Gold Rush South

Objectives

• Locate the southern gold cache
• Destroy the cache
• Escape the mine before it collapses (00:15)

LOCATIONS

• Guari Mine

REWARDS

• + 350 XP

Brief

The cartel is funding La Santera’s efforts with gold stored in caches across Espiritu Santo. Destroying these gold caches will be a major blow to the cult’s finances and cause tension between El Sueño and La Santera.

Rumble In The Jungle

Closely guarded by a small band of idiots, the southern cache of gold isn’t on your Tacmap until you chance upon the Guari Mine, which is southwest of the town of Guari, as well as Rally Point Espiritu Santo Bravo. You’re here to close down this mine for good.

Guari Mine: Recon

TACMAP

A total of eight cartel thugs are usually guarding the entrance to this small mine tunnel. Six of them are out in the open, at the roadside entrance, and two are inside the mine, though they may come running out at the sound of gunfire. Inside the mine only extends 60 or so meters to a dead-end where two clusters of gas canisters must be detonated. After that, the mine collapses, ideally without your team in it.

East: Road Junction

You should usually have the firepower and competence to remove these attacks without any degree of subtlety, allowing you to accelerate and ram into the foes from the main road, or get out and scramble up the loose boulder cube pile for cover. The woodland to the southeast is on lower ground, and doesn’t give you a height advantage, but the open space means you can lob a grenade at the group and mow them down with few problems no matter where you’re assaulting from.

Southwest: Road and Rock Outcrop

You can park farther up the road to the southwest, then climb the rock outcrop directly above the wood platform, and start cutting down foes from this vantage point. Order your team to attack from a different direction to really hammer the foes.

Northwest: Mountainside

The mountain above the mine entrance can be hiked up, and this allows you the luxury of cover, height advantage, and the ability to pick out any target who isn’t cowering inside the mine itself.

Target: MINE TUNNEL Enter the tunnel, and either line up a grenade lobbed just inside the entrance (so the arc of the throw doesn’t hit the tunnel ceiling) to destroy the two gas canisters, or run in with night vision active, cut down any stragglers, and then shoot both canisters, lay C4 between both, mines (then shoot), or lob a frag grenade. You have around 15 seconds to reach the outside before the mine collapses. Fail to do this, and you may need to rethink your line of work.

Guari Mine: Other Tactical Advice

Destroying the cache here is extremely straightforward, and simply requires you to attack the exterior foes from one direction while other teammates assault it from a different direction. When the place is mainly free of enemies (the only ones still alive are likely to be inside the mine), enter the mine, blow up the gas canisters, and retreat. It can get more complicated than that, but it doesn’t need to.

Can you drive a bike into the mine for a quick in-and-out mission completion? Yes, but turning it around inside the tunnel is trickier and slower than heading in on foot.