11x11 - Frenemies

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Narrator: On this "gold rush"...

Parker schnabel's
season rests...

Can I come in?

...In the hands of one man.

We need the water, now.

Fred lewis and his
band of brothers...

Kyle: Yeah, man. I'll
get right on it.

...Wage a wash plant w*r.

Oh, [bleep].

Hey, hey, hey! Cut the water,
johnny. Cut the water!

We're gonna have to fix the
colonel so it's fixed right.

And tony beets' plans to
super-size his operation...

...Go up in flames.

[ sirens wail ]

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Parker: It's just a
k*ller crew this year.

Gold prices are high,
and we're looking at

Getting through
as much as we can.

Narrator:
With gold prices soaring to
a record $1,900 per ounce,

Parker schnabel is on a
mission to bank enough gold

To expand his mining empire.

Parker: We're up there,
and the amount of ground

We're going through is crazy.

Just keeping ground out ahead
of big red and sluicifer

Is gonna be our big challenge.

Narrator: After four years
mining the last cut,

His wash plant, big red,

Is down to under a
month's worth of pay dirt.

The gold price is just so
high that it's giving us

Even more incentive
to go as hard as you can

While we're here
and make the best of it,

'cause this might
not last forever.

Narrator: Four miles away,
on the promised land,

Sluicifer is even closer
to running out of pay.

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Mitch: Everything's been
motoring along really nice here,

But we're certainly getting down
to the last of our pay dirt.

Narrator: Parker's
promised land claim

Covers 2,000 acres
of gold-rich ground,

But most of it is
locked in permafrost --

Ground that's frozen solid.

The sluicifer crew is churning
through 24 acres of pay dirt,

Opened up at the start of
the season and left to fall.

Now there's only a week's
thawed pay dirt left to run.

Mitch:
I can't believe how fast we've
gotten through this ground.

We got to think about
having enough ground opened up,

But it is the yukon.

There is permafrost, and the
ground isn't thawing right now.

Worst-case scenario, we're
gonna run into here

Is being out of thawed pay dirt

And no place opened up
and nowhere to go.

Narrator:
To keep his wash plant sluicing,
parker needs new ground, fast.

I've got my eye
on a piece of ground

Here on the indian river

That looks like it should have
some really good potential.

Narrator: The airstrip --
a million-square-foot claim

Two miles downstream
from parker's camp.

He owns the water
license to mine it,

But not the ground itself.

Parker: This piece doesn't have
much time left on the license,

So we have to just go in
and we mine it

And get it out
and no screwing around.

The big problem is,
you know, tony owns it.

Narrator: Last season...

Tony beets lost his water
license on the indian river

And asked parker to share his

So that he could mine
the air strip.

There's been some bad
blood at times, tony,

But I'm going to be calling
in a favor one of these days,

And so I'm fine with it.

Narrator:
But the deal fell apart...

Hey there,
youngster.

...When it came to the contract.

You've got to be
a businessman, too.

Yeah. Ain't
signing it.

Parker: Tony, right now, he
would prefer to come out here

And mine it himself,

But he's still waiting
on his own license.

I'm just going to
see him right now.

We'll see what he has to say.

♪♪

Hello?

Can I come in?

Shoes on or off?

I'm good. How
are you doing?

Part of the reason
why I'm here

Is we're just about done,
like, around our camp.

That's licensed ground right
now downstream from us,

Kind of around
the airstrip.

I know you've done
some work in there,

But we're not far away with
a whole bunch of equipment.

I love to mine it,
if you're game.

♪♪

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Okay.

This is a new tony. I'm not
used to this experience.

Alright.

Well, yeah, I
appreciate that,

'cause we're always
hungry for ground.

And with that, I guess
we'll be paying you

A lot more royalties
than I thought we would,

But that's okay,
I guess.

Thanks, tony.

Well.

That was definitely one of
the more strange meetings

I've had with tony beets.

Good result, I'm just still
confused by the ease of it.

I don't know.

I mean, we got another
block of ground,

So that's the best part.

