14x06 - Down, but Not Out

[bunniefuu]

We spent a lot of
money this year.

And we don't have
a dollar in revenue,

so we are gonna be
financially in a very big hole.

And I don't like having
money problems.

Who does?

Twenty-eight-year-old
Parker schnabel

is walking a
financial tightrope.

He's dropped $15 million

to buy the dominion creek claim.

Now, he's spending millions more

to try and get
down to pay dirt...

And a potential
$160 million payout.

But if he doesn't do it soon,

he'll run out of money

and will have to
shut down for good.

As we're working towards
getting things set up

here at dominion,

it means opening
up a lot of area.

The big thing is here,

unless a wash plant is running,

we're just spending money.

And we're spending money
like we never have before.

Well, at dominion,

the ground is deeper than
anything we've mined before.

And really we need to
have some money come in.

Tyson's target needs to fire up

for our first round of sluicin'

on Ken and Stuart's ground,

which should be good for
like 1,500 or 1,700 ounces.

To get some money coming in,

Parker's counting
on a claim he's leased

from Ken tatlow
and Stuart schmidt.

He wants plant boss Tyson Lee

to be delivering gold
from the unforgiven cut

by the end of the week.

So I've been down here at
Ken's for a couple weeks now

and still yet to be
a wash plant going,

and we really need to
get some gold coming in.

Yo, yo.

What up? What up?

Boom truck on this side

and have the
excavator on that side.

Sluicifer is Parker's
prized $600,000,



Tyson, you want me on that side?

To help move it to
the unforgiven cut,

Tyson's called in trusted friend

and expert truck
driver Mike tupper.

Tyson wants me
to get set up here.

We're gonna lift
the conveyor up.

Tyson gave me the call last week

and asked me to come up

and they're super short-staffed.

Said he was getting
close on movin' sluicifer.

So I got a flight.

Today's the big day.

It's moving day.

Okay. Go up, Alec.

Watch your boom truck.

I've worked for tupper
for, well, since high school.

He's a huge help.

The amount of work we
get done together is crazy.

I really wanna see this
wash plant up and going

'cause I really
want to get sluicing.

We'll get the wash
plant on sideways

and we'll head down.

We'll drag the plant back
to the edge of the ramp,

back the truck underneath,
and then pull it on.

You wanna be my
eyes loading me up?

At 35 feet,
sluicifer is too long

to fit directly on the
back of the lowboy.

Keep going, keep
going, keep going.

Watch that doesn't
tug. You're good.

So the crew load it sideways,

hoping they can
balance it perfectly.

Here we go.

It's tight.

You know, if we something up,

this wash plant isn't runnin'.

Is that the biggest load
you've ever hauled, tupper?

Yup. Should be
interesting. There's some

nice tight corners there and...

- Yeah.
- Some steep parts.

- We'll get her done.
- Yeah.

When you're hauling
this thing, it's really heavy

and it really
rocks side-to-side.

Go slow and just
ride out the wave.

From the lay down yard at
Parker's old scribner camp,

tupper will haul
sluicifer five miles

along a narrow,
winding dirt track,

down a 100-foot steep bank,

and across a 20-foot wide creek,

before the final run to Ken
and Stuart's unforgiven cut.

You excited, tup?

I'm excited.

Yeah?

And nervous.

Well, it's probably the most
expensive thing I've moved.

Okay.

Good luck!

Yeah.

Got our landlocked
pirate ship on the move.

Tupper's the man
for the job today.

Done the most trucking
out of anyone in this area.

All right, here's a
little tighter section.

He'll go a little slower.

A little bushwhackin'.

All right, now we
got the river crossing.

I don't know what's
going on here.

This river was
definitely not running

like this this morning,

and now it's definitely wider.

Here we go.

Creek's about a hundred
and 50 feet wide right now,

and I you not.

So something's
going on upstream.

The creek has expanded

and is full of hidden
dangers... Little tippy.

That could roll the
perilously-balanced

wash plant.

