[Andy] I think I might have screwed up.
The whole pile is moving towards the creek.
[Todd] It's like a mudslide.
[narrator] After an engineering error puts the Hoffman's mine
-at risk... -[Andy] I've never made a mistake like this before.
[narrator] A severe storm pushes it to the brink of collapse.
This is an absolute mess.
Oh, yeah, that's turning into slop really fast.
[narrator] As heavy rain drives mud toward a fragile watershed...
State and federal agencies descend on the mine.
Hey, Todd, there's some inspectors here.
That rainstorm we had, it's going to bring the people out
because they know we got hammered.
[narrator] Facing fines and work stop orders.
[Todd] Every time we've been inspected,
there's always been something that we need to fix.
[Todd] I just hope this doesn't throw a wrench in our plans.
[narrator] For the Hoffman team, it's a race against time and the elements...
[Todd] There's over a million dollars of gold sitting underneath all that mud.
[narrator] ...to re-engineer their operation.
Are you seeing this?
Come on.
[narrator] Before the government shuts down the mine for good.
[Todd] The point that we're at, Jack's final season will be
one of our worst seasons.
[sighs]
Kind of sick to my stomach right now.
[thunderclap]
[rain pattering]
It's kind of rainy.
You know, this is some rainy day, liquid sunshine.
Sterling, this is, I don't know, this is an absolute mess.
I don't know what we're going to do.
Yeah, this is turning into slop really fast.
What do you want to do with all this?
We don't have the time to separate it.
And any gravel that's in there has got gold in it.
I think we're just gonna have to run the whole thing.
All right. Will the plant take it?
[Andy] We'll be under a lot of pressure.
We're just gonna have to run a lot more yardage,
get the gold out of it, but at least we'll get it out of it.
Okay, 10-4.
[Andy] This mine's one of the toughest mines
I've ever had to work on.
It rains, and it just never seems to let up.
The more rain we have, the more problems we have.
At this point, we just got to run the pay
because there's no point in waiting for the rain to stop.
We could be waiting all season.
Dakota, just fire up the plant.
We're just going to run this slop.
Everybody clear of the trommel.
Clear of the trommel.
We're at least running some dirt.
It's been raining like crazy,
but we're not going to shut down.
We're going to run that wet pay.
But because it's wet, it's much heavier than dry pay.
That trommel's got a lot of weight inside it.
It's going to put stress on the chains
and different things like that, the rollers.
So hopefully we don't break something,
but we can't shut down.
We're going to run it through.
With having everything wet versus dry,
you can't stack as high.
And then Dakota's having a heck of a time
trying to push it up to the guy
that's loading it because it won't stack.
It just oozes back down the pile.
So it just makes everything less efficient.
But you got to do it.
[man] Hey, Todd, I'm going to push some of this off
and keep this pay out back.
-[Todd] I think that's a great idea. -Okay.
This stuff is so wet, it just runs down the pad.
We're going to dam it off on either side
and dump right in front of the hopper there.
[Sparky] I'm like Jack of all trades.
When I'm not welding, I'm in a truck.
Sometimes you gotta be pretty malleable and fit in where you can.
We're delivering the sloppy pay.
As sloppy as it is, it's a rich pay.
It's gonna get us to our goal.
[Todd] People say that some of the great things, you know, are hard,
and that's why you don't see many people doing them.
And that's why you don't see very many miners out here.
It's hard.
There's a lot of water flooding.
It's like, it's just crazy.
It can get wild out here. It's a wild animal.
Gold's been really good.
You know, I have not been on ground that's been this good.
This has been phenomenal, Todd.
Well, we're just going to keep grinding away,
keep running through the plant,
-bringing you guys big cleanups. -Yeah.
[both chuckle]
They may not all be that good,
but I mean, they just keep coming in.
Why not?
The ground's that good.
I hope it is.
It's just like you get three ounces,
you get three and a half ounces,
a hundred, now you get four.
-So... -If we make it, that's going to be,
you know, just really cool.
You know, I... I've never made that kind of gold.
We've never got to that point, you know, that is phenomenal.
And I think it's a...
Everybody could go home with a lot of gold.
-Let's hope. -Yeah.
[Andy] Hey, Todd.
Yeah, yeah.
[Andy] Looks like we got some inspectors here.
I'm going to go see what they want.
Okay, everybody just give Andy some space.
Everybody just do what you're doing.
