13x25 - Panama Canal Jackpot

[bunniefuu]

[Ruby Mahoney] Um, we just
have a little jam up here,

so we're just stopping
so that we can clear this out.

And hopefully, there's
no holes underneath this dirt

'cause that's usually
what causes a buildup here.

It doesn't happen very often.

Oh, I can feel a hole.

That's not good. [laughs]

Yeah.

Hey, Tony. You got
a copy, Tony?

[Tony Beets speaking
over radio]

Uh, there's quite a hole
in this plate.

Do you want to come look?

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] King
of the Klondike, Tony Beets,

has hit a wall.

Any day now, winter could
shut down his whole operation,

and his money-making machine
is at a standstill.

[narrator] Tony still needs
another 400 ounces of gold

from the 80 Pup Cut

to hit his 5,000-ounce
season target.

[Minnie Beets] Hey, what's up?

[Kevin Beets]
What's happening?

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] So when are we
gonna do some real fixes?

There's a lot of things
we gotta deal with.

[Kevin] So with, like,
all the things wrong
with the plant,

it's gonna be at least a week
before we can even

limp to the end of the season.

At least a week.

Fixing it?

That's just, yeah,
to get it ready to limp.

[Tony speaking]

[Mike Beets] Yeah.

Well, we could use
the Moose Creek trommel.

I mean, we can try,
it shouldn't take too much

to make it runnable.

Well, it would be nice if
you can keep on sluicing, eh?

[narrator] Tony's only
other wash plant

on Paradise Hill...

[Tony speaking]

[narrator]
...is a mobile trommel

he hauled out of Moose Creek
two seasons ago.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] But on its
first fire up...

...disaster struck...

[narrator] ...forcing Tony
to abandon it.

We can make it work.

We got lots of pay
still sitting there.

There's no point
in letting it sit there,

when we'd be sluicing it.

[Tony speaking]

- Mmm-hmm.
- [Tony speaking]

We can attempt.

[narrator]
At the main trommel,

Tony puts his mechanics
to work.

[narrator] 600 feet away,

he's tasked Len Hoekstra

with ensuring the quick fix
Moose Creek trommel

will actually fire up.

[over radio]

[Tony speaking]

[Len Hoekstra over radio]

[Tony speaking]

[Len speaking]

[Tony speaking]

- [Len] Yeah.
- [Tony speaking]

[Len speaking]

[Mike] Won't the engine
overheat without
the oil cooler?

- [Tony speaking]
- [Mike] Nah.

[Tony speaking]

- [Mike] Yeah.
- [Tony speaking]

[narrator] The oil cooler
pumps cold water

around the wash plant's
hydraulic oil barrel,

preventing it
from overheating,

but water was not drained
from the fine copper pipes
before winter.

The water froze and expanded
causing the pipes to crack.

If water contaminates
the hydraulic oil,

it will cause
catastrophic damage.

Tony's risky solution,

drain the water

and block off the oil cooling
system entirely.

[Mike] What are we gonna do
if this doesn't work, Dad?

[Kevin] So we've cut off

our water supply
to our oil cooler

so that they cannot
get any water,

and once these are all tight,
oil is topped off,

we're ready to [bleep] go.

Now that everything's
buttoned up and tightened,

put a little bit
more oil in it,

and, uh, yeah,
we can get it spinning,
get in position.

So let's do some cleanup
and get [bleep] going.

[Tony speaking]

Yes, everything should be
A-okay, ready to go.

- [Kevin] Correct.
- [Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Yeah.

[Len] Yeah.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] The Moose Creek
trommel is now ready

to move up
to the 80 Pup pay pile

and start washing gold.

[Tony speaking]

It's good to have
two plants running,

and now I just hope
they both hold up.

[narrator] After a failed
attempt to open a new claim
in Alaska,

mine boss Parker Schnabel

is desperate to hit
his massive Yukon target

of mining 100 acres
of Airstrip ground

before winter shuts them down.

You know, this season
will be the most hours

Big Red's ever ran in a year.

And we started the season
with it running,

and then we're gonna
hopefully finish the season

with it running strong.

[narrator] So far,
Parker has hauled

over 6,500 ounces of gold
in the Yukon,

more than 1,700 short
of last season's total.

