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00:00:00I didn't came here for camping I came here to do a job
00:00:08for us it's been like a curse we're a hot mess
00:00:16Fred and Juan might just run away I think every aspect is a problem we genuinely might be screwed
00:00:26everything is online I have to sell an excavator to eat he never been mining this area as far as I
00:00:37know right we got tailings tailings this is tailings one of the biggest nuggets in the
00:00:44caribou was found out in this property specific where we're gonna be digging have a lot of gold
00:00:49at one time but somebody else has that gold now you know as the old saying goes a gold mine for
00:00:59sale is a hole in the ground with a liar standing above it Freddie Dodge I'd rather have gold in
00:01:09the bank than gold in the mountain and Juan Ibarra not bad for built in the field want to make you
00:01:15rich it turns your dream out here into a reality in the past five years the value of gold has doubled
00:01:24there's a three thousand dollar nugget right there but rookie miners find it more elusive than ever if
00:01:32we don't recover more gold then we could lose everything but there is hope miracles they do
00:01:39happen to turn desperation into fortune Freddie and Juan have one week what you just did this genius to
00:01:47deliver a golden payday they have a future and they know what they need to do
00:01:51well Freddie Raul and Helen are the people we're gonna go help and Raul he's originally from El
00:02:07Salvador roger that I'm glad we worked on my Spanish a little bit before we got here I know lots of cuss
00:02:14words you've taught me a few of them the good ones I taught yeah just don't tell my mom that she'll be
00:02:21upset early summer in the foothills of the caribou mountains in British Columbia and Freddie and Juan
00:02:30are responding to a Hail Mary call from a husband and wife team with a struggling mining operation who
00:02:37have invested over $400,000 so far with no return Raul reached out a little while ago and was telling
00:02:50me he sunk every dollar that he had into the operation he's right at Quenelle Forks so historically
00:02:56there's been 150 years mining in that area a half mile from the Paredes mine where the Quenelle and
00:03:07caribou rivers meet is Quenelle Forks the caribou region's first great gold rush town it's here that
00:03:16European and Asian miners discovered a gold rich valley in the summer of 1859 it produced over a
00:03:24hundred and twenty thousand ounces of gold almost 280 million dollars in today's money
00:03:37hello hello how's it going oh my goodness much better that we see you guys
00:03:43I'm Helen hi Helen meet you guys well it wasn't hard to find you at all right off the side of the
00:03:50road so nice how long you guys been out here we came last year and this year we came on board I
00:03:56mean again give it another shot you know we try we try we try and didn't happen so last year was your
00:04:03first year out here and just the two of you that's correct David is our kid he's involved but he only
00:04:08came only two to three weeks in his time off it's good to have your guys expertise on board here we can
00:04:15learn lots off you guys well we'll do the best we can are you guys mining full-time then yeah we're
00:04:21here every day I mean from seven to six prior to us there was somebody else mining this property three
00:04:28years ago and he was getting at least an ounce and a half to two ounces a day he mentioned to me that
00:04:34it was the goal was really good over here really really good mining is it's my passion it's my love my
00:04:47dream for this mine is we can make it as a family business now we got water I'm originally from El
00:04:55Salvador it's in Central America coming to Canada was a second opportunity to start a life two years ago
00:05:04Raul Paredes and his wife Helen staked a 700 acre claim in historic gold country you have to read
00:05:12my French I came to likely because it's still a lot of good gold here we got our own ground because
00:05:20people before me has been getting gold since I came here I've been trying my best it's been testing me
00:05:28to the limits hey Raul I think we need more pressure Helen is being with me since the beginning she's the
00:05:35one to look after the plan and I couldn't do what I do without her the dream of getting into gold mine
00:05:41actually is both for us we started with smaller wash plants and really really enjoyed the process but
00:05:49actually having a big wash plant I'm struggling we call the wash plant the octopus that's the first thing I
00:05:56thought about when I saw this big monster all these tubes going all over the place I'm probably in
00:06:02way over my head and we're having constant breakdowns that we haven't been able to really financially support
00:06:10to get things on the right track my situation at this moment is terrible barely make it to pay my rent
00:06:16for this month if I don't see something that can change or something like a hope it's not gonna happen
00:06:24how much gold did you do last year I would say probably an ounce and a half we watched probably
00:06:33five or 600 yards oh that's not good what about this year how much have you ran so far this year
00:06:40probably we've been running 200 years how much gold have you got out of 200 yards he probably eight
00:06:48grams yeah that's that's not good no well the old timer he mentioned to me that it was really really
00:06:59really good he said well you know you hope people have the best of intentions but sometimes they're just
00:07:04trying to drop it on you and get it get their investment back yeah what's your gold look like
00:07:08there it is pretty chunky huh yeah nothing real substantial though how much gold do you need per
00:07:18day to make a living ourself we'll be happy with an ounce of gold a day if things don't work out here
00:07:25this is it I'm done what do you have invested in this time and blood and sweat and tears invested in
00:07:34this yeah yeah it's very emotional because we love what we do and the best thing for us to do is
00:07:47what we like to do we come in we want to watch your operation watch it watch a test run and then after
00:07:53that we'll we'll come up with a game plan thank you very much all right let's have a look around your
00:07:57plan okay excited meeting Raul and Helen immediately you can tell that they're just really sincere humble
00:08:05people but his love and his desire to want to be a miner has gotten to the point where it's not
00:08:09detrimental to his finances they're looking at us as their Hail Mary to help them you know kind of pull
00:08:15their mind out of bankruptcy if we don't do what we need to do here essentially Raul and Helen's mining
00:08:21career is over it's your plant huh this is the octopus the octopus all the green hoses yeah last
00:08:30year when you were running were you running this plant that's correct I look at the long term you
00:08:35know hoping that things we're gonna get better recovery is some gold well let's fire it up run it
00:08:40okay let's do it one thing's for sure they're in a tight spot I think they're about broke hopefully we
00:08:54can help them you know the plant in itself is an issue you know everything
00:08:58holy that's loud you can hear that screen on the dark side of the moon
00:09:09okay we're rolling
00:09:15start a timer home on them yeah let's get it going
00:09:23first Raul feeds pay dirt into a 10 by 6 foot hopper a vibrating punch plate screens out the
00:09:33large material before the gold bearing pay falls into Raul's four 10 foot long sluices
00:09:40I'm nervous I want everything to run well but I want it to be realistic to what's happening in our
00:09:49our our daily lives it's not running well and they need to see that so they're gonna see why we need a lot of help
00:10:00is that a loose screen in it yeah punch plate it's loose evidently huh oh play loose side pensioners aren't there they're welded in
00:10:08probably the most ineffective screen I've ever seen the materials being screened too big right now they're not
