Gold Rush, S03E14, Bedrock Blowout

BEDROCK BLOWOUT

At the Indian River claim, in the Klondike. Dave and his team have an impressive 414 ounces of gold so far this season worth over $650,000, but they have just 3 weeks left of the mining season, to reach their 1000 ounce goal. Greg and Dave tries to figure out how they can get more pay dirt out of their bench cut. Dave wants them all down to bedrock, because that's the pay dirt which holds the most. 5 weeks ago, Dave and his crew opened up a cut on the bench, and last week they cleaned out a record 137 ounces, worth a staggering $220,000. Now the bench cut is down to the bedrock layer, this material contains large rocks, it should be full of gold but it could also block up their plant. Chris Doumitt feeds the first bedrock dirt into the wash plant. Dave and Logan watch for any problems, while Chris feeds the wash plant. Suddenly something jams, the crew rushes to stop the wash plant, it appears that bedrock jammed the feed chute, but Dave stepped in quickly to unplug it. The wash plant is running for now, but Dave is leaving the claim to head home and check on business, leaving Todd in charge of the whole operation. In the beginning of the season, Dave cleared a cut on the lower bench, now they're mining the upper bench. Todd thinks the key to success now is extending cut one. Todd and Dave disagrees on Todd's idea about extending the first cut, but they agree to talk about it when Dave gets back from his trip to Oregon. Todd states that he's not going to wait for Dave to come back, he says that Dave is still playing a 500 ounce game, but that he is playing a 1000 ounce game.

Down south at Porcupine Creek. The Dakota Boys have 117 ounces, worth over a $180,000, they're digging deeper than ever in the glory hole, to reach their 160 ounce goal. Fred and Dustin are fighting a constant battle against the ground water pouring into their 80 foot hole. To get down deeper than 70 feet, they're gonna have to move their pump down another 10 feet. Fred builds a road down as close as he can to the pump, but he's still stretching to reach it with his excavator. Dustin hooks the chain to the pump, and Fred lifts it up into the air. As Fred moves left, the intake hose gets snagged under water, leaving the pump dangling 20 feet in the air, Fred's excavator arm is at full reach. Dustin and Melody have to use their brute strength, and eventually they get the hose free and they re-locate the pump. Dustin rips the hard rocky ground with the "bedrock shark", while Fred moves the rich material out of the hole. Dustin's track suddenly detaches from the excavator, leaving the excavator literally dead in the water, to make things worse the pump isn't pumping, so the hole is now filling up with 1200 gallons of water a minute, the excavators engine could be under water and destroyed within an hour. Fred brings his 340 excavator to try and get the track back on, but he can't force the track back on, with no time to loose Dustin tries to lift it into place instead. Fred lifts up the track with the excavator, almost getting it into place, he then gives it a slam on the side, with the bucket of his excavator and the track finally comes on again. Fred slowly drives the excavator out of the hole and out of danger.

Across the creek at the Big Nugget Mine, Parker Schnabel has 135 of the 300 ounces he wants this season, he's on his new rich ground the Discovery claim. Parker struck out on both Smith Creek Hill and Emerson Trench this season, but last week Parker started digging new ground just up from Big Nugget, he ran his new dirt and got some of his best cleanups yet. Parker's crew now knows that they're on the best gold yet, they rush to run as much material as possible. The problem is that the new claim is up a dangerous two mile road, with a 300 foot drop to the creek on one side. Parker insists on loading and driving the pay dirt to the plant by himself. To keep the wash plant running at capacity and to maximize the gold take, Parker needs to haul 10 loads an hour. Suddenly Parker's back end slips and the bed of the rock truck flips over on the side. Parker's 330 excavator is strong enough to lift the bed of the rock truck when it's empty, but loaded with pay dirt is weighs 63,000 pounds, way more than the excavator is designed to handle. Parker manages to flip the bed of the rock truck back up with the excavator. Parker's rock truck is not badly damaged, but the accident on the road has left Parker rattled. Parker's crew is on their best gold of the season, this week alone Glenn has cleaned up 25 ounces out of the Discovery claim, but out of nowhere Parker calls a meeting. Parker decides to shut down the Discovery claim, with no good ground left to dig, Parker may be forced to shut down the Big Nugget Mine.