The gold's not really
what I wanted it to be so far,

and we spent a lot
of extra money

because we're trying
to get this ground out
in such a hurry.

[narrator] Parker's crew
have mined out



leaving Big Red
six acres to sluice

in the runway cut.

Down at the Panama Canal Cut,

Sluicifer has seven acres
still to run,

putting a record season total
back within their grasp.

[Parker Schnabel]
Panama Canal's in full swing.

It was a lot of extra work

at a time of the year where

people don't really
want to do that,

and they're only doing it
because I wanted to.

So hopefully,
there's gold in it.

So this is our last year
on this ground,

and we decided to
do this cut last minute.

[narrator] Plant boss
Tyson Lee

is pushing Sluicifer
to its limits

to get through the ground
in record time.

This cut could be
the motherload we really need,

but we won't know
until we're sitting

in the gold room with Doumitt.

You know, it's really nice
to see how everything's

coming together here with, uh,
Sluicifer at Panama Canal,

but, uh, I mean, we still got
a lot of dirt to get through,

and, you know as long as
the weather holds out--

[indistinct speaking
over radio]

What do they got?

You good down there, Tyson?

[Tyson Lee over radio]
Oh, man, the super stacker
just piled on us again.

I need a hand
with this, Mitch,

are you close by?

I'm heading down there now.

[bleep] sakes!

[narrator] On the
Indian River...

That is not looking good,
that's a lot of dirt.

Not wanting to power up?

Not wanting to power up, man.

[narrator] ...Sluicifer
is shut down.

[Mitch Blaschke] Uh,
right now, our super stacker
just piled up,

and, uh, it's acting like
it has no power

on any of our display here,

so just want to check things,
see what we got for power,

see what's doing what,

and, uh, get this baby
back running.

All righty, go ahead,
got power on there.

[Tyson] Yes, sir.

So let's see what we got here.

We got power there,
we got power there.

Oh, but that one's lit up.

Yeah, see we got
no power through that one.

This thing converts it
to DC power, 24-volt.

This guy is not doing that,
it's shorted out.

[narrator] The transformer
that converts power

from the generator
to the super stacker's
control panel has blown.

Without a 24-volt source,

the super stacker is dead,

and their hopes of mining out
the Panama Canal Cut

are hanging by a thread.

[Mitch] The bad news is
I can guarantee you

we don't have
one of these guys.

We might have to get
a little crafty here because

right now we are
dead in the water.

[narrator] Now Mitch and Tyson
need to create

a 24-volt power source

to get the super stacker
back online.

[Mitch] Just gotta try
and get it back on, man.

That's all we can do.

[Tyson] Let's go do
some Yukon part shopping.

Let's do it.

Two 12-volt batteries,

this is just a little jumper

that's gonna connect
the two batteries together.

So this is what's gonna
give us the 24 volts.

We got a 24-volt
battery charger,

we got some extension cords,

and I should have enough
to make it work.

Should we go see
if it's gonna work?

[Mitch] Let's go find out.

Dude, one-stop
shopping right there.

Just, uh, making
some jumper wires here

so that we can
hook our batteries up.

So here's what
I'm thinking, Tyson,

we're gonna hook
the batteries up.

- [Tyson] Yeah.
- [Mitch] We're gonna get
our 24 volt, right.

By doing this, it should, uh,

you know, hopefully,
be like, uh,

putting this thing
on life support.

[narrator] Mitch is bypassing
the blown transformer

to create an independent


using two 12-volt
car batteries, jumper wires,

and a charging unit.

[Mitch] Keep this
thing powered,

and, uh, keep a sluicing,
that's the idea anyway.

Ready, ready?

All right, come on belts,
let's go!

Come on, baby. Please work.

Come on, come on,
come on, come on.

Come on.

Come on!

Yeah, there we go!

How do you like that, buddy,
we got some dirt!

[Tyson over radio] Oh, yeah,
let's get back sluicing!

[Mitch] That is awesome.

- What do you think, man?
- [Tyson] Nice work, Mitch.

[Mitch] Couple old
car batteries,

a charger, and we are
back sluicing.

- [Tyson] Yeah.
- [Mitch] Just don't
shut it off till we're done.

[Tyson] Yeah, no doubt.

Hopefully, it runs
till the end.

