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Oh, I'm emotionally drained.
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As of right now, I'm screwed.
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[narrator] On this episode
of "Mine Rescue"...
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[Jared] Get it up here.
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...a desperate gold miner
finds his dreams of riches
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slipping away.
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We got.2 of an ounce.
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It's unsustainable to keep
going at that rate.
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...as his greenhorn family...
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In reality, I have no idea
what I'm doing.
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...struggles to mine,
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[Cheryl]
We gotta get off.
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while he juggles two jobs
to survive.
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Jared does shift work to help
fund this so that we can stay
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out here.
It's a lot of stress for him.
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And the clock is ticking
for Freddy and Juan.
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The forest fire ripped through
here and destroyed everything
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in its path.
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We don't work on hot days
because of the risks of fire,
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but that is costing us money.
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As one of the worst wildfire
seasons on record threatens
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to shut them down.
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If we don't get anything back,
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I don't know what
we're going to do.
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[Freddy] Zero.
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[groans]
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I'm hopeful that Freddy
and Juan can help us.
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[theme song plays]
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[Freddy]
I may go check with
the fire department
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to see what
the fire restrictions are.
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Over the past couple of years,
I guess there's been a massive
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amount of fires in this area.
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[Juan]
See you a little later then.
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[Freddy] See you in a bit.
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In the dense Cariboo Mountains
forests of British Columbia,
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Freddy and Juan receive
a desperate SOS from
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the wildfire-ravaged Genert
Family Mine, a location that
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will soon prove to be one of
their most challenging to date.
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I'm going to meet with Cheryl,
Ray, and Jamie.
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From the sounds of it,
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they've been having a little
bit of a struggle out here.
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They have sunk every last
dollar that they have
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into this operation.
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So, really, it's kind
of sink or swim.
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How you doing?
You must be Jamie.
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- Hi, I am.
- I'm Juan.
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- Nice to meet you, Juan.
- Nice to meet you as well.
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Hi, Ray.
Nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you, Ray.
I'm Juan.
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- I'm Cheryl.
- [Juan] Cheryl.
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- [Cheryl] Nice to meet you.
- How are you guys doing?
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Oh, good.
Better now.
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[Ray] Better now that you're
on site.
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[Juan] So, Freddy's not here
right now.
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He's just a couple hours
behind me.
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We went to go check with
the fire chief to make sure
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we're OK to do the work
we got to do here.
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- [Jamie] Right.
- [Juan] So, is this
the whole crew?
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My husband, Jared,
is missing in action.
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He had to go back to work in
Alberta, so that we could be
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out here to mine.
But he will be back tomorrow.
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Inspired by what they saw on
"Gold Rush," the Generts began
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their mining venture
10 years ago.
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Jared and I took our kids out
camping and we did some
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prospecting and we were hooked.
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Over the next few years,
they ran a series
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of small operations.
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As we've gotten more into it
and we got more equipment,
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we're trying to have
a serious go at it.
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But in 2024,
an opportunity arose at
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a larger claim when wildfires
drove out the previous miners.
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It was just
so devastating to them
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that they weren't able
to come back.
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We had heard the old timers
were getting about an ounce
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per 20 yards.
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But the gold never
materialized.
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[Jamie]
Since we've been out here,
we've seen roughly
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0.2 of an ounce.
It's not really adding up.
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To pay the bills,
Jared and his stepfather,
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Ray, have been forced
to take second jobs,
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leaving the mining
to his inexperienced family.
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I get six days off,
and I'll spend two days of that
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six driving, and then I get
to spend four days at the claim
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mining, and then rinse, repeat.
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Ultimately, our goal would be
to have everybody in the family
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out here full time.
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But with Jared and Ray having
to work this season,
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the rest of us have to step up
and be more hands on
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with helping out
at the mine.
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In reality, I have no idea
what I'm doing.
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I'm just trying my best.
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[Juan]
Do you have any of the gold
that came out of this area?
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I do.
I have some gold that we found.
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[Juan] OK.
Well, it's pretty chunky stuff.
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- [Jamie] Yeah.
- [Juan] There's some finds
in there.
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Do you guys have a goal
for what you want to be able
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to produce here?
- Uh, yeah.
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If we could get half an ounce
a day-- if even 50 ounces,
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if we could get this season
to recover some costs.
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[Juan]
Well, the reality is you're
running out of time to go
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out there and hit your target.
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I want to do a four-hour
test run.
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Let's get some material
through it and see what we got.
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- Great.
- [Juan] All right, let's do it.
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[Jamie] OK.
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[adventurous music plays]
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- Carrie, I assume.
- Freddy.
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[Freddy] I appreciate your time
this morning.
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[Carrie] OK.
Well, it's super high risk.
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If you take a look at
the forest, you can look at any
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of the areas around,
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our forest is like standing
firewood, right?
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The 2025 wildfire season is
already Canada's second worst
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on record, with nearly 1,300
fires having scorched
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British Columbia alone.
40% of wildfires in B.C.
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are caused by human error,
so one mistake can risk lives
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and livelihoods in an instant.
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[Freddy] Are there any fire
restrictions right now?
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[Carrie] Not right now.
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But when you guys are out,
if you're grinding,
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welding, just know the risks.
- Yeah.
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[Carrie]
Water is your best friend.
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Get the trees limbed up as high
as you can reach, 10 feet
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or higher, because if a fire
does come through, it just
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stays on the ground and it just
rages through.
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[Freddy]
Well, thank you for your time.
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[Carrie]
Thanks so much for coming by.
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OK, well, let's do it.
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Back on the Genert Mine,
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the first two-hour
test run begins.
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[thrilling music plays]
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First bucket.
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Ray loads paydirt
into the four-foot hopper
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that feeds a 10-foot trommel,
which washes pay into
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an 18-foot sluice box below,
where the gold should
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be recovered.
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[Jamie] We can't continue
running like this.
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It's costing us more money
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than what we're getting
in return.
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[energetic music plays]
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[crumbles]
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[Jamie] Oh, no!
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Everything just
plugged up solid.
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All the material's stuck
in there.
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That's not good.
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[Cheryl]
They have to go in there.
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The material gets stuck in
the hopper, so they're having
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to sit up there and wash it all
down manually.
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So it's not a very efficient
way to run.
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The stakes at the Genert Mine
are shared
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by the entire family.
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So we don't know if
it's running well or running
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terrible or what we need
to make it better.
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Jared's parents,
Ray and Cheryl,
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invested $100,000 of their own
money into the operation.
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We sold our house in Alberta,
came out here,
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we spent that money,
put it all into the mine,
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and really haven't
gotten anything out of it yet.
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We're old enough to retire now,
but we can't retire.
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We've got a mortgage now.
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Every weekend I get in
the summertime, I'm back here.
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The rest of the time, I'm at
my other job driving trucks.
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This is going to be our last
chance out here,
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our last kick at the cat.
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[Juan] Let's take a look
inside the drum.
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There's not enough water
pressure to be able to wash
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the pay down into the trommel,
because there's actually holes
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in the spray bar where it's
pushing water out the side.
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That sluice,
it's way too violent,
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has way too much water.
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[suspenseful music plays]
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I'm going to do
a little panning.
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I just want to check
the material that
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they're bringing to the plant.