Back up at the Indian River claim, in the Klondike. While Dave is away on business, Todd and his night shift crew Mitch and Andy meet at the lower cut, the area that Dave did not want Todd to start digging. Mitch and Andy have to remove up to 30 feet of mud from a 72,000 square-foot area. Todd thinks that they can get down to pay dirt within 5-7 days. Mitch and Andy strip into the night instead of doing their night shift job, maintaining the wash plant. While Mitch and Andy open up the new lower cut, Todd runs the wash plant by himself, he's loading old bench cut bedrock at full speed, the same material that blocked up the plant on Dave's shift. Suddenly the wash plant get's blocked by bedrock again and Andy rushes in to help, large angular chunks of bedrock has once again blocked the feed chute, throwing water and pay dirt over the top of the wash plant. They quickly clear the blockage and restart the wash plant. To avoid another blockage Andy suggests that they run slowly, but Todd insists on getting the water and plant running again at full speed. The water is running at full speed, but Todd has forgotten to put pay dirt into the plant, clean water is rushing through the sluice boxes, washing out the gold. Because Todd didn't have his experienced crew at the wash plant, he may have just lost 4 days of Indian River gold.

Back down at Porcupine Creek in south-east Alaska, the Dakota Boys are running dirt dug from 80 feet down the glory hole, after 5 days of running they shut down and start the cleanup. The Dakota Boys needs an average of 2 ounces a day to reach their goal for the season, from this weeks cleanup they need at least 12 ounces. This weeks cleanup is at 22.4 ounces, they now have 139 ounces of gold worth close to a quarter of a million dollars, they're on track to reach their goal of 160 ounces.

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The Golden Nugget:

Melody Tallis was raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. Before her passion for gold mining took hold she worked in a television repair shop and as a surgical scrub technician.

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At Indian River, Todd is about to find out if he accidentally washed their best gold yet out of the wash plant the night before, the crew looks for gold in the sluices. Dave Turin is just back from Oregon, it doesn't take him long to see that the things aren't as he left them at Indian River. In the gold room, Jim Thurber is running the cleanup. The sluice box is designed to catch the gold in the first 8 feet of carpet, but for insurance it has an extra 22 feet, to catch any gold that is washed down by too much water, if Thurber finds a lot of gold in the bottom mats, they can be sure they've washed gold right out of the wash plant. Their worst fears has come true, there's about 2 ounces of gold in the bottom sluices, suggesting that they've washed gold right out of the wash plant. Thurber and Jack cleanup the rest of the carpets. The crew gathers by the fire to wait for Jack to finish weighing the gold. Despite their worst fears and loosing gold, the Hoffman crew has one of their biggest clean outs yet, the 107 ounce clean out brings their season total to 521 ounces, worth around $830,000. They're now just one big clean out, from $1,000,000 in gold.

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Dual Survival, S03E01, Mars on Earth

Mars on Earth

Atacama Desert, Chile

Episode scenario

In this episode, Cody Lundin and Joe Teti will take the role of a power para glider, who crash landed on one of the Atacama Desert's towering volcanoes in Chile, 14.500 feet above sea level. 

High altitude

The Atacama Desert, a place so barren and geographically unique that NASA named it "Mars on Earth", and uses it to test rovers bound for the red planet. The Sahara for instance gets 2 millimeters of rain per year, the Atacama Desert gets 0.1 each year. What makes the environment so terrifying is the altitude, with the cold, with the lack of atmosphere, with the lack of water, surviving here is no breeze.

At this high altitude, there's limited oxygen which makes it very hard to breath. Cody and Joe has to strip the para glider which they found, and then head for lower elevation. At the para glider they find a yellow helmet, a multitool and a altimeter, there's no gas in the tank of the para glider and the battery is dead as well. They also find a water container, which fits into a backpack, the container is filled with a quarter of water, they also find the parachute, along with the reserve chute as well. Last but not least they find a matchbox, and as they open it, one single match can be found inside. When one ascents too quickly, one can fall victim to hypoxia, which leads to mountain sickness and eventually death. Both Cody and Joe knows that they have to decent down the mountain, but Joe also knows that higher up the mountain there may be ice, but ascending further can be very dangerous. Joe proposes that he goes alone, but Cody is not much for that idea, but Cody knows that water is crucial to survival, so he agrees that they split up, they use a rock as a rally point, once Joe has gone and collected the ice. The worst case scenario is that they would be separated for the night,  if Joe doesn't manage to descent again before nightfall and rally up with Cody. Joe starts his ascent up the mountain and Cody heads downhill towards their rally point, to look for shelter. It is crucial that the shelter protects from the wind, as the nights in the Atacama Desert are freezing, dropping into the teens, which puts hypothermia into play as well. Cody has to go beyond their rally point, because it doesn't protect enough from the wind, he finds another suitable spot a little further. He will then use the parachute to create a "lean to shelter", which keeps them out of the wind, that also gives them the possibility of a reflector fire, which reflects heat back onto them via the rock. Joe has now ascended to 17.000 feet above sea level, he has also found ice, which he chops up and places in the reserve parachute, so that he can carry it down again. Joe begins his decent downhill again, to rally up with Cody.

