[Parker]
Today is a big day
because we'll be
one step closer
to passing rocks
and making money.
[narrator] 28-year-old
Parker Schnabel
is on the brink
of a new chapter
in his career.
As we run out of ground
in the Yukon,
it'd be nice
to have had a season or two
under our belt and say,
"Okay, here's the score.
Here's what the ground
is like in Alaska."
You've got to keep your mind
on the future, right?
[narrator] Just 12 years ago,
the 16-year-old mining prodigy
took over his grandpa John's,
Alaskan claim.
[Parker] Yesterday,
we ran a 140.
- You run a 140 yards?
- Yesterday.
We did. He knows. I don't.
[narrator] But it wasn't long
before he outgrew it.
If I wanted to play
with the big boys,
I've got to get up here
where the big boys play.
[narrator] Now he runs
one of the biggest operations
in the Klondike,
where his team is plowing
through 90 acres this season.
[Parker] Mitch and Tyson
have their hands full
with two plants running.
[narrator] And quickly
running out of ground.
[Parker]
There's serious concern about
the future of the company
and for us to be able
to keep mining.
[narrator]
To secure his future.
Parker's gambling hundreds
of thousands of dollars
on a new claim back in Alaska.
Early tests indicate
it could hold over $10 million
in gold
and keep them mining
for years to come.
If it pays out this summer.
We're hoping to do
We have a lot of stripping
to do, though.
So in the meantime,
we've just been stockpiling
old drift tailings.
So hopefully
there's lots of gold in them.
[narrator] Parker has split
his Alaskan Greenhorns in two.
His Wolf Cut crew
is opening Virgin Ground,
holding high grade pay,
but it's 30 feet down
and will take weeks
to get to.
Across the claim,
his Drift Cut crew
is on the hunt
for a quick score
to bankroll
the whole operation.
[Parker] The wash plant
we've leased is coming to site
and this is the pad
it's gonna sit on.
I hate leasing wash plants
and it's never worked out well
when I've leased them,
but the plant
we are getting built
isn't ready yet.
We're gonna have
this wash plant coming in
and then we'll be ready
to sluice this pile over here.
So there'll be plenty
for the plant to do.
We've got to get it
going here.
[narrator] Overseeing
the setup of Parker's
leased wash plant.
New foreman, Mark Forrs.
[Parker] We're always excited
when we have new people
showing up,
you know, and fresh chance
at finding another ace guy.
Mark, you want to move forward
just a little bit?
It's also a chance
at finding a big dud.
You know, the biggest issue
is that Mitch isn't here.
I need somebody
that I trust
to take this on.
The next thing here
will be putting
this wash plant on the pad
and we'll see
how she sets up there.
[Parker] That's level
right there.
Nice.
Good job, Mark.
It's perfect.
Good job.
First big piece is in place.
Got it up here
without flipping it.
Didn't even go in the pond.
[Parker] Good job.
Now the conveyor.
Grab that ratchet strap
right there and just
throw that on there.
We're gonna go six inches out
that way.
[narrator] Parker's
counting on his leased
Red Rocket wash plant
running a 150 yards an hour.
But first,
Mark needs to maneuver
in the 20-foot
tailings conveyor.
[Mark] Is that gonna fit?
We'll see.
He needs to go down
a little more, right?
Yeah. This end needs
to go that way Parker,
like about a foot?
Yeah, it can't,
because he needs to go down
because the screen deck's
in the way.
Oh, [bleep]
Let me have a look at this.
Oh, you piece of [bleep].
You're on the wrong side
of some pipe.
That'll never work.
[Mark] We got a piece
of steel in our way.
This is [bleep]
These things come off.
[Parker]
Oh, [bleep] that's it.
You have to take
the outside ones out.
[Mark] That helps a lot.
[narrator] Obstacle
out of the way.
Mark can lift the conveyor
into position.
Stay down.
It's not on me.
[Mark] I'm not trying
to k*ll you. I promise.
You're not the first.
[Mark] There we go.
[narrator] The final piece,
the four-tonne hopper
that will feed paydirt
into the plant.
All right.
Out that way a little bit.
There you go.
That's dead nuts.
Oh, I just need a rock.
Yukon hammer.
- Let's go.
- Fire it up.
This coming together.
See if the thing works.
- Mark, you ready?
- [Mark] Oh, yeah.
[engine starting]
You've got to be kidding me.
This [bleep] always happens.
Come on.
Now we're getting somewhere.
You want me to throw
the first scoop in?
[Mark] Yeah.
All right, let's make
some money or lose more.
[laughs]
[narrator] Two years
in the making.
Parker's Alaskan mine
is finally up and running.
All right,
here's the first scoop
going in.
[narrator]
He's one step closer
to finding out
if his new operation
will secure his mining future.
It's good to be sluicing,
but I'm just nervous
about the ground.
It's drifting.
So we didn't drill it.
We have no idea
what's gonna happen.
[narrator] 300 miles south.
A veteran miner
enters a new era
on his own Alaskan claim.
[Dave]
I started my mining career
Last year we pulled
and it was a good year.
[narrator] 63-year-old
Dozer Dave Turin is back
at his Glacier Creek mine.
This is the worst winter
they had on record.
It gave us
a really late start.
Gonna be some big changes
for Team Turin this year,
and I hope my guys
are up for it.
Let's find some gold.
[narrator] After seven years
with the Hoffmans.
I can't believe it.
Dave just saved
our mining season.
[narrator] Dave formed
his own crew.
A-team.
[laughter]
[narrator] And mined...
I'll bet you that gold
sits right on here.
[narrator] All over
North America.
[Dave] Oh, my goodness.
[narrator] Hitting gold
in Colorado.
Twenty six pounds of gold.
That's unbelievable.
[man] Let's see what we got.
[narrator] And last season
at Glacier Creek.
[man] It's a hell
of an achievement.
We worked our asses off
for that.
[narrator]
But after personal tragedy.
[man] Oh [bleep] here we go.
There's three of them
coming right now.
- [man] What? Who is it?
- [man] Jesse. Heart attack.
[narrator] And the departure
of key crew.
[man] Hey, Chris.
How's it going?
I need to talk to you.
[man] I'm leaving.
Whoa.
[narrator] Team Turin
now faces an uncertain future.
I just don't know
why we're coming
this late in the year.
That's, that's why
I just don't get it.
I'm with you. But he said
it's worth our while.
[narrator] Dave's called
in his most trusted
crew members,
mechanic Nathan Clark
and operator Jason Sanchez,
to discuss what's next.
Huh!
All right. Boys are here.
Oh, there's big Daddy Dave.
There is Big Daddy Dave.
- [Dave] Hey, pal.
- Hey.
I'm good.
