12x19 - Gold at Last

[bunniefuu]

[Parker] Mud Mountain's
where the bulk of our money
was spent this season,

and that's where hopefully
the bulk of the gold's
gonna come from.

[narrator]
Parker Schnabel

has gambled over $4 million
to get to pay at Mud Mountain.

Now, with just a month to go
before the Yukon winter
shuts him down,

he's counting on
the deepest cut
he's ever mined

paying out big.

[Parker] The first couple
cleanups went bad.

At only an ounce or two
an hour, it's definitely not
looking too promising yet.

It's not producing
like it should be.

[Mitch]
You're always wondering,
you know,

is it gonna sluice
as well as it drilled?

You know, are we gonna see
some awesome cleanups here?

Now that we're mining it,
well, it's mining
pretty average.

So, it's definitely
disappointing.

[Parker] Have we figured out
where any of the gold is yet?

[Mitch] The strange thing
is here, you look at it

and it doesn't even
look, like, really
awesome-looking...

- [Parker] No, nothing in here...
- [Mitch] ...pay.

- [Parker] ...has been awesome-looking.
- [Mitch] Yeah.

[Parker] And I just want
to pick nuggets out
of the *bleep* bank!

- [Mitch] Out of the hill?
- [Parker] Is that too much to ask?

- Now, his is pretty much all bedrock, huh?
- [Mitch] Yeah.

[Parker] Might find
some gold in the bedrock.

If that's where we're at
then I think we should
probably just do it.

[Mitch] I really don't want
to be sending bedrock
up to the wash plant there

'cause we're trying
to keep that thing
in one piece.

[Parker] Yeah, I get that,
but for me,

it's just making sure
that we get as much gold
out of the ground as we can.

I'm just curious
how diggable it is.

[Mitch] In the rest
of the valley,

when we get into this
and it's hard.

[Parker] There's one way
to find out and that's
with a big old wash plant.

[Mitch] Copy that.

[narrator] To find
the super-rich material

the drill tests
indicate is here,

Parker decides to go
even deeper

and run the bedrock
beneath the pay layer.

[Parker] Hate running bedrock,
whether there's lots of gold
in it or not, whatever,

like, we're committed
to doing it and we've
got to get it finished.

[Mitch] Right now,
it looks like it's all about

getting this bedrock here
out of Mud Mountain,
get it up to Big Red.

If this is what Parker
wants to do,

risking tearing things up
and breaking*bleep*,

this is what we're gonna,
you know, send through
our wash plants here.

[narrator] Rookie miner
Justin Fraser feeds Big Red.

[Mitch on radio]
Justin, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Mitch.

Hey, man, we got some real
chunky bedrock here
coming out of Mud Mountain,

you know, there's a good
chance there's some
good gold in here.

[Justin] Copy that,
I'll throw her in.

[loud bang]

Whoa!

[bleeps]

Gonna have to hop in there
and clean it out a bit.

Material we're running
out of Mud Mountain,

is plugging her up,
but we gotta
catch it right away,

or if the rock jams up,
it can hit the belt, then
we'll have a real disaster.

[bleeps]

[narrator] After an hour
of downtime, Justin fires up
Big Red again

and crosses his fingers
it's worth the struggle.

[Justin] Let's hope
this works.

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

[narrator]
Tony Beets is chasing
a 4,500-ounce target

mining Paradise Hill's
wall cut.

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

[narrator] But with only
a month left in the season,

he has just


We're at the end
of the season,

we're gonna try to sluice
as much as possible.

Right now, we're not
gonna waste time

trying to*bleep*
around with another cut.
We're still sluicing.

We're gonna have to
run this material
as efficiently as possible,

it's all we can hope for.

[narrator] After missing out
on an Indian River
water license,

Tony's got a plan
for a quick cash infusion.

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

[narrator] Three years ago,
Tony bought the Jasmine B
and the Kid Commando

to haul Dredge 2
from Thistle Creek


Now, he needs to drag
the larger one, the Jasmine B,

out of the river
to deliver to his buyer.

*bleep*

*bleep*

[narrator] To remove
the Jasmine B,

Tony must first move
a paddle-wheeler
out of the way,

push the Jasmine B
back into the river

and remove the steel skids
it's resting on,

before winching the Jasmine B
onto the river bank,
ready for transport.

