10x19 - Rebellion at Duncan Creek

[bunniefuu]

♪

Narrator:
on this "gold rush"...

Rick: we just had
a [bleep] talk about

How we were gonna get through
the rest of this [bleep] season!

We'll deal with it next year!

Rick ness faces down
a rebellion.

Well, he's [bleep] lost it
this time.

♪

Narrator:
with two operations down...

...the beets family
struggles to recover.

Kind of feel like throwing up.
[ Coughs ]

[ Vomits ]

You've just got to put
every body you can in a truck

And do whatever
you can to keep up.

Narrator: and parker schnabel's
search for gold...

I'm trying to keep
that [bleep] wash plant running.

...pushes his crew
to the limit.

♪

[ Crash ]

Dennis!

♪

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Rick: this year has just been
one giant roller-coast ride.

I know there's big gold here
at duncan creek.

It's just, the ground does not
want to give it up.

And I've spent hundreds
of thousands of dollars

Trying to find it.

Narrator:
in the mountains above keno,

Rick ness finally has
his operation dialed in.

Rick: everybody's committed
to finishing this season strong.

You know, morale is good.
The ground's holding up.

The weather's holding up
for now.

So it's time to just push
right on through

Till we get froze out.

Narrator:
with 5 weeks left in the season,

Rick's got just


He's determined to hit
his 500-ounce break-even point

And put some money in the bank
for him and his crew.

Kruse: the most important thing
right now

Is that we get something out of
this ground to get to our goal.

The last thing any of us
wants to do

Is go home without a bonus,

And the last thing I want to do
is see rick lose his a*s.

Narrator: monster red
is running up to 300 yards

Of potentially gold-rich pay
every hour.

We've been up and running
pretty smoothly

The last couple of days.

Oh, boy.
We're getting there.

All hands on deck.

Just trying to, you know,
pound this dirt through.

♪

♪

Oh, hold on.

You got to be kidding me.

Hey. [Bleep] [bleep]

There's a rock pileup.

Shut her down.

♪

[ Machine powers down ]

♪

I assume
this isn't good.

What happened?

Not much left.

I'm just gonna get in there
and take a look-see.

♪

Oh!

[Bleep]

Rick:
the hopper for this conveyor

Is just lodged
in the tail wheel of our belt

And caused it to [bleep]
stall out and load up on us.

And it's just worn-out [bleep]
and it's a problem.

Narrator: after washing
all the gold-rich material

Off the rocks,

Monster red sends them out onto
the conveyor through a hopper.

The heavy duncan creek rocks
have destroyed

The sides of the hopper,

Allowing them to build up
under the conveyor belt,

Stopping the belt
and jamming the hopper.

This conveyor is not built
for this ground.

We just --
seems like it's running

Too big of rocks through
and stuff, right?

[Bleep]
I don't know, carl.

It's like,
it's so [bleep]

Wait. Is that other hopper
over there?

Let's just take that other
hopper off, like, this thing

Right here off the other one,
and put it in here.

Well, let's just go see
what kind of shape it's in.

I'm coming.
I'm coming.

Narrator:
when rick bought monster red,

It came with
a spare tailings hopper.

So, if you armor this up here...
Yeah.

...and it doesn't have a chance
to pound through it...

Yeah.
...then it should be okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, realistically,
I'm down to try that.

To prevent the replacement
breaking in the same way,

They'll reinforce it
using impact wear plates.

First up, rick and zee
remove the damaged hopper.

Let's go.

Every hour monster red is down,

Rick's chances of breaking
even slip away.

We got it.

♪

Rick: wow.
Boy, that is beat to [bleep]

That's pretty much a metaphor
for what these boulders

And this ground
have done to my season

And to this whole wash plant --

Beat the [bleep] out of it.

♪

We're just k*lling it this year,
and now that we've sluicifer

And big red set up down there
side by side,

They're gonna chew through
that ground like crazy.

Narrator:


Has turbocharged his operation
in a desperate bid

To mine the rest of his ground.

Parker: we've got about 5 weeks
left in the season,

And we've still got a lot
of ground to get through.

Probably -- I don't know --


We spent a lot of money
in the crater cut.

Hopefully it pays off.

Narrator:
he's set up two wash plants
to run the crater cut pay dirt.

