09x18 - Big Red Is Dead

[bunniefuu]

♪

Narrator:
on this "gold rush"...

We've got
all this pay piled up.

We should be able to work
through it in a week.

♪

Rick: there is still gold
in the ground, man,

And there's still time
to get it.

Man: this frozen pay
is clogging the feeder.

You're on your own.
Figure it out.

[Bleep] it.

What the [bleep], man.

I'm about ready
just to walk away.

♪

[ Laughs ]

-Good to see you.
-It's your land.

Nancy:
you've put the time in it.
You've put the money in it,

And you're gonna still
have to try to work with him.

Parker:
hi, tony.

♪

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Nancy:
[ laughs ]

Roger:
what's going on?

I saw dozer,
but I didn't see you.

Thought I was gonna
drive right by you.

-Hi, honey.
-Hi.

-Oh.
-Good to see you.

-Hi, son.
-Long ride with him.

-Hey, pops.
-Hey, doze! Come here!

How are you?
-I'm all right.

Narrator: as the end of
the season fast approaches,

Parker's parents,
roger and nancy schnabel,

Have made the 500-mile trip
from haines, alaska

To check up
on their youngest son.

How was the drive?

You know, it was
longer than normal,

But good from the standpoint
your mom and I

Got along real well.
You actually spoke?

-That's -- no.
-No.

[ Laughter ]

But yeah, why don't we go
look at what we've got
going on this season.

-Sure.
-Great.

We've moved
a lot of dirt.

Narrator:
parker has mined 50 acres
of his massive 61-acre last cut.

He's moved enough dirt to fill
600 olympic swimming pools.

-Wow.
-Very impressive, huh?

Nancy:
this is nice.

So how long have you been
working over here, honey?

Parker: we started right here
last year.

-Wow.
-It's pretty exciting

Roger:
to see that.
I'll tell you.

♪

All right.

This is what you've done
this year?

Parker: yeah.

-Pretty cool, parker.
-Yeah.

I mean, I bet we moved damn
near a million yards of dirt.

Holy mackerel.

Narrator:
parker is just 300-ounces away

From achieving
his record-breaking

$7.2 million goal.

Boy, we're right on the door
at 6,000 ounces.

Pretty impressive,
parker.

But the problem
that we've got

Is this
is tony's ground,

And, like,
pretty soon here

We're on
25% royalties,

And I really
don't like it.

As soon as he hits 6,000 ounces,

A quarter of parker's gold
goes straight to landlord tony.

Nancy: what I'm really
having trouble with

Is you're gonna
pay him tons of royalty.

I mean, can you really
stomach that?

Can you do that?

Because I don't know
that I could.

Yeah. I mean, it really sucks
to get punished

For doing better,
right?

I see.

You have
other options?

To me, the only place to turn
is the cluster cut

You know,
I paid for the ground.

Like, we've got it open
this year.

The only thing standing
in the way is tony beets.

We're yukon landowners.

Narrator:
parker spent a million dollars
buying his own land

Next to tony and opening up
the cluster cut.

This is
royalty-free ground.

Every ounce we find, we keep.

Narrator: but after he failed
to get permission

For water and road access...

...tony blocked him.

But, tony, what you're
telling me right now

Is to end
my mining season.

♪

It's your land.
You've put the time in it.

You've put the money in it,
and you're gonna still

Have to try to work
with him on this.

I mean, as I see it,
you don't have another choice.

You may not want to.
You may not like it,

But you've got
to deal with him.

And that's what
he's gonna do

Is pick the right time
to do that.

Well, I don't know that
there is a right time.

I think the time is now,
when you need to move.

I mean, I don't think
you can put it off.

Wait for him to die.

That's not
gonna work.

-No, I --
-but yeah, I get it.

I may as well just go down there
and talk to him.

♪

We've got to mine
that cluster cut this season,

But tony holds all the cards,

So it still hinges completely
on whether tony says yes or no.

Narrator: parker's second
wash plant, big red,

Has run out of pay dirt
and is sitting idle.

If tony agrees,
parker can mine his own ground,

Ground that could
eventually yield him

Millions in royalty-free gold.