Joe has reached their rally point, but can't see Cody. He has to find Cody within the next 30 minutes, or he has no choice but to sleep alone for the night. Cody has finished the "lean to shelter" and is ready to start a fire with the only match he has, he only has one single change to light the kindling he's gathered, he strikes the match and manages to light up the fire. Meanwhile Joe has gone beyond their original rally point, and is shouting out for Cody, as Cody has finished the fire he heads towards the sound of Joe yelling. Joe spotted the helmet that Cody put up on top of the rock. Reunited, they head inside the shelter so that Joe can warm up again, they use the helmet to melt the ice which Joe took down with him. As the night comes to an end, they get ready to keep going, the ice they melted came down to about 3 liters, which they fill into the bladder container, which they found at the para glider.

Descending down

Joe and Cody has to descend down the mountain, they have to get below 8.000 feet above sea level, where hypoxia and mountain sickness is less likely to happen. As they reach 13.000 feet, they see a change in the terrain, and Joe suspects that it is the last place in which they will be able to acquire firewood for a fire. Cody on the other hand, disagrees with Joe, he doesn't think that they have to gather firewood, since he hasn't had the need to do it in 23 years. Joe is still positive that they will need it down the road, and eventually Cody gives in and agrees to carry some wood along, but only because Joe had carried ice down the mountain for them to drink, the previous day. As they keep descending down, they notice that the terrain is getting steeper and they have no idea whats ahead of them. Joe and Cody eventually end up in a canyon, where they have to climb down, Joe states that one should always keep 3 points of contact when free climbing down, whether its two hands and a foot, or two feet and a hand doesn't matter. Suddenly they reach a massive drop off, which appears to be from 30-50 feet, they have to decide whether they want to go back and find another way, or if they should come up with a way to get down the drop off. They come up with the idea of using the reserve parachute as a rope, so they can climb down, they twist the parachute. They also have to anchor the parachute to something, and for that they need rope which can handle it, they twist the parachute cord, so that the tensile strength doubles. Tensile strength is the maximum load a material can hold when under pressure. Usually in climbs like this, one should use three anchor points, but Cody and Joe are limited to only one. Joe climbs down first and makes it to the bottom of the drop off, so does Cody as it is his turn next.

Deep in the canyons where Cody and Joe are, sunshine rarely reaches the floor, finding a shelter for the night, now becomes top priority. At a Y-intersection in the canyon, they split up each taking a path, to try and find a suitable shelter for the night. Cody comes up empty handed, but Joe on the other hand finds a location which is suitable. Cody stresses that core protection is vital, one should always keep their chest area warm. Joe wants to light a fire, and to preserve firewood he wants to burn one stick at a time, Cody tells him that it's not possible to burn one stick at a time, and they also probably use up a quarter of their firewood, just to get the fire started. There's probably only enough wood for just a single hour, so they agree to use the firewood at the coldest part of the night, since the nights are 12 hours long in the Atacama Desert, in the winter times. They both wrap up in the same parachute, so that they can use their body heat to warm each other up. Cody and Joe has descended from high altitudes of a volcano, gone through deep canyons, to emerge at a sun scorched  salt flat. Water now becomes top priority, the 3 day rule says that you can go 3 days without water, but in the Atacama Desert that is greatly reduced, due to elevation and dryness. They continue to head downhill, as water would travel downhill as well. They're at an altitude of 9.000 feet above sea level. In the Atacama Desert, a person can go through 4 liters of water an hour, Cody and Joe has been rationing 3 liters over the past 3 days. They eventually run out of water, but they keep descending, they seek to find shade, as shade can reduce dehydration. They find some shade by a rock and they decide to take a rest, at this time Joe decides that he's going to drink his own piss to gain a psychological edge. Urine is double the amount of zodiam than normal body saline, almost 2%. Joe states that he's a survivor and if this kills him it was his time to go anyway.

