11x12 - Resurrecting Monsters

[bunniefuu]

Let's just chain it down.
You're good.

[narrator]
on this gold rush...

Bad-a*s.

Parker schnabel
is on the move.

It'll go from good to bad
real fast when it's like this.

Whoa. Whoa!

This is good to go.

[narrator] rick ness's
road to redemption...

[bleep] all right?

...Comes at a cost.

I'd say around 100 grand
worth of expenses at least.

[bleep]

Let's fire this up.

[narrator] and tony beets
fires up his secret weapon.

[hawk squealing]

Right now, we're in
a good place this season,

You know, fuel prices are low,
gold prices are high

And the airstrip cut.

It looks like it should have
some really good potential.

[narrator]
26-year-old parker schnabel

Is tearing through ground
at a record pace.

And now he has his sights
set on a new,

Potentially gold-rich claim,

The airstrip.

Really, I'd like to get
as much of it

Lined up as we can.

Tony's in uncertain land
down there, so...

We should get the gold
out of the ground

When we still can.

I think the best thing to do

Is going to be to just
shut down sluicifer

And move to the airstrip cut.

[narrator] parker gambled
on first year plant boss,

Tyson lee,

Running sluicifer all season.

So far,
he's exceeded expectations,

Working through
all the pay dirt

In the promised land
in record time.

Hey, nate, we're done.

Like, done, done, done, here?
For sure?

Pretty much.

We're, like,
"oh, this is frozen."

I've been going over it
every couple days,

And there's not much more
a guy can do than that.

Come on.

Parker's down here

And I'm just going to go see
what he has to say.

-Hi, tyson.
-Hey, parker. How's it going?

-Good. How are you?
-Pretty good, thanks.

You're gonna
move this thing tomorrow?

Tear it apart, yeah,

And hopefully get it up there,
was going to truck it.

Hopefully we can just
put it together

And pull it right up
into its new home.

When we're gonna be
back sluicing?

I think five days
is reasonable from...

Five days?

Well, I think we can have it
torn apart in a good day.

Then what do you need
the other four for?

A day will [bleep]

It's not like removing


And that's not going to
happen today.

Oh, no. What do you think,
though, man?

But this all looks good.

-Thanks, guys.
-Awesome. Thanks, man.

[parker]
overall, I'm pretty happy.

Now it's just a matter
of getting this, uh,

Plant moved and set up
in its new home.

[caws]

[narrator] but his success
has now earned tyson

A herculean task

Moving sluicifer five miles
to the airstrip cut.

Yeah, we're definitely
in a rush

To get to the airstrip

'cause we're not just moving
in 500 feet.

When we brought the wash plant

Down to canon stewart's
ground,

We drug it, the whole way,

And it was painful
and it took so damn long.

So this year
we're going to haul it.

We've got one wash plant down
right now

And big red will be
finishing up here shortly

So we don't want
two plants down,

Especially while the weather
still looks like this.

-What's happening?
-A lot, mitch.

-You ready?
-Yeah.

[narrator]
the 90-000 lbs. Wash plant

Needs to be dragged
onto the low board

And rotated
90 degrees sideways

To make it stable.

I'm on it, baby.

Looking good, mitch.

Hope it makes the trailer

Before it decides to tip.

Another six inches
and you'll be at the trailer.

[engine sputtering]

Probably started spinning
by now, eh?

We'll drag her some more.
We'll start spinning.

Righty-o.

[parker]
just haul it sideways.

Yeah, tyson,
let's just chain it down.

-You're good.
-[laughter]

[narrator] to save time,

Parker wants to haul
his $600,000 plant as it is

Balanced sideways.

It's just if you hook this
into a bank, right,

Then it's gonna get bad
real quick.

You're the boss.

-It's up to you, man.
-[bleep] don't put that on me.

-You're the boss.
-[laughs]

We'll haul it out
however you want.

This is not coming off
the trailer.

If anything, the trailer's
breaking in half.

-Are you cool with that?
-Oh, yeah.

As you can see here,

We have several feet
hanging off of both sides.

We have to be
very careful here

That we don't, uh,
catch it into a bank.

Screw something up, uh,

'cause, yeah,

It'll go from good to bad
real fast when it's like this.

It's a little heavy
on one side.