I'm just scared because tony
is just super unpredictable,

And you get him on the right day
and he might be in a great mood,

And you get him
on the wrong day

And it's, you know --
it can be a disaster.

♪

Parker: hi, tony.

♪

Well, I've come to try
to make peace with you

So that I can mine
this ground next to you, tony.

♪

I do have a pile of money
in that ground down there.

You know, we've, like,

Probably spent a million bucks
down there.

And I just, you know...

The way things have gone,

I have no assurances
that, like,

I'll be able to even
get that money back.

♪

♪

Right.

♪

♪

I appreciate that,
tony.

I just need to get access
sorted out first and foremost.

♪

♪

Okay.

You want it completely off
your property on this side?

All right. We'll build
a road beside this camp.

One thing that I do
need from you is,

I need
water down there.

If you'll help us with
a workable solution

For a little
settling pond,

There's no reason
for it not to work out.

All right. Well, tony,
I appreciate it.

Thanks, tony.

Hey, mind if I take
a couple cookies?

Oh, yeah.

[ Tony laughs ]

♪

♪

That freeze is coming, boys.

Ben: yeah, that freeze
is coming for sure.

It's colder and colder
every single day.

You know, I'm bundled up
in this truck,

And I just can't
even stay warm enough.

Yeah, I'm freezing
my ba*ls off in here.

Yeah, it's been a pretty long,
hard season on us

And the equipment.

Really surprised no one
m*rder*d one another.

[ Chuckling ] the season
is not over yet, ben.

[ Laughs ]

♪

Narrator: rick ness is still
100 ounces short

Of his 1,000-ounce,
$1.2 million goal,

And the temperatures
just dropped below freezing.

The winter could shut down
rick at any time.

The bad, bad weather
is on it's way.

There's no doubt
about that, so...

Rick: from here on out, everyday
is gonna be a battle,

But if it gets me
to that thousand ounces

That I promised myself
and my friends

That I was gonna to get,

Well, that's a [bleep] battle
I'm ready to fight.

Narrator: to achieve his goal,
rick must run 24/7

Until winter freezes him out.

♪

In the upstream cut,
ben rips the frozen pay...

♪

Ben: we're all fighting
against mother nature.

I'm ripping this ground,

And it's freezing
just as fast as I'm ripping it.

♪

This ground is so frozen

I can hardly get the tooth
into the ground here.

♪

Narrator:
terry loads the trucks...

All right.
Thanks, bud.

...while zee hauls
the gold-rich pay

To the wash plant...

♪

...where ryan keeps
durt reynolds fed.

Yeah, it's been
a rough morning so far,

Getting a lot
of frozen pay dirt sent up.

I mean, if you look on the pile,
you can see them over there,

Big frozen chunks.

And that's getting hard
to run through the plant,

But we're just trying to move

As much as we can
to reach our goal.

So they'll just keep fighting.

♪

[ Banging ]

[Bleep] me. Really?

Terry, you got a copy?
-Yeah. Go ahead, ryan.

This frozen pay
is clogging the feeder.

Either we quit
running frozen pay or...

Well, that's
our only option.

Terry: you're on your own.
Figure it out.

Well, then don't worry
about [bleep].

[ Banging continues ]

[Bleep] junk.

Ah, [bleep].

Clogged with frozen
[bleep] pay dirt.

[ Machine powers down ]

♪

They keep sending frozen pay up,

Expecting me to run it,
but this is the result.

♪

[Bleep]
this is [bleep].

[ Sighs ]

What do you want
to try to do?

I say get rick over here
with the excavator.

Hey, rick,
do you have a copy? Rick?

Hey, our box
up here is frozen.

You think you could bring
your machine over here

And maybe
give us a hand?

♪

Narrator: rick brings in the 460
to unblock the hopper feeder.

♪

Is it just
froze up high?

Yes, big chunks in here,
and it's frozen up high.

Roger that.

♪

The hopper is blocking up

'Cause we're putting
big chunks through it,

So I'm trying to see
if I can get in here

With the excavator bucket
and break it up a bit

'Cause I definitely
don't want to go in there

With hand shovels.

