[narrator] Gold mining prodigy...
[Parker] And that's three million dollars right there on the table.
...Parker Schnabel is searching for his next big score...
[Parker] This is wild.
[bleep] yeah!
[narrator] ...deep in the jungles of Brazil.
There's a huge amount of conflict over mining.
The only way to understand is to come here and see it.
That is [bleep] cool.
And if there is a opportunity for us to invest,
then I wanna look at those opportunities.
Look, look, that's [bleep] gold.
[man] Look at these bad boys.
I did get fitted for a bulletproof vest though.
That's a first.
[narrator] Previously on Parker's Trail...
[Parker] Brazil's always been on my radar.
It's a huge gold producing country.
This is wild.
[narrator] ...Parker investigated illegal mining.
[man 2 speaking other language]
[Parker] Slingshot.
-[slingshot fires] -[Parker] [bleep].
Oh, he's firing at us now.
[narrator] ...uncovered billions of dollars of undiscovered gold
deep in the Amazon...
The lowest end of the estimate in my mind is, like, 600,000 ounces.
[narrator] ...and toured multimillion dollar hard rock mines.
[Danny] Parker's in love.
Fallen for the hard rock industry.
I would hate to guess what this place is worth.
[speaking other language]
[narrator] Now, he's in the gold miner's paradise of Peixoto...
You could probably produce four tons of gold per year.
They've produced more plaster gold
than the entire Yukon.
[narrator] ...trying to get a piece of the action.
We're always looking for ground.
[Larissa] For 50 hectares, six million yards.
Going all out here has the most chance of success.
But the amount of risk that you take on is insane.
I hate when the road is, like, [mimics bumping] like...
-[Danny] Oh, yeah. -Washboard.
-[Danny] Yeah. -Washboard?
You know what a washboard is?
[Diego] What, for washing cloth?
That's what the road is.
If you go fast, It's quite aggressive.
If you go slow...
-Also quite aggressive. -[both laugh]
[Diego] Yeah.
[narrator] At the end of a six-week prospect,
Parker has just days to find an investment opportunity
in the Peixoto region.
We made a very good decision to go to Peixoto.
They have a more organized, more robust co-op.
Also you see land reclamation,
and I think Parker is interested in the area.
Peixoto is probably one of the better areas we've ever been to.
Just, like, the sheer volume of gold being mined,
the grades of the ground.
Wow.
But in the value of land around here,
I think it might make the entry barrier a lot higher.
And trying to get going mining might be difficult here.
You know, what is the right approach?
Do you come down here and just, like,
try to team up with somebody that's already mining?
I don't do partners,
but I might have to do partners for this.
[narrator] After walking away from an expensive land deal,
the local mining co-op gives Parker another lead 20 miles outside of town.
What's the name of this dude we're gonna see today?
-[Diego] Uh, Michael. -Martin?
Oh, Michael.
[narrator] The São Mateus mine
sits in the heart of Peixoto's gold-rich river basin.
[Diego] We're running out of time,
we're coming to the end of the trail,
and I can tell there's some anxiety in the team.
I don't wanna have my expectations too high about that place,
because we haven't been there.
But it's our last resource,
so hopefully it is the right place.
[Parker] Seems like we're here.
-I think you need a raincoat. -[Danny] Yep.
[Larissa speaking Portuguese]
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
-[Danny] Michael? -Michael.
[Danny] Gilberto?
[Larissa in English] He's saying you're very welcome
and you can feel yourself at home
and pretty much do whatever you want.
[Parker] Obrigado.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] Ah, he's saying that this is
a small scale, family-run business.
-So, he's the father, he's the son. -[Parker] Gotcha.
How long have they been here?
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] His father came to Mato Grosso to be a miner.
And then that's why they're here today.
Three generation businesses, yeah.
Gotcha.
[narrator] In 1980,
Gilberto's father was one of the first miners
to break ground in the region.
At the age of 15,
Gilberto joined his dad and raised his three children,
including his son Michael, on the property.