[chuckles]

It's just four inches.

That's fine.

[narrator] stephen salyers
has been driving trucks

For ten years.

He's parker's most
experienced heavy hauler.

Are you fine with that?

[stephen]
I think it'll be okay.

That's a good way
to lean anyway,

'cause it gives me more height
on this side of the pond, too.

As long as it's no rock can
go into that, you'll be fine.

Yeah.

[narrator]
stephen must now navigate
five miles of dirt road.

Going across a narrow culvert,

Along a series of sharp bends

And through trees

Before arriving
at the airstrip cut.

Oh, it's just not uneven,

Weight-wise.

It's a little... It's, uh...

Leaning pretty hard
to the left.

[chain clanking]

It's a little tippy
'cause the center of gravity

Is kind of high on it too.

Fine line between doing it
too fast and too slow.

[objects clattering]

[engine revving]

[rustling]

Uh, the culvert's
kind of narrow.

I feel like we're gonna be
awfully close to that.

Culvert wasn't exactly put in
straight when it was done.

So you gotta pass a curvy way
through it.

Kind of top, heavy load.

[creaking]

No problem.

This bit is really
rough runway,

And basically home free.

[objects clattering]

Whoa!

[bleep] take it easy, man.

It looks like
it's about to flip.

Easy, easy, man.

So...

-Well done.
-Thank you.

We definitely should have
put it on, uh, like...

-An angle?
-...Center of gravity.

Yeah.

It made it here.
That's all that matters.

A couple of those,
I was like...

I can't look.

You know,
that's [bleep] bad-a*s.

Yeah. [chuckles]

Just watch
when it comes down.

[rumbling]

-[creaking]
-[loud thud]

Keep it there.

[narrator] parker's gamble
has saved tyson valuable time,

And he still has four days
to get sluicifer running.

So we finally have everything
at the airport cut.

Now it's time
just to assemble it all.

[narrator] king of
the klondike tony beets

Has two wash plants running,

And he's about
to fire up his third,

A season game changer,

The mobile trommel on wheels.

It's time to find out

If tony's $400,000 gamble
has paid off.

The unique 30-year-old trommel

Drives itself on wheels

And should be
way cheaper to run

Than a normal trommel.

Running it in the mega cut,

Tony could make an extra
500 ounces of gold

Worth almost
a million dollars.

But first,
he needs to get it there.

-[blows whistle]
-[dog panting]

[tony exclaiming]

I'm just sliding.

[narrator] on paradise hill,

Tony beets' new
$400,000 trommel

Is stuck in the mud.

Off we go.

[clangs]

[whirring]

[narrator]
monica pushes from the front

While kevin
pulls from the rear.

[kevin] beautiful.

Very [bleep] much.

I'd say so.

[narrator]
after nearly three decades

Lying abandoned
in moose creek,

It's time to find out

If the mobile trommel
still works.

[engine starts]

Do you want it open now, tony?

[squeaking]

[engine whirring]

[expl*si*n]

[squeaking]

If we don't fix it,
it's going to wash out.

Where the piston stands,

Make the whole thing...
Wobbly.

And, of course, the water
is gonna go through there

The minute we put dirt in.

It's also going to
[bleep] that way.

[narrator]
thirty years sitting idle

Has taken its toll.

The discharge hose
has burst under pressure.

With gold price
the way it is,

Like, the profit margins
are big right now,

But we're going to struggle.
We're low on manpower.

We're just gonna have to

Work twice as hard
as we did last year.

[narrator] at duncan creek,

Rick ness is playing
a desperate game of catch-up.

He started six weeks late
due to the pandemic.

At 438 ounces,

Rick is less than half way
to his 1,000-ounce goal

With just two months
left of the season.

Now he needs to average
70 ounces a week

For the rest of the season.

We've got the creek
cut opened up,

But that ground's gonna be
a lot leaner

Than the ground
we're planning on
running another deep cut.

In order for us to enter
a 1,000-ounce goal,

We're gonna have to
up our yardage.

Troy's wash plant
can only do 100 yards an hour,

And monster red
could easily do

Over 300 yards per hour.

So monster red is gonna be key

To getting us to
a 1,000 ounces this season.

[narrator] last season,

Rick spent $500,000
on wash plant monster red.

