Weather's coming. Temperature's dropped a good ten degrees here this week.
[narrator] With only three weeks left,
the Hoffmans need their best payouts yet.
This is the biggest clean-up of the season for me.
[narrator] Over 120 ounces of gold every week...
Right now we're firing on all cylinders.
...until the end,
to hit 1,000 ounces.
[Andy] If we're gonna hit any of our goals,
we gotta keep the plants turning.
[narrator] While Hunter and his crew scramble
to keep the Black Pearl churning.
[Cub] Being down right now, it sucks.
[narrator] Todd takes desperate action to find better pay dirt.
This section right here could be 25%,
maybe even 35% of the total gold that we need.
[narrator] Will returning to last year's abandoned cut
steer them towards their 1,000-ouce goal...
[Todd] I hate switching gears again,
but I think we gotta take to risk.
[narrator] ...or will Todd's gamble be a dead end?
[Todd] This pay dirt here is the wettest, nastiest stuff that we've ever ran.
[Todd] This baby's running lean and mean, and I am going fast.
I am running 250 yards an hour right now.
If there wasn't so much water on it,
you'd probably see steam coming off of it.
But I am concerned
because no matter how many yards
that we're churning through,
our clean-ups are always a little bit less
than what they really should be.
[Todd] What is this stuff, Andy?
Is this what we've been running?
[Andy] Yeah.
[Andy] So here's the thing, we're working in an area
-that's not very large. -Yeah.
So when we first started it,
we're up higher, so it was bigger,
so I was taking it off in layers.
Now we're going through the layers and taking multiple layers.
[Todd] Maybe we've mixed some of the good pay
with stuff that doesn't have any gold in it.
And maybe we've come up
with that three quarters of an ounce a hundred
just because we've got a layer that's not very good.
When...and I pan those cuts
and you can see it on the face of a wall,
and you get all the brown layer, red layer,
a black layer, a grey layer,
there's certain layers that are really rich
and there's layers that have a piece of gold in it.
And then there's layers that have 14 pieces of gold in it.
Right.
I think we mix those weaker layers in with our rich layers.
Problem is when you're taking it off the face of a wall,
-you can't pick out. -Just pick, yeah.
You gotta take the whole thing.
-You're kind of blending it, so... -Yeah.
Three quarters of an ounce, a hundred ain't gonna do it.
[Andy] No.
-And we don't have enough time. -[Todd] No, we don't.
We gotta get the rich stuff and we gotta run it quick.
[Andy] Yeah.
[Todd] When you add up the time we have left
and our resources,
we gotta get a lot of gold in a short amount of time.
So, we wanna try to shift gears and see what's going on.
[Todd] So, the cut from last year out there on Quartz Creek,
let's just call it the Lost Cut.
I went back over the drill holes,
there are three to three-and-a-half ounces per 100.
[Todd] Last year we tried to run some pay dirt on Quartz Creek.
[man 1] I had some really good results.
By drilling, the best prospects I found
were on Quartz Creek.
[man 2] That's the only place that we have a drilled resource right now
that's ready to go.
[Todd] But the weather had other ideas on us.
What do you think, Andy? You think this will fall out?
I don't know. We're late. I don't know if it'll fall or not.
Kind of doubtful, but we'll give it a try for Jason.
[Todd] We just don't have any heat. We need heat.
Just the wrong time.
[Todd] That cut's been open all summer, so I know it's got some thaw,
but with the weather changing and how cold it's getting,
we're running out of time.
What we need is that 2 ounces a hundred
...and on up.
That's gonna push us way farther ahead.
[Todd] If the drill holes are correct,
we're all gonna run at Black Pearl, Holy Roller.
We throw a Hail Mary at this thing.
If not, we're screwed.
If it truly is 3 ounces a hundred,
this section right here could be 25%
maybe even 35% of our total gold that we need.
Yeah. I think what I'd do is I'd get in here
get the water out, expose the ground.
I think I can do that in a day.
I hate switching gears again,
but I think we gotta take to risk.
Run one day of it,
do a clean-up,
and then we'll find out
if this mine's like a drill.
[Todd] We moved around a lot this year,
trying to find pay dirt.
We started the Ancient Riverbed,
then we went up to the Narrows of Dahl,
and then over at North Fork.
But if I'm gonna win, I gotta take this gamble.
I gotta take Andy out from actually getting pay dirt
and put him over here on this little project.
Hopefully, it pans out.
-Get me a day, run it. -Okay.
Let's do a clean-up, and then that clean-up
will tell us the story.
