[adventurous music plays]
[Parker] I saw a few bones
in the pay pile.
Is that a mammoth tusk?
Rib bone, I think.
Right?
Rib bone?
I don't know.
Yeah, so things are going
really well so far,
you know, we're like coming out
of the gate moving and we're
over 2,000 ounces,
but I'm waiting for something
to go massively wrong
because things don't go
this smoothly for very long.
Six weeks into the season,
Parker Schnabel's plan
to mine more than 35 million
dollars in gold is right
on schedule.
[Parker] Tyson is being
an animal this year.
He's done over 1,500 ounces
already here on Dominion.
And then Mitch is doing
a really good job over
at Sulphur.
Sulphur had over
a 350-ounce cleanup
last week, so that's crazy.
Parker's plan includes
squeezing every ounce he can
out of his Sulphur Creek claim,
where foreman Mitch Blaschke
has been hunting for gold rich
pockets the old timers missed.
You know, it's been full
throttle since the beginning
of the season here in Sulphur,
trying to get all the work done
before the water
license expires.
Just want to make sure that
we get what's ours and don't
leave anything behind.
Mitch is down to just three
weeks to get it all done.
Making the job harder,
his top dirt mover,
Brennan Ruault, was recently
sent to open ground
at their next claim.
[Parker]
Right now we're threading
a bunch of needles with Brennan
trying to have
the Indian River ready.
Mitch trying to have Sulphur
done before the water
license expires.
We need to get the whole
project done, reclaimed,
and be out.
[pensive music plays]
-[Mitch] How's it going?
-[Parker] Good.
-How are you?
-[Mitch] Doing well.
Yeah, nice to be getting
to the close of this one.
-We can start the next project.
-[Parker] Yeah.
Holy, that's a hole.
Wow.
Very muddy hole.
[squelching]
[Parker]
Nobody's done any panning
in here, I'm guessing.
[Mitch]
Not on this upper section.
We were trying to get it out
as fast as we could, get her
to the plant and...
-[Parker] Right.
Well, I'll pan some of this,
just out of curiosity.
[intriguing music plays]
All right, well, let's see
what we've got.
[sloshing]
[sloshing]
Holy smokes!
[Parker]
That's a hell of a pan.
Must be 100 pieces of gold
in there.
-[Mitch] Wow!
-[Parker] Yeah.
[Mitch] That's pretty wild.
What do you think?
[Parker]
It's worth staying here a little
longer and getting that last
little bit of pay, there's gold
there, and that's what
we're here for.
But we got a lot of sluicing
to do already this year, so...
[Parker] There's a lot
of sluicing to do.
It always turns
into a lot bigger project
than we think, doesn't it?
I wanna stand up there
and look at it.
[upbeat music plays]
[Mitch] How far does that go?
[Parker] Straight to this tree
right here.
That's probably
where I would go to.
[Mitch] You know,
it's gonna be tight.
[Parker] Could just have, like,
Brennan come over here.
That's the best chance that
you've got at getting the pay
down here in time
and getting it ran.
[Mitch] That'd be sweet.
[Parker] All right,
I'll keep you updated.
Over the last six weeks,
Mitch has dug out all the pay
pockets of the two-acre cut
and is sluicing the last
of its stockpiled pay.
But Parker believes
the old-timer's dredge missed
even more gold and thinks
the pay streak extends
up to the road.
He wants Mitch to expand
the cut by another two acres
and sluice all of its pay
before the water license
runs out.
If Parker's move pays off,
he could bank another
three-quarter million dollars.
[Mitch]
Just when we thought Sulphur
here was coming to a close
in typical Parker fashion,
now he's saying, you know,
"Hey, I want even more dirt
out of there."
We're pushing this project all
the way to its absolute limit.
So I'm just hoping we can get
everything done here and sluice,
but it's just messing
with our timeline.
[car horn honking]
[truck horn honking]
[Brennan] Brother!
All right, the cavalry's here.
We can certainly use the help.
Whoo!
[laughs]
We're here,
happy to help, man.
To give Mitch a fighting
chance, Parker has sent in
the big g*ns.
[Brennan]
So we've got five trucks,
two excavators, and the loader
feeding the plant.
We're on a hot streak
right now.
Let's stay with it,
and [bleep] finish it off,
and get every speck of gold
we can get out of here.
You know, everything up here
is risk over reward.
And right now, the risk is
we got ourselves a lot of dirt
to move here, not much time.