Leave Andy alone for now. He's going to be busy.
-What the crap's going on? -I don't know.
I'll figure it out. I'll call you in a bit.
I feel like I'm sick to my stomach right now.
I don't...
[sighs] I knew it, man. I knew it.
Everything's going too good. It was going too good.
How are you guys doing?
-We're good. How are you? -Good.
I'll take you guys around and kind of show you.
So I'll take you down to our cut.
We've got the inspectors here.
We've had a lot of rains.
This makes kind of a stressful situation.
But it's common for inspectors to come after
big storms, make sure that we're doing the right thing.
So hopefully, if everything's okay, we just get back to mining.
Let's just hope this is just routine and nothing more.
That's good with you guys?
-That works for us. -Okay.
You just follow me on down there, okay?
Okay.
You know, these inspections are routine for our mine,
but if you find something in noncompliance,
they can shut you down.
We've been having such a good season.
I just hope this doesn't throw a wrench in our plans,
but we're at the mercy of these inspectors
and the laws and rules.
You just go through everything in your head, you know.
We had a lot of rain, which created a mudslide
last week and turned our cut into soup this week.
They're not going to like that.
Let's just hope it doesn't kill our seasons.
It can.
It can shut you down.
I hope this all works out, because I don't want
to shut down right now.
Drive into that slot on the next load,
and then kind of crank it to your right and fill that hole, too.
So we've been running this pay out of the Lost Cut,
and this stuff's been super wet, which is a pain.
We're just trying to keep up with the plan at this point.
We just don't have a choice.
I mean, it's so late in the season now.
We just don't have the time to dry it out.
So we just got to get it through the plant
if we can and just take what we can get.
[gears grinding]
Holy [bleep].
Tater, Tater, the Holy Roller just shut down.
I'm going to need you up here ASAP.
Copy that.
[Dakota] It's not looking good.
[Todd] Heavy rains have been messing us up this year.
It shut us down last week.
Now it's creating all kinds of issues in our cut with mud.
And as we're fighting the fight,
our environmental inspectors show up.
It's not good.
Well, kind of what we feared, that monsoon rainstorm we had.
It's going to bring the people out
'cause they know good and well we got hammered.
And I think they're just seeing
how we survived the storm.
So I think we're good, but you never know.
They seem not overjoyed, but they just made
a trek through the tundra, and that can't be fun.
Doesn't help to worry.
We're doing everything we possibly can.
And if it comes to the point where we can't run, well, what do you do?
[Todd] We're at the mercy of
these inspectors and the laws and rules.
We're not perfect.
Every time we've been inspected,
there's always been something that we need to fix and do.
But let's just hope it doesn't kill our season.
I'm worried and stuff.
I really don't want to film any more about it.
I'm kind of sick to my stomach right now.
-Okay, we will. -Thanks, guys.
You're welcome.
[Todd] I'll wait and see what Andy says.
Hopefully, it went better than I think.
Dakota, what'd you do?
The spray bar had a little too much vibration.
Oh, yeah.
-I can see it from here. -It's hanging.
That ain't no good.
[Tater] The spray bar inside the trommel's broken.
We've been running some heavy, dense, muddy material.
It was causing vibration and too much weight on the plant.
Unfortunately, it caused the motor on the trommel to stop.
The spray bar bracket snapped.
Hopefully, there's not too much damage.
One of the brackets that actually holds the spray bar
in place is completely detached and off.
[narrator] The first step in fixing the spray bar
bar is for Dakota and Tater to use the excavator
to set the bar back into its correct position.
Once set, Tater will use a temporary strap to hold it
in place while he welds the broken strap back together.
[Dakota] The spray bar is one of the most essential parts in this trommel.
All that pay that's going through there
needs to be washed.
[Tater] It's really important these straps stay on there
and the spray bar stays where we set it.
It has a certain angle that we set it at.
It's actually hitting the rock as it's tumbling
and not just as it's on the deal,
so it'll clean the rocks better.
We're just going to use the excavator up on the pad
right now and just sling this water bar and then pick it up.
Okay.
You win.
This thing's a little bit broken.
It used to be a round half of an 8-inch pipe,
but you can see this is the clean break.
But for now, we're going to go up,
and I'm going to weld it back together and make it round again.
All right.
Something 8-inch.
That'll give you an idea
how far out of round she is.
Really bad.
So...
There.
Not a bad fit.
