12x13 - All ba*ls on the Table

[bunniefuu]

That's pretty *bleep* scary.
I've never done
anything like it.

There's so much dirt
that has to be moved here.

If we move the wrong dirt

and go all the way down
in the wrong spot,
I'm gonna go broke.

[narrator] Halfway through
the mining season,

Rick Ness is pushing
his operation to the edge.

[Rick] It's gonna cost
pretty much everything I have,

so the stakes here
are massive,

but the payoff at the bottom
of it could be life-changing.

The Deep Cut, it turned out
to be a great piece of ground,

We did get 130 ounces
out of there, which is great.

It's a good boost
for mid-season.

It just didn't last
as long as we hoped.

[narrator] In the mountains
above Keno,

Rick Ness is out to prove he's
a heavy-weight gold miner.

In his fourth season,

he's chasing a mammoth


more than he banked his first
two seasons combined.

I'm looking at some other
sections of my claims here,

hopefully with
some great gold.

[narrator] Tired of only being
able to find small scores
in Keno's patchy ground,

Rick's ready to swing
for the fences

and wants to find
one of Keno's
infamous hot-spots.

-[Rick] Hey, Troy.
- Rick, how are you, man?

[narrator] Rick's called
on two of the men

with the most experience
of the region,

Landlord Troy Taylor

and plaster geologist
William Lebarge,

to help him locate
a rich streak.

- Good to see ya.
- Good to see you, Bill.
Thanks for coming.

I've got the two
most knowledgeable people
in the valley

here with me right now.

I don't think I'd be able
to do much better than that.

[all laugh]

I'm looking to move
to some different ground here,
on-site, obviously.

But I just was wondering

where you guys have had
some real good luck
around here, you know?

[Troy] I mean,
what is really significant is,

this was a relative hot-spot.

We had clean-up after clean-up
after clean-up.

It was kinda like
our glory days.

[Rick] But what kinda numbers
were you looking at over here?

It was like a week,
probably less
than a week of sluicing

and one clean-up we had
was like 450 ounces.

Oh, wow.

That's incredible.

You're talking about
near a million dollars
in less than a week.

- It really doesn't happen
very often.
- Yeah.

But I'm just worried about you
going into this ground

because we had that good year,
'98, right in here,

- I remember coming up
in March '99...
- Yeah.

...to move over 100 feet
of over-burden.

Spent a ton of money in fuel
and wages [chuckles].

But when we got down to it,

we just didn't have
enough volume of pay

to pay for all the costs
of getting down there.

- Yeah.
- And it was a disaster for us.

If we'd just been


it would have been
a world of difference.

To go down 100 feet
and to have 10 yards

make that much
of a difference,
that's pretty scary.

- Mmm-hmm.
-[stammers]

[narrator] The streak of pay
that Troy missed

could net Rick


worth over
five million dollars,

if he can locate it precisely.

You just have to know exactly
where that edge of bedrock is.

Yeah, everything you're saying
kinda makes sense.

If we can nail that channel

and get down to it
dead-knots on.

There's great potential there.

We can do some
resistivity geophysics
across that area.

That'll give us
some information

that we can use
to make some decisions

on where you might
wanna open up.

[narrator]
Over 150,000 years ago,

a glacier eroded gold
from the mother-lode.

When it melted,

gold settled into pockets.

The ancient river-bed,
or paleo-channel,

lies somewhere over 100 feet
beneath the surface.

To find it,

Bill will use electrodes

to pass current
through the ground.

How quickly it bounces back

will reveal the location
of the channel,

which could contain
millions in gold.

I can't say enough
how scary it is, you know,

having gone through it myself,

to go into that deep ground.

I admire your determination.

Well, I appreciate that.

And every now and then
you just gotta kinda
pick your ba*ls up

and put 'em on the table
and risk 'em, I guess.

- Mmm-hmm.
-[all chuckle]

Help me get the minimum
amount of risk
on my ba*ls here, guys.

[all laugh]

[Bill] Let's get up
the first line.