You'll just have to keep Tater scratching that pay
from the Narrows of Dahl.
[Todd] I need Andy to focus on the Lost Cut.
While he's doing that, we're gonna have Tater
start pulling dirt from the Narrows of Dahl,
and get that pay dirt down to the Black Pearl and Hunter
because their clean-ups were even worse than ours.
Thirty-five,
forty-four.
[Todd] Clearly what we have here is a pay dirt problem.
I need them to run the pay dirt from the Narrows of Dahl.
Tater needs to watch those layers
and only bring the good pay dirt
to the Black Pearl.
-Well, I say it's worth the risk. -For sure.
-One clean-up. -One clean-up. We'll do it.
[Todd over transceiver]
[Hunter] Yeah, everything looks all good.
Right now we're firing on all cylinders.
This morning, we made a few small improvements on the plant.
Changed... Pulled out all the water bars,
and we got some more RPMs out of our pump,
so everything seems to be washing a little bit better.
All right, this looks a little better.
I'm liking how the water bar's looking, too.
[Hunter] That should be way better than before.
Yeah, that's... That's looking really good, dude.
We can shove some more material in here now.
[over transceiver] Let's go ahead and... And clean it fairly fast.
[narrator] After several low weigh-ins for Northfork,
Hunter and his crew gear up
to run better pay from the Narrows of Dahl.
[Hunter] That's rinsing the material a lot better.
Yeah, that's what we needed. Just cleaning it freaking...
Yeah, that's fine china coming right out the end.
[Hunter] My game plan is to just try to run richer pay.
At the end of the day, um, we're all on the same ship,
so, you know, I'm gonna just have to trust my dad
and run whatever he wants to run.
Okay, let's rip it.
Let's rip it!
Here's the deal.
We've got this cut that I gotta go deal with, the Lost Cut.
I need to stick down there for a couple of days.
-All right. -So you are gonna kind of be thrown
into the lion's den a little bit.
I need you just to scratch pay and load these trucks.
Stay with the layers that we have.
I keep finding this red layer. It always pays really good.
[narrator] The Narrows of Dahl has five different layers of dirt.
In order to reach the gold ridge pay dirt,
Tater must first dig through a black topsoil layer
and two clay ridge, brown layers.
Below those lies the gold
in a red layer and a grey or rich layer.
Digging for pay requires experience and a keen eye.
Don't get too far ahead of yourself. You got a question, call me.
I'll come back down here.
All right.
Usually you get dropped into something like this
after a couple years of moving dirt
and hauling pay and everything, you kind of learn it.
But we just don't have that luxury.
Just take your time,
slow and steady, I think you'll be okay.
-All right. -Okay?
I'll do my best.
You can do this. I know you can.
So, just take your time, though, okay?
-No problem. -Call me if you need me.
-All right, I'm out. -Good luck over there.
[Andy] Yeah.
[Tater] I'm a little nervous, I'll be honest with you.
It's a big responsibility.
You know, Todd really went out on a limb this year
with the equipment,
with fuel, with everything.
So I wanna come up with a lot of gold
to make sure that he doesn't go broke
and keep him in the black.
The gold is in the ground. We just gotta dig and get it out.
I don't mind the work, but I'm not gonna lie, these 16, 17-hour days,
they're getting to me.
Once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Every year.
We're running out of time.
Winter's coming.
We just gotta keep going, keep grinding, no matter what.
Hey, Sparky, the water stopped.
[over transceiver] Sparky, do you copy?
Oh, [bleep]
[Cub] I was feeding the plant, everything was going great,
and then I go to dump another scoop,
and I realize the water's off.
So, you know, I had to shut it down.
Being down right now, it sucks.
And we gotta get up and running as soon as possible.
[Hunter] So, I put Cub up in the Black Pearl.
Then I hear on the radio that the water shut off,
so our pump's full idle, it's like dead,
which I don't have another one, obviously.
We'll just figure out a solution and work through it.
[narrator] With the Black Pearl unable to run,
Cub goes to work helping Tater stack pay
from the Narrows of Dahl.
[Tater] Biggest part about this
is I hope I don't make any mistakes.
If I throw away pay dirt, that costs money.
And if I send the wrong dirt, we run dirt
that doesn't have anything in it,
that's a whole other problem, so...
[Tater speaking over transceiver]
[Cub over transceiver] Yeah.
[laughs]
[Tater] There's so many different colors and types of material here.
It's really not easy. Andy makes it look pretty easy.