Hopefully that's the same size.
If not, I can drive it...
I can drive it over our pipe.
The spray bar strap is fixed.
It's a great thing.
We're back up and running,
but we can't run this material anymore
because it's too heavy and we don't need any more problems.
If we do, not only could this break again,
but there's other things that can get damaged.
Don't get your fingers on there.
There we go.
Okay.
I can work some miracles, but there's a lot of work to do.
We need to get moving.
-Where are they? -They left.
Oh, weird.
Well, I'm sure we'll get a report on it.
-They looked at all of our pond system. -Yeah.
We're not leaking anything.
I mean, we busted our butt to do it right.
I think we're in compliance.
I mean, there's always work to do, but, like,
nobody's ever mined this whole valley like we are.
We want to do what's right and try to get, you know,
if they do have things that they want us to change,
we'll do it, you know?
We've been mining here for a while now.
We've had to do a lot to get this place set up,
and we've never cut any corners.
So hopefully, inspectors recognize that.
Mining's getting tough, boys.
Mining's getting tough out here.
You know, sometimes you wonder,
is the chase worth it, you know?
-But... -Days like this, it seems like
it's sometimes like it's not.
But then you look at our guys, and you look at what
it means to them, and you see the joy that it brings them.
Yeah.
We're turning these guys into men.
They're running huge equipment,
and we're mining clean.
We're doing the best we can.
And I think there's something bigger than
just trying to go out and line our pockets.
The way our company is turning out, I'm proud of it.
Even if they came in and gave us some trouble,
we would definitely fix it, whatever it was.
-You know, but... -You can plan everything right, but...
-There's still a lot of things that can go wrong. -There's some...
I'm still trying to figure out what we're supposed
to learn from all this, right? You know, from God.
So until we figure that out,
I think we'll just keep plugging forward.
Yeah.
-Oh, thanks, buddy. -Yeah.
-Hey, I appreciate going on this journey with me, man. -Yeah.
-It's a journey. -It's not always easy.
No.
It'll be worth it, though.
[Todd] Get some sleep.
Right now, the point that we're at to not sugarcoat it,
I'm completely screwed.
If we don't get this mud flow controlled quickly
and it gets worse, that could cause
more inspectors to come out to the mine.
We have mud pumps here, so I think the best plan
is to build a big pond to pump the mud into.
[narrator] To eliminate the confounding layer of mud,
the crew will install two gas-powered slurry pumps
to push the mud into a retaining pond.
If successful, the crew should gain access
to the underlying pay dirt.
You got a copy, Andy?
Yeah, go ahead.
Hate when you find more gravel.
[bleep]
[narrator] While construction of the retention pond is underway,
the crew works on the most crucial component of Andy's plan,
the mud pumps.
If you hit it hard, it should go easy.
-Oh, really? -Yeah.
Trying to get these new slurry pumps together.
These have like a rubber flapper
pretty much that's stomping the mud out.
So just pump straight silt and slurry.
So should help out in the cut a lot.
[Sterling] We are putting fittings on hoses
and then we're going to roll them up.
These are the discharge hoses for the slurry pump.
That's going to go on the cut
so we can start controlling some of this mud.
These mud pumps, all it is is a bladder inside of the pump.
That's what's going to suction the mud out
so we can save that pay.
I have nightmares about pumps.
This guy has pump nightmares.
[Framer] Andy's digging us a retention pond right now.
We're going to put these pumps in,
and we're going to start pumping
the mud out of the cut
and over into his new retention ponds.
And hopefully, this afternoon, he'll have some dry ground
to start digging some pay on.
Good thing it's ice under it.
Yeah, it's nice and gooey.
All right, let's do this one first.
Yep.
We need to pick it up and carry it all the way over there.
Okay.
The end, this end needs to be all the way down there.
This one? It needs to be that one?
You want to roll it out and drag it?
You want to do that?
Or do you want to just carry the whole thing over there and roll it back?
-Yeah, I don't know. -We can just go?
Just go.
Caleb, pull it out there.
Want to go straight out?
Yeah.
[Andy] Great.
That's good. Just go towards the excavator.
No.
Caleb, go towards the excavator.
[Todd] So what we're going to attempt to do,
we're going to pump mud.
Hopefully, we can uncover all this pay dirt here.
We've got two little tiny pumps.
And it might work, and it may not.
We don't know.
This has to work.
