Danny, get in here.
Hey, morning, guys.
I just do my morning stretches.
Yoga and stuff, you know, the usual.
On this gold rush... Ready to go.
Rick ness digs deep.
I just want to get down there as fast as I can.
Everything's a big gamble, hopefully it turns out good.
On a mission to secure new ground...
Just over $8 million.
My interest is definitely piqued, yeah.
that could make or break...
Hey, watch out for those trees.
his mining future.
The Yukon, this place.
Danny, come on.
Good girl. Come on. Be a good girl.
Mine boss Rick ness is up early.
Come on.
Come on, baby.
Who's a good girl? Yes.
That's a good girl.
Welcome to my home.
Six months out of the year, I live in this place.
Watch out, Danny. Get out.
It's a small bed that I almost fit in.
I fit in there pretty good.
My feet mostly don't hang off the edge.
Just watch this. Hold on.
Yeah, I usually get up.
And then Danny kind of just doesn't...
There she comes. She might get up a little bit after me.
She usually lays there like a bum for a while.
This is my office.
My favorite quote up here is Mike Tyson.
"Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth."
You know, I have a lot of mining plans,
but they never work out, it's like getting punched in the mouth.
And when they do, if you can't pivot, then you're screwed.
Rick's own big swing,
buying the Duncan creek claim earlier this season
means he now needs it to pay out big.
This is my office.
One of the first things I do
is whip out the old phone here.
Get on the gold app, right here.
And look at that right there.
If I'm not mistaken, we're hitting record highs today.
Again, it's just going up and up and up.
That'll wake a guy up in the morning. That gets the guy going, that's for damn sure.
This is like some of the most impressive gold that I've gotten out here.
There's some really nice pieces of gold.
There's probably in the neighborhood of 15,
20 grand sitting on the table right there.
That's pretty, pretty cool.
Pretty impressive.
But it does not hold a candle to this guy.
I found this one this year.
That's my favorite by far.
I don't know if you can tell what the shape of it is.
I actually have some nice stuff to look at today.
I've got a 2024 geophysical assessment report.
I've been studying really hard for the last five years at geology.
But geology is tough.
I'm not nerding out over rocks kind of guy,
but I kind of have to be in this case if I want to survive out here, so...
It just went up again!
$2511. Just went up another buck while we were talking.
Like I said, good time to be a gold miner.
The gold price may be at an all-time high,
but right now, Rick's cash flow is negative.
I'm just going to check on our cut right now.
Normally, I'm down here several times a day.
We're not pulling pay out of the hole, which means we're not rolling the plant.
After mining out the gold rich rally valley earlier this season,
Rick's crew is solely focused on getting down to the pay layer in Vegas valley.
The guys are doing great.
I mean, they are moving a ton of dirt for basically, four people.
With a total of 160 feet of worthless
overburden to remove before they hit pay,
Rick and his small crew are gambling everything,
including their gold bonuses that they'll hit the jackpot.
This is pretty much my same crew that I put together from last year.
Last year was huge for me as far as the crew goes,
because I very quickly learned that they were all in it
for the right reasons and I could trust them all.
It took a lot of pressure off me.
They all knew what they were doing, too.
In the 750 excavator,
Bailey car ten is removing 10,000 yards of dirt a day
to reach the pay layer.
There you go, overload the out of it.
What's going on, big guy?
Is that new?
- Yep, those two spots. - Hole up there.
Battling water and falling rocks, Bailey must build benches as he goes
or risk the sides of the pit caving in.
The windshield.
- Yeah, I know. - Buddy... I know.
Breaks my heart.
I know, it breaks my...
- Man, I thought it was... - I swear to it scared the out of me.
- I thought it was gonna come... - I bet.
That's a hard hit... To do that.
I really thought it was going to come through
the windshield. I just went like that into Heather's box
and it just, the last rock that fell out just smashed on one rock
and just came flying up in the air.
I'd love to razz you for it.