Parker: we've never had
two wash plants in a cut before,

And I'm sure there's gonna be
some growing pains,

But it's pretty bad-a*s.

♪

Narrator: half a mile away,
in the crater cut,

Co-foreman brennan ruault loads
rock trucks with gold-rich pay.

Brennan:
definitely is pretty bad-a*s

Seeing both those plants
running side by side.

It's definitely something
we don't see every day.

Just as long as we keep this pay
going down to that plant,

Then everything
should be golden.

Narrator: three rock trucks haul
the pay to the stockpile,

Where loader operator
bree harrison feeds

Big red and sluicifer.

We're really making it
through this dirt,

And things are looking good.

Narrator:
but running both plants 24/7
is creating a new challenge.

With both these plants going,
this tiny little stockpile

Ain't gonna do the job for us.

Hey, mitch.
How's it going?

What are these plants
doing for yardage?

You know, when we crank them up
and get them maxed out,

We'll be at 500 yards
an hour.

This stockpile ain't even
gonna get us close.

I don't know how we're gonna
hold out night shifts.

Narrator: their rock trucks
only run 12 hours a day,

So to keep the plants
fed overnight,

They need to haul 1,000 yards
of pay dirt an hour.

The trucks haul
about 27 yards a load.

That's just a little
over 400 loads in a day,

And that means we got to truck


Right.

So brennan's gonna have to
just drop everything and truck



It's gonna be tough.
Yeah.

It's gonna take everything
we got to keep up

With these two plants.

You've just got to put
every body you can in a truck

And do whatever
you can to keep up.

All right, man.
Yeah, no problem.

Hopefully we can make
a mountain here.

Brennan: parker just radioed me
and said I have to make sure

I haul enough pay down
to both those wash plants

To run for 24 hours straight
'cause we only load for 12.

It's go, go, go, go, go to try
and keep these plants running.

Narrator:
to move 400 loads in 12 hours,

Co-foreman brennan faces
a tough challenge --

Fill each rock truck
in the crater cut,

Have it haul the pay
half a mile to the pay pile,

And come back to the cut
ready to load in just 5 minutes.

Aaron:
oh, we're having a tough time.

Brennan's goal is 400 truckloads
a day, and we're hauling a*s.

[Bleep] hard to keep up.

Dennis: it's gonna be a long end
of the season

To get all this pay dirt out,

But obviously
parker's calculator

Works different
than everybody else's.

So he's doing the paying,
so he'll do the saying, I guess.

Brennan: the rock trucks are
going flat-out all day long.

You know, they're passing
each other,

Doing 100 miles an hour.

[ Horn honks ]

Look at the [bleep] do that.

♪

Hey! Hey! Hey!

♪

[ Crash ]

♪

Dennis!

♪

♪

[ Crash ]

Dennis!

♪

♪

Mitch: I'm just glad
you're all right.

See something new
every day.

Narrator: racing to build
a massive pile of pay dirt

To keep both wash plants fed
has backfired on parker's crew.

I try to keep up
with brennan in the 750.

He throws the loads in
so quick.

So we kind of get
ahead of ourselves

And try to drive
as fast as we can,

But obviously just
a little bit too fast, so...

I know he needs to get
his 400 loads a day down here,

But you guys can't be
driving this quick.

Yeah.

Every hour dennis' truck
is out of action means


On the stockpile.

When we roll it back over,
the truck rolled that way,

So we have to bring it
back this way.

If this thing starts twisting
too much or we lose it,

We're gonna snap
those hydraulic lines off.

Dennis: okay.

♪

Dennis' rock truck
is articulated.

Okay, I'm in place, mitch.

So when the payload flipped,
the cab stayed upright.

Mitch: you guys watch out.

When this thing hammers down,
[bleep] might go flying.

Here she comes.

♪

♪

Nicely done.

Man, that's a really good
feeling to see it back

On its wheels and tires.

♪

Dennis having that rollover
in the truck,

It's really screwed
my day over.

It's gonna drop my numbers
pretty significant here.

Ohh!

Narrator: with one rock truck
out of action all day,

By the end of the shift, brennan
has only managed 250 loads.

Well, did you get
your 400 loads out today?

No, I definitely didn't hit


[Bleep] dennis rolled
his truck, and...

Mitch: you know, he just was
coming down too fast.