[bleep]
you got a block already.

Hey, shut it down.
We got a [bleep] block.

[narrator] he then poured
more money into the plant

Modifying it

To handle the rocky
duncan creek pay dirt

He ran it hard
to the end of the season.

Now it's sitting
eight miles away

At his old claim
on upper duncan creek.

-What's up, buds?
-Yo.

[narrator] rick looks to chief
mechanic carl rosk

To get monster red
back up and sluicing

As soon as possible.

[carl]
first things first here.

We're gonna need another
full set of top deck, right?

[rick] oh, yeah.

Okay, so let's do
one full set.

So we need a whole bunch
of locks is as well.

This thing's seen
a lot of yardage up here

And there's really
not much wear.

-It's well built. I like it.
-It is.

It's sweet, dude.
That's not so bad.

But, really,
all we've got to do

Is order some more
block-up pads,

But this...
This is good to go.

The big job of this
is gonna be

The distribution at the end.

It's because of how high
this plant is.

That's what that [bleep]

[rick] that is a long ways
down on your right.

[carl] I know we could
probably run it like that,

But it's going to destroy
our conveyor.

-If you didn't do--
-yeah, I know.

We might think about
designing something

That takes that top layer,
this top deck.

[narrator]
monster red shaker deck

Separates gold rich dirt
from worthless tailings,

Which it sends
through a distribution sh**t

Onto the tailings conveyor.

But last season, the rocky
duncan creek pay dirt

Damaged the sh**t
beyond repair.

Now the tailings will fall
15 feet onto the conveyor,

Tearing the belt
and destroying the rollers.

[carl] it's no rocket science,
rick, it's just

Going to be some, uh,
major steel involved there.

These are in good
shape, right?

So I sent karla and kruse
down lower duncan with him.

-Yep. Good.
-They're en route.

Little further end.

[narrator]
karla ann and chris kruse

Set off with the sluicers
down to their new site

On lower duncan.

[chris] what the [bleep]

That dogtail's, like,
stuck right in there.

-Pretty good.
-You don't say.

So... See what we got
for rigging?

Yeah. Grab the excavator.

-It's our only option.
-To help elevate it a little.

Just a little a little boost?

-Walk her up here.
-Okay.

I'll, uh...
I'll wait here for you.

I'm not going anywhere.

[karla ann]
are you going around the t?

We gotta strap her
on the back to the trailer

With the excavator.

Try to take some weight
off the back of the trailer

Where it's dug
into the ground

And drag this thing up here.

[karla ann]
does that look centered?

Here, too.

Like, center the load. Yeah.

[whirring]

[mild expl*si*n]

Whoa! [bleep]

You all right?

I hope nobody got hit
with that strap.

A broken strap.

Uh, that one was pretty...
Pretty ratty looking.

[narrator] round two.

[karla ann] okay. Okay!

Good!

Free now.

[karla ann]
we're trying to get ahead.

We're just really lucky
nobody got hurt.

[honking]

[carl] those are, uh...

The ring's pretty much
seized here.

Should need some work,
that's for sure. [grunts]

[narrator] at the plant,

Carl assess just how long
it will take to fix it up.

[carl] ain't nothing left
of that [bleep]

I'mma rebuild that
all together.

Going to be spending
some money now.

So then, I already got
some things on the list here,

So we just got to,
like I said,

Distribution's going to be
completely rebuilt
from scratch.

[rick] yeah, I knew
we're gonna have to

Put some money into it,
but what are you thinking?

So, like, upper bottom deck...

Um, all the steel, you know
what you're looking at,

You know,
I'd say around 100 grand

Worth of expenses at least.

-Hundred grand?
-Yeah.

And how long?

I'd say give me a month.

[bleep]

Yeah, that's me just
working on this too, right?

And that's the problem, right?
I mean, and that's my problem.

We're spread so thin,

I can't lose you for a month.

You're my only mechanic.

[narrator] rick was depending
on monster red

To more than double
his gold take

And hit his season goal.

Holy [bleep] man, I think
I just underestimated

The amount of time of work
this was going to take.

[bleep] man.

We're going to have to come up
with something else.

[narrator] on indian river,

It's day two of tyson lee's
five-day plant move.