Say I'm gonna take the windshield out of your bonus but
I've been there.
But, yeah, I know happens.
That slaps, but...
All right, I better get back to loading trucks.
Keep moving it.
Working for Rick is really good.
He's a really good boss, you know.
He's a good listener and he's a good teacher.
You know, it is a gamble here, and he is gambling the gold
and hopefully there's going to be good pay under this.
He knows this is all of our lives, too.
He's definitely... He's not all about himself.
He's all about the team.
He's doing a good job.
He's really working out. I like him.
He's a good kid. Things are looking really good down here
and this is... I like how this is looking.
We stepped it down to keep it safe.
Racing to keep up with Bailey,
husband and wife duo Heather and Jason folster.
Truck overburden out of the cut.
We're going as fast as we can.
To a dump where foreman "buzz" legault and Kyle Lawson
manage the ever-growing gigantic mountain of waste.
Everyone's on edge because we don't know if we put all this time and effort
into this cut, and we don't know if it's going to produce or anything, so I mean,
it's, everything is a big gamble over here. Hopefully, it turns out good.
We'll move a lot of dirt, but, you know, right now my big,
big panic is just getting down to it as fast as we can.
We've got a limited amount of time this season,
and if this water license doesn't get renewed,
this will be our last chance here.
With just months left on his Duncan creek water license
and no guarantee that it will get renewed,
Rick must find new ground or his mining career could be over.
I mean, I just got done paying off ground, I want to buy more ground.
I've got more ground than I know what to do with. I have to have other options.
This guy I know, Jeff bond, I've known Jeff for probably five years.
You know, he's been in the geology business for decades and he's got some ground.
It's only eight kilometers away.
I like that.
But, you know, it's gotta have everything I need,
so it's got to have gold first of all.
I gotta see this with my own eyes.
Dodge the potholes.
Sorry, I spent my off season racing, and like, even when I'm driving
on this road, I'm always looking for the line, the shortest line.
It's probably not smart to come around a corner,
and there's someone coming the opposite way.
Who're you trying to catch?
That's my temporary bear fence.
How are you doing?
- Good, man. - Good.
Come on in.
Placer geologist Jeff bond has been prospecting and staking
claims around keno for the last year.
Do you want a coffee or something?
I can make you an Espresso.
I'm okay. I appreciate it.
Now he's looking to partner up with an experienced miner
to make the most of his ground.
Thanks for coming, I wanted to show you this property.
This is the claim block in white.
I call it the gold finger property.
I staked the two 2-mile leases here initially. It's got a lot of attributes
that make it, I think, very prospective.
I think what's most unique about this deposit is obviously the fact
- there's no overburden. - Yeah.
And, so you take the trees off,
and you literally back your plant up and you start feeding it.
My interest is definitely piqued.
Yeah, definitely.
I don't know if I'll ever find another gold deposit
- this easy. - Yeah, yeah.
This is an example of the gold we're seeing.
And that's from a fifth of a yard. That would be about $20 gold per yard.
- Okay. - -That's from a trench I dug up there.
I got this little guy in a pan.
No kidding.
Just last week as well.
That was five inches below the surface.
- No kidding? - Yeah.
- So... - I have yet to pan anything this size.
There is gold in everything that I've sampled here.
Have you done enough to see kind of a trend
like a kind of an average? Yeah?
Yeah, I see $10 a yard. I see $20.
I'm kind of using 15 as sort of the bulk average,
and in there, I estimate, there's just over $8 million.
I'm definitely interested, and I'd love to look at it some more.
If you'd maybe show me where you've been sampling
and we can talk about me doing a little sampling of my own.
Yeah, no problem.
Should we go look at these trenches?
Okay.
If there's roughly $15 of gold in every yard of dirt,
the claim is not as rich as Duncan creek, but without the costs
of removing overburden, it could still be profitable.
So this is my trench here.
I've taken a bunch of samples, and I've got good gold in this gravel.