Man. I'm good.
Oh, man.
Good to see you.
We made it.
- I know...
- Come my man.
Good to have you here.
Yeah. Look at you.
Sure. Glad you guys are here.
I really appreciate
you guys coming.
What's your plan?
Well, Shelly
and I've been thinking
about it a lot,
and we're about ready
to sell this thing.
I'm sorry. What?
The investor backed out...
so I got nobody else
but Shelly.
And we want
to sell the claims,
the equipment.
It's time, we've been doing
this a long time.
Little bit shocking.
Where does that leave us, though?
Well, that's why
I brought you here.
If there's anybody
I got to sell this to,
I'd rather it be you.
I mean, what kind of money
we're talking about?
Well, a million bucks.
There's a ten-year
lifespan here.
Ten years is not a bad deal.
This is a great opportunity
for you guys.
There's good gold here.
You know, for, for me
to start putting
a lot of money into it,
I've got to know
what's all here.
At the very least,
we should chase that out.
If you don't believe in it,
why don't the three of us
find out where the gold is?
Then you guys can make
an intelligent decision.
And if it's right for you,
you guys can be owners.
This is your opportunity.
What do you think?
I guess, something
definitely to think about.
But let's do what the rest
of this ground actually has,
sounded like a plan.
Sounds pretty fair to me
right now.
- Yeah.
- Let's, let's do it, Dave.
- [Dave] Everybody in?
- Always.
- [Dave] All right.
- [Shelly] Sounds good.
Definitely not the news
I expected.
I got to stick a shovel
in the ground
before I can even begin
to really wrap my head around
what Dave and Shelly
just presented to us.
It's gonna accomplish
a lot of things.
It's gonna make them
feel comfortable
that what they're buying
is really legitimate
and it's gonna prove there's
ten-years' worth of gold.
And if not, we'll try
to sell it elsewhere.
So, yeah, we're gonna go
dig some dirt
one last time
for Team Turin.
[narrator] To prove
there's a golden future
for Jason and Nathan,
Dave first needs to get
all his machines
over the creek to the claim.
Starting with his prospecting
wash plant.
The Beetle.
[man on radio] It's all good.
We're good to go.
[Dave] All right.
Nate looks good, buddy.
You made it.
I've got an excavator.
It's not going to get
across that bridge.
So, let's see if we can
get across the river.
This river is pretty high.
You think it's gonna make it?
[Jason] It has to Dave.
[Dave] When you come across,
put your bucket out there.
Kind of feel the depth
and watch out for big rocks.
I'll take it real easy.
I'll feel out ahead of myself.
Good call.
[Dave] All right.
Let's see what it does.
No big rocks.
Here we go.
[Dave] It's pretty good
so far.
If it starts getting up
into that cab.
We'd better just back out.
The water comes in, floods,
all these electronics.
And I could be a duck
out of water, so to speak.
[Dave on radio]
You're sunk
halfway up your tracks.
Come on, now.
[Dave] Now your tracks
are getting under the water.
You got about another foot.
It's about all you got.
Come on.
I got a little bit
of depth there.
[Dave] You're...[bleep]
I can't see
behind me it'd be all right?
[Jason] You're about ready
to tip over, I think.
[Dave] Take it easy.
You almost got water
in the cab.
[bleep]
Yeah. Water coming now.
You're about ready
to tip over I think.
[narrator] At Glacier Creek,
Team Turin are crossing
a raging river
to access Dave's claim.
Just let her go.
I'm gonna go.
Going, going, going.
Across the line.
Across the line,
near cross there.
All right. You got it.
You got it. Yeah, buddy.
[Jason] Hey, when in doubt,
throttle up.
All right.
We got us an excavator.
All right, boys.
Let's get after it.
What we gotta do next
is dig some holes,
put some paydirt in here
and find some gold.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] Over halfway
through his season,
King of the Klondike,
Tony Beets is gambling
on a monster pay day
from two of the deepest cuts
of his mining career.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] So far,
Tony's mined just
over 2,000 ounces of gold,
but he's down to his
last few weeks of thawed pay.
[Tony speaking]
Huh. Steady.
[Tony speaking]
[Mike] What about Eighty Pup?
[Tony speaking]
Yeah. All you have to do
is dig a drain,
and you can get to drain it.
[Tony speaking]
Oh, I know.
[Tony speaking]
Yes. A lot of that
nice white stuff, too.
[narrator] Mike's idea.
Go back and look
for white channel pay
in a section
of the Eighty Pup
that was stripped last season,
but then flooded
and abandoned.
If the pay streak's
down there,
it lies under 20 feet
of water.
[Tony speaking]
[Mike] Yeah. You already got
one of the walls built,
and then you got
to build up one side,
and you're pretty much
good to go.
[Tony speaking]
[Mike] Oh, don't worry.
I'll make sure I get it
all nice and clean.
[Tony speaking]
Yes. Yeah. Okay.
Okay. Dad, I'll go get
my time machine.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] To drain
the Eighty Pup,
Mike needs to pull off
a massive engineering feat
and build
the biggest settling pond
on Paradise Hill.
First, they must strip
the perimeter
of a 25-acre section
of ground for the pond.
Next, build a mile-long dike
around the pond,
which will also form
a 20-foot wide road.
Then, lay
a 1,000 foot mega pipe
from the flooded 80 pump cut
to the edge of the hill.
Finally, pump
through the pipe
and let it flow down the hill
to the pond.
Tony wants it done
in just five days.
[Mike] This thing is designed
to [bleep] ground.
[narrator] While Mike strips
the pond perimeter.
Keep it coming.
[narrator] Cousin Mike,
directs rock trucks
hauling in gravel
to build the dike.
Dump it there.
[Michael] Fine tailings mixed
with gravel.
And it's really good
for building
because it has the fine sand
in it.
And when you drive on it,
it packs and it becomes
really hard.
[narrator] This season,
Tony's lost precious hours
using iron from the cuts
to build dikes.
To speed things up,
he's invested $700,000
on two new secret weapons.
Belly scrapers.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] Hitched to a couple
of 469-horsepower rock trucks.
Tony's new toys are ideal
for building dikes and roads.
[Tony speaking]
[Tony] Oh.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] A 12-foot blade
underneath
scrapes and flattens
the gravel into a smooth road.
[Tony speaking]
Not too bad.
[Tony speaking]
Yeah, I just have to get
used to it and then
it's working fine.
[Tony speaking]
Tony just hit me
with his counterweight.
That's not good.
[Tony speaking]
Tony just hit me
with his counterweight.
That's not good.
[narrator] On Paradise Hill,
while racing to build
the new pond,
Tony Beets has collided
with one of his brand new
$350,000 belly scrapers.