[tyson] I'm going to take
a look at the plant pad

And see what's going on.

[narrator] he's hauled
sluicifer to the airstrip cut

In record time.

Now he only needs to get it
onto the pad.

[tyson]
this is the starting of a pad,

But by no means is it ready
for a wash plant.

We were hoping this would be
a seamless transition,

But it's just not ready.

[narrator] the pad has been
prepped with loose tailings,

But tyson needs
to finish building it,

And put in a ramp

Before sluicifer
can run pay dirt.

Every day the plant is down

Costs parker over $91,000.

You know, parker
doesn't want sluicifer down

Any longer than it has to be.

I told him five days,

And he wasn't too happy
about that.

So time to get
to building this pad

'cause it's not gonna
build itself.

A lot of jumping
from machine to machine today.

Rounding around


And we should have her.

[narrator] day three.

Time to get the wash plant
on to pad.

I'm just gonna get sluicifer
to its new home.

We got her here, shane.

-That's the job, man.
-Yeah.

-Put her back together.
-Yeah.

I'm ready to get
the conveyor, please.

Hey, alex, I'm gonna have
to back up a little more here.

That's as much lift as I got.

Okay, the swinger in place.

Nice and easy.

All right, we're home free.

Yeah, buddy!

One step closer
to washing rock.

-And time.
-That's her.

Go check the suction.
We're good to fire up.

Yeah, pretty close.

After just three days.

Tyson has gotten sluicifer
ready to run.

Well, it sounds like
sluicifer is just about ready

To fire up down here
at the airstrip.

Let's go check it out.
Let's see her fire up.

You ready, tyson?

Light her up.

All right, let's go!

Fire up the pump!

Ready to see it roll
some pole?

Here it comes!

This is the first
of the first material.

Well, boys, it's looking good!

Nice job, man!

[bleep] yeah!

What's going, man?

Nice job!

Thanks, man.

That was a big old move.

Yeah, happy it's done.

Yeah, I like it.

It'd be really good

To get the moose creel trommel
going,

'cause they're all here to see
exactly how well she works.

On paradise hill, tony beets'
four-hundred-thousand-dollar

Mobile trommel is down
with a burst hose.

You got the old hose off.

Got the end off,

Got it on some
much more durable hose.

You can run the heat g*n

Get this hose nice and toasty

Before we jam it
on the other end.

You want to get the hose warm

Because warm things expand,
makes it easy to get it on.

Now we're gonna heat it up.

We're gonna apply
some lubrication by ourselves

To the... ...

And then we're gonna attempt
to get it on.

Ready?

-Yeah.
-And go.

That is excellent.

Well, come on,
you son of a [bleep]

We need a hammer and a...

-Yes.
-Can you do it?

-Excellent.
-Yep.

That was about as easy as
that could have [bleep] been,

-You know that?
-Yeah.

Well, that's all done.

We got the hose on.

ex*cuted in front of it. Yeah.

Fire it up, see what we can
get out of the trommel.

I'm kind of curious.

All right, well,
let's fire this up.

Okay, kevin turn the valves
open a little bit, please?

Tony is counting
on the moose creek trommel

To run a 150 yards of pay dirt
an hour.

It should increase his goal
by 50%.

Soon as the water comes in,
turn the pump on

All right. Yeah.

See the water's on the way,
see it?

That looks really cool.

I don't know if that's smoke
or water

But it looks [bleep] neat.

It doesn't look too bad.

Tony, kevin am I good
to put dirt in?

I think so.

I think it can handle
a lot of material.

Yeah.

I don't [bleep] like it
in them sluice runs at all.

The water pressure is too high
in the sluice runs,

Causing any gold
to be washed up.

Shut her down,
shut her down!

Shut her down,
shut her down!

Stop!

Jordan,
close the [bleep] pipe!

Tony beets'
new moose creek mobile trommel

Is shut down.

But I don't like the amount
of water

That's coming out
of the [bleep] thing.

What we should do is

Turn the water back on.

It is just that we've gotta
[bleep] figure the flow out.

Okay, len, fire her up.

We got way too much water
in the system.

So we'll have to tighten
her up.

Gonna get kevin
to close the valves

-Just a little bit.
-Yeah.

I still think we have
a little extra water there.