All without putting a scratch
on any of the boats.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony has pulled
all his best operators
off the mine site

to try and get the job done
in just two days.

[Tony speaking]

[Tony] Monica!

[Mike] Uh...
Uh, you gotta turn.

- *bleep*
- Other way, other way.

[Monica] Oh, my *bleep*.

*bleep*

[Tony speaking]

[Len] Yes.

[Mike] You think we're ready?

[Monica] Fire it up!

[narrator] Tony only had time
to bring two loaders
down from Paradise Hill.

He's counting on them
having enough power

to push the 100-ton Jasmine B
off the slipway.

*bleep*

[Tony laughing]

[narrator] Now,
Tony needs the loaders

to drag the steel skids
it was resting on
out of the way.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Youngest son,
Mike, is back in the cab.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica on radio]
Guys, Mike and I are almost--
I think we are touching.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Holy *bleep*.

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

*bleep*

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

[narrator] At the Yukon River,

Tony Beets is battling
to drag a 100-foot steel skid
out of the way

so he can complete
the million-dollar sale
of his riverboat fleet.

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

[narrator] Tony brings in
two Kenworths

and the Oshkosh
tank transporter.

Their winches
have a combined pulling power
of over 100 tons.

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

[whistles]

[Kevin]
Not running one of those
winches, are you?

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

- [Kevin] Yes.
- [Len] Yes.

*bleep*

[Kevin] Yes.

*bleep*

*bleep*

Yeah.

[Len] Let's do this!

Let's crank it up!

Steady now!

[Tony speaking]

[Len]
*bleep* beautiful!

Huh? Yeah, I figured
that one was solid.

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

*bleep*

*bleep*

[Rick] We've only got
a few short weeks left.

You know, winter's coming,
and up here,

man, it can sneak up on you
way before you even know it.

[narrator] In the mountains
above Keno,

Rick Ness is pushing
for a 2,000-ounce season

to take him
into the Yukon mining
big leagues.

But he's less than halfway
to his target and winter
is closing in fast.

You know, we've still got
to hit our 2,000-ounce goal,

but we've got
this big beautiful wash plant

finally back up
and running after two years.

We're just about
at that high-grade pay
that we're looking for.

That's the stuff
we're gonna need.

[narrator] Rick's invested
almost $1 million

digging down 90 feet
in Rally Valley.

Drill results indicate they
should be approaching
the richest material,

paying out 3 ounces
per 100 yards,

and potentially worth
$5 million.

But first, they have
to sluice the low-grade
pay dirt above it.

[Rick] We're gonna have
to crank this plant up
to 300 yards an hour,

and just slam dirt
through that wash plant
till it freezes.

It's time to see what
that thing can really do.

[narrator] At their current
pace, Rick's team hope

to get down to the rich pay
layer in a matter of days.

We're not even halfway
to our 2,000-ounce goal yet.

And, you know, literally
running out of time.

We need a high-volume plant
which Monster Red is
absolutely built for.

I mean, 300 yards an hour
is *bleep* crazy.

[bleeps]

[narrator] Veteran operator,
Chris Kruse, digs out pay.

We got this slick new setup,
this hopper feeder.

Crank the plant back up
to 300 yards per hour,
[claps] boom.

It is just chowing
through pay dirt.

Like, I think our chances
are improving again
to 2,000 ounces.

[narrator] At their current
pace, Rick's team are hoping

to find the rich pay layer
in a matter of days.

Operator Kyle Lawson
feeds the plant.

[Kyle] Almost down
to this good pay.

Brennan is digging down.

The other guys are
hauling it so...

Just a matter of time.

So all hands on deck.
Just trying to get down
to the good stuff.

Oh, what the *bleep*
we got going on here?

Oh, *bleep*.

[on radio] Hey, Rick.
You got a copy?

Yeah, go for Rick.

Looks like we got rocks
rolling back down
this conveyor.

[Rick] That ain't good, buddy.
Yeah, I'll be right there.

[Rick] Yeah, this
ain't *bleep* good.

I mean, this is... This
is gonna be a problem.

Right, Kyle? I mean,
the rocks bouncing like that?