00:10:17classifying their material can't have proper concentration without proper classification
00:10:21classification is when a screen or punch plate divides out large rocks allowing the smaller gold
00:10:30bearing dirt to run into the plant sluices all back all back
00:10:37all back
00:10:39the sluice boxes are absolutely just in rough shape
00:10:49a lot going wrong here well that's a lot going wrong
00:10:53there we go you know in order to be able to get this operation into a position where they could
00:11:01be cash positive every aspect of this process needs to be worked on
00:11:05we just lost lost water that's not good we gotta need you with the pump shut her down coming out of the
00:11:23cap oh it looks like a trap every day something happened it's been like a curse
00:11:30I wish we could have done the four hours but that's what we got well let's pull the mats huh
00:11:40pump cap out of action after just one hour Raul and Helen are forced to shut down and pull the mats
00:11:51you know it's disappointment because I put my heart and soul in this
00:11:56I just wanted to look at this material you're running it just doesn't look good
00:12:02I'm going to tap a couple pans of it and see uh what we see in it
00:12:08this is right out of the pay file the stuff they're running through the plant
00:12:16are you guys testing at all as you're mining like panning much or I've had more time out here
00:12:24I'll pan more yeah it's the most important thing though no it'll get you too busy fixing stuff
00:12:32yeah wait what are you looking for I'd like to see 20 colors 20 colors yeah
00:12:38nothing no gold not a color that's not good sorry guys yeah that's good to know
00:12:47you had a guy that came up to me and he say you want to make a quick dollar right away right away
00:12:57in a week you'll have five grand ten grand whatever you know he said to me come down here and I even
00:13:07asking me I say are you for sure anyway it is what it is I guess sometimes it is my fault because
00:13:14nobody put a gun on my head and tell me to do it right I did it I took the rest thing that's dead
00:13:19for gold
00:13:21Raul's got a big heart and he wears it on his sleeve you know he's the good guy so you hate
00:13:31giving people news they don't want to hear right the difficult part about this rescue is we're
00:13:40starting from scratch you know the ground that they have we know has no gold the plant has to be
00:13:44re-engineered I'm a little nervous about being able to get it done in time and more nervous about trying
00:13:49to find better ground this guy no socks
00:13:53getting out here and meeting Raul and Helen you can tell right right from the beginning they're
00:14:12great people they are great you know the way that Raul speaks and he's very compassionate and
00:14:17very emotional you can tell he's a real caring person yeah but I think his desire and his motivation
00:14:22to mine kind of trumped going out there and actually testing and figuring out what was there before he
00:14:28committed no that's the problem with listening to hearsay you know everyone has a story about how
00:14:33the ground is so great grab a gold pan grab a test plan grab a high banker whatever you know test it
00:14:40yourself I'm really hoping that we can deliver on this with ready
00:14:43moment of truth good morning
00:14:52good morning how are you doing in British Columbia after a cracked pump cap shortened their test run to
00:14:59an hour Raul Paredes and his wife Helen have the gold they cleaned from their mats when we need that
00:15:06you know it's not going to be a good thing holy cow very sad well it's not weighable yep can't buy a can
00:15:17of soup with that Raul and Helen need to make an ounce of gold a day to run their plant and pay back their
00:15:25investors he had a thousand dollars worth of expenses for 50 cents worth of gold if you were
00:15:31getting you know a quarter ounce for you know for the day that that's still a death but that's a
00:15:36really quick death yes that doesn't even cover the fuel that it costs to start the equipment so where
00:15:41do we go from here we can fix your plant but we need to go look at your ground we need more
00:15:46understanding and more more information more information about the ground all righty well
00:15:52sounds like a plan thanks Freddie thank you thank you that's probably one of the worst gold waves we've
00:15:57ever had there's no way they're ever going to be able to pay back their investment or uh their
00:16:01investors mining like that unfortunately Freddie and I were not miracle workers the gold that's in
00:16:07the ground it's in the ground so it puts a lot more stress on Freddie and myself to be able to go
00:16:11out and perform and do something good for these people hey Raul what's going on let's not waste
00:16:20any more time down here and I think it's actually I think it's a really good lesson you got to do that
00:16:27testing before we set up these elaborate setups and then find there's no gold we believe a few people
00:16:38maybe it was no true I always listen to other people maybe I'm doing something wrong I think
00:16:47that imagination runs a little bit too wild we've got to get wiser at how we mind to get these depths
00:16:54cleared up because we're getting too old to play this game this way
00:16:58all good we'll figure it out
00:17:07Raul's a very determined person he's met challenges in his life most human beings shouldn't have to go
00:17:15through he came to Canada to escape the situation that was happening in El Salvador
00:17:21I came as a political refugee in 1991 by that time in El Salvador there was no democracy
00:17:30in 1979 El Salvador plunged into a 12-year civil war that saw over 75,000 people die
00:17:44at the time Raul worked at a Jesuit university one fateful day the Salvadoran army raided the
00:17:57building he worked in I took 10 minutes early for lunch and that's when the incident happened they
00:18:05murdered six Jesuit priests their housekeeper and her daughter everybody that was at that moment in the
00:18:14building was murdered they didn't get me known as the Jesuit massacre it's one of the most high-profile
00:18:24religious crimes in modern Latin American history my dad came up to me one day and he said you know what I
00:18:31don't want to live with my conscience that tomorrow they found you on the road dead the next day at 730 in
00:18:39the morning I was in a plane and I wasn't good that was it that's the last time I ever see my family
00:18:47it was tough for me to leave my country I came to this country with seven dollars in my pocket didn't
00:18:55know how to speak English coming to Canada was a second opportunity to start a life it's been tough for me I
00:19:02have to find to go what are you thinking on the plant buddy well the plan itself Fred you know we
00:19:19have a lot of issues I can see why they named it the octopus yeah we call this the screen right yeah
00:19:24the screen here's the the hopper feeder that they have yep first and foremost most the racket that we're
00:19:30hearing is that punch plate that they have that's one of the loudest screens I've ever heard is not
00:19:34installed properly but more important than that the punch plate is too big big way too big we've got
00:19:39two inch rocks going down this looks so I think what we may have to do is I'll build new punch plates
00:19:44okay what about the sluices one right now there's no room for gold the material it's blowing it out of
00:19:50the box I'm gonna pull everything out Fred getting rid of those those three or four runs that he has and
00:19:55just make two runs yeah and then what I'd like to do is put one of our distribution boxes in there
00:19:59our standard shoot where it comes out has a splitter and then it perfectly divides that material between
00:20:05the two runs yeah those are the three big key things that I need to get done on that plant but more
00:20:10important than the plant if you don't have gold to put to the plant it means nothing right yeah well
00:20:15I'm gonna go prospecting honestly I think we could use a little help what if we bring Alex and Travi in
