(wind whooshing)
(Joe grunts)
- [RCSparks] How heavy is it?
- It's heavy, it's really
awkward to try and put in there.
(engine rumbling)
Been in the car for what
feels like three days already.
- It's been four minutes, Joe.
(engine rumbling)
- Hey, you sure we know where
we're goin' or are we lost?
- I thought he was following us.
- Well, it doesn't really look like it
'cause I can see him right there!
(engine rumbling)
Man, hey.
(guys laughing)
- [RCSparks] Here's a
hat collection fence,
every single fence post has a hat on it.
All the way up the road.
(RCSparks laughs)
(car tires rumbling)
(engine roaring)
Dirt road!
Look at the view guys, look
at the mountains over there.
Bumpy road but it's gorgeous.
(engine rumbling)
- No it's further.
- Turn right.
- First cattle gate.
- The GPS just told me we
gotta go 13 more kilometers.
- 13K on this rough road?
- 13K on this gravel road.
(engine rumbling)
- Texas Gate?
I'm in Canada.
(engine roaring)
Cattle crossing gate.
(tires rattling)
It's been pretty wet here
the last couple of weeks.
- Well I guess we're about to find out.
- Look at that guy man,
that makes me jealous.
- 12 more K.
- Buddy's sitting out on
the lake there. (laughs)
- [Joe] I can't even see a lake.
What, are you hallucinating?
- [Steve] Yeah, it's behind that berm.
- [Joe] Ah, you're old. (Steve laughs)
(engine rumbling)
(car keys jingling)
- [RCSparks] We made it boys.
(Joe groans)
Too bad the rookie couldn't come out.
It's a beautiful day today.
- He was afraid to get
his hair wet, wasn't he?
- [RCSparks] I know, it's supposed
to rain today but nothing.
- Yeah, no rain.
- No rain.
- Safety gear on gentlemen.
Everything but hard hats today.
Make sure you don't want to
get hit by anything out here.
- Hey, I'm wearing my prospecting hat.
- [RCSparks] That's hard enough.
- [Joe] Make it easier
for the bears to see us.
- Coming on this little
road trip today adventure.
I don't think there's any gold here.
Maybe the boss is losing it a little bit.
I don't think there's any gold here.
(water whooshing)
- [RCSparks] Yeah, look at this.
This is awesome, right here.
This is perfect, this
is exactly what I want
to be looking for right here.
Bring the shovel.
- I'm coming.
- [RCSparks] Give me a scoop
full of this stuff right here.
- My safety gear is falling off, hang on.
- [RCSparks] Don't dig until it's on.
- I know.
- [Aaron] What you wanna
do when you're panning,
make sure to get down below the rock.
Don't worry about the pan.
Your buddy's probably with you anyway.
Get yourself some aggregate in there.
Thanks guys.
What you wanna do is
really slosh it around
to get those heavy rocks out,
which will leave you
with a very small amount
of sand at the bottom.
- [Joe] Oh that looks about right, Aaron.
- [Aaron] You want to get it in there.
That's what these ridges are for,
really to hold that finer stuff.
And then if you bring it
back, have a good look.
I don't see anything in there.
- Not a damn thing.
- But it is Alberta.
It's Alberta, and the
stuff here is pretty small.
- [Steve] Well, we don't expect
to get it on the first shovel full either.
- [Aaron] Well that's
the whole point right?
- [Joe] What do you mean?
We want it in every shovel full.
- [Aaron] We got to prospect a little,
right, get all that heavy stuff out.
Nothing.
- [Steve] There's not much left in there.
- Nothing.
We'll keep looking.
- If we can get a road in here.
- [RCSparks] This was an old creek before.
- That's right, I think that's all
pay-ish, runnable material there.
- [RCSparks] 'Cause we had a big flood
and it changed the course of the creek.
- [Joe] That's right.
- [RCSparks] And all this,
here's some of the
water that's here still,
which is like nothing for mining.
- [Joe] But look at this stuff.
- [Steve] Look at all this
sediment, this is awesome.
- [Joe] Look at this stuff.
- [RCSparks] Oh, that's mint.
- What do you think?
- I like that.
- [RCSparks] You want to run some of that?
- [RCSparks] This is so
much better of an idea.
So what we gotta do is pick it up.
We'll cut a road over there if we can.
- We can just truck it over
there so we can wash it,
get it through, right?
- [RCSparks] And get it to
the water, 10-4 let's do it.
Joe, I asked you before,
but I'll ask you now.
How heavy is the dozer?
- Very (beeping) heavy.
