13x13 - Big Gold Energy

[bunniefuu]

[Tyson] What's going on?

[Parker] Oh, not a whole lot.

Thanks for coming over.

I just wanted to let you know
that I'm going back to Alaska.

Okay.

So, when you get back,
you want to see old
airstrip out, new airstrip in.

Well, the new airstrip in
and hopefully we can start
stripping on the old one.

- Gotcha.
- I mean,
it's still a lot of work.

I know.

I mean, your existing
one's pretty terrible.

So as long as it's an
improvement on that,
you're fine.

- And it's not very flat.
- No.

It's not very long
and it's very narrow.

Okay.

But you are going
to be the one flying
in and out of it.

So I don't--
I don't want to see.

Oh, that wasn't quite
long enough for...

And that been upside
down in the pond.

No, I don't want that either.

But yeah, if you could--
if you could get it done
while I'm gone.

Okay, man.

Well, we'll get after it,
and hopefully we can keep

everything else running
while we're doing that.

Thank you.
And good luck.

We still have a lot of ground
to open up here,
here in the Yukon,

and that starts
to get a little hairy
in the middle of the season.

[narrator] 27-year-old
Parker Schnabel is fighting

a w*r on two fronts
at his Klondike operation.

They're battling to mine
more ground than ever before.

[Parker] Mitch and Tyson
have their hands full
with two plants running.

They're right on the edge
of keeping up
with where we need

to be in order
to get all the ground
mined this season.

[narrator] Parker heads back
to Alaska to keep
his new operation on track.

[Parker] Back and forth
like a yo-yo.

[plane engine running]

[narrator] When he returns
in five days,

he wants to tally up
two weeks worth of gold.

Parker's crew have
finished stripping
the bear cut and are running

the dirt through
both of his wash plants,
but need to open up

more ground to stay ahead,

starting with the 2,000 foot
long runway

that Parker uses to fly
in and out of the Yukon.

A thousand feet southeast,
his crew must now also build

a new airstrip
to keep the skies open.

Well, we got a lot of mud
to move here,

if Parkers want to see another
section of ground open up,
down on the airstrip.

A project this size
is lots to be tackling
this time of year.

So definitely going
to need some reinforcements.

[narrator] While Mitch builds
a new runway, Chris Doumitt
starts to strip the old one.

It's all hands on deck.

You know what I mean,
that's what we do.

We help out around here.

It feels good to be able to do
this at this age.

Klondike old timer,
Ken Tatlow teams up
with Doumitt.

[Ken] Of the 84
in the first part
of September,

I'm still able to get up here,
but one thing is,
at the end of the shift,

it doesn't feel quite
as good as it does
in the morning.

[Chris] Hopefully
some of the best ground
we ever had.

Now, something we definitely
do not want to leave behind.

You know, opening up
this cat is certainly
going to be challenging.

A lot of mud to move here.

Speaking of moving, Ken,
why are you not moving?

[Chris on radio] Hey, Ken.

You all right over there, buddy?

I see that cat
has been moving.

It didn't break down on you,
did it?

No, no, the cat's fine.

It's just the operator
got stuck again.

I'm sitting on some clay
and sandy material,

so if you can help me out,
I'd greatly appreciate it.

It has rained
a lot and it makes us
absolutely slop.

Yeah, buddy.
No worries.

I'll be right there.

[Ken] Okay.
Well, one thing for sure.

- I'll be here.
- [laughs]

All right, Ken.

Let me try and get rid
of some of this for you.

Okay, Mitch.
Thank you.

[Mitch] You ain't kidding.

This stuff's off, man.

Might have to come dig
a little on the side there.

It's just like you're standing
on quicksand.

I could try and get a little
momentum there
and see what she does.

Hopefully that's enough.

Yeah, buddy.
Keep her going.

Yeah.
Now, we got it.

And I'll just get out
of this hole.

No, stop.

[narrator] Mitch takes over
in the million dollar
D11 to check for damage.

That does not feel right.

Take a look.

You see what's going on here?

Oh, that's not good.

This link is ready to break.

And we're not going
to be able to keep going
on like this,

because if we do,
what's going to happen
is this thing is going

to snap in half and this cat
is going to be stranded out
here in the middle of nowhere.