Is he all right?

Yeah, no, he seems, you know --
he's fine.

So, what are we gonna do
about the plants?

Well, there's definitely
not enough dirt

To get through tonight.

Yeah.
So do we shut one down?

I mean, we're either gonna --
you're gonna shut

One down now,
or you're gonna shut them

Both down in the middle
of the night.

Right.
All right.

Well, let's do that, then,

And we'll go ahead
and shut big red down.

Probably cost us 15
or 20 ounces of gold.

Narrator:
sluicifer is now the only plant

Running on night shift.

No dirt, no washing rocks.

♪

♪

Rick: the hopper, it's all
[bleep] blown apart inside,

So we lost almost


Because we shut down early.

Narrator:
monster red is shut down.

Coarse rocks have destroyed
the tailing's hopper.

Rick has no gold coming in.

His chances of making a profit

And paying his guys
a bonus are slipping away.

Zee: it's just, this ground's
really rough on equipment.

Everything's kind of on
borrowed time here right now.

Narrator: at the lay-down yard,
the pressure

Is on mechanic carl rosk
to modify a spare hopper

To withstand the impact
of the claim's big boulders.

What do you think, buddy?
How long is it gonna take?

I got way too much work
to do.

Nothing's happening
anytime quick, right?

They could been up there
welding the whole time, right?

Yeah.
[Bleep] right off.

Watch one guy work
like normal, right?

We've got a lot of work
inside here, right?

If I work on this tonight
and inside here,

I'll be here
till 10:00 tonight, right?

♪

Is carl laying down,
fixing stuff?

He's got a lot to do,
right?

Yeah, I mean, they're gonna
be welding plates on and stuff.

I'd be surprised if we even
start back up.

I might go in the gold room
and do some chores

I got to do and just be
on the radio when...

All right.

♪

Ah, jay made pork loin
last night.

A pork loin sandwich.

Narrator: as carl reinforces
the hopper...

[ Laughter ]

It's a pretty big deal to get
done at the end of the day

And have a good meal
like this.

A nice, hearty meal.

...rick and the rest
of his crew call it a day.

Good thing
carl's not here

'Cause these skewers --
he'd definitely lose an eye.

[ Man laughs ]

He'd try to eat it like this.

[ Laughter ]

"Whoa!"
-"Whoa-h*-h*!

There's wood
in the middle!"

Zee:
"oh, how do you do this?"

No way. Unreal.

[ Laughter ]

Lazy [bleep] pieces
of [bleep]

I'm sick of it.

♪

Come on in.

Narrator:
after everyone else quit early,

Carl and operator mark

Worked into the night to
strengthen the tailing's hopper.

Okay, tip it back!

No, it's good now.

All right?
Big [bleep]

Big rush to get that in there,
and we've got [bleep]


Of welding left, right?

Yeah.
What a [bleep] bunch of idiots.

Everybody knew we were down.
Everyone knew we had problems.

Did anybody stay late
last night? Me and mark did.

I worked till 10:00
last night to get as much done.

And I got here early.
Got everything going, right?

Everyone's, like,
pressuring, like, "we
got to go get this in."

It's like, "yeah, we
can get that in there,

We've got [bleep] 3 or 4 hours'
worth of welding to do," right?

[Bleep] drives me nuts.

♪

Carl's leaving?

You're kidding.

[Bleep] damn it.

♪

[Bleep] this guy.

I don't understand how you go
from me talking to you, zero,

To [bleep] all of a sudden,
you're in the back of my truck.

That's such [bleep]

That's such [bleep]

You know
that's not the case.

[ Sighs ]

Yeah, and we just had
a talk about it,

About how we were gonna
get through the rest

Of this [bleep] season!

We'll deal with it
next year!

[Bleep]
we talked about this.

I said I stupidly thought
things would get better,

And we talked about it

And came to
a [bleep] conclusion.

♪

[Bleep]

♪

[Bleep]
he's [bleep] lost it this time,

So I'm not gonna [bleep]
sit here and beg.

♪

♪

Carl:
[bleep] sick of it, man.

So he can get himself
a [bleep] mechanic,

See how the [bleep]
that works out for him.

'Cause there's nobody here
that could [bleep] work

A 12-hour [bleep] day.

Narrator:
the ness crew is falling apart.