Whoa!

I just don't wanna get
stuck here in the middle.

There we go.

All right. We're rolling now.

Whoo!

Great truckin',
tupper. Great truckin'.

That was good?

Some of the tires were
off the ground on this side.

I was wondering if
you were stopping

to change your shorts.

Got her done.

- Got her done.
- High five.

- Nice.
- Good job.

Tomorrow, we'll start
reassembling the plant,

get it all buttoned up and
hopefully up on the pad

and fire her up.

- Lit her rip?
- Yeah.

- Okay, bud.
- Thanks, man.

Nice work, hey? Thank you.

- Thanks for the call.
- Good truckin'.

Yeah.

Tyson must now race

to get sluicifer up and running

to get gold by the
end of the week.

There's still a lot
of work ahead of us.

We still have to get the
feeder in, super stacker in,

generator in, pipeline in,

and then test everything.

So, we're not out
of the dark yet.

We gotta keep on track.

And hopefully we'll
be sluicin' soon.

My hopes this year...

Be profitable, make
some money back.

Most days, I'm fine with it.

Some days it's
just, it's miserable

but it's necessary 'cause
it's the pathway back.

One hundred miles
east at the Indian river,

Rick ness is fighting
back after a year off mining

left him with nearly nothing.

There is a lot that I
have to prove to myself,

that I can do it.

There's also a huge
opportunity to fail hard.

It's stressful and it's a job,

but it's also my life.

Rick has strategically
started the season off slow,

bringing on a skeleton crew

to work through
stockpiled pay dirt.

So far, it's delivered


worth $150,000.

You know, we've been doing fine

just running the stockpile.

We're putting gold on the board,

but that's gonna
end pretty quick here.

And so, we got bigger equipment
to be able to move on to the cuts

and I'm starting to feel
like a real miner out here.

Rick has less than two
weeks of pay left to run.

If he's to hit his
thousand-ounce season goal,

he needs big iron to
return for the treasures

lying at the bottom of
the gold-rich rally valley.

I gotta get outta here.

Buzz can keep things going.

Rick leaves buzz legault

and Morgan luren
to run operations...

While he makes a
four-hour drive to paradise hill

in the hopes of getting
help from a local friend.

Now I'm just gonna dip
into the people I know.

First off, I'm gonna
go see Tony beets.

You know, Tony's
got tons of gear.

Hopefully I can, get some
equipment leased off with him.

I put my mom's
house up for auction

when she passed,
to get a little money.

Priority number one is
getting back to getting gold

and I'm gonna do
whatever it takes to do that.

Good. Good.

Feels good to be back, yes.

Yeah. But, you know,
I had a lot of things

in my head I had to clear
up and a lot of personal stuff

and so, unfortunately,
it is what it is.

That's right.

I've been gone
for a while but...

Yeah, I don't know.

I feel good about being up here.

There's a piggy bank out there,

it's in the ground
with some gold.

It's ready to run but, you know,

I am... you know, I got
no equipment to run with.

I figured the easiest way

would be to find the
closest stuff and...

Yeah.

Well, I'm looking, you know,

for a 700 and two rock trucks.

Well, we'll have to see.

I'm looking, you know, for
a 700 and two rock trucks.

Rick ness desperately
needs big iron

and is hoping to lease equipment

from "king of the
klondike" Tony beets.

I'm looking for anything
that's got some life in it

that I can get going.

And I am capable
of getting that gold

outta the ground,
so... I'm ready for it.

Well, and we can't
short ourselves either.

Absolutely.

Yeah. Exactly. Yup.

Okay.

That's all I can ask for.

Thanks again, Tony.

- See you.
- See you soon. Yup.

Yeah, it was good to see
him. I'm glad he's doing well.

Well. I mean, honestly,
that went pretty good.

I don't have any solid answers

but, you know, I can
tell they wanna help me.

But we're just gonna have
to wait and find out for now.

This is the gold rush,

driving down gold rush Lane.

How many people came
here with big dreams

and how many
people got destroyed?