This is a resistivity meter.

It's gonna be the instrument

that's actually taking
the readings.

[narrator]
Rick's season now rides

on whether he can locate
the paleo-channel

and the deep, rich, pay-layer
that promises great gold.

[Bill] Okay.

Map is starting to show
the resistivity values.

This looks good so far.

We're able to see
the silt layer

that turns up quite well.

We also see
the bed-rock contact
coming in here.

And, in between,
I think is the paleo-channel.

Well, that's perfect.

What did you find out?

- She's deep, brother.
- Yeah? How deep?

Ah, well, depending on
where you going here,

we got a bed-rock hole here
at 210 feet.

[chuckles]

*bleep*

That's a lot.

I can say the deepest
I did with Parker
was about 40 feet

and I don't...
I don't think anybody's done
this much, have they?

No. We're looking at
over a million yards

of over-burden that has
to be moved.

-[laughs]
- You know?

- Wow, that's a lot.
- It really is.

[narrator] Already half-way
through this season,

Rick has to reach pay
in less than three months

or it's game over.

This is a big undertaking.

The gold results
*bleep* there.

- Yeah.
- You know what I mean?

So what do you...
You wanna get on it, or...?

You a little nervous?

This is, like,
the biggest gamble
I've ever taken in mining.

- Yeah.
- It's just a fact.

Well, dude, I mean,
if we can do this

and pull off our target,

that's a lot to say about
what can be done
in a short period of time

- with a small crew.
- Yes, sir.

*bleep* steep.

But that channel
looks clear as day.

I think it's do-able.

I think I'm ready to pull
the trigger on this.

I can't wait.

This is a big undertaking.

- Yeah.
- And I'm glad to have you
here with me this year.

- Well, I appreciate it, buddy.
- Yeah.

Glad you've done
your homework.

There's a lot of gold
down there

and if we're gonna
get it this year

we better *bleep* hit it hard.

- Sounds good, man. Awesome.
- All right.

[Rick] This is one
of the scariest things
I've ever done in mining.

This is a dangerous game,
going that deep,

but I think that I've got
the right people here

to give me the best shot
at doing this right.

[Brennan]
Boy, does it feel good
to finally get up here

and get started on
the deepest cut

we've ever done, ever.

[narrator] Brennan,
in the 475 dozer,

pushes over-burden
off the high wall

into previously mined ground.

Rick and his lean crew

normally move 60,000 yards
of dirt a week

Now, they'll have to shift
over 100,000 yards a week

to get down to pay-dirt
in time to sluice it

before winter shuts them down.

[Brennan] There's so much
dirt in here.

Oh, I'll have some fun
here in the *bleep*


Hopefully we'll put
a huge dent in this

and we'll get down to pay

and we can run some
before the end of the year.

[Rick] We're doing it.

We're calling it Rally Valley.

We're calling it that because
by the time we're done here,

it's gonna be one hell
of a valley.

This is the deepest
I've ever gone for gold
by far

but the pay-off at the bottom
could be life-changing.

[Tony Beets speaking]

[narrator]
At the start of this season,

Tony Beets made
a major misstep

when he spent
millions of dollars

on equipment to mine
his Indian River claims

before he had a water license.

He's been struggling
to catch up ever since.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike over radio]
Yeah, go ahead.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Okay, on my way.

[narrator]
Almost out of pay-dirt
at the 80 Pup cut,

Tony's identified a 25-acre
patch of ground

between it and the Nugget cut.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
Deep within Paradise Hill,

the White Channel pay-layer
was created

by an ancient river
of glacial run-off.

It's given Tony
the best pay-dirt
he's ever mined.

If the pay-layer continues
between the two cuts,

it could hold three million
dollars in gold.

But before he can test it,

he needs to shift 100 feet
of over-burden

and the black muck
at the bottom

is too soft for a dozer
or rock trucks.

Well, you ain't gonna be...

At this point,
you ain't gonna be able

to get that *bleep*
lemon up there.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Black muck,
when water hits
that *bleep*, flows.

