09x13 - Sucker Punch

[bunniefuu]

Rick, I got some bad news.
I guarantee you're losing gold.

Really?

These guys need all the gold
they can get,

So we don't want
to lose any.

Well, [bleep].
Just going from bad to worse,

'Cause I'm going to have
to figure out this mess myself.

♪♪

What's going on, monica?

We've got a hole
in our top screen.

How bad is it? Ah, crap.

Yes.

This plant weighs
a good 100,000 pounds.

♪♪

What are you doing,
brennan?

Whoa! Whoa! Stop! Stop!
-Whoa!

What the [bleep] happened?

We need to get some gold
coming in.

♪♪

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♪♪

Woke up this morning,
was gonna take a shower...

Yep.

...and some dirty [bleep]
was using my bar of soap.

-No way.
-Yeah.

Who the [bleep] does that?

[ Laughing ]
shut the [bleep] -- shut up!

What the [bleep]
is wrong with people here?

You're joking.

Why would I joke about
[bleep] [bleep]?

What's the world coming to?

Hey, rick, you didn't use
my soap, did ya?

I don't share a shower with you,
so it wasn't me, I promise.

[ Laughs ]

Narrator: rick ness has mined
over $700,000 worth of gold

In just over 3 months

As he sets his sights
on becoming

A million-dollar man.

Rick: a little over halfway
through the season right now.

We've got a little over halfway
to our goal of 1,000 ounces.

Narrator: but last week,

Rick's gold haul fell
by a massive 60%.

[ Tapping ]

41.3.

I still think we can get more
out of our plant.

There's just a few little things
that we're going to have to do.

We're just going to have
to tweak it

And get it running
as efficient as possible.

♪♪

Narrator:
gold expert freddy dodge

Is back to help figure out
why rick's gold has dropped.

He's the most knowledgeable guy
I know.

When it comes to wash plants
and gold recovery,

Freddy dodge is the man.

♪♪

Freddy.
-How's it going, rick?

[ Chuckles ]
pretty good, man.

How you been?
-Busy.

-Busy?
-Good to see you, man.

Yeah, you, too.
We've been busy as well.

How's everything going?

Everything is going good
in the cut.

We've got ground.
We've got gold coming in.

It's just not coming
in very quick, you know?

I just don't really know how
to go about it right now.

Might be a few little things
we can tweak.

Yeah?

Well, let's go put our heads
together and see what

We can figure out.
-All right.

♪♪

Narrator: freddy dodge
has over 40 years' experience

Building and running
wash plants.

♪♪

Freddy: there's always
something you can do

To make things
more efficient,

Make things run
a little bit better.

Hey, ryan!

How's everything going
on the sluices?

It looks like it's starting
to lean one way.

It's leaning?

I think it is.

I mean, if you look
how the water's piling up

In that corner.
-Yeah.

Do you think it's still sitting
pretty level or is it...

-The sluice looks level.
-Does it? Okay.

-Yeah. Eyeballing it.
-I was just eyeballing it.

♪♪

Freddy: we need more water,
to start with.

Hang on one second.

Oh, [bleep].

We got a major issue
going on here, though.

We shouldn't have rocks like
this coming down the sluice box.

Half-inch minuses is all should
be going down the sluice box.

Pieces of rocks this size,
not that size.

Narrator: a steady flow of water
carries the concentrate

Through the sluice box...

...so the heavy gold
drops steadily

Into the expanded metal riffles.

When large rocks enter
the sluices,

They disrupt the flow,

And gold is washed into
the tailings.

We're making a living
off of fine, fine gold here,

And a [bleep] like that
ruins it.

How's she looking, freddy?

Well, we got sluice issues.

We got big-a*s rocks.
-Holy [bleep].

How is that getting in there?

There's a hole somewhere.

Hey, rick.

♪♪

-That a big row of holes?
-Yeah.

Looks like
inch-and-a-half holes.

I never even noticed them.

Yeah, there's [bleep]
all in through there.

Man, I don't know
how I didn't notice that.

I wonder what the hell
those holes are there for.

I don't know.

They must have had something
bolted to it in the past.

Narrator:
in its previous life,

Durt reynolds ran gravel
for a roadbuilding crew.

Well, we need to shut down
and get those welded up.