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You know, honestly, it doesn't
look that special to me,
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but I just want to take a look,
see what's in there.
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Not even a piece of gold,
not even one speck.
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I'm worried that the material
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that he's pulling out isn't
really pay.
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- [heavy thud]
- [Jamie] Holy [bleep]!
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- What is he doing?
- [Cheryl] I don't know.
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[Jamie]
What are you doing?
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[Cheryl] We've got to get off!
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Oh-whoa!
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- [Juan] Shut down on you?
- [Ray] Yeah.
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[Juan]
Why don't we just go ahead
and call it?
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It's been about an hour.
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[Ray]
Yeah, we can shut her down.
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I think we shut it down
right now.
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We'll regroup and figure out
what we can do.
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[machine winds down]
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Oh...
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Let's pull it out.
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Right now, I am feeling
a little bit disappointed.
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Yeah, you bet.
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Our test didn't go as smooth
as we had hoped,
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but I'm still hopeful.
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[Ray] I have to go
to my full-time job.
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I won't be back here for five
days, and I'm hoping that this
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could possibly be
my full-time job.
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But right now, you have
to pay the bills.
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Miners in general are kind
of hopeful and, you know,
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gambling type,
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but sometimes we need to give
them tough love.
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Coming into a mine site
where everything has
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an issue, it's frustrating.
There were safety issues.
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The pay doesn't look great.
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And honestly, the plant's not
running good either.
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Coming up...
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[Freddy]
Two or three part-time jobs
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to pay for your gold mining,
it's unsustainable.
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I'm going all-in.
It's now or never.
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[Freddy] That was a road.
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Let's see what lives
right here.
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[Jared] Holy moly!
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[adventurous music plays]
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[Freddy] Juano!
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Later that afternoon,
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at the Generts'
Cariboo Mine...
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[Freddy]
Let's see what's going on.
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Let's go check it out.
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...Freddy arrives
for the cleanup.
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- [Juan] Hello, ladies.
- [Jamie] Hello!
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The mine crew is now down to
Jamie and mother-in-law Cheryl.
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This is Freddy.
Freddy, Cheryl, and Jamie.
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- [Cheryl] Hi.
- How's it going here?
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- Great to meet you.
- Hi, nice to meet you.
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- Jamie?
- Yes.
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- We're sure glad you're here.
- How's the cleanup going?
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- [Jamie] Going good.
- [Cheryl] I'm done.
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[Freddy]
Well, let's get it weighed up.
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[Juan]
Well, here we go, Freddy.
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Yeah, moment of truth.
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The Generts need at least
0.06 ounces from the test run
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to hit their half-ounce
per day goal.
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[Juan] 0.02.
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Less than a third of what
they need per day.
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That's pretty sad.
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It's sad.
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Maybe it's lucky you broke at
one hour, because every hour
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you're running,
you're throwing money away.
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- Yeah, right.
- And we don't want that.
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Well, what we want is we're
gonna go back, put our heads
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together, and come up
with a plan for you guys.
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[Jamie]
Thanks, Freddy and Juan.
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[Freddy] You're welcome.
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I'm a little worried now after
seeing the amount of gold.
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It's unsustainable to keep
going at that rate.
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You know, you'd have to get two
or three part-time jobs to pay
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for your gold mining.
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It's not good to see that
it's costing us more money
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to get that gold out
of the ground
than the pay.
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So I don't have a gold mine
budget anymore.
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It's gone.
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[Freddy] So, what's the deal
with the bucket
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being in the hopper?
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- The machine broke down.
- [Freddy] Hm.
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So, we weren't able to finish
the test run.
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Driving in here, it looked
like there's a lot of equipment
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that might not run.
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[Juan] I don't think any of it
runs, Freddy.
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So, one of the things
I'm really worried about,
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we got to get a machine
coming out here
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because we have
to do prospecting.
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Because the material
they brought to the plant
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was absolute garbage.
- [Freddy] OK.
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[Juan]
The hopper is another issue,
and it should be feeding itself
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instead of someone up there
babysitting it.
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And the sluice is
completely inadequate.
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It's too narrow.
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[Freddy]
It needs to be a foot wider.
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- How'd the spray bar do, Juan?
- It's not good, Freddy.
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There's actually holes
in the spray bar where
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it's actually pushing water
out the side of the trommel.
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There's safety issues
that I want to address,
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like the stairs going up.
- [Freddy] Yeah, OK.
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[Juan]
Really, all this is for naught
unless we can find some
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material that's worth running.
- [Freddy] Exactly right.
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- That'll be my first goal.
- All right.
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To transform the mine
into a profitable operation,
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a three-inch water jet will be
mounted at the back of
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the hopper to break up the pay
and drive it into the trommel.
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Then, inside the drum, a new
spray bar will be added
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to the existing thread to wash
gold-bearing material
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into the sluice.
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And finally, the sluice box
will be widened an extra
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12-inches to boost capacity
by 50%.
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[calm music plays]
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[Jamie] Hi, dear!
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After a 600 mile drive
from the oil fields,
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Jamie's husband, Jared,
returns to the mine.
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- [Jared] Morning, baby.
- [Jamie] Hi, baby.
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- [Jared] I missed you.
- [Jamie] I missed you.
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[Jamie] How's it going?
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[Jamie] Uh...
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It's not looking good.
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[Jared]
I hope they can help.
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I got into gold mining 10
or 11 years ago just because
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it looked really cool
watching "Gold Rush."
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We went out to this old fella's
claim on the Fraser River.
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First, we had a pan,
and we panned it,
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and my eyes lit up.
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Oh man, look at that!
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That's when gold fever sunk in.
It's a real thing.
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But mining is
amazingly expensive,
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and things are pretty tight.
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I can't continue pouring money
in every year.
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It's now or never.
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[Juan] How we doing?
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- [Freddy] Hi guys.
- [Juan] How you doing?
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- [Jared] Hi, good.
- I'm Juan.
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- Jared.
- Nice to meet you, Jared.
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- Freddy.
- Freddy, nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you, Jared.
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Well, we put our heads together,
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[Juan]
You know, we came up with
a few ideas for the plant.
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One of the first things
that we want to do is,
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we focus on that hopper.
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We're going to put a jet in
the back, so that material can
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get fed down into the trommel.
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Inside the trommel itself,
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put a whole new spray bar
in there.
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Then we want to build a new
sluice box.
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[Jared] OK.
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[Juan] The intention is,
we're going to actually run
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a little more material
when we have that spray bar
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in the back of the hopper.
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And in order to do so,
we've got to have
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that wider box.
- OK.
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[Freddy] Yeah, I need to go
prospect on this.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Because everything I see here
is tailings.
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[Juan] Yeah.
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So we're thinking about $5,000
in materials.
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But the excavators
that you have here,
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none of them are up to par.
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We found somebody that had
an excavator that we could
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borrow for a few days,
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but we have to pay
for transport.
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[Freddy]
And that'll be about $3,000.
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OK.
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So all in, it's going
to be $8,000.
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That's a lot of money, I know.
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Er...
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- I think we can do that.
- Well, deal then.
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- [Jared] Deal.
- Let's do it.
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- I appreciate it, guys.
- Yeah, no worries.