If they bounce they can
take out rollers, and if they
come all the way back

they're gonna smash right
into the *bleep* head drum.

Yeah. Can't have that.

If that keeps happening,
we're gonna have damage

and that damage is gonna
equal downtime and we just
can't *bleep* have it.

The rocks that we have
here, they're so round
they just wanna roll.

*bleep*, I don't
know what to do.

Without a mechanic,
the only thing I can
think of right now

is to call the company
I bought it from.

Keep it running for now.
Keep an eye on it.

If it starts getting outta
control, I don't...

- We may have to shut down.
- Okay.

Yeah, it *bleep* kills
me to do this,

but until we get a solution
for these rocks rolling...

Gonna have to keep it
at about 200 yards an hour.

Hopefully we figure this out
quick though, because...

Clock's ticking.

Hey, Barry. Rick Ness here.

I've got rocks rolling back
on that elevator conveyer.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah. No, that'd be great.
Like, how soon could
you guys be here?

All right.

All right, thanks a lot.

All right. Bye, Barry.

[narrator] Until the hopper
manufacturer can reach
lower Duncan Creek,

a two-day drive away,
Monster Red is stuck

running just 200
yards an hour.

And Rick is stuck
on his lower-grade pay.

They're gonna get in the truck
right now, come out to site,
and help me deal with this.

And then hopefully
they get here
with their solutions

and get running


[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

*bleep*

*bleep*

[narrator]
At the Yukon River...

*bleep*

[narrator] Tony Beets is back

to haul a million dollars'
worth of boats onto trailers,

ready for collection
by his buyer.

[Tony speaking]

We are trying to get
Jasmine a little bit
more out of the water.

We got the 500 Kenworth
over here with the winch
on the back.

So we put that
against the bank,

and then we winch
Jasmine onto the beach
as far as possible.

[Len on radio] Mine
is not pulling anymore.

[Tony speaking]

[loud bang]

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

[narrator] Tony's winch
tractors are slipping
on the riverbank's soft sand.

Jasmine is a little bit
too heavy to keep
the 500 Kenworths in place.

So we are dragging
the Kenworths into the river

instead of the other way
around, how it should be.

[Tony speaking and bleeps]

[Len] Jump in the loader.
Maybe we don't need it,
jump in the loader.

Eh?

[Tony speaking]

[cell phone ringing]

*bleep*

*bleep*

*bleep*

*bleep*

*bleep*

*bleep*

[Len] [bleeps] eh?

*bleep*

*bleep*

*bleep*

[Justin] It's gnarly bedrock
that we're pulling out.

It's definitely not easy
on our equipment.

It's banging and crashing
hard on the shaker deck.

[narrator] At Mud Mountain,
Parker Schnabel's
running bedrock

hoping it holds
the $8 million in gold

the drill results
indicate is here.

- [Parker] How's things here?
- [Mitch] She's pretty full.

[Parker] Yeah, and with
that bedrock it packs
worse too, huh?

- [Mitch] Yeah.
- [Parker] Keep going.

[Justin] All this big bedrock
is not easy on the whole
wash plant.

We can't really afford
any more repercussions
or downtime.

Had way too much of it.

[Mitch] Damn.

- [loud bang]
- Whoa! Holy *bleep*!

[rattling]

[Mitch] Whoa!

[Parker] What the *bleep*
is going on here?

Well, as you can see,
this motor's jumping
all over the place.

The reason for that,

this right here.
This is a tensioner.

This keeps this
motor isolated.

And you can see it's broke.

All the vibration
and the rattling
and energy

that gets transferred
through these machines,

running bedrock takes
a toll on them.

[narrator] Mud Mountain
is refusing to give up its
bedrock gold without a fight.

What do you think, Ty?
Can we just--
Can we pull this thing down?

Is that bolt gonna be
long enough?

[Tyson speaking]

[Mitch] Yeah? Get this
thing going again.

[Tyson speaking]

[Mitch] Perfect.

You're gonna have to pull
this back into place,

reweld this, see if we
can get it fixed.

[Mitch] Oh, man.
She looks like it's
been broke for a while.

Must just have been rattling
around in there
and finally let loose.

[narrator] At Parker
Schnabel's claim,

Mud Mountain bedrock
has broken Big Red.