I guarantee you're losing gold.
-Really?

Only one way to find out
is grab a pan and go look.

All right.

♪♪

Rick: man,
I hope it's not bad.

♪♪

We'll pan it over here.

♪♪

♪♪

Look at that, rick.

They're small,
but they're there.

In one pan.

Yeah.

Well, I can't really
argue with this.

I mean,
it's in the pan, right?

It's gold that's not ever going
to find the scale, huh?

Yeah.

But, man, if we shut down,
we got to be quick about it.

-Yeah.
-Let's [bleep] do it.

♪♪

Rick: it's not good.

It [bleep] sucks
is what it does.

♪♪

Hey! Let's do this!

Whoo!
[ Clank ]

[ Laughs ]

Narrator: 11 miles east,

Parker schnabel is chasing
6,000 ounces,

Worth $7.2 million.

Yeah, I mean, right now
we're just over 2,700 ounces.

So, you know, we're almost
halfway to our goal.

Narrator: big red is running
200 yards an hour...

But sluicifer is out of pay dirt
and standing idle.

Parker: so today, we're moving
sluicifer again.

We're gonna keep going forward
and get to 6,000,

Sluicifer is the key ingredient
in that.

♪♪

Right now we're just trying
to dig out the center area

For all the material

That's built up from where
we've been sluicing.

As soon as we get it cleaned up,
then we'll actually be ready

To move sluicifer here, so...

This is like playing
"operation!"

I know!

This is a really expensive
version of it.

That's right.

Narrator: moving sluicifer cost
$2,400 an hour in lost gold.

♪♪

Parker needs the move
to be as fast as possible.

But the 700 excavator
he normally uses

To move the plant is down
with a broken track.

♪♪

-Hey, mitch.
-What's up?

Oh, not a whole lot.
I was just trying to think about

How to move
this [bleep] plant.

I mean, without the 700,

I don't know what we're going
to move this thing with.

You know, I mean,
the parts are on order,

So they should be here
any day.

Yeah, but we're in the yukon.

"On order" could mean a day,
it could mean a month.

Yeah.

Where's our chinook?

[ Laughs ] yeah.

We need a chinook
and arnold schwarzenegger.

Well, what about the dozer?
It's our last option, right?

I mean, we've never moved this
thing with a dozer, have we?

It'll pull it no problem,

But you can't watch it
like a hoe.

You know, at least with
the excavator,

Everything can be
nice and controlled

And you can get
a lot of lift on it.

But, I mean, there's really
not another choice.

I don't want to do it, but...

-Yeah.
-All right.

Let's just start yarding on it.

♪♪

Narrator: parker needs
to move the plant 600 yards

To the new pad above
the pay dirt he'll be mining.

He normally uses
the 700 excavator

Because its 45-foot bucket arm

Can lift the skids
of the 45-ton wash plant.

But the d10 has no lifting arm,

Meaning it can't get the same
lift as the excavator,

And if it drags it
horizontally,

The skids will
dig themselves into the dirt.

♪♪

We're just rigging up the cable
to the back of the dozer here.

Narrator: using the cables,
parker is attempting

To turn the ripper arm
into a lifting arm.

Mitch: you might be able to pull
it back into you a little bit.

Parker: yeah, watch
the pinch points here.

Mitch:
there you go. Hold there.

Can you grab us
a couple of wrenches

So that we can
tighten this up, please?

Yeah.

Narrator: mitch rigs
the biggest bolt he can find

Into a socket
only intended for maintenance.

I don't like, really, any part
of all this,

But it's our only option,
so...we're gonna try.

Whoo! Let's do this!

Parker: I mean,
this plant weighs a good

Probably 100,000 pounds,
so it's a lot of weight.

♪♪

Man: my big concern is just that
rigging up there

On the top of the ripper.

If we break that, everything
is going to come flying apart,

And somebody might get hurt --

What we don't want
to have happen here.

Do it. You're looking good.

Brennan, whoa! Whoa! Stop! Stop!

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

You're looking good.

Brennan, whoa! Whoa! Stop! Stop!

Is everything good or what?

You're good.

♪♪

Narrator: parker schnabel's
700 excavator is down,

So he's attempting to move
his $600,000 wash plant,

Sluicifer, with a d10 dozer.