Out of the desert

The Atacama Desert in Chile, was formed by earthquakes and lava flow, some 145 million year ago. Cody and Joe are now at 7.500 feet above sea level, and has now descended below 8.000, hypoxia and mountain sickness is less likely at this point. As they reach a huge canyon they can hear water flowing, there's a river at the bottom of the canyon, but they're 400 feet above it, they look for the safest place to descend into it. They find a steep sand bank which leads down to the river, the sand down is deep and they kind of have to jump in it, Joe states that it's like a controlled fall. They eventually reach the river at the bottom of the canyon, and they immediately drink from it, without disinfecting the water first. They've found a place where they now can rest and re-hydrate, before they keep pressing on, to get out of the desert. Joe surveys the area and finds a tree, which in the winter time drops seeds, which is similar to dried beans and are edible, they taste sweet. Joe collects a whole bunch of the beans and returns to Cody. Cody explains that the beans have a lot of carbohydrates which gets into your blood quickly, it raises your glucose levels, so they're perfect in their situation. They decide to head downstream and eventually they see lama's by the river, along with a lady. Water equals life, so wherever there's water there's bound to be civilization.     

  

About Dual Survival

About Dual Survival

Dual Survival is an American reality TV show, which is aired on Discovery Channel. The TV show features two survival experts handling challenging environments all across the globe. Dual Survival originally aired for the first time in 2010, where the first episode were aired June 11th. The first season of Dual Survival featured a total of 10 episodes, before the season ended August 20th, 2010. Season 1 of Dual Survival featured Cody Lundin and Dave Canterbury as the two survival experts. Cody Lundin is a naturalist and primitive skills expert, he runs the "Aboriginal Living Skills School" in Arizona, he also doesn't wear any shoes, socks or long pants. Dave Canterbury is a military trained survival instructor, he runs the "Pathfinder Training School" in Ohio.

Season no. 1

As stated above, the first season of Dual Survival featured 10 episodes. The first season featured scenarios from around the globe, such as Belize, Peru, Brazil, New Zealand, Novo Scotia, Laos and some inside the US as well, Louisiana being one of them. 

Season no. 2

The second season of Dual Survival features 2 more episodes than season 1 did, it features 12 episodes in total. The first episode in season 2 originally aired April 22th 2011, and the last one aired July 1st. The second season once again features survival scenarios from around the globe, some being: Thailand, South Africa, Panama, Mexico, and they even strand on a deserted island in the South Pacific ocean. There's also several episodes within US borders, taking place at the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming, the Everglades in Florida, and the Great Plains in Montana.

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Changes in season no. 3
As far as season 3 goes, Dave Canterbury didn't return for it, he has been replaced by Joseph(known as Joe) Teti, which is a retired "Force Recon Marine" and former "Army Special Forces Green Beret". Season 3 aired it's first episode January 1st 2013, and it is yet unknown how many episodes it's going to feature, but hopefully as many as the previous seasons did.

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Gold Rush, S03E13, The Nightshift

THE NIGHTSHIFT

4 months into the 5 months mining season, the Hoffman Crew is running hard at Indian River. Despite their total of 277 ounces of gold, they still need 98 ounces just to break even, let alone hitting their 1000 ounces season goal, which they’re 723 ounces short of. For the Hoffman Crew to reach their season goal, Todd has to come up with a new mining plan. He proposes to Dave Turin, that he starts a nightshift, so that they can keep the wash plant “Big Red” running as much as possible. Dave’s concerned about the wash plant not being able to run that long, the last thing he wants is for the wash plant to break down. Last week, Todd shut down his Quartz Creek operation, and moved all his equipment and men to Indian River, to work alongside with Dave Turin and his crew. Together they managed to get 46 ounces of gold in a week, which is 17 ounces less that Team Turin’s best week. Over the season Team Turin has fine tuned their wash plant, it consistently produces 1 ounce of gold for every 10 buckets of good pay dirt, to succeed this season, Todd needs to double the amount of buckets that they run through the wash plant, and he wants to prove that his crew is at least as good as Dave’s crew. The dayshift ran 124 buckets of pay dirt through the wash plant the nightshift though, wants to run 200 buckets through it. 4 months into the mining season, the Yukon nights are getting longer. Facing a 12-hour shift, Todd sets a goal of 17 buckets an hour. Within hours the fast pace starts taking its toll on the wash plant, but Todd refuses to stop for anything, the water is starting to sweep away the ground under the sluice boxes, but Todd doesn't have time to stop, they have to keep running. The hopper feeder belt suddenly seizes up, forcing Todd to shutdown the wash plant. 3000 pounds of hydraulic pressure is building up on the jammed con weigher, the crew has to remove the rock to relieve the pressure, or they’ll destroy the con weigher. They manage to remove the rock, and they get the con weigher belt running again. After running hard for 12 straight hours, dawn marks the end of Team Todd’s first nightshift, in their first shift Todd’s crew has run a record 1400 yards through the was plant.