[ Machine whirring ]

♪

♪

All right.
Is the belt visible?

Ryan: yeah.

Oh, [bleep].

Man: huh?
What's the matter?

That [bleep] belt.

♪

-[Bleep]
-what's up?

That belt
[bleep] hit the seam.

Shut her down!
[ Machine powers down ]

♪

♪

-Oh, [bleep].
-What's up?

That [bleep] belt.

Ah, [bleep].

That belt [bleep]
hit the seam.

Rick: ah, [bleep]
[bleep].

Narrator: a belt tear
this late in the season

Could spell disaster
for rick and the milwaukee boys.

Rick: it ain't
looking great.

Yeah. It's peeled up
in the middle.

Not [bleep] ideal.

I suppose it snagged a chunk
of that frozen [bleep]

And split it.

[ Sighs ]

The seam of the belt
is held together by clips,

And the clips are worn out,
and a few have let loose,

But we can't run it like that,
and I don't have any new clips,

So I'm just gonna go
try and find some,

And hopefully
it's a quick repair.

[ Engine revs ]

Narrator: rick leaves ryan
and mechanic carl...

-Uh-oh.
-We're gonna be [bleep]

...to remove
the old belt clips.

We're gonna be
drilling them all out, buddy.

I hate to say it.

Now it's
gonna be slow.

-We'll do some tandem drilling.
-Yeah.

Every hour the wash plant
is down costs rick

Up to $1,000 in lost gold.

Drilling them
out sucks my a*s.

It'll be
the hard way.

♪

[ Laughs ]

♪

Three hours later...

You don't even want to know
how many guys' I [bleep] [bleep]

To get these.
-What'd you do?

-[ Laughs ]
-where did you get those at?

I went to the neighbor.

It's all here, bro.
-[Bleep]

You're a good man, rick.
-Yeah.

No, I ran to
the closest neighbor

That I knew had conveyors
and, you know, it turns out,

If you're not known
for being an [bleep] out here,

People are happy to help you.

♪

Narrator: it's cost rick five
hours and $5,000 in lost gold

To complete the belt fix.

Carl:
that's good. Good enough.

You see, we got
the belt fixed now,

So we're ready to run dirt
through the plant.

So we're gonna fire it up,
throw some water at it,

And we're good to go
for the night.

Start it up.

[ Machine whirring ]

Narrator: it's time to put
the belt fix to the test.

-Ready when you are.
-Copy.

♪

Rick: you know,
the pay dirt is all frozen.

It's coming out in big chunks,
and it's just been a fight

To get it through the plant,

But if it's runnable,
we got to run it.

♪

Ryan: whoo!
It's working good now.

Rick: oh, thank [bleep].

I got [bleep] worried there
for a second.

-[ Chuckling ] yeah.
-[ Laughs ]

I'm beat.

♪

♪

Kevin: copy.

On the way.

Narrator:
at the start of the season,
tony had two goals...

Right there
to the left.

...rebuild dredge number two

And beat parker
to 6,000 ounces.

♪

But with winter about to hit
and a full 2,000 short,

Tony has run out of time.

-Hey.
-What's up, tony?

He may not have hit his goal,

But with nearly
$5 million in the bank,

Tony has mined more gold
than last season

And has already covered
his costs for the year.

Okay, but we've got
two massive stockpiles.

I got one
at the shaker deck.

Kevin has got one
at the pearson box,

And then we can still
get a couple ounces

Before the season is over,
ending everything.

But we did just get
the pearson box tuned in.

Why not just [bleep]
put it through?

Yeah,
rock [bleep] hard.

Okay. How about this?
We've got all this pay piled up.

We should be able to work
through it in a week.

So just give us that.

The plants are
finally running well,

Sand we'll smash it.

♪

I'll need
two people.

Same thing.

Same thing.

Easy peasy,
they're all yours.

Yep.

-Works for me.
-Yeah.

Sounds like a plan.
-Okay.

Fire it up!