Building it from the ground up,
now the mine brings in nearly six million dollars in gold a year.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[speaking Portuguese]
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] It's the first day we've been in the rain really.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] They seem like nice guys.
-[Danny] Yeah, they do. -[Larissa] Yeah, they do. Both of them.
-Very big area. -Yeah.
[Diego] It's big.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] What's the size of the area they have here to mine on?
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] Oh, wow.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] That's an area they're working right now,
and this is alluvial gold.
[Parker] When they're doing alluvial mining,
do they hit hard rock veins?
Sometimes they find the hard rocks.
That's probably where the vein of the gold is.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[narrator] The D'Souzas have the equivalent
of 380 football fields left to mine
in an area that has a mixture of both hard rock and plaster deposits.
Billions of years ago,
volcanic eruptions left hardened gold-rich veins in the Earth here.
Some of these were eroded by waterways,
carrying tiny fragments of gold across the landscape.
But some hard rock veins laden with gold remain below.
An opportunity Gilberto and Michael are just beginning to explore.
[Larissa] So, they're doing the, their own drilling.
There, they have all the area up there to get the hard rocks.
The interesting thing here is just the amount of ground.
I'm just amazed by the size of the areas
that we've seen that are being mined.
Normally, gold follows a bit of a pay streak.
And it's generally not thousands of feet wide,
which piques my interest.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] You can tell it's, like, got a lot of iron and stuff in it.
[narrator] To get a read on the ground,
Parker takes a test pan from the heart of the pay layer.
[Parker] Oh, yeah.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[speaking English]
[Parker] I have 50 color pan.
-[Danny] Seriously? -Yeah. I'm just amazed.
It seems like there's a lot of gold in this area.
[narrator] For ground to be good,
Parker wants to see at least ten gold flakes.
This pan has five times that amount.
You want reliability in scale, right?
Those are the two things you want.
Any business wants those two things, right?
Seems like they've got that here.
At least what I can... My first impression is that.
That stuff has a lot of clay in it, right?
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] They... They have clay all over it.
[Parker] It's a [bleep] mess, I bet.
It's 'cause the ground conditions are so bad.
Is there normally a lot of gold in the clay?
[Michael speaking Portuguese]
[narrator] When heavy gold settles into a clay layer,
the sticky material traps the gold,
making it nearly impossible to break free.
All the material goes to the sluice box over there on top,
and he's inviting us to check the sluice box there.
[Danny] Yeah, I think we should go and have a look.
[narrator] Gilberto and Michael
use a traditional hydraulic system,
using high pressure water to break down the thick pay dirt
into a gold-rich slurry.
Then pumping it up to sluices
where the gold falls into the box.
[Parker] The bigger problem is
-that this stuff's still not getting broke up, right? -[Diego] No.
[Larissa] Yeah, the-- the-- When there is a lot of clay,
the recovery rate is not that good.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[narrator] Because the gold-rich clay
runs right off the boxes into the waste pile,
it could be losing the D'Souzas up to 15% of their yield
and millions of dollars a year.
That's a nightmare for any wash plant.
It just clogs them up and makes 'em very inefficient
because the gold gets stuck to all of the clay
and then the clay goes all the way through the plant
and the gold ends up out the other end of it.
[Parker] Dealing with that clay is pretty difficult.
So, I don't know how you deal with that.
[Parker] That clay is terrible, huh?
[narrator] In Peixoto,
Parker is checking out the São Mateus mine,
but has run into a problem.
Some of the nastiest material I've seen at a mine site.
-[Larissa] Really? -Yeah.
[narrator] Up to 15% of their yield may be lost to clay,
a notorious gold thief that traps small flakes,
making recovery almost impossible.
[Parker] Everywhere has its drawback.
You don't have the permafrost to deal with, which is a positive.
And so, yeah, you get a year-round business,
but you probably don't really,
because days where it just, like, rains day after day after day,
and probably they shut down.
[speaking Portuguese]
[narrator] But miners Michael and Gilberto have a solution.
Ah, they have a wash plant. It's over there.
[speaking Portuguese]
[in English] Which we're going to see.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] He's inviting us to check the wash plant.