Hopefully we can get
her back up and run it quick
because as you can see,

we've got a mess
going on here.

This cat's the only way
we're getting
to the bottom of it.

[Lewis] Last week
was pretty much
our best gold week,

but it isn't going to come out
of the ground itself.

[narrator] Third gear
mine boss Fred Lewis
is finally on a roll.

He's banked 37 ounces of gold
so far this season,

but it's a long way
to go before he hits
his 500 ounce goal.

[Fred] We set ourselves
a pretty aggressive goal
this season.

We got a lot on the line.

Fuel isn't cheap,
but this group of vets,
I know they've been through

this [bleep] before
and quite frankly, I think
they work better in it.

It's a [bleep] stripping
and ripping down, man.

[narrator] Fred's crew
are on good pay
in the Freedom Cut.

Last week, they doubled
their season gold haul.

Now they must keep up
the pace feeding
sergeants sluice.

So we've got the 250
over at the wash plant
pumping pay,

but we need a 220 over there.

It's got to be pulling
the overburden

and the tailings away
at the same time.

So without this over there,
we really can't run.

Are you [bleep] kidding me?

Full derate.

This is not good.

[bleep]

Stop beeping.

[bleep]

JB, JB, this is Fred.

How copy over.

[JB on radio] Hey, Fred.

Hey, I got bad news, bro.

The 220 is in full derate.

[JB on radio] It won't even
rev up or anything.

[Fred] Negative.
And it's beeping.

It won't shut up.

[JB on radio]
Without that computer,
we can't reset code,

and it won't do nothing.

Rodger that.

That really [bleep]
right there,

because it's not just
a mechanical issue.

It's not something
we can just put the new part
in and go.

It's something we absolutely
have to have a certified
technician to reset the code.

[narrator]
In full derate mode,
the 220 is stuck on low power

and can't lift heavy loads.

[Fred] What's up, guys?

[blows raspberry]

Oh, please tell me great news.

Okay.
Well, see you.

Um, 220 is full derate.

What?



It's not good.

What that means is, Christopher,
it's a lot to ask,

but you're going
to basically be stuck

in the 250 indefinitely
feeding the wash plant.

Guys, we got to make
this happen.

You know that that goal
we set's pretty [bleep]
aggressive

and we're not going to hit it,
if we just sit around

and wait for things
to get fixed.

- Yeah.
- So let's adapt, overcome.

It is what it is.
Take the kick and move on.

[narrator] The 28 ton 250
excavator must now do
the job of two machines.

It'll have to feed the plant
and clear the tailings.

As much as I like being paid
and getting gold
and all that cool stuff,

I hate being in the plant

because of boring past
[bleep] jobs.

[narrator] 22-year-old
Chris Parker became
Fred's stepson,

winning the seven years old.

You know,
people who think that like,

oh, my [bleep] you're the--
you're the boss' son,
and that must be so nice.

No, it [bleep] sucks.

I can get the axe just
as much as anyone else can.

[loud bang]

Oh, what the [bleep].

Hey, Buzz, you got a coffee?

I think I just broke
the pen off the 250 track.

So I'll pull out, Chef.

First thing I got to do
is fix the [bleep] track.

[narrator] Yukon local buzz
has already had to fix
the track

on the 250 once this season.

[Buzz] Just popped off.

Might be a bit of a hassle,
but we'll get it.

Pick it up, flip it over,

hopefully get it back
on that sprocket.

Roll it on, tighten it up.

Get back to [bleep] work.

Yep.
Like that.

Now push it up.

[Fred] Oh, I came up
over the hill hoping to see
this wash plant running

and instead I see
everybody huddled around.

[man] Slide.

Keep going bro.
Keep it.

Go on, go on, go on.

Come on, come on.

Whoa, it's on.

[narrator] This season,
Fred's been hit by breakdown
after breakdown.

[man on radio] Let's do it.
Stop the truck.

[narrator] Gears on his ruck
truck's wheel imploded.

[Fred] Holy [bleep].

[narrator] And the bracket
on his dozer cracked.

[man] There's only about
an inch of this piece
holds them together.

[Fred] What the [bleep]
is up with the 250 like?

I don't know.

Christopher's been
a little hard on it.