00:20:20yeah I think that would be better let's go do it let's do it on Raul's plant nicknamed the octopus
00:20:29oversized rocks jam the system and pack the sluices one will fabricate two teardrop hole punch plates
00:20:37to screen out oversized pay then to give the plant a chance to collect every speck of fine gold one will
00:20:47reduce the sluices from four to two to better control the water flow and design a two-way v-shoot
00:20:56distribution box to spread the pay between them to allow the sluices to flow evenly Freddy's main mission
00:21:05will be to decode 150 years of old-timer mining to track down a pocket of gold that will save Raul and
00:21:13Helen's operation going guys we're a bit nervous we did a little bit of figuring out while you were
00:21:22running we saw a lot of issues a lot one of them is that you're screening too big right so we're gonna
00:21:27pull what you have out build a whole new top deck and then we're gonna build a new system to go on the
00:21:32site to actually tension the the screens into the screen nice your sluices are not good yeah it's just
00:21:39it's too too messy what we're gonna do we're gonna do two two traditional sluice boxes but before the
00:21:45sluice boxes we're gonna actually put a distribution box in so both runs are gonna get equal amount of
00:21:49material and water and we'll fix that pump cap for you right essentially we're gonna rebuild the whole
00:21:55wash plant wow so it's no longer gonna be an octopus we're gonna have to rename it um and then Freddy is
00:22:00gonna try to dedicate most of his time to to prospecting because you're gonna be out there you
00:22:04know pounding the pavement trying to find some decent ground well you've got a lot of property here but
00:22:09there's been a lot of people on it before you everything I see is tailings right so we've got
00:22:13multiple things going on here that are fighting against us right now so we need to go punch a bunch
00:22:19of holes okay yeah it's a lot of work we talked as well so we aren't gonna charge you anything yeah
00:22:26you know considering where you guys are at and everything you got going on we understand your
00:22:32guys financial situation and both Freddy and I have been very blessed so um we're happy to do it for
00:22:37for nothing you know material and labor we're just gonna pick up the tab on oh wow that's oh that's
00:22:42amazing you guys we can't thank you enough hopefully down the road we can that's fine if not not not the
00:22:48end of the world yeah I appreciate very much the help from you guys you know I mean it's this this is
00:22:55our life there is hope for us to continue what we love to do deal then yeah I'm blessed to have Freddy
00:23:05I'm blessed to have one but they can see that we're struggling and hopefully he can find good material
00:23:11for us it's not over yet so we're gonna have a new plan yes I know that and maybe some gold to put
00:23:18in it these guys are a pickle for lack of better words so hopefully fingers crossed we can find them
00:23:25some gold for their future coming up there was a lot of gold right here it's now in somebody else's
00:23:34bank account you can tell by the look right here the whole thing's built off we're gonna run out of
00:23:38time on this one you know this has really turned into a show what we're trying to do here is learn
00:23:56before Freddy attempts to find Raul new ground he must seek advice from a local expert
00:24:03I kind of consider myself a redneck geologist but I don't know this area so the more knowledge I can
00:24:11get from somebody that's grown up here that's mine here that's worked here that knows the geology of
00:24:17the area is going to be of great benefit to one and myself how's it going not too bad Elf right right
00:24:27nice this is pretty cool old steam shovel I've never seen one of these in real life I've seen
00:24:36them you know in pictures and in books took a whole crew to run this one gold fever has been here since
00:24:42the 1800s question for you over at rules across the valley is most of this gold in the surface they said it
00:24:51was a mile deep here I imagine yeah yeah it's unbelievable so when you start mining here 1980
00:24:58nice so when gold spiked gold spiked that we all got the fever we all come running out here I didn't
00:25:05move here until 96 so 44 years huh yeah off and on now this is one of the better nuggets I got that's my
00:25:13souvenir from gold oh that's beautiful yeah absolutely beautiful that's one of the prettiest
00:25:19nuggets I've ever seen yeah with the courts like that so over the decades you mind here you know was
00:25:26it up and down very and a lot more down than up actually yeah do you think the gold's the same over
00:25:34rules it's crazy place to mine you just think you're on it nice on a channel yeah cuts right off the
00:25:41gold's here and then it's shifts over here the rivers coming up and down and moving around and
00:25:46yeah but here we've had two glaciation periods yeah and moved it around the world's biggest bulldozer
00:25:54that's for sure the ground's very erratic you'll hit good but you'll be a lot of poor in between
00:26:03there's still gold around here to be found I'm sure about that you got to get through all the lean dirt to
00:26:09get the good dirt you know you put it in my head that it's spotty right yes that's right bulk testing
00:26:15is the way to do it that's what I recommend yeah I really appreciate your help see you later sir thank
00:26:21you gold mining essentially it's a treasure hunt the guys that were here before us they took most of the
00:26:29treasure but there's got to be some gold left here
00:26:41so this is where the magic happens
00:26:45back at the parade is mine Juan begins to fix the wash plants cracked pump cap that brought the first test run to a standstill
00:26:53we got an issue with the pump over time pressure changes in the pump creates weakness in the metal known
00:27:01as fatigue cracks which eventually buckle the cap oh it looks like it's cracked
00:27:11so how long does it take to build something like this we should be able to get it done in about a half an hour
00:27:15that fast
00:27:21wasn't expecting that in minutes one 25 000 degree laser cuts the pump cap pieces out of a three gauge steel sheet
00:27:34wow that was absolutely amazing i've never seen anything like it that worked out good huh yeah it did well
00:27:40well let's put it together real quick ready i can see how amazing it is to have the proper tools on
00:27:48site because if we're not running we're not making money what's it like working with raul he doesn't give
00:27:58up easy most days and we just have a blast but it does have its challenges when you're with your partner
00:28:0424 7 that um uh you can have disagreements but uh we believe in a more positive outcome in mining than
00:28:14what we've been experiencing yeah
00:28:19raul and i met each other about 13 years ago on a dating application we just kind of had it it was cute
00:28:30long black hair the sexy accent and i thought okay i'll bite
00:28:34it's a beautiful journey and i thought okay this is it this is our lifestyle
00:28:51after 13 years we have our tests but most of the time it's a beautiful journey together raul has my back
00:29:00at every step um i love them hola got her down fred let's see if it fits grazie don't want
00:29:12this seal looks pretty good we can try it there it is perfect with this cap we don't have to be too
00:29:19worried about the pressure we put on that
00:29:31i'm proud of what we did there it seems like it's working out
00:29:34only somebody like juan couldn't make it that fast for us but we're we're good i'm happy
00:29:51these are the maps of raul's claims and he's got roughly 700 acres here with five days to put raul
00:29:59on the gold freddie plots out his prospecting plan it helps to have an aerial view sometimes
00:30:05right you can definitely tell you know this lower area where we're at right now has been hit hard
00:30:11that meant there was quite a bit of gold here right but i can see on here and i could see visually