Down in Alaska, Fred Hurt is digging gold rich pay dirt at Porcupine Creek. The Dakota Boys have spent the last month on the hunt for what they think is an ancient waterfall, the deeper they've gone in their pit, the better the gold has become. Fred is following the grey material as he digs down, as he’s been so focused on getting the grey dirt, he’s missed something. 1000 years ago a river ran through the valley, forming cracks in the bedrock of the river, the cracks can act as a natural riffle, trapping gold as it flows down the river. Melody explores the big cracks in the bedrock wall of the glory hole, if Melody is right, the cracks could contain thousands of dollars in gold. Fred doesn't buy it he just wants to keep digging down. To dredge in the glory hole, they’d have to flood it with water, and then they’d use a suction hose to vacuum the gold and silk out of the cracks, this material then travels through a floating sluice box, which traps the gold. But a glory hole full of water will prevent Fred from digging. Dustin wants to bring in a dredge to vacuum the gold out of the cracks.

Back up at Indian River, Team Todd’s nightshift is finished and Team Turin takes over. They arrive to a nasty surprise, Todd’s nightshift washed the base out from under the sluice box, determined to run more dirt than Team Turin, Todd refused to stop his shift to fix the problem. The wash plant could easily fall into the pond. Team Turin can’t start their dayshift before they pack rocks back under the base of the 15,000 pound sluice box to keep it from sinking, but the time it takes to make this fix is money straight out of their pocket. They test the fix by turning on the water, but Dave won’t know whether it works, until it gets the full weight of the water and pay dirt running through the wash plant. It appears to be working as it should. To have any hope of reaching their 1000 ounce goal, Team Turin then has to keep up with Team Todd, but its taken Team Turin half their shift just to clean up Todd’s mess.

Down at the Big Nugget Mine, in southeast Alaska. Parker Schnabel is ready to mine his new ground, the Discovery claim. With just a month left in the mining season, Parker is still 96 ounces or $150,000 from breaking even for the season. The Discovery dig site has to payoff, or else Parker will loose money for the second season in a row. Two weeks ago, Parker discovered that Emerson Trench the last remaining ground on Big Nugget, was a bust. Out of option, Parker leased the Discovery claim, it was on this claim that in 1898 the first Porcupine Creek gold was found. Parker's plan is to haul 20 loads of dirt down to his plant each day, but the Discovery claim lies up a dangerous mountain road, that snakes it's way 300 feet up from Big Nugget. Parker is ready to bring down his first load, in an almost 20-year old loader, which weighs 80,000 pounds when it's fully loaded. On either side of the road there's danger, on one side there's bedrock wall which could slice through his tires, and on the other side there's a 300-foot cliff, which drops down to the creek below. Halfway down, Parker scrapes his tires into the bedrock wall, and if he goes just 6-inches to the other side, he could tip over the cliff. Parker makes it safely past, but next he has to back up to a 100-foot cliff, to dump his load down the hillside, so they can use a loader to carry it to the wash plant.

Less than a mile from Big Nugget, over at Porcupine Creek. Dustin is heading back to the claim, rather excited. Dustin has just spent $2,000 of his own money on a gold dredge, to get at the gold in the glory hole bedrock wall's cracks, which Melody discovered not long ago, but Fred is still not really excited about using a dredge, because he can't dig at the same time. Dustin though insists that they go for the gold in the cracks with the dredge. Dustin is nervous about the dredge, since he has never used one before. Dustin has flooded part of the glory hole, so Fred can no longer dig, but before Dustin can get to work with the dredge, he and Melody has to carefully move it down into the bottom of the glory hole, if they damage the floats on the sidewall, the dredge will be rendered useless. They manage to eventually place it into the flooded glory hole. Dustin fires up the dredge's vacuum and Melody gets to work on sucking out the dirt inside the bedrock cracks, the vacuum is rated for 30-feet and can easily vacuum up gold from deep within the cracks. Unable to mine, Fred can only stand and watch. After 4 hours of dredging, both Dustin and Melody has had enough, the water is frigid cold, due to it being mountain runoff.