Do you think that those track
pin issues are related
to operator error

or do you think
Christopher's doing
something he shouldn't?

It has a lot to do with it.

- Yeah.
- All right.

I know It's kind of frustrating.

It's not helping us.
It's hurting us pretty bad.

[Fred] Hey, Chris.

So this is old equipment,
you know that, right?

Pretty [bleep], I know. Yeah.

I agree.
I agree.

I've been talking
to JB about it,
and the consensus

is that we're going
to pull you off the pile.

We think that you're operating
the equipment a little bit
too rough up there.

How?

How am I operating
a bit too rough,
when I'm barely even moving?

[Fred] Well--

I just said
that this equipment
is [bleep] garbage.

I know you're not going
to like it.

I'm going to pull you off
the pile.

I'll just keep it,
keep it running.

This is pretty
[bleep] ridiculous,
in my opinion.

[Fred] I'm not blaming you.

What I'm saying is,
I'm going to pull you out
to see if it is you.

The problem stops,
it was obviously you.

And we'll figure out why
and we'll retrain you on it

and we'll move forward
at that point.

Don't hit me with the retrain.

- [Fred] I'm not--
- I don't need to be retrained.

This is sounding pretty
[bleep] insulting.

[Fred] Well, I'm not trying
to sell you, Christopher.

Right now the fact
of the matter is,
we need the plant running.

And if it's a problem
that's caused by an operator,
we have to figure out why.

All right?

Well, that's a pretty [bleep]
decision.

I'm [bleep] done with it.
I'm sick of it.

Not going to deal
with it no more.

- [Tony speaking]
- [woman] Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
King of the Klondike,
Tony Beets is running

paydirt 24 hours a day
out of two months to cuts.

And so far, he's banked over


toward his 5,000 ounce
season target.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
To keep the plant fed
with a constant stream

of gold rich pay,
Tony is alternating
between the two cuts.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony jumps between
his nine acre Cold Cut
and six acre Blue Cut,

sluicing white channel pay
from one, while he thaws
the pay channel in the other.

So he doesn't stop
his wash plant.

But the smaller blue cut
runs out of thawed pay

before the Cold Cut
is ready to sluice.

Tony plans to expand
the blue cut
by 40,000 square feet

by the end of the week
to balance
their gold production

and keep his wash plant
fed more consistently.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] My father literally
does not know how to relax.

He relax maybe for like
two days and then becomes
a squirrely damn b*stard.

[narrator]
Tony's youngest son,
Mike Beets,

has been placed in charge
of the cuts this season.

Just right in front
of my cousin here.

[man on radio] Hey, Cousin.

How much longer until
you think you're done?

[man on radio] An hour.

[narrator]
Alongside Cousin Mike,
he races to get the expansion

done with the two biggest
dozers in Tony's fleet,
the D10 and D11.

...my boots squealing.

[bleep] Damn,
that is annoying.

[bleep]

No [bleep] traction.

Any time I try to get
a full [bleep] blade,

all I end up doing is sitting
there spinning half the time
instead of pushing it forward.

Then the new grouser
is on the D10 here.

[narrator] The horizontal
grouser bars on Mike's D10
provide traction,

but they're worn down,
making it impossible
for the dozers tracks

to grip in the slick,
muddy conditions.

Tony Beets, do you copy?
Tony Beets, do you copy?

Yeah, the [bleep] grouser
on this D10 are basically
non-existent.

Can we get Kevin to get
somebody to fix them?

With the D10 down,
you only have the D11 to rip
and we have a [bleep]

load of ripping
that needs being done.

We're getting later
into the season.

Ground is starting
to freeze up again.

So yeah, stripping
will be a lot harder.

What's going on here?

Yeah.

These tracks
are really bad too.

They're even worse
than the D10.

[narrator] Worn down
by the harsh Yukon terrain,
both dozers now need

critical maintenance
at the worst possible time.

It's a real [bleep] pushing.

When you lose traction,
then your tracks
spin constantly

instead of you pushing
it forward.

[Michael]
This one will be down
for a while.

[narrator]
Both dozers are down,
bringing the Blue Cut

expansion to a halt,
stopping Tony
from getting enough pay

to last the rest of
the season.

[Mike] It's a really,
really bad time to have
the dozer down

because now we don't have
any ripper cats.

