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- [Kia] Be careful.

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- We're looking for specific
pieces of ore that we can crush

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and liberate the gold out of it.

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- [Tom] What was that?

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- [Kia] Whoa, that looks cool.

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- [Tom] Yeah, awesome.

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You've got to know
what you're doing.

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You gotta be safe when
you go in these mines

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and that mine that
we went back in

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(gasping)

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It had bad air.

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- [Kia] Ew.

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- [Tom] We gotta get out.

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- [Kia] Is this...

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(hurling)

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(dramatic music)

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- [Tom] They say
that less than 10%

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of the gold's been found.

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And I'm the crazy guy who
wants to find the rest.

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- [Kia] Oh my gosh,
watch that big rock

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is gonna come down dad.

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- [Tom] Little specks of gold.

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I'm Tom Massey, part detective.

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This an old map and it
shows all the old mines.

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Part explorer.

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- Or to Alaska.

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- All the way.

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You could a serious avalanche
in here at any moment.

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- [Man] It's gold!

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- And I live to find gold.

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Join me and my family
on an adventure

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but be careful.

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- Dad!
(Tom screaming)

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- [Kia] Dad, you're on fire.

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You're on fire!

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You might just catch gold fever.

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- Look at this.

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Eureka!

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- Feel my head man, whoa
whoa I'm burning up man.

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The mother lode, let
it bust, I tell ya.

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Gold Fever!

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(folk music)

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- [Narrator] Tom Massie
and his daughter Kia

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are exploring Arizona's
Superstition Mountains.

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In areas worked by
prospectors since the 1850's

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when rumors of gold
were so exaggerated

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it was said that if
you washed your beard

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in the Hassayampa River,

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you could wash 4 ounces of
gold from your whiskers.

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(loud banging)

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We're in Arizona 'cause
there's gold in Arizona.

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And wherever you got gold
at is where we're gonna be.

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(engine running)

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- Welcome to Gold Fever!

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Got my trusty mule here.

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- Just like old
time prospectators.

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Looking for gold.

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- We're searching for
good, solid quartz rocks

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that have high grade on 'em.

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Maybe even some visible gold
and we're gonna crush 'em

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and then we're gonna run
'em across our shaker table.

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And we're just out prospecting
like those old timers.

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Yeah, we're prospecting in a
little bit of a different way.

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And so we're looking for
specific pieces of ore

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that we can crush

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and liberate the gold out of.

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(uptempo music)

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Water in the dessert.

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- [Kia] It's like
a little oasis.

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- [Tom] Yeah.

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This will all dry up.

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- [Kia] Yeah.

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- [Tom] Come summer time
when it's a 115 out here.

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Okay, here goes.

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- [Kia] Hey, it skipped.

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- [Tom] This one's kinda thick.

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- [Kia] I'm gonna throw one.

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(loud splattering)

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Nope.

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Hey, that one skipped.

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- [Tom] Yeah.

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(piano music)

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- Look at this quartz
vein right here Kia.

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- [Kia] Woe.

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- [Tom] It's running
right thought the rock.

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- [Kia] You think
there's any gold in it?

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- [Tom] Yeah, well see that's--

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That's where the
gold comes from.

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Is out of these quartz veins

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so that's why you
always see those nuggets

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with like quartz
attached to them.

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Well not all quartz
rock has gold in it.

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But quartz and the
surrounding rock,

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they have different
melting points so gold,

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a lot of times is
associated with quartz

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and it'll travel in there
when the quarts travels in

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between the cracks and crevices
and the quartz stringers.

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That's where the
gold's traveling in
there along with it.

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It's being deposited
in the molting stage

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the volcanic stage around the
same melt point as the quarts

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and so that's why
it's associated with.

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And so we learn to learn for

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those mineralized
pieces of quarts.

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Quartz that just not
pure white and milky.

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Quartz that has a
little red in it.

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A quartz with a
little black in it.

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Quartz that has a
little purple in it.

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And different coloration
that's mineralization

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going inside that quartz rock.

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And that's the trail that
you want to look for.

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Almost look uh, crystal
in there you know?

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Gold's gold.

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When you get it,
it's happy days.

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Alright, let's keep traveling.

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And however you get it,

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whether it's dredging,
canning, sluicing,

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dry-washing or finding
it in the quartz veins

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and crushing it.

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Gold's gold and it's
always nice to have.

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(uptempo music)

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Here's a great looking
death trap for ya.

