Are you up, Dan?
With only five days left on his Bolivian gold hunt.
Sleep well, Parker. You wouldn't have wanted to roll over against that.
Parker and his crew are at a crossroads.
I suppose the big question is, do we stay or do we go?
I do think we should check out other areas around, but we can do both at once.
We can keep running here and check other places out.
Okay. How are we going to do that?
Tyler, I was going to have you stay here and run the excavator.
That's a good idea.
Cool. I'd love that. If you give me a quick lesson.
Yeah, we can do that.
Okay, cool. If you're all right to shovel Diego.
I'm fine with that.
Dan, you and I can check out that other place for mine.
Wait, This guy can't see.
Oh.
Okay. Yeah, cool.
I wasn't really expecting this to happen, but that's mining.
These trips are really about just seeing as much as we can.
And if you find a big block of ground that goes 15 an ounce per day, we need to get out
here and explore it.
I like that plan. Yeah.
Yeah.
Want to try a bit further upstream?
Parker? Yeah, keep going.
Parker's plan.
Leave Tyler in Diego to hunt for gold at Bonanza while he and Danny visit the Kempsey
mine owned by the miners.
They met yesterday.
The number one thing is not getting this thing broke down out here.
But first, he gives Tyler a crash course with the excavator.
At this stage, we don't have any time to waste.
We really need to divide and conquer.
We have to split up.
So it's really important that I can bring something to the team.
And operating an excavator is that at this moment.
It's much easier to do rather than explain, okay, you know what I mean?
Yeah. Like I can tell you that this is swing or you can just sit in here and you can learn
that swing. Yeah.
Um, I'm not a good teacher.
I know that.
It's quite nerve wracking.
I really want to go.
I want to go. I do want to go and watch, but I just think it will just make her.
Yeah.
I'll watch.
From here.
Okay. Are you going to have to give me some directions?
Okay. I've never done this before.
Throttle. Throttle.
Wasn't a very full bucket.
Dump it out and do it again.
This is how I was taught.
Get in the thing. Do the job.
Figure it out. I think that's how most people.
Should learn. I could sit here and talk for ten hours about excavators, but, like, it's
all information that's useless if.
If the control part of it isn't just like second nature, but Tyler is just trying to
worry about what?
Hopefully not burying the wash plant.
Any tips?
I think you're doing fine.
There's plenty of dirt there to fire up.
Okay. Should I get out?
Get out.
All right. I'm just really slow at the moment.
I just have to have some more time in there.
That's fine. All right. We'll keep it running here then.
All right. Good luck.
Have fun.
You too. Worst training session ever because of the teacher went.
Okay. He's gone now, so I'm just going to have to make it work.
Dan, are you driving? I'll drive.
Wait. You're on the wrong side of the road.
Are you all right?
Are you sure?
With Parker and Danny heading to the GMC Mine.
Tyler and Diego must set up and run the Bonanza claim solo.
That was not a full bucket again.
Parker's lesson was so bad and it was about 90s total.
And he basically just said, I need to learn on the job.
So I'm just going to take it really slow to make sure I'm getting those full buckets.
There we go.
Well, you really move a lot of dirt.
Yeah, I've got about four scoops in there now.
How about if I jump out and we can set.
Everything up in a final bid to see if Bonanza is worth investing in?
Everything's a lot harder as a two person job.
Hey.
Tyler and Diego are testing a new area one mile upstream.
Three of those mountains. We've got to get through.
I don't know if I'm.
Going to be able to do that.
I know.
Work, Diego.
I'll go get the pump. I'll just plug that in.
Parker.
His way of being a boss is definitely throwing you in the deep end.
And you have to sink or swim.
It's exciting, though. I like being in this position.
Gold's been a part of my life forever.
I've learned so much about mining, especially continuing on from the Yukon.
I'm sure it won't be long before I kind of find my feet and we figure it out.
Diego. It's not working.
The pump getting stuck.
It's getting stuck here.
It's a dud pump.
Riding. It's.
Ailing, you're going to get sick.
Diego. You could have got something a little bit more fashionable.
Poncho They never work.
Pumps never do what you want them to do.
I'd actually don't think I've ever just turned on a pump.
And it worked in my whole entire life.
Yeah. This is a pain in the arse.
I don't think I can fix that.
Maybe if you get a rock and bash it.
On Bonanza Creek Rain.
Tyler and Diego are struggling to get a water pump going so they can run paydirt from
a new test area.
The water's making it all the way to just there, so we'll be able to see a blockage if
it was one there. So you can either turn it on and try again or we can change the
fittings for the other pump and use the other pump.
Let's try that one.
This pump seems to work a lot better than that one anyway.
I'm hoping it has enough water output to run that, but we'll have to wait and see.
Let's put this one.
That one there.
Unable to get the larger pump working.
Pipe pumps hate them so much.
Tyler's plan is to use the smaller pump that feeds the ground sluice.
Nice work.
Lucky you and your leather man are here.
I'd be in a bit of trouble.
All right. This should work.
Ready?
All right, We're in action.
Oh. I'll get the excavator and I'll dump some more, and then we'll just keep going.
With the small pump running the trommel.
I'm still a pretty full bucket.
That wasn't too bad.
Yay.
Tyler builds the pay pile.
All right. I'm hoping we can get about another ten of these.
Done. It's another ten yards.
That's probably 17 yards in total.
I feel like.
He just chucked me in the deep end.
But it's really important.
Parker and Danny are kind of.
Exploring and finding more options.
So sink or swim, girl.