He's good. Man is good.
I hope I can do it half as good and quick as he can.
[birds cawing]
[narrator] Over at the Lost Cut...
[pump engine starts]
...Andy begins prepping the pay dirt.
His first step is dewatering it
with the Barco Pump.
[Andy] Unless the water's moving, it's an insulator.
It doesn't thaw out.
It'll stay frozen. It'll never thaw.
You will have a muddy mess because every time it rains,
just slops more material down.
You want to keep the water flowing.
What I need is some sunshine and some heat.
[narrator] This gas-powered pump
can move up to 750 gallons a minute,
dispersing into a nearby reserve.
But the pump alone isn't enough.
So, Andy will use the long neck
to dig 6-foot ditches for the water to flow into,
which, in turn, will lower the overall water level
and expose more ground to the heat of the sun.
[Andy] As much I wanted to start digging the payout,
first thing you do is you get your ditches right
and you get your pump going, get rid of all the water.
Just keep the pump running, keep the water going.
It's mother nature that we're gonna fight against today
and we'll see who wins.
That's all we can do.
[Randy] So I got a call that the Black Pearl was down
due to the water pump failed.
Looks like we got a bad alternator
because the battery is completely dead.
If the alternator's not charging the battery
and the battery goes dead,
it shuts off, shuts the pump down.
[narrator] The alternator is a machine
connected to the motor by a drive belt.
As it rotates, it converts mechanical energy
into electrical energy,
which maintains the batter's charge
and allows the pump to continue running.
We'll probably start this back up with another battery,
then go get a battery charger and send it here with a generator.
I don't know if that's gonna fit in there.
Close enough.
So we're gonna run jumper cables
from the Barco to your battery,
so the Barco's gonna be charging your battery all the time
until we source another alternator.
[Hunter speaking]
[Randy] The alternator's the problem.
I figured. Do we have another one like this here?
I think I have one more,
but I gotta go find it.
But if you wanna get up and running,
you're able to now.
-All right, thank you. -You're welcome.
[Hunter] I'm hoping that Randy can find another alternator
off another pump or something in the camp.
I wish we weren't having these little tiny issues,
but everything we're using is old,
everything has a lot of wear on it.
Everything takes a long time out here.
Even just losing half an hour is a lot of money,
so there's a lot of factors working against us.
Okay, alternator went out on the pump.
They're putting cables from the Barco onto ours
so it's charging the battery all the time.
Randy's gonna see if he can get another alternator
off another pump.
So we're back up and running right now.
We should be at full water here in a second.
[engine starts]
[Hunter] We're Band-Aiding it for now, but it got us up and running.
It wasn't catastrophic,
but time is money, so hopefully tonight
when we shut down for good,
we can get a more permanent fix on that thing.
[Todd speaking over transceiver]
Okay.
[narrator] With the majority of the water drained from the Lost Cut,
Andy begins loading rock trucks with pay.
I've never seen ground that has so much ice in it.
Welcome to...
When you move it, move it real slow.
[Andy] You know, this cut has a lot more water than what we're used to,
and what we're getting into, there's ice lenses going through it.
So as soon as you expose it to the air,
turns instantly to water.
So, we got a lot of water.
But that's good. It's melting. That's what I want.
It just makes a mess, though.
[Andy speaking over transceiver]
[Dakota speaking over transceiver]
If this cut comes in anywhere near 3 ounces a hundred,
that's gonna save our season.
[Hunter] Everything looks good right now.
Hopefully it stays running
until we can get a more permanent fix on that thing.
[narrator] While Hunter and Cub take advantage
of the temporary battery power running the water pump
to push Narrows of Dahl pay dirt...
[Ron] Has it got a... built on it?
-We can take the pulley off. -We can change it, yeah.
...Ron and Randy scour old equipment
in hopes of finding an alternator matching
the exact model they need to permanently fix the pump.
[Randy] That orange pump over here is the one...
-It's got a John Deere engine on it. -Yeah.
[Randy] And I took the alternator off of it for the camp generator.
-[Ron] This one's identical. -Is it?
Oh, yeah.
-Okay, this will fit. -[Ron] Yeah.
[Randy] There she be.
Black Pearl is built like a tank.
That thing is so heavy and so strong
that nothing's really gonna affect it.
What's gonna affect it is the little things around it.
And that's what happened today. An alternator failure.
Okay, you want me to rip into that, then?
Yeah, you rip into that and I'll...
I'll get back to trucking.
It's just timing. We're out of it.