Narrator: Parker orders
an excavator and rock truck

Two-man stripping crew
to move to the airstrip

And sets them a mammoth task --

Strip a 600,000-square-foot
cut down to pay dirt

Ready for sluicifer
to move into next week.

Gotta prep the cut
for the plant,

'cause we're out pretty soon.

Narrator:
J.M. Mercier, who joined
parker's operation this season,

Leads the crew.

Parker give me the position
to lead the entire operation,

Which I'm pretty
happy about that,

That they give me
the opportunity

To show myself a little bit.

But at same time, it's a lot
of stress on my shoulder.

How's that, bud?

Narrator: Fellow new recruit
nick patterson...

Oop! Wrong pedal.

...Trucks out the overburden.

Come on, baby. Find second
gear. There we go.

We're taking from
the bottom of the hill

And dumping it up top.

We got to move as much dirt
as we can pretty fast.

Parker's trying to crank
every plant to the limit

So we can sluice
as much ground

As we can to catch
more gold as we can,

And we've got to
get that [bleep] done

So they can bring the plant
here and start sluicing.

It's a lot of work
to do here.

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Narrator: Driven by
the record-high gold prices,

The king of the klondike,
tony beets,

Is racing to mine every
inch of ground he can find.

At the megacut,
his trommel is sluicing


an hour, 24 hours a day.

Monica: We got it!

Daughter monica runs


Of old-timer tailings
through the shaker deck.

More power!

And now, tony is bringing
his new secret weapon

To paradise hill.

Narrator: Son mike trucks
in the 10-ton frame.

This [bleep] thing
was a nightmare

To pull apart and get out,
and now we got her out.

We got to put this thing
together to make sure she works,

To make sure if my dad spent his
money wisely or frivolously.

Narrator: Tony spent
$400,000 on this trommel,

But it hasn't run
for almost 30 years.

With only two months of
the short yukon season left,

He needs it up and running fast
so that he can pay it off

And hit his season goal
of 3,000 ounces.

[bleep] nice.

Narrator: Unlike a normal
trommel, this mobile trommel

Has its own engine and wheels
and drives itself to the pay.

An excavator feeds pay
straight from the cut.

It passes into the drum,
where fine, gold-rich material

Flows into the sluice runs.

The conveyor removes
waste tailings.

As soon as one
section's finished,

It moves down the cut
to the next area of pay.

Mike: I'll even make sure
I go along those switchbacks

Nice and quiet.

Mike heads back to moose creek
for the final piece --

The conveyor.

Once we're done this load,
we're done in moose creek,

And then we can finally finish
putting together that trommel.

Len, you guys pull!

A little bit!

That's good!

Tony, stop.

Terrance,
pull it over!

[ creaking ]

One sec, tony. One sec.
A little bit more.

Just a hair more.

Narrator: 13 miles away at
dawson city ferry port,

[ fire crackles ]
mike's truck cab is an inferno.

[ sirens wail ]

♪♪

[ sirens wail ]

Narrator: In dawson city...

There she goes!

...Mike beets' truck is on fire.

Oh, she's
going up now, eh?

[ radio chatter ]

[ car door opens ]

♪♪

Mike: Aw, man. I got
to replace all my [bleep].

If that happened when
I was driving,

That might have
been a problem.

Narrator: On his way to moose
creek to pick up a conveyor,

Mike parked the truck
before loading onto the ferry.

Mike: We were gonna bring it
across, but I saw it was busy,

So I decided
to park it over here.

I don't know. Must have went...

I don't know, but like I said,
no point in crying over it,

'cause it's burnt.

Me whining about it ain't
gonna bring it back.

Oh man, it smells
something fierce.

You should see if your
sleeping bag's still good.

Narrator: Tony heads back to
finish assembling the trommel...

...But now will have
to wait days for

Mike to bring in the conveyor.

Mike:
Need to get the last of this
[bleep] down to moose creek.

So my truck decided
I want to go and die.

This [bleep]'s just nothing
but holding this up.