[Danny] Oh, cool.
Yeah, let's have a look.
[Parker] This ground is good,
but the material has a pile of clay in it.
Let's go check this wash plant out.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Danny] [bleep].
Oh, my [bleep], that's massive.
[Parker] Yeah, this is [bleep] huge.
[narrator] At just a year old,
this is the D'Souzas' gigantic, hand built, 25-ton wash plant.
-[Danny] It's got a trommel and a shaker deck. -[Parker] Looks like it.
What's the name in Portuguese?
[Larissa speaking Portuguese]
[narrator] The first and biggest of its kind in the region,
the Blue Dragon can process 130 yards of dirt an hour
and recovers 25% more gold
than traditional sluice methods.
[Danny] That is ridiculous.
[Parker] Is it all right if I have a look around it?
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] Do your thing.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] It's like an agitator? Is that what he's saying?
-[Larissa] Uh, it's, uh, it's a crusher for clay. -[Parker] Or is it a crusher?
-So they can catch the gold. -[Parker] Gotcha.
But effectively they're, like,
crushing the material before it goes to the trommel.
[narrator] To release the gold from the clay layer,
the Blue Dragon has an unusual setup.
First, the shaker deck and spray bars
begin to break down the clay.
Then, it is pushed into a one-of-a-kind crusher
where six swinging 70-pound hammers
break up larger chunks into a paste.
This paste travels into a trommel,
where it is washed and broken down further.
Finally, a gold-rich slurry is run across the sluices
where the heavy gold is trapped
as the clay is washed out the back.
[Danny] Who built it?
-[Larissa] They built themselves, yeah. Yeah. -[Danny] No way.
[Danny] I cannot believe that they've made this all themselves.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] He watched the, the show
and Parker's Trail in New Zealand.
-[Danny chuckles] Oh, yeah? -[Larissa] And he got inspired by it.
-[Danny] Really? -Yeah, really.
[Danny] Who would've thought that? That's mental.
Don't fall off.
-You know what happened in Canada. [laughs] -[Diego] Yeah.
-[Danny] Parker? -[Parker] Yeah.
They saw the New Zealand show
and got inspired to build this.
-[Parker] Oh, yeah? -[Danny] Isn't that mad?
[Parker] Yeah.
It's definitely pretty unique.
Never seen a plant with, like,
a crusher in line and then a sluice box
with a trommel in between.
What's your thoughts?
What's your initial thoughts of it?
It's just an expensive piece of kit.
I mean, I understand what they're trying to do,
but I'm just trying to figure out if this is the best way to do it.
But without seeing it run and seeing the material,
it's very difficult.
I'd like to see it run.
Do they have some of the material that has,
like, clay in it here to run?
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker] Perfecto.
[narrator] The clay pay dirt must be loaded into trucks from the pit
and driven two miles to the plant.
Which dirt do they want?
-The stuff in the pile? -[Larissa] The stuff in the pile.
-It's basically clay. -Okay.
I like how he sits there, you know, like,
relaxing in the excavator.
[Danny] The king on his throne.
[truck beeping]
[Danny] Here we go.
[Parker] [bleep] rough material.
Our wash plant would just plug up instantly.
It wouldn't even make it up out of the feeder.
You can tell the conditions are really, really hard.
Operating heavy equipment here must be very, very difficult.
[Diego] Yo, [bleep].
The dump truck, it is stuck in the mud.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[narrator] As well as trapping gold,
the sticky clay takes a heavy toll on equipment.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Diego in English] Inside the bucket could be a solution.
[Danny] Oh.
[bleep] hell.
-Nice. -[Larissa] He's doing it.
-He did it. -[Danny] Wicked.
[Parker] Curious to see how the wash plant handles that stuff.
It is really hard to believe
that they can run that kind of material at all.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Danny in English] Here we go.
Whoa!
Holy [bleep].
First bucket going in.
-Absolute beast. -It is a blue monster.
My first impressions are...
Like, I understand what the problem that they're dealing with.