[bleep]
I just got hit by Tony.
Because
there's not a lot of room.
I was really close to him
and I thought he knew
because a couple of times
it went really well.
And then when I left, I think
he forgot that I was there
or something.
But then he hit me.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] After a close call,
Tony's belly scraper is back
to finishing the pond
to drain the cut.
[Tony speaking]
Christopher?
Christopher?
Time to wakey wakey,
eggs and bakey.
I'm gonna go make sure
everybody else is up. Okay.
Yeah. You're ready.
Five minutes.
[bleep]
[narrator] Over half way
through his season,
third-year mine boss,
Fred Lewis is fighting
for survival.
This year...
Our entire claim is under ice.
[narrator] He's battled
the collateral damage
from one of the worst
Yukon winters on record.
I've never seen this much snow
in my life.
[narrator] And faced breakdown
after breakdown.
Oh [bleep]
[narrator] In an unforgiven
wilderness.
This is definitely
not gonna work.
[man speaking]
[narrator]
For all of his efforts,
Fred has mined just 50 ounces.
You know, I've set a massive
That's five times
what we had last season.
We're gonna have to hit it
hard to get close to that.
Winter's already knocking
on the door about halfway
through the season,
but we're gonna fight
until Mother Nature
kicks us out.
We can't get more gold
if we can't put
more yards through.
Yardage, yardage, yardage.
[narrator] To turn
around his season.
Fred is calling in
reinforcements.
I've managed
to convince somebody
and it was not easy
to come up here.
This guy has fed the plant
before in Oregon.
He's been through the [bleep].
He's the exact person
I need to do this
and I'm pretty
freaking stoked.
[narrator] On the road
to California Creek.
[Stefan] You got to realize
what Fred and I have
is not a friendship.
Friendship only goes so far,
you know.
What Fred and I have
is brotherhood.
[narrator]
Fred's newest recruit.
Master Sergeant,
Stefan Generally.
You know a brother ask you,
"I need you to come do
this. I need some help."
You know, he, he asked.
I'm there.
I'm here.
[narrator]
Stefan fought alongside
Fred in Afghanistan.
[Fred] Stefan is one
of my best friends.
He's always gonna be
one of my best friends.
He's proven to me
in life or death
that he can have my back.
So, he's gonna have
my back anywhere.
[narrator] Two years ago.
- [man] Whoo.
- Hoo-hoo.
[narrator]
The brothers in arms
dug for gold in Oregon.
- [Fred] You guys in?
- One, two.
All right, let's go
get some gold.
Yeah.
[narrator] But after
a disappointing season.
It's looking like
I ran out of pay.
[narrator] Stefan threw
in his shovel
and hasn't been
on a mine since.
I say we cut and run.
Quit while we're ahead.
I mean, Fred told me that
he's got a great crew of guys,
he's got a great mine site,
good equipment,
which is a far cry
from what we had in Oregon.
Damn.
There she is.
[bleep] Everybody's at...
Only one [bleep] damn person
knocks that loud.
Something!
How you doing, man?
Oh, you made it.
You like that drive?
Dude, I thought you gave me
a wrong direction.
I'm like this "Where?
I mean, how high up
can we go?"
Not much higher.
They call this
top of the world.
- Yeah.
- What we've got here,
got a great group of guys.
They're willing to work
their asses off all day,
every day.
And we're pulling gold
out of the ground.
It's a beautiful place
to live.
I love it. I love it.
You're gonna be
surprised, dude.
I know I keep saying that.
[narrator]
Stefan will be joining
the crew in the Freedom Cut.
To get anywhere close
to Fred's 500-ounce goal,
they need to hit over
Throw that on.
[Buzz] Refreshed recruits.
Uh, he's a fresh recruit.
This is Buzz.
- I'm not fresh.
- What's up, brother?
- How are you doing?
- Stefan.
- Buzz is our foreman?
- Nice to meet you, bro.
[Fred] JB, this is Stefan.
[JB] Stefan,
what's going on, man?
- [Stefan] How you doing?
- Hey.
Good to have
another SF guy here.
- Hey, man.
- [Fred] All right.
Let's get to work.
Gold don't find itself.
[Stefan] No, man. Unfortunately.
We're gonna start you out
feeding the wash plant.
You know, I kind of feel like
it's best to just throw him
right into it,
get him wet, get him dirty,
get him miserable
because it's gonna be
that way the whole season.
Here's your freaking job
and let's get at it.
You're welcome.
[engine starting]
[Stefan] And she's rolling.
Bucket number one.
[narrator]
To up Fred's yardage,
Stefan must keep
the paydirt flowing through
wash plant Sergeant sluice.
[Fred] Just go real easy.
You'll feel it.
- Okay.
- [Fred] Just be gentle.
[Stefan] I got this.
Just like jump in the deep end
of the pool and swim.
You know, I didn't come here
to tread water.
I came here to work.
It's a hard job.
It's something you have
to pay attention to do.
Watch your rocks going in
and big rocks.
We cannot be dropping
large-sized boulders
in that hopper.
That plant can't handle it.
[narrator] Sergeant Sluice
has no grizzly bars
to filter out boulders,
so Stefan feathers
the bucket
releasing dirt slowly
to stop anything big
clogging the plant.
[Stefan] Fred wants this plant
to run continuously.
And I came here to do
what he wants done.
Make this [bleep] happen.
So we can all make some money.
Oh, oh.
A big rock just went in there.
[bleep]
[Stefan] I don't want
to shut the plant down.
[bleep]
Yeah. It looks like I got
a huge rock right up front.
[John] Oh, it's a big b*stard.
[narrator] If Stefan can get
the rock out quickly,
they'll avoid having
to shut down completely.
Oh, what you got? No.
I'm trying to figure out
what, J...
I need, I need the teeth.
I got you.
Hold on.
[John] Bring your teeth.
So he's telling me to use
the teeth to empty it,
and he can't use the teeth
if I got [bleep]
in the bucket.
I need to empty it,
it's full.
JB is trying to instruct me
on how to clear it.
I know what to do, but I want
to make sure he's...
Just give me a minute.
I need to...
I need to empty it.
That's the problem.
You're not [bleep] let me
empty the bucket, homey.
All right.
Now I can use the teeth.
Got it?
[narrator] Stefan's cleared
the rock
and avoided a plant shutdown,
keeping the Lewis crew
on the gold.
Time is money,
so we really don't have
that much time to waste.
So I got to really pay
attention to what I'm doing.
I'm here to do
what needs to be done
so that we can get gold.
Let's dig some holes,
do some panning
and see if we start running
some paydirt.
Okay.
[narrator] Dozer Dave Turin
is on a mission
to sell
his Glacier Creek claim.