We don't have any more time. We have to stay running.
This alternator will be a real good donor candidate for us.
They're both John Deere,
and the mounting appears to be the same.
There we go. [sighs]
That's the last one in captivity,
so better not lose it or break it.
All there. Okay, let's go.
That is really wet.
[narrator] Back at the Holy Roller,
Todd continues to run the 650-yard test pay
from the Lost Cut.
[Todd] This pay dirt here is the wettest,
nastiest stuff that we've ever ran.
Just running out of the bucket, man. It's like wet concrete.
It kind of reminds me
of something that my grandma used to make
for dinner.
It wasn't good then and it ain't good now.
Because that cut
was done at the wrong time, it's really, really wet,
so our pay dirt is just saturated with water.
What we need is at least 2 ounces a hundred to hit our goal.
Hey, Framer, test the water.
[Framer] I gotta go through check gauges right now, and all that [bleep].
Yes.
I'm just checking on the plant right now.
We're running the Lost Cut dirt,
the first of the Lost Cut dirt right now.
And just making sure everything's running properly
so we get a proper test on this.
It's our last little push right now
before the weather kicks us out,
so we wanna make sure
it's a perfect run.
All right.
We really need to know how much gold is in this pay.
Hopefully before we're out of here, we hit 1,000,
but I don't know.
You know, this is gold mining,
so you never really know.
Literally, the mine depends on
this sticky, nasty pay dirt.
[Tater] We're on pretty good ground.
Todd decided to pivot over to the Lost Cut.
This late in the season, it could be a...
It could be a really risky venture.
We're taking resources from no pay dirt.
It's gonna be a little hectic and stressful.
The weather's changing. Days are gonna get shorter and colder.
So we really, really gotta pay attention
to what we're doing and not mess things up.
But I really think Todd and Andy,
they wouldn't take a risk if there wasn't a pretty good chance of success.
Really hoping that I can knock this one out of the park.
Hopefully it doesn't go wrong.
Yesterday we found an alternator up here at the pad.
Never throw anything away.
He was running the pump late last night,
and I told him, I said, "You know what?
We'll just put it in in the morning."
So, today we're gonna put that alternator in,
test it, make sure that it's working.
It even has the right pulley on it.
I don't even have to change the pulley over.
Weather's coming. Temperature's dropped a good ten degrees here this week,
and we're gonna get shoved out any day now.
Here we go.
So it's vitally important that the Black Pearl stays running
at all costs.
[sighs] Come on.
Oh, you're already in there.
If we're gonna hit any of our goals,
we gotta keep the plants turning.
There we go.
Am I gonna miss these days where I have to come out here
and put [bleep] together in the middle of the snow and the rain and the ice?
Not so much.
Got this new alternator on there.
-Just wanna test fire it. -Yeah.
Here we go.
[engine starts]
[Randy] So far so good.
So it's actually sending voltage.
Let's go take that battery cable off
and see if it's actually working.
There it is.
We took the cable off.
It's still running.
Therefore the alternator's working
because you've eliminated all the voltage from the battery.
So now you're... You're golden.
You're putting out voltage.
So now with a generator and a battery charger and four other batteries,
you're actually...
You should be able to run all day without any issues.
Awesome. Thank you.
-You're welcome. -Thank you.
This is a huge help.
Yeah, no kidding.
Got it all fixed.
But that doesn't mean that there won't be something else.
Okay, I guess we'll fire her up then.
-You can run it now. -Let's do it.
There's just so many thousand things that can go wrong,
and they do.
We cannot afford to be down anymore.
I say let's set the bypass.
[...over transceiver]
[Todd] Now we're idling down the pump.
Take it down to about 800 RPM, let it cool down.
That Barco has been hammering all day.
Shut the trommel down.
[...over transceiver]
[narrator] After running exactly 650 yards of the Lost Cut...
[Todd] Big moment.
...the team is ready to find out
if their pivot to new pay dirt was a wise decision.
You see anything good in here?
Yeah.
There's yellow stuff in there.
All kinds of gold in there.
[Todd] So about ready to pull mats for the Lost Cut.
And I know it's a small test,
but to me, this is the biggest clean-up of the season.
-There was? -Yeah.
[Todd] This has gotta be good gold
or we're in deep, deep trouble as a mine.
[Sparky] Dude, everything is looking pretty good over here.
It's looking pretty good.
And keep 'em running, baby.
-[beeps] -Copy.
This morning we got the new part put on.
So far so good.
Sluice box looks good,
pump looks good,
so just keeping a little bit of a closer eye on things today.