00:30:16on the ground that river used to be up there and before that it was up there right so i don't
00:30:22know if it's been mined but that's where we need to start freddie aims to follow what looks like
00:30:27an old river channel and has identified three promising locations with the first in the north
00:30:36one thing raul didn't do here is prospect his property so he's kind of up the river without
00:30:42a really good paddle right now but that doesn't mean there's not hope left here this area has
00:30:48produced a tremendous amount of gold the easy stuff's probably gone but there's still a lot of
00:30:53gold around here we just gotta find it in the next valley to raul and helen's property the famous bullion
00:31:03pit mine is a lasting legacy to the incredible richness of the ground from 1892 this placer mine
00:31:12was operational for 50 years and pulled out over 175 000 ounces of gold worth 400 million dollars in
00:31:22today's money right now these guys are in a desperate spot every ounce of gold every speck of gold we
00:31:37can help them get means everything to them so basically the pressure's on me now we gotta find
00:31:45mineable ground that's fairly easy to get to to put money in its pocket
00:31:50or they won't be mining very long you said you had to sell your house to keep mining
00:31:56yes at one point we decide to sell our own house we always knew that was a gamble
00:32:02you haven't paid any bills i'm just going in death every year more and more and more
00:32:09one big deal is uh you need to do some testing on your own let's say you want to buy this piece of
00:32:15property and the owner's got all this paperwork from years past sometimes that doesn't matter in
00:32:23gold mining though if the gold's not there don't trust what they've got wrote down most of the time
00:32:29unless you really know the people you know trust what your own eyes tell you get in there and do
00:32:34some sampling that's right you can work your hands to bloody nimble's and uh still not make any money
00:32:51trying to figure out what's going on with the creek
00:32:58is that the same creek that goes into your mind now yes
00:33:03freddie has identified a section of ground he believes was once part of the quenelle river
00:33:09a major tributary for the famous gold rush fraser river of the caribou district
00:33:16see now this is truly a bench
00:33:20seeing this is too steep to hold gravels here
00:33:25so here's the bench but i don't know how much of it's been hit
00:33:29over millions of years a bench is formed when an ancient river carves its way down a mountain
00:33:35as it changes course it leaves gravels that could be rich in gold
00:33:45freddie hopes that this area if not hit might give raoul some high-grade pay they've knocked all
00:33:52the trees down all these trees are you know a couple decades old it's just hard to tell what's
00:33:59been played with so let's get an excavator up here and punch some holes and see what we see see what's
00:34:05tailings and what's not because with everything grown on it where we're standing did they mine
00:34:09this and then back fell it or you know yeah okay we'll do that you know there's hope you're throwing me
00:34:17a life jacket so i won't drown hopefully it can change my life
00:34:24the old timers hit it hard it looks like you know they hit it hard probably in the 30s and in
00:34:29the 80s and in the 90s so there's a lot on the line for these guys a lot
00:34:50how's it going guys how are we doing good in british columbia alex and travis arrive at the
00:34:56parade's mine site to provide some extra muscle bring your gloves gloves and a third welding truck
00:35:03it's kind of scary when you two say you need a third welding truck all right guys let's get it
00:35:14guide me for my tips down a little bit with freddie focused on the prospecting mission
00:35:20alex and travis helped one with raul's new sluices
00:35:27so this loose box looks really wide but it's actually two sluice boxes in one
00:35:31we're going to put a center divider in it and then we're going to have two runs that are two and a
00:35:34half feet wide each for that plant to run efficiently it has to have a five foot box
00:35:39we'll build one box and split it down the middle you know if we ran just one big box there was no
00:35:44guarantee that you get an even flow but by being able to put it down to two and a half foot each stream
00:35:50we're able to concentrate it a little better and actually get better recovery with a smaller box
00:35:55one will remove the over complicated octopus hose feed system and install two custom-made
00:36:0210-foot sluice boxes to better capture gold
00:36:14hot this is perfect welding weather you know when it's over 100 degrees it's perfect to weld in
00:36:20uh it really makes it enjoyable i'm really hoping that freddie going up there and taking a look at
00:36:26the cut might kind of open up some options for raul and helen that's a lot we just got to keep our
00:36:32nose to the grindstone keep on working right now let's go
00:36:34here's the bench i'm gonna punch one over here you wanna try one here yeah
00:36:51to the north of raul's claim freddie digs deeper into the first location he's identified
00:36:58this would have been a gold bearing bench in this area but looking at it i can't tell if what we're
00:37:04standing on has been a mine already we're just gonna have to look around here and uh start
00:37:09punching some holes and see what the material looks like thank you
00:37:20it's tailings
00:37:31it's tailings
00:37:34this is uh this is well the old timer he mentioned to me that he did two yards of a bucket over there
00:37:42and it was really really really good he said i don't know if i believe whoever he bought this place
00:37:46from everything's tailings there is no point to every rock here has been washed there was a lot
00:37:52of gold right here it's now in somebody else's bank account but if there is a 10-foot square area
00:37:58here number one it's not going to be enough to mine and number two finding it that's like finding a
00:38:05needle in the hay start right where your track go out trying to find a little sliver of something
00:38:10the more time goes by the more worried i've become
00:38:15stop but it's reality
00:38:19just right now i don't have the answer where
00:38:30so cut this punch plate is going to probably take a little over an hour and a half each plate
00:38:44back at juan's build site as the rescue crew continues to work on the sluices
00:38:50juan and david kick off the wash plants punch plates
00:38:53so the design that we're doing on this is a teardrop design it's something that freddie
00:38:58and i've used in the past that way the material when it goes over the top of the screen has a
00:39:02chance to relieve itself and also we leave a little bit bigger that way if there is the odd chance of
00:39:06that bigger nugget still has a chance to be able to make it through fixed onto the hopper's screen deck
00:39:13the plates will allow gold bearing material through into the sluices
00:39:22be careful
00:39:28that looks good david that's probably plenty you know as uh as when we put that in as the material
00:39:34goes over the top of it it'll wear it out so it'll push all that out it's not a big deal how come the
00:39:40teardrop design you know that's a design that we've kind of done over the years it starts out
00:39:45about a quarter of an inch and goes to half an inch it's pretty effective for when you screen material
00:39:49oh awesome so quick question for you how'd you get involved in all this my parents come out and uh
00:39:55mine every year so i just i come out and help whenever i can i i really enjoy it
00:40:03i love the prospecting of gold mining sticking the uh shovel in the ground and into the pan and see
00:40:09what what's going to come up david spends his time between his role as a firefighter and his passion
00:40:17for mining and has become a key asset to raul and mom helen's operation i am a very hands-on type of
00:40:26person you give me a book i'm horrible at the book but they give me a piece of equipment i can run that