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- Thanks, Freddy.
- You're welcome.
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- You're very welcome.
- Thanks, Juan.
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- You're very welcome.
- [Jamie] Thanks, Freddy.
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[Jared]
That was pretty awesome
meeting Freddy and Juan.
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I was giddy like a schoolgirl.
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8,000 is a pretty big hit,
but I don't see I have
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much of a choice to do it.
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If I want to continue,
I have to do this.
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To help get the mine
on track...
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[Jared]
Am I pulling on it?
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Yeah, that's the one
you're pulling on.
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Jared's called in his mechanic
brother, Sandy, to work
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on their stricken excavator.
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I'm going to be here on
the mine helping Jared get some
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of these machines running
as best I can.
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[Jared]
Pull that wire again.
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With all the time and money
that Jared's put into this,
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I would just really love
to see it succeed.
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[Jared] I think that goes
to the starter.
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OK.
Go turn the key.
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OK, ready?
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[victorious music plays]
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[Juan]
Hey, thank you, guys.
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Next, Juan spots a fault with
one of the other excavators.
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Your pin on your cylinder
for your bucket's actually ready
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to come out.
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So the pin itself has this
little plate that holds the pin
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in place.
It's broke off, so...
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We can knock that pin back
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where it needs to be
and get it on.
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00:17:15,379 --> 00:17:19,103
It's extremely important that
this excavator works correctly.
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Without it, there's no mining.
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So it's got to be tough
for you to work a full week
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in the oil field,
then come out here
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and work at the mine
site, huh?
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All that travel,
all that time, and...
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2,000 kilometers
a week, and then...
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trying to forget about
the stresses out here so I can
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focus on my job at work.
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And Jamie, you know,
the first day that we did
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a test run, it was kind of cool
to see her,
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that she actually just jumped
right in there and wanted to be
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a part of it.
- [Jared] Yeah.
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We had up to 300 head of goats
at one time.
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That's a lot of work.
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And she'd be in there wrestling
goats with me, holding them
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down so we can give
them injections.
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And yeah, Jamie's always been
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been one to give 'er.
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Yeah, once she knows
how to do it,
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she's going to give it 100%.
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And she'll probably really
excel at it, too, I'm sure.
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[Jared] Yeah.
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You know, at the end of the day,
you know, if you can enjoy
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your time with your family.
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And I think a lot of people
would kind of strive to try
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to do that one day, right?
You're that close to doing it.
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- Yeah, we are.
- [Juan] You're that close.
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Well, let's finish this
up, huh?
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Yeah, sounds good to me.
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00:18:15,551 --> 00:18:17,000
[Juan]
Let me try to open this up
just a little more.
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[country music plays]
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[Jared]
Ah-ha-ha! Popped right in.
There's some good news.
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[Juan] That's good.
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[Jared] Thanks, Juan.
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- So hose on and then
pass you the hose?
- [Juan] Yeah.
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Excavators fixed,
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Juan begins work
on the washplant's
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new water chute.
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I cut a hole right here.
We're going to put
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that jet on the back
of the hopper,
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and we'll put a diverter plate.
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So he was going to wash
all that material down
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into the trommel.
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Go towards you a little bit.
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[Jared] Toward us?
Come out a bit? Yeah.
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Right there.
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00:19:01,172 --> 00:19:03,206
[buzzing]
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[high-pitched whirring]
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So, I got the jet all done.
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I got the deflector plate
on there.
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So now when that material
piles up, this will push it all
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into the trommel.
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It's going to actually increase
their production by a lot
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because now they'll be able to
feed it instead of having to be
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up here and washing it down
by hand.
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- This will do it all.
- [Jared] Oh, cool!
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[Juan] We got the job done,
but the reality is,
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Freddy and I still have a lot
to do here.
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00:19:37,172 --> 00:19:39,137
[adventurous music plays]
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[Freddy]
Well, you want to show me where
you got that pay
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you ran on the first test there?
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[Jared]
Yeah, it's just up here.
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In British Columbia,
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Freddy starts
his gold sleuthing
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at the mine's old cut.
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00:19:52,482 --> 00:19:54,344
So they mined right in here
last year?
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[Jared] Yeah.
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I was told they were getting
good-sized nuggets out of it.
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So I thought,
"well, that sounds good."
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00:20:00,448 --> 00:20:02,000
But there just wasn't enough.
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00:20:02,137 --> 00:20:04,896
We got 0.02, not enough
to pay anything.
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00:20:05,793 --> 00:20:07,172
Something was weird
about that.
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00:20:07,344 --> 00:20:09,137
[Freddy] Mm-hmm, yeah.
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00:20:09,310 --> 00:20:10,895
Don't trust what they told you
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00:20:10,896 --> 00:20:12,481
unless you really
know the people.
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Trust what your own eyes
tell you.
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[Jared] OK.
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But I can see what you were
chasing there.
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- [Jared] That red stuff.
- [Freddy] Yeah.
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A lot of times those surface
red layers are red because
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they are the surface gravel,
and they got oxygen to them,
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which allows iron
to rust, right?
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So usually your surface gravels
don't carry much gold.
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[Jared] OK.
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[Freddy]
The rest of it's tailings.
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That's been stacked up there
by somebody
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that was in here before.
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In 1858, discoveries
on the Fraser River ignited
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the Cariboo Gold Rush.
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00:20:44,827 --> 00:20:48,068
Strikes at nearby Williams
Creek in Barkerville made
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fortunes with over
3.8 million ounces
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worth over $12 billion
in today's money.
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Old timers say
the claim Jared is working
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produced more than 1,800 ounces
of gold in the '90s,
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valued today at over
$6 million.
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One way to tell you're
in tailings is there's
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no rhyme or reason
to the rocks.
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Virgin material that got laid
in there by water, all your
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00:21:15,724 --> 00:21:18,481
flat rocks are laying flat
for the most part.
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In tailings, everything's
just haphazard.
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You know, how it was dumped.
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00:21:22,413 --> 00:21:24,551
It's never been reworked
by water, so that's one
481
00:21:24,724 --> 00:21:26,655
of the quickest ways to tell.
482
00:21:26,827 --> 00:21:28,793
Let's go look for some
virgin ground, huh?
483
00:21:28,965 --> 00:21:30,000
[Jared] All right.
484
00:21:30,172 --> 00:21:32,517
[intriguing music plays]
485
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,688
[Freddy]
What I think we need to do is
find a little bit of elevated
486
00:21:37,689 --> 00:21:40,482
ground, and look down,
see what we can see.
487
00:21:41,758 --> 00:21:42,896
This is all tailings.
488
00:21:43,862 --> 00:21:45,896
This is all tailings
on this side, too.
489
00:21:49,344 --> 00:21:50,965
Let's have a look
from this high point.
490
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,241
Well, this isn't
a great feeling.
491
00:21:54,413 --> 00:21:56,103
I thought I had something
down here.
492
00:22:02,896 --> 00:22:04,896
[suspenseful music plays]
493
00:22:09,896 --> 00:22:11,655
Well, you can see that gravel
face over there?
494
00:22:11,827 --> 00:22:12,964
[Jared] Yeah.
495
00:22:12,965 --> 00:22:14,862
[Freddy] Well, to me, that looks
like glacial till.