But Parker thinks
it's worth the reward.
[thrilling music plays]
[Rick]
First gold weigh of the year.
You're always hoping
for a good one, right?
It can set, you know,
kind of set the pace
for the rest of the year.
Uh...
We had the opposite of that.
A hundred miles away,
Rick Ness is still trying
to recover from a major setback
after failing to obtain
the water license needed
to mine his gold-rich
Duncan Creek Claim.
The Diamond Cut on his new
claim at Lightning Creek
delivered just seven ounces.
[Rick] We're always in a race
against time, but, you know,
we start having gold waves like
that, it just becomes even
more and more serious, you know.
There's no way we can make
money off of that,
but that doesn't mean that
we can just call it quits here.
Rick now finds himself
in deep water.
He's had to shut down washplant
Rocky, but has just one
week to pay landowner
Troy Taylor
his purchase
of Lightning Creek.
[Rick] We've got to move on.
We've got to strip
some new ground.
We've already started that.
We've moved up the valley.
We've just got to pivot
and pivot quick.
We're late to the game
this season, so we had to come
into this location,
It's definitely not as good
ground as Vegas Valley.
Hopefully, we can get gold out
of here to at least
pay the bills.
[Kai] Everyone's getting
pretty beat down.
When you see low numbers and no
gold coming in, it doesn't feel
too good.
[Kyle] It's definitely getting
a little stressful,
being a little
behind the g*n here.
So, we're going to shift over
here and change the odds.
Hopefully, start running
some paydirt soon.
[Bailey] This is definitely
the beginning of working
our way up the valley,
for sure.
You know, we need as much
uncovered as we can,
but pretty much it's just going
to be trial and error.
We want to make sure that,
you know, this is going to be
good pay and not garbage.
Rick's going to come down
to figure out what he wants me
to do moving forward.
[Rick] Look at this.
[intriguing music plays]
What you thinking, Bailey?
[Bailey] It's like
the bedrock's right there,
and then it goes to sand.
Obviously you don't want
sand, but...
[Rick] Interesting.
There's no telling what
this bedrock might do.
-You're probably just going
to have to follow it.
-[Bailey] Yes.
Some of that along the banks
looks like pay.
-[Rick] OK.
-[Bailey] But there's a spot
right there where there are
bigger rocks.
Look at that big rock
right there.
[Rick]
That's what we want to see.
Nice.
[Bailey]
Do you want that top
gravelly stuff?
[Rick] I think so.
Yeah, I would say
that's the stuff we run.
Bigger rocks
should mean bigger
deposits of gold.
Over 150,000 years ago,
a giant glacier eroded
and picked up gold from
the Mount Hinton motherlode.
A massive ice sheet bulldozed
down the valley,
tearing up the landscape.
When the ice melted, the gold
settled in scattered pockets
with the heavy rocks
and boulders.
I like it.
Get the plant running and then
start hauling that to plant.
-That would be great.
-[Bailey] Yeah.
[Rick] We can call this
the Boulder Cut.
-[Bailey] Cool.
-[Rick] Hopefully it's got
gold in it.
[Bailey] OK.
Thanks, man.
Yep.
Bailey's getting on it
right here.
You know, he's doing a good job
of getting this stripped off,
and there's a lot more
bigger boulders and stuff
in that ground.
It just looks more promising,
so I've got
a good feeling about that.
[Kyle]
We're all pretty excited
to run this stuff.
We'll get this fired up,
and we'll start pounding
dirt through it.
[engine revving]
[water gushing]
[rattling heavily]
[Bailey]
Well, right now we're hauling
pay to the plant.
This pay layer definitely
looks, you know,
a lot better than...
the Diamond Cut.
You know, there is big rocks
in here.
I'm hoping it's going to be
really good.
[rumbling]
[loud crash]
[Bailey] [bleep]!
[soft creaking]
Something's going on
with the bucket.
It's not feeling proper.
It doesn't have any strength
trying to curl right now.
-Hey, Ryan, you got a copy, man?
-[Ryan] Go ahead, Bailey.
[Bailey]
Yeah, something's wrong
with the 750 for sure.
[Ryan]
OK, all right, man, give me
just a minute, and I'll be over.
Hopefully, Ryan can get down
here and figure out what's
going on, because this is
our main machine.
That's the only thing that
we got down here
that can load
rock trucks quick enough.
So right now,
we're on a standstill.
[dramatic music plays]
We got issues
with the 750 right now.