He needs to prove
to potential buyers,
former crew members
Nathan Clark
and Jason Sanchez.
There's more than ten years
of good gold left here.
I'll pick the spot landowner.
Okay.
Mine boss.
[laughs]
[Jason] Yeah. Let's go
get some dirt, buddy.
[narrator] Last year,
Team Turin mined
five acres of ground
at Glacier Creek,
including the sunlight cut
and found 463 ounces of gold.
Now, Nathan and Jason
want to test more ground
to see if more gold
has washed downstream
in the remaining 50 acres
of mineable virgin ground
before buying
Dave's turnkey operation
for $1 million.
This is probably
my favorite part, you know?
I mean,
I love the prospecting,
but because
we go down river,
you know,
we always fear.
The further away
from sources you go,
the less gold you're gonna
start to really see.
So I'm gonna punch
my first hole
on the lower end,
and I want to dig
a second hole.
And then on to a third one.
Let's run a pan
from here and mine.
See what we got.
Well, let's see
what the gold situation is.
First pan of the season
right here.
The gold was upstream.
We proved that last season.
We just didn't prove anything
from the lower end.
Matter of fact,
this is the first time
anybody from our team
has dug this far down river.
I really want
We got one, two, three, four,
five. Tiny little pieces.
But there's not enough gold
here to justify a test
from it.
Let's go get another one.
I don't know
if I would have chose
this property last season.
I just don't know
if this is where I want to be.
I really don't.
The thing I noticed different
about the hole number two,
it was straight
into boulders clicking.
Pan number two.
This is a much better
looking pan. I mean, really.
Ten good visual
particle-sized pieces of gold,
not to mention, and probably
another 15 micros.
Significantly better pan.
This pan tells me
that we're gonna run this.
One more to go.
[narrator] Dave sets up
his portable wash plant,
the Beetle,
to run a bulk test
of the holes.
We're good.
Sluice is on.
Conveyor's on.
We got water.
We're ready to go.
Now we just got to fire it up,
get the trommel turning
and get some dirt here.
Hey, I got all three of them
holes done.
[Dave] Good.
Had gold in every pan.
Why don't you jump
in the loader? Haul the pay.
You jump in the excavator
and then you feed.
All right.
[engine starting]
[Dave] All right, guys,
we're rolling.
All right, here we go ahead.
The first bucket
of our prospects.
[narrator] Dave plans
to run ten yards of pay
through the wash plant
from each
of the three test holes.
I've always wanted
my own claim,
but, you know, we've got
to be able to see
the very edge of the property
to the very front
of the property.
We've got to see
if the values hold.
If the values don't match up,
you know,
it might not be worth it.
I don't know
how it's gonna work out.
It might be a [bleep].
All right, guys,
here comes the last one.
Hole number one.
I feel the three of us
are changing.
I'm trying to hand it over,
and they're trying
to figure out,
is this what I want to do?
Do I want to be a mine owner?
Do I want to spend money?
But right now, we're just
three guys having some fun,
mining and let's see
what happens.
I love working
with these guys.
All right, Dave,
that was the last bucket
from hole number one.
All right, I'll shut her down
and let's pull them out.
So we'll take the masks,
knock them out,
put them in a tote,
and then put them right
back in and start up
for number two.
Throttle's coming on.
All right.
Let's pull the maps
one more time, guys.
Let me put it down.
I'll be over.
What do you think, Jason,
how's it look?
See anything?
You know, I'm actually seeing
a little bit of gold in here.
[Dave] Well, that ain't bad
you guys.
This is out of hole number two
which showed
the strongest pan.
Well, let's go do
hole number three.
- Yeah,
- Let's finish this up.
Well, dirt definitely
stays consistent everywhere
on this property.
This plant seems
to be eating it up
like butter.
All right, gentlemen.
It's gonna be the last scoop
from hole number three
and our prospect's over.
We can get some results now.
All right, Jason's out here.
Clean him out.
Get out of here.
Let's get that concentrate
to Shelly
and see how much gold
we got in here.
Let me see
what these holes hold, Jason.
Hey. Good job.
- Yeah.
- The Beetle road again, bud.
Yeah, it's awesome
to see it ride.
All right. Good job, guys.
I just don't know
how it's gonna work out,
but we have to see the value.
We saw gold,
which is a great sign.
It's been a good day,
good run,
and it was a lot of fun.
So far, things are actually
going pretty well.
[narrator] Parker Schnabel
has finally fired up
his new Alaskan operation.
And with two plants
running in the Klondike,
he's on track for his first
triple gold way of the season.
It's basically
what we're doing
in this season
is testing this area
and seeing how it goes.
[narrator] While Parker
focuses on opening up
Virgin Ground,
mine boss in training,
Tyler Mahoney
has got the Red Rocket
running at 120 yards per hour.
Right now
we've been running tailings,
which is good because
there's a [bleep] ton to run.
[narrator] Parker's gambling
on running old timers tailings
to bankroll
his Alaska operation.
I think overall,
we're doing really well.
But there's always
this underlying anxiety of,
for me, something going wrong
and me not knowing
how to fix it
or troubleshoot it.
Back home, if something goes
wrong, it's only me
and my family I'm impacting,
which is, you know,
it's still [bleep] up,
but it's always
that added of pressure
when it's someone else's
operation.
It will be nice seeing
some color in those boxes.
Oh [bleep].
That's not safe.
All right.
The trommel stopped shaking.
Now I get to go see what's up.
Mark, you got copy?
Mark?
[Mark speaking on radio]
[Jarred] The belt is broke.
[Mark speaking on radio]
Yes. Yes, it is.
Hey, Tyler is here.
I can tell her.
- Tyler?
- [Tyler] Yes. What's going on?
All right. The belt
on the shaker
snapped in half.
Oh. [bleep] Okay.
The breakdown
with the belt is bad.
It's basically like
one of the key elements
of the whole shaker deck.
It moves the shaker deck.
Without it, we can't sluice.
There's just no way around it.
It's not great.
Hey, Wayne,
we've got a bit
of an emergency out here.
[narrator] At Cleary Creek,
Tyler Mahoney is desperately
trying to get
Red Rocket back running
before Parker finds out
it's shut down.
[Tyler] So we got
hold of Wayne.
He's just getting
a replacement belt now.
[narrator] Luckily,
wash plant owner
Wayne Peppler lives nearby.
All right, Mark.
[Mark] Just the guy
we're looking.
Two new belts.
Hopefully, we can remedy
kind of why it came off
because the other belt
wasn't super old.
So maybe something else
is the issue.
Let's go take a look at it.
[Wayne] Let's do it.
So this belt here
drives the shaker,
bounces up and down
on these springs.
So without that,
we can't wash rock.