Back in the klondike,

Fred Lewis and his wife khara

are on a mission to save
their gold-mining dream.

We just gotta figure
out how to keep mining.

Like all we need is one break.

I just wanna know
where the gold is.

Hey, Parker.

Parker.

Parker.

A former green
beret medic... Holy

Fred caught gold fever

on prospecting
expeditions with Parker...

That's pretty cool.

It's really cool.

Leading Fred to join
Parker's klondike crew.

Whoa!

Easy, man!

A year later... Order!

I'm ready to call in the troops.

The rookie gold miner

took the gamble of a lifetime...

All right, guys, it's
go time! Let's do it!

To run his own mine
with a crew of veterans.

Whoo! Let's get some gold!

Whoo!

These guys have
fought so much adversity.

My major focus here was to
give these guys a new purpose.

But last season in the Yukon...

Right now, we are
in a w*r for gold.

Fred battled setback...

What the?

Our entire claim is under ice.

After setback...
No, no, no, no, no!

Leaving Fred's
dream of striking it rich

hanging by a thread.

I'm just at the end
of my rope, man.

The harsh reality is, I
don't see a high probability

of us finding good gold.

You literally chose
the hardest area.

Too much risk.

So you really are
leaning on pausing?

Yeah.

We really need to start
focusing on prospecting.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, I've got a
lead to look at.

The dude's name
is Peter tall man.

It's around the El dorado area.

And it's one of the
bigger gold finds up here

in the original gold rush.

In August 1896,

prospectors found
piles of gold nuggets

on El dorado creek.

Since their discovery,

miners have pulled out
over six million ounces,

making El dorado one
of the richest creeks

in the klondike.

Klondike gold corp.

- Hey there.
- Welcome to El dorado.

- Nice to meet you.
- You too.

There's just amazing,
rich amount of history

that informs where gold is.

My company has
been here for 45 years

looking for the bedrock
sources of all the gold.

We've been successful on that.

And that informs some
of the plaster potential.

Plaster is exactly
what we're looking for.

Something we can do
on a small operation.

We're looking to pull


- To be sustainable and...
- And sustainability.

We were told to talk to you.

Well then, whoever
told you that was right.

All right.

Geologist and claim
owner Peter tall man

has 21 square miles of land.

The opportunity for you

is basically the last UN-mined
gold on El dorado creek,

the richest in the
klondike by a long way.

- It's pretty crazy.
- All right. I like that sound.

I've got a ten-year permit.

- Um, so it's available.
- All right.

All these diamonds
are gold in bedrock.

And it's suggesting strongly

that the gold is being
derived from the local bedrock,

and it's just shedding
down the creek.

There's the opportunity to do

basically 500 ounces-plus a year

- for a good bit.
- Wow.

Heck, yeah. We're
excited to see all of it.

Yeah.

Ten miles from Dawson city

lies the historic
El dorado creek.

All of Peter's claims on
this section of El dorado

are mined out.

But on the chief
gulch tributary,

he has 320 acres of untouched

virgin ground available.

Welcome to El dorado.

Peter first shows them

the already-mined
section of land.

It was a mom-and-pop,
very small family operation.

Mined this section and
they got 501 ounces

in 500 hours.

Whoa.

So are they using
rock truck excavator,

just doing simple
mining techniques,

is that working for them?

That's what's necessary here.

You could have a
fleet of rock trucks,

and all of them but one
would be parked somewhere.

And there's literally only
room for one rock truck.

I'm feeling like
this is a good fit,

- without seeing gold.
- Yeah.

Well, okay. You mentioned
"without seeing gold."

So, hah, once you mine
it, and then you fire it

then you turn it
into gold dore bars.

- And this... - Whoa.
- What?

- Comes from here.
- Really?

- Yeah.
- My gosh.

- Wow.
- Can I hold it?

Yeah, yeah.

It's 35 ounces.

And you're trying to make
a decision of where to go,

what to do, and
where to find it.