Narrator:
tony gives kevin and monica
just one week to sluice

Their gold-rich stockpiles
before he shuts them down

And secures their future
in the klondike

By moving everyone
onto the dredge two rebuild.

♪

Everything looks
good to me.

♪

Hey, ruby. Do you copy?
-Yep.

Do you want to take a scoop
of the stuff on the stockpile?

We got a week
[bleep] k*ll it.

Just throw it in there
as fast as you can.

♪

Narrator: monica's old friend,
ruby, will load the plant.

Luckily, monica and kevin

Have convinced tony...
[ Engine sputters ]

...to let us have one more week

Of sluicing.
[ Engine stalls ]

Ooh.

That's not a good sound.
[ Chuckles ]

Monica:
what was that?

Let me see if I can start
this [bleep] thing first.

[ Engine sputtering ]

[ Engine grinding ]

She's [bleep] cold.

[ Chuckles ]

♪

Narrator: while ruby and monica
run the wash plant flat out...

♪

Right now, we are
firing up the pearson box.

Watch your ears.
[ Engine starts ]

...kevin fires up his
40-year-old pearson box.

♪

You have the [bleep]
material here.

Let's just [bleep] run it.

♪

We're gonna kick some a*s.

♪

♪

♪

Parker:
I had a meeting with tony,

And, like,
he's cool with everything.

He just doesn't want us
driving through his camp

Or on his ground.

Roger: so this is the problem.
This is why

You're driving through here?
-Right.

Narrator:
to persuade tony to allow him
to mine his own ground,

Parker agreed to build
an access road

That avoids tony's camp,
and he's bringing in an expert.

So what are we doing?

We're actually looking at
going and building a road.

♪

Let's take
a look at this.

Parker's father, roger,
has 40-years experience

Building roads all over alaska.

So...

This is eureka creek.

We're parked,
like, right there.

I'm with you.

And we want to get to here,
right?

-Yeah.
-What is that distance

From here
to where we are standing?

That's not that far.

-1,800.
-1,800 Feet?

-Yeah.
-Okay.

-Yeah.
-Now, that material, though,

Roger: that's already been
washed already.

-Yeah.
-So it's really good fill.

Parker: yeah, 'cause we need
gravel for this road here.

Right.

You got a d8.
Perfect.

You got
a great spread cat.

Then, as far
as the loading,

You could use an excavator,
you know?

You've got all the essentials
that you need to do it.

This is classic,
easy road building.

Narrator:
at the start of the season,
parker spent $500,000

Opening up the cluster cut,

But annoyed tony by using the
access road through his camp.

♪

Parker will build
a mile-long road,

With the help of
his road-building father,

That bypasses tony's camp.

It will cut through a previously
mined-out section

Of parker's ground,

Allowing him to directly
access the cluster cut,

Where he plans to mine.

The issue that
we have is time.

I mean, I reckon
that you're looking at

At least 8 to 10 days.
No way.

Gosh, parker, you can move
2,000 yards a day, easy.

This is, like,
a 4 or 5-day stint.

Could you
help us get started?

I'd love to.
It's what I do.

It's my life.
I build road.

[ Laughs ]
let's build a road then.

Let's do it.

♪

Roger uses the 460 excavator

To lay out tailings
in front of parker...

♪

...who dozes
and compacts the material

In the 40-ton d8
to form his new road.

♪

Roger:
parker was faced with having
to deal with a problem

That tony beets
created for him,

And the treatment that
he's received from tony,

I just can't quite understand,

But I'm not about to go out
and punch tony beets in the nose

Because of the way
he's treating my son.

But obviously if there's
anything that I can do

To help him, as a father,
I want to do that.

Will we ever be friends?

I don't know.
There's a lot of things

About tony I really do like,

And, you know, as much as him
and I butt heads,

I'm hopeful that
we can make this work out.

But I've got a lot
of road to build,

So, you know, it's gonna
be quite the challenge

To make this all work.

♪

[ Loud clang ]

[Bleep].

I lost a tooth.

♪

Hey, parker, my buddy.
What's that?

Can you take
a look at this?