[narrator] Mitch's quick fix

means Sluicifer and Big Red

are now both running
at maximum capacity,

giving parker's crew a shot

at setting a new
record gold total.

[Mitch] The reason we've moved
the amount of dirt we have
over the years

is because we try anything
to keep going,

and, uh, that right there is
definitely not conventional,

but it's working.

It's getting cold
in the morning.

So you know winter's coming,

and I think it's
pretty important

that we can run as late
and as hard as we have to

to make our goal,

and, uh, we know
at this point,

we're not making to 500.

[narrator] Deep in
the wilderness,

the young Clayton brothers,
Brandon and Brady,

are chasing a 200-ounce goal,

but they're still
desperately short.

I did the math last night,

and we're at
about 126 I think.

Golden Acres hasn't exactly
paid out to what we thought
or had hoped for.

[narrator] The Claytons
thought Golden Acres

would be their savior
this season,

but disaster struck
when they lost their dozer.

[Brandon] You know,
the dozer's not running,

that means we're gonna
not be stripping Golden Acres,

and we're running
out of ground,

so we need to come up
with a plan

and find some pay
and find it quick.

[narrator] Unable to
strip ground fast enough

and their pay pile
running out,

they need to make
some tough calls

if they're to find


How are we supposed to
keep stripping ground
to stay ahead?

We don't have much time left.

This that we're sitting on
is actually pay dirt.

- But it's already stripped.
- Yeah.

[narrator] The Claytons
have one last pocket
of exposed pay,

but there's just one problem,

it's under the 10-ton
wash plant,

Blackjack.

[Brandon Clayton] We just
gotta get the plant off of it.

We're gonna have to
do everything with the 349.

I mean, not ideal, but...

...it's our only way really.

That's right, so

we'll get her done today
so night shift can run,

and we'll go from there.

- [Brady Clayton] Yeah.
- Okay, awesome.

[Warren Binnie]
Moving the plant and, uh,

pulling the pay out
from underneath it

might be our secret weapon.

Our best gold is underneath
what we're sitting on.

Guaranteed.

Can guarantee that.

So we gotta wash that pay

and disassemble Blackjack
and give her a move.

Oh, the setup
is going pretty good.

So far, so good.

[narrator] Before they can
move Blackjack,

loader operator, Dale Penney,
races to finish off

the final scoops
of the pay pile.

Brandon!

- What?
- Water!

[Brandon] Hey,
shut the water off!

Shut the water off!

- Ah, [bleep] me, you guys.
- [Brady] What?

[Brandon] What does it
look like?

Like this isn't [bleep]
rocket science.

[Brady] Huh?

[Brandon] Well, Dale let
the box run away

for about five
[bleep] minutes.

Stupidity.

The box got washed.

So we lost some, 100%

Well, I thought
the hopper was full,

she was piled up on the top,
but it didn't file down.

So then the conveyer went dry,

so then she got way wider.

So trying to get back
a bit of it, I guess.

There was a bunch in there.

Can't see anything, but...

That one's bad.

Can't even see anything.

[narrator] Blackjack runs
per minute.

The jets of water
wash the pay dirt

through the shaker deck
into the sluice box

where the heavier gold
is caught by the riffles,

but Dale didn't feed enough
pay dirt into the plant,

allowing the clean water
to white wash through
the sluices,

forcing any gold
already caught

out the end of the box.

You gotta clean
all this up now

and put it back in your pile.

Now we gotta scrape
the soft tailings

kind of right
underneath the box

to get that gold back
and run it through
the plant again.

The chances of us getting
all that gold back

are probably pretty
[bleep] slim.

It's one thing to let water
run away for, you know,
a couple seconds,

but two minutes, we wash gold.

Dale knows better.

We just can't afford
to be doing that.

And when things
like this happen, it's just
silly, dumb.

People need to
pay attention, straight up.

I'm firing it up.

Okay, don't let that
happen again, please.

Okay, sir.

[narrator] Every hour
burned up recovering lost gold

stops the Claytons
finishing their pay pile

and getting to the gold
under Blackjack.

That could be
thousands of dollars

we just [bleep] threw away
in a matter of seconds

that we worked for days
on end to get.

Simple mistakes like that cost
[bleep] thousands of dollars.

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] Tony Beets'
only money maker
is shut down.