[Mitch] So there's a bolt
that runs through here.

You can see it's just
ripped its way out,

and you can see it's kinda
rusty on this side,

so it must have been
cracked for a bit here.

But it finally broke
all the way.

With this not attached here...

That motor can just jump
around, do whatever it wants.

[narrator] A bolt holding
the tensioner,

which isolates the motor
from the shaker deck,

has broken loose from
the steel plate it sits on.

Mitch's fix, hoist the motor
back into position.

Realign the tensioner bolt,

and weld it back
into the plate.

Gotta get the motor back
in place, so the belts
stay on there,

they stay tight,
the shaker deck shakes,

and this motor isn't
jumping all over the place.

[hammering]

So right now, we just gotta
get this back into position.

Once we do that, then
we can weld it up.

So we gotta get that bolt
lined right back up
where it was there.

Then we can polish it up
and throw a weld on it.

So right now, we've
got the shaker motor
back in place.

We've got the tensioner bolt
put back where it needs to be.

We're gonna weld
this thing back up.

Once we do that, we'll
take the clamps off.

You know, Big Red's taken
a lot of abuse this season
and we gotta keep it going.

Once we do this,
we can fire back up.

And hopefully we can get
through this pay dirt here
from Mud Mountain

before we have
any more problems.

[Tyson] Watch your eyes.

[narrator] Time to see
if Tyson's weld holds.

[Tyson] 30 seconds or 30 feet,
that's my warranty.

Man, I think that's solid.
Let's get her fired back up.

- Sounds good.
- [Justin] Let's try her out.

[Mitch] Hopefully,
when we hit the switch,

this shaker deck will shake
like it's supposed to.

[Mitch] Yeah! That's
what I'm talking about!

Crank it up!

[Rick] We finally got
Monster Red up and running.

But we cannot run
at full capacity.

[narrator] Rick Ness
is in a race to reach


chasing the richest pay
of the season.

But Monster Red's speed
has been reduced

from 300 to 200 yards
of dirt per hour.

And if the ground is as good
as drilling showed,

he could be missing out
on thousands in gold.

[Rick] Having problems with
the feed conveyor, so I've
had to dial it back

and if I have to run like that
for the rest of the season,
I'm*bleep*.

'Cause we got a lot of yardage
to run through, so...

I did call the company,
and they are gonna send
some guys up here to fix it.

And I just really hope
they have a solution
and a quick one.

We got this high-earnings
plant and to be running

what we're running
through it, it's...

It's not gonna get us
anywhere close.

We might as well have
just kept running Rocky.

- How's it going?
- Hey, Scott.

Scott, nice to meet you. Rick.

- Hello, Rick. Barry Proctor.
- Barry, nice to meet you.

- You're the one I've been talking to.
- You have.

- Right on.
- How are things going?

[Rick] You know, I cranked it
up. Obviously, it can
handle it.

But the problem is that
we've got some impossibly
round rock here.

And, at that speed,
I'm getting them tumbling back

down the conveyor
like I told you.

- Okay, we got basketballs coming backwards?
- [Rick] Exactly.

I've got the ground open,
and I need to crank
this thing up

as high as I can go
for the rest of the season.

I'm running out of time.

How fast are you running
the plant right now?

Right now, we're at
about 200 yards an hour.

[Barry] And where would
you like to get to?

I wanna get it
to 300 yards an hour.

- [Barry] Okay, well, we can help you with that.
- [Rick] Okay.

[Barry] We'll just draw it
out here for an example.

So what I'd like to do
is build a set of fingers.

As the rock comes back
down, it can't get
through the fingers.

I see.

[narrator] Barry Proctor
and Scott Ezekiel will
build a finger trap.

A frame constructed
with eight metal fingers
hung from a horizontal beam.

The fingers let pay dirt
and rocks pass through.

But any rocks rolling
down the conveyor...

Are caught and then
carried up to the plant.

[chuckling] Nice.

That seems like
a great solution.

But the major question
I always have to ask, though,
is how long is it gonna take?

We're probably looking at
four or five hours.

So we gotta shut down
for four or five hours, huh?

I just need you
to completely stop for...

maybe 15, 20 minutes?