- Okay. - But you can see the Boulder.
Yeah, big one right there.
- Yeah. - That's usually a good sign out here.
We're looking for a Boulder cobble layer and, I mean, in this case, the boulders
are right on the surface, so they're easy to spot.
It's a good indication there's going to be
a cobble layer underneath it and that's what we're looking for.
Large boulders and cobbles, also known as gravels,
are signs that fast flowing water once passed through this area,
which could have deposited big gold.
- I like it. I can dig right here. - Yeah.
I'll get the machine down here and see what we can pull out.
I'll just flag this.
Okay.
I formerly worked
with the Yukon geological survey as a placer geologist for 27 years
and I've visited almost every placer deposit in the Yukon.
This is a very rare deposit that has no overburden.
So I'm really happy
that Rick is gonna take a few more samples.
We'll see if he likes it, and then we'll go from there.
That was a good meeting with Jeff.
He mentioned a lot of big numbers and what he thinks is here.
And, you know, he's been doing his due diligence.
He might be right, but I'm gonna do my own.
I'm gonna come sample it and see if what he says has any merit to it.
Economically, a lot of it makes sense.
Could be a good option.
Switching over to the old side by side here because I need something to tow
this excavator we're taking up there.
Rick's water license is due to expire next year.
So he's on the hunt for new ground.
Yeah, I just met up with Jeff, checked out his ground.
So I'll grab some stuff and I'm gonna go back and do a little more investigating.
After scouting a claim that could pay out $8 million,
now, Rick needs to test the ground for himself.
But despite owning some of the biggest digging equipment
in the Yukon, for this test, he needs something a little smaller.
Now, this is the beast here, tiny excavator.
Tiny tow-behind excavator that I've had for like five years.
I haven't really used it.
Smallest machine I've run in a while.
Today, it's actually gonna be handy for these sampling.
So I need to kind of get into the woods with limited amount of space.
So I'm looking forward to looking like an trying to run this thing today.
This is the crew's side by side.
There's everywhere.
Cold beer, wrench, golf club, empty gas... empty gas can.
So I'm gonna bring the mini hoe tub side by side.
My plan is to get about a half a yard of dirt in here, bring it back.
Sample it, see how much gold's in it.
And from there, I can calculate if this ground would be worth mining or not.
There we go.
Just like that.
Ready to go.
All right, let's do this.
Rick travels five miles north to the spot he earmarked
for testing on Jeff's gold finger claim.
He's the seller, I'm the buyer, so gonna be on guard.
- Captain! - What's goin' on?
We've got to open up the trail.
There's a whole bunch of alders, so we'll need to cut those.
- We'll get the chainsaw going. - Okay.
I'll maneuver this thing into place.
That should be fun, too.
I was hoping he was gonna have this trail cut already.
It's gonna be interesting.
See if I can jam that thing in there. It ain't gonna like it.
But I'll make it happen.
Keep coming.
Nice. Nice!
We're going to be going back up in here.
I'm hung up on a tree.
It's just not enough room to get the vehicle turned.
No, not quite.
So what if I took out these sets of trees here?
That way, your angle would be a lot straighter.
- Yeah. - Let's do that.
Hey, watch out for those trees.
It wasn't supposed to fall that way.
I'll give it a shot.
Come on...
Now straight back.
Ooh, buddy.
Excellent. You're there.
I'm gonna look like a trying to operate it.
Four little joysticks here.
What happened?
I don't know. I checked everything before I came here.
Full of fuel.
Come on.
This thing is harder than I thought.
I can run a $1.4 million excavator.
I can't run this.
Come on, Rick. You got it.
That's it.
Nice one.
Baby.
Yeah, that's the stuff.
- Ooh, yeah. - There we go, first Boulder.
Yeah, I mean, we didn't get far below the surface.
We're already seeing some boulders, so that's exciting.
Heavy rock like Jeff said.
We see a lot of that over at Duncan creek, too.