496
00:22:15,793 --> 00:22:19,758
Glacial till is the debris
left behind by a glacier.
497
00:22:19,931 --> 00:22:21,689
Thousands of years ago,
498
00:22:21,862 --> 00:22:25,000
millions of tons of ice
bulldozed its way through
499
00:22:25,137 --> 00:22:27,862
the valley, crushing rocks
into fragments
500
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,585
and freeing the gold inside.
501
00:22:30,586 --> 00:22:34,172
As the glacier melted back,
the gold was left scattered
502
00:22:34,344 --> 00:22:36,551
throughout the ground.
503
00:22:36,724 --> 00:22:40,137
A hypothesis that that
hillside right there,
504
00:22:40,310 --> 00:22:43,137
you know, it's not really
structured with the main hill.
505
00:22:43,310 --> 00:22:45,448
There's a chance that's
a glacial moraine.
506
00:22:45,620 --> 00:22:49,586
A moraine is where the glacial
till has become piled up to
507
00:22:49,758 --> 00:22:53,586
form a ridge where gold is more
likely to be concentrated.
508
00:22:53,758 --> 00:22:55,378
[Freddy] You can see right down
below us here,
509
00:22:55,379 --> 00:22:56,585
and you've got
the road there.
510
00:22:56,586 --> 00:22:58,482
It could be good.
Who knows?
511
00:22:58,655 --> 00:23:00,585
There's only one way
to find out, though.
512
00:23:00,586 --> 00:23:01,964
Freddy's hunch?
513
00:23:01,965 --> 00:23:05,758
An old-timer's road, which cuts
through the glacial moraine
514
00:23:05,931 --> 00:23:08,793
outcrop, could hold virgin pay.
515
00:23:08,965 --> 00:23:10,758
[Freddy] At one time, there was
a lot of gold here,
516
00:23:10,931 --> 00:23:12,344
but they gutted this valley.
517
00:23:12,517 --> 00:23:15,034
Maybe there's some pockets
of virgin ground under the road
518
00:23:15,206 --> 00:23:16,655
that nobody took
the gold out of.
519
00:23:16,827 --> 00:23:18,792
Hopefully, we can do
a little bit of potholing
520
00:23:18,793 --> 00:23:20,448
and try to figure things out.
521
00:23:27,793 --> 00:23:30,379
[upbeat music plays]
522
00:23:30,551 --> 00:23:31,793
Make sure we're not
right on the edge.
523
00:23:32,689 --> 00:23:36,034
In the mine's boneyard,
Juan and Jamie construct a new
524
00:23:36,206 --> 00:23:40,586
18-foot sluice, which will help
them recover more gold.
525
00:23:40,758 --> 00:23:42,378
[Juan] Kind of push it to where
you want it, more or less.
526
00:23:42,379 --> 00:23:43,826
[Jamie] Oh, OK.
527
00:23:43,827 --> 00:23:45,758
[Juan]
And then you push in, twist
to the right, let go of it,
528
00:23:45,931 --> 00:23:46,792
and it locks.
529
00:23:46,793 --> 00:23:48,137
Want to try this one
real quick?
530
00:23:48,310 --> 00:23:50,793
The magnets grip the steel
like a clamp,
531
00:23:50,965 --> 00:23:53,655
keeping it square
at 90 degrees.
532
00:23:53,827 --> 00:23:55,792
[Juan]
Is mining something that
you really enjoy or that
533
00:23:55,793 --> 00:23:57,655
you really want to do?
- [Jamie] Yeah, it is.
534
00:23:57,827 --> 00:24:00,275
And when my kids can come out,
that's even better.
535
00:24:00,448 --> 00:24:03,481
Wyatt is just about 21,
and Morgan is almost 19.
536
00:24:03,482 --> 00:24:05,689
Doesn't seem like you're old
enough to have kids
537
00:24:05,862 --> 00:24:08,068
that age, so...
- So, there's...
538
00:24:08,241 --> 00:24:10,068
Well, there is a story.
539
00:24:10,241 --> 00:24:13,275
I had Wyatt when I was 20,
and then on my 21st birthday,
540
00:24:13,448 --> 00:24:14,448
I was diagnosed with
541
00:24:14,620 --> 00:24:16,862
relapsing-remitting
multiple sclerosis.
542
00:24:17,862 --> 00:24:19,585
And I was told if I wanted
to have more kids,
543
00:24:19,586 --> 00:24:21,965
I needed to do it because
the medication I was about
544
00:24:22,103 --> 00:24:25,688
to start could cause
complications during
my pregnancy.
545
00:24:25,689 --> 00:24:27,689
[Juan] Yeah, you kind
of picked priorities.
546
00:24:27,862 --> 00:24:29,689
You wanted to have kids,
so you went for it.
547
00:24:29,862 --> 00:24:31,136
- [Jamie] Yeah.
- [Juan] I get that.
548
00:24:31,137 --> 00:24:32,758
I would have never known that
she had health issues with
549
00:24:32,931 --> 00:24:35,896
her motivation and her work
ethic, but, you know, it just
550
00:24:36,034 --> 00:24:38,275
shows that she really has
the drive and she's committed
551
00:24:38,448 --> 00:24:39,793
to doing this mine.
552
00:24:39,965 --> 00:24:41,171
We should probably get back
to work then, huh?
553
00:24:41,172 --> 00:24:42,344
- Yeah.
- All right.
554
00:24:50,275 --> 00:24:52,137
[Freddy]
I came to look at this spot.
555
00:24:52,310 --> 00:24:54,171
We can stay to the side there
and at least get a trench
556
00:24:54,172 --> 00:24:56,000
in here and see what it
looks like.
557
00:24:56,137 --> 00:24:57,379
[Jared] OK.
558
00:24:57,551 --> 00:25:00,103
On the other side of
the claim, Freddy locates
559
00:25:00,275 --> 00:25:04,379
a spot to test under an old
mining road for virgin pay.
560
00:25:04,551 --> 00:25:06,379
Maybe they didn't touch it,
so let's see
561
00:25:06,551 --> 00:25:07,896
what lives right here.
- [Jared] OK.
562
00:25:09,344 --> 00:25:10,551
Hey, Juan, you got a copy?
563
00:25:11,689 --> 00:25:12,688
Go ahead, Freddy.
564
00:25:12,689 --> 00:25:14,689
I see that excavator
showed up.
565
00:25:14,862 --> 00:25:17,000
Yeah, 10-4, do you want me
to bring it on down to you?
566
00:25:17,172 --> 00:25:18,275
[Freddy]
Yeah, if you wouldn't mind.
567
00:25:23,379 --> 00:25:27,448
With the Genert's unreliable
excavators, Freddy and Juan
568
00:25:27,620 --> 00:25:30,586
truck one in that can dig
to almost 30 feet.
569
00:25:33,896 --> 00:25:34,965
[Freddy]
What do you think, buddy?
570
00:25:35,103 --> 00:25:36,137
Sweet machine.
571
00:25:36,310 --> 00:25:37,585
[Freddy]
Thanks for bringing it down.
572
00:25:37,586 --> 00:25:39,758
- [Juan] Yeah.
- This is a huge machine.
573
00:25:39,931 --> 00:25:41,034
That's awesome.