So why don't we get
water in there?

Eh, the old-timers did it
for a reason now, didn't they?

[Tony speaking]

'Cause whatever you throw
in front of that monitor
will just disappear.

[Tony] Yep.

[narrator] Tony's plan?

Bring in a powerful
water cannon

known as a monitor

to blast away the muck

and then use an excavator
to clear over-burden

from the top of the cut.

[narrator] For 150 years,

miners have used water jets
to excavate soft ground
quickly and cheaply.

A monitor could throw
in an hour,

with a velocity
of 150 feet per second.

Tony sees it
as his secret weapon,

the best way to open the new
but inaccessible wall cut.

[narrator]
A 175-horsepower pump

will feed the monitor.

I'd rather not zap that wire.

Might be a very shocking
experience for me.

Enlighten me to the future,
it would.

[imitates electric shock] Ah!

[laughs]

[narrator] At Paradise Hill,

Mike Beets is attempting
to maneuver a pump

under live cables.

[man] Yeah.

[laughs]

[narrator] Next, they run


to feed the monitor.

[Brandon] Yep.

[grunts]

[narrator] The monitor
blasts the overburden

with nine gallons of water
a second,

sending the run-off
one mile downstream,

and filtering it out
through Tony's settling ponds.

[Parker] We're just over
halfway through the season,

and it's been
an uphill battle.

There's a lot going on.

You know,
it's definitely a lot busier

than we've ever been,

and bigger projects than
we've ever taken on right now.

[narrator] Alaska native,
Parker Schnabel,

arrived in the Yukon
eight years ago

with just $140,000.

He's now mined nearly
$60 million worth of gold.

But he's running out
of ground.

[Parker] You can fight
tooth and nail

to be more productive,

or you can go out and find
ground that's twice as good.

Now we're onto a good piece
of ground in Alaska,

and border restrictions
look like they're easing.

So I'm heading over there now.

[narrator] Parker calls in
his right-hand man

and foreman, Mitch Blaschke.

-[Parker] Hey, man.
-[Mitch] What's happening?

What's on your mind?

Um, I'm pretty anxious about
the reserves we've got,

and I'm going back
over to Alaska

and figure out
where the future for us is.

We're gonna need it,

'cause we've been
motoring through ground here.

[Parker] We're chopping
through ground like crazy.

Hopefully you can
just pound out

those 700 ounces
from the strip,

and get Big Red
up to Mud Mountain.

It's a real priority.

[Mitch] Go find us
some ground,

and we'll keep everything
motoring here.

That's my priority.

[Mitch chuckles]

- Best ground we can find.
-[Mitch] Perfect.

[Parker] Everybody's got
things here under control.

You know,
for me it's much more urgent

to find some new targets
in Alaska.

That means, you know,

Mitch and Tyson
have to be on their game here.

And hopefully everybody can,
you know,

work together
and get the jobs done.

[Tyson] Oh, yeah.
Welcome to the *bleep* show.

[narrator] Plant boss,
Tyson Lee,

digs good cut pay
for wash-plant Sluicifer

at the Promised Land.

All I know is
Parker's heading to Alaska,

and last year
when Parker was gone,

you know,
it was a struggle every day.

So definitely a lot more
pressure on Mitch this year.

[narrator] Two and a half
miles upstream,

Mitch runs Big Red
in the airstrip.

[Mitch] All the
responsibilities

of this mine site
get dumped on my shoulders.

And we got
a lot going on right now,

it's a lot of pressure
and a lot to deal with.

But right now,
our focus is just

finishing things up
here at the airstrip,

and obviously getting Big Red
moved over to Mud Mountain.

Uh, Parker wants


Hopefully we got a lot of gold
to show him when he gets back.

[narrator] While Parker's away
it's down to Mitch

to get 700 ounces
out of the airstrip

to cover the stripping costs,

before he moves the wash-plant
to Mud Mountain in two weeks.

Really looking forward
to being done with this cut.

We're about out of pay-dirt,

last of the material
going through the plant.