All I know is the heavy rocks mean
there'll be gold there. If you move rocks, you move gold.
The boulders and gravels were moved by fast-flowing water
- from a melting glacier. - As it traveled, the heavy gold
would have been trapped in the dirt
around the rocks.
This is number ten.
Nice. I think we've got another 15 to go.
To assess how much gold is in Jeff's claim, Rick needs to fill 25 pails,
equivalent to half a yard of dirt.
- It's going through it. - Yeah, yeah.
Good looking stuff. Bring it back home and sample it.
See if it's got a bunch of gold in it.
There it is.
Yeah!
I'm vibrating. My ears are ringing.
I didn't realize how loud this thing was.
This thing's awesome.
First things first. We'll see what we got in the sample.
Sure.
And then I'll let you know, and then we'll kind of discuss things from there.
- Thanks a lot, Jeff. - Thanks for coming.
With the half ton of pay loaded onto the side by side, Rick now needs
to bring it back to Duncan creek, where he'll test the sample.
I don't know how I'm gonna get out of here.
Straight down.
Right on.
Yee-haw!
Your front tire is off.
Yeah.
Yeah, no. She ain't going anywhere.
Yeah. Definitely up an axle.
- The Yukon. - This place.
Definitely up an Axel.
Yeah, no. She ain't going anywhere.
Five miles north of Duncan creek, Rick ness' mining future
rests on the success of the gold finger prospect.
But a broken side by side has stopped him in his tracks.
This is no longer my responsibility.
It's broken. That's Ryan's job now.
So I did my part. I broke it.
Now Ryan can fix it.
All right, I'm outta here.
I'll catch a ride back with you guys.
- All right? - -Thanks for the ride, bro.
That's all right, bro.
Anytime.
Bye.
Ryan!
I broke it.
No, the side by side.
It's got half a yard of dirt piled in the back towing that mini hoe.
To keep the prospect on track,
mechanic Ryan is sent to retrieve the broken side by side
and, more importantly, the pay.
Every one of these things got like 20,000 miles on them.
We run them hard, and I don't think anybody else puts that kind of mileage on them.
They're bound to break. I mean, I test the limits every day.
It's been adventurous knowing him
for the last year and a half now.
It never seems to get boring.
It's always fun when he disappears
for a few hours and comes back.
He's either walking
or he's calling us to come pick him up because he's broke something.
So I think it's parked somewhere down this road.
I'm gonna go retrieve his broken like normal.
Which way was it?
- Go left. - Left? All right.
How is Rick as a person.
Man.
If I could sum that up pretty easily,
Rick is definitely somebody you want in your corner.
Definitely a lot smarter than he plays himself to be.
Always willing to give a hand.
Got a heart the size of a gold nugget.
Anybody on this claim he's done for that nobody knows about.
He's not that guy that's going to go out and brag about the good that he does.
Right now I'm making a zoom call to zee.
I just want to catch up and see where his head's at
for the end of the season. He makes everybody laugh,
and it's kind of infectious and it gives everybody a bit of a bump to
finish the end of the season, which is nice.
Plus, he's, you know, one of my best friends.
You know, I just... I like it when he's up here.
I just want to see him.
Hopefully, we do the same thing this year.
Rick's best buddy, zee zaremba,
lives in Milwaukee with his wife, Chelsea.
Zees!
What are you reading?
Some fun Clay map stuff.
Good to see your face, man.
Good to see yours. How's the season going?
It's going good. Yeah, it's... Well, it's going.
It's going like every season.
Stressed to the Max.
But the guys here are just incredible.
And we're pulling it off.
- Nice. Awesome. - How's things, man?
How's things back home?
Did Chelsea get a hold of you at all or anything or no?
No.
All right, well, see...
I don't know.
She ended up getting diagnosed with two forms of cancer actually.
Shut the up.
- Chelsea? - Yeah, 33.
- What the? - Yeah, she found it...
She found a lump probably like six weeks ago
and then it's just been a whirlwind since.