Back over at the Big Nugget Mine, across the creek from the Porcupine claim, Parker Schnabel is feeding his first pay dirt from the Discovery claim into his wash plant. Not long in, one of the blades from inside Parker's trommel tumbles out of the end, they have to shut down the plant to check out the damage done, and to repair the damage as well. Parker is clearly frustrated about the situation, but he has no choice but to weld the blade back into the trommel, even though it's not the preferable fix. He'll only know it works, when it once again can handle the large Big Nugget boulders. They fire up the wash plant once again, and loads dirt into the plant, the fix appears to work perfectly.

Back over at Porcupine Creek, Fred Hurt is frustrated. Dustin and Melody's idea of dredging the cracks in the bedrock wall, has prevented Fred from digging pay dirt out of the glory hole. They're now lifting the dredge back out of the water, down deep in the glory hole. Up in the gold tent, Melody is panning the material which they got from the dredging, the material will prove whether her idea of dredging the cracks was a good idea, and from what she's seeing, Fred will eat his own words. Fred is rather impressed with the take, as Dustin and Melody shows him, they head on inside the cabin to weigh up the gold. Last week, they pulled a record high 28 ounces worth $44,000 in five days of running grey material. This cleanup is from just a single day of dredging. The total take for the dredging is 14 ounces of gold, worth over $20,000, not bad for only a day of dredging.

Back up north, at Indian River, the nightshift is ready to go, the previous night they managed to load 200 buckets into the wash plant, and this night they want to do even better. There's a slight problem though, since the dayshift had to fix Todd's mistake, they didn't manage to stockpile enough pay dirt to feed the nightshift, Todd has Kevin get pay dirt from the bench cut, as Kevin has a truck load, he has to back it up to a 50-foot cliff, and dump it down to the wash plant, that's something he hasn't done yet, in the middle of the night. Kevin can't see his back wheels, so he has no way of knowing if he's close to the edge, an inch too far and he could fall down the cliff in his 40 ton rocktruck, down 5 stories into Walt in the loader. Todd pushes Kevin to keep getting the pay dirt down, but eventually Kevin snaps, and starts an argument with Todd. Though he later agrees to keep going, with Walt as his spotter. Despite the risks the nightshift is back on track.

Down in southeast Alaska, at the Big Nugget Mine. Parker Schnabel is about to find out, whether the Discovery claim were a good idea, he's ready for his first cleanup of the wash plant, with dirt only from the Discovery claim. He needs the dirt to payoff, as he's spent $10,000 in fuel this week, just to haul the dirt down the road. Right off, he spots a lot of gold at the top when he checks out the sluice box, and he calls over the crew to see. The entire crew is amazed by the amount of gold in the sluice. These recent week, Parker has not found too much, the last two weeks, he's only found 14.3 ounces of gold, worth less than $23,000. In just one week, Parker and his crew has cleared 43 ounces, which is worth almost $70,000, his total is now 135 ounces, worth $216,000.

Back up at Indian River in the Klondike, both the day- and nightshift has been mining around the clock, for a week. In 6 days, they've run a massive 10,000 yards through the wash plant. Now it is time to find out, if adding the nightshift was a wise move. They remove the miners moss from the sluice boxes, and takes it over to Jack in the gold tent, Jack then processes the concentrate, cleans the gold and weighs it. The crew is positive that this cleanup will be a big one. Jack finishes weighing up the gold, and heads for the campfire, where the entire Hoffman crew is gathered. He pulls out a jar from the truck, which contains 100 ounces of gold, he then pulls out a second jar from behind his back, containing 37 ounces. The total take for the week, with running the day- and nightshift is 137 ounces, worth a whooping $219,200, the Hoffman Crew is now at 414 ounces for the season so far, which is worth $662,400. This means that the Hoffman Crew are now past their break even point, and every single ounce of gold they now pull from the ground, is going straight into their own pockets. But they still have a long way to go, to get to their 1000 ounce goal, with only one month left in the mining season.

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