That's heavy.

I'm just telling you, it's here.

- It's here.
- Wow.

Is there new gold coming in?

Is it being recycled?

Is there just lots
that's been found?

- All of it?
- All of those.

It's being eroded from source

and still populating
the creeks today.

But there's lots of ground

that still has yet to
be mined at any time,

and that's what I'm
gonna go show you.

The untouched claim.

This is the first time
I've actually kind of felt

a little gold fever.

I wanna see what's next.

I have the drill map if
you wanna see them,

but that was successful,
unbelievably so,

in that... There's
a bunch of holes

that hit really,
really good gold.

And it proves there's
a channel in here.

Yeah.

Holy crap.

This looks amazing.

The challenge in here
is that it's a slot canyon.

This is very similar
to California creek,

in the narrowness.

It's not something that's
gonna scare us away, for sure.

I guess the important
question would be

what's the average depth here

before you actually
see pay gravel?



Random places, 60
feet down on the bottom.

It's gonna take
quite a bit of time,

you know. If you
came here this year,

then your gold will be
coming next year, for sure.

So I think for us,

the one thing is how
long it's gonna take us

to actually get gold,

because if we can't get gold
coming in within two months,

we're gonna run out of money.
And the second is the depth.

I don't think we've
ever dug 60 feet before.

It's very deep.

So for those reasons, I
think we can't mine here,

unfortunately.

That's fair enough.

I... that... yeah, I
appreciate the candor

because it's just
easier for everyone.

Strike one.

I mean, really, right
now we're looking at

very little options
to move forward.

Yeah.

I'm gonna have to
find something else

or we're getting pretty
close to the end here.

We're gonna have
to do something.

Figure something out.

Yeah.

I'm not going down
without a fight.

It's time to make all this stuff

scattered across the
cut look like a wash plant.

Parker schnabel is
running out of cash

and desperately needs
gold by the end of the week.

It's good to finally be
pretty close to sluicing.

It's been a long time.

We need some money.

Hopefully, it's a decent setup
and everything runs smooth.

Parker's charged Tyson Lee

with getting wash plant
sluicifer up and running

at Ken and Stuart's
unforgiven cut.

Tyson's crew must drag
the monster 150 yards

to the top of a 45-foot
high wash plant pad...

Swivel it 90 degrees,

bring in the hopper
feeder and conveyors...

Then, fire up for the
first run of the season.

Finishing moves here,
Tyson, then you can drag it.

Hey. It's only taken all season.

Let's go.

Today's a really big day.

I'm gonna drag sluicifer to
her first home of the season.

So we just gotta focus

on getting her up
there in one piece.

You know, we're
starting our incline

up to sluicifer's wash plant pad

and it's pretty steep.

Using the 750 excavator,

Tyson must haul the
fully-assembled plant

up a 25-degree incline
to get it onto the pad.

Tyson loves pitting
his wash plants

on a big old mountain.

We're almost up top.

Beautiful.

We're up top, we're on the pad.

We're coming up on
the hardest part here,

and that's gonna be
spinning the plant 90 degrees,

and so our tailings

are going the way
we want them to.

There isn't much room for error.

I'm starting to
kind of go down...

The slope behind me
backwards with the plant attached.

We're gonna pull the
plant straight back,

and then I'm gonna spin around

and pull it square.

Things are getting
a little bit sketchy.

Got a 75-ton excavator,
you got 80 tons here,

and we got these
two cables here.

If these cables snap,

basically he's gonna tumble,

and hopefully this thing
doesn't come down on him.

You just don't want
those cables snapping.

Someone keeping
their eyes up there?

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Watch the angles!

Back up!

Keep going.

Stop!

Looking good, Tyson!

Whoo!

Sluicifer's finally
at her new home.

I'm really excited to
start washing some rocks

and hopefully
catching a lot of gold.

All that's left is to
hook up the generator

to the super stacker.

Start, start, start, start.

The extendable


feeds pay dirt to the plant.

We have power but no controls.

