Down to just one wash plant.
It's all hands on deck at the runway cut until it's completely stripped.
Except for one crew member.
So right now I'm in the payback cut.
You know, there's a lot to do, and I'm pretty much over here on my own.
So trying to keep the wash plant going.
While slucifer plant boss Tyson Lee digs out payback, cut pay dirt in the 750 excavator.
You know, it's just a struggle trying to keep ahead.
Parker in the DX 11 and Foreman Mitch Blaschke in the 700 strip overburden in the
runway cut.
This is probably the most behind we've ever been in opening a cut and having things
ready. We've had so much on our plate and, you know, here we are just trying to get
through it all and trying to do it before the snow flies.
And what the.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
There is only one thing. It smells like that, and that is coolant.
That is not good.
Looks like we just blew our radiator here, and it's blowing right on the exhaust
manifold. Not what we need right now.
Yo, Taylor, you got a copy, man?
Yeah. Go ahead. Hey, buddy, You want to make your way over to the 700 here?
It looks like it lost the radiator.
We got a whole bunch of coolant spewing out right on the exhaust.
I mean, the biggest thing here is just the lead time on getting parts.
For sure, it's going to be a few days minimum.
To lose something like the radiator in this 700 when we've got all this dirt to move.
I need another big excavator over here.
I'm not sure where I'm going to get one of those from right now.
How's it going, Mitch?
Oh, we've had better days.
What's going on?
Oh, the 700 just blew their ad.
Oh, really? Yeah. Like, bad.
The problem is, we're in the middle of all that mud right now.
Yeah, And without a big excavator, there's no way we got a fighting chance of getting
through it. Oh, I know you're doing everything he can to keep up with Lucifer,
but, man, we really need the 750.
Well, it sucks because, you know, we we have like no pay up right now.
So the 750 is kind of key to this operation right now.
I know. And that's going to leave you with a 480 as soon as Taylor gets a 700 back up and
going and you can have this thing back.
But right, man, for right now, I hate to do it, but we've really got no other option down
there. But repo the old 750 from you, right.
I'll get it back to you as soon as I can.
Losing the 750 leaves Tyson with just the 480.
Reducing the amount of pay he can send to Lucifer.
Sadly, I'm going to have to turn Lucifer down, you know, with only the 480 digging
pay. We're going to get to the point where we're on a pay.
We have nothing to run.
No lower feed rate means less gold coming in, but it's better than having no gold
coming in and having to shut the plant down.
With slews of her dialed down and Big Red shut down, The chances of mining out all 90
acres are slimmer than ever.
You got to pick your battles.
And will. We lost this one.
Um, right now, we're just stripping.
The runway.
Seems like pretty deep mud.
You know, I think there's probably a good 20 feet of mud in here, and.
It's a bit late in the year to be opening.
Up the crown that has 20 feet of mud.
So we're just loading that out, and we have nowhere to push it to.
So it's all.
Getting loaded out.
I wouldn't say going fine, but it's going.
Parker Schnabel's crew is rushing to strip the 24 acre runway cut down to pay so they
can start feeding. Wash plant.
Big red.
I've got big reds sitting on that hillside over there waiting to wash rocks.
If we had thought paydirt right now, it'd be up and running.
I know it's really put Tyson in a tough spot here taking the 750, but it's so important
that we get this ground opened up.
If not, we're going to leave a lot of gold in the ground.
With Mitch's 700 excavators still in for repair, Tyson's stuck in the smaller 480.
Struggling to dig enough pay to feed sluice offer.
Had to dial down Lucifer's feed rate a little and hopefully I don't have to dial it down
anymore. But at the rate things are going, I might have to make that adjustment.
And, you know, it's sadly getting Big Red going.
It's taking priority over keeping Lucifer fed.
Taylor, I hope you got some good news for me, man.
Hey, buddy. How's it going?
Oh, well, you tell me.
I see we got some parts here.
Do you indeed. Good.
Rad's dropped in.
Ready to go? All right.
Sounds good, buddy. Appreciate it.
Thanks. Later. Hey, Tyson.
Tyson, you got a copy?
Go ahead. Hey, buddy.
I got a present for you if you want to meet me over by Lucifer.
I'm good, man.
I'm my way.
When you said you had a present for me.
I'm glad it's not the 20.
No, man. We treated her good.
It moved a lot of mud. It really helped out.
So now we can get some pay up here and crank this baby back up.
I'll go turn it up and then lake the fire under froggy of my own ass.
All right, buddy. Now, you least got some muscle down here for digging.
This sounds good.
Thanks.
Yeah, no worries, man. Thanks.
So, you know what? I just got the 750 back, which is the best news I've had all week.
That means I can turn this wash plant back up and we can get back to running 220 yards
an hour or so.
It's time I get us back to getting some serious pay through this plant and getting
some serious goals.
Parker's only working wash plant is finally back, sluicing at max capacity.
It looks like the super stockers off.
Last year it was playing these games and it seemed to have just stopped.
Belt feeder fault rpm zero in our.
Peter doesn't want to start.
She's got some gremlins in it.
Oh, there we go. It's fixed.
Didn't do well, but it's working now, so we'll roll with it.
Just something we're going to have to keep an eye on is that super stalker.
Hey, Alec, You got a copy?
Alec? This
conveyor system is playing some pretty intense games right now.
At first it was the super stocker.
Then their belt feeder wouldn't start for us.
Now the delivery conveyor is shutting down.
But we've got to get to the bottom of these electrical demons here.