I probably got a couple more
hours worth of pay here.
If there's no pay at this
plant, there's no gold
in the box.
So it's pretty crucial to have
that thing back up and running.
At Lightning Creek,
the Ness crew 750 excavator has
gone down, preventing them
from digging pay dirt
from the new Boulder Cut.
[Ryan] I'd zip that plate off.
Let's make as much room
as we can.
I'll get in there
and I'll crack it open.
[drill whirring]
[clanking]
All right.
Where is she at?
-All righty.
-OK.
We've got a pilot hose over
here that comes from the back
main pump and goes all the way
up just underneath the cab
that's chafing pretty bad.
The 750 excavator's bucket
moves forward when hydraulic
fluid is pumped through a hose
into a cylinder with a piston
at 5,000 pounds
per square inch.
The bucket is then forced
to retract when the cylinder is
injected with hydraulic fluid
by a second hose.
Ryan has discovered this hose
has a leak in the body
of the excavator near the pump.
He plans to disconnect the hose
and remove it, then replace it
with a new one,
restoring the hydraulic
system's full pressure,
allowing the bucket to once
again haul six yards of boulder
pay dirt with each scoop.
[creaking, hissing]
-[Kai] Right here?
-[Bailey] Yeah, go ahead.
Oh, yeah,
you're getting there.
-Look at this -- right there.
-Yeah.
[Ryan]
So this will get us going,
get us back in the pay,
and keep things rolling.
All right, got it
all zip tied up.
Gonna get our bottom plates on,
get our top plate
[bleep] mounted back,
and Bailey will be
right back at it.
Oh, baby!
[rattling]
[whirring]
All right, bottom side's good.
There you go.
Perfect.
Hey, Bailey, 750's fixed.
[Bailey] Thanks, Ryan.
[adventurous music plays]
We got the 750 up and running
again, which is awesome.
We've got three trucks.
We've got to hurry up here
and get that pay to the plant.
I really need this to work out.
We all need this to work out.
This is our spot
for the summer, and we need
to start getting some
[bleep] gold out of it.
I'm not going to sleep well
until we get a whole run
out of this ground.
And if it doesn't start
showing us gold, well,
you know,
what [bleep] good is it?
I'm not full panic mode,
but I am...
definitely got my hand
over the panic button.
A month and a half
into his season,
King of the Klondike,
Tony Beets,
is cashing in
on his Early Bird Cut.
[Tony speaking]
He's already banked over 1,800
ounces of his 6,500-ounce
target and is now opening
the Corner Cut.
on Paradise Hill...
Pretty busy right now, here
at Mike's shipping department.
Turn my way a bit.
Go to grab the next one.
I'm told to get this organized,
I'm told to get this ready,
I'm told to get this going.
This is all
Indian River [bleep].
I'm just a delivery boy.
Trommel's not gonna happen
anytime soon at this rate.
If he wants to see gold,
my dad's gonna have to leave me
alone and let me do it.
At the start of the season...
You gave Kevin a bunch of help
getting him going, so is there
anything you're gonna
help us with?
Tony's youngest son,
Mike, made a case
for his own claim.
[Tony speaking]
Tony tasked Mike with getting
their Paradise Hill
operation running.
But two weeks ago...
[Mike] I don't know
what the [bleep] going on.
...Tony stole half
of his equipment and crew.
[Tony speaking]
[laughing]
He tried to take all my people
and then all my [bleep],
and then expect me to still
run the hill.
Now, Mike's Paradise Hill
trommel still sits idle
and he has no gold coming in.
[Minnie] Hey, what's going on?
What's the problem?
[Mike] Right now,
with my equipment,
I can do one project at a time.
I can sluice, I can strip.
I do not have enough to do
both, which means I ain't going
to be able to run
the [bleep] trommel here.
[Minnie] You will not.
[sighs]
You know Tony's train
of thought, right?
The Indian is the only thing
that's producing right now.
So that's where he wants
to focus on.
[sighs sharply]
It's a little bit worrisome
that he takes your equipment.
Why can't I start
taking [bleep] back?
That would go over
really well.
You and I both know that.
So that's not going to happen.
So what are you going
to do now?
Do you have a plan B?
[Mike] We have Harald.
We have a nice plant sitting
down in Hester.
It's basically stupid-proof.
Just got to fuse some pipe,
hook it up to the pump,
test the pump.
And then I just got to get
an excavator and a loader down
there, and I could be sluicing.
