Gold

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We were a real business.

That's what you got to understand.

We were goddamn industry...

...the kind that's the backbone of this country.

Don't take my word for it.

Go in the parking lot and look on the license

of that brand-new Mercedes 450 of yours.

Hey. Are you seeing this?

That's Furnace Creek.

This, uh, picture's over 100 years old.

Hmm.

And you see this handsome devil right here?

Uh-huh.

He's a Wells.

Okay, so, um, I know you're a mining company,

- Mm-hmm. - but I pictured...

Well, I don't know what I pictured exactly.

I guess little... little carts

going down little... little train tracks.

- Right. - I mean, what is it that you do here?

Wh-what we do is we look for the metals

and the minerals, all right?

There's exploration over there,

there's engineering and there's production, right?

We're prospectors.

Not yet?

- Okay, how about this? - Yeah...

Um... so let's say that this...

is the Earth.

My handbag?

Your handbag is Mother Earth

with all of her deep-filled mysteries

and goodies on the inside that she does not want to give up.

Me, I'm man,

and I'm damn curious about what she's got inside.

So, I send down what's called an exploratory drill.

I go down inside and dig around,

come across something.

I pull it out. It's nickel.

Now, nickel's actually 75% copper and 25% nickel,

but there's a whole lot of nickel in the world,

and the world needs nickels.

I'm back down there getting my second core sample,

and I happen to pull up, say...

silver.

Now, the thing is, when you find a little bit of this,

that means there could be a whole hell of a lot of it.

So we start raising money.

We raise enough money to open a mine

like the one in that picture right here.

Then...

we dig it all up.

Now, sometimes... not that often, but sometimes...

the prospecting gods are having a party at the Pearly Gates,

and we get real, real, really lucky.

And we dig down in there,

then we find a little metal called...

gold.

- Yes. - Kenny.

You like it?

I love you.

I love you.

Old man wants to see you.

Afternoon, Marianne.

Hey, Pop. Heard you want to see me.

Yeah, Kenny.

Get your ass in here, would you?

Would you, uh, run through this

Pershing County strategy again for me?

Right, um...

It's about this southern part of this Newmont property,

right here.

Now, Newmont just started drilling 140 meters

and they're finding a whole lot of magnesite.

If you remember, we still own the option on Relief Canyon,

which is next door. We're not finding squat, why?

We're not drilling deep enough.

Let's get back in there. Drill deeper.

Go to 140 if we need to, and we got a damn good chance

of getting Relief back in production.

What about Jerritt Canyon?

Well, that's your baby.

You know a hell of a lot more about it than I do.

But the assays look promising.

Could be fucking huge.

I want you to run point on this.

All in.

Scale it up.

Make it yours.

Yes, sir.

Clive Coleman's on board.

Those boys will ride with you.

God, we work hard in this business.

Sometimes for nothing.

I wake up every morning. I tell myself,

"I don't have to do this.

I get to do this."

And then it's just blue skies.

Blue skies, baby.

My old man...

a legend.

That was the last time I saw him alive.

A little eye-opener, Kenny?

God bless you, Roy.

Here we are.

- Boys, to the mother lode. - Mother lode.

Today be the day.

The geological reports on this

are highly encouraging.

We are taking a very aggressive approach.

Prospectus? Of course.

I can have my secretary send you one right out.

But I got to tell you, this offering,

it's already over-subscribed.

You know, we can always try and get you in on the next one.

No, no. Yea, I understand.

Shit.

Watching the time? It's 11:15, Kenny.

Oh, Christ.

Where would I be without you?

Mr. Wells?

- Yes. - Lloyd Stanton.

- Hello, Lloyd. Kenny Wells. - Hi.

This is my colleague, Henry Andrews.

- Pleased to meet you. - Hey.

- Come on back. - Absolutely.

Thank you.

So, what can we do for ya?

Well, why don't we wait for Clive?

Oh, uh, Mr. Coleman got tied up in a meeting.

No offense, boys,

but I'm supposed to be meeting with Clive.

None taken, but if you were supposed to be

meeting with Clive, you would be meeting with Clive.

All right. Here is what we have.

We are developing some very exciting properties

that are spot-on for your investor profile.

Low buy-in with a sizable upside.

- Mm-hmm. - And the beautiful part is

they are all only 12 to 18 months and cash positive.

- Manitoba? - Yeah.

We picked up an option on a skip claim at an auction.

Right, but it's a 90-day option.

Yes, the window is narrow,

but if you have a look at the geo,

you'll see a very promising shale formation

that hasn't been tapped yet.

Mr. Wells, Washoe has a practical value

hovering just above zero.

Your debt load is untenable,

and you bring us, uh, raw land with no infrastructure,

- no fungible assets. - I mean,

you can't possibly expect us to underwrite this.

Yeah. I'm talking about a small offering here.

As I said in the beginning, a low buy-in.

Now, if you'll take a second look at the geo,

you will see what I see.

And that's money.

Not our money.

See, the... the thing is

that the whole economy had turned,

particularly for commodities.

Close of the day,

Washoe was trading at four cents a share

if it was trading at all.

Washoe Mining. There's this great little land lease.

'Cause this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Right. Washoe. Washoe Mining.

You know, carrying the... carrying on the business.

You know, there's still minerals out there.

We just got to find them, right?

Yeah, all right, all right.

Thank... thank you for your time. Bye.

I could...

12 to 18 months...

cash positive.

A deal...

Goddamn, I am calling you.

Fuck whatever time it is.

Washoe Mining,

the company that my grandfather

literally scratched out of the side of a Nevada mountain,

the company that my father made into a real player,

was almost gone.

Almost.

I'd already, uh, lost my house,

and I was, uh... I was living with Kay.

And, uh, we-we were about to lose that, too.

I had a half gallon of Seagram's in me.

Shit, most people would have been dead, but not me. No.

Instead...

I had a dream.

I mean, I mean, I mean, literally, I...

I had a dream.

Indonesia.

Gold.

Now, I'd been to Indonesia five or six years earlier.

I still had a little money in my pocket.

You know, Indonesia was booming,