I think that's where
it got cut right there.
Oh, we might be able to
turn sideways here.
Whoa! Jeez! There you go.
Okay.
I'll see it.
Get it.
- [Wayne] One more.
- [Mark] Get it, right there.
So you're saying
it's running up
against this lip.
And it's feeling
that crown in it?
[Mark] Was there any pipe?
[Wayne] There's a quarter-inch
between this end
and this end.
- So like...
- [Mark] Oh, yeah.
Oh, that doesn't...
It looks like that bearing
is bad on that side.
[Wayne] It's seized up. Yeah.
[Mark] Yeah.
That doesn't look so good.
[Wayne] It's just
right in the shaft.
That's making this belt
want to walk up on this lip,
which is making
this belt roll off.
And so, getting that
aligned straight
where there's no play,
allows it
to just keep it
perfectly aligned.
[Mark] Can you
just take a bungee
and just pull it over?
[Wayne] Yeah. Yeah.
I'll throw a bungee
on it and see.
See what we can come up
with here.
[narrator] The pulley wheel
on the Shaker deck's
drive belt
tensioner has come loose,
making the belt ride up
onto its outer lip,
causing friction
and the belt to tear.
Mark's bush fix,
wrap bungees around
the belt tensioner arm
to pull it in, forcing
the pulley into alignment,
preventing
any further friction
or belt tears.
So our tensioner is just
kind of bouncing in there
and it's flopping around.
So this just adds
a little more tension
to it, to stabilize it.
We'll put one more
on like this.
And we're good.
So we grew up on a homestead
without hardware stores,
so pretty much
whatever you could find
or make,
is what you'd use
to fix things.
So you like learn
to make things out of...
like bubble gum
and mushrooms.
Where you at, Jarred?
You want to fire
this up again?
[Jarred speaking]
[engine starting]
[Mark] Let's get to sluicing.
[narrator] After four hours
shut down.
Mark's quick thinking
has the wash plant
back on the gold.
Mark is extremely resourceful.
Wasn't too much downtime
and we're back in action.
[Parker] Island's nice
and organized
and Mark's a good foreman.
He's motivated, so I think
we're gonna get along.
[narrator] With the plant up
and running,
Parker's one step closer
to weighing
his first Alaskan gold.
I'm not gonna get too excited
until we see if we're making
money or just losing more.
[Mike] Oh, it's gonna be fun.
So I have to be
very careful here right now
because I'm very wide.
No one likes getting hit
in the face
with a long black thing.
[narrator] At Paradise Hill,
with pay running out
from the Blue and Cold cuts.
It's all hands on deck
to drain the Eighty Pup cut.
Let's fire this [bleep] up.
[narrator] While
Mike and Kevin build
a thousand foot mega pipe.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] Tony's counting
on his brand new
belly scrapers
to speed up
the build of the dike.
That will also serve
as a road around the new pond.
[Tony speaking]
They're under a lot
of time pressure
because we want to get
the settling pond done
as soon as we can.
Just dump here
on this side road
off the dike.
[narrator] Cousin Mike,
lays gravel for the dike,
building it up inch by inch.
I need to make
some sharp turns here.
It's not easy. It's long.
And when you make a turn
in the spot like this,
it will take
the inside of the turn.
So, yeah, it's easy
to flip this thing.
[Tony speaking]
[Michael] Sorry [bleep]
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] On Paradise Hill.
[Michael] Sorry [bleep]
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] Cousin Mike
has ditched
one of Tony's
$350,000 belly scrapers.
[Tony speaking]
[Tony speaking]
- [Michael] They are long.
- [Tony speaking]
[Michael] It's a sharp turn
and, yeah, there she goes.
[Tony speaking]
[Mike] Tony, are you there?
[Tony speaking]
[Mike on radio] Yeah,
I'll be over there
in a minute.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator] To haul out the
Mike brings
in a 414-horsepower
- [Tony speaking]
- Yeah.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator]
The thousand foot mega pipe
is made of high density
polyethylene,
capable of carrying
a minute.
[Tony speaking]
[Mike] You guys got water
coming out over of there?
[Tony speaking]
[Mike] I can just imagine
what it looks like.
[narrator] With the Eighty Pup
finally draining.
Tony is closer
to its gold rich
white channel pay
and his 5,000-ounce gold.
Oh, we're just [bleep]
on time.
- [Tony speaking]
- [bleep] Yeah.
[Tony speaking]
- [Mike] Sounds good.
- [Tony speaking]
[Stefan speaking]
[narrator]
At California Creek,
combat veteran
Stefan Generally
is on his fifth consecutive
day in the excavator,
slowly feeding pay
to Sergeant Sluice.
I used to say
it is what it is,
but I'm kind of too slow.
And you got to [bleep] kind of
concentrate and concentrate
and concentrate.
You can't [bleep]
let your attention
wander for a bit.
Hey, there's Fred.
Right now
we're having a big problem,
especially with Stefan
being kind of rusty.
[narrator] To help Stefan
move dirt faster,
Fred's hatched a plan.
We need a hopper feeder.
With a new hopper feeder
in the mix,
we'll be able to feed
consistently up our yardage,
get more gold.
This thing has been here.
Brandon's had...
this hopper feeder here
all last season.
- [Christopher] It looks like
[bleep]
- [Fred] Well, yeah.
It's older, but I'm wondering
if we can talk to him
about snagging this.
[narrator] The Clayton's
old hopper feeder
has been lying unused
for over a year.
We could feed the plant
a lot faster, a lot smoother,
has grizzly bars on the top,
and then it slides
right up into our wash plant,
feeds it consistently
all day long.
[narrator] The hopper feeders,
grizzly bars prevent blockages
by screening out rocks
bigger than ten inches.
Allowing paydirt to funnel
faster through the feeder
onto a conveyor belt.
Which delivers it evenly
to the wash plant,
maximizing yardage
with a constant supply
of boulder-free pay.
It's in relatively good shape.
As long as the engine works.
So, I think we're gonna
have to talk to Brandon.
You got a visitor.
- I have a visitor?
- How's it going?
Pretty tough at the moment.
Our dozer blew a coolant line.
How about this, though?
I've been looking
for a hopper feeder.
I can't find [bleep]
in town.
And there's been one
sitting in the yard
for about a year now.
What about,
you let us use it?
So...
I don't know.
Just sitting there.
If JB has a coolant line
the size of my pinky.
- Pinky size hose line.
- Yeah.
I think we can do that.
[Brandon] Okay.
I got no use for it.
So if you guys want to put her
to work, sure, why not?
- All right.
- [Brandon] Yeah.
Good to hear.
I've just made a deal
with Brandon.