-That's great.
How would you feel to just have
your own claim, just your
stuff, no interference
with your father, like Kevin?
I would like it.
It'd be fun.
You think that's going
to happen?
[bleep] no.
He's too busy out there.
Want to have a little wager?
$10, I say it will.
We can also say $20.
You scared?
With that being said, I do
think you have to go back
to work.
-[Mike] I'll see you later.
[Minnie] Mike got a little bit
of a rough end of the deal here,
because he doesn't
have all the people
and all the equipment.
But it's just the way Tony is.
It -- it's --
He focuses on what's right
in front of him, not what's
Mike plans to use what little
equipment Tony left behind
to make a quick score
by sluicing a pile
of old-timer tailings
that he believes
are rich in gold.
But first, he has to connect
the water supply
to washplant Harald.
[Mike] So, I'm going to be
testing out our new
fusing machine here.
Without no water, you ain't
sluicing [bleep] at all.
[Zach] If Mike can fit through,
the pipe will fit.
[Zach] Spread your wings
and fly, Mike.
[imitating seal barking]
[laughing]
It works!
Right now, we're gonna lift up
the pipe so I can line it up.
My way.
Stop!
I just lined them up.
I'm tightening them up now.
I'm waiting for the heating pad
to warm up.
Put it in there.
Yeah.
[Zach] OK.
[Mike] That melts the pipe
so that when I push it together,
it fuses.
Get ready.
[grunts] There you go.
[clanks]
It's working.
[thunder rumbling]
I heard thunder.
Pull the tarp,
bring it over here.
[rain pouring]
Now it's raining pretty good.
Hold it up!
Try to cover it so it doesn't
get pissed on rain.
If rain gets into
the melted junction,
air bubbles will form,
and the fuse will burst
under high water pressure.
[clinking]
[Mike] If we don't get
this fused together,
I ain't getting no water
to Harald.
[ominous music plays]
Yeah, that should be good.
The rain seems to be stopping.
You guys can take it off.
Before Mike can test
if the fuses will hold,
he needs to connect the pipe
to the pump across the creek.
[Mike] Lift it up in the air.
[creaking]
Yeah, it's looking good.
Excellent.
That's good, Zach.
Pull it in.
Good!
Next step is to put
the [bleep] suction in.
Chain this up, try not to get
hit in the face with the bucket,
because it's not on my bucket
list of [bleep] to do.
Ba-dum-tss!
[chain rattling]
[suspenseful music plays]
[water sloshing]
[Mike] Pipes are all hooked up,
fused together.
All I have to do is test fire
the pump, make sure
everything's working good.
[engine revving]
[water gushing]
Enough water.
That's good.
That's lovely.
I love it.
I'm firing up.
[epic music plays]
Everything's working!
[Zach] First scoop into Harald.
Here we go.
[epic music continues]
For the first time this season,
Mike is on the gold.
[Mike] Nice to finally get
this thing going.
Got it there.
[pensive music plays]
[moose groaning]
[Mitch] Man, it was brutal.
There's no way we would have
made this happen without
the trucks and
the extra help up here.
But we are finally down to pay,
and we're going to load that
in the trucks and haul it down
to Roxanne.
At Sulphur Creek,
Mitch Blaschke has hit pay
in the first section of the new
two-acre extension.
Now his crew is in a race to
sluice it all before the water
license runs out in less
than three weeks.
Holy [bleep]!
Loader operator Sean Holcroft
is feeding the new pay through
washplant Roxanne.
Parker, he's got some
deadlines going, so we really
got to bust our ba*ls here
and get moving.
I got this old 220 loader.
Thing's a little ancient.
Still able to wash rocks
with the plant, but she's a bit
of a rough ride.
I have my second year
down here now.
A big step up for me,
a little bit
more responsibilities.
They're letting me do
a lot more.
It's pretty awesome to have
this opportunity.
I really love it.
[loader revving]
I don't know what the [bleep]
is going on with this thing.
[engine winds down]
Feels like we got
the brakes locking up.
Let's take a half load.
Oh, my [bleep] God.
[bleep] painful, man.
[alarm beeping]
Getting a low hydraulic oil
warning here.
[suspenseful music plays]
Hey, Mitch,
this 220 here
it's [bleep] up real bad.
Like, it just
ain't got no power,
barely making it up this ramp.
There's no way I'm gonna be
able to keep up with this,
even at 100 yards an hour.