Desperate to hit


he's moving the unreliable,


Moose Creek trommel
to the pay pile.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] No.

Not at all.

[Tony speaking]

I'm trying, but every time
I even lightly tap

the [bleep] steering clutch,

the [bleep] tires
swing violently.

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Hey! Hey!

- [Kevin] You know
what we forgot?
- [Tony speaking]

[Kevin] You see how that hose
is only hooked up on one end?

- [Tony laughs]
- Duh.

[Tony] Duh.

[narrator] Two years ago,

Tony was forced
to abandon the wash plant

when the sluice discharge pipe
got blocked by fine tailing

and blew off.

- [Len] Deja vu?
- [Tony speaking]

I've seen it before,
but I didn't know

you were speaking French also.

So right now, I'm just
making a quick end cap
for the pipeline,

we're not gonna [bleep]
with that this year,

we're just gonna cap it off

and go.

Next thing would be
a hole in the sluice run,

that way the fine tailings
have somewhere to go.

So they don't bind up
like they did before.

[narrator] Kevin plans
to block the sluice
discharge pipe

by fabricating an end cap.

This will mean water
will flood the sluice runs.

To overcome this problem,

Kevin will cut
an outlet int he sluice box

so the water and fine tailings
can escape.

Watch your eyes, folks.

No leakage.

[bleep] okay, we're good.

So let's go put
the [bleep] on.

This way, if you
don't mind, like,

this might work, like,
might as well see
what it's like.

Yeah, perfect.

Bada-bing!

Three, two, one, and...

Yay.

- Uh, piece of cake,
little bit of welding.
- [Tony] Okay.

[Kevin] I had to cut
a hole in the sluice run

so that the fine material
has somewhere to go.

- [Tony speaking]
- [Kevin] Yep.

[narrator] Finally,
Tony is back running

the gold-rich 80 Pup pay dirt.

[Tony speaking]

- Oh, yeah?
- [Tony speaking]

[narrator] Kevin's quick fix
hasn't worked.

The water is flooding gold
out of the box.

It's the third time
the wash plant
has broken down.

[Tony speaking]

Doesn't look like it.

[Kevin] No, not as is
where it is.

[Kevin] Yeah.

[Kevin] Okay.

[narrator] Mike's trommel
is now Tony's
only money maker.

But with it still shut down
for a week's maintenance,

his hopes of 5,000 ounces
are fading fast.

[Tony speaking]

[Brady] So this is the last
of the pay?

[Brandon] Hell yeah, buddy.

[narrator] After a day lost

re-running their white-washed,
gold-rich pay,

the Clayton brothers
are nearly ready

to move Blackjack.

[Brady] Yeah,
'cause you're setting it up

probably right where
it's sitting,

somewhere in here,
then we can open all this up

that we're driving on.

[Warren] You bet ya, man.

We'll get this
[bleep] torn out
by the end of the day.

This is gonna be
our last bucket of pay, eh?

[Brady] Are we ready?

Okay, we're moving.

[Warren] The sluice boxes
are still down.

So we want to make sure
they don't catch on anything.

Yeah, you're good.

Almost to our final
resting place here,

just gotta give her

a quick little drag.

[Brady] Hopefully,
it says we're level.

[Warren] Look at that!
Holy [bleep], dude!

[Brady] We're spot on.

We're level,
we're good enough.

That's good.

Perfect.

Well, what's the time
now, Brandon?

Quarter to two.

Yeah, there's
a pretty high chance

- that we'll have her done
for night shift.
- [Warren] Oh, [bleep], yeah.

And we got four
[bleep] guys here,

four guys and a dream.

[narrator] Next step,

bring in the feed conveyer.

Want to try to lift
the conveyer
'cause it's too low

and spread some
tailings underneath...

...just to try and pick it up.

Warren, can you copy?

- Yeah, go ahead.
- [Brandon] Grab some tailings,

I'm gonna pick up the one side
of the conveyer there

and then, uh, dump some rock
onto it, under it.

We'll have to pick it up,
it's on a lean.

Okay.

[narrator] To level
the conveyer,

Warren Binnie must bring in

extra tailings
with the loader.

[bleep]

[bleep] me.

[narrator]
At California Creek...

[bleep]

[narrator] ...the Clayton
brothers are trying

to make up for lost time

by getting wash plant
Blackjack up and running
before night shift,

but their only loader
has blown a tire.