574
00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:42,793
See if I'm tall enough to get
in this guy.
575
00:25:45,172 --> 00:25:47,000
[rumbling, creaking]
576
00:25:48,172 --> 00:25:49,896
[clang]
577
00:25:52,965 --> 00:25:55,034
My hope, this was their road
578
00:25:55,206 --> 00:25:57,689
when they dug these pits
beside us.
579
00:25:57,862 --> 00:26:01,068
This was the only spot I could
see that we could have a look at
580
00:26:01,241 --> 00:26:02,689
in the time period
we're here.
581
00:26:10,448 --> 00:26:13,068
- Well, let's try that level.
- [Jared] OK.
582
00:26:14,379 --> 00:26:16,448
[intriguing music plays]
583
00:26:29,275 --> 00:26:30,965
[Freddy] Zero.
Not a color in it.
584
00:26:35,103 --> 00:26:36,896
- That's disappointing.
- Yeah.
585
00:26:37,034 --> 00:26:38,034
[Freddy]
Really disappointing.
586
00:26:39,586 --> 00:26:41,586
[sad music plays]
587
00:26:48,172 --> 00:26:50,965
[ominous music plays]
588
00:26:53,137 --> 00:26:54,586
[Jared] I just had a chat
with Freddy.
589
00:26:56,379 --> 00:26:58,034
There might not be ground
there, basically.
590
00:27:00,275 --> 00:27:02,172
[Jamie sighs]
591
00:27:02,344 --> 00:27:03,793
Ugh...
592
00:27:18,689 --> 00:27:21,379
[Freddy]
What I want to do is get some
material from down deeper
593
00:27:21,551 --> 00:27:24,482
in here and then have a look
at it from a greater depth.
594
00:27:25,586 --> 00:27:29,171
At the Genert Mine,
Freddy rolls the dice on one
595
00:27:29,172 --> 00:27:33,103
last option, finding
gold at bedrock.
596
00:27:33,275 --> 00:27:35,172
Well, this is definitely
virgin material.
597
00:27:36,172 --> 00:27:37,793
I just don't know how much
of it's here.
598
00:27:43,275 --> 00:27:45,103
- We're down to bedrock here.
- [Jared] Yep.
599
00:27:45,275 --> 00:27:47,274
We took those pans about
five to six feet, right?
600
00:27:47,275 --> 00:27:48,896
But now we're down
12 feet or so.
601
00:27:49,034 --> 00:27:50,137
[Jared] OK.
602
00:27:50,310 --> 00:27:52,241
So I got some
in the bucket there.
603
00:27:52,413 --> 00:27:54,068
Let's pan it
and see what's in it.
604
00:27:56,551 --> 00:27:58,068
When I pan, I like to take,
605
00:27:58,241 --> 00:27:59,895
you know,
not just the same spot.
606
00:27:59,896 --> 00:28:01,000
Yeah.
607
00:28:01,172 --> 00:28:02,688
I'll pick around
through that material.
608
00:28:02,689 --> 00:28:05,068
So we get a little bit more
scientific test.
609
00:28:10,172 --> 00:28:12,965
[suspenseful music rises]
610
00:28:19,137 --> 00:28:20,482
Holy moly!
611
00:28:22,275 --> 00:28:24,137
That's the stuff dreams are
made of right there.
612
00:28:25,655 --> 00:28:27,000
I'm absolutely amazed
613
00:28:27,137 --> 00:28:28,896
that Freddy was able to find
something in here.
614
00:28:29,034 --> 00:28:31,172
I'm hopeful there's
a few thousand yards
615
00:28:31,344 --> 00:28:34,448
of material there.
This is incredible.
616
00:28:34,620 --> 00:28:36,137
[Freddy] Well, that is what
I wanted to see.
617
00:28:36,310 --> 00:28:39,448
We'll run a second test
and see what's in it.
618
00:28:45,896 --> 00:28:46,896
[Freddy]
How you doing, guys?
619
00:28:47,034 --> 00:28:48,000
[Jared]
Good, how are you guys?
620
00:28:48,137 --> 00:28:49,481
[Juan] Good, doing good.
621
00:28:49,482 --> 00:28:52,862
With 24 hours left before
the second test, Juan enlists
622
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,344
Jared and brother Sandy
to help with the next fix.
623
00:28:56,517 --> 00:28:58,241
If you guys could help Freddy
and I, we need to get that
624
00:28:58,413 --> 00:29:00,689
spray bar out of the trommel.
See if we can break it loose
625
00:29:00,862 --> 00:29:02,172
here on this end,
to get it unthreaded.
626
00:29:02,344 --> 00:29:03,241
- You good with that?
- [Jared] Perfect, yeah.
627
00:29:03,413 --> 00:29:04,275
[Juan] Awesome.
Thanks, guys.
628
00:29:04,448 --> 00:29:06,206
See you in a bit.
629
00:29:08,689 --> 00:29:11,068
So the problem with the old
spray bar, it was actually
630
00:29:11,241 --> 00:29:13,274
pushing water outside
of the trommel, and it really
631
00:29:13,275 --> 00:29:15,103
wasn't cleaning
the material properly.
632
00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:16,688
With this new one,
it's going to allow us to be
633
00:29:16,689 --> 00:29:19,171
able to concentrate that water
where it needs to be
634
00:29:19,172 --> 00:29:20,379
and get that material washed.
635
00:29:23,896 --> 00:29:25,000
[Jared]
You stick that in there.
636
00:29:28,241 --> 00:29:29,895
[Sandy] Nope.
637
00:29:29,896 --> 00:29:32,034
- Heavier body.
- Yeah, get up here.
638
00:29:32,206 --> 00:29:34,655
[Jared panting]
639
00:29:34,827 --> 00:29:36,103
[metal snaps]
640
00:29:36,275 --> 00:29:37,586
[Jared] There you go.
641
00:29:39,379 --> 00:29:41,448
We're putting these pipe
nipples on so we can reduce
642
00:29:41,620 --> 00:29:43,482
the water flow, so we have
a nice even flow across
643
00:29:43,655 --> 00:29:46,103
the whole bar to get
a good wash.
644
00:29:46,275 --> 00:29:48,172
And I'm using the end
of the old spray bar so that way
645
00:29:48,344 --> 00:29:50,655
we know that we have the right
thread pitch to be able
646
00:29:50,827 --> 00:29:52,793
to screw it back onto the plant,
and we know it's going to fit.
647
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,688
This is an awesome new
spray bar.
648
00:29:57,689 --> 00:29:58,895
Juan did excellent.
649
00:29:58,896 --> 00:30:00,895
[Freddy] You gonna start
throwing her in?
650
00:30:00,896 --> 00:30:03,481
- Yeah, I think so.
- [Freddy] Oh, OK.
651
00:30:03,482 --> 00:30:05,758
- [Jared] This is heavy.
- [Sandy] My end's light.
652
00:30:05,931 --> 00:30:07,103
[Jared]
I got the heavy side for sure.
653
00:30:07,275 --> 00:30:08,793
[Sandy] Yeah, I'm sure.
654
00:30:08,965 --> 00:30:10,000
[Jared]
OK, let's set her down.