This is not what we need
right now.
[whirring]
Unfortunately, you know,
with 220 being down right now,
we're gonna shut Roxanne down.
Shutting down Roxanne
could mean losing
over $8,000 an hour.
Parker has all these ambitions
and things he wants us to do
this season.
But we got one old loader
out here, and right now
we're not sluicing.
To fix the loader, Mitch calls
in mechanic Taylor Matejka.
[Taylor] I've got an alarm
for low hydraulic oil.
You can see there's nothing
in the sight glass.
With the machine running,
the transmission oil
was way high.
It should be at the bottom
of the sight glass here.
We're way over full.
So what caused this is
the parking brake.
And it's got a piston inside
with seals that release
the parking brake.
These seals have failed,
and the parking brake is
dragging, and it's filling
the transmission
with hydraulic oil.
I'm just going to pull
the drain plug
on the transmission here,
and we'll let her buck.
There it goes!
Hopefully it's just the seals,
but if it's a --
If a piece of [bleep]
got between
the piston and the housing,
we might have a [bleep] piston
and that's gonna be
a huge problem.
The 220 loader's parking brake
is spring-loaded and controlled
by hydraulic pressure.
To access the brake,
Taylor will first cage it
by using three bolts
that compress the springs,
releasing the brake
and securing the piston
to the brake cover.
He will then remove the 16
bolts that hold the cover
in place and lift off the caged
parking brake piston.
Taylor can then remove
and replace the damaged seals
before reinstalling the brake,
uncaging the springs,
and refilling the hydraulic
oil, allowing the parking brake
to function properly.
[drill whirring]
[Taylor] We're just buzzing
the parking brake out here.
We've got it caged
with these three bolts.
[intriguing music plays]
There we go!
We'll take it out,
put it on the back of my truck.
Hopefully this thing is
not [bleep], because we can't
afford a down loader.
You can see here, there's no
real damage to the piston,
but the parking brake seal
is completely [bleep].
We need to replace it.
Sean was right to give me
a shout right away.
We'll swap the seals out
and put this thing
back together.
Let's get started.
We'll peel these seals off.
We're at the assembly stage
now, just putting
these seals in.
[Mitch over radio] Hey, Taylor,
you got a copy, Taylor?
Yeah, go ahead.
[Mitch] How's it going
over there, man?
We're putting new seals
in the parking brake right now.
Thank God it was just the seals
and we had them in stock.
I give us about an hour and a
half, two hours, and this thing
will be up and running.
-[Mitch] All right, man.
We'll be ready for it.
[Taylor]
Mitch is chomping at the bit
to get this thing
up and running.
And it's just, you know,
race against time to get
this thing back together.
It's all good.
[adventurous music plays]
Fill it with transmission oil,
and we can be
back to making money.
Transmission's full.
Parking brake's
reassembled, resealed.
Everything's hooked up.
Lay down.
Good boy.
[dog chomps]
I'm going to take it
down to Sean
so they can go
fire up Roxanne.
[upbeat music plays]
[Sean]
Oh, [bleep] yeah, buddy.
Thanks, man.
Five hours after shutting down
and $40,000
of gold production lost,
Roxanne is back in the game.
Washing rocks,
Roxanne shaking,
getting that gold.
[Mitch] We got Roxanne
on a good clip here.
It's sluicing along
very nicely.
We're pushing this project here
at Sulphur all the way
to its absolute limit.
We're getting through it,
but we're not
out of the woods yet.
[birds chirping]
[rumbling, creaking]
[suspenseful music plays]
[honking]
[Ryan] We understand,
we're not mining Vegas Valley.
It's different.
It's up for us to prove
that there is something here.
It's going to be nonstop.
It's not going to be, uh...
It's not going to be
an easy season.
I think this will be
our toughest season with Rick.
Rick's crew is sluicing pay
dirt from the new Boulder Cut,
which they hope will finally
deliver some gold.
[Bailey] We're going to probably
work our way up this valley,
probably all season.
Hopefully, the farther we go
or the more that we run,
the better it looks.
[Rick sighs]
[somber music plays]
[somber music rises]
What's going on?
[inhales]
I got some news.
[ominous chord strikes]
What's going on?
I got some news.
We got a water license
on Lower Duncan.
-Oh, really?
-Yes.
[all cheering]
-Yeah.
-[bleep] yeah.
[Ryan] That's actually
really good news.
[Rick]
Got something for you guys.