00:40:33all day i also bring energy to the team bills like i'll be paid and the job i have is very secured
00:40:44but if the gold was stable and consistent i come out here and help mom and i will kiss they absolutely
00:40:51deserve it hold on watch fingers i thought it'd be lighter with all those holes in it but still
00:41:03pretty heavy they're not light are they you want to get these guys set up with a slag hammer let's
00:41:07start poking all those out okay yeah i can do that very good
00:41:21so it's your property that's correct now this property almost go up to the caribou river
00:41:32back out on the hunt for gold and after one failed prospect
00:41:36freddie moves on to his next location in the middle of the bench formation
00:41:42people that we bought the property yeah we find a few colors in that
00:41:46uh he said to me well you can start from there i mean we run some yeah we find colors but nothing
00:41:57nothing to make us uh super rich none of this looks good to me this is just what they dug out when
00:42:04they made the pond when they dig a pile out like that and then they don't sluice it when they have a
00:42:09plant set up in here that tells you a story right looks like they were going broke and they took the
00:42:20quick going broke way and got out
00:42:25it was our own life savings money maybe it was my fault to listen to other people
00:42:32the lesson that i learned you know is do your own testing because it's very tough to learn it this
00:42:40way you can see that the old timers haven't done much the modern people haven't done much and there's
00:42:46a reason because from what i see so far there's not much gold in the ground up here like the old saying
00:42:54goes a gold mine for sale there's a hole in the ground with a liar standing above it
00:43:13this is a real horrible part of the day in british columbia facing an uncertain future helen
00:43:20struggles to pay bills it's overwhelming like we've got people that we need to pay back then
00:43:29we've got our regular bills like our rent and all our fuel for the equipment the reality is we need to
00:43:36get into that gold like yesterday we've made a ton of mistakes definitely identifying the ground
00:43:45you've got to be on the gold and then that wash plant is too much it's too complicated i wish i had
00:43:55been armed with the information that fernian juan gave us before i started this journey i would be way
00:44:03wiser and probably still have a lot more money in my pocket lead the way raoul let's go look at this up
00:44:17there okay after drawing a bust at the first two locations freddy is down to his last option a patch
00:44:25of ground to the south of raoul's claim 50 yards from his main cut we're just gonna have to look around
00:44:31here and see if there's any any ground that's still minable the old timers hit it hard so trying to
00:44:38read this i can't see into the ground but i know one thing's for sure we're under not options fast
00:44:49let's keep looking around huh yes sir
00:44:58this is tailings
00:45:01see the tailings here tailings there
00:45:09hang on one second
00:45:14i like the look of this stuff
00:45:19you like this stuff yeah it's better than anything else i've seen that isn't tailings
00:45:23okay see how the rocks are shingled in there uh-huh see the difference of material looks compared to what
00:45:29you were digging right yeah i don't know how much of it's here though we need to find out what's under
00:45:34here under here yeah let's see what we got this may be your last chance pretty i'm gonna get on the
00:45:41excavator okay i'm very excited freddy's discovered what he believes to be virgin ground surrounded by tailings
00:45:50i'm kind of a little excited to know that maybe there is a pocket of gold over there and change my life
00:45:56hang on one second bro oh you don't have to go that far not that far no just scrape the face
00:46:09just scrape the face from right there down okay you'll have to back up
00:46:22okay now reach out and scrape it don't take the whole hill down that may be the only virgin material
00:46:33we got what did you see freddy
00:46:50you know it looks good
00:46:55take a snapshot in your brain of how this material in the bank looks right
00:46:58i want to show you something in this hole you can tell it's virgin material because
00:47:05just the way it's laying in there in nature that rock right there right when it's in a stream system
00:47:12isn't going to stand up like that is it water is going to hit it it's going to fall over
00:47:17so that tells us once upon a time water flowed through here and uh help concentrate the gold
00:47:23so in the future you know look for this and uh look for your shingled rocks i will
00:47:32let's keep punching a hole down hopefully it gets you enough gold in your pocket where you can uh keep
00:47:37going well the past two days have been kind of a a real pain in the butt for lack of better words
00:47:47you know look here you know it doesn't look good look there it's all been mine all tailings but
00:47:53there's a little glimmer of hope because we just found some virgin material over here
00:47:57and it looks good to me just leave it right there ro
00:48:06what's your opinion
00:48:08so there's definitely a division on what's going on here we've got two types of material in there it
00:48:17could be spotty ground we got uh tailings and virgin ground we're in a situation do you go broke fast
00:48:25or do you go broke slow so we need to test that material and see if it's worth digging it up
00:48:31yeah yeah bulk test is way better than a gold pan instead of doing you know 10 gold pans let's do
00:48:3810 000 gold pans and see what lives in it let's get this thing knocked out we're running out of time
00:48:50last season one of the guys he left the trommel over here the chain broke down
00:48:56to bulk test the new material freddy eyes up a broken down test trommel he's seen in raul's bone yard
00:49:03what do you think i like it fred i like the idea what's the test trommel huh this is a trommel
00:49:10have you used it we washed two yards then scenes went sour the master link it broke
00:49:17the another issue that had it doesn't have a spray bar in the trommel the motor run yes it does
00:49:26we had it to start just with a rope here yeah okay but yeah it runs what we might be able to do here
00:49:32is even if i do another section of sprockets and then we'll put a spray bar in it get these two
00:49:38tied into one manifold so we have one pump feeding the whole system instead of multiple pumps yep
00:49:43five times cheaper to run than the main wash plant raul will be able to use this trommel on
00:49:50every piece of promising ground it's a big weight on our shoulders freddy and i want to do the most
00:49:55that we can here to help raul and helen and uh that looks like it's going to be us having to work
00:49:59on their test trommel and also on their main plant so it's really a two-in-one rescue and that's a lot of
00:50:05work to provide raul a way to bulk test his spotty ground juan will resurrect the test trommel with a
00:50:14new spray bar then design a bespoke manifold to maintain uniform water pressure throughout the system
00:50:23to keep gold bearing pay moving through the plant they'll add a custom-made sprocket and chain
00:50:30to efficiently rotate its drum and add freddy's signature riffles in the sluice to catch fine gold
00:50:41these were uh something that they added onto the trommel to be able to guide the chain but they didn't
00:50:45really work so we're going to pull this complete assembly off and build a whole new assembly for it
00:50:49that's a better one the sprockets can actually be a two-piece sprocket that we've weld on the
00:51:02outside of this drum that way it can actually turn the trommel
00:51:10okay fred i'm going to be spinning this for a second
00:51:12what i'm doing is i'm just getting it lined up and i'm about ready to start welding it to the drum
00:51:19we want to make sure that it's perfectly aligned with the drive sprocket so that way when it runs
00:51:23it runs true the true we can get it right now when we're setting it up the better it's going to run in