[Tyson] We're using whatever
good material we can find
to build the airstrip on them.

[narrator] Tyson Lee paves
the way for the new runway.

[Tyson] Make sure,
it's smooth and level
and 1,000 feet long.

[narrator] In the Bear Cut
both of Parker's wash plants
chew through stockpiled dirt.

We're nearly out of pay.

Hopefully the guys have
the next cut's ready for me.

[narrator] While Ken
and Doumitt race
to strip the old runway.

[Ken] He's got to get
all this ground stripped.

So the push is really
on to get this done.

[narrator]
But without the power
of their D11 dozer,

Parker's crew
won't be able to keep up

with the wash plants
and risk running out of pay.

[Mitch] Jordan,
what's happening, man?

You're probably
going to tell me.

[Mitch] Ha, ha.

Well, so I was running
this thing down on the runway,

noticed to see
how loose track is.

She looks like
she's about ready to let go.

We're kind of
in a pickle without it.

I do have spare used
tracks in the boneyard.

Okay, they any good?

They'll probably string
on this thing and it'll move.

I'll go look at them.

Ryan's in the yard,
so we'll go dig them out.

Let's see, uh,
see what we can make of it.

[Mitch] Well, the sooner
you can get her back running,

man, and the better
off we are.

[narrator] Getting replacement
tracks for the D11
will take weeks.

Mechanic Jordan sends
his gambling on a rusty
set of spares to do the job.

[Jordan] Think of it like
a train track.

Hook the new one up in line,
so it just train tracks
right on to the next track.

[narrator] Jordan lines up
the old and new tracks
so the dozer can roll across.

[Jordan] Now,
that's what I'm talking about.

It's good.

It's fine.

You just can't run
the loader very well.

He got a really bad temper.

I've known him
since I was two.

It's very funny.
We have a lot of fun.

Go up and get [bleep] back up.

Okay, so we made
a train track.

Choo-choo.

[Ryan] Just making sure
that the idlers
and the rock guards

are staying square
in the old track
so that when he comes

on to the new track,
it lines up perfectly
and we have no issues.

If it falls off this track,
it's a horrible event

and it'll take hours
to get it back on.

Looking good.

[Jordan]
Just got to get her on.

[narrator]
Jordan pulls the new track up
over the rollers

by backing up the dozer.

[loud noise]

[Jordan] Oh, [bleep].

We've got to redo
everything again.

[Ryan] Some profound words
I was using there.

Do you wanna just go ahead?

I'll just run the tracks,
check the chain back over.

When you're going over
the sprockets, the--

the hook just grabbed
the sprocket
and just undid the chain.

She is so close.

This has to go on.

We'll just going to snug it up
with this Crescent
wrench here.

We're really close.

We're just putting
the bolts in.

We're going to torque them
and tighten the track

and then,
they can go back to work
and be happy, happy.

Ta da!

[narrator]
Now the D11 is back in action.

Mitch and his crew raced
to strip the old runway,

build the new runway,
and keep the wash plants fed.

So we've got a lot of work
just cutting this
airstrip out,

let alone moving
the material underneath it.

[Mitch]
Time to get back after it.

Get some dirt moved.

Every [bleep] upsets us back
instrumentally with that 250

being our only vehicle
right now.

You've got to make it work
or we're not going to hit
our goal.

[narrator]
Fred's stepson, Chris,

is benched
after popping a track

on their only working
excavator, the 250.

Being a mine boss
and the father
on the same job site

is definitely not easy.

Key to this operation
is a 250 feeding the plant.

Whether or not my son
is a problem
is yet to be decided,

but I had to make
the tough decision.

And we've got to move forward.

We've got to get that gold.

[narrator] Fred replaces Chris
with new recruit Ray Powers.

Oh girl, are you going
to be nice to me.

[narrator] To find out
if the 250 is suffering

from a malfunction
or if the earlier breakdown
was operator error.

Okay, here we go.
Please do not break.

Booyah.

Yeah.

So Buzz, I've known
for 30 plus years

and I do as wood sales
for him.

Firewood and run his
lumber mill for him.

And one night,
Mr. Fred Lewis is there
and we get talking

and unbeknownst to me,
offers me a job.