Ryan is just trying
to get a feel for this.

We haven't done it
like this before.

♪♪

Narrator:
brennan uses the ripper arm

To lift the skids at least
an inch out of the dirt.

-Lay it up!
-Parker: what the [bleep]

Are you [bleep] doing,
brennan?

Yeah, I just can't quite
get myself [bleep]

Turned to where
I want to go here, yeah.

Well, he needs to back straight
into the plant is the problem.

He's got it now.

There we go!

♪♪

Get me back on the gold, baby!

♪♪

Well, that was the hard part,
getting it rolled free.

Man, getting it into place
is going to be tough

Without the 700 here to help us.

♪♪

Man: all the straight stretches
done coming down the hill.

We got it turned here.
The hard part is going to be

Getting it
back up this other hill,

So we got to get sluicifer
on top of this new pad,

And then we gotta get it spun,

Which is going to be the hardest
part of this whole deal.

♪♪

♪♪

All right, now we're just
really struggling here

To get enough lift.

Brennan is just cresting
over this hill,

And the cat doesn't want
to quite pull it here.

He's just gotta
kind of work it here.

♪♪

That's pretty hard on it,
brennan.

If you can just use your ripper
like a winch

And just try
and suck it up a little bit,

And then once
you get it going...

So ripper down and pull ahead,

And then once you get pulled
ahead, then stop and ripper up.

♪♪

Try that one more time.

Then you'll crest over
and you'll be back on the flats.

♪♪

Parker: now we're gettin'
somewhere!

How much further?

About 10 feet.

[ Engine idling ]

Little more, a couple feet.

-Good.
-Good?

Narrator: the final challenge
for the d10 --

Spin the plant 90 degrees into
its final position.

Yeah, I mean, this is
the most critical part

Of this whole move,
just making this turn happen,

Making sure the plant's in
the pad that we've got for it.

-Okay, here we go.
-Just go straight!

♪♪

Go.

Parker:
I mean, normally with a hoe,

You've got a lot of control
over this turn,

And with the dozer, you don't,

And the problem is wherever it
ends up is where it ends up.

♪♪

Boy, it'd be pretty easy
to just fold this thing

Like a taco right now.

Man: whoa, whoa.
Right there, man. Looks good.

That look good to you,
dean?

Yeah, it looks really good
from right here.

Yeah?

Whoo!

Did we just make history?!

-Nice job, buddy!
-[ Laughs ] thanks.

-Good job, man.
-Yeah. Thanks, buddy.

Whew! Wipe the sweat
off the brows.

I'm really glad that worked,
you know?

We've never moved sluicifer
with a dozer before,

But it went, actually,
really well.

Now it's just a lot
of big pieces left --

Superstacker, feeder, water,
water line, you know,

And then a lot of little stuff.

We need to get some [bleep]
gold coming in.

♪♪

♪♪

This is really going to be
a pain in the a*s.

Narrator: at quartz creek,
rick ness is shut down

While freddy dodge repairs
large holes in his trommel

That could've already cost rick

Thousands of dollars
in lost gold.

♪♪

[ Clank ]

There's the problem right there,
those holes.

They're letting
great big rocks through

And plugging the sluice box up,

And pounding down through it
and helping spit gold out.

Going to try to get it
fixed fast.

Narrator:
every hour the plant is down

Costs rick $1,000.

♪♪

Freddy: these guys need
all the gold they can get,

So we don't want to lose any.

♪♪

[Bleep].

Hey, grab me a tape measure,
please.

Rick said those guys put
1/2-inch punch plate in here.

It's 7/8ths.

They're frickin' monsters.

Rick, I got some bad news.
-What's that?

You were thinking this is
1/2-inch punch plate?

-Yeah?
-7/8Ths.

That's why we have so much
material in the sluice box.

-Are you serious?
-Lookit.

7/8Ths on the tape, so we got
two times the amount of material

Going down the sluice
as what we should,

And we just don't have
enough sluice box

To handle that much material.

[Bleep] [bleep].

Oh, yeah.
They're 7/8ths for sure.

-Freddy: yep.
-[Bleep].

Way too big.

There's no changing that,
rick.

I made a lot
of oversights here.

I didn't measure anything.
I didn't [bleep]...