Turn it two turns down
or something like that.

Closing in on the water ...

You've got a bed of mulch
up there.

Having too much water will
affect your gold recovery.

... Not enough.

That's it.

[bleep] it.

That thing clogs her up

And then the water can go
nowhere.

We have inch and a half
square holes

In the screen,
in the trommel.

We should have a fine screen
in there.

We shouldn't have
any bigger gravel

Than half inch.

We should run that kind
of gravel

To the trommel,
not that.

The mobile trommel
uses a discharge pipe

To sh**t the fine tailings
out the back of the plant.

But the connecting pipe
is blocked with stones,

Causing water to back up
and flood the sluices.

So number one, we'll have
to put a new screen

And that's going to take us
a month or two.

Tony's big gamble has failed
to deliver.

This ain't cutting it

I am
a little bit disappointed.

More than a little
disappointed, actually.

Plugged right
the [bleep] up

We're gonna have to put steel
in that [bleep]

'cause then it has no choice.

So let's just clean
the [bleep] up,

De-water it and concentrate
on the two plants

That we got going.

[bleep] it.

Back to the drawing board.

Anyway, that's quite [bleep]
obvious, isn't it?

That ain't [bleep] working
worth a [bleep]

That's what happens
when you buy [bleep]

That you don't build yourself.

At duncan creek,
rick has abandoned

His half-a-million-dollar,

300-yard-per-hour
wash plant, monster red.

After the beating it took
last season,

It would take a month

And a $100,000 to repair.

Now, with only two months left
of the season,

Rick desperately needs to
increase his gold production

To hit his $1000 season goal.

I think that's it for fuel.

Rick's gonna take over
in the wash plant.

He wants to give her a go.

I've done it for twelve
and a half hours and I'm done.

See you, man.

Well, this is what
we asked for, carl.

Yeah, we're really paying
the price, aren't we?

You're gonna be in the loader.

I'm gonna go move some of
these tailings really quick.

-Okay, ...
-Thanks, carl.

You got it?

Let's go.

So we just made the decision
that ...

Is not gonna come out

Of retirement this year.

It's just gonna cost too much

And be too much of a hassle
to get it running.

Not having monster red up
and running this year

Is actually gonna be
a big problem,

Because we're not gonna
be able

To run the ideas
that I planned on.

So the only thing we can do,
I think, is just up her hours.

And that means running
a swing shift.

Rick and carl take
the first night shift.

Look, I've been doing 16,


So whatever we gotta do here
to get more gold,

We're gonna do it.

Well, our season goals
are 1000 ounces, right?

So we're trying to push
as much dirt

Through this time
as we possibly can

And, yeah, no, rick's working
his a*s off

And everybody wants
to fall behind him.

And that's why I'm here,
right?

Because, you know,

I want to do as good
as he's doing, right?

He's really putting the time
in.

So I'm gonna put time in,
right?

So far, so good, right?

[bleep]
we got a problem there.

[bleep]

Oh, [bleep]

No, don't go through there.

Don't ...
I see a stringer.

[bleep] me.

Something's caught the ...

Ripping pieces of ...
Out here, so...

I went out to get up
and take a look.

A torn conveyor belt now

Would shut down
the whole operation for days.

Carl, what's going on?

Looks like the belt walked
its way over to ...

And it sliced the section ...
Man.

I got a strip of gold here
about half inch to inch here.

Holy [bleep]

You know, I don't even know
what happened, rick.

It's a pretty good tear.

Obviously, we can't afford
to be down.

We have a lot of ground
to get to

If we're gonna get
to that 1000 ounces, so...

I know, dude.

Just figure out what caused
that thing to tear,

And try
and rectify it.

I got to keep that [bleep]
moving.

I know, dude.

Yeah, my wiper is [bleep]
up here.

My wiper that wipes
the belt off

Is twisted
and it's cut my belt, so...

The wiper is a blade
attached to a steel bar

Running across the belt
to scrape off
wet debris.

We got my wiper ...

I'm gonna tighten it up
right now.

I'm gonna give it a one
tight... There we go.

Back in business.

You got it figured out?

-[bleep] yeah, buddy.
-You standing here for that.

That's why you pay me
the big bucks, right?

We got about a half inch
of the belt.

We got the engine section...