You know, whether there's


we're gonna have to
wait and see.

I'm hoping that there's,
you know,

a lot of yellow
showing in the mats.

You know,
it really needs to pay off.

Shut her down,
see what we got.

Well, there's some gold in it.
You can see up here.

Little bit down there,
but nothing amazing,

and for what
I've been seeing, I mean,

uh, it's not looking like
we're gonna hit

that 700-ounce target.

It's definitely
a concern here.

Well, you can't
add gold to it.

No, exactly.

[Chris] Well, we'll just have
to wait and see what we have.

[Mitch] How's it looking?

[Chris] I'm halfway
through it.

Until it's all done,
I can't tell you.

But you're not gonna...

- There's no way.
- No.

I don't know why
Parker was thinking

that zone three
would have 700 in it.

If we got any chance

of getting any more
out of zone three,

it's just
gonna have to be bigger.

But can you go any bigger?

The road's right there.

And we could probably
go over another,

you know, over 100 feet
down that whole side.

Oh, my.

Do you think
you'd open that road up

before that pad's ready
at Mud Mountain?

[Mitch] Yeah,
I don't know, man.

It's gonna, I mean,

stretch us even thinner
than we already are.

But one way to find out.

[narrator] Mitch's plan -
extend the airstrip cut

at the edge of zone three

by digging up the excess road,

a 110-foot long strip
of virgin ground

under 15 feet of overburden,

where Mitch hopes to find
the gold he needs.

[Mitch] The only way
we got a fighting chance

of getting 700 ounces here

out of zone three
at the airstrip

is to make it a little bigger.

[narrator] Mitch has made
a big call

to open up more ground,

and keep Big Red
on the airstrip.

If the road extension
doesn't have enough gold,

he could be wasting
vital weeks of sluicing

on Mud Mountain,

and putting them
deeper in debt

before they even start.

[Mitch] Where our road is,

it appears that
it's never been mined,

so right now
we're digging out the roadway,

hoping we find
some really good gold

underneath it.

[narrator] Tony Beets
is fighting to wash out

a layer of black muck
at the wall cut,

hoping to uncover
another streak

of elusive gold-rich,
White Channel pay

at the top of Paradise Hill.

[Mike] If I was, like,
could bail it out,
then I can get rid of it.

We move a lot more dirt

than we would have
if we were running trucks.

[Mike] Yeah, go ahead.

[voice on radio]

[Mike] They just lost
all pressure.

[Mike] *bleep* knows.

Just lost all pressure,
it just stopped.

[Narrator]
Tony's chances of getting
the wall cut stripped

before the 80 Pup runs out
are slipping away.

down there.

[Brandon] Okay, I'll be
over there in a second.

I got some zip ties.

[Man] Yeah, I think I am.

[Narrator] With two
ten cent zip ties,

Tony's million dollar
operation is back up
and running.

[Rick]
This is the biggest risk
I've ever taken.

[Narrator] Rick Ness is all-in
on the gamble of his life.
He's attempting to mine gold

from the 190 foot
Rally Valley.

This is definitely a gamble,
but it's a gamble
in a different way.

The gold is there.
The biggest part of the gamble

is if we can get down
to it in time.

[Narrator] Rick and his crew
need to move over
one million yards of dirt

in just under three months
to reach the gold-rich ground
before the end of the season.

Rick's best shot
at getting to the gold in time
is the monster 475 dozer.

[Rick Ness] We've got a lot
of dirt here to move,
and a lot to move quick,

and that dozer is definitely
the machine to do it.

[Narrator] The 475 has
an eight by 20-foot-wide blade
that moves twice as much dirt

in one push as a rock truck.

Thing's built
to move mountains
and, you know,

this thing's pretty sweet.

[Rick] You know, Brennan's
moving a ton of dirt.
You know, 60 yards at a time

he's pushing with that dozer.

*bleep* moving dirt.

[alarm beeping]

That's not good. *bleep*

- Hey, Rick. You up? Copy.
- Yeah, go for it.