After an argument
with rick, carl has quit.

I kind of get
his point of view.

I do, too.

I mean, that's why I'm trying
to just settle down right now.

I mean, it's true.

It's pretty disorganized.

And it's just hard to...

It's hard to see people
not pull their weight

When they
could be helping out.

Mm-hmm.

There shouldn't be any bad
blood, you know. Like...

He just told me to take
my gold bonus

And shove it up my a*s.

There kind of
is bad blood.

I mean, he [bleep] knows

He's the most important
part of this crew.

Yeah.

I [bleep] tell him that
all the time.

I mean, a part of me
really wants to reach out

And see if there's
any last hail mary.

I'm not in the mood
to beg right now.

Yeah. Right. I get you.

I'm just gonna wait a bit
before I go talk to him again.

Yeah. You should.

Okay. Sorry, rick.

♪

♪

♪

Narrator: after being forced
out of indian river,

Tony beets' best hope
of turning a profit

Was to run three operations
out of his paradise hill base.

♪

Kevin's shaker was shut down
after producing just 50 ounces,

And monica has been
frozen out of the honker cut.

♪

♪

Mike's trommel has been
running 300 yards an hour,

But despite a deep pay layer,

The ground at the mega-cut
has been patchy.

If my plant wasn't running
this year,

We wouldn't be making no gold
for a majority of it,

Which would have made it
a very skimpy year this year.

Narrator:
now, $1.1 million short
of where he was last season,

Tony's counting on a big payday
from mike's operation.

-Hey, pa.
-Hola.

♪

♪

Monica: who are
you gonna put on nights?

♪

♪

Mm-hmm.

♪

Narrator:
running mike's trommel 24/7
should help the family catch up.

So, tony kind of sprang
this night shift on mike

And I at the trommel

Because it's really the most
reliable thing we have for gold.

Narrator:
while monica feeds the plant...

They've got such a good cut
open here at the trommel that,

You know,
we really got to just push it.

Narrator: ...mike loads
rock trucks in the cut.

Mike: on night shift,
it's very simple always

To basically double
our sluicing time,

Double the amount of dirt
we have sending through.

The more we can keep going,
the more gold we got.

Monica: [ groans ]

I am not feeling overly great
right now,

And I kind of feel
like throwing up,

But I don't want to be
the reason we stop sluicing.

[ Groans ]

♪

[ Gags ]

♪

[ Vomits ]

♪

Michael, do you copy?
Michael?

Yeah, go ahead.

Would you be able to come here
for 5 minutes?

Yeah, I'll be up there
in a minute.

♪

♪

How's it going, monica?

I feel like
a trash panda.

To be polite, you kind
of look like one, too.

If you're feeling
like [bleep] monica,

Why don't you head home,
and I'll hop on this

And finish
off the shift with it?

Are you sure?

Get some rest.

♪

Mike: it's a shame
my sister got sick,

But it's better to lose a night
right now

Than it is to [bleep] have
her sick for the next four.

Narrator: mike is left to run
the night shift alone.

If we ain't [bleep]
washing dirt,

We're just going backwards,
so...

[ Metal creaking ]

What the [bleep]
was that sound?

[ Creaking continues ]

That's not a healthy sound.

I better get my brother to check
on that in the morning

Because I ain't [bleep] mechanic
of the crew here.

♪

Narrator: next morning,
eldest son kevin beets

And mechanic juan ibarra arrive
at the trommel to investigate.

Ah.

Here it is.

Right there.

There's a massive crack
right on the frame.

♪

Kevin: what?

♪

What?

Right here.

♪

♪

Narrator:
mike's trommel is tony's
only means of catching gold.

Every hour it's down
costs $2,500.

♪

♪

Okay.
Okay.

The gearbox frame has cracked,

So the drive gear is rammed hard
against the cog on the trommel.

Tony's plan -- weld the cracked
beam at the base,

Then adjust the gearbox unit

To align the two gears
perfectly.

Juan: this is the ideal
welding conditions --

Surrounded by grease
and in a corner.

Watch out.

Narrator:
kevin grinds off the welds

Attaching the gearbox
to the frame.

We're trying to push this
whole gearbox over a little bit

To get a little more
clearance on those gears.

♪

All right. Ready, kev?

Yeah. Let's go.