- [RCSparks] (laughs)
People just don't understand
it's all steel, it's heavy.
- Oh my God, it's gotta be 160 pounds.
- [RCSparks] (laughs) Minus 100.
- Plus over 360 pounds.
(RCSparks laughs)
Why do you make me walk half a kilometer?
- [RCSparks] 'Cause
(laughs) if we drove it,
it would be out of batteries, it's heavy.
(water whooshing)
Crazy old miner Joe.
Do, de, do, do, do.
- Hey, I think I saw something over here.
- [RCSparks] Heavy dozer.
Here comes the loader.
45 pounds?
- Yeah, I'd say.
(Joe laughs)
- [RCSparks] (laughs)
That's the gold mining laugh
I love to hear.
(water gurgling)
(birds chirping)
- Just to slow down the flow
so we're not getting the stream so muddy.
Hey, how's it going? (laughs)
- A natural filter.
Okay, we're getting serious here.
(machine puttering)
(machine squealing)
- [RCSparks] Way to push that dirt buddy,
way to push that dirt, yeah!
(machine puttering)
- [Steve] There it is, there it is, oh!
- [RCSparks] There, there, yeah!
- [Steve] There it is, there it is.
Come on baby!
- [RCSparks] Nice push.
(machine puttering)
- [Steve] Come on beauty, there we are.
Dig you bugger, there we go.
(machine puttering)
- [RCSparks] That looks
absolutely beautiful.
Old creek sand, man.
That's going to be rich!
These new silent excavators,
you can barely hear them
coming, but they are powerful.
(machine whirring)
- [Steve] We just about got
the spot for the truck done,
the pad for the hose done.
We got a little bit of
pay pushed up for you.
- [RCSparks] Nice job, man.
- [Steve] Soon as I get the bottom pad
for the truck done, I'll come
push some more pay for you.
- [RCSparks] What do you the think
of these silent excavators
man, all electric, eh?
- [Steve] Awesome.
- [RCSparks] Yeah.
- [Steve] Well, you wouldn't hear
that thing sneaking up on you.
- [RCSparks] No, that's why
you gotta wear your vest, man.
Everybody laughs at
us, but it's important.
- [Steve] Well you know,
you get hit by a 1/14th scale equipment,
you get 1/14th the pain.
- [RCSparks] Exactly.
Beautiful.
- [Steve] Well, out here in gold mining,
you gotta take the good with the bad.
- [RCSparks] You certainly do, my brother.
- [Steve] Damn black flies.
- [RCSparks] I got a rock in my track.
- [Steve] I had one up there too,
- Yeah.
- Kinda where you're at.
Man, is this ground ever nice.
- [RCSparks] Yeah, it's beautiful.
Oh, sorry man, didn't
mean to slap you there.
- [Steve] It's okay,
it's all your equipment.
(RCSparks laughs)
- [RCSparks] Oh.
(machine squeals)
It's the lack of control
with these two side winds are terrible.
- [Steve] Doesn't it suck?
- [RCSparks] Yeah, it sucks, it sucks.
- [Steve] I mean, I wouldn't complain,
it's the way it was set up.
- [Joe] Nicely done.
- [RCSparks] Thank you very much,
oh ye of little faith, (laughs evilly).
Here comes the Volvo, sweet rock truck.
Six by six, one of my favorite
pieces of machine here.
(truck rumbling)
There is some thick bush here.
(truck honking)
Bring it in, buddy.
(truck rumbling)
Yes, perfect right there.
It's a little bit, could
you back it in for me?
- [Joe] I could try that.
It will be easier coming up with the load.
- [RCSparks] Exactly.
The devil's fangs finally get to bite.
Look at that beauty.
- Nice.
- [RCSparks] Yeah, that's a nice,
whoa, I'm stuck on some roots.
- [Joe] Uh oh.
- [RCSparks] There it is, I got it.
Okay, back up a bit.
- [Joe] We need a chainsaw in there.
(machines rumbling)
Gonna get the gold today, man.
- [Steve] If you're steady,
she sure picks up a lot.
- [RCSparks] Well, when we
find someone who's steady
on the controls, we'll find out.
(guys laugh)
- Truth be known, not me.
(RCSparks laughs)
- [Steve] Boss, I think we found that guy.
- [RCSparks] Yeah. (laughs)
- [Joe] It is very rich looking.
- Yeah, rich. (machine running)
And there's just copious
amounts of it too.
Hold on, I don't like too
many roots in my pay dirt.
(truck rumbling)
- [RCSparks] First load
to the pay wash plant!