There's some *bleep*
weird sensor going off
on the dash here,

and the power, kind of,
keeps going up and down,

like, it's almost
degrading itself here.

*bleep* sake,
that's the last thing
we need right now,

trying to open up
this much *bleep* ground.

I don't want to risk
losing this motor.
Nothing's cheap

- on something this size, so...
- No, we definitely want to
look after that thing.

I mean, I cannot afford
to blow an engine
in that thing.

We blow that motor, I mean,
quarter-of-a-million bucks,
minimum,

for a new motor
for that thing.

So, without having
a mechanic here, I mean,
all we can *bleep* do

is shut it down
and to try and get
a tech here, and...

Yeah, you bet.
Sounds good, buddy. Thanks.
I'll get ahold of you shortly.

*bleep* aches.

All right.

It not fun not having
a mechanic here.
Very frustrating, you know?

We had someone here
that's trained to do
this *bleep*.

Bing, bang, boom, done.
And we're back at the races,
but that's not the case.

[Narrator] Rick's new cut
and the future of his season
has hit a massive road block.

[Rick] The timing
couldn't be worse.

I mean, we're just about
to open the biggest,
deepest cut, you know,

I've ever done in my life,
you know?

We *bleep* need that machine.

[Narrator] Rick Ness
is racing to get to pay-dirt

in the deepest cut
he's ever mined.

We're gonna have
just enough time
to pull this off.

[Narrator]
But his only dozer is down
and work is at a standstill.

So, I've got a mechanic here
and hopefully we lose
as little time as possible

because, literally,
time is precious right now.

[Narrator] He calls in
local mechanic Rob Baillie
in the hopes he can

get the monster machine
up and running.

So, what do you
think it is, buddy?

There's so many
things that could be
wrong with it, yeah.

There's a ton *bleep*
dirt to move, and...

But we're going from trying
to open up a huge payday
to, you know,

possibly going bankrupt here.

If we don't have that machine
I'm going to be *bleep* so...

It's becoming
a big *bleep* problem.

If it's this wiring
that's relatively
cheaper to fix,

but there's about
a million wires under there

and there's no way to remember
which one is which.

Now I have to test ohms
which is a measure
of the resistance,

which is basically
how hard it is
for the electricity

to flow through the wire.

So lower is better for wiring.

No. That's concerning.

And that's
not beeping at all
which is not a good sign,

which means there might be
something in this connector,
some dirt or something.

Okay, let's see
where I can put this in.

I've just blown
all the dust...
as much dust as I can out.

And, hopefully,
that'll fix our problem.

We'll test drive it and,
hopefully, we don't get
any bad pressure readings.

We'll know once
we run it, for sure.

Okay, I'll jump in there
and get it going.

There you go.

*bleep*

[Brennan] That's more like it.
Seems to be working good.
Nothings blinking or *bleep*.

[Narrator] Taken down by
dust particles in a connector.

The $500,000 dozer
is back in action.

[Brennan]
That was a simple fix
at the end of the day.

Get a bunch of this
ground done so we can
get down to pay,

and run a bit from here
before the end of the season.

[Rick] We got lucky
on this one, man.

I think this is going
just about as good
as it can at the moment.

I mean, if we're going to hit
our 200,000 ounce gold

we got to get
to the bottom of this,

and this 475
is gonna get us there.

So, onward to the goal.

It's really important
that we get this extension
done here as fast as we can.

[Narrator]
On the airstrip cut
Big Red has been down

for three days, while Mitch
searches for gold-rich pay
under the old access road.

Well, the pressure
is definitely on today

for us to get
down to some pay-dirt,
get it through a wash plant,

and see if we can't get
to that 7,000 ounces.

Mitch. Mitch.

- What's happening?
- My excavator went down.

Great, now we're screwed.
Have you got anything else
you can do down there

- in the meantime, or...
- No.

- That's your next plan. Okay.
- That's the only
holed-out area.

Gotcha. Have to come down
and take a look at it.
Always something.