Narrator: kevin and juan crank
the gearbox back into position.

♪

Good?

♪

Yes. Ready?

♪

After a fix costing $7,500
in lost gold,

Tony needs to keep
running the night shift

To make up for lost time.

♪

♪

Well, with dennis rolling
the rock truck yesterday,

I never made that


So hopefully we can
make up for it now.

Narrator: co-foreman brennan
failed to haul enough pay dirt

To build a stockpile and keep
the two plants running 24/7.

After dennis' truck flipped,

Parker sends a grader
to repair the road.

How's it going?
Oh, not too bad.

So, we've got to get


Or our night shift
is [bleep]

We've got to have a lot
of pay stacked up.

Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.

Like a mountain.
A mountain?

Of money!
Of money.

Show me the money!

-Show me the money!
-Yeah!

Hey, boys, we got to get


And then start building
a mountain down there

At the wash plant, okay?

Yeah, you bet, buddy.
Let's get her done.

Narrator: for the next 10 hours,
brennan sends rock trucks

To the plants loaded
with gold-rich pay.

It's pretty crazy here today.

Brennan's trying to hit
his 400 loads a day,

And we're just
driving like crazy out here,

Trying to keep up with him.

♪

You know, I'm coming up
on shift change right now,

And I'm just not as far
as I thought I'd be.

Pretty disappointing.

Narrator: after working flat-out
to hit the target,

The day shift is over.

Hey, brennan.
So, how'd we do there today?

Well, buddy,

We didn't get
our 400 loads a day.

Oh, you got to be [bleep]
kidding me!

We gave it
everything we had!

Oh, for sure.

See you back at camp.

Money mountain's looking more
like a molehill down there.

What happened?

We were giving her hell
all day long.

I know aaron and those boys
are pretty tired.

I'm trying to keep
that [bleep] wash plant running.

What do you want me
to do, then?

I already sent the boys home.
All right.

Sling some fuel
in this [bleep]

I'll go get a truck.

You're gonna go hop
in a truck?

Yeah.
Let's get it done.

♪

I'm not sure how I got myself
roped into this,

But we've got a pay mountain
to build here,

So I'm driving truck.

Parker decided,
"let's stay late here."

We're gonna need everything
that we can get

To keep
both those plants running.

Narrator: mine boss and foreman
build up the stockpile

While both wash plants
run through the night.

About an hour into the night,
getting [bleep] done,

And I know
when he's on a mission

And I'm on a mission,
we can make a lot happen.

Parker:
now that we've got sluicifer

And big red
set up down there

Side by side, they're gonna
do 400 or 500 yards an hour,

And we have to be
able to keep up.

And so any pay mountain
we can build right now

Is gonna help us
try to maintain that feed rate.

now we're getting somewhere.

We've got to keep pushing.

What the [bleep]

Lights go out?
Really?

What's going on there,
boss?

My [bleep] lights
shorted out

And then just quit
working completely.

Well, that's not good.

I can't see jack [bleep]
down there.

No, I can imagine.

But thanks for sticking around
and doing that.

Yeah, no problem.
I'll see you back at camp.

Well, let's hope we have
a big-enough pile

Down at the plant there
to keep everything running.

We're just gonna have to wait
till the daylight

In the morning and see
what the results look like here.

♪

♪

Parker: we've got a bit
of a mountain down there!

Brennan: not too bad, eh?
Yeah.

I wasn't expecting that we got
through that much, so...

Man, those wash plants
are gonna chew

Through some dirt, though.
Oh, right.

We're gonna need every yard
we can get.

That is for sure.

Eh, doze?

Eh, buddy?

Narrator: parker and brennan
have stockpiled enough pay

To keep big red
and sluicifer running 24/7.

Well, I appreciate you staying
late and getting that done.

It makes a big difference.
Yeah, no worries.

Any time.
-Come on.

In.

♪

♪

Narrator: rick ness' whole
operation is at a standstill.

Mechanic carl,
isolated and angry, has quit.

It's been building,
and if he leaves,

We're in a pretty bad spot.

A lot of issues here

That should've been
addressed earlier.

Narrator:
after their expl*sive argument,

Karla has persuaded rick
and carl to sit down and talk.

Carl: absolute [bleep] joke
down there, man.