Yeah, we got nothing.

Okay. I'll be down there.

What do you got, Alec?

We don't have
hydraulic function,

nor conveyor belt function,

but the computer does light up,

so it does have some
sort of power through here.

She just gotta
wake up a little bit?

Away she goes.

We'll just pretend
that never happened.

If that didn't fire
up, we were done.

I have the plant set
to Max capacity here.

And it's time we play
some serious catch-up.

Here we go.

Go ahead.

Give her the first scoop.

Yay!

So there we go, we
got sluicifer running,

Tatiana's feeding,

latest we've ever
started sluicing.

We have a lot of gold to catch,

and really the
season starts today.

Nearly seven weeks
into the season,

later than ever before,

Parker is finally on the gold.

Nice job.

It looks good.

- Good day?
- Yeah.

Well, we're finally
making money.

Lot of catch-up
on that front to do.

End of the week, we'll
see if there's any gold

in this claim.

We'll find out soon enough.

See you around.

I hope it's good. We
need it to be good.

We've spent a lot of money.

This is some
freaking big iron, man.

Hell yeah.

That's awesome.

Tony's come through,
which is a game-changer.

We got a 700 and
two rock trucks.

That's perfect.

Rick ness has dug
into his emergency fund

to lease heavy equipment
from Tony beets,

delivered by local
hauler Derek mamic.

There you go, Ricky.

Hey, dude.

- Appreciate it.
- Finally got her.

That's... it's just
good to see it on site.

Yeah, got hit with the rain,

which is kind of because
we had to walk it so far.

That's springtime in the Yukon.

And now, you can go to
work and make some money.

Yeah.

We're off to the races.

Yeah.

The new powerful equipment
will ramp up production

and help Rick hit his


Well, coming back this year, this is more
what I pictured, you know what I mean?

Big excavators, big machines.

This is what we need to get done

right here, a 700.

As Rick chases his


from his leftover
stockpile pay...

This is the real deal here now.

Camp cook Travis kinakin

in Rick's old haul truck

and buzz legault in the loader,

repair the road into the mine.

That 700 with the big tracks

just chewed the
out of this road.

So buzz and I are out
here fixing the holes.

I'm dumping some gravel.

Buzz is gonna level them out.

Holy.

Yeah, I'm okay.

Hopefully the truck's okay.

She's looking pretty stuck.

I don't know how the hell
I'm gonna get it out of here.

She's looking pretty stuck.

I don't know how the hell
I'm gonna get it outta here.

Camp cook Travis kinakin

has ditched Rick's
old haul truck.

It's hanging over a


Rick, you got a copy?

Yeah. Go for Rick.

I'm just down on the...

On the road down to the cut

and the shoulder just
gave way on the road.

So the truck's...

Almost on its side
down in the ditch.

For sake.

Look, man, I gotta keep
running the wash plant,

so you guys are gonna have
to come get this 700 from me.

That's the only thing that's
gonna lift it out of there.

I gotta keep the gold coming in.

Stupid.

Yeah. Rick's not happy.

Rick keeps running
wash plant monster red

in the old 330.

And Derek, who
delivered the iron,

takes the 700 to
the stricken truck.

It's gonna take a good pull.

It's a... It's a big truck.

Buzz, how can we
get that rock truck out?

We can freaking get over there,

grab the back end with the hoe

so it doesn't roll or anything.

We'll hook that loader
up to the front low corner.

Working together, I
think we should be able

to get that puppy out.

Now that it's
freaking raining, man,

it's only gonna
get worse, right?

So let's get this done.

- Yeah.
- Let's do it.

Let's go.

Well, I'm gonna jump
in the... in the haul truck.

The excavator is
gonna stabilize it,

so hopefully it doesn't roll.

We're gonna pull it
out with the loader,

and I'm going to drive
it out the best I can,

pray that it doesn't roll.

Hey, buzz, right here.

Just push straight
down on that poplar.

Yeah. Straight down.

Come in a bit.