[Narrator]
With Tyson's only excavator
down at the Promised Land,

Mitch is forced
to abandon opening
the airstrip extension.

[Mitch] Lots to do
and not enough hours
in the day.

You know, this is a struggle.
If I could spend the whole day
down here at Big Red,

well, we could get that
where it needs to be.

But that means
things are going to stop
over here at Ken's ground.

You know, that's part
of being a foreman.
You got to, you know,

go to where
the biggest problem is,

and right now
that seems to be everywhere.

Oh, with any of these problems
you just have to
work through 'em.

Just takes time.
Just... all time that's lost.

Well, she ain't gonna go.
That starter is done.

The starter's just probably
started its last start here.

Which means we're going
to have to pull this out
and get a replacement in here.

This is gonna
take me a bit, so...

[Narrator] For every hour
Big Red is down
Parker is losing over $3,500,

and Mitch's final push
at the Airstrip cut
falls further behind.

Meanwhile, Sluicifer
is at risk of a shut-down
if Tyson loses more than

a day of stockpiling pay.

[Mitch] Biggest thing
that we ran into is just
having enough time in the day.

You know, we're always
trying to get every minute
every hour we can

of sluice time because
that's how you get
good cleanups.

That's how you have
a lot of gold at the end
of the season.

But, in order to
make that happen,
you got to have machinery

that you can count on
and you got to
take care of it.

- We're spread pretty thin,
hey, Mitch?
- Exactly.

It all needs to be done,
and we only have
so many machines

and so many people.

[drilling]

[Mitch] We're good to go.
So when I holler at ya
just hold it,

and hopefully it'll start
cranking and catch,
and then just let off.

[Mitch] Go ahead.

Nailed it!

Now that I have the 480 back
I can get back at her...

but, you know,
right now at the Airstrip

Mitch is gonna be
in a tough spot.

There's only so much
one guy can do in a day.

[narrator] After losing
four hours to repairs,

Mitch gets back to
clearing overburden.

[Mitch] I'm out here trying to
get some more material up.

We're able to get it
through the wash-plant quick,

you know,
it could be the difference
of hitting our mark here,

getting 700oz,

but we're not
down to pay-dirt yet.

[narrator] Working on
Tyson's excavator
has left Mitch behind,

with over 1,000 yards
of overburden
still left to go.

[Mitch] The biggest struggle
is just machines and people.

We just don't have
enough people

and it's really tough
to move a lot of material,

so we're gonna
cross our fingers and hope
there's no more problems.

[Tyson, over radio]
Hey, Mitch, you got a copy?
Mitch?

Yeah, go ahead. What's up?

[Tyson] Hey, man... [static]
...the 460... [static]
...down here at Sluicifer...

[Mitch] My radio's
breaking up. What was that?

Hey, man, I have things
pretty well under control
down here at Sluicifer.

Do you need a hand
up at Big Red at all?

Yeah, we got lots going on
over here.

Definitely head on over
this way.

Okay, sounds good, man.
I'm on my way.

[Tyson] You know, Mitch and I,
we're running
two separate plants,

we're running
two separate cuts,
but at the end of the day

it's one company, one team,
one crew, one goal,

and the goal is to get
as much gold out of the ground
as we can,

and, you know, I thought
I'd come and give him a hand

and see if we can get him
caught up.

[Mitch] It's so awesome
to see Tyson came up.

[horn beeps]

That's nice,
seeing those trucks
rolling that quick.

Happy as a pig in *bleep*.

[Mitch] Now it's just
such a great feeling.

We've got everything
swinging away down here.

You know, we're getting
something done, man.

We can literally move
a mountain of dirt
in one day, in one shift.

Hey, Justin, you got a copy?

Oh, yah.

Hey, man,
I got the first scoop of
the Airstrip Road Extension

piled up here, if you want to
start sending it through
that wash-plant.

[Justin] Right on.
Let's get that gold, baby.

You scoop her, I dump her.
Keep it coming.

[man] Fire it up!