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(rocks falling)

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(engine running)

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We're in Arizona 'cause
there's gold in Arizona.

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And so we're looking for
specific pieces of ore

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that we can crush and
liberate and the gold out of.

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(uptempo music)

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(engine running)

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This is a nice looking
death trap for ya.

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- [Kia] You wanna go check out?

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- [Tom] Easy does it.

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Don't touch anything.

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- [Kia] Okay.

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No air flow.

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- [Tom] Yeah, it's stale air.

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You gotta know
what you're doing.

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You gotta be safe when
you go in these mines.

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And that mine that we went
back in, it had bad air.

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- [Kia] Ew.

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Dad, it's pretty bad.

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- [Tom] That goes deep.

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(water splattering)

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Goes down there.

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It's a stoke going
down on some...

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(background noise drowns
out all other sounds)

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Now can you smell
that stale air?

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- [Kia] Yep.

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- [Tom] Well, what you
got is this water in here

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and the water evaporates
and then there can be acidic

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stuff in the water from
leaching out from the rocks

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and then those vapors
will just come up here

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and then it'll get blown out

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and then it just
still sitting in here.

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It doesn't ventilate.

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There's no ventilation.

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There's no air flow so that
air just stagnates back there.

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And fills full of that gas.

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And it's just putrid air.

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And you can get
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you can get toxic air.

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There's been a lot of people

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that have been killed back
in mines just like that.

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(gasping)

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That's bad air.

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- [Kia] Ew.

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- [Tom] We gotta get out.

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- This is...

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(hurling)

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It's kind of giving me,

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it's really bad air.

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We gotta get out of here.

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About maybe 30 seconds more,

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I would have been passed out

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and I would have been in
real trouble back in there.

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Especially if you pass
out into the water.

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(coughing)

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- [Kia] Pretty bad.

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- [Tom] That's uh,
toxic air back there.

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It's got to be coming
from that water.

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- I got some samples though.

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- Let's crush those too.

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- Okay.

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- Whew.

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Oh man, I got a
spiting headache.

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Let's find another mine.

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- Okay.

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- This one's toxic.

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(uptempo music)

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(engines revving)

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You know you look
at all these hills,

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and valleys and
mountains and gullies.

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You know, you think about those

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old time prospectors out here.

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They didn't hit them all.

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There's still ground
out here to prospect.

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(uptempo music)

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Nice view.

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- [Kia] Yeah.

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You think that this mine
will have better air?

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- [Tom] I'm hoping.

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- Have a look.

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- Let's have a look.

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Ew, this don't look too good.

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I tell you what
looks good though.

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Look at the size of
that vein right there.

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This is just a
bit chunk of vein.

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That's why they
were mining here.

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That's why they got
such a big Tonopah.

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'Cause they had such
a good vein to work.

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Look at the size of that.

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- [Kia] These uh--

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Some of these boulders
don't look too stable.

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- [Tom] Yeah, you
got that right.

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Look at that one right there.

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It's ready to come right out.

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- The boulders on top look
like they were just ready to

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just to fall right on you.

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Huge boulders.

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- [Tom] Your light.

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Your hammer.

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And then we can fill
this full of ore.

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- [Kia] Okay.

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- [Tom] When those old
timers were in there mining,

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they're scaling, they're
trying to knock down

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those big rocks.

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And maybe it didn't come
down back 50, 60 years ago.

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But since then, it's been
pressure, it's been cracking,

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it's been maybe a little
bit of plant matter

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growing inside there and
it's just ready to come down.

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Well, we got our metal detector.

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We got our pick, our lights.

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And we're going down into
the boughs of the earth

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to look for a hot sample
that we can take out

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and bring back to our crusher.

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And run across our table.

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And find some really good gold.

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Now would be a good time

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to pray for us.

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(ominous music)

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(loud rumbling)

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Going down into the
boughs of the earth

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to look for a hot sample

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that we can take out and
bring back to our crusher.

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And run across our table.

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- The boulders on top
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ready to just to
fall right on you.

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Huge boulders.

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- Now would be a good
time to pray for us.

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- [Kia] Alright.

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- [Tom] Well, I don't
like this front part here.

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Don't touch that.

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- [Kia] I'll let you go first
and then I'll come down.

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- [Tom] Okay.

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You got the light.

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(dramatic music)

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- [Kia] Coming.

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Be careful.

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- [Tom] Okay.

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(loud clanking)

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The noise of your talking.