(truck rumbling)
How's it handle?
- [Joe] Not too bad.
- [RCSparks] Good, good.
- [Joe] Road's a bit rough.
- [RCSparks] Yeah, it's
on a bit of a slant.
- [Joe] Boulders sticking out.
- [RCSparks] That dozer
did a good job though.
(truck rumbling)
- [Steve] It's a little makeshift
but I think we'll make it work.
- [RCSparks] Yeah, this is great, man.
(truck beeping)
- [Joe] That good there?
- [Steve] Back a little touch more.
Perfect right there, let her go.
(machine whirring)
Maybe we wanna stack one more truckload
before we get washing?
- [RCSparks] Yeah, we
wanna fill up the hopper.
(machines puttering)
- [Joe] It keeps bugging me up.
I think I got it centered and it's not.
It keeps going up.
(machines puttering)
Whoa!
Oh be careful, dude.
- [Steve] Good thing
we brought this truck.
- [RCSparks] Yeah, I'd hate
to have been hiking back and forth
with a shovel or something.
- [Steve] We couldn't have got
through there with the mine truck.
- [RCSparks] That's a very good call.
- [Steve] It would've been a
lot more work clearing road.
- [Joe] Yeah, we'd have
need a lot more road.
All right!
(truck rumbling)
(water gurgling)
- [RCSparks] Okay, so we're
not getting enough flow.
I got an 800 gallon on
there, shoulda put 1,000.
But I extended the hose too long.
So we're gonna cut it in half
and then we should get more volume here.
Just a bit more would be helpful.
- [Steve] There, you can hold his hose.
Just kidding.
(RCSparks laughs)
Hey, you're doing a great
job holding that hose.
- Hose holder.
- Aaron's hose.
Hold in there and close, good job.
- [RCSparks] Thank you, appreciate that.
- [Steve] You're doing an excellent job.
- And Joe.
- Yes
- [Steve] You're doing a great job
watching him hold my hose.
- [Joe] Hey, he was
holding the hose before me.
- [RCSparks] He's an observer.
- [Steve] I'm an observant
hose holding watcher.
(RCSparks laughs)
(water gurgling)
- [Joe] Looks like it's
flowing better to me.
- [RCSparks] Yeah, sure is.
That's good, just like that.
- [Joe] All right.
- [RCSparks] Fire up the plant.
- [Steve] Getting dark, buddy.
- [RCSparks] It is getting dark.
- [Joe] And cold.
- Come on.
- Let's fire them all up.
- [Steve] That's
definitely wet coming over
that ridge right there.
- Boom, boom.
- [Steve] Over there.
All right.
- [RCSparks] Got a little left over there,
we finally get it.
- [Steve] Here we go.
- [RCSparks] YouTube Gold.
(machines whirring)
First scoop, up on the
new pad that you built.
Looking good.
That hopper looking fantastic.
First load!
Bringing home the gold, baby.
Out at the stream, facing
certain weather peril.
(guys laughing)
It's incoming and doomsday.
I'm gonna move it a little bit here.
There you go, centered it up.
(water whooshing)
- [Steve] I got it.
- [RCSparks] Here we go, all
getting caught right here.
We're not mixing it back into the creek.
(people chattering)
(machine whirring)
(truck rumbling)
(truck honking)
All this work to set everything up.
Good job on the loader, bro.
- [Joe] Nevermind the
four-day drive out here.
- [RCSparks] (laughs) Exactly, it did--
- [Steve] And 20 pounds of dirt.
- [RCSparks] Exactly.
Nice scoopful Joe!
Oh, almost, there it is.
Just filling that rock bucket right up.
(machine whirring)
(machine rumbling)
(water gurgling)
Getting dark with the rain.
Sluice box holding all
of its tailings here
in our tailings pond.
(machine whirring)
- [Joe] Watch that!
(car horn tooting)
- [RCSparks] That pay dirt's
in constant flow, I love it!
But I can see that
we're getting dirt stuck
to the bottom side.
Getting a little bit on the damp side.
- [Joe] Starting to get a little sticky.
- [RCSparks] Yeah,
gettin' a little sticky.
- [Joe] Oh well, we go
until we can't, right?
(water gurgling)
(machines rumbling)
(truck beeping)
(horn tooting)
- [RCSparks] There you go, sir.
I got a huge bolder right here.
- [Joe] Thank you.
- [RCSparks] You're welcome, sir.
The flow is much better now.
Haven't installed a shaker on here.
I'm gonna do that though.
- [Joe] Well, we didn't really know what
we were gonna be up
against today to be honest.