♪♪

Hey, misfits, think about this.

Right now, we've got


We're frickin' mining!

Narrator: Over halfway
through their first season

With less than $1,800
worth of gold,

Fred lewis and his crew
of combat veterans

Are on a mission to turn
their mining careers around.

You know what color
that dirt is?

Gold.

Narrator: Now they're banking
on the liberation cut,

Which tested out at
half an ounce per 100 yards.

If we're gonna have
success here,

We got to start
getting gold fast.

We need to move massive amounts
of pay through the colonel

If we're gonna
catch up this season.

Narrator: Infantry scout
sn*per stuart mckenzie

Feeds the plant 20 yards
of pay dirt an hour.

I'm just gonna try
and put as many buckets

As I can through.

Keep that
sucker flowing.

♪♪

Fred: This is where we
want to be, right here,

If we can just keep this going
the rest of the season.

[ stuart sighs ]

What is going on?

Hey, fred.

The hopper's looking like
it's jamming up pretty bad.

♪♪

Kendall: Alright, stewy!
Stewy! That'd be it, bud.

[bleep] damn it.

[ machinery stops ]

We're gonna clean out
the hopper feeder.

Yeah, man, I'll
get right on it.

Narrator:
Infantry sergeant kyle pletzke
takes on the task.

[ shovel scraping ]

Fred: You know, kyle's the only
man here that I didn't know

Before the beginning
of the season.

I took kendall's word for
him, and to be honest,

He's probably my hardest worker.

He goes head-first into things
and he gets [bleep] done.

Kyle: You know, definitely
not afraid of hard work.

After being in the military
for five years --

A lot of it was spent
in the hospital for me,

And that was probably
harder work

Than actually going out
and being an infantrymen.

Narrator:
While serving in afghanistan,
kyle's light armored vehicle

Rolled and crushed
his legs and pelvis,

Forcing kyle to medically
retire from the military.

Kyle:
Had to relearn how to walk,

And doctors kind of gave me
a bad prognosis at one point.

That was pretty dark,
hearing that,

And after leaving the hospital
and leaving the military,

It was tough to know what to do.

Narrator: Michigan-born kyle
traveled the globe to find work,

Picking up different trades
along the way.

This is -- I think this
is what I needed, you know?

Being out here with
a good group of guys,

Not only physically
but mentally,

I feel great being out here,
running around the mine site,

Hopping up, still
able to fix things.

I think this might be
a real calling for me.

I've got to give it
everything I can.

There's nothing
that's gonna stop me

From making this be a success.

[ shovel scraping ]

Alright, stu, let's fire it up.
We're good, all clean and clear.

Fred: Fire up the pump.

[ motor starts ]

Water's coming!

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Stuart: I'm trying to get at
least 20 yards an hour.

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[bleep].

Narrator: 15 minutes later,
the hopper jams again.

[ groans ]

It's absolute [bleep].

Hey, kyle,
this is stuart.

Go ahead, man.

Hey, the hopper's
jamming up, man.

Can you come up there
and knock something loose?

It's just gumming
up real bad.

[bleep] damn it, dude.

Kyle: We want to run, we want
to have gold, but guess what?

With that issue,
it's not happening.

We're not getting it.

Hey, leave that
thing running.

I got to go up
there and fix it.

Hey, man, be
careful up there.

Yes, still we're
jammed up real bad here.

We're running
completely jacked up.

[bleep], yeah.

You know you shouldn't be up on
the wash pan while it's running.

♪♪

Every time this thing gets
jammed, we got to stop again.

We're losing all
kinds of time.

[bleep].

Oh, [bleep].

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

[bleep].
Cut the water.

Cut the water, johnny!
Cut the water!

♪♪

[bleep].

Kyle, you can't be up there
while it's running!

What's going on?

Stuart: [bleep]!

I was clearing, broke
off a piece of plastic.

We're going to have
to figure something out,

'cause we can't have you guys
up here while it's running.

You can't make that [bleep] up.