This thing keeps... it's...

It's on the verge
of rolling now.

Just try not even to spin.

Just a little bit of power.

Yeah. Let's go, boys!

Good job.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

Hey, stay off the shoulder.

We ended up pretty lucky.

We would've never
got that truck out

without this 700.

This freaking thing is awesome.

I'm glad to hear that
buzz got Travis free.

Hopefully, he's okay.

And hopefully with
this new equipment,

we won't have
accidents like that

and we can just focus
on getting the gold.

After seeing some of
the things we've seen

since we've been up here,

I was really hoping that
we would have more clarity.

I thought for sure
going into El dorado,

I'm like, "this is gonna be it."

But it's just more
obstacles, more challenges.

I don't know, khara.

I feel like we've put
our best effort into this,

and I'm running out of
time to pull it off this time.

Fred Lewis is nearly out of time

to save his gold mining dream.

So, you know...

We're gonna have
to go talk to Parker.

Yeah. I agree.

Maybe he has some
advice that might help us.

Who knows?

I just don't want this
to end, you know?

- Hey, Parker.
- Fred. How you doing?

- How's it going, man?
- Good. Good to see you.

Here. Have a seat, babe.

How you been?

You know last season
wasn't very good.

We're prospecting right
now, looking for ground.

We just looked at some
ground over on El dorado.

Nothing's matching
up to what we need.

But just... You
know, I came to you,

you've got me into all this.

You've taught me so
much. You've brought me

- all over the world.
- Yeah. Is that a good or a bad thing now?

Um, I just can't bow out

before I come and talk to you.

Right. Well, I'm sorry
that that's the way it went.

You know? That's a bummer.

- Yup.
- I... don't know

if you're here
asking for ground,

because it's getting
harder and harder out here.

So it doesn't really
make sense for us

- to lease ground out.
- Yup.

Anything big, we're
gonna take on, right?

Yup. Yup.

Yeah. I guess I'm
more coming here

just to kind of
see what you think

is our best move, honestly.

Well, if you can't find
economical ground

and that's not working,

it doesn't make sense
to beat your head

- against the wall, right?
- No, that's the thing,

is gold mining is
something I really enjoy.

I wouldn't say we're
quitting, but we're definitely...

- Holding on.
- We're gonna hit pause.

Um...

So if you've got a job
in, like, three weeks,

maybe I'll hit you up.

I'm pretty good on a rock truck.

Pretty good on an excavator.

Do you really wanna
sit in a dump truck?

At this point,
I'd think about it.

Um, well, it's a bit of a
challenge on that front.

We've got a pretty
decent-sized crew right now,

and it's a little bit too much
than we should have as it is.

But that always
seems to be the way.

Well, that's pretty much why
we wanted to come, Parker.

I just... I don't know.

I kind of feel like this
is the place to end it,

in some ways.

I mean, you
brought me into this.

Kind of full circle, I guess.

Um... It's a brutal business

and it just doesn't seem to
take any prisoners, does it?

No, it does not.

Well, thank you
for the opportunity.

I feel like I owe you a lot.

Um, I appreciate
what you said there

and I'm glad that...

We can leave on good terms.

- Yeah. Absolutely.
- Yeah.

- I appreciate it, Parker.
- No worries.

- Thanks for stopping in.
- Thanks for having me.

Sorry it went... Sorry
it went the way it did.

Hey, man. It's life. It's life.

- Take care, Parker.
- All right.

I don't like to see
somebody fail.

Um, yeah.

I mean, it's very tough

to walk away from something

that you've invested
that much time into,

but it's just a bit
awkward for me.

Like, he asked for a job.

Yeah. Too bad.

You know, I feel like.

I feel like...

It's kind of the first
time I've been forced

to give something up.

My heart of hearts is telling me

to say goodbye to the Yukon.

Regardless of where
we go from here,

think about what you've accomplished
over the last several years.

Goal is never to
get rich off of gold.

Our goal was to get that

sense of purpose
and new mission,

and that's exactly
what you accomplished.