Not only do we need to get to our good pay,
but we got these inspectors here the other day.
If they come back for any reason
and we have this mud that's out of control
in the cut, it's not going to look good.
We don't want to get shut down,
and hopefully these little pumps will do the trick.
Straighten this hose out, get some water in that pump,
and then we can fire it.
Is it going to work or no?
What do you think, Andy?
Framer's the expert.
It's gooey.
-If it don't work, it's Framer's fault. -Yep.
All right, let's fire it up.
Nice.
We will see if this works.
We got probably a million dollars
worth of pay dirt sitting right there.
All right, well, we're pumping.
Okay, here we go, here we go.
Dig a hole right where your bucket is, like right there.
There we go.
[Caleb] Is he just burying them, or are we putting them in that hole?
We're going to put them in that hole.
Don't bury the hoses. Just dig the hole,
and we'll throw the hose in the hole.
[Todd] This is tricky.
This is very, very tricky.
That's good. Let him throw it in there.
[Framer laughing]
This is the part where you say,
I love my job, right there.
Don't get much better than this.
[Todd] If it doesn't work, we're going to have to go to plan B.
And that might be just wait till it freezes up
a little bit, try to truck it out.
But I don't know.
That doesn't sound like a good idea.
It don't hold very much gas, though.
Somebody's going to be down there about day
and night refueling for a couple of days anyway.
[Todd] What we're trying to do is move mud,
this strip of mud to that side of the cut.
We probably have a million dollars worth of gold
right through this strip here.
We can't get to it unless we get that mud out of the way.
-[man] Hey, Todd, you got a copy? -Yeah.
[man] Heads up, you have inspectors coming your way.
These inspectors didn't get enough the other day.
Are we seeing this? Come on.
[Todd] Stop!
We gotta rethink this.
[Todd] Stop!
We gotta rethink this.
Andy, you got a second?
We gotta rethink this.
Do you see the inspectors are back?
You know what?
This is the second time this week the inspectors
are back, which I don't exactly know why they're here.
But since they're back, it makes me think
that they found something.
My gut tells me they don't like the mud in the cut.
So we have to fix it quick.
And these pumps are not going to do it.
There's just no manual for this stuff, dude.
You just got to look at it and read it.
And you know what?
You're the best at it.
It doesn't look like it right now.
How about you and I go up and say a little prayer to God
on this?
Let's just figure it out.
I don't care what you decide.
We're with you.
And let's just shut down for now until
the inspectors leave.
-[thunder rumbling] -[rain pattering]
[Todd] We've really got to figure out this mud.
You know, these inspectors are breathing down our necks.
You guys realize if you do the math under that mud,
there's probably a million dollars right along that edge.
-Yeah. -I mean, that puts us over the hump.
If we don't do something drastic,
-we're going to lose everything. -There's a lot, yeah.
We got to treat it like a landside, like on 101.
This is our mountain right here.
Our pay is out here.
Cowboy Carl, he's a 30-year excavation guy,
and so he knows his stuff.
When Highway 101 was hit by a huge mudslide,
Carl was really instrumental in clearing that slide.
So his expertise in mud is actually
going to come in handy right now.
[Carl] It's the same principle as the mud pumps,
just moving the mud in a different way.
-Okay. -This mountain sits right here. It's a natural slide.
We have a ditch that goes along here.
Then we have our pay is out here, frozen.
Gravity goes downhill. This is water leak.
We build a little trough along this side,
Andy's fast with the dozer, really fast.
He takes all that top stuff, pushes it down here.
That exposes all this pay.
And stop the bleeding.
And we can do it in a day instead of two weeks.
[narrator] Carl's plan is to build a trough,
a long, narrow channel, to direct the mud downhill
to the edge of the cut, where it can be safely stored.
Once the trough is complete, Andy will use the dozer
to push the mud through it,
re-exposing the rich pay dirt in the cut
so the team can get back to sluicing.
But that's assuming the inspectors don't flag
other unanticipated problems.
And like what Carl said, you've got
your overburdened mountain,
which is your wall, so it's not going to ooze that way.
There's a little bit of water coming down.
We just leave it right in the ditch.
Everything's just going to keep oozing into that trough.
It's just going to be water.
You get that trough working, I mean, it'll work just like a canal.
Once that stuff starts going, it'll just run down there.
You think we got enough room to hold all of that?
We have plenty of room. This should hold.