Right down there, right now,
a [bleep] joke.

And nobody
wants to work, right?

That's
that piss-poor attitude.

And it's like beating your head
on a [bleep] wall, man.

I didn't know anything
about this, carl.

I've been doing my best to try
and make it [bleep] work,

But the only way that I see
through it is to finish,

Try to learn something,
and come back.

But the fact
of the matter is,

I'm supposed to be part
of the team, and I'm not.

Rain or shine,
I'm in there.

Pouring rain,
out there welding, right,

While everyone's sitting
in their trucks, doing whatever.

It's mostly my fault, just not
being hard enough on these guys

And [bleep]
drilling it into them.

Karla: carl, you're the backbone
of this place, and...

I know, and it's just,
like I say...

We need to keep you around.

Like, seriously,
we're pretty much done.

I'd like to think that
I'm an important person,

And then when I don't get
treated like I'm important...

It upsets me that you think
that I don't think that.

Like, right now,
I'm trying to just...

Survive.
...limp us all out of here

With our [bleep] shirts
on our backs, really.

And the thing is,
is that we can.

Like, we're definitely not
gonna do what we set out to do,

But, I mean,
we can get out of here,

We can all go home
with gold,

And I can go home
without losing any money again.

Well, you see my concerns,
right?

Like, it...
Yeah, no, I get it.

I'm not saying you're not
justified at all.

What do you guys
want to do?

I'd like you to stay.
Yeah.

You know, I spoke my mind here,
and I know.

I'm better.
I'm sorry for being rude to you.

I apologize.

Like I said, I was hot,
and...

Yeah, I know.

If things are gonna change,
man, you know,

I'll stick around, right?
Right.

Well, that's good to hear,
and let's just go

Take care of it right now.
Get everybody up there,

And we'll just have
a little talk.

Okay.
Works for me, buddy.

Yeah?
Yeah.

♪

Well, thanks
for coming up here, guys.

I'll try to keep this short.

It's pretty simple, really.

I mean, this is
a frustrating season.

I think
we can all admit that.

And the problem with that is
that you can tend to check out,

And that's gonna stop.

That's the only way we're gonna
get through this season.

It's the only way
we're gonna remain friends,

For [bleep] sake.

Carl's a good guy.

I got a lot of respect for him
and what he's done.

And it's not fair.

We have to all just step up,
help each other,

And do our parts.

It hasn't been working
very well thus far.

Until something changes,
it's...

Carl: yeah, the whole
"not my job" attitude --

I'm [bleep]
done with it, right?

So, you know,
we work as a team, right?

Pretty simple.

We all agree to that?

-Yeah.
-Absolutely, man.

Yes, sir.

We got a limited amount
of time left.

Let's finish strong.

-[Bleep] yeah.
-Absolutely.

Narrator:
after a week of being shut down,

The ness crew rallies,
works together as a team,

And installs the hopper
in just 2 hours.

She all done?
Yeah.

-She's done.
-What do you say?

Should we fire this thing up?
-Run her, man.

-Might as well.
-See if she rolls.

♪

[ Machinery powers up ]

♪

Let's go!

The argument between
rick and carl kind of,

I'm sure,
sparked some motivation,

So we got to try and, you know,
push for this last homestretch.

Carl: rick's doing everything
he told me he'd do,

And, man,
that makes me happy, right?

Like, so it wasn't in one ear,
out the other ear.

He took it to heart,
and hopefully everybody

Is gonna
pull their weight now.

Carl's back in action.

You know, sometimes it takes
a quick brawl,

Get some words out, and I think
we're back to normal.

Oh, they did a great job,
so should be back

To business as usual,
I hope.

Hopefully we've got
no more problems.

♪

♪

It's a case of "be careful
where you park" when I'm around.

[ Laughs ]

Narrator: at honker creek,

Mike beets plays a prank
on the production crew.

[ Laughs ]

What the hell, man?
Why are you still here?

♪

You're just gonna have to learn
how to move the hauler yourself.

[ Laughs ]

♪

♪

Minnie: hi, guys.

What's happening?
What's shaking?

What's going down?

Narrator:
after struggling to run
a night shift at mike's trommel,

The beets family gathers
for the weekly gold weigh.

Oh, not super-bad.

Minnie:
that's not great, though.

The problem is, monica
ended up getting sick about...