[Mitch] I can't believe
how much dirt we've moved.

You know,
it's just crazy to think that
at the start of the day here

we had a road right next to
where that cut was,

and you look over there now
and, man, we've moved
a mountain of dirt here.

You know, it's just so good
for morale.

Everybody in the crew,
you know, just...

Just see how much you can
get done when everything's
rolling real smooth.

We're definitely
fighting the clock,

so that means running
this little plant just as fast
and hard as we can.

I've been up here
long enough to know

that, you know,
this is all about
the yardage game for us.

The more dirt you can get
through that wash-plant,

the better week
you're going to have.

Oh, yeah.

That'll get us out of here
a little quicker.

So, right now
I just cranked up Big Red
to 240 yards an hour.

You know, Parker wants to
get to Mud Mountain
as quick as we can.

That's the only way
we can get there any sooner.

Hi, baby. Hi, little girl.
[chuckling]

Are you not impressed
with life?

Ah, yes, there you go.

That's half a smile, at least.
Yes, there is.

Hi.

[narrator] After being denied
a licence on the Indian River
two months ago,

the "King of the Klondike,"
Tony Beets,

has been jumping
from cut to cut
at Paradise Hill,

hoping to find
a rich honey-hole.

Now it's time to see
how the last of the pay from
the Eighty Pup measures up.

So, how did it go this week?

Why don't you weigh it up,
see how much we got
this week?

- Okay. Everybody ready?
-[Minnie] Yes, we are.

Three, two, one, boom.

[woman] Ten... twenty...

thirty...

[narrator] So far,
the Eighty Pup cut
has paid out 180oz a week.

...90... 100...





-[jar rattles]
- 154.76oz.

[narrator] ...worth $278,000,

bringing Tony's total
to 1,815oz.

-[Mike] Not amazing,
not terrible.
- It's not amazing.

- Not really, no.
- Well, we're sitting
a little over 1,800 now.

- That's still a long ways away
from where we want to be.
- Yeah.

[Minnie] Words of wisdom
from Tony Beets.

[all laugh]

[narrator] At Scribner Creek,
it's time to find out

if Mitch's hunch
about the access road
has paid off.

-[Doumitt] Oh, you're
the new guy.
- Yeah.

- Well, we have to
play catch-up. New guy?
- Yeah, you're the new guy.

- What's up?
- Hey, how you doing, buddy?

Oh, you know.
Another day, another dollar.

- There you go.
- Pretty good, man.

- But things are
going good, yeah?
- Yeah...

I mean, well, that all depends
on what you tell us here.

I don't want to jinx us
or anything, but, yeah...

You know, we just need to hit
that 700oz target

and, you know, move Big Red
over to Mud Mountain.

[Doumitt] And you're doing
good down there, huh, T?

[Tyson] I'm glad
I could help Mitch out
for a couple of days.

[Mitch] Glad you were able
to come down and help us out.
Thanks for coming out, man.

Well, you want to see
how we did

- with your first week
without Parker?
- Let's see it.

[Doumitt] Okay.
Tyson, we're going to do you.

[narrator] So far this season

Parker and his crew
have reached 2,800oz...

[Tyson] ...80, 100...

[narrator]
...just half of their total
this time last year.



[narrator] Worth $273,000.

- That's not bad.
- No.

[Doumitt] Okay, Mitchell.

-[Mitch] Hopefully there's
a lot of gold in that pan.
- Well, hopefully, yeah.

[narrator] Mitch needs Big Red
to produce 350oz a week

to keep up with the costs
of stripping Mud Mountain

and to hit
Parker's 700oz target.

[Mitch] 220. Keep her going.

[Doumitt] All I got,
right there.

[Mitch] 281.55oz.

[narrator] ...worth
half a million dollars.

[Doumitt] Oh, that's it.

You know, if we didn't do
the road extension,

man, I think
we'd come up way short.

But your next clean-up's
going to be critical.

Yeah.

But I think you made
a really good call

on opening up that road.

I think Parker'd be proud of
the ways you guys handled
these things, right?