Ugh.

It's not only the cost
it would be

To get a new one of
these rolled.

It'd just be the time,
right?

Oh, it'd be a mess,
rick, yeah.

Narrator: it would cost rick
$30,000 for a new punch plate,

And over $150,000 in downtime.

The hits keep comin'.

Well, [bleep] just going
from bad to worse.

I'm going to have to figure out
this mess myself.

I think I know
how I'm going to do it,

But, uh, gonna have to
run to town.

[ Engine starts ]

♪♪

Freddy: we just keep finding
more and more things, you know?

I just never got
close enough to 'em

Till I was up there
welding them to measure it.

You know, it's been going round
and round

When I've been around it,

But truthfully,
I really hate giving him

[Bleep] news
one after the other.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: at quartz creek,

Rick ness is back from town
with a bush fix for his trommel.

♪♪

Rick: I'm going to bolt this
onto the outside of the trommel

To reduce the size of the holes.

So then we'll just cut it up
into pieces, bolt it on.

I got a bunch
of hardware [bleep] for it,

And should do the trick.

Narrator: to reduce the size
of the punch plate,

Rick will bolt on sections
of steel mesh

To the outside of the trommel.

So while the gold
and fine material

Pass into the sluice box,

Everything over 1/2-inch
pours out of the end.

♪♪

Ready?

♪♪

I don't see how
it's going to work.

Zee: I think it's just gonna
clog up the holes

With it being
on the outside like this.

I don't think it's gonna work
that good, either.

You think we should grab rick

And just have him
take a look at it?

We can, yeah.

You know those bars
that go across,

Those stabilizing bars
on the outside?

Yeah.

They already got rocks packed
in, and nothing can go through,

So in theory, it's gonna
do the same thing.

Like, you see these bars?
-Yep.

There's rocks packed in here
that won't even come out.

Yeah, I see that.
Listen, I'm fine with this.

Okay. And you're not worried
about it getting clogged?

No. I like it.

I like it lots.
-All right.

Narrator:
along with the crew...

-You ready?
-Yeah.

...wash plant expert freddy
is not convinced.

Freddy: I think it'll overlay
the holes, plug everything up.

Hell, I say try it,

But I'd bet you 100 bucks
it's gonna plug up.

-I'll bet you 100 bucks.
-If it doesn't plug,

I'll eat some crow
and give you 100 bucks.

-Zee, are you ready?
-Go.

Rick:
this is a quick fix.

We've only got one more piece
to bolt on,

Then we'll fire it up,
see if it works.

♪♪

All right, fire it up!
-Okay.

[ Whirring ]

♪♪

Narrator: rick runs
durt reynolds for an hour

To see if his gamble paid off.

Oh! Yes.

Definitely less of
the big rocks

Since they put
those screens on there.

It's pretty good.

There's not a lot of gravel
stuck up in the mesh,

And it's pretty encouraging.

Looks like it's working
pretty damn good to me.

♪♪

I thought it'd plug up.
I hate losing bets,

But this is one bet
I'm glad I lost.

-Hundo.
-Crisp, new $100 bill.

Yeah, buddy.

-Good job, man.
-Thanks, freddy.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: 11 miles east,
at eureka creek...

Monica: doyle.

Hi, doyle. Hi, ham.

I have the dog in my hoe.

Narrator: monica beets
is full-throttle

At the only plant
running on tony's mine.

♪♪

Dredge one is down
with a worn-out conveyor belt.

Dredge one has been down
for a little while.

It'd be nice if we could get it
back up and running soon

Because it does need

To start pulling
its weight with gold weighs,

Because right now
my plant is k*lling it,

And we've got
almost 1,000 ounces

Out of just my plant,
which is [bleep] aces.

Narrator: now tony's dream
of a 6,000-ounce season

Rests on monica's shoulders.

♪♪

Ruby!

[ Laughs ]

[ Loud clang, thud ]

What was that?

[Bleep]!

♪♪

[ Equipment powers down ]

♪♪

We've got a clogged chute,

Which means we've got a hole
in the screen.

What's going on, monica?

We've got a hole
in our top screen.

How bad is it?

I've got two runs
blocked off.

♪♪

Ah, crap.

They're all wore out.