Cleaning out really good.
[Hunter] It's one of those things, it's like, say,
you get a new car
and it never breaks down.
You know, after the first breakdown,
you don't... You know, you don't trust it
the way you did, you know, initially.
I don't wanna push this plant to its limit,
I don't want it to break down this season,
but either way, we need to get the yardage
or we're not gonna get to 1,000.
We don't know how much time we have left.
You know, we're at the mercy of the elements here,
so I'd rather leave here sooner than later.
It's looking pretty good.
We're gonna check out competitor's box,
see if we're packing up.
That feels...
It looks pretty good.
I don't see any major leaks, so...
Just checking in on the competitor,
see what we're dealing with right now.
And it's looking not too shabby.
Maybe could be a little better, but that's my opinion.
If their pay turns out to be more potent than expected,
everybody wins.
We're a competition,
but if their Lost Cut ends up being more,
that's more than better, okay?
You know, I'm hearing over the radio
that my grandpa's testing out
some of the concentrate that the Holy Roller ran from the Lost Cut.
And I'm hoping that it's hotter
than the last stuff we were running.
So, we'll see.
That's Lost Cut they ran 650 yards.
So that would mean if we got 6-and-a-half ounces,
you're doing good.
If you get 12 ounces, you're doing really good.
You know? And if you get more than 12,
you're doing exceptional.
So, yeah, it needs to be screened, yeah?
All right.
Running out of time. It's starting to get cold.
Things are gonna keep falling out.
So what we're doing
is jumping to another spot.
Sometimes that'll bit you in the butt,
but it's not desperation,
but it's the final hour, if you might say.
[Jack] That's pretty nice gold right there.
Yeah, I'll take that any day.
So, all hands on deck.
No sleep. Work, work.
So it's just the way it is.
Gosh, that looks good, though.
-[Jack] Okay, let's go weigh it. -Okay.
[Jim] The Lost Cut has to be good.
It looks promising.
But again, that scale does not lie.
We'll weigh it up and that will tell us what we got,
and hopefully it's good.
See what Todd's got here.
[Jack] 15.15 ounces.
That's fantastic.
Todd's made a wise decision and he has to make this work.
[Jack speaking over transceiver] Todd, we got 15.15 ounces.
2.4 ounces per 100.
[laughs heartily]
The Lost Cut weighed out at 2.4 ounces per 100 yards.
So actually, I'm very excited about it.
There's a real chance we're gonna hit 1,000.
We're gonna run this lost cut till all the pay freezes up on us.
[narrator] Over at the Narrows of Dahl,
Tater continuous stacking pay for the Black Pearl.
How many did we haul yesterday?
Ten...
Right now I got a lot of emotions going on.
It's always been a dream of mine to come up here and do this.
Now I'm actually pulling the gold out of the ground,
it kind of feels good.
Feels good to have the trust.
I can call myself a gold miner.
I'm really excited.
When we run this dirt, we'll know if I made a mistake or not.
This sluice box is either gonna be
yellow or barren.
If it's yellow,
oh, man, I'm gonna be, gah, jumping.
You'll see me doing, like, jumping jacks and cartwheels.
It would be great.
And if it's barren, it falls all on me.
There's a lot of pressure.
Hopefully it doesn't go wrong.
[Todd] With the lost cut coming in at 2.4 ounces per 100,
this, I believe, is good news,
and this is actually gonna turn our season in the right direction.
Go ahead and bring it down to half idle.
Bring it down to half.
[narrator] Now, Hunter and his crew are ready to pull
the Black Pearl's mats for the week
and get their first glimpse at how much gold they could have
from the Narrows of Dahl.
Let's just get into it, rinse all these
and we'll have a fresh box for tomorrow.
-Yeah. -Okay.
Let's rip it up.
[Sparky] It's gonna be a fat clean-up. I'm feeling it, dude.
[whoops happily]
-[Hunter] Look at that. -[Sparky] Yeah, that's...
[Hunter] Bro.
[Sparky] Have you checked this line out?
[narrator] Despite the blown alternator
that threatened a long shutdown,
the Black Pearl was able to continue running,
thanks to a Band-Aid fix
and some resourcefulness on Randy and Ron's part.
It's a fix that could make all the difference in the gold room.
[Cub] That's the money.
-That's what we love to see. -[Sparky] It goes all the way down.
Look. Boom, boom, boom, boom.
[Cub] Yup, we're loaded.
We got a whole gold colony right here.