[soft thud]
[all laughing]
[all cheering indistinctly]
Gah!
[laughing]
[Rick] [bleep]!
Cheers, boys!
[indistinct chatter]
[bleep] yeah.
[Rick] We got the news today
from the attorney.
They granted an extension
until November 2025.
We can go break ground,
Vegas Valley,
and start draining it.
We could [bleep] get gold
from Vegas Valley this year.
Was that a verified email?
-A verified email, yes.
-OK, good [laughs].
-[Rick] Yes, yes.
-Yeah.
We 100% have a water license,
a land use permit,
and everything at Lower Duncan.
In just four years,
Rick's claim on Lower Duncan
paid out nearly 6,000 ounces.
But after losing the water
license, he had to abandon it,
including a pay pile
that could contain
more than
$1.4 million in gold.
[Rick]
We already got a pile up there
ready to run, and, you know,
we can actually run that now.
So what does that mean
for this deal?
Well, that's a good point,
because we can't just walk
away from this.
I promised Troy another hundred
ounces to buy Lightning Creek.
I'm not just gonna pull
a hundred ounces out of here
and give it to Troy
and walk the [bleep] away.
You know, we've got to pull
some serious gold out of here.
But this is really good news.
I don't even think
you've seen the best
out of Vegas Valley yet.
No, and I'm hoping we haven't
seen the best out of this.
You know, I think our future
is really [bleep] bright.
I've got a lot to figure out,
but we've got a water license,
and we are going back
to Vegas Valley.
-This is cause for celebration.
-[bleep] yeah, [bleep].
[Rick] Thank you, guys.
-[Rick] All right.
-[all laughing]
[Rick]
You know, in my head right now,
I'm very happy.
There's a lot going on
right now.
It's like one extreme
to the other, right?
We had no water license.
Now we've got a water license
in two spots, you know?
I want to just run
the Vegas Valley.
I know the gold's there,
but I've got obligations
on Lightning Creek.
You know, I owe Troy
You know, that's a quarter
million dollars, so...
There's a lot to figure out,
but at the end of the day,
this is good news.
[adventurous music plays]
[sloshing, rattling]
[Zach] It's nice to be
finally sluicing.
It's been a long time coming.
At Paradise Hill,
despite a lack of equipment,
Mike is determined
to prove to his dad
that he can bring in the gold.
Just careful
not to overload it.
It's nice to get this going.
It's exactly what I wanted.
Closer and closer every time.
[water blasts, gushes]
[Zach] Oh, [bleep]!
[Zach speaking]
[Mike] Shut it down.
[dramatic music plays]
[Mike] [bleep]!
Close the bypass!
[dramatic music rises]
Ugh! [bleep]!
Gonna be a pain in the a*s.
Yeah, but that's got to get
[bleep] fixed
before we can keep going.
I'm going to lift this up,
take these off so I can get
this little orange piece here,
and I can check the rubber.
[intriguing music plays]
[whirring]
If you hop in the excavator,
I'll wrap it around,
and we'll just lift it.
[Mike] Yeah, these are
coming off like butter.
[clanking]
[Mike]
My gasket's ripped completely.
[Zach]
Yeah, she ripped right apart.
And my only two rubbers
I got are too small,
or a wee bit too big.
[Zach] You can make that
work, though.
-You know what I mean?
-Cut holes.
We're going to have to [bleep]
around with this [bleep].
What we're gonna do is mark out
all the holes, and then
we'll just push
the bolt holes through.
[banging]
[Mike] Then I'm going to cut,
and yeah, the bolt will fit
through it.
Yeah, there should be 12.
[clinking, banging]
[Zach] It's a little scabby,
but it'll work.
For the bush fix gasket
to work,
it must form a tight seal
between the two metal flanges.
[Zach]
A little bit more my way.
There we go.
If we do this and it works,
it should last until forever.
[whirring]
[Zach] Hey, that's my butt!
[Mike cackles]
Let her down.
That's tight.
It should all work.
[engine revving]
[gushing]
Hey, Colby,
hop in the loader!
Let's get going!
Finally getting this done.
My dad would be happy to get
any gold, so I'm going to grab
every ounce of gold I can
out of that dirt.
Between me and Colby,
we should be able to get
this thing going.
This will be running
for the rest of the season.
Whoo hoo!
Mike Beets may be dreaming
of his own Klondike kingdom,
but there is already a crown
he wears proudly.
[laughing]
According to everyone,
I'm a king of [bleep] around,
so this should be
nothing new.