- Well done, young man.
- All right. Nice job.

- Good job. Good job.
- Yeah.

- We'll see you next week.
- All right.

[Mitch] You know,
by doing that road extension,

it got us a lot closer
to where we need to be.

You know, I mean,
we're definitely a team
around here,

but we got a long ways to go.

- Oh.
-[laughing]

- The big man.
-*bleep* Your side-by-side
break down?

No. What are you guys
laughing about?

That's the farthest
I've seen him back
in a month or so.

-[laughter]
- Can I get a beer?

Oh. Thank you.

So, were you excited
to finally get
that 475 running?

Oh, *bleep*, man, to be
on top of that high wall,

it was something
I've never got to do before.
That was pretty sweet.

That thing can move a mountain
in a hurry.

- Holy *bleep*.
- I'm glad you didn't
blow her up out there, man.

I would have just *bleep*
shut my phone off
and went into hiding.

When you know that
something's that much money,

it scares the *bleep*
out of you.

Like, that could cr*pple
a guy's season, right there,

and that's not what
I would want to have
on my shoulders.

Well, I appreciate that,
and I too am glad
it was just a sensor.

I don't need to be having
a heart attack
over here, so...

Here goes the piggy bank,
like this,

until you find that gold,
and then you get to
balance it out, eh?

Yeah. The piggy bank
will be *bleep* pawned
after it's empty

before we start
filling it back up again.

- You gonna count
the numbers there?
- Yes, let's do it.

[narrator]
After today's final pay-out
from the Deep Cut...

- Brennan, if you can
read the numbers...
- Yep.

Okay.

[narrator] ...over halfway
through the season,

Rick sits just shy of 700oz.

[Brennan] Ten...











*bleep*,
that's not a bad number.

[narrator] ...worth nearly
$150,000,

bringing Rick's season total
to 770oz.

-*bleep*, yeah.

- Nice.
- I'll take one of those.



Little high-five? High-five.

- High-five?
-*bleep* guys are sweet.

I mean, 82.8oz,
another good number,

especially to look at
the people we've got here,
not much.

But we are still
going for 2,000oz.

[narrator] All bets
are on Rally Valley

and whether they will
hit pay-dirt and see gold
again this season.

It's time to...
It's time to stop
*bleep* around, you know?

- I think we're done with
the small potatoes here.
- Yeah.

We're going on
to bigger things.

Time to start
swinging for the fences
with Rally Valley,

because we're gonna have
some big *bleep* numbers to
put up at the end of the year.

And I'm *bleep*
excited about it.

It's a big undertaking
for me and the rest of us,

and I can't wait
to see the reward.

- We got a lot of dirt to move.
Shall we get it?
- Yeah, let's get to work.

You know, I came here
to find a ton of gold
on big equipment,

and can't wait to see
what's at the bottom
of Rally Valley.

[Rick] Well, that's it.
Rally Valley's open
for business.

There's no looking back now.

We're either going to
smash it out of the park or...

having to go home bankrupt.

[narrator] Still to come
on this season of Gold Rush...

This was the stuff
we'd been waiting on.

[Parker] We're going to
find out if my mountain
pays off.

I just don't want to say
we didn't try.

Shut her down! Shut her down!

Let's get *bleep* rich!

[man] Monster Red's coming
to its new home.

[man 2] Over a million yards
of overburden.

This is the biggest risk
I've ever taken,

but the pay-off underneath
is going to be worth it.

Probably the best pan
I've ever done in my life.

That changes everything.

We could be looking at
striking it rich.

[man] The most important goal
I have is to give my team
a future.

Whoa!

- Remember
what's in the contract.
- You're far away.

Everything that could go wrong
went wrong.

Hell, I'm an emotional wreck.

Who doesn't like a good fight?

[men cheering]

You guys are k*lling it.
Be proud of that.

-[Minnie] Okay, feed the kid.
-[laughs]

Oh, that's a good sound.

That there, fellas,
is pure gold.

Of course, I always want more.