00:51:27the long run put the clamp on it then bring the piece of chain over here and we'll do the same thing
00:51:32over here fun times freddy fun fun with the chain connected to the trommel's drive system there you
00:51:44are can you let go of it juan takes the drum for a spin starter up
00:51:49how did that get far off and i went right on my line let's see it's built off in this it is
00:52:07it's not built square no the base for the motor that runs the trommel is welded on out of line i'm
00:52:15just gonna have to readjust this is gonna slow me down the whole thing's built off yeah
00:52:19and you can tell by the look right here they got a quarter inch difference from here to here
00:52:23yeah i'm gonna cut the motor off and shift the whole thing i'm gonna have to that's the only
00:52:28only way i can get it close yeah it is we genuinely might be screwed so really the pressure's on now
00:52:36we have a lot more work than what we originally anticipated because we're gonna run out of time on this
00:52:49it's always something moan at the paradis mine in british columbia um whomever built this you know
00:52:59they had great intentions but uh unfortunately they didn't know how to read a measuring tape
00:53:03after fixing up the test trommel freddy and juan discover the motor's mount is off center i assumed
00:53:10things were square and straight you know the gearbox the way they had it set up uh it wasn't
00:53:15perpendicular to the drum which created a lot of problems but uh that's how it goes we're just gonna
00:53:21have to make it up somewhere what you think you got something figured out something else pops out
00:53:29bites right in the ass so are we still square on your sprocket down there yeah pretty square okay
00:53:38that's good yeah let me weld it right there we're good
00:53:51i like it freddie someone built that in their garage they had the best of intentions they tried
00:53:56hard but uh unfortunately nothing was right but i'm really happy the way it turned out
00:54:14okay we're gonna lift this up with just two days to go one puts the main wash plant on hold
00:54:21to carry on with the work on the test trommel i think it's hot travi next up fabricate its main
00:54:29spray bar this is going to be the end of the trauma right here right around there it's going to turn um
00:54:36this way to the left it's going to be a left-handing turn but what we're going to do is since the
00:54:40material is going to turn to the left it's going to be piled up right here that's about where the
00:54:43material is going to start sliding actually right about here i want this coming out at a 90 right here
00:54:48that way it can curl over so reality is the spray bar should be spraying roughly right there
00:55:01okay put some more lube on there freddie yeah we'll throw some on here
00:55:04where's our soap after adding the drums brand new spray bar freddie uses bubble soap to ease the hoses
00:55:12onto the trommel your little bubbles work pretty yep it's still pretty tight on tiny bubbles okay well
00:55:21let's move this to its new home coming up after 24 hours work on the test trommel it's finally ready
00:55:31for the bulk test doing good alice looking good there's your trommel unreal wow well thank you very
00:55:50much you know i mean this is well we are here to help you buddy thank you very much we're here to help
00:55:55you i really appreciate it let's run the bulk test see what's in it okay we'll do that freddie fair enough
00:56:14freddie's plan run 50 buckets of pay through the trommel to get a dollar per yard result first bucket
00:56:25so far so good it's clean
00:56:41watch i'm going to turn the water up a little bit more okay
00:56:47right now the bulk test is going pretty good between the sluice box the way it's running the trommel's
00:56:53doing an excellent job scrubbing and washing the material and the drive system's doing great
00:56:58so i couldn't be happier hopefully there's going to be gold in the sluice box when we're done
00:57:07it's working well enough for us to do a bulk test right we got water flying all over the place and
00:57:12it's not ideal but i need a shower anyway
00:57:16we got one plant done fred the test plant one more to go huh i don't know who built this plant but
00:57:28they shouldn't build anything ever again the design and the concept is pretty good just their execution
00:57:34wasn't great yeah i'm gonna get back to welding okay see you in a bit
00:57:41last bucket okay
00:57:53well let's see what we got it shut the trommel off bro
00:57:56i'm excited to see what is in there this is it this means everything to me this test
00:58:06after running a 50 bucket bulk test
00:58:09one of us thank you sir freddie cleans up the mats
00:58:24so this is roughly five yards of material row yes there's gold in it that's for sure
00:58:30so we've got one two four
00:58:3816 17. well there's well over 20 colors there 21 but there's a few more wow
00:58:47this is the most i ever seen you know i mean since i've been here we might not even weigh it
00:58:52we may just eyeball it have a look at it
00:58:54so 20 a yard wow this is amazing since i've been in this claim is the most gold i ever seen in
00:59:06only five yards from that little piece freddie was the one that discovered that
00:59:12in just one five yard test freddie recovers more than 10 percent of what raul has found all season
00:59:20but i tell you what if it was gold was everywhere it wouldn't be worth much would it all right
00:59:26now it's twenty three hundred dollars an ounce so every one of those specs count
00:59:30just got to help catch more of it at the plant i don't know i'm very excited very excited to see gold
00:59:36there's some material to run right there 20 25 a yard it looks good i mean that that's pretty good pay
00:59:43one oh that's pretty good out of five yards 20 some dollars a yard that's a hell of a whole lot
00:59:51better than what we saw last time three specs that's a huge improvement fred from not being
00:59:55able to pay the the gas bill to start the water pump to actually being able to maybe make some money
01:00:00there that's exciting freddie i'm actually excited about that so we're gonna go run those old timer
01:00:06tailings see if it's worth running we'll do a side-by-side comparison okay and see what that does
01:00:12all right buddy see you in a bit waddle freddie's found some ground but uh the pressure's still on
01:00:17we still got a lot to do we still have to install everything and uh do a test run so we're out of
01:00:22time makes it tough
01:00:27we still have to do a test run at the parade's mind time to have a look at it huh to make a
01:00:44comparison freddie runs a second bulk test on the old timer tailings which surround the pocket of pay
01:00:50the old timers didn't have pumps they didn't have heavy equipment but you do now let's see what gold
01:00:58if any lives in this this 50 buckets yeah so we're apples to apples helen
01:01:10what are you looking at now there's not nearly as much black sand in it it's no good black sand
01:01:17is a highly mineralized material and often an indicator of gold that's a bad thing see we got
01:01:25some gold there yep but not much how's it looking well you can see the one on the right here helen
01:01:31we're figuring that's right around 20 dollars a yard okay okay now here's those old timer tailings
01:01:37it's probably got 10 percent the amount of gold right you can run 20. you can make money on 20. yeah
01:01:43two go broke the bulk test confirms the old timer tailings are not worth running and in order to be
01:01:52profitable raul must focus solely on the virgin ground do you think there is more there's more of
01:01:58it in the bank up there right yeah but it's just hard to get to yeah so what i think we do is get this
01:02:04pond drain we look at the walls of this pond here and we'll start there right thank you freddie yeah
01:02:10let's make some stuff happen thank you start to have this glimmer of hope it's just super amazing
01:02:18and hopefully we can start paying our bills and have a forward direction