So we can bolt it on.

- Oh, that's it?
- That's it.

[Rick] Oh, I love that.

- Okay. It sounds good.
- Awesome.

- Thanks, Rick.
- Thanks, guys.

[narrator] Barry and Scott
will have to construct

Rick's finger trap entirely
out of salvaged scraps
from his boneyard.

[Scott] Well, looks like
good little scavenger piles.

[Barry] Oh, yeah,
this'll work.

So we need something like


some flat bar,
or some channel.

There we go.

That's gonna do the trick,
right there.

[narrator] After four hours...

[Barry] Watch your hands.
Just dump it.

- [narrator] ...the finger trap is complete.
- Yep.

[Rick] Shut it down!

[Kyle on radio] Heads up!
Here it comes, Scott.

[Scott] Right on. Looks good!

It looks good!

Wrap her up, and let's start
putting some rock to her.

[Barry] Fire it up!

[Rick] Cranking it back up
to 300 yards an hour.

[narrator] The new finger trap
is ready to be tested.

[Rick] Boo-yah!

Yee-haw!

[Barry] Hello, Rick.

Well, we got you up
to your 300 yards an hour.

[Rick] No *bleep*.

You don't have any rocks
rolling back anymore.

Yeah, that's simple,
effective.

There's no way for rocks
to get through that.

I *bleep* love it!

Yeah, it turned out good.

[narrator] Monster Red is back

to running 300 yards
of dirt an hour,

and Rick is back in
the race to get down
to the high-grade pay.

I can't thank you guys enough.

- [Barry] Well, thank you.
- [Rick] Yep.

Thanks again, guys.

[Kyle] Everyone's
pretty stoked.

We're not running
at 200 anymore.

We're back up,
and running at full.

It's a good feeling.

[Brennan] Got that plant
cranked back up

to 300 yards an hour,
and it's time to rock and roll

and see what
this deep ground's
gonna have in it.

[Rick] Get some gold!

[narrator] At Mud Mountain,

Mitch and gold expert
Chris Doumitt

are pulling the mats,

after a week running
the cut's bedrock.

[Mitch] Hopefully, there's
some gold in there!

Well, right now we're just
starting to clean up
here on Big Red.

How's it look, Chris?

[Chris] Hey, Mitch.
Looking good, man.

- Looking really good.
- [Mitch] Yeah?

I mean, we've already pulled

four to six feet of bedrock
out in spots.

[Chris] Yeah, it's like...

It's a lot of bedrock.

But you know, that's what
I think the most exciting part

about all this is, every time
you turn off the wash plant,

- and you come up here and have a look...
- Yeah.

...you never know what
you're gonna find!

So every time you open
this thing up, and start
cleaning these mats,

- it's like a Christmas morning.
- [Mitch] Exactly.

You never know.

You might get a pair of socks,
or you might get a bicycle,
right?

- [Mitch] Or you might get some coal.
- [chuckling] Yeah!

All right. We'll catch you
later, Mitch!

[Mitch] Cool. Have a good one!

[narrator] At Paradise Hill,

Tony has been running
White Channel pay
from the wall cut all week.

[Tony speaking]
[bleeps]

- [Monica] You're related to all them. I'm sorry!
- [Minnie laughs]

- Excuse me?
- [laughs]

[Minnie] So, how did things
go this week?

*bleep*

[Kevin] Well, once we got
the loaders over there,
got the winch tractors.

- [Minnie] And everything else.
- [Monica] Well, I mean,

if Mike would have stopped
hitting me with his loader,

- it would have been fine.
- [all chuckle]

[Mike] Was that
before or after
you hit me with yours?

[Minnie] Anyways,
it's too bad the buyer

pulled out of buying
the barges.

[clicks tongue]

*bleep*

[Minnie] Yeah.

Doesn't always pay,
does it? [chuckles]

[Minnie] Well, now you know
for next time.

I counted last,
so who's counting now?

[Monica] I'm busy.

[all laughing]

[narrator] To hit his


each week Tony needs


[Faith] 10.

















[narrator] Worth
over half a million dollars

and their highest haul
of the season.

But over 70 ounces short
of what they need

in a week that he also lost
a million-dollar deal
for his fleet of boats.