Yeah, I agree. I agree.

We came into an industry
that's nearly impossible

- to get into.
- Yeah.

We've had some
really good highs,

some really bad lows,

and the point is we're
down but not out.

That's it.

At the moment, I'm
looking for new people.

Tough to find workers.

Now that Rick has
more equipment,

he's on the hunt for more crew

to make his next
big push for gold.

I'm looking through resumes

and half of them are
just full of abbreviations

and... cld for could.

And he uses that
word, like, five times

in this short letter.

"I am heavy equipment operator.

I run fel and neoct."

I don't know what that is.

Um, "ttys," he ends it with.

"Ttys." you got it, bro.

You're hired.

My.

Hey.

Are you guys hiding
from me out here?

It's the only shady
part on the entire claim.

Rick has had two days running

with his new equipment.

Man, I tell you.
For some reason,

I've had a really good
rapport with Tony beets.

I think it's just
'cause I don't bull him.

And he doesn't bull me.
You know what I mean?

So, it was nice
to score a couple

of pieces of
equipment off of him.

That 700, that's awesome.

I love that thing.

Yeah. But...

That all costs money as
well, you know what I mean?

We gotta produce more gold now.

Bigger machines,
bigger fuel bills.

- Yeah.
- Let's weigh some gold.

Yes. Let's do it.

To cover costs and earn
enough to keep going,

Rick needs to hit


All right. Here we go.

Nine, ten, 11,




Worth $37,000.

Better than last week.

Yup. Not the best ever.

That brings us to 95.93 ounces.

- Nice.
- -Only a tenth of the way

to a thousand ounces.

Yeah, but reality is we
finally have equipment.

- So...
- Yeah.

I think it'll start piling up.

That's over 30
grand for the week.

It's not bad.

We've definitely gotta
keep up in the gold take.

You know, 700 and those
trucks are definitely gonna help us.

We'll start adding
some more people.

You know, we've got big
things to do this year, so...

Yeah.

Let's get the out of here.

Little over 18 ounces.

Not great but we are building
towards something bigger.

You know, we got a thousand
ounces to get this season.

We're gonna make it.
It's just slow right now.

Parker's wash plant sluicifer

has been running the
unforgiven cut pay dirt

for two days.

Now, the season's
first real gold is in.

- What's up man?
- -Hey, man, what's shaking?

Finally a wash plant.
That's what's shaking.

Yeah. Finally.

It was when we left. Yeah.

What's up?

First cleanup in our new home.

Still got my seat.

Yup.

Nearly seven weeks in
and later than ever before,

Parker is about
to see his first gold.

So sluice just fired right
off pretty as a picture?

Yeah, it's just, you know,
easy as press and go.

Wave the magic wand.
Wash plant set up, go.

Yeah. Yeah.

But, yeah, it was nice
having tupper up here

- helping, for sure.
- For sure.

I made him sweat and got
him to haul the wash plant.

So...

He was pretty nervous
when he first jumped in,

but he was happy when he got it

down there in one piece.

Well, it's nice to be
back on Ken's ground

after, you know, last season.

It's not nice to me.
We're too spread out.

More than ever, I'm gonna
be relying on you guys.

Anything less than


is gonna put us in
a pretty tight spot.

Well, how did we do, doumitt?

Well, we can throw
it on a scale and see.

Ten,









We have 116 there,

plus I did some
mining on my own,

and I dug up the tailings
from this gold room

and reran that, and I
picked up nine ounces of.

Chris, you're
paying for some bills.

Yeah.

So that actually gives a
total of 125 ounces even.

Worth a quarter
of a million dollars.

So the first gold of
the season, right?

There you go, man.

And nice-looking stuff too.

Just need a lot more of it.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

We spent a lot of money
this spring. More than ever.

But I'm not looking backwards,
I'm looking forward. So...

And it's good to see some gold

and it looks like
two ounces an hour.

And it's not bad.

We'll be all right.

I think.