go. Here's some gold.
Right there.
Oh, yeah.
- Oh, look at that. Look at that! - Oh, whoa.
Red to it.
Look at that little patch of gold right there.
- Dude, that's money. - It's working.
Working, yeah.
- That's money in the bank. - Whoo!
We already got gold in the nets.
How many guys can say they already did that?
- Whoo-hoo-hoo! - Yeah, yeah.
It is exciting just because it has potential.
But we started way behind.
We've gotta run more yardage.
So tomorrow we're gonna get up
and we're gonna run all day and we're gonna get out there.
- We'll do it. - We're just gonna run it, baby.
All this hard work,
now it's time for full speed ahead.
- Whoo. - It's game on, now.
Game on, baby. Whoo-hoo-hoo, yes!
All the hard work's paying off.
Absolutely a great day. Oh, my gosh.
Firing the trommel. Everybody clear.
Let's go here.
All right, fellas, clear!
I think it looks good.
- You wanna go get on the pump? - Yeah, I'll go get the pump.
Yesterday was our first run for the Black Pearl.
You know, she's a proven plant.
She's gotten a lot of gold in her day,
and I think that she's in the service for all this season,
so hopefully by the end of the day
we'll try to get some more gold. We need it.
Andy found this miner's drift, which usually is a good sign if there's gold.
Hey, Hunter, you got a
Yeah, go for it.
- Fire! - Fire it.
So, we fired it up. Everything looks good.
It's spinning good.
Everything's tracking on the rollers nice.
So we're gonna run some pay.
Tell me when you see rock coming out the end, Sparky.
Ten-four, I gotcha.
Yeah, we've got tailings coming out.
Hey, what's going on over here?
Sparky, the trommel's not spinning well.
What's going on?
Sparky?
You've gotta talk to me.
There's water gushing out of the pan.
All right, I'm not feeding this anymore
until we figure out gets done.
- That's for sure jammed up. - Yeah.
I think it was just clogged when we got the plant.
The Black Pearl's unique setup
uses a pan underneath the trommel to catch excess material.
A hose connected to the catch pan
sends water through a pipe
blowing the material out of the sluice box.
But a buildup of material can clog the pan,
leaving water with no place to run.
What's the situation on that thing?
It hasn't ran in seven years. It's in that catch pan.
It's all jammed, so that's what's going on.
Fix it.
We're gonna have to literally torch it open,
clear it, and build it back together.
We'll shut it down. Shut the pump off.
- Let's get your truck up there and let's try to unclog that. - All right.
They're losing money because of us, so...
The Black Pearl went down.
Me and Andy are actually kind of freaking out about this right now
because this is not just bad for them, it's for the whole team.
At this point in the game, we need wins.
We don't need losses on this whole thing.
And so far, it's not good.
Now we just have one plant running new material
and that's nerve-racking.
All right, it's the last bucket.
We're gonna pull the mats and we're gonna see what we've got.
If the gold isn't as good as we think it is,
it's gonna be bad. It's gonna cost us.
Bypass off!
Are we good to shut the trommel off?
The trommel's down.
Generator's off. Trommel's down.
Let's see what we've got cooking down here.
We're ready to do this miner's drift mat clean up.
Hopefully we're gonna have a hell of a pay day here.
These old timers wouldn't be digging this type of a drift
if it wasn't rich.
So I think we're in for something very, very good,
but, you know what, you never know
until you run the dirt and you do your clean-up and find out.
And hopefully, at the end of the day, we'll be ahead.
Okay, have you got a flathead?
Why don't you try to pull that hose off
and we can try to see what's going on?
Yeah, we'll see what's going on.
There's a catch pan
that we planned on digging out originally,
but we must have forgot about it.
During the Black Pearl's assembly,
the team neglected to clean out
the plant's lower catch pan
while it was easily accessible.
So, we're gonna have to torch it open,
shovel everything out, um, because there's a big jam-up
and we have water spilling out.
Move it up and down a bit.
Oh, yep.
We've got cut this right off, right here.
And like we thought, it's jammed up.
This whole thing's full of material
and this needs to have flow.
otherwise it fills up and starts spewing out, so...
In order to unclog the Black Pearl's catch pan
and restore its water flow,
Hunter and Sparky have to cut it open from the bottom.
I just wanna, like, save this.
Otherwise, we gotta, I mean, just remake another one.
What do you think about cutting it like this?
- Is that cool? - Yeah, that'll work.
Then they can clear out the build up of material
and weld it back together.
Yep, there she is, Sparky.
This sucker's just packed, man.
You've gotta be kidding me.
Were they sending big rocks down their sluice box? I don't understand.
What is that?
Holy [bleep]. Yeah.
- Oh, my God, there's a whole bunch of [bleep] steel, bro. - Yeah.
Yeah, what the heck?
- Well? - That definitely wasn't from us.
During the Black Pearl's seven years sitting idle,
a lack of upkeep and exposure to weather
caused metal in the plant to rust and collect
in the bottom of the catch pan.
When I first fired it up I was thinking
this thing might run perfectly but unfortunately
we're not gonna have gold in the box tonight.
Hey, guys,
Oh, everything.
Yeah.
Obviously there is a clog
and, uh, just something that, you know,
wasn't addressed before fire up.
It should have been taken care of,
but there's a million things on this plant that had to be done,
and, uh, it obviously just got overlooked.
So, what do you guys need?
This whole thing clogged up underneath our whole pipe,
so we had to cut the end off and dig it out.
