Parker Schnabel Earns Almost $1,000,000, But Is Still Not Happy With The Results?! | Gold Rush
Parker Schnabel Earns Almost $1,000,000, But Is Still Not Happy With The Results?! | Gold Rush
We’re doing it, buddy.
Awakening a beast now.
Hopes are high that the new cut is as rich as Parker thinks.
How we looking?
Looking good.
So, right now we’re dragging Slooifer onto the deck of the Pacific.
That might be enough there.
We should have two plants going on Dominion property, which will be the first time we’ve ever had that.
And you know, hang on.
Parker’s calling me.
Yo.
What happened to your wife?
What do you mean?
Oh, it’s down.
Is it?
Yeah.
Okay, we’re on our way.
Yo, Alec — Bob went down.
I want to head out there and I’ll meet you there.
Okay, we’re trying to get Lucifer out to the cut.
Now we’re shifting gears, going out to the bridge cut to deal with Bob.
We’ll see what’s going on here.
Yo, yo.
Yo, yo.
They all — all the conveyors shut off.
Yeah, it’s just the generator then, because if the generator shuts down, everything shuts down.
This piece — fuel issue.
I don’t know if it’s sucking air somewhere.
Yeah, it’s not looking good.
To breathe life back into wash plant Bob, a backup generator is quickly summoned.
Is everyone clear?
Lift the generator into place and fire Bob back up.
Looking good here, Tyson.
Keep coming.
Yeah, just like that.
Perfect.
Okay, let’s see if our new generator wants to play ball.
Here we go.
We’re firing up.
We’re back.
All righty.
We are done here at the bridge cut.
Now it’s time to go get Slooifer set up.
Nine years ago, Tyson first set eyes on Parker’s new $600,000 wash plant.
Light her up with sir, Tyson.
Yes, sir.
Yeehaw.
The thing of beauty right there.
Four years later, he was promoted to run Slooifer for the first time.
The heat’s on my shoulders.
Come on, Sloo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My favorite wash plant.
She’s back alive.
This plant was the plant I learned on, and it’s the plant that’s going to make us a lot of money this year.
Yo, Alec, is everyone clear?
Yeah.
Hey, you know, Lucifer is my baby girl and I’m dragging her home.
Let’s go.
We’ve got some work to do, girl.
Good there.
Tailings conveyor.
Yeah.
Tyson walks forward.
And Slooifer runs mounted.
There we go.
All right, we’re going to pull Slooifer up the hill.
Tyson pulls the fully assembled 45-ton beast 100 feet onto the pad.
I just got to spin this Lucifer into place.
Come on, let’s go.
You got about five feet now.
That’s pretty much there, guys.
We really killed it here.
We got Lucifer up to the Golden Mile, but let’s get her done.
Definitely.
Nice work.
And stop there.
Two years since it last washed rocks, Slooifer is primed to catch an estimated 3,500 ounces buried in Golden Mile.
This is the first time that Lucifer is fired up on Dominion.
So that’s cool.
Some of that ground is looking really good.
Let’s hope it mines that way.
Who wants to do the honors?
You press the conveyor.
You press the shaker.
Ready?
Let’s go.
Hey, Sandy, start feeding.
Make this one count.
Two down, two to go.
We got the two main ones running.
That’s what matters.
Hopefully we find some gold.
You had quite a week, it sounds like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you hired on Kaden.
Yeah.
One of Kevin’s old employees, right?
Yeah.
So, is Kevin even going to have a crew left by the time we’re done here?
I worked with him last year.
So he’s a good kid.
Like, he’s a hard worker.
So, we got two plants going.
You want to see how we’re doing?
Yeah.
You want to read this one out?
Here we go.
This one’s Bob.
Last week, Bob delivered 126 ounces.
Parker’s hoping it’s picked up the pace.
We got 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 150, 161.8.
You’re not really racing out of the starting gate, but it puts us in a lot better shape than where we were last year.
Yeah, I got Sloo.
Finally got Slooifer up and running, huh?
Yeah, first time on Dominion.
Let’s see how it did.
Running the Golden Mile for three days.
This is Parker’s first chance to see how the new cut will pay out.
So there’s definitely some rich ground over there.
I’m excited for that.
Here we go.
10, 20, 50, 70, 100, 110, 112.1.
Nice.
Not bad.
Not bad.
Not bad at all.
For the week, we got 273.9 ounces.
Worth just under a million dollars.
For the season, it’s 399.7.
Still a long ways to go.
And you guys will have a third one fired up this week, probably, huh?
Maybe two weeks.
We better get home and find some more gold trolling.
[laughter]
Yeah, you guys better start pulling your weight around here.
You know, it’s great to have two wash plants running on Dominion, but we really need a third.
Then we can really start getting some good numbers coming in.