I say we take the Hail Mary like this and go for it.
You're the ultimate decision, Andy.
-What do you think? -I like it.
You know, the problem is at this point,
we're 900 feet short of what our goal was with the cut.
This will get us every square inch,
and like what Carl was saying, too.
We're running out of time for if they're getting thawed.
So it's like, I don't know a faster way to do it.
You know, we've tried a lot of
different ways to handle this mud.
We keep eating away at it every day,
but we just got to get it out of here. I think it'll work.
Basically, our whole season is on Cowboy Carl's idea.
Yep.
Newest guy here.
Okay.
We're going to call this Operation 101.
How do you like it, Carl?
-It will work. -This will move the mud.
It'll move.
It'll move it fast and efficiently.
So this is it.
This is the pay dirt for the whole season.
We got to get every square foot of that pay out of there.
All right.
Operation 101, Carl.
Here we go.
-[Andy] Let's get her done. -Let's get to work.
Yes.
[thunder rumbling]
I'll just check my fluids, do my pre-check on the truck.
I'm not going to be the guy that
gets in here and blows up a motor.
We're going to be running these things pretty hard today.
And they're nice pieces of equipment.
I want to keep them that way.
Sparky and I are going to be hauling all the excess mud
that Carl digs out so we can build the trough.
But we have to make sure that these vehicles
are up to the task of dealing with the rain.
We really don't have time for any setbacks at this point.
This really is our last chance to get rid of the mud
from the cut and get to the good pay dirt
if we want to reach our goal.
[narrator] Carl's plan is to dig a trough along the edge of the cut.
He'll then load Sterling and Sparky with the mud
he's removing so they can haul it a safe distance
from the valuable pay dirt.
All right, 10-4.
All right, easy does it.
So Cowboy Carl's got a plan to save the cut.
You know, at first we were using mud pumps,
but I just had a feeling it was not going to work out.
So Carl's got an idea of doing a trough
and basically just leading all this mud,
the top layer, down into this trough
so we can get to the pay.
And I really think that's going to work.
Hey, Ron, do you want me to nose down there or back down there?
I've done this before in a different situation,
on a mudslide on a highway.
And we kind of had the same deal.
We had a big hole.
We just made us a dozer slot, pushed it down in the slot.
We used barriers and rocks to stop it,
but we got frozen tundra and sand,
which will work the same way.
That'll work, Sterling.
[Andy] So, I think this is working.
I think your idea is working good.
I'm going to start pushing mud.
You keep digging that trough.
[Carl] All right, sounds good.
[Andy] Okay, I'll clean this up.
I think Carl's plan will work, because it's liquid mud.
Push it downhill, it'll go downhill.
Everything will just kind of keep oozing on the trough.
And I'll just keep shoving all this material down.
And it'll just ooze out into this big hole.
And we'll get most of it.
We'll probably have six to 10 inches of slop
still on top that we'll just mix in with the pay.
And it won't be a big deal.
It'll go right through that plant. We'll just run it.
[Carl] The solution that I think that
I've come up with, with Andy dozing,
he's a very good dozer operator,
and we have a natural slot.
One side we got the mountain, the other side we got ice,
and it's about the dozer width, and as fast as
he can doze, I think we can push it off in a day,
and that'll get us to the pay, and he'll be able to rip it.
Once he gets it ripped, we'll be able to load it and haul it.
[Andy] Carl had a great idea.
We're getting rid of the mud.
This might actually work, and if it does,
it'll be a huge relief.
All right, Chambo, let's get the skid steer,
wherever that's at.
My name is Chamberlain, also known as Chambo around here.
I am from Oregon.
Been friends with Todd for a while,
Hunter for a little bit.
Okay, sit pretty right in front of that welder.
I'm going to get a chain.
We're going to fly this thing right in front of that Ford,
and we're going to start cutting up, okay?
I have never been to a mine before, you know?
Never even seen big machinery
like this in person, to be honest.
But I'm enjoying it, though. I'm learning a lot.
What are you doing?
-We're going to get that. -Oh.
Come on, buddy.
I thought we were grabbing the plate.
When else am I going to get the opportunity
to come out to the middle of Alaska
in the middle of nowhere and do something like this?
Like, I'm going to look back on this
and tell people I was gold mining in Alaska when I was 20.
You know what I mean? Who else can say that?
Okay, you're good.