Let's see.
What's my experience
at mining?

Well, gold mining, bupkis.

Coal mining,
just a couple of months
shy of 20 years.

[bleep] me.

[bleep] track again, man.

Hey, Buzz, you got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah.

This stupid [bleep] track
come off again, man.

Guys, we get sick of this.

We've got to be working.

[Ray] It's not like
I was doing much other than

trying to walk down
off the [bleep] down pile,

so I could do
what I was supposed to do.

[Buzz] Yeah.

You think you could have
[bleep] left it

in a better spot, man?

[Ray] Do your thing, my man.

Let's get her off
and get her fixed

and so I can get back to work.

[Buzz]
I'll start by getting it down.

- [Ray speaks indistinctly]
- [bleep]

[narrator] The 250 slip track
has allowed

the tension idler to drop out.

The excavator
can't run without it.

[Buzz] Wrecked pieces
are [bleep] pain in the a*s.

The root of all evil
is this thing right here.

This is why I believe
that this track

is freaking constantly
popping pins

cause this here works
kind of like a shock absorber.

This is like seized.

It doesn't move at all.

All that tension goes
into the pins

rather than
into the shocking system.

It really sucks.

[narrator]
Without a working excavator
to feed the plant,

Fred's operation
is shut down.

[Fred] You know at this point,

every time this thing
goes down,

it's costing us potentially
lost gold because we're--

We're not losing the gold.

It's still in the ground,
but it's not in our sluice.

[narrator] First,
Buzz fixes the idler
to release the tension.

He removes debris
from the spring.

[Buzz] So you're just
trying to break up
what's inside there

and see if it,
maybe it's gummed up.

A little backed off
or something pull
that out and see

what we can make happen.

[Chris] Well, well, well.

I bet you feel pretty [bleep]
stupid right about now,

blaming me
for this [bleep] problem.

[Fred] Well, in my defense...

I didn't know that
it was breaking on its own.

I want an apology.

[Fred] I'm not apologizing.

- Apologize me, right away.
- [Fred] Okay.

I do apologize
for blaming you for breaking

a piece of machinery
that's prone
to break on its own.

But we're going
to get it fixed.

We're going to put the 250 up
on to feed the plant,

keep you from breaking
the track pin.

Apologize for blaming you.

Don't break it again.

[Chris] I don't think
anyone can control
whether or not

that [bleep] breaks.

[Fred] That's why we're going
to have to do it.

[Chris] [bleep] This, bro.

[Ray] Right now, we're just
putting the idler back in

and get ready to put
the track back together.

All right, Chris,
down a little bit.

Down a little bit.

Oh, yeah.
That looks good.

And then cut this way
a little bit.

Look at that.

Thanks.

[narrator] Idler's fixed.

The tracks can now
be rolled back on.

[Buzz] All right.

So now we got
to rehook them back
to keep all that tension.

[Ray] If we hit down
right here.

[Buzz] Okay. All right.
We're on the wheel now.

Got the track tension
back together

and it's ready to get
back up on that pile

and start the plant
and start to now get running.

[Ray] Okay, girl.
Let's see if you're together.

Well, that's a start.

You go in both directions.

Okay.

Let's get to work
so we can get things
on the go here.

[Fred] Ready?

Woo-hee!

Put some hours in.

That's a good tense bro!

Right now,
two of our biggest
dozers are down.

I just hope that whatever pay
that we have left

is going to be enough
to keep the plant running.

[narrator] Tony is running
out of pay in the Blue Cut.

If he doesn't get his dozers
repaired fast,

he won't finish the expansion
and he'll run out of paydirt.

[Tony speaking]

Well, we have
both big cats down.

[Tony speaking]

Once we run out
of [bleep] dirt,

we ain't got
[bleep] to do.

- Yeah.
- [Tony speaking]

On the go for myself,
Way too [bleep] much.

This is more
of a welding job anyway.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony needs to add
three inches to each

of the 96 grousers
on the D10 and D11.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony's plan,

jack up both dozers
on a custom-built
steel platform.

This allows the tracks
to spin freely,

so his crew can safely reach
the underside
to replace the grousers.

So the front of the D10
has two eyes on the bottom

and we want the stand to sit
very stable so it's safer.