261
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You're yelling underneath there,

262
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that vibration,
that's just enough.

263
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Boom, let's it go.

264
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Or maybe you just hit with
the tip of your metal detector

265
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or you bump it just right.

266
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Boom!

267
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And that's enough to let
that whole big bunch of rock

268
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come down on you.

269
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It's very dangerous
back down in there.

270
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Especially for
cave-ins in old mines.

271
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Do you know why it's like...

272
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Why is this line at
an angle like this?

273
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'Cause they're just
following the veins.

274
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See the veins that's going here.

275
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Whoa, look at that.

276
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- [Kia] Whoa, that looks cool.

277
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- [Tom] Yeah, awesome.

278
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- [Kia] Pretty.

279
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- [Tom] That's mineralization.

280
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Right on, dude.

281
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(background noises
drowns out other sounds)

282
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Yeah.

283
00:11:16.308 --> 00:11:18.377
Shine the down light down.

284
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(gasping)

285
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This is as far as we can go

286
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unless we're gonna go
swimming underneath there.

287
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I'm gonna fire the
metal detector up

288
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and start swinging on this vein.

289
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See if I can't pick
up some hot spots.

290
00:11:37.163 --> 00:11:39.465
Look at that right there.

291
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That's totally mineralized.

292
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Totally mineralized.

293
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We should try and
take some of that out.

294
00:11:46.505 --> 00:11:47.573
- [Kia] Okay.

295
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(metal hammering)

296
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It's pyrite.

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Using the detector to try

298
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and find a highly
mineralized zones.

299
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And we're gonna take those out

300
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and we'll get the metal
detector to sound off.

301
00:12:10.663 --> 00:12:13.566
And sounding off
on it so that uh

302
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pyrite is getting
so thick in there,

303
00:12:15.868 --> 00:12:18.871
and that means there's
mineralization in it.

304
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Right where this vein
intersects this rock,

305
00:12:22.942 --> 00:12:24.710
that little seam right there.

306
00:12:24.710 --> 00:12:26.278
That's where you
get a lot of gold,

307
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right in that little
seam right in there.

308
00:12:27.780 --> 00:12:29.648
So if you can find those pieces,

309
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there kinda half
of the country rock

310
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and half of the granite

311
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and then half of the quartz
in that seam right in there.

312
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The gold likes to shoot
right in between there.

313
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Wish that was gold but
it's not gold, it's pyrite.

314
00:12:42.928 --> 00:12:45.664
(metal clanking)

315
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That tiny little piece.

316
00:12:54.640 --> 00:12:57.376
(metal clanking)

317
00:13:02.281 --> 00:13:06.452
(background noise
drowns out other sounds)

318
00:13:09.255 --> 00:13:11.724
Alright, I think
we're got enough.

319
00:13:11.724 --> 00:13:13.359
I don't like that right
up there at the entrance

320
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so I'm gonna go up.

321
00:13:14.593 --> 00:13:15.528
I'm gonna hurry up
right through there

322
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and once we get up to that far.

323
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- Okay.

324
00:13:19.198 --> 00:13:22.201
- But God I'm curious to see
what we got with this stuff.

325
00:13:22.201 --> 00:13:24.069
- [Kia] Hey wait, wait.

326
00:13:24.069 --> 00:13:26.138
I got to do something.

327
00:13:26.138 --> 00:13:29.775
(instrumental music)

328
00:13:29.775 --> 00:13:31.343
Underground selfie.

329
00:13:35.381 --> 00:13:38.184
Okay, I'm following you.

330
00:13:38.184 --> 00:13:41.287
(instrumental music)

331
00:13:53.766 --> 00:13:54.567
- Made it out alive.

332
00:13:54.567 --> 00:13:56.202
- Yep, we're alive.

333
00:13:56.202 --> 00:13:58.637
- Aw, we got some
nice quartz samples.

334
00:13:58.637 --> 00:14:01.273
We'll take them back
and crush them up.

335
00:14:01.273 --> 00:14:02.107
Ah.

336
00:14:05.177 --> 00:14:07.813
In life, to have a
passion to do something.

337
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To go out there and see
all these old workings

338
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and be part of them

339
00:14:11.183 --> 00:14:12.251
and pull gold out

340
00:14:12.251 --> 00:14:14.119
and just get out in the hills

341
00:14:14.119 --> 00:14:16.155
and just enjoy the history of it

342
00:14:16.155 --> 00:14:18.090
and making your own history.