Narrator: the wire screens
in the shaker deck

Have developed large holes...

...allowing rocks to enter
the plant,

Blocking the gold-rich pay dirt
in the distribution chute.

Tony, tony, tony.

Can you come to my plant,
please?

See right here?

This screen, what it's
designed to do

Is to only allow
inch-and-a-half material

To come through the top
of the deck into the mid-deck.

Right here, it's all wore out.

We're actually getting big
pieces of rock coming through,

And what it's doing is just
clogging everything up,

And then actually wearing out
the bottom deck even quicker.

Big problem, tony.
All those screens are wore out

On the top deck,
completely wore out.

We've got two runs clogged.

I'm about to open up the back
and get somebody to pull it out,

But...this has been
a long season.

All last summer,
I had the same problem.

We've been changing them out
every couple days.

Yeah, I got that table.

I've never cut punch plate
with it before.

I can do it, yeah.

Well, it'll wear a lot better
than this screen.

The screen is just garbage.
All right, well --

♪♪

Narrator: this season,
mechanic juan has a new toy --

A $30,000 fully automated
cnc plasma cutter.

♪♪

Juan: I'm used to having one of
these back home in my shop,

But this is new to me this year.

I decided to put one together
and put it in the trailer.

Narrator: he is using it
to manufacture

Four new punch plates

With 1 1/2-inch holes
to replace the broken screens.

Juan: so far,
it's been quite the help.

It's going to be
the first plate.

We got three more to go.

Hopefully, I'll be able
to get them done

Before the end of the day.

♪♪

Monica: I know there's a ton
of rocks stuck in there.

We really need to get this deck
put back together

And washing rocks
because time is money.

All right, well...

That should do it,
but we won't know

If it's running clear
until we start the water.

So we're waiting on juan.

♪♪

I actually got this done
a little quicker than I thought,

Got it done in a day.

We're just pulling them out
right now.

They're ready to install.

♪♪

The faster we get that
r.a. Plate in,

The less downtime we'll have
in the long run.

So sucks for now,

But you got to put the time in
to make the money.

♪♪

So we just finished putting all
the new punch plates in,

So hopefully we won't have
as much downtime,

And now we can actually
start sluicing again

And make some money.

[ Whirring ]

♪♪

So we've got dirt
coming out of the run.

Our conveyors are going,
so everything looks good to me.

Nice to see it running again.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Parker:
the best way to do this

Is probably
the two of you guys just get

That [bleep] superstacker in.
-Okay.

All right, thanks, guys.

-Got her done.
-Thanks.

Narrator: the schnabel crew
is racing

To reassemble
wash plant sluicifer

So it can get back to
producing gold.

Parker: now it's
just the big pieces left.

We got the superstacker in,
feeder in,

Get the water hooked up, get
the sluice runs put together.

How's she looking, mitch?

You're looking good!
Keep going!

We hopefully will
be washing rocks tonight.

Narrator:
brennan brings in the 460

To shunt the superstacker
halfway up the pad

So it can feed the wash plant.

Man:
we normally use our 700s

For moving
these conveyors around.

They've got a lot more power,
a lot more weight behind them.

I don't know how we're gonna
get it up that ramp

With the 460,
but it's all we got.

It barely has enough lift
to be able to make it happen.

Can you see a ramp?
Good! You're looking nice.

Well, I hope I can
grunt this up there.

That's a big lift
for this little hoe.

♪♪

Push it!

Narrator: the 20-ton stacker
is digging itself

Into the soft gravel ramp.

Is she gonna go?

She's soft, buddy.

You're digging in bad.

More power!

Oh!
-Brennan: oh!

What the [bleep] happened?

-Yeah, the clevis let go.
-[Bleep] sakes.

That little excavator has got
a bit of power then, eh?

Oh, this thing is heavy.

Strong, strong, strong,
not as strong.

That's the weakest link
in the chain!

-Ohh!
-Ohh! Zing!

Throw another one on here.

Let's try and do this
without sending parts

Past our face this time,
huh?

All right!

-Let's try that.
-Okay.

[ Horn honking ]

Ay!

You got a car alarm
on that thing?

Someone's trying to steal
my superstacker!

[ Both laughing ]

Let's try that again.

♪♪

See what happens.