He's got a hopper feeder
over here
that he hasn't been using
for quite some time.
It's gonna give us
a lot more consistent feed,
a lot more yardage
to that plant for me.
I feel like I've gotten
a good deal out of this.
Set her down.
Come on down.
[narrator] Fred's plan
comes with one big drawback,
more downtime.
So the crew work quickly
to get the feeder
into position.
Ooh.
This is a little bit sketch, man.
Driving backwards
down this frickin' hill.
This is gonna be a slow trip.
We're on a ticking time b*mb
right now.
There's no gold going
through a starting sluice.
It's not a productive
mine site right now,
so I need this
to get finished.
Like yesterday.
[narrator] To set up
the five-tonne feeder,
Buzz and Fred must drag it
up a 45-degree incline
to the top of the pad.
I'm gonna be in the 250,
which right now
is sitting very precariously
on the edge of our berm.
I'm gonna pull as Buzz pushes
and we're gonna try and guide
the hopper feeder up here.
[bleep]
We're really careful
we don't pull this thing
too far forward,
fall off the pad
or worse than to one of us.
Oh, he's pushing fast
as I'm pulling.
So we got to pull
at the same time.
I'd say right now
I'm pretty much
at my max on stress.
I don't like doing
[bleep] like this.
Oh, I don't like this.
I don't like this.
I don't like this.
[Fred] Oh, I don't like this.
I don't like this.
I don't like this.
Looks like
he might have broke the tank.
[narrator]
At California Creek,
five tons of hopper feeder
balances precariously
on the pad.
[Fred] Push that thing out
towards me.
You're gotta get
that belt centered
on that hopper right.
That looks frickin'
beautiful right there.
That's...
I'm about to throw up,
so I'm really...
[laughs]
[narrator] Moving
the hopper feeder into place
has cost Fred
a full day sluicing.
It's okay. We're where we need
to be right now.
We're about
to fire up the plant.
First time with a feeder
on it,
which for us
is a really big deal.
So, as pissed off
and exhausted
as I am right now,
I'm actually super excited
to see this.
Go ahead, Stefan.
Power it up.
[engine starting]
All right, Fred.
Hit the water.
[engine starting]
Come on, baby.
[Fred] Hey, Stefan.
It's feeding really well?
Squared in the sluice,
in like, 15 seconds.
All that hard work
we put in is gonna help us
get more gold.
[Stefan] [bleep] Yeah.
[Buzz] This is the first time
this plant is running
at this speed with this
capacity efficiency.
[Fred] What do you think
the yardage is we're putting
through it is right now,
because that's [bleep] going?
- [Fred] Oh.
- [John] What the hell?
[Fred] Turn the power off, Chris.
Power off.
- [Buzz] Cooked the motor.
- [Fred] Huh?
Motor cooked.
[Fred] The motor?
- [Chris] Motor is done.
- [Buzz] What the [bleep]
[bleep] nothing.
[bleep]
- [John] You can smell it.
- [Fred] Oh, I smell that.
[Buzz] Plus,
there's smoke in it.
- [Fred] So it's [bleep] fried?
- [Buzz] Yeah.
It's not like we're freaking
working it hard.
[Fred] No.
[narrator]
After only 15 minutes
of running,
Fred's plan to run more pay
with the hopper feeder
is dead,
and his dream
of a 500-ounce season
is further away than ever.
[bleep]
[bleep]
Wash plant's been running
for a while now,
so I've come down because
we're about to pull off
those masks,
which is really exciting.
It's definitely not something
I'm familiar with.
So Parker is gonna give you
a good rundown
of how it'll work,
because when he leaves,
it could be me
or Mark doing it.
[narrator]
Parker Schnabel's crew
has churned through
nearly 1,500 yards
of old timer drift tailings.
[Parker] You want to go
grab that shovel
and bring some buckets
up here.
- [Tyler] Start shoveling
the sod.
- [Parker] Hmm-mm.
[Tyler] I'm seeing
lots of color.
- [Parker] Yeah,
there's some gold in it.
- [Tyler] Yeah.
I'll just get these mats
out of the the way
if you want to like clean
that edge up
and that front edge
and get all mats,
have to be right down
on the steel.
So every other, every rock
in there has to come out.
Get the bucket brigade going.
- [bleep]
- No wonder Dumont's back's...
[bleep]
[narrator] After processing
the gold,
Parker brings
the team together
for the first
Alaska Gold Weigh.
How's it going, guys?
I'm good.
How about you, Parker?
Oh, yeah.
We got a bucket of beers.
- Cheers, guys.
- [Tyler] Cheers.
This is exciting.
Our first gold weigh.
[Parker] And it's not much.
Don't get crazy excited.
But this was 14 hours
of running.
Nice looking gold.
[Parker] Yeah, it is.
[Tyler] I'm a bit nervous.
[narrator] To hit
his 1,000 ounce goal.
Parker's looking
for the drift tailings
to deliver an ounce of gold
per hour runtime.
So we're gonna have
to weigh in grams
because the scale
only does normal ounces,
not troy ounces
and grams.
So we're gonna have
to divide this by 31.1.
[narrator] Parker needs
in order to hit 14 ounces.
- [Parker] Tyler, do you want
to read it out?
- [Tyler] Yes, please.
[Parker] 430 divided by what?
[Tyler] 31.1.
[Parker] 13.82 ounces.
[narrator] Worth over $23,000.
[Parker] Just shy
of an ounce an hour.
- [Tyler] There you go.
- [Mark] That ain't too bad.
- [Parker] No.
- [Tyler] So, an ounce an hour?
Are you happy with that?
- Yeah, that's what
I was hoping to be doing.
- Yeah.
Ounce an hour.
Now it's just a matter
of how many hours can we run?
- [Tyler] Yeah.
- [Parker] Right?
I finally feel like
we're over the hill
a little bit.
We're, like, on a roll.
So maybe we'll keep
this going for a little while.
I hope so.
- Cheers, guys.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
We finally know that
we're finding gold,
which is amazing.
A huge weight off
my shoulders.
It's all coming together
and seeing the gold there
today just makes it
all worth it.
Now we can just keep
moving forward.
This is a big one.
This is the first time
that we've found gold
back in Alaska in a decade.
And that's really cool.
It's nice to finally
be on some ground
and be finding some gold
and have a good crew.
A lot's gone into this
and it's really cool
to see it working out
and that's hopefully a sign
of what's to come.
[narrator] It's a promising
start in Alaska,
but Parker has more business
to attend to.
[Parker] I've got to get back
over to the Yukon.
[narrator] Across the border.
He's counting
on his Yukon crew
to bring in the gold
from the massive
[Mitch]
This season has definitely
been the toughest year
we've ever had.