[ Machine whirring ]

[ Machine powers down ]

You see your tooth up
on the bank up there?

-Yeah.
-Well, the problem is --

I really wasn't digging it
that hard, you know?

Well, you ripped
a bucket apart.

[ Laughs ]
that's a bunch of crap.

Come on,
I just started out.

Yeah, exactly.

I know what those teeth
can take.

I mean,
I'm used to this, so...

[ Laughing ]
yeah.

"I know what the machine
can handle, and even
though it's broken,

I didn't break it."
[ Laughs ]

Right on.
Okay, I'm guilty.

How's that? That make you
feel better?

It better not
happen again.

[ Laughs ]

♪

[ Loud clanging ]

♪

-At eureka creek...
-Get that pipe.

Juan: we'll weld it on this spot
right here, cody.

-Here?
-That's where I want it.

-To there.
-Yep.

Narrator: ...tony beets is
into profit after mining

Over 4,000 ounces
worth $4.8 million.

Now he and juan
are hard at work,

Rebuilding dredge number two...

♪

...while monica
runs her wash plant

At 200 yards an hour.

Love it, ruby.
You're doing good.

♪

Oh, for
[bleep] sakes.

Monica?
You got a copy?

I got a big rock stuck,
and it won't go down.

[Bleep].
Shut it off!

♪

♪

♪

ba*ls.

Narrator:
tony gave monica just one week

And a maximum
of two crew members

To sluice her stockpile
of pay dirt...

-Kevin?
-This is kevin.

We got a big [bleep] rock
stuck right on our conveyor.

You want to come down
and help?

On my way.

...but a large rock stuck

At the top of her feeder
conveyor has shut her down.

We just got back up
and [bleep] running,

But it looks like
I got a huge rock

Stuck up on our conveyor.

We got dirt everywhere.

[Bleep] [bleep]

Narrator:
every hour her plant is down

Costs monica
$1,800 in lost gold.

♪

You're doing a great job,
so thanks, bro.

Whoa.

Oh, my [bleep].

Hey, kevin.

There's a hole
in the belt.

Yeah.

Oh...

[Bleep].

[Bleep] belts.

Juan, do you copy?
Juan.

I think my belt
might be split.

Narrator: by taking
mechanic juan ibarra

Away from building
dredge number two,

Monica is breaking
her promise to tony.

So what happened?

[Bleep]

-How bad is it? Does it --
-uh, [bleep] bad.

Oh, [bleep].

Split the belt
all the way down.

Yeah.

We got a torn belt
on that feeder,

So we got to put
the new belt on.

What we're gonna do
is we're gonna cut this belt,

Put a couple holes in it,
and then we'll use the clips

That we actually use
to fasten the belt together.

We'll use those clips to fasten
the old belt to the new belt,

And then we'll use the excavator
to pull the old belt,

And as it starts pulling
the old belt out of the bottom,

It will pull the new belt
through the back

Of the tail pulley and out.

Narrator: juan's plan --
cut the old belt in half

And attach it to the new belt.

Monica will then
use the excavator

To pull the old belt out
from beneath the conveyor,

Which will drag
the new belt into place.

They can then detach
and remove the old belt,

Then lift the last of the new
belt over the front pulley

And use a set of clips
to join both ends together.

♪

Juan: good.

All right.
I'm ready to pull through.

Perfect.

Now the new belt is attached...

-We all clear?
-Clear.

You're good.

Okay.
[ Gearshift clicks ]

Narrator:
...monica uses the excavator
to pull out the old one.

♪

Juan:
and the new belt is already
starting to feed through, is it?

-Yeah.
-Keep going.

♪

There's the piece
we're looking for.

Oh, that's so nice.

Perfect.

Right on.

We got it in place.
All we got to do is get it,

Made it up, cut it,
couple it, huh?

Kevin:
piece of cake.

Hey, tony.

Not worth a [bleep].

We're doing
the belt on the shaker deck.

Yep.

Since about 4:35.

♪

♪

♪

♪

Mm, bacon.

Narrator: at eureka creek,
brennan has taken over

Building the access road
on parker's new ground.