[bleep] me. Really?

Well, that throws a wrench
in everything.

Holy [bleep], yeah.
She blew right apart.

[bleep] me.

It was like a [bleep]
g*nsh*t going off.

Night shift has to run, man.

There's no way we're gonna
miss out on a night shift,

like, over this.

We really don't have time
for it to be honest.

You know, trying to do
a plant move,

[bleep] loader tire
blows right apart.

We got another one,

but it's just as
in bad a shape,

and, uh, we gotta get
night shift running.

So we're gonna have to
get that [bleep] tire
to get it going.

Whatever it takes
at this point.

You see, there's no tread,

and it looks like
its ready to blow.

Just walk it over.

Just beyond [bleep] bald.

It'll have to do,
we'll slap it on

and hope it lasts
for a couple days.

This tire here is not
what we're gonna rely on
the whole season

'cause it's already [bleep],

um, but it's gonna make it
a few days, so

hopefully, it's got
that in her.

- [laughing]
- Perfect.

So we, uh, grabbed a new tube,

we got a used tire,
and we're gonna try to
make it work here.

And hopefully, it should last
till our new tires come in.

We were, uh, really happy
to get rid of this tire
when it was coming off.

Now we're putting it
right back on.

[Brady] I mean,
it's racing slick, it is.

Well, what do you say?

Keep it on?

[Warren] As he was
pressuring up,

I was listening for leaks.

You know, she's pretty thin,
but she's not leaking.

So she should last
until a new tire's come.

So I'm pretty happy about it.

I think it'll last
the night for sure.

Let's get back to work.

[Brady] Well, the tire
looks balder than [bleep],

but it's working,
the tire's working good.

So it's holding.

[narrator] Loader back
in the game,

Warren finishes
reinforcing the pad

so the crew can fire up

and finally get back
on the gold.

We got some time
to make up for.

We sure do, we can't have
any more hiccups,

- we gotta have this [bleep]
running 24/7 now, so...
- Yeah.

- ...season's coming
to an end...
- [Brady] Sounds good.

[Brandon] ...so let's
turn her around.

Let's fire it up.

You know, it feels good.

We finally got
Blackjack together,

plants running,

and, uh, small tweak,
but it feels good.

It was a long time coming.

[narrator] Parker's
wash plants are running
at full throttle.

Big Red is eating
through the runway cut.

It's kind of hard to believe
it is our last stretch.

It has been hectic.

Hectic than any other season
I've been here for sure.

[narrator] Sluicifer
is tackling the 10-acre
Panama Canal Cut.

Any gold they don't sluice now

will be stuck
in the ground forever.

[Mitch over radio]
Tyson, Tyson, we got smoke
coming from the plant.

[Tyson] Lot of smoke
coming from the generator.

[Mitch] I get the genny,
you get the water!

[Tyson] Yeah, go, go!

[bleep] generator
looks like it's on fire.

I don't know, this thing's
about ready to burn up!

[Tyson] What's going on?

[Mitch] Dude,
everything stopped.

Oh, no.

- What's that?
- [Mitch] Dude, look at this.

[bleep]

Oh, dude, she's smoked,
buddy, like, bad.

The other end of that
goes right into
the generator head,

and it's cooked right off.

I mean, you know,
this is the engine.

This is what powers
the generator head.

Generator head spins,
makes power,

makes everything work
out here.

[narrator] No generator,
no power to run Sluicifer,

or its conveyer belts.

This generator head is cooked.

There's gonna be
no, uh, you know,

blowing the dust off there
and putting her back to work

- by any means.
- [Tyson] Yeah.

We don't have
a backup generator

other than what
Big Red's running,

- and it needs it.
- Yeah, there's no spares.

I'll go get on the phone,

hopefully we can
round up another generator.

- Sounds good.
- [Mitch] All right, I'll see
what I can come up with.

[Tyson] Good luck.

[cell phone ringing]

We gotta find a generator,
and we gotta find one fast.

Yeah, this is Mitch Blaschke,

I'm looking for
a 175 kW genny.

So you got nothing?

Damn it!

- Howdy.
- [Parker] How you doing?

[Mitch] Well,
I've had better days.