343
00:14:18.090 --> 00:14:19.959
(upbeat music)

344
00:14:19.959 --> 00:14:22.695
(engine running)

345
00:14:28.434 --> 00:14:29.969
- What is this?

346
00:14:29.969 --> 00:14:31.303
(folk music)

347
00:14:31.303 --> 00:14:33.639
That's an arrastra.

348
00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:36.275
What you got is you
got these stones

349
00:14:36.275 --> 00:14:38.110
and they put in a pole

350
00:14:40.145 --> 00:14:40.980
right here

351
00:14:40.980 --> 00:14:42.448
and something this spins

352
00:14:42.448 --> 00:14:45.517
and you have a jackass
that runs in a circle

353
00:14:45.517 --> 00:14:48.420
around here and
drags these stones

354
00:14:48.420 --> 00:14:50.756
and then crushes rock.

355
00:14:50.756 --> 00:14:53.292
So you take your quartz rock,

356
00:14:53.292 --> 00:14:55.394
your rock that you
want to crush up.

357
00:14:55.394 --> 00:14:57.029
You throw it in here

358
00:14:57.029 --> 00:15:00.132
and then your jackass
runs in a circle

359
00:15:00.132 --> 00:15:02.735
and spins this and drags
these rocks around in here

360
00:15:02.735 --> 00:15:04.370
and crushes them.

361
00:15:04.370 --> 00:15:05.838
- Old timer crusher.

362
00:15:05.838 --> 00:15:08.707
- Old timer crusher, yeah.

363
00:15:08.707 --> 00:15:10.075
Old arrastra.

364
00:15:10.075 --> 00:15:12.411
But there's the old and
then there's the new.

365
00:15:12.411 --> 00:15:14.980
(upbeat music)

366
00:15:21.186 --> 00:15:23.422
(crushing)

367
00:15:25.090 --> 00:15:28.527
This thing works a whole
lot better than an arrastra.

368
00:15:28.527 --> 00:15:31.563
But those arrastras, they didn't
have electricity back then

369
00:15:31.563 --> 00:15:34.233
so they had to do what they
had to do to crush rock.

370
00:15:34.233 --> 00:15:35.100
But there's gold
inside these rocks.

371
00:15:35.100 --> 00:15:36.635
Whew!

372
00:15:36.635 --> 00:15:37.636
Crush it up!

373
00:15:40.439 --> 00:15:43.008
(upbeat music)

374
00:15:47.446 --> 00:15:50.816
(engine running)

375
00:15:50.816 --> 00:15:52.151
Now inside here,

376
00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:56.488
there's a bunch of chains
that spin real fast.

377
00:15:56.488 --> 00:15:58.190
And you drop these
rocks in there

378
00:15:58.190 --> 00:16:00.592
they got to be of a certain size

379
00:16:00.592 --> 00:16:01.827
to fit through here

380
00:16:01.827 --> 00:16:03.162
and then this chain
just whips around

381
00:16:03.162 --> 00:16:05.264
and just pulverizes it.

382
00:16:05.264 --> 00:16:07.032
Let me show you

383
00:16:07.032 --> 00:16:09.201
the teeth of this thing.

384
00:16:09.201 --> 00:16:10.803
And what's inside here.

385
00:16:10.803 --> 00:16:12.371
You got these chains right here.

386
00:16:12.371 --> 00:16:13.739
You see this one's worn down.

387
00:16:13.739 --> 00:16:15.741
Eventually, I'll
have to change these.

388
00:16:15.741 --> 00:16:16.942
After a while.

389
00:16:16.942 --> 00:16:19.044
But this thing just
spins in here real fast.

390
00:16:19.044 --> 00:16:20.713
And just pulverizes these rocks.

391
00:16:20.713 --> 00:16:23.749
And you want it crushed
real fine like that

392
00:16:23.749 --> 00:16:27.286
to liberate the little fine
particles of gold out of it.

393
00:16:27.286 --> 00:16:29.288
See by breaking
that rock all up,

394
00:16:29.288 --> 00:16:30.556
now that little piece,

395
00:16:30.556 --> 00:16:32.358
that little tiny piece of gold,

396
00:16:32.358 --> 00:16:36.362
it can be loose now and
liberated from the rock

397
00:16:36.362 --> 00:16:39.164
and we can save it inside
of our shaker table.

398
00:16:39.164 --> 00:16:41.700
- Yeah, you want to use that
crusher to pulverize the rock

399
00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:44.370
and make it fine so that you
can set it on the shaker table

400
00:16:44.370 --> 00:16:47.639
and it's easier to
extract the gold from it.