Day two here. We're moving
back down to the cluster cut.

So, that's a good feeling.

I'll be down here
getting some roads put in.

Get to the back half
of the claim,

Which is where we need
to set up to mine.

♪

It's really good
to see you guys.

Thanks for coming up.
-Roger has helped parker

Narrator:
build half his access road.

Now, he needs to head back,
along with nancy,

To his own road-building
business in alaska.

-Love you.
-Love you.

-You know it.
-Eat some food.

Thanks, dad,
for the help.

-Parker, it's my pleasure.
-I love you.

-I love you, too.
-[ Laughs ]

-Be safe.
-See you, son.

Nancy: I don't like
leaving him.

-He'll be fine.
-He'll be fine.

[ Engine starts ]

Parker: it's extra nice
this year to see the folks

And get some of that wisdom
from them.

♪

Sadly, they can't stay too long,

But, you know,
they're always here in spirit.

♪

Brennan:
parker, you got a copy?

-Yeah.
-Hey, buddy.

I think you better get over here
and check this out.

There's like a virgin chunk
that's left.

What the [bleep].

♪

Think that's original?

Not a bad-looking
bedrock.

Like,
look at that rock.

That seems
quite original to me.

Should we do a quick pan?

-All right.
-Yeah.

Let's do one.

♪

This hasn't been mined,
I don't think.

Narrator:
brennan and parker have
just discovered virgin ground

In a section of parker's land

They believed had
already been mined out,

So parker tests it to see
if it's on the pay streak.

♪

Is there gold in them
there streets, boss?

Parker:
oh, boy.

Oh, [bleep].

Holy [bleep].

[ Laughs ]
of course.

There's like [bleep]
15 colors there.

[Bleep] wonder how many you
just threw in that road.

-Paving the roads with gold.
-Yep.

All right. Well, that
complicates things a fair bit.

How do you build
a road when [bleep]

First thing you do
is find a bunch of pay?

But this [bleep]
has not been mined.

I mean, there's...
I wonder if it's --

That would be a good pan
any day of the week.

[Bleep] nuts.

[ Sniffs ]

How the [bleep]
do we handle this now?

Narrator:
parker's dilemma --

Continue building
another half-mile of road

On gold-rich pay,

Or make a quick buck
by mining this new bank

That's rich in gold.

All right. You have to change
your mind-set now to --

You're, like,
stripping the pay.

-Yeah.
-Not building a road no more.

-No.
-'Cause that's pay.

We'll strip a cut over there
in that bank to get us more pay.

Brennan: okay, boss.
I'll call it the bank cut, then.

I wouldn't be surprised
if there's quite a --

I mean, it's gonna
be narrow,

But I wouldn't be surprised
if there's quite a strip here.

Narrator:
the bank cut will be parker's

First full-scale operation
on his own klondike claim.

♪

I'm a little bit
excited.

Yeah, me, too...
Just a little.

...'Cause it's thawed
and it's easy.

There's gold from here
to eternity.

♪

♪

Rick:
welcome again, everybody,

To your favorite time
of the week.

We got the gold down, right?

-All right.
-Oh, yeah.

Narrator:
rick has had a tough week...

All right, all right,
all right.

...and to be on track
for his 1,000-ounce gold...

All right.
Shall we weigh it up?

...this gold weigh needs
to produce at least 34 ounces.

We got 5, 10,
15, 25, 30.

We're over 40.

[ Tapping bowl ]

43.52.

All right.
[ Applause ]

Narrator:
worth over $50,000.

Rick: it's not awful
considering how many times

Ryan has been
in and out of that hopper.

I mean, we've been
start/stop

All [bleep] week, right?

-Yeah.
-Yeah, that's true.

And ryan never
let us forget it.

Yep. I complained
the whole time.

[ Laughter ]

Narrator:
with 940 ounces in the bank,

Rick is within striking
distance of his goal.

-We're in the nines, boys.
-Nice.

60 Ounces
of gold.

-It's doable.
-Yeah. We're close, man.

We're really [bleep] close,
but it's gonna be tough.

This is gonna be the hardest
gold we get all season.