655
00:30:10,137 --> 00:30:11,344
- [Sandy laughs]
- [Jared grunts]
656
00:30:12,655 --> 00:30:15,481
[Sandy]
We're gonna see if this
side's heavier.
657
00:30:15,482 --> 00:30:17,586
- [Jared] This side's way easier.
- [Sandy] It's the same.
658
00:30:25,103 --> 00:30:27,137
Oh, look at that.
It's tight.
659
00:30:27,310 --> 00:30:28,758
[Sandy] Like we're
professionals or something.
660
00:30:31,862 --> 00:30:33,689
[intriguing music plays]
661
00:30:35,379 --> 00:30:37,000
- [Jamie] Hi, Freddy.
- [Freddy] How's it going?
662
00:30:37,172 --> 00:30:38,448
[Jamie] Going good.
663
00:30:38,620 --> 00:30:39,896
[Freddy] Right now,
you got a little bit
664
00:30:40,034 --> 00:30:41,585
of a safety issue here.
- Yes, yes.
665
00:30:41,586 --> 00:30:43,137
[Freddy]
There's no stair treads in
the frameworks on them.
666
00:30:43,310 --> 00:30:44,447
Yeah.
667
00:30:44,448 --> 00:30:46,379
[Freddy] So, I was repurposing
your old riffles.
668
00:30:47,758 --> 00:30:50,862
We'll tack them in.
Why don't you try that?
669
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,034
You're going to start it,
670
00:30:52,206 --> 00:30:54,481
click, and then go
chk-chk, too-too,
671
00:30:54,482 --> 00:30:55,895
about an eighth of an inch,
and then you stack
672
00:30:55,896 --> 00:30:58,000
your dimes, OK?
- [Jamie] OK.
673
00:30:58,137 --> 00:31:00,379
Here, we stack one,
we stack two.
674
00:31:00,551 --> 00:31:04,965
"Stacking dimes" means making
each weld smooth and round,
675
00:31:05,103 --> 00:31:07,034
just like coins in a stack.
676
00:31:07,206 --> 00:31:08,481
[Freddy]
We just stacked nine dimes.
677
00:31:08,482 --> 00:31:09,655
[Jamie] Nine!
678
00:31:09,827 --> 00:31:11,448
[Freddy]
OK, this is the last weld
right there.
679
00:31:12,896 --> 00:31:14,586
Stack those dimes.
680
00:31:14,758 --> 00:31:16,344
Get a little closer.
681
00:31:16,517 --> 00:31:17,586
There you go.
682
00:31:18,689 --> 00:31:19,792
- You got it.
- [Jamie] Did I?
683
00:31:19,793 --> 00:31:21,481
- [Freddy] Yeah.
- [Jamie] Thanks, Freddy.
684
00:31:21,482 --> 00:31:22,551
[Freddy] You're welcome.
685
00:31:22,724 --> 00:31:24,000
I feel pretty good.
686
00:31:24,172 --> 00:31:25,412
Freddy said I did OK.
687
00:31:25,413 --> 00:31:28,241
I think this skill is really
important to have out here.
688
00:31:28,413 --> 00:31:30,379
If Jared and Ray are gone
689
00:31:30,551 --> 00:31:33,000
and we need something welded,
then I can do it.
690
00:31:33,896 --> 00:31:35,793
[country music plays]
691
00:31:41,172 --> 00:31:44,965
We're making a wider sluice box
to give them more area for that
692
00:31:45,103 --> 00:31:47,896
gold to fall out, so we can
spread that material out wider.
693
00:31:48,034 --> 00:31:50,034
It's going to be a lot more
efficient sluice box than
694
00:31:50,206 --> 00:31:51,551
the one they had.
695
00:31:51,724 --> 00:31:55,171
With hours remaining
on the final day of fixes
696
00:31:55,172 --> 00:31:58,758
and the critical sluice
unfinished, the Generts get
697
00:31:58,931 --> 00:32:00,689
a welcome surprise.
698
00:32:00,862 --> 00:32:04,275
Ray's taken the afternoon off
to lend a hand.
699
00:32:04,448 --> 00:32:06,344
Ray is incredibly hardworking.
700
00:32:06,517 --> 00:32:08,965
He is gone most of the days
during the week, but he tries
701
00:32:09,103 --> 00:32:11,379
to make up for the week
he wasn't here.
702
00:32:11,551 --> 00:32:13,103
He just goes and goes
and goes and goes.
703
00:32:13,275 --> 00:32:15,034
- [Freddy] How's it going guys?
- [Jared] Good.
704
00:32:15,206 --> 00:32:16,792
We're here to help.
705
00:32:16,793 --> 00:32:18,344
You guys want to cut
some riffles?
706
00:32:18,517 --> 00:32:20,171
[Jared] We do.
707
00:32:20,172 --> 00:32:23,379
[Freddy] So, our sluice is
35 and a half.
708
00:32:30,793 --> 00:32:34,793
Right now, I'm just getting
this fairly close to the pitch.
709
00:32:34,965 --> 00:32:36,895
We'll have it
in the sluice box.
710
00:32:36,896 --> 00:32:40,000
That way when I weld the ears
on for these jacks,
711
00:32:40,137 --> 00:32:41,896
I can get them straight
up and down.
712
00:32:43,862 --> 00:32:48,000
The jacks will make the sluice
adjustable for the type of pay
713
00:32:48,137 --> 00:32:49,103
they are running.
714
00:32:49,275 --> 00:32:50,481
[Freddy] Well, all finished.
715
00:32:50,482 --> 00:32:52,689
Looking good.
Let's get her up to the plant.
716
00:32:58,482 --> 00:33:00,344
Right now, it's all hands
on deck.
717
00:33:00,517 --> 00:33:02,895
We're going to get this thing
in, get this test run done,
718
00:33:02,896 --> 00:33:04,896
and head on to the next mine.
719
00:33:07,344 --> 00:33:09,103
- So we'll riffle this up.
- [Sandy] OK.
720
00:33:09,275 --> 00:33:10,551
[Freddy] So we're going
to put it in like shingles.
721
00:33:10,724 --> 00:33:14,689
Sluice build complete,
Freddy gives a quick tutorial
722
00:33:14,862 --> 00:33:18,482
to mechanic brother Sandy
on how to configure it.
723
00:33:18,655 --> 00:33:20,137
[Freddy] So now we take
our miner's moss.
724
00:33:20,310 --> 00:33:21,586
We don't overlap this stuff.
725
00:33:27,482 --> 00:33:29,275
OK, now grab one
of our heavy riffles.
726
00:33:30,275 --> 00:33:32,172
So we'll go right up to the top
with that one.
727
00:33:40,034 --> 00:33:41,137
Done.
728
00:33:48,068 --> 00:33:49,896
You can start walking that end
this way.
729
00:33:50,896 --> 00:33:52,103
- You good?
- [Freddy] Still all right.
730
00:33:53,137 --> 00:33:57,793
Last task before the test run,
the sluice installation.
731
00:33:57,965 --> 00:33:59,000
- Oh, we're going under that?
- [Freddy] Yeah.
732
00:33:59,172 --> 00:34:01,000
- [Sandy] OK.
- [Juan] Oh, we're golden.