Like, they have a bunch of clay
that they're trying to break up, um...
Their approach to dealing with the clay with the big crusher.
A lot of it just won't break up at all, and, um...
And I guess putting it through one of those might do it, but...
I don't know.
The actual pay material that has the gold in it
looks like it's pretty well-washed.
It's hard to get trommels to split cleanly.
He was saying that 80% of the gold,
-they cut it up there... -Right.
[Larissa] ...and here is, like, remaining 20%.
[narrator] After an hour's running
to see if the Blue Dragon lives up to its name,
Parker and crew check the sluice mats for gold.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[in English] Super fine.
[narrator] The very fine dust-like gold
proves the Blue Dragon can catch tiny specks
deeply embedded in the clay.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] They, sometimes,
they probably will get some 28, 30 grams per hour.
[narrator] Thirty grams is around $2,000 worth of fine gold.
Got a piece of gold, Dan.
There it is.
Wow.
Really interesting, huh?
I think the impressive thing about this wash plant
is the fact that it can process material that's, like,
really, really claggy.
Like, really stuck together.
So, it would appear that they've done a good job.
Seems to work pretty well. I'm really impressed.
Especially considering you guys built it all from yourselves
and from, from scratch.
No, I'm-- I, I'm, I'm, I'm just impressed.
[Parker] It being stationary,
their material must come from a long ways away to get here.
And that's a pretty big expense, right?
[narrator] With just over 48 hours left
to make a deal in the placer mining mecca of Peixoto, Brazil,
Parker is kicking the tires at the São Mateus mine
with its $200,000 clay-beating wash plant.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[in English] Yeah, they totally agree with you
because they also see there's a problem.
Obviously, Gilberto and Michael here
have a real desire to improve their recovery rate,
improve their efficiency, and run a good operation.
And I love that. A lot of thought went into this plant.
Well, it's a pretty ingenious solution,
albeit big and cumbersome in terms of, like,
it pretty much has to be in a stationary setup,
um, which I don't like.
[narrator] Despite working well to break down the clay,
Gilberto and Michael must truck pay dirt
over two miles to the stationary plant
at a cost of around half-a-million dollars a year.
The system that they're using,
trucking stuff long distance is just a cost that seems unnecessary.
[speaking Portuguese]
[in English] People are annoying, is that what he's saying?
-[Diego] Yes. -[laughs]
[speaking Portuguese]
[in English] A lot of places use trommels
that are floating on a barge
and feed them with an excavator from the land.
And so, they'll sit on the bank and dig the dirt out of the bank
and put them in the trommel that's on a boat.
And then they just move the pond with them.
Um, has he seen that kind of system before?
[narrator] Three years ago...
Now, this is our floating plant.
My [bleep], check that out.
[narrator] ...Parker went on a wash plant reconnaissance mission
where he learned about the Kiwi floating trommel.
These plants are the most efficient way of mining.
Like a mining typewriter.
[narrator] The trommel floats in the cut,
moving itself as it chases the gold.
[man] It's a two-person operation.
-Two? -[man] Yeah, two just run it nicely.
[Parker] And no dump trucks?
It's very cool to see.
[narrator] A system like this could save the family a fortune
in fuel and increase profits.
This ground seems really well-suited for that style of mining.
And so it might be worth looking into that system.
So that they can kind of get the efficiency of a system like this
without having to move the material
in dump trucks all the way over here, right?
You basically have something like this,
right in the cut.
Most of them have only two people on them.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] No dump trucks, no loaders,
no tailings, no nothing.
[Larissa] Uh, he agrees with you.
That could be a good system.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] Everybody has to go to the lab.
Yeah. Let's go check it out.
They've got a massive wash plant.
They're doing hard rock.
They're doing placer mining.
Inevitably, Parker's gonna be impressed by all of that.
Let's go and see how much gold
they're getting out of the ground.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] I could work here.
[Danny] You could work here?
Yeah, [bleep] yeah.
-Really? -[Parker] Yeah. Why not?
This is nice.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] This is the gold room.