You wanna go eat, Cub,
and him cover you, or what?
[over transceiver] Uh, no we're gonna eat when we shut down.
[Hunter] One of the things I miss the most
is being able to just drive and go get food.
[Sparky] Sometimes we gotta eat just Pop Tarts.
[chuckling] That's how it is.
I... We need to eat more.
Sucks these things are gone in, like, two bites.
You can't eat parts of trees,
forage for mushrooms.
I wanna [bleep] eat a big piece of steak.
[Todd] Right now I'm gonna eat some pie,
get some coffee and get out of here, okay?
[Jim] Hey, Jack, you gotta see this. Come here.
Look at all that gold in there.
[Jack] Yeah. Okay.
[Jack] We've got Tater's dirt from the Narrows of Dahl,
You know, he's been digging that.
And hopefully it's good, you know.
I... We gotta have some good days, you know?
And hopefully this is one of them.
So here's where our concentrate comes out
of the duplex jig.
There's, oh,
probably about $30,000 worth of gold in this one bucket.
Pretty cool.
I think Tater did a good job.
[Jack] Now the Narrows of Dahl is...
It's good.
It's just not good enough for me.
If you only have this material to run, run it.
But if you have the Lost Cut material,
run that, that's your best material.
Be smart, you know.
Time is of the essence, you know.
And... And...
I probably know that better than anybody.
The reason that I know it is because I'm gonna be 77 this year.
My time's running out, you know.
And I wanna get a lot of gold.
[Todd] Guys, this was a big week.
What's in the lost cut, that's the future.
Yeah.
[narrator] In order to stay on track to hit their 1,000-ounce goal,
the Hoffmans need a combined total
of at least 121 ounces this week.
How about you guys?
No major issues
and just running consistently.
But there is gold in it, you know?
Every day we shut down, there was gold in the box, so...
Either you're really tired, Jack,
-or that looks pretty heavy... Oh. -Oh.
[Todd] Set that down again.
I wanna hear that.
[thuds]
Wow, that is...
-Well... -[thuds]
[Sparky] Oh, that sounded heavier, I don't know.
Sounded pretty heavy.
All right, 101 last week.
They're the winners. They go first.
Okay, you're gonna count it out, Spark.
I got you.
Let's see how Tater did.
[Sparky] Oh.
Five, ten,
15, 20,
25, 30,
35,
40,
45,
46.1.
-So, we did better than last week. -Nice.
I mean, it's 80 grand. I mean, I'm happy with it.
Awesome.
-[Hunter] Tater, I just wanna say thank you. -Yeah, you're welcome, man.
Tater really came in clutch and helped us to get gold.
Like, at the end of the day, we wanted to have a competition,
but it's like we're all on the same team.
Okay, what do we got?
Okay, go for it.
[narrator] In order to hit their weekly target of 121 ounces,
Todd needs their gold-rich lost cut
to bring in at least 75 ounces.
-Hey, Jack. -Yeah.
[Jim] We'll need the big one.
-Now we're talking. -Now we're talking.
[Jim] All right.
[Todd] Fifteen, 20, 25,
30, 35,
40, 45, 50, 55,
60, 65, 70,
75,
78, 79,
79.9.
-Now we're talking. -[Andy] There we go. Yeah.
That's what, $135,000?
-That's pretty good. Just us. -[Andy] Yeah.
[Todd] Okay, what is that? How many ounces?
For the week, it's 126.
Boom. We hit that 121 level.
[Jim] Right.
Okay. Now what's our total?
Her grand total is 762...
Dude.
All right.
[narrator] This week, the Hoffmans produced
a total of 126 ounces of gold,
bringing their running tally up to 762.
The Hoffmans now need 238 more ounces of gold
to reach their season goal of 1,000 ounces.
We're close to getting our goal of 1,000.
It's hard to believe.
You're a sweet man.
We love you.
Don't cry on camera.
It's real.
[Hunter] It's super hard out here.
I know we're all tired, we're all worn down,
but none of us are gonna leave until we get 1,000 ounces.
So however we gotta do it,
if I gotta keep getting 40-ounce clean-ups,
well, that's what we're gonna do
because we're already close.
-I agree. -Really close.
We're gonna run the wheels off that Black Pearl.
I don't care if we gotta burn body fat for fuel,
we're gonna do it.
Good.
Everybody else feel that same way?
-Yeah. -Absolutely.
We got a big week.
Let's tackle this next week. Let's do another one like this.
Okay.
All right, guys, let's go.
[sighs heavily]