733
00:34:02,586 --> 00:34:04,103
[Jared]
We've learned a ton since
734
00:34:04,275 --> 00:34:06,000
Freddy and Juan showed up here.
735
00:34:06,137 --> 00:34:08,586
Words can't express
the gratitude I have
736
00:34:08,758 --> 00:34:10,172
for those guys right now.
737
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,793
[Juan] What do you say?
Let's start a test run.
738
00:34:13,965 --> 00:34:15,378
All right.
Let's wash some rock, guys.
739
00:34:15,379 --> 00:34:17,103
[Sandy] Let's see this run.
740
00:34:19,586 --> 00:34:21,379
[Freddy]
Overall, the fixes were great.
741
00:34:21,551 --> 00:34:23,793
And we know we got
virgin material here.
742
00:34:23,965 --> 00:34:25,793
We'll just run a second test
and see what happens.
743
00:34:36,379 --> 00:34:38,655
[adventurous music plays]
744
00:34:41,137 --> 00:34:42,171
What do you think, guys?
745
00:34:42,172 --> 00:34:43,344
[Jared]
Looks like we're ready to run.
746
00:34:43,517 --> 00:34:44,862
So why don't we do a two-hour
test run, huh, Juan?
747
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,067
Yeah.
748
00:34:46,068 --> 00:34:47,585
[Jared] I'm excited to see
how she runs now.
749
00:34:47,586 --> 00:34:49,000
In British Columbia...
750
00:34:49,137 --> 00:34:50,275
[Juan]
All right, let's do it.
751
00:34:51,344 --> 00:34:54,793
It's the moment of truth
at the Genert Family Mine.
752
00:34:54,965 --> 00:34:58,344
There's a lot at stake here
for us with everything, so I'm
753
00:34:58,517 --> 00:35:01,103
hoping with the improvements,
the sluice and the spray bar,
754
00:35:01,275 --> 00:35:04,172
that we should improve,
and I'm really excited to see
755
00:35:04,344 --> 00:35:06,274
what's in the box after we run.
756
00:35:06,275 --> 00:35:08,000
[water gushing]
757
00:35:13,689 --> 00:35:15,241
[rattling]
758
00:35:15,413 --> 00:35:16,309
That's good.
759
00:35:16,310 --> 00:35:17,586
[Freddy]
Well, let's make some gold.
760
00:35:19,344 --> 00:35:20,448
First bucket.
761
00:35:29,241 --> 00:35:30,689
So far, everything
looks great.
762
00:35:32,689 --> 00:35:34,482
Already it's more material than
we were running the first
763
00:35:34,655 --> 00:35:36,481
go around, huh?
- [Jamie] Awesome, awesome.
764
00:35:36,482 --> 00:35:39,103
Now we're not having to stay
up there and hose it all down.
765
00:35:39,275 --> 00:35:40,413
It's washing itself down.
766
00:35:42,586 --> 00:35:45,068
I think this test run's going
pretty good so far,
767
00:35:45,241 --> 00:35:47,344
These fixes are awesome
768
00:35:47,517 --> 00:35:50,655
above and beyond what I
could have ever expected.
769
00:35:50,827 --> 00:35:54,275
But we've all learned a ton
with Freddy and Juan here.
770
00:35:54,448 --> 00:35:57,068
Tomorrow's gold weigh
will determine
771
00:35:57,241 --> 00:35:58,448
whether or not we stay here.
772
00:36:03,689 --> 00:36:05,344
Sluice is running
pretty decent.
773
00:36:05,517 --> 00:36:06,551
[Juan] Yeah, it's not bad.
774
00:36:06,724 --> 00:36:08,586
By adding this extra wide
sluice box,
775
00:36:08,758 --> 00:36:11,172
it allows us to run
more material.
776
00:36:13,655 --> 00:36:15,862
[suspenseful music plays]
777
00:36:25,448 --> 00:36:27,171
When you put material
into the plant,
778
00:36:27,172 --> 00:36:28,482
it's got to go
somewhere, right?
779
00:36:28,655 --> 00:36:31,068
We don't want it building up
where it's coming up
780
00:36:31,241 --> 00:36:32,896
the sluice box.
781
00:36:33,034 --> 00:36:34,275
So you got to take care of it.
782
00:36:36,241 --> 00:36:38,862
Sandy's going to get
that trackhoe here
783
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,655
where he can take
care of the tailings.
784
00:36:50,137 --> 00:36:51,275
Now start turning.
785
00:36:56,655 --> 00:36:58,000
There you go!
786
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,103
- Last bucket, Jared.
- Yeah, sounds good.
787
00:37:09,344 --> 00:37:11,275
♪
788
00:37:21,482 --> 00:37:22,793
[Freddy]
Get my granny glasses on.
789
00:37:24,068 --> 00:37:25,793
Yep, she's got gold in her.
790
00:37:25,965 --> 00:37:28,137
[Jared]
There's definitely some
mustard in this box.
791
00:37:28,310 --> 00:37:29,688
- [Juan] Hey, Jamie.
- [Freddy] Come have a look.
792
00:37:29,689 --> 00:37:32,481
- [Jared] Lots of fine stuff.
- Get in there.
793
00:37:32,482 --> 00:37:34,068
- Oh, yeah.
- See it? There.
794
00:37:34,241 --> 00:37:36,378
- A little bit bigger here.
- [Sandy] Over here.
795
00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:37,689
[Juan]
Nice work, Mr. Dodge.
796
00:37:38,758 --> 00:37:41,655
I think this has
significantly improved.
797
00:37:41,827 --> 00:37:43,103
That's the biggest piece I
see, but all through here
798
00:37:43,275 --> 00:37:44,068
is gold.
799
00:37:44,241 --> 00:37:45,136
So yeah, get her cleaned up,
800
00:37:45,137 --> 00:37:46,103
and we'll meet
you in the morning.
801
00:37:46,275 --> 00:37:47,274
All right, see you guys
in the morning.
802
00:37:47,275 --> 00:37:48,758
- [Jamie] Thanks, guys.
- [Jared] Yep, awesome.
803
00:37:50,172 --> 00:37:54,068
I'm thrilled to see a light
at the end of the tunnel.
804
00:37:54,241 --> 00:37:56,034
I'm more excited than I can
express with words.
805
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
[intriguing music plays]
806
00:38:04,862 --> 00:38:06,274
- [Freddy] How's it going, guys?
- [Jared] Good.
807
00:38:06,275 --> 00:38:07,379
- How are you doing today?
- [Jamie] Good.
808
00:38:07,551 --> 00:38:08,586
[Freddy]
Get her all cleaned up?
809
00:38:08,758 --> 00:38:09,965
Yep.
810
00:38:10,103 --> 00:38:11,655
This is what we ended up with.
811
00:38:11,827 --> 00:38:13,689
[Juan]
Better than what we had
in the first.
812
00:38:13,862 --> 00:38:14,931
I guess we'll see.
813
00:38:16,172 --> 00:38:19,068
All the rumor is,
and the testings have shown
814
00:38:19,241 --> 00:38:21,000
that this might be the ground
that we've needed
815
00:38:21,172 --> 00:38:22,379
all this time.
816
00:38:22,551 --> 00:38:23,895
I think we've got
good ground now.