01:02:27raul drains the pond by cutting away the berm wall to see if the pay pocket extends further
01:02:33i'm very excited that freddie found us this little piece of ground that you know was hiding from us
01:02:41in this corner i would like to see what is in there and go from there right
01:03:04travis you want to plug in that other welder and start welding this other box out yeah sounds good
01:03:13with the ground found and 24 hours to go before the final test run juan races to finish fixes for
01:03:20the main plan so this is the beginning of the v shoot you can see the outline of it the material is
01:03:27going to get funneled into the v shoot concentrated in the center so it's even and then what we're going
01:03:32to do is we're going to have a splitter right here and then this one will come over to this side drop
01:03:35into the left hand sluice box and this will have a downspout over here for the right hand sluice box
01:03:40the reason we're doing this is because right now the way he's running the boxes one's getting a lot
01:03:44of material one's getting nothing and so it's not effective at all the v shoot will separate material
01:03:51equally to the sluices allowing them to capture fine gold
01:04:0114 by 14 right there then i need the 47 by 14 that one perfect there's a tremendous amount of
01:04:11calculations figuring out where it's going to go how it's going to sit we still got a tremendous
01:04:15amount of work to do we're only halfway through this we're going to get this all jigged up and then
01:04:19we'll finish welding it out fortunately i have travis here with me so we're able to get a lot more
01:04:23done uh with the time we have but we better get back to it thank you trap
01:04:36hey raul
01:04:40i'll give you all the time in the world for you but
01:04:43out on the claim raul's drained the pond next to the pocket of pay
01:05:00this is all good pay call this is good pay i had a feeling that that pay continued through there
01:05:07right yeah you can't see through muddy water wow at 20 a yard freddy's find could stop raul and helen
01:05:17from going broke it looks like it's going back into this hillside but it's just hard to get to
01:05:23once you get these tailings off the top somebody made a mess for you up there
01:05:27yeah so it's going to be a bit of work to get to it
01:05:29yeah this is all good pay bro yep like uh that's tailings there you don't want to take any of that
01:05:40i'd follow it back first and then i'd plop those tailings out of there you know get it all cleaned
01:05:45up this way away from the hill that way you can throw those old timer tailings over the top without
01:05:51worrying about you know covering up good pay that's right but you can see even here right we got pay
01:05:57yeah in there so just look for those shingled rocks thank you very much old timer tailings are stacked
01:06:07on top of virgin material which will need to be dug out with precision so that the pay is not diluted
01:06:17start digging some of this material over here and get it stockpiled to run dig away
01:06:27wow got good news freddy found a really nice spot over there i'm so excited
01:06:36it's the first smile i had all day is when i seen that
01:06:40i got something to look forward in the future that i can continue my passion for gold mining
01:06:57and the parade's mine site with hours to go the rescue crew races to complete the final fixes
01:07:09basically we're out of time everything we've had to do here from prospecting to uh
01:07:16get that test trauma going it's got to be all hands on deck now because literally our hourglass is
01:07:22down here to empty are we taking out all of the sluices all of the sluices he won them out
01:07:30but he said i mean we're just preparing the job for him so once we take all these sluices out it's
01:07:36not going to be an octopus anymore is it it's not going to be an octopus we're going to have to come
01:07:40up with a different name you guys that's right maybe an oyster because oyster oyster has pairs
01:07:45so they got volume okay let's do it get at her raul's mission strip down the old plant in preparation
01:07:54for the new sluice runs and distribution box
01:08:02yeah we don't want to damage any of these beams because we don't know what um one's going to be
01:08:07using right yeah so let's not um damage anything okay i couldn't do what i do without helen she's
01:08:14a key in this operation without her i couldn't do it she's the one that look after the plan and
01:08:24we start this adventure together and hopefully we end up together and hopefully we can be winners
01:08:29too yeah hey let's you guys want to move out of there please yeah i guess just stack them all over
01:08:35here this way yay there's got one down three to go i gotta go more that way so when i lift it up i'm
01:08:49not pushing it this way you gotta let me know you're my eyes buddy i can't really see from here okay
01:08:55nice and slow raul watch the chain
01:08:59all right let's unhook that chain
01:09:11nice job raul oh good
01:09:15now for the rebuild
01:09:20pull on that rail the crew prepares to weld in the v shoot box into raul and helen's plant
01:09:28today's gonna be a big day we're completely out of time luckily we have enough help here travis
01:09:32and alex are here to give us a hand still got a lot to do but we're getting closer
01:09:38the custom-made v shoot needs to sit tightly under the hupper
01:09:43the only way freddie can weld it in is from the inside of the five foot long box
01:09:49this is really gonna suck i'll be right over here huh i'll be right over here if you need me
01:09:59where's that grinder
01:10:00alex alex alex i need you what's up yeah hand me that grinder would you
01:10:12grinder
01:10:12thank you thank you i'm gonna get fried in here
01:10:25it's comfy in here
01:10:26so we'll slide it in through the front here and then we'll we'll walk it over all right right
01:10:36above freddie on the shaker deck juan and travis install the new punch plates
01:10:43all right to me a little bit what we're gonna do is we're gonna get the punch plate lifted in place
01:10:46we're gonna have to get one side tacked in and then we'll have to push down the other side so we can get
01:10:51that bow in it and be able to tension the plates all right let's get the work
01:10:58push this side down hard are we tight tight
01:11:09thank you travi no problem so we thought we're gonna have to use a bottle jack to add pressure
01:11:14to push the plate down but after water and i stood on it there was enough weight between the two of us
01:11:18build a thinner down called her good enough one and travis's body weight bush fix is enough to
01:11:27tension and weld the punch plates into place i guess that means we need to go on a diet
01:11:42as the material comes down it can come over and it's not going too far over where it can't get
01:11:46screened so that way it'll still hit the the holes it still heal the holes yeah it still get the
01:11:51perforations nice you've done an amazing job here juan wow i get pretty emotional this just means a lot
01:11:58to me i mean this is this is my life i appreciate that you're giving me the tools that i can go and
01:12:04start start all over again honestly it's been a pleasure you know and you came to canada with
01:12:10nothing you know you started a mine and you know this is yours and and to me that's you know that's
01:12:17that's the sign of somebody that's put a lot of effort a lot of time and a lot of heart into what
01:12:21they do you know not everybody does that so i totally understand that that you know the story
01:12:29because my family's done it as well and you know they gave me the opportunities to to be the person i am
01:12:34now it's our pleasure it's our pleasure don juan no te preocupes y para ver alguien que
01:12:42has sacrificado tanto para estar aquà para tratar tener una mejor vida es un placer para nosotros
01:12:50para ayudarte muchas gracias don juan claro no bendiga igualmente gracias pues hay que ponernos las pilas
01:12:58no para terminar esto hey alex yes sir can you hand me my stinger i have no idea or i think you're