-It's gonna be miserable.
-It's gonna be miserable.

Guys, you want to cheers
to being miserable

For a bit longer?
Come on, let's go!

-Let's get miserable!
-Let's go!

-Cheers to being miserable.
-To being miserable

But [bleep] winning.

-Yeah.
-One, two, three --

All: ready!

♪

Juan:
I'm not gonna lie. My hands
are getting kind of cold.

Narrator:
as winter starts to bite...

Warm them up, man.

...juan has found an ingenious
way to prevent frostbite.

When you can't turn up
the heat outside,

Just get your torch out
and warm your hands up.

You'll be good to go.

Oh, yeah.
Beautiful.

I can feel them again.

[ Blowtorch blowing ]

♪

♪

♪

Narrator:
tony has shut down his last two
wash plants at eureka creek...

Minnie:
hi, kids.

...so the beets family gathers

For their final gold weigh
of the year.

So this is the last week
of sluicing, eh?

Yeah. We did
kind of a [bleep] week.

When everything goes
[bleep] boom.

Yeah.
[Bleep] rocks, man.

-[Bleep] belts, man.
-The whole thing went...

All right.
All right.

Narrator:
first up, monica's wash plant.

5...

10, 15, 20,

25, 30,
50, 60, 70,

80, 100, 110,

120, 180, 190.

200.

207.58.

Worth $250,000.

Next up, kevin's pearson box.

♪

20, 50,

80, 100, 110,

130,

160.

165.28.

Worth almost $200,000.

Our total for this week
is 372.86,

And our total for the year
is 4,397 ounces.

Narrator:
1,6000 ounces short

Of his 6,000-ounce season goal,

And tony has failed
to beat his rival, parker.

But with $5.3 million
worth of gold,

He's set a new personal best
at eureka creek.

We didn't get to 6,000,

But that never really
was my main goal.

My main goal was
getting the dredge here.

Tony can now focus everything
on his future profits.

♪

Cool.

♪

♪

Hey, junior. Dean.

Hey. How's it going?
-Holy mackerel.

Narrator:
while tony looks to the future,

Parker is racing
towards a monster finish.

With only sluicifer
running under foreman dean,

He's just 294 ounces
short of his 6,000-ounce,

$7.2 million season.

Want to throw it on the scale
and see how close we get?

Dean:
let's do it.

Oh, don't drop
that one.

All right.

Holy [bleep].
That's big.

50, 80,

130, 160,

300, 320, 340...

Holy [bleep].

369.

3--
What the...

402.

[ Tapping bowl ]

404.6.
-Ooh.

Narrator:
$485,000 worth of gold,

Parker and his crew have smashed
their 6,000-ounce season goal.

Good job, dean-o.
That's awesome, buddy.

-Yep. Good job, man.
-That took us over 6,000

By quite a bit.
-Yeah.

Narrator: parker has
a massive $7.3 million.

6,000 Ounces.

6,110 Ounces.

-Perfect.
-Good job, kiddo.

You pulled it off,
all you guys.

Well done, guys.

Good job, dean.
-Thanks.

Like, everybody
is just k*lling it.

So we gonna shut sluicifer
home and just call it quits?

Shut sluicifer home?

[ Stammers ]

Doumitt.
Doumitt.

You're just always so eager
to get your words out.

Come on, I just try
to get caught up.

You're turning
into my grandpa.

[ Laughter ]

-Thank you.
-You know, he was going deaf --

That was one of
the best compliments

I've had
in a long time.

[ Burps ]

Smartest thing
you said all day.

[ Man laughs ]

We're scraping the bottom
of the barrel, buddy.

[ Crash ]
oh, [bleep].

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

Man: ben threw his truck.
Camera, we need a camera.

Welcome back. You're not
gonna believe this,

But we're moving big red down
to the ground we bought.

I've hauled some stupid stuff
before, but this is --

Holy [bleep].
[ Crash ]

Okay, mike. Swing it.
Swing it in, mike.

I don't [bleep]
see him see!

Quit [bleep] pointing!

[ Crash ]

What a circus.

Did you get that?