- [RCSparks] That's true.
- [Joe] And actually I think
we're faring pretty good.
- [RCSparks] Here comes
a little heavier rain.
(dirt thudding)
Such a crazy machine,
everything getting all wet.
Harder to push the pay now.
I just got hailed on.
- Yeah.
(drowned out by machine rumbling)
Oh, it's hailing!
- [Joe] It's time to get everything in.
- [RCSparks] Here come the pebbles!
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
- [Steve] Geez!
(RCSparks yelping)
- [Joe] We go until we can't!
- [RCSparks] Keep mining!
- [Steve] Keep mining?
- [RCSparks] Don't stop, keep going!
This is the only way we get to our gold.
This separates the real
miners from the fake miners.
- Maybe there's some gold in that hail,
run it down that sluice box.
- [RCSparks] There you go.
Just needs to be turned up a bit.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!
- [Joe] Hey, let's save these controllers.
(hail clicking)
- [RCSparks] Steve doesn't know
we've taken refuge under the--
- [Joe] Shh, don't say anything.
(hail clicking)
(machine puttering)
(truck beeping)
- [RCSparks] Did you get all
of that rainwater out of there, Steve?
Good job!
- [Steve] She caught a bit of hail, eh?
- [RCSparks] Yeah, it's okay.
It's tough, it can take it.
Still black clouds again on the horizon.
(machine whirring)
I can't think of a better hobby, Joe.
- [Joe] (laughs) This is so awesome.
The material doesn't look bad.
- [RCSparks] It's running out.
- [Joe] The material itself
doesn't look terrible.
But I'm not seeing anything for shining.
- [RCSparks] Well, there's
not much sun right now.
That's no good.
- [Steve] What's going on?
- [RCSparks] Just having a
look, seeing what we can see.
If there's anything in the pan.
I don't really see too much.
- [Joe] I'm not seeing any,
any shimmer whatsoever here.
- [RCSparks] I wish we had some sunlight.
- [Joe] I could turn the
light on my phone on.
- [RCSparks] That's a good, oh!
- Look!
- Oh my god!
oh my god!
- [Steve] No way.
- [RCSparks] Right there buddy.
- [Joe] There's one right there too buddy.
- [RCSparks] Right there
buddy, right there!
- [Joe] One right here, one right here.
- [RCSparks] Oh my god,
there is one right there.
- [Joe] Holy (car horn)!
- [RCSparks] (gasping) I told you!
- There's no (car horn) way.
- [RCSparks] I told you, I told you.
- There's a possibility of something
from in there from before.
- [RCSparks] Dude, it was clean.
It was clean.
- It was right
on the top of it.
- [RCSparks] No one was around
it, told you so, told you so.
Told you so!
- [Joe] Wow, I can't believe
there's something in there.
- Told you so.
- Two spots.
That's a big one right there too.
- No, I don't buy it.
Maybe the boss is losing it a little bit.
I don't think there's any gold here.
- [RCSparks] Okay, so it is
what it is, man, get it out.
I don't know why you're not
looking at it right now.
I was with you the entire freaking time.
You watched everything that happened.
- [Joe] Oh, wow man.
- [Steve] I'm gonna get you that one.
- [RCSparks] Hold on,
hold it out in our hand.
- [Joe] And I'm gonna grab
the other one that I saw.
- [RCSparks] Look at that.
I told us so.
- [Steve] That's crazy, man.
- [Steve] No way.
The old creek met, eh?
- No.
- [RCSparks] Supposed
to put it in the pan.
- [Joe] Took it along, lay underneath it.
- [RCSparks] Right there.
(truck rumbling)
- [Joe] Yeah, can't you see it?
- Yes!
- That's a big rock, man.
The dozer can do that.
- [RCSparks] Yeah, that was
in the way, we moved it.
Nice job.
(machine whirring)
(water gurgling)
(drowned out by water gurgling)
Before the rain starts
to hail down on us again,
we wanna get out of here.
Now we know we might wanna come back.
(machine whirring)
Sluice!
- Yeah?
- [RCSparks] Start walking
the dozer back over here,
drive it back, let's get packed up.
Such a beast machine.
It cut that road for us so well today.
- [Steve] Try to drive it back?
- [RCSparks] Yeah, just getting
the tracks clear of mud.
Beautiful, that's working great.
Oh, where did it go?
- [Joe] I don't know,
somebody stepped on the pan or something.
- [RCSparks] Someone stepped on it?
That's not the story I had a second ago.