Tell me about it,
I'm trying to read this
[bleep] contract

for this piece of ground,
it's 50 pages!

[laughing] And I told them,
I was like, "Man,

like, 50 pages,
wat are we doing?"

- Huh.
- How are you doing?

So generator for Sluicifer
full on went up in smoke,

and it won't do nothing.

So I got on the phone,
I'm like, "Okay,

well, let's just rent
a generator or buy one."

And the closest one
I could get is two weeks out.

Yeah, everybody I know
that has a generator

that'll rent them
is using it right now.

Exactly.

That's when
I called around, like,

they had smaller ones,
but nothing that'll power
that whole setup.

[Parker] How much do you
have left to sluice?

I mean, there's
a fair bit in there.

Like, a couple days?

I'd say, yeah,
probably three days.

I mean, we're close,
but we're not done.

What do you think
we should do?

[Mitch] Well, I was hoping
we could come up
with a generator.

- Now here we are.
- But what do you think
we should do?

[sighs] [bleep] okay. Um...

...let's, uh...

Let's just...

...leave it.

Three days
of sluicing, whatever.

What could we do?

Right?

There's not many
other choices, are there?

Not at this point in time,

we need power to be able
to was those rocks.

I think

if it's gonna be down,
we might as well just

tear it apart,
break the plant down,

put it to bed.

- Okay.
- Okay.

- [Mitch] All right, thanks.
- Thanks, Mitch.

[narrator] Shutting down
Sluicifer for the season

and abandoning
the Panama Canal Cut

could put Parker's goal
of mining out 100 acres

and beating
last season's total
out of reach.

The decision's been made,
Sluicifer is officially

gonna be done
for the season now.

The generator's dead,
we couldn't find one anywhere.

So we're pulling
Sluicifer apart,

and the [bleep] thing is
we don't even know

how good the gold is
in Panama Canal.

You know, getting in here,
Parker gave us

a week to do it,
we got it done.

Sucks to leave it all behind.

[narrator] After two days

failing to get the Moose Creek
trommel sluicing...

[Tony speaking]

[narrator] ...it's
all hands on deck

to get Tony's main wash plant
back in action.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica Beets]
Who's the coolest baby
in the world?

[gasps] You are
the coolest baby.

- Hey, guys, how are you?
- Hello.

You didn't get it to work,
Moose Creek trommel.

[Minnie] I think it'll run.

Well, seeing as there's no
gold on the table this week,

- I figured why don't we
weigh your granddaughter up?
- [Kevin] Hi.

Hi, Jasmine!

[narrator] Using gold
from the family vault,

it's time for Jasmine's
annual weigh-in.

[Monica] You're in the bucket.

[Tony speaking]

[Monica] Whoa.

[Mike] Okay.

[Minnie] Okay, let go.

Let go.

[Mike] Okay.

- Wow.
- Whoa.

[all exclaiming]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Monica exclaiming]

- [Tony speaking]
- [Minnie] Let's weigh
that gold up.

- [Monica] Wow.
- [Faith Teng] Wow.

Okay, push it down.

- Ready? Three, two, one.
- [Tony speaking]

Let's go.



[narrator] Last year,
Jasmine weighed 154 ounces,

worth $276,000 in gold.

[Monica] ...290, 300,



- [Mike] I was the closest.
- [Monica] .06.

[Tony] 347.

[narrator] Nearly 24 pounds,

worth $590,000.

[Minnie] More than
doubled in weight.

I mean, she doubled in size.

It's okay. By 18, she gets to
keep the gold, right?

[Tony speaking]

[Kevin] Is that not
her university fund?

This face is asking
whether or not you love her.

[all laughing]

[Minnie] Yeah, smile for papa?

[Minnie] Let's give
papa a smile.

- [Faith laughing]
- [Monica] Smile.

[Minnie] Yeah.

The plant move with Blackjack
took much longer
than anticipated.

Then we had a [bleep]
loader tire blow apart,

and obviously we had
Dale misfeed a bit,

and it washed the box.

Yeah, I mean, Dale,
he was trying to do a good job

draining the water,

All it takes
is that second and...

- Yeah.
- ...a couple seconds
to forget,

and then it's [bleep]. Yeah.

[Brandon] I just hope
the decision to move Blackjack

was right and the gold
is better underneath it.