, man. I'm sorry.
So it ended up being as stage three breast and globular.
So it went and moved into the lymph nodes, but it didn't spread from there, luckily.
My, man.
What the? So what's that look like, treatment wise?
It's going to be eight treatments every three weeks.
- So, I mean, it's just... - Yep, and then the rest echoes with it.
It's just... it's gonna be...
It'll be a haul till like march, probably.
Dude, that's a lot.
Holy.
Yeah, sorry to bring you down.
How is she holding up? No, man, no.
How is she holding up? How's Chelsea doing?
It's whatever, I mean,
like I said, it's good days, bad days.
Obviously, there's gonna be, you know, more just milestones
that we know are going to, like, I kinda had a conversation with her.
The next big hiccup is gonna be when you start losing your hair
and the next one's gonna be when you have the surgery.
She's tough as nails, I'll tell you that.
I mean, she's definitely got it in her to beat it.
Hey, maybe that's why for the first time in my life, I've grown my hair out.
Maybe I could donate my hair to her.
- You could. - How long does it have to be?
- I think 12 inches. So she's... - So like that...
Twelve inches?
- It's huge. - That's huge.
I'd wash it first. It looks like you haven't done that
- maybe in a minute. - It's been a while.
Man.
- Well, dude, that's still... - That's a lot, man.
And I guess that answers the question.
Obviously, it's getting to be that time of year.
I was calling to see if you'd want to come up and hang out for a bit.
The conversation came up and she's all on board.
- So... yeah. She's putting you first. - Come on!
- Really? - So she said go ahead.
She's like, if Rick needs help, just go.
For sake, man.
So if you want me, I'll come up.
It'll probably be a little good break for both of us.
I'm sure she's sick of me asking her 20 times a day how she's doing.
If she's okay, if she needs anything, so...
That's one generous, selfless broad that you married there, buddy.
I can't even believe that.
When do you think you'll need it?
Like, once you start running the plant?
Like, are you still stripping right now or what?
Yeah. I mean, I was thinking, you know, we get done,
get most of the stripping down and get the plant moved down,
and then we'll have to start running the plant.
I always need an extra hand when that happens at the end, for sure.
All right, just... once it gets a little closer,
just give me a little bit of a heads up and I'll come up.
I will do that, man. And please tell her thank you.
And I'll give her a call, too.
But, yeah, if there's anything else
I can do in the meantime, man, you just let me know.
Yeah, no problem.
All right. Thanks for taking the call.
Yep. Love you, bud.
- Love you too, pal. - All right.
Bye.
I just need a minute.
This is a lot right now.
Look at the front end of this.
This is Rick's face every morning
that he wakes up, just confused and doesn't know which direction to go.
Luckily, the steering box is fine.
He just snapped the tire out.
Broke her good. My guess,
judging by the bend, that should be straight.
And that is not straight.
So that's going to cause your weak spot.
So I'm hoping when I back up, the wheel will automatically turn itself that way.
Then when I come forward, I don't want to straighten it,
but we'll only let it go so far.
We'll see if it'll drive.
Hopefully, they don't fall.
Ryan must inch the side by side,
loaded with half a ton of pay dirt onto the trailer.
That doesn't sound good.
It does not sound happy.
She's tight.
I'm gonna dump this pile of dirt
in front of Rick's door, tell him to get to panning.
Next season's gonna be coming pretty quick.
And you gotta have everything ready to rock and roll.
If we don't have a water license, then there better be a plan b.
The team's making great progress on the cut.
It's going really well.
But, you know, with a small amount of time left till the end of the season,
I just want to get down there as fast as I can.
In Vegas valley, the ness crew are pulling out all the stops
to reach pay, fire monster red back up,
and start bringing in gold again
before the end of the season.
But a huge cloud hangs over Rick's mining future.
I sunk everything I have from the last 13 years
of doing this into it, and I don't even know if I can come back next year.