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Jean-michel:
I'm crossing my fingers that
everything's gonna be done,

But we're so behind schedule.

Narrator: At the airstrip,
parker schnabel has tasked

New hire j.M. With stripping
a 600,000-square-foot cut

Ready for sluicifer to move into
in just four days.

I got 20 things to do and
I only have time to do 10.

I mean, like we're
two people here,

And it's like, we need
an army right now,

But hey, we'll do what we can.

Mitch: You know, this season,

Everybody's just been
pushed to the limit.

Narrator: Three and a half miles
away at the promised land,

Foreman mitch blaschke closes in
on the last of the thawed pay.

Well, we're motoring
through this pretty quick,

A lot faster than we were
originally thinking we were.

And these wash plants have
been running real nice,

So very important that we get
the airstrip cut opened up.

We want to have that
cut ready to go for when

We finish running this pay dirt.

We want to wheel
right over there

And get right back to sluicing.

We're coming in hot.

Narrator: If the airstrip
is not down to pay dirt

Before sluicifer arrives,

Parker's biggest
moneymaker will sit idle,

Costing him $4,000
an hour in lost gold.

Yeah, I need to talk to j.M.
And see where we're at.

We're closing
in on them quickly.

Yeah, no doubt.

Just holler on the radio
if you need anything.

Sounds good.

Yeah, no problem.
Have a good one.

♪♪

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Jean-michel: 'sup, tyson?
Hey, man. How's it going?

Still behind schedule,
but what else can I do?

I'm all by
myself here.

But you guys are still sluicing,
or you're pretty much done?

Tyson: Sorry for the bad news,
man. We're pretty close.

I imagine we'll have
today, tomorrow night,

And then tomorrow
during the day,

We'll probably
finish it up

And try and get
the cleanup done.

We're gonna be ready
to move tomorrow.

[bleep]. That's
a lot of stress.

I'm concerned that
there's another

Three, four
days of dirt works

Before we can even think about
bringing a wash plant here.

It's just not
ready over here.

You guys got to
stop saying that, man.

I know I'm behind
schedule, man.

[bleep].

Alright.
Okay, thanks, tyson.

No worries.

"behind schedule.
Behind schedule."

I know I'm [bleep]
behind schedule.

Narrator: With one day left
on the promised land

And one day for the wash plant
move to be ready for sluicifer,

J.M.'s got to finish 4 days'
worth of stripping in 48 hours.

Jean-michel:
I mean, I've tried to keep
a smile on my face every day

And tried to be positive,

But sometimes, man. [ groans ]

I just want to [bleep]
lose my [bleep], you know?

'cause at the end of the line,
I got parker on the other end

Who's asking me so much thing
and asked me the impossible.

[ crashing ]

What the [bleep]?

Did he just [bleep]
roll his truck?

Nick: J.M.!

Please help
me out, bud.

Holy [bleep], bro.

Empty out the box, and then
I'll put it back on wheels.

♪♪

Jean-michel: Cross our finger
that it didn't wreck anything.

♪♪

Like, I need that
right now, man.

Like I [bleep] need that.

♪♪

We're running out of time.

I might have to do a
little bit of overtime here

To make sure that cut is ready.

[bleep].

Long hours, man.
Jean-michel: I know.

They're pretty much done
sluicing at the other end,

So that plant should show
up here pretty soon.

Help me out?

Of course I will.

Narrator:
At the end of a 12-hour shift...

Pedal to the metal!

J.M. And rock truck driver nick
work overtime into

The short yukon night to try to
get the cut ready for sluicifer.

Dump, shake, repeat.

I know parker's going
to show up eventually,

So I don't know how he's
gonna think about the cut,

So it's still a lot of
stress on my shoulder.

We're all getting tired.
I'm tired as [bleep].

♪♪

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Fred: We're gonna have to fix
the colonel so it's fixed right,

And we're gonna get it going.

Narrator: At fred lewis' elkhorn
claim, mining is at a standstill

Until they fix
colonel nugget's hopper.

Alright, we need to find
that can jack, bro.