[Tony speaking]

[Minnie clicks tongue]
That is so true.

*bleep*

[Minnie] Anyways,
it's time for everybody
to go back to work.

Yep.

[Minnie] Go for it, Mike!

- [Mike] I'm going.
- [Minnie] Easy with that.

- [Mike grunts]
- [Minnie] Bye!

Bye!

Just bugger off.

[Tony speaking]

*bleep*

- [baby cooing]
- [Minnie] Anyways,

your granddaughter
agrees with you.

*bleep*

- Ah!
- [kisses]

[both chuckle]

[Kruse] No phones
at the dinner table.

Okay.

[narrator] At lower Duncan,

the Ness crew are about
to find out

if they've hit high-grade pay,
in the Rally Valley.

- [chuckling]
- [indistinct conversation]

Guys, it's been *bleep*
a little scary about

how quick the leaves started
turning yellow, eh?

Oh, yeah, it just happened
overnight, almost.

[Brennan] *bleep*,
it's getting chilly

- in the morning, too.
- Yep.

And the days have
gotten short like that, fast.

At least we're all
on the same level,

to be working here
with this guy.

- What the hell is wrong with us?
- [Kruse] Yeah.

- [bottle rattles]
- Yeah, exactly.

- [Brennan] We're friends first.
- [Kruse] Mmm!

- We're all here because we're not--
- Holy *bleep*!

- [Brennan chuckles]
- Oh, sorry, yeah.

- [bottle rattles]
- Damn!

- [Nathan] Nice!
- Did you hear that?

Yes, sir.

[Kruse] Is that lead?

Uh...

[laughing]

- [Rick] Yes, we're lead miners.
- Whoo!

That is actually gold.

Lots of gold.

- [Kruse] That sounded...
- [Brennan] That sounded heavy.

- [Kruse] Totes heavy.
- Yeah.

It was going
pretty good all week,

you know, at 200
yards an hour,

and then I had to get greedy
and turn it up to 300.

I know where you learned
that trick from.

- [Rick groans]
- [all laughing]

- But it's got the capacity.
- [Brennan] Yeah.

- You know what I mean?
- [Brennan] Oh, for sure.

The rocks here are so round,
though, you know,

they just started
rolling back like that.

We weren't running
at max capacity
for the whole week.

- So...
- [Brennan] Mmm-hmm.

...a couple days we had
to dial it back

to 200 yards an hour, but...

You know, we did get
a full week,


That's 70 hours.

Should we see what we got?

- *bleep*, yeah.
- Yeah.

- [Nathan] For sure.
- Enough jibber-jabber, let's *bleep*

get a taste of what
we got going on.

[narrator] Rick Ness'
massive gamble
on Rally Valley

has yet to pay off.

His weekly average
this season
is just 59 ounces.

I gotta be honest with you.
I know that this is more
than 130 ounces

and that's all my scale
goes up to.

[chuckles]

I'm just gonna...

I'll dump out 100 first,
and then switch pans, I guess.

[Nathan] [bleeps]

- I like that problem. [chuckles]
- [Rick] Right?

Nate, you want
to count it, buddy?

[Nathan] Oh, yeah. You betcha.























[Brennan] If I'm not mistaken,
that's 580 ounces!



[narrator] Rick's biggest-ever
gold weigh, worth $325,000.

- [Rick] 181 ounces, boys.
- [Nathan] [bleeps]

- Yeah.
- [Nathan] And then, that was for 70 hours?

Yeah. I mean,
that's 300 grand in a week.

That's one of the biggest
gold weighs we've had.

- Oh, absolutely.
- [Nathan] Oh, yeah.

So that puts us
at just over 1,000 ounces.

*bleep*, yeah.

Monster gold dumpster,



and we get to that good pay?

We're gonna get it.

Thanks again.
You guys are awesome.

You betcha. Thank you.

[Rick] I'm gonna have to leave
my beer behind
to carry two pans.

- That sucks.
- Aw, poor you.

- [chuckles]
- [Nathan] Sounds like a real bad problem to have.

- [Kruse] Sure as hell does.
- [Rick] Yeah, I'll clean up after you.

[all chuckling]

[Parker laughing]

Ohhh!