[narrator] The family operation
separates the fine gold by hand-panning
100 pounds of concentrate a day
in a homemade pool.
[Parker] A lot of work.
[Danny laughs] You could say that.
Why does it look so nice?
They have so much gold that they're putting tile
-around their settling pond. -[Larissa] Yeah, yeah, it's very nice. Yeah.
[speaking Portuguese]
[in English] Gold is so special,
so they need a special place to work with it.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[in English] First, they don't have to deal with contamination.
And second, because he saves money with that.
So, win-win situation.
[narrator] It's a labor intensive,
but environmentally friendly process.
[Parker] How long has he been doing this?
Looks like a while.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[in English] Yeah, I can tell.
Pretty impressive.
[speaking Portuguese]
[in English] How'd he let his brother trick him
into having this job?
[speaking Portuguese]
[all laughing]
[Larissa in English] How old were you when you started?
Probably, like, nine.
Nine? [chuckles]
Yeah, I grew up mining with my grandpa.
[Larissa speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] He knows you from the-- from the show.
So he saw you with your grandpa.
Yeah. He was a good old boy.
[Danny] There it is. Look at that.
A little globule of gold.
So fine.
A real opportunity to be able to see somebody
who isn't using mercury,
who's being successful down here
in a way that Parker recognizes.
He appreciates the way they're going about their business.
It's really exciting.
The next step, you're gonna dry the material,
then they wait,
and then they melt it.
And then, it's done.
-[Parker] Whoa. -[Danny] Oh, wow!
Look at that.
-[Parker] That's a lot of gold. -[Danny] Amazing.
Look at that.
A golden omelet.
[narrator] This pan is from three days' running.
[both speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] There's some gold nuggets.
[Danny] Oh, look at that. It's a beauty.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
-[Larissa in English] You weigh it, yeah, you weigh it. -[Diego] Weigh it.
[Parker] You want me to do it?
[Danny] 1.463.
[Parker] What is that in ounces? Um...
47 ounces?
100 grand.
[Danny] 100 grand? Wow.
[narrator] At over an ounce an hour,
this ground is almost as good as Parker's in the Yukon,
without the added costs of removing permafrost.
Very cool. I love this.
Wow.
Mad, innit?
Liquid gold, right?
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Danny in English] Look at that.
Wow! It doesn't look real.
[Diego] Whoa.
[Parker] That's pretty impressive.
Decent ground.
Is it all right if we come back tomorrow?
[Larissa] Yeah. If we come back tomorrow,
he'll show us some samples of the hard rock exploration.
[Parker] Sweet. That'll be great.
Today was one of my favorite days
that I've had on a gold mine.
Some of the friendliest gold miners I've ever met.
They have a hard rock prospect
and they have a diamond drill and they're drilling...
hard rock.
Nobody in the Yukon does that.
You know, hard rock is not something that placer miners dabble in.
I'm just amazed at what they take on.
I would actually love to come spend a few months
here, um, with them.
[Danny] Here he is.
-[Larissa] Hey. -[Danny] Guten morgen.
-It's hot. -Insanely hot.
[narrator] Parker has just 48 hours left in Brazil
to decide whether he wants to strike a deal at the São Mateus mine,
part of the Peixoto mining cooperative.
[Parker] One of the things that attracts me to this area
is just that kind of level of organization.
I do think that having a strong cooperative makes a big difference.
Yeah, same.
[Danny] Gilberto's mine, more than any other,
has it made you think that it's possible to get something done out here?
I'd like to.
This place reminds me a lot of the Yukon,
and the ground seems decent.
See, there's no permafrost here.
I mean, that costs you a few quid in the Yukon, doesn't it?
Yeah, probably half our cost.
Wow. [chuckles]
Well, we're going back there today.
I might try today
to see if something can work,
and, uh, we'll take some angle at it.
[Danny] Well, maybe we should think about...
Get ourselves together and hit the road, huh?
-[Larissa] All right. -I'm down.
[narrator] Before pitching Michael and Gilberto...
-[Parker speaks Portuguese] -[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[narrator in English] ...Parker wants more detail
on another side of their operation, hard rock.