We got to -- alright,
let's get this done.

I got an idea.

Kyle: That scares me
a little bit.

Exactly.

[ laughing ]

Go on.
Stuart: Yeah.

We're gonna jack
up the back leg,

Stick some more
supports under there,

And just get it at a little
bit more of an angle.

Sometimes minor adjustments
make a big difference.

I think it's gonna take a
way more drastic approach,

Like, we need --

How long is this
gonna take, though?

A couple minutes.

Okay, yeah.

We only need about
four inches, I think.

Just enough gravity to
make it gradually feed off.

So, baby steps.

[ grunting ]

Fred's always gonna do
the cheap, quick things

For fixes, which...

I'm not gonna say it's gotten
us into trouble before.

Stuart: I think this
should do it, man.

Fred: Stuart and kyle
seem a little skeptical

Of my jerry-rigged fix,

But right now, we don't
have a lot of time.

We need a quick fix just to
get back on the gold again,

So I'm gonna try
this quick jerry fix.

If it works, boom, move on.

If not, I'll take [bleep]
from the guys.

Hey, we all ready
to fire the plant up?

Let's get this thing tested.

You ready?

Yep.

You ready to rock and roll?
They're about ready to fire it.

I'm ready to rock and roll.

[ motor starts ]

We'll know in about 10 minutes
if that hopper's gonna

Feed it correctly.

Hope it's enough.

♪♪

Right now, it is
looking pretty good,

It looks like we might
have solved the problem.

♪♪

The hopper is
a little crooked.

When they were messing with
it, they got it off-center.

All that water on top, it's
surging and hitting our belt.

[ rattling ]

♪♪

[ thud ]

[ whistles ]
hit the button!

[bleep]!

Narrator: Water surging off
the edge of the shaker deck

Has made one of the deck's
drive belts slip off.

So it's that feet
hitting the belt?

Kendall: [bleep] the belts. I
called this, like, a minute ago.

Just put it on the top
side and I'll rotate it.

Come on! [bleep].

Yep! Good!

So that jerry-rig didn't work.

It's a waste of
time, pretty much.

We're gonna have to stop right
now and halt all operations,

Which I freaking hate,
and fix the colonel

So it's fixed right.

This is starting to piss me off.

♪♪

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Narrator: At paradise hill,

Tony is halfway through
the mobile trommel rebuild.

In his second truck,
mike finally returns

From moose creek
with the conveyor.

Mike cranes
in the hopper feeder.

The sluice runs attached.

They crane in the conveyor.

Mike: Only got to get
the engine running on the thing

And hook up a few more things
and plants ready to go.

We'll [bleep] drag her into
place and start sluicing.

Len: If you hold it there and
then feed it through, if it's --

I got it.
She some kind of tight.

They don't give you a whole
lot of wiggle room, here.

Narrator: Before tony bought it,

The mobile trommel
sat abandoned.

It hasn't fired up
for almost 30 years.

Time to find out if tony's
$400,000 gamble will pay off.

We'll start it up,
and let's see.

We don't have a [bleep]
clue what's gonna happen.

[ trommel whirs ]

[ trommel splutters ]

[bleep]. I don't
like this.

[ switch clicks ]
give her a minute.

Maybe we should put
the other truck over here.

[bleep]. The batteries.
Batteries.

Narrator:
Mechanic jordan eagles
connects batteries

From the water truck and
the fuel truck to the trommel.

Hopefully that gets just
the little bit that we need.

Try it again.
[ switch clicks ]

[ motor turns over ]

[ motor whirs ]

[ lever clicks ]

[ trommel whining ]

That's the trommel!

♪♪

Good!

Not at all.

Narrator:
One short walk for a trommel.

One giant leap
for tony beets' mine.

I'll be damned!
It lives! Cool!

Narrator: The last part
of his master plan?

Tony needs to move
the trommel to the megacut.

♪♪

We're here to mine and go home
with gold in our hands.

We can't do that when
the colonel's asleep.

We need to wake the beast
and we need to get things going.