[chuckling]

[Chris] Well, that was
quite a week!

Good week, yeah.

Well, you tell if
it's a good week.

We're out there
ripping pay dirt, so...

[Parker] If Doumitt's leading
with saying it's a good week,

then it was actually
a good week.

[Chris] It was a good week.

For one of you.

[all chuckle]

[Chris] I remember
running a plant.

I hated it when I saw a truck
coming with that blocky stuff.

- [all laughing]
- It's nothing but a pain in the butt.

Chris'd get on the radio,
"Send it back."

- Yeah!
- "Send it back."

- Send it back, yeah!
- [all laughing]

Just send that one
right over the edge
with tailings. [laughs]

Good thing those days
are long behind you, Chris.

[Chris] Yeah!

How's it going down there
at, uh, Ken's?

Oh, good. Just chugging away.

I'd say we're about halfway
through the Bad Cut right now,
but...

Well, I think we ought
to throw Sluicifer on there,

and see how
the Bad Cut's turning out.

- [Tyson] Yeah, let's do it.
- Ready?

[Parker] Why do you want
to do the bad stuff first?

When you were a kid,
and people asked you,

"Do you want the good news
or the bad news?"

would you pick the good news
or the bad news?

[Chris] Bad news.

- [Tyson] Mmm-hmm.
- Here we go. Bad Cut.

[Tyson] Let's do her.

[narrator] Last week
at the Bad Cut,

Sluicifer delivered


[Tyson] 60.









There you go.
Living up to its name.

- [Mitch] That's not that bad.
- [Chris] No.

[narrator] ...worth
over $200,000.

- Yeah.
- Yeah. It's not as good as the first cleanup, but...

- [Tyson] Which is odd, 'cause normally the first one...
- [Chris] Yeah.

- [Parker] Yeah.
- ...isn't very good, but...

But coming from you, I expect
things to be backwards.

- You know?
- [all chuckling]

[narrator] Next,
time to find out

if Parker's gamble
running the bedrock

was the right call.

[Chris laughs]

All the fun stuff.
Blocky bedrock.

- You ready?
- [Parker] Yeah, we know. Do it!

*bleep* see what
we got here!

[Chris] Okay, let me
read it out.

[narrator] So far,
Big Red's best gold weigh

from Mud Mountain...

[Chris] 30.

[narrator] ...has been
just 190 ounces.

[Chris] 150.







- [Mitch] Keep going.
- [Chris] 300.





Keep her coming!

So this is on top
of 300 and change.

We got another 50.

Another 70.

Another 84.45.

You must know
what those add up to.



- [Tyson] No way!
- Yeah.

[narrator] Worth
a massive $870,000.

And finally,
a change of fortune
at Mud Mountain.

Sweet! Man,
that was definitely

worth the struggle,
right there.

[Chris] Is that sweet or what?

[Mitch] That's gotta be
the best cleanup
Big Red's ever had!

[Chris] Yeah. Yeah, it is.

For the week, you guys.

This is pretty sweet.
It's 596.95 ounces.

- [laughs]
- Almost a 600-ounce week.

Is that our best week
this year?

Oh, by far. Yeah, by far.

[narrator] In total,
the Schnabel crew

has brought in over
a million dollars in gold
this week.

It gives us a season total
of 5,230 ounces,



The numbers are climbing
really quick, eh?

- [Mitch] Yeah.
- [Parker] Yeah.

Oh, yeah,
with weeks like this.

I mean, yeah, but the way
it drilled, like, really...

It' supposed to have
a *bleep*-ton of gold in it.

So we're definitely behind
what the drilling was showing,
but...

It's just nuts to do
that much gold in a week

and still be behind,
but if it's gonna
keep doing this.

then it shouldn't take long
to catch up.

- [Mitch] Yeah.
- But, yeah, that's a big "if."

- [Chris] Yeah.
- [Mitch] Let's do it.

- Let's shake them up!
- [Tyson] Sounds good.

[Mitch] All righty!

- [Parker] Well, thanks, guys.
- [Chris] Catch you guys later! Later!

Thank you both.

- [Tyson] Any time.
- All three of you.

Chris, nice job
cleaning the stuff.

Oh, thanks, Parker.

[Parker] Yeah,
it's really nice.