Parker Schnabel’s $1,300,0000 Gold Haul Proves EVERYONE Wrong | Gold Rush
Parker Schnabel's $1,300,0000 Gold Haul Proves EVERYONE Wrong | Gold Rush
What’s going on, man?
We’re fighting the ground [music]
and we’ve got our hands full on Dominion right now,
but we have a neighbor.
He [music] approached me a few weeks ago
and wanted to sell his property,
and I’ve been in [music] discussions with him
about buying him out,
and I just signed a deal today. [music]
Seriously?
Yeah, [music] you bought Gold Run.
Three miles of Gold [music] Run
that butts up to our property
and a mile of ground on Sulfur.
Did you buy just the dirt
or buy the whole thing out?
The whole company.
Purchase price: 2.5 million.
From a cash basis, it does put the screws to us a bit,
but I’ve embraced [music] the debt.
You can always go bankrupt.
I know, Mitch.
I mean, that’s a lot of money,
but with our production,
I think it’s going to pay for itself.
Do we have the manpower
to pick up all this extra stuff?
Um…
we’re stretched pretty thin as it is.
Yeah, we are stretched thin,
but they have a pit stripped on Sulfur
that’s ready to go.
Going to run out of ground on the Indian River, right?
So that crew that’s down there,
they can bounce Bob over there
and sloo these pits out.
That’s really bad.
It’s this bar and it’s shattered.
It’s the front lip of the plant—
keeps the dirt on the shaker.
If we were running this,
the crack would continue.
This whole chute would be blown out of the plant
and we’d have a pile-up.
That’s quite a big job
to get something proper in there.
Might not be sloo tonight after all.
Our plant’s down.
This is the last thing we need.
We need Bob up [music] and running.
And it’s down ‘cause of the feed lip.
How are you?
I was just coming to see
if you need an operator tonight for night shift.
So Bob has some issues.
The feed lip’s broken.
We’ve got to get this fixed
before we can fire Bob up.
That’s not good.
I actually thought we would have been
sloo easily by now.
While the mechanics reinforce Bob’s feed lip,
Tyson and Damian Brown stockpile even more pay
from Sulfur’s pre-stripped cut.
We’re already stretched so bloody thin right now.
What Parker’s idea was—
going to buy another piece of property—
I really don’t know.
We got the new chute all welded up.
Now the real fun begins:
to see how we’re actually going to get the new one in
and how it’s even going to fit.
I’m clear.
This makes it easy.
Yep.
Now we’re just unbolting.
Good, Alex.
This is looking pretty good here.
So we got our chute up in place.
Line up our holes.
Throw some bolts in.
We’re out of here.
Perfect.
Well, nice work, guys.
Got her back together.
We’ll be ready to fire up.
I’ll go let Damian know.
Sounds good.
You want to grab the pump, Alec?
I’ll do it.
Thanks.
Just two days after Parker’s sudden purchase
of Sulfur Creek…
Here we go.
Wash plant Bob fires up
for the first time on its new ground.
The first bucket of pay.
You know, you asked me
at the beginning of the season
if we’d be here unsuling.
I’d say you’re crazy.
But it’s just the cards we’ve been dealt.
Hopefully there’s a big pile of gold
at the end of the week for us here.
Well, hopefully it’ll pay off.
Parker has gold coming from four spots this week.
That’s a busy [music] week for you, Dumit.
Roxan keeps chugging along.
We were plugging away
while everything else is happening.
First up is the gold from the long cut on Dominion,
averaging so far 150 ounces a week.
This is a long cut.
20
30
70
140
200
210
217
Nice.
That’s solid.
Not bad.
Okay, there’s Big Red.
To date, the bridge cut
has yet to hit 100 ounces in a week.
Here we go.
Big Red bridge cut.
5
10
25
55
60 [music]
70
77.1
Consistently poor.
Last cleanup down at Ken’s five.
Ken and Stewart’s
has been their best performing cut this season,
delivering 2 ounces of gold an hour.
30
65
70
98.8
Over 2.5 oz an hour
on its last run of the season.
But for the hours it ran,
I think it did well.
Well, it’s a good thing you got Sulfur.
‘Cause without that,
where would Bob have gone?
What do you think?
You liking your new purchase?
I don’t know, Chris.
Do we like our new purchase?
For it to pick up the slack,
Parker’s looking for Sulfur
to deliver at least 100 ounces
in just two days of running.
Bob Sulfur.
All righty.
Let’s see how Parker’s new purchase panned out.
How did it go?
Here we go.
20
40
60
80
100
110 [music]
120
130
141.65
Sulfur has produced nearly double the gold
the [music] bridge cut made all week.
So far so good.
It’s a good week for Bob
with a move in the middle.
Well, at least there’s some gold
over at Sulfur.
And you guys [music] keep doubting me.
[laughter]
Halfway to do some gold down there.
You add them all up—
that’s a pretty good week.
So, for the week,
we have 535.2 oz.
Worth $1.3 million.
More than half the purchase price
of his new ground. [music]
Better than a kick in the ass.