401
00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:49.575
I need more material.

402
00:16:49.575 --> 00:16:52.444
- Alright, well I'm
gonna add more material

403
00:16:52.444 --> 00:16:54.446
for you here in a jiffy.

404
00:16:55.614 --> 00:16:57.016
- [Kia] Using a shaker
table is really nice

405
00:16:57.016 --> 00:16:58.684
when you're trying to
collect that fine gold

406
00:16:58.684 --> 00:17:00.285
because it's effective
in separating

407
00:17:00.285 --> 00:17:02.755
the heavy stuff from
the light stuff.

408
00:17:02.755 --> 00:17:04.189
- [Tom] It vibrates.

409
00:17:04.189 --> 00:17:06.759
That vibration action helps
loosen up the material

410
00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:11.230
and all the principles
work on gold being heavy.

411
00:17:11.230 --> 00:17:12.765
- While doing a shaker table,

412
00:17:12.765 --> 00:17:16.335
it's important to feed it,
your material really slow

413
00:17:16.335 --> 00:17:19.371
and let it work its way down

414
00:17:19.371 --> 00:17:22.741
not feed it too
much at one time.

415
00:17:22.741 --> 00:17:26.078
You get the water flowing
to help wash the light stuff

416
00:17:26.078 --> 00:17:29.048
on out and then you have
these ripples in here

417
00:17:29.048 --> 00:17:32.751
to catch the heavy stuff and
you got the table shaking

418
00:17:32.751 --> 00:17:35.954
to help move it along to
where it catches down here

419
00:17:35.954 --> 00:17:38.023
and goes through these
tubes into the bucket.

420
00:17:38.023 --> 00:17:39.558
If there is anything
that's bigger,

421
00:17:39.558 --> 00:17:42.027
you have these nugget
catchers on the side.

422
00:17:42.027 --> 00:17:44.530
- It's a process where
we can have a production.

423
00:17:44.530 --> 00:17:46.799
Where we can just keep rolling
and rolling and rolling

424
00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:48.700
and spitting out the gold
and spiting out the gold

425
00:17:48.700 --> 00:17:51.103
and spitting out the gold.

426
00:17:51.103 --> 00:17:53.005
You look at this
piece right here.

427
00:17:53.005 --> 00:17:54.740
That's a beautiful piece.

428
00:17:54.740 --> 00:17:56.642
All kinds of really
good mineralizations.

429
00:17:56.642 --> 00:17:58.477
These pieces look really good.

430
00:17:58.477 --> 00:18:01.146
After a while, you start
to see the pieces that

431
00:18:01.146 --> 00:18:03.916
have a good likelihood
of containing gold.

432
00:18:03.916 --> 00:18:05.250
Especially if you find a nugget

433
00:18:05.250 --> 00:18:07.286
that has quartz attached to it.

434
00:18:07.286 --> 00:18:08.887
You look at that
particular kind of quartz

435
00:18:08.887 --> 00:18:11.557
and then whenever you see
that same type of quartz,

436
00:18:11.557 --> 00:18:14.460
there's a chance you
got gold with it.

437
00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:17.296
(engines running)

438
00:18:20.232 --> 00:18:23.769
Alright, that's the
last of it, Kia.

439
00:18:23.769 --> 00:18:25.237
This the last of it.

440
00:18:25.237 --> 00:18:27.406
We get done with that, we'll uh

441
00:18:27.406 --> 00:18:29.908
take our heavies that are
down here in our bucket

442
00:18:29.908 --> 00:18:33.178
and we'll put them in a
gold pan and pan them out.

443
00:18:33.178 --> 00:18:34.513
See what we get.

444
00:18:36.482 --> 00:18:39.751
Well it's heavy 'cause
it's full of gold.

445
00:18:39.751 --> 00:18:40.919
- [Kia] Oh yeah.

446
00:18:40.919 --> 00:18:42.654
(grunting)

447
00:18:42.654 --> 00:18:44.256
That's a lot.

448
00:18:44.256 --> 00:18:45.090
- Yeah.

449
00:18:46.525 --> 00:18:49.528
We've got all of our rocks
that we've crushed down.

450
00:18:49.528 --> 00:18:52.197
And we've crushed them down
and we've crushed them.

451
00:18:52.197 --> 00:18:54.333
And then we run them
across the table

452
00:18:54.333 --> 00:18:59.138
so this is all the heavy stuff
that came out of our rocks.