I totally understand
Parker's desire
to get to Alaska,
and he needs to be thinking
about the future
of the company.
But it's my job to think
about the dirt
we have to move
right here, right now,
especially as Parker's
due back at the end
of the week.
[Fred]
All right, let's do it.
[narrator] Forced to abandon
the hopper feeder,
the pressure is back on Stefan
to keep the wash plant
fed with pay.
Another long-a*s day
of feeding this plant.
I swear,
I think doing this job is like
being a mindless automaton.
I mean, this...
Sit here and scoop.
Scoop and feed.
Scoop and feed.
Got to pay attention.
You don't wanna drop [bleep]
into it.
I got to piss,
step on the tread and piss.
You got to eat,
you better have it with you.
When he told me he needed help
and it was going to be hard,
I guess
I should have took him
a little more figuratively
because this is [bleep]
ridiculous.
[bleep]
[bleep]
[bleep]
Damn it.
[bleep]
I just dropped a huge rock
in the hopper.
[bleep]
[Stefan] Hey, Fred! Fred!
Oh, no.
[bleep]
All right.
I'm... I'm, kind of
frazzled right now.
I missed this rock
and it's a huge rock,
and we had to shut it down,
which is the last thing
Fred wants.
So...
I'm not really feeling
this [bleep].
I'm telling you.
[man 1]
There's a [bleep] big rock in.
[Stefan] Yeah.
Dude, I didn't even [bleep]
see it, man.
It was covered up
with mud,
and at the last minute,
I saw it slip down.
But at that point,
it was already, like,
past the teeth.
[bleep]
I must--
I mean, I can't say it
any simpler,
but this [bleep]
just ain't me, man.
- Yeah.
- This is...
I mean, I came out here
expecting to [bleep],
you know,
work a little bit,
have fun, enjoy it.
This is [bleep] all work, man.
- Yeah.
- How the [bleep] do you do it?
It's just me, right?
- [Stefan] Damn, dude.
- Well, I...
I mean,
my hat's off to you.
I admire
the [bleep] out of you.
All right. Let's grab
a chain and get this
rock out of there.
All right.
I'll just jump in the hole.
This rock is just a
frickin' pain in the a*s.
We just got to shut down
for something
that really sucks.
[Stefan] Bro.
[Fred] How's it going, dude?
- [Stefan] Not good.
- [Fred] What's up?
Man.
I love you, and I got
to keep it 100 with you.
But this [bleep] ain't for me.
You told me it was hard,
and you even told me
But I didn't take it to heart.
I should have.
I can't sit in that
damn machine for 12 hours.
It kills me.
I just can't.
I really, really [bleep] hate
disappointing you like this.
But I can't do this, man.
- I got to [bleep] go.
- [Fred] Really?
Man, you know I love you.
So it is what it is.
And I appreciate
you sticking your arm out
to come and help me
in the first place.
I'll figure it out.
I don't want you to feel like
you've come here
and let me down
because you didn't.
There's no bad blood
between us.
- Obviously.
- I don't expect there to be.
[Fred] I've been to combat
with you,
I'm not going to get
pissed off at you over
something stupid like this.
- But...
- I got you.
[Fred] [bleep]
It's not for everybody.
You mean that.
All right.
[Fred] Thanks for coming.
Appreciate it.
Honestly, right now,
I don't know how to react.
I... I brought Stefan up here.
He's one of my best friends
and he was really good
in Oregon.
We had a good season together
and he was willing
to come up here
and help me out
on the drop of a hat.
[Stefan] I can't afford
to be the one to [bleep]
this up for Fred.
And if it means
I got to step out and go home,
hey, so be it.
[Fred] Puts me in a very,
very sticky situation.
[sighs] We're already down.
We're already
behind our gold count.
We're already struggling
as it is to keep
our equipment running.
And now this.
And it's just one thing
after another.
It's really demoralizing
to the whole team.
I know that
they're not going to be happy.
Honestly,
at this point, I'm lost
and I don't know what to do.
- [Dave] Good job.
- [Shelly] Hey.
[Nathan] Hey.
It's always good to see
Mama Shelly
cleaning some gold.
[Shelly] Yeah. Yeah.
It was a small cleanup.
Didn't take too long.
[narrator]
At Glacier Creek, Alaska,
it's time to see
if Dave Turin's
three test holes
hold enough gold
to convince Jason
and Nathan to buy the mine.
[Jason] Well, what do we got?
How's it looking?
[Shelly] We got
your three test spots
cleaned up, ready to go.
You know, you guys are
the prospective claim owners.
You're the buyers.
What do you want
to see you think?
I mean, close to 20 bucks
a yard might be feasible.
[narrator] Last season,
Dave's Sunlight Cut
produced $20 a yard.
With 50 acres of mineable
ground up for sale,
there's potentially
$10 million of gold
making Dave's million-dollar
price tag a steal.
[Dave] Shelly,
what do you got?
[Shelly] Well,
number one is 1.9.
[Dave] All right, 1.9.
That's 11 bucks a yard,
you guys.
All right.
That's not very good.
- [Nathan] No.
- [Shelly] All right.
Number two.
It's 15 bucks a yard.
That's a little bit lower
than our average last year.
- All right.
- [Shelly] Good.
- All right.
- How about hole number three?
All right.
Let's see three on here.
Here we go.
[Dave] It's got to be
our good one, Jason, right?
I'm thinking so.
It's a lot more,
I tell you that.
[Shelly] 3.6 grams.
[Dave] 3.6, $20.80 a yard.
- That's a lot better.
- That's a lot better.
That you could
probably live with.
Oh, yeah,
I can deal with that.
All three of those averaged
together gives you
a $15.60 a yard.
And some of that's good.
$20.80 a yard.
What do you guys want to do?
You know, Dave, I mean,
I, I like seeing that
$20 a yard.
I mean,
that's fricking awesome.
And I like
seeing the other one,
that's, you know,
the 15-something.
But I really think
we should fire the Eagle up.
Do you want to fire
the Eagle up to prospect?
That's a big plant.
Hey, you want
to sell the [bleep]?
I do.
[narrator]
Still not convinced about
buying Dave's
turnkey operation,
Nathan wants
to run more ground
and road test the Eagle,
the 180-yard-an-hour plant
included in the deal.
That's pretty crazy.
I'll tell you what,
Shelly and I will throw
in the fuel.
Let's split
the gold three ways.
We'll cover our costs.
We walk out of here
with some gold in our pockets,
and we mine
Team Turin one last time.
Let's do it
before we buy this property.
- [Dave] You all good?
- Yep.
- I love it.
- I love it. Shelly?
- Yeah, I'm in.
- All right.
- All in.
- One, two, three.
[all] All in.