But we're ready to rock.

-This is good to go.
-Yeah, buddy.

You're the man, buddy.

With carl's quick fix,

Night shift is back
in business.

Yeah, I'm ready to fire it up.

It's running, man.

Well, that right there
just goes to show you

That I got the right guy
doing the night shift with me.

You know, a good mechanic
is worth his weight in gold.

And now, here we are.

We're here,
we're back running,

And we're gonna keep on
running into the night.

Hey, man, how's it going?

It's going good.
But I was thinking,

After all our hard work
we put in,

We go do something fun.

Yeah, I'm so down with that.

-[bleep] yeah.
-Yeah.

Man, you ready for this rip?

,,, yeah, man.

-Let's give her.
-Let's do it.

Man, that wasn't easy,
catching up to you.

I had to roll off a lot.

Just...

Well, let's see it [bleep] ...

So how was you guys' week?

We went and tried
the moose creek trommel,

And that wasn't
very successful, was it?

I'm still going to try
to make it work

The way I intended to.

And I see no reason
why the [bleep]

-That wouldn't work.
-It has potential.

But in the meantime,

We gotta keep
the other sluice boxes going.

Hey, you guys,
how are you?

Tired.

So I guess
the moose creek trommel...

I mean, it sucks, right?

You put all that time
and effort,

And right now it's ...

So what was wrong with it?

After what, ten minutes...

Well, basically,
it didn't move the gravel,

So it pressured up,

Like the water had nowhere
to go.

So it blew the hose off

The rocks are way too big.

I mean, all them rocks
gotta go through,

A four inch [bleep] hole.

Man, that's just too much.

-No, that was a let-down.
-Pretty much.

We did okay with ..., though,
right?

It ran seven days?

Seven days.
So 65, 70 hours.

So maybe we should weigh
that stuff up.

Yeah, let's weigh it up,
see what we got.

So far, the old timers tailing
have produced

A 121 ounces,

Averaging 60.5
ounces a week.







Tony's decision

To keep sluicing the old timer
tailings

Has produced another $146,000
in gold.

Three money.
That's not bad.

-Yeah.
-I'm glad they...

-Left some behind for us.
-Holy crap, did they ever.

So with the price of gold
today

Let's [bleep] around
some more.

So the trommel that ...
This week

Didn't have any breakdowns?

-Pretty reliable.
-How many hours do you figure?

Like a 160.

Well, that's not too bad.

Okay, well, pour that [bleep].

Let's see what we got.

Hey, here we go.

Tony needs at least 215 ounces
each week

To hit 3000 ounces.












Well, that's good.

So how much do we have
in total?



-500 grand?
-It's about half a million.

So that's not bad.

At least the ...
Is going strong.

And the trommel seems to be
plugging along just well.

So what's our season's total
right now?

$1566.48.

So halfway there?

Worth?
Almost 3 million dollars.

But with only two months
to go,

Tony is only halfway
to his season goal.

It's too that bad moose creek
didn't work out a bit better.

It would've helped.

I mean, look
at the bright side.

We still got two running
flat-out.

We got all the ground ready
for it.

So it could be a lot worse.

Hey, it'll be all good.

Okay, good enough.

-Cheers ...
-Cheers, t.

Hey there, youngster.

Hi, chris.

I guess mitch and brennan
are still working.

-At ...
-Yeah.

They're down there dealing
with tailings.

-Hey, tyson.
-Hey, ken, how's it going?

Hey, old timer.

Come sit next to the stove.

Okay. You know, I like heat.

So, how'd the move
with sluicifer go?

A lot of parts
we had to take off it

And put it on the low boy
sideways this time.

Parker showed up last minute
there

And k*lled that rope.

I screwed up
everybody's plan.

Yeah.

I had a lot of fun down there,
though, this year, ken.

Thank you very much.

We had the right man
on the job.

-Thank you.
-From the ground standpoint,

I thought things went pretty
well down there, really.

Yeah. I did.
I think it did.

Well, I can show you
the results,

-If you wanna see.
-Sure.

There's not a whole great deal
of ours on sluicifer.

But red's been down here
just chugging away.

So, tyson, this is big red.

You wanna read this one out?

Sure thing.

First up, a week
of running on the last cut.