[narrator] Cousin Mike
starts by cutting
a pair of steel eyes

that will lock
to the underside
of the 63-ton D10.

So we make eyes on the stand

and then we'll fit this pin through.

And then it's just solid
with dozer.

So it won't go anywhere.

[narrator] They fix
the steel eyes to a crossbar,

then lock it in place
beneath the dozer.

- [man1] Ready?
- [man2] Yeah.

There, that's it.

So we finally got this piece
in here.

Now we're ready to lift
the dozer up with the blade.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Next, they
cut a steel platform

that will fix to the crossbar

and hold the weight
of the D10.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
Mike jacks up the D10
using the dozer's blade.

But if Tony's steel platform
can't hold the dozer up,

he won't be able
to get underneath

to complete repairs.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] To replace
the track grousers
on the D10 dozer.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony is counting
on his improvised platform

holding the weight
of the 63-ton machine.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Cousin Mike
welds both halves
of the platform together.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
With the D10 dozer secure,

Tony's crew weld grousers
to its tracks.

And they must
race against the clock

to get the same job done
on the D11.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Yeah. It did.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Oh, yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Yep.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike speaking]

[narrator]
Both dozers repaired
and back in the game,

Mike and his crew
can now complete stripping

the Blue Cut extension
by the end of the week.

[Mike] It's a good thing
they got them
grousers fixed in time.

And we still have loads
of [bleep] ripping to do.

We've just completed
our new airstrip

and we're going to give it
a little test drive here

in the pickup and see
how it feels.

Hopefully it's pretty smooth.

Parker took off
on the old airstrip.

He's going to be landing
on this one.

[narrator] Mitch and Tyson
have finally completed

the new 2,500-foot-long runway
on Parker's plane.

It feels pretty good
in the pickup.

It feels like
getting an airplane.

It's long, pretty flat.

We got it in here,
graded it,
rolled it with the trucks.

Really, the next thing
is moving the wind socks
down here.

And this thing
is going to be ready to go.

Tyson, you got a copy?

Tyson?

[Tyson on radio] Go ahead.

Hey, man, we're ready
to move some wind socks here.

You want to grab a loader
and we'll get our new
airstrip up and rolling.

[Tyson on radio]
Sounds good man.

[Tyson] Nothing like moving
some wind socks
in 35 degree weather.

- Hey.
- [Mitch] Yeah, dude.

[Tyson] And you just
kind of back up.

[Mitch] Yep.

That'll work perfect.

There it is, right there.

That's the finishing touch.

Hopeful everybody likes it.

[narrator] Parker is back
in the Yukon,

ready to see how much gold
his crew has banked
in the past two weeks.

Well, it looks like the boys
got the old--

the old airstrip out
and a new one in.

And we landed on it,
and I'm alive.

So I guess it worked.

Let's see what kind of trouble
these guys got into
while I was gone.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] At Paradise Hill,
Tony teaches his crew about
a Dutch tradition.

[Tony speaking]

[Ruby] Oh, my God.
[bleep]

That is cheating.

Told you.
I told you so.

[Tony speaking]

[Fred] Hey, JB.

[JB] Is that coffee
or we doing a gold weigh?

[Fred] Oh, it's some grounds
all right.

[JB] All right.

[narrator] Last week,
Fred's misfits were on a roll

with their best gold
weigh yet.

From 2,100 yards
of Freedom Cut paydirt,

they banged


So we're looking
at 2,100 yards this week.

Obviously,
we had a lot of problems

with that damn 250 track.

We had to put it up
on the mound and 2,100 yards

is what we should be running
in a day and a half,
not a week.

Equipment issues
can't be the reason

why we're not hitting
our goal.
We've got to figure it out.

If we have to adapt
our mining plan

to work around
these deadweight

pieces of equipment,

that's what we're going
to have to do.

All right, Ray, on that note,

you ready to read this
bad boy out?

One, two.

[narrator] Fred needs
to deliver roughly
nine ounces of gold a day

to hit
his 500-ounce target.

But this week he only sluiced

a day and a half's
worth of pay.

There's the nine,




[Fred] Hey-hey.

[narrator]
Worth over $26,000.

[Fred] But it's pretty
damn good actually.

Yeah.