I mean, I don't think we'll have an answer this winter, you know,
whether or not this water license is going to come in. I mean, I'm putting
plans in place to be up here and just have alternate spots to go.
Earlier, Rick collected a sample from a potential claim
that could pay out $8 million.
But until the side by side is fixed, he can't process the dirt
and find out if the ground is a viable option for next season.
Yeah, that's it. She's back where she belongs.
Now, we'll get her fixed up.
If you have the right parts for this thing, we'll get it back up and running.
Get that sample down to the gold room and we'll run it.
Whoa...
I don't know if this is gonna work.
Luckily, it's not the steering box.
It's just the link.
I know it's not the right side.
I'm really hoping this is going to work.
It ain't gonna work if I don't start on it.
Tight on time,
Ryan must bush fix the broken steering link
with a part scavenged from an old machine.
Well, that one looks way longer than this one.
We'll measure that other one over there
and I'll see what I can do over here with cutting it. I can chop some off.
I could probably re-tap it.
All right. I've seen enough.
Come on, Danny. This is how I get Danny to exercise.
So the thing walks with her. Go, go!
If you're wondering what I do every day, this is it.
Play with toys.
Boy. Yeah, she's looking a little...
Looking a little jagged up here.
Better get Ryan on it.
One screwed.
Bam! That was too easy.
I didn't think it was gonna work, but...
All right. How do they look?
Dude, I'm not changing a thing.
Yeah. Way to go.
Ooh, perfect.
We're back in business. Once and for all.
I'll let you back it off the trailer.
Right on my toe.
I don't think he wanted to back this thing up, and I don't want to either.
But, here we are. Okay.
Just like that.
I think the nail's turned purple.
Got me good. Got me good.
I was just wearing my tennis shoes.
That nail is definitely gonna fall off, it just smashed it.
As soon as this toe of mine goes numb, I'll get that pay down there.
We'll run it and see if I got a good option to go to next year.
Ready to go?
She's good.
Going down to the gold room. Yeah, ready to go.
Right now I'm bringing this down to Heather.
She does all the work in the gold room for me,
and so she's the one that's going to start processing this and clean it up.
See what I got.
I made it.
Dirt! From where?
Rick relies on Heather folster to clean all of his pay dirt.
This is the dirt from Jeff's new ground, eight kilometers from here.
But we've got about a half a yard.
Twenty pails in there, and then there's five more.
I mean, I'll put it through a couple of big screens
and then I'll cube it and table it.
So I'm gonna try and keep it as pure as possible.
Okay. For a little bit, I will help.
- I'll go get another screen, then. - Okay.
- Let's wash some rocks. - -Let's wash some rocks.
All right.
It'll just take a while for the bigger rocks to go through the screens,
but we'll just kind of give 'em a little bath.
Prospecting is a learning process for all of us.
Yes, yes.
Because everyone just falls into gold mining.
- Nobody goes to school for gold mining. - Show me where to dig.
You just end up with a summer job
and you're like, "all right, I guess I'm in gold mining now."
Heather, how long have you been coming up here?
- You and Jason? - This is Jason's tenth year.
Jason's tenth year, yeah.
But this is, I don't know, my fourth or fifth whole year.
When Jason used to work at Parker's and I was there for a season,
I liked the gold cleaning.
So I pestered Chris doumitt into teaching me how to clean gold.
And I really enjoyed that.
So then when Jason came over here to help Rick out,
I badgered Rick into letting me clean gold.
You have been the most efficient at it, like, by far.
Doumitt was a great teacher.
And all of the guys here
would rather sit and spin in a circle in an excavator all day long.
Which I think would be tedious.
But they're like, "no, I'll do that all day."
And I'm like, "okay."
I feel like a river otter.
- All right. Cool. - Thanks, buddy.
Yeah.
It's not a glorious job. There's not a whole lot of glorious jobs out here.
I mean, it just wet. It's dirty, but it's a very
important part of the system, right?