Don't bring it too high off
the ground

Because you're only
a couple threads in.

You got lots of room
on that side.

You can move it over
a couple feet.

-No one behind me, eh?
-You're clear behind you.

Have these tires lined up

Just a few inches
from where you were.

♪♪

There you go!

♪♪

Come on, baby!
Get me up here!

Nice!

♪♪

Little bit more, brennan.

Whoa! Oh!

Whoo!

Parker: good job on that.

I'm actually pretty surprised
it went as smoothly as it did.

-Yeah, buddy.
-Yeah, buddy.

Let's get sluicin'!

♪♪

Hey, park.
Go down and hit the water

And just let the bypass
run for a minute!

I'm going to go ahead and fire
up the conveyor and shaker!

[ Metal clanking ]

♪♪

Oh, he might...
If he swings around,

I bet I can get him
in the cab.

♪♪

Brennan!

Hey, swing around!
Brennan!

♪♪

[ Laughter ]

[ Laughing ]

♪♪

Hey, we haven't
[bleep] it up yet!

Hey, it looks good, man.

Good job
with all this stuff.

Oh, I'm just glad
it's back up and running.

All right,
let's make some money!

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: while tony's been
working on his second dredge,

Monica has been running
her wash plant,

And kevin's managed a few days
sluicing on dredge one.

♪♪

Well, we're here.

-Hi, guys.
-Hey, guys.

How are you?

Narrator: nearly two-thirds
of the way through the season,

Tony has just over
$2.25 million worth of gold,

Not even a third of
his $7.2 million season target.

♪♪

Minnie: how have you guys
been doing? [ Laughs ]

-[ Laughs ]
-you didn't run for very long.

You only ran for 3 days.

Minnie: let's have
the bad news first.

It's just 3 days.

Minnie: you count it.

-[ Kevin groans ]
-monica: go.

8, 9, 10,

15, 20,

25, 30,

40, 50,

60, 65,

67.70.

Hmm.

Narrator: worth $81,000.

Minnie: so how did you do?

Uh, we've been running
fairly constant past 2 weeks.

It is what it is, right?

Narrator:
with no weigh-in last week,

Monica has 13 days'
worth of gold.

♪♪

10, 14, 20,

30, 40, 50, 60,

70, 80 --
I can't keep up.

Monica: you know what?
I can't go slower.

Narrator:
to get back on track,

Tony needs 450 ounces a week.

Minnie: 290, 300,

420, 430, 440,

450, 470...

484.30.

Narrator:
worth over $580,000.

♪♪

Yeah.

Narrator: tony's exceeded
his weekly target,

But it's taken 2 weeks to do it.

2,430.22.

Narrator: worth $2.9 million,

But time is running out
for tony.

Should we pack it up
and go back to work, maybe?

♪♪

♪♪

He is all worked up.
What is on your a*s?

Did you [bleep] on yourself?

Oh, yeah, you did.

-[ Laughing ]
-narrator: as a mine boss,

Parker schnabel
needs to look after his crew,

Whether they have two legs
or four.

Open the bypass. I need to wash
some [bleep] off dozer.

We've all been there.
[ Laughter ]

Turn around. Come on.

Doggy bidets by parker.

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

I'd do that
for any one of you guys.

-[ Laughs ]
-except you, brennan.

Yeah, probably not.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: at quartz creek,

Rick ness has shut down
for a cleanup.

♪♪

Rick's quick bush fix
seems to have worked.

Now he'll find out if
it's increased his gold haul.

-What's up, folks?
-Hey, rick.

-How you doing?
-How you doing?

So freddy had to take off,
which is a huge bummer.

But before he did,
I got this off him.

[ Singsongy ] what's up?
-100 Dollar bill, y'all.

That's the most profit
I've made this season so far.

[ Laughter ]

-What's it feel like?
-Yeah, right?

-Oh, wow.
-Ah.

Well, you haven't split it
five ways yet.

Yeah.

So as far as winning
that 100 bucks,

You guys put
that plan together quick

While we weren't even
down a day.

So I appreciate that.
I appreciate the hustle.

Yeah, absolutely.
I was a bit skeptical at first,

But that was a pretty creative,
really good idea, man.

Well, thank you.

Do you have the gold ready,
karla?