Sometime in the night,
and...

Kind of pooched your week,
hey, mike?

Yeah. I was hoping
to get a full week in,

Make up for all lost time,
but...

Also the gearbox.
We had to realign that [bleep]

♪

Maybe we should do
some weighing of the gold.

Mike: well, it won't take long.
Let's put it that way.

♪

Narrator:
with monica and kevin shut down,

Mike's trommel is
the only source of family gold.

The patchy mega-cut
has averaged 127 ounces.

♪







Their total now stands
at just 1,894 ounces.

This time last year, they had
almost twice as much gold.

We don't have that
much time left, either.

We only have about 4
or 5 weeks left, right?

If I get a chance to run
a full week, 24 hours a day,

I'll make up for a lot
of lost time, I think.

Anyways,
we'll see you guys later.

♪

♪

Hey, guys.

-Hey-o.
-How you doing, buddy?

Yeah, we're cooking her up.

Ooh-hoo-hoo!
Ooh!

Look at that!

That was all in one load
of your truck.

Can I get a burger,
please?

[ Laughter ]

Would you like fries
with that?

Yeah.

And some ketchup.

[ Laughter ]

You would feel bad if you,
like, cut my nose open.

You know "schnabel" means
"beak" in german, right?

I didn't know that.

Did you know that "doumitt"
in arabic means

"Hung like a racehorse"?

[ Laughter ]

Narrator:
for the first time,

Parker has had
his two wash plants,

Sluicifer and big red,

Running crater cut pay
side by side.

Mitch: it looked like
quite a bit from sluicifer.

Did big red have
a good week, too?

We got quite a bit out
of sluicifer.

Yeah, big red was a little
bit weak this week.

Well, I mean, big red did have
a little bit of downtime.

Trying to keep up
with both those plants,

And just everything
that's going on, it's unreal.

So, you want to see
how big red did?

We got to do it
sooner or later.





D, where are you hiding
the other jar, man?

I wish.



-Aw.
-Ooh.

Narrator: worth $180,000.

But that ain't even
an ounce an hour.

We squeezed every flake
we could out of it.

That's what we got.

So that's some of the worst
ground we've mined all season.

Or maybe all the good stuff
went to sluicifer.

How did it do?

Narrator:
since big red was down a shift,

The team is counting on
sluicifer to pick up the slack.

Well, actually,
sluicifer did quite well.

Man: oh, yeah.

I don't know if I can count
that high.

We all think that.

[ Laughter ]

Man:
let's see what you got.

We're at 50 already.

Over 100.







Narrator: worth $340,000.

That's more like it, huh?
Yeah.

The good part
and the cool part

Is, we broke 5,000 ounces
for the season.

-Ooh!
-Hey!

-Nice!
-Whoo!

Narrator: even with the
disappointing gold weigh

From the crater cut...

Fred, you're our
good-luck charm.

...parker has hit 5,176 ounces
this season,

Worth over $7 million.

That's sweet.
Brennan: yeah.

And we still got a lot
to go.

Get back on track
of last year, maybe.

The best part of doing
these gold weighs

Is, tony isn't, like,
hovering around.

Like, you wouldn't even be done
with the cleanups,

And he'd be pulling in here,
wanting his take.

-It was still warm in the pan.
-Yeah.

[ Laughs ]

[Bleep] tony.

[ Laughter ]

I just pray you guys
can keep it up.

We will.
If anybody can,

I know it's you guys,
though.

Just keep [bleep] running,
and keep trucks rolling, and...

Yep.

Don't keep trucks
rolling.

[ Laughter ]

Mitch: poor choice of words
there, parker.

All right.
Thanks, guys.

Okay, thanks.
Have a good night.

You too.
See you guys at dinner.

You betcha.

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

We spent a mountain of money
stripping this ground

Just to watch gold go
[bleep] out the box.

Narrator:
...parker loses gold in the
battle to mine all his ground.

That's bad news.

[Bleep]

Brennan, your track's,
like, off the bank.

Holy [bleep]

You've got to be kidding me!

Narrator: rick's running out of
time to save his season.

Does that look like smoke
over there?

Shut it off!

And tony turns to daughter
monica on his quest for gold.

There you go.
That looks good, monica!

[ Tires screeching ]

[Bleep]