So, you know, she's gonna find out how much gold is in that sample,
and she can potentially save us from making a big mistake,
or we're making a very good decision, right?
It's all going to be dependent on what she finds there,
which direction we go, and so, yeah, that makes it very important.
This right here. This thing's badass. 1987 Toyota hilux.
It was just sitting in the woods on the property here,
so I popped the hood on it and we threw some jumper cables to it
and the thing fired right up.
Let me get the garbage out of here maybe.
Don't shoot the garbage,
because I barely fit in the damn thing.
Major, major stereo system in here.
Bluetooth, of course.
Filthy seat.
I don't want to imagine how many farts have been absorbed in this seat...
But lots. It's already really dirty, so I don't have to worry about...
Getting it dirtier.
It's got a healthy set of nuts on it right here.
And I clipped this little flag to it because it makes me
feel like the president when I'm driving.
Shall we look under the hood?
It's got a prop rod, 500 pure horsepower.
Don't need that anyway.
In Vegas valley, the ness crew are racing
to strip overburden and get down to pay.
Hopefully, you know, we get to the bottom of this eventually here.
Until all this muck is gone, we're going to have more and more fun.
It just never ends in this cut.
Rick's prospecting, just in case we don't get our water license for next year.
Hopefully, it's good enough.
In the gold room...
So far, this clean up's looking okay.
Feels like it's probably bad luck to make guesses.
Heather folster cleans the pay from the gold finger prospect.
This is the shaker table.
Then we'll just put a little scoop in and let it go.
So after we screen it down to certain sizes,
then the fines go on the table here, it oscillates and bounces. Heavy fall down.
The gold stays up in the grooves, and then that's... we just dry it.
With no water license yet for next season,
the future of Rick and his crew rests on the results of this test.
Right now, it's a bit worrisome.
It would have been really nice if we could have just stuck with a nice,
well known producing cut instead of now having to go chase something else.
It puts pressure on the next spot.
At the end of the day, Rick brings
his whole crew together for the prospecting results.
This is how we stay warm when we watch our outdoor movie theater.
You're gonna want to step back a couple of feet.
Fire!
Give it a couple of minutes. It'll be real hot.
Heather cleaned up that sample from Jeff bond's ground today,
so I'm gonna kind of show 'em what I got out of that.
What's up, dudes?
Another fun day of cleaning up my broken that I leave behind me.
That was... that was fun.
We needed to make a radius rod.
- And we did. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You saved us a lot of time.
I pushed that thing.
It was a lot of dirt. It was very heavy.
Well, out of the woods with that.
- You were a little over your pay capacity. - -Yeah.
I think that is about half of what one of your rock trucks can hold.
That was in the back of that.
Well, you know...
Well, you've seen that little mini hoe.
Why is it my next new baby?
Dude, I'm telling you, man, I had a good time on it today.
- Did ya? - Moved some dirt.
Big man on a little toy.
Yeah, yeah. How was the cut looking today?
Good man. Loading trucks, moving hard.
Everything's going wonderful.
That's what I like to hear.
Anyways, how's that gold?
I mean, I've got it here in this jar.
For Rick to mine the gold finger claim next season,
he is looking for $30 of gold a yard.
You know, Jeff was saying that there's just not a lot of overburden.
It'd be worth it. But it came out to over 20 bucks a yard
and that... I'll be honest with you.
I'm not too interested in it.
If you want to pass that around.
- Nine bucks out of... - I didn't bring my glasses.
That's part of testing, man.
That's, yeah, and that's why we tested it, right?
I want you guys to know that,
I mean, I am looking and that there are options out here
'cause I want you to come back.
At the end of the day, I'm gonna make sure that we've got a spot
for all you guys. I want you guys all back
and I want to make sure that we're always going
to be on the best gold that we can find.
There's gonna be options out there.
- Thanks, man. - Yeah.
Yeah.
We got your back.
I know you guys got my back.
I got you guys' back, too.
Cheers!