01:13:11laying on it buddy yeah i can't turn my own head around in here beneath juan and raul freddy finishes
01:13:20welding in the five foot v chute i'm not like freddy freddy can fit into tight places um
01:13:31i don't think i could have done that when i was five hot in here oh i bet
01:13:38it was already 100 degrees in here before i started welding on this plate
01:13:43now the plate's a couple hundred degrees how long was i in that thing uh you were in there for a solid
01:13:50hour well i was a tight fit in there that's for sure and hot and you know without something on the
01:13:56back of your hood you get the reflection off the steel that goes in there and it flash burns your
01:13:59eyes i can feel it right now they're like itchy so wasn't any fun but at the same time it had to be done
01:14:12good you're doing good keep coming
01:14:15the last step of the wash plant fix no more installed the 10-foot sluices perfect
01:14:22here you go buddy thank you
01:14:27it was a tremendous uh undertaking and i honestly didn't think we were going to get it all done
01:14:33i'm hoping that this plant is going to work properly and we do the final test run because
01:14:36raul and helen they've put a lot of trust and confidence in us there you go and we want to deliver
01:14:44you gotten a little bit of uh time with your drone fred not much crashed a couple times
01:14:54one mile from helen and raul's claim is the bullion pit mine which was hydraulic in the 1870s
01:15:01using huge water cannons well one time at home i uh piled up a drone into a pile of black sand
01:15:08from cleanup really got in the motors and everything just completely destroyed it what drone is this
01:15:13number four or five six thanks freddie you've gotten better no i haven't went through the
01:15:23widespread trees instead of the narrow ones you didn't want to go to the narrow gap huh if there
01:15:26was only one tree i could find a way to hit it how's that looking oh wow definitely bigger than it
01:15:32looks from the ground here a lot bigger than what it looks like i think i read they mined out about 22
01:15:36million tons of gravel yeah that's quite a bit there's a lot of material there well like you said freddie
01:15:42you know there's a reason they mined all that material must have been pretty decent gold
01:15:55you ready guys let's fire it up run let's do it start the pump thanks starting the pump
01:16:02at the parade's mine with the pump cap and large wash plant fixed
01:16:07and new pay found raoul helen and david start the second test
01:16:16okay hey no more hour we're good i'm very excited this is my day i've been waiting for this
01:16:25for a long long time how's it look looks really good in here fred yeah
01:16:37first bucket there you go started the timer
01:16:43the stockpiled pocket of pay will keep the plant running for an hour
01:16:48enough time for freddie and juan to assess their fixes on the big plant
01:16:55the difference is amazing now it's even it's running beautifully
01:17:00it looks good the plant before there would be no way i could even hear you but now the plant's
01:17:09actually running pretty decent so far the material coming off the end looks really clean so i couldn't
01:17:15be happier the new fitted punch plates screen out the worthless rock
01:17:21well the v-shoot looks good the sluice looks good the punch plates
01:17:33juan's custom-made steel v-shoot separates material evenly allowing gold-rich pay to settle in the riffles
01:17:43much better yeah that's good
01:17:45hopefully things can change for the better and be able to to pay the people that i own money
01:17:59pay my bills and doing what i love to do be everything to me will mean everything the whole world right
01:18:06i can see tailings in that pay they're feeding into the plant that's not good that's really going
01:18:16to water it down freddie has identified old-timer tailings mixed in with the virgin pay lowering the
01:18:24value of the material last bucket row
01:18:37part of it was tailings we diluted it a little bit huh no we probably lost quite a bit of gold
01:18:44probably 50 percent of it yeah i would imagine that yeah
01:18:49let's clean it up yeah let's do it
01:19:06hello guys moment of truth guys how we doing how does that look good well we got gold there
01:19:15weighable amount yeah but there's some issues we wanted to talk to you about
01:19:20there was a lot of tailings in it let's say our pay was diluted 50 percent so when when you start
01:19:26you know following that channel you need to make sure that you just take the pay layer and you've seen
01:19:30what we did with that test trauma right yeah we got a gram of gold out of that out of five yards yeah
01:19:35it's going to be a huge improvement when when you actually get in there and actually run straight
01:19:38pay you're going to see a night and day difference you ready yes we're ready there goes nothing excited
01:19:47the first test run produced just 50 cents worth of gold
01:19:520.03
01:20:020.03 guys after an hour running 30 yards of dirt raul and helen make almost 70 dollars worth of gold
01:20:11you know 0.03 out of one hour run it's gold it's here honestly i see hope there it's a heck of an
01:20:18improvement from the first gold weight yeah we're happy now you know you have some decent ground on
01:20:22the on on the property to run and stay in that pay channel yeah stay in those shingled rocks but there
01:20:28should be enough material here to get your pockets lined with a little bit of money but in the future
01:20:33you're going to have to find more ground and then two now you have a proper test plant that you can take
01:20:39anywhere to do testing and your your wash plant is working amazingly it's running really well it's going
01:20:44to pay off you know you're in a spot where you can make some money 200 improvement oh yeah
01:20:50somebody was 2 000 well thank you very much you guys uh give us hope i mean if it wasn't for you guys
01:20:59we wouldn't be here we wouldn't be here you're very well you guys changed our life it's no longer
01:21:05the battle that it was we're off and running well guys we've got another mind to go to so it's been an
01:21:12absolute pleasure yeah thank you i'm proud of what we did here even if raul and helen don't stay on
01:21:17this property or they mine it out they've got the tools and the knowledge to go somewhere else and
01:21:23have a lot better start than they've had here senor senor don juan the hope that freddy and juan has
01:21:31given us priceless i'm on my way i'm feeling really awesome right now for the future of our mining this is
01:21:39going to be really exciting please let us know how you get on definitely yeah i do for anyone i love
01:21:46you and we can't thank you enough you've changed our our world honestly i feel that these fixes and
01:21:54what we've done here for them it's gonna it's gonna be life-changing you know i'm happy that we had the
01:21:59opportunity to come out here and help them it's great to meet people that need the help and that when
01:22:04they receive the help they're they're truly appreciative and they definitely are that
01:22:17after freddy and juan left we found it was going to be way too difficult for us to get to the dirt
01:22:24with the current equipment that we have so we decided to move on to find their grounds
01:22:29the gold isn't so difficult to get at we did a lot of testing for the trommel i couldn't be any more
01:22:39happy because without that trommel i wouldn't be telling you what i'm telling you i found the ground
01:22:47if we run a day on this page and this is being conservative we should be just over the three
01:22:54thousand dollar mark a day pretty phenomenal freddy and juan have really breathed so much new life into
01:23:04the future of our gold mining and we're so excited for next year to get um started and see what's in
01:23:11that ground bills are gonna get paid we'll be able to make some money as an income i did everything as
01:23:19they told me and it was good it was good i'm happy i'm counting the days for next year
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