[Dave] You are out
of your damn mind, Nate.
You know, I know
it's a big ask for, you know,
firing the Eagle up,
but, you know, why not?
I mean, let's see
what the ground really has.
And the best part
is if we can do this
as a small operation
and it's profitable,
then it's going to be awesome.
I mean,
this could be my future.
We're back at it again.
We're digging,
we're throwing dirt,
we're washing,
we're pulling gold.
Team Turin
is right back at it.
[Dave] I'm all for it.
Team Turin is back
and I love it.
I'm excited.
Let's run some dirt.
[Tony speaking]
[woman 1] Yeah.
Are you ready to get stabbed?
- Are you ready?
- [Tony speaking]
[producer speaking]
[Tony speaking]
[producer speaking]
[Tony speaking]
[all laughing]
All right, Tony,
I do believe we are done.
[Tony speaking]
It looks like a belly scraper.
[Tony speaking]
[all laughing]
[narrator] After a tough week
of shutdowns
and losing Stefan,
Fred Lewis assembles his crew
for the third Freedom
Cut gold weigh.
Guys, I understand Stefan
coming and leaving
really is a testament
to you guys' fortitude here,
how hard this lifestyle is
and how hard we are working
our asses off up here.
So I really appreciate
your hard work.
Let's see
how much gold we got.
All right, Christopher,
you gonna have the honors?
Sure.
Here we go.
[Christopher]
One, two, three...
[narrator]
With just weeks left
to hit his 500-ounce goal,
Fred needs over
[Christopher]
...eight, nine, ten,
- Here we go.
- [Christopher]
...18, 19, 19.78.
[narrator]
Worth over $33,000.
Their best gold weigh
of the season
brings Fred's total
to 72 ounces.
[Fred] Look, these numbers
are decent.
But right now I'm looking
at the gold weighs,
the amount of yardage our team
is able to put together
and it's just not
[bleep] enough.
You're not thinking
of partnering
with Brennan again?
[Fred] [bleep] no.
No partnerships.
No. No partnership.
I just want to beat him.
All right, guys.
You know, this gold
ain't going to find itself.
Let's get back to work.
[Christopher] Honestly,
this week's kind of been
a kick in the pants.
19 ounces.
Not good.
Pretty mediocre.
But I can already tell
the rest of the season
is just gonna go downhill.
It's gonna be
just like last season
where everyone
was just [bleep] miserable.
You know, 19 ounces.
That's not horrible.
It's something to be proud of.
But our goal is much higher.
Any more days we lose,
it's just slipping away.
And I got to really evaluate
where we're at right now
as a team
and figure this [bleep] out.
Hey.
Hola.
[narrator] With the flooded
draining into the new pond,
the Beets gather to weigh
a week's running 24/7
from the Blue Cut expansion.
So I hear cousin Mike
had some excitement
with the scraper.
[Tony speaking]
That's the most important
thing, isn't it?
- [Tony speaking]
- Anyways, that's all
being said and done.
- I think we should weigh
some gold.
- [Tony speaking]
Will you count it
while I weigh them?
[Minnie] Yeah, I'll count.
Ten, 20...
[narrator] To stay on track
for his 5000-ounce goal,
Tony needs
at least 350 ounces a week.
[Minnie] 210, 30, 40.
[narrator] Worth $766,000.
That's not bad.
[Tony speaking]
[narrator]
Bringing Tony's season total
so far to 2,547 ounces
worth over $4.4 million.
[Tony speaking]
But can I pay some bills first
from the [bleep]
you bought before?
[Tony speaking]
Okay, let's roll out.
See you guys later.
[Kevin] Well, it was
a pretty good gold weigh.
Not a bad [bleep] number
to see on the scale.
Hopefully, we got
a couple more like that.
[Tony speaking]
So that's pretty good.
[Tony speaking]
- Sounds like a plan.
- [Tony speaking]
See you later.
- Hi.
- Hey, youngster.
Do you want to come in?
[Parker] Oh, what's up,
Doze man?
- Welcome home.
- Hey, young man.
How was Alaska?
[Parker] It's going good.
How's the rental wash plant
been working there?
- Has it been steady? Yeah.
- It's a nice plant.
Well, we ran
some of the drift tailings.
[Mitch] Oh, yeah?
And they went
an ounce an hour.
Like, it's nice-looking stuff.
And if it keeps
going an ounce an hour,
then like, we'll be fine.
[Chris] How are you doing
running two operations
so adjacent?
I miss you guys.
I miss this place.
There's a good crew
over there.
Like the crew is great,
but they're new to me.
I might develop that
with them eventually,
but it's not like us.
That's the crew there.
That's family here.
Yeah.
What do you find yourself
doing in Alaska?
Just like get this thing.
I'm surprised it hasn't melted
a hole in my pocket.
You get this thing out.
There's a limit
somewhere on this thing.
And I'm, like, determined
to find it.
But it's expensive.
We're just chugging
along over here.
And thank you for that.
I... I do appreciate you guys.
I know there's a lot
that you're dealing with,
but I appreciate
you guys keeping the wheels
on the bus over here.
[Mitch] Well, pretty cool, though,
that we got
two operations rolling.
So it's kind of like
exploration over there.
I mean, hopefully,
it can be...
[Parker] That's what
I'm billing it to.
Yeah.
Hopefully, you know, it can be
the new part of this company
because, man,
we need some dirt
like, we are burning
through it.
Yeah. Yeah, you guys are.
[Chris] And I think
we can help soften the pain
of that credit card
a little bit.
- Can you?
- Yeah.
- You got some gold?
- [Chris] Yeah.
You ready, Sparky?
This is Big Red...
that we got.
Two--
[narrator] Worth $340,000.
Yeah.
So Red's been doing good, right?
[Mitch] It's been doing
its thing.
[Chris] Slucifer
is the same situation.
Here we go.
Ten, 30, 90, 100...
[narrator]
Worth over $430,000.
A combined total
of over $770,000.
Good job.
[Chris] We're getting there.
[narrator]
Bringing Parker's season total
to 4,788 ounces.
Now what you need to do
is find us some more dirt.
- Yeah.
- So hopefully it's in Alaska.
Well, thanks
for funding my hobbies, guys.
You know,
it makes me feel better
about blowing
a bunch of cash over there.
It's so nice to be over there
and know how much pride
you know, you put
in your work, and it shows.
I really appreciate it.
A really good couple of weeks.
It's good to see the boys
here are getting rocks washed,
finding gold.
I'm super proud of them
and super happy
with the crew here.
Yeah, that's good.
It's good to see that.
Come on.
Doze man.
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13x15 - The Last Frontier
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Reality based series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as well as in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Reality based series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as well as in the U.S. state of Alaska.