Hello, buddy. How'd you sleep?
I did pretty well. Sleep good?
Yeah. Want some coffee?
Yeah, I'd love some, actually.
Cheers, dude. The cockerel was another level.
Hey, Parker. You all right?
How would I be all right with that?
Outside your tent?
No, with you outside my tent.
Am I worse than the cockerel?
Yeah.
You are the cockerel.
I can smell that through the tent.
That's amazing.
And let's get you.
Let's get you a cup of coffee.
Just because we don't want to leave these guys waiting.
All right.
Buenos dias. Buenos dias.
Let's go. Mining.
Oh, here we go.
On the hunt for virgin ground to mine this season.
Parker and his team are leaving on a two day trip with the Kiniry family.
How lucky are we? Look at this.
Prospecting for gold.
Five miles up the river.
What is peer to peer to peer to peer to peer to peer.
Oh, boy.
Oh, shit. Oh.
A class.
How big was it?
Huge.
It wouldn't be hard to keep this place a secret.
Three hours up river.
Virgin ground for.
Sure. The Canaries are showing Parker their most prized ancestral grounds in the hopes he
will consider investing in their small scale operation.
I just want to see gold all over the place.
It's very cool. We're like, properly in the middle of nowhere, though.
What's that mean? Wow, That is a sharp machete.
Oh, yes. Here we go.
Muchas gracias.
Una mas.
I'm pretty excited.
Yeah, like definitely an area with a lot of gold in it and excited to kind of see what's
here and how they mine and get to know them and their culture a bit more.
We're to master the b.
C.
There you go.
They say that there's floods, and after every flood, there's a ton of gold.
That means that there's a ton somewhere upstream.
It has to be.
Coming from somewhere that's very rich.
So our conveyor belt, very smart.
So our ropes.
There's the ropes.
Yeah.
It's pretty satisfying.
It's so interesting. They just use what they have around them to mine.
They're using vines as rope and bamboo as the makeshift sluice holder.
I'm really excited to see how the sluice box does and how much gold they get in a day out
of it.
Let's see if it holds. Yeah.
We got a sluice box.
Like Piedra de Piedra.
We're stripping now.
Dan? Oh, what I'd give for an excavator right now.
I'd give my left nut for an excavator.
Normally, we're looking for, like, the lowest level of gravel, and here, it's like.
It's still that kind of flood.
Gold that we're looking for.
Like the higher gravel.
During the rainy season.
Gold eroded from the mother lode in the Andes, washes down the swollen Amazon River
and its tributaries as it hits the slower moving bends of the river.
The heavy gold is deposited on sandbars.
Meaning this area could hold unlimited potential for millions of dollars of gold
every season.
Bert. Bert.
Oh. Oh.
Uh oh. Got a spillage?
You got a production line?
Diego's up there being the excavator.
Danny and Parker are.
Acting like the dump trucks, putting all the pay dirt onto our sluice box.
I'm doing a bit of classifying.
Just making sure the big rocks go out into the oversized.
Louis uses his hands and we just scrape the oversized into these tailings piles here.
Like. I bet their recovery rate is probably over 80%.
If I had to guess, they're going to burn $10 worth of fuel today.
The rest is sweat equity.
So yeah, you could scale it up like a mini excavator would do great in this, or a bigger
pump and some expanded metal and you could triple or quadruple your production or more
than that. But it depends on how much gold is here.
I'm amazed at the plans we had.
Further downstream, we spend millions of dollars stripping to get to ground like that,
and they're just scooping it up off the side of the riverbank.
Crazy. Tyler Where you count wheelbarrows.
So that's 20 wheelbarrow buckets.
So we've done just under two yards.
That's based on two cubic feet in one of these.
Correct.
So two yard and our.
We're done. Yeah. Cool.
Yep. Clean up time.
There you go.
Oh, yeah. You can see it all the way along the top there.
It's a really promising area.
The next step is.
You know, a very thorough vetting process of the area, the social impacts, the
environmental impacts.
You know what it takes to do something responsibly, because that's my number one
goal, is, you know, we have to be responsible.
The sun drops fast, isn't it?
Yeah. So quickly.
Thank you. Delicious.
Hey, good English.
Gracias. Muchachos.
Buenas noches, amigos.
What you got?
That is hard core.
Is that a baddie?
I mean, I wouldn't want to with it.
No.
Oh, my.
Oh.
There are a lot of eyeballs staring back at us right now.
And if there's this much gold just on the beaches, you would think that there has to be
some sort of, like, awfully good.
Place that it's coming from.
In theory, it should get like coarser and more gold going upstream.
Can you ask him that?
Mesa, Rio. Arriba.
I'm sorry.
Si era.
Do you think we could go check that out?
Like you and Tyler could stay here and Danny and I could go with Omar.
Tyler and see.
Are you okay with us? Leaving you with the shovel in the wheelbarrow?
We're in the middle of a jungle in middle of nowhere, so it's kind of difficult and a
little dangerous to go there.
Yeah, we'll be fine.
We go now. Okay.
Now, do you trust your Spanish well enough to.
Yeah. Si. Me Hablas Espanol.
Si.
Yeah, we'll get. We'll get by.
All right, let's do it.