But that's in this jar,

so let's pour it.

- Ready?
- [Warren] Put it in
the [bleep] plate!

- [Brandon] You counting?
- Yeah, I'll count.

[narrator] To hit
their target of 200,

the Claytons must find


before the season ends.

Four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine,





- [Brandon] Keep going.
- [Brady] ...13,



[narrator] Worth
just over $22,000,

bringing their season total
to 140 ounces.

[bleep]

We really had
high expectations
for Golden Acres...

- [Brandon] We did.
- ...and, uh, it just doesn't
seem to be

- what we thought it was
so far anyway.
- [Brady] It's really

- just sh**ting us
in the foot right now.
- Yeah.

You know, we worked
so hard to get there,

- and it's just
letting us down really.
- [Warren] Mmm-hmm.

You know, we're only at 140,

the 200 goal is slipping away.

[Brady] Running out of time.
I mean, season's almost over.

Yeah, you never know,
make a big push here

at the end and see
what we can do.

I don't know, definitely
want to hit that goal.

Don't want to seem
like a total failure.

I don't know, I guess
we gotta just keep
plugging away at this point.

Figure something out.

We need some good weeks,
good hard weeks of running.

[Mitch] That was
quite a week, Doumitt.

[Tyson] Just problem
after problem.

[Mitch] Oh, yeah.

So that was a really good idea
with the super stacker.

Put it on life support there,
but, uh, unfortunately

that generator had
different ideas.

Is there very much pay
left down there in Panama?

[Tyson] Well, I mean,
there's a bit.

There's definitely
a fair bit to leave behind.

Now we only got
one wash plant.

That's gonna hurt.

- Gonna hurt a lot.
- [Tyson] One wash plant
and a lot of stranded pay.

Yeah, there's still a lot
of sluicing to do.

[narrator] Parker's
Yukon total of 6,561 ounces

is still over 1,700 short
of last season's record haul.

[Chris Doumitt] And Red's been
running happy?

- [Tyson] Yeah.
- Big Red did its thing.

It was just motoring along.

This was Red right here.

- [Mitch] All right.
- [Tyson] All right.

[narrator] Last week,
Big Red produced


out of the runway cut.

- Let her rip.
- All right.











[narrator] Worth
over $600,000.

Not bad.

- Yeah.
- That's amazing, Mitch.

This is gonna be
a bittersweet goal weigh
for Sluicifer

because it's obviously broken.

Okay.

[narrator] So far,

Sluicifer has produced


from the Panama Canal.

[Tyson] Here we go, 20,









Plus, 400 ounces right there,
that came off of Sluicifer.

Seriously?



[narrator] In less
than a week,

the Panama Canal
has produced nearly $1 million
worth of gold.

That's probably, like,
five ounces an hour.

- Yeah.
- [Tyson] Yeah.

That's better than when
we have two plants running.

- [Tyson] Yeah.
- This is the best cut
we have ever run.

That is nuts.

Isn't that crazy?

So last week,

you know, there was


This week, it's 928 ounces.

[narrator] Over $1.5 million,

bringing their Yukon total
to 7,489 ounces.

Almost a thousand-ounce week.

[Chris] Almost
a thousand-ounce week.

- That is crazy.
- [Mitch] I like that.

- [Chris] Yeah.
- That's wild.

First season up here,
we got 1,000 all year

banging away at it.

[laughing] This is 900
in a week.

[Chris] Yeah.

Even way back
when I was running the plant

first couple of years
with you,

we hit 181 ounces,

the biggest cleanup
we ever had,

- 181 ounces.
- That was here.

[Mitch] Right here,
yeah, it was set up

- right where camp is.
- [Chris] Yeah.

I was, like, totally stoked.

We were mining
in the pond behind this pond.

- Yeah.
- [bleep], that feels like
a lifetime ago, doesn't it?

[Tyson] Goes by quick, man.

Decade out here.

I was almost a young man.

I was a man.

Well, I was here.

[all laughing]

[Tyson] There, there.

[laughing]

Best week of the season,
so that's good.

Um, bad time
for Sluicifer to go down.

I wouldn't have really
worried about it too much

if the ground wasn't
as good as it is.

We don't leave
pay in cuts, but...

...we especially don't
when it's five ounces an hour,

so I have to sort that out.