[laughing]
Go chase the beaver.
[director] No, no, no!
You made [bleep] me do it!
Geez, I leave you guys alone
for, what, two minutes,
and then you're
[bleep] around again?
[Mike] Let's go!
Nah, just [bleep] around.
[cackles]
[calm music plays]
-[Ryan] Whoa!
-[Rick] Oh, yeah.
-Nice glasses.
-[Bailey] Thanks, man.
[Rick] How are you?
No fire?
[Bailey]
No, it's too hot for that.
[Heather] It's hot.
-Summer finally got here.
-Yeah, it came fast.
It was a smart move to pivot
from the Diamond Cut.
There's no way we can
make a living off it.
And, you know, I like the spot
that we moved to.
It's definitely looking better
in every way.
There's boulders there.
[Bailey]
Yeah, it is nicer material
compared to that stuff that
we just dug at the start
of the Diamond Cut.
-So we're on the right track.
-Yeah.
Well, I guess maybe we should
weigh up the gold.
Rick's previous spot,
the Diamond Cut,
produced just 7.35 ounces.
Now he's hoping
the new Boulder Cut
will deliver at least
[Rick]
All right, count it out.
[pouring softly]
One, two...five, seven,
eight, nine, ten, twelve...
-22...
-[tapping]
Worth $78,000.
[Rick]
Definitely an improvement.
You got to look at it that way.
Three times better.
[Ryan] Yeah.
I mean, obviously, that water
license coming in is huge.
But a lot of decisions come
with that, you know.
There's a lot of pieces
that have to fall into place.
[Ryan] What's going
through your head?
Tough it out here?
I mean...
We're going to have to go back
to Vegas Valley.
I mean...
I want to.
And maybe at the end
of the day, this is just not
the happening spot right here.
[Rick]
We can't abandon this place.
I did buy it, but the one thing
that I can say is that we can't
afford to just shut this down
while we're, you know...
We got to take advantage of all
the sluicing hours we can get.
How many gold weighs do we say
there can be improvement before
we [bleep] finally say,
"We need to get our asses
back to Vegas Valley?"
At the end of the day, I owe
Troy, you know, 100 ounces on
this ground, so we can't just
walk away from it right now.
It's the only spot
we're getting gold from.
Does he care where the [bleep]
Because I'm telling you now,
you're going to get 100 ounces
a lot quicker.
You do the math,
it doesn't make sense
to hit 1,800 ounces
by the end of the season.
You know, it's going to take
a while to get
Vegas Valley ready.
So the minute we're able
to sluice down there,
we will go there.
That's a promise.
I think we should go
there now.
Well, that's too [bleep] bad.
I think there's gold here.
I hope you're [bleep] right.
Definitely the pressure's
going to be on, man.
Thanks, guys.
I appreciate it.
[Bailey]
Yeah, this gold weigh is better
than last week, but it's not
as good as what
Lower Duncan could be.
There could be 400 ounces
in that pay pile.
So, you know, for us to try
to reach 1,800 ounces,
we need to be down there
right away.
[Rick] Well, the gold total
for the week, 22.3 ounces.
Yeah, three times as good.
But the exciting thing is
we got the water license
extension back on Duncan Creek,
so we go back to Vegas Valley,
which is huge news.
Now everybody's just
arguing on when.
They want to go
there immediately,
but the timing's
just not right, you know.
It's going to take a few days
to get that ready,
and I'm not willing
to stop getting gold
from Lightning Creek
until it is ready.
So we're going to stick it
out here, and we'll be back
in Vegas Valley soon.
[birds chirping]
-Hello.
-[Minnie] Hey, guys.
-[Tony speaking]
-How are you?
Here.
How are you?
-[Tony speaking]
-Yes.
Good, good, good.
[Minnie] Have a seat.
Yeah, I set up Harald.
-[Minnie] Yeah.
-We, uh...
Did some old timer tailings,
didn't we?
[Mike] Might as well
sluice it -- sitting there.
[Tony speaking]
Oh, there's a little bit.
[Tony speaking]
[Monica] I'll pour slow.
[Tony] There we go.
One, two, three, four...
And a five, and a six,
and a seven, eight, nine...
Worth nearly $50,000.
[Minnie] I'm proud of you.
[Tony speaking]
[Monica] So you wanna see
what comes from the Indian?
[Tony speaking]
So far, the Early Bird Cut
is averaging 270 ounces a week.