You can kind of see through there,
but it's still got a bunch of [bleep].
Just a bunch of crap in there,
probably years and years. That's a lot of pressure.
So, I would bring that water truck up here
and that 2-inch hose and blast it out...
- Really? - ...with an and everything.
Just put it on stream and just shoot it in there.
Okay, let's try to get it cleared out,
- and then I'm gonna have to try this thing tomorrow. - Okay.
This is not, you know, one issue after another,
but we just don't have a choice
but to keep working through it and persevering, so...
If we can't get this issue resolved,
or if it's more of an issue than I thought it was,
then, uh, we're screwed.
Hey, um, is it coming out fine?
Financially, we're in the hole
and we're not gonna reach our goal, so...
It's a little bit of a scary moment.
Sparky, close your eyes and turn around.
Don't look, buddy.
I just... got you a little something.
The type of relationship I have with Sparky is like a brotherhood.
It's like dudes sent to war together, or whatever.
You know, you persevere through really hard challenges together
you become super close.
Are you read? Turn around.
You know, you've gotta have fun.
- Here you go, dude. - No way.
- Here you go. - What?
I need you playing that baby.
Have we got the key to success right here?
Dude, the Black Pearl's going places, brother.
Dude, I love that. I love this frickin' thing.
See how happy he is?
He's just got a really good heart.
He's one of my best friends.
You guys gotta be dancing.
Relax.
I can't believe this.
As the Holy Roller crew begins their day sifting through dirt
from a newly unearthed miner's drift...
All right, third turn the charm.
...Hunter is ready to see
if clearing the Black Pearl's catch pan
will allow his plant to finally run at full steam.
This is the metal pole we just flushed out,
fixed it, welded it, now it's time to rip it open.
Huh. Only one way to find out if it works. Let's do it.
We just spent the day trying to resolve this water issue.
The pipe that sends water and material
down the bottom of the frame,
we got that all clear.
So right now we're gonna figure out of it works or not.
If it doesn't work, then, uh, you know,
I don't know what's gonna happen.
All right, brother, I'm about to turn the pump. Over.
Go for it.
It's looking good so far, Hunter.
Okay, let's fire the drum, and run some rock real quick.
- Are you ready, baby? - Let's hit it, baby. I'm all eyes.
Well, hit it.
Please, God, work.
So far it looks good, huh?
Yeah, it's looking really good.
- Go check out the pan. - I'll come down there.
Yeah, buddy, it's looking good!
- It looks really good, man. - I just put a lot in.
I didn't know if that was gonna work, but apparently it did.
Hundreds of hours to get this plant together.
We got it rolling, we fixed the leaks.
We got this engine working like a mother.
And I'll tell you what, I love my mother.
I get nervous, like, getting too excited.
Like, I wanna be excited, but I'm, like, we've had so many issues
that, you know, it makes me scared to get too eager if I run some pay,
but I think it might actually be ready.
Yeah, now we're having fun, baby.
We're having fun.
This evening we're gonna run some pay.
Oh, my gosh.
Hey, glad you guys are here this week.
I know you had a setback on the Black Pearl.
Did you get it fixed yet?
We haven't ran enough yards to do a full boxful,
but everything's spinning properly.
Everything looks like it's aligned right.
There are no leaks.
- So as in next week, we're gonna have two clean-ups - Yep.
Very nice. I love seeing both those plants running.
Two hoes up there swinging dirt,
y'all running around there hauling tailings.
- That was pretty sweet. - Yeah.
She's ready to rev, so...
When I came and helped you guys,
I didn't realize how much you'd done and how much you had to do.
So, I'm really proud of what you guys achieved.
You should be proud of yourselves.
Your list was so stinking long,
- I'm impressed that it's sitting up there. - That's awesome.
Because of that, we are going to have a chance
to come back and hit our goals.
This whole thing has taught me a lot about
pushing through, persevering and sticking with it.
Now we're having fun, baby.
I'm glad because we're behind. We could use some help.
- That actually looks heavier. - Yeah, it does.
It looks like a 10-lb baby.
We're running the miner's drift and that ancient river channel,
which we believe is really good gold,
but you never know until you do your clean-up and find out.
Where are we at right now?
We're at 200 ounces right now.
We need 100 ounces a week.
- Okay, Dad, pour it. - All right. Here we go.
Oh, that's chunky. Look at the nuggets in there.
Forty-five, 50, 55, 60.
Are you gonna get to the doors of 80?
Seventy.
Seventy-five...
Eighty...
Eight-five.
About another 140 is $45,000.
- Now we're heading there. - That's awesome.
- Pretty close. - We're getting there.
This weigh-in for the miner's drift is super-promising.
Especially when you consider that half of that pay dirt
is just sitting right by the Black Pearl ready to be ran.
If we could run that pay dirt in two plants,
that's gonna be big for hitting our goal.
The Holy Roller's fifth-week clean-up
and first run of the miner's drift dirt
brings in a little over 85 ounces,
marking their biggest clean-out so far this season
taking the Hoffman team's running total up to 284 ounces
which means they need just over 700 more ounces
to hit their season goal.
We're back up a little bit.
We're still needing 102 ounces per week.
One really good goal,
but hopefully you guys fill in the gap.
- We're gonna finally make our weekly average. - Yeah.
No kidding, we need to get a week with our average going here
because we're actually, we're treading water.
Let's get gold in the box, know what I mean?
Let's go to work.