Oh, boy.

Narrator:
In oregon's elkhorn mountains,

Fred lewis's operation
is shut down...Again.

Kyle: It's like
[bleep] cement.

[bleep].

To get back on the gold,
fred's crew needs to stop

Pay dirt clogging
the wash plant hopper.

Look at this.
This is a mess.

The bottom of our hopper
is just wavy as can be,

And I think that's where
part of our issue is.

Kyle: The water is not able to
rush down right, which means

That's where you're starting
to get piles and build up.

We've got to weld on
some new iron.

Try to flatten this out,
give it more of a steep bank,

To be able to have the water
hit everything evenly.

If that happens,
then we should have

Everything come out cleanly.

Narrator: Kyle's plan?

Cover the dented hopper base
with a sloping sheet of steel.

The smooth surface
and steeper angle

Should help pay flow smoothly
out of the hopper.

The water is gonna
flow out evenly,

Which means our dirt should come
out easily, and the plant

Should be operating
the right way, at that point.

Fred:
Alright. Let's just get it up
and running as fast as possible.

Kyle: You got it.

You know, it's a ton of work,

But fred's counting on me
to get this thing done.

We got to get this into
the hopper as soon as we can.

Otherwise, the longer
we sit here,

The longer we're losing
time and money.

So, got to get back to it.
Hope this thing works out.

♪♪

Alright, we got
this thing ready to go.

I'm gonna get it chained up,

Give it over to stu
on the excavator.

He's gonna swing it
over the hopper for me.

I'm going to guide
him in and hopefully

We can set this right
down where we want it

And get it welded up
so we can get back to work.

Alright, stu, start bringing
it down a little bit.

[ metal creaking ]

Alright.

Bring it down.

♪♪

[ thud ]

♪♪

I'm gonna to go grab some


I'm gonna, essentially, create a
lip for this all the way around.

It's gonna help us make it

A little more sturdy,
structurally.

Then we're gonna
weld that down tight.

We'll be back in business.

♪♪

Narrator: Four hours later,
kyle completes the final weld.

Time to wake up the colonel.

Fred, this is kyle.

Let's go ahead and test
out this new hopper.

Say again? Oh!

Yeah, man.
Fingers crossed.

Alright, is everybody
standing by?

Let's get this [bleep]
game rolling.

We need the water now.

♪♪

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Look out below.

♪♪

It's looking a
lot better!

♪♪

We're going!
We're going!

♪♪

This? This is
freakin' awesome!

I'm pumped up as hell!

Just happy this
is all working.

♪♪

[bleep] yeah.

Keep feeding her, stu!
Let's get some gold, baby!

♪♪

I love it.
It's coming out clean!

We're not losing any gold
anymore, that's for sure.

Come here, brother.
Good job, dude.

Hell, yeah.

♪♪

Hi, I'm rick ness.
Welcome to "will it shake?"

Today, we got a pumpkin, a
football, and an adult beverage.

Will it shake?

A pumpkin!

♪♪

No!

An adult beverage!

♪♪

No!

A football!

♪♪

♪♪

American football. It'll shake.

♪♪

♪♪

Everything looks really good,
so they're k*lling it.

Narrator: On the promised land,

The sluicifer crew has two hours
of pay left to run.

Parker:
When I left, they were just
about to move to the airstrip.

Narrator: Parker heads
to the new airstrip cut,

To inspect if it's stripped
and ready to mine.

Parker: Hopefully,
everything went smooth

And there's not gonna
be any surprises.

♪♪

Holy [bleep].
It's warm in here.

♪♪

How you doing?

Parker: You guys have
been busy moving dirt.

This place looks great.

Yeah, it's looking good.

♪♪

We got a good layer, like,
that black stuff's really good.

It's nice-looking pay.
Yeah.

I saw some
[bleep] big rock.

At the beginning
of the red? Yeah.

So it'd be nice to get this
all sluiced this year,

Which I don't think is
an unrealistic goal.

I'm pumped.

That's good.