453
00:18:59.138 --> 00:19:01.240
We're just gonna take it
down to take a look and

454
00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:04.143
and see what kind
of gold we got.

455
00:19:04.143 --> 00:19:06.345
Yeah, I can see
gold, a little color.

456
00:19:06.345 --> 00:19:08.147
A little color.

457
00:19:08.147 --> 00:19:08.947
Yeah.

458
00:19:08.947 --> 00:19:09.882
- [Kia] Aw.

459
00:19:09.882 --> 00:19:11.850
- We're take it on down here.

460
00:19:11.850 --> 00:19:14.486
If you look down,
just that black sand.

461
00:19:14.486 --> 00:19:15.721
And we got...

462
00:19:15.721 --> 00:19:16.388
Ew, look at this,
a bigger piece.

463
00:19:16.388 --> 00:19:17.156
- Oh wow.

464
00:19:18.423 --> 00:19:21.660
- Boy, you usually
don't see that.

465
00:19:21.660 --> 00:19:24.463
It's a bigger piece
that come out.

466
00:19:24.463 --> 00:19:28.734
And end up, all that crushed
up fine pieces of gold.

467
00:19:28.734 --> 00:19:31.103
Yeah, see how it's
kind of wiry looking.

468
00:19:31.103 --> 00:19:33.071
'Cause it's breaking
off of those rocks

469
00:19:33.071 --> 00:19:34.740
and breaking off of that quartz.

470
00:19:34.740 --> 00:19:36.775
And it's, it hasn't traveled.

471
00:19:36.775 --> 00:19:40.379
It hasn't like had a
chance to get small yet.

472
00:19:40.379 --> 00:19:43.348
Actually, we did get
quite a bit of gold

473
00:19:43.348 --> 00:19:45.317
for the amount of
material that we ran

474
00:19:45.317 --> 00:19:47.519
and for the quartz rock.

475
00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:49.655
If you had tons of that stuff,

476
00:19:49.655 --> 00:19:52.090
you'd be pouring gold bars.

477
00:19:52.090 --> 00:19:53.358
That's some gold.

478
00:19:53.358 --> 00:19:55.093
I think we're making wages.

479
00:19:55.093 --> 00:19:57.362
- I was pleasantly surprised
at the gold we found.

480
00:19:57.362 --> 00:19:59.198
I thought we were going
to find less than we did.

481
00:19:59.198 --> 00:20:01.366
So, there's good results.

482
00:20:01.366 --> 00:20:03.135
- That's gold from the quartz.

483
00:20:03.135 --> 00:20:05.470
It's a different way of
prospecting but a fun way.

484
00:20:05.470 --> 00:20:08.507
What we had was pretty
high-grade material.

485
00:20:08.507 --> 00:20:10.075
We just need to run more of it

486
00:20:10.075 --> 00:20:11.777
and just keep a process a going

487
00:20:11.777 --> 00:20:13.845
and build it up and build it up.

488
00:20:13.845 --> 00:20:16.882
- It looks really shiny when
it's fine gold like this.

489
00:20:16.882 --> 00:20:20.018
It's pretty like with
the black sand behind it.

490
00:20:20.018 --> 00:20:22.421
It really stands
out like glitter.

491
00:20:22.421 --> 00:20:23.755
Gold glitter.

492
00:20:23.755 --> 00:20:26.225
- This gold from
quartz like that.

493
00:20:26.225 --> 00:20:27.459
There's places all
over the country

494
00:20:27.459 --> 00:20:29.528
where there's remnant
pieces of quartz.

495
00:20:29.528 --> 00:20:30.929
And some of them
got gold in 'em,

496
00:20:30.929 --> 00:20:32.664
some of them don't
got gold in 'em.

497
00:20:32.664 --> 00:20:33.966
But the one's that
got gold in 'em,

498
00:20:33.966 --> 00:20:36.602
you can crush 'em up and
get this kind of gold.

499
00:20:36.602 --> 00:20:37.669
You just gotta go out there

500
00:20:37.669 --> 00:20:39.338
and have the gumption to go in

501
00:20:39.338 --> 00:20:40.706
and looking for
it and crushing it

502
00:20:40.706 --> 00:20:43.275
and finding it and
pulling it out.

503
00:20:43.275 --> 00:20:44.476
It's there.

504
00:20:44.476 --> 00:20:47.045
(upbeat music)