Ten.



A 100.

A 114.75.

Worth two $218,000.

This is the rest of yours
here, ken,

Oh, okay.

Ten.



-42, even.
-42...

Worth nearly $80,000
for three days of sluicing.

Pounds an hour. Yeah.

Parker's time-saving decision

Helped tyson move sluicifer
in under five days.

You know, it was it was
a good run.

-It really was.
-Yeah.

So for the week,

We wound up with a 156
and three quarter ounces.

Season total, though,
a 50,168 and half ounces.

-We're salvaging a good season
-yeah, that's good.

That's good.

Ken has been holding on
to that ground for...



Yeah, we owe them some money.

Yeah.

Ken has now earned
$455,000

In royalties on the claim

Which he staked back
in 1985.

If you were to do it
all over again,

-Would you do it?
-Oh, yeah.

With the promised land over
for the season,

It's time for ken tatlow
to head home.

You're going to be missed,
that's for sure.

-Thank you.
-Well, not by me by this.

I got to tell somebody.

It's kind of be kind of
a happy, sad day.

-Yeah.
-When you go.

'cause youse all
are like family to us.

Yeah, but I have
really enjoyed it all.

Yeah.

-Thanks.
-You take care, old dog.

Okay.
Hey, tyson.

-Take care, okay?
-Thank you for everything.

-Thank you
-parker, we'll see you later.

-Thanks, ken.
-Yep.

After hitting a dead end
with monster red,

Ricks crew gathers to see

If the added night shift
has paid off.

Hello.
What's up, man?

-How you doing, buddy?
-Good.

It's a heavy pan.
I used two hands there.

No way.
That's some ...

At the beginning the week,

I thought we were gonna
be sending out monster red.

Just starting to run
some big yardage.

But upon further inspection
by carl here,

It's needed a little bit
more time and money

Than I had hoped,

Neither of which we have
this year.

Exactly.

So the only way
to overcome that

Is punish ourselves
by working more.

Yeah.

Put in more time and running
more yardage

Through to our plan
that we have, right?

What do you say we see

-If it pays off, everybody.
-Let's do it, buddy.

Look at those...

I can get used to seeing
that kind of thing.

Yeah, no kidding, man.

To reach his 1000 ounce
season goal,

Rick needs at least 70
ounces of gold every week.

Here we go.

Here it comes.

All right, it's gonna take
a while here.

We got ten,
we got 20.







Are we gonna beat 80?

-Yes, we are.
-What?

-No way!
-No way!



Oh, my [bleep] dude.

We're getting better at this.

Dude, that's over $180,000
for one week's worth of work.

That's pretty [bleep] badass.

-That's good.
-It covers most...

-Of my wages anyway.
-Yeah.

It's the second largest
gold weigh of the season,

And he's halfway
to his season goal.

This just goes to show
the power of teamwork,

-As corny as it is.
-Yeah!

And it is corny.

I should say so.

-But you know what I mean?
-Quite a reaction, my friend.

-Chasing after more of that?
-Yeah?

Sign me up. All right?

Yeah. Whatever you guys need,
I'll jump on board

And we'll get some extra truck
in it

And put some extra hours in.

I mean, it's what
I signed up for.

Thank you.
'cause that...

That's what it's gonna take.

And, I love everything
about tonight.

I mean, I love you guys'
enthusiasm.

I love that pile of gold.

I [bleep] love you guys, so...

-I love you, too, rick.
-Heavy.

Man, thanks, buddy.

I instantly regret it.

All right, let's go.

You should know better.

Oh, jeez.

Get out of here.

Well, it feels good
to get a reminder

That my team definitely
has my back

And ... Within our sights.

I know it.

Ricks volunteering
for night shift.

Carl stepped up
right after him.

It's only fitting
that me and carl

Would jump
right in there too.

So that's we're gonna do,
make it happen.

Next time on gold rush.

Oh, no.

Bad things usually happen
when I leave the mine.

Stop.
Stop! No!

You ain't the boss.

How much [bleep] experience
you have in a [bleep] mine?

None! Take sh*t
and shut your ...

It's not how
you handle conflict.

It's how you resolve it

The last scoop of ...
Is going in.

It looks to be lots of [bleep]
gold in it

So that looks pretty good.