[bleep], I'm happy. I'm
[bleep] happy right now.

♪♪

Narrator: Parker's next stop?

Scribner creek, for
the weekly gold weigh.

Sorry I'm late.

You gonna give me
a hug, or what?

We find any
gold this week?

Oh, yeah.

You know big red always
pays out, right?

Yeah.

Did we beat tyson?

[ laughs ] again?

I think I'm gonna beat
you guys this week.

Tyson: To be determined.

Narrator: This season, big red
and sluicifer have each averaged

Over 220 ounces a week.

First on the scales is big red.

[ gold pours ]






Worth over $220,000,
but down on its average.

You know, it could
always be more.

Next, sluicifer.

[ gold pours ]






Worth over $200,000 --
again, below average.

Yeah, this might be a bit
of a [bleep]show of a fall,

But we'll get there.

So, for the week,
we got 223.5 ounces.

But for the season,
we broke 5,000.

We're 5,011 ounces.
[bleep].

So we're moving right along.

Not at the fastest pace
we've ever been, but...

Well done. Well done.
Thanks.

My payoff's been
working well.

Thanks, guys.
You betcha. Thank you.

I'm not gonna
hug you, but...

♪♪

♪♪

Kyle: Keep feeding her.

All that hard work we
put in? Totally worth it.

Got everything up and running.
Keep her going, bud.

Narrator: At elkhorn claim,

Colonel nugget is
finally up and running.

Stuart: Yeah, I guess you
could say me and kyle

Kind of saved the day.

Stuart races to get as
many buckets of pay

Through the plant as he
can before his shift ends.

We're gonna get
some [bleep] gold.

Fred: I need to know
your bucket count.

Eight-zero.
Eight-zero.

Eight-zero?

Shut it down.

Narrator:
At the end of the first week

Washing dirt from
the liberation cut,

Fred pulls the mats from
the sluice runs for the cleanup.

Fred: It's pretty exciting.

How's it look?

Kyle: I think it's just
the fix that we need

To keep this plant moving along,

Get back to mining,
get back to making money.

I hope so, man.
Get some gold.

Fred: Hey-o!

Cleaning off the top
of the cleanup --

Oh, [bleep]!

Biggest one we've found.
That was just sitting on top.

Look at that! We're actually
miners. Holy [bleep].

That's called
gold, guys.

That's the biggest
nugget we've found.

Narrator: Fred finally has
a chance of turning a profit.

See how you got a little bit
of striation on the back,

But then you roll it over,
it's nice and smooth?

Yeah.

It means it's been
there a long time,

Which means it's caught
in the hillside,

Which means we're probably gonna
find a lot of its cousins.

Oh, I love it, man.

Alright!
Yeah!

♪♪

♪♪

Hey.
Minnie: Hey, guys.

How are ya?

Oh, living
my best life.

Got something.

Narrator: At paradise hill,

The beets family gathers
for the gold weigh.

It's sad to see
your truck go up.

It sucked! I liked
that truck.

Narrator:
So far this season, tony has
banked 1,040 ounces of gold.

Now he needs 220 ounces a week

To hit his 3,000-ounce
season target.

So let's see what the shaker
deck did this week.

Tony's daughter, monica,
had the shaker deck

Washing old-timer
tailings all week.



Previously, it's brought in




Worth almost $95,000.

Yeah, but you don't
strip for it.

And it's been
sluiced before, so...

So should we weigh
the bigger one?

Next, mike's trommel.

It's been running


Sluicing 350 yards
of pay dirt an hour.












Worth over $370,000.

So that's our week's total?


Mike: Wish I made
that in week.

Monica: It'd be nice
to see what it can do.

I'll be interesting.

♪♪

[bleep] badass.

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

Parker feels the need for speed.

Whoa! It's
about to flip!

This is good to go.

Chasing redemption,
rick hits disaster.

[bleep]! You alright?

Well, let's fire this up.

And tony's secret weapon...

Let's see what it
can actually do.

...Threatens to self-destruct.

Turn it off!
Turn it off!