So if we run 2,100 yards
and get 15 ounces off of it

and we keep replicating that,

we're above
our 9 to 10 ounces a day easy.

So the goal is there, guys.

That's cool.

We just got to get
our [bleep] fixed.

Yeah.

You know,
that number is nice and all,

but I'd rather be seeing 50.

[Fred] Wouldn't we all?

And we can do that,
if you get back to work.

I'm off shift, bro.

I'm going back to bed.

Well, let's go.

Let's get the [bleep]
out of here
and make it happen.

Well, you got some
digging to do.

Let's go.

[Fred] Good job, guys.

[woman] Hello?

[Tony speaking]

I had to call
in reinforcements
to bring all the gold in.

[Tony speaking]

- [woman] Yeah.
- [Tony speaking]

[narrator] The Beets
gather to find out

how much gold they pulled
from their thawed stockpile

of pay while their dozers

were finishing
the Blue Cut expansion.

It looks like we have quite
a bit of gold this week.

[Tony speaking]

Did we sluice all week?

[Mike] 24 hours, seven days.

- [Tony speaking]
- [woman 1] That's pretty good.

[Tony speaking]

Let's do this thing.
One, two, three. Let's go!

[narrator] To hit his


Tony needs to deliver
at least 350 ounces a week.

[woman] 150, 160,

one-seventy,


[narrator]
Worth over $800,000.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike] Mm-hmm.

[Tony speaking]

No, no, not at all.
If it stays that nice.

[Tony speaking]

Well, it doesn't take much
to add up.

[Tony speaking]

Let's be honest.

You're not getting it for him,
you get this for me.

[Tony speaking]

[woman] Going to my side
of the family.

[Tony speaking]

[woman] Yeah.

[woman2]
Let me think about it.

No.

[Mitch] He's not doing it.

[man] I have no idea.

- [man] Hey there, old climber.
- [Ken] Hey, young fellow,
how are you?

[man] Good.
Welcome home.

[Ken] Yeah.

Good to see you.

[narrator] It's been two weeks
since Parker's crew

had a gold weigh,
and both Slucifer and Big Red

have been running nonstop.

[Parker]
Hey there, youngster.

- [Ken] Hi.
- [Mitch] Hey, man.

[narrator]
Finally back in the Yukon,

Parker is hoping
for a monster payday.

[Parker] Well,
thanks for coming up again.

You're welcome.

[Parker] We always really like
having you here

and appreciate the help
and the steady hand.

[Ken]
Well, thank you very much.

But it's good to be here.

[Parker] Good.
This is a second home.

[man] You came at...
you flew in back
to camp, didn't you?

[Parker]
Every time I come back,
it's just--

the whole landscape's changed.

[Mitch] Yeah.

Well, took off on one runway,
landed on different one.

[Parker] Yeah.

I think that's great.

- [Ken] That runway?
- Yeah.

Boy, it looks like
a beauty to me.

[Parker] Yeah.

That's like, compared
to the old one.

Oh.

Moved the signs,
set the wind socks and,

like, well, hopefully
they can land on it.

Yeah.

If we see a lot of smoke,
we'll know they couldn't.

Yeah.

This is why you've been gone.

This is what we've put
on the table.

So that's two weeks.

That's for two weeks.

My skill stops at 400 ounces,

and that's big red
right there.

All right,
so we got 400 and...

All right, here we go.

[narrator] It's a double week
for Big Red,

which this season is averaging


[Mitch] 88.6.

So 488.6.

Sweet.

[narrator]
Worth over $830,000.

Not bad, little run there.

[Parker] That's sweet.

Slucifer
is the same situation,

has 400 ounces there.

[Mitch] And a bigger thermos.

And a little bit bigger
thermos, there we go.

Ready?

[narrator]
Slucifer is also tallying up

two weeks' worth of gold.

An average
is 263 ounces a week.

[Mitch] 60, 70.
I bet it's going to be 100.

[Parker] Yeah.

That's just over


It's 1,055.15.

[narrator]
Worth $1.8 million.

[Parker] You know,
that's impressive, guys.

Good job.

The gold looks amazing
as always, doesn't it?

Thanks, man.

[Parker] All right,
we better go eat some dinner.

Take care, youngster.