I would love to find an avenue into hard rock mining.
Gilberto does both placer and hard rock,
and I see a huge amount of opportunity here.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa speaking Portuguese]
[Gilberto speaking]
[Larissa in English] He'll show us some samples
-of the hard rock exploration he's doing. -[Parker] Oh, nice.
Oh, wow.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[in English] It's a sample of rocks
that he drilled in a mining pit he has up there.
[Parker] Gotcha.
Did he have this done himself?
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] Oh, wow.
[narrator] These preliminary core samples were taken
using a diamond drill from 500 feet below ground.
Here, crystallized quartz and gold veins
pushed from the Earth's center crisscross the claim.
Each core shows a ratio of how much gold
may be in the ground per ton of rock.
[Parker] How were the results?
[speaking Portuguese]
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] Great. They found three gold veins.
Begins from 46 meters deep.
[narrator] If the samples are accurate,
there could be over $100 million
worth of hard rock gold under the São Mateus mine.
[Michael speaking Portuguese]
[in English] They still have 15, 20 years of gold production...
-Oh, wow. Right. -[Larissa] From the deposits that they count.
That's impressive.
They've got a lot going on.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
-[Larissa in English] A lot of work -[Parker] Yeah.
Yeah. [speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] Keep-- keeps you out of trouble.
They're the only gold miners I've ever met
that are gold mining, building their own--
all their own equipment
and doing diamond drilling for hard rock.
You know, I'd love to get involved
and want to have that conversation with him.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] He's saying we could go check the lab
to talk business.
This place is the complete package.
They're doing placer mining,
and they're doing exploration all on their own land.
And I think Parker really, really wants to be a part of that.
Part of my job has to be looking at other areas,
finding what the best opportunities are.
We just bought Dominion.
It only bought us five years.
And that will go by very fast.
[speaking Portuguese]
[in English] The truth is, showing up to a place like this
with a bunch of money and trying to go big fast
is the worst thing you could do.
I think the way into this place
is with a very small amount of money
and a lot of sweat equity.
There's some things that money doesn't buy.
And I want their opinion on this.
And I know I keep beating the drum on this,
but, like, the most efficient system is a floating plant.
If we could bring that system
and that kind of technology here,
I would be really interested in, like, building one.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] The nicest thing about that system
is it's only two people,
and that would require no dump trucks.
You'd be doing two ounces an hour, or 65 grams.
[narrator] Parker's proposal
is to build a custom floating wash plant
at a cost of around $250,000.
Then, test it on the mine site
for a cut of the gold profits.
He believes the system would almost double
Gilberto and Michael's gold production
to around $4,000 an hour.
[Michael speaking Portuguese]
[in English] Do they have a piece of ground
that we can prove that it'll work on?
[speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] Ah, you can sit and talk.
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
-[Diego] He wants, but out of camera. -Ah.
Well, let's kick all them out.
We're off. We're out of here.
[Parker] I'm not scared of being told "no".
That doesn't bother me.
I hate the idea of, like, being old
and feel like I didn't take
the most interesting opportunities,
and the most exciting route.
[Danny] They don't want that filmed.
Is this thing going?
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] Ah, They grow fish here.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Danny] Go, Diego.
-[man speaking Portuguese] -[Gilberto speaks]
[Larissa in English] Oh, I love tambaqui.
[Larissa gasps]
[all laughing]
[Larissa speaking Portuguese]
[Gilberto speaking Portuguese]
[Parker in English] I was just telling Chris Doumitt about this area.
-[Danny] Oh, yeah. -Without me even talking about the fish, he's like,
"Yeah, but how's the fishing?"
-[laughs] Really? -[Parker] I just sent him that video
and he's like, "Sign me up."
[laughs]
[Danny speaking]
I'm not sure. I'm not sure what he's doing.
[narrator] As the film crew wait outside...
[Frederique] Parker's real interested in this ground,
and I think he wants to maybe set up a deal with them.
[narrator] Parker attempts to cut a deal
to bring a floating wash plant to the D'Souza mine.