You picked up the pan
and it disappeared, yes.
- Where'd it go?
It's gotta be right here.
- [RCSparks] Did you
put it in your pocket?
Where is it?
- No,
I did not touch it, dude.
- Oh bro.
- I picked up the pan.
- [RCSparks] I can't
believe the gold is gone.
- [Joe] If you grab it up
and put it in your pocket.
- [RCSparks] No, I--
- [Steve] I know, I know.
- And it's rolling camera
right now so go over there,
face the sun, make sure your head's up
so they can see your face.
- So we had a flash rainstorm.
I grabbed the gold pan
to cover up two radios
so they weren't getting soaked,
and our one flake of gold is lost.
We just spent 20 minutes looking for it.
No dice.
(machine rumbling)
I feel absolutely terrible dude.
- [RCSparks] It is what it is, man.
- [Steve] It's just, fuck, man.
I was just in a panic man.
- Yep.
- [Steve] Radios were getting
wet, it was coming down fast.
Thought I was being smart, I was not.
- [RCSparks] Okay, there's
only one thing to do.
- [Joe] Hey, look right
in front of the dozer,
two inches in front of
blade, just off center.
- [Aaron] I don't see anything.
- [Joe] Closer to me, two
inches, get in front of it.
- [Aaron] Well come over here.
- [Joe] What's that?
- Nothing, nothing.
- Well that's it, nothin'.
- [Steve] I guess I owe you eight bucks.
- [RCSparks] Hey, don't worry about it.
Let's get the gold wheel out.
Let's process what we got,
see if we got anything else.
We knew we got one piece anyway
and we know there's more to be had.
- We know where to find it.
- [RCSparks] Exactly.
- [Steve] It's right there somewhere.
- So next time we'll just
dig out a 20 by 20 chunk.
- [RCSparks] And process this.
- [Joe] And process it all.
- [RCSparks] Yeah, agreed.
- We'll get our chunk back.
So we have this still,
the one that was under here, right here.
It should be right there still.
- [RCSparks] I hope.
- I haven't seen it.
- Look at that.
- [Joe] And then this one I just saw.
- [RCSparks] Right there.
- [Joe] And I was just
pushing the big gravel down.
- [RCSparks] My, oh my.
- [Joe] Just like so.
- [RCSparks] Okay, be careful then, eh.
- [Joe] Yeah.
- The gold wheel.
Wheel of gold!
(water whooshing)
Shoot.
- This, this is it.
- [RCSparks] Okay, wheel of gold going on.
Pump comes on.
See the water coming in the back there?
And put this on right.
This is like a sluice box
but like an active sluice box
that basically takes the heavy gold
and brings it up to the top,
while leaving all the lighter stuff
washed below and kinda purged.
Come on baby.
- [Joe] Dude, rich lookin' dirt, buddy.
- [RCSparks] It is.
I don't see no gold though.
Don't (beeping) move.
- [Joe] Don't (beeping)
move, I can see it.
- [RCSparks] Don't move.
- [Joe] I see it.
- [RCSparks] Do you see it too?
- [Joe] I see it right
there beside his boot.
- [RCSparks] Lift your foot.
- [Joe] Don't move!
- [RCSparks] It's right
there, dude look at that.
- [Steve] There it is.
- [Joe] Is that the one?
- [RCSparks] Redemption, buddy.
- [Joe] Is that the one?
- [Steve] Well, I'll let you pick that up.
That's the one, yep.
- [RCSparks] Why wouldn't it be the one?
Look at that.
- [Joe] All right!
- So there are way too many rocks
because we did not have a flat
surface for the gold wheel.
- Hey, I'd just like to point out that
I did not drop any gold.
Hey, there's gold right there.
- [RCSparks] Look at that!
Okay, while there's way too many rocks,
I could run this through the table.
Look at that one, that is the flake, guys.
- [Steve] That is it.
- [RCSparks] That is the flake.
Is there any more in there?
Ah, there is a piece.
- [Joe] Oh, there's another one, yeah.
- [RCSparks] Okay, so not as, oh!
- [Joe] Oh hey, all three!
- Three!
- All three, all three.
- [RCSparks] Please be four. (laughs)
Good, okay, so we did recover it at least.
Three pieces, one, two, three.
The potential is there.
- [Joe] All pickers.
- So if there was three
pieces in the bucket,
that means the piece we did find was his.
I didn't lose any an--
- Of course you know I didn't lose any.
- Yeah, hats together boys on three.
- Yeah!
- One, two, three.
- [All] YouTube Gold!
(RCSparks laughs)