-Yeah, I think so.
-Go get it.

Narrator: to hit
his 1,000-ounce target,

Rick needs at least
40 ounces of gold every week.

-Rick: yeah.
-Oh, wow.

-Whoa!
-Hey!

[ Rick laughing ]
-whoo!

-Oh, yeah.
-Whoa.

Karla: whoo-hoo!

Rick: you want to count this out
for me, karla?

Yeah.

5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 12, 14,

29, 30,
40, 50, 60...

Looking good.

...70, 85...

90, 92,

94...

95.41.

-95.41!
-Whoo!

-Yeah!
-All right! Yeah!

Yeah!

-Good job, guys and girl.
-Karla: that's good.

Narrator: worth $114,000,

Twice what he got last week.

Yeah, that brings us
to a grand total of...

701.32.

-701. Nice.
-Narrator: with $840,000,

Rick is on track to hit
his goal.

Let's celebrate that we got
to over $100,000

Worth of gold on the scale.

-Yeah.
-Bring it in, guys...

-Bring it in.
-...and girl.

A one, two, three...

All: hooray!

♪♪

Narrator: at big red,

Veteran miner chris doumitt
is training

New recruit matthew adams
in how to do the cleanup.

Chris: we've got a new guy,
and we decided

We're going to have
a little fun with him.

I've made a nugget,
and I'm going to plant it

Into the sluice box
and let him find it.

We're gonna get his reaction.

That ought to work.

♪♪

[Bleep]! [Bleep]!

Um, yeah, that's a huge duger.
Give it to chris.

Hey, doumitt.

Now what'd I just tell you?

We do fine gold recovery.

We don't do nuggets.

Wow.

Just tear the thing apart
and get it cleaned up.

Oh, that was a massive-a*s
nugget that got thrown.

That's insane. It's crazy.

[ Laughter ]

♪♪

-How's it going, mitch?
-Not too bad. How was your week?

Oh, pretty good, I think.

Narrator:
after cleaning up the gold,

The crew assemble
for the weigh-in.

It looks nice and clean, chris.
In there with your tweezers?

-Well...
-Your old-man glasses.

My old-man glasses, yeah.

I was afraid you were
gonna see that.

-Yeah.
[ Laughter ]

Hey, bubbles?

What say we weigh up
some gold, fellas?

Come on,
let's see what big red did.

Oh.

♪♪

Chris: jumped up to 30...

40, 60...

100, 130, 140.

Parker: can we do 150?

-At 150.
-Oh, yeah.

170.

Get every little flake.

What are we at?

184.15.

-Bingo.
-[Bleep], yeah.

-Nice!
-[ Laughs ]

Parker: that's a good one
for old big red.

Yeah, that is really good.

Narrator:
to hit his season goal,

Parker needs 360 ounces a week.

Parker: time for sluicifer.

Narrator: that means, despite
losing 2 days to the move,

Sluicifer needs to deliver
another 180 ounces.

Chris: 100, 120,

40, 60, 180,

190, 200.

-[Bleep].
-[ Laughs ]

200?

219.35.

So what did we get this week?

Well, for the week,
we got 403 1/2 ounces.

Narrator:
worth over $480,000.

Good week.

That's further ahead
than we need.

-Perfect.
-Considering a plant move, yeah.

Narrator: parker's
d10 plant move has paid off.

He smashed his weekly goal.

So now our season total
is 3,100 and 31.35.

Narrator: $3.75 million.

-Halfway?
-Halfway.

Cheers. Halfway and way behind
still in the season, but hey.

Hey!

Parker: yeah, I mean,
we're over halfway now,

Which is really nice,

But we're well past
halfway through the season,

And, um...

Hopefully, we can keep this up.

Like, the plant's moved.

We should have some
smooth sailing ahead of us.

But since when has anything
around here been smooth sailing?

♪♪

Ah, [bleep]! [Bleep]!

Narrator:
on the next "gold rush"...

I hit the [bleep] water line.

I thought you knew
what you were doing.

I don't know what I'm doing,
man!

♪♪

What the [bleep]?

Yeah, this isn't really
how we do things here.

You need to take the initiative,
brennan.

[Bleep] sakes.

I think we may have some fun
with this.

♪♪

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

[ Metal groans ]