[Carl] I'm not exactly sure how much pay is here,
but there's a lot of pay. It's about two feet deep,
and it's probably an acre or half an acre of ground,
so I can't tell you how much pay is in there exactly.
We'll know after it goes through the plant,
but there's a lot of pay,
and it's been rich, this ground,
so we don't want to leave it behind.
[narrator] Carl's plan to remove the mud from the Lost Cut
is nearly complete, and the crew has done it
in just under 24 hours.
We're getting rid of the mud, closing the gravel.
[Hunter] Hey, Todd, that's the last of the mud.
We're finally ready to start bringing pay.
All right, guys, let's fire it up.
-[motor whirring] -Everybody clear on firing the Black Pearl.
Ready to go. Go ahead.
[Todd] Here comes the water.
So we're back up and running after
a tough week of inspectors and mud.
And you know what?
Watching the trommel spin again, it's awesome.
It's a good feeling.
Any pay you guys can just stack in the stockpile there.
The cut looks great, Carl.
-Good job. -Thank you.
[Sparky] It feels good to finally be back on track.
It's been obstacles and obstacles,
you know, constantly during the season.
It's not easy being on the mine,
but now we're back on track.
Now it's time to get that money
and start processing some gold, baby.
It's standing right in the worst spot to stand.
Hey.
You guys, take a screen out, and you don't,
and you roll it up. You don't walk on it.
You're walking on it.
You're going to get, you don't walk in the gold.
After everything that's happened this week,
all the crazy stuff, we actually got some time
to do some mining.
So we're going to pull the mats and see what we have.
We kind of forgot how to do this.
You don't know what you got until you do a cleanup.
So we'll find out.
[Todd] Okay, tell us about the cut, Andy.
[Andy] Thanks to Carl and Operation 101,
we're back to running dirt.
We did lose a couple days dealing with the mud,
so we weren't able to run the amount of dirt that we would have liked.
So we also had an inspector here.
But we haven't heard from them since they left the mine.
We're still mining at this point, anyway.
So I don't know.
Long or short, I don't know.
I feel uneasy about it, but there's nothing specific
to fix or anything at this point.
You know, anytime there's an inspector,
one could walk through, everything would be fine.
One's gonna see all the problems in the world.
So, I don't know, I'm a little bit nervous about it,
but if we're still running, we're still running.
It's been a big slowdown this week.
I guarantee you we're not going to be in
triple digits, but we did get some gold.
Dad, what do we got?
[narrator] This is the sixth weigh-in of the season,
and the team is far away from reaching their goal.
Their current total is 495.1 ounces,
and they need 3,033 ounces to reach their goal.
20, 30, 40.
48, 49, 50, 52,
54, 55, 55.4.
That is what it is. That's where we're at.
And there was a time when we did 55 ounces
-and we'd be doing cartwheels because we'd be so happy. -Yeah. Yeah.
It is quite a bit normally, but not when you're going
for 3,033 ounces.
It's not going to cut it.
We know the potential, because we've seen it.
We had several clean outs in the hundreds,
and I want it to be there as much as everybody else does, too.
But you know, with trying to get rid of the mud out of the cut,
I'm not really super surprised that
it's not triple digits this time.
Yeah, we kind of got spoiled there for a minute, huh?
Now we've got a few down weeks,
and it's going to be a grind.
3,033 slipping away.
You know, Thurber, what's our total?
550.8.
I'm not going to call it yet on this goal,
but next week's got to be a good one
or we're definitely not going to hit that goal.
[narrator] As of now, the mine has reached 550.5 ounces,
but they'll need 2,482.5 more if they want to hit their goal
of 3,033 ounces.
[Todd] Just do whatever you got to do, Andy.
Even if we've got to work a few more hours, let's do it.
Let's get this gold count up.
We'll get the most we possibly can get out of it.
Keep the plant running.
At the end of the day, we're only accountable
for the effort, not the outcome.
So if we put out the effort,
the outcome is really out of our hands,
and we're going to get the gold that God has for us, period.
But let's put the effort in.
-Sound good, guys? -Yeah.
What's going on?
It looks like the inspectors are back on the mine.
This makes me nervous.
I don't know how this is going to go.
I just hope this doesn't throw a wrench in our plans.
With the kind of crew that I have,
we'll be able to tackle anything that comes.
All right, so I hate to break it to you,
but you cannot open any more of that cut.
That's going to cost me millions of dollars.
I am not asking.