The proposal that Parker just put
to Gilberto and Michael
is our last opportunity to get something stamped on the table.
A two-man floating dredge would be perfect here,
but only if we can find the right piece of land.
Hopefully he'll say yes,
but, uh, that's what we're about to find out, I guess.
[Frederique] We're good to go back in.
[Parker] Gilberto said no to a floating plant.
I'm not really surprised.
You know, we talked a little bit off camera
about the gold they're finding
and their gold miners.
If they have ground that has gold in it,
they're gonna mine it themselves.
[narrator] But the door is still open to a future deal.
And a big one.
[speaking Portuguese]
[Larissa in English] 'Cause he's saying that,
if he... He goes in business with you and do a project here,
it'll be, like, a mega operation.
Hopefully, someday in the future,
he calls me up and we have a project together.
I'd... I'd come down here in a heartbeat.
Well, at a minimum, I do want him to come up to the Yukon
and bring some of his family
so I can return the favor,
'cause they've been the best hosts.
[speaking Portuguese]
[in English] I think that would be--
it would be really fun.
Obrigado.
[Danny in English] Where have you brought us, Parker?
It's gorgeous.
A little treat for our last night in the country.
It looks lovely, though. It's beautiful.
[Larissa] Mmm-hmm.
[Parker] In all the years that I've been, you know,
traveling around the world, looking at ground,
Peixoto is the most interesting one we're found.
I do really feel coming to a place like this
would be a really fun adventure.
I mean, for me, that's kind of what mining is all about.
Oh, look, a capybara.
They're so cute.
Look at him just sat there.
[Larissa] They're just chilling.
[Danny] Awesome. What should we do then?
Here by the pool?
[Danny] Should we go to our rooms, get ourselves...
-[Larissa] Yeah. -Spick and span
-and then meet down here? -If you want.
With Gilberto not doing a deal, I think,
he doesn't need anything from us.
What this means for me, I don't know.
Setback's part of the process.
But guaranteed way to fail is to not try.
Shall we have a beer?
-[Larissa and Diego] Yes. -Let's go.
[phone ringing]
Oh, I just gotta take this real quick.
Hello.
How's it going?
-[Larissa and Diego] Good. -It was nice to be in some normal clothes, isn't it?
-[Larissa] Exactly, right? -Really nice.
-He's on the phone. -Yeah, he's on the phone.
Coming to this trip, I had a goal
that was, like, be more boots on the ground
and understand the reality of the gold mining industry in Brazil.
And I think it was 100% successful.
This trip has been the most amazing experience
I had in my life. Really, for real.
[Danny] Cheers, mate.
-[all cheers] -Whoa, I've got the fullest.
That was a trip and a half.
One to remember forever.
[Parker] No, it was a good trip.
You all did well.
[Danny] How about you, Diego?
How was the trip for you?
[Parker] It kinda sucks.
But I'm still talking to the co-op.
That's who I was just on the phone with.
-[Danny] Nice. -[Larissa] Really, Parker?
[Danny] Mate, that is incredible.
[Parker] You know, if there's an opportunity
to make something happen down here, I will.
We might be building a mine site in Brazil next winter.
-Who knows? -Who knows?
Thank you guys, it's been-- Yeah, it's been great.
-Really. Yeah, it's been amazing. -It's been amazing.
[Danny] One of the major purposes of this trip
was to see whether or not if there was any other opportunities
for him to kind of expand his empire and... we found it.
The reason for my call.
I'm trying to plan a trip back here.
Overall, the trip was good.
Got some leads on some exciting areas
in Peixoto, which I'm really interested in.
I'll probably come here in the next few months
with, you know, four or five people.
Now, it's just a matter of seeing
if we wanna start another operation
halfway around the world.
But the only way to find out is to try.
All right, well, I'll start putting a timeline together
and keep you in the loop,
and... and we'll make it happen.
All right. Thanks, Tatiana. Bye.
For the people that want it,
there's a huge amount of opportunity
in gold mining here.
I don't know what the odds are, but I like the challenge.