817
00:38:23,896 --> 00:38:25,000
I think we're going to do well.
818
00:38:25,965 --> 00:38:28,344
During our first test run,
it was a 0.02.
819
00:38:28,517 --> 00:38:30,000
That was for a one hour run.
820
00:38:30,137 --> 00:38:32,275
So on the final test run,
we did two hours.
821
00:38:32,448 --> 00:38:35,344
We would have gotten 0.04,
which is still only a hundred
822
00:38:35,517 --> 00:38:37,137
dollars worth of gold
for two hours.
823
00:38:37,310 --> 00:38:39,103
Your goal right now is about
half an ounce daily, right?
824
00:38:39,275 --> 00:38:40,344
Yeah.
825
00:38:40,517 --> 00:38:41,585
let's see what we got
out of two hours.
826
00:38:41,586 --> 00:38:42,965
Yeah.
827
00:38:44,793 --> 00:38:47,000
[suspenseful music plays]
828
00:38:49,448 --> 00:38:51,758
[Freddy]
0.33, third of an ounce.
829
00:38:52,793 --> 00:38:55,172
Almost three times
what they need
830
00:38:55,344 --> 00:38:56,862
to hit their daily goal.
831
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,172
That's really great, guys!
832
00:38:59,241 --> 00:39:00,896
[Juan] That's a massive
increase, you know,
833
00:39:01,034 --> 00:39:03,274
and the great thing is that
now you're actually on decent
834
00:39:03,275 --> 00:39:05,000
ground that's actually virgin
instead of going through
835
00:39:05,172 --> 00:39:07,103
the tailings that we were doing
in the beginning.
836
00:39:07,275 --> 00:39:09,344
And with the plant running
the way it is,
837
00:39:09,517 --> 00:39:10,862
we're able to run
a lot more material.
838
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,585
But you got to keep
prospecting because that whole
839
00:39:13,586 --> 00:39:16,172
mine's tailings piles, right?
- [Jamie] Yeah.
840
00:39:16,344 --> 00:39:17,551
Who knows what's under them?
841
00:39:17,724 --> 00:39:19,034
I'll be able to recognize
those tailings
842
00:39:19,206 --> 00:39:21,172
a little better now.
- [Freddy] Yeah.
843
00:39:21,344 --> 00:39:22,896
You actually have a real
possibility of making
844
00:39:23,034 --> 00:39:24,895
this work.
- Yeah, we can work with this.
845
00:39:24,896 --> 00:39:27,448
[Juan]
You kind of mentioned to me
earlier that eventually this is
846
00:39:27,620 --> 00:39:28,793
something that you want to do
as a family, right?
847
00:39:28,965 --> 00:39:30,309
- Yep.
- [Cheryl] Yeah.
848
00:39:30,310 --> 00:39:32,171
[Juan]
Well, with gold like that,
that's no longer a dream.
849
00:39:32,172 --> 00:39:34,241
You know, that actually could
be your reality.
850
00:39:34,413 --> 00:39:35,862
Yeah.
That's amazing.
851
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,758
I think if we can keep this up,
I won't have to be
852
00:39:38,931 --> 00:39:40,965
a mechanic anymore.
- Oh, you still will be.
853
00:39:41,103 --> 00:39:42,240
[all laugh]
854
00:39:42,241 --> 00:39:44,688
[Freddy and Sandy]
Mechanic at a gold mine, yeah.
855
00:39:44,689 --> 00:39:47,379
There's lots of gold in this
area, so look around.
856
00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:50,481
- Don't run tailings.
- Well, thank you very much.
857
00:39:50,482 --> 00:39:51,792
- Thanks a lot, you guys.
- Thanks for everything.
858
00:39:51,793 --> 00:39:53,172
- You're welcome.
- [Jamie] Thank you.
859
00:39:53,344 --> 00:39:56,171
It was amazing to ride around
with Fred and learn some stuff.
860
00:39:56,172 --> 00:39:58,862
They're leaving me with hope
for my future, so I'm chomping
861
00:39:59,000 --> 00:39:59,965
at the bit to get out there
862
00:40:00,103 --> 00:40:01,481
and get the rest
of that pile run.
863
00:40:01,482 --> 00:40:03,068
[Freddy]
Well, you guys take care.
864
00:40:03,241 --> 00:40:05,793
- We've got to hit the road.
- Bye.
865
00:40:05,965 --> 00:40:07,758
[Jamie]
My confidence has skyrocketed.
866
00:40:07,931 --> 00:40:10,172
I'm able to do things that
I wasn't able to do before,
867
00:40:10,344 --> 00:40:12,172
so I'm really grateful
for that.
868
00:40:12,344 --> 00:40:15,274
Jared really wants to be
kind of a family mine.
869
00:40:15,275 --> 00:40:16,586
Now he has that option.
870
00:40:17,482 --> 00:40:19,585
[Freddy]
I really enjoyed working
with this family.
871
00:40:19,586 --> 00:40:20,861
They stepped up.
872
00:40:20,862 --> 00:40:24,275
I taught Jared how to spot
the difference between tailings
873
00:40:24,448 --> 00:40:25,757
and virgin ground.
874
00:40:25,758 --> 00:40:28,344
That's a biggie, because if
you run tailings, you go broke.
875
00:40:28,517 --> 00:40:29,896
You know, the sky's the limit
for him now.
876
00:40:38,172 --> 00:40:41,895
Hey Freddy and Juan,
thank you for this season
877
00:40:41,896 --> 00:40:44,448
and everything that you guys
taught us.
878
00:40:44,620 --> 00:40:47,103
[Jared]
We ran the rest of that
virgin material from under
879
00:40:47,275 --> 00:40:48,585
the road the next day.
880
00:40:48,586 --> 00:40:52,481
We ended up with just about
an ounce from it, but I'll be
881
00:40:52,482 --> 00:40:55,551
honest, we're not going to go
back to the same claim.
882
00:40:55,724 --> 00:40:56,792
With the amount of tailings,
883
00:40:56,793 --> 00:41:00,482
it was such a big risk
to go after it.
884
00:41:00,655 --> 00:41:03,792
Now Ray and I actually bought
our own claims.
885
00:41:03,793 --> 00:41:07,274
That's something like 600 acres
of our own now.
886
00:41:07,275 --> 00:41:10,895
And with the knowledge I got
from Freddy, I'm confident
887
00:41:10,896 --> 00:41:13,172
I'll be able to go out there
and prospect that.
888
00:41:13,344 --> 00:41:18,758
This season really gave me
a taste of stepping up
889
00:41:18,931 --> 00:41:21,793
and the things that I learned
from Freddy, like learning how
890
00:41:21,965 --> 00:41:25,103
to weld, stacking dimes.
I'll never forget that.
891
00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:26,896
I'm going to get her
to weld up the exhaust
892
00:41:27,034 --> 00:41:28,171
on the excavator.
893
00:41:28,172 --> 00:41:29,896
Anything that breaks, if I need
any welding done.
894
00:41:30,034 --> 00:41:33,172
So the future's looking good.
Confidence is high.
895
00:41:33,344 --> 00:41:35,481
We're not giving up.
Thank you again.
896
00:41:35,482 --> 00:41:36,586
[Jared] Yeah, thanks, guys.