[Monica]
Michael, ready to count?
[pouring softly]
[Mike] 10...
-110, 120, 170, 190...
-[tapping]
[thrilling music plays]
[Tony speaking]
-No.
-[Tony speaking]
[Mike] It's 398.18.
Worth almost $1.4 million.
But I mean,
you didn't make four.
-[Monica] Oh, my [bleep] God.
-[Mike laughs]
Bringing the Beets' season
total to over 2,300 ounces.
[Tony speaking]
[Minnie] You said at
the beginning of the season
that there were maybe
some opportunities for Mike
as soon as he started
getting gold out of the hill.
So what's happening with that?
-[Mike] Yep.
-Bye.
[Minnie]
I do hope Tony will honor
what he said to Mike because
he's been working very hard
to get this all sorted out,
so he should get him set up.
Honestly, Mike really
deserves it.
The frustrating part is I think
I have a better chance
of learning to breathe through
my a*s than I have of going out
on my own.
Whatever.
-[Mitch] What's up?
-[Brennan] Yo, yo.
[Mitch] Well, how did we do
this week, Chris?
Roxanne's just chugging away.
Man, that was an unreal pan
down there at Sulphur.
That pan was probably
one of the best ones
we've ever seen.
It's up there.
Top ten.
I hate saying anything.
I don't want to jinx
anything, you know?
Yeah, I'm pretty good at that.
[all laughing]
How's your juggling act going?
You know, it's keeping me
busy, that's for sure.
[chuckles]
[Chris] We're going to start out
with you, with Bob.
-How's that?
-[Tyson] Sure.
Let's see how Bob
did this week.
Big Bob.
At Dominion Creek,
Tyson's been running washplant
Bob in the Bridge Cut,
where it's averaging
[Tyson] Here we go.
We got 20, 40, 60, 80...
[Brennan] Nice.
[Chris] Not bad.
That's a good weight.
So Bob's chugging along.
Brennan, you want to do
a Sluicifer here?
-Go for it.
-All right.
Sluicifer in the Golden Mile
is pacing 200 ounces a week.
[Brennan]
-[pouring softly]
-[tapping]
Holy [bleep]!
Wow!
Holy [bleep]!
-[Chris] Yeah.
-Nice.
[Chris]
That's pretty cool, isn't it?
[Brennan] Beautiful.
That's a good week
for Dominion.
[Parker]
That's a good number.
[all laughing]
[Chris] And then there's
Roxanne, Mitchell.
[Mitch]
Whoo! She looks heavy.
Let's see what we got here.
-All right.
-Let it rip.
-Ready?
-Yep.
Now it's time to find out if
Parker's move to extend the cut
at Sulphur will pay out.
Oh, yeah, keep going.
-250, a little bit more.
-Sick.
[suspenseful chord rises]
[Mitch] 300 right on the dot.
[Chris] Plus this.
-We have another one.
-Whoo!
It looks like it's got
a little in there.
[Chris] Ready?
All right, we're going to keep
adding to her.
Here's another...
[tapping]
-[Mitch laughs]
-[Chris] 406.5 ounces.
-OK, yeah, yeah!
-[Brennan] Atta boy, nice!
Mitch, go ahead and take
everything up there.
[Mitch] Whew!
With just one plant,
Mitch has nearly matched
Tyson's two-plant run.
[Brennan]
Dude that's a lot for one week.
[Chris] Yeah, so this week,
our total is 827 ounces.
Sick.
[Chris] Is that crazy or what?
I was not expecting that.
at record prices
is worth $2.89 million,
the most cash Parker's ever
banked in one week.
That's Parker's happy face.
[laughing]
[Chris] There we go.
You've got to be happy
about that in a week.
Oh, yeah.
[Parker]
I just hope we can keep it up.
There's still so much
season left.
Good way to start it, though.
-[Parker] That's a good way
to start it.
-[Chris] Yeah.
Thank you, guys.
[Chris] Cool.
I'll bag this stuff up.
[Parker]
We've all got [bleep] to do.
After several years of just
moving from the Indian River
and getting set up and a lot
deeper ground on Dominion,
it's taken a long time
of stripping and...prep
and finally this season,
like I don't want to jinx it,
but...
It's looking really good.
We're coming out of the gates
running, so hopefully we can
just keep that up, right?
And then Sulphur
is just k*lling it.
[epic music concludes]
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16x07 - Surprise Fortunes
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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.